Manowar - Louder Than Hell (1996)

To celebrate my not being smashed against another car by a car while on my bicycle last night, I am putting up Manowar's 1996 slice of battering metal, "Louder Than Hell." Sure there's some filler, but the standout tracks are excellent enough to warrant constant listens. This is fist-pumping classic heavy metal revived in the 1990's. You can probably delete about half the album and you probably will upon listening to it, but "The Gods Made Heavy Metal" and "Brothers In Metal Pt. 1" will have you fist pumping harder than any Jersey trash could dream of.

Artist: Manowar
Album: Louder Than Hell
Year: 1996
Genre: Heavy metal
Quality: 320kbps (very high)

1. Return Of The Warlord - 5:10
2. Brothers Of Metal Pt. 1 - 3:54
3. The Gods Made Heavy Metal - 6:03
4. Courage - 3:49
5. Number 1 - 5:11
6. Outlaw - 3:22
7. King - 6:25
8. Today Is A Good Day To Die - 9:42
9. My Spirit Lives On - 2:10
10. The Power - 4:09

114 MB

"Brothers Of Metal Pt. 1"



"The Gods Made Heavy Metal"



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Richmond Police Department Scanner

Because of the recent spike in shootings and violence near and around my apartment on W. Grace Street near Kroger and Lowe's, I wanted to know what was up without having to bug police friends while they did their jobs and found an RPD scanner that streamed online. So, if you are interested, here you are via RadioReference.com, an RPD, Fire & Emergency Medical Services (EMS) scanner for your listening enjoyment.

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=2843

Just click the little symbol under "Listen."

Fight - War Of Words (1993)

Artist: Fight
Album: War Of Words
Year: 1993
Genre: Heavy metal
Quality: 320kbps (very high)

1. Into The Pit - 4:12
2. Nailed To The Gun - 3:38
3. Life In Black - 4:34
4. Immortal Sin - 4:38
5. War Of Words - 4:29
6. Laid To Rest - 4:40
7. For All Eternity - 4:42
8. Little Crazy - 3:49
9. Contortion - 4:35
10. Kill It - 3:29
11. Vicious - 3:11
12. Reality, A New Beginning - 13:51

137 MB

After Rob Halford left Judas Priest in 1992 he wanted to venture into other bands and try different genres and styles; this one turned out to be the best and the first of a couple bands he tried out (2wo, Pig, both of which were really bad). Scott Travis from Judas Priest also drummed on the record as well, who has been drumming in Judas Priest since "Painkiller." It is more Pantera-esque than what Halford had typically been playing. Either way, it's awesome, and certainly beat the hell out of the non-Halford-era Priest albums (though "Jugulator" did have some decent songs on it).

Unfortunately, Rob Halford's management have taken measures to prevent songs from their library to appear on Youtube and other video sites, so the best I can do for now is to take you to a site that lets you stream each track individually.

http://www.lala.com/#album/504684633419882490

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John Parr "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" (1985)

In honor of the Olympics, and while sitting in a bar seeing Rick Hansen during one of the opening ceremonies carrying the Olympic Torch, I felt the need to educate the masses on this guy and the brilliant song inspired by him. If you've seen the film, "St. Elmo's Fire," this is nothing new as that song permeated throughout that movie (good movie, too). Rick Hansen is a paralyzed athlete from Canada and after another athlete attempted to raise cancer awareness by rolling via wheelchair from one end of Canada to the other but not succeeding due to cancer-related issues, Hansen decided he would do the same thing while raising awareness for handicapped athletes altogether and going around the world, not just Canada.

"St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)"



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Carcass - Pre-"Heartwork" Parr Street Demos

Artist: Carcass
Album: Pre-Heartwork Parr Street Demos
Year: 1993
Genre: Death metal, thrash metal, extreme metal, melodic death metal
Quality: 320kbps (Very high)

1. Blind Bleeding The Blind - 5:14
2. Buried Dreams - 4:06
3. Carnal Forge - 4:05
4. Death Certificate - 3:49
5. Deliverance (Later renamed to Embodiment on Heartwork) - 5:52
6. Doctrinal Expletives - 3:45
7. Heartwork - 4:38
8. No Love Lost - 3:26
9. This Mortal Coil - 4:05
10. Arbeit Macht Frei - 4:31

95.7 MB

I wanted to upload something from my CD collection that a lot of people probably actually don't have so here we go. This is from the reissue of Carcass' magnum opus "Heartwork," originally released in 1993. Re-released in 1998 with remastered tracks, a DVD with in-the-studio stuff and discussing the H.R. Giger art custom-made for this release, Michael Amott's departure, vegetarianism, Parr Street Studios (which is the reason for the long release name), and other stuff. Interesting if you are a fanboy. The Parr Street Studio demo material is great, though. You hear all the tracks from "Heartwork" in often slower tempos, some with different guitar solos. The track listing is different but beyond that it's not wildly different. If you want to see how these 17-18 year old songs were birthed then perfected for the album, take a listen.

These Youtube previews of the songs are AWFUL quality, the actual demo recordings are actually much, much better.

"Blind Bleeding The Blind"



"This Mortal Coil"



"Heartwork"



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Cro-Mags - Best Wishes (1989)

Artist: Cro-Mags
Album: Best Wishes
Year: 1989
Genre: Hardcore, crossover thrash
Quality: 320kbps (very high)

1. Death Camps - 5:22
2. Days Of Confusion - 2:19
3. The Only One - 4:55
4. Down But Not Out - 3:59
5. Crush The Demoniac - 3:56
6. Fugitive - 4:40
7. Then And Now - 3:12
8. Age Of Quarrel - 4:45

78 MB

Longer songs, more solos, cleaner sound and John Joseph leaving vocal duty to bassist Harley Flanagan. Although the lyrics are a bit goofy with the Hare Krishna themes, this is a completely solid album. I wish I could find more Youtube or Google Video clips of songs from this album but there were none, or terrible live recordings. This is a low-quality clip I found and certainly not the best track so give it a whirl.

"Then And Now"



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Enslaved - Frost (1994)

Artist: Enslaved
Album: Frost
Year: 1994
Genre: Black and/or viking metal
Quality: 320kbps

1. Frost
2. Loke
3. Fenris
4. Svarte Vidder (Black Mountain Plateaus)
5. Yggdrasil
6. Jotunblod (Blood of Jotun)
7. Gylfaginning (The Tricking Of Gylfi)
8. Wotan
9. Isöders Dronning (Queen Of The Ice Desolates)

115 MB

From the icy, chilling intro instrumental through stories about Nordic mythological creatures and characters and cold mountaintops, this is a must-have through-and-through. Yggdrasil (ig-dra-sil) is about a gigantic tree at the center of Norse mythology, also known as Odin's horse. Gylfaginning is about a king who is tricked by the Norse gods, and I think is about the creation and destruction of the world that the gods created. It even says "VIKING METAL" on the back of the inside booklet. Fast as hell at times, melodic at others, not the cleaned-up progressive metal sound their newer fans are used to. The drummer, Trym, joined Emperor after this album.

"Frost"



"Loke"



"Svarte Vidder"



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The Centurions - Bullwinkle, Part II (1964)

Artist: The Centurions
Album: Bullwinkle, Part II
Year: 1964
Genre: Surf rock
Quality: 320kbps

1. Bullwinkle, Part II
2. Intoxica
3. Body Surfin'
4. Holiday Girl
5. Church Key
6. Surf Bird
7. Vesuvius
8. Tuff Soul
9. Sano
10. Latin'ia
11. Surfin' At Mazatland

67 MB

Probably the most well-known Centurions track which is eponymous to the album title, "Bullwinkle, Part II."



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Me: Terry. I'm gonna break into your house.
Terry: I'm 'onna break inna yer brain.

The sum of how my 2009 ended

It was full of hope many times over and ended with many burns, every time. 2010 has started off a little better, though with plenty of scares. Busting my ass to make it work... again.