Surgical Meth Machine - Tragic Alert. I wasn't looking forward to Surgical Meth Machine because I've been disappointed with the last few Ministry albums, but it turns out Uncle Al just needed to start a new band.
It's been an all Thrash metal weekend, thanks to Master Of Puppets turning 30-damned-years-old Thursday. Seek and Destroy arguably my favorite Metallica Song and a damned great entry point into old school Metallica. Then you get into covers of metal songs in genera that should not work, but do. Banjo cover of Battery for example. There are even groups dedicated to covering metal with acoustic instruments, and they are phenomenal. Raining Blood by Slayer done by a Chamber band Uptown Funk by the same group as above. And I leave you with a cover of Number of the Beast by the exact same band as above. It looks like Vitamin String Quartet branched out a few years back and are now covering more pop and popular music, so if you want to see what pop music would be like with a string band, they got you covered.
I always preferred Slayer; that cover of Raining Blood is awesome.
I bought this off Amazon like a year ago, but Amazon sucks so hard I never actually got a copy of it. Directors and long time friends of the group, Toby Halbrooks and Alan Del Rio Ortiz, created this visually stunning piece. Revolving around a cross-country road trip stopping in Indio and Joshua Tree, the video celebrates life while displaying its cyclical and inexplicable properties. The track will be made available for purchase digitally on 6/24. Full video will premiere on 6/25. Stay tuned for more details and plans from School of Seven Bells. Rest in Peace, Benjamin.School of Seven Bells is pleased to announce the official video for the track 'I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)' originally by Joey Ramone. Throughout 2013, producer and guitarist Benjamin Curtis had been battling T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. Recording in its entirety on his laptop from his hospital bed in NYC, 'I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)' is Benjamin's final recording before passing on December 29, 2013.
So I'm on a mission to try and track down and listen to every release by Muslimgauze and that probably means starting with the earliest releases as E.g Oblique Graph which mostly remind me of Aube <3. A couple of random examples. E.g Oblique Graph - Merge E.g. Oblique Graph - Islamic Koran In Camera Dome Next week on to the mighty Muslimgauze catalogue. Also 2 more random tracks I enjoyed: Test Dept. - Total State Machine Mono - MONO - Ashes in the Snow - Live @ Control Club Bucharest 2015