A blog about sports and metal.

Ok, now that I have your attention, I am going to throw in some metal.

First off, a big thanks to Matt and Metal Review with Nuclear Blast Records for the serious amounts of win that arrived in the mail the other day. Adding to my growing collection of signed music stuff. Including Mike Portnoy, Devin Townsend, Amon Amarth and others.


 

Second,  unless you are actually playing it, sports are lame.

Third. A list of albums I am currently waiting for as patiently as Cartman waited for the Nintendo Wii.

1. Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God. September 20th.  If you do not love Amon Amarth, you're wrong. If you do not agree that the opening to "The Pursuit of Vikings" is not the most head-banging intro to any song you are again, wrong. It's that simple.

2. Enslaved - Vertebre. Sometime in September. Like everyone else here, I love me some Enslaved. I think ISA and RUUN were their best efforts so far, with Below the Lights trailing slightly behind. They simply make metal you cannot easily compare to similar acts. Enslaved is a Black Metal band that will go down in records for something other than burning down a church, murdering/being murdered, or having the most awesome corpsepaint. Zip it!

3. Gojira - The Way of  All Flesh. October 13th. I listen to "From Mars to Sirius" as I write this Blog Extravaganza, I love it. France  seems to be having a fairly large output of quality metal these days. Black Metalers tend to love Deathspell Omega, I love Gojira and Gorod. Even my non-metal Maynard loving friends agree, Gojira cures AIDS. For once, France does not surrender to metal.

4. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery. Sometime in October. The Unblessing the Purity EP Bloodbath put out earlier this year has been on of my favorites of 2008. This album will definently be a contender to replace Arghoslent's Hornets of the Pogrom for #1 if the EP is any indication to how this album will sound.


5. Wintersun - Time.  Hopefully before December 21st 2012. Jari cannot let the world down with this release. Even people who did not like Ensiferum, enjoy Wintersun. There is no possible way in heaven or hell this album cannot be in every single metalhead's top five for the year it gets released (We are counting on you Jari for late 2008).

Posted Jul 23 2008, 01:57 PM by Elpants
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Comments

Matt wrote re: A blog about sports and metal.
on Wed, Jul 23 2008 8:42 PM

Thanks for showing your appreciation for the contest! I hope to do many more.

lee wrote re: A blog about sports and metal.
on Wed, Jul 23 2008 10:33 PM

Wintersun suck hairy fucking hemorrhoids and sports is the only reason to watch TV. Boxing and Football are reasons to live. You guys stop being stupid and just go listen to Something Wild by Bodom. I am going to make it my personal goal in life to make everyone understand that Wintersun is crap.

Otherwise, even though your entire blog is factually incorrect, nice read!

Elpants wrote re: A blog about sports and metal.
on Wed, Jul 23 2008 10:39 PM

Lee, I think I hate you.

trezevant wrote re: A blog about sports and metal.
on Thu, Jul 24 2008 6:32 AM

Huge agree on #s 1-4, especially 2-4. New Gojira is going to fucking rock my little cubicle dwelling world.

Iron Maiden wrote re: A blog about sports and metal.
on Thu, Jul 24 2008 5:28 PM

There is a 1/250,000 chance of someone becoming a professional athlete. I guess that means only 1 out of 250,000 people should like sports.

Lee is right, Wintersun sucks dick and sports is the only reason I'll consider getting my cable turned back on.

Iron Maiden wrote re: A blog about sports and metal.
on Thu, Jul 24 2008 5:28 PM

But yes, that was a nice read.

Elpants wrote re: A blog about sports and metal.
on Thu, Jul 24 2008 10:30 PM

Ok, I'll give some offering for sports...kinda fun to watch...if you're actually at the game.