Sleeping with the Snakes....

Well, I haven't left my house since Wednesday and its now Monday, which is kind of alarming. It's been fuelled with pizza, frozen Chinese food, lager shandy, 4OD and recording a new EP for my old band RIA

This week seems as though it's going to be just as boring, the only highlight being that I am going to see Trap Them and Grief on Thursday, which I suspect will be amazing. If you've not heard those bands, check them out, then go to one of the dates of their tour together.

Also, I need a job and I need to get my car fixed :(

City of the Moon...

Tonight I'm going to see Set Your Goals, I don't hold to many high hopes for this show because the last time I saw them it was packed with small children. They played well, but since the first time I went to one of their shows in 2006, it has seemed that the average age of a SYG fan has dropped 2 year with every tour, oh well, this is always the case.

Something weird happened to me today as well, I enjoyed reading Kerrang magazine...

My mum came home with a magazine for me as she's going away for the weekend, and as soon as she produced Kerrang I felt myself suddenly feeling as though I wanted to be sick in my mouth. I haven't read the magazine since I was 15, was I too quick to judge? Could it have changed? Well yes it has changed, this weeks magazine has got a really in depth story about the new Guns n Roses album, and a Slayer Q and A session! 'Wow', you're all saying, 'big deal, that's the same as ever...'

Well, I thought that until I saw the little Mastodon piece, an introduction to the band Future of the Left (ex Mc Clusky), Opeth interview, Gold Kids Reveiw, The Computers reveiw, Thursday/Envy split reveiw, Total Fucking Destruction reveiw (Rich Hoak from Brutal Truth), Vorhess reveiw (UK 90's fastcore), Massive Mogwai piece with Stuart Braithwaite..... WTF?!?!

I was pretty impressed to say the least.

Anyway, I asked my friend Myk if he had any recommendations for me to put up on this here blog, and he said you should all check out this band:

My Heart To Joy At The Same Tone

http://www.tolrecords.com/myhearttojoy/music.html

For fans of modern scramz, they've got a really cool Hot Cross esque guitar sound going on, similar to I Not Dance and Lion of the North etc.

All their records are up at that site, but he especially recommends Heavenly Bodies.

I'm currently really in to Opeth again, after that rant about Roadrunner the other day it really spurred me on to get back in to some of the music I listened to in my youth, and since their currently touring the UK, I thought it would be the best time to show you my favourite release by them.

Opeth - Deliverance (2002)


Recorded along with sister album Damnation, Deliverance was intended to be a heavy, progressive release whilst Damnation fielded their more mellow and lighter side. This is the point in which Opeth really put their mark on heavy music as it is today. Damnation is utterly beyond comparison to anything that came before it. There is only one song that's shorter than 10 minutes, so be patient.

http://rapidshare.com/files/61271890/_2002__-_Deliverance.rar

Mild annoyance..

So today I found out that The Wombats and The Subways are now signed to Roadrunner records.

Roadrunner was my favourite label when I was a kid, even though its painfully embarrassing for me to say this now, I really dug bands like Coal Chamber, Cradle of Filth, Opeth, Fear Factory, Machine head, Slipknot etc..

I find it kind of weird that a label that is famous for metal is kind of breaking down its walls and reducing itself to releasing more corporate and dilute genres of music. Roadrunner might not be much of label any more, and to some of the younger people reading this it may seem like a bit of joke, but in their glory years they put out some real good records, some that haven't stood the test of time, but all with the same Roadrunner style.

Anyway, Andy hit me up the other day and told me I should put some music on this blog, and I'm going to do just that.

Pissed Jeans - Hope for men (2007)It's noise rock with 80's hardcore influences - think Flipper meets the Jesus Lizard, released on Sub Pop, get into it.

http://www.megaupload.com/pt/?d=wc1demgn

Eventful evening..

Well, last night was awful. We went to a party in Alton, right near Alton Towers. It was outside in the mud for one, so the moment we got there we weren't particularly enjoying it, and thought it was a bit sketchy.

Some chav tried to rob from my friend, so he punched him to get him to leave him alone, he was jumped on by 10 of them, and was pretty much brutally attacked by them. Head buts, low blows, nothing was too demeaning for that scum. What made it worse was that I had to pretty much stand and watch, keeping a level head was what got us out of there.

I've since found out that after we left two of my other friends got hurt at this party, what is going on? I don't mind fighting, and I am guilty of getting involved in fights in my time. But 10 people on 1 person is cowardly, its ridiculous. What annoys me the most is that 10 people couldn't even put my friend on the floor, this shows that if it had been a fair one on one fight their would have been no question of who would of won.

Anyway, before we went out I was watching some skate vids and I thought I would share some of my favourites with you.

Corey Duffel's part in Foundation Cataclysmic Abyss



Ronnie Creager's part in Blind What If



The Gonz's part in Krooked Kronichles



Chris Haslam and Daewon Song in Almost Cheese and Crackers

In the beginning..

Hi I'm Calum, otherwise known for the purposes of the internet as 'Lonewolf'.

I've created this blog mainly to vent my thoughts similarly to most other people who have them, and to also use it as a bit of a webzine for my musical interests. Expect reviews of shows, release reviews, maybe even some interviews as time goes on.

I've been pretty down lately, a failed attempt of getting away from Stoke on Trent has been one of the main factors in this, and the fact that it seems impossible to get a decent job in this countries current economical climate doesn't help either. Having to shave off my moustache for some stupid interview has also annoyed me.

A few things have brightened my life in the last couple of days;

Eagle Owls:

Yes, as in the animal. I'm a real big fan of owls, and Eagles Owls are massive, I mean at least a couple of feet tall in height, with a massive wing span and these cute sort of ears. Me and my mother went to Asda yesterday to find a whole array of owls, they we're from a sanctuary in Leek and we're collecting for Children in Need. I stood looking at them for ages, what amazing animals.



Fucked up and SSS:

Well they played the Sugarmill a couple of days ago, and after seeing both bands before I knew what to expect, but I was blown away. I'm not going to go into too many details on here right now, as I'm in the process of knocking together a little gig review at the moment, I'll put it up on here as soon as I'm done.

It was awesome, no one was there, something which confused me a great deal. This common of the Stoke scene though, the same set of people come to the same shows time and time again, and although it was nice to see some new faces, it was still disapointing.

This weeks playlist:

Victims - Killer
Unearth - The March
Tragedy - Nerve Damage
Sleep's Holy Mountain
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Fucked up - Chemistry of Common Life
The Bronx - Self Titled (2003)
Decapitated - Nihility
SSS - The Dividing Line