The Blood I Bleed is Black Indeed
As a hopeless music junkie, the past few months of involuntary poverty have been torture, cut off from my weekly cd fix. Thank Jeebus I have friends who know what I crave, and who gave me music store gift certificates as wedding presents. I should get married more often! (Ha ha ha ha! Just kidding, baby! No, really…)
And now, for the tunes:
High On Fire, Death is This Communion
Finally, after two and a half long years of waiting, we get the followup to the magnificent Blessed Black Wings. I seriously doubted whether High On Fire would be able to match or top that opus, my second-favorite album of 2005, but they’ve come pretty damn close. The primal Motorhead-meets-Slayer roar remains as brutal as ever, and Matt Pike’s raspy bellow is even beginning to acquire some melody. This might just challenge Machine Head’s The Blackening for Best Metal Album of 2007.
Tomahawk, Anonymous
Mike Patton has made a whole lot of weird music over the course of his long career, but this might just be the weirdest. After dabbling in genres as diverse as metal, funk, jazz, techno, hip hop, classical, and carnival music, he tackles…Native American chants. And combines them with metal. And like everything else he does, it works.
The Nightwatchman, One Man Revolution
Bet you didn’t know that Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello moonlights as a folk singer, did you? He’s pretty darn good at it, too. This is classic protest music, inspired by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and Springsteen. Morello’s voice is nothing to write home about, but that’s not really a drawback in this kind of music. I’m still waiting for him to make an acoustic guitar do all those crazy helicopter-air raid siren-turntable scratch sound effects, though…
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January 15th, 2008 at 1:18 pm