Metal Priest

Now everytime we talk about metal, some jackass always screws the conversation up calling it to be anti-religious , against the god and blah blah blah. Agreed black metal has always moved on the left hand path, but that doesn't mean all genres of metal are deemed anti-God.

This video basically trashes all such concept as we see an Italian monk taking up frontman duties for his heavy metal band Fratello Metallo

RSJ Announce Their GIR 2009 Headliners

Rock Street Journal have announced the international headline acts for the forthcoming Great Indian Rock fest.

US based sludge/prog metallers Intronaut and Norwegian metalcore act Benea Reach are scheduled to headline GIR this time.

The mag has also told they would announce more headlining acts in the forthcoming weeks.

Meanwhile festival dates have been announced as well.

The festival dates and venues are as follows:
PUNE - fri, 23rd Oct - OASIS
DELHI - Sat 24th and sun 25th Oct - Hamsadwhani, Pragati Maidan
KOLKATA - Sat 24th - NAZRUL MANCH
BANGALORE - Sun 25th Oct, Palace Grounds

CLUB DATES: Manipal, Hyderabad, Mumbai - TBA

On a personal note I am really disappointed as of now after reading that some relatively unknown band is performing in GIR this time. That too a sludge and a mallcore one!After seeing them bring along established black metal acts like Satyricon and Enslaved, RSJ have let us down by going commercial and bringing metalcore acts, something that has not been in RSJ's soup before.

For the other acts, I am really hoping they are some extreme ones.

Keeping fingers crossed till then.

Slayer Finally Announces World Painted Blood's Official Release Date

Finally Slayer have officially announced the launch date of their forthcoming album ''World Painted Blood''

November 3 is the official US release date, while its November 2 every where else.

The release also tells us that there will be “a limited edition CD with multiple CD covers, a deluxe edition CD/DVD, and a high-quality, 180-gram vinyl edition.”

This is exciting stuff from the band who have delaying the launch of this album for almost 4 months now!

Its Official : Monkeys Like Metal

Its official now. Monkeys listen to metal. And if you think this is big bluff then there's scientist reports to back iy up as well.

According to the article posted in today's TOI edition

Scientists played a selection of music to a group of cotton-top tamarin monkeys but the only tunes that got a reaction were from the heavy metal band Metallica. They were seemingly disinterested in Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis and Bach, but after the dulcet tones of Master of Puppets by Metallica was played the tamarins calmed down.

"Monkeys interpret rising and falling tones differently than humans. Oddly, their only response to several samples of human music was a calming response to the heavy-metal band Metallica," said Professor Charles Snowdon, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rather than making them agitated or aggressive, the heavy metal tracks had a soothing effect.

And if thats not it, then this particular monkey even resembles a black metal frontman sporting corpse paint!

Mid September is the date For Inner Sanctum's EP Launch

Now back to the Indian front and Inner Sanctum have revealed that their EP will be available somewhere around mid-September.

And that's not it, as Sahil Makhija of DSR has announced that the EP shall be sold for Rs.100 in all their Furtados outlet.

In any case, you are out for a brutal treat when the EP hits the store. Hail Sanctum.\m/

Dimmu Fires Bassist and Keyboard Player

More news from the black metal scene, and this time its from Dimmu Borgir. Borgir have apparently shown the door to their bassist/clean vocalist ICS Vortex and keyboard player Mustis over the weekend. However this wasn't a mutual decision as seen from the post in Blabbermouth.net

Gaahl Announces Retirement

Former Gorgoroth and God Seed frontman has dropped a bomb in the black metal scene by announcing his retirement from the scene after playing just 2 shows with his current band God Seed. As a result things have been put to hold in the band by their bassist King ov Hell.