by gofromjrocknyc
May 18, 2013 06:50 pm · 1
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All-girl VK/power-metal groupthing ALDIOUS new albamu! DISTRICT ZERO! Vaguely zombie-esque titleage! 

Listening to the video: “who produced you, a barn?!

by gofromjrocknyc
May 17, 2013 07:43 pm · 71
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Dir en grey’s KYO rushed to hospital after passing out. Throat infection to blame:

ディルアングレイ・京、扁桃腺炎で緊急入院

サンケイスポーツ 5月18日(土)5時0分配信

　ロックバンド、ＤＩＲ　ＥＮ　ＧＲＥＹ（ディルアングレイ）のボーカル、京（年齢非公表）が１６日に扁桃腺炎で緊急入院したことが１７日、分かった。

　１６日に東京・新木場スタジオコーストで行われた全国ツアー最終公演で４０度以上の高熱とのどの不調を訴え、ライブ後に意識不明となり、都内の病院に救急搬送された。

　関係者によると、１３日にも高熱で病院に運ばれたが、本人の強い意志で点滴治療と応急処置を受け、ツアーを続行。１６日の公演中に意識がもうろうとなり、何度もステージ上で倒れたという。

　京は２００９年に「声帯炎」ならびに「喉頭浮腫」で公演を延期。昨年１月には「声帯結節」ならびに「音声障碍（しょうがい）」で音楽活動を休止していた。２４日に東京・渋谷公会堂公演が控えており、本人は開催を希望しているという。

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20130518-00000500-sanspo-musi

Jeff Hanneman, Slayer Guitarist, Dies at 49 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side. The guitarist had recently begun writing songs with the band in anticipation of recording a new album later this year. He had been slowly recovering from what was believed to be a spider bite that nearly cost him his arm after he failed to seek immediate treatment. (nytimes) Hanne-man, Hanneman, does whatever a hanne can! RIP dude.
by gofromjrocknyc
May 3, 2013 07:17 am ·
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Jeff Hanneman, Slayer Guitarist, Dies at 49

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49.

Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side.

The guitarist had recently begun writing songs with the band in anticipation of recording a new album later this year. He had been slowly recovering from what was believed to be a spider bite that nearly cost him his arm after he failed to seek immediate treatment. (nytimes)

Hanne-man, Hanneman, does whatever a hanne can!

RIP dude.

purplepenguinllc: Opeth @ Wellmont Theater (April 19, 2013) 5DMII w 24-70 2.8
by gofromjrocknyc
May 1, 2013 06:19 pm · 8
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purplepenguinllc:

Opeth @ Wellmont Theater (April 19, 2013)

5DMII w 24-70 2.8

by gofromjrocknyc
May 1, 2013 06:32 am · 15
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heavymetalprostitute:

vthemadrid:

Baby sings along with Korn.

IF I HAVE KIDS I WANT A KID LIKE THIS OMFG TOO CUTE

I like this kid.

even tho it’s korn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_in_heavy_metal_music#June Megadeth, Sabbath, CoB, Amon Amarth, and Darkane! I don’t think there’s been five albums I’ve wanted to hear in one single month since… the early ’00s!?!
by gofromjrocknyc
April 28, 2013 11:22 pm · 2
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_in_heavy_metal_music#June

Megadeth, Sabbath, CoB, Amon Amarth, and Darkane!

I don’t think there’s been five albums I’ve wanted to hear in one single month since… the early ’00s!?!

by gofromjrocknyc
April 18, 2013 08:57 pm ·
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Opeth - “Demon of the Fall” (live)

Feel free to skip to ~2:55 for the best sixty seconds of Opeth there ever was. 

Enjoy photographing ‘em tomorrow Kytrax! ^_^

I woulda been much happier if Dir en grey had gone a bit more thisaway [points up] with their last couple albums.

http://www.syncmusic.jp/wordpress/?p=14666 DIR EN GREY’s new mini album “THE UNRAVELING” which was released on April 3rd was ranked 1st for the Oricon CD album daily ranking of April 2nd. This is DIR EN GREY’s first time to be ranked 1st on Oricon ranking in their career. “THE UNRAVELING” was attracting attention before the release since the CD is composed of the new song “Unraveling” and old songs like “Gou”, “Kasumi” and “THE FINAL” remade. Proof that people prefer the old stuff: it sells better than the new stuff. (Thx pallmid!)
by gofromjrocknyc
April 12, 2013 11:16 am · 12
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http://www.syncmusic.jp/wordpress/?p=14666

DIR EN GREY’s new mini album “THE UNRAVELING” which was released on April 3rd was ranked 1st for the Oricon CD album daily ranking of April 2nd. This is DIR EN GREY’s first time to be ranked 1st on Oricon ranking in their career.

“THE UNRAVELING” was attracting attention before the release since the CD is composed of the new song “Unraveling” and old songs like “Gou”, “Kasumi” and “THE FINAL” remade.


Proof that people prefer the old stuff: it sells better than the new stuff.

(Thx pallmid!)

Apple | iTunes Match (2013) So having my 24,000 songs in the cloud is a bit of a waste of time — using it would kill my 2gb/mo data plan. And having my 160kbps mp3 rips upgraded to 256kbps aac was a clusterfuck. It took DAYS of scanning and uploading and deleting and downloading to get shit upgraded, and even then, 1) not all songs in an album got upgraded, and 2) iTunes formatted it [artist] > [album] > [track number] [song title], with no way for me to tell it to stick THE FUCKING YEAR in there somewhere, and 3) iTunes doesn’t know SHIT about j-rock.  Woulda been simpler to do a search for “metallica discography 320”, then using Flash Renamer and Tag & Rename to format the tracks and folders to your liking! (Plus iTunes 11, despite its improvements, still farts along like a lazy coworker doing the bare minimum. The Zune PC app is ridiculously more capable.)  I don’t recommend iTunes Match for ANYTHING.   :(
by gofromjrocknyc
March 31, 2013 08:37 am · 1
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Apple | iTunes Match (2013)

So having my 24,000 songs in the cloud is a bit of a waste of time — using it would kill my 2gb/mo data plan.

And having my 160kbps mp3 rips upgraded to 256kbps aac was a clusterfuck.

It took DAYS of scanning and uploading and deleting and downloading to get shit upgraded, and even then, 1) not all songs in an album got upgraded, and 2) iTunes formatted it [artist] > [album] > [track number] [song title], with no way for me to tell it to stick THE FUCKING YEAR in there somewhere, and 3) iTunes doesn’t know SHIT about j-rock. 

Woulda been simpler to do a search for “metallica discography 320”, then using Flash Renamer and Tag & Rename to format the tracks and folders to your liking!

(Plus iTunes 11, despite its improvements, still farts along like a lazy coworker doing the bare minimum. The Zune PC app is ridiculously more capable.) 

I don’t recommend iTunes Match for ANYTHING.  

:(

This may take a while.
by gofromjrocknyc
March 25, 2013 07:01 pm · 1
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This may take a while.

by gofromjrocknyc
March 24, 2013 12:15 am · 2
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A JavaScript implementation of the simulations presented in the paper Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts. More details are available at Itai Cohen’s group website including videos of mosh pits, full simulations, and a brief description.

 

http://mattbierbaum.github.com/moshpits.js/

Amazon Cloud | iTunes Match | Google Music and JAPANESE MUSIC I want to upgrade all the crap I ripped at 160kbps back in 1998-2003, when hard drives were small and my music collection was big.  For Japanese music — like Dir en grey, L’Arc~en~ciel, Luna Sea, Sex Machineguns, Pierrot, Kagrra, Despairs Ray, Puffy, Nanase Aikawa, etc… will any of these services be able to match these artists’ discographies, or even just ~some~ albums or singles? iTunes has a japanese store, Amazon does too… Post in the comments, I’ll write up my experience next week…  
by gofromjrocknyc
March 21, 2013 07:51 pm · 2
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Amazon Cloud | iTunes Match | Google Music
and JAPANESE MUSIC

I want to upgrade all the crap I ripped at 160kbps back in 1998-2003, when hard drives were small and my music collection was big. 

For Japanese music — like Dir en grey, L’Arc~en~ciel, Luna Sea, Sex Machineguns, Pierrot, Kagrra, Despairs Ray, Puffy, Nanase Aikawa, etc… will any of these services be able to match these artists’ discographies, or even just ~some~ albums or singles?

iTunes has a japanese store, Amazon does too…

Post in the comments, I’ll write up my experience next week…

 

SAKURAJIMA! Slate: It used to be an island, but an eruption in 1914—the most powerful Japan would endure in the 20th Century— actually grew the volcano enough that it met with the mainland to the southeast, converting it from an island to a peninsula.
by gofromjrocknyc
March 20, 2013 07:31 pm ·
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SAKURAJIMA!

Slate:

It used to be an island, but an eruption in 1914—the most powerful Japan would endure in the 20th Century— actually grew the volcano enough that it met with the mainland to the southeast, converting it from an island to a peninsula.

by gofromjrocknyc
March 13, 2013 11:13 pm · 1
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Amr’s heavy-metal love story is, at least on the surface, textbook: when she was sixteen, someone loaned her a Metallica CD and she never looked back. But this was in Egypt, in 2001, four years after security forces raided the homes of nearly a hundred metalheads, arresting them on spurious occult charges.

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/an-unusual-heavy-metal-love-story.html

by gofromjrocknyc
March 13, 2013 06:26 pm · 2
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Best sentence I have read in YEARS:

News On Japan:

Skull Reaper A-ji won just 2,828 votes in the election, campaigning on a platform demanding educational reform and improved social welfare facilities, but that was sufficient for him to take a seat in the city council.

That is fucking METAL.