According to a recent interview, Gaahl also has a thing for Norwegian modeling agents, but thats another story.

Here is Gaahl explaining his inspiration in Metal A Headbanger’s Journey.

Thats right, a long dramatic pause and then answering ‘Satan’ makes for a good interview answer. I don’t care what they ask you.

Remember kids, while Gaahl might take you to court over a band name or be designing your clothing, he doesn’t have any exclusive rights to Satan.

Winnie the Poo does.

Packed with insight seldom found on Youtube, RichManofAction makes no excuses of why to learn such a revered Heavy Metal Art as Finger Tapping

Watch and learn

According to The Detroit Free Press IGGY AND THE STOOGES’ equipment was stolen on Monday, August 4 outside the Embassy Suites Hotel (2008 Saint Antoine Ouest) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The equipment’s dollar value is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, said Eric Fischer, the band’s road manager. But he described some items as priceless — including the vintage Gibson bass that had been Mike Watts’ go-to instrument since his MINUTEMEN days in the 1980s.

“That bass would go in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame someday if we could find it,” said Fischer. “We’re all just gutted.”

The yellow, 15-foot Penske truck was discovered missing by Fischer about 7:30 yesterday morning. It had been parked on the street directly in front of the Embassy Suites hotel in Montreal, where Iggy Pop and his band mates had lodged after their Sunday night concert — their first Canadian show in more than three decades. Inside was everything from Scott Asheton’s drum kit to Ron Asheton’s guitars and amps.

List of stolen goods:

Red roadcase containing:
Red Gibson 1963 EB-3 bass (this is mike watt’s bass!) USA No serial number

Black roadcase containing:r
Reverend Flying V guitar - Volcano black USA #08001

Black roadcase containing:
Reverend Orange guitar USA 03416 ZSL7

Black fibre case containg:
Gibson red SG short scale bass USA No serial number

Black roadcase containing:
Marshall Vintage/Modern Amplifier UK M-2007-07-0926-2 RoHS

Black roadcase containing:
Marshall Vintage/Modern Amplifier UK M-2007-07-0927-2 RoHS

4x Marshall 4×12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #1 Slant: M-2007-05-0149-0

4x Marshall 4×12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #2 Straight: M-2006-49-0380-0

4x Marshall 4×12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #3 Slant: M-2007-05-0150-0

4x Marshall 4×12 Cabinets (with Tuki cover) UK #4 Straight: M-2006-49-0381-0

Orange Calzone road case containing:
Guitar pedal board and pedals USA/Japan No serial number
Assorted leads USA/UK No serial number
2x mic stands Germany No serial number
Assorted strings and spares USA No serial number
plus:
2x Boss TU2 Chromatic Tuner
Boss CH1 Super Chorus
Fulltone OCD Overdrive
Crybaby Wah
Peterson Strobo-Stomp Tuner Pedal
Whirlwind A/B Boxes
Whirlwind Cable Tester
and many many istrument cables
various tools ( screwdrivers, soldering iron, pliers, etc… )
tambourine and maracas

Cardboard box containing:
Assorted replacement drum heads USA No serial number

Gretsch Silver Sparkle Catalina drum kit USA No serial number
26″ Kick Drum No serial number
13″ Rack Tom No serial number
18″ Floor Tom No serial number
4x Cymbal Stands No serial number
1x Snare Stand No serial number
1x Hi Hat Stand No serial number
1x Drum Throne No serial number

Eden D810 Bass cabinet USA D810RP4 0703E5001

Eden D810 Bass cabinet USA D810RP4 0703E5002

Cardboard box containg:
Eden VT300 Bass amplifier USA 0601E5115

Cardboard box containg:
Eden VT300 Bass amplifier USA 0507E5033

Floor Fan CHINA No serial number

Floor Fan CHINA No serial number

Green clamshell suitcase containing:
Yamaha snare drum JAPAN No serial number
Yahama kick pedal JAPAN No serial number
Zildjian Mega Bell cymbal USA No serial number
Zildjian 15″ Hi-Hats USA No serial number
3x Zildjian 18″ 19″ 20″ crash medium cymbals USA No serial number

Brown Epiphone guitar case:
Black Epiphone EB3 short scale bass KOREA F300503

1 x Wheeled Black Pelican case (50cm x 28cm x 20cm) containing :
A selection of microphones and microphone accessories, most of which are in separately labeled black pouches. All of the microphones are of Shure manufacture, also a BSS DI box. Inside the Pelican case there is also a Ferrari pencil case containing an iPod, iPod accessories, various small cables and adaptors, a Leatherman Charge, a Stooges AAA tour laminate, some pain killers, some sharpies, some electrical tape, some business cards (Mr Rik Hart). Within the case there is also a big pair of Sony headphones (model MDR7506) with a long curly cable and three very long XLR to XLR mic cables. Here’s a more specific list of the microphones :
2 x SM91
5 x SM98
2 x B98
2 x SM81
2 x KSM32
1 x KSM27
2 x B52
3 x SM57
8 x SM58
1 x BSS AR-133 DI Box
(all manufactured by shure)

If anyone has ANY information, please contact:
Eric Fischer at:
nycentral13@gmail.com
cell phone: +1 646 932 1907

all equipment was in a rented penske 15 foot yellow truck
with u.s. (michigan) license plate number AC46493
parked immediately outside the embassy suites hotel
in montreal. the theft had to have happened in the morning, between 6:30 and 7:30 am - truck and all gear stolen

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Iggy and The Stooges - I Wanna be Your Dog

Have a Hella Birthday, Hetfield!

What? You’ll be down at Broadway at the Beach, 1320 Celebrity Circle #CS7 on September 6th?

Well hot damn, you can see KISS guitarist Tommy Thayer (fake Ace).

So go grab yourself a Demon Dark Roast or a Iced Rockiato (I’m sure those are trademarked) and enjoy rocking Kiss Coffee Party with contests, live music and Tommy Thayer (not Ace).

(from By-Torpedia, updated Lifeson 34th, 2112)

The entity known as Geddy Lee from the Great White North turned 55 earth-years on July 29, 2008.  Sometimes known as “Canada” in the Days Before the Priests of Syrinx, this vast wasteland produced very little of note, but Lee and two other GWN comrades, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart, formed a Rock and Roll (see By-Torpedia entry “Rock and Roll”) band known as RUSH and managed to break free of its frozen bounds and escaped into the Limelight in their Red Barchetta.

Lee played bass and keyboards in the band and provided lead vocals, his high ethereal voice one of the factors of RUSH’s popularity.  Lee and his bandmates continued well into the the first half of the 21st Century until they were called to Cygnus X-I by the Necromancer’s Superconductor which whisked them away through the Vapor Trails by way of Jacob’s Ladder and they lived into the Dog Years with the Analog Kid and the New World Man, Closer to the Heart and a Farewell to Kings YIPPEEE!!!  I Think I’m Going Bald!

Whoa…sorry, Geddy.  Happy Birthday, man!

Love-

Clods of Sodom

Bryant, father of two, ages 3 and 5, works with children at the Easter Seals/UCP Child Development Center in Charlotte and is drawing from his own fathering experience to put child oriented lyrics to metal and hard rock rifs. Good manners and learning to count to 10 in Spanish instead of Satan, sex, and drugs.

The album will be finished this winter and currently doesn’t have a distributer.

Eric Bryant’s album titled Metal for Munchkins will hopefully be playing at a playground near you soon.

Check out the video

Let’s also not forget original lead-guitarist, Dave Mustaine, who co-wrote a lot of the tunes on KILL ‘EM ALL.  It’s too band the rest of the band woke him up at 6 AM to send him back home from New York to California on a Greyhound bus before he could record a lick for the album.

Here’s to ya, Young Metallica!  Cheers!*

When I came across their first album (1984’s “War and Pain”) in the old Tower Records in Tacoma, I knew I had something special. It took me years to fully understand it and by then the band had outdistanced me and were off to other planets, other dimensions and other bass players. I bought a copy (eight dollars and 98 cents would buy you a sweet piece o’ vinyl in those days), took it home and put it on the turntable. What came out of the speakers was not what I expected. But then, what had I been expecting? Another Slayer clone or third-rate Metallica? Probably. But I wasn’t very discerning then, anyway, and a third-rate Metallica was still better than the unholy Boy George/Michael Jackson/Duran Duran triumvirate that dominated radio and MTV at the time. After all, I did own cassettes like Thrust’s “Fist Held High” (with the non-classic “Poser Will Die”), Omen’s “Battle Cry” and even some band called Vyper that looked like typical L.A. Hair Metal dudes trying to go in a more Power Metal direction.

So, “War and Pain”…

Chances are I would have played it a few times and then sold it along with Thrust, Omen and Vyper to the local second-hand record store for dope money if it wasn’t anything special. But it was. It was more than special – it was unusual. To this day, I can’t think of a record that sounds anything like it (except for Voivod’s second album, RRRÖÖÖAAARRR, but even by then the band was already stretching its black, leathery wings to include strange bits of cybernetic horror and mechanized paranoia). The closest I can come is to maybe compare it to Motörhead on acid or possibly some weird Venom/Germs hybrid filtered through a science fiction junkie’s brain. It sure as hell was the noisiest record I’d ever heard. At times the band sounds barely in control of their own songs and guitarist Piggy’s masterful use of dissonant chords, echo-effects and over-the-top distortion makes his guitar seem like one of the machineries of Death that vocalist, Snake, keeps screaming about as if he keeps waking up in the middle of a nightmare only to discover that everything he ever feared has come true. Original bass player, Blacky (appropriately listed as playing “Blower Bass” on the album) rumbles underneath with the second most distinguishable bass sound in the history of Metal (number one being, of course, Lemmy) and drummer, Away (also the artist responsible for all of Voivod’s incredible and unique cover art) relentlessly hammers away with slightly-demented time-signatures in a post-apocalyptic fury.

Besides the noise, the second thing that strikes the discerning listener (or third thing, if you count the afore-mentioned amazing cover art) is the cohesion of the record. This is the debut album of a fledgling rock band—a fledgling Canadian rock band (not sure why that matters, but somehow, it does)—but already Voivod has tied everything together with an a character—The Voivod himself, a future-past survivor of some cataclysmic war—and a sound that never varies while simultaneously avoiding redundancy. Even the look of the band at this time was in unison. It wasn’t quite a concept album (that wouldn’t happen until their fourth album, the brilliant masterpiece, Dimension Hatröss) but it was a concept—one that the band kept throughout their career, varying it, tweaking it and updating it but never losing sight of it.

From the opening sounds of chains being dragged while Piggy pulls some volumatic tricks on his “Burning Metal Axe”, already something is different. The noise-collage that begins the eponymous track conjures up the nuclear war-ravaged, post-apocalyptic wastelands that Voivod wanted us to envision. Then Snake (simply and correctly listed as “Throat”) kicks off a wake-up call to all those who would dare venture into those wastelands -: “VOIVOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!” - while Blacky and Away steamroll us into submission. We’re off and we’re not looking back. We may never return. Ahead of us we have “Warriors of Ice”, the “Iron Gang”, “War and Pain”, the “Black City” and “Nuclear War” (again?!!!) to look forward to. The mysterious “Blower” doesn’t bode well and “Suck Your Bone” could refer to The Hills Have Eyes-like bands of roving cannibals or perhaps there is some weird sexual connotation there—whatever, it still contains what I consider to be the single greatest line in the history of Rock ‘n’ Roll: “Go, shit, I’m not a fish!”*. And the whole thing is summed up concisely halfway through Side 2 with “Live For Violence”.

By the end of the album you’re lying in a pool of toxic sweat, smoke rising out of your ears from overload, crying tears of blood…but there is a big, goofy smile on your face just the same. Then you flip the record over and start all over again…

In later years, Voivod refined their sound and stretched the boundaries of both their and their listener’s imaginations. The raucous, blood, dirt and machinery grind of their first two slabs of mammoth noise mutated intentionally into an amazing Prog-Metal/Thrash/Psychedelic fusion that continued to challenge and dumbfound many who just couldn’t grasp their unique brilliance. But this, their first offering, remains completely belligerent and insane and heavy as all fucking get-out.

“Voivod – I’m a paranoid

Voivod – the wine of blood

Voivod – I’m a crazy god

Voivod – the ferocious dog” - “Voivod”, Voivod (music by Voivod, lyrics by Snake)

*For the exceptionally curious, the second greatest line in Rock ‘n’ Roll comes from Gene Vincent who sang “Be bop a lula, she’s my baby”…genius!

]]> http://clodsofsodom.com/2008/07/34/feed/ http://clodsofsodom.com/2008/07/best-album-cover-ever/ http://clodsofsodom.com/2008/07/best-album-cover-ever/#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:33 +0000 RK http://clodsofsodom.com/?p=33 So we all agree that Joey DeMaio and the boys men of Manowar are more METAL then we could ever dream to be.
They could kick all our asses, then drive over us with their motorcycles, then play Black Wind Fire and Steel to a crowd of 40,000 screaming Brazilian METAL fans, then sleep with some really hot women and it wouldn’t even be in their top 10,000 “most METAL” days ever.

But when you are feeling down, and the thoughts that you have lost your way in the life long quest of being true METAL, remember this…

These grown men put on these ‘outfits’ and stood around in a studio waiting to get their picture taken by someone who didn’t dare laugh or even crack a smile as they got oiled by the assistants and tried to figure out if they looked tougher with a stuff animal puppet on their right hand or left hand.

Manowar, I take my cod piece off to you and salute.
HAIL TRUE METAL

Big thanks to Paul at Museum Of Pop Archaeology for proudly posting this album cover on his shameless self promoting Facebook Group.