KORN - Live At The Holywod Palladium (CD Review)

 

01.Get Up!
02.Kill Mercy Within
03.Illuminati
04.Chaos Lives In Everything
05.My Wall
06.Way Too Far
07.Narcisstic Cannibal
08.Here To Stay
09.Freak On A Leash
10.Falling Away From Me
11.Predictable
12.Another Brick In The Wall
13.Shoots And Ladders
14.One
15.Got The Life
16.Blind

 KORN performs an exclusive live gig featuring songs from their new album "The Path Of Totality”, with special guest performances by some of the leading dubstep and electronic music producers in the world, including Skrillex, Excision, Datsik, Downlink, Kill the Noise, and 12th Planet. This exciting live event also features KORN playing all their classic hits too. The result is this once in a lifetime concert film, which is something completely new, yet utterly and definitively KORN!

 “Live At The Hollywood Palladium” was produced by Rock Fuel's Barry Summers. It captures KORN's unique live show on film like never before. The combination of art and science, technology, emotion, and explosive theatrics elevates this live concert to technological rock mastery!

Their debut album “Korn” was released in October 1994. The band followed up with their second piece of work, “Life Is Peachy”, two years later. “Follow The Leader” then became KORN's mainstream breakthrough, peaking at number one on the Billboard 200 in August 1998, along with the following album “Issues”, released in November 1999. The band released “Untouchables” in June 2002 and released “Take A Look In The Mirror” in November 2003.

Their first compilation album “Greatest Hits Vol. 1” was released in October 2004, concluding KORN's contract with Epic and Immortal Records. They signed to Virgin Records, releasing “See You on the Other Side” in December 2005, and an untitled album in July 2007. KORN's latest albums “Korn III: Remember Who You Are” and “The Path of Totality” were released in July 2010 and December 2011, respectively. To this day, KORN has sold 35 million albums worldwide and has earned two Grammy Awards out of seven nominations (for "Freak on a Leash" and "Here to Stay").

This is a dvd/cd set, but the record company only sent me the cd to review.

This concert encapsulates every element from Korns long and intresting career, the new stuff delivers better than its studio counterparts and the classics are performed to perfection.

STU

Rating 8/10

For Fans Of: Skrillex, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Slipknot

Rob Zombie - Mondo Sex Head (CD Review)

01.Thunder Kiss '65 (JDevil Number Of The Beast Remix)
02.Living Dead Girl (Photek Remix)
03.Let It All Bleed Out (Document One Remix)
04.Foxy Foxy (Ki Theory Remix)
05.More Human Than Human (Jack Dangers Remix)
06.Dragula (††† Remix)
07.Pussy Liquor (Ki_Theory Remix)
08.Lords of Salem (Das Kapital Remix)
09.Never Gonna Stop (Drumcorps Acid Remix)
10.Superbeast (Kraddy Remix)
11.Devil's Hole Girls (Tobias Enhus Remix) ft. The Jane Antonia Cornish String Quartet)
12.Burn (The Bloody Beetroots Motherfucker Remix)
13.Mars Needs Women (Griffin Boice Remix)

Back in 1999 Rob released 'American Music To Strip By' an all star remix album and now 13 years later comes a sort of volume 2 (containing new mixes of 3 songs that appeared on said release).There had also been a remix album 'Super Sexy Swining Sounds' in 1996 for White Zombie.
This collection features Rob's favourites Remixed By Some Of Today’s Groundbreaking Producers & DJs, including KoRn’s Jonathan “JDevil” Davis, Photek, the Bloody Beetroots, Drumcorps and Ki:Theory.
Mondo Sex Head was curated and executive produced by Jason Bentley, Music Director at L.A.’s influential KCRW and Electronic Dance Music expert. Richard Bishop, co-executive producer of RE:GENERATION music project and documentary film, supervised the project. Each track was hand selected by Rob Zombie who road-tested many of the songs in his car, driving the L.A. streets.

Throughout his career, iconic music artist and filmmaker Rob Zombie has continuously challenged audiences as he stretches the boundaries of music, film and publishing. Zombie, who has sold over fifteen million albums worldwide and has earned seven Grammy® nominations, is no stranger to repurposing his work, cross-fertilizing his fan base and generally pushing the limits of modern-day art. Over the years he has worked with outside DJs, remixers and producers starting with the 1992 remix of White Zombie’s first-ever, MTV-fueled hit, “Thunder Kiss ’65.”

“I like the idea of taking songs and reconfiguring them,” says Zombie about the album, who is taking an alternative approach in the digital retail space. The album will be preceded by two separate, digital-only EPs, with tracks taken from Mondo Sex Head and exclusive bonus tracks.

With dubstep and rock rapidly banging heads together, Spinefarm’s Mondo Sex Head couldn’t arrive at a better time, featuring remixes from all corners of dance music by the likes of KoRn’s Jonathan “JDevil” Davis (“Thunder Kiss ‘65”), Photek (“Living Dead Girl”), Document One (“Let It All Bleed Out”), Ki:Theory (“Foxy Foxy” & “Pussy Liquor”), Big Black Delta (“More Human Than Human”), ††† aka Chino of Deftones (“Dragula”), Das Kapital (“Lords of Salem”), Drumcorps (“Never Gonna Stop”), former Glitch Mob member Kraddy (“Superbeast”) and the Bloody Beetroots (“Burn”), among others. Zombie credits the idea for the album to a conversation with his manager, Andy Gould, who told him he was constantly hearing DJs incorporate samples of Zombie’s music into their performance sets.
Rob Zombie’s Mondo Sex Head finds its creator returning to claim his legacy in the burgeoning world of electronic dance music. By bringing together music and film, rock and dance, arena mosh pits and club dance floors, Rob Zombie is proving a cultural phenomenon, with a fan base that is constantly growing.

First up with 'Thunder Kiss 65' comes a bass heavy dancefloor killer! fuck seriously this is good!
Photek's 7 minute darkwave mix of 'Living Dead Girl' is just awesome, dark brroding and just plain evil like Kraftwerk jamming with the Sisters of Mercy.
Beautiful acoustic guitar intro to 'Let It All Bleed Out' before crashing into a Prodigy/Chase & Status crossover with ear destroying synth overkill.
The version of 'More Human Than Human' has that Goldfrapp drum pattern running through it, kinda cool :-)
A very bass heavy ambient feel to the remix of 'Dragula' sort of manages to totally reinvent the song (in a good way).
'Pussy Liquor' is a better mix than Ki Therorys other song 'Foxy Foxy', nice use of analogue synth.
If there was such a thing as "Extreme Death Rave" then this would be its signiture tune because its the only way i can describe this version of 'Lords Of salem' and 7 minutes of pure power!
Always one of my fave Rob tracks anyway and this version of 'Never Gonna Stop' is actually pretty near to the original just a bit darker with nasty synth work throughout.
Okay well 'Superbeast' is clearly the worst mix on this album, just does not work at all.
'Devils Hole Girls' gets things back on track with another dancefloor mash up.
The mix of 'Burn' is weird, got that dubstep feel with some strange mixes of 70's style guitar work and sampling.
The kinda bass sound that takes out your neighbours windows (if aimed just right, must try it sometime), 'Mars Needs Women' is definatley one to play loud.

So if there was a rave party in hell: THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK!

STU

Rating 10/10

For fans Of: Ministry, Rammstein, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Kraftwerk.

Metal Tank Records signs PANIKK!

The Slovenian Bay-area thrash metal maniacs hearing under the name of Panikk inked a deal with Metal Tank Records that will release their upcoming album entitled Unbearable Conditions. Panikk as the name suggests for something fast, mind-blowing and erratically blood-pumping metal put simply as THRASH!

Band comment about the upcoming release: “We went into DYZ Sonic Temple Studio in March to record a debut album Unbearable Conditions under the surveillance of producer Dyz. We’re pumped with thrash that is energetic and tight sounding and so is our music which doesn’t give a fuck of todays trends. We wrote 6 songs anew and took 2 songs off of demo rearranged them and made them even better. We invited along two friends Domen Justin (Dyz) and Tim Draksler who contributed a few solos.”






http://www.metaltankrecords.com/

DENIM & LEATHER NWOBHM FESTIVAL THIS SEPTEMBER!

So thats WEAPON, PRAYING MANTIS, GASKIN, AGINCOURT so far!!!!

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE :
http://www.nwobhmlive.gb.net/

FACEBOOK PAGE :
http://www.facebook.com/groups/DenimAndLeatherNWOBHM/

VOLKSMETAL - VOLKSMETAL (CD Review)

Horror has a new name: VOLKSMETAL! And this name has turned into a program: If metal crashes into folk music,

you will have a mix of infernal Bavarians on accordion and tuba, son of a bitches flailing on guitars, bass and drums.

When the six cheeky devils of VOLKSMETAL get together, nothing is holy

anymore: Time to sway to metal and to head‐bang to folk music.

Mäddelbänger is an insane mixture of double bass, metal guitars and 3/4 rhythm refrain. With this mixture they

show how it's done and with their cover version of the cult classic "Fürstenfeld" they demonstrate what a real folk

heavy metal band understands with being brutally homesick. Together with 7 other own songs and 2 other cover

versions these two tracks will suitably be released during the beer garden season. The album "VOLKSMETAL" has

been produced by Achim Lindermeir (Die Happy, Itchy Poopzkid, Benzin...) and will be released on Premium Records

(Soulfood Music). Naturally Volksmetal will show themselves at all important festivals and they will also show

everyone what the proper meaning of music is ( incl. Wacken Open Air, Queens Of Metal...). There's booze for

everyone and no one will be left out...

How did you get to the infernal summit of metal and folk music? This is the way it happened....

Marco and Patrick coincidentally met one morning, during a forest walk near the the island Mainau while picking

flowers. The live preparations of the summer festival of the folk musicians were running at their fullest. The show is

presented by an unknown talent Florian Goldstahl who still remains an unknown talent. He invited both full blooded

metal heads without further ado to the evening. Two metal heads meet four traditional folk musicians, Botze,

Martin, Christian and Christian. Immediately they recognize the tender soul relationship between metal and folk

music which is not least based on the common admiration of holy beer.

Voilà: The birth of VOLKSMETAL, the most natural connection to the world! Are you surprised that the six fellows

are expelled after a little while because of common denigration of the Bavarian customs and traditions by the dress

rehearsal. What a successful recipe! Four Ruppaner‐Urweisse later they arrange Marco's songs for the first

Longplayer "VOLKSMETAL". The rest is history, according to the purity requirement. Reaching the magnificent third

spot at the promising competition "Open See2011" and five appearances on the Summer Breeze Festival

2011 where Soulfood Music is inspired by the likeable freak's show from leather trousers and metal fun right away.

And now the buzz goes off properly! This is for sure: we are volatile but only the cows tail remains long. We've remained the same and VOLKSMETAL needs beer!

Basically replace rammsteins industrial driven metal and replace with an accordian!!!!
Its in German but that dont really matter as the music stands up and im guessing most of the lyrics are funny????

STU

RATING 8/10
For fans Of : Rammstein, Metasoll, Turisas, German Beer Keller Music

Metal Tank Records signs VIGILANCE!

The Slovenian occult heavy metal act Vigilance inked a deal with Metal Tank Records that will release their upcoming album. The successor of "Steeds of Time" from 2011 will crush everything in front of with its excellent mixture of genuine traditional speed heavy metal filled with profound devotion for primordial and ritualistic occultism.

The band comments:
"We are thrilled to announce that we are returning to Zalokar studios. The time is at hand to record the successor of our debut album 'Steeds of Time'. We have been working harder than ever before so you can expect nothing but fast, dark and untamed heavy metal!





http://www.metaltankrecords.com

A bunch of flyers for upcoming gigs