Favorite Songs of the 00's

Here is a list of my favorite songs that have been released this past decade:

(note: for some of the links, where available, the music video edits have been provided rather than the full track)

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible / Black Mirror / Windowsill

Agalloch - ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth / In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion (1,2) / Not Unlike The Waves 

Akercocke - Axiom / Leviathan 

Amon Amarth - The Pursuit Of Vikings / Runes To My Memory / Death in Fire

The Angelic Process - Million Year Summer

Bathory - Broken Sword / Great Hall Awaits A Fallen Brother / Sea Wolf

Behemoth - Conquer All / Slaves Shall Serve / As Above, So Below

Blut Aus Nord - Our Blessed Frozen Cells

Boris - Pink

Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution

Celtic Frost - Progeny / A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh

Cradle of Filth - Her Ghost In The Fog / Cthulhu Dawn

Cult of Luna - Leave Me Here

Darkthrone - Divided We Stand / Striving For A Piece Of Lucifer / Canadian Metal / Raised On Rock / Hiking Metal Punks / Witch Ghetto

Deströyer 666 - Lone Wolf Winter

The Devil's Blood - The Heavens Cry Out For The Devil's Blood

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants / Black Bubblegum / Milk Lizard

Dimmu Borgir - Blessings Upon The Throne Of Tyranny / Kings of the Carnival Creation

Down - Learn from this Mistake / Landing On The Mountains Of Meggido / On March The Saints

Earth - Raiford (The Felon Wind) / Engine Of Ruin

Electric Wizard - Vinum Sabbathi / I, the Witchfinder / Dunwich / Satanic Rites of Drugula

Enslaved - The Crossing / The Dead Stare / Isa / Return To Yggdrasill / The Voices / The Cromlech Gate / Essence / Heir To The Cosmic Seed / New Dawn / The Watcher

Fear Factory - Slave Labor

The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep (1,2,3,4)

Gojira - To Sirius / The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe

Gorgoroth - Carving A Giant

Grinderman - No Pussy Blues

High on Fire - Hung, Drawn and Quartered / Cometh Down Hessian

Immortal - Tyrants / In My Kingdom Cold

Isis - So Did We

Jesu - We All Faulter / Star / Medicine

Keep Of Kalessin - Come Damnation / Reclaim

Killing Joke - Hosannas From the Basement of Hell

Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants / Seabeast / Naked Burn / Colony Of Birchmen / Sleeping Giant / Oblivion / Crack The Skye / The Last Baron

Ministry - Unsung / Warp City / Lieslieslies

Morbid Angel - Opening Of The Gates

Nachtmystium - Bleed for Thee / My Vengeance / Seasick (1, 2 & 3)

The National - Mistaken For Strangers

Negura Bunget - Cunoaşterea Tăcută

Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets / Stones From The Sky / Burn / Water Is Not Enough

Nevermore - Inside four Walls / Dead Heart in a Dead World / Final Product / Born

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - As I Sat Sadly By Her Side / Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds / Getting Smaller / Sunspots / Capital G / God Given / The Great Destroyer / In This Twilight

Opeth - The Drapery Falls / Blackwater Park (1,2) / A Fair Judgment / Death Whispered a lullaby / The Lotus Eater / Porcelain Heart

A Perfect Circle - Magdalena / Judith / Pet

Portrait - A Thousand Nightmares

Primordial - Gods to the Godless / End Of All Times (Martyrs Fire) / Empire Falls

Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer / The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret / Monsters In The Parasol / Go With the Flow / Burn The Witch / Little Sister / Make It Wit Chu / 3's & 7's

Rammstein - Ich will / Mutter / Adios / Moskau / Mein Teil / Amerika

Red Harvest - AEP

Satyricon - Fuel for Hatred / The Pentagram Burns

Sigh -  Midnight Sun / Inked In Blood / Me-Devil

Sigur Rós - Untitled 8 - Popplagi / hoppípolla / Glósóli 

Skinny Puppy - pedafly / ugLi

Slayer - Bloodline / Disciple / Cult

Smashing Pumpkins - Doomsday Clock / United States

System of a Down - Psycho / Aerials / B.Y.O.B. / Violent Pornography

Tool - Schism / Parabola / Wings For Marie - 10,000 Days 

Trench Hell - Southern Cross Ripper

Type O Negative - Dead Again / The Profit Of Doom / Halloween In Heaven

Ulver - Lost In Moments / Vowels / Solitude

Velvet Cacoon - Avalon Polo

Watain - Puzzles Of Flesh / I Am The Earth / Casus Luciferi / Sworn to the Dark / Stellarvore

Happy Zombie Jesus Day!

The official high holiday of the Zombie Church!

Of course, our Dinosaur Brothers have a different holiday for this Sunday. The Resurrection of Raptor Jesus.

Metallica finally get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

Cheers and it's about damn time!




















ps... The other day I bought two tickets for Metallica's show in Nashville come September. I'VE BEEN WAITING TEN FREAKING YEARS FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Human, All Too Human

This was a really interesting series I caught on youtube that was originally done by the BBC (the standard of good TV documentaries, IMO). It's on three of Continental Philosophy's most important philosophers from the 19th into the 20th century.

Note: Unfortunately pretty much all of these videos are in mono. So hopefully you'll be able to still listen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3


Part 4


Part 5


Part 6



Martin Heidegger

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Part 5


Part 6



Jean Paul Sartre

Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


Part 4


Part 5


Part 6

I love the smell of Napalm (Death) in the morning (Night)

Here is some very old-school 1990 pretty decently recorded live Napalm Death. One of the band's better line-ups back then, but they've struck an almostly equally great run lately with albums like The Code Is Red... Long Live The Code, Smear Campaign, and their latest and sure fired top 20 of the year album Time Waits For No Slave.





For more Napalm go HERE!

Which one is Pink? (Before they even cared about Pink)

Meddle is one of the more over-looked Pink Floyd albums. It came out right before Dark Side of the Moon in 1971 and none of its songs have gotten much radio play at all (which could be said of most early Floyd).

Meddle (along with Animals), came to attention a bit more it seems in the metal community ever since Blake from Nachtmystium mentioned it as one of his favorite albums. This can be best seen (heard) in Nachtmystium's song One of These Nights, which thematically and musically plays upon the Floyd's One of these Days.

With that in mind I thought I would link a few vids for those not familiar with this side of Floyd.

Here is One of These Days (subtitled: I'm Going to Cut You into Little Pieces)





Next is the song Echoes, which is possibly one of Floyd's best songs ever. It comes in at more than 23 minutes. There have been two video presentations of this song that have in particular touched me. One is the Live in Pompeii version which has a unique sound to it since it's live and they're playing behind a literal wall of amps (out in the ruins of Pompeii, quite cool, huh?). The second is the pairing of the song with the last scene from Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey". There are a lot of rumors as to why it fits so perfectly, but I won't touch upon that besides the fact that they work together SO GOD DAMN PERFECTLY.

Anyway here, in all 23+ minute form:



(note: It is best to watch this in a very dark room, with the screen blown all the way out and the volume very, very high.... which you might want to get as well)

I don't want to post the Pompeii version because you should all go out and buy it, but if you want to see it now just go on youtube you'll find it easily enough.

25 Most Conservative/Liberal Films?

The National Review recently released a list, based on votes from subscribers and apparently some editorial/crtic based editing, of what they claimed were the top 25 Conservative films of the past 25 years.

25 Top Conservative Films

In looking it up, I also found that Daily Kos posted a list as well based on polls (or something).

Top 25 Liberal Films


My general conclusion after looking at both lists is that they both have quite a bit of bullshit in them. However, the Daily Kos' list is filled with the most bulllshit.

First off a documentary really shouldn't be placed on a list of "great" films unless you're just talking about documentaries alone. It's like putting a book on tape in a list of greatest albums. It just doesn't work. So Daily Kos really fucks it up by including, by my count (I don't know all the movies they posted), 6 docs and 4 of them are from Michael Moore. I'm sorry but that's really bullshit. But even more bullshit is that they gave #1 to An Inconvenient Truth. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. At its best it can be called informative and thought provoking, however that doesn't make it great film making, rather it was very dull film making because it was only filming a god damn lecture. Oh, and to have included Thank You for Smoking... that's really fucking ironic.

Anyway... as for NR's list, some of it seems fitting and some of it seems to be rather bizzare. The Incredibles I would say is fitting though I have to laugh to myself about it because after seeing the film I called it the most blatant anti-communist propaganda I had ever seen (note: I still enjoyed the movie). The Life of Others seems very odd, but I guess the ethics of spying can be overshadowed if the ultimate result is showing how fucked up Soviet style Communism was.

One funny bit is how both lists have Brazil, which in reflection doesn't suprise me. It's a highly Orwellian like story and that's the real root of why both the left and right love it. Orwell's works pointed out the failings/horror of totalitarianism, as seen in the Soviet Union, yet he was a staunch socialist. Anyway, I would certainly rank Brazil as one of my favorite movies of all time (gotta love Criterion).

Videodrome: