The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible, written by Anton Szandor LaVey a.k.a. "The Black Pope", founder of the Church of Satan. This is some good readin'.

The Gathering

Here's The Gathering and some of my favorite tunes by them! Enjoy!

This was the first song I heard and I instantly fell in love with her voice.

This is probably my favorite song by them. It's just so dark and haunting.

This is one of their most famous songs and more of a live-party-song, to me at least.

This is another fave of mine. I really like her melody she uses around the music in this one.

This is an amazing one that focuses more on the band for most part, but when Anneke starts singing around half-way through, it's like an angel started singing. Amazing.

What's crackin' at the moment.

As of this moment, week, or whatever, the bands that I really listen to right now are:  
The Doors 
Danzig
U2 
Type O Negative 
Septic Flesh 
Life of Agony 
Rotting Christ 
Aphex Twin

and a lot of other electronic artists.

I don't really now how to describe this mix, but when I'm in a calm(er) mood I'm really listening to The Doors and U2. Two bands with beautiful music, in my opinion. When I'm in a dark / more deppressed mode it's definitely Type O and Life of Agony. Septic and Rotting are kind of new to me, so it's interesting and I really like their Greek metal style. Electronic stuff is for variation and I really like some kinds of electronic music, especially with analogue synthesizers. Danzig is probably the most listened right now. I've always been a huge fan since I discovered them. Glenn Danzig is one great songwriter and he has a special sound. I like every album he's done solo, as well as some of the Misfits and Samhain stuff (and the Black Aria albums), but like most other people I prefer the first four Danzig albums. I do, however, really like the 6:66 Satan's Child album, which to me is equally as good as Danzig 4.

Review: Overkill - The Electric Age

 Overkill have always been one of those thrash bands that to me, never released any bad albums. Sure there were a few that obviously wasn't as good as the others, but never an album I felt "what the fuck is this shit?" about. Though it seems like the band had their peek during the eighties and early nineties, like most thrash bands, Overkill seem to have gotten a new peek in recent years. Ironbound was a bomb that got dropped in 2010, a thrash album every true fan of the genre had wanted for a long time. The Electric Age is no exception two years later as the band is in the middle of a nuclear war, it seems!

Since its release I've had the time to go through it a bunch of times and it sure is one solid piece of metal music! While unfortunately most other big thrash bands today put out mediocre albums, Overkill really do the opposite. I think it shows in albums sales / popularity as well. When the album kicks in with "Come And Get It" my first thought was "is this Megadeth?". It sounds like something Megadeth should've done, but did not. It's a very great opening track that shows what this album is like. After the Megadeth-like opening the song kicks into traditional Overkill style, but the song has one more big surprise ahead! The middle section turns into a sort of marching thing reminiscent of many great eighties heavy metal bands. Throughout the whole album there actually is an Iron Maiden-feel in particular songs, so think classic Overkill meets Megadeth cirka 2007-2009 meets Iron Maiden. Next song to go is the lead single "Electric Rattlesnake" - a catchy, fun, and to-be live staple kind of tune. As the album continues we hear "Black Daze", a mid-paced song that also is very catchy and reminds me a little of Megadeth's "In My Darkest Hour". "Drop The Hammer Down" is a given to-be fan favorite and the ending track "Good Night" stands for this album's most "ballad" like tune, which is a very common and great thing Overkill have on most of their albums. It's very catchy and I sure only hope the song doesn't point at that this could be the last Overkill album. In between all these stick-outs there are some very solid and good Overkill album, though maybe not of lead single-caliber?

The album sound continues in a similar vein to Ironbound but the songs are overall shorter and not as progressive. Think that this is a stripped-down, more straight to the point Ironbound version and I think you've got the idea. I think this was a great move by the band as another "that" progressive album maybe wouldn't have matched its predecessor. Instead Overkill take the energy and quality of Ironbound and put it into a more "classic Overkill album" style.

In conclusion this album was both very surprising and not. It was surprising that the band managed to do an equally good album after the awesome Ironbound, but at the same time it's not surprising as I imagine that the band got really fired up by the great response Ironbound got. In the end this album shows that Overkill are in a new peek in their career and I feel a need to mosh and drink beer while listening to it. I raise my fist in honor of Overkill for succeeding once again, with hope that there will be more albums of this caliber in the near future!

I feel pretty secure when I say that Overkill will most likely be the winners in 2012!

Final rating: 9.5/10

Listen to album for free with Spotify! Listening with Spotify gives the band money while it's free for you!