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Friday Morning Metal – Krilloan – Hammer of Wrath

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Swedish metal! It’s like regular metal but also it’s a red gummy candy. Krilloan brings a big batch of power metal with Hammer of Wrath.

The vocals are pretty fun, the singer doesn’t jump into falsetto too much but hits it during the chorus pretty well. Some of the lyrics feel a little klunky, like maybe it was written in Swedish and then straight translated to English. But for the most part it sticks together well.

It’s nice to hear the bass in the mix as well; so many bands have bassists but they’re just kinda there. At least with Krilloan they get some feature. There’s also liberal use of splashy cymbals from the drummer. And the soaring noodly guitar solo really ties everything together.

The video itself is a lyric video, so you can read along! And some cool graphics of a guy who looks like he should be in a Castlevania game. Maybe it’s Simon Belmont’s cousin Greg. Anyway, enjoy some fun bombast!

Friday Morning Metal -Blitzkrieg – The Spider

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Woo more songs about spiders! This time from Blitzkrieg, another NWoBHM band that’s been kicking it since 1980. Coupled with Satan’s new album, and I think Accept had a new album too(?), apparently 2024 is the year for older bands to knock the dust off their stacks and put together shredfests. Also apparently this is the same singer from Satan. Maybe he needs to buy a boat so releasing two albums gets him closer to his dream of sailing the seas in Yeah Buoy.

The song knocks it down the fairway with a good chugga riff coupled with some noodly lead guitaring. I do like the vocals, but I also like Satan the band (don’t wanna get that taken out of context, amirite?), and they fit really well with the band. Though he does sing about the spider’s sting. Maybe he’s thinking of a bee. Maybe there are arachnid bees in the UK and I managed to avoid them, because that seems like nightmare fuel.

The double solo at the 3/4 point is soaring and noodly and all you expect from a good heavy metal track. All in all it’s a solid track, and it’s great to hear bands shredding nearly 50 years going.

I’d be remiss to share a song about spiders without sharing Nekrogoblikon’s magic spider. Because that spider makes your wishes come true!

Friday Morning Metal – Tailgunner – Guns for Hire

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Hooray for throwback metal from England! Tailgunner’s been shredding since 2018. You can tell they mean business from the video because none of them have sleeves on their shirts. That’s a good sign of metal bonafides. I think there’s gotta be a “subway/sewer” setting theme or something for videos. It does start off with some VHS artifacting, letting you know just how 80s these guys are trying to be.

The vocalist has some solid pipes, without sounding too operatic or anything. And the whole band chimes in on the chorus, so you get some three part harmonies and whatnot. Gotta have them harmonies. AND HOLY SHIT DUELING GUITAR SOLO WITH DUELING POSING! Gotta love it. And it transitions to the shreddiest of shredding!

This song rips, maybe that’s what happened to their sleeves. So listen to it now!

Friday Morning Metal – Jenner – Prove Them Wrong

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Jenner’s a three-piece, all-lady thrash band from Belgrade. I also thought Jenner was a company that made squirt guns or something, but I can’t find that on the internet so maybe it was Kenner and I’m having a Mandela Effect about Jenner being something that existed.

The song is a chuggafest, with some great hooks and a driving beat. I dig the vocals, just growly enough to fit the thrash vibe, but not so growly that it takes me out of it. There’s also a few really great solos, the kind of shreddy that melts great on tortilla chips.

The third guitar solo sounded dueling, but they’re a three-piece band so I don’t know where that extra guitar came from. Unless the bassist grabs a regular guitar and shreds for a bit. That would rule; not just a key change but an instrument change mid-song.

All in all it’s a tight song even at 5 minutes, so enjoy some fun Balkan thrash!

Friday Morning Metal – Transit Method – Set Me Free

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Austin prog rock! I had not heard of Transit Method before, but Spotify thought I’d dig it, and I do! The song is a cover of a Sweet song which turned 50 this year. You know Sweet, they wrote and recorded Ballroom Blitz so that, years later, Crucial Taunt could cover it and get their big record deal. Also the Beastie Boys could use a line from it in Hey Ladies.

The video is a recording studio shoot, but it’s a pretty cool looking room. They also do some split screen stuff so you can see some dueling squeadlies and meadlies. The guitarist on the Les Paul looks a little nervous at the start but gets into it after the solo which is nice. Also the vocals are nice and crunchy with some great falsetto harmonizing.

It’s rad a 50 year old song can shred this much, you think it’d be like… on a restricted diet and trying to exercise regularly or something.

And for good measure, here’s Sweet’s version!

Friday Morning Metal – Satan – Turn the Tide

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Oh dang Satan has a new album coming out in September, so they have a video for Turn the Tide available! These guys have been shredding NWOBHM since 1979, so it’s great to see them keeping at it.

This is a fun track, right in the wheelhouse of Satan’s speedy verses and more harmonic choruses. There’s even some fun wah wah in the intro! Brian Ross has solid pipes that fit in really well with the band, glad he’s able to keep at it for 40 years, especially with his falsettos! There’s a quite shreddy dueling solo at the 3-minute mark, complete with the knee slide that shows off a good guitar solo.

The youtube description says it an allegory to jingoistic brits who think they can change the course of history by yelling at it. Like a dumb king yelling at the tide to stop coming in. So that’s pretty cool.

It’s a pretty straightforward “shot in a church” type video. They do some weird visualization elements on the musicians themselves, like a weird dream or the video is buffering really poorly. Some of this looks like they used AI to make the visuals, which is kinda lame. Just pay someone to draw stuff. Or use actual footage. I don’t need to see weird trippy blendy stuff that keeps changing what it is because AI is weird. And it’s supposed to be a king shouting at the sea while the tide comes in. That seems easy as hell to shoot practically. There are plenty of old dudes in England who could look like a king.

All in all it’s a pretty solid song and I look forward to the rest of the album on September 13th!

Friday Morning Metal – Carmeria – A Thousand Winter Rains

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Australian symphonic metal! Vocal harmonizing! Carmeria have an album coming out today, Tragédie D’amour, and A Thousand Winter Rains is their first single off the album. And it’s got all the grandeur and keytarification that’s part and parcel of the genre.

I wouldn’t necessarily say symphonic metal is a blind spot for me, I listen to a lot of power metal that toes the line, but usually I get into my groove and listen to like thrash or speed metal. That being said, this song is pretty catchy, especially with the vocal harmonizing on the choruses. There is a growly singer in some of the interludes which I didn’t expect, but it fits in just fine.

In addition to a solid noodly guitar solo, they’ve got what sounds like a wicked keytar solo about halfway through. Their other single from the album, Immortal, is a full video, and you can see their keytarist lick the keytar while shredding. Oh also there’s a lady bassist, which rules, and her vocals add great layers to the choruses.

The band does give off a sexy vampire look, so if you like sexy vampire metal, this is for you!

Friday Morning Metal – Grave Digger – Hell is My Purgatory

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Hooray for Teutonic metal referencing historic stuff! Grave Digger’s been melting faces and shredding solos since 1980 and they don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon. I guess in the late 80’s they rebranded as “Hawaii” which gives me hope they did chill island songs at that time.

The song’s a pretty straight down the fairway classic metal track. Gotta imagine after 42 years (song’s from 2022) they have it all dialed in. There’s also brief WINDMILL GUITARING about two minutes in. Gotta point that out. You don’t see windmill guitaring too often. The guitar solo during the guy getting tortured by the devil lady is pretty solid. Also he’s got a cool looking guitar.

Apparently the video is about the Knights Templar and a grand master who… sold his soul to a devil lady? Or many dudes who keep selling their souls to her, such that she has a pile of dead Templars just hangin around? I saw no mention of Oak Island nor Templar gold so I don’t know the veracity of this video. I didn’t even see one bobby dazzler across the whole four minutes. But it is fun seeing them all kitted out like the guy from the end of the Last Crusade. It’s also great they pronounce purgatory as purge-a-tory.

All in all it’s a solid track from a tight band so give it a spin!

Friday Morning Metal – Destruction – Fast as a Shark

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THRASH! Or SPEED! Destruction is here to kick you square in the solar plexus with Fast as a Shark. It’s a cover of an Accept song, and it shreds for a solid three and a half minutes. Minus a bit of the German folks singing something at the beginning.

The song stays pretty close to the source material, just sounding a bit more modern. Big fast drums drive the song along at breakneck pace, perhaps this is what goes through a shark’s head when they’re truckin along the ocean. Destruction’s vocalist has a good solid growl that fits on their vibe really well. Oooh yeah and a guitar solo that sounds like it’s pulling from a classical song. Those are great.

This is an “official visualizer” which I guess isn’t a music video, since it’s a series of animations and stills. There is a big fat great white shark up in there, which is rad. Parts of it do seem like filmed or something, but not much. Now I want to see a music video comprised entirely of stock footage, like all those Better Off Ted ads.

Friday Morning Metal – Ironflame – Shadow of the Reaper

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I gotta find a new way to scout out new songs, because Spotify likes to share what I’m listening to with friends and one of you was pointing out I was listening to Ironflame. So spoiler alert Adam here’s some Ironflame.

Coming straight out of Ohio & Pennsylvania, Ironflame brings great traditional metal, full of great guitar solos, vocal harmonies, and killer riffs. The song’s solid, not super fast, but great soaring vocals and a couple tight solos bookend the whole thing.

But the video, the video’s pretty fun. There’s some sort of grim reaper uber, and this reaper was hired to take out the drummer. Except he keeps messing up and reaping the bandmates. Poor guy can’t catch a break. Whether it’s poisoning, causing a car accident, or just straight up reapening, he picks off everyone but the drummer. But it’s all good, they get to shred in the afterlife!

I do dig the videos that goof off a bit. See also, Red Fang. And this one is quite goofy, so enjoy!