Salt Lake City-based heavy rock duo Eagle Twin have completed their anticipated sophomore LP, The Feather Tipped the Serpent’s Scale, for release through Southern Lord later this year. The new Eagle Twin opus, their first full album in 3 years, picks up right where the band’s acclaimed debut LP The Unkindness of Crows left off. A split LP with the UK’s Pombagira was released in late 2010. In this installment the crows documented in the firs...
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HIGH ON FIRE will release its new studio album De Vermis Mysteriis on April 3 via eOne Music. Recorded in Salem, Mass.' GodCity Studios with producer and Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou, the 10 song effort -- touted as "direct, eye-opening and powerfully supernatural" -- is the band's sixth studio recording and the follow up to 2010's Snakes for the Divine. New song "Fertile Green" is streamable at this location and is available for purchase now via iTunes (see HERE). &...
Welcome one and all to our little Metal show. This episode proves to be one of the duo’s longest, loudest, raucous, and most passionate exchanges thus far. The boys discuss their most recent outings in terms of live music. Jibbies gives his run down of Machine Head at The HOB and uber-excited about witnessing the latest incarnation of Faster Pussycat. Loond talks us through his witnessing of the mighty Goatwhore and some all out cow-punk-rock ’n roll with The Spittin Cobras and The Supersuckers. The latest on the Sabbath reunion is discussed and Jibbies drops some major news of a spectacle due to be called Ozzy And Friends that will be touring in place of Sabbath. It will be comprised of Ozzy, Geezer, Zakk Wylde, and a yet un-announced drummer or drummers. Fancy that! SmallStone Records’ new batch of signees is heralded. Loond gets very passionate and outspoken about his feelings on Dez bringing back Coal Chamber and three ex-Trouble members forming and touring as The Skull. Loond fills us in on The Melvins and their alter-ego called Melvins Light. And the show is rounded out with a roll call of upcoming new releases from the likes of Baroness, Kyuss Lives, High On Fire, and many more.
Horns Up! - J&L [Potentially NSFW] Click 'Read more...' link to listen Follow Jibbies on Twitter @MetalJibbies This episode and all previous episodes available on iTunes Music featured this episode:
Machine Head - Imperium
Supersuckers - Pretty Fucked Up
Ozzy Osbourne - Never Know Why
Devildriver - Guilty As Sin
Trouble - Black Shapes Of Doom
Melvins - Revolve
Pantera - Revolution Is My Name
Kyuss - Shine
Napalm Death - Ripe For The Breaking
High On Fire - Fire, Flood, and Plague
Naam - Stone Ton
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Faster Pussycat is on tour right now. A sighting a few years back on a side stage at Rock The Bayou proved to be a complete mind destroyer, nostalgic curiosity being replaced by reborn fanaticism. The current version of the band isn’t a trip down memory lane, nor is it some updated attempt to snag a current genre. What you get is an absolutely current, absolutely sincere, absolutely crushing gutter rock band playing songs both new and old like the classics of the genre they are. ...
Please have a look at the first 15 minutes or so of Machine Head’s set from the House of Blues in Houston on Feb. 11, 2012. The band is currently touring ‘Unto The Locust,’ and though I personally preferred ‘The Blackening’ I have never seen them better live. Power just naturally flows from the band. They’re playing free and easy and are more deadly than ever as a result: effortless heaviness, the best of all worlds.
Photo: Wo Fat - by Judy Stump Photography From the heavy rock masters at Small Stone: "Please welcome: New Hampshire's Supermachine (two ex-Scissorfight boys, and two boys you are most likely not all that hip to), Dallas, TX's Wo Fat (who have mastered the fine art of fusing early Sabbath riffs with the soul and swagger of the deep south), Connecticut's Lord Fowl (who make incredible retro rock styled jams - thanks for the heads up Mr. Taskmaster), and not one but two acts from Sweden. The...
Your intrepid duo do their best to sift through the Bill Ward/Sharon Osbourne bullshit (Ward wins), before eventually finding a nice palate cleanser in welcoming Jesse Leach back to Killswitch Engage. Then, as J&L are going through some of their favorite recent and upcoming releases--including Dwellers’ ‘Good Morning Harakiri,’ out on Small Stone, and recent SS-signees Supermachine’s ‘Harder Than Soft’ EP--the showdown erupts: in one corner, Loond and Goatwhore, in the other Jibbies and Faster Pussycat. *Ding ding!* Seems like a mismatch, right? Well listen on dear reader! The battle eventually winds down and the duo use whatever energy is left discussing some of the US summer metal tours other than Mayhem and marveling at the glory of Hellfest 2012.
J&L want to share their sincere condolences and best thoughts with the Bello family.
Horns Up! - J&L [Potentially NSFW] Follow Jibbies on Twitter @MetalJibbies This episode and all previous episodes available on iTunes Music featured this episode: Black Sabbath - 'War Pigs' (Live in Paris 1970) Anthrax - 'Armed & Dangerous' (LIve 1987) Dwellers - 'Secret Revival' Faster Pussycat - 'The Power and The Glory Hole' Job For A Cowboy - 'Entombment of a Machine' Cannibal Corpse - 'Hammer Smashed Face' (Live Cannibalism)
After a hard day at the office and armed once again with a glass each of Old Monk rum; J&L embark on a Metaltastic conversation. Loond gives us a live music update and talks about the In Flames show at Warehouse Live. Our duo goes gaga for Goatwhore and their upcoming new record. Other highly anticipated releases from the likes of C.O.C, Meshuggah, and Amorphis are touched on. Loond talks about a newish band from Atlanta called Stone Mountain Freeway and their killer Heavy Southern Rock sound. Jibbies chimes in on the new music front with El Doom & The Born Electric. Well wishes are extended to Tony Iommi. Our duo talks about the upcoming Mayhem festival and the prospect of Motorhead being on tha bill. We then round out the show with a lengthy discussion of Loond’s favorite band - Armored Saint…and how Metallica needs to take those guys on tour with them.
In Flames - Fear Is The Weakness
Goatwhore - Alchemy Of The Black Sun Cult
C.O.C - Crawling
Amorphis - House Of Sleep
Black Sabbath - Children Of The Grave
Motorhead - Rock It
Armored Saint - You Can Run But You Can’t Hide
Metallica - Jump In The Fire
The celebrations of good cheer, holiness, and consumerism are over, and it is once again time for METAL!!...in all its shapes and sizes. Lots has happened since our duo last sat down together and they dive right in, tackling both the Ratt/Grohl collaboration and Howard Jones exit from Killswitch Engage. They then offer one last glance into 2011, checking out a few December releases that may have otherwise been overlooked including Black Pyramid 'II'. But onward! 2012 is gonna be HEAVY, Lamb of God setting the tone with the Jan. 24 release of 'Resolution' before launching into what is sure to be a globe-encompassing and domination-establishing tour. And its never too early to start talking festivals, J&L daydreaming outloud about the possibilities of a DesertFest/Roadburn/DesertFest 2-week European couch surf, before Jibbies goes all goofy for UK emo eradicators Hawk Eyes. Horns Up! - J&L [Potentially NSFW] Follow Jibbies on Twitter @MetalJibbies This episode and all previous episodes available on iTunes Music featured this episode: Ratt - 'Tell The World' (Metal Massacre version) Killswitch Engage - 'Stillborn' ('99 demo version) Black Pyramid - 'Endless Agony' Burn The Priest - 'Lies of Autumn' COC - 'rednekkk' Orange Goblin - 'Rage of Angels' Hawk Eyes - 'Crack Another One'
1. Trap Them - ‘Darker Handcraft’ – Prosthetic Records – Producer: Kurt Ballou With guitars slicing, drums pummeling, and vocals howling, ‘Darker Handcraft’ is nothing short of a full American hardcore realization of the terrible fun promised by Entombed’s ‘To Ride…’. I loved that album...