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May

Diablo - Still Going Strong

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Categories: Diablo and Uncategorized

Sorry guys that I have not been blogging lately. I have been way too busy with my work and I have been forced not to blog for some days. It is still a mess here, but I hope I can get back to my daily blogging pace. As I mentioned some time ago, we are setting up a new metal music blog because the domain name of this blog just sucks. It looks like we’ll be able to bring it live somewhere on June-July.

I was on a business trip to Stockholm, Sweden and I came back home last night. It was a great trip, not because of my work but because I met my brother who lives in beautiful Stockholm. My brother visited my hotel room and we played some headbanging music and discussed about music. That’s all we can do, talking about music and booze. We are just two old farts..

While listening to various bands, like Arch Enemy, Soilwork, In Flames and Opeth (see, we were in Sweden), I also discovered Diablo’s albums on my laptop. Diablo is a Finnish band who plays melodic death and thrash metal. Diablo was formed in 1995 by two brothers, and their fifth album (Icaros) has been released in May 2008.

For some reason Diablo has never become a big name. I wonder why, because they simply play great metal music. Their Mimic47 jumped to the top of Finnish album list in 2007, but since those days people have not much talked about Diablo. I believe their marketing has now failed because their music simply rocks. Wanna hear Diablo? Listen to Mimic47 below (from album Mimic47).

My hardcore metalhead friend Jani introduced me Diablo’s music some years ago. I didn’t get kicked in the beginning, but after a couple of weeks I totally got hooked on Diablo. I listened to their album almost daily during several weeks. May be that’s why I haven’t listened to Diablo lately. You should never listen too much only one band..

Now, listen to a little bit older material of Diablo. Here is Read My Scars from Diablo’s album Eternium (2004). Awesome!

I love Diablo’s very heavy guitar riffs and rhythms. Diablo sounds like a massive black train that goes with a stable and fast speed and cannot be stopped. Diablo sounds powerful, fiercer and masculine. Diablo is men’s music. Now, check out Queen of Entity, my all time favorite song of Diablo. Hell yeah!

“Diablo can be compared to Metallica, Meshuggah and Queensryche“, says the latest Soundi, Finnish music magazine. That makes sense. Diablo has elements that remind me those bands listed. Diablo’s latest album Icaros is made under new record company, so let’s see if Diablo will get more attention. Oh, but how about live shows? How is Diablo on stage? Check out below how Diablo plays in Helsinki just before Metallica entered the stage.

Diablo. Still going strong.

May

Absolutely A Great Pantera Cover

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Categories: Dream Theater

Oh man, Metalsucks.Net just saved my annoying Monday morning! I came to work few hours ago and I feel more depressed than ever. Goddamn this job is boring, more than Bruce Dickinson’s Anthology album.

Metalsucks.Net promotes the upcoming progressive Nation tour in New York City. There seems to be a nice list of bands, and one of the big bands is Dream Theater. As Vince says, Dream Theater is one of the most best, most enduring, and talented progressive metal bands of all time. Right on, Vince. I agree 100%.

Guys embedded Dream Theater’s cover of Pantera’s “Cemetery Gates”, one of the classic metal songs of all time. Listen to this cover, isn’t it great? I am a life-long fan of Pantera, and I must say Dream Theater plays the “Cemetery Gates” very well.

Yeah, I listened to this a couple of times and I feel like I love my job. Magic..

This post was written by Headbanger and its original location is in Metal-Music-Videos.Com blog. For more great metal music articles, please visit Metal-Music-Videos.Com!

May

Five Absolutely Great Metal Covers

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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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Categories: Uncategorized

Yesterday I just came across with a metal cover of Ricky Martin’s Livin La Vida Loca. It was pretty good, so I decided to search few more. Here are five good metal covers I found in YouTube. For sure there are a lot more, but I didn’t spend more than half an hour. If you know some good covers, please leave links to comments.

Metal Cover #1 Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca by 10 Masked Men
Embedding is not allowed, so please watch the video in YouTube. This is a pretty nice cover, I really like it.

Metal Cover #2 Madonna - La Isla Bonita by Twilight Guardians

These guys are from my country, Finland. Actually I discovered them already last year and I have written about them once, but here they are once again. Enjoy!

Metal Cover #3 Black - Wonderful Life by Nevergreen

Do you remember Black’s Wonderful Life from 1980’s? Well, at least I remember. Here it is played with doom metal tune. Man, I like this one a lot!

Metal Cover #4 Britney Spears - Oops I Think I Did It Again by Children of Bodom

For sure C.O.B.’s cover of Britney Spears is my favorite. Damn it’s just good!

Metal Cover #5 Batman Theme by Corey1987

Let me guess that you haven’t heard this one yet? It’s pretty cool. Batman theme played very well. Listen to it. What say you?

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May

Motley Crue: The Saints of Los Angeles - Still Going Strong

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Categories: Motley Crue

Oh boy, I listened to Motley Crue days and nights back in the 1980’s. As a small town kid I dreamed of rockstar lifestyle and considered Vince Neil as my idol. Oh yes, that was me as 12 years old. Later on I realized that may be Vince Neil is not the best role model for kids ?

Motley Crue practically died after their Dr. Feelgood album and Motley dudes became serious alcoholics and addicts. Just like many other 80’s glam rock bands, also Motley Cree did their comeback in 2005. If I Die Tomorrow didn’t sound like classic Motley Crue songs, like Looks That Kill, Wild Side, Dr. Feelgood and Kickstart My Heart. Anyhow, Motley Crue’s comeback single was not lousy, but not stunning either. Although Motley dudes have their difficulties to come along with each others, the good point is that they are back.

After releasing If I Die Tomorrow I thought “ok, that’s it. Guys are too old to continue as a band..”. I was wrong. Motley Crue has now released a new single called The Saint of Los Angeles and a full album will be released in June 2008. Right on, Motley!

I haven’t followed Motley Crue for a while, so I found their new music video by accident. I thought “what the heck, new music from Motley..”. After listening the first couple of minutes I made my conclusion. This sounds good. Motley Crue is still going strong!

Motley Crue’s The Saints of Los Angeles is a good glam rock song. It has a pretty good tune and Vince’s voice sounds like back in the 80’s. The beginning of the song has similar elements as those in Dr. Feelgood album, which I consider their second best album. Oh, which one is the best one? Shout At The Devil, if you ask me.

How about the video? Well, I’m not sure if I like it. It is a bit boring, and they have used lots of effect I have such as very slow motion walking. Those remind me rap-videos and I just can’t stand rap-videos. Anyhow, The Saints of Los Angeles sounds good and is a pretty good video from Motley Crüe!

Hey, what do you think of Motley Crue’s new video?

This post was written by Headbanger and its original location is in Metal-Music-Videos.Com blog. For more great metal music articles, please visit Metal-Music-Videos.Com!

May

One of the Old Jokes: Nightwish Wishmaster - Misheard Lyrics

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Categories: Nightwish

Yeah, I know. This is nothing new and you might have seen it thousand times. Anyhow, the video just happens to be simply funny, so I decided to post it in this blog. It is basically a video of Nightwish playing Wishmaster with misheard lyrics.

I have always had problems with understanding the lyrics of Nightwish, especially when sang by Tarja Turunen. It is not only with this band, but also with many other metal bands. For example Rhapsody of Fire’s lyrics are pretty difficult to understand by hearing. Notice that I did not mention any black metal bands. It is simply impossible to understand the lyrics of many black metal bands. And yes, it is difficult to understand the lyrics of many death metal bands as well.

English is not my first language. Therefore I just can’t understand all the words singers pronounce. It is funny to see how some words sound exactly like written in the video below! For example “Disciple!” sounds like understood in the video (”this rifle”) and “Lorien” sounds like “L’Oreal”. Also the original “Distant sigh from a lonely heart” sounds exactly like understood in the video below (”it’s a sign from a lonely harp”).

Here are the original lyrics.

Master!
Apprentice!
Heartborne, 7th Seeker
Warrior!
Disciple!
In me the Wishmaster

Elbereth
Lorien

A dreamy-eyed child staring into night
On a journey to storyteller’s mind
Whispers a wish speaks with the stars the words are silent in him
Distant sigh from a lonely heart
“I’ll be with you soon, my Shalafi”
Grey Havens my destiny

Master!…

Silvara
Starbreeze

Sla-Mori the one known only by Him
To august realms, the sorcery within
If you hear the call of arcane lore,
your world shall rest on Earth no more
A maiden elf calling with her cunning song
“Meet me at the Inn of Last Home”
Heartborne will find the way!

Master!…

Wishmaster
Crusade for Your will
A child, dreamfinder
The Apprentice becoming…

Master!…

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May

April 2008 Poll Results - Music That Makes Me Sick?

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Categories: Uncategorized

I’ve got interesting results from our April poll in which we asked our readers which music makes you feel sick. We had various choices, such as rap, alternative, country, jazz and even rock and metal.

We received 135 votes in total which is small but decent sample. It is interesting to see the results. In fact, the results are a little bit funny. I understand that most of the votes (21%) were given to rap, which means most of our readers cannot stand rap music. Anyhow, I don’t quite understand that 14% of our readers say metal music makes them feel sick. Dude, this is a metal music blog. We talk about metal music here. Hey, who are reading this blog? ?

Next 14% of the votes were given to country music and 11% to pop music. I think it is pretty common that metalheads cannot stand country and pop music, right? Next 10% of the votes were given to techno/electrical/dance, and what’s surprising, 7% of the votes were given to rock music. Again, who are reading this blog?

Let’s continue. 6% of the votes were given to jazz, 5% to classical, 4% to opera and evergreen and 3% to alternative. According to this poll, most of the readers don’t really like rap, metal and country music. On the other hand most readers do like alternative, evergreen and opera. Hey, was there something wrong with the question?

Wow! This was definitely the most interesting poll so far. I am really surprised with the results. All the people who have written comments in this blog seem to be metalheads, but this poll indicates something else. There are more daily readers than the number of the votes in total, so we can say this poll is not good enough sample in order to generalize the results. I believe most of the readers are metalheads, but it looks like not so many people are interested in providing answers to this kind of polls. Anyhow, thank you for joining this poll! Check out also our March poll results. In March 2008 we asked people if they like metalcore.

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