Wednesday 23 January 2013

The Metal Project: 2011 (Part One)

  2011 had it's fair share of ups and downs. Probably the big event of the year occurred at the Sonisphere Festival. Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth and Slayer - the "Big Four" of Thrash Metal - performed on the same British stage for the first time. In fact members from all four bands even jammed on a cover of Diamondhead's "Am I Evil"
 In other Metallica news,  they continued their dogged adherence to doing things their own way by collaborating with Lou Reed. The general consensus of opinion seems to have been "WTF?"
(And once people actually heard the "Lulu" album, quickly followed by "WTF is this shite?")
  Judas Priest announced their farewell tour which included a headline set at this year's High Voltage Festival. Shortly before the tour opened KK Downing walked out citing personal differences and was replaced by ex-Dirty Deeds man Richie Faulkner.
 (I was at the Wolverhampton show and it was fan-friggin-tastic. Trust me on this.)
  2011 saw the deaths of guitar legend Gary Moore,  Corey Smoot (Guitarist in shock-rock troupe GWAR) and former Motorhead six-stringer Michael "Wurzel" Burston.
 And finally, imprisoned rock fans The West Memphis Three were  released from prison after a long-running campaign aimed at proving their innocence. (More on them  HERE )

 Time for some music.  Since once again I have a plethora of  Metal anthems to choose from, I shall split this post into three segments.

 Aggressive - The Metal Head Case (Colombia)

(Basically a crazy bloke having a rant with a thrash band backing him up)
Honour to: Aggressivethrash

Stormhunter - Knights Of Metal (part 1)

(Part 2 doesn't seem to be on Youtube. Pity as this is fun,  galloping Trad Metal
As a bonus, see how many song-titles you can spot) 
Honour to: ramed14

Satanika - Metal Madness (Italy)

(A crunchier, nastier strain of  Thrash this time)
Honour to: truemassemord

R.U.S.T - Forged In The Fire Of Metal (Cyprus)

(Interesting take on Trad/Power Metal. Promising) 
 
Honour to:RustCyprus

Baphomet's Blood - Metal Hunt  (Italy)

(Brooding intro launches into rapid-fire Thrash.
Vocals and lyrics need a bit of work methinks)

Elm Street - Heavy Metal Power (Australia)

(Another of those "Call to arms" Metal songs)
Honour to: Ivans5727

Mortal Kombat  - Post'O Sam Metalac (Serbia)

(Trad metal with some decidedly pissed-off vocals)
Honour to: jocaa666

Rocka Rollas - Heavy Metal Kings (Sweden)

(Heads-down Power Metal without irony)

Honour to: speedriider

Savari - Black Metal Sorcery (Greece)

(The great thing about songs called "Black Metal Whatever" 
is that you have a pretty good idea what to expect. And so it is here.)
Honour to: TheHolyblood1

And finally

Braddock - Metal Up Your Ass! (Spain)

(Further explanation frankly pointless)
Honour to: ramed14

And that's it for now.
See you next time.

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