Tag: Heavy Metal

2016 has been a weird year. Celebrities have been keeling over left and right, Trump somehow managed to win the election, and Metallica has released an album that doesn’t suck. I finally got around to listening to Hardwired… to Self-Destruct. Admittedly, it wasn’t high on my list of albums to listen to. Metallica’s track record as of late has been pretty piss poor. St. Anger was a complete shitfest and Death Magnetic was, at best, mediocre. But Hardwired… to Self-Destruct was, shockingly, quite good. While the album may not be redemption for Metallica is certainly is a huge step in the right direction.

This week we’re listening to my favorite song from the album, Confusion:

This week we’re going classical, neoclassical. Iron Mask, one of my favorite neoclassical metal bands, released a new album earlier this year and we’re listening to I Don’t Forget, I Don’t Forgive off of that album:

Are you ready for some cheesy power metal? I hope so because Hammerfall has dropped a new album.

Civil War, a power metal band that bases its songs off of history, released a new album. I’ve enjoyed it and actually think it’s better than the band’s previous two albums (which were pretty good in my opinion). As part of the album release the band released a music video for its song Tombstone, which is what we’re listening to this week:

Objectively speaking, the new Doom is hands down the best game to come out this year. In fact it’s the best game to have come out in the last several year. In addition to finely tuned gameplay, over the top levels of violence, and a wonderful arsenal of weaponry Doom also sports a solid soundtrack. This week’s Monday Metal entry is one of my favorite songs from Doom, BFG Division:

I feel like playing some power metal this week so we’re going to go with Dark Moor:

Do you want to hear some Bulgarian folk metal? No? Too bad. My blog, my rules.

This song pretty much sums up everything there is to sum up about metal and it’s beautiful:

This week we’re listening to a folk metal band from Belarus, Лютавер’е (Lutavierje if you romanize it). The band has a pretty unique sound to it that I’m really digging.