A little over a week ago legendary metal band Exodus played a show in the San Francisco Bay Area outside of the Metro Operahouse. Exodus recently released their superb new album, Persona Non Grata. If you are into thrash metal, I recommend you checking this record out! At this show though, Robb Flynn from Machine Head came out to join the band to do guest vocals for one of his all time favorite Exodus songs. I have to say this version is badass. It would be pretty awesome to hear a studio version with Robb on this track some point in the future. Also what would be awesome is if Machine Head and Exodus did a tour together in 2023. Just throwing that out there!!!
Exodus with Robb Flynn from Machine Head- A Lesson In Violence:
Brand New’s album The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me is one of the best albums of the 21st century. If you haven’t heard it, you really should make a point to do so. It’s one of those albums that the moment it starts, it captivates you and compels you to start it over as soon as it’s over. The album has some interesting history to it. Not only was it the bands major label debut but, before the album was even released there were 9 songs that were leaked out in demo form. The band was disappointed to hear of the leak; however, they had already been performing new tracks at live shows. Initially leaked without song titles, two of the songs would be re-recorded for the album (“Sowing Season” and “Luca”), with two others being re-recorded and released on singles from the album. These versions are quite different than the what is found on the album. These leaked demos are referred to by fans as Fight Off Your Demons, the batch of leaked demos were remastered and officially released to the public on December 2, 2015. It’s quite a good complimentary release to The Devil and God. It gives you a different perspective on the writing of the album and the mindset. As much as it sucked to have these songs leaked, I do believe it did do the band good in that it pushed them a bit more to keep going and the end result is an absolute masterpiece.
Brand New- Fight Off Your Demons (aka Leaked Demos 2006):
Brand New- The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me:
I was having a conversation with a couple friends the other day. We were discussing a few bands and the thing that kept coming up was the voice of the vocalist. As we were chatting a list was starting to be made and why not make this a fun collaborative list! This list doesn’t necessarily mean they are terrible just that their voices aren’t easy to listen to (high pitched, nasally, obnoxious, etc). So, here we go…
Geddy Lee- Rush Tom DeLonge- Blink 182/Angels and Airwaves Perry Farrell- Jane’s Addiction/Porno For Pyros Claudio Sanchez- Coheed and Cambria Scott Stapp- Creed Myles Kennedy- Alter Bridge/Slash Daron Malakian- System Of A Down/Scars On Broadway Justin Hawkins- The Darkness King Diamond- Mercyful Fate/King Diamond Gerard Way- My Chemical Romance Davey Havok- AFI/Blaqq Audio Steven Tyler- Aerosmith Chris Carraba- Dashboard Confessional Bert McKracken- The Used Adam Lazzara- Taking Back Sunday Brian Molko- Placebo Billy Corgan- The Smashing Pumpkins Chino Moreno- Deftones Joey Belladona- Anthrax Dani Filth- Cradle Of Filth Ben Gibbard- Death Cab For Cutie/The Postal Service Sully Erna- Godsmack Chad Gray- Mudvayne/Hellyeah Anders Frieden- In Flames Chester Bennington- Linkin Park Cedric Bixler Zavala- At The Drive In/The Mars Volta Maria Brink- In This Moment Dave Mustaine- Megadeth Vince Neil- Motley Crue (anything post 1991) Tim Armstrong- Rancid/The Transplants Anthony Green- Saosin/Circa Survive Brian Aubert- Silversun Pickups Bjork Jewel Joni Mitchell Joan Baez Bob Dylan
