Old School Wednesday

I think I am going to start a new tradition: Old School Wednesday. At my other job, all of the radios that have cd players are broken. I decide to try and jack up one that has a cassette player and it suprisingly works! Today I took it back into the late 80s. I started off with Ozzy's The Ultimate Sin. Next were the second-tier thrashers Overkill. Under the Influence is a thrash masterpiece. The coup de grace of the day was listening to Pantera's Power Metal. This was the first one with Phil in the band. This is before they found their power groove sound. Regardless, it is still awesome. Diamond Darrell shreds like a king (like always)! Phil's singing (yes singing) is similar to that of Cemetary Gates, throughout the whole album. The lyrics aren't as mature as their latter material. You can judge by the song titles: Rock the World, Power Metal, Proud to be Loud, Burnnn!, and P*S*T*88. According to the liner notes, the lyrics to the last song are invisible. "When the beast of Pantera runs loose words as such do not exist!" Too funny. It was definitely a different time for music. The hair bands were in control and Pantera was trying to bridge the gap. The album cover shows the band with some poofy, horrible looking hair. Vinnie Paul needs to reissue this and earlier Pantera albums on cd! I love hearing new music, but it is fun to revisit the past and see where all of the modern metal came from. I plan on throwing down some more with Old School Wednesday.

There is tons of great new metal out there: New Megadeth, Suicide Silence, Church of Misery, Warbringer, Obituary, Devildriver, Killswitch Engage, Arkaea. New albums from Slayer, Anthrax, Hatebreed, and Municipal Waste on the horizon. Now I just need the time to listen to it all.

Local bands have started to step it up. I've started to receive some new local music and I will work it into the Local Edge, Sunday nights at 7.

album of the day--Pantera Power Metal