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  • Metal Monday–I. Am. The. Water God

    Today we have a double feature.  I present to you, Dethklok…(cartoon violence in spades…don’t say you weren’t warned): [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53HDr0-Qew&w=560&h=315]   “Wait…wait…DID I JUST WATCH BATMAN MURDER THE LITTLE MERMAID?!”  Yes, yes you did (or saw this and decided not to click on the YouTube). Unbeknownst to me, there’s a sequel song.  Which is perhaps…

  • Metal Monday–Primal Fear Throws Armageddon

    There definitely seems to be no shortage of metal songs about Armageddon, the end of the world, etc.  This week’s Metal Monday selection is Primal Fear’s take on the subject.  Oh the video production values… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qhM9T3mxgE&w=560&h=315]    

  • Metal Monday–We Are the Fallen

    We all know a good band that, to use the euphemism, “Went in different creative directions…”  Fans of Evanescence may remember just such an event splintered the group when Ben Moody punched out mid-tour.  Without picking a side in that fight, I’ll simply point out that today’s Metal Monday group was the offshoot of that particular…

  • Metal Monday–Lacuna Coil

    Today’s “Metal Monday” group hails from Milan, Italy.  Lacuna Coil’s a pretty big deal in Europe, not so much here in the States.  Which is a shame, as they’re a really good group with a long back catalog. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Oucn2GSpE&w=560&h=315] The better half  (whose “bare bones” blog is now here) and I have a long-standing…

  • Metal Monday–When You Bait A Trap With Genocide

    It’s Nano, so this will be brief.  A Little Iced Earth action to start the week.  Some background here and here. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4CDLmDx_Y&w=560&h=315]

  • Metal Monday–"When Two Worlds Collide"

    I’ve mentioned it in interviews, but I’m a huge fan of When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide.  Apparently, judging from the lyrics, so is Iron Maiden.   [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOjhkEmEmUI&w=560&h=315]   If there’s ever an old sci-fi movie I want to see redone with modern technology, it’s this one.  But only if they get someone competent to…

  • Metal Monday–Concerts

    So last Tuesday (18 October), Korn and Breaking Benjamin came to town.   I took the better half to the concert for her birthday.  Sound problems were all over the place at the Kansas Expocentre, to the point we couldn’t understand the first act (Silver Snakes) over their drums, could only understand the plethora of…

  • Metal Monday–When Terror Struck the Land

    Gettysburg.  The name alone brings forth historical visions of desperate fights in wheat fields, bodies heaped before stone walls, and that poor bastard Pickett writing an after action report so incendiary in its rhetoric that General Lee literally had it burned. Whether one thinks that the Union was saved on this day or that Northern…

  • Metal Monday–Game of Thrones Edition

    I love YouTube.  You can find all sorts of great stuff there.  Like, say, metal covers of songs you can identify with…like The Rains of Castamere.  (“Wait…wait…why do you identify with the Rains of Castamere?”  “Because when someone sends you to crush a rebellion, you crush the rebellion.”)  Sometimes one just has to be in…

  • Metal Monday–Hear Ye, My Words

    So I found this song via an I-tunes recommendation.  The album is pretty solid as well.  I always see a lone rider approaching a temple at the intro, followed by a montage of him killing his way to the central chamber where he confronts an angry god.  Yeah, I’m dark like that.  Anyway, when I…

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