10 songs you should hear now!
1, MASTODON, COLONY OF BIRCHMEN (LIVE)
With QOTSA's Josh Homme on vocals you really can't fail to hit the bullseye. Especially not when Mastodon are belting out the tunes behind him live at the MTV Video Music Awards.
youtube.com/watch?v=mi5_2rQl2XA
2, COHEED AND CAMBRIA, THE RUNNING FREE
Not a cover of the Maiden classic of (nearly) the same name, this is actually a rather spiffing new one from the New York progsters. Their new album should be a belter.
www.myspace.com/coheedandcambria
3, FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
Another cracker from their corking Tales Don't Tell Themselves record, this slab of total stadium filling rock sounds, appropriately enough, absolutely massive.
youtube.com/watch?v=LuEPlIjwmkw
4, TURISAS, RASPUTIN
Fearless Finnish battle metal warriors Turisas tried to tell us that this Boney-M cover was done because of interesting musical merit, which is bollocks. It's because this single is a titanium-plated hoot.
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=17543089
5, REUBEN, DEADLY LETHAL NINJA ASSASSIN
A superb cut from their recent In Nothing We Trust record, this sees Aldershot's finest at their stomping, sarcastic melodic rock best. Also features Frank Turner and ex-Hundred Reasons bloke Paul Townsend.
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=17958847
6, FOO FIGHTERS, SHAKE YOUR BLOOD (LIVE)
It's just showing off getting Lemmy to sing on a song you wrote for him. But if the opportunity comes up, it's just rude not to get him up onstage to belt it out with you, innit?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5afZPqKqBa0
7, NEW FOUND GLORY, KISS ME
A pop-punk band giving a pop tune a workover is about as new an idea as putting butter on bread, but this version of Sixpence Non the Richer's Kiss Me is still a chuckle anyway.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=17445337
8, BLOODSIMPLE, RED HARVEST
'Time For New Shit!' declaresa post on their MySpace page. Damned right, although, shit might not be the right word for this storming slice of metal. Although 'fierce' just might be.
www.myspace.com/bloodsimple
9, EMIGRATE, NEW YORK CITY
With a bit more of a human soul than his day job, this new single from Rammstein bloke Richard Z. Kruspe's Emigrate is a fat slice of dark, goth-tinged metal stomp.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB8XGUfPrbk
10, THE CHECKS, WHAT YOU HEARD
Harking back to the heady days of the MC5 and the Stooges, The Checks could give Jack White a good run for his money when it comes to greasy, garage guitar grooves.
www.myyspace.com/thechecks
