HAIL METAL !! death to Britney and her fellow imbeciles.

India on the map !

2007-02-07T12:23:00.000+08:00

Enslaved is here ! Screw banglaore and mumbai.. let 'em play host to Enrique and Roger 'clown' Waters at the best.
Enslaved has 2 gigs here in Delhi.
On 23rd its Turquoise Cottage that's going to be devastated and then they headline the GIR fest on 25th. Another 3rd gig hasn't been finalized. Check their official site(under the events tab) for updates.

PS: I'll be going to the Roger Waters concert btw. I hate him but he's a genious nonetheless.. kinda like Thierry Henry. :)

Sodom

2007-02-07T12:18:00.000+08:00

Here's some stuff you should already have if you consider yourself a true metalhead.
In case you dig Trivium, Bullet for my Valentine and similar shitty bands passing off as metal listen to this album.

This is Sodom with the self-titled album. Will be following this up by At the Gates and Carcass albums. Apologize for the videos again, the bandwidth isn't permitting me to upload them.

http://rapidshare.de/files/15374141/2006_-_Sodom.rar.html

new bands coming up..

2006-12-30T03:02:00.000+08:00

i wont be able to keep with my promises of the vids and concerts.. .. however i'll be postinf the latest prong, hatebreed, lamb of god, deicide and pissing razors albums.

could take time, rapidshare is playing a little truant... here's the reco. of the week anyways >
Accuser-Experimental Errors.
the track Technical excess stands out !

Bob Corbett.. you bastard.

2006-12-15T19:44:00.000+08:00

I usually read up reviews before picking up a book and I had been lingering on 'Steppenwolf' for far too long.
And it so happened that Google led me to Bob Corbett's page. Now I admire this guy and have found his reviews to be un-biased and he adds his own questions/thoughts too so i gladly plunged in.
And what this bastard does, without a sufficiently strong disclaimer in the beginning, is reveal the plot ending.
I hope you are as thrilled as a puppy with three peckers you fucking piece of shit. Thanks for ruining my plans.

Grammys and Metal. snicker

2006-12-14T14:30:00.000+08:00

This year's Grammy nominations have been announced and here are the relevant ones in Hard Rock and Heavy Metal:
Best Metal Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)
Lamb Of God - Redneck (Track from: Sacrament)
Mastodon - Colony Of Birchmen (Track from: Blood Mountain)
Ministry - Lies, Lies, Lies (Track from: Rio Grande Blood)
Slayer - Eyes Of The Insane (Track from: Christ Illusion)
Stone Sour - 30/30-150
Best Hard Rock Performance (For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)
Buckcherry - Crazy Bitch
Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same (Track from: With Teeth)
System Of A Down - Lonely Day (Track from: Hypnotize)
Tool - Vicarious (Track from: 10,000 Days)
Wolfmother - Woman (Track from: Wolfmother)
In addition, Joe Satriani was nominated for Super Colossal in the category of Best Rock Instrumental Performance (for solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, without vocals. Includes Rock, Hard Rock and Metal. Singles or Tracks only). Underoath was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video (For an individual track or single promotional clip. Award to the Artist and to the Video Director/Producer.) for their video of "Writing On The Walls." Howard Benson (Every Man For Himself (Hoobastank); Flyleaf (Flyleaf); In With The Out Crowd (Less Than Jake); One-X (Three Days Grace); The Paramour Sessions (Papa Roach); Popaganda (Head Automatica); Saosin (Saosin) (A)) was nominated for Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical (A Producer's Award).

...which proves once more that Grammy is an embarassment to metal. I mean it was great to see Slayer in the list but they don't deserve it this time around.
Plus what fucking purpuse in the purplefect hell does it serve when they do not even announce the prizes on stage ?? I'd rather not have any metal category at all.. bastards show it at the BOTTOM of the screen.
And what do the fucking celebrities and the yuppie suck ass crowd know bout metal ?? They wouldn't recognize Vinny if they caught him with their sister. :D

Give 'em Nelly, Aguilera and JLo.. leave the gods to us.
FUCK YEAH !

P.S: get back to me in case the links dont work.

2006-10-13T14:10:00.000+08:00

Vile (1996)

2006-10-13T13:56:00.001+08:00

what the fuck .. lets get it over it.

Vile 1996
http://rapidshare.de/files/9821749/1996_-_CANNIBAL_CORPSE_-_Vile.zip.html

Trivia :
Cannibal Corpse have a brief appearance in a popular Jim Carrey movie,' Ace Ventura - Pet Detective' where they are seen playing 'Hammer smashed face '.
Supposedly Carrey likes Death metal. :) doesn't seem he could be morbid anytime to me though.

Cannibal Corpse (DVD)

2006-10-13T13:50:00.000+08:00

awright ppl !!
here come the links.. dont bother me with requests cos i have enough pending as it is and it'll take me some time to get all those things up.

am starting off with one of the few gore bands i appreciate ..yeh, Cannibal Corpse.

KILL (bonus DVD live 2006)

Part I http://rapidshare.de/files/16813292/Cannibal_Corpse_-_Kill__bonus_DVD_2006_by_LoF_FarBeyond_.part1.rar.html

Part II http://rapidshare.de/files/16828819/Cannibal_Corpse_-_Kill__bonus_DVD_2006_by_LoF_FarBeyond_.part2.rar.html
password=FarBeyond@666wicked666.co.nr

next up will be their album 'Vile', the first death metal album to debut in billboard charts.

stay heavy. \m/_

back !

2006-05-11T19:27:00.000+08:00

alive again..
am trying to host some videos. keep watching the space for the links.
videos include
Slayer - wembly concert.
Emperor - Madrid concert.
Satyricon - Live in Norway.
also, the newly released CoB, Archenemy, Opeth and Hatebreed vids.
Am open to requests, post a comment if you'd like a certain vid of your choice.. the requested track should be metal and hopefully you wont be disappointed.

\m/_

NEWS UPDATE

2005-06-28T21:02:00.000+08:00

[b] NEWS:[/b]> CoB to release new album
"Are You Dead Yet?" in September. The first single, "In Your Face," should be out by aug.

>Dimmu Borgir is replacing Testament for the Earthshaker Fest. For ppl who havent heard Testament, do it ASAP.
i wanna go [:(] Bro wont sponsor ..neone ??

>SC (US) passed a verdict saying file-sharing services should be held liable even if they have no direct control over what millions of online users are doing with the software they provide for free..thus they can be sued. bye bye bit torrent [:(] ..jerks
> talking bout piracy Minor Threat claims Nike have stolen their artwork for their promotion campaign...SUE THEM MT .. another example of mainstream corporations attempting to to assimilate underground culture to turn a buck. sigh.

[red] no good news today.

Downloads and news..

2005-06-27T16:49:00.000+08:00

we had to stop hosting songs here cos of IPR issues and also all of us were facing time constraints. as wld be obvious from this post , i am hard bound for time today as well. firstly a few links. but dont get back in angst if these links stop working and they will obviously be pulled own soon.

Kamelot's "March of Mephisto" video, featuring Dimmu Borgir's Shagrath, has been added to iFilm. Check it out at www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2671746.

Opeth’s new song from their to be released album can be found here >>
http://www.firecoker.com/music/Opeth%20-%20The%20Grand%20Conjuration%20(ripped%20from%20Sirius).mp3

now some news ..
Twisted Methods, Drowning Pool and Lost prophets are all breaking up. Mega bitch Waters comes back on stage, Morbid Angel's guitarist goes missing..BAWLL :((

terrrible terrible last 3 weeks. Now for teh good news though .. Creed may come back together and stratovarius ..YESSSSSSS ..the gods finally are releasing a new album by oct/nov.
also coming out with their albums are two of my fav bands.. OPETH and ARCH ENEMY.
Arch Enemy have set the tentative track listing to their new album "Doomsday Machine", here's how it looks:

01 - "Enter The Machine"
02 - "Taking Back My Soul"
03 - "Nemesis"
04 - "My Apocalypse"
05 - "Carry The Cross"
06 - "I Am Legend / Out For Blood"
07 - "Skeleton Dance"
08 - "Hybrids Of Steel"
09 - "Mechanic God Creation"
10 - "Machtkampf"
11 - "Slaves Of Yesterday"

album's slated for a july release.

\m/ c ya all in hell !!!

Les Paul Inducted Into National Inventor's Hall of Fame

2005-06-04T18:36:00.000+08:00

Electric guitar pioneer Les Paul was one of 14 people inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame this year. Do yourself a favor and read the whole article :

On Saturday, Les Paul, less than a month shy of his 90th birthday, was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in Akron, Ohio, as the creator of the solid-body electric guitar, arguably the most important musical innovation of the past half-century.

The electric guitar brought Paul international renown as a musician, won him five Grammys, put him on television for eight years with his wife, Mary Ford, and made Gibson Guitar Corp.'s signature Les Paul Standard a guitar of choice for garage bands and virtuosos on five continents.

"In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would see so many people using them," Paul said in a telephone interview last week from his New Jersey home. "I owe it to the rock-and-roll players, especially the Jeff Becks, the Paul McCartneys and Jimi Hendrix. All of them were playing a Les Paul guitar."

"[Gibson] laughed at me for 10 years," Paul said. "They called me 'the guy with the broomstick with the pickups on it.' "

But then one afternoon Leo Fender, a tinkerer who owned a radio repair shop, showed up at Paul's house in Los Angeles to talk about his own ideas for a solid-body. "Leo and I were always good friends," Paul said. "He said we ought to form a company together, but I told him I'd been loyal to Gibson [guitars] all my life, and I'd wait for them." Paul said Fender, who died in 1991, probably should be entering the Hall of Fame, too, but Paiva said no one had nominated him.

After Fender's visit, Paul called Gibson again, and in a tedious, virtually nonstop 30-hour session, convinced them that the log was the future.

And not a moment too soon. Fender came out with the first commercial solid-body, in 1950, and five years later followed with the legendary Stratocaster. Gibson answered in 1952 with its first Les Paul model, and history was made.

I think u gotta read this article to appreciate da guy at Washingtonpost.com.

Top 100 metal albums of all time

2005-06-01T12:49:00.000+08:00

Some people might disagree...but fuck them...

#1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica are a band that opened many doors for a lot of fans/bands. They also opened many doors and provided a lot of listeners with a gateway to other more extreme bands. Sadly, much of their material post "the black album" hardly qualifies as heavy metal, but in their prime this band dealt out thrash metal that was second to none! Just listen to "Damage Inc." or "Battery" and even today they still stand up against what has come along.

#2. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
It is of no surprise that IRON MAIDEN comes close to the top spot. Culling fans from all areas of the metal spectrum, Iron Maiden, clearly are one of the true innovators in heavy metal. The intro to the track "Number of the Beast" has become one of the "prayers" of heavy metal with just about every fan knowing it word for word.

#3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Arguably Metallica's heaviest album, the glorious RIDE THE LIGHTNING comes in at #3! This was the album that really started getting Metallica recognized around the world. It was followed up with MASTER OF PUPPETS which is really what put them on the map. However, the impact of RIDE THE LIGHTNING was definitely felt with "hits" like "Fade To Black", and "For Whom The Bell Tolls" to lesser hailed (but equally memorable) tracks like "Escape" and "Creeping Death" .

#4. AC/DC - Back in Black
Some of you youngsters will no doubt say "WTF is a classic rock band doing in a heavy metal list?" It is true that AC/DC has become darlings of the classic rock radio circuit, also their recent performance with the Rolling Stones in Canada to several hundred thousand people only goes to show that their appeal extends well outside of the metal realm. All this aside, that does not mean that their contribution to heavy metal in the 70's and 80's should be ignored! BACK IN BLACK is not only one of the best heavy metal albums of all time, it is also one of the best selling "normal" albums of all time as well!!

#5. Slayer - Reign in Blood
REIGN IN BLOOD is hailed by many as the definitive Slayer album. Clearly most of us here at Metal-Rules.com agree, as the album comes in at #5. As I've said before, listening to this album is like a religious experience. "Angel of Death" is one of the best Slayer songs ever written. The whole album plays like the soundtrack to hell. Learn the sacred words of praise, hail SLAYERRRRRRR!!!

#6. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden's POWERSLAVE is a monster of an album. After the success of NUMBER OF THE BEAST and its follow up PIECE OF MIND, Iron Maiden was hard pressed to deliver an album that would match its predecessors. They would not disappoint as POWERSLAVE, with its instant classic tracks including "2 Minutes to Midnight" and the epic "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" would cement Iron Maiden at the forefront of the metal world and spawn the massive and seemingly never-ending World Slavery Tour.

#7. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
Maiden again? Yes, again...making for the third entry in our top 10! Many people consider this the pinnacle of Maidens career and with tracks like "The Trooper", "Still Life", "Die With Your Boots On" and "Flight of Icarus" it is hard to disagree. Piece of Mind turned 20 years old this year and forever will be a classic of the metal genre.

#8. Dio - Holy Diver
Ex-Rainbow, ex-Sabbath vocal god Ronnie James Dio comes in at #8. Pushing to his 60's, this old goat can still easily kick the ass of the majority of singers on the scene.

#9. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
SEASONS IN THE ABYSS is considered by some to be the last "classic" Slayer album. Songs like the evil title track and speed metal masterpieces like "Born of Fire" and "War Ensemble" have become fan favorites standing shoulder to shoulder alongside the band's past material.

#10. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Rounding out the top 10 is SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE, the quintessential Priest album in the eyes of many. Fronted by the “metal god” Rob Halford, Priest have been one of the defining bands of the metal movement. “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming” helped to create a new generation of metalheads and showed to the world that Metal Rules!!
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#11. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
#12. Judas Priest - Painkiller
#13. Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
#14. Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil
#15. Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
#16. Megadeth - Rust in Peace
#17. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
#18. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
#19. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
#20. Metallica - Kill 'Em All
#21. Judas Priest - British Steel
#22. W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
#23. Slayer - South of Heaven
#24. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
#25. Megadeth - Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?
#26. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
#27. Dio - Last in Line
#28. Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt. II
#29. Judas Priest - Hell Bent For Leather (AKA Killing Machine)
#30. Van Halen - Van Halen
#31. Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
#32. Accept - Balls to the Wall
#33. Iron Maiden - Killers
#34. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
#35 Slayer - Show No Mercy
#36. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
#37. Motorhead - Ace of Spades
#38. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
#39. Judas Priest - Stained Class
#40. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
#41. Anthrax - Among the Living
#42. Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
#43. Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
#44. Helloween - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt. I
#45. W.A.S.P. - The Last Command
#46. Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll
#47. Def Leppard - Pyromania #
48. Skid Row - Slave to the Grind
#49. Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!
#50. Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
#51. Savatage - Hall of the Mountain King
#52. King Diamond - Abigail
#53. Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
#54. Halford - Resurrection
#55. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
#56. Testament - Practice What You Preach
#57 Led Zeppelin - IV
#58. Death - Symbolic
#59. Mercyful Fate - Melissa
#60. Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
#61. Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
#62. Deep Purple - Machine Head
#63. Scorpions - Blackout
#64. Van Halen - 1984
#65. Slayer - Hell Awaits
#66. Venom - Black Metal
#67. Ratt - Out of the Cellar
#68. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
#69. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
#70. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
#71. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
#72. Metallica - And Justice For All...
#73. King Diamond - Them
#74. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
#75. HammerFall - Glory To The Brave
#76. Van Halen - Van Halen II
#77. Overkill - The Years of Decay
#78. Kiss - Destroyer
#79. In Flames - The Jester Race
#80. Exodus - Bonded by Blood
#81. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
#82. Skid Row - Skid Row
#83. Megadeth - Killing is My Business...and Business is Good
#84. Testament - The Legacy
#85. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
#86. Venom - Welcome To Hell
#87. Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
#88. Dokken - Tooth & Nail
#89. Accept - Restless & Wild
#90. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
#91. HammerFall - Legacy of Kings
#92. Saxon - Wheels of Steel
#93. Manowar - Kings of Metal
#94. Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock & Roll
#95. Scorpions - Love At First Sting
#96. Van Halen - Fair Warning
#97. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
#98. W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
#99. Kreator - Pleasure To Kill #100. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
#100. Death - Individual Thought Patterns

Book Review - Singularity Sky by Charles Stross + something bout me :)

2005-02-12T19:12:00.000+08:00

When I fill up my profile I take extra care to mention literature as my hooby and include the line " I can read everything " for sure ..hmm, so much for modesty u might say. Well I say chauvinism may not be dead but the days of modesty being counted as a virtue are surely over .. if u dont blow ur trumpet , either you dont know anything or you are a bloody high-end literature who feeds off Shakespeare, Milton and has views on Rembrandt or some other Renaissance shit. The latter belief however is instantly and thouroughly dashed by my appearance.. I can be mistaken for a nerd or a doper but certainly not a book lover.
However , my insecurites apart , hehehe ... I have taken special precaution to stay away from sci-fi novels after my school-age dose of Issac Asimov.
However , after a little persuasion I started with Singularity Sky and i wasnt let down , no sire ...
Singularity Sky by Charles Stross
‘The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the cobblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd’.

From the moment that Charles Stross’s debut novel begins, there is a very strong sense that this isn’t run of the mill SF writing. The action centres on Rochard’s World, an outlying planet belonging to the New Republic, a post-Diaspora imperialist society reminiscent of Tsarist Russia. The repressive government of the planet is suddenly threatened by the arrival of The Festival, a massively powerful, anarchic, post-human fleet, which in the space of hours totally subverts the world order. The New Republic’s government concludes that the only way of defeating the festival is by sending a fleet which will arrive before The Festival, by travelling through time, and thereby violating causality. This however risks offending The Eschaton, a god-like post-human entity that watches over mankind to prevent causality violations. As the warships gather engineer Martin Springfield, a citizen of the People’s Republic of West Yorkshire, and Rachel Mansour, a UN intelligence officer, are thrown into the mix – but it soon becomes clear that both of them have their own agenda, and things are far from straightforward.

Singularity Sky is a dazzlingly original and enjoyable book. Although Stross has much in common with Iain M. Banks and Ken Macleod, he has his own distinct voice – always authoritative, always entertaining, and often wryly funny. It is a splendid piece of SF writing, which deserves the widest possible readership .... GO FOR IT dudes and the ladies .. well,you switch on HBO and go for Sex and the City ..
btw what are u doing reading my page anyways ?? heheehe.. chauvinism aint dead, far from it. :))

Iced Earth's Dark Saga

2005-02-12T17:16:00.000+08:00

Band: Iced Earth
Release Date: 23 July, 1996

Very rarely we get to hear theme albums like this masterpeice based on the popular comic strip called Spawn, though I had never read the so called popular comic strip or even heard about it. But after a few sessions with the maestros I have a feeling that I should go buy n read.

Coming back to the band ( my favourites today and the only one who compete with metallica on my playlist ) Jon Schaffer (a monster of a rhythm player) uses more guitar harmonies (a la Iron Maiden) than ever, which weave a melodic finesse through the album. "Hunter" and "Slave to the Dark" are heavy songs, but the harmonized guitar lines lend them a very melodic inflection. Matt Barlow's incredible vocals are more passionate than ever before. Listening to "I Died For You" and "A Question of Heaven," it's impossible not to think he's a soulful performer. "Violate" is one of the few tracks where The Dark Saga enters pure thrash. The pulverizing guitars fit well with the gruesome lyric. "Vengeance Is Mine" is a vicious, thrash-powered piece that is absolutely bloodthirsty.

The two favourite tracks from the album which i just can't stop listening to over n over again are
"Dark Saga" and "I died for you"

"Dark Saga" - Our hero has died. Not being a good guy in life, he winds up in Hell. However, sinners are not necessarily incapable of love -- our hero had a wife who he loved dearly. So the devil makes a deal with him: if the hero sells his soul to the devil and serves his dark machinations, he can return to Earth and see his wife. Like a fool, he jumps at the offer without considering the cost.

"I Died for You" - Our hero returns to Earth five years later. He finds that his wife has remarried his best friend, and both are very happy with a new daughter. He has sold his soul for nothing.
And the third track which stands out in this perfect concept album is A Question of Heaven

"A Question of Heaven" - The hero tries to enter Heaven. But the angels sing back to him, telling him cannot enter because of the path he has chosen. God rejects him. We can empathize with our hero because in the story's closed system, he is the good guy. The Dark Saga ends with a nightmare where our hero is condemned to suffer because he gave up everything for love.

I never took any interest in the Spawn comic, but I like the way Iced Earth presents it. Lyrically, it's pretty good, but as with all Iced Earth and other metal albums, I'm more interested in the musicianship and vocal delivery, and as always, Iced Earth does not disappoint. Once again,Jon Schaffer proves to the world that he is truly a musical genius, and the guitars on here (Schaffer's and Randall Shawver's) are brilliant. Matt Barlow puts in one of his best vocal performances to date, even though he doesn't sound possessed like he did on Burnt Offerings. The addition of female vocals on "A Question of Heaven" (the standout track) was a nice touch as well. Every song is good, and there are a few that will go down as the band's classics. The only minor rant I have is the artwork.

The CD is cast in a vomit-inducing purple, and the colors in the pictures look like they came out of a kiddie cartoon. Eh, who looks at stuff like that anyway? This is great music that I'd recommend to any true METAL fan.

Cradle of Filth - Gods of goth metal

2005-02-12T16:08:00.000+08:00

first things first ..here's their discography
The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh [1994]
Vempire [1996]
Dusk And Her Embrace [1996]
Cruelty And The Beast [1998]From The Cradle To Enslave [1999]
Midian [2000]
Bitter Suites To Succubi [2001] ..according to me , their best album till then(now my fav is nymphetamaine)
Live Bait For The Dead [2002]
Damnation And A Day [2003]
Nymphetamine [2004]

-= Current Lineup =-

Vocals : Dani
Guitar : Paul
Bass : Dave
Keyboards : Martin
Drums : Adrian

MORE ON fILTH TO FOLLOW IN THE LATER POSTS ... now a listing of their top songs in my list
>Sleepless
>Hallowed be thy name
>No time to cry
>All hopes in eclipse
>Death comes ripping
>Malice through the looking glass
>Dusk and her embrace
>For those who died
>The fire still burns

2005-02-10T18:26:00.000+08:00

What's In A Name?
Hard rock. AOR. Heavy metal. Sleaze glam. Hair metal. Cheese metal. Commercial metal. Melodic rock. Melodic metal. Power metal. Prog rock. Prog metal. Glam metal. Cock rock. Arena rock... musical adjectives used to describe bands and albums. After a while they all start to blur together.
A Few Rough Definitions
AOR - Album-Oriented Rock (or Album-Oriented Radio). This term has its origins in the 1970s, when radio stations had the flexibility to play (and often did) any cut from an album, not just the released singles. When someone uses the term "AOR", think bands like Styx, Boston, Journey, Foreigner, and Toto. The term Arena rock has also been used to describe many of these bands.
Glam - "Leather and lipstick bad boyz". Examples include: Hanoi Rocks, Roxx Gang, and Pretty Boy Floyd. See further down the page for more on this term.

Hair metal, Cheese metal, Commercial metal - terms for the MTV-friendly hard rock bands of the 1980s, characterized (visually) by long hair, leather jackets, torn jeans, and obligatory scantily-clad hot babes in the videos. Think Bon Jovi, Winger, and Warrant.
Melodic metal - See above, but with a slightly heavier edge. Examples: Keel, Accept, Krokus, Steeler, and Fifth Angel.
Prog rock - "Progressive rock." These bands have a tendency to get away from routine song structure, and often their songs do not have a definable chorus. Their albums are also often characterized by many instrumental tracks and/or instrumental portions of songs. Songs can be very lengthy. Examples include: Yes, Starcastle, Shadow Gallery, Artension, and early Genesis. NOT radio-friendly. You will find only a limited amount here at Heavy Harmonies.
Where Does One End And Another Begin?
It's no secret that nomenclature and classification are the bane of any archivist. In music this is even more the case, as the differences between bands and/or albums can be subtle as well as subjective. Add to this the fact that many genres overlap, and trying to pigeonhole bands into a single category is nigh unto impossible.
Rock music is much like light, in that it runs continuous spectra, one with respect to heaviness, the other with respect to tempo. The heaviness gammut runs from pop, through AOR and hard rock, into melodic metal then power metal, proceeding through speed and thrash metal, and ending up in death and black metal. The tempo (at least with respect to metal) range runs from doom metal on the slow end, to the frenetic paces of speed metal, black metal, and grindcore. Then there are the offshoots from these continua (like light that is bent away via a mirror): sleaze glam (a mix of hard rock and punk elements) and prog rock/metal (hard rock and metal that leaves the traditional verse-chorus-verse-chorus-chorus structure behind and is more free-flowing).

Not That Simple...
'twere it that easy. One person's hard rock is another's heavy metal. Also, definitions evolve over time. What was identified and indeed villified as "heavy metal" in the early 1980s (Twisted Sister, Ozzy Osbourne, etc.) are now considered "hard rock". The emergence of death and black metal in the early 1990s raised the bar as to what is now considered "heavy".
Also, some terms mean different things to different people. For example, the term glam is sometimes used to refer to all varieties of '80s "hair metal", whereas it is also used to denote "leather-and-lipstick" hard rock. It all depends on one's historical frame of reference as to which definition is meant. For the record, Heavy Harmonies now uses the latter definition, whereas when the site first opened as "The Halls of Glam" I used the former (hence the reason for changing the name of the site).
Lastly, classifying a band as one type of hard rock/metal or another only *really* works as long as all the releases by a band fall into the same genre. Over the course of time, many bands can switch genres, and even switch back again (for example: many of the '80s bands who jumped onto the alternative/grunge bandwagon in 1992-93 only to lose their fan base, and in 1998-99 have gone back to the style that made them big to begin with).

Gong Xi Fa Cai

2005-02-10T18:01:00.000+08:00

Happy Chinese New year!!.. dun b scared, no chinki music here ..this is just a greeting..n xplaination for not blogging for the past two days!! holidaying is never a bad idea.

Today's big number is called Sleepless by none other than the Cradle OF Filth's album From The Cradle To Enslave. The song is an experience in itself..rendered in a style which makes it difficult to decipher the lyrics on the very first go..but really meaningful. I m absolute bankers over Dana Filth .. Was bout to quit listening to thsi band when he wasn't in the line up.. n now thats he's back chk out their new album - nymphetamine.. kick ass , start headbanging...period
The lyrics are here...and for those who are here for the song find it here.

Sleepless

And I often sigh
I often wonder why
I'm still here and I still cry

And I often cry
I often spill a tear
Over those not here
But still they are so near

Please ease my burden
And I still remember
A memory and I weep
In my broken sleep
The scars they cut so deep

Please ease my burden
Please ease my pain

Surely without war there would be no loss
Hence no mourning, no grief, no pain, no misery
No sleepless nights missing the dead... Oh, no more
No more war

FREE BIRD

2005-02-07T10:44:00.000+08:00

well if somebody is reading this now n he is a rock buff..he has stepped on to a link which wud allow him to listen to a really kewl song called free bird by a band called lynard skynard.
Its a great guitaring experience ...n if u can't appreciate it then am really sorry u ain't njoying all in life

For the full experience am pasting the lyrics here

If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me
For I must be traveling on now
There's too many places I've got to see

If I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change

Oh, and the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change

Bye-bye babe, it's been sweet, love
'Though this feeling I can't change
But please don't take this so badly
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame

But if I stay here with you girl
Things just couldn't be the same
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now
And this bird you cannot change

Oh, and the bird you cannot change
And this bird you cannot change
Lord knows I can't change
Lord help me I can't change

Oh No, I can't change

and the song if u wanna listen to is HERE

Wonderful experinece...and for those who don't know this band started as a rock band and is considered to be ledgendry....rock band..though it moved to country later.

myMood: Fuelled to the top gear
myTune: The above song :D what else
jusOneLine: who needs holidays..when u love ur work..its been 28 days since i last took a break..this is gr8..am having a ball

n dun forget to come back tomorrow for another breathtaking song!!
HAIL METAL!!