Danger and Dissonance Playlist December 17, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Kreator: Love Us Or Hate Us
2 Carcass: Heartwork
3 Death: Regurgitated Guts
4 Discharge: Free Speech For The Dumb
5 Emperor: Curse You All Men!
6 Children Of Bodom: Lake Bodom
7 Black Flag: Rise Above
8 Bathory: Enter the Eternal Fire
9 Nachtmystium: Your True Enemy
10 Napalm Death: Instinct of Survival
11 Nirvana: Breed
12 Norther: To Hell
13 Pantera: Walk
14 Pentagram: Sign Of The Wolf (Pentagram)
15 Slayer: Born Of Fire
16 Testament: Practice What You Preach
17 Venom: One Thousand Days In Sodom
18 Megadeth: This Day We Fight!
19 Metallica: For Whom The Bell Tolls
20 Condemn The Infected: Passages To Perdition
21 Fierce Allegiance: Die Fighting
22 Revolta: Thought Police
23 Burning Shadows: New Dawn Arise
24 In Flames: Embody The Invisible
25 Amon Amarth: Once Sent From The Golden Hall
26 Morbid Angel: God Of Emptiness
27 Dimmu Borgir: In Death's Embrace
28 Motorhead: Ace Of Spades
29 The Sword: Freya
30 Judas Priest: Breaking The Law
31 Meshuggah: Bleed

Danger and Dissonance Playlist December 3, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Journalism School: Terp Weekly Edition
2 Bathory: Enter The Eternal Flame
3 Carcass: Incarnated Solvent Abuse
4 Death: Denial Of Life
5 Discharge: Free Speech For The Dumb
6 Emperor: Curse You All Men!
7 Fierce Allegiance: Die Fighting!
8 Knossis: Planetary Subversion
9 Kreator: Destroy What Destroys You
10 Megadeth: Head Crusher
11 Norther: To Hell
12 Morbid Angel: Visions From The Dark Side
13 Motorhead: Blackheart
14 Nachtmystium: A Seed For Suffering
15 Drugs Of Faith: The Age Of Reason
16 Pentagram: Sign of the Wolf (Pentagram)
17 Venom: Angel Dust
18 Black Flag: My War
19 Exist: Abstraction
20 Napalm Death: Seige Of Power
21 Lamb Of God: The Faded Line
22 The Sword: How Heavy This Axe
23 Darkthrone: A Blaze in the Northern Sky
24 In Flames: Embody The Invisible
25 Amon Amarth: Once Sent From The Golden Hall
26 Metallica: Creeping Death

Danger and Dissonance Playlist November 19, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Journalism School: Terp Weekly Edition
2 Ensiferum: Iron
3 Norther: Black Gold
4 Napalm Death: Instinct of Survival
5 Nachtmystium: Your True Enemy
6 Megadeth: This Day We Fight!
7 Nirvana: Negative Creep
8 Minor Threat: It Follows
9 Black Flag: Rise Above
10 Kreator: Hordes Of Chaos (A Necrologue For The Elite)
11 Emperor: An Elegy of Icaros
12 Blitzkrieg: Blitzkrieg
13 Amon Amarth: Abandoned
14 Carcass: Heartwork
15 Pantera: Walk
16 Porcupine Tree: Deadwing
17 Metallica: For Whom The Bell Tolls
18 Mastodon: Iron Tusk
19 Lamb Of God: The Faded Line
20 Radamanthys: Secluded Delusion

Danger and Dissonance Playlist November 12, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Journalism School: Terp Weekly Edition
2 Kreator: Destroy What Destroys You
3 Nachtmystium: A Seed For Suffering
4 Venom: Red Light Fever
5 The Sword: Freya
6 Bathory: Massacre
7 Dimmu Borgir: The Chosen Legacy
8 Carcass: This Is Your Life
9 Motorhead: Blackheart
10 Morbid Angel: Visions From The Dark Side
11 Metallica: Master Of Puppets
12 Emperor: Curse You All Men!
13 Children Of Bodom: Towards Dead End
14 Corrosion Of Conformity: Stonebreaker
15 Dakthrone: A Blaze In The Northern Sky
16 Mastodon: I Am Ahab
17 Slayer: Born Of Fire
18 Norther: Frozen Angel
19 Pantera: Drag The Waters

Danger and Dissonance Heavy Today

The songs on the playlist for Danger and Dissonance sound heavier than usual.

Danger and Dissonance Playlist November 5, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Journalism School: Terp Weekly Edition
2 Nachtmystium: Your True Enemy
3 Revolta: Terminal Lethargy
4 Amon Amarth: Abandoned
5 Anthrax: A.I.R.
6 Minor Threat: It Follows
7 Megadeth: This Day We Fight!
8 Nirvana: Negative Creep
9 Bathory: Enter The Eternal Fire
10 Carcass: Incarnated Solvent Abuse
11 Black Sabbath: After Forever
12 Death: Mutilation
13 Black Flag: My War
14 Eternal Winter: Majesty of Starlight
15 Discharge: Q: And Children? A: And Children
16 Emperor: Curse You All Men
17 Motorhead: Ace Of Spades
18 Kreator: Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue For The Elite)
19 Radamanthys: Secluded Delusion
20 Condemn The Infected: Passages To Perdition
21 Burning Shadows: Into The Primordial
22 Lamb of God: The Faded Line
23 Mastodon: The Wolf Is Loose
24 Meshuggah: Bleed

Danger and Dissonance Playlist October 29, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Journalism School: Terp Weekly Edition
2 Amon Amarth: Once Sent From The Golden Hall
3 Lamb of God: The Faded Line
4 Carcass: Incarnated Solvent Abuse
5 Death: Regurgitated Guts
6 Emperor: Sworn
7 Eternal Winter: Majesty Of Starlight
8 Gojira: The Art of Dying
9 Venom: Welcome To Hell
10 Slayer: Born of Fire
11 Radamanthys: Secluded Delusion
12 The Sword: Freya
13 Arch Enemy: Seed of Hate
14 Exist: Patterns
15 Megadeth: This Day We Fight
16 Condemn the Infected: Passages to Perdition
17 Nachtmystium: A Seed For Suffering
18 Meshuggah: Bleed

Danger and Dissonance Playlist October 22, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Journalism School: Terp Weekly Edition
2 Pantera: Walk
3 Carcass: Ever Increasing Circles
4 Death: Symbolic
5 Children Of Bodom: Towards Dead End
6 Cradle of Filth: Cthulhu Dawn
7 Bathory: Raise The Dead
8 Morbid Angel: Heaving Earth
9 Discharge: Free Speech For The Dumb
10 Nirvana: School
11 Minor Threat: Straight Edge
12 Saint Vitus: Born Too Late
13 Iron Maiden: Aces High
14 Priestess: Everything That You Are
15 Venom: Welcome To Hell
16 Anthrax: Howling Furies
17 Kreator: Love Us Or Hate Us
18 Gojira: Vacuity
19 Megadeth: Endgame
20 Meshuggah: Bleed
21 Mastodon: Iron Tusk
22 In Flames: Embody The Invisible
23 Amon Amarth: Once Sent From The Golden Hall
24 Arch Enemy: I Am Legend/Out For Blood

Danger and Dissonance Playlist October 15, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Nachtmystium: Your True Enemy
2 Bathory: Raise The Dead
3 Death: Regurgitated Guts
4 Kreator: Love Us Or Hate Us
5 Meshuggah: Bleed
6 The Unravelling: Move Forward Until You Are Dead
7 Morbid Angel: Visions From The Dark Side
8 Metallica: Jump In The Fire
9 Mario from Radamanthys: Interview
10 Radamanthys: Secluded Delusion
11 Condemn The Infected: Passages to Perdition
12 Minor Threat: Seeing Red
13 Motorhead: Eat The Rich

Danger and Dissonance Playlist October 8, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Death: Crystal Mountain
2 Morbid Angel: God Of Emptiness
3 Black Flag: My War
4 Discharge: Free Speech For The Dumb
5 Emperor: An Elegy Of Icaros
6 Nachtmystium: Your True Enemy
7 UMD Philip Merrill College Of Journalism: Terp Weekly Edition
8 Radamanthys: Secluded Delusion
9 Burning Shadows: New Dawn Arise
10 Fierce Allegiance: Die Fighting
11 Harbringer: Revolution
12 Exist: Crusaders
13 The Unravelling: Move Forward Until You Are Dead
14 Black Sabbath: Children Of The Grave
15 Carcass: This Mortal Coil
16 Children Of Bodom: Lake Bodom
17 Kreator: Love Us Or Hate Us
18 Nirvana: Negative Creep
19 Norther: Frozen Angel
20 Pentagram: Sign of the Wolf (Pentagram)
21 Priestess: Everything That You Are
22 Slayer: War Ensemble
23 Venom: Schizo
24 Anthrax: Howling Furies
25 Amon Amarth: Once Sent From The Golden Hall

Danger and Dissonance Time Change

Danger and Dissonance will now be on at 12:30 PM instead of 12 PM. This is to accomodate the Terp Weekly Edition news program at 12:00 PM.

Danger and Dissonance Playlist October 1, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Metallica: Jump In The Fire
2 Anthrax: A.I.R.
3 Slayer: Born Of Fire
4 Megadeth: Dialectic Chaos
5 Megadeth: This Day We Fight
6 Black Sabbath: Letters From Earth
7 Carcass: Heartwork
8 Children Of Bodom: Towards Dead End
9 In Flames: Embody The Invisible
10 Megadeth: Endgame
11 Kreator: Love Us Or Hate Us
12 Nachtmystium: Your True Enemy
13 Norther: Frozen Angel
14 Megadeth: How The Story Ends
15 Black Sabbath: Tommorow's Dream
16 Pentagram: Sign Of The Wolf (Pentagram)
17 Fierce Allegiance: Die Fighting
18 Emperor: Curse You All Men!
19 Megadeth: Bodies
20 Death: Regurgitated Guts
21 Candlemass: Demon's Gate
22 Burning Shadows: Into The Primordial
23 Arch Enemy: Nemesis
24 Pantera: Walk
25 Amon Amarth: Once Sent From The Golden Hall

Danger and Dissonance Playlist September 24, 2009

# Artist: Track
1 Slayer: Postmortem
2 Bad Brains: I Against I
3 Black Flag: Depression
4 Black Sabbath: Children Of The Grave
5 Nachtmystium: Assassins
6 Kreator: Extreme Aggression
7 Pentagram: The Ghoul
8 Corrosion of Conformity: Stonebreaker
9 Megadeth: Devil's Island
10 Arch Enemy: Nemesis
11 Burning Shadows: Into The Primordial
12 Condemn The Infected: Passages to Perdition
13 Drugs Of Faith: Age of Reason
14 Fierce Allegiance: Die Fighting
15 Knossis: Planetary Subversion
16 Oddzar: Sake's End
17 The Unravelling: Move Forward Until You Are Dead
18 Iron Man: Black Night
19 Amon Amarth: Sorrow Throughout The Nine Worlds
20 Carcass: Heartwork
21 Children Of Bodom: Lake Bodom
22 Death: Regurgitated Guts
23 Emperor: An Elegy of Icaros
24 Metallica: The Four Horsemen
25 Mastodon: Iron Tusk
26 The Sword: Freya

Danger and Dissonance Playlist for September 17, 2009

Sorry this post is a little late:

# Artist: Track
1 Arch Enemy: I Am Legend/Out For Blood
2 Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
3 Children Of Bodom: Towards Dead End
4 Death: Scream Bloody Gore
5 Dimmu Borgir: In Death's Embrace
6 Nirvana: Negative Creep
7 Drugs Of Faith: Age Of Reason
8 Burning Shadows: New Dawn Arise
9 Fierce Allegiance: Die Fighting
10 Condemn The Infected: Passages to Perdition
11 The Unravelling: Move Forward Until You Are Dead
12 Knossis: Planetary Subversion
13 Oddzar: Ready The Chariot
14 Poisonblack: Nothing Else Remains
15 Emperor: The Burning Shadows Of Silence
16 Lamb Of God: The Faded Line
17 Metallica: The Four Horsemen
18 Nachtmystium: Your True Enemy
19 Nine Black Alps: Cosmopolitan
20 Slayer: Raining Blood
21 Norther: Reach Out
22 Carcass: Cross My Heart
23 Pentagram: Run My Course
24 Opeth: Master's Apprentices

Danger and Dissonance Playlist September 10 2009

# Artist Track
1 Children Of Bodom Lake Bodom
2 Carcass This Mortal Coil
3 Mastodon The Wolf Is Loose
4 Black Sabbath Children Of The Grave
5 Arch Enemy Nemesis
6 Megadeth Devil's Island
7 Amon Amarth Sorrow Throughout The Nine Worlds
8 Black Flag My War
9 Emperor An Elegy of Icaros
10 Nirvana Negative Creep (Live)
11 Burning Shadows Into The Primordial
12 The Unravelling Move Forward Until You Are Dead
13 Fierce Allegiance Die Fighting
14 Condemn The Infected Passages To Perdition
15 Oddzar Ready The Chariot!
16 Henry Everitt Interview

Danger and Dissonance Playlist September 3 2009

Artist Song
1 Death Scream Bloody Gore
2 Amon Amarth Once Sent From The Golden Hall
3 Arch Enemy Nemesis
4 Black Flag Rise Above
5 Black Sabbath Tommorrow's Dream
6 Carcass Heartwork
7 Fierce Allegiance Die Fighting
8 Burning Shadows New Dawn Arise
9 Condemn The Infected Passages To Perdition
10 The Unravelling Move Forward Until You Are Dead
11 Kreator Love Us Or Hate Us
12 Norther Frozen Angel
13 Priestess Everything That You Are
14 Mastodon Iron Tusk
15 Megadeth Peace Sells
16 Metallica Jump In The Fire
17 Motorhead Blackheart
18 Nachtmystium Assassins
19 Children Of Bodom Lake Bodom
20 Dimmu Borgir In Death's Embrace
21 Emperor Curse You All Men!
22 Pantera Motuth For War
23 Pentagram Sign Of The Wolf (Pentagram)
24 Candlemass Demon's Gate
25 Slayer War Ensemble
26 The Sword How Heavy This Axe
27 Young Widows Lucky And Hardheaded

Danger and Dissonance

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the best type of metal singing

What type of metal singing do you all like? Screaming/growling like in death metal and black metal or singing like in traditional heavy metal, doom metal, power metal, and thrash metal?

Chuck Schuldiner - The Godfather of Death Metal

For those who don't know the lead singer/guitarist of the band Death, Chuck Schuldiner, is considered the Godfather of Death Metal. I found this site which is a tribute to him:
http://www.emptywords.org
It's a very great site that has a lot of information on Schuldiner and his works.

Bass Players in Metal

There are some exceptionally great bass players in metal music. I thought I would share a few that really stand out in no order:

Steve Harris of Iron Maiden
Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath
Cliff Burton of Metallica
Lemmy Kilmeister of Motorhead
John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin
Dave Ellifson of Megadeth

Ultimate Metal Guitar Magazine Special

This month Guitar Player magazine along with Rock House Method (a company that puts out instructional guitar and bass dvds), put out a special one-time magazine called “Ultimate Metal Guitar.” The magazine features guitar tablature from various metal players to help you master playing metal guitar. This magazine features prominent metal players such as:

Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom,
Kirk Hammett and James Hetfeld from Metallica,
Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society and Ozzy Osbourne,
Joe Satriani of Chickenfoot,
Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Blackmore’s Night
Yngwie Malmsteen of Rising Force, Steeler, Alcatrazz, and the G3 Concert Tour And many other metal guitar players

It gives a good overview for anyone who wants to improve their metal playing or play in the specific style of It gives a good overview for anyone who wants to improve their metal playing or play in the specific style of one of the players mentioned above.

Unlike the thrash magazine article I discussed in a few entries back, it seems that there is a good balance of rhythm and soloing techniques in this issue. There are also more modern bands besides the classic metal bands.

In all it’s a great magazine and it retails for only $6.50, which is a good price considering most guitar magazines run for $7.99 these days.

Nachtmystium "Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1" Review

Artist: Nachtmystium
Title: Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
Label: Century Media

Anyone who likes brutal metal that tries to push the boundaries of what is considered music rejoice! This album is for you. Nachtmystium takes aggressive and dark black metal and adds other influences to the mix resulting in an album that is aggressive, experimental, and energetic. A range of emotions on the spectrum of darkness, anger, isolation, and loneliness are conveyed through so many different ways on Assassins. The disc starts off with “One Of These Nights” which leaves the listener with sign of what is to come on the disc, great music! “Nights” gives way to “Assassins” which starts off the disc with a brutal edge “Assassins” also takes an unexpected but great turn after the 2nd chorus that leads to aggressive music without vocals and ending with synthesizer part. “Away From The Light” has a spooky and empty theme to it. “Your True Enemy” is a great song that conveys the anger that a person would feel when discovering their adversary. “Omnivore” has an a provocative march tempo and a foreboding guitar riff that makes you feel as if an evil thing is coming at you. “Seasick, Pt. 2: Oceanborne” has a saxophone part in it that makes every metalhead want a saxophone to become a permanent instrument in metal music. The song even sounds as if it could be in a video game or on a movie soundtrack. With aggression partnered with unexpected experimental ideas and a whole new outlook on brutal metal, “Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1” is a must have for any metalhead’s or music lover’s collection.

Young Widows CD Review

Artist:Young Widows
Title: Old Wounds
Label: Temporary Residence

Review:
Once in a while there is a time when most music that is out on the shelves is sounding all the same. It only takes a few great bands to break through this sound-alike sea. That’s where Young Widows come in. On their release Old Wounds, Young Widows prove that there is still good distorted rock music coming from the non-metal/hard rock camp. Their sound is very dissident and textured. Tracks such as Mr. No Harm, 21st Century Invention have a dissident and foreboding mood that makes the listener feel creepy and uneasy. While tracks such as Lucky Hardheaded, Delay Your Pressure, Feelers express real angst and anger. If this is a sign of things to come, then Young Widows are on the right track.

How to Play Thrash Metal Article in Guitar World June 2009

I know the article I am talking about in this post is from June of this year, but I was looking through my back issues of Guitar World (GW) and I found this gem. I believe this is a good article considering it talks a little bit about thrash metal, which is one of the substyles of heavy metal and the world of rock music in general. In addition, to mentioning how the style developed it also focuses primarily on how to play the style from various bands.This article from GW is titled "Thrash of the Titans: Want to Play Like Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and other Metal Masters? Take A Lesson From Our Comprehensive Guide to Thrash."

It discusses how the subgenre Thrash started and how it has evolved. The article starts off with a little bit of the history, but then goes into how to play like certain bands who are part of the Thrash Style. It begins discussing the guitar playing in Thrash with the Big Four (Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, and Megadeth), then it continues with the Old Thrash Masters (Exodus, Testament, and Annihilator), continuing with Groove Thrash (Pantera, Fear Factory, Meshuggah, Death, Cynic, and Necrophagist), and concluding with Soloing (Neoclassical: Metal Soloing, and Licks 'N' Tricks).

In addition to the bands, if a person is not sure of what kind of notes in music, or terms apply to thrash; those are discussed here too. For instaqnce they discuss what kind of musical modes and scales are used to play this style, what power chords are and why they are useful, what kind of amp you need, and how to get a good tone on your guitar to play this style.

This is a great article for anyone who wants to learn more about heavy metal. While some of these bands, are not thrash per say, the article gives someone who is new to the world of heavy metal, especially the thrash style, a place to start from.

Danger and Dissonance Myspace

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Gibson SG: The Guitar that Heavy metal was born on

Tony Iommi, the guitarist who is credited with the inventing heavy metal played a Gibson SG. For those who don't know he was the guitarist for Black Sabbath, the band who is credited with inventing Heavy Metal. Some say that all heavy metal comes from Black Sabbath. There are many metal groups influenced by Black Sabbath. Even the grunge movement was influenced by Black Sabbath.

Originally he was going to play Fender Stratocaster, but the Stratocaster pickup broke on him when he was recording. The only other instrument he had was an SG, which he used as a spare. And as they say, the rest is history.

Here are two pictures of an Gibson SG Standard:

Burning Shadows Album Review

Artist: Burning Shadows
Title: Into the Primordial
Label: Self-Produced
For those who enjoy metal, but have never given thought to power metal before, stop and take a look at this album. Unlike so many bands in the power metal genre Burning Shadows brings much new to the table. Each member does his own thing to create a unique sound. In “New Dawn Arise” the rhythm section brings some interesting surprises. Bassist Aaron El-Zeftawy plays an amazing, complimentary, and catchy bass fill in the beginning and end of the song, while drummer David “Warlord” Spencer plays a unique and unexpected drum beat pattern during the chorus. Guitarist Tim Regan and guitarist/vocalist Greg Jones rhythm and lead parts are just full of clarity and expression. All throughout the cd instances of musical brilliance are heard. Jones’ departure from typical power metal high pitched vocals works very well. His vocals pour out feeling and bring power metal down to a level that is both realistic and not over the top which can reach those who are not typical metal listeners. This way of singing stands out from all of the other cookie cutter male singers with high pitched vocal tones (most guys do not have a natural high pitched voice, their vocal center is in the middle). Samath has a great intro riff that automatically catches the listeners attention and ranks up there with some of the best classic metal riffs. In fact all of the riffs on this cd show pure musicianship. Definitely a band to watch out for.

Grindcore/Death Metal/Black Metal Music Article in the Washington Post

There was an interesting article on Grindcore, Death Metal, and Black Metal in the Washington Post Magazine that comes out on August 9, 2009. It is titled "Into the Darkness" and is written by David Rowell It can be found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/31/AR2009073102026.html
I encourage everyone to check it out. It was a good read.
I’d also like to know what you think about the article. For example, do you agree with the reasons people he spoke with gave for what attracts people to this type of music So let me know what you thought of the article.

Saint Vitus Touring

I know this is a little late, but I just found this out: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_tours/saint_vitus_to_tour_east_coast.html. Saint Vitus are going to tour the East Coast. I really want to go to one of the shows!

Doom Metal

I have been listening recently to quite a few doom metal bands such as Saint Vitus, Pentagram, and Candlemass. Its definitely a different side of heavy metal. Its heavy yet slow. Most people think of heavy metal as fast music because of thrash. Doom metal does a really great job conveying depression, isolation, and loneliness in different ways than other metal styles, while conveying emotions that some non-metal genres don't.

First Danger and Dissonance Blog post

This is the first post for the official Danger and Dissonance Blogspot. Here you will find posts about bands and the following styles: heavy metal, hard rock, grunge, progressive rock, death metal, thrash metal, progressive metal, doom metal, hardcore punk, and anything else that has feeling, is loud, aggressive, or pushes the boundaries of rock and metal music . Information on the show will also be posted on this blog.