Tuesday, 31 December 2013

100 Heavy Metal Album Covers from 2013

2013 - Another year done and dusted.  The Best Heavy Metal Albums lists are flowing thick and fast from all quadrants of the intra-webs, and there is general agreement on a number of albums that surfaced for the year.

All well and good, but I'm doing something a little different, with a pictorial 100 album covers of 2013, and in no particular order.  Now that I'm having a glance at the albums I had a listen to, and played or featured on my radio show ( Sleeping in the Fire on Phoenix FM Bendigo shameless plug time), as a visual rather than a sonic assault, there seems to be alot of circle motifs and skulls for 2013.  Not sure what to read into that, if anything.  Enjoy the Covers of 2013, as heard on Sleeping in the Fire, and bring on 2014!


The albums listed from left to right, top to bottom, in no particular order:

1. 7th Offensive - Panzerchrist
2. 13 - Black Sabbath
3. Feast - Annihilator
4. Pinnacle Of Bedlam - Suffocation
5. Veneration - Ares Kingdom
6. Apocalyze - Crossfaith
7. All Is One - Orphaned Land
8. Chemistry Of Consciousness - Toxic Holocaust
9. Darkness In A Different Light - Fates Warning
10. Dawning - Mouth Of The Architect
11. The Wrath Of Cthulhu - The Obliterate Plague
12. Monolith - The Privater
13. Abra Kadaver - Kadaver
14. Aetherial - Oceans Of Slumber
15. Aftershock - Motorhead
16. Christopher Lee - Charlemagne: By The Sword And The Cross
17. Deceiver Of The Gods - Amon Amarth
18. Colored Sands - Gorguts
19. The Dark Side Of Light - Deadcell
20. Sunbather - Deafheaven
21. Anthems - Anthrax
22. Arrival At Six - Sorcery
23. Beyond - Omnium Gatherum
24. Bunch Of Bisons - Stonehenge
25. Cheers, Beers and Beards - Frankenbok
26. The Man Left In Space - Cosmograf
27. Cougar Club - Spider Kitten
28. Epitome Of Torture - Sodom
29. Now What?! - Deep Purple
30. Dirty Dynamite - Krokus
31. Duskmachine - Duskmachine
32. Dustwalker - Fen
33. Every Day I Get Closer To The Light From Which I Came - Jesu
34. Lemuria EP - Evil Intent
35. Excised And Anatomised EP - Evocation
36. Flesh Is Heir - The Amenta
37. Labyrinth - Fleshgod Apocalypse
38. Blodsvept - Finntroll
39. From Beer To Eternity - Ministry
40. The Devil's Cut - White Wizzard
41. Giants Of Canaan - Attacker
42. Morbid Ascent EP - Grave
43. Battle Maximus - GWAR
44. Habitual Levitations - Intronaut
45. Hope In Hell - Anvil
46. Ignorant Being EP - A Greed Science
47. Late For Nothing - Iwrestledabearonce
48. Autopsychosis - Katalepsy
49. Killed By Thrash EP - Reactory
50. Kingdom Of Conspiracy - Immolation
51. Thy Kingdom Scum - Church Of Misery
52. Kunst - KMFDM
53. Kunstraub - In Extremo
54. Life Sentence - Satan
55. Digital Lies - Lord
56. Megadolon - Gutteral Slug
57. Pitch Black EP - Meshuggah
58. Metal Machine - Taipan
59. Mind Control - Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats
60. Called To Rise - Oblivion
61. Odori Sepulcrorum - Grave Miasma
62. Omen Of Disease - Broken Hope
63. Pelagial - The Ocean
64. Forever Becoming - Pelican
65. Obsideo - Pestilence
66. Manifest Decimation - Power Trip
67. Putrid Death Sorcery - NecroWretch
68. III The Rommel Chronicles - Hail Of Bullets
69. Resilient - Running Wild
70. Memorial - Russian Circles
71. Savages - Soulfly
72. Sacrifice - Saxon
73. Scorn - Primitive Man
74. The Mediator Between The Head And Hands Must Be The Heart - Sepultura
75. Serpents Unleashed - Skeletonwitch
76. Skull - Evile
77. Species At War - Rotten Sound
78. Earth Blues - Spiritual Beggars
79. Grindcoholism - Squash Bowels
80. 13 - Suicidal Tendencies
81. Straight Out Of Hell - Helloween
82. Super Collider - Megadeth
83. Surgical Steel - Carcass
84. Tend No Wounds EP - Black Tusk
85. Ram The World - Barbarion
86. Headless Ritual - Autopsy
87. The Lost Spire - Cathedral
88. The Manuscript - My Dying Bride
89. The Terror Tapes - Gama Bomb
90. The Underground Resistance - Darkthrone
91. The Dream Calls For Blood - Death Angel
92. Euporie Tide - Causa Sui
93. Turisas2013 - Turisas
94. Underworlds - Mammoth Grinder
95. Target Earth - Voivod
96. Real-Life Death - Walking The Cadaver
97. Wallow - Flagitious Idiocyncrasy In The Dilapidation
98. IV Empires Collapse - Warbringer
99. BBC Session 2011 - Wolves In The Throne Room
100. Earth Rocker - Clutch

What was your favourite Heavy Metal Album for 2013?

What was the scariest album cover for 2013?

What was the best album cover for 2013? 




Tuesday, 17 December 2013

The Urn Returns A quick report on the 2013-14 Ashes Series

The ICC Cricket Committee has announced that they will be scrutinising the English Team's Dietary requirements for the 2013-14 Ashes campaign in the wake of their 3-0 campaign loss at Perth on the 17th of December 2013, with 2 tests yet to be played.

The English team made sensational headlines for their outrageously opulent 'dietary' requirements for their Ashes campaign.  To quote The Guardian:

"As an example, after the first day of every Test match, the following must be available in the England dressing room 20 minutes before the end of play:
• Moroccan spiced griddled chicken fillets with lime and coriander mayo
• Lamb and pea kofta kebabs with mint yoghurt
• Roasted vegetable and halloumi kebabs with red pepper dip
• Ginger and garlic king prawn kebabs with garlic mayo
• Selection of wholewheat French bread pizzas (parma ham and tomato/feta and red onion)
• Selection of sandwiches (grilled aubergine, red pepper, red onion and basil puree; Cajun salmon, yoghurt and cucumber; Thai citrus chicken and rocket; avocado, raw slaw and butterbean; turkey breast, basil and pine nut)
• Almond and cinnamon flapjacks
• Banana and peanut bars (protein-based Maximuscle)
• Chocolate and coconut truffles.
England will be unapologetic for the documents, as they are an example of the meticulous attention to detail that has underpinned the success of the team over the past four years under the supervision of the team director, Andy Flower, and Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket."

Read the original article here

The ICC has announced that, following their 3-0 loss of the Ashes, with 2 tests to play, the English Dietary requirements be thrown out the window, and be replaced with slices of this...

And if they find that a bit hard to swallow, then they can all eat this...


News Flash!  Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth has just officially congratulated the Australian Cricket Team on their victorious 2013-14 Ashes Campaign.
 I'm sorry, Your Majesty, you're one finger short, because...


Bring on Boxing Day!

6/1/14 Update