With special guest........Jason "Wizard Warrior" Roth, of Collective Studios!!!!!
Jason is a movie guy, so after nearly fighting to the death over whether we should have War Metal night or Party Metal Night, Chris and I compromised and decided to listen to heavy metal movie soundtracks. Good call.
Started out listening to some summer time type tunes before Jason showed up. You have to inaugurate the summer by cranking some old school Van Halen, and throw in a little Dokken for good measure. Goddamn it, we drank a lot of liquor tonight; buy the time we had the albums downloaded, Chris was pretty shitfaced. Jason showed up, and we listened to our first, and worst album.
If you like to laugh while wincing, then listen to the metal tracks on the cult classic Rock N Roll Nightmare soundtrack, the entire film conceived, written, directed and produced by Jon Mikl Thor. Of Thor. You know, the Canadian Metal God. We decided to skip the soundtrack music and delve right into the metal, and we paid dearly. This album is not nearly as fun as the movie. The band tracks on this album are a virtual dictionary of bad, generic 80's metal. Big, booming, echoy drums; wimpy keyboards on the lighter tracks. There was the Dokken rip off song, the Motley Crue circa Theater of Pain plod fest. There were a few faster, thrashier songs that kept this from being total drek, and one 7 minute epic of poverty metal. This was a disappointed from a band that never impressed me that much anyway.
The came redemption, as Hallow's Eve tore our guts out with the one good song they ever wrote, and then Slayer's Die By The Sword destroyed what was left of our sanity. Though brief, skipping over the Burning Spear, Agent Orange, and Wiper's songs, we were quite invigorated by the Metal Blade classics included on this album, featuring an amazing track from Fates Warning. And Slayer. Our whole lives for Slayer.
The T Saw 3 soundtrack had a lot of good tracks on it, but was kind of a mixed bag. It reintroduced me to Laaz Rocket, who were decent enough speed metal band from the 80's that stuck with possibly the worst name in metal. Sacred Reich, Death Angel, and Obsession were some other standout tracks.
BONUS METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris couldn't wait any longer. It was way too hot, but we banged our heads to Sodom's Persecution Mania, which featured much improved musicianship, while taking away some of the charm of their previous efforts, but does not sacrifice the evil sounds at all. A scorcher. Myself, I'm always torn when I listen to Sodom. I have to be a certain mood to listen to German Thrash. I have to be feeling slightly more psychotic than I was tonight. And the thing about Sodom is that I want them to be Destruction, who in my opinion is the superior German thrash band. Don't tell Chris that or he'll stab me in the eye with my own ribcage. We will be bringing these bands head to head in the future.
Well, by that time, the liquor was gone and it's summertime, motherfuckers, so we listened to about 20 minutes worth of old school Van Halen, which is righteous and cannot be fucked with. This is partying. This is life. David Lee Roth(no relation to Sir Jason) was a prophet of the motherfucking streets, instructing an entire generation of denim clad wastrels how to disappoint their elders in the grandest style possible. Tunes like Atomic Punk and The Cradle Will Rock are bad ass gangster classics, the band achieving psychic alchemy that they have never been able to duplicate since. The reason is because the drugs were so good back in the day.
We never declared a winner. Too fucked up. Jason was sober enough to drive me back to my cave, though.
Thus concludes another episode of Metal Night!!!!!!!!!!!!!
