Rolling 2004 Metal Thread

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artist - album title

there should be metal kraftwerk cover band called Witchkraftwerk

Between the Buried and Me seems to totally slay Mastodon -- except when exploring their Mountain Goats influence.

Mortiis had the side project Fata Morgana, which was essentially a Kraftwerk cover band.

I used to consider Harry Pussy in their raging prime to be American black metal, and they covered Showroom Dummies.

Okay then, here's one...I'm really enjoying the recent album Mob Wheel, by Shallow North Dakota. It's got kind of an Eyehategod/Outlaw Order/Melvins/Isis thing going on with this one. Great sludgy sound to it all. Last I heard, it was released only on double LP (I have a promo cd of it).

Also, I'm impressed with the new cd by Italian band The Secret, which has a similar Isis/Neurosis sound, but instead of sludge, it's got more of a crisp, prog (think Meshuggah) influence, with some surprising melodic bursts that appear from out of nowhere.

Has anyone else heard the new Mnemic album? I like it. In a real ballsy move, they cover Duran Duran's "Wild Boys", and they make it work.

Eesh. The guy who ISO 9000 codified the p-too punctuating noise done with the whammy bar, now injected into every pause or hole in metal riffage by the generics.

I'd pick two possibles, if pressed. "Living the Life I Wanna Live" from the "Rockstar" soundtrack, or the double live CD ... "Alcohol Fueled Brewtality" or something, because it's relentless noise.

Then you'll want to admire his signature metal overdrive footpedal, too. I think he's also in the business of peddling chain link guitar straps. Next, maybe bullseye painted Zakk Wylde free weights.

For pure nausea, however, nothing compares to the enormous pile of Eddie van Halen signature guitar junk.

Anyway:

B.C. Rich is honored to team up with Kerry King, guitarist for the legendary metal group, Slayer, to create an exciting new guitar. Based on Kerry King's handcrafted B.C. Rich V-shaped guitar, the new KKV Signature Special captures the essence of the expensive handmade instrument at a totally affordable price.

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http://www.bcrich.com/images/guitars/sm_kkv_pk.jpg

Very true, Ian. Kramer, the house that EVH built and which went bankrupt upon trying to pick its final winner, Gorky Park, with an official "Gorky Park" balalaika-shaped axe.

No one ever really dies in the business, though. Kramer, I bet, has climbed out of disgrace by sweatshopping their manufacturing to Indonesia or someplace where a roll of nickels a year is a wage.

http://villagevoice.com/issues/0445/smith.php

Harry Pussy did "Showroom Dummies."

The heavy mucus coating in the colon thickens and becomes a host of putrefaction. The blood capillaries to the colon begin to pick up the toxins, poisons and noxious debris as it seeps through the bowel wall. All tissues and organs of the body are now taking on toxic substances. Here is the beginning of true autointoxication on a physiological level. This accumulation can have the consistency of truck tire rubber. It's that hard and black."

http://blessedherbs.com/?af=0006&sp=colon_cleansing_kit

The Relapse Records store also had BS.

"i find ... "Lifetime Shitlist" to be hilarious.

mosurock posted this on Nov 11th, 2004 at 10:44:49 am

As do I find ... "Control of Own Hole".

west nile posted this on Nov 11th, 2004 at 12:13:06 pm

I find this band to be brutal. I will get a bathtub shitter tattoo if someone else pays for it.

mike posted this on Nov 11th, 2004 at 01:05:56 pm

Man...I love that band...I need to get the CD.

I've got the lifetime shitlist 7", but I need the rest of the tracks.

I can now confirm I.C.E's "Apocalyptic End..." is also worth ear damage. It's no Bathtub Shitter but still has moments.
The blast beat tripe does not completely overcome the enjoyment of the ridiculous and the infrequent slab of radiating power riff. Art reminds me of my old Creepy and Eerie magazines. Now, when someone in this type of "act" figures out they can do Ambrose Bierce to the din rather than use their own lyrics...

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Then they will become my favorite band ever.

Mardo are i the same 70's hard rock thing, but more to the Kinks side than white-boy blooz.

You'd probably like "Bloodrock Live," too, Don. It pretty much collects their best material -- probably redone in the studio actually with a crowd track from some gig. It picks up some extra vim as compared to the studio recordings, which helps a lot on the material from "Bloodrock 3."

I definitely hear the influence on Styx, possibly early Kansas, too, although the latter also had to be copping from Uriah Heep's "Look at Yourself." ("Belexes," for example.)

Was watching an MTV2 special on Busted over the weekend. Apparently huge in England, they have come over here to conquer and appear to have already lost the fight. Lots of worried knitting of brows that Busted will be pitched as a boy band to eleven year old girls, something that got them success in Britain but which obscured their true nature, it is said, as a hard rock and pop band that "wrote their own songs."

Busted arrive in New York. Are taken to label edifice in Manhattan where they attend a 90 second meeting in which every department head informs them enthusiastically that they will be aggressively pitched to the teenage wet-your-pants girl demographic, getting to be on some Nickelodeon show where the focus is pouring icky syrups and candies on the heads of guests in front of screaming children. Ha-ha-ha-ha, the dismay on their faces caught by the camera was priceless. Best short comedy piece over the weekend.

I think all these bands would have done better had they cut the cheese and reliance on the say-so of Hollywood types and tried bribing people into letting them onto Outlaws and Skynyrd tours. Artful Dodger went that way and they wound up with a couple of good records and a reputation.

What's most entertaining is to see how American and mechanical the treatment of a band like Busted is. It's obvious the label employees believe in pop music, or hard rock, or whatever, as an equation to be solved simply by arranging the right inputs and outputs and balancing them.

It's nasty and a joy to watch other people come a cropper by it. The Busted guys can sit there and watch as their careers are taken in thirty seconds, analyzed according to theoretical demographic, and ground into packets of Lik-M-Aid. (Which, by the way, comes with the Mr. Wonka?! CD-Rs.) In their old age they will still be able to precisely map when they became fucked. Yep, it was when they said nothing as the chick at the big table scheduled 'em for that TV show where Cocoa Marsh is dumped on heads.

Well, things could be worse. You could always be in a Kiss, Judas Priest or Queen tribute band, which is what I learned from the absolutely awful documentary, "Tribute." Watching "Tribute" was right up there with going to the eye doctor to have a chelazion in your bottom eyelid cauterized. It was too much about sadism/masochism rationalized as a way to earn some money off rock and roll. You get to be Kiss without any of the benefits or, actually, Wicked Lester.
You get to put on faux Kiss duds (or faux Judas priest) and make-up
(how good it looks dependent on your limited budget,) play the Kiss songs you're sick of in small dives for really drunk men. If there are any women involved, it's only one or two with grey tattoos and all their teeth knocked out from years of amphetamines abuse. Finally, you "get lucky" in the sense that someone with a video camera puts you onscreen on cable, like that series about whores at some street corner in one of the outer boroughs of NYC.

Get slowly driven mad until you quit, have a nervous breakdown that results in a transformation into a religious zealot.

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