‘elo! A vödör köszönt.

Most pedig beírhatod a jegyzetfüzetedbe, mint mérföldkő: a vödör köszöntött!!!. Sőt ne rakd még el a füzetet, még jegyezd be az összes vasárnapot, mint piros betűs napot, igen isten napján templomba kell menni…  na jó nem de e helyett mondjuk, meglesheted a blog zenei rovatát „Szex pornó meg minden mi jó” címszó alatt (note:höhö nem is ez a a cím(de tényleg nem…höhö)).  Ebben a rovatban tehát hetente bemutatok egy számot, gyorsan mesélek az előadóról, és hozzá forrasztok egy-két vödörisztikus gondolatot. Hogy milyen zenére számíthatsz? Erre A válasz az hogy sokfélére, gyakran be se lehet skatulyázni, vagy egy adott stílus béklyójához kötni, megpróbálok olyan költeményeket eljuttatni hozzátok amelyekkel még nem találkoztatok, de nem feltétlenül underground zenészekről van szó. Annyit még elmondhatok ezekről a levegőben terjedő csodákról, hogy több kevesebb köze van a metálhoz, de semmiféle képen sem visszataszító mérsékletekben. Nem garantálom, hogy tetszeni fog, és a célom sem az hogy a tisztelt hallgatóságra ráerőltessem a beteges zsír zenéimet.   Most pedig gyorsan szót ejtenék magamról… khmh. Az agyam helyén egy vödör található pont. ennyi. Nos a kedves olvasó ennél a pontnál morfondírozhat el azon hogy „ÁÁÁÁCS… ez hülye -ànapiszar”/ „vödörrel élni? Hát az meglehetősen ergonomikátlan”  igen ez mind lehetséges, ám de egy vödör jobban rezonál mint egy rakat sejt meg neuron, arról nem is beszélve hogy állatra lehet benne festéket tárolni, míg az agyban… hát próbáld ki.  No de térjünk el a szubliminálistól (értelem mögé rejtett értelem)!

Azt hogy mégis mit keresek itt, azt majd később kifejtem.  Addig is egy rövid sablon (biztos hiányos):

Szeret:

Zene

Samurai Jack és ennyi

najónem

Live shit

Mastodon trademark…

Digeridoo

Autizmus   .-˙ )

absztrakt

Utál:

Agyonhasznált klisé

Bence és csipi : P(ah y’al know I love you… NOT (bORAT))

Bodom

Értetlenség

ihlettelenség

NYÁL

És főleg PLÁGIUM

És egy kis intró:

Happy? Hope you are még egy kis lábjegyzet: rossz a minőség

En este episodio salen temas de grupos que han sacado álbumes este año. Ya que llegamos al fin de año quiero repasar álbumes, o artistas que en muchos casos no he puesto en otros episodios. Como los siguientes:

Heaven & Hell
Slayer
Chimaira
The Haunted
Kreator
Static-X
Mudvayne
Fear Factory
Dope
Sister Sin
Lacuna Coil
Marilyn Manson
Rob Zombie
God Forbid

También se habla sobre lo siguiente:
The Devil You Know, World Painted Blood, Megadeth, Tom Araya, Rob Arnold, The Elite, The Infection, Versus, Thrash, Cult Of Static, Tony Campos, Prong, Wayne Static, Dave Mustaine, The New Game, Arkaea, Mechanize, Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne, No Regrets, Motorhead, Switchblade Serinade, I Like It, Lamb Of God, Shadow Life, The High End Of The Low, Kobetasonik, Kerry King, Fox News, Halloween, George Bush, Doc Coyle, Earthblood

El podcast se puede descargar en formato que prefiere desde aquí:

O escucha online aquí:

MUDVAYNE

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So, this morning I was reading the comments on metalsucks.com, as I so frequently do, I caught this one that really pissed me off.  I mean, most of the comments on there piss me off due to how retarded they are, but this one was so excessively stupid that I felt it warranted a blog post.  If only because there are a lot of retards out there who make essentially the same statement any time someone tells them that their favourite band sucks ass.  The shitty band in question, however, was Mudvayne – a band I haven’t given a titty fuck about in a long-ass time.

A lot of people are criticizing this. Where’s your huge selling albums? Where’s your tasty, revolutionary riffs? Where’s your nasty chops? Really I think this is a sick song and if you don’t like it then that’s great. But don’t act like you’re the be all and end all in the taste of Metal. You’re just some guy or chick writing in anonymity. Silly internet people and their overblown sense of self worth. Go rice.

Now, I hear this from a lot of people any time you criticise their favourite mediocre band.  It doesn’t matter which band.  But more often than not, it’ll be a band with younger, less intelligent audiences.  Like Dragonforce.  Or better yet, Slayer. God forbid you ever say something slightly negative about Slayer.  You will quickly feel the rabid wheezing fury of a fat rapist.  Truthfully, this mindset bothers me.  Albeit, not to the point where I will call you a faggot and threaten to kill you for disagreeing with me, – although I probably should since you, in all likelihood, aren’t very smart – but it is disconcerting, (and really drives home the point that “fan” is short for “fanatic”.)

If you pay close attention to the above post, you will notice that he has essentially said two things:

1. If you don’t sell as many records as a band, you are not allowed to criticize them.
2. If you lack the technical proficiency to play their music, you are not allowed to criticize them.

The latter of which, you will hear most often when talking about a shitty metal band like Dragonforce.  If you call Dragonforce a steaming pile of shitty shit, retarded 14 year old kids will come out and tell you “YOU SUCK DICK I HATE YOU DRAGONFORCE OWNS ALOL!!!11…11ONE!!!111 lolololololol THROUGH THE FIRE AND FLAMES FTW!!!!!!”

or “You guys are just jelous cause you cant play guitar for shit!!”

or the great challenge: “When you can play at least one of their songs then you can talk, Suck it.”

And gosh darn it!  “Some people like plain old good guitar, with a positive message.”  (well, I can’t argue with that, Pappy.)

Who gives a fuck about these cunts, right?  They’re just dorks on the internet.  You know, it’s just their opinion.  It just bothers me to no end that some turd feels that because I haven’t wasted my life learning terrible solos from a band that isn’t worth caring about, that I’m suddenly not entitled to feel a shitty band is shit, let alone talk about why they blow ass.

But it’s not simply to say that I’m not allowed to talk shit about Mudvayne or Dragonforce.  My opinion is automatically irrelevant because they have jumped to the conclusion that I simply can’t play as well as them.  Regardless of whether or not it’s true, the fact that my technical proficiency on an instrument is the watershed as to whether or not I can criticize a band is mind boggling.  By this logic, the only person who’s allowed to critique any band whatsoever is fucking Yngwie Malmsteen.

Now, I want you to sit there and think about that for a moment if you’re one of those people who’ve ever told someone that their opinion regarding a band was worthless if they couldn’t play to that standard, and I want you to realize how horribly stupid and elitist of a notion this is.  More than that, I want you to consider what kind of a world we would be living in if Yngwie Malmsteen determined what you could and couldn’t listen to.

Technical ability should ultimately have absolutely no bearing on someone’s opinion.  Yes, it can help you attain a certain appreciation of some things like free jazz or metal that you might not have had before.  But you don’t have to be a musical genius to know what you like and you don’t have to play guitar very well to realize how robotic and soulless Dragonforce is.

Now, when someone brings up the notion of record sales, without realizing it, this person has automatically placed a monetary value on music itself.  To wit: if you ain’t sellin’ shit, get the fuck out.  These people will undoubtedly cite such AWESOME examples as Metallica’s Master of Puppets or Guns & Roses’ Appetite For Destruction as forms of superior quality music!  I mean, just look at how many albums each has sold!

And then you look at the best-selling albums of all time to realize what a moron you are.  Oh boy, would you look at that – Appetite sold 28 million albums!  Not too shabby!  Did I say “not too shabby”?  I should have said “well that’s toasted shit in comparison to either one of the Backstreet Boys’ first two albums!”  And shit, why even bother with owning The Beatles’ Abbey Road when according to record sales, their 1999 greatest hits package has sold far more copies and is therefore superior in every way, shape, and form?  And why are you even bothering listening to such tripe as Led Zeppelin’s IV when you could be engaging with a real work of art like Thriller which is exactly three times better!

Just because it disappoints me to no end that people routinely pass up what I consider real, compelling art for trite shit like Nickelback, it doesn’t give me the right to force my taste onto anyone else.  Ultimately, I’m not here to tell you what is undeniably good.  That’s not my choice to make for you.  It wouldn’t be right.  All I do is offer an opinion with what I attempt to make as compelling an argument as possible.  In the end, however, if you sincerely looooooove a band and want to suck their cocks after all the arguments I make as to why they fellate frozen logs of feces, fucking go nuts.

Music is solely an individual experience.  While it might be a universal language, the subtleties of it can be debated all day.  So if Dragonforce legitimately speaks to you as a person and touches something deep within your soul, embrace that and hold it dear, because it’s something special that can only be taken away from you if you let it.

Just as long as you don’t make me listen to it.

love,
Aaron

In thinking about my times with Kristov over the course of the last 8 years this is what comes to mind. I thank you for understanding a random missed detail during a time of mourning.

to be continued…

Source: Myspace.com/Marazene

Taken from THE MARAZENE MACHINE’s Myspace blog:

As most of you have probably heard by now we lost our brother Kristopher “Kristov” Kemp a little over nine months ago to a hard fought battle with colon cancer.

Kristov would have been 35 years old today (10.28) and as per a band tradition that dates back to the beginning of our band we would have been in the process of celebrating birthday week (and more often than not – birthday month) as well as having a show lined up for whoevers birthday it happened to be.

But not this year.

All told it’s been a very strange year. It has definitely been strange not having Kris around. That and sorting through personal issues and trying to figure out when Kris was going to be able to jump back in the mix full-on. We never really planned for this without Kris. So this year has all been new ground for us.

We had to come to a new place – a new starting point.

One of Kris’s last messages to me in the final weeks was the following: “Just keep things movin along no matter what.. We got too much ridin on this to just give up ya know…”

I think about Kris and his enduring positivity every day when I wake up. It keeps me going. Gives me clarity and strength on darker days.

For those of you who didn’t know, I met Nikk through Kris. And what we have accomplished together is something I consider uniquely special and something that would not have been possible on my own. For that I am eternally grateful for.

MARAZENE was as much Kris’s dream as it was ours. And through all the good times and the bad we endure. For Kris, for ourselves, and for each other.

For those of you who have been emailing and commenting and asking – the answer is YES – there IS new music. There’s a lot. And it’s ready. More on that in the coming weeks…

But for the time being – thank you for reading. And thanks again for your continued support as we have figured out our next move.

~ DieTrich
The MARAZENE Machine

Kristov performs “AnTiThesis” with MARAZENE @ Chicago’s legendary Metro Cabaret on 06.17.07

Its been 9 months now since my brother and partner and bandmate for 8 years passed away.

kris was 6 years older than I. And we became friends in 1996 when I was 16 years old. We met at a keg party thru a mutual friend. He was wearing a Fear Factory demanufacture shirt and I won the keg stand competition. Lol and it all took off from there.

Its strange that there are still times when I think of something and quick reach for my phone to text him and realize that he isn’t and will never be at the other end of the line. Of course its been very difficult and painful at times, but in recent months its become more about remembering him and our times we’ve shared together.. As well as a kind of standard or status quo.. The thought frequently passes thru my mind of ‘what would kris think of this’ or ‘what would he say/do’. I’ve always thought of him as a loyal and ‘down’ person. If something wasn’t being handled in the ‘right’ or ‘proper’ way, he’d stand up for what was right!

I remember COUNTLESS times when I was younger, when someone was bein a fuckn prick to me, or wronging me in some way, playing on my lack of experience or confidence, he’d step right the fuck up and shut them the fuck down… ALWAYS! He ALWAYS had my back.. That is SO rare. He was a BROTHER. Someone you KNEW you had in your corner no matter what!!

I feel these days an overWHELMING urge to ‘make right by him/make him proud’ by continuing his legacy and NEVER falling short of the quality standard that kris wouldve allowed. Its like he’s still here. He IS here always in the souls and minds of everyone his life has touched. And we will NEVER let them forget…

-Nikk
The MARAZENE Machine

MARAZENE circa 04.21.06 from l to r: Kristov, Stiph, Thrall, Gash, Skum - backstage after A Pearl Room performance with American Head Charge. This picture was taken only weeks before Kris would be diagnosed with cancer.

Mudvayne are back with a new, self-titled, release that will hit stores on December 22nd. This new album is the hardest and most melodic record, Mudvayne has ever created. The new album is revolutionizing album artwork design, as this is the first album to ever use black light reactive ink. All of art and text in the packaging of the record will be printed on ink that can only be seen with a black light. Drummer Matt McDonough said “I feel that this album is the best that the band has recorded since our second album, The End of All Things to Come”. The album will be available in three formats including the standard jewel case edition, a deluxe edition that comes with a black light, and the super deluxe edition that includes a larger black light, a special edition black light reactive poster, and more.

Check out the brand new Mudvayne song “Beautiful and Strange” today at mudvayne.com and myspace.com/mudvayne for a taste of what is to come on December 22nd.

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E por mais uma semana eu cumpro minha promessa! Aliás, só tenho postado isso ultimamente, e não é por falta de criatividade não.

Pois bem. O que me atrai em uma performance na maioria das vezes é a forma com que a banda interpreta a música, e esse é um exemplo perfeito! A banda não está entre minhas favoritas (apesar de eu gostar muito dela) mas a música com certeza está. Ela tem uma estrutura simples, mas tem uma das melhores letras que já vi. Você sabe, depressão não é falar sobre neve e frio. Não há nada mais deprimente que a raça humana, e a forma que ela trata seu semelhante. Não há nada mais nojento que alguém que te vê no fundo do poço, e ao invés de te estender a mão, te faz se sentir pior ainda.

Essa performance ocorreu em 2005 durante o famoso festival alemão de rua Rock Am Ring. Com toda fúria e desespero o vocalista Kud (principal destaque do vídeo) do Mudvayne detona com “Happy?”

Chris recently posted a rant of sorts that talked about the initial suckage of Chimaira and despite this they were a gateway into better forms of metal. Mudvayne were a similar band for me, but not in the initial suckage way. Back in 2000 when Mudvayne’s debut L.D. 50 came out, I found an album that married the progressive tendencies of King Crimson and Yes that I so loved and had a bent towards heavier forms of metal. They also seemed to reach for that same aesthetic as Tool, writing an album about the evolutionary link between humans and drug use. Heady stuff. I always defended that album as not only a high water mark from the “nu-metal” scene, but a showcase of how to effectively be a progressive minded metal act in a modern sense. Then the band released The End of All Things to Come and while still good and “thinky” it was considerably streamlined. Then they got popular and proceeded to spit on all their credibility with radio loving album after radio loving album.

So, I say all this because I was alerted yesterday to the fact that Mudvayne are releasing a new album in December (surprise!) and that they are going to cover the entire album artwork with… ready for it… blacklight reactive ink! Stoners and photo nerds rejoice! Yep, the album artwork “will be pretty much invisible to the naked eye,” unless you stick it under a blacklight. This is really of little importance except that Mudvayne also released a new song on their myspace and despite beginning fairly heavy (blast beats! tremolo! party like it’s 2008!) quickly settles into that ever so familiar Mudvayne radio ready groove/melody. Completely unmemorable, marginally effective and once again, Ryan Martinie is reigned in to play like every other bassist out there. I wonder if the blacklight you can buy with the special edition version will help me see the band’s musical ability and talent, because right now, it’s pretty invisible.

Here’s a live video for “Severed” off L.D. 50. Ah, memories.

-Dan

MUDVAYNE

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“MUDVAYNE have outdone themselves once again with the mind-blowing packaging for the new album.  The new album is revolutionizing album artwork design, as this is the first album to ever use black light reactive ink.  Every bit of art and text in the packaging of the record will be printed on ink that can only be seen with a black light.  Fans receiving this record as a gift during the holiday season, could truly have a “White Christmas” courtesy of MUDVAYNE.
Matt McDonough MUDVAYNE’S drummer had the following to say about the new album, “I feel that this album is the best that the band has recorded since our second album, The End of All Things to Come.
The album will be available in three formats.  Those include, the standard jewel case edition, a deluxe edition that comes with a black light, and the super deluxe edition that includes a larger black light, a special edition black light reactive poster, and more.

NEW SONG: ‘BEAUTIFUL AND STRANGE’                    STREAMING TODAY>

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If you don’t know already, Mudvayne is a band that has been a contributing factor in redifining the sound of contemporary metal for nearly a decade.  Beginning in 2000 with their initial release L.D. 50, Mudvayne has been on a non-stop roll creating hard hitting, gritty, nasty, and even catchy metal that has earned them their rightful place among bands like Lacuna Coil, Shadows Fall, Sevendust, and even yes, Metallica. 

In late 2008 Mudvayne released their fifth studio album The New Game; the first track released to the public was the both melodic and heaving hitting “Do What You Do”.  This teaser track was released two weeks prior to the albums release, and provided a mere peek into what promised to be another doozy of an album for the power-foursome.  Lead singer Chad Gray’s vocal’s, as always, are tight, gritty, and complimentary to the blistering maelstrom of guitar and bass; the delightful  Mudvayne signature sound. Among the  album’s highlights include songs “Do What You Do”, “Scarlet Letter”, and “Dull Boy”. Personally, I think every song is a winner.

For The New Game, Mudvayne teamed up with producer Dave Fortman for a second time.  Fortman had produced Mudvanye’s Lost and Found (2005) with great success; in this newest venture Fortman helps them create a more earthy sound for The New Game. Fortman had worked with both Evanescence and Slipknot assisting them in producing award winning albums, and he doesn’t fall short with this album either.  Mudvayne just finished a U.S. Tour promoting The New Game, somehow they played at a local fair in August..how did I miss that one? Ugh!

Mudvayne has announced the next album is due on 12/29/09!  Jeez, these guys are just machines!

Regardless, these guys rock and are one of my favorites in today’s metal arena. Do yourself a favor and get any album, get comfortable, and turn it up really, really loud!

If you want to check out some select songs from The New Game  go to Mudvayne’s website and click the free player on the top right of the homepage.

The New Game gets 4 out of 5 stars.

Abhijeet Ahluwalia

Put simply, this is a collection of lesser known songs by famous bands or cool songs by bands that don’t get much mainstream attention. Check them out.

Opeth – Coil: The acoustic opener to the Watershed album. Just beautiful.

Martyr AD – Broken Mouth: Metalcore before it became big. Sadly, this band split up but not before making two albums, On Earth As It Is In Hell, and the debut The Human Condition In Twelve Fractions, from which this song is taken.

A Life Once Lost – Detest: To be honest, I’m not a big fan of this band, but this song has a groove you can’t help love. There’s not much to this song, and it basically boils down to the first riff repeating over and over. But I keep coming back to it.

Judas Priest – One on One: The first of two Ripper era Priest songs. The two albums Ripper did get a lot of flak from fans, and while they weren’t brilliant they did have their moments. This was one such song. Listen to it in its own right, without the burden of Priest’s discography weighing it down.

Judas Priest – Burn In Hell: The other Ripper era song. Pay attention to how they build up the layers at the start. One by one, sounds are added until the riff kicks in. And what a riff too.

Judas Priest – A Touch Of Evil: This was originally featured on my favourite Priest album Painkiller, but I’ve gone for the live version here. This song has always fascinated me because of it’s obviously dark and menacing tone. Study the lyrics, keeping in mind that Rob Halford hadn’t come out as gay when this song was released. You’ll see the song in a whole new light suddenly.

Bombay Bicycle Club – Evening/Morning: Up-and-coming indie rockers from London. I’d seen their debut album I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose flagged up repeatedly on Spotify and thought I’d check it out. This was the first song I heard, and 2 days later I was buying the album at HMV.

Anthrax – King Size: Another song from an album that gets a lot of shit from fans, but actually sounds quite good if you hear it in isolation, rather than in the context of the bands’ past efforts. Stomp 442 had a lot of groovy stuff, like this song, Fueled and Grunt & Click

Vader – Xeper: Vader have a ton of hits, but this one gets very few outings these days. One of the coolest riffs these guys have written, Xeper is a song that rocks because of its simplicity. And this coming from a band renowned for its technicality. Whiplash guaranteed.

Megadeth – Five Magics: Ok, so every track on Rust In Peace is legendary. But this one gets mentioned a whole lot less than Hangar 18, Holy Wars or Tornado Of Souls. A slow starter, it picks up the pace along the way and once the ridiculous guitar part kicks in at 4:46, you’ll be convinced. Awesome.

Megadeth – Psychotron: Lyrically, it’s not the cleverest thing Mustaine has ever written. But with a catchy riff like that, who cares?

Chimaira – Six: A true hidden gem. This 9 minute epic incorporates everything from jackhammer double-bass to eastern influences, in a song about surviving adversity to come out stronger. Inspirational and grandiose in equal measure.

Black Label Society – Bridge To Cross: For a bunch of guys known for their rambunctious brand of metal, this makes for a stark departure. Acoustic, moody and as close to a musical equivalent of melancholy as you’re likely to get.

Youngblood Brass Band – Elegy: I love this song. This is the live version, and the instruments sound so much more vibrant here. Look up the lyrics, the subject matter may be your average heartbreak, but DH Skogen is a clever lyricist.

Rage Against The Machine – Snakecharmer: Buried deep in the Evil Empire album, this song has one of the coolest grooves Tom Morello ever came up with, if you ask me.

Rage Against The Machine – Fistful Of Steel: Track 8 from the self-titled debut. Zack is outraged in most of his songs, but you’ll feel it a lot more on this one.

Tool – The Pot: Simple, yet so effective. The riff is probably the simplest one Tool has ever written. But how can you not scream along with Maynard every time he says, “You must’ve been HIGH!” With great bass lines to boot.

Tool – Swamp Song: I can’t believe this wasn’t released as a single from the Undertow album. Tool at their lyrical, belligerent best.

Slayer – Threshold: Taken from the God Hates Us All album. Pure aggro; I dare you not to scream along with Araya at the end when he’s shouting “I CAN’T STOP THE RAGE, I CAN’T STOP THE HATE YEAH!” Violent music at its punchiest.

Slayer – Catatonic: One of ‘those’ Slayer songs, where they don’t play at 2 billion BPM for a change. And that just makes the riff and the vocals that much more menacing and intense.

Metallica – Carpe Diem Baby: Buried very deep on the much-maligned Reload album, this one is actually a very good mid-tempo rocker. No, it isn’t thrash metal, but it’s still a cool song that is moody, dark and heartfelt.

Metallica – Ronnie: The most un-Metallica song ever written, this song from Load has more in common with blues than metal. Again, just forget for a second that you’re listening to a band that is famous for thrash metal, and you’ll see how this a brilliant song.

Apocalyptica – Farewell: I love songs that have an emotion to them. And if you don’t know what I mean, listen to this song and you’ll understand. It’s as if someone wrote the soundtrack to sorrow.

Audioslave – Shadow On The Sun: I chanced upon this song because it was featured on the movie Collateral. Again, a great example of a moving song that has an emotional side to it. Chris Cornell has a great voice, and he puts it to good use, especially on the last verse.

At The Gates – World Of Lies: Taken from the genre-defining Slaughter Of The Soul album, I’m baffled why this song doesn’t get lauded more. Pure genius.

Florence + The Machine – Between Two Lungs: Everyone’s going gaga over Dog Days Are Over, but for me this song is the highlight of the album. Lyrically, it’s by far the cleverest song on the album – love is the thing between two lungs, and the song is about how the emotion is passed from one person to the other. Musically, the song is typical Florence – a slow start and gradual build-up right till the climax when it explodes into harmony. And the song is as every bit as sexual as that sounds.

The Crown – Death Is The Hunter: With a name like that you know it’s not going to be a love ballad. The Crown is one of the most underrated heavy bands in recent times. They’ve broken up sadly, but not before leaving us with a solid 6 album catalogue.

Dimmu Borgir – Eradication Instincts Defined: I always thought Dimmu’s orchestral arrangements hit a new high on this album, Death Cult Armageddon. No song symbolises that more than this one; it gives epic a whole new meaning.

Dimmu Borgir – Burn In Hell: A cover of the Twisted Sister song, and it’s one of those rare ones that manages to sound better than the original.

Pantera – It Makes Them Disappear: A slow, moody and brooding song, but in the Pantera style so there’s lots of distortion and squealing guitars. The lyrics are some of the darkest Pantera ever wrote, made all the more eerie by the calm riffing.

Pantera – Electric Funeral: An amazing cover of the Sabbath classic.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – War: 8 brothers come together and play instrumental music in this brass band. The songs are good, but the live performance is absolutely electric. I was lucky enough to see them live twice, and if you ever get the chance to do the same, you should definitely go. You won’t be disappointed, I promise.

Disturbed – Droppin’ Plates: Delve deep into the debut album The Sickness, and you get this gem. There’s angry songs, and then there’s angry songs that scare you because the tone is so calm it’s absolutely psychotic. Nice.

Your Demise – Black Veins: The next big thing in hardcore, from St. Albans in the UK. Just hear the song, it speaks for itself.

Mudvayne – Prod: I think Mudvayne were brilliant on their debut album L.D. 50, because songs like this took them out of nu-metal and put them closer to progressive territory. An eerie heavy song if there ever was one, punctuated by Ryan Martinie’s brilliant bass playing.

Trivium – The Crusade: I absolutely detest this album, but this 8 minute instrumental almost redeems all the garbage that precedes it. It’s not that the fretwork is brilliant – I hate artists who spend their time showing off their skill and forget to write a song – it’s the melodies and the hooks that make this song so catchy and memorable. That it is a technically difficult song is the icing on the cake.

Korn – Justin: As kooky and bizarre as anything else that had made Korn a big hit at the time. Freak On A Leash may have won the grammy, but the whole Follow The Leader album had nu-metal gems like this one.

Cancer Bats – Smiling Politely: Are they a punk band? Are they a metal band? I don’t think the Cancer Bats know themselves. This song certainly has a metal feel to it, and it’s got Billy Talent’s Ben Kowalewicz guesting on vocals. Gotta love that riff.

Captain Beefheart – Abba Zaba (Live): I couldn’t find the full song anywhere online, so check out the preview that Amazon lets you hear. Beefheart was an absolute genius, and as is normally the case with geniuses, absolutely insane. This song always captured that fine line between genius and insanity that was Beefheart. Look up his bio on wikipedia, you won’t be disappointed.

Euphoria – Maeri: These guys were one of the first ‘bands’ in India to find some mainstream success. I’m not a big fan of their pop-rock style, but kudos to them for taking a band (in the western sense) and making it mainstream in India. In particular, this is a tune I keep coming back to. 3 notes open the song, and vocalist Palash sings about a love lost. Probably the most bitter-sweet song I’ve ever heard. Even if you don’t understand Hindi, you’ll get the drift if you watch the video.

Lamb Of God – Condemn The Hive: This one is a Japan-only bonus track and I don’t see why, because it’s as good as anything on the Wrath album. Just enjoy.

Machine Head – Negative Creep: A metalised version of the Nirvana song. Grunge fans will hate it, which is why I love it.

The Doors – The End (Live): This song isn’t really a hidden gem, but the live version isn’t worshipped as much as it should be. Live at the Hollywood Bowl in ‘68, you get Jim Morrison at his best, joking with the crowd and singing alternate lyrics. It was a beautiful song to begin with, but this version take it a notch higher.

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Mudvayne - The New Game (2009)

Un CD, con buenas canciones, estando la mayoría en el estilo de singles como Happy? y Forget to Remember, así que si estáis mas familiarizados y os gusta mas ese sonido, os gustará completamente su nuevo álbum ya que todas las canciones están impregnadas de ese toque de los Mudvayne de la última etapa.

En todo caso, no va a sorprender a nadie, y los que seáis fans del nu metal y Mudvayne, este álbum os vendrá bastante bien para disfrutarlo un rato.

Artista – Mudvayne
Álbum – The New Game
Año – 2008
Género – Nu Metal
Web - Official
País – Illinois, USA.

Tracklisting

1. “Fish Out of Water” – 3:30
2. “Do What You Do” – 3:36
3. “A New Game” – 5:03
4. “Have It Your Way” – 3:45
5. “A Cinderella Story” – 4:40
6. “The Hate in Me” – 3:22
7. “Scarlet Letters” – 3:56
8. “Dull Boy” – 4:14
9. “Same Ol’” – 4:49
10. “Never Enough” – 3:39
11. “We the People” – 3:07