Generator Doom Metal Documentary
By the time everyone catches up to this film the director will have moved onto more endeavors, and the amount of talent residing in the footage reels will have left a new chapter spinning for Part Two. It starts off in Morritown, TN with Place Of Skulls frontman, Victor Griffin giving commentary of the early DC Doom Metal history. It stays on track and holds fluidity to the subject matter, altho a thesis statement is hard to grasp. Where is Doom Metal going and whats it's purpose in the long run? Many have coined the genre with satire and sour tongues. Is abandon dreams and hypnotic measures all the Doom Metal was intended for? Perhaps, there is inner lining notes the viewers will key into, and awareness on onehand will be given on a grand scale.
Other members casted are Bruce Franklin and Ron Holzner of Trouble. Chicago tends to take the most credit for heavy Doom Metal weight titles overall, however Maryland comes in as first runner up for inventing and coining the term. Burnouts and hasbeens. Stoners and loners. Fans and artists. Its more than your average college library documentary but as for hitting mainstream or including itself on any conspiracy channel of truthers, its doubtful the viewers veiwing it for the first time had any knowledge of Doom Metal to brand any affiliations with the such. Finally, America's own version of Black Metal has hit the ground running with this classic metal documentary headed for the film fests and promotion levels. One woman, one camera, one life-changing film. -H.P.Poetcraft
BUZZ OF THE WEEK:
WOLVHAMMER
A wise ebay seller once told me to spend my days relaxing with a labtop propped, and pillow perched surfing obscure records on youtube and wiki to cease the next available chance at scoring topnotch vinyl
underpriced and, indeed I took this advice. It has proved to make my vinyl collection increase with obscure records I adore evermore, and has educated me on British bands, such as, Spooky Tooth's "The Last Puff" but it hasnt proven effective for making me a millionaire off my ebay listings quite yet. Never the less, it has induced a fascination with doing this any chance I want to write society noise off for a day, and its perfect meditation manuevers for the average music lover who gets kicks off finding some new record to vibe with. I picked Spooky Tooth for the 'Buzz Of The Week' because its brilliance is almost a tear jerker for the softies of Seventies lovers. Many covers of The Beattles left me wondering if the frontman/pianist, Mike Harrioson was related to George Harrison. For now, the specuation has been acquitted, but if you're fans of Foghound, you will be delighted to know, they were once fans too. Spooky Tooth is a must "listen too".
While the Beattles made it out so alive when it other bodies were wilting away in warehouse is another head-scrather. Pluggin em up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42FYgT0nbbg
H.P.
CLAWING INTO THE BLACK SUN
Im confident that Wolvhammer will be a positive impact on your energizing metal-property life. They have emotion in their music that is impossible to overlook. let-alone over-listen. Massive impacts of Alchemical Metal that make every lick moist in your cotton mouth. Download a track now before you down yourself in Funeral Doom sorrow on Soundcloud. Get out while you're still destined to have some form of respect for humanity and catch some of their tourdates. Little is known about the road behind them from this point but it would be accurate to know theyre most like yours now, standing in line just to be the last in it. And, as long as they dont carry around that 'hater is greater than thou qorser attitude, even fulller of themselves than thy beard with a black punk shirt that's smaller than their beanie caps are, we'll give them some extra incentives than any metal imposter scenster trying to impose in on our 90's dark clothing color schemes simply for using old Norse spelling grammar in band title.
-Highway Poet
Pallbearer
Foundations of Burden
Profound Lore Records
Two songs into Pallbearer's 2nd album and Im gaining some insight into a possible heartbreak that occurred. Not your average heartache over a lover or hard life lesson. It was the kind of spiritual awakening that hardened the bands heart melodically as the overall atmosphere is more mellow-dramtic verses their first sluggish, tomb-slaying debut Sorrow of Extinction.. It could be the two albums needed some title swapping. Other song names on Foundations Of Burden such as, "Vanished" and "The Ghost I Used To Be" are proud offerings to the Lord of the Doom Metal Heavens. I could easily see Pallbearer contributing to the filmmaking industry because albums appear more themed or uniformed for possible filmscores and movies about sword -slaying phantoms and universes of endless metal land abysses. Arkansas must be a highly unimaginable place for these four creative metal heathens to conceive of after tracking the map over for two years of die-hard touring. Highly appraised across the Doom Metal circuit, but condemned to the serpent giants and fed to the lions of wage-slavery I could only imagine. If all goes well for them, we should anticipate them at more fesitvals within a matter of miles.
-SMC
Cough/Windhand
Reflections Of The Negative
Relapse Records
In my ventures to Richmond Ive found it to be Peterpan town where the guys and girls in it never grow old of playing with their wooly dreaded hair, metal vests and musky, goat-worshipping droning Doom Metal bands. Its a place to move when your unemployment check runs our but you still have an itch for freedom easily mistaken for headlice however. Some tracks are ridiculously long but fairly ideal for snake dancers or good trance playing roadtrip. If you're a socially awkward screenster with snobbish music taste, then this split released on Relapse is definetly per-se escsapable, but whether or nt you come back is questionable. Coughg have thier ways of inticing the likes of Sourvein fans and when I first met thier guitarist, Brandon Marcey, I found him stage diving and body surfing in front of Electric Wizard if that tells you how these bareback goat-riders ride.
Behemoth
The Satanist
Nuclear Blast
There are two formal ways to worship Satan. The first is with an utmost love for the self, that the mere thought of self bestows enough fear in anyone wondering about the potency of The Satanist's confidence for their evil to crush the goodness of thier faith using only the pure essence of a satanic soul. The second way is the same as above except while listneing to Behemoth in your earbuds with crosses on them worn upside down. Backwards or forwards, Behemoth's competeitve drumbeats and envoking tracks are the same through the eyes of any beholder for the will of judgement between judges are the beholders very own equal. On tyranny is ticking the longer you await to behold this love for the selfless Black Metal. Finally a producer has realized the imperativeness to equalize the vocals with the ambient melodic symphomny this album compells. If you were afraid of Black Metal or Satanistm before the intake of , you will be not believer of anything, but a indefintie lover of your self. No shame in balancing out the gain while you relax for 45 minutes of this precious spellbounding preliminary presence. Fans of Doom Metal will relate almost upon immediate inhalation of the whiff of chainbreaking whip strength. Nergal more than ever has advanced in the realms of demonolgy by overcoming everyones last fear of it. In a nutshell, "O Father, O Satan, O Sun" explains the love of life you will have as equallly for the love of this album in both good of evil faith throughout life, death, and afterlife.
Part I: Made In America
Uninvited Fest
Uninvited Review
Sept 18-21 in Brooklyln New
York marked the first annual univited festival. Read more HERE
Record Graveyard
Record Reviews of old and new. Read more HERE
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SOULFLY
I'm doing things backwards on 'Buzz Of The Week' with an album that's celebrating its tenth anniversary instead of breaking metal news for the beginning of 2015. Soulfly have enchanted underground civilizations of metalheads with voodoo grooves and uprising guitar leads while experimental tones and sporadic hip hop riffs mixed with tribal hand percussions bleed into one song or another. Im impartial to skipping track songs therefore I continued listening to their entire album front to back recapping my vague memory of the bits and pieces that faded since its 2005 release. All along I secretly supspected Max Cavalera to have an innerspirit that has driven the man across the countries and seas for some obscure hidden forces with nature or reason. Here confirms this "Innerspirit" with reason to promote its upbringing since the "Dark Ages" . The track titled "Riostarter" gets wicked beyond all spoken-tongue recognition. Aside from it, "Carved Inside" is another haus fave. For some unexplained mysery or another, Soulfly is the only 2000 pop culture icon allowed to still somehow make tribal artwork popular amongst its digital drafted album cover. In conclusion to this review, if my little lapdog can nap thorugh this atmospheric brazilian metal mojo, Im able to make it worthy of any buzz any day of the week.
Dark Ages
Troll Advice:
Trolls are easy to detect in real life, but the cyber life isn't real life, at leastone this is going to play influence to affecting yours. Let's be honest red flags are easily visible, as well, but if something doesn't feel right about the way a conversation was handled online, it's a blazing red flag. If it's not in your aritocratic nature to handle online bullying and trolling, dont hesitate to explore the resources out there to deal with it. Women are sensitive but feeding a troll is like feeding a stray dog or cat. Dont do it if you dont want them prowling around your doorstep for more.