Super cool new video from Trent Reznor’s new group How to destroy angels_, great song too!
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/01/30/170687806/trent-reznor-new-band-new-song-new-video-still-terrifying
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Top Albums of 2012
Alternative Rock
Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour
Big Wreck – Albatross
Bloc Party – Four
Bob Mould – Silver Age
Jack White – Blunderbuss
Muse – The 4th Dimension
the Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania
Soundgarden – King Animal
Electro/Electronica
Air – Le Voyage dans la Lune
Azure Ray – As Above, So Below
Grimes – Visions
Trifonic – Ninth Wave
Folk/Folk Rock
Andrew Bird – Break it Yourself
Bahamas – Barchords
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Here
Evening Hymns – Spectral Dusk
Glen Hansard – Rhythm and Repose
Jake Bugg – Jake Bugg
Jason Collett – Reckon
John K. Samson – Provincial
Langhorne Slim & the Law – The Way We Move
Lord Huron – Lonesome Dreams
the Tallest Man on Earth – There’s No Leaving Now
the Wooden Sky – Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun
Indie Rock
Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
Father John Misty – Fear Fun
Joel Plaskett Emergency – Scrappy Happiness
The Shins – Port of Morrow
Tame Impala – Lonerism
Yukon Blonde – Tiger Talk
Metal
As I Lay Dying – Awakened
Baroness – Yellow & Green
Between the Buried and Me – the Parallax II: Future Sequence
the Contortionist – Intrinsic
Deftones – Koi No Yokan
Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
Periphery – Periphery II: This Time it’s Personal
Lamb of God – Resolution
Meshuggah – Koloss
the Safety Fire – Grind the Ocean
Torche – Harmonicraft
Veil of Maya – Eclipse
Pop
Mumford & Sons – Babel
Neon Trees – Picture Show
the Salads – Music Every Day
St. Lucia – St. Lucia EP
Tenacious D – Rise of the Fenix
Progressive
Art By Numbers – Reticence: The Musical
Chimp Spanner – All Roads Lead Here
David Maxim Micic – Bilo 2.0
the Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
Intervals – In Time
Jeff Loomis – Plains of Oblivion
the Mars Volta – Noctourniquet
Rush – Clockwork Angels
Sithu Aye – Isles EP & Invent the Universe
T.R.A.M. – Lingua Franca
Punk
Cancer Bats – Dead Set on Living
Circa Survive – Violent Waves
Every Time I Die – Ex Lives
the Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
Japandroids – Celebration Rock
Rap/Hip Hop
Kendrick Lamar – good kid, M.A.A.D. city
Moka Only – Airport 6
Nas – Life is Good
Soul/RnB
Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
My Top 10
1. Father John Misty – Fear Fun
2. Band of Skulls – Sweet Sour
3. Periphery – Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal!
4. the Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
5. Michael Kiwanuka – Home Again
6. Bloc Party – Four
7. Sithu Aye – Isles EP
8. Big Wreck – Albatross
9. Meshuggah – Koloss
10. Jason Collett – Reckon
Top Albums of 2011
ALTERNATIVE
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light (Hard Alternative Rock/Pop)
Portugal. The Man – In the Mountain In the Cloud (Indie/Alternative Rock)
Primus – Green Naugahyde (Alternative/Funk/Rock)
Puscifer – Conditions of My Parole (Alternative/Experimental)
Radiohead – the King of Limbs (Alternative/Experimental)
the Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You (Alternative Rock/Funk/Pop)
Rival Schools – Pedals (Hard Alternative Rock)
FOLK
Bon Iver – Bon Iver (Indie/Folk/Pop)
Eddie Vedder – Ukulele Songs (Folk)
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues (Indie/Folk)
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo (Indie/Folk)
Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts (Alternative/Folk)
HIP HOP
the Beastie Boys – Hot Sauce Committee Part II (Rap/Hip Hop)
the Roots – Undun (Rap/Hip Hop)
Talib Kweli – Gutter Rainbows (Rap/Hip Hop)
INDIE
Company of Thieves – Running from a Gamble (Indie Rock)
Stateless – Matilda (Electro/Indie)
Tune-Yards – W H O K I L L (Experimental/Indie)
TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light (Indie Rock/Alternative)
Vetiver – the Errant Charm (Indie Rock/Folk)
Yukon Blonde – Fire/Water (Indie Rock)
METAL
Animals as Leaders – Weightless (Progressive Metal/Instrumental/Djent/Fusion)
Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (Progressive Grind Metal)
Chaos Divine – The Human Connection (Progressive Metal)
Circles – the Compass (Progressive Metal/Djent)
Corelia – Nostalgia (Progressive Metal/Djent)
Cynic – Carbon-Based Anatomy (Progressive Metal/Fusion)
The Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction (Progressive Extreme Metal)
the Haunted – Unseen (Melodic Death Metal)
the Human Abstract – Digital Veil (Progressive Metalcore)
Leprous – Bilateral (Progressive Metal)
Mastodon – The Hunter (Progressive Doom Metal/Rock)
Monstro – Monstro (Doom Metal/Hard Rock)
Protest the Hero – Scurrilous (Progressive Metal/Thrash/Punk)
Red Seas Fire – Red Seas Fire (Progressive Metal/Djent)
Revocation – Chaos of Forms (Death/Thrash Metal)
Scale the Summit – the Collective (Progressive Metal/Instrumental)
TesseracT – One (Progressive Metal/Djent)
Textures – Dualism (Progressive Metal/Djent)
ELECTRO
Bjork – Biophilia (Experimental/Pop)
James Blake – James Blake (Indie/Experimental)
SBTRKT – SBTRKT (Electro)
POP
The Black Keys – El Camino (Alternative/Blues/Rock)
Foster the People – Torches (Indie Rock/Pop)
Gotye – Making Mirrors (New Age/Indie/Pop)
Jamie Woon – Mirrorwriting (Pop)
The Joy Formidable – The Big Roar (Alternative Rock/Pop)
Little Dragon – Ritual Union (Electro/Pop)
Mayer Hawthorne – How Do You Do (Motown/Soul)
Mutemath – Odd Soul (Pop/Rock)
Sublime with Rome – Yours Truly (Alternative/Pop)
PROGRESSIVE ROCK
The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum (Progressive Rock/Alternative)
the Devin Townsend Project – Ghost (Progressive Rock/New Age)
Fair to Midland – Arrows & Anchors (Progressive Rock/Metal)
Opeth – Heritage (Progressive Rock/Metal)
3 – The Ghost You Gave to Me (Progressive Rock/Metal)
PUNK/HARDCORE
Glassjaw – Coloring Book (Post Hardcore/Punk)
Le Butcherettes – Sin Sin Sin (Punk/Alternative Rock)
Thrice – Major/Minor (Hard Alternative Rock/Punk)
MY TOP 10
1. Gotye – Making Mirrors
2. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
3. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
4. TesseracT – One
5. Radiohead – the King of Limbs
6. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
7. Stateless – Matilda
8. the Black Keys – El Camino
9. Rival Schools – Pedals
10. the Joy Formidable – the Big Roar
Party on.
Bands that are ‘Metal as Fuck’
So I’m listening to Revocation right now and I was like “Holy shit this is fucking metal.” (Made ever more apparent by the fact that I’ve been listening almost exclusively to folk music for the past three weeks.) If anything is ‘Metal as Fuck’ THIS is. Then I was like, “What other bands are ‘Metal as Fuck’?” This could be an interesting point of discussion, one that may or may not be related to the origin of species. A subject that requires great insight and delicate analysis into the realm of ‘Metality’, and thus, I scrub my iPod.
Being the nerd that I am; Here are a bunch of other bands I think are ‘Metal as Fuck’.
Lamb of God – Lamb of God are fucking Metal, like holy shit. I don’t care what anyone says, I just can’t help but make this face every time I listen to them. It’s retarded how Metal they are. If Metal was a kingdom, they would be the rulers and pillagers. They would rape all in their path. Randy’s growl alone could take down an army. An army of tanks made of bullets and steaks. Steel steaks. Metal. As. Fuck.
Slayer – I have to include Slayer because they’re apparently the undisputed ‘Most Metal band ever’ according to most people. I don’t even really listen to them at all, and couldn’t name hardly any of their songs, but Reign in Blood is fucking awesome. I listened to it the other day. Seriously, it’s undeniable. Slayer, I salute you in all your ‘Metal-as-Fuck’-ness.
Meshuggah – Easily one of my favourite bands, they melt my brain. Crazy rhythms abound, and unrelenting, demonic-sounding vocals, with super heavy riffing. The music just pulsates and never stops, and just when you can’t take it any more, the grooves get even heavier, deeper, and more unrelenting. They’re like a Metal Sauna. Jens Kidman says it best.
Pantera – Holy fuck, Dimebag Darrell is fucking awesome. Just listen to ‘Mouth For War‘ and tell me that song is not fucking awesome. Seriously, what can you say? The man could play guitar better than most dudes can jerk themselves off. No homo. Fuck!
Behemoth – They’re so metal that Leukemia couldn’t even kill them! The Metality cannot be stopped with this band. Just one of the most epic, demonic, brutal bands ever. And they don’t give a shit about your religions or your laws surrounding them. They will burn the bible in front of you and you will learn to love it… Mainly because they won’t ever stop… Sort of like hell… In an Atheistic sort of way… Yeah.
Strapping Young Lad – Fuckin’ Canadian Metal eh! National allegiances aside, Strapping ruled the roost for a significant period of time. Devin was all like, “I’m gonna try my hardest to be as heavy as fuck all the fucking time and make you think I’m fucking crazy.” Then he stopped smoking weed and everything got very mellow… Unless you listened to Deconstruction, like holy shit. Plus Gene Hoglan played drums, enough said.
Arch Enemy – This band has a female singer that is more metal than 99% of dudes screaming their balls off on the entire planet. Angela’s more metal than the tinman! She’ll eat your soul I swear. She might be smokin’ hot, but stay away from that one, she was sent straight from hell just to scare the crap out of us and eat us alive. Meh, I’d still hit it.
Cannibal Corpse – Cannibal Corpse are seriously fucking metal. Are you gonna tell me they’re not? Cause you’d be so wrong. There is nothing in the world that would be more wrong. Maybe like… Babies raping dogs… or vice-versa, but Cannibal Corpse probably have a song about that. Remember that part in Ace Ventura when Ace goes through that Metal show to find that researcher dude? New England Clam Chowder. White.
Amon Amarth – They’re fucking vikings.
Dethklok – Their fans will risk their livese to see them live. The band does not care if the fans live or die at their performances. They are the seventh largest global economy. There are dead, rotting employees clogging their drainage pipes in their Lair. They have henchmen.
Honourable mentions: Emperor, Entombed, The Faceless, The Red Chord, Revocation(duh!)
I’m sure there are other ‘Metal as Fuck’ bands out there that I am so obviously omitting, but I care not. I either do not like those bands, consider them not to be 100% ‘Metal as Fuck’ , haven’t discovered them yet, or I’m too fucking lazy and don’t give a shit. So fuck off.
Thanks for reading. Let the haterade begin.
Favourite Albums of 2010
Birds of Tokyo – Birds of Tokyo
Broken Social Scene – Forgiveness Rock Record
The Damned Things – Ironiclast
Dead Letter Circus – This is the Warning
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis
How to Destroy Angels – How to Destroy Angels
Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown
Land of Talk – Cloak and Cipher
Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast
Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz, All Delighted People EP
The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt, Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird
Tesseract – Conceiling the Fate EP
These United States – What Lasts
Xavier Rudd & Izintaba – Koonyum Sun
What are yours?
Kaki King – Pull Me Out Alive
I just stumbled across this video on Kaki’s Myspace, this was a selection from South by Southwest Film Festival 2009. Great use of stop motion complimenting a great song of Kaki’s. Magnifique!
DaysLeft – Life in the Face of Death
Help Dan pay for diapers! Some local Toronto Melodic Metal for ye, check ’em out at Hard Luck Bar in downtown Toronto tonight!
Pearl Jam – The Fixer
This song is catchy as shit, gotta love PJ.
Deftones – Rocket Skates
I like Deftones. I also wish I had Rocket Skates. Although that didn’t go well on Jackass.
Drool over Karnivool
So this band from Australia came barging into my head space recently, their name is Karnivool and they fucking rule. (See what I did there?) Metalsucks blogged about them a few weeks ago, and man… They are freakin’ good I’ll tell ya what. Apparently they have 3 releases and I hadn’t heard a peep about them on my desert island known as Canada. All the while Edge102 continues to play worn-out, crappy, mediocore, pop-based, Slushy music disguised as “Alternative” Rock. People really need to listen to this band, seriously. Their latest album ‘Sound Awake’ has just been released in North America and they are hitting T.O. in April at the Annex Wreckroom with Fair to Midland. I know I have my ticket, do you? Check out this video after the jump.
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