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Sanguinus

BRUTAL!! Apparently last I heard they need a bass player. Excuses, I say! Awaiting the Crow is their debut album released in 2008. With songs like “Emo Grinder”, “Fetal Buffet”, and “Trust from the Barrel of a Shotgun” one must wonder to themselves... 

I personally wondered “Hell Fuckin Yeah!” But that’s because I Still Am Metal. This is the metal I grew to love. It’s raunchy with clean guitar solos, lots of Lo-Fi and awesome vocals. Some influences range from the likes of Testament, Cannibal Corpse, Eyehategod, and whatnot. Me likey all the above! 

My personal favorites from Awaiting the Crow are “Not Even Your Shadow Will Be Remembered” and “Not A Day Over Dead”(…SILENCE!!). I am highly anticipating their second album coming out. SO HURRY THE FUCK UP SANGUINUS, please. \m/

Beneath the Sky

I apologize in advance, I am working on dial-up today so I’m not messing with too many links* I will edit it later :)

Beneath the Sky. 

Their music is pretty tight, so where are they? I have no clue. I have really only listened to their most recent album “In Loving Memory”, but may favorite song on there is Blood & Separation. For that review I just have to say that I love it. There is nothing more. So here is a review of another great song on this album, Tears, Bones & Desire.

Tears, Bones & Desire by Beneath the Sky mixes various sub-genres of metal with plenty of breakdowns and a little sludge to go along. That real nice Lo-Fi is awesome. If you don’t like “singing” singing, it is minimal. So get over it for this one is pretty fucking sweet. 

Worth a listen.. I give 4 stars.

If you wanna listen, just look on my "current favs" playlist to your right.

The Quest

So I am going through all avenues to pick the one concert I am going to in the most nearest future. Not because I am allowed only one, but because money crunching will only permit one. Or two…or maybe three.

OMG CAN I GO?!?!

THANK YOU dcheavymetal.com

Thank you for the most epic calendar ever!!

Now where were we?

OMG CAN I GO?!?!

Mon 18 April – Metal As Fuck Monday! – Skeletonwitch and 3 Inches Of Blood and Radical Discharge and Ethereal Genocide at the Ottobar (Baltimore, Maryland) – Modern thrash act Skeletonwitch headlines a killer metal show at the Ottobar on this Monday night in April. They’re bringing with them 3 Inches Of Blood and Radical Discharge and Northern Virginia based death metal band Ethereal Genocide is opening this show only. Should be killer. If that wasn’t good enough, everyone over 21 at the show will get a voucher for free beer at the upstairs bar after the show where they’ll be playing heavy metal tunes on the stereo the rest of the night. Tickets cost $12 ($15.50 after fees if you buy a ticket online from Mission Tix). The doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 7:30pm. It’s open to all ages

Sounds like a BLAST, right?! Metal. As. Fuck. Monday! I absolutely love it!! To warn you, there will be many punctuation marks in this post. I apologize in advance if you can’t keep up. I’m just so freakin excited!!!

…and then I realize it says, BALTIMORE. Damn I guess I can’t go on a weeknight. But I push on.

What’s this?

OMG CAN I GO????

Tues 10 May – Destruction and Deströyer 666 and Heathen and Warbeast at Bourbon Street (Baltimore, DAMNIT!!!!
 Maryland) – Destruction is one of the big three German thrash bands from the 80s (along with Kreator and Sodom) and they’re coming to Baltimore on this Tuesday in May. They’re touring with Australian band Destroyer 666. I don’t know who the local openers are yet, but I’ll post them when I do. Tickets are $20 advance ($23.50 after fees if you buy a ticket online from Mission Tix) or $25 the day of the concert. Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm and it’s open to all ages.
UPDATE: Deströyer 666 has dropped off the tour due to injury of one of the band members (more info here). They have been replaced by Bay area thrashers Heathen.

But. Wait! WHAT’S THIS?

Fri 13 May – Destruction and Deströyer 666 and Heathen and Warbeast and Division and Jotunn at Jaxx (Springfield, Virginia) YES!!!!
– Destruction is one of the big three German thrash bands from the 80s (along with Kreator and Sodom) and they’re coming to Jaxx for a Friday night show. They’re touring with Australian band Destroyer 666. I don’t know who the local openers are yet, but I’ll post them when I do. Tickets are $17 advance ($24.75 after fees if you buy a ticket online from Ticketmaster) and $20 the day of the show. Doors are at 7:30 and the show starts at 8pm.
UPDATE: Deströyer 666 has dropped off the tour due to injury of one of the band members (more info here). They have been replaced by Bay area thrashers Heathen.

Should be an interesting show.WARBEAST!! Early show, nice. Not 10 bands playing, nice. Friday night, nice.

We will see what else the region has to offer tomorrow. 

Looking At Life

I was driving home yesterday and starting thinking how my life has turned out and how I thought it would turn out. I figured my life would be full of metal-ish thingies. Well let us break it down:

Home: How is my home metal? It’s an 1850’s log cabin that was/is infested with stink bugs. GROSS!  I know, but this has turned me into a ruthless killer…totally metal. It also gives me an excuse to blare The Devil Wears Prada newest Zombie EP. I like it because it makes me a badass with a vacuum! Home = Metal. 

Sig. Other: I assumed many, many moons ago my future hubby would be a metal head. How else would it work? Well, instead I married a total NON-metalhead. BUT as it turns out, my non-metal head hubby is a most awesome and badass GRAVEDIGGER. OH YES. Totally fucking metal. :)

Dogs: I always had dogs, but none have been as badass as my current babies. All three are rescued pitties. All three are crazy. And all three are sweet as can be. But you come in my house and I don’t want you there, my sweet little (big) babies will rip your fucking throat out :) That is totally fucking metal.

Work: Who knew I would actually wind up owning the daycare. How in the world is that metal? I can do it my way, when I want, whatever I want. Of course I won’t be as successful if I do that, so I have a nice happy medium. BUT it is nice to know I can be metal as fuck if the situation allows. That is pretty metal.

Car: My car is made of metal. Right now it is scrap metal, but just for a few more days. Once she’s back on the road, she will be the rockin’ metal machine again.

So all in all, no matter how much I used to bitch to myself (and the occasional person) about life not turning out how I wanted or how I expected, all I have to do is look at life in the right light. I Still Am Metal...bitches 

Morte et Dabo

What is it? AND what does it mean? Morte et Dabo has two different translations but they are quite similar. 1) Translated from Latin to English it means “Dead and gone”. 2) From French to English it means “Death, I will give you”. 

Morte et Dabo is a choir piece originally written by Tim Donahue

Asking Alexandria chose to use the original as a fairly epic intro and a calming outro. You are definitely going to need a calming down period after listening intently.

Then it gets intense. Like most other AA songs, there is a mix of vocals. What I like about this song is the notable addition of some black metal vocals. The lyrics are pretty good, it seems to be describing Lucifer destroying and tearing down heaven. “I’ll tear your eyes out of your self-righteous face” is one of my favorite lines the way it goes with the rest of the band. All in all this song is pretty brutal. I give it 4 stars.

As I look through the newest Country Living and Better Home & Garden, I am thinking to myself “how is this metal?”  I am running around tidying my house rocking Budweiser sleep pants and a Cypress Hill t-shirt blaring “Morte et Dabo” on the iPod. The I look in the mirror and discover I am wearing a diamond necklace and other bling-y items. HA! I Still Am Metal with a dose of reality on the side \m/

On to the next issue of being grown up and Metal, there are many, many awesome face-rocking concerts coming up. This leaves me with my biggest challenge of all: My Hubby. “Don’t bother coming home,” he says. What man wants his wife running around a moss pit or crushed up against a stage only to return home black and blue from the neck down? Certainly, not mine. Especially if he is soooo not metal. The closest to metal my husband gets is Hank III. (Don’t get me wrong Hank III is pretty tight.) So I think to myself, “is going to a concert really worth risking our marriage and our seven long years together? Normally no, but seven years later, abso-fucking-lutely.

I have come to this realization, if I, and am emphasizing I, am not happy, no one in my home is. I spent a good four years trying to force myself to listen to mainstream radio. How miserable is that? It was almost excruciating blocking out my metal. But I am not 16 anymore.

When I meet my little brother for the first time, about two years ago, my perspective changed. He is soooo Metal. That is when I learned that metal is in my genetics. Apparently my birthmom smoked cigarettes and rocked out to Black Sabbath whilst I was in the womb. Now that is Metal. Of course we know now that smoking during pregnancy is a big no-no. But Metal has been with me since the beginning.

Back to my point, I must always my Metal in my life. For it is my security blanket and oxygen all in one. That makes me happy.

If I am happy, the house is clean, laundry is done, diner is made and my garden is prettier than ever! I also noticed that I am more productive at work. So next time I want to go to a concert and my hubby responds in his usual way, I’m just going to go. But I WILL come home afterwards. After all, do you think he really means it? Would he feel a concert is that big of a deal to break up our marriage? I think not because bitching about it and breaking up over it are two totally different outcomes with one being way too extreme.

Stay true to yourself and the rest will follow suit.

My First Ever Blog on StillAmMetal

As I write my first blog, I am thinking "how the hell do I even write a blog?". Well, who gives a flyin' you-know-what? I am a twenty-nine year old business owner AND nanny AND wife AND I Still Am Metal!

With my blog I hope to portray my life and how I Still Am Metal. No matter how old and no matter where I go in life, I Still Am Metal. You can be a grown-up and still rock your face off! Join me as I journey through my life with my soundtrack of the ecstasy that is metal. Why? Because I Still Am Metal.