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BC Friday continues:

Seismic - Seismic (2020) (Name Your Price)

How's this for random. There is a band called Seismic playing at my local pub in a few weeks. It had an inverted cross on the poster so might at least be metal. I tried to find on bandcamp and came across another Seismic from Philadelphia. That's the above guys with a NYP release.  Sounds really cool instrumental stuff and with Lovecraft stories as song titles.

Still no idea what the local act called Seismic are like, but my patience for research wears pretty thin when the venue doesn't bother to put any links and the band itself doesn't have a bandcamp page to hear their music.

 

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2 hours ago, JamesT said:

Megadeth - "The Sick...The Dying...And the Dead" (album)

Oh. Is that out?

Verdict? Like any latter day Megadeth I presume it recaptures some classic moments but is too long overall. 

By contrast, next bandcamp purchase today for me was an old one:

Deed of Flesh - Trading Pieces

30 minutes. Yummy.

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Started the day (a very frustrating on by the way - been on the road all week dealing with bullshit issues in my clinics - feel like I've been hit by a truck) on the chill side:

Violent Femmes - Country Death Song - if you only know these guys from Blister in the Sun, definitely worth a deeper dive. This rec courtesy of my daughter.

Another daughter rec - St Paul & the Broken Bones - Moonage Daydream (Bowie cover)

And finally, a little Northern soul for you crusty bastards. Durand Jones & The Indications - Is it any Wonder?

Now, as @JonoBlade pointed out, it's bandcamp Friday. So I have submitted to my corporate overlords and made the requisite financial sacrifice. Will be spinning these for the rest of the day.

Kingdom by Enslaved
Moon Side Magnet Palace by psychedelic source records
MANIAC by FUGITIVE
Evidence Of Immortality by Conan
Black Heaven by Earthless
Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky by Earthless
Cold As Weiss by Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Autuala by Circle of Ouroborus
Dark Metal by Bethlehem
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8 hours ago, JonoBlade said:

Oh. Is that out?

Verdict? Like any latter day Megadeth I presume it recaptures some classic moments but is too long overall. 

 

It wont win any new fans and it will serve as fodder for the Megadave dislikers.

There's nothing overly new or ground breaking, some of the riffs also seem to be ripped off other 'deth songs. There is moments of faster paced thrash, moments of slowness, a rap singer and Sammy Hager. The physical release gets two less tracks than the streaming release to keep the length down if that's an issue. Oh and Dave gets all the credits because noone else can write a Megadeth song.

All Hell - The Red Sect

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Listening to Crue's Dr. Feelgood again to see if it still fits my minimum standard for a heavy metal album.  Of course, I have a specific album to keep in mind for comparing heaviness: Sad Wings of Destiny.  If half an album displays a specific genre strongly enough, I'll count it as ONE of the primary genres.  In other words, if half of the album is heavy enough to be heavy metal, then I put the tag on as a primary.  So far, I'm on Without You, and excluding T.N.T., 3 of 5 of the songs are heavy metal as opposed to hard rock (although "Slice of Your Pie" just barely made it).  Even though about half the songs aren't really metal, the whole behavior of the album is very metal thanks to the attitude, production and instruments chosen.

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JP - SWoD

Which song(s) on Sad Wings is/are supposedly heavy metal? I'm on my second time through it here and can't find one. Every track on here seems to be a hard rock song of similar structure to any other hard rock song from the early to mid 70's period by bands like Zeppelin or Purple or Rush...except of course for Prelude, Epitaph and Dreamer Deceiver which were softer. This is proto metal at best. Priest didn't start making heavy metal albums with at least half the songs qualifying as metal imo until 1978.

Dr. Feelgood on the other hand I think could go either way. I'd probably say no myself, but I suppose a reasonable case could be made either that it is metal or that it isn't. I do consider the first two Crue albums to be heavy metal btw. Hadn't ever heard DF until last week or whenever it was posted, aside from the 4 hit radio songs of course. I've never been a big fan of 70's Judas Priest, but Sad Wings even while not being metal is an infinitely better album than the schlocky DF. Even by Crue standards this one is pretty embarrassing.

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3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

JP - SWoD

Which song(s) on Sad Wings is/are supposedly heavy metal? I'm on my second time through it here and can't find one. Every track on here seems to be a hard rock song of similar structure to any other hard rock song from the early to mid 70's period by bands like Zeppelin or Purple or Rush...except of course for Prelude, Epitaph and Dreamer Deceiver which were softer. This is proto metal at best. Priest didn't start making heavy metal albums with at least half the songs qualifying as metal imo until 1978.

You're extreme cvlt metal listening has scarred your ears. Sad Wings of Destiny is an early metal album classic and one of the best metal albums of all time in large part based on the vocal performance of one Mr. Halford. Halford's semi operatic vocals, cliched as they became changed the way kids in the late 70's/early 80's related to a maligned, derided distortion of rock that became metal.

VH, AC/DC even Robert Plant -No one sang like that. He took the blues based style and turned it into something else. Then fact that you hate screechy vox doesn't take away how revolutionary and laughable they were at the same time. No hard rock vocals like that existed. By the time British Steel and certainly Screaming for Vengeance came around, the twin guitar attack caught up with the vox.

Vitctim of Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanges-

You're in for a surprise, your in for a schooooooooooooock.

That's metal. 

 

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57 minutes ago, markm said:

You're extreme cvlt metal listening has scarred your ears. Sad Wings of Destiny is an early metal album classic and one of the best metal albums of all time in large part based on the vocal performance of one Mr. Halford. Halford's semi operatic vocals, cliched as they became changed the way kids in the late 70's/early 80's related to a maligned, derided distortion of rock that became metal.

VH, AC/DC even Robert Plant -No one sang like that. He took the blues based style and turned it into something else. Then fact that you hate screechy vox doesn't take away how revolutionary and laughable they were at the same time. No hard rock vocals like that existed. By the time British Steel and certainly Screaming for Vengeance came around, the twin guitar attack caught up with the vox.

Vitctim of Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanges-

You're in for a surprise, your in for a schooooooooooooock.

That's metal. 

 

Nope. Hard rock my dude. I'll even give you proto metal. But it's not heavy metal, no way, no how.

"Revolutionary" (arguably, there's nothing all that special about it imho) doesn't make that record metal. High pitched dog whistle vox can't make that record metal. (whose definition of "metal" is just a dude singing high notes?? It's about the guitars!) The band evolving into a metal band 2 years later doesn't make their 1976 record metal. Yes, hard rock vocals like that existed well before '76, Google Ian Gillan. Go listen to Sabotage (1975) and Sad Wings back to back and tell me Sad Wings is metal. The fucking Scorpions were more metal than Priest back in 75/76. You're delusional Marky Mark. Put the crack pipe down.

Obviously, this is my opinion. But you know me well enough by now to know that no matter how many armchair music critics try to come and tell me a record is one thing, if my ears tell me it's another thing, I'm going with my ears.

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5 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

JP - SWoD

Which song(s) on Sad Wings is/are supposedly heavy metal? I'm on my second time through it here and can't find one. Every track on here seems to be a hard rock song of similar structure to any other hard rock song from the early to mid 70's period by bands like Zeppelin or Purple or Rush...except of course for Prelude, Epitaph and Dreamer Deceiver which were softer. This is proto metal at best. Priest didn't start making heavy metal albums with at least half the songs qualifying as metal imo until 1978.

 

THANK YOU.  I don't fully get it either.  I guess it was just heavy enough at the time of release???

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