Does Humour Belong In Music?

 

"Well, this is embarrassing, came for a photo shoot and the photographer's mother had us remove our boots and socks before we entered the studio..."

"Youse were ol muddy and soaking wet and I'm not mopping the floor a second time this week!" 

Does Humour Belong In Music?

Nick: 'Tis with pride that I looketh upon the proud beasts of the land, leaving their mark on these hallowed grounds!

Gregor: What are you on about mate? They're just sheep, shitting!

Aaron: Oh fer fucksake, do I have to shovel the grass again?

 

Spins Of The Week: 15-21 January 2024

 Obscurity - "Damnations Pride"

Morbid Angel - "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh"

Grave - "Into The Grave"

JIRM - "The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam"

JIRM - "Bloom"

Tiamat - "Clouds"

Amorphis - "The Karelian Isthmus"

Turbowolf - "Two Hands"

Mercyful Fate - "Melissa"

King Diamond - "The Graveyard"

King Diamond - "Voodoo"

Helstar - "Burning Star"

Helstar - "Remnants Of War"

Impaled Nazarene - "Ugra-Karma"

Angelcorpse - "Hammer Of Gods"

Metal Church - "The Human Factor"

Wardog - "Scorched Earth"

Tankard - "R.I.B."

Vassafor - "Vassafor"

Bathory - "Blood Fire Death"

Miasmal - "Cursed Redeemer"

Judas Priest -"Painkiller"

 

Random Appreciation Post: My Dying Bride

Something didn't fully click in me with "In Line Of Deathless Kings". Spinning it now, after what feels an eternity... maybe for the first time since 2006/07. 

The songs are great - had they managed to insert a little more "rough", a bit more "noise" and by this I actually mean a few more wall-of-sound dynamics, this would have been another masterpiece. It is not a masterpiece but it is a great record albeit within MDB's comfort zone (it is one of the most identifiable comfort zones in metal).

(Aaron looking for something he dropped on the Shepherd's Bush Empire stage, Friday 1 Dec 2023.)

Spins Of The Week: 16 - 22 October 2023

Napalm Death - "Enemy Of The Music Business" (2000, Dream Catcher)

Meshuggah - "Immutable" (2002, Atomic Fire)

Iron Maiden - "The X Factor" (1995, EMI)

Witchcraft - "Nucleus" (2016, Nuclear Blast)

Deicide - "Deicide" (1990, R/C)

Deicide - "Legion" (1992, R/C)

Joe Satriani - "Surfing With The Alien" (1987, Relativity)

Venomous Concept - "The Good Ship Lollipop" (2023, Decibel)

Fates Warning - "Long Day Good Night" (2020, Metal Blade)

Pallbearer - "Heartless" (2017, Nuclear Blast)

Prong - "State Of Emergency" (2023, Steamhammer)

Tiamat - "Sumerian Cry" (1990, C.M.F.T.)

Tiamat - "The Astral Sleep" (1991, Century Media)

Benediction - Grind Bastard (1998, Nuclear Blast)

Daily Thompson - "God Of Spinoza" (2021, Noisolution)

General Smartarsery: King's X, Prong

 Are King's X to progressive metal what Prong are to nü metal?

Random Appreciation Post: Nobody Fucks With Bitchwax!

I think it's almost 20 years since I saw The Atomic Bitchwax in Stockholm (Sweden). They were equally as no-nonsense heavy rock last night! A riff behemoth!

The legend Chris Kosnik