Tag: Heavy Metal

The Spirit of Metal in Nature

Mother nature again proves that it was metal before the gods of metal bestowed the heavenly music upon us:

This assassin bug sticks the corpses of it’s devoured prey (ants!) onto it’s back for camouflage and to hide it’s scent from other ants. On top of being an obvious “meat shield”, this also allows the assassin bug to infiltrate ant colonies while posing as one of their own.

And this is what the thing looks like walking around with the corpses of its enemies stuck to it:

metal-bug

Obviously this thing belongs on the cover of a death metal album. In fact this song came to mind as I was reading about nature’s little genocide machine:

Monday Metal: Arrival Of The Fimbulwinter by Amon Amarth

Minnesota is in the midst of a rather unpleasant cold snap. By unpleasant I mean that some parts of the state are experiencing wind chills of 60 below zero. I’ve lived in this state my entire life so this weather doesn’t bother me all that much. But I might as well pick an appropriate song for the conditions and one singing about the arrival of Fimbulwinter, the three year long winter that precedes Ragnarok in North mythology, seems appropriate:

fimbulvetr-is-coming

Monday Metal: Kronos’ Heritage by Krampus

For many European countries December 5th is Krampusnacht. Unlike us pussy Americans many Germanic countries like to scare the ever living shit out of their children. Here in the United States Santa Claus brings gifts to all of the good children and leaves nothing, or perhaps a chunk of coal, for children who misbehaved. In Germanic mythology Santa brings gifts to the good children and lets the Krampus take the bad children to Hell where he eats them (or drown them in a river). Once again Germanic countries prove that they truly understand the metal way of life.

In recognition of Krampusnacht I decided we need some appropriately themed metal. Today we’re listening to Kronos’ Heritage by the band Krampus:

Monday Metal: Unhallowed by Dissection

My weekend ended up being extremely busy. I just acquired a Pebble smart watch and began playing with the developer tools on Saturday. Last night a group of friends and myself began discussions on setting up a mesh network in Minneapolis. What I didn’t have time to do is writing new blog posts but those will likely come later this evening.

Until then I hope this week’s Monday Metal entry will hold you over. This song was gloriously stolen from a friend’s Facebook page. I know nothing about this band but I dug the song: