Yearly Archives: 2011

Skindred release ‘Cut Dem’ video

Welsh Reggae/Rap/fusion/Ragga Metaller’s Skindred have released the video for their new single ‘Cut Dem’, taken from the band’s fourth album Union Black.

The video itself isn’t anything special, in fact it looks like a My Chemical Romance video. The song also sucks like all Skindred songs, so only check this out if you’re drunk or have terrible taste.

Kerry King’s favorite things

Kerry King of Thrash legends Slayer recently spoke to Spin about his favorite things in the whole wide world and apparently he’s a lot more multifaceted than me (I like beer, sleep, Metal, boobs – that’s about it).

I don’t have the energy to copy and paste everything from the Spin article, besides it being a pointless task anyways, so here’s just a couple of excerpts:

FAVORITE SONG:
“‘Becoming’ by Pantera. Whenever you get asked a question like that this, the answer is whatever comes to mind first. But it’s Pantera and [guitarist] Dimebag Darrell was my boy. It’s one of my favorite Pantera tunes.”

FAVORITE ALBUM:
“AC/DC live with Bon Scott, but I did see the movie Beyond The Thunder, and it seems like he would be a cool dude to party with!”

FAVORITE WEBSITE:
“Moreliapythons.com. Because I am a better snake breeder than I am a guitar player!”

Wait, what? His favorite website isn’t Dose of Metal? blasphe-fucking-my! Wait, that doesn’t work at all.

You can get the full article at Spin.com

Weekly Dose of Metal: Hate Eternal

Do you know what’s awesome? Hate. Do you know what would be, like, totally awesome? If hate could somehow become eternal. Wouldn’t that be amazing?

I sometimes wonder how many of these Death Metal bands come up with their names (I’d personally call my band Jesus Has His Eyes Gouged Out By An Erect Penis), but what does it really matter when the music kicks so much ass? And that’s exactly what Hate Eternal do.

To answer my pointless rantings though, the band are named after an old Ripping Corpse demo song, but all you need to do is listen to the song ‘I Monarch’ taken from the album of the same name below and everything will be all right.

Fear of the predictable machine

‘Choking Victim’, more like choking singer. The vocals on Munky of Korn fame’s new project Fear and the Nervous System sound like a castrated Jonathan Davis (how predictable). ‘Choking Victim’ is just another reminder in 2011 that the Nu-Metal genre just won’t fucking die. This is the 21st Century people, when are you going to learn that Nu Metal is outdated and unacceptable in this day and age?

The band also feature Billy Gould of Faith No More, so I almost feel dirty for ridiculing the song so badly, but seriously ‘Choking Victim’ almost makes me want to go back to listening to Staind‘s new song.

Staind go heavy (again) lulz

So in case you’ve been out of the loop (lucky you), Staind have announced they’re going back to their roots for the forthcoming album (i.e. going “heavy”), and the first (or second, third, fuck knows) song from that album has been released to the internet.

I guess the band are making the “progression” (or “regression”, which ever sounds cooler)  from doing the sappy ball-less rock ballads crap, to doing the ‘let’s be heavy again, because it’s what our fans want’ thing. Either one is laughable though. Either you get generic by numbers ballads or generic by numbers Nu-Metal, the end result still leaves my trousers staind with my disgust. And not in a good way.

The new song ‘Eyes Wide Open’ can be listened to below. The forthcoming self-titled album (don’t you know, that’s what all the cool bands do when they decide to regress) will be out September 13th.