Autopsy: The Headless Ritual

When you're a drummer and you get together with a bunch of other muso's to put together a debut album, the far reaching implications of your collective work is probably not at the fore of your thoughts. Now imagine after working on an album called "Scream Bloody Gore" you leave that band & start another.

I know many of you would know Autopsy drummer/vocalist played on the legendary Death's debut & soon after formed Autopsy. Autopsy had a bit of a rocky history over the years, disbanding in '95, reuniting briefly in 2008, then again in 2009, before disbanding & permanently reuniting in 2010, upon the end of side project come main stay band, Abscess.

Autopsy's new album "The headless Ritual" is out now & I'm not going to review the album, there are better people out there for the job, I'm simply going to say that this is going to be an album that Metallers of quite a few stripes are going to kick themselves if they don't pick it up. The simple maths of it is, that members of this band are amongst the pioneers of a major sub-genre, one which who's influence has propagated and worked its way well beyond its foundations, so in that respect there will be great hordes of the metal listening population that would find something to their liking in this album.

I know that when it comes to matters of personal taste, arguments like that (such and such done good before, so is good now) lies with the it's popular argument (if so many people like it, then it can't be bad) in their flawed logic but I guess the point I'm trying to allude to is that, it is worth mentioning their history because it still makes up the essence of their sound.

As I always say, go have a listen to 'em & if you like what you hear go pick up the album because it'll be worthwhile: it was released in NZ on the 21st of June via Peaceville Records/Southbound.

http://www.peaceville.com/
http://www.peaceville.com/bands/2088
http://www.autopsydeathmetal.com

The Bogan's inside guide to metal

Dr Bogan, world famous in NZ and a broad, has authored "Bogan: An insiders guide to metal, mullets and mayhem." which is due for release on the 24th of July 2013 (according to the publishers website: http://www.penguin.co.nz/products/9780143568957/bogan )

Bits from an interview I conducted on the Hard, fast & heavy show is included in the book, though I can not think of what or why: though in all honesty it would be an honour if just my farts & burps were transcribed in the book  ;p  

It was a real radio high flying meets grounded, stressful, normal life experience when Dr Bogan asked to use bits from the show in his book- not only was I in contact with Dr Bogan, but the promoter for the then upcoming Steel Panther gig was also on the phone to either set up the interview, or use bits from it for some news paper article: all the while I had a massive Structural Engineering Assignment due! 

BUT in true bogan fashion; there is a release party, with bands playing and beer a flowing, no doubt!

Friday August 2nd, 2013: at Hamilton's Biddy Mulligans on Victoria St, featuring musical talent from Escape from the Sky, Team Kill & Cheshire Grimm

https://www.facebook.com/events/615636431781449/

I'm reasonably sure you might be able to hear Dr Bogan whenever he joins Hamilton's own, The Feral Crew and if their appearance on the Steve Wrigley, Ben Hurley traveling TV comedy show was anything to go by, sounds like you'll be in for a few laughs with your metal

 

Playlist for 24th June 2013

Check out the podcast on Itunes!!
https://itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/95bfm-the-hard-fast-heavy-show/id663167677?mt=2

Hard fast n heavy (24.06.2013)
BATTLEBEAST- Raven
CHILDREN OF BODOM- Waste of Skin
VALIENT THORR- Call of the Dogs
AMON AMARTH- Father of the Wolf
U.D.O- Metal Machine
HAVOK- Unnatural Selection
EVILE- Skull
PROWLER- Choker (NZ)
BATTLECROSS- Force Fed Lies
EL SCHLONG- The Alchemist (NZ)
ANVIL- Mothra
TEAM KILL- Ditch (NZ)
ESCAPE FROM THE SKY- The Lost Signal (NZ)
AUTOPSY- Coffin Crawlers
GRIMUS- Draped in Fear
MUMAKIL- Waste by definition/ Death from below.
DEW-SCENTED- Confronting  Entropy
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT- Resolve!
HOBBS ANGEL OF DEATH- Jack the Ripper

Playlist for 10th June 2013

BLACK SABBATH- Live Forever

GUNT- Deletion (NZ)

LAMB OF GOD- 11th Hour

IDYLLIC FOE- Fall to Greed (NZ)

PUPPETEER- Another leaf in the breeze (NZ)

FEAR FACTORY- Millenium

CHILDREN OF BODOM- Bodom Blue Moon

PUPPETEER- As the Tides Turn (NZ)

EXORDIUM MORS- Primordial Inversion Evolution (NZ)

JUST ONE FIX- Wasted Life (NZ)

OUT COLD A.D.- Aftermath (NZ)

TOO LATE- Waste (NZ)

MIDNIGHT- Satanic Royalty

LORD- Final Seconds

MUNICIPAL WASTE- The Wrath of the Severed Head

DENY- My Justice (NZ)

BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

EXODUS- Culling the Herd

Municipal Waste interview

Just a heads up that I've added a link to the youtube audio of my interview with Municipal Waste's Ryan Waste under the 'interviews' section of the site.

Go directly there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWRONungRo0

Link to their 2013 NZ shows (June 13th: Welly & 14th: Auckland):
http://www.facebook.com/events/316414908481827

http://www.facebook.com/ChicksThatScream

www.facebook.com/Municipalwaste
www.facethewaste.com
www.youtube.com/municipalwaste

Incarnium

I would like to take the time to thank Andre from Deadlights Entertainment, and the lads from Incarnium.
If you missed the show & the podcast, on the 27th of May, Westies Incarnium were on, ahead of their album release show at the Kings Arms on the 1st of June.

Their new album, Purgatory, can be heard here: http://incarnium.bandcamp.com I recommend you check it out. The lads kindly passed on a physical copy so it'll be in the hard fast heavy vaults, ready to blast out a track whenever there's a request, when they're in the headlines again with a gig or even just when I want to.

 They're a good bunch, as well as having a wicked sound so I'm putting them on the hard fast heavy show list of bands to watch out for.

Playlist for 3d June 2013

MEGADETH- Don't Turn your back

MEMORY GARDENS- The King of the Dead

WHITE WIZZARD- Torpedo of Truth

DEMON LUNG- Devil's Wind

U.D.O- Steelhammer

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM- Motherfuckery

ASG- Castlestorm

M:PIRE OF EVIL- Black Legions

MEGADETH- Kingmaker

EVILE- Head of the Demon

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Hero of the Soviet Union

SHINING- Paint the Sky Black

INCARNIUM- In the Absence of Angels (NZ)

HAVOK- Arise

IMMOLATION- A Spectacle of Lies

DARK TRANQUILITY- Uniformity

Playlist for 27th May 2013

BATTLE BEAST- Neuromancer

WEST OF HELL- Spiral Empire (NZ-ish)

INCARNIUM- The Cult (NZ)

BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

DECORTICA- Helix (NZ)

MY DAMNED KIND- Legacy (NZ)

INCARNIUM- Tramadol (NZ)

DEAD TEACH THE LIVING- Human Centipede (NZ)

INCARNIUM- Watering the Faceplant (NZ)

DENY- My Justice (NZ)

CHILDREN OF BODOM- Halo of Blood

IDYLLIC FOE- Fall to Greed (NZ)

BLESSED Y A BROKEN HEAR- Shut up and Rock.

SCAPHIST- Heraldic Verses (NZ)

SUPPRESSION- Concrete (NZ)

ALCHEMIST- Secrets Kept (NZ)

SINATE- Premonition of the wicked (NZ)

LEGACY OF DISORDER- Last Man Standing (NZ)

BLOODLETTING- Beauty of the Slain (NZ)

http://incarnium.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/incarnium

Playlist for 20th May 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY (20.05.2013)
BATTLE BEAST- Let it Roar
KYLESA- Grounded
BATTLE BEAST- Fight Kill Die
M:PIRE OF EVIL- Taking it all
DENY- My Justice (NZ)
HERESIARCH- Carnivore (NZ)
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Crossburner
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Understanding Decay
HEAVEN SHALL BURN- Fallen
TIL DEATH DO US PARTY- Wait, I thought you were the sober driver!?(NZ)
KING PARROT- Shit on the Liver
AMON AMARTH- The Pursuit of Vikings
THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT- Drugs, thugs & machetes
VREID- The Devils Hand
SHADE EMPIRE- Malicious Winds
GAMA BOMB- We started the fire
ANTAGONIST A.D- I'm not there (NZ)
BULLETBELT- Mistaken Identity (NZ)

Playlist for 13th May 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY (13-05-2013)
HELL- Let Battle Commence
CLUTCH- Cyborg Bette
THE DEVIL- Extinction Level Event
BLOODNUT- Fire Giant (NZ)
IDYLLIC FOE- Fall to Greed (NZ)
IMMOLATION- Kingdom of Conspiracy
HAVOK- Point of no return
RESPORN- In Waves (NZ)
LORD- Final Seconds
KORPIKLAANI- Honour
KORPIKLAANI- Happy Little Boozer
MUNICIPAL WASTE- Idiot check
MUNICIPAL WASTE- Headbanger Face Rip
OF BLACKEST OCEANS- As Silent as the Grave (NZ)
DEPTHS- The Last (NZ)
EXORDIUM MORS- Ancestors' Call (NZ)
TESTAMENT- Sangre Nativa
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN- Prancer
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER- Into the Everblack

Playlist for 6th May 2013

HARD FAST N HEAVY PLAYLIST (6/05/2013)
BEASTWARS- The Sleeper (NZ)
DYING OF THE LIGHT- Monolithium (NZ)
PUPPETEER- Away (NZ)
CHILDREN OF BODOM- Transference
MUNICIPAL WASTE- Repossession
ADVOCATES- Grizzly Adams (NZ)
STARGAZER- Animus
BLAZE OF PERDITION- Alchemy of Flesh
PYRITHION- The Invention of Hatred
WOE- This is the End of the Story
CARNIFEX- Angel of Death
ARK OF THE COVENANT- Blind man
ROB ZOMBIE- Call of the Zombie/ Superbeast
ROB ZOMBIE- Behold, the pretty filthy creatures

Playlist for 29th April 2013

ROB ZOMBIE- Rock and Roll (In a Blackhole)
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM- Motherfuckery
EL BAJO- Fist of Rocust (NZ)
KERRETTA- The Guardsman (NZ)
BEASTWARS- Dune (NZ)
BATTLE BEAST- Into the Heart of Danger
ALIASES- Exasperated
BEASTWARS- Tower of Skulls (NZ)
SET ON END- Cimmerian Shade (NZ)
HACRIDE- Ghost of the Modern World
EMPYRIOS- Masters
LORD- Point of View
IMMOLATION- Kingdom of Conspiracy
AMORPHIS- Hopeless days
HOWL- Your Hell Begins
MALEFICE- The Great Deciever