So much for a monthly music post. Here’s what I’ve listened to most since the last one:
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Kyuss Lives – 3/4 of the best live band I ever saw – are having a little reunion tour.
Continue reading ‘Kyuss Lives – Manchester Academy 2011-4-5′
03
Mar
11
Ainsdale Dunes slideshow
Posted mostly as a way to work out how to post flickr slide shows on here, but it was a nice walk and the kestrel and sheep were pleasant company.
03
Mar
11
A kestrel.
Test-post from flickr, but I think it’s not a bad picture for a point-and-shoot camera!
02
Mar
11
Music Post for February
Statistically significant recorded music: Acid Witch
Actual live music:
- Watain + Melechesh + Dew Scented.
- Some band at the Fox with a lead guitarist who had a hook.
Both events were “Wobbly Bob incidents”.
This compilation was one of the very first heavy metal records I ever bought—not when it was brand new in 1980; probably in 1984 or thereabouts. It was my first introduction to so much of the great heavy metal of the late 1970s. Here it is in the form of a Youtube playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CC511ECBCEE28621
And here’s somewhere you can download the whole thing!
http://hearrockcity.blogspot.com/2010/01/attack-of-mad-axe-man.html
30
Jan
11
January Music Post
What have I been listening to this month?
New Releases
Burzum: Fallen
Essentially a mashup of “Det Som Engang Var” with the Moody Blues? Yes, something like that. I’ve never listened to all that much Burzum, being all too easily put off by the chap’s politics and the whole murdering thing. Now that I’m older and less idealistic I’m giving this a fair crack, and find myself wavering between admiration and giggles.
Motörhead – The Wörld Is Yours
Arguably their finest album to date! Every song is a bona fide rock’n'roll masterpiece. There’s nothing more to say.
New To Me
Tormentress - Thrashing Disorder Enjoyable old-school thrash from this Singaporean, all-girl combo. Sparked some less enjoyable ‘discussion’ on the interwebs. however
Kvelertak – High on many people’s end-of-year lists, this is some high-fun black’n'roll. They ought to do the world a favour and change their name to Darksomething so they can fit in the gap between The Darkness and Darkthrone on everyone’s shelf.
Upwards of Endtime Solid Doom.
Old Favourites Revived
Alice In Chains – Facelift. Back in the mood for some of that Love/Hate/Love
Annihilator. Just ’cause.
Overkill – The Wrecking Crew / Sacred Reich – Ignorance is the tape in Mum’s car.
Iron Maiden Flight 666 was on TV, plus I watched the concert video from that tour too.
Gillan Lovefilm sent me The Glory Years DVD from 1981 – I feel a major flashback coming on.
Also of note:
Ghost Still not sure what to think of this.
Ludicra – The Tenant. Amazing band; amazing album.
Slough Feg – The Animal Spirits. Another incredible band; I’ve been trying to play it often enough to combat my disappointment with Scalzi’s comments on a certain night out in Manhattan.
Astriaal – Anatomy of the Infinite My favourite Swedish-black-metal-from-Australia
Howlin’ Wolf I spent a day on this before Maiden kicked in.
In Flames The Jester Race
Melechesh and Nile because I’m off to see them next month.
Valkyrie discography, Youtubes + SHODX bootleg. Man the vocals were off-key that day, but awesome anyway. What a band.
Black Anvil - Time Insults the Mind nice.
23
Dec
10
Show No Mercia Festival
Satan’s Hollow, Manchester
2009-10-19
Clanglestrim Produckshins
WINTERFYLLETH (Eng)
Heritage Black Metal On Candlelight Records
CNOC AN TURSA (Sco)
Symphonic Black Metal On Lone Vigil Recordings
BURIAL (Eng)
Black Death Metal On Lone Vigil Recordings
EIBON LA FURIES (Eng)
Industrial Black Metal
PRIMITIVE GRAVEN IMAGE (Eng)
Progressive Black Metal
OLD CORPSE ROAD (Eng)
Folk Black Metal
On the weekend of the heaviest snow ever, it was time to forge away across the grim and frostbitten plains of Lancashire for this Pagan/Black extravaganza in Manchester’s Satan’s Hollow, which is to iD Software’s level designers as NYC’s Limelight was to H. R. Giger. Also in attendance were Jimmer, and a bunch of people I vaguely knew from his Livejournal and/or lj metal_community. Beer was Tetley’s, but hey, at least it wasn’t Boddington’s.
On to the music: Old Corpse Road kicked things off and were perhaps the most to my taste of the whole evening. Primitive Graven Image, next, were also good, and were a man down with one guitar player having to switch to bass. They apparently value their harmonies, and I suspect that with a full troupe they might have stolen the show. Eibon La Furies were ridiculous Victorian Gothic metal who managed to be a bit silly without being annoying in the slightest. Stylistically they were the least up my street of the evening, but even so enjoyable.
Burial provided a death metal interlude, and a welcome one at that, and then it was on to the short-haired dudes who looked like they were in the wrong nightclub. Great music, but come on lads, grow some hair and buy some black clothes!
Victory feast was adequate Chinese.
Hotel was barely adequate place called Mercahnts.
Train service home was not even close to adequate and took HOURS.
Photos of the evening, swiped from Yolanda’s Facebook:
