You have good taste, mate. Uriah Heep are very underrated. I saw them as an 18th birthday present when they last played in Australia a few years ago and loved every minute of it.
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You have good taste, mate. Uriah Heep are very underrated. I saw them as an 18th birthday present when they last played in Australia a few years ago and loved every minute of it.
What about ISIS?
I believe heavy metal -and other, more extreme genres of metal - always displayed some occultic and often downright satanic symbols.
I believe our American colleagues may be more familiar with death metal bands from the Florida-based death metal scene that got quiet a lot media coverage between cca 1989-1994. (Black metal was never really popular in the US)
Glen Benton, vocalist and bassist for the band Deicide (deicide means "killing god"). Glen made some scary interviews (his radio interviews with Pastor Bob Larson cca 1992 is worth a listening for entertainment purposes. Find them on Youtube.)
As the metal genre has been dying since the mid-1990s and definitely sicne the early 2000s. Glen has also mellowed out. In the mid-2000s he admitted that all that satanic lyrics and imaginery were just for the entertainment but he never believed in them.
Glen is 53 now -his three children all go to Catholic schools.
Another infamous band with occultist lyrics, Morbid Angel. Their former drummer Pedro Sandoval became born again Christian and now plays in a Christian band. The band's former vocalist/bassist Dave Vincent now plays in country band.
What people often forget is that there was never much money to be made in extreme metal -and is simply not popular enough amongst the masses.
It is the mainstream pop music where the musicians probably really need to make some deal with the devil in order to achieve fame and financial success (Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, JayZ etc come to mind)
I believe our American colleagues may be more familiar with death metal bands from the Florida-based death metal scene that got quiet a lot media coverage between cca 1989-1994. (Black metal was never really popular in the US)
Glen Benton, vocalist and bassist for the band Deicide (deicide means "killing god"). Glen made some scary interviews (his radio interviews with Pastor Bob Larson cca 1992 is worth a listening for entertainment purposes. Find them on Youtube.)
As the metal genre has been dying since the mid-1990s and definitely sicne the early 2000s. Glen has also mellowed out. In the mid-2000s he admitted that all that satanic lyrics and imaginery were just for the entertainment but he never believed in them.
Glen is 53 now -his three children all go to Catholic schools.
Another infamous band with occultist lyrics, Morbid Angel. Their former drummer Pedro Sandoval became born again Christian and now plays in a Christian band. The band's former vocalist/bassist Dave Vincent now plays in country band.
What people often forget is that there was never much money to be made in extreme metal -and is simply not popular enough amongst the masses.
It is the mainstream pop music where the musicians probably really need to make some deal with the devil in order to achieve fame and financial success (Rihanna, Nikki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, JayZ etc come to mind)
This is why I've often said in the past that Billie Eilish's music and image are far more Satanic than any metal band.
Out of the most popular extreme metal bands (if you don't count Slayer), I'm not sure if Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, and Deicide together have sold more than 15 or 20 million records over the past 30 years.
Oh man, those days were a lot of fun! Things are so screwy in the world right now that we look back on the 90s with fondness, when you could say how much you hate rap and nobody would think you were a weirdo.
0:12 "Hey check it out its Jeremy"
As for Pete Sandoval, he was replaced in MA because he had to undergo back surgery for a slipped disc, and I think it was during that time he found God. He ended up going back to his old band Terrorizer. Don't know much about them.
Dave Vincent.....yeah that guy gets around a lot, but ya gotta admit he has a great voice for country. At least he's attempting some kind of vaguely "old fashioned" country instead of going for the Kenny Chesney sound:
I second the hope for the next Control Denied album. Chuck was a one of a kind talent that most people today know nothing about.
A lot of people wouldn't consider them heavy metal by today's standard (even though heavy metal has always been a pretty fuzzy category), but Uriah Heep was a giant and one of the best of the genre. Their recent albums are pretty good and worth listening to. Ken Hensley passed away last week, and Lee Kerslake passed away early last month. RIP gentlemen, you gave the world of hard rock and heavy metal some fantastic music. If you've got any interest in heavy metal you're really depriving yourself if you don't own at least their first few albums.
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People always ridicule the idea of the finger-wagging church ladies of the 50s and 60s who said that rock n roll would lead straight to the devil. The funny thing, though, is that in hindsight they were right.
I have seen Behemoth in concert several times,
they are an awesome band to see perform live.
Did not know Lee Kerslake passed away, truely a great drummer. He and Bob Daisley with Randy Rhoads write all the music on Ozzy Osbourne blizzard and madman albums, There was ongoing litigation around that, Hope they settled. Been listening to Uriah Heep on YouTube recently, very good.
Saw Opeth last February before the pandemic.... They were amazing.
Not a dud song yet from the second album of Killer Be Killed.
Their latest & 4th song, is rather phenomenal.
KILLER BE KILLED is:
Greg Puciato (Vocals/Guitar) - Dillinger Escape Plan
Max Cavalera (Vocals/Guitar) - Sepultura, Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy.
Troy Sanders (Vocals/Bass) - Mastodon.
Ben Koller (Drums)
Their latest & 4th song, is rather phenomenal.
KILLER BE KILLED is:
Greg Puciato (Vocals/Guitar) - Dillinger Escape Plan
Max Cavalera (Vocals/Guitar) - Sepultura, Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy.
Troy Sanders (Vocals/Bass) - Mastodon.
Ben Koller (Drums)
Thats a pretty awesome supergroup. I listened to a couple tracks and was like "Is that Max Cavalera?"
Oldie but a goodie... but recent events have got me listening again.
For Those About to Rock - The Aussie Rocker are back
Forty years after releasing “Back in Black” — one of the best-selling albums of all time — AC/DC is still plugging away with a new LP, “Power Up,”.
The secret to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s staying power is hardly rocket science, though.
AC/DC reboots for ‘pure rock’ comeback album, ‘Power Up’
“It hasn’t gotten a hidden agenda — it’s pure rock and roll.”
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Forty years after releasing “Back in Black” — one of the best-selling albums of all time — AC/DC is still plugging away with a new LP, “Power Up,”.
AC/DC reboots for ‘pure rock’ comeback album, ‘Power Up’
“It hasn’t gotten a hidden agenda — it’s pure rock and roll.”
nypost.com
The secret to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s staying power is hardly rocket science, though.
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