I’d never had much interest in Limp Bizkit until I saw the Netflix documentary, Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99. Nu-metal didn’t do a lot for me, and there was something that felt just a little bit entitled about Fred Durst.
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Limp Bizkit: The Last Great Band of the Nineties?
Posted in Music, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags Big Day Out, Dave Blaustein, Fred Durst, Iggy Pop, Jimi Hendrix, Limp Bizkit, Netflix, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Trainwreck: Woodstock '99, Wes Borland on October 16, 2022 by Jarrod Boyle
Tool and the Descanting of Galileo’s Mathematical Language of God
Posted in Music, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags 46&2, Adam Jones, Aenima, Fear Inoculum, Fine Arts, Hooker with a Penis, Prison Sex, Stinkfist, Tool, University of Melbourne on March 15, 2020 by Jarrod Boyle
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Galileo said that mathematics is the true language of God. Editions of the Koran, decorated with fields of geometric lines that can be seen in museums all over the Middle East – and the way those designs find their way into the ceilings of Mosques throughout that region – bear Galileo’s dictum out. Continue reading
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Tool and the Descanting of Galileo’s Mathematical Language of God
Posted in Music, Pretensions toward cultural theory with tags 10000 Days, Aenima, Alex Grey, Behemoth, Fear Inoculum, Festival Hall, Lateralus, Rod Laver Arena, Rorschach Blot, Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Tool on March 10, 2020 by Jarrod Boyle
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Nothing locks a reader out of an article like hyperbolae, but it’s a struggle to find any terms other to describe what was experienced at Tool’s most recent Australian shows. Continue reading
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Modern Love
Posted in Music, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Slayer with tags Appetite for Destruction, Axl Rose, Biffy Clyro, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Howard Stern, Jackson Pollock, Modern Love, Sex Pistols, Slash, Slayer, The Stooges, Tom Araya, Tommy Iommi on April 10, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ”
-Jackson Pollock
Biffy Clyro, Scottish alternative band, recently produced a cover version of David Bowie’s song ‘Modern Love’ for The Howard Stern David Bowie Tribute Album. The transformation is radical, and no doubt confronting for those who remember the original. Continue reading
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A Eulogy for the Scariest Spectacle in Rock
Posted in Music, Observation, Real Men, Slayer with tags American Psycho, Angel of Death, Auschwitz, Bret Easton Ellis, Dave Lombardo, DVD, ESP Guitars, Europe, Gulf War, Jeff Hanneman, Joseph Mengele, Kerry King, lightning bolts, Lunar Park, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Nazi, Raining Blood, Reign in Blood, Satan, Seasons in the Abyss, SS, Still Reigning, Tom Araya, Vietnam, War Ensemble, William Blake, World War Two on July 4, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“I had moved past the casual carnage that was so prevalent in the books I’d conceived in my twenties, past the severed heads and the soup made of blood and the woman vaginally penetrated with her own rib.
“Exploring that kind of violence had been “interesting” and “exciting” and it was all “metaphorical” anyway – at least to me at that moment in my life, when I was young and pissed off and had not yet grasped my own mortality, a time when physical pain and real suffering held no meaning for me.”
– Bret Easton Ellis,
Lunar Park. Continue reading
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A Eulogy For the Scariest Spectacle in Rock
Posted in Music, Observation, Real Men, Slayer with tags Angel of Death, Beastie Boys, Def Jam, Hell Awaits, Jeff Hanneman, License to Ill, Los Angeles Times, Metallica, Raising Hell, Reign in Blood, Rolling Stones, Run DMC, Satan, Show No Mercy, Slayer on July 3, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“…The scariest spectacle in rock is Slayer, the Rolling Stones of the new American metal.”
– Los Angeles Times, 1991
Every real band has done a classic album tour. While limited to North America, Slayer did a series of dates playing their seminal thrash album, Reign in Blood, in its entirety. The performance reached its climax when the stage and musicians were immersed in a torrential downpour of blood. Continue reading
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Vale Lemmy Kilmister
Posted in Music, Obituary, Real Men with tags Lemmy Kilmister, Motorhead on December 29, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Lemmy Kilmister, bass player and vocalist for Motorhead, has died aged seventy. We’d like to believe it is the cumulative result of too much of a good time.
See ya later, Lemmy, and thanks for the racket.
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Alex Perekrest and Red Giant – 4
Posted in Music, Real Men with tags Art of Self-Defense, Black Sabbath, High on Fire, Jason Everman, Nirvana, Ozzy, Seasons in the Abyss, Slayer, Soundgarden on November 7, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
You posted a very interesting article about Jason Everman, a former guitar player for both Nirvana and Soundgarden who, after his tenure concluded with both those bands, joined the special-forces and served in a number of theatres of war. He described war as being a ‘theatre of schooling for the heart.’ What do you think about that? Continue reading
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Alex Perekrest and Red Giant – 3
Posted in Music, Real Men with tags Aerosmith, Al Qaeda, ‘Right in the Nuts’, Barack Obama, Butthole Surfers, Honky, Isis, Jeb Bush, Pinkus, Rand Paul, Screaming Trees, Small Stone, South By Southwest, stone mason, Valis, Van Conner on November 2, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
How did you end up on Small Stone? Did signing with them change things for you? Continue reading
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Alex Perekrest and Red Giant – 2
Posted in Journalism, Music, Real Men with tags Bongzilla, Cleveland, Cosmic Welder, Darth Vader, Dysfunctional Majesty, KISS, Love Gun, Mad Oak Studios, Propain, Psychoblaster, Red Giant, Scott Hamilton, Small Stone records on October 25, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
Fuck dude, that’s intense! The mother of your children stabbed you?
Yeppers… crazy days. And all of Cleveland knew it. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 