Fucking nostalgia and it’s detriment to progression, growth or more simply put – how can you make tomorrow something worthy when you’re too busy looking back at yesterday? The Metal scene is poisoned with nostalgia these last years. Reunion this, reunion that – dignity it right out of fashion it seems. Of course every rule…
"Latex paints dries to touch in about one hour. This isn’t the same as it being cured. Latex paint can be painted with a second coat after about 6 hours. It takes about 30 days for the paint to fully cure; meaning that you can wash spots off your wall without damaging your paint finish.…
Oh how I love the first four Danzig albums. Genius. All of them. Put into the context of their time and place, they are truly remarkable and unique. Unfortunately, I was a late comer….their sound just being too foreign to me as a young whipper snapper Metal kid. Shame. I was actually meant to see…
As a kid, discovering the finest music that the devil had on offer for us, I went through the usual stages that were common for most of those my generation spewed forth. These stages amounted to a gradual ascent up the mount – the further up you travelled generally meant that you were becoming accustomed…
Never in all my years did I ever think that I would be standing alongside around 30,000 people as a willing and able participant in an Oprah Winfrey live broadcast and how did I get here in the first place? What if someone sees me? Oh the shame… The confusion lifts all too slowly but…
So "Ghost" and "Deconstruction" signal the circle completing for Devin Townsend and his comeback of sorts. Not that he had really suffered anything like a career decline but his ‘retiring’ from the public eye, particularly as far as touring (or lack of touring) goes and the promise he made that it was to be more…
(…this article is in English…)For noen uker siden var vår irske skribent Paul Kearns på biltur i nærheten av Jessheim sammen med en mann han liker å kalle for Boss. Boss aka Roy Kristensen var sjåfør og ærendet de var ute på, var listeningsession på debutalbumet til GROMTH.
Genius. Genius. When this gig was announced, I spoke with a fella named Rob. Like me a man displaced from his homeland (in his case The United States of England) – his relevance? He works at Betong from time to time as sound engineer. He is also Solstafir’s resident sound engineer. So what better man…
Devin Townsend had been to Oslo once before, for a show, according to the man himself, some fifteen years ago during his short tenure with The Wildhearts. A lot has changed in that time, often seemingly for the worse, none more prevalent than his post Strapping Young Lad blow out. However…. Once again pulling his…
(…this article is in English…)Føkking kudos til Judas Priest og annonseringen av deres siste turne. Ikke noe for tidlig, spør du meg. Ikke for å høres respektløs ut eller noe, men når det er på tide å gå, er det på tide å gå. Deres «Angel of Retribution» comeback ble generelt mottatt ganske varmt, refleksjonen og et 20/20 syn gir oss et klarere bilde hvor vi kan se at det var mer at sangene ikke var så dårlige som de kunne ha vært i stedet for sanger som var så gode som de kunne ha vært slik at folk hadde endret mening om skiva og gitt ros til albumet.
click to go to each part …part 1 – numbers …part 2 – music part 1 – numbers I believe the criteria that defines something great is quite different today than it used be, simply due to music evolving to it’s world. The…
(…this article is in English…)If an alien race landed on Earth in the middle of a Metal festival they would be forgiven for wondering how us humans reproduce being that there is only one gender. The thing is that our Metal world has a pretty poor boy to girl ratio, it is a bit too much sausage and a bit too little smoothie . The truth is, in fact, that there are two genders hence the bible telling the story of "Adam and Eve’s Bogus Journey" rather than "Adam and Steve’s Bogus Journey". With that in mind, we mutual masturbators here at Eternal Terror thought it was a dandy that we discovered a girl who, not only likes all things Metallic but also makes her living partly from being a girl. She is a model, a radio host, a director, a writer and she is a girl. She goes by the name Babalon Salome, she likes blastbeats more than shopping and she has kindly agreed to tell us how she came to wander along the left hand path as well as how it is to mix the worlds of fetish, burlesque and modelling with that of cross inverting.
It would appear that not much changed in Varg Vikernes’ perception of Black Metal as an aesthetic force or as an art form during the interim years. It is certain that he does not have much to reference in Norway’s current climate, the likes of Dark Throne having parodied themselves to the point where the…
Remember the days when a fresh faced young man with flowing blond locks that doubtlessly made Debbie and all the other cheerleaders swoon? Remember the flared jeans? The bullseye Les Paul? All these years later and Zakk Wylde is still here. In somewhat of a critical Elysium due to endless back slaps he has received…
"Magic and Mayhem"? Tales From The Early Years? This whole re-recording thing, eh? What’s the point really? As far as this sorta thing goes I have to give credit to Amorphis and their slightly truer renditions. Truer, how? Well, they haven’t just shoved their old classics into a horribly processed mush of clicks, kicks and…
(…this review is written in English…) A Tristania headline show in Oslo is something of a rare thing and with not more than 150 or so souls to sparsely decorate Betong, a venue that holds upwards of 600 or so, perhaps there is reason for their rare visits. It is an odd thing to see…
Remember Faith No More sang «From Out Of Nowhere»? That was kinda what it was like with Necrophagist. Another Relapse Records success story, certainly…but, they just seemed to appear. Bad luck was close behind in the form of missed tours and missed opportunities. Still this Muhammed bloke fought on. It is hard to judge just…
The setting is Betong, apparently called Alaska or something back in the early 90's and was the host of many a classic show…, the likes of Morbid Angel and Obituary at their finest. Well, tonight is not quite on the level that it is to be written into history but it's a night of all…
Emergency Gate was the first to take to the battlefield tonight and it is something I will not forget in a hurry. It's hard to find the right words for this lot, but I will try. This is an example of a band where everything is wrong; in fact everything is so wrong that it…
