grimogretricks:

Devin Townsend’s ‘Vampira’

THE MOST HARDCORE SPOOKY METAL VIDEO EVER THAT BLEEDS GOTHIC HORROR FROM ITS EVERY NOTE IN TECHNI-COLOUR GARISH RED.

… I feel so easily amused for finding this as hilarious and catchy as I do. The juxtaposition of over-the-top melodramatic but epic metal full of references to vampires, darkness and satan with .. well.. that.

Probably nobody who follows me here would like this kind of music to start with and fans of the genre would probably look at me weird for it, but .. it’s cheered me up for a whole day already so, I figure it deserves blogged.

ithritin-lth:

Guilt Machine - Leland Street

This album gets better every fucking listen. I swear I’ll still be listening to Arjen’s music when I’m 80. Jasper Steverlinck’s (vocals) voice is so well suited to this, especially considering had no idea what progressive metal was when he was asked to sing for this album.

Gotta admit, I originally found this album very difficult to listen to, but it grew to be one of my all-time favourites now. Like you’ve said; it gets better and better with every listen.

I still can’t believe people criticised Guilt Machine for sounding too much like Ayreon, though; it doesn’t sound like Ayreon at all (probably why I didn’t fall in love with it immediately; I was perhaps expecting something exactly like Ayreon or Star One, so when I got this instead it came as a huge shocker). Extremely underrated, such a shame.