Prepare for metal mecca: Maryland Deathfest starts this Thursday in Baltimore. All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen invited a couple of metalheads (including yours truly!) to preview “America’s Biggest Metal Party.”
I’m in this thing.
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Whenever pollen season hits, the first thing it hits is my ears. The pain gets to the point where I can’t really listen to music on headphones, which is how I do all of my listening at work. That, of course, poses a problem when I want to put on some metal.
So besides Isis, what other moody, vaguely ambient metal (or heavy music, in general) should I jam in my sinus state? (You know, besides other Isis clones.)
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I don’t think Ben Koller gets enough credit when it comes to the Converge sound. Just listen to the tight hits on the ride and snare on “Fault and Fracture” — no decay, only miniature explosions that demolish as fast as they resolve. That has something to do with Kurt Ballou’s production style, no doubt, but sometimes Koller’s doing some incredibly complicated drum work in a very small, feral space. There’s no room for error, only punishment.
In any case, I’m incredibly excited to see Converge with Loma Prieta at DC9 tonight. It will be my third time in the last two years.
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bluthsoriginalfrozenbananastand:
I can’t stop laughing. Totally worth the read.
“The protagonist arrives with a guitar and plays a solo of 26 minutes. The dragon kills himself out of boredom.”
(Source: internalprimatesforever, via invisibleoranges)
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Not that Motorhead ever releases a bad album, but if you ever wished Lemmy was somehow dirtier, more Venom-ous, I can’t think of a better band than Midnight.
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Without fail, this no-BS stoner-metal band delivers yet another skull-bashing record, in the process challenging the metal world at large.
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Good Southern Lord, Black Sabbath on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert in 1975. Ozzy’s frilly jacket, Geezer’s white (so white!) and wide (so wide!) bellbottoms, Tommy’s obviously recent perm job, and Bill’s ridiculous drum kit. Watch this! Watch it now!
[major h/t Stephen O’Malley]
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I took this photo of Matt Pike during High On Fire’s show at SXSW in 2010. I was always really hard on myself for not getting better shots. Now, I have friends send me links from other people’s blogs with this photo. It makes me happy to know that there are people other than my mom that enjoy looking at it.
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