Band: The Showdown
Song: Carry On Wayward Son (cover)
Album: Temptation Come My Way (200
Genre: Southern Metal
This actually might have been the song that tipped me toward covers the most. The Showdown was one of my favorite bands when I first was getting into Metal stuff because of how great their album Blood In The Gears was, so I bought all their other stuff too. Worth it, still love it.
But this song right here, it's honestly a top shelf cover. I didn't think of covers too highly until this one. I think it might have also helped my parents tolerate my new music tastes too, but you never know.
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Band: Haste The Day
Song: Long Way Down (Cover)
Album: When Everything Fails (2005)
Genre: Metalcore
We're gonna wrap up this nostalgia theme soon, cause I'm starting to burn out a little bit. I'd be remiss if I didn't delve into my huge obsession with cover songs though, so we'll use this as my transition toward that era a little more.
It took me ages to know this was a cover song though. It wasn't until I heard a friends band cover it that I learned the song wasn't an original. I suppose that makes sense since it doesn't really sound like the rest of the album, but you get what you get I suppose.
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Band: Breaking Benjamin
Song: Dance With The Devil
Album: Phobia (2006)
Genre: Alternative Rock
I feel like everybody has that band that they listened to when they thought they were miserable and nobody understood them. The band that helped them feel edgy and whatever, ya know? It kinda makes me wonder what it was like before there were bands to make people feel one way or another... Maybe that's why there were so many more small time gangs back in the day.
Anywho, this is a fun little ditty that just screams edgy, so of course 16 year old me loved it to death.
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As I'm sure some of you have noticed, I've been a little late with my posts. Not really past like, 9am, but still later than I hope for since I try to go live at midnight. Well there's a great reason for that, and that's because I graduated from Toni&Guy this week. I still need to get my state papers in order, but ya bot is no longer a student! I'm pretty pumped about this if we're being honest.
In the realm of throwback though I'm really feeling some more nostalgia than normal, cause this brings back not only memories of my old music selection, but also of playing way too much Halo 2.
I was amazed there was actually music about Halo when I heard this song, mostly because I was a wee lad of about 15 or 16 that had no clue how the world worked. I now know there's loads of video game based music, but this is one of the more obvious ones I've come across in my time at least. Fun song though, and some fun breakdowns in it.
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Band: Neocracy
Song: Here's To The Reckonging
Album: The Instinct For Conflict (2008)
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Let's rock out to some of the music I was having a terrible time finding. Like, for real, it took me ages to actually remember who these guys were and what the songs were called. See, an issue with a lot of the music I got from Matt is that most of it didn't come complete. Mostly meaning I didn't have the album info for a lot of artists, but in some cases I also had no track names, just numbers.
In the case of Neocracy, I was honestly just missing the album art. If I see a picture, I'm much more likely to remember an album than if, say, I just have the name. I'm generally good about it, but there's times like this when I couldn't remember for the life of me anything about the band outside of the artist name.
Then, after rediscovering Staple, I decided to just search Neocracy and just listen to songs till I found one I remembered.
This song hit me right out the gate with that screaming scale sweep and all my fun memories of jamming out to these guys came back. Back in the day I generally only listened to that part up till the screaming started, then skipped back to hear the guitar again. Such a good time man, always worth checking out.
Unrelated, I graduate today.
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Band: Staple
Song: Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Album: Staple (2005)
Genre: Post Hardcore
Staple is a band I don't really have a lot of info on. Like many bands I got from Matt, they are a Christian hardcore act. Unlike a lot of stuff he gave me though, I don't think I ever got much into their music. Ironically though, these guys are what prompted the heavy throwback theme we have going on here.
See, I somehow rediscovered these guys, and from there decided to build a theme up. So yeah, this band I hardly remember is the reason for this, you're welcome.
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Band: Bride
Song: Psychedelic Super Jesus
Album: Snakes In The Playground
Genre: Metal
Now I already shared my original favorite Bride song, "Hell, No", so I've gotta pull one that I found myself at a later date.
Most of the music I'm sharing here is likely to be a Christian act, and Bride is no example. While I only learned this recently, this song is about how in the town Bride comes from everybody seems to think of Jesus as some 60s hippie guru. That's not really his though though, so Bride made a song about it. Kinda cool knowing the back story I suppose.
I just know these guys helped get me into Hair Metal, and basically are the reason I started listening really heavily to Iron Maiden for a few years.
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Band: Daughtry feat. Slash
Song: What I Want
Album: Daughtry (2006)
Genre: Rock
Now before I heard I was supposed to hate Daughtry in the same way that people hate on Nickelback, I heard this song. My friend Matt gave me this album and, since I was kinda familiar with Slash, I was attracted to this song.
The song is super catchy, and I'm willing to credit that to Clash. Daughtry has a great voice for Rock, but the music he does just isn't always like that. If all their music was just like this I feel like they'd do better in the public realm.
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Band: Project 86 (P86)
Song: Your Heroes Are Dead
Album: Truthless Heroes (2002)
Genre: Post Hardcore
Now I want to clarify, not all the songs I'm gonna share in the next bit are going to strictly be from the iPod dump I got from my guy Matt. I've already posted some of them, and a couple artists only had single songs. So to fix that I'm gonna post songs that at least happened quickly after, or were directly influenced by that first jump into the pool of Metal music.
Ya boy was just sitting around, minding his own business, when my friend Matt discovered I had an iPod. He was super excited about that, and immediately offered to give me a bunch of Christian music, since I was a little light on that at the time.
He brings his laptop to the archery club we were both a part of and proceeded to set me up with a load of music. As we were going through his entire library and picking out what he thought I'd enjoy he would from time to time say "I don't know, this might be more heavy than you like." Well I'm not one to back down from a challenge (even if there isn't one), so I told him to let me have it anyway, and that I'd just get rid of it if I didn't like it.
One of the bands that caught me right away was Project 86. They had a song called The Spy Hunter, which combined with the band name, just kinda was attractive to me. That song remains one of my favorites honestly, to the level that my brother and I actually covered the song about 3.5 years ago with our band.
My brother was a gigantic fan of the band, so he quickly bought basically all their albums. This was the first one though, and we hoped it'd have The Spy Hunter on it since the line Truthless Heroes is in the song.
This album is incredibly solid though. It mat not have had the song we were hoping for, but it's so good that doesn't matter. Out of this album filled with fantastic tunes, Your Heroes Are Dead was a favorite of mine since it was hard enough to make my fledgling Metal obsession happy while also fitting into the playlist I had made for work.
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Artist: Rich The Kid
Song: Plug Walk
Album: The World Is Yours (2018)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
A friend of mine streams on Twitch pretty regularly. The other day when he was on a guy started quoting this song. The guy said it was a super dumb song, but that it was kinda catchy.
Well having listened to it I would have to agree that it's kinda dumb, haha
Catchy beat, decent background music, but the video is dumb. If it weren't for the Breaking Bad theme I feel like it'd be a total wash.
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