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Hear “Bloodhound” from doom-metal band Witch Mountain’s new 7”. The track features a bluesy and nasty guitar solo, “bending strings to their breaking point as the rhythm section keeps the full-body head-bang in constant motion.”
In which I delicately skitter across that whole car-company-sponsored-metal-thing because who the hell cares.
Maryland Deathfest Portrait, No. 5: Meet Nathan Carson from Portland, Oregon. He’s a booking agent and the drummer for the bands Witch Mountain and Two Ton Boa. He also just finished the Metal Noam Chomsky Project, which is exactly what you think it is. Nathan actually had a lot of thoughtful things to say about metal — especially German death metal band Morgoth — but this was too cute not to highlight: “I remember being five years old and listening to ‘Godzilla’ by Blue Oyster Cult and running around with an X-Wing Fighter.”
OMG that is totally Nate Carson from Witch Mountain in a Portlandia send-up of everybody turning into DJs. Watch at 2:51. Also, Portlandia: Nailed it.
NPR Music: The Best Metal Albums Of 2011. I also talked to Bob Boilen about 2011 in metal and outer sound on the latest episode of All Songs Considered.
