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I'm always on the lookout for new music podcasts, and since my tastes tend towards metal and hard rock, that's what I like to listen to. But, I'm also very picky about the sound quality of the podcasts. Since I'm friends with Carl Franklin, who does a great job with the Pwop Productions podcasts, and he introduced me to podcasting, I tend to be spoiled when it comes to sound quality. One a side note, Carl built out a full blown recording studio in New London, CT, that along with recording podcasts, is being used by other musicians to record their stuff. So, given that background, here are the 2 music podcasts I listen to, and their pros and cons: - Talking Metal - The reason I started to listen to these guys (and still do even the the audio quality is poor), is that they are about my age, and from my home state, NJ, which means that they have similar tastes (at least closer to mine then the rest of the world). The recent Del James interview was killer. Del is another guy, a little older than me, but closer in musical tastes, and grew up in the 80's NYC/NJ music scene, like me. Talking Metal covers everything from the Hard Rock of GnR and Def Leppard to the Metal of Priest, Black Label Society, and Ozzy. They also include "newer" bands like Lamb Of God, Otep, and In This Moment, which is a must for me, because I listen to podcasts to get turned onto new music, not just re-live the old days. The downside of Talking Metal is that, for a couple guys that are musicians and work in the media business, one would think that they would try to get a decent sound. There are a lot of episodes (especially the telephone interviews) where it is impossible to listen to the show, except if you play it thru headphones. And even then, the audio levels tend to suck. The hosts would be loud and clear, and the guest would be buried in the background. I know that making a podcast isn't easy, but I expect you to at least run it thru something like Adobe Audition and mix the levels and filter out the background hiss.
- The Rock and Roll Geek Show - Somehow I missed the early years of this show, and only recently found it. Michael Butler's music tastes are usually a little "lighter" than mine, but, there are a lot of similarities (and one would think that since he played in Exodus, he would be pure metal, but he isn't). The podcast tends to be a bit "campy", and amateurish, but I think that is the point. There is little (if any) post production of the show, which does bug me. The audio levels, especially when he plays some music, well, they tend to be too loud, compared with the rest of the show, but it is what it is. There are shows that I just can't listen to, the recent driving with Butler is an example, and most of the interviews can be hard to listen to, but overall, it is a decent show, with some good content. He interviews some cool, "obscure" bands (recently DaD, and Bob Spencer from the Angels). The Rock of Love Recaps, I can't stand, and don't listen to. But I love the bootleg reviews (he recently did shows on Iron Maiden and Van Halen). Basically, the show is hit or miss, but considering what else is out there, it isn't bad, and the music is pretty good. He plays everything, from the new Judas Priest, to Joan Jett, plus more obscure bands (old and new).
I've tried a bunch of other podcasts, but they all pretty much sucked. The worst tend to be the music label podcasts. I've tried Mgnatunes' Intense Metal podcast, and it isn't for me, all bands I've never heard of, and don't really ever want to hear. I had high hopes for Zach and Ron's Metalscape podcast, but after a couple episodes, I couldn't take it. It was like trying to listen to a poor man's imitation of Bevis & Butthead do a podcast, and it wasn't funny. I haven't listened in a few months, maybe it is better, but I doubt it. If you have any hard rock or metal podcasts that you listen to, leave a comment. I'd like to find a couple more decent podcasts to listen to.
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 12:32 PM
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It has been a long while since I did a proper CD review, and I thought I should get some new stuff up here. I've been listening to all sorts of new music, but haven't really gotten into one style of music lately (which is what usually happens with me). This review is definitely out of left field for me. I ran across the band Kronicles thru a search on MySpace for local NJ bands a couple months back. Bands that call Newark, NJ their home will definitely catch my attention, especially when they have a hard rock edge. Back in the mid to late 90's Newark was at the center of the NJ Hardcore scene, and when you combine that influence with the legacy of the thrash and melodic metal scene in NJ during the 80's, you can get some very music that screams Jersey (at least to me). With The Never Ending, Kronicles are showing more of the their NJ melodic metal roots, sounding like an updated version of Xenon. The twist is that Kronicles are a Christian Metal band. I've never been a big fan of overtly religious bands, although a band like Paramore does a great job at sticking to their principles without sticking in your face. Kronciles are a little more forward with their beliefs than Paramore, but not so that I can't listen to their message. A great example is the song Take Me, which does a great job at lifting a little bit of the lyrics and feel from Led Zep's In My Time Of Dying and turning it around (and making it their own). Over all The Never Ending is a definite must buy for anyone that likes progressive metal. Some may call it more Hard Rock than true Metal, but either way it is all good. My favorite song on the CD is Reason. It is the hardest song on the CD, but has a very funky feeling (one that progressive fans will like). IMHO, Kronicles will appeal to a variety of fans. From fans of classic progressive rock icons like Rush, to newer metal bands like Alter Bridge, Avenged Sevenfold, and Coheed and Cambria should check these guys out. You can download The Never Ending for $5 over on their site. And I hear that they are even better live, which I will find out for myself, since they are playing at The Cup in Linden, NJ on Feb. 29th. As for their site, it looks like they could use a redesign. Like a lot of bands these days, a band's MySpace site is more important than their official site, so it gets all the updates and such. Check out the video for Reason
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Friday, February 22, 2008 9:41 PM
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The folks over at IMHOTEP have gathered together THE BEST OF 2006 ACCORDING TO 155 MUSICIANS. The musicians are mostly metal and hard rock, but there are some real oddballs thrown in there too. One thing you can gather from that list is that there isn't one or two clear winners this year. Iron Maiden's A Matter Of Life And Death and Tool's 10,000 Days are listed a couple of times but other than those 2, not much in the way of repeat votes. Here's a parital list of CDs released in 2006 that I bought. I know this is the complete list, but it should be close. There are a few CDs released in 2005 that I didn't get until 2006 but I will not list them here. My favorite CD from this is Buckcherry's 15, wih Def Leppard's Yeah! coming in second. The Buckcherry CD is for all the people waiting for Axl Rose to get off his backside and release Chinese Democracy, and 15 is probably better than what Axl will eventually release. Anyone that enjoys the dirty hard blues styled rock (a la G-n-R or Aerosmith) should pick up Buckcherry's 15. As for the Def Leppard CD, it is a cover CD, with their versions of their favorite British AOR from the 70's. I don't think I have a CD from any of the bands that they covered, but I grew up listening to most of the same songs on the local New York City radio (mostly WNEW-FM), and I forget how much that stuff infulenced me. My favorite metal CD from that list has to be Children of Bodom's live CD, with Iron Maiden's new CD coming in second. Eighteen Visions isn't really metal, more like a hair metal version of Metalcore, but I really like what they are trying to do. The Def Leppard gang vocal stuff can be a little overwhelming, but it is a great sounding metal/hard rock CD. The CDs I was most disappointed in was by far The Matches Decomposer, with Queensryche coming in second. I had high hopes on The Matches, as the CD E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals is a great CD, but the follow up is nothing like E. Von Dahl, and not something that I can listen to. Queensryche trying to relive the glory years and make something as great as the first Operation Mindcrime, well we all knew that couldn't happen, so why bother to try?
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Monday, January 01, 2007 7:19 PM
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I'm an avid reader of Metal Sludge (since way back when), and this week they have a very disturbing article about the (still) rumored reunion of the mighty Van Halen with David Lee Roth. It links back to a KNAC breaking news article Eddie Van Halen: "The Ball is in Dave's Court". I would love to see a reunion of the classic band, but the complete band. I was lucky (and old) enough to have seen Van Halen on both the Diver Down and 1984 tours, and although I love Van Halen with Sammy, I still love the classic band. Yes, Dave was more of a front man than a singer, and on any given night he could really ruin a a show. But when he is on, the band really kicked. Go out and find yourself some of the bootlegs from the 76-80 era and listen for yourself. But how great that band was is a whole different topic. Seems as though Eddie is finally putting the pressure on Dave to come back to do a reunion tour, but he is still pissed at Michael Anthony and is attempting to have his son Wolfgang play bass for this rumored reunion. Here's a clue Eddie, get off the drugs and get the whole band back together, including Michael. The classic band isn't the classic band without him, and I'm not going to pay $100+ a ticket to see 3/4's of the classic band do a reunion. I think it is pretty tasteless to try to replace Michael with Wolfy and call it a reunion. Hopefully Roth is man enough to tell Eddie where to stick it, because without Michael the odds are slim that Eddie and Dave will both survive a tour. Michael is the only one that has the balls to stand up to Eddie, and without him Dave will be out there on his own. The long standing rumor (via Metal Sludge) is that Eddie was slipped some Meth in his coke back before Sammy was first fired, and he has been a meth addict ever since. With Eddie's current mental condition, it wouldn't surprise me (anyone that let's Valerie Bertinelli get away has to be crazy). If Eddie wants to go out and do the classic Van Halen material with his brother and his son Wolfgang, that fine with me. It has a bit of charm because it is his family, and I wouldn't begrudge anyone from wanting to go out on tour with their brother and son. If he was to go out and schedule shows at the larger clubs (less than 2000 people), I'd be there. If he wants a Dave clone, do like Dave has done with his recent solo bands, and get the replacement player from the best Van Halen tribute out there, The Atomic Punks (in this case that means Ralph Saenz). If you want the best of what Dave is/was (a showman), plus get someone that can sing and remember the words to all the songs, you want Ralph Saenz. I'm not saying that Eddie should go out and hire Ralph over Dave, but if he isn't truly looking to get the whole band back together, I'd rather see the Van Halen family plus Ralph Saenz, over the very dysfunctional Van Halen family plus a miserable David Lee Roth. I saw the Sam & Dave tour back in 2002 at the Trump Marina in a nice large club style show (about 1500 people with no seats, just like the bar scene), and man that was great. At the time, I had thought to myself that I'd go see Eddie in a venue like that, and without Dave or Sammy, there is no way he is doing any arenas. But if he wants to get Dave back in the band, do the right thing and bring back Michael too (oh, yeah, and get off drugs and figure out a way to make up with Valerie, too). Is that too much to ask?
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006 10:41 PM
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 The Pink Spiders seemed to be one of the highlighted groups on 2006's Warped Tour, and with a new CD coming out on a major label; I was really worried about these guys getting over hyped. I have a copy of their previous CD, Hot Pink, and thought that with the right influence that they had some serious potential as more pop than punk Pop Punk band (a la Bowling For Soup), but with more of a 80's new wave twist. Once I found out that Ric Ocasek (from the 80's band The Cars) was producing the CD, I really had very high hopes for Teenage Graffiti. But, it turns out that the raw sound that I loved on Hot Pink is totally gone, and what is worse, the most of the best songs from Hot Pink are redone on Teenage Graffiti. I really thought that Ric Ocasek would be a perfect fit for their sound, as if they were around back when The Cars were big, Pink Spiders would have been deemed a decent knock off of the Cars. I'm not saying that you shouldn't buy Teenage Graffiti, as it is a pretty good CD, but I had higher hopes for it. If you are looking for some pop punk with a tinge of rockabilly (maybe even a little early Beatles), you may want to check out Teenage Graffiti. If you want more of a rockabilly/early Beatles, check out Hot Pink. My favorite songs are Little Razorblade, Modern Swinger, Hollywood Fix, and Going Steady.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:26 PM
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 My Score: 7 out of 10 Category: Metal I finally updated my website, and in the process, improved the look and feel of the site. One of the big things is that wanted to do is to fix the main page. You see, this site is primarily a technical site. But, I like to post about other things too (like music). In the old site, all post got equal weighting, as it just mimicked the full blog feed. But, with the new site, the tech posts are placed front and center, with my music posts relegated to the sidebar as just links to the post. This way I have the freedom to explore other topics, but I still get the Google juice to my other posts. If you want to explore the other stuff, that is great, but if you are only here for the tech stuff, well, the non tech stuff is a little less conspicuous, but still visible on the home page. Now I can feel less self conscious about posting too many music blog entries. Agents of Man is a very hard band to categorize into a musical genre. Most of the band comes from the New Jersey and New York Hardcore scene (the members are mostly from Bulldoze, One 4 One and Train of Thought), but the band is anything but hardcore. I’ve seen a lot of negative reviews, mostly because they reviewers are trying to put them in the metalcore genre, and that surely isn’t the case either. The guys are mostly a couple years younger than me, and musically grew up with my younger brother Jay (J-Crime from NJ Bloodline and Fat Nuts) in the local NJ Hardcore scene. But the NJ scene was more than just hardcore, as most of the bands really got into the 80’s thrash stuff (Antrhax, early Metallica, etc.), along with the European melodic metal scene. So Agents of Man is really a mix of hardcore, metalcore, classic thrash & European metal. Their sound has the aggressiveness so prevalent in metalcore, along with some hardcore breakdowns, and sometimes throwing in the proverbial kitchen sink. You have the occasional scream vocals transitioning to all out melodic choruses, backed by a hard driving rhythm section. The first 5 songs, Death of Me, No Tomorrow, Blood Money, Repercussion, Without a Trace, are killer metal songs. From there the quality varies from a guitar and vocal ballad (Be My Savior) to more metalcore sounding (Headless), to pure melodic metal (Can’t Run), typical of late 80’s NJ bands like Prophet. If you are into the newer bands like Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, or Eighteen Visions, you might want to check these guys out. If you are an old school metal guy and loved the hardcore/skater bands like Suicidal Tendencies (like me), well Agents of Man is a band that will give you hope that the music you loved back in the day is still influencing bands, and is making a come back (at least here in NJ).
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Monday, September 25, 2006 3:00 AM
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I'm not one for linking to You Tube, but how can you beat this? Kelly Clarkson jumps on stage with the guys of Metal Skool (and her boyfriend, Sean Mackin, the lead singer of Yellowcard). She is definitely a bit tipsy, and even takes a swig of Jack Daniels (plus some other not so Nickelodeon things). She even sing a bit of Sweet Child O' Mine. In case you have been living in a cave somewhere, Metal Skool is the best 80's Hair Metal tribute band out there.
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:02 PM
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If you crossed classic Slayer with Deep Purple, well, you got Black Sabbath's Born Again album, but that is a different story. If you tried it again, with a little more emphasis on Slayer, you would get Finland’s Children of Bodom and their new release, Are You Dead Yet? . Finland is known in the metal circles as the capital of death metal, which is very visible in the band’s style. But I’m not a big fan of death metal, but there is a progessive side of Children of Bodom that really compliments that death metal core. I think it is the addition of keyboards, which have an almost techno (maybe metalcore) urban dance club feel. My biggest hang-up with the band isn’t the music (because I love that), it is the death metal style Oscar the Grouch vocals. But, the music is so good, and the vocals are either buried in the mix, or less growling, that I really like “Are You Dead Yet?”. One of the weird things is how I actually found out about the band. Since I’ve signed up for Last.fm recently, I still check back to see what sort of “neighbors” they picked out for me, and the one thing most of them had been listening to recently was the new Children of Bodom CD. So I jumped over to Napster, listened to the tracks, and was intrigued enough to go out and by the CD. My favorite songs are the title track “Are You Dead Yet?” and “If You Want Peace … Prepare For War”. I just recently found out that COB is coming to tour America, along with another new favorite band, Bullet For My Valentine (their CD will be released in the USA on Feb 14th) and Chimaira. One of the first dates will be at the Starland Ballroom Sunday March 19th, which is in my neck of the woods, and one great place to see bands. I’ll be going to see Overkill at the Starland on Saturday, March 4th, so it is shaping up to be a metal March.
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Monday, January 16, 2006 10:57 PM
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If you are a fan of the best of the progressive music of the 70’s (bands like Yes, Pink Floyd, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Genesis, Rush) and you haven’t heard of Coheed and Cambria, well you are missing out on just about the best new progressive band since the bands I just mentioned. Just like back in the 70’s, if all that you listen to is traditional radio, you would never find out about this great underground scene emerging for the depths of the New York/New Jersey music scene. Not quite punk, not quite alternate rock, with a progressive edge and not easily quantified, bands like Coheed and Cambria and Taking Back Sunday have emerged as a force to be reckoned with. Although I’ve known of Coheed and Cambria for a while now, it hasn’t been until recently that I’ve given them another listen. When I first heard them, I thought the music was great, but the lead singer’s voice (Claudio Sanchez) took me a little to get use to. Instead of the typical growling vocalist so proment in todays music, Clauidio does a complete 180, and embraces the fasletto. His falsetto is of such a high pitch that it makes Barry Gibb sound like a man. Actually, Claudio’s voice is more reminisant of Jon Anderson (of Yes fame), who could hit those high notes without going into a falesetto. But once you come to grips with the vocals (and even appreciate them), there is this incredible music going on behind it that could compete with just about the best the band Yes offered back in their day. It’s your typical light/heavy combination (a la Zeppelin), with the progressive overtones of Yes, and the current alternate rock sound thrown in for good measure. Coheed and Cambria currently have 3 CDs, 2002’s The Second Stage Turbine Blade, 2003’s In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 and 2005’s Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV plus a live DVD/CD recorded at New Jersey’s Starland Ballroom.
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Monday, January 09, 2006 12:14 PM
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The Welsh band Bullet For My Valentine is slowly becoming the new must listen to metal band. I found out about them thru the UK’s Metal Hammer magazine (where’s my UK readers, and why haven’t you told me about these guys?). Although this is a new metal band, in the mold of Avenged Sevenfold, you can hear the strong influences of Testament and Iron Maiden. Bullet For My Valentine has signed a record deal with TrustKill, for the States, but, at the moment they only have the 6 song Hand of Blood mini-album. If you want their full length CD, The Posion, you either have to wait for TrustKill to release it, or get it as a European import. Bullet’s sound is still pretty raw on the EP, but they have a lot of potential. My main issue is that the band utilizes 2 singers, Matthew Tuck, who actually sings, and Michael Padget, who is the screamer. At times it seems as though Padget is trying to compete with Tuck, instead of trying to compliment him. Songs like Hand of Blood and No Control lose a lot of their feel when the screaming is overdone, but because the riffs are so intense, they can overcome it. A decent metal producer should be able to tone down Padget’s screaming without adversely effecting the intensity of the songs, sort of like what happened on the Avenged Sevenfold’s City of Evil CD. Actually, what would be even better is to have these guys tour the States with AX7. Or better yet, have them open for Judas Priest the next time they tour the States. I little guidence by the masters of UK Metal would do these guys some good. But, if you are looking for some new metal to listen to, I’d recommend picking up Bullet For My Valentine.
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Monday, December 12, 2005 4:51 PM
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Peter Provost and Steve Pavlina both have mentioned the Pandora Music Service which will allow you to create a customized streaming radio channel based on artists and songs that you enter into the system. I have to admit that the Pandora user interface is pretty slick, but having to enter in your favorites isn’t the best way to go. Last.FM offers the same thing as Pandora, but does a lot more. You can download a free plug-in to your music player (I use Windows Media Player), and after you create a free Last.FM account, the plug-in will publish the songs you are listening to, in real time. They create a nice user home page for you, and list what you have been listening to recently, and also keep track of your personal Charts. What’s even better, they use this data to help link you to “musical neighbors” (folks who listen to similar songs), and publish them on your page. This way, you can find people with similar tastes, and see what they have been listening to, and get ideas on new music. There are other sites that do similar stuff, but so far Last.FM has been the best one that I’ve found. Last.FM is also trying to do a MySpace type thing, and help you develop a social network, but it isn’t nearly as nice as MySpace. I’ve previously published a link to MySpace home, and here is a link to My Last.FM page. Feel free to add me as a friend.
None of these sites really contain all of what I’m looking for, in one place. Eventually I can see someone pulling these ideas all together. MySpace would seem to be the leader, but they have grown so fast that their site is notoriously down for considerable periods of time, so I don’t know if they could expand into newer areas. Sounds like an opportunity for someone to jump in and beat them at their own game (hey MSN, this is your chance to outclass Yahoo’s Launch and MySpace all in one jump).
But what I’d really like to see is not just publishing what I’m listening to to a 3rd party site, but to be able to publish it to my blog. This way I can create links from my site to Amazon using my Amazon Associates id. Well, there is a couple things that I’d like to do with that data, but linking to Amazon is just one of them. So, in my “spare” time I’m busy at work with my WILTS project (What I’m Listening To Service), and use that service to plug into CommunityServer. It gives me a chance to develop some web services using Visual Studio 2005 and WSE 3.0, and even maybe a little Windows Communication Foundation. If you are interested in helping out, let me know. I’m planning on making this an open source project, once I have something working. The most important thing (well besides actually getting it done) is to publish to message schemas, and hopefully create some sort of public standard for them, since it feels like something more then just a few people would be interested in.
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Friday, December 09, 2005 11:18 AM
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If you haven’t noticed, screaming vocals (aka Oscar the Grouch) is very much the in thing for metal music. And to drive this point home even more, there is now an instructional video “for that new breed of vocalist” called “ The Zen of Screaming”. This isn’t something that I would normally run across, but thanks to GoogleAds, Melissa Cross’ ad popped up for one of my posts, and I had to go check it out. Her client list contains some of the most popular scream oriented bands out there (Underoath, SliPKnoT, Thursday), plus a bunch that know how to use it to accent their sound (BEDlight for BlueEYES, Armor for Sleep). The funny thing is that just last week my older daughter (whom has done the vocal training thing for a number of years now) was asked by one of the local bands to help “teach” the lead singer how to sing, and wound up spending a good amount of time helping the back-up vocalist learn how to scream using his diaphragm, instead of from the throat. Maybe I should have her create an instructional video for the local bands. It isn’t like these kids are going to spend the money on Melissa’s video (although they really should). Actually, most of the kids could really stand to get some real vocal training, but most of them are naïve and think that they can get by without. Take my advice, vocal training will help you in both your musical activities and your public speaking. Don’t be afraid or embarrassed about getting some professional training, all the best musicians take lessons.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:26 AM
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Brad Wilson was lamenting over the lack of decent metal bands out there. He feels a lot like me, loves the metal, but can not stand the recent trend of “Oscar the Grouch” vocals (I also call them Cookie Monster vocals). Classic thrash metal bands like Slayer and Testament touched upon that trend, way back when, but it was used to create an effect, not as the soul of the song. A lot of it has to do with recent bands like Chevelle dropping their guitars down from standard E tuning to C. E tuning is standard because it sits squarely in the middle of human vocal ranges. Dropping down to C causes the singer to have to adjust their voice downward, which isn’t as natural, and you get the deep grovelly sounding vocals.
But don’t despare, this is just a recent trend, and like all trends they tend to fade away, and I think that Oscar is on his death bed. Seems as though one of the newer metal bands, that use to have those Oscar vocals had fate step in and make them change their ways. Avenged Sevenfold made their way into the limelight with some of the most intense, progressive metal music, but although the lead singer really had a set of pipes, tended to drift into the Oscar thing and ruin the song (for me). Their first 2 CDs showed they had potential, but the vocals always ruined it for me. Then fate stepped in, and the singer blew out his voice on tour and now he can’t do the Oscar thing. Instead of giving him the boot, the band went with it, and created the best metal album of the year, City Of Evil  . Actually, I think City Of Evil is the best metal CD since Black Label Society’s Sonic Brew (Zakk Wylde’s first full metal release way back in 1999). Hopefully the other new metal bands will influenced by Avenged Sevenfold’s success.
But you don’t have to rely on the new bands. A bunch of the old school metal bands also have new releases.
Anthrax (reunited with Joey Belladonna) released a live CD and DVD (although I was pissed that they just released a live DVD/CD combo with John Bush and decided to release the “new” live CD and DVD separately). For Anthrax, the reunion is all about making some money (and Scott Ian even said as much). I joined their new fan club, Anthrax CDC, mostly to get access to their “never seen media”. But, they took my money and never sent the t-shirt, and the exclusive media is an Internet radio station with a couple “bootlegs” and demos with a bunch of regular releases mixed in. Basically, your typical, screw the dedicated fan, fan club. And to make matters worse, Joey actually thinks he can sing now, and it sounds terrible. Give me the old Joey, or even better, get John Bush back.
Speaking of reunions, Testament got back together for a show in London and released it as separate DVD and CD. I’ve listened to it on Napster, and it is better then any of the older live stuff. Even better, Testament now sells “bootleg” DVDs recorded throughout their long career. You can get them here, the classic 1988 and 1989 shows are a must for any metal fan.
Of course my personal favorite local metal band, Overkill released a new CD this year, Relixiv. The song “Old School” is just about the perfect old school metal theme song. Overkill is going back on tour in early 2006, with Prong, which should be a killer show.
During the summer touring lull, DD got together with his side project, Bronx Casket Company, and put together another release, Hellectric.
Bruce Dickinson also release a new CD this year, Tyranny of Souls. I was hoping for a continuation of the excellent Chemical Wedding CD, but, nope. It is still better than some of his older stuff, but Chemical Wedding was intense, and Tyranny lacks something compared to it.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:15 PM
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I’ve had a MySpace account for a while, and have a link from there to here, but I never did the inverse. So here it is. And I’ll add a link to it on my site. MySpace has a “friends” list, and if you are a friend, a band I like, or a band that I give a good review, I’ll add you as a friend. I will not just any band/person.
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