HARD ROCK SOLDIER x HEAVY METAL KILLER: Rawk Thread

[BIL]

Great little moment for a lot of retro metal about that time in the oughts. I saw them on that tour in DC at the 9:30 club and I got one of the guitar picks Lemmy through into the audience (he tended to do that a lot).

I was lucky to see them in London a few years earlier for Inferno, one of the vanishingly few concerts I've been to in my life. My teeth were ringing for days. They had a great final decade, between Inferno and Bad Magic. Buddy went out on the road like he swore he would. ;w;7

Reminded, per Movie thread's Fulci tip, that for such a cheese-prone bunch of big-haired poofters, EUROPE have some fuckin killer early cuts. Explosive power and dynamism on par with Maiden's ST; John Norum's muscular tone and athletic prowess easily recalling fellow Swede Andy LaRocque's King Diamond work. And honestly, Joey Tempest got some fuckin pipes, a bellowing croon reminding me of a slightly more refined Graham Bonnet. Cracking fiery lyrics too. Any appreciator of The Beyond is a friend of mine

> IN THE FUTURE TO COME
> SCREAM OF ANGER
> SEVEN DOORS HOTEL

I remember choosing to believe "Future's" Hold on was actually Oh lawd ala War Pigs. Oh lawd / Where will it end?!

What a great line though, bleak as it is indomitable. Hold on until we start to pretend that we can survive in the future to come

ala Leppard, they're the kind of outfit I'm sure continued making quality stuff, just abjectly outside my subject area. I'll blast the early stuff any day though.

Andy LaRoque is my #1

And yeah, it's definitely interesting to hear early Europe doing straight heavy metal. They were kinda like a Swedish Loudness from '82-'84

Legend. Got into his work via Abigail cohort Mikkey Dee's long Motorhead tenure, coincidentally. Scandinavia is a mighty metal people! ABBA too ofc

And on that bombshell: I just realised In The Future To Come's lyric is Oh Lawd, but also "Can we stop to pretend that we can survive." Which tbh I think works out about the same!

[Randorama]

Scandinavia is a mighty metal people!

In the five years in Sweden, I met Joey Tempest (I lived in his hometown, Upplands Väsby), Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth (the only other guy in the pub on an absurdly cold Good Friday night) and Tobias Forge/Ghost was a student in my department while at SU (…we knew who he was, but we played along to maintain the ‘mystery identity’ act). I would sometimes go to ‘2112’, In Flames’s pub in Gothenburg. These are just a few examples I can recall off the top of my head, and I limiting myself to metal people. The ratio citizen:musician is rather high, at least in Sweden.

[Lord British]

I've never been anywhere, but I'm going to Steelfest in Finland next month. I'm not a big black metal fan, but my friend asked me if I was interested in going, so I thought "WTF, why not?".

[Lord British]

Lemmy Kilmister and Bob Mould's landmark side project will be reissued in May!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeF6xOjSNxE

[BIL]

Lemmy Kilmister and Bob Mould's landmark side project will be reissued in May!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeF6xOjSNxE

Apt description. Fuckin killer record. That balls-hard tone does sound recall 1916, now you mention it. ANIMAL DAY's clean breaks always haunt. Surprisingly agile when it wants to be. (DISICPLINE) Even the covers GHETTO and HEAVEN are made their own.

I've never been anywhere, but I'm going to Steelfest in Finland next month. I'm not a big black metal fan, but my friend asked me if I was interested in going, so I thought "WTF, why not?".

Good going! I sometimes wish I'd travelled more, I always seem to land somewhere and stay put forever. Happy and stable but grass greener etc etc.

Scandinavia is a mighty metal people!

In the five years in Sweden, I met Joey Tempest (I lived in his hometown, Upplands Väsby), Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth (the only other guy in the pub on an absurdly cold Good Friday night) and Tobias Forge/Ghost was a student in my department while at SU (…we knew who he was, but we played along to maintain the ‘mystery identity’ act). I would sometimes go to ‘2112’, In Flames’s pub in Gothenburg. These are just a few examples I can recall off the top of my head, and I limiting myself to metal people. The ratio citizen:musician is rather high, at least in Sweden.

Man that sounds amazing. Nothing like a quiet pub and good company on a cold night.

I actually had some experience of growing up in a close-knit music nation, but being a country boy, my biggest meet was bagging groceries with then-unknown Sean Paul and never-really-known Red Rat. Was totally disinterested in local stuff... in hindsight I should've been more grateful. That said, as another fond acquaintance testified, it gets ugly in the most happening spots, never seemed worth it for a square dude only in town to study. (good guy, Mr. Wales... did the paperwork for the ambulance he imported from the US, his thanks for the hospital who saved him after an eventful night in Kingston's never particularly welcoming bar scene ;w;7)

[Lord British]

Just got back to Chicago from Steelfest in Finland. My first time overseas, what a great time!

Standouts to me were Absu, Urn, and Misþyrming from Iceland.

[vol.2]

Just got back to Chicago from Steelfest in Finland. My first time overseas, what a great time!

Standouts to me were Absu, Urn, and Misþyrming from Iceland.

fuck yeah. Sounds awesome. I thought you must be somewhere due to the lack of movie posts in recent days.

[Lord British]

Just got back to Chicago from Steelfest in Finland. My first time overseas, what a great time!

Standouts to me were Absu, Urn, and Misþyrming from Iceland.

fuck yeah. Sounds awesome. I thought you must be somewhere due to the lack of movie posts in recent days.

Yeah, gotta get back in the movie groove!

[Lord British]

Corey Feldman + Musical Talent = Dave Mustaine

[AGermanArtist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi047wK5Ndg