Septicflesh - The Vampire From Nazareth

Band:  Septicflesh
Genre:  Symphonic Death Metal

This hearkens back to my very first blog post back in September of 2014.  I had agonized over what I should have posted at the time; I was really trying not to sound too basic but I was also trying not to go too far out there.  Well I suppose I totally failed since I totally opened up with a Symphonic Death Metal song which basically made me the edgiest I possibly could be.

It was horrible at the time trying to not pick a "classic" song that I thought people would have posted a million times, and it was also really difficult trying to pick the voice of my blog.  I started out a little fact heavy at first because I thought that was the only way my blog could be interesting.  That was a great idea up until I totally ran out of easy facts.  For real, I had no idea how to manage to get a lot of things that would keep the posts interesting.  I'm really glad I decided to stray away from the that format, cause that would have made this whole thing a lot more stressful than it needed to be.  For crying out loud, I post a song every day, there's no way I could possibly get all of them to have an individual tidbit of info, you know what I mean?

But hey though, here's The Vampire From Nazareth, a wonderful horrific sounding song.  This is probably the pinnacle of the album with the way that the Symphonic aspect blends with the Blackened Death Metal.

Hey hey, I'm back to being hella edgy.  Yeh.

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King Diamond - Christmas

Artist:  King Diamond
Genre:  Heavy Metal

I feel like I really need to listen to more of this dude's music seeing as I've posted two of his Christmas songs and none of his regular music.

I hear it's quite good, and judging by the fact that I really enjoy the novelty and quality of these Christmas songs I would suppose that I'd like it.

I dunno, I just never listened to Mercyful Fate or his self titled solo stuff I guess.  Except one, and it was about a haunted house, or a house haunted by his dead grandma.  Something like that.  I dunno, it was interesting.

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Gucci Mane - St. Brick Intro

Artist:  Gucci Mane
Genre:  Rap, Hip Hop
Language:  Strong

Here's the Christmas song everybody's clearly after, Gucci has gifted us all with a true classic.

Honestly I wish more new Christmas music like this existed.  Here's the problem though (which is something I've noticed in church music as well, but that's a totally different argument), all the good Christmas songs were, for the most part, written back in the big band era of the 20s and 40s.  Sure there were new ones written up into the 60s, but for the most part there haven't been any good songs put out since then.  You get your remakes of the old classics, you get your single tunes here and there, but nothing on the whole albums of christmas tunes of the old days.

I want more groups to put out original Christmas tunes like this, but a lot of the times it just sounds weird.  There's something about the old tunes that are just cemented into place.  It's probably because there's only a few months to play them so they didn't get as old to people in the same way that playing the same 60 songs would get for literally anything else.

Eh, got a couple good albums I can dredge up though, and Gucci is releasing The Return Of East Atlanta Santa on the 16th, so that's cool, eh?  As long as it's a full blown Christmas album at least.  Apparently this is his 3rd one, so I'll have to look at the other two.

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Demon Hunter - Cold Winter Sun

Band:  Demon Hunter
Genre:  Metalcore, Heavy Metal

OH SHOOT, THEY JUST STRAIGHT UP RELEASED IT ALREADY!

"Wait, Noah, I feel like you may like this group?"  Yeah...  I apologize for how hyped I am about this album, this is just one of the things I've been looking forward to for a long time now.  By a long time I mean about 2 years since that's when the last album was released.

I'm really excited about the direction that Demon Hunter has decided to take.  I'm a big fan of all their old stuff, but the fact that they aren't remaining stagnant is really a great thing.  Their guitarists keep switching around so I suppose that would really help to keep the sound fresh.  That's another thing though, for having so many new guitarists they have really managed to keep a really good central sound to the whole thing.  Like this song, all the guitar parts were written by Patrick Judge formerly of The Showdown, but it still has a lot of the DH sound to it.

If this is what they're comfortable releasing so far I can't wait to hear the rest of it next year.

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Guest Post: Deafheaven - Luna

Band:  Deafheaven
Genre:  Black Metal, Black-Gaze

Many rides to work have been spent hyping myself up for the day and destroying my neck muscles listening to this 10 minute long wall of sound and pure musical destruction.

"Luna" off of Deafheaven's latest record "New Bermuda" opens with the gnarliest riff and a sudden barrage of snare drum abuse. It's almost unrelenting at times, but knows when to take a chill pill at the right time. By chill pill I of course mean the band's signature "shoe-gaze" interludes that progress into the most optimistic guitar chords and thunderous percussion.

This band receives numerous awards and recognition for their near flawless records including 2013's "Sunbather" and they definitely deserve the attention of many heavy metal listeners.

Being able to witness their fine-tuned live set while supporting Carcass was an enormous pleasure as well as deafening...(haha).

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Today's post is a guest post by my friend Steven Attenborough of Bravura.  Be sure to support him by checking out their music too, its great!

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Skrillex - Ragga Bomb

Artist:  Skrillex with Ragga Twins
Genre:  Dubstep

I swear I thought this song was here ages ago.  I found it back in like, the beginning of summer, so I really honestly thought I had to have shared it by now.  I really love the synth sound Skrillex used in this, it's so dirty it's falling apart while you listen to it.  Basically this song is a lot of what I live about Skrillex's work.  I don't seek out his music, but when I do there's always a song or two like this that's just great.

Yo, I can't talk about this song though cause I just found out that Demon Hunter's first single dropped for their new album!  :D  Hype hype hype

It's currently only available to people who helped back the album, but you'd better believe that I'm reviewing the hell out of this album when it releases.

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ScHoolboy Q - Collard Greens

Artist:  ScHoolboy Q feat. Kendrick Lamar
Genre:  Hip Hop
Language:  Strong

So here's a dude I only heard because I had a friend make me listen to his music.  Honestly I was a little resentful at first but I'm now really glad they showed him to me.

Q does this really cool thing where his rap flow kinda goes all over the place.  Not all over the place in a bad way, it's just different from what I expected from the usual music I get sent from that person.  That being some hella hood music.  This is a much high quality thing than that stuff.

Also if you watch the the video you can see that Macklemore and Obama are both in it.  Kinda cool.

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