RAWR!
Right now, I’m listening to Uneven Structure. Their debut LP Februus has just landed and it. Is. Tremendous. This is djent – but not as you know it, Jim. Do me the favour of herding over to facebook.com/unevenstructure and listening to this gargantuan metal so I don’t have to list a whole bunch of increasingly meaningless adjectives in some tiresome I’m-a-writer-ho-ho-look-at-my-big-describing-words attempt to define them for you. I can’t. The truth is, I never learned to read. This is a smoking monkey typing this to you right now. It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!
~tobes
SKORNEX RULES!
I know, I know: You’re shocked, maybe a little discredited. Everything I’ve led regular Metaloc readers to believe this far is that a) I’m a potential date-rapist, and b) I hate Korn. Hate them. The kind of hate reserved only for oppressive dictatorships and Collingwood fans. But I love their new shit. Love it. The kind of love reserved only for nubile young things who can’t hold their drink and Chuck Schuldiner. Chuck Narcissistic Cannibal into YouTube and you’ll be hit with the first track from that upcoming dubstep album collaboration withSkrillex and other guys. It’s good, although I tell ya, I reckon it’s good ’cause it doesn’t sound much like Korn’s latter-day output. The Path of Totality‘s out on December 5.
BLACK TUSK FOR FREE
“This band is awful!! I have more talent in my little pinky toenail clipping than this band has as a whole! Do not download waste of space! I really hope this band has real jobs! Complete crap!! This band gets no stars!!” screams one user ‘review’ of the free track Black Tusk are so kindly (or not?) giving away via iTunes. Get over to iTunes and see if you agree. It’s off their super-recent record Set the Dial which is totally Mastodon, but hey. Mastodon are a good thing.
IN FLAMES DO THE REMIX THING
In Flames have been totally dead to me since about the time of 2006’s Come Clarity, but they still turn a lot of you on in that special way so, here, have this batch of whacky remixes they’re gonna be releasing digitally on November 15. The track being fiddled with is Where the Dead Ships Dwell from this year’s quite-shite Sounds Of A Playground Fading, and it’s helped along by not one but three remixes of itself from a fairly motley crew of interlopers. German rapper Casper gets into it, drum ‘n bass outfits The Qemists give the song some hell momentum, and Dawn of Ashes vocalist Kristof Bathory does the black metal thing.
DOLVING DISSES WATAIN
The Haunted frontman Peter Dolving is none too fond of fellow Swedish blackhearts, Watain. Why only last week he dropped this fuck-you bomb on his FB status: “So, um Watain from Schmockholm. They’re an overrated band, and probably need their asses kicked, you know like generally speaking. Agree? Disagree?” A lot of people disagreed, owing to the fact that Watain are awesome and The Haunted’s latest album is a piece of shit covered in burning hair.
ALICE ‘VOCODER’ COOPER
I love Alice Cooper, like, sexually. Nights with Alice Cooper is the best thing on radio ever. What a dude. But his next album is kinda… I don’t know. It’s called Welcome 2 My Nightmare, which is a bit rich. Purposely trading on his own nostalgia-vault like that doesn’t seem very Alice. Then I heard first single I Am Made of You.It rolls like an R’n’B song, and has tons of vocoder in it. I keep expecting Glen Sobel to drop a fat urban beat.
WHAT JASON NEWSTED IS DOING NOW
Metallica fans might sort of remember former bassist Jason Newsted. Think he played on a few albums there for a bit (not that you can fuckin’ hear him. Stupid band). Immediately after leaving he went off to play in Voivod and some weird trio with some very, very young dudes called Echobrain, but what’s he been doing since? Making Metallica look good by comparison, that’s what. His latest project’s Papa Wheelie and hilariously features Steven Wiig on drums. Wiig was once Lars Ulrich‘s assistant, and even sued him recently for unpaid overtime. When you stop giggling, I urge you not to listen to Papa Wheelie.
ANIMALS AS STUDIO LEADERS
Animals As Leaders are arguably one of the only recent instrumental acts of recent times good enough to warrant a longtime listen (see also: Blotted Science with Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster, who just signed up with Basick in the UK. Sick news.) and their latest baby Weightless is out on November 8. Check out their last in-studio vid before the album’s release by smashing the YouTube machine. Tres epic, you will quit music immediately.
STAMP YA HAND
Giggidy!
Sydney savages Thy Art Is Murder are on a national headliner throughout December, and they’ll be perforating your juicy interiors at The Corner Hotel. First night’s Saturday, December 10, and that’s for us old shits; second night is for under 18s, and that’s on the Sunday after. Running support will be Germany’s War From a Harlots Mouth, The Bride, and Make Them Suffer. Stubs from cornerhotel.com.
FEEDBACK
Coops has lost it.
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James
I’m trying to dig this song, for the sake of his epic cameo in Wayne’s World. Finding it difficult. I keep feeling ill. Ah, there’s the guitar solo. Some what better. Focus on the solo.
~tobes
