Sixteen new remix tracks off the compilation album Illud Divinum Insanus (The Remixes) have been made available online and can be streamed at this location. The double compilation hits stores today in Europe and on February 28th (North America) via Season Of Mist and features remixes of songs from US industrial/death metallers Morbid Angel’s latest album Illud Divinum Insanus from 39 artists from the Electro/Industrial/Dub scene. [Source]
Dangerous Minds’ reader Rhodri turned me on to this slowed down (from 45 r.p.m to 33 r.p.m) version of The Osmonds’ “Crazy Horses.” A pretty great rock song has now become a monolithic slab of heavy metal with Cookie Monster vocals. [Source]
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METALLICA performed a previously unreleased song from the “Death Magnetic” sessions called “Hate Train” Monday (December 5, 2011) at the first of four intimate shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco as part of the week-long celebration of its 30th anniversary as a band for fan club members only. [Source]
Ghost is a Swedish heavy metal band formed 2008. The band was hyped up in 2010 partly because of members’ choice to appear behind the masks without giving their identities. The group claims to be sent by the devil to the commercially viable rock collecting souls for him. The debut “Opus Eponymous” was nominated for a Grammy in 2011 in the category hard rock. ”Here Comes The Sun” (Beatles cover) is the Bonus track from the album ”Opus Eponymous”. [Source]
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Reign in Blood’s release was delayed because of concerns regarding its graphic artwork and lyrical subject matter. The opening track, “Angel of Death”, which refers to Josef Mengele and describes acts, such as human experimentation, that Mengele committed at the Auschwitz concentration camp, provoked allegations of Nazism. However, the band stated numerous times they do not condone Nazism, and are merely interested in the subject. The album was Slayer’s first to enter the Billboard 200; the release peaked at number 94, and was certified 2x Platinum on November 20, 1992.
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[Dedicated to Jette Hye Jin Mortensen]
Reign in Blood is the third studio album and the major label debut by the American thrash metal band Slayer. It was released on October 7, 1986 through Def Jam Recordings. The album was the band’s first collaboration with record producer Rick Rubin, whose input helped the band’s sound evolve. Reign in Blood was universally well received by both critics and fans, and was responsible for bringing Slayer to the attention of a mainstream metal audience. Kerrang! magazine described the record as “the heaviest album of all time,” and a breakthrough in thrash metal and speed metal. Alongside Metallica’s Master of Puppets, Anthrax’s Among the Living and Megadeth’s Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?, Reign in Blood is considered one of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time, thrash metal in particular.
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[via Jette Hye Jin Mortensen]
Inside The Electric Circus is the third studio album by W.A.S.P., released in 1986. This is the first full-length W.A.S.P. release to feature Blackie Lawless playing guitar. The album peaked at #60 in the Billboard Charts. The song is written by Jo Armstead, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson. It was a hit song by Ray Charles in 1966. Over the years, it has been covered by bands such as garage rock band The Chocolate Watch Band in 1969, Humble Pie in 1971 and New Riders of the Purple Sage in 1972.
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[In memory of Nick Ashford]
