Troublegum was such a great album, and much more melodic than their earlier stuff (although Potato Junky and Teethgrinder were pretty catchy early songs). But the massive success of this album was their undoing IMO.
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totally agree. They never really got close to this again.
Not a bad song on there.
Love this though and some of the other acoustic versions
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Not my normal jam but this 
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I posted this in new music listening to this week. Y’all know I like Deadmau5, well this was a random find for me, a dubstep DJ /producer from Philly, but apparently well known and liked. I was doing paperwork on insurance stuff and this sure kept me from falling asleep.
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@Griffo - Excellent one.
@Griffo - hidden in an obscure 60s pop song here, RJD already had that voice and style - Walking In Different Circles - song by Ronnie Dio & The Prophets | Spotify
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Cheers for that. Excellent.
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I just listened to the MC5’s Kick out the Jams from 1969 again. It may or may not be the first punk rock or heavy metal album. Is it? I find it to be really jazzy at times. A lot of the aggression is carried by the vocals, and the hardness is now routine guitar feedback. Still, it’s a landmark.
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There’s a very good argument for it. I read an article many moons ago that put forward that Blue Cheer were the first band doing what we now hold as Heavy Metal. I would always put Black Sabbath as the band that really put Metal out there but then I’m biased as they are from my home city.
As for punk/rock mentioning the MC5 is quite on point as I’ve just recently watched the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger and there’s a section in there regarding the MC5 and their politics as the Stooges started to support them as they were getting popular. I mean there’s a great influential band right there in the Stooges.
No matter who or what was first Detroit in the late 60s really had some serious music.
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Blue Cheer did the best version of Summertime Blues after the original . I want to say , but may be wrong , that Iron Butterfly came around the same time frame as Blue Cheer , & The Crazy World of Arthur Brown . Had the honor to hear In -A Godda-Da-Vida live once . Detroit in the mid 60’s & early 70’s was excellent ! The early 70’s Detroit gave us Alice Cooper . Sabbath , the founding fathers of metal , hard to argue with that one .
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This is where it all started for me on my rock/metal journey. Played this to death on cassette as a 16 year old. From here it took me 6 months to find thrash/death metal and this just seemed so tame then.
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That was around the start of my metal phase too. I would tape the Friday Rock show on Radio 1, with Tommy “the voice” Vance, and listen to it again and again for the rest of the week, because that was really the only source of rock music I could find, along with Kerrang magazine.
My only regret was that it took me a little longer to expand my musical horizons. For instance, I went to the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donnington in 1987 to see the headliners (Bon Jovi) and the opening act (Cinderella). I was really shocked when I recently read an article on that show, and found out that Metallica and Anthrax were there too, and I had no memory of that. I was probably getting drunk somewhere, waiting for Bon Jovi to start LOL. Metallica in their prime… sigh.
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Slipknot is technically not death metal, but rather Nu-metal or Alt-metal. The themes and music style that Slipknot uses differs from what the core of death metal is. The only thing “death” about Slipknot is their vocal style, which employs the “death” or “growly” style of singing; but that does not make them a death metal band.
If you want to experience true death metal, feel free to reach out and I can recommend some popular choices.
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This is more my kind of death metal.
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Scorpions’ 2nd album is on the streaming services now - have been looking for this for a few years.
From the Uli Jon Roth era. While not quite as great as In Trance, it’s interesting.
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Just listened to Rust In Peace while at the gym today. So good!
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Really fun song and a killer video!
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