Eminem - Killshot

Artist: Eminem
Song: Killshot
Album: Single (2018)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

Well I would be a bad blog if I didn't highlight the response to Rap Devil that Em dropped yesterday.  Like, yo, this is a brutal song.  I knew I had said some really solid thing about MGK's track, but there's no way it held up to what Eminem had to say.  It's a shame, but Eminem is an incredibly literate person who is ready to throw a dictionary at you, and he did here.

I look forward to seeing how this develops, but realistically this is probably the last entry in this beef.

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Impending Doom - Everything's Fake [New Release]

Band:  Impeding Doom
Song:  Everything's Fake
Album:  The Sin and Doom VOL. II
Genre:  Deathcore

Now as a heads up, Impending Doom features in the nostalgia theme as well, so you're gonna see them in the next week or so again.  I try not to do this, but since this is their new single and I missed the last one cause of the A to Z, we're gonna feature this up.

Now I love Impending Doom.  They were my first Deathcore band, and they're still one of the best Deathcore acts I've ever had the fortune to listen to.  I've preordered their last 3 albums, so you could say I'm a bit of a fan.

I'm very pleased to announce that this song holds up incredibly well to the strong discography that Impending Doom has released to this point.  It's wonderfully aggressive, it's got amazing breakdowns, and it has a dope music video as well.  I fully sign off on having this be the hot new Impending Doom sound.

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A to Z 2k18: S is for September Mourning

Band:  September Mourning
Song:  Eye Of The Storm
Album:  Volume II (2016)
Genre  Hard Rock

Fun fact, I actually wrote this post back in November when I accidentally clicked on a wiki hyperlink that took me to this band.  I was looking up info on Avatar for the first post I made on them and when I was about to close the tab I hit the link to this band in their description.  Good choice though, since that's what helped lock the whole theme we're most of the way through in for the month.  Gotta love random inspiration, yeah?

So hands down the best thing about this band is that they have a female singer that's actually good.  I am so incredibly picky when it comes to female fronted rock acts and September Mourning knocks it out of the park.  I suppose I am also influenced by the fact that these guys are operating with some heavy theme action.  Love a band with a theme.

The gist of the theme is that the vocalist is a hybrid Grim Reaper and human named September.  She goes through the world of the living and the dead with her human side giving her the sense of empathy to give certain human souls a second chance.  (no, I totally didn't just slightly reword the wiki outline, what are you talking about.)

Turns out the band has a whole line of comics that follow along the story as well.  I'm super freaking pleased about finding them to be honest.  You never know what kind of weird music you can find if you look hard enough, ya know?  And this stuff is even pretty radio friendly, so who knows, you might be hearing them all over soon.  Heck, it'll have been almost 6 months from the writing of this post, they may have blown up by now too.

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A to Z 2k18: R is for Ringo Starr

Band:  Ringo Starr
Song:  Choose Love
Album:  Choose Love (2005)
Genre:  Classic Rock

Ringo, "starr" drummer of The Beatles!  I'm sure you all know at least who he is, but did you know he did a huge solo thing outside of that?  Like, he's actively to this day putting out music!

It's not bad stuff either.  I came across this stuff by accident one day because Ringo became a sort of punchline to me and my brother's jokes.  One day we managed to take the time to look up what he was doing in the music world.  I only listened (at the time) to the live album I'm linking a song from, but flipping through his discography has just been a great time.

I chose Choose Love because it's just a fun little tune.  When this live album was put out it was one of the newest release so the crowd really gets into it, as does the whole band.  Take the time to appreciate an icon of the rock scene.  He may not be the best singer, but he's a machine of a drummer and a terrific songwriter.

Side note, the people at school convinced the director that today was Earth Day so they could all wear green.  I'm looking forward to seeing if anybody catches on that it's just for 420 and that Earth Day is the 22nd.

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A to Z 2k18: Q is for Quinta Essentia

Band:  Quinta Essentia
Song:  Quintessential Holocaust
Album:  Neutrality for Defined Chaos (2006 or 2008)
Genre:  Black Metal
Language:  Honestly don't know, probably something sketchy though.

We're gonna double down today and do a band and song that start with Q.  An 8 minute song no less.

For the last few years I've managed to pull a band out of the air by using the almighty Google.  "Bands that start with..." filling in with the weird letters was my most searched stuff in the month of April last year.

I'll be honest though, I've got no clue about who this band is.  They're a Black Metal act that were formed in the US, so that's a little bit of a fun thing.  I would say it's cool that they managed to take off, but seeing as a misfiling of some work by Bach is overriding any of their song's plays they are clearly the most underground band I'm going to share this month.

Of course, if you're a real Black Metal fan you'll know that the more underground a band is the better they are.  If they have digital distribution, they're too popular.  If they have CDs they're too popular.  They're borderline too popular if they have cassettes.  If you aren't listening to the band in a Norwegian ice cave off a gramophone, you're probably a poser.

Luckily for me, I'm totally a Black Metal poser and am fine with listening to them online and stuff.  I'll be honest, there's some people that get legitimately angry when people try to bring attention to underground bands.  The Black Metal (and generally the Metal community to a lesser extent) get really worked up about for some reason.

I suppose this post is way more about people overreacting in BM culture than anything else, but that's ok.  Now you know, eh?

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A to Z 2k18: P is for Portal

Band:  Portal
Song:  Revault Of Volts
Album:  Ion (2018)
Genre:  Death Metal

As you may remember if you were reading when I posted Avatar, I'm a huge fan of bands with a theme.  The theme of Portal is to be incredible mysterious, with insanely complicated music.

I believe to date the identities of the members of Portal remains a mystery.  While it's known that the band has gone through some shifts in members (thanks to this nifty wiki graph), they've managed to keep the general information on the band fairly light.

I love them though, I feel like the whole thing is a borderline ironic passion project like what my band is, only they're way better than we are.

The whole mystery around them is really attractive to me though.  This album is so much better mixed than earlier stuff had been too, so you can hear what all the many layers of instruments are doing rather well.  The old stuff was hella muddy, but this stuff is really surprisingly clear.  Well, for what it is at least.

There's so much I feel like I get out of this music though, and I was super pumped to learn they were releasing a new album (this one) this year.  I've given it a couple listens and it's basically exactly what I was hoping and dreaming for.

Needs a music video on par with Curtain or Glumurphonel though, it is missing that.

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A to Z 2k18: O is for Operation Ivy

Band:  Operation Ivy
Song:  Sound System
Album:  Operation Ivy (1989)
Genre:  Ska, Punk Rock

Now Operation Ivy is a pretty popular act compared to a lot of what I've been posting.  I'm willing to assume a lot of that comes from the fact that they have been officially disbanded for almost 20 years though.  The music they have was big in the Ska scene, but most of that has passed us by at this point.  You know what would be great?  If Ska came back in a big way.

Actually I know nothing about the Ska scene.  I knew about one band, and it turns out it's borderline impossible to find their stuff anymore since they broke up and...  That's about it.  In my search of new Punk stuff I found a decent Ska selection though, and Operation Ivy is high up there with my list of solid stuff.

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A to Z 2k18: N is for Nile

Band:  Nile
Song:  Lashed To The Slave Stick
Album:  Annihilation Of The Wicked (2005)
Genre:  Death Metal

Who here likes Egypt?  Cool, I have a band for you.

It's not often you find a band that's as lyrically theatrical as Nile while actually giving information.  If you listen to what these guys have to say, you'll actually get a load of Egyptian mythology thrown at you.  Most of that's because the primary writer, Karl Sanders, is a huge Egypt buff.

On top of that their songs are crushingly brutal.  I remember checking these guys out in the past and really not enjoying what they had to offer, but listening again I'm fully willing to believe I just picked up the wrong album.  I mean, I enjoy Death Metal a lot more now than I used to as well, but no biggie.

QUESTION!  What's been your favorite song I've posted so far this month / What band have you been most excited to get introduced to?

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A to Z Runner Up: Fractionally Human

Band:  Fractionally Human
Song:  Intro
Album:  Intro (single, 2018)
Genre:  Grindcore, Deathcore

You know what's a good band to promo for you all?  My band!  Sure it wasn't actually my original intent for a runner up, but we just wrote this song and I'm happy about it.

I feel like we're a great runner up option, case we just put out our first song in months, so that's a rather big deal.  Mostly I'm just super proud of it though.

We don't try to make perfect music.  We used to try, and we found it just wasn't as fun.  Sitting there, mixing tracks to make them perfect, it was just weird.  Nothing ever sounded like exactly what we wanted, with the notable exception of out cover of Sabotage in 2015.  Pure gold there, it's exactly what we wanted.

This one though, where do I start.  We've had this idea for an album all about a hungry walrus since like, 2014.  It was just gonna be a funny joke thing, ya know?  Well then we lost all the lyrics except for what we had recorded with Orca, thus prompting a new lyrical direction.  We opted to go with the walrus being a total narcissist.

This song had instruments recorded back in December.  We were so pumped to have music flowing after we did Oh The Places You'll Die in the same year.  We're rather slow song... recorders.  But after we recorded the guitars for this song my brother's computer had a glitch with the sound card.  It took him months to get it working again, which lead us to April 9th.  We both had the night off, and all we had to do was get me to lay down vocals.  It was a perfect evening basically.  We knocked out the rest of the song and finished it up on the 10th.  I'm super happy with the steaming pile of garbage that it is, so I hope you can enjoy it as well.



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A to Z 2k18: M is for Moon Hooch

Band:  Moon Hooch
Song:  Red Sky
Album:  Red Sky (2016)
Genre:  Brass House

This is one of the bands I was most excited to share with you guys this month.  The discovery of Brass House is one I only made about 2 days before the Theme Reveal dropped, so I included one of the "better known" bands of the genre to intro the whole deal.  Moon Hooch are slightly more under the radar, so they got to land the job of the main A to Z post.  I also already had a plan for T, so Too Many Zooz fell out there too.

There's something just freaking cool about the fact that this band is only 3 people.  I've included a dope live performance here, but the studeo track is also super strong.  Seeing it live makes me realize they didn't layer extra tracks or anything though, it's all able to be done live, and that's really cool.  These guys just rock out this song bring an energy you might not expect from such a small setup with the instruments they have.

Take a listen, it's good stuff.

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