Music Video with thrash and humorous elements
February 4, 2015 5:03 PM Subscribe
IRON REAGAN - "Miserable Failure" (SLYT)
Ok. Sounds a lot like Crossover-era DRI. Is thrash officially back? Seen Ice T's, erm, take on Suicidal Tendencies' Institutionalized?
posted by batfish at 5:23 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by batfish at 5:23 PM on February 4, 2015
great, another video that makes me painfully nostalgic for Portland while I'm still in Portland.
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 5:27 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 5:27 PM on February 4, 2015
You show those poetry readers what's what, IRON REAGAN.
posted by benito.strauss at 5:29 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by benito.strauss at 5:29 PM on February 4, 2015
You show those poetry readers what's what, IRON REAGAN.
I wonder which grad program IRON REAGAN are in?
posted by ennui.bz at 5:54 PM on February 4, 2015
I wonder which grad program IRON REAGAN are in?
posted by ennui.bz at 5:54 PM on February 4, 2015
So badass they can fuck up a poetry reading? Kinda odd, like that Lamb of God video where they blow people's minds-- at a toddler's party. Still, solid retro thrash. So retro it's partially shot in a record store.
posted by gwint at 5:55 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by gwint at 5:55 PM on February 4, 2015
I can't like Portland any more than I already do. I'm not a big fan of IR so I probably woulda never seen this and I really liked it (plus there are people I know in that video, so that's fun). Portland (and Seattle and Olympia) has an amazing underground metal and hardcore scene, meaning death/black/doom stuff and filthy, ugly hardcore.
posted by rainperimeter at 6:11 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by rainperimeter at 6:11 PM on February 4, 2015
You absolutely need to watch this video:
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 6:18 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 6:18 PM on February 4, 2015
This is a pretty great riff. I don't hear much in the way of new metal, but A++, would head-bang again.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 6:39 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 6:39 PM on February 4, 2015
As a huge fan of Nuclear Assault, I really don't mind at all that someone else is still doing Nuclear Assault.
posted by SharkParty at 6:45 PM on February 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by SharkParty at 6:45 PM on February 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also for people who aren't about this life, a few of these guys were in Municipal Waste who helped resurrect a different kind of thrash last decade.
posted by SharkParty at 6:47 PM on February 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by SharkParty at 6:47 PM on February 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
I was supposed to see these guys last Friday in Winston-Salem (on a bill with Exhumed, Voivod, and Napalm Death), but I had to bow out at the last second. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! My friends decided to rub it in and let me know how awesome they were.
posted by NoMich at 6:55 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by NoMich at 6:55 PM on February 4, 2015
We need more funny metalheads. I really haven't seen any since Suicidal Tendencies decided to get all serious and shit 25 years ago.
posted by fungible at 7:31 PM on February 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by fungible at 7:31 PM on February 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
That was only for like one album and an EP, though! Next album mike Muir was rapping about fruit loops and getting so overwhelmed with his desire for slap bass that he had to form a whole new band to contain it all!
posted by SharkParty at 7:53 PM on February 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by SharkParty at 7:53 PM on February 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
NoMich - I saw that same bill Sat. night in Baltimore! It was a really really killer show....one of the funnest shows I've been to in quite some time. but like...... a SIX BAND TOUR PACKAGE!?! The show was $20 day of / $ 17 advance! How is this tour making ANY MONEY??!
Voivod totally blew me away though, and i also really quite liked Exhumed and Ringworm, but like a quarter of the way into Naplam Death my body said to me "YOU CANNOT LISTEN TO ANY MORE METAL RIFFS TONIGHT OR ELSE" so I went to my neighborhood bar and played Bruce Springsteen on the jukebox.
Anyway, this video totally rips. Poor Bronzino really got hurt in that last shot though! And also broke the headstock on his guitar!
posted by capnsue at 7:59 PM on February 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
Voivod totally blew me away though, and i also really quite liked Exhumed and Ringworm, but like a quarter of the way into Naplam Death my body said to me "YOU CANNOT LISTEN TO ANY MORE METAL RIFFS TONIGHT OR ELSE" so I went to my neighborhood bar and played Bruce Springsteen on the jukebox.
Anyway, this video totally rips. Poor Bronzino really got hurt in that last shot though! And also broke the headstock on his guitar!
posted by capnsue at 7:59 PM on February 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
Also, this might be a ridiculous question, but what is with the Portland thing? These guys are from Richmond / NJ. Is this video filmed in Portland?
posted by capnsue at 8:01 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by capnsue at 8:01 PM on February 4, 2015
I kicked the (a?) bass player from Infectious Grooves out of the strip club I worked at once.
posted by josher71 at 8:03 PM on February 4, 2015
posted by josher71 at 8:03 PM on February 4, 2015
I saw an interview with some metal band from the NE a few years ago where the interviewee said that all the best American metal came during Republican presidents (because people were pissed). I think that's probably going to be the case again in 2016, and I've also started noticing a lot of really good new metal bands for the first time in a long time...
Aside from any far-fetched political connection, I'm really glad that there are new bands like this -- ones that aren't anything like that dogshit kung-fu metalcore that was stinking up the scene 10 years ago.
posted by hellslinger at 10:07 PM on February 4, 2015
Aside from any far-fetched political connection, I'm really glad that there are new bands like this -- ones that aren't anything like that dogshit kung-fu metalcore that was stinking up the scene 10 years ago.
posted by hellslinger at 10:07 PM on February 4, 2015
I kicked the (a?) bass player from Infectious Grooves out of the strip club I worked at once.
And he somehow landed in Metallica.
posted by Wolfdog at 2:18 AM on February 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
And he somehow landed in Metallica.
posted by Wolfdog at 2:18 AM on February 5, 2015 [2 favorites]
Incidentally, Overkill has been steadily cranking out very good thrash in the "plain old thrash" subgenre over the past few years.
I'm not a huge fan of the style usually although it scratches an occasional itch when I feel like putting an elbow into somebody. But Exodus's Tempo of the Damned was one that I actually went back and listened to repeatedly. There's just an unusual density of interesting riffs and melodies and catchy bits on that album without ever leaving the rather restrictive thrash framework.
posted by Wolfdog at 2:28 AM on February 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm not a huge fan of the style usually although it scratches an occasional itch when I feel like putting an elbow into somebody. But Exodus's Tempo of the Damned was one that I actually went back and listened to repeatedly. There's just an unusual density of interesting riffs and melodies and catchy bits on that album without ever leaving the rather restrictive thrash framework.
posted by Wolfdog at 2:28 AM on February 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
I like this, but I can't help but think that the setup is kinda cribbed from this NSK video.
posted by still bill at 3:19 AM on February 5, 2015
posted by still bill at 3:19 AM on February 5, 2015
And that video in turn reminds me of this Ugly Duckling video (note: not particularly thrashy), in the general "our guys have to step up to save the day from those other guys" storyline.
posted by Wolfdog at 4:02 AM on February 5, 2015
posted by Wolfdog at 4:02 AM on February 5, 2015
One of the best releases from last year. Short, punchy, brutal and magnificent.
posted by Renoroc at 5:03 AM on February 5, 2015
posted by Renoroc at 5:03 AM on February 5, 2015
that's Red Fang buying milk @ 1:05, which I believe is a call back to this great video.
Could be. Or maybe he just wished he had some goddamn milk.
posted by Wolfdog at 1:57 PM on February 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
Could be. Or maybe he just wished he had some goddamn milk.
posted by Wolfdog at 1:57 PM on February 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
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I like the general idea in the video that "metalheads are hiding amongst you, waiting to thrash free". Because it's true. Thrash on, everyone. \m/
Also, that's Red Fang buying milk @ 1:05, which I believe is a call back to this great video.
posted by DGStieber at 5:19 PM on February 4, 2015 [4 favorites]