Sailors...!
I'm still feeling mercyfull... I always am after a nice gig or/and after I come across fu*king good music! Just kidding...
I'm giving you a shot to the two newly elected "war tunes" albums of PORT ROYAL server (after RUNNING WILD's Port Royal and Under Jolly Roger, of course) ! ALESTORM (2008) and SWASHBUCKLE (2006). Both these treasures comes from England... so, made by people who know what they're dealing with! Get them before they expire!
Have fu*king freeky fun with pirate metal!
June 14, 2008
Keep on rocking... in MEGURO!
Here we go again, dudes... even if after House of Blues or Irvine Wireless Arena it's REALLY hard switching again to the small live houses arund here..!
MEGURO LIVE STATION's Amusment Park vol. 6.
Small (tiny...) live-house in Meguro (Tokyo). Band list: Zero, Longinus, Vrain and Axbites. Doubt you know any of them: all Japanese groups... I was there for Longinus, but got pleasantly surprised by all the others, which I completely ignored before the gig! By the way, Longinus plays a melodic speed metal with a damn perfect blend of cheese, power, energy, screams and kick-ass performance! Their album (LONGINUS, 2006) is very good, but as Maiden and other bands you get a real hold of them and their sound only live! They're made to play! I came to know them last year (thanks to a HELLHOUND's gig) and then kept following them onward. The guys are really cool on stage: they do enjoy performing - you can get it! - and that's pretty much what METAL should be about!
Zero opened the show. What to say...? Young band: a cute female singer (good performer and full of energy, even if sometimes she pushes her voice beyond the needed); an even prettier female axewoman (got my eyes unwillingly turning on her all the time, while she was pointing at me - at least that was the impression - ... guess because I was the only foreign pirate in the crowd!); a good drummer. The guitar-man freaks around a little bit too much for what he can play at now. Youngster like to attract the attention, but they should concentrate a bit more on the sound and save the performance for the future (he trew the guitar around his neck twice, missing the catch)! Overall impression: they are promising and will certainly grow, but for now it's still "a long way to the top if you wanna rock'n'roll"! [AC/DC]
Longinus : at the cost of sounding repetitive: kick-ass performance! Good tunes, good lyrics (in Japanese) and good fun! Killer drumming; incredible guitar shredding (the axeman is impressive); pounding bass and a singing with a dose of originality (rather rare around here). I love them and I am very impatient to listen to new material as well as to other live gigs. After the show, they blessed me with some chit-chat, pic, CD signing, etc. (they went on purpuse finding out the guitarrist to get me his sign - thanks guys!).
Got also some extra booty... (yeah, J13, always thingking of you!)
Vrain. "OK, nice... but you'll never catch me listening to this stuff", I was thinking during the first track. Too visual... Then the only thing that prevented me from getting one of their CDs was the shortage of money!!! Indeed at half the show they got me! It's not properly metal: speed/melodic inserts, with techno; a bit of pop sound; stuff like that. Spiced up with the female voice of their frontgirl. Yes, again an attractive female singer/keybord player, very talented and good performer (with a voice perhaps too close to that of Onmyoza's singer and many other Japanese female singers). Very skilled guitar-hero (dressed like a Christmass tree, though!) and bassist, and an ABSOLUTELY amazing drummer! Who's this guy???! Star Wars-like Chewbaka look, but an inhuman drum-machine! I wanted to approach them after the show (they were there around), but... well, not knowing anything, it would have been a bit too embarassing. Next time.
Axbites were the highlight of the night. Good musicianship and very pleasant show. Endless guittar "ripping", solos, blasting drumming, etc. Yet, I didn't headbang! Don't know why. A bit tooooooo cheesy (if I tell you that half of the crowd were girls, perhaps you get my point)! The singer has a great voice (Eizo Sakamoto-like) and I would like to listen to him using it with some more originality. Very nice, but "You ain't got an hold on me" [AC/DC]
It's not MAIDEN, nor ARCH or 3IOB... but that it's something! I just quite don't get whay I have a mountain of good shots of Axbites and virtually no one of Zero's chicks...!?
MEGURO LIVE STATION's Amusment Park vol. 6.
Small (tiny...) live-house in Meguro (Tokyo). Band list: Zero, Longinus, Vrain and Axbites. Doubt you know any of them: all Japanese groups... I was there for Longinus, but got pleasantly surprised by all the others, which I completely ignored before the gig! By the way, Longinus plays a melodic speed metal with a damn perfect blend of cheese, power, energy, screams and kick-ass performance! Their album (LONGINUS, 2006) is very good, but as Maiden and other bands you get a real hold of them and their sound only live! They're made to play! I came to know them last year (thanks to a HELLHOUND's gig) and then kept following them onward. The guys are really cool on stage: they do enjoy performing - you can get it! - and that's pretty much what METAL should be about!
Zero opened the show. What to say...? Young band: a cute female singer (good performer and full of energy, even if sometimes she pushes her voice beyond the needed); an even prettier female axewoman (got my eyes unwillingly turning on her all the time, while she was pointing at me - at least that was the impression - ... guess because I was the only foreign pirate in the crowd!); a good drummer. The guitar-man freaks around a little bit too much for what he can play at now. Youngster like to attract the attention, but they should concentrate a bit more on the sound and save the performance for the future (he trew the guitar around his neck twice, missing the catch)! Overall impression: they are promising and will certainly grow, but for now it's still "a long way to the top if you wanna rock'n'roll"! [AC/DC]
Longinus : at the cost of sounding repetitive: kick-ass performance! Good tunes, good lyrics (in Japanese) and good fun! Killer drumming; incredible guitar shredding (the axeman is impressive); pounding bass and a singing with a dose of originality (rather rare around here). I love them and I am very impatient to listen to new material as well as to other live gigs. After the show, they blessed me with some chit-chat, pic, CD signing, etc. (they went on purpuse finding out the guitarrist to get me his sign - thanks guys!).
Got also some extra booty... (yeah, J13, always thingking of you!)
Vrain. "OK, nice... but you'll never catch me listening to this stuff", I was thinking during the first track. Too visual... Then the only thing that prevented me from getting one of their CDs was the shortage of money!!! Indeed at half the show they got me! It's not properly metal: speed/melodic inserts, with techno; a bit of pop sound; stuff like that. Spiced up with the female voice of their frontgirl. Yes, again an attractive female singer/keybord player, very talented and good performer (with a voice perhaps too close to that of Onmyoza's singer and many other Japanese female singers). Very skilled guitar-hero (dressed like a Christmass tree, though!) and bassist, and an ABSOLUTELY amazing drummer! Who's this guy???! Star Wars-like Chewbaka look, but an inhuman drum-machine! I wanted to approach them after the show (they were there around), but... well, not knowing anything, it would have been a bit too embarassing. Next time.
Axbites were the highlight of the night. Good musicianship and very pleasant show. Endless guittar "ripping", solos, blasting drumming, etc. Yet, I didn't headbang! Don't know why. A bit tooooooo cheesy (if I tell you that half of the crowd were girls, perhaps you get my point)! The singer has a great voice (Eizo Sakamoto-like) and I would like to listen to him using it with some more originality. Very nice, but "You ain't got an hold on me" [AC/DC]
It's not MAIDEN, nor ARCH or 3IOB... but that it's something! I just quite don't get whay I have a mountain of good shots of Axbites and virtually no one of Zero's chicks...!?
June 11, 2008
Battleroar
After the awesome To death and Beyond... , which has become one of my three best album of the year, with an act of extreme mercy, I'm giving you a chance to lay your dirty hands on the two first albums of BATTLEROAR. I runsacked a DISC UNION brig today and they've become part of the Cpt. personal treasure chest! Epic Metal at its best! Get them before they expire!
Johnny in LA. Capt. at sea!! Dethklok 6/6/08
Gentlemen,
This is my first post to Port Royal blog, the site I am committed to! You have recently seen my travels with the Capt. in Los Angeles. This is where I thrive so give me some love for the Lakers winning tonight 87-81! The Saga continues on Thursday.
Breaking News: Boat from Canada ready to dock in LA..details coming soon...
It goes like this... Summer Slaughter Tour 2008 at HOB and Rockstar Mayhemfest at Glen Helen Pavilion! Details to come!! Buddy Big Pipes Journeys to LA, f***ng legendary!
Support METAL! , it's all that's real!!
By the way, last Friday... Metalocalypse: Dethklok World Tour in Los Angeles at the Wiltern 6/6/08!!
If you don't know these guys I'm sorry!! They Killed!! Best death metal animation ever!
June 09, 2008
Somewhere Back in California (2008/5/31, Irvine)
There you go, dudes!
Direct link to a bootleg of the Irvine (Verisign Wireless Amphitheater) gig of Iron Maiden, J13 and Cpt attended and reviewd the past week. Thanks to buddy Pipes, we managed to get hold of one copy. It's not soundboard quality, but it is still pretty good! At least, to us who were there, it is a VERY nice listening...! The cover is just a crop of the gig's flyer (thanks Pipes!). I worked it out... Stay tuned: we will get a better one for sure!
Have fun... until the link expires!
LATER POST: maybe somebody is curious, or simply may enjoy it: Lauren Harris (Maiden leader & bassist daughter) album. Nice chick and nice rock! Give it a bite!
June 08, 2008
New PRIEST album. Any impression?
Already while in L.A. the promo of the new Judas Priest's album started to be available here an there on the net, and J13, that gave an advance listen to it, one day shocked me telling me "Dude, it's a shit! It's strange, I really don't like it!!".
Back home, I got my copy, sat down and concetrated on it and...
Well, it's a different stuff. In my impression, more slow, more melodic and more complex than a usual Priest stuff. It gets close to an epic metal... perhaps because of the concept behind it. You need to listen to it a couple of times to get an hold of its content... But if you let yourself go with it, you can get how heavy it actually is! Tracks load slowly and then burst from half-a-way on. It fits a less screamy but more melodic and chanting Halford voice, in my opinion.
I have to say, I like it! And I'm sure also J13 will do... It's just that after a Maiden gig with backstage passes and a 3 Inches of Blood live you are understandably much more in a Vader mode, rather slow Priest's tunes! ;-)
Give a try to the PROMO (before the link expires)!
Donald Luck!
By the way, I forgot to mention that... While in L.A., digging in AMOEBA Records collection, I stumbled again into a treasure: a signed copy of NEVERMORE's This Godless Endevor...!
J13 wanted to kill me twice: one because I got there alone; the second because I found it!
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