MetaFilter posts tagged with metal

Bigger and Russianer

mock — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:08:34 -0800

Gorbachov the music video, contains basically everything I've ever wanted in a music video.

Dangdut is the music of my country

umbú — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:55:04 -0800

Introducing Project Pop (Formerly Indonesia's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-suling metal-dangdut-comedy folk sextet). Their hit "Dangdut is the music of my country" [youtube link--music starts at 0:58] code-switches between pop metal and dangdut, affectionately mocking the cheesy pop of their parents' generation. Here is a great play-by-play translation of the details of the video. Many of their songs, however, need no translation, like this battle of the metalheads vs. the techno kids.

If you don't like metal, you are not my friend

auralcoral — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:14:08 -0800

New England's best metal site has now gone national.

Thrash out!

Limozeen show

LSK — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:41:46 -0800

Everyone's favorite fictional band (no, not that one) plays an awesome live show - including such hits as Because, It's Midnite and Trogdor.

The Future is Now!

hellslinger — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:40:21 -0800

The One Man Band has evolved. No longer will the one man band be burdened by the weight and bulk of backpack drum kits, guitars, or accordions - or knowing what notes to play. Behold! Beamz by The Sharper Image. Give your nearest buddy a high-five and catch a glimpse into the future of music performance and one of the most hilarious promotional videos you might ever see.

We are here to make coffee, metal!

Lord_Pall — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:45:48 -0800

Ed explains how to be Metal. Lordi shows how not to be metal. Metalocalypse makes Kitties Metal. (Obnoxious, Youtube, Metal!)

Notch tubing without a notcher.

Mitheral — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:19:34 -0800

Cope pipe without a jig. Enter a few parameters and get a pdf that will give you a printable pattern that will allow you to notch tubing for welding or brazing to another pipe.

A-one and a-two and a-chicka booma chick!

beaucoupkevin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:52:00 -0800

Bert and Ernie perform "A Divine Proclamation for Finishing the Present Existence" by Last Days of Humanity. Turn your speakers down if you're at the office. [Single link, YouTube.]

Vertebrae not required

baphomet — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:45:36 -0800

Massive, sprawling, jarring, yet soothing, intimate, and inescapable. Listening to Giant Squid is like waking up to find yourself trying to escape from underneath a mile-wide sheet of lake ice. Featuring stark contrasts between soothing instrumentals and oceanic heavy riffs, intertwined with male/female vocal harmonies that are alternately calm and frantic, Giant Squid creates a dynamic that is haunting and irresistible. Any bands that list, "creatures with gills, though vertebrae are not necessary" among their influences is cool by me. Their MySpace features recordings from their latest EP, as well as their album Metridium Fields. Doom metal has never been this seductive. Unfortunately, the videos above from the Austin show were Giant Squid's last show with their Metridium Fields lineup- lead singer/guitarists Aaron Gregory and Aurielle Zeitle, married in 2005, have since parted ways, and Aurielle has parted with Giant Squid. They have re-emerged as a four-piece, with a new line-up featuring the addition of a cello player. This video shows them playing in '07 with this line-up. According to Gregory, the band is currently on break from touring to write material for a new album. Giant Squid were quite honored to play with their idols (and my heroes) I S I S at that Austin show. This fan-made video for the ISIS epic "Dulcinea" is totally awesome.

While His Piano Gently Weeps

amyms — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:48:35 -0800

Free Bird on piano [YouTube]. The 14-year-old musician, who calls himself UnclassicalPiano on YouTube, currently has 16 other selections, including Stairway To Heaven, Behind Blue Eyes, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Message In A Bottle and Black Sabbath's Paranoid (his main interest is metal), all of which he says he learned to play by ear.