Mandatory Metallica Saturday (slightly late)

Well Death doesn't do these anymore so guess you're stuck with me! I was at this show, awesome!



Enjoy

Deceased...

So in my recent purchases and listenings, I finally obtained a Deceased album. I've know about the band for awhile now since  first hearing their cover of Mercyful Fate's "Doomed By the Living Dead" on a MF tribute cd. The cover impressed me immediately but for whatever reason I never thought to get anything from the band: until now. A few weeks ago I obtained a copy of As the Weird Travel On and upon listening to the album, I instantly became a Deceased fanatic and ordered most of their catalog. Hopefully, their scheduled upcoming album will continue the horror and  heavy metal inspired godliness that King Fowley and the band are known for. Take some time to check them out if your not familiar with them: 

Elly's Dementia

The Silent Creature

Dark Chilling Heartbeat

For All those Vinyl/Occult Black Metal Fanatics

Iron Tyrant is about to unleash this weekend a reissue of one of the most legendary black metal albums of all time; This is a reissue of the Italian Mortuary Drape's long out of print album "Secret Sudaria" on double lp format. A few versions of this will exist including an extremely limited version on gold and silver vinyl. This release looks amazing and though money is tight, this is an essential release to have. Even if your not into the band, this is probably a good investment because it's value will not deteriorate. For more information check out:

irontyrant.net/ITnews.html or the NWN message board. 

Mandatory Metallica Saturday

On the 65th Anniversary of the D-Day landings I think it is fitting that we also honour a fallen metal soldier, Cliff Burton may he rest in peace. Today's dose of Metallica is the rare To Live is To Die being played live. Please take a moment to reflect.

Mandatory Metallica Saturday

A slight change in the presentation of Mandatory Metallica today.



This is to celebrate the release of Guitar Hero Metallica.

Text book stuff from Sweden!

Now Morifade are another one of those many underground power metal bands that you’ll usually only come across completely by accident or in mentioned in a list on Youtube or something. Funnily enough, I came across this band in another way, that is; I typed ‘Sci-fi’ and ‘power metal’ into the Metal Archives search engine and picked a band name at random and then My-spaced them. How lucky I was because I really liked what I heard.

Morifade of Sweden are nothing special, but I have to say, they’re bloody good for what they are, which is: light-hearted, sci-fi sounding power metal with elements reminiscent of bands like Stratovarius and Labyrinth.

They have plenty of speed, but not an overdose. They have interesting riffery with a lot nice rhythmic work as well as a lot of great modern power metal leads and melodies. The drumming is great too, a lot of alternating patterns and ‘speed up and downs’ (think Wuthering Heights (but not that much lol)). The overall arrangement has some good variation, you won’t get bored with this after the first few tracks and you’ll easily loose you self in a two or three back-to-back listens of the album. Vocals are what you would expect from Stefan Peterson, mid-ranged, full, melodic and straight forward. Keyboards are well placed, subtle and get very quick in the pre-chorus areas, as in most great power metal.

This is just another of the great, hard working power metal bands out there that just know what they’re doing and do it well. There’s’ a lot of catchy soul-raising tunes on this release the will have you coming back again for more. My only criticism is of the lyrics which are very bland and is nothing you haven’t heard before but other than that, the music is top notch power metal.

7/10

Highlights: Escape, In Martyria and Revive for a while.

Megadeth

To prove that we're not 100% biased against Megadeth only 95% here at DoD, here's a clip of Burnt Ice being played in 2008 in San Diego:



Enjoy!

Mandatory Metallica Saturday (again)

Sorry I couldn't resist posting this one:

Entombed

I didn't realise this but 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the birth of Entombed and that legendary Swedish Death Metal sound. So everyone play your favourite Entombed album and open a bottle of beer and celebrate.
This is what I will be playing:

Mandatory Metallica Saturday

Holy shit, its been a week already and I haven't posted once, sorry about that people. Its a bit hard to post when your internet speed is down to 56k for a few days.