i have no memory of writing this. i wrote it for whiney, apparently! i kinda like it. i don't write good no more. or have the energy to. but i'm getting that cpap machine soon! can't wait for that. once i can sleep right again, watch out, america!
Defcon 4
You ever see the movie Defcon 4? Yeah, me neither. Or wait, did I? Eh, probably. Who knows anymore. I’m so jaded when it comes to kitschy apocalyptica. And my memory is poor. And I’ve seen a million movies. Today at work I was emptying one of those big outdoor ashtrays. You know the ones. A Rubbermaid. Jesus, Rubbermaid, there’s a movie for you. Thousands of Ohioans living and dead could tell the whole dirty story while gritting their teeth at the memory of the loss and the misplaced pride. What, like the end of the world hasn’t actually come yet? You need futuristic neon dystopias to tell the tale of man’s folly? Take a look around, buddy. Anyway, this big-ass plastic ashtray with the gaping metal mouth was beyond full. The butts crammed to the top formed a single tube of soggy and yet hardened nic fit. It took forever to get them out of there. And I couldn’t help but feel like I had seen this movie before. And I had. In a way. When I was 16 and wiping shit off of supermarket bathroom walls. When I was 26 and on my hands and knees cleaning mouse shit off of dirty deli floors. And when I was 36 and changing stinky diapers by myself in a small damp house far from everyone and everything that I knew and trying to embrace the love I felt for my son, while, at the same time, ducking dark storm clouds of isolation and fear. Which is just another way of saying that Defcon 4 are a decent Boston punk band that mixes doom and crust and sharpened Eyehategod teeth all in the service of…what? I don’t know. Another pennant? Hatred of Ben Affleck’s street cred? All I know is, from the area of the universe that gave me SSD and Converge, I expect MORE pain. And MORE convincing wails of torment. Their stylistic twists and turns aren’t as compelling as the more advanced cosmic crust moves of Kylesa or Baroness either. But, hey, they are young, right? I have no idea, are they? Well, they sound young. And kinda peppy even. And hanging out with Steve Austin was a good move too. Their record sounds smooth. I’m just not feeling very smooth. I give any young band the same advice I gave a guy I met last week who only has two months to live (gallbladder): It’s never too late to become a reader. You might not want to start with War & Peace though.
― scott seward, Sunday, 11 July 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
also, i am listening to tank. tank rules.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:02 PM (3 years ago)
Still true. I mean they probably didn't take themselves way too seriously, but fuck they rule.
― scary-cat-mascot-costumes-for-kids2.tk (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 26 December 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
microphallus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59bjjF0DmvQ
― scott seward, Sunday, 20 February 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
omg
― bamcquern, Sunday, 20 February 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcg-jSvef1E&feature=related
― scott seward, Monday, 7 March 2011 03:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope heaven sounds like necrofago.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 March 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSytpSwnUGo&feature=related
― scott seward, Monday, 7 March 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
words fail to describe the drumming on here. kinda awe-inspiring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujlbVdDPgbc&feature=related
― scott seward, Monday, 7 March 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway, nunslaughter has been on my hit parade ALL week. sounds so good. their 80's stuff is so inspiring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yFX5c56p6A&feature=related
― scott seward, Monday, 7 March 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
new ravencult album on hells headbangers is hotttttttttt
― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
album of the year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwQ9g5rW5jg
― scott seward, Thursday, 21 June 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
this is one of my favorite albums of the last ten years and hardly anyone heard it. came out on a tiny label. never made it to the ststes, etc. kinda avant-black, but great vibe. great tension. jim jones worship is kind of a throwback in the transgressive sweepstakes - what's next manson? - but its okay cuz it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4PuPQCuhQk&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G65oVUSrNuA&feature=channel&list=UL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBosT9rPRPk&feature=related
― scott seward, Friday, 17 August 2012 05:04 (eleven years ago) link
pretty excited for the new deiphago and I've never been a huge fan. really into the three songs hells headbangers posted.
― original bgm, Friday, 17 August 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
cover rules too
― original bgm, Friday, 17 August 2012 05:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRPKWLKPT0
― scott seward, Monday, 28 July 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
otm
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 28 July 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
dude...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2-YWG1pgu4
― scott seward, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JJOyt34hPU
― scott seward, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
so sickkkkkkkkkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdgUv9Bl3cw
― scott seward, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:17 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3liyM-sjNRI
― scott seward, Friday, 27 February 2015 05:31 (nine years ago) link
gettin' my warwulf on again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKuJDc-Wmrk#t=17
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 September 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Being an MST3K fan I'm obliged to post A WARWULF?!
That's that stuff that's so loud and violent that, at low volume, it sounds kind of soothing. Like a dude whispering over muted static.
― We Boo... The Cross (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 September 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
Why does ILX get so wulfed out on saturdays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWgOsn7lMMg
― We Boo... The Cross (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 September 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJMVIF8JG-M
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 September 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
sweet stuff...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqzYFoC_Q2k
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 September 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
xp More metal logos should incorporate axes.
― We Boo... The Cross (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 September 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
really digging Undergang lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xpyj8j9Xa4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWlUB-5E3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzHwOsSWt_A
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 September 2015 19:18 (eight years ago) link
Undergang bass sound really hits the spot.
Yeah Undergang is awesome, this is the kind of stuff where the guitar/bass sound is already enough, they don't actually need any tunes.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 12 September 2015 20:00 (eight years ago) link
i agree.
― scott seward, Saturday, 12 September 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Fucking LOVE Undergang. Got them and Vorum at the same time, it was a great day for pulverizing my brain.
― We Boo... The Cross (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 13 September 2015 07:03 (eight years ago) link
this video is insane. who even knew that Barbara even had a video for this song? love that album a ton. NSFW. just so you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y-lWXOlGEk
― scott seward, Friday, 16 October 2015 02:23 (eight years ago) link
stuff i've been listening to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-7r8H4jenE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcaWMa23C4M
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
also, just everything nagelfar-related.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTIPVS8Tt1g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5X2jATkE1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ny5SpVuIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqpC92yFe0I
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 October 2015 03:26 (eight years ago) link
I getta get into Ruins of Beverast some more.
I've been digging Nocturnal Blood's super-vile black/death chaos (just consider this one 26 minute piece):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDxan3haFc
Can't believe that dude's from Fontana!
...and Temple Nightside's druggy cave metal, which gets very floaty and psychedelic. I mean, you're floating in a SEA OF BLACK BLOOD, but still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsfeuSEVPKY
― si monvmentvm reqvires, pvmpkin spice (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 26 October 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
love this picture of Mystifier back in the day
http://i64.tinypic.com/ncb1qo.jpg
― stupid children forever (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 1 January 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
OK I just listened the shit out of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPbxHpjDcyQ
I love that special viciousness thrashy/speedy metal bands got after Reign in Blood and Seven Churches came out. Also they're from Jersey.
― gamelan ankylosing spondylitis (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 12:08 (eight years ago) link
i used to have their first album many moons ago. Kill Or Be Killed. a minor classic to be sure.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 13:33 (eight years ago) link
I'll have to dig that up tomorrow. Was also digging Sacrilege B.C. earlier. I think the anti-thrash stuff on the extreme metal thread have given me a reaction formation.
― gamelan ankylosing spondylitis (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
ha that's awesome! I can hear some Dark Angel too -- vocalist is repelling me a bit tho, but he is unique.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 23 February 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
I kinda dig the vocalist, but I can go for that caveman-via-Halford thing.
In other news I finally got my copy of Ruins of Beverast's Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite. Fucking crazy stuff. Dude had me when he kicked in with what sounds like a two-bass solo in the first song.
― bearded flack trickster god (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 March 2016 08:24 (eight years ago) link
I feel like Inhume fit this category
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 March 2016 05:50 (eight years ago) link
Avulsed - Goresplattered Suicide too, though they dont' take themselves v seriously
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Both those Blessed Death albums got remastered reissues via the Metal Mind label back in 2007 or so. I got copies sent to me at Metal Edge, along with a million other early Roadracer/Roadrunner titles nobody remembers or cares about anymore. So much great stuff.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 6 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
this album. man. listening to this whole album really loud on big speakers makes swans sound like the pizzicato five. so intense. and it just keeps getting crazier. listening on a computer doesn't count. so fucked up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRFqaMbDoTM
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
is that punk maybe? i can't always tell the difference
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
They were a hardcore band, that's their "metal" album. Those quotes aren't because it isn't metal but because it's on some other fucked up crazy plane. Just as insane as when they were doing 2 minute songs like "I Killed My Family," though.
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
Fuckin PHILLY alright
― I cut this hair, I wash this hair, I mess this hair up (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
i mean if you're gonna abuse drugs make an album like THAT.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
I nominate Shub-Niggurath "Kinglike Celebration"
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 01:28 (six years ago) link