Tony Iommi is the riff master. That’s undeniable. Back in 2000 (There’s that damn year again), Tony released his first “solo” album featuring many guest vocalists like Phil Anselmo, Dave Grohl, Henry Rollins, Peter Steele, Ozzy, Billy Idol, Billy Corgan and a few others. There were a couple songs on the album that always stood out to me, the one with Phil and the one with Billy Corgan. The latter of which “Black Oblivion” is one of the coolest songs on the record and it’s pretty epic too. It’s also interesting to note too that, Billy and Tony wrote two songs for the album but, only one was picked. I know I’d be very interested to hear the other one.
Way back in the year 2000, The Smashing Pumpkins, released the second part of their (then) swan song, Machina II: The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music. This album never fully got the proper release and instead released for free on the internet on September 5, 2000. Plans for a standard physical release, bundled with the first part Machina I: The Machines of God, was supposed to happen in 2013 but was postponed due to legal setbacks. In a recent Q&A on Instagram, Billy Corgan revealed that all legal issues had been resolved. The two albums are said to be remastered and released as one in 2020. That being said, The Smashing Pumpkins did do some promotion for the album back in 2000 with a very memorable performance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, which also ended up being the band’s final television appearance until their 2007 revival.
The Smashing Pumpkins- Cash Car Star (on Tonight Show with Jay Leno):
A new year brings new albums to be released. 2020 is sure to be chock full of new releases by your favorites. I’ve started to compile a list of the bands who I believe are releasing new albums this year as the most anticipated. I know I’m missing some, so with that in mind who are you looking forward to new music from?
2020 Anticipated Albums:
Deftones The Cure Guns N Roses? Mastodon Foo Fighters The Smashing Pumpkins Pearl Jam ACDC Spirit In The Room Clint Lowery Carcass Gojira Lamb Of God Megadeth Nine Inch Nails Sevendust Rob Zombie Every Time I Die
Marilyn Manson
Power Trip
Dead Cross
Run The Jewels
Placebo
Happy New Year!!!! 2020 is going to be a fun year for Audioeclectica. Lots of changes will be taking place. You’ll have to keep checking back to see what happens.
Since it’s the beginning of the year and I always enjoy these types of things. Here is a giant list of albums celebrating their 10 year to 55 year anniversaries this year.
Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the Best Albums of the year. The stipulation is that said album/EP had to have been released this year.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER (Except 1-11, there’s too many good ones to put a number on them)!!!
01) Moon Tooth- Crux
02) Seizures- Reveries Of The Revolving Diamond
03) Korn- The Nothing
04) Cave In- Final Transmission
05) Baroness- Gold & Grey
06) Bent Knee- You Know What They Mean
07) Drab Majesty- Modern Mirror
08) Wear Your Wounds- Rust On The Gates Of Heaven
09) Greet Death- New Hell
10) Low Dose- Low Dose
11) Pinkish Black- Concept Unification
12) Helms Alee- Noctiluca
13) Spotlights- Love & Decay
14) Harborlights- Isolation Ritual
15) Slipknot- We Are Not Your Kind
16) Glassing- Spotted Horse
17) Spirit In The Room- Volume I
18) Brutus- Nest
19) Liam Gallagher- Why Me Why Not
20) Nomad Stones- Unriddled
21) Deathchant- Deathchant
22) He Is Legend- White Bat
23) The Wraith- Gloom Ballet
24) Chelsea Wolfe- Birth Of Violence
25) Rammstein- Rammstein
26) KANGA- Eternal Daughter
27) William Patrick Corgan- Cotillions
28) The Damned Things- High Crimes
29) Stephen Brodsky and Marissa Nadler- Droneflower
30) Killswitch Engage- Atonement
31) Northlane- Alien
32) Cold- The Things We Can’t Stop
Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the best songs of the year. The stipulation is that said song must’ve appeared on an album/EP released this year.
It’s also worth noting that these songs are my favorites from each of their respective albums.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) Moon Tooth- Through Ash (from Crux):
02) Seizures- The Ponds Have Dried Yet Still You Stare (from Reveries Of The Revolving Diamond):
03) Slipknot- A Liar’s Funeral (from We Are Not Your Kind):
04) Korn- Idiosyncracy (from The Nothing):
05) Spirit In The Room- U R My Religion (from Spirit In The Room Volume 1):
Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Vocalists. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) John Carbone- Moon Tooth
02) Cameron Miller- Seizures
03) Jonathan Davis- Korn
04) Courtney Swain- Bent Knee
05) Schuylar Croom- He Is Legend
06) Dennis R. Sanders- Spirit In The Room
07) Daron Beck- Pinkish Black
08) Deb Demure- Drab Majesty
09) Jacob Bannon- Wear Your Wounds
10) Itarya Rosenberg- Low Dose
Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Guitarists. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) Nick Lee- Moon Tooth
02) Adam McGrath- Nomad Stones
03) Ben Levin- Bent Knee
04) Adam Tanbouz- He Is Legend
05) William Patrick Corgan-
06) Logan Gaval- Greet Death
07) Mike McGinnis- Low Dose
08) Cory Brim- Glassing
09) Ben Verellen- Helms Alee
10) Mario Quintero- Spotlights
Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Guitar Duos. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) James “Munky” Shaffer and Brian “Head” Welch- Korn
02) John Dyer Baizley and Gina Gleason- Baroness
03) Stephen Brodsky and Adam McGrath- Cave In
04) James Root and Mick Thompson- Slipknot
05) Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz- Killswitch Engage
06) Albert Navarro and Nathan Najera- Seizures
07) Joe Trohman and Scott Ian- The Damned Things
08) Richard Kruspe and Paul Landers- Rammstein
09) Chelsea Wolfe and Bryan Tulao- Chelsea Wolfe
10) Andrew Diaz and Matthew Wright- Harborlights
Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Bassists. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.
Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.
This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!
01) Buddy Porter- Seizures
02) Nick Jost- Baroness
03) Caleb Scofield- Cave In
04) Jessica Kion- Bent Knee
05) Vin Romanelli- Moon Tooth
06) Jon DeHart- Low Dose
07) Dana James- Helms Alee
08) Sam Boyhtari- Greet Death
09) Sarah Quintero- Spotlights
10) Dustin Coffman- Glassing
