The Metal Project: 2009

The Metal Project is an ongoing quest to find every song on Youtube with "Metal" in the title and gather them in one place. Even the crap ones.

  2009 saw another two Rock festivals added to the calendar: Sonisphere at Knebworth (Headlined by Linkin Park and Metallica) and  the somewhat smaller Hammerfest at Prestatyn Pontins (Headliners: Opeth and Saxon)
 However,  an attempt to stage an indoor event in Dudley ended in acrimony. Headliners Evergrey pulled out after arguments over payment and nobody ended up happy, least of all the promoter.
  Download Festival took the unusual step of packing Sunday's mainstage lineup with rock veterans - Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Journey, ZZ Top and Skin - although those hoping that this would be a regular feature continue to be disappointed.
 This year's rockumentary featured Iron Maiden. "Flight 666" covered the British metal legends on their 2008 world tour and was received with almost universal acclaim.
 The year ended with possibly the biggest chart upset in history. In a bid to stop the Simon Cowell industry claiming the Xmas #1 spot yet again, Jon and Tracey Morter launched a facebook campaign to get Rage Against The Machine's profanity-laden "Killing In The Name Of" to the top of the charts.
 And by all that is holy, they succeeded!
While Simon Cowell gnashed his shiny, shiny teeth, rock fans across the country laughed their bollocks off.
   And on that note, time for some music.

This first band has at least 4 other songs that I could have chosen.

Abigail - Metal Bitch Inferno (Japan)

 Honour to: PartyWithSatan

Atomic Roar - Metal Patrol (Brazil)

(Still rough and ready but not quite so frantic)

Honour to: astronito666

Dagon - Ocean Metal (USA)

(Full-throttle Melodeath that sneaks in some 3IOB elements)

Honour to: FellSoul

See what I mean about the 3 Inches Of Blood bits?

Gangrel - Metal Hunters (Peru - Demo) 

(Enthusiastic Thrash)

Honour to: starrstuff

Hazy Hamlet - Forging Metal (Brazil)

( Trad Metal with a definite touch of the 1980s Teutonic sound. )

Honour to: Christcrusher1

Hysterica - Metalwar (Sweden)

(There's not that many female bands that do "Metal - F*** Yeah!" songs. 
So this trad metal singalong  is a nice change. )

Honour to:  93diofan

Joe Thrasher - Metal Forces (Canada)

(If this one doesn't get you headbanging -are you sure you're looking at the right blog?)

 Honour to: sbstefin

Lion's Share - Full Metal Jacket (Sweden)

(Rapid fire riffing + catchy chorus = me happy
Damn. I like this one)

Honour to: shockwaveradiorock

And now for something completely different.

Misguided Aggression - Metal Horn Bessy (Canada 2009)

(Apparently this is Deathcore. Hmm.)

Honour to: ArcanixUnited

Let's finish up with some bombastic Euro Power Metal

White Skull - Heavy Metal Axes (Italy)

Honour to: santoxky

 As always, this project would not be possible without all the Youtube chaps digging these things out and posting them in the first place. All I'm doing is cataloguing them.

Anyway, that's it for now. See you again soon.