Random Music Babbling Post #4

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Just purchased a whole bunch of CDs for christmas. So now you cannot accuse me of not supporting artists! I just don't support ones that are on RIAA labels.

Speaking of that, everyone should check out this site before buying albums:
http://www.riaaradar.com/

Don't support those duchebags!

 

Has anyone heard the new Korn album yet? I haven't listened to the radio much lately, but I caught the end of a song what went, "Hold on, be strong". Sounded pretty good...but they didn't say the name of the song...

 

Anyone see the Heaven and Hell tour?

I unfortunately missed them and Iced Earth playing last week while trying out for the uni badminton team.

As an aside, I got Epica's latest album and have to say that I'm rather impressed. The Divine Conspiracy is most definitely worth getting.

 

I saw Black Sabbath (I will never call them H&H, for me they will always be Black Sabbath) few months ago, and they were pretty good considering their age. They played songs from all the Dio albums (Heaven and hell, Mob rules, Dehumanizer), not even one song from the Ozzy era (something that was expected anyway) and they had rather extensive guitar, bass and drums solos in order to give old Ronnie the chance to rest for few minutes and not collapse on the stage.

 

There was a Rob Zombie/Ozzy concert here on Sunday. It's been forever since Ozzy came to Utah, so tickets sold out quick...so I couldn't go.

Unfortunatly, the reviews I read say that Ozzy sucked on stage...and the fact that Rob Zombie (who the reviews say was aswesome on stage) opened for him made things worse. Hell, I would have gone just to see Rob Zombie if I could have gotten tickets.

 

Just got some of Dark Tranquillity's unreleased stuff, it is damn good! It is like a new album for me, I love getting new stuff from them. They are one of my favorite bands.

 

It's fascinating how we get to pick up some new things by watching a movie again. I just watch V For Vendetta on DVD last night and discovered Bird Gerhl by Anthony and the Johnsons. Such a wonderfully haunting voice, simple yet compelling lyrics. Those from UK and Ireland probably familiar with this as the album was the Mercury Prize winner of 2005.

 

If anyone is into melodic death metal, check out these bands (they are pretty much unknown):

Compos Mentis - http://www.composmentis.dk/
BlackSunRise - http://www.myspace.com/blacksunrise
Cerberus - http://www.myspace.com/cerberus
Serberus - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=5028520
Mercenary - http://www.mercenary.dk/

 

I see someone mentioned In Rainbows, so i'll throw in my 2 cents.

Not their best album but still very good. I paid £5 for it.

Erm... How do you do the 2 cents thing?

 

My wife called me a "scroodge", so I'm listening to Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Xmas music to prove her wrong.

 

I heard that technically, In Rainbows was great, but it was boring to listen to. So I, not a fan of Radiohead, will not use it as an excuse to get into them.

In other news, I am getting into a lot of soundtracks recently - The Fountain, Equilibrium, Nightmare Before Christmas, Battlestar Galactica to mention a few. Good stuff

 

Aye, Mercenary is pretty good.

If anyone is interested in the Blind Guardian remasters, someone has uploaded them to youtube. Search for 'gazbg123'. The sound on some is a bit poor, but they sound alright overall.

Getting more into Nile at the moment; these guys are good. Very good.

 

So, I got both The Dance and The Heart of Everything for Christmas. Listened to The Dance just before, and am listening to The Heart of Everything now.

... Ever gotten that feeling that your favourite band is going downhill?
Enter is just *so ****ing good*, The Dance seems very good (minus the ****ty remixes), Mother Earth is brilliant, The Silent Force is ... decent. Probably better than that, but once the initial shine wore off it for me it lost a lot of appeal.

The Heart of Everything ... it will hopefully grow on me. So far it seems nothing special, giving very little of the elements that I listen to WT for. Through The Howling I was digging it a bit - sure, not brilliant, but could grow on me. Boppable, anyway. But What Have you Done? wtf? What ****ty, so incredibly average male vocals. It ... well, it made me think 'Bring me to Life' in a very, very not-charitable way.

I fear that WT have gone to ****. Well, at least we got more good stuff out of them than Evanescense managed before they started dumbing down their music and generally sucking (which I think throwing in ****ty average male vocals may just be a key symptom). Bah. I'll really have to try hard to like this.

Just wish I expected Dark Passion Play by Nightwish to be any good ... but I don't.

 

Anthrax has a new singer, a fellow named Dan Nelson.

 

I got the Robben Ford DVD New Morning - The Paris Concert, for Christmas. It's somewhat different from what Robben has been doing the last few years, with his band The Blue Line, with which he recorded the Ohne Filter DVD Concert. I liked the addition of keyboards on New Morning, and it was quite a bit longer. I wouldn't say that it's straight blues, since Robben is still playing quite a few jazz type chord changes here, especially in 9ths. But IMO that's what sets Robben apart from some other Blues greats, such as Gary Moore, or say, Roy Buchanon. I would not call what Ford plays "fusion," like Mike Stern or Larry Carlton, but Jazz-blues seems close enough and there's much less "Rock" in his playing lately.

I was completely blown away by his latest work on Truth - It's right up there with Handful of Blues.

 

Aik, The Heart of Everything sounds like Evanescence to me I am not a big fan of the new album either.

 

My mother got it for Christmas, so I heard it over the break. I was pleasantly surprised- I thought it worked well overall (although I still can't sit through the whole of Meadows of Heaven). Whenever you feel doubtful, just remember that it has Marco singing on it.

 

Megadeth's Hidden Treasures has been re-released, and with extra tracks to boot. This is nice, since while most of the tracks were included on Warchest, a couple were still shining with their absence.

 

I have been considering Ink, by the Dining Rooms. It was released several months ago, but I still have not heard any tracks. I may take a chance on it, since almost everthing these guys have done is first rate...