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Weekly Dose of Metal: Dark Tranquility
Dark Tranquility are a Melodic Death Metal hailing from Sweden, which is pretty much where all the Melo Death bands come from. It’s like a hotspot or something.
I first came to hear the band with 2005’s Character, an album I loved at the time. I then went to listen to some of the band’s other albums, and oddly I couldn’t really get into any of them. Odd right? Ah well.
Check out ‘My Negation’ taken from Character below. It kicks more ass than a granny in the driver seat.
Random Dose of Metal: Somne
Who are Somne? According to their Facebook, they are an atmospheric black metal band hailing from Manchester, UK. The band consist of just two members, ‘T’ who handles all the instrumental and writing side of the band, and ‘A’ who does all the vocals and lyrics.
Talk about little information, huh? You can listen to the song ‘Beyond’ above and make your own mind up though. The production is a bit shit, which may be either because they are black metal, or might be just because the song is only in its demo stage, I have no idea. Regardless, I’m a pretty depressing fellow, so I found I enjoyed the song, and you may do too.
Kidtallica
While Metallica are off doing their lame Lulu project, a bunch of kids are ‘metalling’ it up, performing a morbid cover of ‘Tallica‘s ‘Enter Sandman’.
The playing is a little sloppy, and the kid’s idea of singing is something along the lines of “eeeexxxeeet deeeeerp, deeeeeerpy niiiiiyyyt”, but they’re still infinitely more metal than Metallica. Plus the little girl in the skirt (no, not Kirk) plays the solo, which is more than Korn or any of those Nu Metal bands do when they cover Tallica. It’s official, kids > Nu Metal.
Source: Metal Hammer
I predict a riot
Props to Bring Me The Horizon. Words I never thought I would say, despite jokes about their music starting riots, the band handled things pretty well.
Vocalist Oli Sykes was assaulted on stage during the band’s headlining performance last night (Monday, October 3) at In The Venue in Salt Lake City, Utah. Certain members of the crowd began bottling the band, which prompted Sykes to bottle the people in question back following a warning “if you don’t like our band, then get the fuck out”. During this alteration, several “fans” jumped the stage and assaulted the band. It makes for pretty hilarious viewing, so I definitely advise watching the video above.
Honestly though… You’d expect myself, a writer for Dose of Metal (like many of the commenters at Blabbermouth), to either make wise cracks or support the morons in question, but I have full support for the band. Personally, I find those that heckle or bottle bands to be fucking self-riotous, ignorant human beings. These particular people in question are particularly stupid, however, as they paid to see Bring Me The Horizon at a headlining show. Why would they even do that, if they hate the band so much? Even if it’s just to see a supporting band they like, Oli is right: “don’t like the music, then fuck off”.
Update: Upon reading Oli Sykes blog (why I did that, God only knows), it would appear that Oli claims he ‘didn’t receive so much as a scratch’ and yada-yada, read it for yourself if you care.
And now for some Metal… Behemoth unleash video
Hellish Metallers, Behemoth, have finally unleashed the highly anticipated video for ‘Lucifer’. All you need to do to view the awesome video, is click play above. Do it now, or forever regret your grave mistake.
If you liked this post, please feel free to perform a celebratory dance. In fact, if you’re really hardcore and liked this post, then click here for the uncensored video. But please don’t forget the celebratory dance.
