This takes a big bite out of the Black Metal cake. Immortal’s video for Call Of The Wintermoon is probably one of the best Black Metal videos ever made [I know that’s not saying much]. The first time I saw this video, I couldn’t help but laugh…
They make Cradle of Filth look like the guys who used to play Magic the Gathering before AP Chemistry every morning.
This is the best shit ever.
Van Halen - Eruption Solo
Yngwie Malmsteen - Far From the Sun
Ozzy & Rhoades - Mr. Crowley
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Metallica - One
I was sent this blast from my past by my mother this morning. While cleaning she found a slide of an old drawing I had made when I was about 11 years old. Believe it or not this grotesque assault on bodily proportions and beloved characters won me a drawing contest at my local comic shop (Fantasy HQ, RIP), within my age group (15 and under). I suppose that doesn’t really speak so well about my competition!
Anyway I found seeing this drawing beyond amusing and just assumed any evidence of it was lost forever! As you can see I was fully into generous helpings of Rob Leifeld’s & Arthur Adams’ style. Look at the biceps and chest on daredevil, wtf!?? I think I did a pretty good job on Ghost Rider’s head, but I may have just lifted that straight from when Arthur Adams’ did his short run on the Fantastic Four. I also still can’t for the life of me figure out why I had a crossed out bat symbol along with my various attempts at “Wild Style”on the wall… I loved Batman! And I’m not even sure if I knew what the Anarchy symbol even meant at that age, I just thought it looked cool. Also notice the signature by Darkhawk’s head… classic 90’s ripped up scroll style! That one was for you Mr. McFarlane!
Thankfully my skills have slightly improved over the last 18 years.
We were climbing down the hill when this happened?????
Why? Why not!!!!!! Jasper (Rogue Status) had to go to the hospital to get patched up!!!!
Christie Brinkley. 1980 was a good year.
Sports Illustrated has an image archive of all their Swimsuit Issue covers, which I recommend checking out as a cure for mid-day boredom. I actually haven’t picked up a Swimsuit issue in years, but the re-up’ing of the annual swimsuit calendar is a tacky custom I’ve come to appreciate and cherish.
While we’re on the subject of girls in swimsuits over the past few decades, here’s a lil’ sumthin’ you might enjoy.
Not an Usher fan? If you’re like me, then just fast-forward to 2:34.
Actually he aint no fool, he just pitties them!
Happy Birthday Mr. T!
Since most of our Bloglin Contributors seem to be taking a couple days off from posting anything I thought what the fuck, i’ll start a new series to go along with Awesomely Awful Albums. This time however the focus is on just unearthing some long forgotten or just ignored bands that sadly never got the exposure they deserved.
I’m starting with one of my favorites, Olympia, Washington’s Satisfact. Lead by Matt Steinke who was also the mastermind behind Mocket & Octant (Both of whom will end up here at some point). Like with most scenes, they usually start long before you or anyone truly realizes whats going on, and by the time you do you’re 5 steps into a seconds wave of it and it just builds from there until sputtering out leaving the few standing who have managed to transcend being labeled (Kind of like in Streetwear). Satisfact were at the forefront of (what could be looked back to now) a short and mostly (I feel) ignored post-punk scene during the mid to late 90s. Along with Long Hind Legs, Romania, Antarctica, My Favorite, Speedking & The Faint, they eventually helped pave the way for the largescale and successful indie rock post-punk revival that occurred during the earlier part of this century with bands like Interpol, Bloc Party, The Liars & The Rapture. Which was then the eventual catalyst watered down mainstream push of the Killers & The Bravery. Which as is almost always the case the
Sadly most of those early bands never put out more than an EP or no more than an albums worth of material, Satisfact, My Favorite & The Faint being the main exceptions. Satisfact penned 3 awesome albums driven by cold vocals, dark synths and spastic guitar riffs that set the mood of dancing your night away in your bedroom while you pined over some girl. While they never reached the eventual popularity of the Faint (who somehow failed to really breakthrough during the “dance-punk” explosion), It was Satisfact’s first album The Unwanted Sounds of Satisfact that totally drove me to discover and fall in love with Gang of Four, The Fall & as result countless other post-punk bands.
The Unwanted Sounds of Satisfact was sadly a very apt name for their first album. It was a dollar bin staple for quite a while and is still a cheap and easy used CD find on Amazon. All of their albums actually can actually be had for probably under $10 including shipping on Amazon and all three of them are excellent. I encourage anyone who is a fan of the kind of music mentioned here to them up! Unfortunately Matthew Steinke doesn’t seem to have any interest in starting up a new band. He spends most of his time as a visual artists these days painting and constructing all sorts of strange self powered robotic type instruments.
Head over to their fan run Myspace page to hear some Satisfact!
The greatest Russian Hair Metal band of all time!!! Bang! Bang! Say Da Da Da Da! Take that At the Gates, Perestroyka!!! Tell me yes, so lets feed the fire!
Once in a life time do I get the chance to admit that I got a metal boner when Prolly told me that At The Gates would be going on a reunion tour. These guys are legends! Slaughter of the Soul is one my favorite metal albums ever. I spent many a night in high school driving around blasting this album and rocking out with my friends.
They have two dates in NYC at Irving Plaza, check the myspace for the tour schedule, and buy tickets soon before it sells out!
MP3’s
At The Gates - Suicide Nation (Alternative Version)
At The Gates - Unto Others (Demo version)
At The Gates - The Dying (Unreleased Track)
It’s looking like a shoegazer of a Summer. My Bloody Valentine’s reunion is old news at this point and it’s also seemingly overshadowing all sorts of other shoegaze goodness. It’s kind of surprising that Swervedriver’s reunion is falling by the wayside in comparison.
Swervedriver has always been a personal favorite of mine when it comes to shoegaze because of their more aggressive nature. So needless to say I think I may actually be more excited about seeing Swervedriver live than MBV for whatever show they end up doing in NYC that won’t cost $500 to attend.
As much as I love reveling in a 90s sense of nostalgia I’m glad that there are still a handful of bands out there keeping the shoegaze torch alive and doing it so well. M83 just put out their new album Saturdays=Youth and as with every single m83 release so far it’s terrific. A synthy shoegaze trip down nostalgia ala the Cocteau Twins.
Both M83 & Swervedriver are hitting Brooklyn this June. M83 will be performing at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 3rd, while Swervedriver plays there on June 12th.
Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 N. 6th St. (b/w Wythe & Kent)
Brooklyn, NY
Prolly singing out!
I’m a total Ducktales fan boy, even though it’s been two decades since the show first aired. I suppose at this point that I really don’t have a choice about liking it since Uncle Scrooge indelibly spans the length of my forearm, but that’s not really the point of this post. Apparently someone constructed this scale model of Scrooge’s vault back in ‘02/’03, using blueprints created by Don Rosa and Dan Shane, and now you can see the fruits of his labors on Flickr. This model is really pretty fucking sick in my opinion, and I kind of wish we had it here at the office.
Check it out in detail here.
BTW, who else thinks the music on the moon stage from Ducktales (NES) is the fucking jam?
This dude plays Guitar Hero.
P.S. There are too many categories. Proceeds from this picture will go to all the charities and benefits found on the bloglin.
P.S.S. Feel free to protest. :D
Did another Born Jamericans post here on the bloglin some time back, but I had to put this up cause its too SICK! Notch! Best flow and voice out there!! Love it!!
Which is best?
It’s so hard to choose and more fun to just watch them back to back to back! I think we need worthwhile inductee into this comedic canon.
Original Basket Case VHS box! Found this on the web somewhere. One of my all time favorites!
Upon my daily computron routines, I just happened to run into this flickr page full of awesome pictures of skinheads in England circa 1980’s. Before anyone out there gets the wrong impression, the skinheads I’m talking about here are S.H.A.R.P.S. (Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice) or traditional skins and NOT boneheads or nazi punks. As a kid growing up in the 2nd/3rd wave of this culture in the 80’s, I was familiar with boot boys and Chelseas since a lot my friends growing up had older brothers, sisters and/or cousins who were/associated with skins. These pics here are apparently memoirs of an amateur photographer who was a Chelsea growing up in England in that era. The pictures are pretty awesome and really capture the aesthetics and youthful energy of the time.
Special mention to the attractive Chelsea chicks up in these photos, such awesome style! No props to the fat Chelsea chicks who are stragglers and tag-alongs. Every subculture has ‘em! Anyways… take a peek at this rad photo documentation of a long gone era HERE.
Cop a feel son!
I just wanna say that Kevin Eastman gets my nomination for bad ass nerd and inspirational hero. Runner up goes to Rob Zombie. Total weirdos with hot wives and the skillz to pay the billz.