Entombed - "Sons Of Satan Praise The Lord" (2002)

Alright, so here's a covers album. A compilation (a double album, even) of all cover songs Swedish death metal gods Entombed had recorded up to that point.

Yes, Entombed may be a death metal band, but don't go thinkin' this is anything like Six Feet Under's cheesy Graveyard Classics albums. This shit isn't good and cool in an ironic, lame way. This shit is good for real. Fo' real!

Everything from Bob Dylan, Captain Beyond, Roky Erickson and Lee Hazlewood to Kiss, Misfits, King Crimson, Bad Brains and Alice Cooper to S.O.D., Venom, Repulsion, Black Sabbath and Motörhead. To Twisted Sister, The Dwarves, Stiff Little Fingers and Unsane.

Does it own your nancy boy ass? How can you even doubt it... Does the pope shit in the woods?

Entombed had, and still has, the Johnny Cash-like ability to make any song sound like their own and make the original sound like the cover. If you know what I mean. This is a total party album, some of the most rockin' shit you'll ever hear.

(mp3) Entombed - March of the S.O.D./Sargent 'D' and the S.O.D. (S.O.D. cover, highly recommended!)

(mp3) Entombed - Night of the vampire (Roky Erickson cover)

(mp3) Entombed - God of thunder (Kiss cover)

(mp3) Entombed - Black breath (Repulsion cover)

Buy Sons Of Satan Praise The Lord @ Amazon.com.

Opeth - "Watershed" (2008)

I normally don't post whole albums. Not because I have anything against it; two of my favorite blogs, Swan Fungus and Lo-Res Viscera, do it. You'll find links to them on the blogroll to the right; go check 'em out, they're awesome.

I normally don't do it because I think it's more fun to just tease you a bit with a few good songs and then you have to go find the rest for yourself. And hopefully pay for it.

I'll make an exception because Opeth's ninth album Watershed has been owning my ass for the last month or so. Some fans love it, others hate it. As usual with Opeth. I happen to love the fuck out of it, for about a million reasons and I won't even give you one of them.

Instead I encourage you download this here .zip file which contains the album in its entirety as well the four bonus tracks that were included on various limited editions: Derelict Herds, Mellotron Heart (mellow mellotron version of Porcelain Heart), Bridge Of Sighs (Robin Trower cover) and Den Ständiga Resan (Marie Fredriksson cover). The fifth bonus track, a cover of Alice In Chains' Would? is thus far unreleased.

And if you like it, please do buy the album for real. The whole "support the artists" thing, y'know.

(zip) Opeth - Watershed

Buy Watershed @ Amazon.com.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #16

(mp3) Vision Of Disorder - What you are
Available on Imprint (1998)

(mp3) S.O.D. - Shenanigans
Available on Bigger Than The Devil (1999)

(mp3) Volkspolizei - Chaos council
Available on Nopnor (2007)

(mp3) Misery Loves Co. - I swallow
Available on S/t (1994)

(mp3) Sepultura - Mass hypnosis
Available on Beneath The Remains (1989)

Tool - "10,000 Days" (2006)

I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I am with this one.

The two of you who read my post on their previous album Lateralus won't remember that in it I admitted to having never heard 10,000 Days. I avoided it because of the poor reviews I had read and the fact that the first single, Vicarious, sounded a little too much like Schism.

So I buy a second hand copy of this turd. Pop it in. One crap, unengaging song after another. Boring riffs, dull production, completely pointless "interludes", songs that sound like Lateralus leftovers. This album is the epitome of meh. What a piece of shit.

Is this really the same band that made Lateralus, Aenima and Undertow. I refuse to believe it. This is, at best, a bad joke.

Only two songs were good:

(mp3) Tool - Jambi

(mp3) Tool - The pot

Buy 10,000 Days @ Amazon.com.

System Of A Down - "S/t" (1998)

I know it's hard to believe, but System Of A Down once made listenable music. Yes, it's true.

T'was many moons ago, before megalomaniac and overall douchebag Daron felt playing the guitar and doing random backing vocals here and there wasn't enough and decided he should be the frontman and push the far superior vocalist Serj into the background and ruin one song after another with his whiny shit voice and write songs about "the most loneliest day", and by doing so singlehandedly made Hypnotize and Mesmerize completely worthless.

Daron is obviously the Roger Waters of the band. Soon he'll leave System Of A Day and announce the band's break up and then take the remaining members to court when they get another guitarist and decide to carry on without him.

Douchebagosaurus Rex.

(mp3) System Of A Down - Know (highly recommended!)

(mp3) System Of A Down - Peephole

(mp3) System Of A Down - War

Buy S/t @ Amazon.com.

The Haunted - "S/t" (1998)

Modern thrash classic.

I have nothing more to add. This is a classic, a masterpiece. If you don't know it back and forth - shame on you. Shame!

Download these three and become enlightened like the rest of us. You are entering a very exclusive and awesome club. I am not drunk.

(mp3) The Haunted - Hate song (highly recommended!)

(mp3) The Haunted - Three times

(mp3) The Haunted - Now you know

Buy S/t @ Amazon.com.

Ooooooh they keep teasing us! Naughty naughty!

(mp3) Slipknot - All hope is gone
From the upcoming album All Hope Is Gone (release date: August 26th)

(mp3) Bleeding Through - Orange County blonde and blue
From the upcoming album Declaration (release date: August)

Mangel Tills Du Spyr, Din Jävel Volume 2

As promised, here's Mangel Tills Du Spyr, Din Jävel Volume 2. This one was made only two months after the first one, so it contains a lot the same bands. If you're like me and still make mixed CD's, this one will fit perfectly onto one CD, just like Volume 1.

1. Intro
2. Slayer - Dittohead
3. Napalm Death - Conservative shithead
4. Entombed - Dusk
5. Skitsystem - Dödsmaskin
6. Disrupt - Green to grey
7. LOK - Plyschbeklädd (live)
8. Anal Cunt - You're a fucking cunt
9. Dark Funeral - Slava Satan
10. Moderat Likvidation - Nitad
11. Raised Fist - Pretext
12. Pig Destroyer - Fingers in the throat
13. Vacant Stare - Come face up
14. Nasum - Corrosion
15. The Haunted - Undead
16. Shitlickers - Armed
17. Fear Factory - Flesh hold
18. Mortician - Worms
19. Extreme Noise Terror - Damage 381
20. D.S.-13 - Your system is fucked
21. Final Exit - Proficiency
22. Discordance Axis - Radiant Arkham
23. Murder Corporation - Violated
24. Arsedestroyer - Untitled
25. Terrorizer - Fear napalm
26. Dismember - Skin her alive
27. Genocide SS - The final doom
28. The Locust - Prepare to qualify
29. Impaled Nazarene - I eat pussy for breakfast
30. Anal Blast - Staple your puss lips together
31. Botch - Rock lobster
32. Refused - Cheap...
33. Vomitory - Forty seconds bloodbath
34. At The Gates - Blinded by fear
35. Sengaija - 45 rpm
36. Sepultura - Dictatorshit
37. Today Is The Day - In the eyes of god (live)
38. Mob 47 - Polisstat
39. Cradle Of Filth - Death comes rippings
40. Slipknot - Eeyore
41. Soulfly - Caos
42. Outro

Download .zip file (65 mb)

I had some trouble uploading the zip file, let me know if it doesn't work and I'll get on it asap.

Also, support the artists and buy the albums.

Karp - "S/t"

The almighty Swan Fungus has Karp's self-titled album available for download.

Do it.

I SAID DO IT!!!

Mangel Tills Du Spyr, Din Jävel Volume 1

In 2000 I got my first CD burner, and just like when a boy gets his first video camera he immediately goes and shoots action movies and gory, disgusting horror flicks, I sat down and immediately burned a CD with the heaviest, noisiest and angriest music I had in my collection at the time.

It featured everything from grindcore (Napalm Death, Nasum, Pig Destroyer), death metal (Cannibal Corpse, Eternal Torment, Daemon), thrash (Slayer, Defleshed), classic hardcore (Sick Of It All, Artificial Peace, Citizens Arrest, Violent Children, 108), newer hardcore (Breach, Will Haven), crusty d-beat punk (Moment Maniacs, Disfear, No Security) and even death metal bands playing crusty d-beat punk (Entombed, Dellamorte). As well as bands that defies labelling (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Today Is The Day), and tons of other stuff I loved, and still love to this day.

After it was finished, there was only one logical title for this flawless compilation: Mangel Tills Du Spyr, Din Jävel Volume 1. Ask someone Swedish to translate that for you. Over the next two years I did six more installments in my MTDSDJ series, but I never seemed to top Volumes 1 and 2. Some of these songs have been posted here previously already, but they're good enough for you to download again since they work so effortlessly in this context.

Volume 2 will be posted shortly. Until then, enjoy these and bang your head off:

1. Will Haven - I've seen my fate
2. Anal Cunt - Stayin' alive
3. The Dillinger Escape Plan - The mullet burden
4. 108 - Deathbed
5. Nasum - Inhale/Exhale
6. Defleshed - The return of the flesh
7. Cannibal Corpse - Skull full of maggots (live)
8. Artificial Peace - U.X.B.
9. Mary Beats Jane - Brinn
10. Breach - Gheeá
11. Eternal Torment - Temptation of mind shutdown
12. Disfear - Judgement day
13. Slayer - Angel of death
14. Unsane - Can't see
15. Disrupt - Squandered
16. Soulfly - The possibility of life's destruction
17. Citizens Arrest - Serve and protest
18. Comatose - Fuck 'em all to hell
19. Machine Head - Negative creep
20. Dellamorte - Dirty
21. Violent Children - New pride
22. Daemon - Envy
23. Today Is The Day - In the eyes of god
24. Moment Maniacs - Time for war
25. Slipknot - Get this
26. Pig Destroyer - Dark satellites
27. Entombed - Just as sad
28. Sick Of It All - Politics
29. No Security - Kollaps
30. Sepultura - Against
31. Napalm Death - Pseudo youth
32. Strapping Young Lad - Underneath the waves

Download .zip file (66 mb)

Like whatcha hear? Support the artists and buy the albums.

Josh Homme - Norway 1-0

Mastodon - "Remission" (2002)

Being a huge fan of Today Is The Day's best album, 1999's monumental In The Eyes Of God, I made sure to prick my ears up when I was told of this new band called "Mastodon" which featured the two dudes who backed up Steve Austin on said TITD album.

March Of The Fire Ants was the first Mastodon song I heard, back in 2002, and although it didn't quite hit me straight away, I grew massive amounts of respect for Mastodon a few months later when I finally heard the album in full.

Of all that's been said about Mastodon in terms of them combining prog with metal with hardcore with thrash with southern rock with blah blah blah with meh meh meh with shoobie doobie doo, one aspect of Mastodon's music has always been neglected. I have never heard or read about anyone else noticing this, so I may be the only one. You're in for a scoop here, folks. Where Mastodon truly rules and reigns is in the realms of the Outro Riff.

That's right. The Outro Riff. As twisty and turny and labyrinthine as their music might get, their outro riffs reign supreme and make you dream back to the glory days of thrashy, headbanger metal when Metallica was the Father, the Son and the Holy motherfucking Ghost. You don't believe me? Just listen to the Outro Riff in Seabeast (off 2004's Leviathan), or Burning Man (off Remission). Or why not download the best example of all: the Outro Riff in Where Strides The Behemoth, perhaps the best metal riff written in fucking ages?

The Riff (yes, with a capital R) starts at 2:28, but it is not until drummer extraordinaire Brann Dailor starts playing along to the beat at 2:39 that it becomes the relentless, show-no-fucking-mercy, blood-thirsty, monsterous grizzly bear of a riff that it is. It reminds one of the ending of Metallica's Battery, in which Lars Ulrich's drumming completely changes the sound and momentum of the riff, making it sound completely different and truly come alive.

Mastodon of Atlanta, GA! The undisputed and undefeated kings and lords of the Outro Riff!

(mp3) Mastodon - Crusher destroyer

(mp3) Mastodon - Where strides the behemoth (highly recommended!)

(mp3) Mastodon - Trainwreck

Buy Remission @ Amazon.com.

The majestic Where Strides The Behemoth live:

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #15 + A little reminder

Tomorrow it will be two weeks since I posted three tracks from Darkane's flawless, wonderful, thrashy, mayhem-y, glorious, amazing debut album Rusted Angel, and will there for be deleted. So if I were you I'd go here (or just scroll down) to get to the post I did on that album.

It is truly a masterpiece. Just thought I'd give you one last heads up, since it will be gone forever tomorrow. Download while you can. Anywho, here's five songs you can't live without (no seriously, you really can't - download them and you'll wonder how the hell you managed to survive this long without hearing them):

(mp3) Breach - Public holocaust
Available on V/A - Cheap Shots Vol. 1 (1995)

(mp3) Amon Amarth - Death in fire
Available on Versus The World (2002)

(mp3) Skinless - From sacrifice to survival
Available on From Sacrifice To Survival (2003)

(mp3) Krux - Popocatepetl
Available on S/t (2003)

(mp3) Astroqueen - Planet dust
Available on Into Submission (2001)

Nirvana - "Bleach" (1989)

This doesn't need an introduction, does it?

As I've confessed earlier on this blog, I grew up a rabid Nirvana fanatic, and to some extent I still am a rabid Nirvana fanatic. Nirvana may no longer inhabit every cell in my system as it did when I was 13, but every so often I find myself suddenly scouring the corners of the innerweb looking for more badly recorded live bootlegs, demos and such to fill out the ever-growing collection.

As much as I love their post 1991 work (in other words, Nevermind and In Utero) my favorite era of Nirvana was 1987-90. The stuff on Bleach and Incesticide, essentially. Although they could be noisy and in-your-face even in the last few years of their existance, it felt less contrived in their early work. The early stuff just has a certain rugged quality. A kind of dark, dingy, almost claustrophobic abrasiveness that stinks of mold, cigarettes, cheap beer and clothes that haven't been washed in a while. All the Smells Like Teen Spirit's in the world couldn't beat that.

And yeah, I inverted (re-inverted? un-inverted?) the album cover. I think it looks better that way.

(mp3) Nirvana - Negative creep

(mp3) Nirvana - Scoff

(mp3) Nirvana - Swap meet (highly recommended!)

Buy Bleach @ Amazon.com.

the Melvins - "Houdini" (1993)

Booyah!

(mp3) the Melvins - Hooch

(mp3) the Melvins - Night goat

(mp3) the Melvins - Honey bucket (highly recommended!)

Buy Houdini @ Amazon.com.

The video for Honey Bucket:

Quite possibly the best song I've ever heard

(mp3) Cave-In - Inflatable dream

These are big words, I know. But sometimes your gut reaction just tells you something is the best thing you've ever experienced and today at this very moment Inflatable Dream by Cave-In is best song in history. Tomorrow it'll be some other song, but that's insignificant right now.

I have no idea what album, if any, this song is from. I first heard it about two years ago over at the almighty Built On A Weak Spot and fell for it instantly. The part at 4:13 and onwards (particularly the part that begins at 5:09) never fails to give me chills. It's genious, if not downright orgasmic. And when the falsetto vocals kick in at 5:33 I kneel down and wrap my moist lips around Cave-In's swollen love gland.

And because it's Saturday, because I'm a little tipsy and in a good mood, I'll throw in a few more songs just because I feel like it:

(mp3) Black Debbath - Traditional food
Available on Welcome To Norway (2001)

(mp3) Stonegard - Barricades
Available on Arrows (2005)

(mp3) 36 Crazyfists - An agreement called forever
Available on Bitterness The Star (2002)

(mp3) Souvenir's Young America - Letters from earth
Available on S/t (2005?)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #14

(mp3) Machine Head - Wolves
Available on The Blackening (2007)

(mp3) Ministry - Lava
Available on Filth Pig (1996)

(mp3) Zeni Geva - Love bite
Available on Desire For Agony (1993)

(mp3) Botch - Man the ramparts
Available on We Are The Romans (2000)

(mp3) Hellhammer - Blood insanity
Available on Demon Entrails (demo compilation, 2008)

Summer is here!!! Whoooohoooo!!!

(wma) Blue Cheer - Summertime blues
Available on Vincebus Eruptum (1968)