Completely overlooked, underrated band right here. Play this one loud.http://rapidshare.com/files/253543128/Angel_Witch__w__Bonus_Tracks_.zip
I drive out demons. Can I hear an amen? Now say my name. Lay hands on screaming heathens and do it all again.
Yall know what blog I got this from. Oh well, as always It's my own upload. I could not resist posying this missing link in the Scott Weinrich puzzle. I've never heard a band with that guy in it that I didn't like. The first five tracks are from a demo, and pretty good quality condicering, and have none other than Scott Wino Weinrich on vocals. The rest of the songs don't but some of them rock pretty hard too. The Wino songs are nice and Sabbathy and well, plain ol' evil and rockin'
This is what stoner rock is all about. Totally classic, and not too far removed from what was going on in Seatle at the time but you could tell they were in the middle of the dessert just by listening to it. All the elements of a kick ass hard rock record are there, the blatant Black Sabbath influence, the gloriously distorted guitars, everything about it just lines up perfectly. I'd take this over Them Crooked Vultures any day, just sayin'...
AC/DC - Backtracks (2009)
I don't know much about this band other than it's the guy from Grim Reaper and it sounds like Whitesnake in parts. There's lots of old school metal and hard rock influence, it's nice and heavy one minute and then slow and the next, all in all a pretty cool hard rock record. Interesting fun fact, I found out about this band on Pandora Rado looking for bands similar to Beitthemeans, not that they sound anything alike, but I liked what I heard here.
You would hardly be able to tell this was the band who put out albums like Thundersteel but It's great, I like the singer they found around this time. Sounds to me alot more like Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, some really cool stuff going on here, kinda progressive, tons of cool guitar solos, old school style singer, it's got something for everyone. If you like classic sounding metal that is.
And why the hell not? Whitesnake legitamately rocks. There's no way around it, for over 30 years now, David Coverdale and co. have laid down the cock rock jams. Sometimes convincingly, sometimes cheesily, but always with hot chicks in thier videos and they have always stuck to thier guns. Even if that meant writing some cheesy and/or memorable pop/rock songs, but when they werent churning out rediculous power ballads like Here I Go Again they were rockin' the fuckin' place with songs like Still Of The Night and Crying In The Rain. Cheesiest thing I ever posted? Maybe. Am I ashamed? No way.
Chaos A.D. was a turning point for Sepultura, still heavy as balls, but with conciderably more groove metal influence as well as emphasis on Brazilian tribal rythyms, a mix that worked surprisingly well. This might be my favorite Sepultura release, maybe tied with Arise.
Clutch actually has several live albums under thier belt, this is thier most recent live album and the most accessable, plus I was in the crowd for the portion of this recorded in New Jersey. I feel special, but seriously I remember thinking Clutch is playing great tonight I wish they were recording this. Haha.
haarp - E.P. 1 (2007)
What happens when you put Neil Fallon from Clutch, James A. Rota from Fireball Ministry, Brad Davis from Fu Manchu and that asshole from CKY together in a room? The Company Band happens, and with one E.P. already under thier belt this full length of all new rockin' ass songs just dropped and it is amazing.
Wesley Willis was a schizophrenic street singer who built up a small cult following with his bizarre, three-chord rants about trivial everyday items, music, and people he knew. Willis was discovered singing on the streets of Chicago in the early '90s. For the first part of the decade, several independently released tapes of his songs appeared, eventually followed by indie recordings of his albums. Shortly before signing a major label contract with American Records in 1996, Willis was profiled on MTV, which resulted in increased recognition in certain alternative rock circles.Willis was diagnosed with leukemia in 2002 and was recovering from surgery when he died at the age of 40 on August 21, 2003.
Another piece in the puzzle that is Pentagram and related projects. I don't know much about this particular project other than it is Bobby Liebling and a couple other fellas from Pentagram and it's basically the same kind of proto doom you would expect but Bedemon takes it in a slightly different evil kinda direction. What you get here isn't nececarily the best quality but if you like Pentagram or old school doom metal then it's more than worth it to give this a listen.
Holy shit has Clutch progressed since thier 1995 self titled third album. That's not to say it isn't awesome because it is. They were slowly starting to morph into the Clutch we know and love today but just weren't that band yet. This rekkid is seriously fuzzed out in parts, heavy and influenced by hardcore one minute and total stoner rock the next, Neil Fallon's lyrics are halarious and thought provoking, his actual singing voice more of a gruff shout than it is today, and all kinds of strange shit going on in the guitars department courtecy of Tim Sult.
I'm not a big fan of Dave Grohl by any strectch but the man knows his shit. This is his metal "side project", different singers on every song and he actually didn't fuck it up. You get Lemmy, Cronos, Max Cavalera, King Diamond, Wino, Mike Dean from COC, Kurt Brecht of DRI, Eric Wagner of Trouble, Tom Warrior, Snake from Voivod, and Lee Dorrian of Cathedral/Napalm Death. Yeah, tons of doom, thrash, hardcore and just plain old school heavy metal guys. The Lemmy track really does stand out as it sounds just like Motorhead, (not only do you get Lemmy's unmistakable vocals but his signature bass sound too), and go figure the best Sepultura song written in years, Red War with Max Cavalera, was written by fucking Dave Grohl. Also, guess who that is singing the "secret" track. Haha.
The first thing I ever posted here was a music video for the song Bewitched from this album for its rediculous/awesomeness. I've heard this album described as "meloncholy", interesting for an album thats so thorughly metal. This is doom metal but I guess on the more operatic, drama queen end of the spectrum thanks to the fucking maniac who sang on this, a big Nordic guy with a huge 'fro who calls himself Messiah Marcolin. His vocals kind of remind me of Dio gone wrong, in a good sorta way though. And again there's enough awesome metal stuff going on to redeem it.
Not quite heavy metal riffs, not quite old school hard rock garage and not quite straight up punk, but a sick, twisted, vengeful, ugly, wonderful bastard child of all of them straight down to the perfectly fucked up production and constant use of the word annihilate. I love it.
It's hard to take this shit seriously all the time but what the hell I'm posting it anyway. I like the parts when the songs kick up and get nice and metallic. Different kind of vibe going on here, you can't really pigeonhole it as death metal because it doesn't sound like any death metal I've ever heard. But hey, Skeletonwitch likes these guys, that's good enough for me.
The Wesley Willis Fiasco - Spookydisharminousconflicthellride