by Didact | Aug 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
New IRON MAIDEN single. Just sit back and let your ears melt down from the sheer awesomeness: A few observations: That cod-wail at the beginning aside, Bruce’s voice sounds pretty good, even now. However, I maintain that his absolute vocal peak was still the...
by Didact | Aug 12, 2015 | HALO, Uncategorized
At long last, we are FINALLY going to get HALO WARS 2: I know, I know, HALO WARS was the weakest game in the entire HALOverse. Considering that it was originally meant to be some kind of Age of Empires port to the Xbox platform, before Microsoft’s...
by Didact | Aug 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Bastard got me hooked on E NOMINE. And now I can’t stop listening to these crazy Germans. It’s like listening to RAMMSTEIN on really good crack, with choirs and Latin hymnals thrown in for good measure. The addiction has gotten so bad, in fact, that I...
by Didact | Jul 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
That was what MidKnight (Vile Faceless Minion #138) called E NOMINE’s song, “Vater Unser”. Turns out, that’s a VERY apt description: If by any chance you happen to meet me in the next few days and you wonder why I look and sound like I just got...
by Didact | Jul 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
F**k yeah! Pretty much every country song, ever. The non-stupid, non-sarcastic, far more AWESOME metal version of this is, naturally, a MANOWAR song: This band, by the way, is featured in one of the best near-future military fiction books ever written, John...
by Didact | Jul 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
God have mercy on us all: The announcement ends months of speculation about the trio’s future after they left the BBC amid much controversy following the incident at a hotel in North Yorkshire in March. Mr Wilman said today how the former Top Gear team...
by Didact | Jul 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
That’s what I think EVERY TIME I see the legendary DEEP PURPLE play live in America: DEEP PURPLE holds a very special place in my metalhead heart. The very first rock gig that yours truly ever went to was DEEP PURPLE’s gig at Fort Canning Park,...
by Didact | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
A reader (and fellow Vile Faceless Minion) emailed me recently to express appreciation for my taste in music (!!!). He also mentioned in passing that his tastes tend more towards symphonic metal. Since I am nothing if not obliging toward my readers (yeah, OK, even I...
by Didact | Jul 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Maybe not quite as epic as a Derek Riggs creation, but still not bad Canadian metal act UNLEASH THE ARCHERS just released their new album, Time Stands Still, last Friday. I’ve been listening to it pretty much non-stop for the past 3 days, alongside LOST...
by Didact | Jul 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
If I still used social media, I’d think strongly about making this my profile picture You know the old saying, “a conservative is a liberal who got mugged by reality”? Well, an ex-CNN anchor discovered just how true that saying is, the hard way:...
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