The Metal/Punk/Rock Thread

[Merzbow]

My Vitriol and Vex Red would be better.

[SuperBacon]

12 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

My Vitriol and Vex Red would be better.

InMe as a last minute surprise addition. Lovely bill.

[Egg Shen]

on that tour in 2012 they also had Cable with them which was great! im hoping they add an opener next year as well.

Hell is For Heroes had Vex Red opening for them in 2018 along with A. I missed Vex Red on the night though ?

Edited July 20, 2021 by Egg Shen

[Dead Mike]

Saturday night in Manchester, lovely. As this is happening I'd expect to see both at 2000 Trees next year too.

[wordsfromlee]

19 minutes ago, Egg Shen said:

on that tour in 2012 they also had Cable with them which was great! im hoping they add an opener next year as well.

Hell is For Heroes had Vex Red opening for them in 2018 along with A. I missed Vex Red on the night though ?

I finally got to see Vex Red after about 15 years of waiting on their comeback tour which was amazing. I wish I got to see them at Meltdown Festival when they played with the string quartet. I’ll always have a man crush on Terry Abbott. I remember chatting to him when I saw his post-Vex Red band, Septembre, and he was telling us all about why they got dropped by the label and split up. It’s pretty sad for a band who were on the cusp of big things.

I saw My Vitriol at 2000 Trees a couple of years back as wasn’t fussed by them at all. I love Finelines but I watched about three songs and was so bored. 

[WyattSheepMask]

Jinjer and Vio-Lence have been removed from Bloodstock due to the ongoing travel issues. They’ve been replaced by Malevolence and Wargasm.

 

Edited July 26, 2021 by WyattSheepMask

[I Bent My Wookie]

I mean Wargasm are fantastic so im jealous of anyone seeing them again this summer but it's a shame Jinjer have had to cancel.

[WyattSheepMask]

Metal Church vocalist Mike Howe has passed away at the age of 56.

https://www.loudersound.com/news/metal-church-singer-mike-howe-dead-at-56

[Merzbow]

A rare episode of Merzbow's Black Metal Corner..

Came across this today which might be up the street of a few here, Wretch by Anti-God Hand (yeah, probably a Berserk reference).

It somehow manages to mix the nastiest lo-fi cosmic black metal with elements of prog rock and other styles far from black metal, managing to be strangely accessible while completely unforgiving and raw.

https://antigodhand.bandcamp.com/album/wretch

[cobra_gordo]

Holy shit 

https://metalinjection.net/news/former-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-has-passed-away

Can't quite process that one. Saw him play a couple of times in Slipknot and that time he stepped in for Lars Ulrich at Download and double kicked the fuck out of some Black Album songs.

Edited July 27, 2021 by cobra_gordo

[SuperBacon]

That is unbelievable. I must've seen Slipknot live 15-20 times and he always one of the highlights of the show.

His drumming on the self titled especially was unreal. What a sad loss.

[cobra_gordo]

Just look at how much fun he's having here. Fuck. My FB news feed is currently a lot of very gutted blokes in their 30s.

 

[The Gaffer]

He was always the real star of Slipknot back then, I think. He was the one everyone looked at and wanted to be in the crowd as teenage fans. And as much as Slipknot were the gateway drug for heavier bands - where you'd eventually grow to realise there were plenty of other crazier bands - Jordinson was that drummer where as a youngster you just simply did not hear anything like it before. 

I still bang the opening of Sic with my fingers on surfaces as a sort of subconscious thing all the time. Taking nothing away from Jay Weinberg and the more polished era of Slipknot, but in many ways the band ended with Joey. 

Huge loss. Poor guy.

[Kfogg1991]

I'm sat here downstairs literally in tears I can't believe it. 

 

R.I.P Joey thank you so much for every single song you gave us 

[Panhead]

Gutted.