Suicidal Tendencies - The Art of Rebellion (1992)

I think the era of when Robert Trujillo was in the band and Infectious Grooves was my favorite, they were playing harder and less hardcore especially with this album. I think they were way cooler doing thrashy stuff than punk. I think riffs on this album is why I like it other than obviously the bass playing is a treat with Mike Muir's intensity. There production is awesome I might have the remastered version though. The album also features the fan favorite "Asleep at the Wheel" is definitely one of there best songs in my opinion they've ever done. Songs to check out "Asleep at the Wheel", "Nobody Hears" and "I'll Hate you Better".


1. "Can't Stop" 6:39
2. "Accept My Sacrifice" 3:30
3. "Nobody Hears" 5:34
4. "Tap into the Power" 3:43
5. "Monopoly on Sorrow" 5:13
6. "We Call This Mutha Revenge" 4:51
7. "I Wasn't Meant to Feel This / Asleep at the Wheel" 7:07
8. "Gotta Kill Captain Stupid" 4:02
9. "I'll Hate You Better" 4:18
10. "Which Way to Free?" 4:30
11. "It's Going Down" 4:27
12. "Where's the Truth?" 4:14

The Cult - Love (1985)

I am a big fan of The Cult but, I've always struggled into liking there album Love. It's possibly there most popular but, it's awfully light compared to my two favorite albums by them Electric and Sonic Temple. Throughout the album it sounds like they have that eighties new wave thing going which was completely dropped after the album. I mean there debut album before this one sounds like Duran Duran so they've come a long way. Some of the stuff on here sounds like U2 for some reason but, better. They do have the standout track "She Sells Sanctuary" that has past the test of time and probably one of the greatest rock songs of all time. It's hard to describe there musical approach, they had the psychedelic, goth, post punk and new wave thing going on so it's difficult to classify. One of the interesting aspects about this album is how the vocals of Ian Astbury completely take over like usually the music layers everything but, when he sings people pay attention. Songs to check out "Rain", "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Nirvana".

1. "Nirvana" – 5:24
2. "Big Neon Glitter" – 4:45
3. "Love" – 5:35
4. "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" – 6:49
5. "Rain" – 3:55
6. "The Phoenix" – 5:06
7. "Hollow Man" – 4:45
8. "Revolution" – 5:20
9. "She Sells Sanctuary" – 4:23
10. "Black Angel" - 5:22

Testament - Low (1994)

This is Testament's sixth album and first without guitarist Alex Skolnick and Louie Clemente on drums. They were replaced with James Murphy from Death and John Tempesta whose played with various bands such as Exodus, White Zombie and more recently with The Cult. Low is a completely different ride as the other five released before it. I wouldn't call it thrash metal, more like heavy hard rock n metal. I never hear about people mentioning Low as it seems forgotten and unappreciated. It certainly doesn't get the recognition like Practice What You Preach got or Legacy for that matter. I remember doing the review on The Gathering which came out in 1999, a horrible spot for the band at the time because thrash bands were losing there ranking to other sub genres like nu metal. I just think in 1994, you have alternative rock taking over and Low got lost within time. I mean Testament wrote killer stuff and they still do, it's unfortunate they don't have the popularity of a Slayer or Megadeth. I can't speak highly enough about them as this is another Testament record that will make average heavy metal albums not sound heavy. Songs to check out "Dog Faced Gods", "Low" and "Ride".


1. "Low" – 3:33
2. "Legions (In Hiding)" – 4:17
3. "Hail Mary" – 3:32
4. "Trail of Tears" – 6:06
5. "Shades of War" – 4:44
6. "P.C." – 2:50
7. "Dog Faced Gods" – 4:02
8. "All I Could Bleed" – 3:37
9. "Urotsukidōji (Instrumental)" – 3:40
10. "Chasing Fear" – 4:56
11. "Ride" – 3:16
12. "Last Call" – 2:41

Fields - Everything Last Winter (2007)

A nice day for something totally different. Every know and then I like to listen to lighter stuff. I'll be the first one to tell you that indie rock ain't my thing. Someone once called me out and said that I didn't have a diverse music taste and we kept on arguing to the point I had to delete him off my msn. I think a major reason for making this blog and influencing people to different kinds of music is why I do it. I love how people tell me, thanks these guys are awesome or whatever. It may soothe my ego but, ultimately music is my life and passion. If anyone wants to even compare themselves to me I'll shoot that down in a heartbeat HAHA. Okay.. Fields is a band I discovered on the itunes and I think the first mention I ever heard of them was on Blabbermouth because they were opening for Wolfmother and some really gay band. I want to say like fucking Carrie Underwood but no way Wolfmother would share the same stage I would imagine, it was something like that though. Anyways, this is really light stuff..don't get use to it Andrew stay metal is something I bet one of you reading think. Songs to check "Songs for the Fields", "Your Brought This on Yourself" and "If You Fail We All Fail".


1. "Song For The Fields" - 5:47
2. "Charming The Flames" - 4:35
3. "You Don't Need This Song (To Fix Your Broken Heart)" - 4:10
4. "School Books" - 5:01
5. "The Death" - 4:55
6. "You Brought This On Yourself" - 5:31
7. "Skulls And Flesh And More" - 4:51
8. "Feathers" - 5:41
9. "If You Fail We All Fail" - 5:45
10. "Parasite" - 2:56

Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King (1987)

One of the bands I've gotten into really big this year despite them being rather old. This reminds of King Diamond or Accept sounding like but, with not as cool vocals even though the music is better. Unfortunately for me, I don't have the remastered version so it sounds like it's from eighties which I have been spoiled with all the reissues because now it's like I can't listen to Megadeth's originals releases without it being the remastered version because it sounds like crap compared to the 2004 version remasters. I really had no clue Savatage would evolve into the freaking Trans-Siberian Orchestra. After hearing "Prelude to Madness" may make some sense after all. This is nothing like my first exposure to the bands release of Edge of Thorns which had me eyes wide open. Supposedly this is there most popular release. Good album if you're really into new wave of british heavy metal even though there not british. Songs to check out "Hall of the Mountain King", "24 Hours Ago" and "Prelude to Madness".


1. "24 Hours Ago" – 4:56
2. "Beyond the Doors of the Dark" – 5:07
3. "Legions" – 4:57
4. "Strange Wings" – 3:45
5. "Prelude to Madness" – 3:13
6. "Hall of the Mountain King" – 5:55
7. "The Price You Pay" – 3:51
8. "White Witch" – 3:21
9. "Last Dawn" – 1:07
10. "Devastation" – 3:37

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)

Sorry, I didn't do a post yesterday as I was attending Blackdiamondskye in San Jose. The Colour and the Shape is the Foo Fighters second record which I honestly am not familiar with anything from the self entitled album. Obviously this is there most popular as I know it sold millions and you still hear some songs on the radio. I was never or still am a big fan of Dave Grohl as a frontman but, he was an awesome drummer especially with Nirvana. The thing I could admire about Grohl is that he had all the money made from being in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters was his attempt to move on musically and probably mentally when he could have easily hung it up like former bandmate Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic. I bought the remastered version but, for some reason I didn't get the extra tracks. I hear there a good live band, I wouldn't be surprised because they do have some high energy songs like "Monkey Wrench". When it comes to nineties alternative rock you can't miss this despite if you like the band or not. Songs to check out "Monkey Wrench", "My Hero" and "Everlong".

1. "Doll" 1:23
2. "Monkey Wrench" 3:51
3. "Hey, Johnny Park!" 4:08
4. "My Poor Brain" 3:33
5. "Wind Up" 2:32
6. "Up in Arms" 2:15
7. "My Hero" 4:20
8. "See You" 2:26
9. "Enough Space" 2:37
10. "February Stars" 4:49
11. "Everlong" 4:10
12. "Walking After You" 5:03
13. "New Way Home" 5:40

Great White - Once Bitten (1987)

Is it hard to imagine that this album sold over a million records? Not really, the thing is being on MTV was the quickest way to stardom if you could have one music video hit and everybody would go out and buy it. It still proves to be the same these days not so much MTV but VH1 loads indie rock music videos whenever you flip the channel it seems. The time being of the release was perfect for Great White's sound of like a glam metal/pop metal band. I can not mention the album without mention of the horrible but awesome album cover. It's definitely one of the worsts you'll ever see. The shark in the background is obviously plastic and I bet the members of the band are really embarrassed by it today. I was actually one of those people who watched one of the those music videos like twenty something years later. I like to watch a show on Vh1 Classic called "Metal Mania", I was really intrigued at 3am in the morning by a song called "Rock Me" and goddamn I couldn't the chorus out of my head for a week. I do not really find them appealing but, very infectious. Songs to check out "Rock Me", "Lady Red Light" and "Save Your Love".

1. "Lady Red Light" — 4:53
2. "Gonna Getcha" — 4:13
3. "Rock Me" — 7:19
4. "All Over Now" — 4:21
5. "Mistreater" — 5:49
6. "Never Change Heart" — 4:27
7. "Fast Road" — 3:40
8. "On The Edge" — 6:01
9. "Save Your Love" — 5:46

Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993) Part 3 of 3

The marathon is almost over. Today is the last part of the three day review. Without a doubt, this seems to be the mess around CD as this whole thing is just a mess! James was so drunk and a lot of these songs were the ones used at the longer in the set. They do "So What" right before "Battery" as it's not even labeled. You know something's not right when you see "Battery" at a staggering ten minute edition. I actually wouldn't mind if they went into So What right before Battery as like the end of the show kind of thing. "The Four Horsemen" definitely sounds like it doesn't belong on this side I mean if you listen to a bootleg of one of there shows perhaps from 1986, I notice it doesn't blend well with all the black album stuff. I have video bootlegs from shows from the tour and it was in such a horrible spot after "Nothing Else Matters" or after "Sad But True". They didn't do it every night but, they did it at a couple of shows a month on the Black tour and it was just put in a weird spots whenever I got a new show in the mail. Not to say it didn't belong in there, it's kind of like them playing "Motorbreath" on the new tour. I didn't care for the spot they put some songs in. Unfortunately day three CD is my least favorite but, ultimately it's Metallica and is killer regardless. Three days of Metallica officially over. I feel like trading Metallica shows again! My DVD list is located at http://db.etree.org/gsprulz. Songs to check out "Am I Evil?", "Battery" and "One".


1. "Nothing Else Matters" 6:22
2. "Wherever I May Roam" 6:33
3. "Am I Evil?" 5:42
4. "Last Caress" 1:25
5. "One" 10:27
6. "So What?"/"Battery" 10:05
7. "The Four Horsemen" 6:08
8. "Motorbreath" 3:14
9. "Stone Cold Crazy" 5:32

Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993) Part 2 of 3

As of the second part of the review I will be discussing disc two. Yesterday, I went over part one of probably the best box set I own. I didn't get into sound production in the last post but, I think people would understand it's not as good as S&M which nothing tops that in live recordings either in my opinion. As far disc two goes, it's only six tracks but, being six tracks doesn't mean this is the slouch part of the set. They do "Seek and Destroy" for over 18 minutes and do one of my favorites performances of "Whiplash" I've ever heard as you've probably of seen the live music video of Whiplash while they were promoting the box set. They only do seven songs from the Black Album on the span of the discs which they played with there catalog. It was nice hearing "Through the Never" which mostly after that tour they stopped playing the song until the Death Magnetic tour I believe. Which two songs that has been left out of that tour and to this day remain to be seen which are two of my favorite songs from Black "Struggle Within" and "Don't Tread on Me". Metclubbers who win meet and greet, we need answers pronto!! Songs to check out "Whiplash", "Seek and Destroy(Jason Newsted Edition)" and "Fade to Black".

1. "Through the Never" 3:47
2. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 5:48
3. "Fade to Black" 7:12
4. "Master of Puppets" 4:35
5. "Seek & Destroy" 18:08
6. "Whiplash" 5:34

Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge (1993) Part 1 of 3

This is a monster setlist from the monster Nowhere Else to Roam tour which spanned over seventy shows including the run in with Guns n' Roses. Along with the three CD's, there were two videos that came along being Seattle 1989 on the Damaged Justice Tour and San Diego on the Wherever We May Roam tour which constantly they were doing three hour unprecedented shows. I'm going to focus on the audio which was recorded the five nights they were in Mexico City in 1993. A 25 song setlist of recordings from those nights of Metallica is crazy and is probably a little too extreme for anybody that isn't a Metallica fan. I mean there's three different kinds of people when it comes to Metallica. They're either spectators, never will be fans or probably one of you reading this post as we are the crazy Metalicohlics that will wait all day and miss school or work just to be in front at one of there live shows. Especially the Metclubbers were the hardcore of the hardcore. I've never listened to Live Shit completely without taking a break myself though. I remember after the "Justice Medley" which is pretty long but, killer they like mess around doing solos for half an hour it seems. After sitting down and listening to the first part today, I always seem to forget Jason's importance in the band like he had to of been the best back up singer in metal of all time. Instances of him backing up and leading on songs like Whiplash I always admired. Lars was socializing, James was getting drunk, Kirk would probably be zoning out at art stores around the world and Jason was the only guy headbanging listening to heavy metal on his free time at this point. We owe Jason Newsted big time for all the things he did for our band during the nineties. Songs to check out "Justice Medley", "Harvester of Sorrow" and "Of Wolf and Man".

1. "Enter Sandman" 7:28
2. "Creeping Death" 7:28
3. "Harvester of Sorrow" 7:19
4. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" 6:39
5. "Sad but True" 6:07
6. "Of Wolf and Man" 6:22
7. "The Unforgiven" 6:48
8. "Justice Medley" 9:38
9. "Solos (Bass/Guitar)" 18:49

Guns N' Roses - "The Spaghetti Incident?" (1993)

Interesting enough, GNR decided to a cover release as they were on there way out. I suppose once you play stadium shows every night and day you turn into a piece of shit like Axl Rose. The title of the album came up with Steven Adler filed a lawsuit against Axl, and this spaghetti food fight between them. Bands they cover range from the Misfits, Soundgarden, Nazareth, The Stooges and more. I've heard someone say they already had a lot of these songs done while in the Use Your Illusion recording sessions such as "Knockin on Heaven's Door" and "Live and Let Die" which brings up the conclusion that they pretty much threw this out to make a quick buck which they did as the album debuted at #4 on the billboards. The Charles Manson cover song "Look at Your Game, Girl" posed a bit of controversy being that Charles Manson is notoriously the sickest man alive. Not as in sick cool but sick as in twisted. Rose said the track would not be featured on the reissues of The Spaghetti Incident but, of course Axl Rose lied. That's just his way I guess. Songs to check out "Hair of the Dog", "New Rose" and "Ain't it Fun".


1. "Since I Don't Have You" 4:20
2. "New Rose" 2:38
3. "Down on the Farm" 3:29
4. "Human Being" 6:48
5. "Raw Power" 3:12
6. "Ain't It Fun" 5:06
7. "Buick Mackane (Big Dumb Sex)" 2:40
8. "Hair of the Dog" 3:55
9. "Attitude" 1:27
10. "Black Leather" 4:09
11. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" 3:35
12. "I Don't Care About You" 2:07
13. "Look at Your Game, Girl" 2:34

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill (1996)

I've found out that after listening to Vulgar and Cowboys from Hell on a day to day basis can get boring to the point I completely stopped listening to Pantera period. Was I burned out or was I not expanding my mind to other music by them which I figured out that The Great Southern Trendkill would later become my favorite Pantera record. While the time of the release the band and vocalist Phil Anselmo were not connecting and became distant. Anselmo blamed his moody actions on his back where he would abuse himself with alcohol and heroin noted big time in Vh1's Behind the Music: Pantera. I thought the vocal layering was perfectly done with the Pantera groove metal style specifically in this one as the vocals seem more aggressive but, not as angry as Vulgar Display of Power or Far Beyond Driven. The songs itself deal with Phil Anselmo's problems with drugs as I think he was the only one doing anything hardcore as the band had became the new alcohollica of the nineties. They'd literally kick people off the tour if they weren't getting drunk with them. Always were a confrontational band especially to the demise of the band, it's a good piece of rock history sadly missing in the community now that Dimebag Darrell is deceased. Songs to check out "Floods", "10's" and "War Nerve".

1. "The Great Southern Trendkill" 3:46
2. "War Nerve" 4:53
3. "Drag the Waters" 4:55
4. "10's" 4:49
5. "13 Steps to Nowhere" 3:37
6. "Suicide Note, Pt. 1" 4:44
7. "Suicide Note, Pt. 2" 4:19
8. "Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath)" 4:50
9. "Floods" 6:59
10. "The Underground in America" 4:33
11. "(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin" 5:39

Prong - Cleansing (1994)

The fifth Prong record is there most commercial and probably ultimately there most memorable one. A average metal fan should know of the heavy driven massive sound from Cleansing either if it's there most popular single "Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck" or "Whose Fist is This Anyway?". This was Paul Raven and John Bechdel's first Prong album after they had just left Killing Joke. It's easily there best produced album, the riffs are thick and just as lethal as you'll hear. I always say there one of the most underrated bands along with Faith No More, I don't feel they get the credit they deserve. Tommy Victor did great work wherever he went whether it was his time being frontman in Prong, playing guitar in Danzig and Ministry as well. This is probably close to as good as Beg to Differ, there in the same ballpark. I have fond memories of listening to Prong on my iPod for instance on the way to my first Metallica concert back in 2005, all I listened to on the three hour trip was Prong. Songs to check out other than the video hits "Cut Rate", "Another Worldly Device" and "Whose Fist is This Anyway?".


1. "Another Worldly Device" – 3:23
2. "Whose Fist is this Anyway?" – 4:42
3. "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" – 4:11
4. "Cut-Rate" – 4:52
5. "Broken Peace" – 6:11
6. "One Outnumbered" – 4:58
7. "Out of this Misery" – 4:25
8. "No Question" – 4:17
9. "Not of this Earth" – 6:25
10. "Home Rule" – 3:57
11. "Sublime" – 3:53
12. "Test" – 6:40

Life of Agony - Broken Valley (2005)

The fourth Life of Agony album is easily the most disliked and probably the reason there hasn't been another album. It sounds like they were trying to sound like the Stone Temple Pilots, I wouldn't call this a metal album. They had just done the reunion shows and I suspect everyone thought they would be hearing River Runs Red part two or something. To make things worse there's evidence by playing the CD can give your computer viruses caused by a rootkit intended for people trying to copy songs. Which is unfortunate for me because I have the US Catalog-Nr. EK93515 which is the ones that were recalled. There's some songs that sound like Velvet Revolver, maybe Keith Caputo is a big Scott Weiland fan? Songs to check out "Last Cigarette", "Wicked Ways" and "The Day He Died".


1. "Love to Let You Down" – 3:40
2. "Last Cigarette" – 2:56
3. "Wicked Ways" – 4:02
4. "Don't Bother" – 3:30
5. "Strung Out" – 3:59
6. "Junk Sick" – 3:18
7. "The Calm That Disturbs You" – 3:15
8. "No One Survives" – 1:34
9. "Justified" – 6:21
10. "The Day He Died" – 3:23
11. "Broken Valley" – 5:17
12. "Room 244" – 4:54

Rush - Roll the Bones (1991)

This is the fourteenth album by the Canadian phenoms Rush. Roll the Bones is them returning to a familiar style as some of there eighties stuff is hard to identify with as I'm still getting into that era because it's not as easily enjoyable as something from Moving Pictures or Hemispheres which are just so classic. With this album, it has a dark sensation to it unlike most of the stuff that come to my head from other albums like the references to death I assume is the vocal point from what I got from it which I could be totally wrong. Rush always has cool instrumentals as "Where's My Thing"(first instrumental since "YYZ" in Moving Pictures) is a pretty good listen even though it's brand new to me but, a cool addition for me to discover another song I didn't know about. What the heck was up with that rap part in "Roll the Bones", I think that's a first and only time thing. As a band, this is proof of the growth and evolution of the band overtime. Songs to check out "Roll the Bones", "Ghost of a Chance" and "Dreamline".

1. "Dreamline" – 4:38
2. "Bravado" – 4:35
3. "Roll the Bones" – 5:30
4. "Face Up" – 3:54
5. "Where's My Thing? (Part IV, "Gangster of Boats" Trilogy)" – 3:49
6. "The Big Wheel" – 5:13
7. "Heresy" – 5:26
8. "Ghost of a Chance" – 5:19
9. "Neurotica" – 4:40
10. "You Bet Your Life" – 5:00

Dio - The Last In Line (1984)

The second studio album by Dio is a little more upbeat than Holy Diver. You can debate Ronnie James Dio was the best singer in metal, even at his later years I saw him I was blown away that at his age he could sing that good. I don't know if his voice can ever be duplicated but, that dude was truly gifted as if he were born to sing. At this time, Dio could do no wrong after singing on the Black Sabbath records such as Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules and previously before that run he was in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. Holy Diver his solo debut is a heavy metal classic too which you can say he ruled heavy metal in the eighties. The hot topic was always Ozzy vs Dio after Sabbath dropped Ozzy for him while Dio would excel even though it was probably seen as an impossible mission to replace Ozzy for some of the older fans of Black Sabbath. I think that some forget that Dio represented America in heavy metal a genre that was dominated by European acts in the early eighties. This is pure as metal gets, nothing generic just heavy fucking metal. Rest in peace Dio.. Songs to check out "Last in Line", "Mystery" and "Egypt(The Chains Are on)".

1. "We Rock" – 4:33
2. "The Last in Line" – 5:46
3. "Breathless" – 4:09
4. "I Speed at Night" – 3:26
5. "One Night in the City" – 5:14
6. "Evil Eyes" – 3:38
7. "Mystery" – 3:55
8. "Eat Your Heart Out" – 3:50
9. "Egypt (The Chains Are On)" – 7:01