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Blast from the Past: Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell, and your trip begins. Seven downward slopes, seven bloodied hopes, seven are your burning fires, seven your desires… These are the words that open Iron Maiden‘s seventh album, the aptly titled Seventh Son of a Seventh Son. And what a way to open it is.

Released in 1988, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son is the second Iron Maiden album to feature keyboards, it is the last to include guitarist Adrian Smith until Brave New World in 2000, and it is the band’s attempt at somewhat of a concept, almost Prog like, album.

We’ve been running this site for nearly a year now and we have yet to review a single Iron Maiden album, we just had a brilliant Friday Top 10 on the Maiden, so it’s about time we reviewed an album right? Make the jump to see what I make of the 1988 classic (bollocks I just gave away my verdict).

Meshuggah rock Metaltown

Apparently Metaltown is actually a festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, not an actual Metal town. That’s a shame, because a pure town of Metal would kick ass. No longer would I have to wake up to the sound of my neighbour listening to Take That, then proceed to vomit, and have to listen to Amon Amarth to stop the sickness, before I leave my house to be surrounded by old farts moaning about my music.

Regardless, Meshuggah recently kicked ass as the Metaltown festival, and fan-made footage can be viewed above, which I guess you should check out. Or don’t, I still get paid at the end of the week (no, wait, no I don’t :().

More footage can be found at Blabbermouth.

Judas Priest farewell tour footage

The first load of crappy fan-shot videos of Judas Priest‘s farewell tour have made their way onto the interwebz thanks to today’s amazing technology (all this technology though, and it still hasn’t found me a girlfriend).

The footage, which is taken from Judas Priest‘s June 22, 2011 performance at the Gods Of Metal festival in Milan, Italy, can be seen both above and after the jump, because we’re just that damn awesome. Breaking The Law can be seen above. Rob Halford doesn’t sing the song, because I guess he’s tired or something huh?

More footage, as well as the setlist, can be found after the jump of doom. Or just jump if you prefer.

Hear the new Anthrax song

It’s been long enough, but finally a brand new fucking Anthrax song is available for your listening pleasure. And that can only mean the new album isn’t far off. Well September 13th kind of “not far off” which actually is fairly far off, but not in terms of Anthrax albums.

You can listen to the new Anthrax song ‘Fight ‘Em ‘Til You Can’t’ by going to the band’s website here and entering your email address to be sent a download link. That’s right, no shitty YouTube streams, you get the real deal with Anthrax.

But if you like shitty YouTube streams, see below.

Did I download it? Of course I did. The song kicks major ass, and Belladonna’s vocals are sounding awesome. Make sure you check out the song for yourselves.

DJ Ashba will help Axl

“Help Axl with what exactly?”, I hear you cry. Help him by reading a bedtime story at night? Help him plait his hair?

Nope, according to a recent interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, DJ Ashba is ready to help Axl with the next Guns N’ Roses album. Well, you are the guitarist right Ashba? I mean, that is your job right? Unless what you’re saying is the current iteration of Guns N’ Roses is actually an Axl Rose solo project masked as Guns N’ Roses, but that couldn’t be right, could it?

Either way, be prepared to spend the next 14 years working on it Asha.