May Your Axes Chip and Shatter, Devastated By My Wrath
Go Forth, My Son, and Rock. -Ronnie James Dio to Jack Black in Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny
I’m currently working on my gi-normous, breathlessly anticipated Top 40 of 2006 list. However, since the title of this blog is “Heavy Metal Librarian,” I feel it is my civic duty to rank the metal first. All of these releases will most likely show up in my overall Top 40, and Mastodon’s Blood Mountain may very well end up being crowned Album of the Year (it’s currently duking it out with The Roots’ Game Theory.) So without further ado, the Top 10 Metal Albums of 2006:
“Black Sabbath Meets Black Flag Meets Big Black” Division:
- Converge, NoHeroes
“Class of ‘86 Rises From The Dead” Division:
- Voivod, Katorz
- Slayer, Christ Illusion
- Celtic Frost, Monotheist
“Who Knew Post-Rock and Metal Would Mesh So Well?” Division:
- Boris, Pink
- Isis, In the Absence of Truth
“King Buzzo Will Still Be Churning Out Tasty Riffs Five Years After He’s Dead” Division:
- The Melvins, A Senile Animal
“Zeppelin Was Wicked Awesome” Division:
- Wolfmother, Wolfmother
- The Sword, Age of Winters
“Mastodon Rules The Universe” Division:
- Mastodon, Blood Mountain
Go forth and rock.
I know nothing about metal, but did think that Dio appearance in the Jack Black movie was FUNNY. I laughed like a teenage boy during the whole thing – I have a potty/gutter sense of humor that is not appropriate for a woman of my otherwise refined tastes and sensibilities.
So.. .the thing that is MOST interesting to me about my trip to your blog today is that under “likes” you list that you like “information literacy”. Tell us more! What do you like about it? What do you do with it in your current job? Will it save our society (I tend to think yes…)?
December 4th, 2006 at 4:31 pmWhat? Are you serious? “Information literacy” is just a meaningless marketing phrase. You know, sort of like “Library 2.0”. I just listed that so Michael Porter would respect me.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:08 pmOK, that explains it. Getting into Michael Porter’s good graces is a good idea since I hear he has some fancy new job and may be able to buy drink rounds on a regular basis.
I have a hot new MySpace friend by the way. I think you know her
December 4th, 2006 at 7:43 pm