I’m not suggesting you’re asleep. That post title is the message I gave to myself, over and over again, this morning. It’s the middle of the damned week, and somehow I found myself over-doing it with old friends way past my usual bed-time, and I’m moving reeeeeally slowly this morning.
What I needed was a good jolt, a nasty steel-toed kick in the ass, a bucket of cold water over the head, a brisk slap in the face. But I contented myself instead with the music we’ve got for you this morning. It certainly woke me the fuck up.
We’ve got four offerings of jolting, ass-kicking, bracing, face-slapping music, including two new videos and some free download options, from Pain (Sweden), Wormrot (Singapore), Malfeitor (Sweden), and Kataklysm (Canada). Let’s get to it:
PAIN
Peter Tägtgren is best known for his work as a music producer and as the vocalist and guitarist for long-running Swedish luminaries Hypocrisy. But he’s had many other projects as well, and one of them is an outfit called Pain. That band has been around a long time, too, though I don’t think I’ve ever listened to the music. That’s now changed. Their 7th album is scheduled for release on June 3, and there’s now a new song available for free download. (more after the jump . . .)
The album is called You Only Live Twice — which will no doubt haunt Pain with James Bond references for many months to come — and the song is called “Dirty Woman”. From what I’ve read about this band, I was expecting something industrial, but “Dirty Woman” feels more like Southern swamp-rock with some big-time, bang-yo-head metal riffs thrown into the mix. It did a nice job starting the wake-the-fuck-up process for me. Check it out:
[audio:https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pain_-_dirty_woman.mp3|titles=Pain – Dirty Woman]To download the song for yourself, go here and look for the link. You’ll be asked to provide an e-mail address, and it should be a real one because you’ll need a code sent to that address to do the download. You Only Live Twice will be released on Nuclear Blast.
WORMROT
This Singapore band has made a huge splash in the metal ocean in a relatively short time. Lots of buzz greeted the run-up to the recent release of their second album, Dirge. That album features 25 tracks in just over 18 minutes. Yes, it’s grindcore. But man, is it good grind — and it’s also available for free download at the Earache Records website (click this link to get there). Once again, you’ll need to cough up a working e-mail address.
But maybe you’d like to hear what Wormrot sounds like before you go get the music. No problem. Earache has just released a new official music video for a song called “Erased Existence”. It’s 43 seconds long. It includes lots of explosions. It almost single-handedly finished the process of waking me the fuck up.
MALFEITOR
Malfeitor is a rejuvenated Swedish death-metal band that originated in the early 90s. We wrote about them a couple weeks ago because we got knocked down by the first song to be revealed from this band in about 17 years, “Scenes From A Slaughterhouse”. If you haven’t heard that scary slice of old-school evil, go check out that post.
As of last night, Malfeitor has followed up “Scenes” with yet another teaser release, this one in video form. The song is called “To Hell, Farewell”. The title implies that you’re leaving, and maybe giving a backward wave to the smoking blackness from which you’ve escaped. But the music sounds more like you’ve just been greeted with open arms for a long stay in the infernal realms.
Malfeitor is continuing to work on new material for a 2011 release.
KATAKLYSM
Last, but certainly not least, we have a brand new video from Montreal’s Kataklysm. The track is “At the Edge of the World”, and it’s from the band’s excellent 2010 release, Heaven’s Venom. No video yet from my favorite song on that album, “Suicide River”, but there’s still time for that.
I finally got to see Kataklysm live last year, and they do bring the Northern hyperblast, as advertised. Awesome set. This video is performance-based and gives you a little feel for the band’s live show — though it’s still not like being present in the flesh. But, it’s fucking Kataklysm.
I’m awake now, thank you very much. Enjoy the rest of your fucking day.
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I wanna bitch about Wormrot using war images in their video, but it’s fucking Wormrot AND…it looks like they took the two seconds no one else does to make the explosions (kinda) sync with their music.
I once described Wormrot (to myself, since no one else was around) as being a double shot of espresso with just the right amount of crack cocaine mixed in. I still think I was pretty close.
I wish I’d thought of that line.
I’ll trade it to you for a loris.
A LIVE loris!
I want a loris…
I would like to give you both a loris, but they work as a team and I’m afraid that if one goes missing the others will stop writing — and then NCS would fold like a cheap tent in a windstorm. Don’t forget that I;m just the editor around here.
🙁
All i want to point out is the obvious, Pain kicks ass and Peter Tägtgren stars as Jack Sparrow in the movie pirates of the caribbean
Jack Sparrow-esque Tägtgren photo here:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Pain-Peter.jpg
Parts of that Pain song made me want to hear some Jackyl. If only it’d had a chainsaw solo.
I don’t know Jackyl. Links to share?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52p9jc-gOo
Just a southern metal band, non-extreme.
Well, Ray’s link is their biggest “hit” but here’s another with some chainsaw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcMksXeA_48&feature=related. Just good ol’ southern party music. I saw them live 10 or 12 years ago, they were going for a world record (most shows in however many days, I can’t remember the specifics) and played a morning show on one side of the city here and an evening show on the other side. Both were free and played on the back of a flatbed trailer in a parking lot complete with full sound system, mechanical bull riding dwarf and chainsaw mayhem! They also headline the busiest night at the Full Throttle Saloon during the Sturgis bike rally every year.
That’s fucking metal!
Oh FUCK YES! Those pictures with that music kicked my ass. Brilliant.
And that Pain song really DOES sound like Jackyl! Awesome connection.
Glad y’all was entertained, now practice playin’ them chainsaws boys!
That Malfeitor-track was awesome! Took me right back to the 90-ties!!!
Their combination between heavy riffs and great vocals just blow me away. I need more of this guys! Is there a CD out?
Mike
They never released a CD when they were first together in the 90s and don’t have one done yet, but they’re working on it. Should be finished later this year. We’ll make sure to report the news when it’s done.
Great! This is promising.
It was great for sure! And the vocals was niiiiice! I want more!
Yum fuckin’ yum, Kataklysm!
I also strangely enjoyed that Pain song. Fuckin’ weird and often resembling cheesy Rock, but tasty nonetheless.
God damn Malfeitor rocked hard!!! My balls are hard!!!!!
Fuckin’ great song, Just as raw as I want my piece of meat!
Glad you liked that. If you haven’t listened to their first new song, you gonna like it too:
https://www.nocleansinging.com/2011/03/21/monday-metal/
Aaaaah! Nice “kick in the ass” tune!!
Brutal shit!
Me like!!
How the fuck did you guys dig up Malfeitor?
I mean, I’ve not heard of them before, and this is killer guys from the old scene!
It’s cool to get news about “new” bands this way. Keep it coming!!!!
Awesome ezine!
Thanks Ray! As for Malfeitor, I try to scan through Blabbermouth every day or two and a little news piece about them caught my eye when they put up that first song, “Scenes From A Slaughterhouse”. So I listened to that song and got hooked.