Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #136

(mp3) Lightning Swords of Death - The extra dimensional wound
Available on The Extra Dimensional Wound (2010)

(mp3) Fy Fan - Arbetslös, inte dum i huvudet
Available on S/t (2007)

(mp3) Impulse Manslaughter - Slithis
Available on Burn One Naked And Nuke It (1986)

(mp3) Electric Moon - Moon love
Available on Lunatics (2010)

(mp3) Fitz of Depression - Before it's true
Available on Let's Give It A Twist (1994)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #125

I've never been very good at predicting how many downloads a Friday mix will get, but I think this might get quite a few. Especially seeing how it's sonically similar to volumes #118 and #122, two of the most popular recent ones.

So get on this shit, bitches.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #125 (65 mb)

1. Mark Lanegan - Sideways in reverse (2004)
2. Swallow - Queen (1989)
3. Zen Monkey - One love song (1997)
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Hispanic impressions (1998)
5. Outrage - Mental asylum (2004)
6. Millionaire - We don't live there anymore (2005)
7. Tito & Tarantula - Dust and ashes (2008)
8. Blood Ceremony - The witch's dance (2011)
9. Probot - My tortured soul (2004)
10. Rival Sons - Get what's coming (2010)
11. Down - Stained glass cross (2002)
12. Freedom Hawk - Stand back (2008)
13. Hugenelk - Bring me the magician (2011)

Pay for your music, you slut.

aval

Lava refers both to molten rock expelled by a volcano during an eruption and the resulting rock after solidification and cooling. This molten rock is formed in the interior of some planets, including Earth, and some of their satellites.

When first erupted from a volcanic vent, lava is a liquid at temperatures from 700 °C to 1,200 °C (1,300 °F to 2,200 °F). Up to 100,000 times as viscous as water, lava can flow great distances before cooling and solidifying because of its thixotropic and shear thinning properties.

(mp3) Tribes of Neurot - Wolf lava
Available on Locust Star (1996)

(mp3) Ministry - Lava
Available on Filth Pig (1995)

(mp3) Satyricon - Black lava
Available on Volcano (2002)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #135

(mp3) Helms Alee - Betwixt
Available on Night Terror (2008)

(mp3) Killdozer - Cinnamon girl (Neil Young cover)
Available on Snakeboy (1985)

(mp3) Dark Tranquillity - Her silent language
Available on We Are The Void (2010)

(mp3) Wino - Whatever
Available on Adrift (2010)

(mp3) Bruce Banner - Interzone (Joy Division cover)
Available on I've Had It With Humanity (2004)

Opeth - "The Devil's Orchard" (new song)

Love the Hammond work, love the very 70s guitar sound, love the bell, love the crazy drumming.

Feck yes.

Trippy Shit Tuesday

Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness, waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripens the wine

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 3 - The moons of Jupiter (92 mb)

1. My Brother The Wind - Karmagrinder (2009)
2. Hills - Death 1 (2009)
3. Organisation - Milk rock (1970)
4. Lamp of the Universe - Earth, spirit & sky (2005)
5. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Aqua vera (1998)
6. Naam - Tidal barrens (2009)
7. The :Egocentrics - The unknown sings (2011)
8. Dungen - Samtidigt 2 (2008)
9. The Melvins - Flush (2008)
10. Gösta Berglings Saga - Anariasviten (2006)
11. U.S. Christmas - The moon in flesh and bone (2010)

Pay for your music.

Mastodon's Black Tongue in full

Troy Sanders is god. Downright amazing vocals on this one. Am I imagining things or are his phrasings very Chris Cornell-ish on this one?

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #134

(mp3) Orgy - Stitches
Available on Candyass (1998)

(mp3) Pantera - Walk (Biomechanical mix)
Available on Walk EP (1993)

(mp3) Ministry - Bad blood
Available on Dark Side of the Spoon (1999)

(mp3) Primus - Bastardizing jellikit
Available on V/A - Airheads Original Soundtrack (1994)

(mp3) Oxbow - La luna
Available on Serenade In Red (1997)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #124

I hope you want 47 minutes and 32 seconds of death fucking metal, because that's what you're getting.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #124 (68 mb)

1. Mammoth Grinder - Total extinction (2009)
2. Interment - Eternal darkness (2010)
3. Deströyer 666 - Weapons of conquest (2009)
4. Seance - Reincarnage (1992)
5. Hooded Menace - The haunted ossuary (2010)
6. Morbid Angel - World of shit (the promised land) (1993)
7. Necrophobic - Inborn evil (1993)
8. Nirvana 2002 - Slumber (1990)
9. Repugnant - Carnal leftovers (Nihilist cover, 2004)
10. Dismember - Dismembered (1990)
11. Monstrosity - Burden of evil (1992)
12. Protector - The mercenary (1987)
13. Grave - Rain (1994)

Pay for your music.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #133

(mp3) Alonzo - Vem av oss
Available on Salmonidae (2010)

(mp3) Indian - The fate before fate
Available on Guiltless (2011)

(mp3) Desert Sessions - Monkey in the middle
Available on Vol. 1 & 2 (1997)

(mp3) Filter - Jurassitol
Available on V/A - The Crow: City of Angels Original Soundtrack (1996)

(mp3) World Burns To Death - Fall on your sword
Available on The Sucking of the Missile Cock (2002)

Le Bammer Grande

It's been over a year since I posted some Maria Bamford. Something should be done about that.

(mp3) Maria Bamford - Celebrity homes
Available on Burning Bridges Tour (2005)

(mp3) Maria Bamford - Life in L.A.
Available on How To Win! (2007)

(mp3) Maria Bamford - Vision board
Available on Unwanted Thought Syndrome (2009)

There, much better. I love it when things are done about things.

Trippy Shit Tuesday

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 2 - Through the power of divination (99 mb)

1. Grandloom - Orbit wobbler (2011)
2. Wooden Shjips - Loose lips (2010)
3. Smoking Spore - Hard drive explosion (2009)
4. Øresund Space Collective - Orbital elevator (2009)
5. Heavy Hands - From Stonehenge to Saturn (2008)
6. Graveyard - Longing (2011)
7. Grails - Dead vine blues (2007)
8. Porcupine Tree - Siren (2005)
9. Den Stora Vilan - Space (2011)
10. Astra - Beyond to slight the maze (2009)

Pay for your music.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #132

(mp3) Graveyard - As the years pass by (live)
Available on Graveyard/Ancestors split 7" (2009)

(mp3) Sonic Flower - Cosmic highway
Available on S/t (2003)

(mp3) Zombi - Infinity
Available on Maserati/Zombi split (2009)

(mp3) The Crown - The black heart
Available on Eternal Death (1997)

(mp3) Sum 41 - Pain for pleasure
Available on All Killer, No Filler (2001)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #123

Having an mp3 blog sometimes gives you an interesting insight on how bands, artists and their labels feel about having their music shared in this manner.

Bands no one has even heard of can easily get their curls in an uproar (referencing Day of the Tentacle ftw), while I've never once gotten in trouble for posting Metallica songs.

Not really going anywhere with this, just found that funny given Metallica's history with these sorts of things. Perhaps they just matured and realised that they're so popular (not to mention rich enough) that illegal downloading couldn't possibly hurt them. If there's one big heavy band that has embraced the digital world and all its possibilities, it's Metallica.

More bands should follow their lead.

Speaking of Metallica, I hope you've followed Invisible Oranges' excellent series in which Cosmo Lee goes through every song on their first four albums. So far, he's gotten to the title track of Ride The Lightning. Read it.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #123 (64 mb)

1. Machine Head - Imperium (2003)
2. Stone Sour - Fruitcake (2007)
3. White Zombie - Creature of the wheel (1995)
4. The Great Deceiver - Annihilating liberty (2007)
5. Yersinia - Den sista sång jag skriver till dig (2010)
6. The Haunted - Meat wagon (2008)
7. Brian Posehn - More metal than you (2010)
8. Roadrunner United - I don't wanna be a superhero (2005)
9. Nine - ...And the wolves want more (2001)
10. Metallica - Green hell (Misfits cover, 1987)
11. Giant Squid - Blue linckia (2009)

Pay for your music, gringo.

Mastodon - "Black Tongue" (new song)

Oh my gawd you guys, I'm fapping so hard right now.

(mp3) Mastodon - Black tongue

Trippy Shit Tuesday

I don't do drugs, but if I did there's no way this wouldn't be my soundtrack. Part 1 in a new weekly feature designed to bend your mind, man. Like, far out. Man.

To steal Kyuss' instruction from their album Welcome To Sky Valley - listen without distraction. Post-rock, kraut rock, psychedelia, proggy shit, doomy shit, and Lucifer knows what else. Anything spacey and fun.

Trippy shit to chill out to. Man. Perfect for this warm, summery time of year. Man.

So wait til the sun starts to set, then light up, sniff some ether, or maybe just get too drunk for your own good, and crank this bastard up as loud as your neighbours will allow. Then crank it up a bit more.

If you're on the southern hemisphere and are currently experiencing winter, then well... I'm sure this mix works there too.

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 1 - Lift Off (94 mb)

1. 35007 - Von Braun (2001)
2. Wooden Shjips - Losin' time (2007)
3. Øresund Space Collective - Osc bolero (2007)
4. Pink Floyd - Sysyphus, pt. 3 (1969)
5. Om - Pilgrimage (reprise) (2007)
6. Stephen Hawking - The big bang
7. Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Storm and stress (2005)
8. Ahkmed - Iemanja (2009)
9. Rome - A culture of fragments (2009)
10. Maserati - Show me the season (2007)
11. Kyuss - A day early and a dollar extra (1995)
12. Siena Root - Shree (2009)
13. Ancestors - The ambrose law (2009)

Pay for you music.

Frank Carter, Gallows, Pure Love, Grey Britain re-post, etc etc

So Gallows frontman Frank Carter has left the band. Kind of a bummer, but there you go. No need to sulk, as I'm sure his new band Pure Love will be alright.

And we'll always have Grey Britain, won't we? About 18 months ago I declared it the 8th best album of 2009, and that opinion still stands. I'll just copy and paste that post, cause it was the shit:

Gallows' 2007 debut Orchestra Of Wolves did absolutely nothing for me. Disjointed songs that went in many different directions, none of which were very satisfactory. Run of the mill screamo-ish punk largely devoid of hooks, air guitar-worthy riffs or anything even remotely memorable.

Grey Britain also took a few listens to strike a chord with me, but I cannot but admit what a masterpiece it truly is. I've been an anglophile for as long as I can remember, and as much as I loved Britpop I must say it's quite refreshing to finally hear its complete antithesis. Grey Britain is The Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen distilled and filtered through thirty years of discontent and misanthropy.

Listening to it I can't help but see images of every loveable/loathsome British stereotype I can think of. Cockney dock workers having a stout and some toad in the hole at the local greasy spoon, people who spend more money on football tickets than dentistry, fat jaded couples in their 60s who think going to Blackpool over the weekend and eating fish 'n chips with way too much vinegar on a rocky beach ignoring each other for two days counts as going on holiday.

It's also intestering that it points the finger of blame inwards, not at the people in power. It's not the politicians' fault we're in this shit, we brought this on ourselves by not doing enough to stop them, by not caring enough. Grey Britain wants to be a call to arms to inspire people to snap out of their apathy and sort everything out, but it knows it's too far gone and the hopelessness never ceases to shine through. I'm sure that's something we can all relate to in one way or another, British or not.

But apart from the nihilism of its theme and its lyrics, the album is a triumph musically - it's all the best components from punk, hardcore, rock and metal crammed into one cd. All four genres constantly wrestle and fight to get in the front and the result is at times downright exhausting.

Still can't fucking stand Orchestra Of Wolves though.

(mp3) Gallows - Graves
Available on Grey Britain (2009)

And here's a fine documentary showing just how difficult Frank will be to replace:

If you don't have an elephant on your wall...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

(mp3) Clutch - The elephant riders
Available on The Elephant Riders (1998)

(mp3) Candlemass - Elephant star
Available on From The 13th Sun (1999)

(mp3) Shellac - Elephant
Available on Excellent Italian Greyhound (2007)

(mp3) Them Crooked Vultures - Elephants
Available on S/t (2009)

(mp3) Mastodon - Elephant man
Available on Remission (2002)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #131

(mp3) Judd Madden - Blackout
Available on Drown (2011)

(mp3) King Bong - One riff to rule them all
Available on How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bong (2008)

(mp3) Rollins Band - Starve
Available on Come In And Burn (1997)

(mp3) Eyehategod - Sabbath jam
Available on In These Black Days (Vol. I) (1998)

(mp3) Bathory - Born for burning
Available on The Return...... (1985)

Watch Opeth live @ Sonisphere tomorrow

Tomorrow the best band in the world will play at the Sonisphere festival in ye olde Albion.

Good news, Opeth fans: The band's live set at the Sonisphere festival in Knebworth, UK on Sunday, July 10 will be streaming live RIGHT HERE, beginning at approximately 5:50 PM GMT (that's 11:50 AM EST/8:50 AM PST).

Watch it or be an idiot. Great opportunity for Mike to finally bring back the top hat.

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #122

Another Friday, another Friday mix. It's fantastic. Rock on, kids.

Remember, this place is a fucking goldmine.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #122 (62 mb)

1. The Awesome Machine - Hunt you down (2003)
2. The Hives - a.k.a. I-D-I-O-T (1997)
3. "Demons" - Lost dog (1995)
4. Butthole Surfers - Goofy's concern (1993)
5. Super$hit 666 - Star War Jr. (1999)
6. Rocket From The Crypt - Don't Darlene (1992)
7. Ebba Grön - Häng gud (1979)
8. A-Bombs - My love is the devil (1999)
9. Graveyard - Granny & Davis (2011)
10. The Hellacopters - Have mercy on the children (2001)
11. Snot - Joy ride (1997)
12. Rollins Band & Neil Fallon - American waste (Black Flag cover, 2002)
13. Pachinko - EZ Jesus (1999)
14. The Vectors - Don't need nothing (2003)
15. The Accidents - Good girl (2005)
16. New Bomb Turks - Raw law (1998)

Pay for your music, chulo.

How many badass news can a guy handle in a one-hour span?

Firstly the look of three of the dwarves in Peter Jackson's upcoming The Hobbit was revealed. So badass.



Then the artwork for Mastodon's The Hunter caught my eye. So badass.



Made by this badass:

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #130

How long has it been since you listened to some quality Estonian doom? Chances are it's been far too long. Talbot are here to sort that out for you.

How long has it been since you listened to some quality Dutch heavy psychedelic shoegaze space rock? Too long, I'd guess. Thank satan 35007 are here to sort that out for you.

How long has it been since you listened to some quality sloppy and slimy death metal of the old school variety? I hope it hasn't been too long. If so, thank FUCK Abscess are here to sort that out for you.

How long has it been since... oh fuck it. You get the idea.

(mp3) Talbot - Observer X
Available on EOS (2010)

(mp3) 35007 - Soul machine
Available on Into The Void We Travelled (1997)

(mp3) Abscess - Naked freak show
Available on Seminal Vampires And Maggot Men (1996)

(mp3) Machine Head - Take my scars
Available on The More Things Change... (1997)

(mp3) Sisters of Mercy - Vision thing
Available on Vision Thing (1990)

Gothenburg metal galore

After re-reading Daniel Ekeroth's Swedish Death Metal a couple of weeks ago, I couldn't help but nerd out in my usual fashion.

Since all Swedish metal bands share a lineage (or at least that's how it feels sometimes) with everybody playing with everybody in so many different bands it'll make your nipple wiggle counter clockwise just thinking about it, I couldn't resist putting together a fat compilation of some of all of the bands related in one way or another to At The Gates and/or The Haunted.

I could've of course included even more bands, such as The Crown, Cradle of Filth, Brujeria, Paradise Lost, Zen Monkey, Nightrage, Netherbird, Satanic Slaughter, etc, but I had to draw the line somewhere and 20 tracks seemed about right.

(zip) Metal Bastard's At The Gates/The Haunted Mix (91 mb)

1. Oral - Slå en dansk (1986)
2. Orchriste - Open grave (1989)
3. Grotesque - Submit to death (1990)
4. Infestation - Terminus (1990)
5. House of Usher - Rather black (1991)
6. Liers In Wait - Maleficent dreamvoid (1991)
7. Invocator - Breed of sin (1993)
8. Seance - Soulerosion (1993)
9. Mary Beats Jane - Grind (1994)
10. Oxiplegatz - IV: Adrift (1994)
11. Terror - Destruction (1994)
12. At The Gates - Unto others (1995)
13. Face Down - Colors (1995)
14. Decameron - Satanized (1996)
15. The Haunted - Hate song (1998)
16. Witchery - The reaper (1998)
17. Daemon - Come die with me (1999)
18. Lock Up - The Jesus virus (2002)
19. The Haunted - Godpuppet (2003)
20. Disfear - Phantom (2007)

Pay for your music.

"But, David", you ask. "Just how are these bands connected?" Sweat not, girlfriend. Here's how:

Marco Aro: Vocalist of Face Down and The Haunted.

Anders Björler: Guitarist of At The Gates, The Haunted, Infestation, and Terror.

Jonas Björler: Bassist of At The Gates, The Haunted, Infestation and Terror.

Peter Dolving: Vocalist of The Haunted and Mary Beats Jane.

Adrian Erlandsson: Drummer of At The Gates, The Haunted, Decameron and Terror.

Patrick Jensen: Guitarist of The Haunted, Orchriste, Seance, and Witchery.

Per Möller Jensen: Drummer of Daemon, The Haunted and Invocator.

Björn Mankner: Guitarist of At The Gates and Infestation

Martin Larsson: Guitarist of At The Gates and House of Usher.

Tompa Lindberg: Vocalist of At The Gates, Disfear, Grotesque, Infestation, and Lock Up. Lock Up has a new album out, go get it.

Johan Osterberg: Guitarist of Grotesque, vocalist of Liers In Wait.

Alf Svensson: Guitarist of At The Gates, Grotesque, Liers In Wait, and Oral. Played every instrument in Oxiplegatz. He's now a full-time artist who makes cool shit. Click here and see for yourself.

Kristian Wåhlin: Guitarist of Grotesque and Liers In Wait.

Okay, there you go. You may have noticed I included two songs by The Haunted. That's because the first one features the original line-up of Dolving & Erlandsson, and the second one has the later line-up of Aro & Möller Jensen. Yeah.

So that's Gothenburg taken care of. Perhaps one day I'll build up the energy to make a similar one about the Stockholm scene, which is likely to be at least twice as long and incestuous.

Until then, enjoy this, fuckos.

If you don't have The Hellacopters on your wall...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

(mp3) The Hellacopters - What'd ya you? (Ramones cover)
Available on V/A - The Ramones The Same - A Tribute To The Ramones (2002)

The new Opeth song (NOT!)

Apparently this one leaked three days ago. Totally missed that somehow.



Edit: Can't believe I didn't recognise this song. I've even posted it before for fuck's sake. Right here.

GAAAAH! Fail is me.

Thanks, Anonymous. I owe you one.

If you don't have Mastodon on your wall...

...you're wack!


You're so wack!

(mp3) Mastodon - Naked burn
Available on Leviathan (2004)

Master of Puppets/Lord of Fashion

Respect, Jaymz.

Respect.

(mp3) Ghost - Satan prayer
Available Opus Eponymous (2010)

Hitler reacts to the new Opeth album

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #121

It's not always a walk in the park being the internet's #1 music mix genius.

It can get quite cold and lonely at the top when you're so far ahead of everyone else.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #121 (72 mb)

1. Acid King - Bad vision (2005)
2. The Melvins - The water glass (2010)
3. The Jesus Lizard - Fly on the wall (1994)
4. Switch Opens - Pyramids (2009)
5. Bombus - On track (2010)
6. Four Hour Fogger - Plus side (1999)
7. Soundgarden - Head injury (1988)
8. Slughog - A man called ass (1998)
9. Daughters - The hit (2010)
10. Teddybears STHLM - Move it vomit (1993)
11. KEN Mode - Bite the wax tadpole (2010)
12. Zeni Geva - Shoot me with your blood (2002)

Pay for your music, gringo.

Canaday

I know nothing about Canada, except what Michael Moore told me - that everything is for free, there are no burglars, you have guns but don't use them, and a black person has never been harmed there.

That's fucking sweet! Nice going, Canada. You're clearly on top of things.

(mp3) Super$hit 666 - You smell Canadian
Available on S/t (2000)

(mp3) Devin Townsend - Canada
Available on Terria (2001)

(mp3) Darkthrone - Canadian metal
Available on F.O.A.D. (2007)

(mp3) Andrew W.K. - Oh Canaduh
Available on Wild Pear (2009)

(mp3) South Park - Blame Canada
Available on South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut (1999)