DragonForce, the fastest metal band in the universe, has a new album and a new singer. The guy sounds pretty close to the old guy, and really I come for the double kick and the crazy guitar riffs. Anyway, I couldn’t find a kickass “official” video of their new tracks, so here’s one off Ultra Beatdown, Heroes of our Time.
btw, Herman Li is a guitar monster.
Here’s a brandy new video from those Scottish Masters of Pirate Metal, Alestorm. Who knew you could write a 7 minute epic about killing a giant squid.
Revenge is dish best served deep fried.
Here’s a live cut of Wolf performing Venom. More bands like this need to come from the US, so I can actually see them tour.
Powerwolf is a great theme power metal band. The theme being Romanian werewolves & vampires. Fantastic stuff. I was really hoping they did a video for Vampires Don’t Die or Resurrection by Erection, but We Drink Your Blood is a pretty rad song on its own.
I dig on power metal, and vocal harmonies, and pretty much all that Edguy puts into a song. Here’s “All the Clowns”.
3 Inches of Blood, those masterful mavens of metal, have a new album coming out in late Smarch, called LONG LIVE HEAVY METAL. That’s such an awesome name. They also released one of their tracks, Leather Lord. It totally sounds like it could be a track on Priest’s Painkiller. SO AWESOME.
3 Inches of Blood are one of the best metal acts of the past 10 years. And here’s their cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Totally amazing.
Powerglove combines two of my favorite things: video games and metal. Behold, their take on Korobeiniki, otherwise known as “That Tetris Song.”
They also do a kickass cover of the Power Rangers theme.
Europe has been pumping out great metal acts forever. Which is great, since current metal in the US is weird and I don’t like it. Primal Fear’s been rockin since 1997, and this is Angel In Black. They formed when the singer didn’t get tapped to replace Halford in Priest in the 90s. Given that they kick ass, and Halford returned to Priest, maybe this was the best outcome.
One of my buddies got me listening to Falconer back in college. They have a pretty epic sound, kind of like heavy metal minstrels. And the singer, Matthias Blad, is phenomenally talented. It’s unfortunate they don’t tour in the US, I’d love to see them live. Anyway, here’s Vid Rosornas Grav.