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Metal Monday
June 22, 2009, 4:05 pm
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One of the most underrated metals band of all time is SLEEP (some would classify them as stoner rock, but they would be incorrect) Sleep dropped it’s second album Holy Mountain in 1992 and it is considered a seminal album in the evolution of stoner metal. The release Holy Mountain even got them a major label deal with London Records. Their major label dubut was supposed to be Dopesmoker in 1995 but when the band turned it in to the label, the recording consisted of a single song that was over 1 hour long. Aftert the label refused to release it, the band went back and trimmed it down to a “lean” 55 minutes and re-named it Jerusalem. Again the label rufused to release it becuse it was deemed um-marketable and SLEEP broke up shortly after. Both Dopesmoker and Jerusalem have been released by other lables since then and are worth hunting around for (not really that hard to find online)
The guitarist and Singer Matt Pike is now recording and touring with High on Fire



Metal Monday
June 1, 2009, 4:26 pm
Filed under: Metal Monday, Music, video

Mastodon was sent to us from Atlanta (yes Atlanta, not Atlantis) to save metal as we know it. Throw together a bit of Sabbath, a pinch of Floyd, a sprinkling of Rush, make it way heavier and you have Mastodon. Their albums are becoming increasingly conceptual (in a good way) and are best listened to from start to finish in one sitting.



Metal Monday 2
May 25, 2009, 2:46 pm
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What can I say about the Black Dahla Murder except that they’re exceptionaly awesome! They originate from Wateford Michigan are signed to the pioneering American label Metal Blade. The band claims mostly Swedish influences but recognizes the Floridian influence and describes it’s sound as ‘Melodic Death Metal’, I describe it as he sound of 1000 angels signing in harmony (too much?, maybe)
anyhoo, peep the video for ‘Everything went Black’ i think it’s based on Creepshow or some other comic book…pretty neat.

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