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R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio

June 21st 2010 18:11

Greetings brothers and sisters,
I have been away for a while due to RL issues and I am very sad that I return with bad news which I presume you already know. Ronnie James Dio passed away.
As most of you know he was fighting stomach cancer for sometime now. The last six months he started chemo and he strongly believed that he will win. His last public appearance was at the 'Revolver Golden Gods Awards' (April 8). Almost one month later (May 15) he was transferred to the hospital because of problems that the therapy caused.
May 16, 7:45: metal history changes forever. R.J.Dio is no longer with us. Allow me to disagree with that. You all know him so i will no longer write about sad news. On the contrary he lives forever. I will remind you why he is an immortal.

He is a 'Holy Diver', he is 'The Last in Line', 'Rising' above 'Heaven and Hell'. 'Don't talk to strangers' cause he is 'The Devil you know' who will sing forever wearing medieval clothes, singing about rainbows and dragons. With Black Sabbath or solo he was most probably the best and most influential singer in the world. This is proven by the number of bands, singers, guitarists and musicians in general that expressed their condolences to his family. From Tony Iommi to Slash and from Billy Corgan to Arch Enemy. Musicians from every metal genre .
Hell, he is the man that 'discovered' the Metal Horns.
A great man indeed, a great loss it is.
I am still whining about his loss, forgive me i couldn't help it.
No No No. The Holy Diver is here, by my side, by our side.
Jump on the tiger R.J.D. Lead us to victory.
I leave you my friends with a part of his legacy :

Holy Diver From Youtube

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5 albums you should listen/check out for 2009

April 29th 2010 03:54

-Welcome to another episode of "Hollywood Housewives":
And now the news: Angelina Jolie got furious when Brad forgot to iron her new Gucci dress ...
(Angry headbanger rushes into the studio holding a huge... CD-player).
-You have 10 seconds to repent and leave this miserable gossip life or I'm pressing the PLAY button (at this point his inserts Lamb Of God's Album "Wrath" into the CD-player).
-What is this?, said the pink dressed radio producer. We wanna listen to the news.
(Angry headbanger performs a Chuck Norris roundhouse-kick on him that sends him off his chair and straight into the opposite wall's arms.(At this point he presses PLAY and the sound of "Reclamation" fills the room)
-THIS IS THE NEWS, said the angry headbanger (and asked himself from where he remembered his own quote).
He grabbed the microphone and he was ready to make history:
- All you metalheads out there, greetings. This is another episode of "Metalheat" and we present you the 5 albums you should have listened/ check out for the year 2009. Lets begin:
1. World Painted Blood - Slayer. The thrash gods are back with a vengeance. Their best album since Seasons in the Abyss. Everything you know about good ol Slayer is here: Killer riffs, insane, weird solos and a crazy-vocals-Araya. Pretenders to the throne step back. Don't miss 'em on tour with Big 4 (ye ye that little gig taking over Europe).
2. Hordes of Chaos - Kreator. Alright alright so we got another thrash band here. So what? Who can dispute Petrozza's talent? He resurrected Kreator (I wonder if they were ever dead - as some said) and proved that he can still write songs that leave you with mouth opened wide (watch that fly).
3. Faith Divides Us, Death unites us - Paradise Lost. So what do we have here? The pioneers of gothic metal return to their original sound and give lessons to all of their riff-stealers. (hmmm Nick Holmes should defo get some socializing lessons - a friend of mine showed me a pic of him and Nick at a gig...smile Nick smile).
4. Skyforger - Amorphis. What is this? Some sort of divine inspiration? An album that has it all. Melody, folk riffs, a Tomi Joutsen at his best vocaling so far. Finland's best band for sure.
5. Crack the Skye - Mastodon. So these weirdos are back. Hmm overestimated you say? Underestimated you say? Whatever you think you can't argue that the band's new album shook the ground. The definition of genius. (don't listen to their lives though - soz I've been to 2 of their performances they sound awful - I hope it was only because they didn't have a good sound check). "The Last Baron" is just massive.

Ok ok I didn't get your fav album in there. Stop throwing empty bottles of water. Or at least throw full bottles of beer.
Next episode: another 5 albums you should check for 2009 (I forgot Megadeth's Endgame so I thought I should make another list)

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R.I.P Pete Steele

April 28th 2010 15:48

Too bad that my 1st post is sad news. But the news of the loss of Type O' Negative's frontman and bassist, Pete Steel moved me deeply.
Pete passed away on April 14th from heart failure at the age of 48. Petrus T. Ratajczyk (Pete's real name), was born in Brooklyn, New York at 1962.
He used to be in Carnivore, a known 80's thrash metal band (before that he was in Failure) but it was not until the early 90's that he became well known acting as singer and bassist in Type O' Negative. The super group that gave us albums like Bloody Kisses (1993) and October Rust (1996) (personal favorite). Some called their music gothic metal. I prefer to call them global metal because they gave music for all the world to remember.
Pete's lyrics are characterized by tones of sadness, love themes and strange inner feelings. His dark heavy voice helped him to express the above giving chills to the fans and made him special among thousands goth singers.
Many friends of the metal community (and not only) expressed their admiration for Pete - among them Mille Petrozza (Kreator) and Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard).
R.I.P friend.
I'll never forget the quote on October Rust album:
"people mistake lack of talent for genius"
A little song there for the old ones to remember and the young blood to learn:

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Metal Greetings...

April 27th 2010 15:12

A blog about metal music and all the possible genres it includes. Album discussions, new releases, upcoming gigs, band video clips, history of metal, band / genre tributes. All METAL.

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Pre-review: Metallica - Death Magnetic

September 6th 2008 14:54

Howdy all,

Today I've got a real treat. Thanks to Metallica's streaming of several tracks of their new album on their website, I've decided to bring you an advance review based on what I've heard so far

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Disturbed in Concert

September 4th 2008 02:32

So I went to see Disturbed play the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney last night. What a show!

The opening band was an Australian band called Behind Crimson Eyes. I really didn't have much interest in seeing them, so I didn't bother getting in there until Altar Bridge were on

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Review: Slipknot - All Hope is Gone

August 25th 2008 10:46

And we're back.

Firstly, let me apologize for my absence and lack of posts lately. I've had a lot on my mind and haven't really have time to think about blogging. Now, to get into it

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A little off topic

July 14th 2008 01:46

Now I'm not sure if this post falls entirely within the scope of this blog, but its something I need to vent about.

So I went down to JB Hi-Fi yesterday to buy the latest Dark Lotus album, if you haven't heard of them, I won't bother explaining about them, but anyway. I get out to the car, open the album to play it, and half of the little teeth in the center that hold the CD in place are broken. Now, if this was just one CD, I wouldn't mind so much, but it seems like more than half the CDs I buy lately, from ANYWHERE, have a number of broken teeth in the center. This means that the disc is able to move around inside the case, and potentially get damaged

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Previews

June 28th 2008 08:56

Welcome back to another episode of "Metal Beats" (insert killer riff here)

I'm your host Dan "Seraph" Black. Todays topic is "Previews

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Musicians...

June 21st 2008 16:34

So hey, I figure if I'm doing a music blog, I should say something about musicians eh?

I myself am a musician, and hence, you might think I'm biased. Well... for you non-musicians out there, let me be the first to say

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