Blood on RICE!

Killer Ones

Japan is really odd country which becomes speaking about their culturally conservative society but also there finds something more interesting than just tuna-filled rice rolls and those decent office workers…

There finds many good extreme metal bands, and Gallhammer is absolutely one of best and special creations which this East`s Wonderland has served in long times…

Black metal playing aggressive trio consist by 3 young womans is not the most common phenomena associated to appear in UG/Extreme metal scene. But Gallhammer is definately right in every things they were done with their musical output. That noise is something really hideous,aggressive and full of exploding energy to cut of any suspicious head.. Bloody end will be unescapable if person not takes seriously those warnings of forth coming storm.

Someone who is into BM, but thinks that there couldn`t be any good BM played by woman should listen Gallhammer`s gloomy groals and just got hefty lashes all over he`s body. When woman is furious there is no anything to play with.

My deep bows comes from those guys playing absolutely great music and not to care as mutch about what anyone else could expected for them. They just do their things, and anybody who whines should just fuck of.. Those Vegan-metal-spicy/hot sushi-rolls are decided for them and everyone who thinks they are doing a great music!

That post was written by:” Iron Goat” (with a poor english-language skills, because that guy lives in Finland..)But try to understand right

Carcass: My Kind of Metalheads, My Kind of Veg*ns

Monica blogged last week about the upcoming Carcass US tour, with Suffocation, 1349 and Aborted (!!!). I bought my ticket for the SF leg of that tour today, and I’m already getting super excited about the show! Aside from being an incredibly influential, pioneering, and brutally kick-ass metal band, Carcass is also comprised of some pretty awesome dudes… this from a 1991 interview with Nuclear Gore zine, issue 3:

“NG: What are your politics?

C: None of us have politics that are possible to define in such brief space. Suffice to say that all of us detest sexism, racism and bigotry in general, and none of us have eaten meat (or dairy produce in me and Jeff’s case) in years.”

This doesn’t stop them, of course, for paving the way with some the most awesomely gory lyrics ever written. I think the album Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious , has some particularly choice cuts, especially the song ‘Pedigree Butchery’ (about humans being turned into pet food)…

“As salubrious pet food
Human midden is consumed…

Ghastly I slake
Bestial appetites to sate
As flesh and steel I mate
To fill the lower species’ plate…”

Nothing hippie about these vegetarians/vegans! In fact, this video for Pedigree Butchery is perhaps an example of the fate that hippies would suffer at the hands of the Carcass horde.

[Warning: the video in the link above is utterly, ridiculously, gleefully gory, and probably not for everyone. If you don't like blood, guts, and old horror movies... well, you've been warned].

To Lovecraft, with love

I’m going away to Ireland tomorrow, back to a place where I lived for a while in my early teenage years. The place where I’ll be staying is 4 miles from the nearest shop, 17 miles from the nearest town and is at the end of a large forest. Pure isolation, so naturally I’m bringing lots of reading material.

Acolytes of Lovecraft, lured by the grandeur of vegan chocolate cake

Scanning my bookcase I spied a couple of H.P. Lovecraft omnibuses, books that I haven’t really picked up since I was 17-18. I’m sure that for a lot of people heavy metal and horror are natural bedfellows, but save for a select few films and the imagery of 30’s/40’s/50’s Universal Monsters I’m not such a fan of the genre in any medium. However,  seeing those Lovecraft books reminded though of how great his mythos and stories are. it took me back to the first time I bought one of his collections in a charity shop for 50p and raced home to read through it; I’d heard whisperings of how unusual the atmosphere was in his stories , and even the name ‘Lovecraft’ seemed dangerously arcane to me. Maybe I’m just a weirdo. Anyway, I sat reading ‘The Haunter of the Dark’ as a storm raged outside my window, just as it does in the story. I didn’t think that the Haunter was going to ride the storm and come into the bedroom as happens in the story (that was more likely to be my mum, I was one messy kid) but I was enthralled.

Even the photographs of Lovecraft seem odd; I used to think that they fitted the bill of the misanthropic loner that his biographers have painted him as, but now when I look at them I see someone whose same, constant expression mirrors the detachment and indifference that the famed Great Old Ones show throughout his stories.

Anyway, whilst I haven’t read Lovecraft in a long time, the influence that his writings and universe have had over the music I have enjoyed for years is immeasurable. Today I’ve just been drinking coffee, baking a chocolate cake and trying to decide which bands have harnessed his weird atmosphere the best. It’s a hard life sometimes. So here’s my 5 favourite Lovecraft influenced albums (I’m sure Pranjal and Monica might be able to add to this):

1. Rudimentary Peni – Cacophany

A concept album by the English death punk band, based purely on H.P Lovecraft’s life. Absolutely insane but fantastic.

2. Catacombs – In The Depths of r’lyeh

The name of the album is Lovecraft related, and it has a very other-worldly atmosphere.

3. Moss – Cthonic Rites

Probably what it would sound like if Cthulhu came to earth, decided to swallow everybody and then recorded the goings on in his belly.

4. Ungl’Unl’Rrlh’Chchch – Ungl’Unl’Rrlh’Chchch

I swear that’s their name and I’m not making it up. A project that is a tribute to Lovecraft. Weird, eerie droning sounds.

5. Morbid Angel – every album. Not for the atmospheres but just because they seem to love H.P.L so much.

If anybody knows of any others, not just within the realms of punk/metal, I’d love to hear them. I’m off to eat some chocolate cake and pray to the Great Old Ones. (Oh, and check the graffiti out….incredible!) PeteF.

Eating Sandwiches (on The Seventh Day of Doom)

I don’t like Sundays. It has nothing to with the impending return to work or the fact that it always seems to be cold, wet, rainy, windy and generally  miserable (well, not always, but it certainly does feel like it). Most people I know really enjoy them but I certainly don’t; when I woke up and realised what day it was today I pulled the covers over my head and went to sleep for another 4 hours as a way of avoiding the S-word.

Fellow haters of Sundays

When I finally did get out of bed I realised I had nothing in the house to eat; someone had stole in in the middle of the night and ate all of my bread and soy milk. Or more likely I devoured everything last night, post pub. But still, it was gone. So, I left the house to go the shops and get some food. Flicking through my mp3 player I came upon Tormentor’s ‘7th Day of Doom’ demo.  7th Day of Doom, ay? Do you think that these mad Hungarians share my disdain for the last day of the week? i’d sure like to think so. I haven’t checked out the lyrics yet but I’d like to think that every riff, every howl, every bang of the drums is a promise to obliterate Sunday from the calendar. It’s probably safe to say that it isn’t, but still, great name for a demo. Tormentor are Atilla Csihar of Mayhem and Sunn o))) fame’s first band and anyone who has heard him sing would probably agree that he has a somewhat unique voice, but on the demo it’s the riffs that really stand out. Great stuff.

Sunday saviour

I did make a sandwich in the end, even in the midst of a miserable 7th day of doom. I tried some ‘cheese’ slices that I had never had before and they were delicious melted in panini with some vegan bacon. I’m not sure what the cheese alternatives are like in the States but over here they are pretty yucky, but the Cheezly ones I tried today had a nice taste and texture. PeteF.