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THE SATANIST (NUCLEAR BLAST, 2014) Messe Noire is one of the tracks on what I consider to be the best Behemoth album — and one of the best metal albums of all time. Every damn song on the album is perfect, Messe Noire being no exception. So naturally, the very moment I heard the album, …
ACTIVE: 1999– The Project Hate MCMXCIX is (literally) a project — or an entity, if you will — led by swedish multitalented and very productive musician Lord K. Philipson. Since 1999 the only permanent members have been Philipson and vocalist Jörgen Sandström (known from Grave, Entombed, Vicious Art, Torture Division and others). Philipson writes and …
TECHNODIKTATOR (OSASTO-A, 2013) Technodiktator is actually an album rather than a single song by Turmion Kätilöt. TO BE CONTIUNED ACT ONE | pencil & fineliner on paper | 2025 But here’s the twist: the chorus of the album’s final track, To be contiuned Act One, repeatedly chants “Technodiktator”. So that more or less gives me …
ACTIVE: 1991- Behemoth, a blackened death metal band from Poland — and one of my all-time favorites. Their 2014 release The Satanist is not only their best work, but also one of the few albums I consider among the greatest ever made by any band. I was most likely introduced to them by my friend …
VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER (ATCO, 1992) By Demons Be Driven is the tenth track on Vulgar Display of Power — the best Pantera album. The song is classic Pantera, and like every track on that record, it’s close to perfection. I’ve drawn a lot of Pantera sketches over the years, and back in my previous …
STAY HUNGRY (ATLANTIC, 1984)REPULSIVE CONCEPTION (METAL BLADE, 1995) Original version of Captain Howdy comes from Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry album. And I gotta admit that for a Twisted Sister track it’s “just” ok. But there’s a reason to spotlight this song though…. For me, the song rose to a whole new level once Broken Hope …
ACTIVE: 1985-1998 White Zombie was a band I really started listening to only when they were nearly done as a band — this was in early 1996, a year after they released Astro-Creep 2000. Sure, I had heard them before, but at first I wasn’t that impressed. In the early nineties I had just discovered …
BLIZZARD OF OZZ (JET RECORDS, 1980) Crazy Train is the debut solo single from Ozzy Osbourne, featured on his first solo album. I’m fairly sure it was also the first Ozzy video I ever saw, although that must have been years after both the album and the video were originally released. The song is one …
ACTIVE: 1990- The Prodigy are one of the most successful electronic groups of all time, having sold a massive amount of records. They’ve been around since the early nineties, if I’m not completely mistaken. The first time I heard them, I actually found their music really irritating — but this must have been around 1992–1993, …
BETWEEN FORCE AND FATE (VIRGIN RECORDS, 2005) Water is Getting High is the second track on Velcra’s Between Force and Fate. This and the opener, War is Peace, are by far the best songs from the album. Don’t get me wrong — the rest of the record is really good too, but these two simply …