I need your help GRM: metal content.

Ihsahns(front man for Emperor) solo stuff is definitely worth checking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP4ZXggc2Yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpoHmSm6mpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1I2ho-ZKIc

Fooking glorious.

Devin Townsends stuff is all over the place but very solid, even the not metal is great. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7xi6Yt36u8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-DKs0qfdEk

Here's something from Australia that isn't all turbos and poison: Ne Obliviscaris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wa4zqBwPVE

Grizz wrote: Here's a good band people always forget about: Prong, they have a new album, groovy as E36 M3, every bit as good as cleansing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-27g2cau0k

While that track doesn't do much for me, it's good to see they're still at it. What Prong was doing in the early 90's was pretty revolutionary, IMHO.

I'm just listening to Tony MacAlpine's "new" (it's from 2011) albums - if one likes a bit of 80s/90s instrumental shredding, I'd highly recommend it.

I'll report back on the new Kamelot album tomorrow .

Highly recommended if you like prog/symphonic metal.

MA$$hole wrote: In reply to poopshovel: Love The Proselyte, amazing live band plus they're local for me. Check out their sister band Phantom Glue (guitarist's other project). http://phantomglue.bandcamp.com/

Thanks for the recommendation!!! Good stuff.

Also, I hate to sound like a broken record, but if you're a metal fan and don't own the Probot record, buy it today!!! One of my favorite tracks with Lee Dorrian (Napalm Death/Cathedral) on vocals and Kim Thayil on guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_DS8Fc0w0c

I'm a big supporter of local bands. Here are some from my neck of the woods.

Frozen (progressive metal). Vocalist reminds me of Huey Lewis & the News at times. http://frozenusa.bandcamp.com/album/3-2011

Morne (sludge/doom) http://morneband.bandcamp.com/album/asylum

Acaro (metalcore) On tour with KSE & Shadows Fall http://acaro.bandcamp.com/

Elder (epic stoner doom) http://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/

Black Pyramid (sludge/stoner metal) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddl0PO3L6K4

Speaking of metal, I just bought my ticket to see Testament.

It's tough to say who puts on a more entertaining show. One one hand you have Chuck Billy with his wicked air guitar skill, on the other you have Bobby Blitz who is one energetic old guy.

I'm still up in the air on this tour. Off to see Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, & The Atlas Moth the night before.

If things work out as planned, I'll actually see Testament twice on this tour.

And Poop, one day I'll get Probot. You sold me on it. I just need to get it.

MA$$hole wrote: Off to see Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, & The Atlas Moth the night before.

Very jealous of that.

In reply to Grizz:

I believe it's a full US tour. GO!!! Odd lineup but all 3 are amazing live acts.

In reply to MA$$hole:

I like all three of the bands, and they'll be in Balmer Feb 7th. Definitely something I'll have to try to swing.

If I don't go to Testament when they come up this way, I'm afraid Chuck Billy will come to my house and steal my lunch money.

I've seen them twice and Overkill once. Both bands are great live acts.

And +1 for Ihsahn. He is the man. The album After is one of my favorite albums of the past decade.

Ihsahn - After (full album) *prepare your ear for sax

http://candlelightrecordsusa.bandcamp.com/album/after

Alice Cooper tonight on Conan

MA$$hole and I went out on Saturday night to see some local MA Metalcore bands (you know, like Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, etc.), and I was introduced to the band Give Zombies the Vote. Not only do they have a great name, but they are pretty good to boot. They remind me a lot of the band The Absence, which is an awesome band in their own right.

And the singer has a cat named Bill Murray, and here's a video of him drunk singing their song Black Hole to him!

http://youtu.be/El8ew2v2zrw

Carcass announced a new album. First one in forever.

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=86899

Heres a song with Bjork! http://vimeo.com/m/12812447

Our Google ad program must be working. I'm currently seeing an ad for Rage Against the Machine's rereleased debut album at the top of this page.

logdog wrote: Carcass announced a new album. First one in forever. http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=86899 Heres a song with Bjork! http://vimeo.com/m/12812447

Nice!!! I still love the Carcass album Heartwork. That album was way ahead of it's time, and still in my rotation.

I remember back in the day (like 1995ish) my friend got it on CD, and on the way home from the store where he got that and the EP Tools of the Trade, we made his mom toss it in the CD player of her Saab 9000 Turbo. We were blown away. We were especially blown away that his mom didn't hate it! She was a jazz musician, and she tolerated much of the metal we would listen to.

She was also the 1st person to teach me how to drive stick in her Saabs. Stalling out repeatedly and reaching for the CONSOLE to start the car again melted my brain.

David S. Wallens wrote: Our Google ad program must be working. I'm currently seeing an ad for Rage Against the Machine's rereleased debut album at the top of this page.

I have an ad for a buick. Not sure I understand that; I don't want a minivan, and I don't live in China

I have Chrysler trying to sell me trucks. Which is brutal, since I want one and I'm broke.

logdog wrote: Carcass announced a new album. First one in forever. http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=86899 Heres a song with Bjork! http://vimeo.com/m/12812447

Well, it's official, the world can't end until I've heard this.

Managed to see 100 different bands this year & it wasn't even a goal After last week I was at 94 with nothing planned so I went to a show with a bunch of awful deathcore bands opening for Job for a Cowboy. Stuck it out for 8 bands (2 I had seen already this year) to make it 100. The list:

Infinite Descent

Western Massacre x2

Acaro x2

The Empire Shall Fall x2

Ancient VVisdom

Blood Ceremony

Ghost x2

Children of the Dying Sun

Thy Will Be Done

Frozen

Symphony X

Iced Earth

Queen Elephantine

Woozy

Elder x4

Black Pyramid x3

Mastodon

Opeth

Skull Hammer

Acrassicauda

In Solitude

The Devil's Blood

Watain

Behemoth

Sewer Goddess

Pallbearer x2

Loss

13 Billion Years x2

The Proselyte

Black Helicopter

The Atlas Moth x2

Whores

The Kickass

Royal Thunder x2

Holy Grail

Gaza

Black Cobra

Torche

Corrosion of Conformity

Alice Cooper

Iron Maiden

Taurus

Agalloch

Ume

Helmet

The Toadies

Livver

Vattnet Viskar

Morne x2

Chrome Waves

Hope Before the Fall

Your Pain is Endearing x2

Widow Sunday

Lunglust

Phantom Glue x2

Altar of Plagues

Swallow The Sun

Accept

Kreator

Finisher

Bridesmaid

The Swan King

Paradise Lost

Katatonia

Devin Townsend Project

Heaving Mass

Birch Hill Dam

The Dear Hunter

Coheed and Cambria

Black Mass

Demoralizer

Forced Asphyxiation

DevilDriver

Gwar

Untombed

Inquisition

Ex Deo

Melechesh

Krisiun

Septic Flesh

Rush

Vektor

Exhumed

Napalm Death

Infernal Overdrive

Scaphism

Abnormality

Sexcrement x2

Totality

Suffocation

The River Neva

The Curse of Humanity

Give Zombies the Vote

Zozobra

Begat the Nephilim

Carnivora

The Atlas Collapse

A Wanted Awakening

Legion

Allegaeon

Lotta really good bands there.

Speaking of Opeth, a guy I know met Mikael Akerfeldt.