Crunch - February 15, 2012

0 Comments. 102 Views. Posted 15 Feb 2012 @ 3:21pm.
  Metal, Heavy Rock, Classic Rock local and international good shit with Peter Hodgson: crunch@gmail.com Sugar Army Release New Single   Sugar Army have released Hooks For Hands, the first single from their forthcoming second album, which is due for release later this year. The album was recorded in Sydney in July and August last year at Big Jesus Burger Studios with producer Eric J, who has worked with Weezer and the John Spencer Blues Explosion. It was mixed by Scott Horscroft, who has manned the board for Silverchair and The Preserts. Hooks For Handscan be downloaded for free at... Read More!
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Crunch - February 8, 2012 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 350 Views. Posted 8 Feb 2012 @ 3:03pm.
  It’s been a crazy week for metal and hard rock – particularly the more weathered of our metal brethren. Bill Ward cracks it with the Black Sabbath reunion and the band decides to record without him; Van Halen releases the comeback album to destroy all other comeback albums; Slash's rhythm guitarist Bobby Schneck bails, and Motley Crue kicks off their Vegas residency and – gasp – Vince... Read More
Crunch! - February 1, 2012 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 331 Views. Posted 2 Feb 2012 @ 7:33am.
Hi and welcome to the first edition of Crunch. Why 'crunch,' you ask? Cos it's a word that has connotations with brutals metals, as well as crunchy hard rock guitar tones, and 'cause onomatopoeia kick arse. But mostly because it sums up a lot of what I'm going to try to do with this column: anything from the heavier side of music, from classic rock to hard rock to metal. Expect a lot of local... Read More
Metalocalypse - January 25, 2012 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 232 Views. Posted 26 Jan 2012 @ 7:53am.
NO MAWR RAWR! It’s been real, but this is Toby McCasker, last survivor of the Metalocalypse, signing off. Yeah, you read that right: no mawr rawr from me. At least, not in Beat. So this week, things are gonna be a bit diff. Over the course of my four-odd years doing the Metaloc thang, I’ve often received missives from you guys and gals thanking me for the corruption of your cochleae via new... Read More
Metalocalypse - January 18, 2012 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 256 Views. Posted 19 Jan 2012 @ 2:41pm.
RAWR! So yeah, how ‘bout that Stone Temple Pilots tour coming up in 2010? Awesome, huh. Can’t wait. Please excuse the anachronistic strangeness of [the print edition of] last week’s column, there seems to have been an error in transmission during the page’s final construction at Beat HQ. We apologise for the fault in Metalocalypse. Those responsible have been sacked. We apologise again for the... Read More
Metalocalypse - January 11, 2012 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 310 Views. Posted 11 Jan 2012 @ 11:06am.
RAWR! Towards the end of last year I remember bearing witness to the unenviable collapse of one of scenecore's many permutations at The Devil Wears Prada's Aussie tour (don't ask, please don't). I mean, We Came As Romans only started doing the do in 2008 and they sounded like dinosaurs. No-one gave a crap. TDWP mostly hawked stuff off of their Zombie EP, which is the heaviest shiz they've ever... Read More
Metalocalypse - December 21, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 568 Views. Posted 21 Dec 2011 @ 10:10am.
RAWR! Last week, I had a really surreal experience. I spent the better part of Friday afternoon backstage with Opeth. I was supposed to be there to interview them about their gear, but got lost talking and smoking with Mikael Åkerfeldt under the red lights while techs cut the ends off guitar strings and Martin Axenrot's flares grew with each passing second. It dawned on me that, throughout my... Read More
Metalocalypse - December 14, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 701 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 9:28am.
RAWR! The end of the year draws ever closer, and that usually means a ballsy list of all the grouse albums what I done rocked out to quite heartily over the course of 2011 'n' that. One reader of the ol' Metaloc has requested that I keep it all-Austrayan this year, so that's what we're gonna do. This is the local shit that busted my speakers but good:   1. The Compass CIRCLES   2.... Read More
Metalocalypse - December 7, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 622 Views. Posted 7 Dec 2011 @ 9:07am.
Big ups to one Peter Hodgson for taking the Metaloc reigns last week. I know they can be greasy and this mare is a gassy one, and I trust you all enjoyed his markedly more mature and informative take on Beat's weekly shot of heaviness. Now that my Stupid Bastard Mac is sort of working again, expect poo jokes, unlikely sexual escapades and wildly flailing factual inaccuracy to re-rise by... Read More
Not Metalocalypse (But Close) November 30, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 513 Views. Posted 30 Nov 2011 @ 11:10am.
RAW-AW? Metalocalypse man Tobes was unable to craft his regular column this week because his Macbook melted. Peter Hodgson is standing in. –ed. PHIL LEWIS WINS LA GUNS NAME WAR? So, there have been two different versions of LA Guns existing simultaneously for a few years, right? Phil Lewis's version and Tracii Guns'. Well, the latest singer in Tracii's version is Rockstar: Supernova runner-up... Read More
Metalocalypse - November 16, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 538 Views. Posted 16 Nov 2011 @ 10:48am.
RAWR! This week is "Fuck Yeah Tim Lambesis" week. He's just restarted his blog over at timlambesis.tumblr.com, and I like what he's got to say. He's not a dumbass and he doesn't mince words, and that's a win. Recently he came out and had a massive stab at how twisted the current digital infrastructure can be in terms of what it takes for a band to actually thrive these days, and crafted a... Read More
Metalocalypse - November 9, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 625 Views. Posted 9 Nov 2011 @ 1:34pm.
RAWR! Do you remember Coal Chamber? Maybe you do, but I bet you don't remember exactly how big they were in their heyday (about '97 or thereabouts). I recently had quite the candid sit-down with Dez Fafara, and the man put the band's history in the kind of perspective I've never really considered before: "Coal Chamber took Slipknot on their first United States tour ever;System Of A Down opened... Read More
Metalocalypse - November 2, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 476 Views. Posted 2 Nov 2011 @ 11:01am.
RAWR! Right now, I'm listening to Uneven Structure. Their debut LP Februus has just landed and it. Is. Tremendous. This is djent - but not as you know it, Jim. Do me the favour of herding over to facebook.com/unevenstructure and listening to this gargantuan metal so I don't have to list a whole bunch of increasingly meaningless adjectives in some tiresome I'm-a-writer-ho-ho-look-at-my-big-... Read More
Metalocalypse - October 26, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 542 Views. Posted 26 Oct 2011 @ 11:02am.
RAWR! You know what's weird about music, is that it's way less melodramatic behind the scenes than those two other forks in the entertainment trident. You've got billion-dollar video games publishers being as corrupt as anything and those endless miles of self-important bullshit in Hollywood, but rarely do I encounter the same when communing with men and women of music these days. Tell you why... Read More
Metalocalypse - October 19, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 571 Views. Posted 19 Oct 2011 @ 11:17am.
RAWR!   Some folk don't fancy this column - but lots more dig it, and there's one reason rule them all. When I first started carrying on like a metally porkloin, no-one gave a shit. Too right, why would they? It was just another tiny space in a big street press potentially written by a young neophyte with delusions of alterna-cool and no real idea. These days, I get lots of mail from... Read More
Metalocalypse - October 12, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 572 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 10:17am.
RAWR! Soooo, how about that Soundwave lineup, innit. You've already forgotten how bad that lot fucked you over with the Revolution debacle, haven't you? As well you should. You're an easily swayed sort and probably taste your own butthole when you think no-one is looking. Everyone loves the '90s and early naughties, which is what we're gonna be aurally feasting upon in excess around March next... Read More
Metalocalypse - October 5, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 732 Views. Posted 5 Oct 2011 @ 11:13am.
RAWR! As you may or may not give two large turds covered in burning hair about, Beat is totally on the internet. By extension, so is your local neighbourhood Metalocalypse column. So get the fuck over to beat.com.au and click me under 'Music,' get involved. You can even froth on the Twitter machine and come digital - roll me at twitter.com/jane_tobes if you're the upwardly savvy mobile type.... Read More
Metalocalypse - September 28, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 751 Views. Posted 28 Sep 2011 @ 12:05pm.
RAWR!   There is some shit in this city. Every man and his lab has a band, it seems, and plenty of places to be a band inside. That’s great – on paper. Lots of opportunities for anyone with an instrument to get up and get going. In practice, the reality’s a bit different. Bands don’t work as hard at being, well, any good. Any old shit will do; gigs are easy, most people hanging around in the... Read More
Metalocalypse - September 21, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 572 Views. Posted 21 Sep 2011 @ 12:23pm.
RAWR! This year’s inflating my dinghy with so many grouse new releases; I don’t even know who to point my erection at so I’ll just point it at YOU. Listen, this is what you need, right now: Jungle Rot’s Kill On Command for EPIC, older Entombed-brand death ‘n roll. Septic Flesh’s The Great Mass for udderly intensive symphonic blast. Textures’ Dualism for that gnarly djent fix. Fleshgod Apocalypse’... Read More
Metalocalypse - September 7, 2011 column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,008 Views. Posted 9 Sep 2011 @ 1:08pm.
RAWR! So this is my cat. I thought you might all like to meet him. He's a Bengal and his name's Sirius, after the Gojira record 'n that. He weighs about 10 kilos and is approximately 14% wild. We can't let him out of the house or he goes and fucks up all the other neighbourhood cats and comes home spattered in gore. Loves the chicks, though. He turns into such a soft-cock when there's feline... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 851 Views. Posted 31 Aug 2011 @ 9:41am.
RAWR!   Being liked is easy: Say and do things that please other people. I'd never begrudge anyone for wanting to be popular because, hey, free drinks sometimes, but that kind of bland pandering - blandering - does not a good objective force make. Sometimes, shit is shit. Real humans gotta call it like it is. Riddle me this: If you sucked total ass at something, wouldn't you want to... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 831 Views. Posted 24 Aug 2011 @ 10:35am.
RAWR! Can't talk, guys. Flared up with froth.   ~tobes TESSERACT VOCALIST QUITS Seeing Periphery tour this year was an important day for me, 'cos I realised how I much I don't actually like Periphery. What was even more important was that I got to see TesseracT on that tour, and I realised how absolutely fucking phenomenal TesseracT are. Which is why I fell into deeply pensive sadness... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,078 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 10:27am.
RAWR! Hey guys, can't wait to get myself to Soundwave Rev- oh. Too soon? Nah. The promoters kinda deserve a bit of flack, really, if only for the fact that nobody has told anyone a fucking thing about why it was really cancelled. An honest explanation would've done wonders for their PR, not to mention the sanctity of their Facebook wall. This stuff about Limp Bizkit refusing to play and Van... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 754 Views. Posted 10 Aug 2011 @ 9:26am.
RAWR! Can't talk, guys. Driving.   [INSERT HILARIOUS BLACK METAL GUY DRIVING CAR PIC HERE PLZ]   ~tobes   HEAR WAYNE STATIC SOLO STUFF   Well, hear 34 seconds of it, anyway. The vertically-haired (what? Toby, shut up   -yourself) Static-X frontman has set about dropping his debut solo record Pighammer around October, and he obviously reckons it's so fucking good he's... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,309 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2011 @ 11:03am.
RAWR! Last week was an important week, because Taylor Momsen is finally legal. Hooray! Great girl that she is, she marked the occasion by flashing her pert post-adolescent rack at an appreciate Download Festival crowd over the weekend. Electrical tape X's or no, you can sort of make out the nipples there so it totally counts. Yes. Now all we need is for her to embrace the fact that having a... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,343 Views. Posted 27 Jul 2011 @ 4:23pm.
RAWR!   So Avenged Sevenfold are on the Soundwave Revolution tour and that's awesome, right? Not for those fans in Perth it isn't. A7X have elected not to play the WA leg of the tour, releasing a useless statement (that offered no explanation and was obviously penned by their management) as quietly as they could in the hope that nobody would notice. Weeell, I noticed, and that's fucked.... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,105 Views. Posted 20 Jul 2011 @ 3:34pm.
RAWR! So you're a huge US band and you've been tapped to do a cover story for a certain glossy music mag in Australia. You can't be fucked, because you're a huge US band and, pffft, Australia, right? Fuck Australia. Who cares, it's tiny and full of jailbirds with no money to buy merch when you tour anyway - correct? You dog your interview two times. The second time, you're even at a club and... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,037 Views. Posted 13 Jul 2011 @ 3:26pm.
RAWR!   The end of the world through song, every week by Toby McCasker. Email: the.metalocalypse@gmail.com , Twitter: twitter.com/jane_tobes   Bit of bitching and moaning over this F!*K the Politics show coming up at The Espy on August 13th. See, the booker's got both metal bands and hardcore bands on for the same night, hence the name of the game. It's nothing new, of course, and... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,332 Views. Posted 7 Jul 2011 @ 11:01am.
RAWR! Oh mah lawd, I am sick. It's what happens when you try to follow one of those Vegan Black Metal Chef recipes to the letter but miss some of it and, instead of rewinding like a normal person, just sort of make up what you think should go in the pot and carry on powerfully. In my feverish delirium, I've somehow entered a dark nether realm where, amazingly, no-one complains about anything... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,052 Views. Posted 28 Jun 2011 @ 3:46pm.
RAWR! Twitter makes me feel old. Man, how do you even use this shitting thing. Hash tags? Is that when ya'll develop excess nobbles of skin from charfing the good stuff? Ner? Fuck you. Anyway, I started up a separate Twatter for the ol' Metaloc but can't be arsed maintaining two of the bastard things, so come JOIN me over at twitter.com/jane_tobes to experience a relentless onslaught of... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,066 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 11:16am.
  RAWR!   “What is djent?” you might ask. Djent, my good men and women of metal, is thusly: ‘djent’ is “an onomatopoeia for a heavily palm-muted, distorted guitar chord. It is considered to have been inspired by tech-metal band Meshuggah. Typically, the word is used to refer to music that makes use of this sound, to the sound itself, or to the scene that revolves around it. Its... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,498 Views. Posted 14 Jun 2011 @ 6:21pm.
RAWR! So far, 2011 has been the best year for metal since 2001 saw classic releases all coming from Converge, Isis and Opeth (Blackwater Park, fark yers!). Shee-hit, even ’04 was good times with the Dillinger Escape Plan’s Miss Machine and Mastodon’s monstrous Leviathan. I can’t remember ever being so bowled over by class-A heaviosity so early in the piece, though. Blut Aus Nord’s 777- Sect(s)... Read More
Metalocalypse column, metalocalypse, music.
0 Comments. 1,373 Views. Posted 7 Jun 2011 @ 11:23am.
  RAWR!   Not a day goes by where I don’t wonder whether or not fretless bass is the lamest instrument of all time. I mean, there are a fair few instances ofburnin’ fretless work in metal: Control Denied’s The Fragile Art Of Existence, Intronaut’s Prehistoricisms, Obscura’s Cosmogenesis, and anything that Sadus have ever done with Steve DiGorgio (who's been championing the beast’s... Read More