RIP Jesse Pintado

Just heard about the passing of Jesse Pintado today. Here's the announcement from Century Media.

Guitarist Jesse Pintado Dies
08/28/2006

Guitarist Jesse Pintado (Terrorizer, ex-Napalm Death) died over the weekend in a hospital in Holland. A pioneer in our musical genre, Jesse and his influential sound will be sorely missed. Century Media Records would like to offer our most sincere condolences to his family and friends, and will make a further announcement later in the week.

Rest In Peace...

Isis - Dulcinea

Hey check this out. It is the new song from the upcoming ISIS album entitled In The Absence of Truth. I am really looking forward for this. Oh, and these guys are much better than most pretentious post-rock wanker... at least these guys know how to fucking rock. But what's up with the artwork?

Self Made Grind

SMG have posted two new songs from the upcoming split 7" with Sloth. Go here and let them know what you think of it. I think it is killer. These guys have line up tons of new releases in the near future. Get and collect them all before it all went to ebay and sold for unreasonable price.

Relapse Signs Death Breath

Read the official news here. This will be the only Relapse release that I will check out in a very long time.

Slayer In Singapore - For Real

Alright, it is confirmed, Slayer will be thrashing Singapore on the 13^th October this year (that’s Friday the 13^th in case you are wondering). Let’s not cry that the Singaporean always get the good bands to rock their sock off while we have to endure a lot of wash-up rock acts of yesteryear who couldn’t rock to save their own life (read: INXS). Go here for the grand announcement. Will I be going? Heh…

Converge New Album

Converge has revealed the track listing and the artwork for the upcoming No Heroes album that will be released in October this year. More info here.

As far as modern hardcore goes, Converge is the only band that matters to me. I regard Jane Doe as one of the modern hardcore classic and won’t complain much if they kept on doing the same thing along the line of Jane Doe or You Fail Me. I know they are huge with all the fashioncore scenesters but I don’t make that as an excuse for me to overlook them or dismiss them as one of the bands that matter in recent time. If you don't like Converge, you can always listen to some shitty metalcore like As I Lay Dying, but don't blame me if people pity you for having a bad taste in music.

We're No Here

I was in Singapore for a few days. The reasons? MOGWAI.

Yes I was watching MOGWAI live at the Esplanade. To those who are wondering how it was. It was fucking awesome. Definitely one of the best show I had watched in my entire existence. I don’t need to explain it in detail; you just had to be there to experience it yourself. Oh, if there is one thing I want to tell you; I don’t need to watch any shitty post-rock bands anymore. Yup, that’s right and I am pointing my finger at every dime a dozen post-rock bands who are going through the motion and don’t know shit about rocking out. You are pretentious and your “art” are only suitable for pretentious asshole.

MOGWAI rule.

Your post-rock band sucks.

Just die.

P/s: While I was in Singapore I heard rumors that SLAYER will be playing a show over there in the not too distant future. If this is true than we are in for a treat. Fucking SLAYER man. It is about time that people over here got the chance to experience one of the best metal bands in the history of rock and roll. I will keep an eye for any update on this.

Slayer - Christ Illusion

Almost finished downloading the new Slayer album from soulseek (couldn’t finished the last track because the user I am downloading it went offline… bohoo). Yeah it has been leaked. Don’t be surprised. Even Satan will approve those who downloaded it from the Internet. If Slayer bitches about people ripping them off a la Lars and Metallica, they should drop the whole “Satanist” image they are attaching themselves with. Stealing and Satan go well with each other. Whining like a baby because someone is stealing your music on the other hand is un-satanic. So there…
Anyway the new album is kinda good and I must say that it is much better than the last two albums. Truth is, I couldn’t remember much of the last two albums. Must have spun each one of them less than 2 times. It wasn’t that good of a nu-metal album anyway.
If you one those people who wish that Slayer make Reign in Blood part 2, don’t bother to check this out. It is nothing like Reign in Blood. There is no Angel of Death or Raining Blood. If you want those songs, just listen to Reign in Blood. Still not satisfied? Well why don’t you offer some good money (plus your mom and sister) to them so they can record the kind of songs you like. And make sure the money is really good because you definitely don’t want to piss them off.
I really hope the new album will be available in Malaysia… full version and uncensored. Who the fuck wants to listen to censored version of Slayer’s songs? I am not paying my hard earned money for something inferior. Those fucks at the record distributor better not fuck this up if they know what’s good for them.

Italian Grindcore Bastards

If you a grind freak and have no idea who Cripple Bastards are, please fuck off and stop listening to grindcore. These guys have been around for ages and any self respecting grindcore fans don’t need any more introductions about them. I found this relatively good live recording of them on soulseek. I did some research about this recording and couldn’t find any useful information. Anyway download the whole thing and enjoy it. I have to confess that I am not the biggest of fan and I think I totally lost most of my interest after the last album where they went “metal”, but the old stuff (the live set is pretty old I think) is pretty top notch grindcore in my book especially the ones that is raw and dirty. I just seem to have this ultimate fetish for all those raw and dirty grindcore, you know the ones that is not as polish as a spanking brand new Ferrari.

For all those ultimate Cripple Bastards fan, this piece of news from the band official website will definitely have you shit in your pants;

“CRIPPLE BASTARDS 4 CD BOXSET RAGING FROM CHINA!! a Chinese label run by an old time italian friend now living there has financiated a huge studio work to remaster ALL our demos/tapes from 1988 to 1993 for a huge 4 CD boxset collecting all our noise from those days. This includes the 4 official demos, the split with Violent Headache session, the whole 1988-1991 collection (90 minutes!!), all our side-projects, and hours of unreleased noise including pre-CB, pre-Grimcorpses thrash from late 1986/early 1987!!! Thousands of songs to make the joy of TNT & Records nostalgics and those who miss the raw uncompromised lo-fi nihilism of 7 MON, early AC, Violent Noise Attack, Sore Throat and similars. The masters will be completed by the end of June and soon later we'll start to work on the packaging layout which is going to be a mess.”

Yeah it is old news, but it is still news to me who just found it out not too long ago (again it just show that I am not the biggest Cripple Bastards’ fan). A 4 CD Boxset? Fuck yeah! Oh I also found out that Relapse will be releasing something from them in the not so distant future. Relapse? Hmmm, I think I will pass that one.

War Kvlt Supremacy

Fancy some War Metal? Go here and download the Black Witchery/Conqueror split. I did this for someone on the Metal Terus Forum and thought that this should be share with the two of who have been coming here. Don’t know what War Metal is? Neither am I.

Not So Happy Music For Not So Happy People

Ok the World Cup is over. Italy won it. Zidane head butted Materazzi. Blablabla. It is over and I am happy that Italy won it. You got a problem with that?

If you are still depressed and couldn’t get over the fact that a bunch of whiny divers had won the World Cup. Here is something for you. Go here and download MODAR’s Inferior Symphony LP (on tape, not vinyl!). No it won’t make you a happy chap, on the contrary. Listening to MODAR will make you even more depressive. Not because it is crappy (well some of you might find it crappy) but because it is fucking depressive. They are a bunch of doom merchants who probably listen to too much doom metal and take a lot of drugs when they recorded this. As far as I am concern this is the most depressive piece of music that ever came out of the not so vibrant Malaysian underground metal scene. If anyone can prove me wrong about this I will thank you by uploading their demo from 1992. Yes please prove me wrong that MODAR is the most depressive thing that ever came out of Malaysia. And why I am recommending this to you? Simple, you still can get over the fact that Italy won the World Cup so why bother living anymore. Get a knife and slit your wrist. Listening to MODAR will make it a little bit easier. END.

Note: I am not the one responsible ripping this into mp3. The quality might not be the best out there, but it is not the worst either. Regardless, enjoy!

The Plot Sickens

No updates until the end of the World Cup. Period.

Head Splitting Metal!!!

Dekapitator had posted a couple new songs from their upcoming album. Go to the band Myspace page (yes they do have their own Myspace) and sampled it yourself. I like it. Maybe you will like it too.

06/06/06

Today is the National Day of Slayer. If you don’t know what it is all about, go to this website and learn a few things about it. Yeah it is silly and dumb, but don’t we all love to be silly and dumb once in a while?

I think the new Slayer album will be coming out soon. Since they haven’t really captured my attention with the last couple albums, I don’t really think I am that eager to hear it when it comes out. They should have called it a day not too long ago. Or maybe stop recording any new album and just concentrate on playing live shows since nobody actually give a fuck about the new songs anymore. The only thing that matters is the old songs. Period.

For those who still care...

... about SLAYER, check out the blabbermouth website for some info relating to the new album. The image below is the artwork for the upcoming album. I do hope the new album is as what Tom Araya described it is. But then again...


Update:

Got the chance to listen to one of the new song from the upcoming album on the band official website. I am quite impressed with what I am hearing. Maybe there is some truth when Araya claimed it is not going to disappoint anyone. Check it out and let me know what you think about it.