Weekend Wildcard - A Matter of Trust by Billy Joel

This Weekend's Wildcard is A Matter of Trust by Billy Joel off of his 1986 album The Bridge. This song is unique in that is features Billy on electric guitar instead of piano which is why he says it's his favorite music video.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Krigsgaldr by Heilung

Well I said yesterday's Metal Track was strange but I think this one definitely has it beat. This is Krigsgaldr by the Danish folk-metal band Heilung. I don't even know if this qualifies as metal but it's making the cut tonight. If you couldn't tell by the antlers and bones used for instruments, this band had a primal approach to music. The vocal performances are great.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - The Chaos Path by Arcturus

Today's Metal Track is from a band I just happened to stumble on going down the YouTube rabbit hole. This awesomely strange track is titled The Chaos Path by the Norwegian black metal band Arcturus. This is off of their 1997 album La Masquerade Infernale.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Absolve by The Contortionist

Today's Metal Track is Absolve by The Contortionist. This is off of their 2017 album Clairvoyant. This is more chill than most my metal posts so if that's your thing definitely check it out.

Scott's 5th Anniversary Metal Track of the Day - Angry Again by Megadeth

Today marks the 5th Anniversary of my music blog. As of today I have posted over 1700 different tracks by well over 400 different artist. There are still plenty of great tracks out there and new tracks coming out so I hope to keep it going for awhile.

My very first post was a Megadeth track so I figure another one for the 5 Year Anniversary would be appropriate. Today's Metal Track is Angry Again from the Last Action Hero Soundtrack which is one of my favorite soundtracks. I have it on cassette around here somewhere. Here's to another 5 years of Metal!

Scott's Instrumental Metal Track of the Day - Kudzu by The Sky Is

Today's Instrumental Metal Track is Kudzu by the Polish Metal band The Sky Is. This is off of their 2017 album Telepathie. I guess you could say this song grows on you like kudzu. Get it? I'm here all night folks.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Over and Out by Foo Fighters

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Over and Out by Foo Fighters. This is off of their 2005 double album In Your Honor. This was on the 2nd disc which was all acoustic tracks.

Weekend Wildcard - Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies

This Weekend's Wildcard is Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac. This is off of their 1987 album Tango in the Night. This track was composed by their keyboardist, Christine McVie, who also performs lead vocals on the track.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Talk Talk by A Perfect Circle

Don't be a problem, be the solution

Today's beautiful Metal Track is new music by A Perfect Circle. This is Talk Talk off of their upcoming album Eat the Elephant which comes out April 20th. I really dig this song and the way it builds up. And of course Maynard is fantastic as usual on vocals. I've listened to this four times while writing this.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Con Clavi Con Dio by Ghost

Today's Metal Track is Con Clavi Con Dio by the Swedish band Ghost. This is off of their 2010 debut album Opus Eponymous which is Latin for self-titled work.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Mirakuru by Valient Thorr

Watch Valient Thorr beat the crap out of each other for a bag of something gold in today's Metal Track. This is the first time I've posted one by these guys in awhile. This is Mirakuru off of their 2016 album Old Salt.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Jaguar God by Mastodon

Today's Metal Track is Jaguar God by Mastodon. This is the closing track off of their 2017 album Emperor of Sand which is still in the CD player of my car as we speak. Just a great overall song that is a little different that most Mastodon songs with the slow intro. The high point is that fantastic solo by Brent to close out the song and the album.

Scott's Instrumental Metal Track of the Day - Highly Strung by Orianthi featuring Steve Vai

Today's Instrumental Metal Track is Highly Strung by Orianthi featuring Steve Vai. This is off of her 2009 major label debut Believe.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Traveller by Chris Stapleton

By request from the Birthday Girl, Danielle, today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Traveller by Chris Stapleton. This is the title track off of his 2015 album by the same name. This track earned him a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance.

Happy Birthday DB!

Scott's Metal track of the Day - Thoughtless by Korn

Thumbing through the pages of my fantasy

Checkout Aaron Paul before his Breaking Bad days as Jesse Pinkman in Today's Metal Track by Korn. This is Thoughtless off of their 2002 album Untouchables.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Psychosphere by Periphery

Today's Metal Track is Psychosphere by Periphery. This is off of their 2015 double album Juggernaut. This was the closing track off of the Alpha album. Definitely some brown notes in there so be careful.

Amazingly, this video was filmed in just one take. I didn't even pay attention to that until I saw it in the description.

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

Today's Metal Track is Lonely Day by System of a Down. This is off of their 2005 album  Hypnotize. On this track, Serj takes on back up vocals in favor of lead guitarist Daron who takes on lead. It is rumored that this song is about Daron losing his brother who died in a fire. Not sure if it is true or nt but that would explain all the fire in the video.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - The House that Jack Built by Metallica (Happy Birthday Jack)

In honor of Jack's 6th Birthday today's Metal Track is The House That Jack Built by Metallica. This is off of their 1996 album Load. Lots of cool, wicked sound effects on this track with the wah pedal and talk box.

Every time Jack builds something I think of this song lol. Happy Birthday Son!

Scott's Instrumental Metal Track of the Day - Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement) - Beethoven cover by Tina S

I often tell people that classical and metal music have a lot of similarities so it is awesome to see them cross paths. This time it comes in the form of a 17 year old girl covering Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (3rd Movement).

Watch Tina S spank this guitar in today's Instrumental Metal Track. It's a thing of beauty. One of the best performances I've ever seen.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Here and Now by Luther Vandross

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Here an Now by Luther Vandross. This first appeared on his 1989 album The Best of Luther Vandross... The Best of Love as a previously unreleased track.

Weekend Wildcard - Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe

You ready Ron?
I'm ready
You ready Dave?
I'm ready
Slick are you?
Oh yeah break it down

Girl I must... warn you

This Weekend's Wildcard is Poison by Bell Biv Devoe. This is the title track off of their 1990 debut album by the same name. This group was a spinoff of the group New Edition. Now you know!

Never trust a big butt and a smile

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Millions by Between the Buried and Me

New Between the Buried and Me album, Automata 1, dropped today. Thanks for reminding me Jamie. From my quick listen, my favorite so far is the closing track Blot. But they released a video today for Millions so I'm going to hold out on that one with the hopes they will eventually release a video.

Front man Tommy Rogers on the album:
 "What if dreams could be broadcast for the purpose of entertainment? Could you consume the innermost thoughts of another person on screen? If you could, what does that say about an attention-starved audience? More importantly, what would become of the dreamer?"

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Christeen by Devin Townsend

Today's Metal Track is Christeen by Devin Townsend. This is off of his 1998 album Infinity. I still can't believe I didn't really know about Devin until years later. Dude has been putting out great music for years. The cover of this album is even more awkward than the video because not only is he sitting naked on the floor, he also has the goof remnants of hair he had before he shaved it.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Enter Oblivion by Darkest Hour

Today's Metal Track is Enter Oblivion by Darkest Hour. This is off of their most recent album Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora which came out last year.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Lying In State - Megadeth

Today's Metal Track is Lying In State by Megadeth. This is off of their 2016 Grammy winning album Dystopia. You will notice a few Easter eggs in the video paying homage to some of their older work. They are not really hidden so it's more like an Easter egg hunt for 3 year olds lol.

Scott's Instrumental Metal Track of the Day - Frozen Brains Tell No Tales by Buckethead

Today's Instrumental Metal Track is Frozen Brains Tell No Tales by Buckethead. This is off of his 2003 album Bucketheadland 2.

Buckethead's a psycho, he's a total psycho lol

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Love Will Lead You Back by Taylor Dayne

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is Love Will Lead You Back by Taylor Dayne. This is off of her 1989 album Can't Fight Fate. Diane Warren originally wrote this song with Whitney House in mind as the singer but the record company decided on Taylor instead. This ended up being Taylor's only number 1 hit.

Weekend Wildcard - Phantom of the Opera Theme Song

My mom and stepdad bought us tickets to go see the Phantom of the Opera as Christmas Presents and we all went this past Thursday. There were a lot of good songs but I think I like the main theme song the best.

This Weekend's Wildcard is Phantom of the Opera as performed by Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum (Hay Gurl). I had no idea these two had performed this.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Now You've Got Something to Die For by Lamb of God

We'll never get out of this hole
Until we've dug our own grave

Today's Metal Track is Now You've Got Something to Die For by Lamb of God. I think this is the first song I ever heard by Lamb of God and it was this video on MTV. Just a solid track all the way through. I love that outro especially.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Can U Deliver by Armored Saint

Today's Metal Track is Can U Deliver by Armored Saint. This is off of their 1984 album March of the Saint.

I love the top YouTube comment: "If I start a pizza delivery service, this song will be in all my commercials" lol