Being Marilyn Manson must be weird. I mean you only have to look at a picture of the bloke to figure that out. Throw in the countless rumours, which have swirled around him since he burst onto the music scene (I’m pretty sure he still has all his ribs), a love of absinthe and an image that is part Voldemort and you end up with a musician whose world probably resembles The Nightmare Before Christmas. Yet that is not even the half of it, because this is also a man who has given us one hell of a collection of music since the release of his debut, Portrait of an American Family, in 1994.
The Last Ten Seconds of Life – Soulless Hymns
After the usual quiet start to the year, the music is starting to flow out again. Big hitters like Marilyn Manson and Fall Out Boy have already dropped new albums and as usual there is a whole new world of music to find out there. One of these new bands, at least for myself, is The Last Ten Seconds of Life who hail from Mansfield, Pennsylvania.
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Live Review: Slipknot w/ Korn and King 810
It has become accepted that Slipknot can fill venues like the Hydro. However, when you sit down and think about it, that fact is insane. 9 masked men wearing boiler suits and playing pretty extreme metal, should not be coming close to filling places like this. Yet, here we are.
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2015 Predictions
So we are now over a week into 2015 and the year is setting itself up, whether good or bad, to at least be interesting. In the past I have done musical predictions, which I will continue to do this year, but I have decided to mix them up with film and maybe even a couple of gaming ones.
Top 20 Albums of the Year: Number 5 to Number 1
Happy New Year to everyone reading and as we enter the new year, I can cap off the last with my top five albums of 2014. If you missed the first three parts, you can find them here, here and here. Enjoy.
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Top 20 Albums of the Year: Number 15 to Number 11
Onto part two of my albums of the year countdown, where we shall go from number fifteen to number eleven. If for whatever reason you missed part one, shame on you, you can find it here.
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Top 20 Albums of the Year: Number 20 to Number 16
So over the next few days I will be putting up my top 20 albums of the year. I initially had a shortlist of 65 albums, so cutting it down to 20 was incredibly hard. I will maybe put a few honourable mentions at the end, but we shall see how we get along. As usual, all my own opinion, don’t bother telling me I’m wrong, blah blah blah.
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Top 5 Gigs of the Year
Live music is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Little is more exciting than seeing a band on fire, doing their thing in front of a baying crowd. Therefore, it has to be said that ranking gigs is always kind of difficult, different bands go for different atmospheres. However, I am still going to give it a damn good try.
Christmas Number One
The annual get so and so to Christmas Number One, has become almost as big a tradition as turkey or drunk argumentative relatives. Ever since the Rage Against the Machine campaign knocked Cowell and co off of the top spot, it has become somewhat fashionable to push an alternative band towards the top of the charts. This year the always wonderful Iron Maiden are the chosen band. Now quite frankly, I would love Iron Maiden to get only their second UK number one single, they damn well deserve it, but do we really need to care about Christmas Number One?
Live Review: Machine Head w/ Darkest Hour and Heart of a Coward
Machine Head are having one hell of a year. Their Killers and Kings tour, where they hit up places in the UK they hadn’t been in a long time and played venues they were too big for 15 years ago, led to some of the best live shows the UK has ever seen. While their latest album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, saw a return to form, after the slightly patchy, Unto the Locust. Now they are out on tour in support of said album and sadly back in the kind of venues you expect to see one of the UK’s favourite metal bands in. Although, I have to admit, I really hate the O2 Academy in Glasgow.
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Ramblings About Wrestling 