So finals are done and first semester is all done. It was a good year. I only had 13 F's. That may seem high, but I have over 120 students. I was impressed at how well they stepped up and did and great job preparing for the final. Next stop CST's.
This was a short week for us so I decided to highlight the top 2 bands from my 2007 albums of the year. Unfortunately, I could play some of their better songs because of the language, but the ones I played were very good.
Machine Head was up first. Machine Head came out of the band Vio-lence, as I stated last week, a second tier bay area thrash band. They broke up and Rob Flynn started Machine Head. Their debut Burn My Eyes is a masterpiece. Hands down a great debut album. Full of rapid fire drumming, heavy riffs, and some great vocals. After that they released The More Things Change which was similar to Burn My Eyes. But after that we had a couple of sellout albums in The Burning Red and Supercharger. Now nu-metal was popular around this time so what did we get? Well almost rapping of lyrics for one...it was bad. They came back a few years ago with Through the Ashes of the Empire and it was a return to form, not classic, but a solid return and a sign of things to come. Take a song like Descend the Shades of Night, which was a long epic feeling song...a definite precursor to their latest The Blackening.
The Blackening was hands down the best album I heard this year. Musically, it blew everything away. I normally don't post youtube clips, rather videos, but this clip has every solo from The Blackening and you can see how awesome this album is. Take a listen.
Awesome stuff huh?
Anyway the other band we listened to was Devildriver. Devildriver came from the ashes of a nu-metal band called Coal Chamber. The nice thing about DD is that they have gotten better with every album. Their debut was a solid metal album, but nothing to write home about. The Fury of Our Maker's Hand was a ton better. Better writing, better vocals, better playing. From start to finish it was an instant modern metal album.
This year they release The Last Kind Words, which took everything great about Fury and made it better by adding some killer solos. That's right solos. Unfortunately, pretty much every song drops an f-bomb or s-bomb so can't play those. One other thing about DD, their videos are down right trippy. If you ever saw early Black Sabbath videos, that's what these remind me of.
Playlist for the week;
Monday: Wolves, A Farewell to Arms by Machine Head from The Blackening
Tuesday: Descend the Shades of Night by Machine Head from Through the Ashes of the Empire
Wed./Thurs.: The Fury of Our Maker's Hand, Unlucky 13, Digging Up the Corpses by Devildriver from The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
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