Listen to Krisiun’s Southern Storm Online

Metalkult, Guitarworld’s blog, is streaming Brazilian death metal Gods, Krisiun’s latest album, Southern Storm, online on their website. Tracklisting of the album is :

Slaying Steel (4:11)
Sentenced Morning (3:59)
Twisting Sights (4:05)
Minotaur (3:51)
Combustion Inferno (4:23)
Massacre Under The Sun (4:43)
Bleeding Offers (3:24)
Refuse / Resist (SEPULTURA cover) (3:00)
Origin Of Terror (4:05)
Contradictions Of Decay (4:08)
Sons Of Pest (4:47)
Black Wind (0:48)
Whore [...]

Heavy Metal Monk

(Photo courtesy Reuters)
Brother Cesare, a 62 year old monk from Milan hinterland, has a heart of metal and is the lead singer in a heavy metal band. The monk fell in love with metal some 15 years ago when he attended a Metallica concert. Brother Cesare, also known as Brother Metal, started playing and [...]

LOLMETAL

Similar to ICANHASCHEEZBURGER, Carlh, the author of blog the WAREHOUSE has put some funny quotes on the photos of Black / Death metal bands. Check out the photos and user submitted photos here and here

Demonic Resurrection Goes Global

Demonic Resurrection, India’s melodic black metal band, makes it to the Global Metal Film soundtrack. It’s great news and inspiration for Indian metal and bands to get featured on the global map. Global Metal (we blogged about before) by Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn of the Heavy Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey fame showcases about the [...]

Pandora Podcast: Types Of Metal

Pandora, the music recommendation service, has a podcast covering various aspects of music and composition. In their latest podcast, Types of metal, they cover the various forms of metal genre and the differences in them. The host Kevin Seal along with guests guitarist Ava Mendoza, bassist Kurt Kotheimer and drummer Weasel Walter show us the [...]

Orion: Thrash Metal From Pakistan

Orion, a thrash metal band from Pakistan, recently released their debut album, ‘Angel Of Dust’, absolutely free for download from their official website. Orion are Ameer Hamza, Hammad Khan, Hussam Raza, Waqas Ahmed, Imaad Manzar and Bilal Nadeem.
From the band’s website:

ORION is a diverse metal band from Pakistan that is influenced by bands like [...]

The Metal Caste System

Metal Blogs.com, a blog run by death has posts on death metal, psychology and has a very interesting article comparing the Indian caste system with metal music. The article compares the various castes with metal bands. An excerpt from the article:

At the top are the Brahmins. These are the geniuses who invent new things [...]

Indecipherable Logos On Headbanger’s Blog

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 [...]

Heavy Metal In Baghdad

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 [...]

Global Metal: The Film

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 [...]