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Friday Top 10: Metal breakdowns

Nowadays it’s fairly difficult to view breakdowns in a good light. As Metal has developed in the 21st century, the divergence of Hardcore influences into Metal has grown, and with it, has brought a whole heap of clichés that have disgusted a major section of the Metal community. One of those overused clichés is the breakdown. How many Metal bands these days rely purely on breakdowns in order to create “heavy” music? Way too many. Some bands are so shit, they don’t even bother writing songs. They just write 3 minutes of breakdowns and then call that a song *cough* Emmure *cough*

It wasn’t always like that though. There was once a time when Metal had some awesome breakdowns, and in fact, some bands still write some brilliant breakdowns. Whether they be epic instrumental passages, or those awesome thrashy breakdowns, some of the best Breakdowns can be found in this week’s Top 10 Friday. So forget those shitty Deathcore/Metalcore bands, and instead why not check out my list after the jump. Does the above image mean Megadeth may get a mention? There’s only one way to find out…

Nergal makes first public appearance

Some brilliant news in Metal today. Metal Hammer reports that Nergal of Behemoth has made his first public appearance since his leukaemia scare. As we previously reported, the Behemoth frontman underwent a bone marrow transplant, and it seems Nergal is doing well since then.

He was seen this past Monday, February 28 at the Musicollective music school in Poland, and pictures can be found over at Facebook.

We at Dose of Metal all wish Nergal the best of luck.

Metal goes gaga

If, like me, you’re actually a closet Pop fan (I’m also a closet homosexual, but now’s not the time for that), you may just enjoy this Metalized cover of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance by a band known as Leander. I’d love to say I actually know who they are, BTW, but I don’t. In a perfect world, I’d know who Leander are, and not who Lady Gaga is, but oh well.

In other news, I’m still hoping Lady Gaga will join Anthrax.

Devildriver Beast their way into US top 50

Devildriver, my favorite Christian Metal band (because they drive devils, duh), have managed to crack the US top 50 this week, with their brand new album, Beast.

Beast is an absolute beast of an album, and has sold 11,000 copies in the US in its first week, getting to number 42 in the charts. That may not seem a lot, but I guess it is in this day and age, especially for a Metal band that isn’t Metallica, Slipknot or Iron Maiden. More information on the album can be found here.

Now if you excuse me, I’m off to unwrap my 11,000 copies of Devildriver‘s new album.

Sepultura finish another album. Without Max.

Poor old Max, he has wanted a Sepultura reunion since, like, forever, despite claiming he doesn’t need one (insert the image of me rolling my eyes – actually don’t, too ugly). Despite him mentioning the possibilities of a reunion about 452,001 times last year, it seems Sepultura have just finished recording a new album, as their current line-up. I.e. Without him.

According to Blabbermouth, 13 tracks have been recorded during the sessions, including cover versions of Ministry‘s Just One Fix and The Prodigy‘s Firestarter, both of which are likely to be available as bonus tracks on various special-edition releases. You can also expect that Firestarter cover to be absolutely awful. Well, we’ll see… Could be worse though, they could be covering U2 again *shudder*

The, as yet, untitled album is expected for release in May this year. Is Sepultura still Sepultura without Max? Well, put it this way. Sex without my girlfriend is still sex. Okay, so I haven’t quite got round to telling her yet that I’m sleeping with someone else, but the point still stands. Is the sex better or worse? Well that’s for a different discussion.