The Ghost Inside: 
The beers tasted good at the parking lot.

iwrestledabearonce:
Surprisingly I liked it, maybe because of the lead singer that had the swine flu so she couldn't sing. Nice technical parts & hillbilly parts.

Oceano:
Blackchapel, slowmocore, bassdrop fest, replaymetal, whatever you want to call it. Fun to laugh at.

As Blood Runs Black:
The beers tasted good at the parking lot.

Horse The Band:
Nintendo-core, fun to watch but nothing really special. And they were drunk/stoned, that was a plus.

Architects:
I liked it, lots of energy on stage, they played some cool songs, but they didn't make me want to kick somebody in the teeth.

Despised Icon:
Awesome, they played all the "hits" and they played them tight like a 12-year old. And they made me want to kick people in the teeth.

Beer:
Beer never disappoints me, and neither did Beer that night.

Marcotje's photo's

And I fully support that. Fuck angry stares and macho behaviour, metal = fun and happy times!


Here are some funny video's, not funny as in "fail", but intentionally funny:




The kings of mindnumbing riffs, The Acacia Strain, wiggerslamming before it even existed! 
And that Lassie shirt the drummer is wearing is fucking awesome!



The bassplayer of The Red Chord goes "undercover" and pretends he's at his first metal show.
"Suckpunch-the-dead-core, that's grindcore mixed with suckerpunching the dead"



"I've got better things to do, I've got kids to beat" "-Do you really have kids?" "-Not that I know about.."



Another Metal Injection classic: Psyopus interviewed in their hotelroom
"To be honest with you I did't want to make a CD, I wanted it to be improv reggae jamsession,
and when you ordered the vinyl online all you would get is a dog in the mail... like any kind of dog"

Here I present the kings of Jiggerslam (japanese wigger slam)


GLOSSECTOMY


With their awesome stage performance (including wiggerish arm movements, or should I say jiggerish?) the crowd goes wild!





PNIG PONG PANG TJAP TJOI JAP DOG

No, metal does not suck, but it has it's pro's and cons. Some of this I have experienced myself, some of this I can imagine it could happen, and some of this are just observations or wild guesses...


1. Girls Hate Metal


Yeah they do. One time I just had a girlfriend for a week or 2, and she asked me what music I liked most. I said "metal!". And she was like "okay, i'm cool with that, can you play me something you're listening to lately?" so I said yes, and I played this song:








I turned the song off after about 30 seconds, 
and there was an awkward silence.
Later she told me she was scared...


Well, and the girls who actually like metal are fat, ugly, 
or fat and ugly. And they act like little kids. FUCK!














2. Metalheads Look Like Dorks

Metal Mongol



And this is how they should look:
Forget the grungejunkie blouse, and everything will be fine


Pretty pretty, too bad she can't sing. And her band sucks... aside from that everything's okay

Today I got my copy of The Red Chord's new release; Fed Trough The Teeth Machine!
My first tought was: why isn't it named "Fed Trough The Meth Machine"? It sounds really catchy, but I think that's just a matter of taste. 




the new X-treme (Brutalityment?)


What also is really catchy, are the riffs on this album. This was the first thing that came to my mind after the first spin. Gunface really outdid himself and wrote some brutal yet atmospherical and original guitar parts. The solo's compliment the music, instead of sounding like a wankfest extraordinaire. They almost got a hardrock feel to it sometimes.


35 and a half minute later it was time for the second round.


The lyrics are really awesome, as always. No lyrics about hacking people up for barbeque or running in the woods with a battle axe and vicking helmet. These are poems:


taken from "floating through the vein":
Come on in where nightmares are the best part of my day
There is no rest for tired eyes, it's time to go to sleep
Sometimes toughts return, but memories slip away
Floating through the vein. Floating through the vein.


Guy's lyrics are graphical and cryptic, sometimes really to the point but never straightforward.
He's telling a story without exactly saying what is going on, or what it's about. I LIKE






(spin number 3...GO)


The drums are (as usual) technical, fast and sound like typical The Red Chord. He is blastbeating, breaking, hardcoreing (?!?) and grooving like a madman. Too bad the drums are triggered, i'm sure he would be fine without triggers. It's a bit too clinical and tight, and what I liked about TRC were the super-fast not completely-tight almost-evenly hard hitted drumparts. Well at least it doesn't sounds like R2-D2 is drumming.


"The stud of a man that is me" Greg "G-Dub" Weeks shaved his epic beard, but that does not mean he isn't as funky as he was before. He plays the bass like a 70-year old motown records veteran, and that is a compliment. He gives straight up metal riffs a twist and that's rare in the metal scene. FUNKYZEIT!


After all Fed Trough The Teeth Machine is a brutal and intelligent metal album, sounding like the new The Red Chord CD should sound; the new X-TREME! Now it's time to listen to the album many more times and consume it's contents to the fullest!


And if i'm eating babies, raping pigeons and doing drive-by's in your neighbourhood: 
THE RED CHORD MADE ME DO IT

I was wondering if there were any researches done about the relation of metal opposed to people, culture, animals and plants. So I did some google-research myself. This is the outcome:


Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. 
-Stuart Cadwallader, psychologist at the University of Warwic


Of course metalheads are intelligent; we drink gallions of beer, fuck our ears up, kick eachother in the face in the moshpit, scream "Slayerrrrrrr!" all night long and just act like cavemen in general. That's because we use the rest of our brains to do complex math calculations and coming up with an solution for world peace and global warming.





Roughly 50 percent of heavy metal songs are about murder, while another 35 percent dabble in Satanic content. 
-Fyodor Kondratyev, aprofessor at the Serbsky State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry


He listened to 700 heavy metal songs before coming to his conclusion that the slogan “Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll” should be changed to “Murder, Satan & Heavy Metal.” But can this guy detect irony? Did he listen to Slayer, or The Darkness? I mean, songs like Fucked With A Knife... I think Cannibal Corpse never fucked anyone with a knife... at least I hope so. 


A student named David Merrill subjected mice to the music of a heavy metal band called Anthrax 24-hours a day to discover how it would affect their ability to learn new things, but instead of completing Merrill’s maze, the heavy metal mice all killed one another.



Well, I do not think metal is made for animals. For them it is just noise, more than to people who don't listen to it. Or they listened to the lyrics, that probably were about murder. If I reincarnate as a mouse when I die, I'll be the first metal-mouse!


Dorothy Retallack tested the effects of various types of music on plants. She found that playing classic rock artists such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and Vanilla Fudge caused the plants to grow in an unhealthy way, bend away from the speakers and die young. However, if we assume that plants can have musical preferences, it's possible that classic rock was not their music of choice
.
Mmm... the same thing as the mice, I don't think plants like noise. But I can remember a episode of mythbusters were they "let a plant listen" to Chimaira, and the plant grow faster then the rest.




Fast-forward to 2:34






I think we can say that metal is good for humans, sometimes good for plants, and not good for animals.


will be continued...


NOW THAT'S EXTREME!!!

They state in the following press release posted on Lambgoat:

"You have never seen us rest this long. For those of you wondering about Animosity, you are correct to have assumed that we disbanded. It has been nearly a year since all five of us were in a room (or the same state) together. In this time, we have written zero songs and played zero shows. In short, nothing happened which I mean to say plainly and clearly. We are all still alive and friends, but following our last tour we just did nothing band related. Many of us grew up in this band, and for me personally, Animosity was somehow prioritized over everything including my very own life. This band formed our communities, relationships, experiences and the lens through which we view the world. Eight years later, I look back to being 14 years old playing Animosity shows in garages and backyards and I can honestly say that our musical and experiential goals have been exceeded in ways that once seemed impossible to me. If you haven't gotten enough of Animosity, please rest assured that we have.

"This is not to say, that everyone is gone from music. In the time since our last show, Navene finished his spectacular debut solo album called Fleshrot – dementia/dyslexia. Navene wrote played and recorded all the music himself and features beastly vocals from Jonny Davy. Check out the project  here and stay posted for album release info. Also, Navene has teamed up with Tosin Abasi and is drumming in their new band Animals As Leaders. Chase also has a new band called Son of Arelius from which you can expect a full-length album out soon. New music from Evan and Frank can be anticipated in various different forms. As for me, I moved out east to study the environment.

"To Animosity fans worldwide, thank you for doing this with us, it was an awesomely epic journey. Be well!"

Well that sucks. I've only seen them once, but the sound wasn't great and they had technical difficulties before and while playing. So I wanted to see them again, so I could see them play a full set with good sound. Well maybe they'll do a reunion tour in 2021?