Bet you didn’t think you’d see a J-pop/death metal music video today. Is it weird that I kind of like it?
That GQ Interview With Loutallica... So LULzy
- GQ: I was impressed by how experimental it is.
- Lou Reed: You noticed.
![“[Botanist’s] hammered dulcimer rings out and cuts like a blast-beated piano pounding paradiddles in some kind of black-metal drumline.”
[NPR Music: Botanist: One-Man, Hammered Dulcimer Black Metal (No, Really)]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqwd0lyCpA1qc8nfjo1_1280.jpg)
“[Botanist’s] hammered dulcimer rings out and cuts like a blast-beated piano pounding paradiddles in some kind of black-metal drumline.”
[NPR Music: Botanist: One-Man, Hammered Dulcimer Black Metal (No, Really)]
Look, I’m all about artful reinterpretation, especially when it sheds new thought on a song. A metal band covering a Black Sabbath song doesn’t need to do much because Sabbath is Sabbath is Sabbath. Outside of metal, The Cardigans did a beautifully icy pop version of “Iron Man” and Four Tet turned the same song into a lazy Sunday afternoon electro-folk strum. It shows the songcraft of Sabbath if that was ever in question (it wasn’t). But I cannot abide by a gaggle of hipster girls doing a too-cool-for-you take on “Paranoid.” With each swoop of perfectly cut bang and over-earnest “yeah, I’m really into Black Sabbath, got into them last week”* coo, I am filled with a rage only known as Girl Crisis.
* For all I know, the members of this “supergroup” all have known and loved Sabbath for years, but still… eff ‘em.
Ludicra “Veils” on Rockband? “musicgamestudio.com makes game versions of artists songs.” Rad.
“For some reason, there was a screwdriver lying around in the studio. So the guy with the aluminum foil thimble — who really wanted those [Danzig] tickets — decided that to prove his superiority, he was going to take the screwdriver and put a screw through his hand.”
Brian “Pedostache” McGlade [The Left Hand Path: Diving In Zee WREKage]
