Category: heavy metal

A Classic, Groovier, Stonier, Grittier Metal Monday for ya, This Week of Monday the 25th of March

This last week got a ton of stuff done in spite of the season changing allergy onslaught! Meetup recorded on “Does the Cloud Kill Open Source?” with Richard Seroter and got several new meetups lined up with, as always, solid speakers. The meetup continued on into the evening to McMenamins for drinks and food, and great conversation into the night. The topic brought up a lot of things and just let me Lay Down my Burden.

Then the week continued with more craziness, grooving to code and trying to manage the inability to deal with the seasonal allergy eyes, rivers flooding out my my eye sockets! But hey, a groovy tune by Stoned Jesus and cutting the lights while I hacked away on my upcoming talk for DevOps Days Vancouver “Architecture Guidance for Venomous Database Reliability Engineering” worked out pretty well. So much so I’ve got the initial slide deck down now (Monday the 25th!!) and am just shining up some code samples and demos now!

To wrap up the week I found myself also listening to some more groovy stoner doom metal from Conan. Here’s a little Volt Thrower.

 

Thrashing Metal Monday for Week of March 18th, Mixing a Dreamy Day At the Gates Among Carcasses! \m/

In an effort to throw you some wild curve balls, here’s some wild options for Monday. Again a brash way to awaken and take on the world!

First, this is a real curve ball, not exactly my cup of tea I’m looking for, but I’ve thrown some lemon into the cup and it’s actually a pretty sweet flavor of tunes. This band Dream State I’ve known about for some time and they keep sneaking back into my playlist. This is one of their newer tunes In This Hell.

This next band is one of the forerunners of, I’d say, melodic death metal. Discover At The Gates.

This next carcass, they’ve been in the mix for a long while now for me. Ever since rolling upon the flanged wheel into New York City and my buddy Mike picking up one of their albums, their first album Heartwork to be specific, at random. We then spent the next 20 hours on the train riding back to NOLA listening to Carcass and our other finds from New York City.

 

Thrashing Metal Monday for Week of March 11th. Oddities Abound! \m/

Alright, this one is going to throw your head into a vice for those really dedicated into the metal head realm. However, if you also like some of that EDM, techno craziness thrown in with some Lada Gaga on your metal then this one is going to twist that gray matter into a new part of your skull. Enjoy a little Rage of Light. Also, Judas is a pretty groovy song, awkwardness and all.

Now, to calm the darkened soul and get back into some coding or something, there’s always Apocalypse Orchestra to set you back upright.

To wrap up this trigonous set of angles, here’s some tranquility in darkness, with Dark Tranquility.

Thrashing Code Metal Monday for Week of March 4th – Get Awoke! \m/

A while back I was hashing through a number of metal Monday posts, it was time to get em’ started again. Here’s a few of my latest listens to help you awake this Monday and get into some thrashing code.

First off, again throwing this band into the mix, with incredible vocals that often shock people, Brittney Hayes (A.K.A. Brittney Slayes) tears into the sound barrier with inspiring awe backed by Scott Buchanen, Grant Truesdell, and Andrew Kingsley with virtuoso slaying! Learn more about Unleash the Archers or check out some of the following epic masterpieces that I’ve provided you here.

Next up a seriously wicked awesome band from beloved Ukraine from the city of Horlivka! Jinjer is lead by Tatiana Shmailyuk with Roman Ibramkhalilov, Eugene Abdiukhanov, and Vladislav Ulasevich. This band combines a varying twist of vocal melody and brashness, with extreme control from Tatiana and a diver set of melody and harmony among the strings, with prodding rhythm from the drums.

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Since I’m going for a lucky three every Thrashing Code Metal Monday, here’s the premium curated third choice! This is an entirely new band I discovered just this past Sunday while watching the sun burn violently an etching across the usually overcast peaceful sky. Oceans of Slumber are different in many ways compared to much of the metal I’ve been listening to as of late, but have a huge variety of influence and a lower range that I in enraptured with.

The band is made of lead singer Cammie Gilbert and backed with Keegan Kelly and Dobber Beverly. It’s some slower moving, passion inducing surrealist art that flows along like the seasons.

Just for good measure, check out Sunlight live in studio with Oceans of Slumber too and also the absolute epic combination of video, art, music, and passion in No Color, No Light!

Past Thrashing Code Metal Mondays for your listening pleasure.

 

Thrashing Code Metal Monday for Week of March 13th 2017

Some completely new tunes I’ve been enjoying.

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