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This is truly sad. Nergal, the frontman for one of our favorite bands Behemoth, has been diagnosed with Leukemia (Behemoth had already canceled an upcoming tour because of this).
Apparently he’s already past the point of chemotherapy being an option, so it’s only bone marrow transplants at this point. Keep him in your thoughts.
If there’s one thing we love here at the Devil’s Demons, it’s booze. If there’s ANOTHER thing we love, well, it’s football.
Vincent and I probably spend close to 80 percent of our fall/winter watching football and drinking beer. It’s the best excuse to drink heavily on Saturday, Sunday, Monday night, and sometimes Thursdays too. No one can argue with you.
One of our favorite metallers is none other than Phil Anselmo. And he’s blessed us by giving us some insight into who he thinks will do well this upcoming season.
A great quote about the Saints:
The Saints are having a massive insanely intense awesome training camp right now, so it’s tough not to talk about them.
Good to know that there are diehard football fans in the world of metal.
This is pretty badass. The Arkhams are a psychobilly band from Queens (our backyard), and they have commissioned artist Jonathan Wojcik to produce a music video for their song “Valley of the Arkhams.”
I found out about the Arkhams video first, but started digging into Jonathan’s site more, and wow, I was pleasantly surprised to find some really badass stuff.
He has loads of other cool animations, notably the Fear Hole series also featured on newgrounds.
I dig his one-of-a-kind sculptures. Would go nicely on the desk.
Spend some time browsing. Good idea.
What a “fest”. What an awful display of human kind. What a moderate display of music. Also one of the hottest days I have ever experienced in my life.
Truth be told, the festival organizers did manage to put on a great show. The setup and execution of the music was spotless. I initially questioned their alternating stage approach, but it was pretty cool to have constant metal blaring for 5 straight hours until the main stage lit up. There were tons of fun and silly merch tents for us to roam around. And lots of wildlife to look at as well.
If you followed our twitter page, you would’ve seen our updates. Here’s a summary:
Official or not, I’m too excited to wait for this countdown any longer.
It’s now only 101 (one hundred and one) days until the greatest day of the year.
I don’t know about you, but I really love the number 101. It just rolls off of the tongue so well. “One-oh-one”. Easy money.
It’s also great for jokes when you reference the fact that “101″ is usually the introductory course for any college class. Examples could be:
Today’s reference is to Carcass‘ song Room 101, off of the Swansong album. We here love everything and anything that’s Carcass. Seeing them live was potentially the greatest day of our lives.
Swansong might be regarded as a relatively weak and commercial album, but it is still much more metal than any of the shit coming out these days. Listen and enjoy.
This is a goddamn awesome writeup (part 1) on Florida Death Metal. Really well-written, and there’s some awesome gore mixed in there as well. Give it a read, it’s worth it. Here’s part 2 if you really enjoy it (you will).
True story. One time, after the Roadrunner United concert in NYC, I saw Glen Benton on the street demanding a kid share his pretzel with him. True story.
There was once upon a time when I would’ve given everything my 15 or 16 year-old self had for the chance to shake hands with Jonathon Davis. Those times are LONG gone (as is my tolerance for their “music” or whatever it is they’ve released in the past few years). However, this hasn’t stopped Vincent and I from buying tickets to our second straight annual Rockstar Mayhem Festival.
I think the overall lineup is not that bad. Lamb of God is one of our favorite bands, 3 Inches of Blood does some nice epic metal, and Norma Jean/Chimaira always put on good live shows.
There will be some bullshit there. I just don’t trust In This Moment. More importantly, I don’t trust any bassist who plays like this.
I also don’t like Five Finger Death Punch, mainly because their singer looks too much like Fred Durst mixed with Shifty Shellshock.
Regardless, there are some commemorative covers of Revolver magazine for this festival. It’s the kind of metal/horror crossover thing that should ideally make us jump for joy, and it probably will once we’re liquored up and buying shitty merch, but I’m just not there yet.
The show is a week from Friday. Stay tuned.
The 2010 Glastonbury festival looks like it was a parade of Hippie Bullshit, but at least this picture came out of it.
