Headbanger’s Blog, the official blog of the famous MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball program posts cryptic, indecipherable logos of bands on their blog. The bands featured on the blog play extreme metal anywhere from brutal death, gore/grind to black metal. The bands logos are extremely difficult to guess and the blog posts the answer to the post in few days. Its actually a good way to know new bands and about their music. Here are few samples.
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2003-2006, Iraq disintegrated around them while Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, always refusing to let their heavy metal dreams die. Their story echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.
Born out of a basement rehearsal space in Baghdad, Acrassicauda (Latin for “Black Scorpion”) is Iraq’s only heavy metal band. Tutored by music instructor and guitar virtuoso Saad “Yngwie” Say and inspired by western bands like Metallica, Slayer and Slipknot, they began writing and playing metal in 2001. They soon learned that their dream of performing live in Iraq was going to be no easy task.
Read more about the band and the film here
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre – heavy metal – has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes — from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren’t just absorbing metal from the West – they’re transforming it. Creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.
MetalIndia’s own Atul Sharma is also featured in the documentary. Make sure you check it when it comes out.
Read more about the film and release dates here
Nine Inch Nails after successfully releasing the last album, has done it again by giving away ‘The Slip’ album completely free. The entire album along with album cover, lyrics (in pdf) is available for download on the NIN website. You can download all ten tracks in a variety of DRM-free formats, including MP3, FLAC, M4A lossless, and even 24/96 WAV. ‘The Slip’ is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.
Tracklisting:
Download the album here.
OSM Records has set June 13, 2008 as the new release date for the sophomore album from Bangalore, India-based thrashers KRYPTOS, entitled “The Ark of Gemini”. According to a press release, the CD will feature “nine new tracks of heavy, precision, melodic metal with lethal doses of thrash aggression.
“The Ark of Gemini” track listing:
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Welcome to MetalIndia Blog. Since 1999, MetalIndia has been the forerunner in promoting Indian and Asian metal music and bands to the world through various means and channels like the webzine, print magazine or through the online shop.
With the launch of the blog, MetalIndia enters the new era of communication. The blog will complement the webzine and promote content which does not normally fit into the webzine framework. The blog will be up-to-date with information such as album launches, news, and multimedia content like photos, videos, downloads and other interesting stuff available on internet.
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