What the fuck does that mean, right? Well times are tough and in the next coming months this blog may not exist anymore. Again, due to time constraints and financial issues, I may not renew the domain.

It’s a tough economy and my wife just lost all of her blogging jobs because the media outlet she was working for has decided to take another direction and has fired close to 100 bloggers. Notice Metal Martyr (Which used to be a great blog IMO and a fairly good source of income when I blogged there) has not been updated since January. Now I am again the sole provider for the family and every cent is crucial.

On another note, I have been contributing an article here and there at my new favorite up-and-coming blog, The Number of the Blog as “EvilivE“, which has an amazing, diverse crew of writers that love everything metal. I tried to get other writers for HookInMouth to diversify it as well, but they have come and gone and not really contributed much and have quit without any kind of notification. (Thanks guys, that’s really cool of you).

I have tried the ad outlet for generating revenue to support this blog , but I only get paid when people actually buy something from the ads, which never happens. I understand that ads are a royal pain in the ass and people don’t generally click or buy from ads, so I never really expected much to begin with. It would have been nice to be able to generate some money to pay a writer or two, but I never got paid myself and always did it strictly out of love for metal. I thought about hiring someone out of my own pocket, but that is out of the question now. So, the last resort is to shut my baby down and to do things as time allows.

Keep tuning in and I’ll keep posting until the time comes to hang it up. After that, I’ll be posting whenever they let me over at The Number of the Blog, which is growing at a rapid rate and has plenty of great content, again from a bunch of cool writers that want nothing more than to spread the metal word. Thanks.

Daath’s Eyal Levi and Emil Werstler have posted another song from their April 20th release, Avalanche Of Worms on the ThirDegreeMerch page that they originally posted Dura Mater on.. The Obsidian Fissure sounds to be another great track from this highly anticipated album. It’s not the entire song, but just a clip. You can still listen to Dura Mater in its entirety on their Myspace page.

So Bill Ward went on a rant about his interview in the London Times taking his words out of context, like most douche-bag journalists do. Some piss-ant from the Times interviewed the Founding drummer of Black Sabbath and totally proved just how retarded, uninformed and totally NOT a fan of Black Sabbath. How you say? Well, this fucknut called Tony Iommi; Tommy Iommi. (Correction: The “Tommy” Iommi thing was in a sidebar thing that is no longer visable. I can’t find it anyway.) So whoever wrote that is the retarded and uninformed fucknut; but the guy(s) that wrote the article are still douches.

In all seriousness, if I were ever to start a Black Sabbath tribute band…my stage name would so be TOMMY FUCKING IOMMI!!! Read The London Times Interview and then read Bill Wards word on it.

Image stolen from: TamaDrum.co.jp

Grindcore, real grindcore that is, is for people like myself with short attention spans and occasional disregard for comprehensible lyrics. Earache Records in the past few years has been really mixing it up in their metal portfolio, signing bands that really don’t relate all that much to each other. One thing the UK label always prides themselves on and have always been fond of is grindcore.

Earache has been the host to some legendary British grincore bands such as Napalm Death, Carcass and Extreme Noise Terror. Napalm death just released a killer album in 2009 and Earache has been re-releasing the Carcass collection too. Lately they have been going international with grind by releasing Houston Texas’ Insect Warfare’s Word Extermination and now Singapor’s Wormrot. Read the rest of this entry »

Sepultura, back in the day when there was no doubt that they were at the top of their game. Here they cover the title track from Motorhead’s 1986 album Orgasmatron. I always loved this cover.

With the upcoming release of their Longest Year Ep, Katatonia has made the following video to the title track from Ep. Longest Year comes very shortly after the release of 2009’s Night Is The New Day, which just came out back in November. Sadly it only contains two new songs and a different version of Day And Then The Shade and Idle Blood, along with the video below and the video for Day And Then The Shade. Chances are that everyone will download it anyway, but Night Is The New Day is definitely worth the buy.

Marty Friedman was always my favorite Megadeth guitarist. He’s simply amazing and I love his solo work too. When word got out that Chris Broderick was part of the newest version of the Megadeth line up, shortly after Glen Drover left, I was excited. Glen Drover was (and still is) a great guitar player, but I thought if there was anyone that could help bring the classic Megadeth sound back to the band, it was Chris.

To me, Chris not only brings the shredding speed back in to the mix, but a lot of the ultra melodic solos that seemed to be absent after Marty left. Not only that, but he plays them with more accuracy than ANY post-Friemand Megadeth guitarist. It’s kind of toss up for me. On one hand I still love Marty Frieman’s work, but I’m more enthusiastic about what Chris Broderick is bringing to the Megadeth table these days. With that said, check out this video where Marty and Chris play the solo from Tornado Of Souls, and compare. Friemand…or Broderick?

In 1995 metal was still in a questionable stage. Grunge was still ruling the radio waves, the new wave of extra shitty punk music was beginning to get bigger and nu-metal was in its embryonic stage. Metal bands were not getting the attention they deserved, but the horror movies still knew that sometimes the best music to go along with a good thriller, was metal.

Tales From The Crypt, the popular HBO series released their first movie starring probably one of the worst actors ever; Billy Zane and Thomas Haden Church. Okay, so Billy Zane isn’t that bad and is kind of funny in this flick. Oh, and Jada Pinkett Smith didn’t exactly offer any Oscar material to the movie either. Aside from a cast of mediocre actors, in my opinion, the film was a favorite of mine back then and the soundtrack was filled with veteran and up and coming metal bands. Read the rest of this entry »

This is something I found on The Number Of The Blog. Kalle Kappner, a really great pianist covering Opeth’s epic Damnation album and you can download it for free. Click here to go to the download page.

You can find some more free music on The Number Of The Blog as well and even check out more of Kalle’s piano work through the link there.

Of course it doesn’t take much to be cooler than me, but these kids have talent. They are students of Aaron O’Keefe Music Instruction and recorded this at Chicago Recording Company in Chicago, Illinois in October ‘09. According to Blabbermouth.net, Phil Anselmo found the cover quite flattering.

Band members are Drew Lowry on vocals, Sam Parsons on Bass guitar, John Donnell, Andrew Alten and Erik Michelfelder on guitars and lastly, Sam Ruschman on the drums.