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Quickies: Album sales (vinyl sales?), updates from Scar the Martyr, and Polish blackened death to round things off.

January 14, 2015January 14, 2015CoreyLeave a comment

Happy Wednesday, everyone. And congrats on making it the majority of the way through the week. Let’s round off the day once again with some Quickies, yes?

Boring news first: Here are your post- New Year album sales. There really isn’t anything new, but another strong showing by AC/DC and Slipknot. Consistency counts, I guess.
Worst news second: Five Finger Death Punch will be releasing a new album in 2015. Oh. Joy. I’m sure they’ll be a band none of us can avoid come summer festival time. God dammit.
Now, this is actually interesting… A look at vinyl sales in 2014 relative to digital music and CD sales. The vinyl trends may surprise you. I say… cool.
Scar the Martyr appear busy. We all know that vocalist Henry Derek Bonner was in a gnarly car accident this week. Seems like things worked out, which is a good thing.
And here’s a new video from a Polish blackened death metal band! No, not that band. It’s HATE this time:

It rips. The song is called ‘Valley of Darkness’. The new album Crusade: Zero will be out February 10th.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”

– Corey

Live. Love. Plow. Horns Up.

Quickies: Updates from Dark Tranquility, All That Remains, and Brent Hinds (yes, again).

January 12, 2015CoreyLeave a comment

Another week… and a big week it will be here! More on that later. Today’s Quickies are already late, so let’s roll right into it:

Talk about timing. Fresh off wrapping up their tour for Construct, Dark Tranquility (specifically vocalist Mikael Stanne) drop news that writing for a new album is next on the to-do list. Construct was a strong release, and the subsequent shows even stronger. I’ll be discussing the latter on this week’s Podcast. This is good news.
All That Remains have released a new song called, and I shit you not, “This Probably Won’t End Well”. In all seriousness, that’s one of the worst song titles I’ve heard in a long time. The song itself is mediocre… which is about all we could hope for.
Brent Hinds has been all over this blog today. Bam Margera has announced that the Mastodon guitarist will be playing the late Ryan Dunn in his upcoming movie, I Need Time to Stay Useless. Uncanny.
Henry Derek Bonner, vocalist for Thrown Into Exile (formerly Scar The Martyr), was in a serious car accident. Fortunately, he was able to escape without serious injury, however they were forced to cancel a show. That’s about the best result of that situation you can hope for.
You know who we don’t discuss much? Ensiferum. Well, here’s a fresh new track called “One Man Army”:

Despite the cheese factor, it’s quite tolerable. The new album, One Man Army, drops February 24th.

“Ein Bier… bitte.”

– Corey

Live. Love. Plow. Horns Up.

Quickies: More Boo-Hoos from Wintersun, Obscura News, and More

December 19, 2014December 19, 2014CoreyLeave a comment

It’s Friday, I’m tired, and I’ve got a bus to catch, so these will be brief. Here are today’s Quickies–let’s see what we missed in the metal world today:

Remember yesterday’s Quickies, when it seemed like Jari Mäenpää had quit his whining and started to focus on recording new Wintersun things? Well…that statement was a bit premature, because here he is complaining again. On Facebook, no less.
Good news from Obscura: they’ve started pre-production on their follow-up to 2011’s Omnivium! I’ve no idea what this interactive project might be, but color me intrigued either way.
Also in remember yesterday: that new Chris Broderick / Shawn Drover project? Welp, it’s got a vocalist: former Scar the Martyr frontman Henry David Bonner.
Veil of Maya is going to be releasing…something…on January 1, 2015. Which is good news if you care about Veil of Maya. (We don’t.)
And finally, here’s a parody of Ghost’s “Year Zero” that we never knew we wanted:

I’m gonna go sleep for the next 34 hours. Enjoy your weekends, folks.

-Dan

Live. Love. Plow. Horns Up.

Saturday Side-Splitter: “Slipknot Shreds”

April 27, 2014October 22, 2015DanLeave a comment

Happy 39th birthday, Joey Jordison! In celebration, let’s poke some fun at the band that the Scar the Martyr drummer used to provide 100% of the talent for–Slipknot! To that end, we present…Slipknot Shreds!

To be fair, I never hated the ‘Knot as much as a lot of people do (or as much as I probably should), and I guess Mick Thomson and Jim Root do know a thing or two on guitar, but still…after the murky circumstances surrounding Jordison’s departure from the band, I don’t really feel too guilty poking a bit of fun at them. Particularly when said fun-poking is as hilarious as this video.

-Dan

Live. Love. Plow. Horns Up.

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