Sunday Metal – Crowbar

2011-03-202011-02-02 / hsoi

Band: Crowbar

Album: Sever the Wicked Hand

Song: The Cemetary Angels

Heavy. Brutal. Crowbar.

Sunday Metal – Sixx A.M.

2011-03-132011-03-07 / hsoi

Nikki Sixx’s side project, Sixx A.M. has a new album. Here’s the first single and video, “Lies of the Beautiful People”

And you know… I don’t see why Sony Music would want to prohibit playback from wordpress.com. If you allow embedding, allow it. This is free press and promotion for y’all… unless of course, you want to ensure to drive traffic to YouTube itself, which is likely the case.

Sunday Metal – Scorpions

2011-03-062011-01-23 / hsoi

One of the best ballads from the Scorpions, “Holiday”

Honestly, I think the original studio recording is the best… but for whatever reason YouTube isn’t able to embed a lot of things. So, this acoustic version will have to do. It’s not bad, but it’s not as good as the original.

Sunday Metal – The Map of Metal

2011-02-272011-02-20 / hsoi

Behold!

\m/ The Map of Metal \m/

Beavis, this is pretty cool!

It’s (yet another) attempt to trace the evolution and geneology of heavy metal music. I love the graphics and artwork and how they put it all together. I also like how they have interactive audio samples of each genre. I discovered some subgenres I didn’t know existed (Oriental Metal? Mathcore? Djent?), and also got to explore some bands I haven’t listened to in a long time, and listen to some new stuff.

There will be endless debates about classifications, and really in the end it doesn’t matter. But this is still pretty cool.

Sunday Metal – Mötley Crüe – Paperback Writer

2011-02-202011-02-20 / hsoi

Check this. April 25, 1981. Mötley Crüe’s second concert ever, opening for Y&T at The Starwood.

And they are covering The Beatles’ “Paperback Writer”.

They do a pretty good job with the cover, but it is an interesting choice in songs. Apparently they dropped the song from the setlist shortly thereafter.

Sunday Metal – Dethklok

2011-02-132011-01-09 / hsoi / 2 Comments

Not only is Metalocalypse a damn funny show, but Brendon Small knows his metal.

Sunday Metal – Iron

2011-02-062011-01-09 / hsoi

Iron!

Iron (/ˈ aɪ .ər n / or /ˈ aɪər n /) is a chemical element with the symbol Fe (Latin: ferrum) and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element in the whole planet Earth, forming much of Earth’s outer and inner core, and it is the fourth most common element in the Earth’s crust. It is produced in abundance as a result of fusion in high-mass stars, where the production of nickel-56 (which decays to iron) is the last nuclear fusion reaction that is exothermic, becoming the last element to be produced before collapse of a supernovaleads to events that scatter the precursor radionuclides of iron into space.