Archive for November, 2011
This week’s installment in my ongoing series of re-posting my Twitter content. This volume’s subjects are random as always. As per usual, if you subscribe to my Twitter feed, then none of this will be new to you.
Ever since I really jumped into the deep pool of music that one would classify as “outside the mainstream”, I’ve been listening to Jamey Jasta — in one form or another. From the early days of Hatebreed‘s Death Before Dishonor, to keeping up with the band’s steady string of new releases — and various side-projects such as Icepick and Kingdom of Sorrow – Jamey Jasta has kept me busy for the better part of a decade. Now, many albums and guest appearances later, Jamey has built himself quite a resumé and drops his first solo effort on the public.
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Never having heard their self-titled debut, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from these guys. While it’s easy to just say that because Kirk and Jamey are involved, this is going to sound a lot like Crowbar and Hatebreed. To be honest, even that description leaves things fairly wide open; both bands existing in vastly different areas of the metal spectrum.
It’s been quite some time since I first discovered this band, thanks to a review of Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia. Around that time, it was rather fashionable for the forum trolls of the world to fervently bitch and moan about any black metal bands who toyed with symphonic elements in their music. Actually, most of the slack-jawed morons I recall bitching about that sort of thing tended to hate anything that wasn’t lo-fi — and even lower tier — noise; only that kind of shit was “true”.
The year 2011 has featured quite a number of solo releases from members of bands I happen to like. Wayne Static’s debut solo effort Pighammer caught me by surprise; within a couple of months of seeing references to it on various news sites, the album was out. I will admit that I haven’t paid much attention to Static-X – Wayne’s previous band — since the release of their third effort, Shadow Zone.
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The end note to an MMA bender spanning three weeks, the UFC put on on Hell of a show last night! UFC 139 – Shogun -vs- Henderson did more than just live up to the hype surrounding the card; it overshot any possible expectations by a country mile! From the opening of the show, to the final moments of the main event, the UFC — and more specifically its roster of fighters — delivered some truly spectacular entertainment.
Another new week, another new UFC event it seems. This week, the UFC presents UFC 139 – Shogun -vs- Henderson on pay-per-view. The preliminary bouts will be streamed free, on the UFC’s official Facebook page and broadcast on Spike TV. In contrast to the UFC’s previous two pay-per-view events, this weekend’s fight card features a plethora of big name fighters in some truly exciting match-ups. Once again, my friend Rui also drops by to provide his insights into the fights.
For better or worse, I doubt many people thought they’d be reading about Limp Bizkit in the year 2011, beyond maybe a retrospective article regarding the brief reign of nu-metal back in the late 90s and early new millennium. That said, here we are: and “the Bizkit” has dropped another album after a tumultuous series of line-up issues and a long stretch of downtime. While hardly lauded by the metal community, a new Limp Bizkit album is like a car wreck — in more ways than one at times — and I, for one, couldn’t help but rubberneck this one.
