Barney's Vegan Running Musings

Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Free Download from Male Bonding

Male Bonding - Bones by subpop on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

Great driving bit of Indie Rock from Male Bonding available as a free download from Soundcloud.

http://www.subpop.com/artists/male_bonding

Monday, 18 July 2011

The Mercury Music Prize

In an ideal musical world for me the following would be part of the Mercury nominations.

Talanas - The Waspkeeper

www.talanas.org

Tom Williams and the Boat - Too Slow

www.tomwilliamsandtheboat.co.uk

The Travelling Band - Screaming is Something

www.thetravellingband.com

P.J Harvey - Let England Shake

www.pjharvey.net

Teeth of the Sea - Your Mercury

www.myspace.com/thewrongjaws

Radiohead - King Of Limbs

radiohead.com

Realistically, there's likely to be two of these in there.

www.mercuryprize.com

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Unfortunately I couldn't make The Warrington Festival yesterday, if I had however, The Phoenix Experiment would have been top of my list of bands to watch. Formed by ex members of The 66 and based purely around the music and visuals, than any commercial aspects, they truly are a band of the people.

Check them out live with "Dead and Gone" at the link below and also an incredible filthy piece of psychedelic blues with "Cut You Down" also on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF3qOQpHCWA&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWAwWPWgsZ8

Then head over to Phoenix Lodge on Facebook and click on the like button.

http://www.facebook.com/TPELODGE

Friday, 15 July 2011

Tramlines Festival 2011 | Friday 22 July – Sunday 24 July

Free music in Sheffield coming up at the end of next week and there are some great names on the bill including :

Guillemots
Josh T Pearson
Ash
The Duke Spirit
The Futureheads
Los Campesinos
Dananananaykroyd

South Yorkshire is the place to be between the 22nd and the 24th of July.

http://www.tramlines.org.uk/

Djevel - Dodssanger

Although a fan of hard rock music for many years, I'm only a recent convert to the more extreme metal, a friend through Ping, feeding me band after band to explore the Thrash, Death, Hardcore and Black genres.

Through hardcore Norwegian outfit Kvelertak, I came across Djevel and their debut album "Dodssanger"
(the two sharing a vocalist in E. Hjelvik) a classic example of the power and sheer intensity of Black Metal, although incorporating melodic undertones. Opening with the sound of steel rasping against steel, before hurling the listener into a plethora of feedback induced, distorted guitar mayhem with a variation of diabolical and cleaner vocal styles. An additional highlight, a number of the endings almost a sign of tracks being discarded, sodomised and thrown into a corner of the studio, only to be picked up and ravaged at a later date as and when required.

"Dodssanger" is a great album, darkly brutal in only a way black metal can be, although here is my dilemma. How much of Black Metal is fantasy and theatrical, lyrical themes used to support a sound, you can't throat rip about tiptoeing through the tulips, or walking on sunshine, it would appear ridiculous and completely out of context. How much however is founded upon beliefs and lifestyles?

Although I can't call myself a religious person, I have attended church and have a number of friends who are religious and I fully respect their views. By listening to Black Metal, am I condoning evil, admonishing myself of responsibility as much is in a different language.

On one occasion, headphones on, Ulver blasting my eardrums, I literally had to turn the ipod off as I approached a church, feeling uneasy about that vocal and sound in that particular environment. Perhaps I'm thinking too deeply and perhaps Black Metal is more pantomime than demonic worship............although the simple fact I'm expressing myself in this way means I'm really not sure.

www.facebook.com/djevelmakt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx1SlZ3OCko