tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32731264424757940902024-03-29T07:45:24.492-04:00Metal InquisitionMetal blog and podcast. The masters of the internet since 2008.christbutcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17916062727853004825noreply@blogger.comBlogger566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-26676618481052910152017-04-18T15:43:00.002-04:002017-04-18T15:43:45.302-04:00Pocast: Episode 004We review each others choices from last episode. Namely; Kraken - Kraken", Silencer "Death - Pierce Me" and Italy's Black Hole "Land of Mystery". SkullKrusher sounded like he was drunk.<br />
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Back in 1993 I played guitar and sang for a super shitty joke Noise/Black Metal "band" called Satan's Charcoaled Nipples. Don't bother Googling it, we only had one demo and I'd surprised if we distributed 10 copies. I wish I still had one. Anyway, the name of the demo was "Upside Down Cross Mania." The cover was a pentagram with goat horns (of course) and I put as many upside down crosses as I could fit. Counting the ones in the band logo (which had at least eight) I'd say there were probably 30 crosses. I was very proud of myself. Shit, I still am. I really appreciate a logo with a good number of upside down crosses. How many can they get in there? One or two is way too easy. Unleashed, Mayhem, Death, Possessed, Morbid Angel... these guys are amateurs. Three and above; now, that's serious business. Starting with Sarcofago (above), let's look at some other (mostly Black Metal) logos and their use of the upside down cross. <br />
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<a name='more'></a>Let me preface the rest of the post by saying I have not listened to most of these bands. Some of the logos may, in fact, be fake. I have nothing against the bands and I'm not making fun of them. I'm just talking about upside down crosses here. Oh, and I decided to use the triple-crossed Sarcofago logo to open the post 'cuz that band's first album is fucking amazing. Ok, on with the show<br />
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Infernus incorporates three crosses, a goat head and a pentagram. I'd call that a trifecta-trifecta. Three crosses, plus one of each of the three symbols that make a logo awesome; namely, the goat, the pentagram, and the upside down cross. Note that the letters in the logo are super spikey, making them visually soft. The crosses, however, have much harder edges, making them seem bolder and stand out. Finally, the pentagram and the goat's head are drawn with much more delicate lines, adding a third visual level.<br />
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Narglblargloth goes with the usual symmetrical double cross at the beginning and the end, Mayhem style. However, the sneak in a third smaller cross on he last T, throwing off the symmetry just enough to make it interesting, but without making it look super weird and wonky. Brilliant.<br />
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Everyone knows the Nunslaughter logo. They got five, yes five, upside down crosses. The Mayhem bookend ones, two blade looking ones and an axe one in the middle. Plus, as a bonus they throw in the goat skull. Impressive, but then again, what else do you expect from these dudes?<br />
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Funebria has the three crosses joined by a pentagram reminiscent of Deicide's trifixion. The fact that the whole piece hangs below the logo, almost independent of it, takes some points away as far as I'm concerned. No interaction with the main logo makes things easier. If those are little skulls around the pentagram (I can't tell) that is fucking bad ass.<br />
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This is a sweet one. Sacrificial Massacre almost hides their five crosses by putting them behind the main logotype. They give the logo a nice structure, but they not overpower the type. <br />
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Besides the three crosses, Satanic Warmaster has a pentagram living above the logo. Like I said before, if the pentagram is not interacting with the rest of the logo I don't think it counts it at all. However, they more than makes up for it three awesome dangling upside down crosses. They are perfectly symmetrical, plus we get bat wings and two fucking dragon fucking heads! WHAT? Yeah. Fucking dragons! Finnish people rule.<br />
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Finally, we have Trifixion. They are almost required by law to have three crosses. And they do. Very symmetrical and nicely stylized.<br />
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Now, here's a question: If we all know that upside down crosses are awesome and can make a logo look super rad, why wouldn't every band want to have as many as possible in their logos? I thought maybe it was because they didn't know how to go about it, so I'm here to help. After all, I'm the dude who drew the Satan's Charcoaled Nipples cover with like 100 upside down crosses on it, right? Who better to reach out to the bands and let them know that there is hope. Below are a few logos of bands that missed an opportunity or two to make their logos way more brutal, so I worked really hard and fixed them. You are welcome.<br />
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SkullKrusherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802732286777603134noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-17656761290513717892017-03-29T01:12:00.001-04:002017-03-29T12:51:40.005-04:00Podcast: Episode 002SkullKrusher, Gene Hoglan's Balls and ChristButcher are your hosts, once again, in this fucked-up 1 hour journey. We explore the rest of our 'top-10 most influential records of our teens' list and ask ourselves: who is the bigger poser, if we were judged by our teenager selves.<br />
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As we all know the world of Black Metal is filled with tall tales,
rumors, gossip, and folklore, so take this post with a grain of salt the
size of Oslo. I'm not an expert in Black Metal history, so some of this may be common knowledge or totally wrong. This account was compiled from conversations that I had with randoms, whose credibility should definitely be questioned. I didn't question it 'cuz their stories were awesome.<br />
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I was in Colombia recently and, of course, visited
all my favorite Metal record stores downtown Bogotá. For whatever reason a lot of the
conversations with store employees, owners and other randoms centered around an infamous character in the Colombian Metal scene: <a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Bull_Metal/7863" target="_blank">Bull Metal</a>. Bull (real name Mauricio Montoya) was a founding member of legendary Death Metal band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Masacreofficial/" target="_blank">Masacre</a>. His own life, especially his last few years leading to his death in 2002 are the subject
of a lot of speculation and myth. But, that is a topic for an entirely different
post. What I want to talk about now is the link between early Colombian Proto-Black-Metal (I love that term), Bull Metal, and early Norwegian Black Metal, especially Euronymous and Mayhem. If you know the story of Mayhem you may think you know where this is going: 'Dawn of the Black Hearts.' Well, eventually, but what happened years before is what I want to discuss.<br />
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The story varies slightly on who tells it, but basically it goes like this: At some point in the 80s (some say as early as '84, some say as late as '87) Bull Metal and Euronymous started writing each other and trading tapes, as we used to do back then. I actually traded tapes with Bull myself in the early 90s. Anyway, I was told that Bull Metal sent Euronymous records from a few key Colombian bands. Namely, <a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Parabellum/4294" target="_blank">Parabellum</a>, <a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Blasfemia/21652" target="_blank">Blasfemia</a> and <a href="http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Reencarnaci%C3%B3n/17907" target="_blank">Reencarnacion</a>. These three bands, from the fuckhole that was Medellín (second largest city in Colombia) in the '80s, were the core of what was dubbed the "Ultra Metal" scene. In 1986 Mayhem were no more than a Venom cover band. If you've seen their show at Ski (below) you can see that Mayhem were far from the band that would record Deathcrush a year later. The widely accepted and (proudly) retold story in Colombia is that the records Bull Metal sent Euronymous were a major influence on Mayhem and shaped their new sound.<br />
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At first the whole thing sounded like the usual Colombian hyper-pride taken to the next level. These people were basically saying that bands from Colombia, although amazing in their own right, were responsible for the sound that defined the Black Metal genre. Is that possible? No way! Mayhem was influenced by Bathory, Venom and Celtic Frost, right? That's what I've always thought!<br />
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Could it be True? </h3>
First let's look at the timeline. Deathcrush was released in late 1987. Let's say they had been working on the songs and refining their style since early '87, and they listened to the Colombian records in '86. That's plausible, no? We know that the opposite wasn't true. The early Norwegian sound could not have influenced Colombian bands because they had already established their sound as far back as 1983. Parabellum, for example, had a cemented sound by 1984 when they recorded their demo (below). <br />
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If you listen to these three bands (clips below) you can hear a sound very similar to what Mayhem (and other early BM bands in Norway) would eventually develop. Parabellum's tempo changes, primal drum beats, scream vocals and raw energy definitely sound like they could have influenced a record like 'Deathcrush' more than Venom or Celtic Frost. Bathory is a little closer to the eventual Mayhem sound. Of course bands are influenced by all sorts of things, but the point is whether or not the Colombian bands had a significant influence on Mayhem's song writing and overall raw sound.<br />
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If you do a quick internet search you'll find tons of webpages (mostly Colombian) stating that the aforementioned influence is a fact. There's even an article about it in <a href="http://blogs.eltiempo.com/tornamesa/2015/03/08/amistades-extremas-el-black-metal-entre-medellin-y-oslo/" target="_blank">El Tiempo</a>, Colombia's biggest newspaper. That would be like the Wall Street Journal having an article about Amon Amarth's dislike of the term "Viking Metal." This is a legit newspaper talking about metal tape trading in the early 80s! Fucking crazy! And the article isn't some sensationalist piece of shit talking about the Norwegian Black Metal soap opera and church burnings or something. Anyway, I digress. In the last couple of years, and no doubt fueled by these stories (true or not), the prices of original vinyl from these three Colombian bands (as well as some others) have gone through the fucking roof. A very fucking tall barrel vaulted roof. Some of the records are going for well over U$1000. One of the store owners I talked to in Bogotá told me he'd sold a mint copy Parabellum's "Mutación Por Radiación" 12" EP for U$5000 to some European dudes that had visited his shop last fall. Knowing the infamous Colombian gift for exaggeration (read any Gabriel Garcia Márquez novel) I calculate the actual sale at around U$2500. I have a few of these records myself and I'm not saying I could retire if I sold them, but I sure could take a nice vacation for a few weeks. Shit, I digress again.<br />
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So, of course with demand comes supply. Any recordings these bands did, from studio stuff, rehersal demos and shit live recordings are being reissued by labels far and wide. Dude, these live tapes... most of these live tapes are absolute garbage-fuck-ass-shit. Think about it: they were recorded in 1985, let's say, by some dude in a <a href="http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dPYAAOSwpRRWpSIT/s-l300.jpg" target="_blank">Sonkx boombox</a> (in Colombia in the 80s no one could afford anything Sony) he borrowed from his parents, dubbing over dude's sister's Salsa tape. Dude had to use tape to cover the write-protect hole, 'cuz paper in the hole just falls off and then you have to fish it out of the thing. To make matters worse, dude is friends with the band, so he got a spot right in front of the PA. Dude (I'm tired of calling him 'dude,' let's call him Elias) steals his other sister's Menudo tape, puts tape over the write-protect hole and makes a copy of this horrible recording for the band. Elias keeps the "master." 31 years later, yeah, THIRTY-ONE YEARS LATER (that's a long fucking time) a record label from Greece or some other random county, contacts the band about a kick-ass re-issue of all their recordings. Problem is these bands never really recorded an LP's worth of stuff. Well, out come the demos and the live tape Elias did. The tape has been siting in a box this whole time. It's been thrown around in countless moves and absorbing hella-moisture in all types of basements and storage rooms. Now they are unearthed and sent to some poor asshole in Europe to "re-master." Fuck his life. See? These live tapes are shit. But, I cannot get enough of them. They are my favorite part of all these re-issues, even if some of them are pricey. When I was a young Metal shithead, I always thought of people with money as the enemy and something I never wanted to become. Now that I'm an old dude blessed with plenty of extra dough, I'm very happy to spend exorbitant amounts of money on some of these limited edition reissues so I can play Elias' live tape "remastered" on my overpriced turn table. There is a God! There is a God! And her name is "Real Job"!<br />
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Anyway, the reason I brought up these reissues is because it's now in the best interest of these record labels to spread the word about Black Metal basically being born in Colombia, regardless of whether or not it's true. Who doesn't wanna own a part of Black Metal history, right? It's not only the labels, but the Colombian internet Metal community and anyone who owns anything by these bands, right? I guess that includes Elias and myself. But. here's the thing: I believe the story. <br />
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Manheim </h3>
In 2016 Vice en Español made a documentary called "El Diablo Nació en Medellín" ("The Devil Was Born in Medellín") about the early Ultra Metal scene, mainly Parabellum. At some point during the documentary the topic turns to the subject of Colombian bands having a significant influence on the early Norwegian Black Metal sound. They interview Mayhem's founding member Manheim and he says, quote: "[the sound] came from the Colombian bands. It was a really raw sound. It was different, certainly different than European bands and it was pure rawness. It was very, very raw." He goes on, "... the most extreme bands came from Colombia. They were more avant-garde and experimental, which came closer to our hearts." Alex Oquendo, singer for Masacre (yeah, the same band Bull Metal played in) is also featured in the documentary and says (I'll have to paraphrase, since he says it in Spanish) that the "Norwegians" would tell them that they were tired of the scene in Oslo. That it was mostly skaters who listened to Anthrax and Metallica-type bands and that it wasn't real raw metal like in Medellín. Oquendo also says that the Norwegians had a special place in the Helvete basement* for Colombian bands.<br />
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An Aside</h3>
I have always found it to be hilarious that teenage boys in one of the richest countries in the world, with excellent social services, and no real crime would have the balls to call themselves 'extreme' in any way at all. Everything 'extreme,' 'scary' or 'evil' about Black Metal is brought on by the members of the scene themselves. Like the kids in rural Iowa who start getting guns and invent gangs in order to be become tough. Meanwhile, if you think about it, Medellín in the mid-80s was the most dangerous city in the world. Owned and run by the Medellín cartel, the city was a motherfucking war zone. Not suburban kids making up war, no, a real fucking war zone. Car bombs, gang violence, kidnappings, police brutality... The city was the epicenter of a civil war between the leftist Guerrillas financed by the Medellín Cartel, fucked up hyper-violent right-wing death commandos, the military controlled by a corrupt government and the local police who basically worked for whomever payed the best price. Kids were recruited or kidnapped at an early age by any of the sides, trained and some would be professional assassins by age 12. Fear, poverty, death, violence, hunger, abuse... dude, THAT is what inspires evil shit. Maybe that's why Oslo kids were skating and listening to "I Am the Law" while kids in Medellín were forming crazy anti-religion, anti-establishment, raw-as-shit bands. I've been to Oslo and Bergen. There is absolutely nothing scary about those towns. They are beautiful, filled with great restaurants and pubs and I really doubt it was very different in the mid 80s. But what the fuck do I know? The interesting part about this is that after years went by and Mayhem established itself as a true pioneer of Black Metal in the early 90s, Euronymous apparently told Bull Metal that his band, Masacre, was too political and its lyrics sounded like a Hardcore band. Masacre were and still are a Death Metal band that sing about how fucked up society is. They sing about poverty, police brutality, war... you know, REAL scary shit, not made up ghouls, ghosts and Harry Potter bullshit. However, I guess Bull agreed, and quit Masacre after he failed to convince the rest of the band to become evil or whatever. He started some BM band I've never cared enough to listen to and whose name I can't even remember. Oh, just to let you know, Medellín is a super safe city nowadays. Beautiful, too. Amazing weather and good looking ladies everywhere you look. Seriously. Worth the visit.<br />
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Dawn of the Black Hearts</h3>
Finally, just because it'd be weird not to mention it, it was Bull Metal's label. Warmaster Records, that put out the infamous 'Dawn of the Black Hearts' record, featuring Dead... well dead, on the cover. This was also a topic of conversation during my record store pilgrimage in Bogotá. I always heard that the picture had been stolen and used for the cover without permission and that Mayhem were not happy about it. Well. I heard there that since Dead and Bull Metal used to be close (as close as you can be when you live 5,715 miles (9,197km) from each other), Euronymous sent him a copy of the picture and a piece of Dead's skull. Furthermore, Euronymous knew about the record before it came out. Who fucking knows. And really... who fucking cares.<br />
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<br />SkullKrusherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802732286777603134noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-19153509447368237952017-03-13T16:38:00.001-04:002017-03-14T14:05:58.244-04:00INTRODUCING THE METAL INQUISITION PODCAST. MORE BRUTAL THAN ANY NPR PODCAST.Emerging from the same unapologetically irreverent tone of the Metal Inquisition Blog, we introduce The Metal Inquisition Podcast. Arguably the best podcast ever. You WILL download this shit. You WILL listen to this shit. You WILL enjoy this shit and you WILL tell your friends to stay away, because it's so brutal, therefore making your friends want to listen.<br />
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Will we keep doing the blog? Yes. Do we think that Left Hand Path is an amazing record? Yes. Will we eventually discuss battle vests in the podcast? Yes. Can you call into the podcast to talk about poser bands? No.<br />
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SkullKrusher, Gene Hoglan's Balls and ChristButcher will be your hosts in this fucked-up 1 hour journey.<br />
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<br />SkullKrusherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02802732286777603134noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-36396287956297124712016-09-12T21:09:00.000-04:002016-09-12T21:10:48.489-04:00Dude, don't ruin my evil show with your phallic pool toys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Remember that part in Some Kind of Monster where Lars talks about his art collection and how he's considering selling some of his paintings, which just happen to be Basquiats worth about a million a piece? Well, now I know what it feels like to own a priceless and unique work of art!<br />
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This piece was obtained from a private collector that shall remain nameless, but I can disclose that the transaction took place several years ago in the parking lot of MetLife Stadium during a flea market which in retrospect is about the most perfect way for such a transaction to take place.<br />
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Just look at that brushwork! The colors! The tones! And that little bonus band portrait in the top corner! Very little is known about the artist, the enigmatic David Rosengart. In fact, I know nothing about him. I like to imagine he's some long-haired <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/CHUD_poster.jpg" target="_blank">CHUD</a> savant that painted this in the basement of his parent's suburban New Jersey home and traded it for a Necrovore demo and a six-pack of Busch. Sadly, the world may never know.<br />
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And don't even ask if I'm in interested in selling--there's not enough money in the world!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-23523361536815093862015-12-11T11:17:00.001-05:002015-12-11T11:20:59.254-05:00Praise Jesus, Praise Real Estate!Remember how Roger Martinez from Vengeance Rising was way into JC?<br />
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That was the old Roger. These days, he's got himself an oversized suit from the discount rack at Men's Warehouse, and he's now way into Real Estate.<br />
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Ask any lady that you know, and they will surely tell you that the pure essence of sexy is Marty Friedman, circa 1999, wearing a silky dress shirt, pretending to give his Jackson guitar fellatio. It's a scientific fact. Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-47226522403366196212015-02-25T13:06:00.001-05:002015-02-25T13:06:48.314-05:00I made four animated GIFs that flawlessly encompass Kiss as a band during the 1980s<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Be a pal, if you post these somewhere, give credit where credit is due. Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-39584869423343505222014-07-02T12:55:00.000-04:002014-07-02T12:55:18.552-04:00Today's animated gif: Lars chewing the cud.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been meaning to do this post for ages, but haven't gotten around to do it. Finally today, I'm home, I'm bored, listening to Suicidal and ready to do this.<br />
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Of course metal and beer go hand and hand. At least it has for me. the first time I drank beer I was listening to Maiden. I paid $9 for a shitty beer the first time I saw Slayer in Detriot in '91 (June 22, 1991 to be exact. Yeah, Clash of the Titans). Oddly enough I paid $9 for a shitty beer the 13th time I saw them in Pittsburgh a few weeks ago.<br />
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Anyway, I have been working on a book about beer packaging (bottles, labels, cans, growlers, tap handles, etc.) and I've come across a few metal beers I'd like to share with yous. The book will be out in the fall of 2014 and will be entitled Cool Beer Labels. For more info about the book check out our <a href="http://coolbeerlabelsbook.com/" target="_blank">website</a> or our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CoolBeerLabelsBook" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>.<br />
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Let's stay with Slayer for a little here. Oregon's craft beer geniuses <a href="http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/" target="_blank">Ninkasi</a> brings us Sleigh'r. Aside from the awesome Slayer references, the beer itself is pretty awesome. It's a winter Altbeer (Brown Ale). At 7.2%abv is a little higher than I'd like for a holiday beer, but it's perfect if you're trying to ignore gramma and uncle Bob during Xmas dinner.<br />
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668 The Neighbor of the Beast comes from Connecticut's <a href="http://www.newenglandbrewing.com/" target="_blank">New England Brewing Co</a> who also brought us Imperial Stout Trooper. 668 got a 90/100 on beeradvocate.com, which is pretty damn good.<br />
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This Suicidal Cyco beer comes from Germany and it was created by the dudes at <a href="http://www.pixeleye.biz/" target="_blank">Pixel Eye</a>. Plenty of tattooed hotties and German lager? I'm in!<br />
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Unless you a fucking clueless asshole, you've heard about this by now. The Trooper is a strong bitter by <a href="http://www.robinsonsbrewery.com/" target="_blank">Robinsons</a> in England.<br />
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GWAR Impaled Pale Ale may not be the best beer out there (it isn't, trust me), but the name is pretty awesome. <br />
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Who would be awesome enough to home brew SkullKrusher Black Lager? Me.<br />
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I know there's a whole bunch of others, but I'm tired of typing, so I leave you with some other gimmick/novelty beers. Not much to offer in the way of taste. Or anything else. Please remember to check out my book's <a href="http://coolbeerlabelsbook.com/" target="_blank">website</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CoolBeerLabelsBook" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. Bye.<br />
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Say what you will, but I still maintain that it takes a real man to pull off the bucket-hat-with-purple-bandana look.Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com368tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-91556640953312230482013-02-27T10:47:00.000-05:002013-02-27T10:47:44.105-05:00Dave Mustaine does a belly dance, and names his band after toothpaste.In 1989, I received a gift certificate for a record store called Bambuco, in Bogota's <a href="http://www.unicentrobogota.com/">Unicentro shopping mall</a>. I eagerly anticipated the day that I'd be able to use the certificate, since I was already devoting pretty much every waking moment of my day to thinking about metal bands, drawing concerts by metal bands, designing logos for metal bands and so on. This being late 80s Colombia, however, the selection of metal records at local stores was almost always limited to one Ozzy record, and maybe another by the Europe (authors of that timeless classic, the Final Countdown). With that in mind, imagine my surprise when Bambuco had a copy of Megadeth's So Far, So Good, So What on their shelves, among several copies of the latest Julio Iglesias album. Though Megadeth was didn't interest me much, the thought of being able to buy something heavier than Europe was intoxicating, so I got it. Upon taking it home, I was blown away by the speed in the opening track, but hated the whiny vocals, even then. Nevertheless, I was thrilled.<br />
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Soon after I got home and listened to the record a few times, my brother called from a friend's house. I was so excited to tell him about the record, that I made a simple mistake that continues to haunt me to this day. I told him, "I got a new record! It's awesome, but I don't know if you'll like it. It's by the band Mentadent". Yes ladies and gentlemen, in my excitement, I had neglected to realize the band's actual name, and had confused it with the <a href="http://web-images.chacha.com/mentadent/mentadent-jan-31-2011-200.jpg">brand of toothpaste</a> that had been recently released in Colombia. <br />
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And now, to celebrate this story, I bring you this animated GIF that I put together for all of you. Enjoy it, and if you link to it, or post it somewhere, please be kind enough to credit Metal Inquisition. I mean, after all, how many blogs tell you unbelievably thrilling stories about thinking a band was named after toothpaste?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here we have further proof of my self-important delusions of grandeur, circa 1992. Archived for your pleasure, numerous receipts of my musical purchases around that time, which I thoroughly believed would be displayed int he Smithsonian at one point. </span></div>
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<br />Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-68166685579282672672012-07-16T07:30:00.000-04:002012-07-24T14:06:08.309-04:00My retarded metal scrapbook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Once upon a time, when my white high-tops were high, and my mullet flowed effortlessly down the back of my neck, I honestly believed that I was destined for greatness. Considering what I wore at the time (black sweatpants, massive amounts of Brut cologne and an assortment of metal shirts), it's fair to say that the greatness I believed to be destined for lay somewhere within the musical spectrum. Perhaps—I thought—I'll get to be the drummer of one of these new death metal bands from Florida (the time being the early 90s and all). My dream was to make multiple thousands of dollars a year, and maybe get to live in the same outdoor storage facility that Chuck Schuldiner from Death lived in near my family's apartment. That, to me, would have been a great success.</div>
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Why bring this up? Why do I share my most personal dreams and aspirations? Because I recently found proof of how severe my delussions of grandeur were back then. Though the tendency that my brother and I had for archiving every receipt of every tape and album that we bought back then (starting in 1990) could simply be chalked up to our packrat/fastidous tendencies...I would now argue something else. Deep inside my head, the one with the flowing and elegant mullet, I believed that one day these would be museum pieces. Behind bullet proof glass, in temperature controlled comfort, these receipts would be displayed in the halls of the Smithsonian, or some other similarly impressive institution. Visitors would "oooh" and "ahhh" as they saw when I bought my first Sacred Reich or Kreator cassette. </div>
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Reality, as is often the case, is much simpler. My celebrity status never came. I never became the drummer of a famed Florida death metal band, and these receipts have yet to be accepted into the Smithsonian. As such, today they are simply what they were then. A sad and retarded metal scrapbook, which I retain to this day.</div>
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Receipts for Entombed "Crawl", Napalm Death home video, Autopsy "Fiend For Blood" EP, Broken Hope LP, Prophecy of Doom/Axegrinder split cassette, SOD album, Morgoth CD, Napalm Death's "Utopia Banished"</div>Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-77715727514271371632012-07-13T13:28:00.001-04:002012-07-13T13:28:03.157-04:00James Hetfield has really let himself go<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x7Y2DCIC3SU" width="420"></iframe>Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-41154421452768222792012-02-13T05:15:00.001-05:002012-02-13T10:27:28.379-05:00Metal Inquisition Archives: Lyrics<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /></span><br />Like so many of you, I too look back upon my past and cringe relentlessly. Luckily, there's few bits of evidence to prove just how much of a douche I've been for much of my life. For example, there's no proof of how I waited for three hours in the snow to meet Kurt Brecht from D.R.I. in 1991...nor is there proof of how insanely excited I was when he kindly asked me to step into the band's bus, in fear that I'd probably die of hypothermia (and that he'd be held responsible).<br /><br />Every once in a while, however, I come across solid proof of my youthful stupidity. The image below is just one of those such item...which we will hereby call: Exhibt A in the trail against Klaus. What is Exhibit A you ask? Just proof that one day in 1990, I decided to write out the lyrics of the Gwar song Slaughterama with a blue felt tip marker. And then was apparently so proud of my accomplishment, that I decided to archive them for later enjoyment.<br /><br />Please keep in mind that at the time, I had only moved to the United States a few months earlier, and thus didn't really speak much English at all. This will explain the awful spelling errors.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1jRaaiQ9xIw/TzkpQ6oWAFI/AAAAAAAAHh0/n3gGtC96REE/s1600/Gwar.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 362px; height: 461px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1jRaaiQ9xIw/TzkpQ6oWAFI/AAAAAAAAHh0/n3gGtC96REE/s1600/Gwar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708639373261930578" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">(click to enlarge)<br /></span></div><br /><br /><br />But wait, there's more. I also found handwritten articles about Kreator, Napalm Death and Believer circa 1991. Stay tuned.Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273126442475794090.post-28994675967209944812012-01-22T10:29:00.001-05:002012-01-22T10:30:53.794-05:00King Diamond's house<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5R3rCW6ETAI/TxwrYVGxwqI/AAAAAAAAHWM/1f9qCHp_4Qk/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-01-22%2Bat%2B10.28.27%2BAM.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 443px; height: 287px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5R3rCW6ETAI/TxwrYVGxwqI/AAAAAAAAHWM/1f9qCHp_4Qk/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2012-01-22%2Bat%2B10.28.27%2BAM.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700478925326631586" border="0" /></a><br />Every man needs a place to hang his top hat.Klaushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587934998738921091noreply@blogger.com14