Tag Archives: Heavy Metal

Thank Fred it’s Friday.

That means it’s time for another music competition. This week the question is: What in your opinion is the greatest moment in heavy metal?

A song we can dedicate to all the moshpit-missing, devil-horn handed headbangers caged in by Lockdown.

Reply below to be in with a chance of bagging a hair-tangled €25 Golden Discs voucher.

Here’s mine.

Please include video links if possible.

The winner will be chosen by my tattooist.

Lines close at 5.45pm EXTENDED until 11pm.

Nick says: Good luck!

Golden Discs

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(From top: Weeping Ulcer, Dublin; Primordial from Skerries, Co Dublin; Galway’s Weed Priest; and cover artwork from Prophecy Within, a prog-metal band from Cork)

JB writes:

“I am surprised Broadsheet continues to ignore one of the biggest and the best music scenes in the country. I speak of METAL be it doom, gloom, trash or prog. Sort it out.

 

Apologies.

For those bands currently ‘active’ and trading under the genre METAL in Ireland we salute you.

A Distant Sun
Acidtone
Altar Of Plagues
Altruism
Arise the Fallen
Atominated
Bloody Kisses
Broken Remnants
Castero
Celtachor
Celtic Legacy
Chosen
Cruachan
Dead Aeon
Dead Label
Dead Til Friday
Death of a Salesman
Dichotomy
Electric Taurus
Enemy Logic
Eternal Helcaraxe
Fatality
Fireland
Five Will Die
For Ruin
ForChristSake
Gama Bomb
Gargantuan
Gate XIII
Geasa
Glyder
Mass Extinction
Mcgalligog
Mourning Beloveth
Murdock
Mutilated Messiah
Primarkial
Primordial
Prophecy Within
Red Enemy
Scald
Selene
Sinocence
Slidhr
Slomatics
Steel Tormentor
Stormzone
Syphor
The Answer
The Eruptors
Three Hour Ceasefire
Trucker Diablo
Twisted Wrath
Uaigneas
Weed Priest
Weeping Ulcer
Xerosun

*horn sign*

Irish Metal Bands (metalUnderground.com)

Heavy-Metal-fans-at-Blood-007boydFor those who tend to rock

Brian Boyd, of techno music-kicking and ‘lethal dance cocktail’ infamy, gives YOU the extended middle finger.

First of all, you can’t put Megadeth up against Miles Davis (that’s like comparing and contrasting Jedward and Tom Waits). And if metal isn’t taken seriously, it’s because half the time it comes across as more choreographed than an all-in wrestling match and makes your average panto look like Ibsen.

There’s more hair and make-up on show at an average metal gig than then at a Girls Aloud performance.

Apart from writing essays and giving presentations about the history of heavy metal (for the love of God!), students who go on to the second year will be shoved out to play some gigs as part of their course requirement. Whereas some students are sent into obscure, draughty rooms and given dead animals or dead bodies to practice on, heavy metal degree students will be giving it the “Hello Cleveland!” in order to earn course credits – an appalling vista.

 

It’s only rock ‘n’ troll.

But he does seem to like it.

We don’t need no high-cost, high-brow, heavy metal education (Brian Boyd, Irish Times)

Previously: Irish Times House Mafia

Pic: NME