Editor’s note: Like gelled (i.e not whole berry) cranberry sauce and the driest cuts of turkey, there are still metal albums you want to keep off your table on the American feast of Thanksgiving.
Def Leppard – Def Leppard (2015)
Def Leppard are best known for a one armed drummer and being one of the biggest turkey pseudo-metal bands of all time. Responsible for the majority of STI infections in Des Moines in 1987. I’m only listening to this as “Getcha Rocks Off” was on on Lars Urlich’s New Wave of British Heavy Metal ’79 Revisited. Lars was wrong though. Def Leppard were not a part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Their debut Def Leppard EP has one riffy 1960s style rocker, one fairly well done seventies metallic hard rock song in the vein of bands like Deep Purple (“Getcha Rocks Off”), and unsuccessful Led Zeppelin on drugs number. “Getcha Rocks Off” was their sole career highlight.
Why do established bands released self-titled albums that nobody cares about? Sodom’s Sodom which nobody remembers anything from, Dismember’s Dismember without Fred Estby, now Def Leppard’s Def Leppard for deaf, fat 55 year old lot lizards on crystal meth. The first two songs of this are fairly standard by the numbers glam metal pop. The third, “Are You Man Enough?” is a Queen song if Freddie Mercury and Brian May took power drills to their own foreheads in the manner of Shiite militias of Iraq. Def Leppard ask you in typical Def Leppard “We wrote the lyrics while getting head from a call girl” fashion “Are you man enough to be my girl?” Is Joe Elliot asking the audience if they are man enough to let him fuck them in the ass? The fourth song is a Christian rock number whose lyrics sound like Moses is about to spread some ass cheeks and lick some bunghole. The sixth also sounds like a nu-WASP song minus the burning in hell. Def Leppard do not seem to grasp Christian theology. They seem to believe than when Jesus returns, he’;s going to bukkake your face and you’ll float away to eternal life in the Kingdom of God on Def Leppard’s cum. Beyond butt rock. It could be Pygmies in Africa steatopygia rock, but pygmies are still little. Wal-Mart shopper with type two diabetes with her tits tucked into her jorts rock.
Nechochwen – Heart of Akamon (2015)
Opeth hates white people now? So conquering the new world was wrong? What? This is Opeth if Opeth was a whiny social justice warrior in a van abducting seven year old white and black kids for playing ninjas as that’s cultural misappropriation and all appropriators of foreign culture must be shot and buried in a ditch as people of a different color hired ninja spies to rape and murder the family of the Shogun’s Decapitator. The band claims this is “Native American Folk Black Metal”. This is Hammerheart if Quorthon was the token HIV-positive cast member on The Real World in 1998 that later ended up credited for bass on a System of a Down album. This nu-metal band has less T-cells than Charlie Sheen’s AIDS-infested, coke-limped cock. Give them some blankets for warmth and smallpox.
Tags: 2015, def leppard, mainstream metal, Nechochwen, sadistic metal reviews, thanksgiving
I would appreciate details about why Necochwen is bad, because what they are supposedly inspired by, the native American culture and mythology, could result in good music.
Supposedly is the key word here. Listen for yourself, or don’t really, unless you have a thing for norse opethcore like 00s/10s Enslaved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_at9dOElQk
If you want good native American black metal, listen to Xibalba – Ah Dzam Poop Ek (hehe, poop).
These reviews seem to be getting more and more lacklustre.
These reviews are premium brewed.
Sounds like a gimmick err cultural misappropriation to me. Hoy ya ho ya hoy ya ho ha
Native American Black Metal…..Da fuq? That’s even more of a contradiction than Christian black metal.
Why?. Black metal’s innovators were bored, disillusioned imaginative Norwegian kids, nihilistic as teenagers can be these days, who sought inspiration chiefly from tales of the anti-Christ, existential query, the beauty and the darkness of the natural world and their own adventurous and war-faring folk history. Only anti-Christianity is a theme you could argue is inorganic to other cultures.
Phil you’re assuming these guys are legit in the first place.
Nothing worth offering beyond blood. Embrace death. Allow slaves their death.
Shit. And my hopes for the new Def Leppard were so high.
This SMR was way too short, but holy fuck-
“They seem to believe than when Jesus returns, he’;s going to bukkake your face and you’ll float away to eternal life in the Kingdom of God on Def Leppard’s cum.”
my sides