The Friday MP3 Shuffle #134

Last week's mix was phenomenally unpopular. I kind of expected that.

Perhaps you will find this one more appealing.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #134 (60 mb)

1. Foo Fighters - Podunk (1995)
2. Skraeckoedlan - Från havet dom kommer (2010)
3. Truckfighters - In search of (the) (2005)
4. Mondo Generator - Basket case (2006)
5. Fearless Leader - Little devil (1989)
6. The Vibrators - Yeah yeah yeah (1977)
7. Dead Kennedys - Terminal preppie (1982)
8. Zeke - Crossroads (2001)
9. Tight Bros From Way Back When - Bring your thunder (2001)
10. Boss Hogg - Winn coma (1995)
11. The Robots - Amen (1999)
12. Dundertåget - Den enda här som inte är unik (2010)
13. The Cramps - Bikini girls with machine guns (1989)
14. Greenleaf - Alishan mountain (2007)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #150

(mp3) Grids - Locals
Available on Kansas (2010)

(mp3) Agress - Toter gott
Available on Demo (2009)

(mp3) Phantom Glue - Black tar
Available on S/t (2010)

(mp3) Sebastian Bach - Dirty power
Available on Kicking & Screaming (2011)

(mp3) Fear Factory - School (Nirvana cover)
Available on Archetype (2004)

Today I didn't even have to use my A.K.

I got to say it was a good day.


All three great, though I'm saving anything more elaborate than that for my Best of 2011 list. I'll say this though: the DVD bonus material on Heritage pwns the shit out of the other two. It's an hour long, and while I have never seen Mikael Åkerfeldt look so bored and annoyed with being on camera, it was highly enjoyable. Seeing Alex Acuña work his voodoo magic was ace, and the two bonus tracks were fine additions.

Mastodon had excellent behind-the-scenes-making-of material for both Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye, and all we get here is five minutes? Lame stain. Nice to hear Brann talk about each individual track, but not a single word from any other band member? Not a word from the producer? Not a word from AJ Fosik, the woodworker who created the cover art? No video from the recording sessions? Fucking lame stain. There's an "alternate reality" featured which I have seen demonstrated on YouTube, but I can't get it to work.

Machine Head's was a bit better, with a 22 minute documentary about the recording of Unto the Locust. Nice, but still too brief. Makes you wonder why Machine Head and Mastodon even bothered to make bonus DVDs in the first place.

Learn from Opeth, kids.

Trippy Shit Tuesday

אוקי, אז זה לא שייך ממש באשכול ווילסון, ולא ממש באשכול אופת'

השיתוף פעולה המצופה ביותר של השניים! גם פורטנוי שם אבל לא ידוע כ"כ כמה הוא שותף לזה

מטאל, זה לא יהיה

ויש גם פייסבוק... לפני אתר רשמי... משעשע

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 12 - The winter palace (80 mb)

1. Casua Sui - Where the streams collide (2005)
2. Megaton Leviathan - Guns and LSD (2010)
3. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Witches garden II (2010)
4. Hypnos 69 - The empty hourglass (2010)
5. Queen of the Stone Age - Better living through chemistry (2000)
6. Alonzo - Red giant (2009)
7. The Afghan Rug - Sun goddess (2007)
8. Queen Elephantine - The battle of Massacoit (2006)

Pay for your music, hombre.

Why Devin Townsend is awesome

Fast forward to 3:17 for maximum pleasure.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #149

(mp3) Dripping Slits - Mischief
Available on Short Skirts & Long Nights (2011)

(mp3) Bitch Boys - Impopulär
Available on Hela Mitt Liv/Impopulär (1979)

(mp3) Alchemist - Older than the ancients
Available on Austral Alien (2003)

(mp3) Fair To Midland - A wolf descends upon the Spanish sahara
Available on Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True (2007)

(mp3) Fear Factory - Timelessness
Available on Obsolete (1998)

When passion exceeds ability

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #133

Don't let the abundance of tracks fool you - it's only 36 minutes long.

36 great minutes.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #133 (54 mb)

1. Brutal Nun - Anal creampie (2010)
2. American Heritage - Way to go cowboy (2006)
3. Slughog - Fossil (1995)
4. Herätys - Kiirekiirekiire (2010)
5. D.S.-13 - Rikki Fake (1998)
6. Government Flu - Standing tall (2010)
7. Jerry's Kids - I don't wanna (1982)
8. Early Graves - Bastard tears (2010)
9. Entombed - Black juju (Alice Cooper cover, 1999)
10. S:T Erik - Upsala (2007)
11. Todd - Little dipper to squirrel (2004)
12. Gallows - Gold dust (2008)
13. Megachurch - Receive it (2011)
14. Noothgrush - Crawl (1997)
15. Nesseria - Les filles de dieu (2010)

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Coheed And Cambria galore

You like Coheed And Cambria? I do, though it saddens me that they are so painfully uneven.

For every amazing track there's at least two I could live without. So I did what I usually do - I took the best tracks and put them together to make one fucking excellent mix of awesomeness. And that means no songs from the first two albums, because they're both balls.

57 minutes of 45 seconds of some of the best progressive, lofty, high faluting, intergalactic sci-fi comic book rock you can imagine, topped with the most underrated vocals known to man. If I had a buck for every person who has said they'd be into this band if they only had a different singer I would have... uhm, lots of bucks.

Ka-ching!

(zip) Coheed And Cambria galore (80 mb)

1. No world for tomorrow
2. The hound (of blood and rank)
3. Welcome home
4. Feathers
5. Here we are juggernaut
6. Ten speed (of god's blood & burial)
7. The running free
8. Mother superior
9. World of lines
10. Made out of nothing (all that I am)
11. Wake up
12. The suffering
13. The lying lies & the dirty secrets of miss Erica Court

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #148

(mp3) Besökarna - Anna-Greta Leijons ögon
Available on Anna-Greta Leijons Ögon/31 Timmars Skräck (1979)

(mp3) Rob Zombie - Demon speeding
Available on The Sinister Urge (2001)

(mp3) Dragonauta - El festín
Available on Cabramacabra (2006)

(mp3) Cathedral - The voyage of the homeless sapien
Available on Statik Majik (1994)

(mp3) Buzzcocks - Whatever happened to...?
Available on Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978)

Trippy Shit Tuesday

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高く売るコツとしては即決！
これが必要ですね。

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 11 - Stoned at the Taj again (90 mb)

1. Stomu Yamash'ta's East Wind - Freedom is frightening (1973)
2. Holy Mount - Meadowvale (2011)
3. First Band From Outer Space - Demons and haze (2009)
4. Miles Davis - John McLaughlin (1969)
5. Saturnalia Temple - Sitra Ahra ruled solitary before creation (2011)
6. Astra - Ouroboros (2009)
7. Fair To Midland - Typhoid Mary sends her best (2011)
8. Naam - Black ice (2009)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #147

(mp3) LOK - Scudmissil (den lede fi)
Available on Ut Ur Diskot Och In I Verkligheten (2002)

(mp3) The Flaming Sideburns - Lose my soul
Available on Hallelujah Rock'n'Rollah (2001)

(mp3) Only Living Witness - Deed's pride
Available on Innocents (1995)

(mp3) Reino Erminato - Rosa del reves
Available on Brujas Del Mar (2006)

(mp3) Nasum - The real (Refused cover)
Available on Grind Finale (compilation, 2005)

Take a load off

Back when Metallica's Load and Reload came out I kept hearing people say two things. Number one: They're great if you just take them for what they are - heavy rock albums. Expecting thrash metal or even just metal will only set you up for disappointment.

Number two (tee hee): They're too uneven and everyone would've been much happier had they just gotten rid of the filler and put the best songs on one disc.

I always agreed with number one. I never agreed with number two, because I never tried it out myself. So I did. I took what I consider to be the best songs off of the two albums and stacked 'em all together and called the whole thing Unload. Because I'm clever like that. I now agree with number two as well.

Oh I'm sorry, what did you say? Your favorite Load/Reload songs are not on here? Wow, thanks for letting me know. I'll go give a shit right away.

(zip) Metallica - Unload

1. Ain't my bitch
2. Fuel
3. 2 x 4
4. The memory remains
5. Devil's dance
6. The house Jack built
7. Until it sleeps
8. King nothing
9. Hero of the day
10. Bleeding me
11. Cure
12. Where the wild things are
13. The outlaw torn

Pay for your music, chulo.

Corey Taylor 1, Most people 0

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #132

It's been six agonizing weeks since you were given a mix of death fucking metal. High time to do something about it.

There's some grind and d-beat in the middle though, but that never hurt anybody.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #132 (53 mb)

1. Entrails - Breath of blood (2010)
2. The Crown - Face of destruction/Deep hit of death (2003)
3. Torture Division - Evighetens dårar (2010)
4. God Among Insects - Weaklings (2006)
5. Skitsystem - Snutstat (2001)
6. Nasum - The clash (2004)
7. Relevant Few - The white disease (2003)
8. Abscess - Abscess (1994)
9. Hypocrisy - Left to rot (1992)
10. Dismember - Skin her alive (1991)
11. Morbid Angel - Nothing but fear (1995)
12. Necronaut - The lie in which the truth is buried (2010)

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Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #146

(mp3) Carcass - Maggot colony
Available on Reek of Putrefication (1988)

(mp3) Acephalix - Ascetix
Available on Aporia (2010)

(mp3) Failure - Pillowhead
Available on Fantastic Planet (1996)

(mp3) Carnage - Self dissection
Available on Dark Recollections (1990)

(mp3) Motherboar - Zombie vomit
Available on The Beast Becomes The Servant (2011)

Books You Should Read: "Too Fat To Fish" by Artie Lange

There are many things I could say about Artie Lange in general and this book in particular, but I'll leave it at this:

Committing suicide may be the coward's way out, but when you try to do it by stabbing yourself repeatedly in the gut... you're a tough mothefucker.

(mp3) Artie Lange - Chris Rock
Available on Jack and Coke (2009)

Trippy Shit Tuesday

Blandat -Se hela intervjun med Mikael Persbrandttorsdag 24 februari 2011 tv4
Kommentarer
Om avsnittetTV4:s Cicci Renström Suurna träffade Persbrandt för ett långt samtal om Hamilton - och en del annat.
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(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 10 - Irrelevant impedimenta (87 mb)

1. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Victimas del cielo (2010)
2. The Cosmic Dead - Infinite death of the godhead (2011)
3. DSW - Lonely coyote (in a coloured desert) (2011)
4. Wooden Shjips - Vampire blues (2010)
5. Myty Konkeror - Vastare (2011)
6. Yob - Upon the sight of the other shore (2011)
7. Mamiffer - Iron water (2011)
8. Popol Vuh - Mantra 2 (1978)

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Who will be my 100th follower?

The other day I got my 99th follower. Who will be the next one? The suspense is unbearable!

Until that happens, here are some sweet tunes. Deadbird are rock solid. I linked to a song of theirs last week and not nearly enough of you downloaded it. Download it, and download this new one too.

Egypt - solid, heavy, stonery, spacey, doomy shit.

The F.U.'s - very solid hardcore punks from Boston. Often misunderstood by people who don't get satire, which only makes them even more entertaining.

Only Living Witness - one of the most solid bands of all time. Of all time. Of all time. Released two albums which ruled hard, and not many people noticed. Jonah Jenkins has the pipes of God himself. You may have heard him sing on Grim Heart/Black Rose, Converge's best song. Solid.

Twisted Sister - no comment necessary. Under the Blade is so solid, it doesn't give a shit.

(mp3) Deadbird - Death of the self
Available on Twilight Ritual (2008)

(mp3) Egypt - Touch ground
Available on S/t (2008)

(mp3) The F.U.'s - The beast within
Available on Do We Really Want To Hurt You (1984)

(mp3) Only Living Witness - Downpour
Available on Innocents (1995)

(mp3) Twisted Sister - Shoot 'em down
Available on Under the Blade (1982)

Just in case you needed more proof that The Melvins rule the world

Good god, look at that.



"Pwnage" it's called.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #145

(mp3) Wiht - The harrowing of the north
Available on The Harrowing of the North (2011)

(mp3) Burnt By The Sun - Drinking and driving
Available on V/A - Black On Black: A Tribute To Black Flag (2006)

(mp3) The Grotesquery - This morbid child
Available on Tales of the Coffin Born (2010)

(mp3) Taint - Goddamn this city
Available on Secrets & Lies (2007)

(mp3) The Devin Townsend Project - Awake!
Available on Addicted (2009)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #131

Allow me to highlight some of my favorites links from the blog roll on the right, since I can't think of anything else to write here.

The One Ring.net is essential for keeping up with the very latest news and updates regarding Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. That movie will own your ass and you will like it.

Invisible Oranges is most thourough, well-written and readable metal blog on teh innerwebs. Big words, but Invisible Oranges live up to them. Their on-going Metallica series alone is worth a mention. Which is why I mention it.

Here's a nice dude whose taste I don't always agree with, but he has a lot passion and enthusiasm for all things metal. It's in Swedish though. Read it through Google translator or something. I could say the same about kielbasage's blog, except his is in English.

The Living Doorway, shiney grey monotone, Stonerobixxx, Heavypsychmanblog, musictraveler always make me listen to good shit I hadn't even heard of.

I write for Star Maker Machine occasionally. Not as often as I used to though, but I'm working on it. Did one post on Silverbullit recently.

Punks Make Your Day is a fucking goldmine.

Punk Rock And Coffee chronicles the life of Gareth Smith, formerly of Raging Speedhorn, currently of Victims. Also husband of the guitarist of Misdemeanor who are featured on this week's mix.

Death Metal, Pornos And Beer, Angrychairs Redux, and Loadown are often the first provide links to the latest, leaked releases.

666 Skulls is Slusk's mammoth project of painting one skull painting a week until he's done 666 of them. He's a maniac. He does other stuff too, which can be found here.

Alright, that'll keep you busy for a while. Here's the mix:

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #131 (72 mb)

1. Gluecifer - Dick disguised as pussy (1996)
2. Graveyard - Evil ways (2007)
3. Red Fang - LSP (2011)
4. Wino - Punctuated equilibrium (2009)
5. Lecherous Gaze - Sold (2011)
6. Nebula - Anything from you (1998)
7. Sonic Ritual - Pollution tide (2009)
8. Jello Biafra with the Melvins - Islamic bomb (2004)
9. M.I.A. - I hate hippies (1982)
10. Black Spiders - Stay down (2011)
11. Ten East - Hogbreath (2008)
12. The Hives - Untutored youth (1998)
13. Regulations - Problem solved (2009)
14. Misdemeanor feat. John Garcia - Love song (1999)
15. Quest For Fire - Confusion's home (2010)

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The Hellacopters - "Cream of the Crap! Vol. 3" (2011)

We have established countless times on this blog that The Hellacopters were one of the finest, if not the finest rock 'n' roll band of all time. And by "we" I mean me.

They may have made the 11th best album of the 90s and the 3rd best album of the 00s, but their might goes deeper than that. I honestly and literally cannot think of one single song of theirs I don't like. I don't think I can say that about any other band.

During their fourteen year existence they released seven albums, countless EPs and singles and two compilations of songs off of those countless EPs and singles. These were called Cream of the Crap! and came in handy for those us who weren't too keen on spending hundreds of dollars on an old rare 7".

When the band split up in 2008 there were hints that a third volume of rarities was on the way. Well, it's almost three years to the day and it still hasn't arrived so I took upon myself to compile Cream of the Crap! Vol. 3, consisting of my favorite non-album tracks that weren't already included on volumes 1 and 2. And now I'm gonna share with all of you, because I'm awesome.

Avid readers of this blog will recognise some of these tracks as I've posted them before in various contexts. Don't worry, they're good enough to download twice.

Mostly covers on this one, but I always felt you tell the good bands from the bad ones from whose songs they choose to cover. When you can cover everyone from Venom and Motörhead to Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett and pull it off 100% you know you're dealing a group of dudes who know what the fuck they're doing.

(zip) The Hellacopters - Cream of the Crap! Vol. 3

1. American ruse (MC5 cover)
2. Long gone losers
3. Working for MCA (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)
4. Have mercy on the children
5. Oh yeah alright
6. A man and a half (Wilson Pickett cover)
7. Heaven (Sonic's Rendezvous Band cover)
8. Pack of lies (The Nomads cover)
9. Speedfreak (Motörhead cover)
10. Doggone your bad luck soul
11. Disappointment blues
12. Cold night for alligators (Roky Erickson cover)
13. Ferrytale
14. 455 SD (Radio Birdman cover)
15. Angel dust (Venom cover)
16. Positively so naive
17. Get ready (Smokey Robinson cover)
18. Ungrounded confusion (The Flaming Sideburns cover)
19. What'd ya do? (The Ramones cover)
20. Whole lot of shakin' in my heart (since I met you) (Smokey Robinson cover)
21. Her strut (Bob Seger cover)
22. It might mean something to you
23. You left the water running (Otis Redding cover)

Buy all things Hellacopters @ Amazon.com

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #144

(mp3) Craft - Come resonance of doom
Available on Void (2011)

(mp3) Therapy? - Tramline
Available on Semi-Detached (1998)

(mp3) Deadbird - The riverbed
Available on Twilight Ritual (2008)

(mp3) Belzebong - Witch rider
Available on Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves (2011)

(mp3) Paradise Lost - Prelude to descent
Available on In Requiem (2007)

A noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing

The title of the latest Mastodon track Spectrelight made me think of the passage above, J.R.R. Tolkien's description of Minas Morgul in The Two Towers.

My conclusion? Mastodon should do the soundtrack to The Hobbit.



The song also confirms my opinions that Troy is god, and that Scott Kelly should do up-tempo music more often.

Trippy Shit Tuesday

It pleases me immensly that this feature has become so popular. Y'all are downloading these like crazy. That's awesome.

Know what else is awesome? Volume 9 of Trippin' Balls. It rocks.

(zip) Trippin' Balls Vol. 9 - Romancing the bone (87 mb)

1. Yawning Man - Manolete (2005)
2. Камни - Shiva THC (2011)
3. Colour Haze - Moon (2008)
4. Electric Moon - Lunatic (2010)
5. Bloodiest - Pastures (2011)
6. The Besnard Lakes - Albatross (2010)
7. Tinariwen - Chet boghassa (2004)
8. Casua Sui - Mating call (2011)
9. Greenleaf - Sleep paralysis (2007)

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Machine Head - The Making of Unto The Locust

Part 3 of the behind the scenes series of Machine Head upcoming album. It features snippets of some seriously sweet tunes. Album will rule.




They've previously released this 65 second sample of the majestic opener I Am Hell. Watch at your own risk - it will blow your mind.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #143

Most bands who deserve fame & acclaim never get it. Würm, featuring members of Black Flag and Dead Hippie, was one of those bands.

They came, they saw, they inspired the likes of The Melvins and Mike Patton, they never conquered.

Simply too harsh and weird for most listeners. Such a shame.

(mp3) Würm - Nailed to the wall
Available on Feast (1985)

(mp3) Beastie Boys - Tough guy
Available on Ill Communication (1994)

(mp3) Poison Idea - Hot time
Available on War All The Time (1987)

(mp3) Backyard Babies - Bombed (out of my mind)
Available on Total 13 (1998)

(mp3) Siege - Grim reaper
Available on Drop Dead (1989)

Catch the Dio

I still haven't quite gotten my head around Opeth's Heritage, but their albums usually take a while to fully sink in and I'm in no hurry. If you thought Watershed was weird and experimental and all over the place, that's nothing compared to this. Everything you've heard about Heritage is true.

I know Slither is a Ronnie James Dio tribute and they were probably going for a heavy metal-ish style fast track, but that noodly guitar lead only reminds me of Mastodon's Aqua Dementia. Which is cool.

Favorite song at the moment? Probably Famine. Doomy riffs and flutes ftw.

Speaking of Dio, here's a shitty live recording of Opeth doing an old Rainbow song:

(mp3) Opeth - Catch the rainbow (Rainbow cover)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #130

Another of them oldies Friday shuffles. I know how you lot can't get enough of them. A couple of newer tracks too just for good measure, but I think they blend in nicely.

Personal favorite on here is Shylock by Buffalo, a song as ruthless as the Shakespeare character it's named after. Very heavy and aggressive for its time. Proto-NWOBHM riffs which remind me of Diamond Head for no particular reason. Vocals are more badass than something really badass.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #130 (76 mb)

1. Elf - Annie New Orleans (1974)
2. Leaf Hound - Hip shaker (1971)
3. Rush - What you're doing (1974)
4. Siena Root - Two steps backwards (2008)
5. Blue Öyster Cult - Stairway to the stars (1972)
6. Alice Cooper - Guilty (1976)
7. The Flamin' Groovies - Second cousin (1971)
8. ZZ Top - Precious and grace (1973)
9. Procol Harum - Cerdes (outside the gates of) (1967)
10. Witchcraft - Sorrow evoker (2007)
11. Buffalo - Shylock (1973)
12. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Living sin (1972)
13. Primevil - Your blues (1974)

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I HAVE TEH POWAR!!!!!11

As I get older I am becoming increasingly aware that Black Sabbath, Black Flag and Hawkwind are the only bands that really matter. One brings the heavy, one brings the rage, one brings the jams, and all three quality, integrity and honesty that all others can only gawk at.

Nearly all of the music I enjoy take cues from this the most mighty of troikas, so why do I ever bother to listen to anything else?

Why do you?

(mp3) Hawkwind - Master of the universe
Available on Space Ritual (1973)

(mp3) Black Sabbath - Cornucopia
Available on Vol. 4 (1972)

(mp3) Black Flag - Padded cell
Available on Damaged (1981)