We can all claim maturity, but it doesn’t matter how old you are, everyone loves a good fight. It’s why UFC is worth $4 billion, and Brock Lesnar is a motherfucking hero. It’s also why watching two bands bicker will also be entertaining. Whether it’s Guns ‘N’ Roses and Nirvana or Slipknot and Mushroomhead seeing two groups trade barbed comments through the media (or as is the case now, social media) is just fun.
Bring Me the Horizon w/ Neck Deep and PVRIS, Edinburgh Corn Exchange
The first time I saw Bring Me the Horizon they were supporting Machine Head and were treated with something just a bit short of disdain. Yet those snotty punks gave as good as they got and that got my attention. In the years since a lot has changed and as they walked onto stage at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange it was clear that this crowd adores them.
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Headliners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYAJTDyQHr0
Where is the next Metallica? Where is the next Iron Maiden? Where is the next (insert big rock and roll band here)? They are questions that pop up at least once a year. Usually around the time that Download announces a batch of headliners who are near identical to the ones announced a couple of years before. But the question is, do we need a new Metallica? Do we need Iron Maiden? Or is this obsession with bands needing to sell out arenas preventing the next generation of metal bands making the step up to festival headliners?
Bring Me The Horizon – That’s the Spirit
Bring Me the Horizon have been on the verge of going full Hulkamania for a while now. Their last two albums have been all killer, no filler and backing track aided Reading performances aside, they seem capable of doing no wrong at the moment. Even the tidal wave of hate that they used to face every time their name popped up on the internet seems to have calmed, at least a little. Yet is That’s The Spirit good enough to be worthy of the success it seems destined to have? Or are Bring Me about to pull an Avenged Sevenfold by having one of their weaker albums turn out to be their biggest?
Where do we go from here?
Music constantly evolves. For every album that lasts forever, there are thousands that ten years after their release sound dated and old. The world goes past them and that is the natural way of things. However, it doesn’t stop people clinging to the past. You just have to bring up a band like Bring Me the Horizon to a group of diehard metal fans and see the reaction. ‘That’s not metal!’ blah blah blah. All of this ignores the fact that it is without a doubt metal, it is just the next stage in a constantly evolving sound.
Everything is Awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bPIgJSg00
Music is a funny old business. Heavy metal is a genre that sits outside the mainstream and 99% of the time, relishes in that fact. We embrace our difference and we love it. That is until something like the Grammy Awards comes along and gets metal horribly wrong. They don’t get us, so they just go with the safest option, this year that was Tenacious D, and hand them a trophy, before ushering the whole thing off stage and breathing a sigh of relief. Should we care? No, of course not. Do we care? Well sadly, a glance around the internet suggests some of us do.
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.
Weekly Playlist 28/3/2014
This was the playlist from the second week of my show on Radio ENRG, which can be heard most Friday’s at 12. I will be putting the third week up on Wednesday meaning I’ll be up to date and I can just put the rest up after the actual show I’m playing the playlist on. I hope you all enjoy.
The songs not on Spotify can be found below.
Top 20 Albums of 2013 – Number 5 to Number 1
Here we are, the biggest music award presented by this blog. My top 5 albums of the year. Find the first three sections here, here and here.
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Ramblings About Wrestling 