Ain't it fun when you know that you're gonna die young

Dead Boys - Ain't it fun



Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device



Corporate Avenger - Fault the Police (I Don't)



Frank Black - Bullet

Blacker than the blackest black times infinity

Metalocalypse is a cartoon tribute to metal, and should be played at high volume.



Dethklok is the world's most brutal band. They live the metal dream in Mordhaus, a mountain fortress built like a viking ship:


Dethklok does everything every metal band ever sang about, times infinity. They're that brutal. Their anti-piracy scheme is to visit your house at night, kill your family, and take you away to Mordhaus to be tortured. Dethklok's concerts frequently lead to the death or mutilation of their fans, but that's okay, because the fans don't mind:



Dethklok gets away with this because they're immensely rich and powerful. And because a secret society of leaders believe they'll play a role in a prophecy. Satan is also involved somehow.

Befitting the world's greatest metal band, Dethklok has two Scandinavian members, Skwisgaar Skwigelf and Toki Wartooth. (Yes, Skwisgaar and Toki are common Scandinavian names.) Some of the show's Scandinavian metal references are mean:


I do not approve. Well actually I do. That's hilarious. So is Burzum's, the diner, and Finntroll's, the supermarket.

Dethklok is good for a fake cartoon band, and have released a real-life album called The Dethalbum. Series creator Brendon Small sings the lead vocals. They actually go on tours. This is This is Spinal Tap for metal fans.

Så fann han ej mer än en blodiger arm

Weekend music selection: Walk-on music; off-key and off-rhythm; Germans singing Swedish; Germans singing German.

Lords of the New Church - New Church



Collide - Violet's Dance



Saltatio Mortis - Varulfen



Saltatio Mortis - Prometheus

So you think you know what's going on

Weekend music selection: Yin; yang; hippies; commies.

Front Line Assembly - Prophecy



Delerium - Terra Firma



Randy Alvey and Green Fuz - Green Fuz



New Model Army - You Weren't There

I scratch but you don't itch

This weekend's music selection, a varied mix: Nobodys by name and reputation; angry people in a ruined factory (wouldn't you be?); medieval queens were probably not great singers; and no that isn't Ricky Gervais.

Nobodys - I Scratch



Front Line Assembly - Millenium



Faun - Königin



VNV Nation - Legion

Skweee like a pig

Music reviews have become pointless. Why describe, when you can link to a video and let people decide for themselves? This weekend's music selection is all strange Scandinavian funk with a horrible but Google-unique name.

Mesak - Popkumm:



Beem - Muni:



Uday - Ghetto Bomb:

I'm in the loop I am the loop

Weekend music selection: An electronic kitten, and ravens with bagpipes (yes!)

Miss Kittin - Wash 'n' Dry:



Miss Kittin - Professional Distortion:



Corvus Corax - Suam Elle Ires



Corvus Corax - Hymnus Cantica:

Sorted, snorted, munted, blunted

Today's music selection: Asimov-ignoring robots; recommendations in media technology; German lessons for party drug users; and a commentary on Chinese politics.

Anthony Rother - Destroy Him My Robots:



Pukka Orchestra - Listen to the Radio:



Lützenkirchen - 3 Tage Wach:

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Japan - Visions of China:

Skalat maðr rúnar rísta, nema ráða vel kunni

Today's selection of music: Metal without electric guitars, music for and by machines, and a girl singing into a large cellphone.

Korpiklaani - Kadet Siipina



Section 25 - Looking from a Hilltop



Faun - Egil saga



Unheilig - Herz Aus Eis



Kehrwert - Maschinenmusik



About the title: It's used in the Faun song, and they took it from the 13th century Egils saga. It means something like "don't write runes that you can't read / control". Or as Lovecraft wrote in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: "do not call up any that you can not put down".

Men WE skal faen meg være de som spiller høyest

Det var mye tannløst på Øyafestivalen de to dagene jeg var der, (liker ikke Turboneger, og bommet på dagen Mayhem skulle spille), men det var to norske band jeg ikke har hørt før som forårsaket spontane hakeslepp og Keanu-whoa's: Animal Alpha og WE. Enjoy.

Animal Alpha - Pin You All



Animal Alpha - Trouble



Animal Alpha - Billy Bob Jackson



Animal Alpha - Fire



WE - Hurdy Gurdy



WE - Carefree



Og til sist et band som aldri har spilt på Øya, og aldri kommer til å spille på Øya, men som for tiden holder mange private opptredener på mp3-spilleren min:

KMFDM - Stars and Stripes

Put out the lights on the Age of Reason

Here's some more hummable music (and some of it not-quite-so-hummable) to brighten an already fine summer day:

And One - Speicherbar:



Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser:



Not wishing to make this an all-synth post, here's New Model Army - Here Comes the War:



Laibach - God is God (which, believe it or not, is a cover of Juno Reactor):



Seabound (yes once more) - Castaway:



Lard (side project of Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra) - War Pimp Renaissance:



And the best for last, Dust of Basement - This big hush (the album to own is Meridian):

The Mind of God _is_ Cosmic Music Resonating Through 11-dimensional Hyperspace

A couple of songs I'm humming on these days:

Avalost by Seabound, from No Sleep Demon v2. Sorry about the cellphone quality, this song deserves better. (Here's Transformer, another good song from the same album.)



In the same vein, but more anthemy, Ritual Noise by Covenant, from Skyshaper.



And on a lighter note, Mind of God and Tune Up by Electric Universe, from Silence In Action.