UK DARKNESS CREW

SOULFLY NEW ALBUM OMEN

2010-02-06T04:19:00.000-08:00

When I was a teenager i wanted to be JAMES HETFIELD or MAX CAVALERA. They were the shit! Their anger, singing style and performance just blew me away. Sure, SEPULTURA and METALLICA of today are not what they were in the good old days of the early nineties. I am not sure that young MAX or JAMES would listen to the last albums of either SEPULTURA or METALLICA, but maybe that’s why Cavalera is not a Sepultura member anymore. No doubt max still has the anger and he knows how to channel it through. CAVALERA CONSPIRACY AND SOULFLY are the right bands for him to do so.

The last Soulfly record CONQUER is brutal, heavy and interesting musically. And the production is really good. The new Soulfly record is due in May. Much anticipation there. But a small fear of it being not as good as I’d like it to. The fact that max say it’s more HARDCORE style, might insinuate a boring album. Hardcore is fucking great, but in metal, I like the music to be interesting with song parts, very good guitar mastership and great drums sound. Hardcore is very raw short stripped down songs. Again, it's great but it's not Soulfly. Max Cavalera likes to collaborate with others. A list of these collaborations with others is a whole post of its own, and sure enough we are for some on the new SOULFLY ALBUM. PRONG's TOMMY VICTOR and DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN’s GERG PUCIATO will contribute vocals (what about a NEW PRONG ALBUM ????) both Maxs' sons, ZION (which his heart beats feature on the beginning of CHAOS A.D.) and IGOR will play on two song, one of them is REFUSE RESIST cover, which is a bloody great metal tune!!

As much as I’m sure I’m not the only one want max to join his brother Igor and make another BENETH THE REMAINS, I’m sure I’m not the only one eager to listen to the FIRST SINGLE out of the NEW SOULFLY ALBUM OMEN !!!

ANTI THE BLACKOUT

2010-01-29T09:46:00.000-08:00

Blackout, AS ABOVE, SO BELOW - it's work by ANTI. "Anti is a multi-disciplinary design agency who works with brand identity, art direction, packaging, print, illustration and interactive design. " and they are very talented and yes, the like the dark.

They make commercial work, graphic design, web design and more.

There is something very unique about these guys. Their sense of aesthetics is cutting edge, and you can see so many great influences in their works.

U must click and check them out: http://www.anti-ink.com/

DAKNESS FASHION

2010-01-29T09:25:00.000-08:00

I dont remember why and how, but i came upon a great site for us darkness lovers.
Steff from New Zealand is the blogger behind this blog, and she brings really cool stuff about metal music and fashion. for metal heads, goth and others.
666 for her !
http://steffmetal.com/

KEITH RICHRDS IS ON THE WAGON

2010-01-26T08:27:00.000-08:00

Who'd believe it will happen, but according to Classic Rock mag, Keith Richards- a rock icon, the man who drunk, smoke and snort it all, decided to stop drinking booze.
He is clean for about 4 months now. lets see if he stays on the wagon and if it will harm the way he is bluesing.

The delta blues players Keith grew on were all drunk. men who used alcohol, cigarettes or drugs for decades sometimes cant stop because their body is used to it so much that if they'll stop they can die.

So, the future will tell how the master will cope with it.

SOUNGARDEN REUNION

2010-01-04T03:04:00.000-08:00

As the “uber” post modernist time we live in main thing is that nothing new can be invented and it’s all just new versions of old things, the rock world is not different. So you probably know by now that we r in the reunions era.

The reasons for a hard rock band to reunite are money – sometimes rockers need money you know, but it can be greed (mostly record companies which want to cash in on a trend), the Loop effect in the world we live in is a reason too as music and fashion styles have a come back every 20 years or so. And sure you have another reason, which is the one less occurring – musicians can’t stop writing songs, want to play together and record, so they get together to jam, see it’s really great and have a reunion.

The reason for the SOUNDGARDEN REUNION announced just this weekend (http://www.soundgardenworld.com/) is uncertain. It might be the ALICE IN CHAINS reunion/comeback (http://scandalsevenblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/alice-in-fuckin-chains/).
Someone understood that so many rock veterans getting reunited has a monetary upturn. There is no other explanation.

Here are some of those reunions we had in the last couple of years:
ROB HALFORD returns to JUDAS PRIEST – 2003.
DAVID LEE ROTH returns to VAN HALEN – 2006.
LED ZEPPELIN’s gig – 2007
These are just a few, not to mention the last two SLAYER records, TESTAMENT play live and the metal scene of the first days of thrash metal revisited with avenges.

As for now, we don’t know what the Soundgarden reunion is all about. One big gig is promised, but we at the UK DARKNESS CREW think that if they’ll get into the studio and record a new album is a great idea.
Don’t you?

BEST ALBUMS OF 2009

2009-12-29T09:46:00.000-08:00

(Everyone are doing it, so we thought to do the same):
Here are the best albums of 2009 as the UK DARKNESS CREW see it (not in any particular order):

LAMB OF GOD – Wrath: not the best album of the band that’s for sure, but since Lamb of God is one of our favorite bands, and the fact that we don’t think 2009 had lots of good music, this album must be on this list.

MEGADETH – Endgame: there is no doubt; this album is one of the best Megadeth albums of all times. Some 20 years after, they released a great album. DAVE MUSTAINE was always problematic, both as a singer and a person, and after the fiasco on METALLICA’s some kind of monster movie he had to take whatever left of his 18 years broken ginger ego and put it on a record. We are so thankful that he did. ENDGAME is the shit! One of the best albums of 2009!!

ALICE IN CHAINSE – Black gives way to blue: not only that this album is one of the best albums of the year, it’s an important one. As we at the UK DARKNESS CREW say “take all the time you need”. Alice took it. They knew how much is at stake – if the new album after Layne will not be good enough they will die. This album is the surprise of the last ten years. Great songs with new singer that rock!!

THE DEAD WEATHER – Horehound: there is something right about JACK WHITE and ALISON MUSSHART. The correlation of whites’ guitar sound and THE KILLS vocalist singing is out there. Someone had to glue those guys together and put them in a studio. We think it’s the best project Jack done.

SLAYER – World painted blood: not much to say. The best thing is that Slayer released it. This album is far from being one of their best one, but it did good for metalheads around the world, and it’s an important step for good metal music.

HATEBREED – For the lions: just when one will think Hatebreed songs sounds all the same, no matter how great they are, they released this one. And for crying out loud it’s a good one! Out of respect, this band that we could have never heard about got to be huge, recorded cover versions of songs which made Hatebreed what they are today.

we will love to know what u think, what are your albums of the year?

btw, have u buy our Tshirt yet? check it out here

SATAN'S YOUTH

2009-11-30T10:30:00.000-08:00

OI !

listen to these guys: SATAN'S YOUTH MINISTER ! they rock!

http://www.myspace.com/satansyouthministers

the minister come from Alabam and they rock!

they are influanced by the right things. to name a few like the stooges, melvins, cramps and dead kenedies. and they rock!

and they rock!

UK DARKNESS CREW T SHIRT !!

2009-11-30T08:37:00.000-08:00

hey dark lovin people.

SCANDAL SEVEN was kind enough to make the UK darkness crew a T-shirt. and we love it!!

for now, this T is sold only in the UK. as all scandal seven products, this one is very high quality 100% cotton with high standard silk screen print.

so if u want one, u can get it online by clicking the pic above (the UK darkness crew isnt get any money out of this sell)

2009-11-21T06:04:00.000-08:00

The last Alice in chains album I’ve heard got to stores on 1995, since than the band finished saying what they had to say. Seven years after, Layne Staley, Alice in chains front man soul went to heaven. For me, he was it!
He was a package full of heroin on two feet. A bag of depression that used to stand on the stage, holding the microphone and ripping his heart out for the fans.

Laynes’ death switched off the plug on AIC, without Staley there’s no Alice in chains, or so I thought.
Until last night in London.

Hard rock fans were shocked when AIC released a new single a few months ago. How can it be? Layne is dead!
Yes, Jerry Cantrell is still alive (thanks for that) and he even got his own albums and stuff (never listened to even one album of his) but Alice front man was so unique and without him there can not be Alice. But boy I was wrong. With the first chord of AIC single “a looking in view” I knew they are back.

When I got to the Forum, holding ticket to a show I never thought I’d see I knew I am not alone. So many people like me stood in the queue, most of them over their thirties, nineties kids who breathe Seattle all their youths.

The show was great! The Alice in chains sound blasting to our faces. They played a few songs from the last album, but the mosh pit really fired when Alice played grunge songs like “man in the box” and “rooster”.
Yes, Layne was missed no doubt about it, but William Duvall is such a great singer that as time went by, you would not be bothered about the fact it’s not Layne up there on the stage.

They could have a longer concert, but I don’t think it was necessary. It was almost two hours of awesome hard rock in a show that felt more intimate than having sex with the one u love.
And now I’m listening to Alice in chains all day 24/7, like I used to do years ago.
http://scandalsevenblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/alice-in-fuckin-chains/

2009-11-20T06:18:00.000-08:00

for all of you dark people, here is a link to another great dark designer we found:

http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Tel-Aviv-Yafo-Israel/Adamas/123020968523

the man behind this label is a dark loving fucked up metalist and his wife.

just like us, the love metal music, black magic and tattoos, so have a look.

scandal seven welcome the darkness

2009-10-27T03:25:00.000-07:00

here is a T shirt picture the UK darkness crew got from Scandal Seven.
Scandal Seven is a very cool "street & rock wear label" as in the web site

we at UK darkness crew think its a wicked tee. not only it's black, we really love the writing "no gods, no masters". not all Scandals' shirts are for us dark people, but some are very much our cup of Jack Daniels.

World Painted Blood

2009-10-24T09:45:00.000-07:00

I never thought id be writing a post about slayer on 2009. When I was 16 listening day in day out to slayer, there was no internet, well infect, there was all those gicks with their computers that can talk to each other via the phone bips (that was the beginning of the internet you young shitheads). The thing is that I never thought slayer would be still playing or breathing at all at 2009. They will all be dead by now. Rotten skeletons in the abyss.

BUT NO! They are alive; their old bones can still reap the soul of all guitar demons of hell.
Not only they have kick ass live shows.

they now release a new album.

I really liked slayers "christ illusion" album. For me they are back. And it’s not an easy thing.
But they did it. Sure, it’s not their best album but it’s a slayer one. One like only slayer can.

The new slayer album "world painted blood" is out November 3rd.
I like the name.

So far I heard only the first album titled release "world painted blood". A great first song but not the best one iv ever heard. don’t like the chorus.
Sound-wise, Greg fildman which produce some shit like metallica's "death magnetic" made a pretty good job. I hope the mistake of a not fat enough sound is a one time mistake and that the whole album is better than just this song.

And for closure, an important interview with slayer. early years. hard to the core.