It’s Metallica day!
The new Metallica album, 72 Seasons, was released today. My physical copy is due to arrive sometime this afternoon, but thanks to the Metallica channel on YouTube, I have reviewed the whole album on my 195 metal CDs blog.
Check out my review.
This year, the New York-based thrash metal band Anthrax turns 40.
Over the last two months on their YouTube channel they’ve been releasing a retrospective on their career with interviews with band members, producers, friends and metalheads across the globe. As I understand it they have 40 of these in the pipeline. So far we’ve reached episode 22 which has taken us to 2003 and probably my favourite Anthrax albums, We’ve Come For You All. I saw them live twice on that tour.
This evening (morning UK-time), they celebrated the event with a live stream event with a nearly 2 hours 15 minutes concert spanning most of their entire 40-year, 12-studio album career. (Typically, their John Bush era material was disappointingly missing.)
Continue reading Happy 40th birthday Anthrax
Today would have been the 59th birthday of legendary Metallica bass player, Clifford Lee Burton.
Cliff tragically lost his life on 27 September 1986, aged only 24 years, in a bus crash in Sweden while Metallica were promoting their Master of Puppets album. I once had a poor quality bootleg recording of his final concert at the Solnahallen Arena in Stockholm, Sweden on 26 September 1986.
I’ll be spending the day listening to the first three Metallica albums, Kill ‘Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets as well as various early live recordings.
Happy Cliff Burton Day!
My annual review of what I’ve most enjoyed listening to during the last 12 months, and my albums of the year.
New song from the forthcoming album VII: Sturm und Drang (which means storm and stress, apparently.)
It’s really different from anything they’ve done before. Randy is singing clean vocals for the first time, and Willy has cut his hair.
But do you know what? Unsurprisingly, I really like it. It has a kind of Slipknot/Stone Sour vibe to it. I know there will be those who say that they’ve sold out and gone soft, but I’m glad Lamb of God are mixing things up a little, it makes things interesting.
The new album will be released on Friday 24 July.