Avenged Sevenfold Releases an Animated Series

After topping almost all Billboard charts with a cover album (evil grin) Avenged Sevenfold now released an animated series with Metalocalypse producer Jon Schnepp as the director. You can watch the series via Happy Hour channel of Machinima, on YouTube. Below, you will find the first episode.

Metal Playlist of the Week #1

From this day onwards, we're going to have a weekly changing metal playlist of the week. Here's the first one:

114 Kassandra - Siberian Acrospire
Keldian - Never Existed
While She Sleeps - Death Toll
Hell - The Age of Nefarious
Ofermod - Sisters of Rapture and Pestilence
Cnoc An Tursa - The Lion of Scotland


For a youtube integrated playlist you can click RIGHT HERE

10 Badass Metal Album Names

Procession – To Reap Heavens Apart                                             

The newest album on the list being released on May 3, 2013,  and my inspiration for creating this list. I saw a review of the album and thought “This album totally has a badass name, I should give it a chance, just to praise the name.”  (Well, the positive review might have had a slight influce, slight).

Death Angel – The Art of Dying

How badass should you be to see artistic values in death?!

Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armaggedon

Well, it says death, it says armaggedon, it has every key word about the topic. Like Eternal Tears of Sorrow has every key word of depressive heavy music.

Mogwai – Hardcore will never die, but you will

A non-metal album but badass behind words. It's just like, well, "Dude... wtf?!"

Slayer – God Hates Us All

Making fun of Slayer album names?! You expect me to do that?!

Metallica – Ride the Lightning

Well you can ride a horse, ride a bike, even a podracer but riding a motherf***ing LIGHTNING? NOPE.

Guns ‘n’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction

“Dude, I’m a little hungry.”

“I have leftover destruction from yesterday, you can suck it.”

At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul

How do you slaughter a soul? Just HOW?!

Amon Amarth – Versus the World

Come at me bro! Well, it’s easy to speak with Oden On (Y)Our Side.

Pantera – Cowboys From Hell

What next, Ninjas From Space? This album name is not as nearly made fun of as it should be, because of how awesome of an album it is and because of what happened to Dimebag. But think about the name for a second.

Semargl – Satanic Pop Metal

This one is surely the most epic. The name speaks for itself.



Was playing when publishing: Black Crown Initiate - Song of the Crippled Bull

Obscure Sphinx Releases New Video

Polish sludge metalers Obscure Sphinx put out their first ever official video for the the song Lunar Caustic from their latest album Void Mother.

The video presents the general atmopshere of the song pretty good, you won't regret watching it.

An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love Review

An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love

My taste in music keeps getting weirder and weirder. For a while, it kept getting more deppresive each passing day, and without knowing I found myself listening to shoe-, metalgaze, post metal etc. (damn you Alcest, it’s all your fault). The album I’ve been listening to for past two weeks was the newest record of An Autumn for Crippled Children (AAfCC from here on). Although in my opinion the French are the dominant ones on the deppresive side of music, Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love by the Dutch band is one of the best albums this year.

Before moving forward let me say that I met AAfCC with this album and this is the only one that I listened to. Aside from the wall of sound created with overdistorted guitar that is default in shoegaze, the first thing you notice are the synths and electronics. What?! Synths and electronics?! I’ve heard AAfCC was a black metal band?! Yes, this is where term “experimental” behind their genre comes to play. Electronics are used pretty well throughout the album. Bass is another instrument that shines. It is one of the main weapons of the parts that catch your ear.

Vocals are left in the background in that wall of sound, which puts the listener to a distance and creates of feeling of being “unreachable”. It is as if you would want to reach out and pull someone out of the water but they are already out of your reach but not your eyesight.

I can’t go on without mentioning the general atmosphere I get from the album. It is pretty deppresing, yes, but there is always some bits that imply that not all hope is lost. In all the darkness that surrounds the songs, there are glimmers of light every now and then. Starting with the album cover and album title, rather than being purely depressing it bears signs of bitter happiness, clouded by the general pessimist perspective.

In conclusion, I found Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love to be a great album. It will definitely put a song or two to my soundtrack for the coming winter. Now, if you let me, I will go and listen to Only the Ocean Knows.

Favorite Tracks: The Woods are On Fire, Try Not to Destroy Everything You Love, Sepia Mountains for Her Lament