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Feb

February’s Question - Should Mosh Pits Be Banned?

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Categories: Lamb of God and Sidebar Polls

Yesterday I wrote about the results of January’s question. It seems that most of the readers of this blog consider Metallica as the greatest trash metal band of the 80’s. In yesterday’s post we also mentioned about the new question that is running during February. See the question on the right sidebar? What do you think? Should mosh pits be banned?

First of all, what is a mosh pit? The good old Wikipedia says “Moshing refers to the activity in which audience members at live music performances aggressively push or slam into each other. Moshing is frequently accompanied by stage diving, crowd surfing, and headbanging. It is commonly associated with concerts by heavy metal, punk rock, and alternative rock artists, although it occurs at performances by musicians of all sorts of genres“.

Every now and then newspapers write how rock or metal concerts have turned into a chaos. Some people claim that such a chaos can be initiated from a mosh pit. As a friend of mine said, “there’s always one weirdo who starts hitting people and then the bomb is ready to explode“. Do you agree with my friend? Check out the video below. In the footage you can see a typical mosh pit during Lamb Of God’s gig. Should such mosh pits be banned or is it just overreacting?

Now, please tell us what you think about mosh pits. You can do it by leaving a comment and answering the question in the sidebar.

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Dec

Five Bands I would Like to Invite to My Christmas Party

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Categories: Anthrax, Children Of Bodom, Lamb of God, Machine Head, Mokoma and Pantera

Christmas is soon here and so is the party. I mean so called “pre-Christmas” party. We have already had that party at my work but some companies are going to have it on this week. There is always some live music in our parties. Usually there are some deadly boring old fags playing 70’s pop and rock covers. I have never seen a metal band in any parties organized by my employers. If I was in charge I would organize a bit different Christmas party..

Who would you like to see live in your party? I am into metal music, so I created a list of five bands I would like to invite to my party. After their gigs the bands would naturally join the audience and spend time with us. Which bands I would invite? Read below.

Band number 5: Mokoma

Mokoma is a band I would definitely invite to my party. They know how to entertain audience and how to play some trash metal. I would love to sit down with Mokoma’s singer Marko Annala and share a discussion. He is a clever guy and would probably have interesting things to say. Unfortunately he has quit drinking, so I could not drink a couple of Whiskey’s with him. Anyhow, Mokoma would be a perfect band to start the party with their aggressive trash metal.

Band number 4: Machine Head

Our trash metal party would continue with the great American metal band Machine Head who would provide us some more headbanging rhythms. I believe few dudes at my work would be very satisfied with Machine Head who would start their “my Christmas party” gig by playing Now I Lay Three Down.

Band number 3: Anthrax

After two great trash metal bands it would be great to continue with.. more trash metal! Good old Anthrax would play us their old classics such as In My World, Indians and Got The Time. Additionally they would play also some new stuff, but the singer would be Belladonna. With all the respect, all Anthrax singers have been good, but personally I prefer Belladonna. My great Christmas party would be well warmed up when Anthrax plays their What Doesn’t Die.

Band number 2: Lamb Of God

No no, my party would not be over yet. It would just get better and better, because the next band coming to satge would be Lamb Of God, who would start their gig by playing Redneck. Now, after Lamb of God gig I could have my change to drink a couple of Whiskey’s with these guys who do not say no to alcohol. I would not ask a single “fan question”. I believe they here them enough.

Band number 1: Children Of Bodom

Just before the midnight, the fifth band in my Christmas party would enter the stage. Children of Bodom would start their gig by playing Silent Nights, Bodom Nights. They would play 30 minutes for me and other nerds at my work. Just before the end of their gig, Children Of Bodom would play In Your Face.

So, my party would finally be over and all the nerds would get back to their homes. Well, I would thank the bands and ask them to join me and my mates to see the well kept secrect, Pantera playing live at Tavastia club in Hellsinki. I think I would run out of money before the first bands has entered the stage..

Have a great trashing Christmas party! Who would YOU invite? Drop a comment.

Dec

Lamb of God - a Heavy Metal Band from the United States of America

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Categories: Lamb of God

Misleading title? May be a little bit. American metal band Lamb of God has become one of the rising stars in the metal sky. Lamb of God, founded in 1990, plays trash, progressive, groove and speed metal. Their music is not easy to categorise, but probably the mentioned genres describe their music best. Lamb of God is founded by its guitarist Mark Morton, bassist John Campbell and drummer Chris Adler. In the early days the band was called as Burn the Priest, but they changed the name in 2000 when they signed a record deal with Prosthetic Records.

Later Lamb of God signed a deal with Epic Records and was selected as the main band in the first MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball tour. Lamb of God got lots of attention which probably was a big help to get finance for their music videos. On those days Lamb of God released their Ashes to the Wake album as well as Terror and Hubris DVD. Another DVD was released in 2005, which is called Killadelphia. On 2006 Lamb of God released their latest album, Sacrament, which has been a great success.

Lamb of God has toured with Finnish Children of Bodom and the trash-legend Slayer. The band is known from their use of Wall of Death moshpit and their technically complex riffs and drumming. Some folks have thought Lamb of God is a Christian band because of their band name and the name of their latest album (Sacrament). Well, if people dig a little more information on Lamb of God, they probably realize who these guys are. In their Ashes to the Wake album Lamb of God clearly pointed out their opinion on George W. Bush, but in the new album (Sacrament) they have taken a step back. The new album is not anymore politically loaded. Instead the theme is more around alcoholism. The new album has been a great success in United States and the band seems to be very happy with it.

What’s up with Lamb of God? They are touring in US right now. The next three gigs are in Albany (December 2nd.), Detroit (December 4th.) and Chicago (December 5th.). After that they continue the tour in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona and New Mexico. Few weeks ago Lamb of God played in Helsinki together with Children of Bodom, Slayer, In Flames and Thine Eyes Bleed. According to one interview, Lamb of God guys are good friends with Children of Bodom. Blythe says that he is even a member in so called “Children of Bodom Hate Crew”. One can become a member of this crew if alcohol put into one’s mouth comes out from nose when standing on one’s head.

Sacrament album has received lots of positive and negative feedback. Some like it, some not. I like, but I will not provide any deeper review of the album. I only say that song Redneck is a cleaver way to raise the attention of metal scene and get people interested in Lamb of God. Redneck sounds very much like Pantera and this makes people discussing about Lamb of God. I like Redneck a lot. Check it out in the video below. Funny video, eh?

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