These Kids are more Metal than you are: Unlocking The Truth
Youtube Direktrawk, via MeFi
Unlocking The Truth sind eine Metalband aus Brooklyn und sind vor ein paar Wochen zum ersten mal mit einer Serie Videos von Straßenmusiker-Gigs auf dem Times Square aufgefallen. Dann gab’s ein ein Interview auf Noisey, einen TV-Auftritt bei Fox’ FX’ Totally Biased (Video oben) und ein Portrait von den AvantGarde Diarys (Video unten, entstand vor dem Beitritt des neuen Bassisten Alec Atkins). Und bevor ich’s vergesse: Die Jungs gehen in die sechste Klasse und sind 12 Jahre alt. \m/
Unlocking the Truth, a metal band composed of twelve year old Malcolm Brickhouse and eleven year old Jarad Dawkins, is playfully arguing about which member can play a faster and more forceful rendition of their self-composed instrumental blast “Physical Therapy.” While Jarad is technically the drummer (he mastered the instrument by the age of two), he is convincingly demonstrating his guitar chops. Being the precoucious, and yet consummate, professionals that they are, the band wants to make sure that in a worst case scenario – say, a member fainting onstage – each could play the other’s instrument flawlessly.
It is not atypical for Unlocking the Truth to practice for up to ten hours on weekends. They are so immersed in their music that they barely notice anything going on around them, including their parents, who usually have to force them to stop practicing when it’s bedtime. While their classmates mostly listen to radio pop or rap, Malcolm and Jarad’s enthusiasm for metal was nurtured while watching generous amounts of WWE professional wrestling.
Metalheads paint a Room thru Headbanging
Ich grade so auf Twitter: „Ich hab mir übrigens das Metal Hammer Special zu Iron Maiden gekauft und JETZT geh ich meine neue Wohnung anmalen.“ Meint Tobias so: „Sieht das dann so in etwa aus?“ Ich so: o_O.
Ai Weiweis Metal-Musicvideo for „Dumbass“
Youtube Direktwei, via AnimalNY
Hier das erste Musikvideo aus Ai Weiweis Metal-Album. Die Mucke ist nicht ganz so schlimm, wie ich erwartet hatte – aber immer noch furchtbar. Aber darum geht es hier wohl auch nicht wirklich. Downloads und die übersetzten Lyrics gibt’s auf Weiweis Website.
March Of The Gods – Botswana Metalheads
Drei Filmemacher aus Griechenland drehen grade eine Doku über die Metalszene in Botswana: March Of The Gods – Botswana Metalheads . Darin erzählen sie die Story der Band Wrust, die größte Metalband dort, und die wurde zu einem Gig auf dem italienischen SoloMacello in Milano eingeladen. Der Film ist bisher eigenfinanziert, für die Reise der Band nach Italien suchen sie nun aber Unterstützung über Indiegogo. Schönes Projekt, ich werde da mal ‘nen Sechziger für DVD und Print reinschmeissen, halte ich für sehr unterstützenswert.
[March of the Gods: Botswana Metalheads] aims to bring to light an emerging musical subculture blending the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, African tradition and Biker and Cowboy fashion and an unexpected point of view on Africa, a continent which is often misconceived.
We recently managed to get the band an invitation to play at SoloMacello, an independent heavy metal festival in Milan, Italy, on the 26th of June. Wrust will have the exciting opportunity to be the first metal band from Botswana to play in a major European festival along with international acts (this year the main act is going to be Red Fang). The live concert of the band in Italy is going to be an important part of the documentary and closing scene of the film.
This project has been so far self-funded with our personal savings, that have covered the travel expenses of the crew to Botswana and additional technical gear to our existing equipment. This campaign aims to cover the travel expenses of the band to Italy, which are estimated to be around 1,000 euros per head (for the 4 members of the band) for a return flight from Gaborone to Milan. Accommodation will be provided to the band by the organisers of the festival.
Indiegogo: March of the Gods – Botswana Metalheads Documentary
R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman
Slayer.net: „Our Brother Jeff Hanneman, May He Rest In Peace (1964 – 2013)“ Nachruf bei Metal Hammer:
Der König des Thrash hat das Zepter niedergelegt. Jeff Hanneman starb im Laufe des gestrigen Tages im Alter von 49 Jahren an Leberversagen. Eine Verneigung vor einem der Größten, die unsere Szene jemals gesehen und gehört hat.
Iron Maiden-Wrath of Revenge from the Neighbors
Ein Rentnerehepaar im stolzen Alter von 71 und 81 Jahren aus Stockholm hat sich bei seinen Nachbarn für Lärmbelästigung gerächt, indem sie deren Bude den ganzen Winter lang bis vier Uhr morgens mit Iron Maiden beschallten. ‘Cause they’re a wrathchild, coming to get you.
The noisy dispute continued throughout the winter with the pensioners booming music from their terraced house in the Stockholm area until as late as 4am, the newspaper reported.
The police were moved to act and arrived at the house to find that the elderly couple had placed a music system on the balcony, pointed at the neighbour and playing Iron Maiden’s “Afraid to shoot strangers” at top volume. The police furthermore found another music system in the cellar directed towards the neighbour’s bedroom wall.
Pensioners charged over Iron Maiden revenge (via Arbroath, Image via Shutterstock)
This Kid is more Metal than you are
Youtube Direktscooter, via Ronny
Go, Kid! This is the only way to become really metal.
Experimental Napalm Death Gig cancelled because METAL!
Napalm Death sollten eigentlich am Freitag einen Gig im Victoria & Albert-Museum in London spielen, war Teil einer Performance mit Keramik-Künstler Keith Harrison und die Band sollte ihren Grindcore durch ‘ne PA aus Lehm spielen, die dabei explodieren sollte (!), aber das wird nun nüscht, weil das Museum befürchtet, die Mucke von Napalm Death könnte auch andere Ausstellungsstücke im Museum beschädigen. Weil METAL \m/!
The Victoria & Albert Museum yesterday cancelled an experimental concert by British “grindcore” quartet Napalm Death which was due to take place there this Friday. The free gig was to be a collaboration with the V&A’s ceramic artist in residence, Keith Harrison, and the band were to play through a clay PA system, which would eventually “explode” due to the noise.
But […] the museum released a statement blaming the band’s extremely loud metal music for the cancellation, amid fears that the vibrations could damage priceless artefacts and dismount other exhibits from walls and ceilings.
Telegraph: V&A cancels Napalm Death metal gig (via Brooklyn Vegan)
Reuters: London museum cancels heavy metal gig, fearing noise damage
Monty Pythons Knights Of The Round Table – The Metal-Version
Youtube Direktnurneattrappe, thanks Tim!
The Human Tim spielt „Knights of the Round Table“ und die Ballade von Sir Robin aus Monty Pythons „Ritter der Kokosnuss“ in Hair Metal-Style. „Always look on the bright side of Life“ passt konzeptionell nicht so richtig rein, macht aber nix, weil Monty Metal. Die Youtube-ID des Videos lautet übrigens TllTigaR0SE. TIGER ROSE!
Iron Maiden Beer
Iron Maiden machen jetzt auch Bier. Und als nächstes hätte ich gerne einen Anti-Kater-Dingsbums namens „Live after Death“.
Vimeo Direktmaiden, via Rainbow Zombies
British rock legends Iron Maiden have teamed up with Cheshire family brewers Robinsons to create a new beer, “Trooper”.
Real ale fan and history aficionado Bruce Dickinson, Maiden’s vocalist, played a major role in developing the unique flavour of the beer, entailing ongoing visits to Robinson’s brewery in Stockport. Dickinson’s on-stage Union Jack flag-waving military character is an iconic element of the band’s live concerts and “The Trooper”, written by bassist Steve Harris, is one of Maiden’s most popular songs and one of the highlights of any Maiden show.
Ai Weiwei makes a Heavy Metal-Album
Ai Weiwei hat ein Metal-Album aufgenommen, das Teil erscheint in drei Wochen, wird online vertrieben und ist natürlich ein Fuckfinger an das chinesische Regime.
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei announced plans on Monday to release a heavy-metal album that he said would “express his opinion” just as he does with his art. […]
Two songs are about blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose escape from house arrest last April and subsequent refuge in the U.S. Embassy embarrassed China and led to a diplomatic tussle. One song on the album is called “Hotel Americana”, a dig at the U.S. Embassy for sheltering Chen. Another is “Climbing over the Wall” – a reference to Chen’s scaling of the walls in his village to escape, and Chinese Internet users circumventing the “Great Firewall of China”, a colloquial term for China’s blocking of websites.
China’s heavy-handed censors will now have to endure Ai Weiwei’s heavy metal
Vegan Black Metal Chef does Lasagne
Youtube Direktblacklasagne, via Ektopia
Vegan Black Metal Chef macht lecker Lasagne.
The Physics of Mosh Pits
Großartig: Wissenschaftler haben das Verhalten von Metalheads in Moshpits untersucht und festgestellt, dass sich Moshpits wie Gase verhalten. Dazu gibt’s ‘ne komplette Studie als PDF mit so tollen Sätzen wie: „moshers are self-propelled agents that experience dissipative collisions“, eine JavaScript-Simulation von Moshpits, eine Website zur Untersuchung und natürlich eine Reihe von Artikeln dazu, einer schöner als der andere, hier ein Snip vom New Scientist:
Research into how humans behave in crowds had mostly been limited to fairly organised situations, like pedestrians forming lanes when walking on the street. But when Jesse Silverberg, a graduate student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, took his girlfriend to her first heavy metal concert a few years ago, he witnessed a different and surprising form of crowd behaviour.
“I didn’t want to put her in harm’s way, so we stood off to the side,” he says. “I’m usually in the mosh pit, but for the first time I was off to the side and watching. I was amazed at what I saw.”
Metal fans’ favoured dance style is called moshing and mostly involves bodies slamming into each other. Silverberg wondered if the mathematical laws that describe group behaviour in flocks of birds or schools of fish could apply to moshers as well. Together with another grad student and two physics professors at Cornell, he pulled videos of mosh pits off YouTube and used software developed for analysing particles in a fluid to track the moshers’ motions. They found that the dancers’ speeds had the same statistical distribution as the speeds of particles in a gas. Such particles move around freely, interacting only when they bounce off one another.
New Scientist: Mosh pit physics could aid disaster planning
The Atlantic: Mosh Pits Teach Us About the Physics of Collective Behavior
