Thanks to The Obelisk, a veritable oracle of all things stoner metal, I’ve discovered Greek band Nightstalker. But don’t call them stoner rock because according to wikipedia they don’t like the label.
I don’t care what you call it, I’m absolutely loving it. Their fifth album Superfreak was released only a couple of months ago and I’m madly trying to track down retailers that stock it.
Here’s a video from Superfreak:
I was pretty sad to hear that Rose Tattoo guitarist (and one of the founding members of the band) Mick Cocks passed away earlier this week, after a battle with liver cancer.
Mick becomes the fourth Rose Tattoo member to die from cancer in the past four years, after Peter Wells and Ian Rilen in 2006, and Lobby Loyde in 2007.
Here’s the Tatts in happier times, with one of the greatest rock and roll anthems ever written:
Guys, seriously… why are you doing this to us?
After cancelling headlining shows in Australia originally scheduled for August 2009, the new Fear Factory line up (Burton C Bell, Dino Cazares, Byron Stroud and Gene Hoglan) have announced that they’re playing the Big Day Out festivals across Australia and New Zealand in early 2010.
I am not paying through the nose (and believe me, everything to do with the Big Day Out is expensive) to go to a shitty hipster music festival when the only two heavy bands on the bill are Fear Factory and Mastodon. Hell, I’m not even a Mastodon fan.
Fear Factory have also announced sideshows – in Sydney and Melbourne. But not Perth, of course, even though the festival tickets are already sold out everywhere except Auckland.
The last time they played the BDO was 2004, and that was the year when I boycotted because Metallica was headlining. I have enough emotional issues with Metallica to keep a therapist amused for months, so I’m not going to go into any of that now. But that was really the beginning of the end of the BDO for Dave and I – the amount of heavy bands has dramatically decreased every year to the point where it’s just not worth going anymore. And we used to really look forward to it. At least now we have Soundwave.
So cmon Fear Factory, how about a headline tour that your actual fans will get to see, instead of just a bunch of annoying indy kids that don’t give a shit about you anyway?
This is without a doubt the coolest thing I have seen this month, and quite possibly this year. Dee Snider has launched a campaign to TAKE BACK THE METAL HORNS from misuse by country musicians, teeny bopper try hards, and general inappropriate throwing.
Dee Snider, thank you. You are proving once more that you are willing to stand up and fight for metal, in times when metal has been done wrong. We all owe you a debt of gratitude.
I posted on this blog on the topic of Metal Horn Abuse when The Onion posted Metal Council Convenes to Discuss ‘Metal Hand Sign’ Abuse way back in September last year (the same article that inspired Dee to create his site). Dave also had a bit of a rant about limp-handed metal horns, Horn Etiquette Motherfucker.
Take a stand! We must not tolerate inappropriate horns-throwing.
So the all new, all singing, all dancing Fear Factory are releasing an album called Mechanize.
I’m sad about the weird legal situation with Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers – and I’m digging their Arkaea album, Linkin Park-esque vocals or not – but I can’t help but be excited about this release.
However, as my mate Al pointed out, the photo of the new lineup above is pretty goddamn hilarious. Thanks to the MetalSucks crew, I can’t look at Dino Cazares without thinking “Baby Eater” and I actually think he’s put on extra weight to ensure he’s still the fattest member of the band, Byron Stroud being no lightweight. Burton, in Al’s words:
wtf, Burton… WTF?
‘Nuff said.
Gene, on the other hand… he’s cool as a cucumber. He’s kinda leaning back going “I’m not with these dudes”.
You can listen to the new track on their MySpace. Whaddaya think?
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