by Didact | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
JACKYL are deep-fried Southern rock at its hillbilly best. I discovered them after stumbling across their album, Best in Show. It is one of the very few albums that I’ve ever bought just because I really liked the cover art. Turns out that it kicked all kinds of...
by Didact | May 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Happy STAR WARS day, y’all: I Don’t Normally Care for Cosplay, but… It’s always fun to date a girl who has a bit of a Boba Fettish Obi-Wan Was Kind of a Douche… Good Advice EVERYTHING Sounds Better with Metal Quick! Before George Screws...
by Didact | Apr 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve often thought that Tuomas Huolopainen- the mastermind behind NIGHTWISH, a.k.a. “THE best symphonic metal band there is”- has his head shoved up his own arse far too often for his own good. All you have to do is listen to tracks like “The...
by Didact | Apr 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Which he absolutely would have been: EXMORTUS were the opening act for the truly almighty AMON AMARTH last Friday night. Now normally, I could not care less who opens for bands like IRON MAIDEN, AMON AMARTH, or HELLOWEEN; I applaud them politely while mentally telling...
by Didact | Apr 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
And by vegans, I mean turning vegans into BURGERS, of course. It’s Earth Day, which for evil conservative bastards like me is an excuse to fire shotguns, burn petrol, drink beer, hunt deer, and crank the Viking death metal up WAAAAAAAAAAAY too loud. (That sort...
by Didact | Mar 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
The almighty AMON AMARTH’s latest studio album was released a few days ago. This is their first album without longtime drummer Freidrik Anderssen in something like 17 years- since Once Sent From the Golden Hall, I think. I’m about halfway through the album...
by Didact | Mar 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Here’s an interesting riddle: what happens when you take a Swiss former law school student, the keyboardist/vocalist for Scottish pirate metal band ALESTORM, and three other highly talented but clearly batshit-insane musicians, and lock them all in a big house...
by Didact | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s hard to believe that, for all of my exposure to (and taste for) great power metal, I’ve never come across a certain Danish power metal band by the name of IRON FIRE. Fortunately, I corrected that rather egregious oversight last week, and have been...
by Didact | Feb 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Classic: Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike METALLICA? These guys spend most of their time listening to DRAGONFORCE and… well, being borderline gay These guys are the best kind to hang with at an AMON AMARTH concert And last but not least: I ran into one...
by Didact | Feb 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
And these guys are Polish, so they don’t even have the excuse of being American to misspell everything. Still and all, they DO know how to play. Boy, do they ever: Best track on that album (so far) has got to be “Dragonheart”. That’s five...
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