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Tuesday, 6 November 2012

The Metal Project: 2001 - A Metal Odyssey.

The Metal Project is my attempt to track down every song on Youtube with "Metal" in the title. 

Keeps me out of mischief.     

The year 2001 saw more of the same. Linkin Park and Slipknot were the rising stars of Nu-Metal, Judas Priest followed up the tuneless "Jugulator" with the much better "Demolition" and the inaugral Bloodstock festival was created as a vehicle for all those European Metal bands most UK promoters refused to touch. 
 On a personal note, I finally got to see Savatage live!

I think we've got a fairly varied selection this time around. Enjoy.

Let's start with these Canadian survivors nailing their colours to the mast.  

Anvil - Real Metal (Canada)

Honour to: Bassett1995

Wizard - Black Heavy Metal (Finland)

Honour to: Christcrusher1

This next one is...odd.

Naglfar -Fat, Old Heavy Metal Mama (Norway)

Honour to:labruja666

See what I mean? 
Time for some Spanish Power Metal

Muro- Corazon De Metal (Spain)

Honour to: EVLfuentero

And from that to some unhinged Japanese Black/Thrash mayhem.
These guys also wrote a song called "Dick is F***ing Big"
Does that tell you all you need to know?
Honour to:metalniece

I love the floaty synths on this next one. 
If Vangelis or Jean-Michel Jarre had a go at Prog-Metal it might sound a bit like this. 

Ambeon - Cold Metal (Netherlands)

Honour to: AstridVanDerVeen

And now something a bit more Trad - but with a few flourishes.

Khafra- Caja De Metal (Mexico)

Honour to: Alan Saguero

This next one sounds like something one of the thrashier NWOBHM bands might have come up with.
It's two tracks for the price of one, incidentally.

Demonax - Play That Metal Mean/Authority (USA)

Honour to; speedriider

If you like The Poodles you might like this next track

Midnight Sun - Metal Gods (Sweden)

Honour to: bambosz

For those of you who thought that last one was too poppy...
Have some of this

Nargaroth - Posessed By Black F****ing MEtal (Germany)

Honour to: JosefFritzlRecords

And that's it for now.
See you next time.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, I had no idea how narrow my heavy musical tastes are. Thank you for the eye opener and the enjoyable musical ride. I like the multicultural approach.

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