Lord Weird Slough Feg!

www.slough-feg.com

HS

http://slaine.biography.ms/

Is it psych stuff or heavy rock?

Hammers of Misfortune spent several years writing this, the band's debut CD, and that work becomes more and more evident with each listen. Nothing less than a three-act heavy metal opera with role-playing vocals sung by the band members, the album draws on a whole range of metal influences -- from Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden to Mercyful Fate and Opeth -- and ties them together with some Celtic folk touches to create a sound that, while it does feel a little '80s nostalgic, is actually pretty original. (The plot, by the way, has to do with a child who grows up amidst the forest and later slays his father to become king, but it's a lot more complicated than that.) The vocals are a three-way arsenal of black metal rasps, operatic female singing, and deep-voiced male singing, respectively, and they're well done, but the group's real strength is in its songwriting and specifically its harmonized dual-guitar riffing. The riffs aren't just strung together; they flow smoothly within each song and in some cases even act as recurring motifs, a prime example being the dramatic dual-guitar break that shows up in "You Should Have Slain Me" and then again in "The Witch's Dance." This ambitious piece of work is even more impressive considering that it was made on a mere eight-track recorder in a rehearsal space. Recommended to open-minded fans of melodic power metal (this is definitely not standard '80s rehash fare) and of left-of-center metal in general.

So.... has anyone else heard either band?

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To think I bid 20 euros. Oh well found the non diehard version online and ordered that for 20 euros ppd

My wife works with an ex-SFer, and I recorded with another one.

This was not my favorite Slough Feg album

What is your favourite?

i really want to like this band. but they just don't do it for me.

Traveler is my favorite

But these days I actually prefer Hammers of Misfortune!

Wish they would tour the uk

When a friend of mine lived in San Francisco, they became his all-time favorite metal band, because they put on such great live shows. I got Traveller a few years back and was happy with it, but wasn't a convert 'til I saw them in September at the Alehorn of Power Metal Fest at Double Door in Chicago in September. They were indeed awesome live. I believe! An endless onslaught of Iron Maiden/Thin Lizzy style twin guitars, plenty of hooks, high energy. I'm gradually getting all their albums, and am looking forward to checking out the new Hammers of Misfortune double album, Fields/Church of Broken Glass (Profound Lore) next week. As mentioned in the Rolling Metal thread, Slough Feg's Scalzi is no longer in it, but former Slough Feg member John Cobbett is keeping the creative flame.

I'm DJing at a bar they are playing on Thursday nite! Crazy...gonna pull out as much weirdo 70s hard rock as i own. Dust, Sir Lord Baltimore, etc

where?

Their latest album is killer! Enjoy the show Matt.

Love these guys live. Scalzi is a nut. The first time he stayed at my house, we geeked out about Erol Otus and early D&D art for hours.

Terrorizer interviewed Scalzi when Gary Gygax died. I thought that was highly appropriate and made sure to give him major kudos next time I saw him.

I missed out on the diehard version of the latest album again. (scroll up to see previous experience)
Not even gonna look on ebay. My black vinyl version will do for both.

where?

― SNaKaTTaK (goole), Monday, August 3, 2009 8:28 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Turf Club, i'm in the basement but i have a partner so we can trade off so i should be able to see most of it, he probably won't like htem

Tell Ryan I said hello!

you know ryan 0'r0urk3??? will do! :)

Nate is like Ned, he knows everyone.

Helps pass the time.

ryan is one of the best things to happen to the turf club (and actually the TC music scene) EVER.

oh shit wait this thursday nooooooooo

i think i'mma hit roadrunner to see if they got any more 'eavy rock

I have procured a Masters of Reality record on vinyl for this.

Also, I am playing LATE PERIOD Wishbone Ash...yeah....no less than FOUR Alice Cooper records in my crate.

secret weapon -- gary glitter album cuts

(i've never heard any)

haha neither have i

i am bringing Sweet though

but in general i think the vibe is gonna be more flare jeans and moustache rock

Love Ape Uprising. Love it.

don't have that but i bet i would like it.

Flaming Groovies and Sir Lord Baltimore and High Tide and Terry Reid are on the menu though

Groundhogs?

"Nate is like Ned, he knows everyone."

I get around.

BTW Ned we totally need to hang out someday.

hahaha i am totally ditching my out of town friends to see this show. well, ok, first ill try to convince them, but if no interest TOO BAD

BTW Ned we totally need to hang out someday.

Very true. Hopefully next time I'm in Portland.

Groundhogs?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, August 4, 2009 10:27 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i'm bringing "Who Will Save the World?" cuz i like mellotron groundhogz best!

Split!!

(don't have that on vinyl and the turf only has turntables, but great record)

bought a humble pie cheapy greatest hits last nite, will scour for jamz tonight

I made a new friend recently (he married an old friend and they just moved to Portland). He heard me spinning Scorched Earth at the Tube a few weeks back. Now he's bringing a stack of Peter Hamill LPs to spin with me at an upcoming gig.

The bartenders are going to be bummed.

Oops, wrong thread!

nah i'm actually bringing a van der graaf generator LP tonight so you're good!

play Arrow!

Make people cry.

i think nazareth's "ballad of hollis brown" might do it ned.

in prepping for this gig, i learned a valuable lesson:

thinking about listening to budgie is >>>>> actually listening to budgie

Thanks for the save Matt. But you're so wrong about Budgie. The first album is 100% solid and all their 70s albums have at least some good material.

challopsin' my budgie, total madness.

(unless you're talking about "if i were brittania" and after, that stuff gets dubious.)

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these guys totally brought it live

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“The Animal Spirits” is an album that continues in the classic SLOUGH FEG tradition, once again proving that SLOUGH FEG are not only the most notorious cult heavy metal band within the underground but one of America’s most important traditional heavy metal bands in the last 15 years. “The Animal Spirits” is SLOUGH FEG’s eight studio full-length release amongst a career that spans 20 years. It is another fantastic gem that will not only go nicely alongside such SLOUGH FEG classics as “Traveller”, “Down Among The Deadmen” and “Twilight Of The Idols” but will, in general, fit adequately amongst SLOUGH FEG’s entire illustrious metal repertoire (one in which no American metal band in the underground can even touch) as another chapter to remind the heavy metal scene (and its consuming fans) what true genuine metal should be all about.

As for the significance of the album title “The Animal Spirits”, vocalist/guitarist and overall metal iconoclast Mike Scalzi delves further: “The title sounds like it could mean plenty of things, but really refers to an Aristotelian theory of perception that was somehow taken seriously until the mid to later 1700's (?!) Why this was I don't know, but it involves these bizarre fluid called ‘animal spirits’ traveling through a person's veins carrying information of what they have perceived, storing it in the heart, and then releasing it again when that thing is remembered. It really a primitive precursor to the idea of neurons firing in a chain, containing ideas. So that's what people will find if they do a little research about the title.”

Going further into the themes of the album, Scalzi elaborates: “The content of the record is (subject wise) is not too far from usual SLOUGH FEG material. The first two songs are about Medieval Catholic theology. Then it switches to basic horror themes, a couple of songs about some insane person who thinks he's a vampire, and then a werewolf (inspired by the Gothic soap-opera ‘Dark Shadows’) then there's one of our weird ‘what if Dicky Betts of the Allman Brothers had joined Iron Maiden in 1980’ instrumentals. Then a few more songs about frustration, misery and madness, and a final fast, driving rock/metal number called ‘Tactical Air-War’, which will be sung by Bob Wright of Brocas Helm!”