Tag: Heavy Metal

Since it’s Memorial Day I won’t be writing additional posts today but that doesn’t mean I have nothing good for you. One of my anarchist friends is a member of a local black metal band called Drona. They just posted a three track album titled Depraved Ceremonies to Bandcamp. Unlike most local bands these guys don’t suck at recording and the album actually sounds pretty damn good (and I, as a hypercritical asshole, would be the first to rip on somebody for making a recording that sucks).

All three songs are also available to stream from Bandcamp and you can buy it for whatever price you want to give (including nothing). Give it a listen, I promise it’s worth your time (unless you don’t like black metal, then you probably won’t like this album).

Have a good Memorial Day, I’ll have more content for you tomorrow.

To start this Monday off I have a song from German power metal band Mystic Prophecy. I hadn’t heard of Mystic Prophecy until last night. From what I’ve heard of theirs so far I’m impressed. The band does a good job of blending many of the heavier elements found in American power metal with the cleaner melodies frequently exhibited in European power metal (I tend to prefer European power metal so it’s interesting to find bands that blend to two well):

Another Monday, another metal song. Raise your hand if you don’t like symphonic metal. Everybody who has their hand raise is dismissed. Seriously, get the fuck out. For those of you with the good musical sense to keep your hands down we’re going to hear a song by Luca Turilli. Luca Turilli is the self-titled band by Rhapsody of Fire’s guitarist and songwriter. He turns out some incredible music and it’s difficult to settle on one song of his. I decided on War of the Universe because it has an awesome name, sound, and cover art (mecha always win me over):

I’m in the mood for some classic metal. Although I didn’t like either of Metallica’s last two albums nor do I like the way they went lawsuit happy during Napster’s heyday I still love their previous material. Metallica really was a classic example of American metal and Enter Sandman remains one of my favorite songs:

Since I spent the last two weeks exploring Middle Eastern metal I think it’s time to return to the roots of where metal really began, Europe. This week’s Monday Metal features a German pagan metal band by the name of Crom. No, not that Crom. This Crom:

This week I’m featuring another Middle Eastern metal band. Arsames is a band hailing from Mashhad, Iran and they play some absolutely phenomenal death metal: