MaYaN's new album Antagonise out in January

Dutch symphonic death metal band MaYaN will release their second album "Antagonise" on January 31st, 2014. The album contains 11 songs and features guest musicians Floor Jansen (Nightwish, ReVamp, After Forever), Marcela Bovio (Stream of Passion) and Greek violinist Dimitris Katsoulis.

According to the press release, the main album's concept is based on "the current state of the world which is going totally insane".


Touring members Henning Basse (Lingua Mortis Orchestra) and Laura Macri became permanent members back in September.

Olle Ekman's Death Metal Warm-ups

If you're Canadian, you no doubt know who George Stroumboulopoulos is. We call him Strombo for short, and some of us have huge crushes on him. He has a national radio show and is a known music geek and former VJ for MuchMusic. He also has a popular TV show on our national network CBC. Anyway, this video was in his Facebook feed today and I thought it was worth reposting here because it's really quite fascinating. Here is the original post on George's CBC site.

Here is the video on YT of death metal vocalist Olle Ekman's vocal warm-up. Now, I'm not the biggest DM fan in the world, but I did get a lot of enjoyment out of watching this. Olle sings for Swedish bands Volturyon and Deals Death.



Enjoy!

30 Day Music Challenge, Day 25: A Song that Makes Me Laugh

A while ago, a friend of mine suggested I check out the show, Metalocalypse. Man, am I ever glad I did, because it's so brilliant! I love it so much, and there are certain episodes I turn to when I just need a good laugh because I know they will deliver, no matter how shitty I feel!

This song is from the first episode, and upon hearing it, I totally burst out in a fit of laughter. I mean, a death metal band singing "do you folks like coffee" and "scream for the cream?" It's fucking hilarious!

Here is the video. Enjoy!