HellsBelles: Ear-Bleeding Metal!

The original lineup, circa 1984

Good old fashioned Heavy Metal is so hard to come by these days, it seems. Remember when you used play your favorite Iron Maiden platter until the grooves wore out, or waiting for your favorite record shop to open just so you could grab the latest Dio album? Or how about that night at a Motorhead concert when your girlfriend tossed her cookies on the right sleeve of your battle jacket, after downing one too many Budweisers?  Do you remember spending cash you saved up raking leaves to buy that Slayer album, instead of using it to replace that ragged pair of Converse that smelled like ape fur? Well, if you're an old geezer like me, you do.

In case you forgot though, UK band HellsBelles will help you remember those days! Members of the original band (at the time named "Hells Belles", with the space between the two words) formed the band after leaving Discharge in 1984. Now, Discharge I remember, but Hells Belles are one of those bands that got past my radar. The other day they send me a link to their DropBox account, telling me I should have a listen to their music and share it. I told them I would, and I did, and let me tell you, I immediately scoured their site, Amazon and Ebay looking for an album, a CD, a cassette, or some physical manifestation of this awesome music. Unfortunately, my quest was fruitless.

This is real hard and heavy metal, with attitude and style to match! Give a listen, and you won't be disappointed. Somebody ought to put this material on wax, and do it yesterday!

I've uploaded some of their older tracks, but they've got some newer songs that are equally brilliant, in my opinion. They've evolved over the years (I know, that term is probably the most dreaded in Heavy Metal circles), but it's quality stuff that definitely deserves a listen. HellesBelles have a more mature and refined sound these days, and have incorporated other musical elements into their sound, creating a bold, unique brand of metal that transcends genre labels.

You can find the band at Facebook, follow them at Twitter, and check out their site for further information about the band.

In the meantime, crank up these tracks, grab a brew, put your horns up, and bang your head! You can thank me later.

Tracks:

HellBelles- Screaming For Mercy

HellsBelles- Desire Me

HellsBelles- Storm Break Loose

Redirection

Since starting this blog back in 2011, there hasn't been much happening here. We're surprised at the number of monthly visitors, and that we were contacted last year about taking ads. The reason for the inactivity is that we only created this (and other satellite websites) to direct traffic to our primary site, and for SEO. Things have changed recently that made us realize that we were under utilizing our satellite sites, that we could accomplish so much more if we gave each site its own personality and purpose. Here's the quick and dirty of what you can expect from the Kingdomz X Empire over the next few months.

Our primary site is Kingdomz X Heavy Metal Entertainment (www.kingdomzx.com), and serves as our social network. Kingdomz X Rock & Metal Entertainment (www.kingdomzx.net) will be our annex, importing certain blogs from our social network. It will allow select blogs to be more visible without social features getting in the way. Kingdomz X Extreme Arts & Entertainment (www.kingdomzx.org) will host mature-themed (18+) content. If you haven't guessed, this site will host mostly extreme forms of metal. We're talking about Death Metal, Black Metal, Grind, etc. In addition, we've added sections for free downloads, magazines, film, events and more. Then there's Kingdomz X Rock & Metal News (www.kingdomzx.info) which will publish all of our content as a digital newspaper, and readers can subscribe to it.

Lastly, we are working on an internet radio station we began building years ago, but never completed. We're almost finished with it, and will be making an announcement about Kingdomz X Rock & Metal Radio come June. We've decided to resurrect the logo we created several years back for Kingdomz X Media Group and use it for the radio station.

Should you decide to visit and/or join our primary site, please don't be dismayed at its appearance. Between now and the middle of summer, we will be dismantling it, and building a new one. You can still join now, we'll just move you over with us when it's ready and done. You will not have to sign up again.

The 'Life And Liberation' Of A Black Female Metal Fan

Music writer Laina Dawes is a die-hard Judas Priest fan. She's all about the band's loud and fast guitars, the piercing vocals — and she loves to see the group perform live.

Now, a fact that shouldn't matter: Dawes is a black woman. This, she says, can make things uncomfortable on the metal scene. She says she's been verbally harassed and told she's not welcome.

"There's still a lot of resistance in terms of who should be listening to what genre of music based on their gender and their ethnicity," Dawes says, "which does not make any sense to me."

Dawes writes about the issue in her new book, What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal. Speaking here with NPR's David Greene, Dawes explains how metal grabbed hold of her as a child in rural Ontario, and how she came to realize that connecting with her fellow fans would be an uphill battle.

Saint Lucifer

Saint Lucifer was conceived in late 2010 when ex Harlots, Paindivision and current Beware of the Dog guitar/vocalist Jordan Howe wrote the 1st song for the album "Ain't Dead Yet" 'Originally I was looking at writing a hard rock album much in the ACDC Airbourne mould as I'm a huge fan of that style but after the 1st song was written decided this would be more of a metal album"

Jordan states. "I was lucky enough from my time in the music scene to know some exceptional musicians and was very hopeful they would be keen to work with me on this project". 3 guys came to mind immediately. 1st there was Paul Woseen an original founding member of The Screaming Jets who I had know from before his time with the Jets.

Paul is obviously an amazing bassist and back up singer as well as a well respected songwriter. Secondly there was Stu Marshall ex Dungeon currently with Paindivision and his epic new project Empires Of Eden. I'd had the pleasure and privilege of playing and touring with Stu in my last band Paindivision and we had a great mutual respect and friendship. Stu is without doubt my favourite Australian metal guitarist so it was a no brainer to ask if he would play lead guitar on the album.

Lastly it was down to seeking a drummer. My 1st choices were Wayne Campbell ex Mortal Sin, Grungeon, White Trash and Joe Rahme my old skins man from Paindivision. Both of these guys are exceptional drummers and guys I get along well with and respect. I decided to ask Wayne just because I thought think having too many Paindivision guys together again well we may as well just make a Paindivision record! All the guys requested I send them the material to have a listen and by that time I had written the 1st 3 songs so forwarded them on. Luckily for me all the guys loved the material and committed to the project.

The album was recorded primarily at Machine Men Studios in Sydney with ultra talented Engineer/Producer Christian Lauria. Christian was the perfect guy to look after the recording of this album as he is not only brilliant in the studio but is also a very talented bassist currently playing with Sydney prog metal band Modern Murder. All the rhythm guitars and vocals were recorded before Wayne, Stu and Paul came into the studio to do there parts. Paul spent a day and a half putting down his parts and Wayne was able to record all of the drums in a single day. Stu put lead and harmony guitars down at different times before I finished of with my lead vocals. I also had a very talented young lady named Jenna Bloom come into the studio to record some extra lead vocals for a couple of the songs as well as having Paul fly back up from Melbourne to record extra lead and backing vocals. The album was now sounding great but needed a good mixer to bring it up to speed. Adrian grigerioff was recommended to me and after meeting with Adrian and listening to some of his previous work decided he was the man for the job. Adrian spent several days mixing the album before we were all satisfied it was time to look for a mastering guy. I had heard some of little known USA Mastering Engineers Steve Nagasaki's work and really liked it so contacted him and sent him the files. Steve did a fantastic job with the master doing several different versions until I had found one I thought did justice to the whole recording.

All of the guys on this album brought there own unique and quite brilliant playing styles to the album making it what it is today. A video was filmed for the 1st single "Monster" that can be seen on YouTube. We all worked very hard to make sure "The New Messiah" was an album that we hoped would stand the test of time.

With only a very limited budget to work with I think we have been able to deliver what we think is a really great album. We really hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

http://www.saintlucifer.net

Generation Kill

 

Generation Kill was formed by Rob Dukes current Exodus front man and Rob Moschetti Ex-Pro-Pain, M.O.D. 

Thrash or be damned! GENERATION KILL are the final answer to all that

tedious talk about a comeback of Thrash Metal. Their debut album "Red

White and Blood" has everything any aficionado of the genre might have

wished to hear for the last decade: crunchy riffing, capturing

melodies, killer solos and exactly the right dose of unashamed

aggression that propelled bands like METALLICA, ANTHRAX, MEGADETH,

TESTAMENT and many others to the forefront of extreme Metal music in

the 80's. Yet GENERATION KILL do neither serve a dusty trip into

nostalgia, nor is this a bunch of kids desperately trying to recreate

what they never experienced. 

These Americans absolutely know what they are doing and it could hardly be done better. This should come as no surprise as GENERATION KILL was formed by current EXODUS frontman Rob Dukes and Rob Moschetti (ex-PRO-PAIN, M.O.D.). Drawing deeply from their roots that show through openly.Lead Guitarist Jason Trenczer is a master of technical guitar work, he also adds catchy riffs and solos. 

Newest edition to the band is Powerhouse Drummer Jim DeMaria. Jim adds an extra dose of speed and power with his hardcore/ thrash background. On top of its stunning musical merits, "Red White and Blood" offers a full concept telling the all too real story of a war veteran turned serial killer through his

traumatic experiences at the front. 

GENERATION KILL is not a side project! "Red White and Blood" will give you the thrashing of your life!

http://www.generationkill.bigcartel.com

Killer Klowns

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Directed by: Sandrow Almeidan / Luiz Soufe

ANCORA FILMES

CONFIRA MAIS EM:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Killer-Klowns/181179348600525

Acesse nosso site oficial para saber tudo sobre a banda :

www.killerklowns.com.br

Ouça todas as musicas de todos os discos ja lançados em: 

http://www.myspace.com/killerfuckinklowns

http://soundcloud.com/killerklowns-1

Siga-nos em:

http://www.twitter.com/killerklownss

Current members (Formação atual)

William: Vocals

Teets: Guitars

PC: Bass

Baby: Drums

www.killerklowns.com.br

44 Fires

The 44 FIRES are a new political Rock/Metal group,we bring you the truth through our music. We spawned from the different styles of music we all grew up listening to, from Corrosion of Conformity to Soundgarden, Primus to Rage Against the Machine, Pantera to Clutch. This has made us into the band we are today.

We will be gigging throughout this year and recording new material every few months so be ready. So come join us fight for the world!

http://www.44fires.com

http://www.myspace.com/44fires

http://www.reverbnation.com/44fires

http://www.facebook.com/44firesrock

http://twitter.com/44fires