Machine Head - "The Burning Supercharger" (1999/2001)

As the story of Oakland's metal heroes Machine Head goes, they made two landmark albums in modern metal (Burn My Eyes in 1994 and The More Things Change... in 1997). Then they made two lame ones (The Burning Red in 1999 and Supercharger in 2001), before making a huge comeback and putting out two more landmarks in modern metal (Through The Ashes Of Empires in 2003 and The Blackening in 2007).

I must admit I too have been known to rip into The Burning Red and Supercharger once or twice. And make no mistake, they were two albums where Machine Head completely gave up on their principles and made music designed specifically to be successful in a commercial context. This was Machine Head following trends and trying to make hit singles, not Machine Head waving the Bay Area thrash flag.

Hiring producers like Ross Robinson (who at the time was mostly known for his works with Korn and Limp Bizkit) and Johnny K (Staind, 3 Doors Down, Disturbed) only seemed to solidify this.

But in hindsight, these two albums most definitely contain gems. Twelve of them, to be exact. The highs are very high, but the lows are really fucking low. So I took it upon myself to combine the best tracks from both albums, and the result? The Burning Supercharger, of course. Forgive me for not thinking of a wittier title, but I'm not very clever.

The main criticism when The Burning Red was released was the Police cover Message In A Bottle, as well as Desire To Fire and From This Day, the two songs with rapping on them. Rightfully so, all three of them are fucking horrid.

They went out the window, and were replaced by the best Supercharger tracks: Bulldozer, Trephination and Deafening Silence. Apart from switching around I Defy and Devil With The King's Card, I didn't even alter the order of the songs.

All I did was place the three Supercharger songs in the places of the removed Burning Red songs, and it worked like a fucking charm. Like an actual, properly sequenced album. I can't believe this is all it took to make these two despised albums cohesive and listenable.

Just download this zip of The Burning Supercharger, and you'll see for yourself. With the rubbish left out, this is some seriously fucking rocking shit. Just as good as any other Machine Head album.

1. Enter the phoenix (intro)
2. Bulldozer
3. Nothing left
4. The blood, the sweat, the tears
5. Silver
6. Trephination
7. Exhale the vile
8. Deafening silence
9. I defy
10. Devil with the king's card
11. Five
12. The burning red

(zip) The Burning Supercharger

Buy all things Machine Head @ Amazon.com.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #26

(mp3) 7 Year Bitch - Knot
Available on Sick 'Em (1992)

(mp3) The Dead Kennedys - Police truck
Available on Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (compilation, 1987)

(mp3) Die Skeptiker - Strassenkampf
Available on ??? (????)

(mp3) Tad - Helot
Available on God's Balls (1989)

(mp3) The U-Men - Dig it a hole
Available on Solid Action (compilation, 2000)

The Haunted - "Versus" (2008)

The new Haunted album is upon us! Couldn't find a pic of the album cover though, but Casper will do.

I'm not even sure this album has been released yet. But through the wonder of torrents, onto my harddrive it landed. Versus continues down the same path as their previous album The Dead Eye, which of course was the right choice.

The band had a slightly different take on the recording this time around - all the music was recorded live, with as few overdubs as possible. Fancy that. The vocals were recorded afterwards, but other than that the tracks were laid down with all members playing them together, which gives the album a much more frenetic and energetic quality that you wouldn't otherwise get.

It was a real bitch trying to pick just three songs from the album. This one is definitely a grower, the kind where you get a new favorite song every time you listen. This is easily one of the top 10 albums of the year, folks.

Get downloading, tune in and thrash out. Or something. Not sure what I'm talking about. Or typing about. Bacardi Coconut Rum is teh devil.

(mp3) The Haunted - Skuld (highly recommended!)

(mp3) The Haunted - Crusher

(mp3) The Haunted - Imperial death march

Buy Versus @ Amazon.com.

EDIT:

Hold your horses, I found the cover:

Candlemass - "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" (1986)

Swedish doom gods Candlemass' first and still best album.

Songwriter and bass player Leif Edling took the best parts of Black Sabbath, Witchfinder General, Pagan Altar etc, slowed them down even more, gave them a metallic edge, recruited an unknown pop singer called Johan Längquist to handle vocals duties, and the rest is history. The best doom metal album of all time. Just like that.

Längquist was a mystery for 20 years. He only sang on these sessions, before he left for personal reasons and to persue his own projects. He was replaced by ogre oaf Messiah Marcolin who is the main reason I can't stand the subsequent Candlemass album. The guy is a dork. Plain and simple. Johan owns that curly haired Shrek replica.

At the 20th anniversary party of this album, Candlemass played a set with various guest vocalists. One of them being the ever elusive enigma that is Johan Längquist. His first ever performance with Candlemass.

Although the list of singers was looking pretty good, it was Johan everyone wanted to see. To find out just who the hell he is anyway. Can he still do the songs justice? Sing them like in the old days? What does he even look like?

Well, as one reviewer wrote, onto the stage steps a guy in his 40s, looking like a fresher, more handsome Robert Plant. The crowd starts clapping and chanting "Johan! Johan! Johan!".

The band kicks into Crystal Ball Johan opens his mouth to sing the first verse and... he sounds exactly the fucking same. Watch the Crystal Ball video below. I've been watching regularly for the last year and a half, and it still gives me chills.

(mp3) Candlemass - Black stone wielder

(mp3) Candlemass - Under the oak

Buy Epicus Doomicus Metallicus @ Amazon.com.

Crystal Ball live with Johan Längquist (part 1):

Part 2:

Terrance Y Phillip - "Eres Un Cabron Hijoputa" (1999)

(mp3) Terrance Y Phillip - Eres un cabron hijoputa

Yet another new Metallica song!

What a glorious day!

1. Recovering from a pretty sweet birthday yesterday.
2. Payday.
3. Monkey Bastard's MP3 Blahg v. 2.0 is finally up and running with a big Blur post.
4. Slept well and had utterly pleasant dreams.
5. Another Metallica song has leaked!

(mp3) Metallica - My apocalypse

I didn't even have to use my A.K... I gotta say it was a good day.

W.A.S.P. "S/t" (1984)

A picture really does say more than a thousand words.

After Alice Cooper and before Marilyn Manson, Blackie Lawless was the one who destroyed the youth of the world.

And a damn fine job he did too. I've killed at least three people because of W.A.S.P.

(mp3) W.A.S.P. - Animal (fuck like a beast) (highly recommended!)

(mp3) W.A.S.P. - I wanna be somebody (highly recommended!)

Buy S/t @ Amazon.com.

Animal (Fuck Like A Beast) live in 1984:

Go visit my new blog, yo

Hi there, dear readers.

I'd just like to inform you of my new blog that will be coming your way in just a matter of days - Monkey Bastard v. 2.0.

As you may or may not know, Monkey Bastard's MP3 Blahg was my first blog, started some 18 months ago. There I posted my favorite bands within rock, pop etc. It felt a little restrictive after a while since my first love was always heavy music. So thus is was, Metal Bastard's MP3 Blahg was started in November 2007. And all was good throughout the lands.

I retired the Monkey Bastard blahg in March, but I kept posting the now famous Monkey Mixes for several months. I had a hard time letting go, I suppose. The Monkey Mixes of course being the amazing fifteen track zip files I would post. The best mixes around, the mixes to end all mixes.

But the old Monkey Bastard is now finally retired once and for all.

But there's still too much good music out there that simply isn't heavy enough to be posted and shared here at Metal Bastard. My musical tastes are simply too broad. So therefor: Monkey Bastard v. 2.0!!!

This does not in anyway mean the end of Metal Bastard, quite the contrary. I already have about 500 mp3s uploaded that I haven't even begun posting here yet. All kinds of stuff: At The Drive-In, Entombed, Metallica, Hearse, Turbonegro, Breach, Slipknot, Death Breath, Witchery, Murder Corporation, Korn, Gojira, White Zombie, Corrosion Of Conformity, Orange Goblin, Deathspell Omega, Dismember, Mastodon, Die Krupps, Strapping Young Lad, Probot, Opeth, Deftones, Black Sabbath, Pantera, WASP, Machine Head, Dio, Death, Watain, Refused, The Haunted, In Flames, Rammstein, Led Zeppelin, Hardcore Superstar, Dropkick Murphys, MC5, Bigelf, Mary Beats Jane, Candlemass, Skid Row, Moment Maniacs, Judas Priest, Mike Patton, Will Haven, Macabre, Atari Teenage Riot and god knows what else.

Metal Bastard ain't going anywhere, that's for sure. Teh Methul Bastardo will haunt your dreams for fucking years. Yes, that's a promise.

Side by side with Metal Bastard, I will start posting all kinds of awesome shit at the new Monkey Bastard within a day or two, so make sure to bookmark it and bookmark it well. If you're openminded enough to appreciate music that isn't heavy, distorted and angry, do pay a visit. For my first post at the new and improved Monkey Bastard v. 2.0 I'm thinking about a mammoth prog rock post with King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Camel et al.

Then perhaps a nostalgic 90's Brit Pop post with Oasis, Blur, Suede, The Verve, Radiohead, Stone Roses etc. And, of course, there will be more of them Monkey Mixes. You know you love them and can't live without them. You crave them like a junkie craves smack, like a pregnant woman craves pickles and lemons. Truly sublime they are, them Monkey Mixes. Magical powers they do possess.

Yes, my children. I do indeed have grand plans. Grand, grand plans. The sky is the fucking limit. The stars are aligned and the time has come for your favorite blogging Bastard to reign supreme once and for all.

Today Blogspot, tomorrow the world! Muuuahaahahahahaha!!!!

Tenacious D - "The Pick Of Destiny" (2006)

Expectations were high when The D announced they had a feature film in the works. The three episode tv show has given then cult hero status, the Tribute video gave them some more, so everything seemed to be hunky dory.

But apparently not. The film made no $$$ whatsoever, since no one could be bothered to go see it. I can't figure out why myself, I thought the film was awesome and everyone I've forced to sit down to watch it agrees.

Meh. If the general movie going public can't appreciate quality, then fuck 'em. This is one of the funniest movies of the last few years, and that's final.

Of course the soundtrack is brilliant:

(mp3) Tenacious D - History

(mp3) Tenacious D - Master exploder

(mp3) Tenacious D - Beelzeboss (the final showdown)

Bonus track from King Kong (which is awesome too btw):

(mp3) Jack Black - Kong

Dave Grohl as the devil in Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown):

Buy Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny @ Amazon.com.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #25

(mp3) Einstürzende Neubauten - Armenia
Available on Zeichnungen Des Patienten O. T. (1983)

(mp3) Slipknot - Snap
Available on Slipknot Demo (1998)

(mp3) The Jesus Lizard - Monkey trick
Available on Goat (1991)

(mp3) Handsome - Needles
Available on S/t (1997)

(mp3) Rude Kids - Raggare is a bunch of motherfuckers
Single (1978)

(mp3) Turbonegro - Raggare is a bunch of motherfuckers (Rude Kids cover)
Available on Ass Cobra (1996)

(mp3) Tool - Part of me
Available on Opiate (EP, 1992)

(mp3) M.I.A. - I hate hippies
Available on Lost Boys (compilation, 2001)

(mp3) Out - Les voix de silence
Available on X-Position (1999)

(mp3) Macabre - Jeffrey Dahmer and the chocolate factory
Available on Dahmer (2000)

Last night I had the strangest dream I'd ever dreamed before

I dreamt my girlfriend was very pregnant. She looked exactly like Lindsay Lohan. Or at least the way Lindsay Lohan would look if she wasn't suffering from Hollywooditis - healthy weight, natural red hair, fair skin and freckles. Very girl-next-doorish. Not a bony anorexia ass, a bleached hair or an orange Oompa Loompa spray-on tan in sight. Hard to imagine, I know.

We were living in a New York penthouse, like something straight out of a Bon Jovi video, when her water broke. I was freaking out while she was calm as a cucumber. Calm even though I apparently just HAD to arrange all the socks in my drawer before I could help her out to the car. Took me fucking forever.

I woke up feeling very paternal and with a crush on Lindsay Lohan.

Not sure what to make of myself anymore.

(mp3) Foo Fighters - Walking a line
Available on One By One (special edition, 2002)

3 x Sengaija for Nathan (and anyone else who might care)

So someone named Nathan left this comment in the recent The Hellacopters post:

Hey dude, just discovered your site recently. One song on your site Sengaija - 45 rpm I thought was really wicked. So I go on amazon and I look all over the web for anything by them but apart from one download site that advertised having it then when I signed up didn't have it, I can't seem to find shit. Can you point me in the right direction or if you really wanted to you could make a post about how great they are :D ?

August 16, 2008 6:58 PM

Well Nathan, I do believe 'tis your lucky day.

Sengaija (who took their name from Peter Jackson's splatter epic Braindead/Dead Alive) was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in circa 1997 when members from local bands such as Prohibit and Aloe Vera got together to form "The best fucking band in the world".

They didn't accomplish quite that, but they sure were good. They were unfairly compared to LOK, another nu metal-ish hardcore band that also sang in Swedish. Although the two bands didn't sound that alike, there are similarities. The fact that LOK's lead singer Martin Westerstrand appeared on their second demo didn't exactly stop people drawing parallells.

Sengaija released three demos between 1999 and 2002, did gigs all over the country and appeared on a handful of compilations. What happened to them after that is anyone's guess. I have absolutely no idea.

Any of you dear readers have any info?

Until some kind soul appears to enlighten us on this matter, here's the complete Sengaija discography. I think. While all good, I must particularly recommend their first demo Detta Är Hardcore (=This Is Hardcore). Whether the title is just a declaration of the demo's content, or a conscious reference to Pulp's 1998 album This Is Hardcore is unknown.

Either way, the opening track Vad Är Det Som Låter? (roughly translated: What's That Noise? or What's Making That Noise?) is in my opinion their best song.

(zip) Sengaija - Detta Är Hardcore (1999)

(zip) Sengaija - Väg 193 (2000)

(zip) Sengaija - El Chupacabra (2002)

I couldn't find any Sengaija videos, but here's LOK playing their signature tune LOK Står När De Andra Faller at their farewell gig in Gothenburg 2002.

Hey, it's better than nothing.

Oh what the hell, here's another one - Skrubbsår live at the Hultsfred festival in 1999:

Meryl Streep - "He's me pal" (1987)

Mamma Mia? Fuck you!

If I wanna hear Meryl Streep sing, I'll watch Ironweed.

(mp3) Meryl Streep - He's me pal

Buy Ironweed @ Amazon.com.

And while I'm at it, here's another song from a great movie:

(mp3) Chris Pontius & Big Nasty - Karazy

Buy Jackass Number Two @ Amazon.com.

My new favorite blog

There's a new blog on the block and its name is Rollo & Grady.

I've been reading it since June and I haven't seen them him (I assume it's a dude) post a bad song yet. Not only that, he also seems to update several times a day. Every time I check in he got new stuff dying for me to listen to it. This is essential reading, folks.

Step 1: Go there.

Step 2: Realise its greatness.

Step 3: Worship its greatness.

Step 4: Download.

Step 5: Bookmark it so you can go back and repeat steps 1-4.

The Hellacopters - "By The Grace Of God" (the complete sessions, 2002)

Here's my favorite rock album of all time. Yep, of all time.

This was the almighty Hellacopters' fifth album, and it was and still is critisised for being too slick, too over-produced and too clean. Bah! Cretins! Yeah, Payin' The Dues was great too, but how can anyone expect them to do the same distorted thing over and over? Bah! Cretins!

I even read a review where someone compared Rainy Days Revisited (amazing, amazing song) to Coldplay! What the fuck are some people thinking? What we have here is nothing but a classic rock piece. Masterpiece, I should say. Of the old school, the early 70's school.

By the way, the cover was released in three different colors: white, black and red. I of course got the pimpin' white one.

Every song sounds like a classic, the band is in full form (this is where they peaked in my opinion) and the production has this lovely shimmering glow all over it. At the same time, it's perhaps the band's darkest album. There's this hint of melancholy just under the surface. The song It's Good But It Just Ain't Right sums it up nicely.

A total number of twenty songs was recorded during the spring of 2002, and thirteen of them ended up on the album. Although the other seven were meant for b-sides and other various shady releases, only one, Red Light, was released in this manner. Realising the quality of this spare material (some of these seven songs were some how even better than the album tracks), the band saved these songs and released them on a separate EP entitled Strikes Like Lightning to celebrate their 10th anniversary in 2004.

This .zip file contains all twenty tracks:

1. By the grace of god
2. All new low
3. Down on Freestreet
4. Better than you
5. Carry me home
6. Rainy days revisited
7. It's good but it just ain't right
8. U.Y.F.S.
9. On time
10. All I've got
11. Go easy now
12. The exorcist
13. Pride

14. Turn the wrong key
15. Take me on
16. A view from nowhere
17. Blinded by the light
18. Fiends and frankensteins
19. On the line

20. Red light

If you don't download this, there is something seriously wrong with you. Something very, very serious.

(zip) The By The Grace Of God sessions

Buy all things Hellacopters @ Amazon.com.

The video for By The Grace Of God:

Iggy & The Stooges - "Raw Power" (1973)

Introduction needed?

Didn't think so.

(mp3) The Stooges - Search and destroy

(mp3) The Stooges - Gimme danger

Buy Raw Power @ Amazon.com.

New Metallica song premiered!

(mp3) Metallica - Cyanide (live @ Ozzfest Aug. 9th)

Maybe I'm just being a fanboy here, but I'm loving this one! \m/

And if the rumors from the inside are anything to go by, this is the worst song on the album! If so, Death Magnetic is going to fucking rule! Mark my words, nay-sayers!

Metallica is fucking BACK!

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #24

(mp3) Backyard Babies - Powderhead
Available on Knockouts (ep, 1997)

(mp3) Dellamorte - No shit
Available on Everything You Hate (1996)

(mp3) Tony Iommi feat. Phil Anselmo - Time is mine
Available on S/t (2000)

(mp3) Fear Factory - Linchpin
Available on Digimortal (2001)

(mp3) Plastic Pride - Living machine
Available on V/A - Definitivt 50 Spänn 6 (compilation, 1997)

Japanese goodies for everyone!

A million years ago I wrote about a Relapse compilation called Japanese Assault. This included a track from the amazing band Muga. Trust the Japanese to take a tired old genre like hardcore and make sound like it was invented yesterday.

Lo-Res Viscera (definitely an mp3 blog you can't live without) posted their entire self-titled album on Monday.

CLICK HERE AND DOWNLOAD IT BECAUSE IT IS SURELY SOME OF THE BEST SHIT YOU WILL EVER HEAR, AND PERHAPS DOWNLOAD SOME OTHER STUFF WHILE YOU'RE THERE. LIKE COP SHOOT COP'S PEEL SESSION, THEY ARE TRULY (.)(.)!

And finally some bonus tracks just because I'm a nice guy:

(mp3) Slipknot - Psychosocial
Available on All Hope Is Gone (2008)

(mp3) Shellac - Steady as she goes
Available on Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007)

(mp3) Tomahawk - Mescal rite 1
Available on Anonymous (2007)

Mastodon - Live in Japan 2003 (re-post because the original post disappeared for some reason)

More DVD Audio Extractor fun! Why didn't I find a program like this earlier? This is awesome.

These are the four tracks on the dvd that came with the special edition of Mastodon's 2004 album Leviathan, recorded live Japan. I just realised this is the third time I've posted Where Strides The Behemoth - the studio version in the Remission (2002) post, and another live version recently.

It's so awesome it deserves to be posted three HUNDRED times!

\m/ \m/

(mp3) Mastodon - Thank you for this/We built this come death (highly recommended!)

(mp3) Mastodon - Crusher destroyer

(mp3) Mastodon - Battle at sea

(mp3) Mastodon - Where strides the Behemoth

Buy all things Mastodon @ Amazon.com.

Gluecifer - "Ridin' The Tiger" (1997)

Around 1996-98, years before the international garage rock boom of 2001/02, there was a big resurgence of noisy rock in Scandinavia, which I like to think was all thanks to The Hellacopters. They had released their first album in 1996, gotten rave reviews and won a Grammy, and suddenly bands were popping up out of nowhere.

Bands were formed to catch the wave and older bands, such as Turbonegro (formed in 1988), Backyard Babies (1987) and The Nomads (1981), suddenly found themselves in the limelight. This new wave of rock was dubbed "action rock" by many in the media after a line in The Hellacopters song You Ain't Nothin'.

One band that got a lot of attention was Gluecifer, formed in 1994. The Norwegian self-styled KINGS OF ROCK!!! Having released the perhaps Turbonegro-inspired EP Dick Disguised As Pussy, they release this debut album in 1997. The gist of most of the reviews in Sweden were "a lot like The Hellacopters, but not as good". Which is bullshit on both accounts.

Sure, Gluecifer had the same kind of noisy, distorted production as The Hellacopters had at this point in their career, but to claim the two had anything in common song-writing wise is folly. Around this time The Hellacopters had a clear leaning towards Motorhead and The Stooges, while Gluecifer preferred to kick it New Bomb Turks-style. Never trust a music journalist to tell the difference.

The two bands were buddies though, and toured together. Hellacopters head honcho Nicke Andersson was seen sporting a Gluecifer tee more often than not. Gluecifer did however evolve in the same general direction as The Hellacopters from this point on, by cleaning up their sound on subsequent albums. But where The Hellacopters moved closer and closer towards MC5 and Kiss, Gluecifer embraced the likes of AC/DC and other arena rockers.

The song Evil Matcher (download below) contains a little wink at Nicke Andersson: In the middle of it is the same sample that Andersson used in the song Serpent Speech by his "other" band Entombed. Scroll down to the Entombed post below, then download Serpent Speech and hear for yourself.

Gluecifer sadly went their separate ways in 2005. Basement Apes (2002) was perhaps the jewel in their rawk crown and is their most even album in terms of song quality, but in 1997 they raised hell like few ever have before or since. Here's proof threefold:

(mp3) Gluecifer - Evil matcher

(mp3) Gluecifer - Rock throne (highly recommended!)

(mp3) Gluecifer - Burnin' white

Buy Ridin' The Tiger @ Amazon.com.

Metal Bastard welcomes you to 2005 and recommends a movie

Judd Apatow = Genius

(mp3) Steve Carell - The first time

Buy The 40 Year Old Virgin @ Amazon.com.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #23

(mp3) Led Zeppelin - Going to California
Available on Led Zeppelin IV (1971)

(mp3) Green Milk From Planet Orange - Demagog
Available on City Calls Revolution (2005)

(mp3) Disfear - Testament
Available on Live The Storm (2008)

(mp3) The Hellacopters - Another turn
Available on Head Off (2008)

(mp3) Dropkick Murphys feat. Andrew WK - Worker's song (live)
Available on On The Road With The Dropkick Murphys (dvd, 2004)

Death Breath - "Stinking Up The Night" (2006)

The story of Death Breath (extremely short version):

Nicke Andersson, years after leaving the drum stool in Entombed in 1997, decided he wants to play drums in an old school 80's style punky death metal band.

He gets together with some dude (Robert Pehrsson, vocals/guitar), and they make a single, then this album.

They invite Repulsion singer Scott Carlson to sing on some tracks. Former Entombed bassist/former Grave singer Jörgen Sandström also sang on a couple. The Let It Stink ep was released the following year.

Okay, that's it. Pretty short.

This is some seriously awesome shit, I've been spinning this album on a very regular basis for the last two years or so.

Start downloading, morons:

(mp3) Death Breath - Death breath (highly recommended!)

(mp3) Death Breath - Christ all fucking mighty (highly recommended!)

(mp3) Death Breath - Flabby little things from beyond (highly recommended!)

Buy Stinking Up The Night @ Amazon.com.

Entombed - "Hollowman" (ep, 1993)

The mighty six-track EP that preceeded 1993's Wolverine Blues which many still to this day consider Entombed's finest effort. Some even consider this EP to be Entombed's crowning moment.

And I kinda agree. There are a few songs on Wolverine Blues I don't really care for (Heavens Die for example). And while not a bad song in any way, I also think Out Of Hand is a little overrated. If Entombed had gotten rid of those two and replaced them with Serpent Speech and Bonehouse from this EP, Wolverine Blues would have been truly flawless.

(mp3) Entombed - Serpent speech (highly recommended!)

(mp3) Entombed - Bonehouse

Buy Hollowman @ Amazon.com.

Korn - Rare shit sorta (1993-1999)

Dug around ye olde mp3 folders yesterday and found one full of non-album Korn tracks (about 30 of 'em) that I'd downloaded in my heyday of Korn fanboy-ness in 1999 or so.

I'd just seen the live broadcast of Korn at the Woodstock festival, bought Follow The Leader which still hadn't gotten old (and it did pretty quick), and went to scoure the internet for any "rare" songs I could find. B-sides, remixes, tracks from soundtracks and compilations, bootleg live tracks etc etc.

I had a listen to this stuff yesterday and it brought me way back. Some of the songs still hold up, even more so than many of the album tracks. Others didn't hold up at all. I picked my 10 favorites and now I share them with you. If Korn had included some of these tracks on their albums, perhaps the albums would have aged better.

(mp3) Korn - Christmas song
Non-album single (1993)

(mp3) Korn - Proud
No Place To Hide single (1996)

(mp3) Korn - I can remember
Got The Life single (1998)

(mp3) Korn - Freak on a leash (remix)
Freak On A Leash single (1998)

(mp3) Korn - Falling away from me (DJ Lethal's Creepy Porno remix)
Korntv.com exclusive internet release (1999)

(mp3) Korn - Camel song
End Of Days soundtrack (1999)

(mp3) Korn & The Dust Brothers - Kick the P.A.
Spawn soundtrack (1997)

(mp3) Korn - Engine no. 9
Live Deftones cover (1995)

(mp3) Korn - Layla
Clown single (1995)

(mp3) Korn - Sean Olson
The Crow: City Of Angels soundtrack (1996)

V/A - "The Crow - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" (1994)

Emo emo emo...

If there's one thing I hate more than emoes, it's the word emo itself. I've heard it applied more to The Crow than I'd like. This movie was the fucking shit back in the day, and it still holds up. The soundtrack however, is where it's at.

I first came in contact with it when my sister started playing the hell out of it, and I've loved it ever since. Some of the industrial stuff sounds pretty silly dated today (My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult? Machines Of Loving Grace? Fuck off!), but most of it is tits.

The best collection of 90's alternative rock that you're likely to hear. The sequal to this film was ass, but the soundtrack album was almost as good as this one.

All these four tracks are highly recommended.

(mp3) Helmet - Milktoast

(mp3) Rage Against The Machine - Darkness

(mp3) Pantera - The badge (Poison Idea cover)

(mp3) Nine Inch Nails - Dead souls (Joy Division cover)

Buy The Crow Original Soundtrack @ Amazon.com.

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If so, email me at random.adams@gmail.com for a special price.

Put "Brother David's metal blog" in the mail title so I can tell it apart from all the other emails I get.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #22

(mp3) Nailbomb - Wasting away
Available on Point Blank (1994)

(mp3) Protes Bengt - Skalad gurka
Available on Stockhomlsmangel (compilation, 2000)

(mp3) Sepultura - Orgasmatron
Available on Under A Pale Grey Sky (live album, 2002)

(mp3) Soundgarden - Jesus Christ pose
Available on Badmotorfinger (1991)

(mp3) Within Reach - The way ahead
Available on Fall From Grace (2000)

(mp3) Meshuggah - War
Available on Rare Trax (2001)

(mp3) Hardcore Superstar - Bastards
Stand-alone single (2007)

(mp3) Raging Speedhorn - Fuck the voodoo man
Available on We Will Be Dead Tomorrow (2002)

(mp3) Tura Satana feat Lynn Strait - Down
Available on All Is Not Well (1996)

(mp3) Silverchair - Slave
Available on Freak Show (1997)

Korn - "Life Is Peachy" (1996)

I revisited this album not long ago, and to my surprise there was a whopping THREE songs I liked!

I dug the shit out of this album when it first came out, being a fan of their debut and all, but my interest went away rather quickly. No particular reason, it's just not very good. It's possibly Korn's angriest album with the roughest production, but most of the songs here just sound, to quote Lars Ulrich, "stock". Dull shit. A band already going through the motions. How sad.

These three are the shit however:

(mp3) Korn - Twist

(mp3) Korn - Wicked (feat. Chino Moreno)

(mp3) Korn - Ass itch (highly recommended!)

Buy Life Is Peachy @ Amazon.com.