As seen at BLOODSTOCK festival, UK
Monday, 23 August 2010
SUNN O))) To Curate Roadburn Festival 2011
As seen on roadburn.com
Roadburn festival is thrilled to unveil the curator for the 2011 edition of Roadburn: Sunn O))). The band, to be specific Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley, has agreed to curate our festival on Friday, April 15th, 2011 and host a special event.
As curator, Sunn O))) will personally select the bands that will play during their special event as well as perform a headline show. Sunn O))) will be Roadburn’s fourth curator, following David Tibet in 2008, Neurosis in 2009 and Triptykon’s Tom Gabriel Warrior at this year’s festival.
Right now, Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley are gearing up for two major Sunn O))) events in September: performing Altar with Boris at ATP New York and Brooklyn’s Masonic Temple, but you can expect to hear from them in the future with respect to their thoughts on the 2011 Roadburn festival and Sunn O)))’s performance.
We are overjoyed to join forces with Sunn O))) for the upcoming Roadburn festival. Their metal-based drone experimentations have proved groundbreaking and hugely influential for an entire new generation of musicians practicing the art of avant-garde metal, drone, post rock and psychedelica. Sunn O))) is also widely acclaimed for their eclectic collaborations with everyone from musicians Attila Csihar, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Boris, Steven Stapleton, Justin Broadrick, Oren Ambarchi, Ulver, Joe Preston, John Wiese, and Julian Cope to filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and visual artist Banks Violette.
Greg Anderson, who is also Goatsnake’s songsmith and the entrepreneur behind Southern Lord Records, and Stephen O’Malley, a prolific improviser and composer who is well-known for being involved in Burning Witch, KHANATE, KTL and DACM/Gisèle Vienne theatre-works, have performed in different guises during various Roadburn festivals over the years, which is exactly why we felt they would be the ideal curators. Both of them consistently push the envelope musically, and one of our steadfast goals has been to make Roadburn a festival that explores the cutting edge while celebrating the familiar, too. With that in mind, we could think of no better spiritual guide for 2011 than Sunn O))).
We are truly looking forward to the new ideas and visions that the crossover drone duo will bring to the festival next year. When asked to sum up Roadburn in one word, “progressive” would be a fitting choice. Evolving and improving are part of this. The festival is a tribute to the open mindedness of its bands, curators and audience. The joy comes from expanding musical horizons, and with Sunn O))) acting as our curator we’ll definitely be in for some artistic surprises.
Roadburn Festival 2011, including Sunn O)))’s special event, will run for three days from Thursday, April 14 to Saturday, April 16 at the 013 venue and Midi Theatre in Tilburg, Holland. There will be an additional afterburner event on Sunday, April 17, 2011.
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Monday, 16 August 2010
Twisted Sister @ Bloodstock 2010
Saw TWISTED SISTER last night at the 10th Bloodstock festival in the UK. They played a great set, lots of on stage rants in between songs (about the weather of all things) and they played a lot of their early stuff, a greatest hits performance.
People who think that TWISTED SISTER are only about 2 hit songs... fuck off!
Setlist:
Come Out and Play
The Kids are Back
Stay Hungry
Captain Howdy
Shoot Em Down
You Can't Stop Rock & Roll
The Fire Still Burns
I Am, I'm Me
We're Not Gonna Take It
The Price
Burn In Hell
A drum solo
I Wanna Rock
They played an encore too but, for my sins, I started the long walk to the car park around that time. I hear they played SMF at the end... fuck!!
The Bloodstock guys put together a really good list of bands for the Sunday this year, including SUFFOCATION and GWAR, and the weather was really good. I have got sunstroke today I think. My own fault for not wearing a hat or corpse paint. But then, people who wear corpse paint to outdoor festivals are fucking losers, haha.
People who think that TWISTED SISTER are only about 2 hit songs... fuck off!
Setlist:
Come Out and Play
The Kids are Back
Stay Hungry
Captain Howdy
Shoot Em Down
You Can't Stop Rock & Roll
The Fire Still Burns
I Am, I'm Me
We're Not Gonna Take It
The Price
Burn In Hell
A drum solo
I Wanna Rock
They played an encore too but, for my sins, I started the long walk to the car park around that time. I hear they played SMF at the end... fuck!!
The Bloodstock guys put together a really good list of bands for the Sunday this year, including SUFFOCATION and GWAR, and the weather was really good. I have got sunstroke today I think. My own fault for not wearing a hat or corpse paint. But then, people who wear corpse paint to outdoor festivals are fucking losers, haha.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
From The Dark Past
I first heard of Euronymous when Darkthrone dedicated their second album, A Blaze in the Northern Sky, to "the true father of underground black metal". When we got further and further into Black Metal, moving away from the Death Metal that we had been listening to for years, one name kept cropping up over and over again: Mayhem.
We knew from reading zines and from contacts that they had been going since the mid eighties and were weird; they avoided all conventions of what we expected from people in bands, even underground bands, self financing albums, the suicide of Dead, the whole evil image that made Glen Benton look like a puppy dog.
We watched with interest the growth of the scene centred around a few bands, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Thorns, Havohej, Beherit and the mysterious one man project Burzum.
One day, I was on my way home from college, I stopped off to buy some smokes, and something interesting caught my eye. Was that really Emperor on the front of the Kerrang? It was, and the article (We Are But Slaves of the One With Horns) that was inside was the start of Black Metal as we know it, but th death of Black Metal as we had known it.
It seemed to accelerate away from us weekly, K came out every tuesday I think, and Every Week there would be a story about Grishnact or Euronymous or Faust or someone.
Each time, the magazine would exaggerate, Varg would play up to the interviewer and we could not believe it. Black Metal had gone from something mysterious in zines to being on pages next to interviews with the Almighty.
It still came as a shock to us when it was announced that Øystein had been murdered, the shock magnified by reading about it in Kerrang, which just seemed a bit improper. After all, they thought it was a bit of a joke. Varg was interviewed, saying he was glad he was dead, he would dance and piss on his grave.
He also said that he wasn't shocked, he had enemies in Sweden and there were a lot of "drug people" near Øystein's flat.
This is something that I often feel is overlooked when people talk about that time. We all know what the court case said happened that night, but people often forget that there was a noticeable rift between Varg and Øystein that was cloaked in respect for what the other did musically.
They both had different visions of what they wanted and when Varg offed Øystein he won. He reinvented himself so much after the event that few people remember the smaller interviews in zines and things, he actually used to be a metalhead once.
Euronymous' death meant that the whole direction of Black Metal changed, his vision was of elitism, dictatorship, total dedication to the underground.
Those ideals went out of the scene with him, to be replaced my crazy neo pagan Nazism one hand, and due in part to the sensational coverage in Kerrang lots of mainstream metal fans got interested and seemed to congregate around more gothy bands on the other. What would he have made of that?
I often wonder how his admiration for communism and dictatorship went over with Csihar when they recorded in the Grieghalle.
Like I say, it was the birth and death of Black Metal at the same time.
We knew from reading zines and from contacts that they had been going since the mid eighties and were weird; they avoided all conventions of what we expected from people in bands, even underground bands, self financing albums, the suicide of Dead, the whole evil image that made Glen Benton look like a puppy dog.
We watched with interest the growth of the scene centred around a few bands, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Thorns, Havohej, Beherit and the mysterious one man project Burzum.
One day, I was on my way home from college, I stopped off to buy some smokes, and something interesting caught my eye. Was that really Emperor on the front of the Kerrang? It was, and the article (We Are But Slaves of the One With Horns) that was inside was the start of Black Metal as we know it, but th death of Black Metal as we had known it.
It seemed to accelerate away from us weekly, K came out every tuesday I think, and Every Week there would be a story about Grishnact or Euronymous or Faust or someone.
Each time, the magazine would exaggerate, Varg would play up to the interviewer and we could not believe it. Black Metal had gone from something mysterious in zines to being on pages next to interviews with the Almighty.
It still came as a shock to us when it was announced that Øystein had been murdered, the shock magnified by reading about it in Kerrang, which just seemed a bit improper. After all, they thought it was a bit of a joke. Varg was interviewed, saying he was glad he was dead, he would dance and piss on his grave.
He also said that he wasn't shocked, he had enemies in Sweden and there were a lot of "drug people" near Øystein's flat.
This is something that I often feel is overlooked when people talk about that time. We all know what the court case said happened that night, but people often forget that there was a noticeable rift between Varg and Øystein that was cloaked in respect for what the other did musically.
They both had different visions of what they wanted and when Varg offed Øystein he won. He reinvented himself so much after the event that few people remember the smaller interviews in zines and things, he actually used to be a metalhead once.
Euronymous' death meant that the whole direction of Black Metal changed, his vision was of elitism, dictatorship, total dedication to the underground.
Those ideals went out of the scene with him, to be replaced my crazy neo pagan Nazism one hand, and due in part to the sensational coverage in Kerrang lots of mainstream metal fans got interested and seemed to congregate around more gothy bands on the other. What would he have made of that?
I often wonder how his admiration for communism and dictatorship went over with Csihar when they recorded in the Grieghalle.
Like I say, it was the birth and death of Black Metal at the same time.
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Too Loud For The Crowd
It's been quite a while, hasn't it? I'm sure I can speak for all of us when I apologise for our absence.
We've all moved house, you see, and we've been quite occupied with that, and as such updates haven't been as regular as usual. Again, apologies.
so, what have we missed? Amongst other things, Darkthrone served up more of the good stuff with Circle The Wagons, we saw Cathedral and Church of Misery destroy Manchester, The Lamp of Thoth marched forth from Yorkshire's Doom all dayer at the Snooty Fox, Black Sun are recording Twilight of the Gods as we speak, and there's a new Iron Maiden album soon along with the cinema release of Lemmy The Movie and Until the Light Takes Us due out on DVD.
All this plus the fact that I now have the ability to post on the move means that hopefully you'll have more old/new/weird stuff from us soon, but probably less live reviews or photographs than you're used to.
We've all moved house, you see, and we've been quite occupied with that, and as such updates haven't been as regular as usual. Again, apologies.
so, what have we missed? Amongst other things, Darkthrone served up more of the good stuff with Circle The Wagons, we saw Cathedral and Church of Misery destroy Manchester, The Lamp of Thoth marched forth from Yorkshire's Doom all dayer at the Snooty Fox, Black Sun are recording Twilight of the Gods as we speak, and there's a new Iron Maiden album soon along with the cinema release of Lemmy The Movie and Until the Light Takes Us due out on DVD.
All this plus the fact that I now have the ability to post on the move means that hopefully you'll have more old/new/weird stuff from us soon, but probably less live reviews or photographs than you're used to.
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Yob @ MIDI Centre, Tilburg (Roadburn 2010)
Total bonus, just watched YOB in the MIDI centre (new venue for Roadburn 2010!). A breath of fresh air, YOB are a class act!
Went to watch the JOHN GARCIA / KYUSS set, but the main venue at 013 (where his show was on) was totally packed out, I was lucky to squeeze my way in at the very back of the room! I saw them play 2 songs: Odyssey and Asteroid. After that I made a choice and bailed, to go see YOB. I stand by my choice, YOB played a lot of material from The Unreal Never Lived, an album which I hold dear to my heart... they were simply great stuff!
Went to watch the JOHN GARCIA / KYUSS set, but the main venue at 013 (where his show was on) was totally packed out, I was lucky to squeeze my way in at the very back of the room! I saw them play 2 songs: Odyssey and Asteroid. After that I made a choice and bailed, to go see YOB. I stand by my choice, YOB played a lot of material from The Unreal Never Lived, an album which I hold dear to my heart... they were simply great stuff!
Once Again, The Lamp Sings & Slays
A quick update - today (Saturday) has been another great installment of the on-going ROADBURN. As has already reported, there have been plenty of changes to the intended line-up due to travel disruption for the likes of SHRINEBUILDER and CANDLEMASS. But there have been plenty of great bands play in their place. Bands such as WITCHCRAFT (who have just finished their set on the Main Stage not 20 minutes ago) who stepped in at the last moment to help fill in the gaps.
I spent this evening watching LAMP OF THOTH play their set in The Bat Cave at 013. Same stage where I have seen BLACK SUN and CHURCH OF MISERY play, fact fans! As always, THE LAMP delivered a fine performance. We even got an encore from them... hope that their set will be a contender for release on the Roadburn Records label some time in the next year! If so, I have some photos that they can use on the inner sleeve, haha.
Okay, JOHN GARCIA is up on the main stage next playing KYUSS tunes. Better get back to it!
I spent this evening watching LAMP OF THOTH play their set in The Bat Cave at 013. Same stage where I have seen BLACK SUN and CHURCH OF MISERY play, fact fans! As always, THE LAMP delivered a fine performance. We even got an encore from them... hope that their set will be a contender for release on the Roadburn Records label some time in the next year! If so, I have some photos that they can use on the inner sleeve, haha.
Okay, JOHN GARCIA is up on the main stage next playing KYUSS tunes. Better get back to it!
ROADBURN 2010 - Day 2
Hello from Holland!
We're here in Tilburg, enjoying the sights and sounds of this year's ROADBURN festival. Unfortunately we couldn't make it along to Day 1 of the event due to a VOLCANO of all things, but it's going to take more than Mother Nature to stop us!
Yesterday (Friday) was Day 2 of Roadburn 2010, and we got to see a few of our favourite bands - CHURCH OF MISERY, THORR'S HAMMER and PAGAN ALTAR, as well as Tom G Warrior's TRIPTYKON for the first time.
There's been quite a lot of changes in the line-up this year, because of the volcano situation. For a start CANDLEMASS have had to cancel, the logistics of making it down to Holland has proved too difficult for them. Roadburn's director of operations, Walter, made some on-stage announcements in between sets on the main stage yesterday, you could see the stress of the situation on his face as he told the crowd about the latest changes to his well-crafted festival.
Okay, I'm off for food and water. This hangover is killing my creativity right now...
We're here in Tilburg, enjoying the sights and sounds of this year's ROADBURN festival. Unfortunately we couldn't make it along to Day 1 of the event due to a VOLCANO of all things, but it's going to take more than Mother Nature to stop us!
Yesterday (Friday) was Day 2 of Roadburn 2010, and we got to see a few of our favourite bands - CHURCH OF MISERY, THORR'S HAMMER and PAGAN ALTAR, as well as Tom G Warrior's TRIPTYKON for the first time.
There's been quite a lot of changes in the line-up this year, because of the volcano situation. For a start CANDLEMASS have had to cancel, the logistics of making it down to Holland has proved too difficult for them. Roadburn's director of operations, Walter, made some on-stage announcements in between sets on the main stage yesterday, you could see the stress of the situation on his face as he told the crowd about the latest changes to his well-crafted festival.
Okay, I'm off for food and water. This hangover is killing my creativity right now...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
ROADBURN 2010
It's that time again gang!
ROADBURN 2010 starts in less than 48 hours and as always, we're gonna head over there and stink the place up a bit. So basically you can expect some updates on here at last!!
ROADBURN 2010 starts in less than 48 hours and as always, we're gonna head over there and stink the place up a bit. So basically you can expect some updates on here at last!!
Saturday, 10 April 2010
EYEHATEGOD Like you have never seen them before!
There was some dude in the beer garden doing a one man band type thing with just a guitar and some small bass drums covering allsorts of metal, including some Eyehategod. Jimmy and Mike took over and came up with this small performance. Legendary ;)
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Painting in the Dark
Well, well, well.
A late start to the working day, a few months without any real internet access and just general laziness on my part, amplified by the non-arrival of Darkthrone's Circle the Wagons on LP (the CD came, but it didn't seem right to review), so what has awoken me from my slumber?
Well, I sit here, a cup of Yorkshire's finest tea in my hand, and my ears being massaged by the rather spiffing new CD from Coventry's most illustrious sons CATHEDRAL, Guessing Game.
Opener Immaculate Misconception is a spooky, instrumental piece that sounds all off-kilter, and sets the tone nicely for what follows, the spookiness is prevalent throughout the album but not in a Black-Sabbath-Graveyardy type way, more in a Hammer-Horror-Upper-Class-Satanists-in-Country-Mansions way.
The spoken lyrics in Funeral of Dreams make me think of Crass, for some reason, sort of like the last section of Big A, Little A. Strange.
Painting in the Dark is the kind of mid-album stomper we expect from the boys (think Corpsecycle et al) with excellent lead guitar work, you can just imagin Dorrian jumping around the stage and pretending to hang himself with his microphone lead to this one. There's also a medieval feel to some of the arrangements within, noticeably on the acoustic intro to Death of an Anarchist, which is followed up by an almost Maidenesque part. No, really. There's quite a proggy colour to the album through the prominent use of keyboards, which is quite unusual for Cathedral, but works very well, after all, we know about Lee's love for 70's rock, and the amalgamation of their influences shows on these two discs. Edwige's Eyes (unveiled before Thee Claw at Damnation a few years ago) is a prime example of this.
Cats, Incense, Candles & Wine is a song that I can't describe at the moment. It's like Meg and Mog came to life and recorded a track. That's a good thing. Another total hetpenging anthem getting out and about on the second CD is Casket Chasers, Lee delivering some clever lyrics with a growl and everything.
Requiem for the Voiceless is a doom epic along the lines of Golden Blood (Flooding) or Ebony Tears, absolutely mammoth riffs and drumming.And speaking of lyrics, wait til you hear the lyrics to Journeys into Jade. For doom fans of a certain age, you'll smile throughout this one!
All in all, a great album from the boys, who just seem to be getting better and better all thee time.
We can't wait to see 'em in Manchester at the end of the month!
A late start to the working day, a few months without any real internet access and just general laziness on my part, amplified by the non-arrival of Darkthrone's Circle the Wagons on LP (the CD came, but it didn't seem right to review), so what has awoken me from my slumber?
Well, I sit here, a cup of Yorkshire's finest tea in my hand, and my ears being massaged by the rather spiffing new CD from Coventry's most illustrious sons CATHEDRAL, Guessing Game.
The spoken lyrics in Funeral of Dreams make me think of Crass, for some reason, sort of like the last section of Big A, Little A. Strange.
Painting in the Dark is the kind of mid-album stomper we expect from the boys (think Corpsecycle et al) with excellent lead guitar work, you can just imagin Dorrian jumping around the stage and pretending to hang himself with his microphone lead to this one. There's also a medieval feel to some of the arrangements within, noticeably on the acoustic intro to Death of an Anarchist, which is followed up by an almost Maidenesque part. No, really. There's quite a proggy colour to the album through the prominent use of keyboards, which is quite unusual for Cathedral, but works very well, after all, we know about Lee's love for 70's rock, and the amalgamation of their influences shows on these two discs. Edwige's Eyes (unveiled before Thee Claw at Damnation a few years ago) is a prime example of this.
Cats, Incense, Candles & Wine is a song that I can't describe at the moment. It's like Meg and Mog came to life and recorded a track. That's a good thing. Another total hetpenging anthem getting out and about on the second CD is Casket Chasers, Lee delivering some clever lyrics with a growl and everything.
Requiem for the Voiceless is a doom epic along the lines of Golden Blood (Flooding) or Ebony Tears, absolutely mammoth riffs and drumming.And speaking of lyrics, wait til you hear the lyrics to Journeys into Jade. For doom fans of a certain age, you'll smile throughout this one!
All in all, a great album from the boys, who just seem to be getting better and better all thee time.
We can't wait to see 'em in Manchester at the end of the month!
EYEHATEGOD @ Manchester Moho Live, 6th April 2010
Great show from thee sludgemasters from NOLA. An 80-minute-long set in the blistering heat of the cavernous Moho Live venue in the centre of Manchester, UK.
I am sat at home now like a sad case, drinking tea and sorting through the photos that I took from tonight's show. There's some blinders here that should really go to a music magazine or something (instead of just sitting here on my harddrive I mean!).
Also... my ears haven't stung like this in many a gig!
No setlist for you yet (or a proper review even). As usual with these things, "I'm working on it".
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
SIGIRIYA - One To Watch In 2010
Went along to an all-day festival in Bradford last weekend, lots of great bands played the show (THIRTEENTH SIGN, LAZARUS BLACKSTAR, ASOMVEL to mention just 3) and I had a fine time indeed.
Just wanted to tell you all about one band in particular who played, a 4-piece from Wales called SIGIRIYA. I'd never heard of them before this (I doubt many people who were there had, aside from the promoter Rich!), but you might know them by their former name of ACRIMONY who did a split with Church Of Misery about 7 years ago (amongst other things). When they played their set I was totally gobsmacked by the energy and the power of the band, but most of all the apparently-relaxed manner that they played this AMAZING sounding stoner rock. Don't let the lack of info about these guys fool you - this is NOT some new band who are doing the rounds!
I know you hear all of the time about "These guys are the next big thing!", blah blah blah, but I must get on my soapbox here for a quick minute and let you guys know about this band. Don't bother doing a google search for them (yet) because I tried that and all you get is a whole bunch of links for some place in Sri Lanka. They have a Myspace page (see below) but right now, March 2010, there's no music on there for you to check out either!
Anyway, as soon as I can get my hands on something by them, a demo or a video of them in concert or something, I'll link to it on this page. In the meantime maybe try getting yourself a copy of the 1997 Peaceville LP "Tumuli Shroomaroom" or even the CoM split from 2003. That'll maybe give you some idea of what to expect from SIGIRIYA's sound.
Blurb lifted from their Myspace page:
"About Sigiriya
Beneath the soil of a Welsh valley a heavy metal life-force regains strength: rising from the ashes of stoner doom merchants Acrimony, Sigiriya is born. Eight years after the demise of Acrimony, guitarist Stu O’Hara, bassist Mead, drummer Darren Ivey and vocalist Dorian Walters have reconvened. Not wanting the limitations of reforming a project long dead to them, Sigiriya brings a fresh take on their trademark monolithic heavy groove. While Acrimony hailed from the temples of deepest space, Sigiriya come from the earthy depths, bringing hefty, tremor-inducing sonics that pay homage to the riff. Time served in the likes of Iron Monkey, Helvis, Dukes Of Nothing, Black Eye Riot, The Nine and Yeti have only added to their thick output, giving the foursome a more dynamic, meaner, leaner, earthier approach, which has developed an intense dirty sound with elements of boogie, classic rock and even crust. Taking their name from the mystic ‘throat of the lion’ rock in Sri Lanka, their rumble has been moving the Black Mountains of their homeland and will soon be moving the tectonic plates of the earth. To borrow a phrase from their former outfit: ‘Bong On, Live Long…’"
Again, I can't recommend SIGIRIYA to you enough. Totally floored by their show at the afore-mentioned festival!
http://www.myspace.com/sigiriyawales
EDIT: Video from the Dragonfest gig (I shot this):
Thursday, 4 February 2010
The Graves of the 80's
Information has been pretty thin on the ground about the forthcoming Darkthrone LP Circle The Wagons, but some details have started to come forward.
This is the first big release of 2010 that Thee Claw are looking forward to, and a peek at the tracklist and tantalising song titles are making me even more anxious:
01. Those Treasures Will Never Befall You
02. Running For Borders
03. I Am The Graves Of The 80s
04. Stylized Corpse
05. Circle The Wagons
06. Black Mountain Totem
07. I Am The Working Class
08. Eyes Burst At Dawn
09. Bränn Inte Slottet
Apparently, the LP will contain NO black metal at all, instead focusing on "Speed Metal".
Can't wait, watch this space!
A Message from Rich Hoak
In my inbox this morning:
Hi all: please post, forward, tell yr friends:
A light hearted instructional video on the art of grind drumming has been released by Richard Hoak (Brutal Truth, Total Fucking Destruction) and can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKvs369yO5Q
This video was directed by noted surf n skate filmmaker Tyson Montrucchio, who has recently made music videos for Downspell, Lamb of God, God Forbid, 16, Brutal Truth, Cattle Decapitation and more.
special thanx go out to Trick Drums and Sickdrummer.com!!!
Loudly,
-r
http://www.myspace.com/brutalfuckingtruth
http://www.myspace.com/totalfuckingdestruction
http://www.myspace.com/peaceisthevictory
http://www.garmentdistrict.com/tfd
http://cdbaby.com/cd/tfdestruction
http://www.bonesbrigaderecords.com
http://www.ritualrecords.com/pc/index.html
Hi all: please post, forward, tell yr friends:
A light hearted instructional video on the art of grind drumming has been released by Richard Hoak (Brutal Truth, Total Fucking Destruction) and can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKvs369yO5Q
This video was directed by noted surf n skate filmmaker Tyson Montrucchio, who has recently made music videos for Downspell, Lamb of God, God Forbid, 16, Brutal Truth, Cattle Decapitation and more.
special thanx go out to Trick Drums and Sickdrummer.com!!!
Loudly,
-r
http://www.myspace.com/brutalfuckingtruth
http://www.myspace.com/totalfuckingdestruction
http://www.myspace.com/peaceisthevictory
http://www.garmentdistrict.com/tfd
http://cdbaby.com/cd/tfdestruction
http://www.bonesbrigaderecords.com
http://www.ritualrecords.com/pc/index.html
Friday, 29 January 2010
Bürner
Our very own Skum's new band Bürner played their first gig tonight in Caerwys, Wales.
Go and check out some bluesy, rock and roll New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the boys!
Bürner Myspace
Go and check out some bluesy, rock and roll New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the boys!
Bürner Myspace
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Sunn 0))) vs Norway (Round 2)
Forgot to mention! Me and my lady went to Norway (AKA Land of the Eternal Winter) last week for a short city-break in Oslo. It just so happened that SUNN 0))) were playing a couple of gigs in town at the exact same time that we were there. I mean, what are the chances, right?
The show was held in a place called Chateau Neuf, a seated venue. The auditorium were the show was performed reminded me a lot of the Zion Arts Centre in Manchester or the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in London.
The show was pretty long (and slow), SUNN played pretty much the same set as they did at Manchester Islington Mill back at the start of December. This was a set of material to promote the "Monoliths & Dimensions" record. How they are able to keep playing the same set of prolongued drone material night after night is beyond my capacity. This show lasted til sometime after 1am.
Naturally, my girlfriend was VERY happy about me taking her to the coldest country on the planet with the intention of sitting in the dark to observe a drone act do their thing for 4 hours. Very fucking happy indeed. I now probably owe her many thanks (and possibly a trip to some place warm) for putting up with my crazy "Hey honey, let's go to Norway so I can go and see a gig!" antics. My hat comes off to you baby. (But not for long... after all it's 6 below zero in Oslo right now and I've got no hair.) Cheers, Queen!
Check out this short video clip I took with my phone... this is was the setting for the show. Yes, total darkness! I had a good time though (RINGNES beer ist krieg!) and regular readers of this page will already know that me and Patchie are big fans of Attila Csihar's famous "didgeridoom" impersonation.
Oh and Oslo is a pretty nice city too. Almost forgot to mention that, haha.
The show was held in a place called Chateau Neuf, a seated venue. The auditorium were the show was performed reminded me a lot of the Zion Arts Centre in Manchester or the Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in London.
The show was pretty long (and slow), SUNN played pretty much the same set as they did at Manchester Islington Mill back at the start of December. This was a set of material to promote the "Monoliths & Dimensions" record. How they are able to keep playing the same set of prolongued drone material night after night is beyond my capacity. This show lasted til sometime after 1am.
Naturally, my girlfriend was VERY happy about me taking her to the coldest country on the planet with the intention of sitting in the dark to observe a drone act do their thing for 4 hours. Very fucking happy indeed. I now probably owe her many thanks (and possibly a trip to some place warm) for putting up with my crazy "Hey honey, let's go to Norway so I can go and see a gig!" antics. My hat comes off to you baby. (But not for long... after all it's 6 below zero in Oslo right now and I've got no hair.) Cheers, Queen!
Check out this short video clip I took with my phone... this is was the setting for the show. Yes, total darkness! I had a good time though (RINGNES beer ist krieg!) and regular readers of this page will already know that me and Patchie are big fans of Attila Csihar's famous "didgeridoom" impersonation.
Oh and Oslo is a pretty nice city too. Almost forgot to mention that, haha.
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Thunder On The Tundra
I've got NO idea why Jon Mikl Thor summons a milkman on stage (and wraps the mic-stand around the poor fella's neck) at the end of this clip. But at least he throws a nice claw afterwards.
Thursday, 14 January 2010
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