EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Making Eagles Of Death Metal's 'Heart On'
It’s Friday evening. If there’s anything bumming you out tonight, you can listen to the devil garage blues of Eagles Of Death Metal and afterwards you will probably think even breaking a television sounds like a good plan for the evening. That is power. EODM have a new album coming out October 28 through Downtown Music called Heart On and we have an exclusive visual look into the making of the record, a series of four in-the-studio clips that have a lot of new song snippets and pontification on the debauchery of Los Angeles from main man Jesse Hughes. Watch them above and after the jump along with some freshly announced tour dates, including current dates with The Hives.
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Stream: Eagles Of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)
DOWNLOAD: Black Mountain - Tyrants
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This record has been out for a bit now, but with a swiftly approaching Bowery Ballroom appearance, (September 23), it seemed like a good time to revisit our friends from the Great White North. The eight-minute song is always a bit of a dubious proposition, but Black Mountain have packed this song with enough melody and variety to put a stop to all the clock-watching. Listen as the galloping Thin Lizzy guitars play leapfrog with mellotron and a finger-picked acoustic, while the male/female vocals stitch it all together into one big stoned tapestry. None of the twists and turns in this prog-metal epic shocked me as much as the final minute, where the previous bombast gives way to what sounds like a Dinosaur Jr. b-side about Dungeons & Dragons. Download and go looking for that 16-sided die.
Sounds Like: Dead Meadow, Sunn, Comets on Fire, Black Sabbath
VIDEO THRWBCK: Converge - The Saddest Day (Live In Baltimore 2003)
Boston's Converge have been doing their thing for so long that I can drop anecdotes about seeing them play at the Manville Elks Lodge in New Jersey when Clinton was still in his first term. Since then, they have written many, many killer metalcore songs, but they will never top this, their triumph—the union of mosh with trash with hardcore. Wowzers.
- Elliot Aronow
DOWNLOAD: Mr. Gnome - Night Of The Crickets + Rabbit + Pirates
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The two Nomadic souls that make up Mr. Gnome, Nicole Barille and Sam Meister, have been transversing the American hinterland and living in a van since late 2007. In between stops, they've crafted the airy, darker-hued songs of Deliver This Creature. On the album, shrill industrial rock soundscapes are cloaked by the airy coos of Ms. Barille, who sounds like Mazzy Star meets Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O. Like Portishead, their songs prefer to linger, creep and itch towards the edge of total destruction - crescendoing - without losing focus. Forget their name- focus on their depth of sound.
SOUNDS LIKE: Portishead, Mazzy Star, Black Sabbath, Boris
Download: Mr. Gnome - Night of the Crickets
Jessie from Eagles of Death Metal Does Denny's
Downtown's own Jesse "The Devil" Hughes, of Eagles of Death Metal fame, recently stopped by a Los Angeles Denny's to add some special recipes to Denny's new Rock Star Menu. All of Jesse's creations have hearts, in honor of the new Eagles of Death Metal album coming this fall, "Heart-On". See more pics on the Denny's blog. Yes, late night restaurant chains have blogs too.
FEATURED: Posts galore at the SEEN RCRD LBL blog
Check out the latest posts on the SEEN RCRD LBL blog, who have been keeping busy by talking about the brand new Booka Shade album, the incredible Vice movie Heavy Metal in Baghdad (seriously if you think your life sucks we really urge you do watch like, five minutes of this movie…) and sharing their love for the good, old-fashioned boom box.
Booka Shade at the SEEN RCRD LBL blog
Film: Heavy Metal in Baghdad
War blows, and this war story is an eye-opener. From Friday, May 23rd Laemmle Theaters in LA are screening "Heavy Metal in Baghdad". This unique film chronicles the tale of a rock band called Acrassicauda (Latin for "black scorpion") who are notable because they're Iraq’s only heavy metal band and have escaped to Turkey so they can continue to follow their dream of making music. Don't miss this film.
If you recognize one of the directors, Suroosh Alvi, it's because he did an amazing job on his short film called "Down At The Gun Bazaar" shot (no pun intended) in Pakistan. That scary film was one of the amusing films from "The Vice Guide to Travel". Stay tuned here for a profile on Vice Films.
DOWNLOAD: Panthers - Don't Be a Dick
Panthers are now pretty much a straight up metal band (since their mind-blowing 2007 album The Trick) but there was a time when their sound was a little more grunge, a little more 1970s Detroit. Both are awesome, but today we’re showcasing their older single “Don’t Be a Dick” (courtesy of Dim Mak, obviously) which is about as psych-metal as music can get without actually melting your face off. Enjoy, and crank it to 11.
Sounds like: Pride Tiger, Red Scare, The MC5
DOWNLOAD: Graveyard - Evil Ways
Dudes. Graveyard is the Swedish Deep Purple. Deep Swedish Purple! Forgive me for being predictable and losing my shit over ANOTHER psyched out stoner metal trip, but I likes what I likes and I likes this. A heady mix of folk, blues and hard gnar, Graveyard does for "Smoke On The Water" what Dungen did for "Immigrant's Song," not to mention what Soundgarden did for Johnny Cash. Total van rock. Graveyard, like most other bands you're obsessed with, are out on Tee Pee Records.
DOWNLOAD: Graveyard - Evil Ways
DOWNLOAD: The Big Sleep - Pinkies
The Big Sleep, with their glistening forearms and permanent frowns, may end up being remembered as the last heroes of the lower east side before it went to high rise hell. Their music, 100% muscle, comes in vulgar thrusts too brutal to coexist with $6000 apartments and $15 hamburgers. Pure, relentless darkness.
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