THIS IS THE NEW SHIT

Presenting the new face of metal gaze in progressive hues. Animals As Leaders is the real thing. Not in six, not in seven, but in a double eight-string guitar attack!

Tosin Abasi is the firebrand of the new wave of virtuosos.

METAL ON METAL

While sick I have now watched this achingly emotive and brilliantly-paced docu on one of heavy metal's lost sons. Let's hear it for the resurrection of Anvil. Thanks for the suggestion, Pao Seen.

NOTS GETS NOD FROM Trese's BUDJETTE TAN

Trese writer and co-creator Budjette Tan picked his "Best of the Year" list on the UK's Forbidden Planet International. Is it that time of the year now when we make our retrospective, listomanias? Had the pleasure to hang out with Trese's artist Kajo Baldissimo a month or so back and he was a very cool, tranquil dude.

Thanks for the pick, Mr Tan! You certainly have good taste  : )

Read the whole post HERE. Have excerpted it below.


Best of the Year: Budjette Tan


Today’s Best of the Year guest blog comes courtesy of the award-winning Filipino creator Budjette Tan, one half of the creative team behind the excellent Trese graphic novels (UK & US publishers, please have a look, this needs a wider audience). Over to Budj. . .


NEWS OF THE SHAMAN by Karl De Mesa (Published by Visprint) This is an anthology of loosely connected horror novellas. The book lends you a flashlight that badly needs batteries and asks you to point at certain spots in Manila, giving you a glimpse of this city where angels and demons roam, where creatures of Philippine folklore and lower-mythology have found new jobs and hobbies in the metro, where people casually practice magic and shamans are hailed like heroes and treated like rockstars.

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WAVE THE BLACK FLAG

Circle Jerks, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, SS Decontrol, Articles of Faith, Minor Threat, Battalion of Saints, DOA, etc and the great Bad Brains.

A comprehensive documentary albeit stutteringly paced. Did you know Pinoy restaurants and clubs played host to some of the seminal hardcore punk outfits? A; yes sir, the Mabuhay Gardens at San Francisco. A joy to watch. Extreme pit violence is required.

Now. This. Is. Hardcore.

MONSTER MAGNET CIRCA 2010

 It's a great Christmas for stoner rock. The new Monster Magnet album Mastermind is here!

Check out their video for the single "Gods and Punks." Thank you Mr. Wyndorf for the gift of weed, sleaze and occult references in a pure mix of rock and roll.