Author Archives: Guido

Interview: Jokull (Disintegrated)

Recently I’ve been in talks with Jökull of Disintegrated, a Danish Death Metal band who contacted us via our ‘Your Band’ campaign. If you’re in a band and you want your band to be featured on this spectacular website, contact us here.

Check out my interview with Jökull after the jump, where you can also find a teaser of their new EP and a link to download that very EP, ‘This is Art’.

Krokus do charity

If there’s one thing I admire about artists, who make good money from their art, it’s when they spend said money on a good cause. There are more than enough people in this world less fortunate than me, and there are certainly a lot of people less fortunate than artists who make their money by doing something as banal as playing songs.

Swiss Hard Rock legends Krokus decided to support Switzerland’s charity event ‘Jeder Rappen zählt’ (eng. ‘Every Rappen counts,’ Rappen being the Swiss equivalent of a Cent).

Make the jump and read what Chris Von Rohr, Krokus bassist, had to say about this.

Jingle Balls to the wall, man

There’s a serious lack of metal christmas songs. Maybe because christian holidays aren’t really metal. The birth of Jesus Christ simply isn’t metal, his death on the other hand… but who wants a metal easter song? All with Varg Vikernes dressed up as an easter bunny.

The easter bunny brings eggs (why the fuck ever) and eggs, in German, is a synonym for balls and what’s the best metal song about balls? Accept’s ‘Balls to the Wall’. Great transition, Guido. Thank you.

So for this year’s christmas, Udo Dirkschneider teamed up with EMP, a German Hard Rock and Metal mailorder company, where I got my very first bandshirt from. You’re wondering what it was? A Slipknot shirt. Sadly, I can’t find a picture of it anywhere online. Am I embarassed it was a Slipknot shirt? No, because I don’t have it anymore.

Sorry, I got carried away there. So what did Udo and EMP team up for? You guessed it (you smart little fella), a christmas song, called ‘Jingle Balls,’ which also incorporates ‘Balls to the Wall’. Check it out after the jump.

Why producers are assholes

I have written about Shining before and since that day, I got more and more into this band. I’d rather call them an Extreme Metal band than a Black Metal band but maybe that’s just me, because I’m ignorant or something. Who knows? Who cares?

On to the news. Shining’s 7th studio album, ‘VII: Född Förlorare’ (eng. ‘Born Loser’), has been delayed several times, after it was recorded 2 years ago. Niklas Kvarforth, singer and mainman behind Shining, now issued a statement regarding the mixing limbo the album has been in.

“As everyone is more than aware, ‘Shining VII’ has been delayed an unacceptably long time. There have been a lot of rumours as to why this should be, so we have decided to set the record straight once and for all.

Despite the fact that the album was recorded two years ago, it has still not been mixed. Our producer has been concentrating on recording other artists instead of finishing the job on ‘Shining VII’. This is despite the fact that Indie Recordings has put up a lot of money to get the album finished and has supported our efforts in every way possible. It is not Shining’s fault and it is not Indie Recordings’ fault that the album still has not appeared, and I am sure you will understand when we say that nobody wants this album released more than ourselves and Indie. Rest assured that we will be taking steps to ensure that it appears sooner rather than later.”

Sounds stupid? Well, it is stupid. Just get someone else to mix it? Nay?

Dummies Hall of Fame

It doesn’t come as a surprise that none other than Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, among 10 others, like Neil Peart of Rush, Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Josh Freese of A Perfect Circle, will be inducted into the Dummies Hall of Fame this year.

What an honor it must be to be inducted into this elitist Hall of Fame, next to George Costanza, Zach Braff and Vin Diesel.

You can only take a joke so far and I already took it too far after typing in the title for this article. No, it’s not called Dummies, but Drummies Hall of Fame (whoever came up with that name deserves to be inducted into the Dummies Hall of Fame though).

You want serious news? Well, go to the site where I stole this news from.