Scott's Instrumental Metal Track of the Day - Vampires by Godsmack

Today's Instrumental Metal Track is brought to you by Godsmack. I don't listen to these guys much anymore but I still think this is a good track. This comes off of their 2nd album Awake which came out in 2000.

The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental although Sully downplayed it stating "I don't even know why we were nominated, because we were in a category with Joe Satriani and these other guys for best instrumental performance."

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Easy by the Commodores

Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is the inspiration behind this weekly posting; Easy by Commodores. This classic comes off of their 1977 self-titled album. Lionel Ritchie, who wrote this song, began his career with the Commodores.

This song has been covered numerous times. The version that I hear the most is Faith No More's version from 1992.

Weekend Wildcard - Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac

This Weekend's Wildcard is brought to you by Tupac. This song is from his second album that came out 20 years ago in 1993. I don't like a lot of rap but this is good stuff.

RIP Tupac

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Waiting for the Turning Point by Superjoint Ritual

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Superjoint Ritual. This is definitely the shortest song to make the cut so far and is one of the shortest metal songs that I know excluding intros and interludes.

This band formed in the early 90s but didn't record and album until a decade later after Pantera split up. The band includes Phil Anselmo of Pantera on vocals and Hank III on bass (Yes, Hank Williams Jr.'s son).

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Elimination by Overkill

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Overkill off of their 1989 album The Years of Decay which I still have on cassette. I remember watching this on MTV when it first came out. This song has some great lines from Blitz just like all Overkill songs.


"Laughing in a wind storm blowing all the cornstalks down"

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - We're in This Together by Nine Inch Nails

Today's Metal Track is brought to by Nine Inch Nails off of their 1999 album The Fragile. This video is an homage to the 1927 film Metropolis by Fritz Lang in Germany. The film is regarded as a pioneer work of science fiction movies and it was the first feature length film of the genre. When researching that film, I found that it has been used in many other songs and videos over past couple of decades.



Also here is a funny photo of Trent with Marilyn Manson in some magazine shoot years ago

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Brother by Dark New Day

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by the supergroup Dark New Day. I'll be honest, I had to search around on Google for a bit to find this song. I remembered the song but could not remember the band. I don't know any other songs by them. This song was a surprise hit when it came out in 2005. The band was comprised of members from various bands including Sevendust and Stuck Mojo.

Scott's Instrumental Metal Track of the Day - Epilogue by Opeth

Today's Instrumental Metal Track is brought to you by Opeth. This song is the closing track on their 1998 album My Arms, Your Hearse. Mikael Åkerfeldt stated that the band recorded this album while he was suffering from the flu.

The last word of each song on the album is the name of the name of the following song. Even the 3 instrumental tracks have short stories written for them in the form of "silent lyrics" to complete this.

Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - Drive Home by Steven Wilson

This week's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is another one by the extremely talented Steven Wilson off of his outstanding album The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories) that came out earlier this year.

This is a beautiful and emotional song and video. The animation is outstanding and unique and the solo at the end is just fantastic. The world needs more Steven Wilsons and less Justin Biebers.

Weekend Wild Card - Falling To Pieces by Faith No More

This weekend's wild card is brought to you by Faith No More. This is song if off of their first album with Mike Patton at vocals, The Real Thing. This album also featured the major hit Epic which has received heavy airplay over the years and continues to be popular today.

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Immortal Corrupter by Gwar

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Beavis and Butthead's favorite band Gwar. In the old B&B video game the goal of the game was to get to the Gwar concert. This song is off of their 2001 album Violence Has Arrived.

This video contains comically bad gore and special effects. But if you were not expecting that already you must have never heard of Gwar.


Here is the ending of the Beavis and Butthead game:

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - Progenies of a Great Apocalypse by Dimmu Borgir

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Dimmu Borgir out of Norway. This song comes off of their 2003 album Death Cult Armageddon. This song includes a great combination of metal and orchestra. I chose this video over the official video because it includes the orchestra.

Light up the Dance Floor Part 4, Punch Punch Punch Dance

For the last time, these dudes will be rocking faces at Cat's Cradle in a week. Today's track may confuse you if you're not comfortable with your sexuality as multiple sexy Abe Lincoln's lift weights and invite you to hang out. There's enough punk angst built up here to get you on your feet and it has that drive that should encourage you to dance fight a bit.

Want more dancin' fightin' and what not?
SUPER SET:

Death From Above 1979: Romantic Rights

The Death Set: Negative Thinking

The Faint: I Disappear

Scott's Metal Track of the Day - 13 Steps To Nowhere

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Pantera off of their 1996 album The Great Southern Trendkill. This is an awesomely brutal track with great work by the brothers, Dime and Vinnie, on guitar and drums.

Light up the Dance Floor Part 3, More Dancin', More Fightin'

Listen up dummies, Electric Six is coming to melt your dancing shoes! Are you ready to dance? Can you command the dance? Today's track answers that question and that answer is no, no you cannot command the dance, but there is a Dance Commander that gives the orders. "Dance Commander" proposes that "it would be awesome, if we could dance" and also the title character "went to store to get more fire for the war" what an awesome lyric.

Enjoy, thrash a bit, and throw something why don't you!

Need more punk infused dance music in your life? How about this track from Death From Above 1979 titled "Blood on our Hands". It's not too shabby.