Yearly Archives: 2011

Review: Vastum – Carnal Law

It’s been a while since I’ve last reviewed an album so it’s time to listen to some new music and let you all know what to buy and what, well, not.

Today I’m reviewing Vastum’s debut album Carnal Law. Vastum are a band from San Francisco, California, consinsting of members of Acephalix and Saros.

Vastum play an interesting blend of oldschool Death Metal and Doom Metal but why don’t we just get right into the review? Make the jump to read on.

Ghosts along the dose of metal

Phil Anselmo’s been in about 1,235 bands. But my favorite Phil band (aside from Panfuckingtera of course) has to be Down.

I don’t like all their songs but ‘Ghosts…’ is a personal favorite. Enjoy the video above.

Can you spare $13 million?

Ozzy and Sharon have yet another home on the market. This time it’s a Los Angeles mansion which will only set you back $13,000,000. Bargain!

“The 6 bed, 10 bath, 11,000 square foot mansion boasts a re-design by interior designer to the stars Martyn Lawrence-Bullard, and was recently featured in Architectural Digest. The home, in the popular celebrity enclave of Hidden Hills, rests on a hill on the 2.25 acre estate, with city lights and mountain views. As you might expect given the listing price, the manse includes numerous luxury features: Travertine flooring, formal dining room, dressing area, formal entry room, maids quarters, gym, library, study, and a pool, among other amenities.“

Read full article here.

Oh, I wasn’t gonna buy it, but now I read it has travertine flooring. Cancel the ads right now, if it’s got traventine, Alex is interested.

Why on Earth would anyone need 10 baths? Isn’t it ironic that Ozzy has 10 baths yet Zakk still never used any?

Anyway, $13,000,000 is $12,999,999 too much for me so I’ll pass.

Disturbed do it for themselves

Disturbed write music for themselves yo. That’s the claim guitarist Dan Donegan makes in a recent interview with Gibson.com.

Gibson.com: “Congrats on Asylum being Disturbed‘s fourth consecutive #1 debut. Did you feel, as you were writing the album, it would do well?”
Dan: To be honest, we felt that. We don’t second-guess what it is that’s working or what the fans or label or anybody else is expecting from us. We just write music for ourselves.”

Source: Blabbermouth

Thank God Disturbed write music for themselves, because if they were writing it for, say me, I’d have to say they’re really failing. Now, what would make this perfect, is if they could really take this “making music for ourselves” thing that one step further, and literally just don’t released any more music to the public. If you could do that for me guys, that would be great thanks.

I lied

So what do you know? It’s the 29th of June and here I am on the internet, despite my little rantings yesterday regarding Trivium. What can I say? I can’t keep away from porn Dose of Metal.

For those of you who don’t know (or don’t usually read DoM, because you suck or for whatever reason), yesterday I swore that I would be avoiding the internet all day, as Trivium were releasing a new song titled ‘Dusk Dismantled’. As it happens, I not only failed, but I’m also posting about the band again. In fact, I even listened to the song 🙁

You can check out a stream of the new song yourself, below.