Scrotos' Daily Offering - "Warriors of the World United" by Manowar

I loves me some Manowar. Now, people (even Metalheads) often ask me if my love of Manowar is a joke. My reply is always the same...."Ye shall be punished by the force of my mighty blade if you ever again attack the Almighty Manowar, the only true Metal Band in the Land. On that day, you will know the power of my sword!" Seriously, people...Manowar Kills. Yes, I realize that they have the appearance of "roided out" Beastmasters, wear loincloths, leather chaps, animal pelts and broadswords. Please don't Mock them for this. You must admit that you loved He-Man when you were growing up. Manowar apparently never grew out of it....and why should they? They are rather silly at times but these dudes take their Metal quite seriously and that is why I must proudly proclaim that they do indeed rule. When Joey DeMaio (Master of the Picolo Bass) was asked his opinion about Metallica, his only reply was "Death to False Metal!" A man has to possess some major Cujones to make a statement like that. They took their love of loudness to an extreme in the early 90's by breaking their own Guiness World record of being the loudest Band of all time while playing a show in Hanover, Germany at a deafening 129.5 decibels. Just how loud is that, you ask? It is roughy the same volume as a Jet Engine. That is some face melting Metal, my Brethren. \m/ Warriors of the World United is a Manowar classic and one of my favorite songs. If this video does not explain to you why I am and will remain a "Manowarrior" for the rest of days than I am truly sorry but you are beyond help. Please go buy the new Rascal Flats album and some wine coolers. Brothers everywhere, raise your hand into the air and enjoy....

7/15/2010......The Final Frontier

7/15/2010....On this fine Summer evening, The Three Horsemen of the Metalocalypse - Dominicus, Dr. Beaulivian and I (Desmondo) shall saddle up our mighty steeds and ride upon the Land of Cleves on a mission to have our faces melted. (I Think those guys are coming. Perhaps this will be a solo melting). You see, my friends...The Great Maiden that is Iron will grace the stage at the Blossom Music Center in support of their "last" album, the to be released The Final Frontier. Now, I see no way that this will be their final album but let's roll with it anyway (it makes the occasion a more momentus one). I have not heard any of the new material but I'm rather sure it will sound like some serious Maiden, straight up. That means it will most likely be the greatest offering of all time.\m/. This event will also be quite special because I have not seen Bruce Dickinson & Co. since February 6th, 1991 at the Cincinnati Gardens. To this day, it is one of the best concerts I have ever attended. If you have not seen Maiden live, there is something seriously wrong with you so you best pick up a ticket and transform the Three Horsemen into a Foursmen! Make our Wolf Pack grow by one! They are a most excellent and amazing live band. Oh yes, my brethren, on this fine day, faces will melt, heads will bang and indeed eyebrows will blaze!\m/!\m/! By the way, did I mention that DREAM THEATER WILL BE OPENING THE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bring that stuff to me \m/\m/\m/

Metal inspired by the love child of Ozzy, Dio and Micheal Jackson? YOU TELL ME!!!!

This is an example of how metal provides more than listening pleasures. This video is what would happen if Ozzy, Dio, and Michael Jackson gave birth to a metal video in 1987. I don’t know much about these guys but everything about this selection is beyond awesome. Metal - great, Lyrics - theatrically off the charts and the video - one of the funniest most spectacular things I have ever seen.
Enjoy!
Dr. Beau

Metal for All - Big and Small

Metal can be loud and ear piercing. For fans of Metal this is a good thing. Not so much if your not a fan. But what happens when you take the edge off? Some of rocks biggest bands tried this and had huge success.
Alice in Chains doing Killer is Me, Pearl Jam doing Porch, Korn with Amy Lee doing Freak on a Leash, Nirvana doing Something in the Way all forced me to take another look at these bands. I reconnected with these bands and found myself getting more into their catalogs.
Although these bands saved us all from a deficit of good music they are not considered Heavy Metal. To go unplugged was not an earth shattering step in their careers. But what if one of the most successful Heavy Metal bands of all time decides to unplug? That is what happened when Metallica took the stage during the Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, CA.
I love Metallica but I am not a fan of everything they have released. In fact there is a good amount of their work that I can’t stand. When I heard of this unplugged concert I was taken back by the fact that these metal gods would expose themselves as anything less than mighty men of metal. They floored me.
Highlights include:
Veteran of the Psychic Wars (originally recorded by Blue Öyster Cult)
Brothers In Arms (originally recorded by Dire Straits)
Disposable Heroes and All Within My Hands
This was not the first show that they did unplugged but the first one that I had heard. The cover of Brothers in Arms will send chills up your spine. Disposable Heroes displays why this is still metal. The jam is unreal.
As I get older and find myself raising 2 little girls, I realize there is a time and a place for everything. This show lets me keep the metal flowing at all times.

Scrotos' Daily Offering - "Slave to the Grind" by Skid Row

I know what you are thinking, my metal brethren..."Has Desmondo gone soft?"....."What's up with the hair metal?", etc. I will defend my love of Skid Row until the end of my days because them dudes rule!\m/! Unfortunately, their timing was not so good as they came on the scene in the late 80's as hair metal was being watered down and getting worse with each new new filthy little Ratt and Motely Crue clone to come along (Warrant, Slaughter, Winger, etc). While they may have dabbled in the cheese rock genre, musically these guys were much more powerful and viable than the majority of crapolla being spewed on the masses. Skid Row's self titled debut was a strong and dirty offering but probably overshadowed by the glorious "Appetite for Destruction", which came out a couple of Years before. Guns had already establised themselves as the "new" and "different" band. The Skids were wronged and ultimately relegated into the vast pool of Cheddar. They could have easily gone softer and more commercial with their Sophomore release, Slave to the Grind but no....they decided to blaze some eyebrows (Thanks Tyler) with some marvelous riffery.....Mucho monsterous badassedness! I saw them open for their good friends, Pantera on this tour and they did indeed rock my face off. Slave to the Grind is notable for being the first heavy metal album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 and with good reason....it completely rules my life \m/\m/\m/

Scrotos' Daily (Sometimes) Offering - All Nightmare Long by Metallica

I about wet my pants with excitement when I first heard this song. After several mediocre Years in production for Metallica, they certainly came back strong with Death Magnetic. All Nightmare Long is laden with delicious riffage and killer grooves. Hetfield apparently decided to stop trying to sing and get back to barking at us once again. \m/ Props to Rick Rubin for suggesting that he do that! Metallica is back, baby \m/\m/\m/ The video shows an alternate history narrative done in grainy mockumentary style, depicting a sequence of fictional events following the historic 1908 Tunguska event, at which Soviet scientists discover spores of an extraterrestrial organism, a small harmless thing resembling an armored worm.

However it turns out the incredibly hardy spores are able to reanimate dead tissue, and subjects turn violent sometime after exposure to the spores; the USSR adapts them as a bio-weapon and scatters them from balloons in a preemptive strike against the US, causing a localized zombie apocalypse before intervening militarily to distribute humanitarian aid. At the end of the video, a hybrid US/USSR flag is raised in the now-Soviet-ruled America, and a headless corpse is shown breaching containment and escaping from a Soviet bio-warfare lab. Enjoy.....