Seek and Destroy

METALLICA Seek and Destroy (Metal Hammer Festival 1985)
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True Norwegian Black Metal

'Kvitrafn of Wardruna'

"... In the last two decades a bizarre and violent musical subculture called Black Metal has emerged in Norway. It has its roots in a heady blend of splatter movies, heavy metal music, Satanism, Pagan mythology and adolescent angst. In the early-mid 1990's, members of this extremist underground committed murder, burned down medieval wooden churches, and desecrated graveyards. What started as juvenile frenzy came to symbolize the start of a war against Christianity, a return to the worship of the ancient Norse gods, and the complete rejection of mainstream society. .." (quoted from the Press Release)

Peter Beste: True Norwegian Black Metal, exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery.

Are you ready this time?

Where were you in '79 when the dam began to burst
Did you check us out down at the local show
Were you wearing denim, wearing leather
Did you run down to the front
Did you queue for your ticket through the ice and snow

Saxon-denim and leather
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I didn't think so. Traitors!

It's Friday - Just Let Me Rock

Heavy Load

As perhaps probably some of you have figured out my first musical fling was Heavy Metal.
My interest in Heavy Metal back then is probably a good reason why I ended up doing this blog more then 2 decades later. In 1982 I had my first encounters with the genre. I think it was some various artists and tracks. Bands like Judas Priest, Saxon, Motörhead, Tygers of Pan Tang, Van Halen, Thin Lizzy (not so metalish though...), Accept, AC/DC and of course... KISS.
The metal scene back then (at least to me) was mostly NWOBHM spiced with american acts in a more classic hard rockin' vein, like Van Halen, KISS and Quite Riot and the heavy boogie rock coming from downunder by AC/DC and Rose Tattoo and the big German metal scene with bands like Scorpions, MSG, Helloween, and Accept.

Sweden? Not much here. The scene was about to explode. But it hadn't happened yet in '82.

What we had back then was pretty much this,

Heavy Load - Heavy Metal Angels:

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No wonder the scene was to explode here in Sweden. Man, it had to explode.
Heavy Load paved the road. They were pioneers. Not very good. But. Still. Pioneers.
In Metal and... Leather.

And at the age of 13 you can't afford to be picky. At least their albums looked violent and cool middle-agely enough. And that was the important thing!

Bonus: Listen to the album "Death or Glory" (from which "Heavy Metal Angels" was taken from)

Stayin' Alive

Excrementory Grindfuckers know how to keep it alive. It's not that hard.
First: Learn how to Grind,

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Second: Steal a good falsetto song (oldest trick in the book),

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Wow. That was easy.

Name that hair-metal band!

I only got one wrong. How about that!
Name that hair-metal band! (via Sonic)

The Klan doing the naughty metal macarena

I just found this rather strange Metal video on YouTube.
The band is "a progressive hard rock project with musicians based in Norway and New Zealand" (according to the info on their site).
It's 2 dudes disguised as Ku Klux Klansmen doing the Macarena and getting a little carried away... Hm... NSFW.

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