Dose of Death

Why the cheesy image? Because I don’t take myself seriously, and neither should you. Welcome to my weekly feature where I’m normally drunk and/or hungover, and write some garbage about music in a way that makes me sound more knowledgeable than I really am. Or maybe I just fail at that..

The topic for this week: Death Metal. Admittedly, not my favorite genre, but one that fascinates me all the same. Death Metal is an extreme sub-genre of Metal (no, really?) that began in America (particularly Florida) in the 1980s. But I’m not fucking Wikipedia and this isn’t no history lesson, I’m just here for the music, and so should you be, so get your Death dosage after the jump. Don’t worry, an overdose won’t lead to death. Only awesomeness.

Incoming: Hackneyed

In 2006 four kids from Germany, the youngest being 13 and the oldest being 17 years old, decided to start a band.

Within the next three years, this bunch grew from kids playing music together into a Death Metal band, that released two albums on one of the most respected Heavy Metal labels worldwide.

Meet Hackneyed after the jump.

Friday Top 10: Badass Metal Tatts

Art is fucking awesome. Metal is fucking awesome. So do you know what’s just as awesome? Tattoos. Metal artists have some of the best and worst tattoos, so this week I’ll be listing the coolest, gnarliest and most iconic Metal tatts that I can think of. And then next week you can enjoy me listing some of stupidest tattoos around.

Until then, check out some badass Metal tatts after the jump.

Are you ready for the new shit?

Did I just quote Marilyn Manson in the post title? Let me redeem myself from the fact that I know that with some metal.

Cavalera Conspiracy have posted a 30 second teaser of a new song. A teaser for a song, come on. But they’ve promised a free download next week, so it’s okay.

We’ve already written about DevilDriver posting new stuff, refresh your memory here.

Protest The Hero have posted their first single from the upcoming album online, called “C’est La Vie” online. C’est La opportunity and listen to it.

And finally, Darkest Hour have also figured out how to use the internet.

Think Tankian

Serj Tankian, the up and coming politician and/or general douchebag, has many tricks up his sleeve when it comes to being creative and spreading his message. Here’s how it went for his first solo album: 1) Release album. 2) Release a symphonic version of said album.

He decided to push the envelope for his second solo album, Imperfect Harmonies (read a review here): 1) Release album. 2) Release a remix version of said album.

To make things worse, it seems that he couldn’t pay enough amateurs to remix the entire thing, so only “selected” tracks will make it as an EP. View the cover after the jump.