Eyewitness accounts report that Maiden retaliated by playing an absolute blinder.
The Download Festival attempted to broaden their appeal by adding the likes of Garbage, Feeder and Dinosaur Jr. to the Friday lineup. Since the experiment was never repeated, one can assume the result was not a happy one. Incidentally if you'd told me in 2003 that Nightwish would one day be playing a major UK outdoor festival I'd have assumed you were mental. And yet there they were on the main stage at Download.
For those who thought Download was too mainstream, there was the newly created Bloodstock Outdoor Festival (Headlined by Sebastian Bach and Children of Bodom)
Sam Dunn's excellent documentary "Metal - A Headbanger's Journey" came out this year and picked up quite a few good reviews. It would have been nice if it had been screened anywhere besides London...
This post is dedicated to the memory of Tommy Vance who passed away in 2005.
Thanks to his Friday Rock Show I discovered a lot of good music.
RIP Tommy.
Let's start with some chestbeating Estonians
Herald - Heavy Metal Wakes The Beast (Estonia)
Honour to: Rott215
Have some full-throttle - yet curiously catchy - Power Metal
Honour to: xBulletRider502x
Have some full-throttle - yet curiously catchy - Power Metal
Cannon - Metal Thunder (Germany)
If Venom were Japanese they might have sounded like this.
Abigail - Metal Got Sick (Japan)
Honour to: CBPOWERTRIP
Next, something equally rapid but a tad more singalong.
Bloden-Wedd - Power Metal Pride (Chile)
Honour to: AztecaBlade
Manowar clearly inspire a lot of bands, stylistically if not necessarily musically.
Honour to: TheSadistikBastard
More minimalist Black Metal stuff
Honour to: BlackThrashAttack666
Weirdly enough, there's a keyboard solo in this next one despite the rest of the
song having no audible keyboards whatsoever.
Manowar clearly inspire a lot of bands, stylistically if not necessarily musically.
Goddess of Desire - Scream For Metal True (Netherlands)
(Not female vocals, by the way)More minimalist Black Metal stuff
Power From Hell - The True Metal (Brazil)
Weirdly enough, there's a keyboard solo in this next one despite the rest of the
song having no audible keyboards whatsoever.
Katarsis - Herederos De Metal (Colombia)
We move on to a band that give us one of the all-time great song titles
Nocturnal Depression - F*** Off Parisian Black Metal Scene (France)
Anybody else in the mood for something a bit more cheerful?
The vocalist is definitely an acquired taste though.
Burning Black - Heavy Metal Is My Law (Italy)
And to finish, a song that includes the wonderful lyrics
" We'll hang you live on stage, with a rusty string
Get ready to f***ing mosh, cause metal is king
A giant f***ing frying pan will smash you to the floor
Promqueens dipped in gasoline will be burnings to the core"
" We'll hang you live on stage, with a rusty string
Get ready to f***ing mosh, cause metal is king
A giant f***ing frying pan will smash you to the floor
Promqueens dipped in gasoline will be burnings to the core"
Terror 2000 - Metal Mosh Massacre (Sweden)
Honour to: MyRobocock
I'm surprised more metal bands don't sing about frying pans. Frying things is totally Metal.
Frying things while drunk and stark bollock naked is very, very Metal but likely
to lead to awkward questions in Casualty later on.
That's it for now. See you next time.
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