Dose of Black

In keeping with the ‘Today is kind of black‘-theme the internet is doing today, I thought I’d share my favorite Black Metal song with you.

I’ve written about it before, but today seems to be a fitting day to share it once more. ‘End Of Life,’ by Strid, is an 11-minute, utterly depressive Black Metal song. One of the more prominent riffs of the song was “copied” by the notorious (no, not B.I.G.), German Black Metal act Nargaroth. Interestingly enough, Storm (a.k.a. Rot) of Strid committed suicide in the same year Nargaroth released ‘Black Metal ist Krieg,’ which included the “copied” riff. Coincidence?

Now, in further showing my support of the internet going black today, make the jump to stare at a black picture.

Staind,Godsmack and Halestorm can’t think of a name for their tour

Blabbermouth reports: Staind, Godsmack and Halestorm are so out of ideas that they can’t even think of a name for a tour. Just kidding of course, they’re actually just letting their fans decide on it. Same shit? Possibly.

Either way, if you think of a name, you can leave  a comment on this thread on Godsmack‘s Facebook page: click here.

I thought of quite a few, but I fear a lawsuit. Instead, I’ll just drop one suggested by a Blabbermouth reader:

“if we were any shittier five finger death punch would be here, too” tour

Today is kind of black, isn’t it?

In case you are blissfully unaware, today marks quite a specific day in, well, the history of the internet. To protest the upcoming legislation in the US congress (SOPA and PIPA… even the names kinda fucking suck) that could pretty much fuck the internet up as we know it, and to raise awareness of the implications, a lot of websites are going dark today.

Two of the most popular ones probably being the English Wikipedia and Reddit, but a lot of smaller websites are also joining the “internet blackout day.” Some metal sites are also trying to get their reader base familiar with the situation, namely The Gauntlet and Metal Archives (possibly more).

While Dose of Metal is all about freedom on the internet ‘n shit (in fact the website is started by a bunch of people who probably wouldn’t have ever met if it wasn’t for 1) internet and 2) metal), we won’t go to such drastic lengths.

Now, I speak for myself as this hasn’t been discussed internally, but the reasons I’ll personally keep posting today are: 1) seems kind of cocky to stop our website because as much as we’d like to believe it, we’re not really that big and we’d just be attention whoring and jumping on the band wagon; 2) a lot of people who read this website aren’t from the US, and while the bills in question could screw things up for everyone, seems unfair to those people to bother them with something they probably don’t even understand.

Instead, we’ll leave a few links to get familiar with the situation and make your own decision on whether or not these bills are bad, and in case you do find that they suck, there’s plenty of ways you (Americans) can protest this.

Wikipedia page on SOPA and PIPA (also, the only Wikipedia page you can read today)

Electronic Frontier Foundation’s info on SOPA and PIPA’s implications

The rest of you can keep your fingers crossed, but ALL OF YOU can listen to some metal. Later, bitches.

Download a new Biohazard song

Noisecreep just posted an mp3 of a new Biohazard song, Skullcrusher. You can download the song here: download! Alternatively, you can just stream it below.

Biohazard are preparing for the release of their new album, Reborn in Defiance, the first one in years featuring the original line up of the band. Don’t count on seeing the same line up live, though, because following his work on the album, Evan Seinfeld, the bass player and vocalist for the band, announced his departure. I guess he likes porn more or whatever. Can you really blame him?

North American audience can expect to receive a free copy of the album along with the new issue of Revolver Magazine (comes out this Friday). The rest of you will probably just download it anyway. Assholes.

Meshuggah’s Koloss: details revealed

ThePRP just posted the tracklisting and the album cover for Meshuggah‘s new effort, Koloss, out March 27 (North America), thus confirming previous rumors about the new album name.

The tracklist is as follows:

01 – “I Am Colossus“
02 – “The Demon’s Name Is Surveillance“
03 – “Do Not Look Down“
04 – “Behind The Sun“
05 – “The Hurt That Finds You First“
06 – “Marrow“
07 – “Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion“
08 – “Swarm“
09 – “Demiurge“
10 – “The Last Vigil“

The album cover can be seen after the jump. Now, the big question: Will it djent?