Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Dimmu Borgir by Dimmu Borgir

It's not uncommon for band's to have self-titled albums. Sometimes they have multiple self-titled albums. But not often do you see self-titled songs. I know there are some out there, Bad Company comes to mind, but definitely not common.

Today's Metal Track is Dimmu Borgir by, you guessed it, Dimmu Borgir. This is off of the Norwegian band's 2010 album Abrahadabra. The band and song are named after a volcanic formation in Iceland and means 'dark cities'.

Scott's Instrumental Metal Track of the Day - Lost in the Headlights by Pelican

Today's Instrumental Metal Track is Lost in the Headlights by Pelican. This is off of their 2007 album City of Echoes. The video is a sequel to the video for Dead Between the Walls which is shown on the TV set at the beginning of the video. In that video, the bearded guy with the microphone finally meets up with the band and is ready to start singing when they stop playing. This video shows the same bearded guy searching for the band only meet the same result.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Always on My Mind by WIllie Nelson

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson. This song was written by Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson and recorded first by Gwen McCrae and Brenda Lee in 1972. Willie's 1982 cover was by far the most successful version garnering three Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Best Country Song, and Best Male Country Performance.

Weekend Wildcard - And We Dance by The Hooters

Today's Weekend Wildcard is a fun pop song by The Hooters. This is And We Danced off of their 1985 album Nervous Night

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - We Need a Gimmick by Nekrogoblikon

Today's Hilarious Metal Track is We Need a Gimmick by Nekrogoblikon. This is off of their 2015 album Heavy Meta. This brilliant video about making the video is in response to their previous video for No One Survives which became a viral hit on YouTube back in 2012. It was also featured on this blog back in June of 2014.

Enjoy

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Spiders by System of a Down

The spiders all in tune,
The evening of the moon,
Dreams are made winding through my head, 

Today's Metal Track is about everyone's favorite eight legged friend. Spiders is off of System of a Down's 1998 self-titled debut album. This song sounds like collaboration song between Tool and SOAD.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Blood, Milk, and Sky by White Zombie

Today's Metal Track is Blood, Milk, and Sky by White Zombie. This is the closing track off of their 1995 album Astro-Creep: 2000. I love this track. There is not a lot to it but it really grows on you. It's super chill.

Wash away into the rain
Blood, milk and sky
Hollow moons illuminate
And beauty never dies

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Atlas, Rise! by Metallica

In honor of the dude with the sweet Metallica shirt at the game tonight, today's Metal Track is Atlas, Rise! off of their newest album Hardwired... To Self-Destruct. This is one of my favorite tracks off of the album with its relentless shredding. I love almost all the songs on there though. This one has a definite Maiden feel to it. The outtakes in the video are pretty cool too.

Hetfield's voice is strong throughout the album and especially on this track:
Masquerade as maker!
Heavy is the crown!



Here is the shirt from tonight

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Asylum of Glass by Buckethead

Today's Instrumental Metal Track is Asylum of Glass by Buckethead. This is off of his 2007 album Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot. This album was released on the same date as one of his other solo albums and a collaboration album with his drummer Brain. All three album are completely separate and different in style.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Redemption Song by Bob Marley

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Redemption Song by Bob Marley. This is the final track on his 1980 album Uprising. Marley died the following year. This song consists only of Marley, his guitar, and his voice. The lyrics borrow lines from a speech given by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in 1937.

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds"

And lol at the first YouTube comment: "388 Jamaicans read dislike as dis i like......."

Weekend Wildcard - Safety Dance by Men Without Hats

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance
And if they don't dance
Well, they're no friends of mine

This Weekend's Wildcard is Safety Dance by Men Without Hats. This is from their 1983 album Rhythm of Youth. If you are like me you will immediately recall this song from the movie Saving Silverman.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Psychosocial by Slipknot

Today's Metal Track is Psychosocial by Slipknot. This is off of their 2008 album All Hope is Gone.

And the rain will kill us all,
Throw ourselves against the wall
But no one else can see,
The preservation of the martyr in me

The limits of the dead!

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Try to Disappear by Baroness

Today's Metal Track is Try to Disappear by Baroness. This is off of their 2015 Purple album. Like the top comment states, "Great song, great album... totally destroyed by compression". The sound quality is not the greatest on this YouTube video but it still rocks.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Kluskap O' Kom by Voivod

Today's Metal Track is Kluskap O' Kom by Voivod. This is off of their 2013 album Target Earth. Vocalist Denis "Snake" Bélanger said: "Sometimes described as a giant coming out of the woods, sometimes a monster in a lake or sometimes a powerful being that came from the sky, Kluskap is the name for this strange character and O'Kom is the place where he lives

Scott's Metal Love Song of the Day - Still Loving You by Scorpions

Today's Metal Love Song is Still Loving You by the Scorpions. This is off of their 1984 album Love at First Sting. Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - The Deceived by Trivium

Today's Metal Track is The Deceived by Trivium. This is off of their 2004 album Ascendancy. This is a live performance recorded 7 years later. The entire album was recorded in drop Db tuning initially but they had to re-record everything in D because an error caused everything to be out of tune.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - The Heart of the Matter

I've been trying to get back
To the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Forgiveness

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is The Heart of the Matter by Don Henley. This is off of his 1989 album The End of Innocence. When Henley reunited with the Eagles, this song was performed live for the Hell Freezes Over live DVD.

Weekend Wildcard - Desire by U2

This Weekend's Wildcard is Desire by U2. This is off of their 1988 album Rattle and Hum. With this song, the band earned a Grammy for Best Rock Performance in 1989. The guys stated that the song 1969 by the Stooges was the main influence behind the writing of this track.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Mean, Green, Killing Machine by Overkill

Today's Metal Track is brand new thrash metal by Overkill. Mean, Green, Killing Machine is the opening track off of their new album Grinding Wheel which just came out today! If you didn't already know, green is like the bands official color as it is dominant in most of their artwork. These guys are some of the hardest working guys in metal. This is their 18th album and they are still bringing it.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Jerry Was a Race Car Driver by Primus

Dog will hunt!

Today's Funky Metal Track is Jerry Was a Race Car Driver by Primus. This is off of their 1991 album Sailing the Seas of Cheese. The "Dog will hunt" line is sampled from the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. I always assumed it was just Les Claypool because it sounds just like him.



Here is the movie clip

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Wills Dissolve by Isis

Today marks the first time a complete album has been posted to the blog. This is the last remaining song to be posted from the outstanding 2004 album Panopticon by Isis. Every song on this album is great, it's hard to pick a favorite. This is one of my favorite albums to play while at work due to its ambient feel.

And with that we bid farewell to this post-metal masterpiece. Maybe one day down the road I'll throw in a few repeats and include a few songs again.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Been a Long Time by Black Label Society

Today's Metal Track is Been a Long Time by Black Label Society. This jam is off of his 2005 album Mafia.

This cross you bare I've come to carry for you
This cross you bare I've come to break it in two
I was down but now I can see
The pain, the hurt, the misery
Oh lord, it's been a long time
Doing my best I'll try and get it next time

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - N.W.O. by Ministry

Today's Metal Track is N.W.O. by Ministry. This is the opening track off of their 1992 album Psalm 69. Mike Thompson mentioned this earlier today which gave me the idea to post it. I didn't notice it, but Mike heard this playing at the Super Bowl last night. It's funny because George H. Bush was an honored guest at the Super Bowl and this is an Anti-Bush song. The song even includes audio samples of George's speech proclaiming a New World Order.

The song also features a clip of Dennis Hopper's line "It's alright, It's alright" from the film Apocalypse Now. 

Ministry - N.W.O. (New World Order) from universum on Vimeo.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - He Ain't Give You None by Van Morrison

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is He Ain't Give You None by Van Morrison. This is the second track off of his 1967 debut album Blowin' Your Mind. That's right, this song is 50 years old!

Weekend Wildcard - She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy by Kenny Chesney

I can't think of any better song for Andrew's birthday party today than this song. If you know anything about Andrew you would know that he loves him some tractors. This Weekend's Wildcard is She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy by Kenny Chesney.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Black Honey by Thrice

Today's Metal Track is Black Honey by Thrice. This is off of their 2016 album To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere. This song has a great balance between heavy and mainstream. It's very difficult to pull off but Dustin's vocals make it happen.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Iron Man by Black Sabbath

Today's Metal Track a classic from Black Sabbath's 1970 album Paranoid. Iron Man has one of the most iconic riffs in all of heavy metal. Surprisingly the song was not connect in any way to the comic book character that originated 7 years prior to the release of this song. However, the band and song were later featured in the Iron Man and Avengers films. In the former, an instrumental version is included in the credits and in the latter, Tony Stark can be seen sporting a Black Sabbath T-Shirt.

Instead, the song is about a man who travels to the future, witnesses the apocalypse, and returns to the present to warn mankind. On the way back he is caught in a magnetic field where he is turned into steel which leaves him mute. He is unable to warn people and is ignored and mocked to the point where he becomes angry and seeks revenge on mankind.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Voracious Souls by Death Angel

Today's Metal Track is some old school metal from the Filipino American metal band Death Angel. This is Voracious Souls off of their debut 1987 album The Ultra-Violence. At the time this album was released, drummer Andy Galeon was only 14 years old.