As I'm sure many of you are aware, Mike Alexander - bassist for UK thrashers Evile - has very sadly passed away. Mike has been a very dear friend to me over the past four or five years, and to everyone else in the metal community too. The news of his passing is devastating and I extend my sincere condolences to Matt, Ol, Ben and Mike's family.
Mike was an extraordinary person, and to me he was never 'Mike from Evile' - he was just Mike. He was always a friend first and a member of a band second, he was always full of laughs and making jokes, and he was always cheering me on and helping me out. To lose such a dear friend is a tragedy and I'm left utterly speechless over this event.
Mike, I salute you. Your advice, your support, your music and most importantly your friendship, will never ever be forgotten. I love you with all my heart Mike, and may you rest in peace my friend. Everything I do from now on, I'll do for you brother.
This is what, the third time now? Difference being that I didn't actually do nything wrong this time. Seems like some of the mods on this site like to give people warning for calling the new Slayer song crappy.
Its not my fault that Slayer fucking suck nowadays! Blame the fucking French!
Now if they'd have given me a GOOD reason I'd be fine with it, but when they say 'Well you could've put that a little nicer' ... seriously, what the hell? If they're going to hand out warnings because someone calls something crap - and I'm a Slayer fan - then this website s as good as dead because the only forum that'll get any notice is the Forum of the Banned. Because thats where everyone will be - in the FOTB, their poor asses banned for having an opinion.
So it was brought to my attention that The Devil's Legion was mentioned in the Blood Tsunami article here on UG, so I looked and found....
"Blood Tsunami covered Onslaught's "Steel Meets Steel", so could you touch upon that as well?
Yeah. I don't know how contact was established, though Pete spoke to a man called Dave Ingram, who is responsible for the tribute album 'The Devil's Legion: A Tribute to Onslaught'. Dave Ingram asked us, and we were recording material at Lion Heart Studios at the time anyway. We just learnt "Steel Meets Steel", and recorded it - actually, I just learnt the track by listening to it over again and again on my iPod. Subsequently, I then went into the studio, and recorded drums without an engineer man, and without listening to the track. Pete wanted to cut that track, a cover track, since Onslaught is obviously one of the classic eighties groups within the thrash metal underground. When we were asked, that was easy to say yes to."
Bloody ace.Fantastic man, fantastic band, fantastic cover - check out their blazing rendition of Steel Meets Steel and prepare for your ears to get raped!
Seriously, I'm extremely surprised at this and rather happy too. Cheers to Pete and Faust for being good sports!
For all updates on "The Devil's Legion: A Tribute to Onslaught" check the official Devil's Legion MySpace page at www.myspace.com/onslaughttribute
If anyone wishes me to review anything for some bizarre reason, post in here (NOT on my page, comments will be deleted) and I'll see what I can do.
One ground rule though - REAL metal only, and no pop/blues/jazz/country etc. and most certainly no poser ands (e.g. Killswitch Engage, Black Tide, Job For A Cowboy). I'll review thrash and death metal releases only, so if anyone asks me to review the new Trivium record you'll get a massive "FUCK OFF" and a deleted comment. Possibly a sore arse too.
These aren't neccessarily in any order, bar the first eight which all tie for my number one.
1. Onslaught - Killing Peace 2. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains 3. Exumer - Possessed by Fire 4. Coroner - Mental Vortex 5. Kreator - Pleasure to Kill 6. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness 7. Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence 8. Testament - The Legacy 9. Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients 10. Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good! 11. Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare 12. Dark Angel - Darkness Descends 13. Death - The Sound of Perseverance 14. Evile - Enter the Grave 15. Onslaught - The Force 16. Coven - Blessed Is the Black 17. Obituary - Cause of Death 18. Sadus - Chemical Exposure 19. Razor - Violent Restitution 20. Exumer - Rising from the Sea 21. Testament - Low 22. Lawnmower Deth - Ooh Crikey! Its... 23. Exodus - Bonded by Blood 24. Coroner - R.I.P 25. Slayer - Show No Mercy 26. Vio-lence - Oppressing the Masses 27. Annihilator - Alice In Hell 28. Death - Symbolic 29. Metal Church - Metal Church 30. Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss 31. Xentrix - For Whose Advantage? 32. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes 33. Destruction - Thrash Anthems 34. Anthrax - Spreading the Disease 35. Forbidden - Forbidden Evil 36. Megadeth - Rust In Peace 37. Testament - Souls of Black 38. Morbid Angel - Covenant 39. Pestilence - Conusming Impulse 40. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic of Violence 41. Justice - The Descendant 42. Overkill - Feel the Fire 43. Sodom - M16 44. Bulldozer - Neurodeliri 45. Sabbat UK - Dreamweaver 46. Sepultura - Schizophrenia 47. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted 48. Nailbomb - Point Blank 49. Sarcofago - The Laws of Scourge 50. Onslaught - Power from Hell 51. Heathen - Victims of Deception 52. Tankard - Chemical Invasion 53. Metallica - Ride the Lightning 54. Razor - Evil Invaders 55. Slaughter - Strappado 56. Anihilated - The Ultimate Desecration 57. Judas Priest - Painkiller 58. Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum 59. Sadus - Swallowed In Black 60. Morbid Angel - Domination 61. Holocausto - Campo Di Extermino 62. Vulcano - Bloody Vengeance 63. Gammacide - Victims of Science 64. Incubus (Opprobrium) - Serpent Temptation 65. Control Denied - The Fragile Art of Existence 66. Mortal Sin - Mayhemic Destruction 67. Venom - Welcome to Hell 68. Death - Scream Bloody Gore 69. Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather 70. S.O.D - Speak English or Die 71. Devastation - Idolatry 72. Sepultura - Bestial Devastation 73. Evildead - Annihilation of Civilization 74. Sadus - A Vision of Misery 75. Desaster - Hellfire's Dominion 76. Slayer - Reign In Blood 77. Testament - Demonic 78. Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh 79. Heathen - Breaking the Silence 80. Death - Leprosy 81. Sodom - Code Red 82. Bulldozer - The Final Seperation 83. Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What! 84. Hobb's Angel of Death - Hobb's Angel of Death 85. Artillery - By Inheritance 86. Sacred Reich - Ignorance 87. Assassin - The Upcoming Terror 88. Testament - The Gathering 89. Annihilator - Never Neverland 90. Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death 91. Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly 92. Vio-lence - Nothing to Gain 93. Devastation - Signs of Life 94. Xentrix - Shattered Existence 95. Messiah - Choir of Horrors 96. Destruction - The Antichrist 97. Testament - Practice What You Preach 98. Watchtower - Control and Resistance 99. Sarcofago - Rotting 100. Razor - Shotgun Justice
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