The Metal Project : 2012 (Part One)

The Metal Project is what happens when somebody wonders "How many metal songs on Youtube actually have Metal in the title?"

 The answer, as we have seen, is "Lots"

 2012 saw two events dumped from the UK festival calendar. The Sonisphere Festival had already announced headliners Kiss, Faith No More and Queen before pulling the plug. Meanwhile the High Voltage team decided that trying to compete with the Olympics was a bad move and put the festival on hold. As I write this, there's still no sign of a 2013 edition.
 Queensryche surprised nobody by finally shattering into two warring camps - Geoff Tate vs everybody not called Geoff Tate. According to some sources, a backstage incident led to Tate pulling a knife on another bandmember, at which point his colleagues decided they didn't want to be around him anymore.
 Last time I checked, there was a definite possibility of two different versions of Queensryche touring in 2013 and lawyers were doing The Happy Dance in anticipation of a long, lucrative court battle.
  Nightwish also parted company with their lead singer in controversial circumstances. While on tour, Annette Olzon was unable to perform one night thanks to illness. The band elected to play the show anyway by drafting in a couple of young ladies from the support acts. Annette was less-than-thrilled about this and said so. Shortly afterwards Annette Olzon was joining Tarja Turunen in the file marked "Used to sing for Nightwish" and Floor Jansen, statuesque Revamp vocalist, was flying out to fill in for the rest of the world tour.  
 And finally, Jon Lord, one of the founding fathers of this whole wonderful music scene, passed away. 

 Jon Lord 1941-2012. 

RIP

 Time for some songs. Again, I'm splitting these over three separate posts

Buffalo Theory MTL - Du Metal (Canada)

(Stoner Metal with a definite groove to it)

Honour to: MrStonebeliever

Thrashera - Only For Heavy Metal (Brazil)

(Rough & Ready Speed Metal) 

Honour to: Thrashra666999 

M-Pire Of Evil - Metal Messiah (UK)

(Features 3 ex-members of Venom - although there's a definite hint of Priest)

Honour to: HeavyMetalMaidenHell

Roar - Metal Or Death (Spain)

(More heads-down stuff. With a random bit of slap-bass in the middle.)

Honour to: Roarmetal 

Wrathblade - In Metal We trust (Greece) 

(If you know The Lord Weird Slough Feg this 
is sort of similar - vocals especially.
 If you have no idea what I'm talking about then they're 
trad metal with a touch of quirky and groovy)

Honour to: Windrider1986

And now something from the darker side of Metal

Tanathus - Alcoholic Thrash Black Metal (Colombia)

You just know that on a forum somewhere two metalheads are arguing over
 which bands are  "Real" Alcoholic Black Thrash Metal and 
which are just mainstream sellouts

Honour to: NoPosers666

Time for one from the ladies.

Hysterica - Force Of Metal (Sweden)

(Anthemic, chest-beating stuff perfect for headbanging.
I do like this one.)

Honour to: feinvictus

Seax - Metalhead (USA)

(NWOBHM- very)

Honour to: panzerhel

Band homepage: www.seaxmetal.com

This seems like a good song to end with.

Grave Digger - Metal Will Never Die (Germany)

Honour to: Chipsdevil

That's all folks. See you soon for more of the same.