In other Metallica news, they continued their dogged adherence to doing things their own way by collaborating with Lou Reed. The general consensus of opinion seems to have been "WTF?"
(And once people actually heard the "Lulu" album, quickly followed by "WTF is this shite?")
Judas Priest announced their farewell tour which included a headline set at this year's High Voltage Festival. Shortly before the tour opened KK Downing walked out citing personal differences and was replaced by ex-Dirty Deeds man Richie Faulkner.
(I was at the Wolverhampton show and it was fan-friggin-tastic. Trust me on this.)
2011 saw the deaths of guitar legend Gary Moore, Corey Smoot (Guitarist in shock-rock troupe GWAR) and former Motorhead six-stringer Michael "Wurzel" Burston.
And finally, imprisoned rock fans The West Memphis Three were released from prison after a long-running campaign aimed at proving their innocence. (More on them HERE )
Time for some music. Since once again I have a plethora of Metal anthems to choose from, I shall split this post into three segments.
Aggressive - The Metal Head Case (Colombia)
(Basically a crazy bloke having a rant with a thrash band backing him up)
Honour to: Aggressivethrash
Stormhunter - Knights Of Metal (part 1)
(Part 2 doesn't seem to be on Youtube. Pity as this is fun, galloping Trad Metal
As a bonus, see how many song-titles you can spot)
Honour to: ramed14
Satanika - Metal Madness (Italy)
(A crunchier, nastier strain of Thrash this time)
Honour to: truemassemord
R.U.S.T - Forged In The Fire Of Metal (Cyprus)
(Interesting take on Trad/Power Metal. Promising)
Honour to:RustCyprus
Baphomet's Blood - Metal Hunt (Italy)
(Brooding intro launches into rapid-fire Thrash.
Vocals and lyrics need a bit of work methinks)
Honour to: BLACKTHRASHERATTACK
Elm Street - Heavy Metal Power (Australia)
(Another of those "Call to arms" Metal songs)
Honour to: Ivans5727
Mortal Kombat - Post'O Sam Metalac (Serbia)
(Trad metal with some decidedly pissed-off vocals)
Honour to: jocaa666
Rocka Rollas - Heavy Metal Kings (Sweden)
(Heads-down Power Metal without irony)
Honour to: speedriider
Savari - Black Metal Sorcery (Greece)
(The great thing about songs called "Black Metal Whatever"
is that you have a pretty good idea what to expect. And so it is here.)
Honour to: TheHolyblood1
And finally
Braddock - Metal Up Your Ass! (Spain)
(Further explanation frankly pointless)
Honour to: ramed14
And that's it for now.
See you next time.
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