SLAYER!!!!

I was tagged by The Random Within for this one. Git.

By reading this you are also tagged, and you must answer all the questions below using song names from one artist/group. You are not allowed to use the artist/group I have chosen.

Post a blog link to your attempt in the comments section.

Pick your artist: Slayer

• Are you a male or a female? Sick Boy
• Describe yourself: Aggressive Perfector
• How do you feel? God Hates Us All
• Describe where you currently live: War Zone
• If you could go anywhere, where would you go? South of Heaven
• Your favourite form of transportation? Drunk Drivers Against Mad Mothers
• Your best friend is? Criminally Insane
• What’s the weather like? Raining Blood (or Flesh Storm or Metal Storm)
• Favourite time of the day? Witching Hour (or At Dawn They Sleep)
• If your life was a TV show, what would it be called? Temptation
• What is life to you? Seasons in the Abyss
• Your fear? Necrophobic
• What advice is the best advice you have to give? Read Between The Lies
• Thought for the day? Evil has No Boundaries
• How would you like to die? Die By The Sword
• My soul’s current condition? Blood Red
• My motto? Fight Till Death

I confess I “cheated” and used a couple of songs by other artists that Slayer have covered. All released on proper commercial albums, though.

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Tagged: A Musical Exercise

I could point you in the direction of Iron Maiden‘s back catalogue. They’ve got a 13-minute opus based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge‘s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Alfred Lord Tennyson‘s Charge of the Light Brigade inspired “The Trooper”. Sci-fi is embraced with “To Tame A Land“ (Frank Herbert‘s Dune).

Let’s not forget that singer Bruce Dickinson is (as well as a qualified commercial airline pilot and near-Olympic standard fencer) a history student. As a result, a large number of their songs are about historical events and characters. “Alexander the Great”, “Run To The Hills” (the genocide of the American Indians), “Where Eagles Dare” though based on a film and novel is set during WWII – as is “Aces High”.

Anthrax went for the more simply-titled Indians in their work about the destruction of the native American population. Their song “Among The Living” is based on Stephen King’s novel The Stand. “I Am The Law” is based on literature, though that’s the comic book character Judge Dredd! “Black Lodge” was inspired by David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and which the series’ score conductor Angelo Badalamenti helped write.

Metallica got in on the act with songs such as “For Whom The Bell Tolls” based on the work of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. Slayer are well known for documenting serial killers and war-related atrocities in their songs. Megadeth have tackled freedom of speech.

These are just well-known examples.

Now, however, I give you something new. To me, anyway. Thanks to Andy for sending me the link to this new way for children to be taught Shakespeare – using the power of MMEETTTAAALLLLL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQkzHU_U45s

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Who said metal is for the uneducated?

Metaaalllll!!!!

A few things music-y popped up today so I thought I’d bang a post up rather than just raving about them on Twitter.

SLAYER!!!!!!!!!

As well as being overjoyed at getting a ticket to see them at Glasgow Barrowlands in November, I’m well impressed with the title track they’ve started streaming from the new album (World Painted Blood). It’s available from their MySpace page so you’ll have to put up with formatting that looks like it was dreamed up by a 6 year old with spatial awareness issues, but it’s worth it.

Much as I adored the ball-out utter thrashing heavyness of God Hates Us All, I was underwhelmed by Christ Illusion, it seeming like just more of the same. This new title track shows a lot more variety and a touch of the cleaner sound harking back to the likes of South of Heaven. If the rest of the album holds up then I’m very excited indeed.

Hatebreed

One album I’m no longer waiting for is Hatebreed’s Hatebreed, their fifth album. It’s superb, and the first real change in tone I’ve heard from them in their history. Not quite as in-your-face heavy as… well, everything else they’ve ever released. There’s even an instrumental on it.

This will be on repeat play in the car along with…

Megadeth

Got ahold of the new Mustaine & Co album Endgame last week and that’s been looped to death already. Definitely their best release in a long time, though I still think The System Has Failed was pretty good.

And finally… a 4 year old on the drums

Yeah, this is rather cool. I can’t include the video as they’ve disabled embedding, but head over to YouTube and check out this immensely talented kid. The prime video to check is the one of him drumming to Harvester of Sorrow (check out around 5:20 for some real skill), though he’s got loads more on his YouTube channel.

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And in music today…