The thing that should not let it be

OK - so there's no video but the audio is bloody awesome! You need to be a Metallica fan as well as a Beatles fan to really appreciate this and catch all the subtleties.

Although the song is a mash up/parody, you have to admit that these guys are really talented. Apart from managing to sound exactly like Metallica they are real musicians in their own right.

Mambo Kurt - Enter Sandman

I have no idea what it is about Mambo Kurt that makes him so cool!

Let's face it... he plays a crap instrument, he plays it badly, he dresses like a dweeeb, he's an ugly little shite but somehow it's frikken hilarious!

ROCK ON MAMBO KURT :-)

Slayer - Raining blood

"Reign in blood" was (and still is) the greatest thrash metal album of all time. Metallica's first 3 albums were great too, but they sold out. I don't care what anybody says... Load, ReLoad and everything up to an including St Anger just plain sucked!

I haven't been to partial to the latest couple of Slayer albums, but at least they stuck to their guns and didn't try to change their sound for mass commercial appeal!

Tankard - Empty tankard

Tankard is one of those bands that are always great to party to and this is probably thier biggest party song. Definitely thier best crowd participation song!

Anyway - the reason I am posting this here is because "Agro" from South Africa are releasing a cover version on their next album soon (we're shooting the video next Saturday :-) and I wanna be the first to announce it :-)

Gerre from Tankard will even be doing guest vocals! :-)

I'll post a copy of the vid as soon as I get a copy. The new intro and outro's are beautiful!

Gotthard Drum Solo

I just love this frikken' concept! The vocalist appears on a riser in the middle of the crowd to face of against the drummer in a killer drum solo!

Gotthard is one of those bands that are almost criminally unheard of. They are brilliant and deserve to be a lot bigger internationally than what hey are!

Pantera - Cemetery Gates

If memory serves me correctly, this is the track that turned me into a Pantera fan. I was listening to this on the way in to work this morning and it rocks as hard today as it did when it was released!