The Circle is Complete!

Well I have finally completed the quest, I now have all of the Iron Maiden studio cd's! Got the last two that I needed (No Prayer for the Dying and Seventh Son) on Ebay this past week and only had to lay down $15.25 for both! Now there are two live cd's that I must aquire to have all the Iron Maiden metally goodness that I want. I need to get another copy of Live After Death, which I think is the best Live metal album ever, and Live at Donnington. I think this will be at least the 3rd copy of After Death that I have purchased, but I have never owned Donnington.

I used to use Live After Death as my lullaby music to go to sleep too, looking forward to trying that out again! I do have the DVD, which is awesome but I don't have a way to get good sound through my dvd player.

On to other Metal news:

That Metal Show is back! The first episode of season three aired this past Saturday night with special guests Anvil! It was a live show from the Hard Rock in New York. At the end of the show Anvil played two songs and if you go to VH1 Classic website you can watch the entire show with extended concert footage. Looks like this will be another great season, make sure you tune in! Why VH1 doesn't just make this a regular weekly show and not have "seasons" I dont understand, probably has to do with the availability of the hosts.

Today I leave you with another classic metal video from one of my faves...Nuclear Assault!

I give you "Brainwashed"!!!

AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE!!!

Check out these vids from Austrian Death Machine, the new album Double Brutal is a tribute album to one of the worlds most famous Austrian's and the current Govenator of Calli-fornia Arnold Swarzenegger! Great tunes such as "Get to the Choppa!" from Predator, "I need your clothes, your boots, your motorcycle" from Terminator 2 and "Who is your Daddy and what does he do?!" from Kindergarten Cop.

What is most amazing about this band is that the whole band is Tim Lambesis (As I lay Dying) he plays all the instruments and sings on this project. Fun and Heavy stuff check it out!

Who is Your Daddy and where is he From!?


Get to the Choppa!!!


I Need your Clothes, your Boots, your Motorcycle!

Quest for completion!

I have almost completed my quest to own all of the Iron Maiden studio albums. Only two left to get are Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and No Prayer for the Dying. I think this will be the 3rd time I have purchased Seventh Son, both previous on cassette. I have never owned No Prayer however. I have found them at stores for regular price of $16-18 but to me it is more fun to try to find them at used CD stores or on ebay.

I guess I should admit that I am not actually trying to get the complete studio list, I will be skipping both of the Blaze Bayley CD's "The X Factor" and "Virtual XI", the do have a few decent songs on them, but I just can't get myself to accept them as Iron Maiden albums. I have listened to some of Blaze's other stuff with his new band and it is pretty good, but his butchering of the classic Maiden tunes is unforgivable. Not his fault, but he just doesn't have the range of Bruce.

Did have a few other good finds recently, got a copy of Flotsam & Jetsam's No Place for Disgrace for $3.99! Great Album, looking for Doomsday for the Deciever now.
Here is a live version of the title track from No Place, excellent shredding going on! \m/



Also, fellow metal heads, this coming Saturday night "That Metal Show" returns at 11pm on VH1 Classic. I believe Eddie Trunk said that the first guest is Ratt, who are touring again and playing the entire landmark "Out of the Cellar" album! Hope they come close to Cincy!

Brian Posehn "Metal by Numbers"

Check out Brian Posehn's "Metal By Numbers" video. Hi Stinkin'Larious!


In 2006, Relapse Records released his first album, Live In: Nerd Rage. It includes "Metal by Numbers", a song mocking bands that term themselves "metal" but are clearly not. The instrumental tracks feature metal legends such as guitarist Scott Ian (of Anthrax), bassist Joey Vera (of Armored Saint), drummer John Tempesta (of The Cult and White Zombie), and lead guitarist Jonathan Donais (of Shadows Fall).

Great Finds this past week!

So I was out searching through the used cd bins again around the area and made a couple great finds again! This weeks stash was a copy of Prong's 5th album "Cleansing" for $1.98!!! Can't beat that with a Metal Hammer! Great tunes on this album include; Snap your Fingers, Snap your Neck, and "Whose Fist is this Anyway". Here is a link to the bands website they are still Snappin' Necks! http://www.prongmusic.com/

Here is the video for "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck









The other excellent find was a copy of Anthrax's "Spreading the Disease" with one of my all time favorite Anthrax tune's on it "Madhouse" got this one for $3.99 and it looked brand new. Good example of Scotty Ian at his best shredding!

Check out the Link, embedding was blocked. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syBH1aJOH5A



I also picked up a copy of Heaven & Hell's Live at Radio City Music Hall. Lots of excellent Black Sabbath and new Heaven & Hell songs on this DVD. Ronny James Dio still sounds great and the band is tighter than ever. Highly recomend you check it out. I give it 5 out of 5 Horns \M/

Some that you might not have heard of Part II ~ Laaz Rockit

From Wikipedia:

Lääz Rockit are a thrash metal band formed in San Francisco, California in 1982. Although one of the lesser-known groups of the Bay Area thrash metal scene, each album in their history has received high critical marks. One of their signature elements were Ibanez guitars adorned with elaborate airbrushed scenes of warfare.
The band broke up in the early 1990s but made some concert appearances in 2005, including a local benefit concert and 2 shows in the Netherlands and Japan. According to the group, there will never be another studio album; however, a DVD titled "Live Untold" was released in August 2006.



My introduction to Laaz Rockit came with the purchase of their 1987 release "Know Your Enemy"

My favorite song on this album was "Last Breath" very hard and heavy tune, and although Laaz Rockit is grouped in with the Bay Area Thrashers I always thought they had a pretty unique sound. I think I was also drawn to this band because they had many songs about war and combat and being in the USMC when these albums came out it kind of hit home for me.

The good news is, is that the band is back together and had a new album that was just released in July of 2008.

Here is a clip of Last Breath and the video for Fire in the Hole. Enjoy!

Here is a link to the bands website Check it Out!!! http://laazrockit.ning.com/

\m/ Metal Rules!!! \m/

A few that you may not have heard of...

So in this posting I thought that I would talk about a few bands that never got the attention that their music deserved.

The first band is Hallow's Eve.
Hallows Eve were formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1983. Founded by bassist, vocalist Tommy Stewart and guitarist, vocalist Skullator. This band is known as one of the earliest bands to pioneer speed and thrash metal! Three records were made in the 80's following the obligatory Metal Massacre compilation appearance, and they then disbanded, scattering to various local area bands.
They are probably most recognized for their song "Lethal Tendencies" that was used in the movie "River's Edge" (if you haven't seen this movie, check it out!) soundtrack. Hallow's Eve's first album titled "Tales of Terror" came out in 1984 with great speed thrash tunes as "Plunging into Megadeath" and "Metal Merchants. This was followed by "Death & Insanity" which the band considered to be a concept album about death. Every song on the album features Death in the title. in 1988 by Metal Blade Records. Many hard hitting tunes on this album including the track from River's Edge. Also released in 1988 was the band's third album "Monument" some of the best head hammering songs on this album was Speed Freak, the title track Monument (To Nothing) and a cool remake of Queens "Sheer Heart Attack".
My favorite song by the band is the afformentioned "Lethal Tendencies" it has that slow and super heavy feel to it, and it is over 6 minutes long which is another thing that I like. Here is a youtube posting of that song. Let me know what you think!


Here is a link to the bands website, looks like they are still rattling heads! Check them out!
http://www.hallowsevemusic.com/

Up next...Laaz Rockit!

Is there any doubt...

What a great weekend filled with Metal Goodness! Friday night I watched and recorded the Iron Maiden Somwhere Back in Time concert footage show, that featured concert clips from all around the world. It was amazing to see Maiden fans from India, all over South America, Australia and many others that were just as fanatical as me. To see kids from India signing along with the classic and new Maiden tunes was just unbelievable. If there was any doubt who the worldwide Gods of Metal are, that doubt has been crushed under Eddie's foot!

Saturday night was just as amazing with the airing of "Flight 666" to see some of the behind the scenes stuff that it took to put together the unbelievable 22 shows in 45 days all over the planet, it was very cool. I just hope that sometime soon Flight 666 will land close enough to Cincinnati for me too see them again.

Today I leave you with one of the many amazing performances from "Flight 666" listen to this crowd from Argentina!

Flight 666 Now Boarding!!!

Flight 666 is getting ready to taxi down the runway, don't miss it!
Just a reminder to all the Maiden fans that the Iron Maiden Rocumentary "Flight 666" will be aired on VH1 Classic this Saturday night June 6th, 2009 at 9:00PM (although I think they should start it at 2 Minutes to Midnight!!!)Don't Miss it!



Here is the trailer for Flight 666



And I leave you with "Two Minutes to Midnight" from the classice "Live After Death" video.

My Anvil Story

First of all, I must implore anyone that has a love for Rock or Metal music to go out an see "Anvil: The Story of Anvil" if you can still catch it in the theater. It is probably the best Rockumentary I have ever saw. As I stated earlier if you click the link in my first post you can find where the band will be playing after a viewing of the movie. Definately worth the ticket price! I got to see a great movie and then a short live concert afterwards (they played 5 songs) for less than $10! You can't beat that with a Hammer!

So here is my personal Anvil story.

In 1987 I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan while serving in the USMC. There was a very cool little music store in Naha that I frequented because they specialized in carrying Metal music. I got to know the owner pretty well (If I remember correctly his name was Yoshii) and he on occassion would suggest certain bands, this is how I discovered many bands such as Accept, the excellent Japanese metal band Loudness and Anvil. I had stopped in and was puchasing some new music, and as I was finishing up Yoshii asked me if I have ever heard of the band Anvil, I told him that I had not. He told me that he seen them play at a huge festival in mainland Japan and that they were excellent. He went out into his store and grabbed a brand new copy of Anvil's Metal On Metal and handed it too me. Yoshii said take it, listen to it and if I liked it then come back and pay for it. Sounded like an offer that I couldn't refuse so off I went with it. As soon as I got in a cab to head back to base, I popped it in my cassette player and was blown away! The album kick off with the title song "Metal on Metal" and I was immediatly hooked.

About two weeks later (next payday!) I headed back to Naha to see Yoshii and thank him for introducing me to Anvil. I tried to pay him for the cassette but he refused, so instead I bought Anvil's Forged in Fire cassette, which rocked just as hard.

Now we flash 22 years forward and I am watching an episode of "That Metal Show" and out comes Anvil! I had forgotten all about them and was so happy to hear that they were still around and making new music. During the show they talked about how the movie came about and I decided that I had to see it. Sadly, my Anvil cassettes had long since left my possession (lost a lot of my music when I got out of the USMC), so I couldn't dig them up to listen to those classics again, but thanks to youtube I was able to find videos there to fill the void.

So I then find out that the Anvil movie is going to be playing at our local independent alternative movie theater in Cincy the Esquire Theatre http://www.esquiretheatre.com/ so one Saturday I head up to catch a 5pm show. When I get to the ticket counter they tell me "Do you know that the band is going to be here to play tonight after the midnight show?" I flipped. I went ahead and purchased tickets to see the 5pm show and watched it. About 3 time during the movie, Rob Reiner (drummer) poked his head in the theatre to say hey and check it out. I returned later that night to see the midnight show, bought the new cd that is featured in the movie, got is signed by the entire band and then got to see them play. After they played, the band stayed in the theatre and talked to everyone, what a great group of guys. It was an amazing night! The new cd by the way is excellent, it is titled "This is Thirteen" GET IT NOW!!! Now I am saving my allowance to re-purchase those first three albums, I must return them to my collection.

SO that is my Anvil story. I leave you with a few Anvil videos and a special request from my best Bro. His request was a posting of Glen Danzig (whose music I love) getting Knocked the Fuck Out! He can be a litte bit dickish.

Here it is the Classic Metal Anthem...Metal On Metal!!!

And Now...THis Is THirTeen!!!


And finally by request, Glen Danzig KTFO!

Welcome to That Metal Beast!!!

Welcome Fellow Metal Maniacs to That Metal Beast! What I plan on doing here is celebrating all things Metal, I will feature new bands, bands you may have never heard, and of course pay homage to the Gods of Metal!



A little about me, I have been a fan of Rock and Metal Music for about 30 years (damn I am getting Old!) I have seen hundreds of live concerts all over the world and through all the changes in my life one thing has remained the same, and that is my love for Metal!



It is hard for me to pick one favorite Metal band, but if you put a hot iron to me I would probably scream Iron Maiden. I am a big fan of most all of the classic British Steel bands that include Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and of course the base upon which the Metal Mountain rises from...Black Sabbath.



I suppose that the best way to describe my Metal taste is to say that it is like a road trip in Dragula along Route 666. My tour has taken me from British Steel to the Bay area badasses, in Metallica, Megadeth, Testament and Exodus. A trip to the Motor City to see our friends the Ramones. Then to the Hardcore East Coast with Anthrax, S.O.D. (M.O.D.) BioHazard and Nuclear Assault and we join the Kiss Army while we are there. Then a Rush to the great white north with a sound that is as heavy as an ANVIL! Add in some stops that include Suicidal Tendencies and the Cowboys from Hell Pantera and that should give you a pretty good idea of where I am coming from.



Speaking of 666, the Rocumentary "Flight 666" will be shown on VH1 Classic on June 6th at Midnight, if you are a fan of Iron Maiden DON'T MISS THIS! It chronicles Maiden on their most recent tour "Somewhere Back in Time" where the band loaded up there own plane and Bruce Dickinson (lead singer) flew them from show to show all over the world! I can't wait to see it!



The last few things on here I would like to promote is as follows:



That Metal Show- on VH1 Classic Hosted by Eddie Trunk

http://www.vh1classic.com/browse/video/109196/That_Metal_Show/index.jhtml

Anvil The Story of Anvil - Now showing at select theaters world wide. This is the story of the great canadian metal band Anvil and how after 30 years they are still rocking and finally getting the accolades that they have long deserved. If you go to this website http://www.anvilmovie.com/ you can also find special shows where the band itself plays after the movie LIVE in the theater. I had the pleasure of attending one of these recently in Cincinnati and it was FUCKING AWESOME! More on this later.

Click here for the trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF4H8lB2Y_o



More to Come Soon!

I leave you my fellow rattleheads with two sweet videos the first is from Iron Maiden Rock in Rio "The Trooper" and a new version of an old favorite "Sign of the Southern Cross by Heaven & Hell!!!