Category: Music

Holy drumming hell!

Vectorized drum kit picture

The guy in the following video is cool as **** for two reasons:

1) He’s made his own drum kit for Guitar Hero III

2) He’s ******* awesome at it as well.

I tried this track on “easy” at Andy‘s some time ago (it’s DragonForce‘s Through The Fire and Flames) and it’s hard as nails. Seriously. No normal human being should be able to play this. Even using the actual controller sold with the game. Never mind a cardboard box stuffed with switches and coated in coloured stickers.

He’s not absolutely perfect – you can hear him start to miss notes around the 6-minute mark (it’s a long song) but who can blame him? Simply ******* awesome.

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Let’s get some happy on here

OK, a couple of posts to (hopefully) raise a smile – just as the avalance warning AWOOGAHs outside nigh on the stroke of midnight.

First off, a massive dose of “aaaaaaw, cute!” with this link to a live video feed of some puppies in a basket. I defy you not to keep it open in a spare tab and keep flicking back to it during the day. Awesome.

Secondly, you have to check out Ten Masked Men. A bunch of lunatics in masks who have so far released four cover albums of popular beat combo covers done in a death metal stylee. Best of all, they’re English which automatically makes them better even than Deicide. If slightly less mad than Glen Benton.

Any band which can describe themselves as follows on their myspace page has to have a sense of humour. I’ll leave you with that and a top notch video.

A crack death metal unit was sent to the underground by a musical court for a crime they probably did commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security recording studio to the London Underground (fuckin tubes!). Today, still wanted by the musical government, they survive as soldiers of metal tributes. If you know a crap song, and no-one else has covered it, and you can find them, maybe you can hire, Ten Masked Men.

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Videogame Metal?!

Genius. Pure genius.

I just found a new website called “moshable.com“. With a name like that I just had to check it out. It’s a community site based on music and primarily for unsigned and independent acts. Most of them are rock/metal of some genre or other, but there’s a bit more in there too.

I was having a little browse when I spotted an act called Powerglove who do “video game metal”. One listen to their thrashing version of the Tetris theme and I was hooked. The outfits from their live shows look awesome, too. Imagine something like GWAR but with all the kit related to computer games.

You can check out their various pages through the following links:

I’m currently building a Wikipedia page for them. I am that sad.

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A religious dude… who’s actually cool

Hans sent me this link to a story from the Canadian Globe & Mail. It’s about a monk who’s decided he rather like metal – he cites Megadeth and Dream Theatre as favourites – so he’s decided to form a band and play live. This year he played at Italy’s Gods of Metal festival for the third time and he’s racked up about 150 gigs so far.

His name’s Friar Cesare Bonizzi, he’s 62 and he’s a Capuchin Monk. Why do I like him so much? This quote from the article:

“I never did it to preach, I did it because music is beautiful … If I want to convert people, I simply want to convert them to life, to welcome life, to enjoy life,” he said.

“I am religious and I am a priest but I am not doing this to convert people to Christ, to faith or the Church, but for them to try to understand life, to be able to enjoy it. Nothing more.”

Good on him. He’s a prime example of a religious person I could not only tolerate, but really like. Good on him and I hope the new album does well. In the meantime, here’s a vid of him from the GOM festival.

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