Slayer pinball on ipad (and iphone?)

Such an Application, [or App as the kids say these days] has been brought to my attention, and I was kindy awarded a quick play on a workmates ipad, never before had I actually wanted an iPad.

Theives, poor machine head.

Machine Head front man, Robb Flynn reported today his home had been broken into, while he went to pick his son up from school. A list of what sounds like luxary items were taken, but unfortunately it's not till he gets to the guitars that were taken that I begin to care: one one which he recorded Machine heads first album and anther which was a gift from [the late] Dimebag Darrell.

On top of that, I remember a time when it would be weeks or months before I would hear about something like this- in the personal life of a metal guy... Crazy this internet thing, huh?

This weekend

New Swashbuckle song streaming on their myspace

http://www.myspace.com/swashbuckle
2 new songs are up "At The Bottom of A Glass" and "Where Victory is Penned"
I'm listening to it now. There's only been 7 listens- so I'm feeling special
p.s i want the "If you can't fuck it... Steal it" t-shirt...

Planet fm

My flatmate, [who's at unitec at the moment] digs his metal and the 'campus' radio metal shows- i.e House of Noizz, but over the weekend we got to talking about Metal A.D [I said I wrote a brief piece on my blog about it] & he said it hasn't been on air for a few weeks.

It wasn't until Metal A.D host, Caleb, inexplicably made a guest appearance on the hard fast and heavy show on 95bfm [good to listen to while I'm at work, but probably should've payed attention]

But from the Metal AD offices:
For the mean time Metal After Dark is currently on "a break" personal issues and circumstances lead to the show not being on for the next month or so.


There will however be an alternative


An online version of metal after dark commencing on the 1st of october 2010 (an extra half an hour will be added to the show!) This will be found on the metal after dark facebook page a link to download the show and hopefully streaming online.


Metal ad is trying to sort out a spot for a saturday night instead of our usual spot on a friday (thus leading to metal radio shows every night of the week)


NEW TO PLANET FM!
On behalf of the team at metal after dark we are proud to announce a brand new show on planet fm.


A show to spread the disease that is slowly growing!


HARDCORE HARD (presented by Doug Mcfarlane - thursday nights on planet fm)


Stay tuned to the 1 million tons of heavy metal blog or metal after dark fan page (facebook.com/metal ad 104.6 panetfm) for more news to follow up on the situation of metal ad




Just remember Metal After Dark is not over.


Think of it as a time to "better ourselves" and make the show what it should be

Free new Daath song.

There's a link to download directly on: http://www.metalsucks.net/2010/09/02/exclusive-premiere-daaths-destructionrestoration/
I'm downloading it as I write, so I'll tell you how it goes..

Not on google search (spoiler alert: old joke)

I don't think we're found on a quick search of google, so as an experiment I'm gonna mention a few key word and phrases: SEX, sex, free sex, porn, free porn, penis, vagina, Ice cream.

There ya go, now all i gotta do is sit back and watch the [misguided] traffic roll in.

New Market Viaduct

It's a pity, in a way, that the southbound lane of the New Market Viaduct- that was shutdown this weekend, was reopened much ealier than anticipated and that no one [in a band] managed to get consent to film a music video or something on the un-used section. Though it would probably only work if the construction work wasn't in any shots, otherwise it would look like a PR piece.

How awesome [debatable] would it be to have some black metal lads looking with distain over the New Market shopping area of Broadway and [of course] off into the distance- all metal like though...

Come to think of it, it's probably something that sounds better on paper than in pratice.

This photo (of New Market) is taken from the old viaduct, before it was open to traffic, when people were allowed to walk over it, probably back in the late 60's- you can see the museum on the sky line.

Stoner Fest for 2010

Northern Lights
The Mighty Scoop & Heavy Down Under Present:

Northern Lights:
The Dogs Bollix | Auckland
Friday 3rd December
Featuring:
Arc of Ascent. Somme. Second Gear Grind. House of Capricorn. Shallow Grave

Eyes of the South:
Al's Bar | Christchurch
Saturday 4th December
Featuring:
Soulseller. Dying of the Light. Osmium. House of Capricorn. Stonehurst.

Check out the facebbok event: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/event.php?eid=113063615415956

The Misfits have 1 NZ show

Here's the link to buy tickets, it's January 27th 2011, at the Kings Arms, and the line up is: Jerry Only plus legendary Black Flag members Dez Cadena and ROBO. I can't say that I'm a big fan, not saying that i'm not/ or more appropriately wouldn't be- i'll just have to track down some of their music.

http://www.undertheradar.co.nz/utr/show/SID/14695/N/The-Misfits.utr

Down to release new live CD/DVD

It's being released in October (In the States)...

"Diary Of A Mad Band" tracklisting:
Disc 1 - CD
1. Losing All
2. Lifer
3. Lysergic Funeral Procession
04. Rehab
5. Temptation's Wings
6. Ghosts Along The Mississippi
7. Learn From This Mistake
8. Hail The Leaf
9. New Orleans Is A Dying Whore
10. Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But...
11. Underneath Everything
12. The Seed
13. Eyes Of The South
14. Jail
15. Stone The Crows
16. Bury Me In Smoke

Disc 2 - DVD
1. Lysergic Funeral Procession
2. Lifer
3. Losing All
4. Rehab
5. New Orleans Is A Dying Whore
6. Ghosts Along The Mississippi
7. Learn From This Mistake
8. Underneath Everything
9. Temptation's Wings
10. There's Something On My Side
11. Hail The Leaf
12. Lies
13. The Seed
14. Eyes Of The South
15. Jail
16. Stone The Crows
17. Bury Me In Smoke

That's a big CD...

Saw this today and had a good chuckle.

In Dread Response gets to work

Apparently, Aucklanders In Dread Response, have officially started pre-production on their follow up to "From Oceanic Graves"
No album titles yet, but here's hoping it continues with the story From Oceanic graves started, like literally; i.e. From Oceanic Graves... Rose a Great Beast.. Devouring all... and they lived happy ever after.. etc etc 

South island news

Despite being just hit be one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history, there some metal news coming out of the garden city

1) Aucklanders, Just One Fix have announce dates (which happened to appear on an international metal website http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=59391) Friday November 5 - DUNEDIN - Refuel, Saturday November 6 - CHRISTCHURCH - Al's Bar (4pm - All Ages, 8:30pm 18+)

2) Chch lads, Tainted, are opening for Metallica for their Christchurch shows. Sounds cool

No doubt plenty more but I ain't heard of anything else coming out of the south island yet...

Madball's new album details revealed

For their new album, they worked with Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Cannibal Corpse, Misery Index) and it'll be released via Nuclear Blast (Europe) records October 15th.

Tracklist:
1. Invigorate
2. Danger Zone
3. Timeless
4. All or Nothing
5. Glory Years
6. Empire
7. Shatterproof (feat. Roger Miret)
8. The End
9. Con Fuerza
10. R.A.H.C
11. Hurt You
12. "Tough Guy"
13. Dark Horse
14. Spider's Web
15. Delete
16. Rebel4life18

Get sync'd with Dimmu Borgir

Nuclear Blast records and Dimmu Borgir  have launched the bands first iphone app. Apparently it'll allow you to do all sorts of shit- View photos, watch videos, get access to sound samples from the band's new album, "Abrahadabra"; share tweets; chat with other die-hards and more. This app syncs up with your FacebookTwitter accounts, so connect directly with Dimmu Borgir to get the latest news, music and information. Seems rather invasive to me, but then again I don't have an iphone or any of the other revenue gathering devices that this app can be used on..

"Abrahadabra" track listing:

01. Xibir (2:50)
02. Born Treacherous (5:02)
03. Gateways (5:10)
04. Chess With The Abyss (4:08)
05. Dimmu Borgir (5:35)
06. Ritualist (5:13)
07. The Demiurge Molecule (5:29)
08. A Jewel Traced Through Coal (5:16)
09. Renewal (4:11)
10. Endings And Continuations (5:58)
Looking at the photo of the app below, I'm left speechless, are the 'Borgir taking metal back to the 70's or what!?

New inventively named radio show on Planet

Planet fm, 104.6fm, regional radio frequency for Auckland which already features the House of Noizz, and Metal A.D, both on Friday nights, now features Hardcore.Hard on air 10:30pm every Thursday night with hosts DuG & db bring you new and old, local and international Hardcore music for your ears.

It remains to seen how good it'll be, but the premier should be 9th September...

Another Black metal Agenda, free download.

Go straight to the download: http://www.mediafire.com/?fby9nz94cc0prj9
Or check out a myspace blog about it: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=260095752&blogId=538733129 

New Lamb of God... maybe, or something

It has been suggested that Lamb of God, who will visit NZ shores for a third time in support of Metallica for the  Auckland shows, That in February, we'll put our heads together and see if we can mash those [several demo's conjured by guitarists Mark and Willie]  into something special. 

This comes out of an interview with Chris Adler, the bands drummer. Nothing much more specific than February, so fans who are hanging out for new L.O.G will have to wait a bit...

Lord Belial back with original lineup

The original lineup of Swedish black metallers Lord Belial has inked a deal with Dozer Records. The band is currently writing and recording material for a new album, tentatively due next year. They had called it quits in January 2009, citing "the hearing problem (tinnitus): suffered by the band's drummer as the main reason.

http://www.myspace.com/lordbelialband


Lord Belial is:

Thomas Backelin - Vocals, Guitar
Niclas Andersson - Guitar
Anders Backelin - Bass
Micke Backelin - Drums