Full Show Friday: Gorgoroth Black Mass Krakow 2004

Last year we searched the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and posted them to the site monthly.  That was all well and good but this year RtBE is upping the ante with a show every week to celebrate Full Show Friday's.  These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Gorgoroth! 

It is upon us!  BLACK Friday! Time for the most evil Norwegian Black Metal I have ever heard. Granted not a huge fan of the genre but RtBE researched a few bands after enjoying the documentary Until The Light Takes Us.  

Gorgoroth takes the cake (having a Tolkien name only helps them in my book). The video might not be the safest for work if you have to be slaving away on this day, but it sure gets to the point with severed animal heads and naked crucified bodies...in fact check out this tidbit from Wikipedia regarding this exact show:

On February 1, 2004, during a concert being recorded for a DVD in Kraków, Poland, the band displayed sheep heads on stakes, a bloodbath of 80 litres of sheep's blood, Satanic symbols, and four naked crucified models on stage. A police investigation took place with allegations of religious offence (which is prosecutable under Polish law) and cruelty to animals.[27] Though these charges were considered, the band was not charged as it was ruled that they were unaware of the fact that what they were doing was illegal, although the concert organiser was eventually fined 10000zł in 2007 as he knew about it and neither informed the band that it was against the law nor intervened.[28] The whole controversy led to the band being dropped from the roster of the Nuclear Blast Tour and the footage of the concert being confiscated by the police.[29] Following this controversy – and with Gorgoroth also having achieved a larger degree of worldwide recognition through Nuclear Blast's distribution facilities – the contract between both parties was bilaterally terminated. Gorgoroth further secured a reputation as a band with a vehement anti-Right Hand Path agenda, of which certain employees in the company were alleged to have felt uneasy due to their own personal beliefs.[11]

Holy cow that is straight out of Metalocalypse... Jokes aside this is pretty badass shit all around, crank it. METAL!!! BLACK METAL!!! Enjoy...or Die!!!


Nathan Explosion is impressed:

Setlist:

1.	Procreating Satan	04:49
2.	Forces of Satan Storms	04:58
3.	Possessed (by Satan)	05:12
4.	Bergtrollets hevn	03:18
5.	The Rite of Infernal Invocation	03:27
6.	Profetens åpenbaring	04:23
7.	Of Ice and Movement...	04:15
8.	Ødeleggelse og undergang	04:16
9.	Blood Stains the Circle	02:50
10.	Unchain My Heart!!!	04:51
11.	Revelation of Doom	03:05
12.	Destroyer	04:21
13.	Incipit Satan	05:12

New Dinosaur Jr. Song "Watch The Corners" Official Video

With great excitement and furious shredding we bring you one of RtBE's favorite's Dinosaur Jr's new song "Watch The Corners".  Here is the Official New Video:
 

Watch the Corners from Dinosaur Jr     

This is a really cool and well done video, I am surprised Funny or Die is hosting it as I think it isn't silly or anything.  It is surprisingly touching, and that seems to be the route Dino has taken in recent years; whiner slackers have turned it yearners if that makes sense.
 
While we are huge Adult Swim fans, the one set of shows we never got into are Tom Goes To The Mayor or Tim Eric Awesome Show in fact I kinda hate them.  Tim Heidecker doesn't really do anything out of sorts here just plays an angry, caring dad...I dig it.  No cheesy close ups or idiotic ramblings and the restraint works perfectly and feeds to the story.

I am actually doing a full blog post for NYPL on Dinosaur Jr in the near future so I am not going to go too much into this other then say I obviously love it.  Hope you do too. 

Friday Funday: Squidbillies and Whalt Whitman?!?!

A few days ago we posted a review of Trampled By Turtles newest album Stars and Satellites and when we were going to post a few video previews from the album we saw something that blew our minds:

That was amazing!!!  Readers of the site know that our love for Adult Swim runs deep and Squidbillies are easily the top 1 or 2 shows on the network (Venture Brothers are the other one in the mix). When we caught Early Cuyler mixing it up with the Duluth, MN group we were stunned. We knew the group did the theme song for the show, in fact that was RtBE's first exposure to this band:

While that is awesome, a lot of bands have done the theme song.  We had no idea the love on both sides ran so deep though, this is epic AND it includes the patron saint of RtBE with the title of Walt Whitman!!   Hell if there was a Vice-Saint for the site it would probably be Early Cuyler his damn self.

We couldn't ask for anything else on this Friday, we are going to get all shiny like on some brown party liquor, hold up a convenient store and threaten ask out Glen's wife...have a good'en ya'll.

Merry Free Christmas Music With The Venture Brothers!!

RtBE have mentioned our love of Adult Swim's many fine shows and The Venture Brothers is right up there at the top of the heap, so continuing their excellent tradition the creators have put together Christmas Songs every single year and connected them to their expertly written show. 

Click Here for a grouping of all of them!

The "Fairytale of New York" duet that they do with Dr. Mrs. The Monarch and The Monarch himself is great, if fairly obvious...

until you hear it and the roles are reversed, BOOSH!...Download it right here!

The shows Xmas episode is fantastic and deals with the awesome Krampus!!!:
 

That episode was the first time I ever found out about that classy guy...

And a bike enthusiast, with that...Merry Christmas, One and All!

2011 Voodoo Experience Band Showcase: Mastodon

Rock The Body Electric will be covering this years Voodoo Experience.  Leading up to the event we will be showcasing some of the acts who are playing the show, now the spotlight shines on: Mastodon

Mastodon will be playing Saturday 10/29 @ 4:15 pm on the Le Ritual Voodoo Stage

There can be many late night bar-stool arguments as too which bands were and will be the funkiest, bring the best party or groove the smoothest on the Voodoo Experience stages, but the argument regarding the heaviest group on the bill?  No need for that one as Mastodon has been tapped to bring their ice age riffage to the Le Ritual Stage for the masses.  The sludge metal proprietors from Atlanta aren't all doom and gloom though, they are intellectually conceptual (almost to a fault) and have a keen sense of humor as they wrote tracks for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie, just peep this:


That is bad ass!  The group has really done a number of interesting metal albums/prog-rock at times with their elongated songs and winding concepts.  RtBE got turned on to the group back in 2004 when we heard that a southern metal band had just released an album based on Melville's American Masterpiece Moby Dick.  The album was Leviathan and it is still our favorite from the group.  Here is one of the mega tracks from that release, "Blood And Thunder"



If you are going to put the time and effort into a project like that AND pull it off, RtBE will forever be a fan.  Granted their last few albums have received larger critical acclaim and sales, but the tales of the whale always fell the freshest for some reason, all though I still think Melville should have received a writing credit....


Blood Mountain came next with its complex changes and mental acrobatics amidst searching lyrics (minus the grooves that kept Leviathan engaging and afloat though), and then the tripped out Crack The Skye followed.  It was an emotional journey and a concept about Russian prohpets, time-travel and who knows what else.  Dedicated to drummer Brann Dailor's sister Skye who committed suicide the album deals also with some deep issues.  The 11 minute "The Czar" is typical of the album, long songs that explore a lot of space:


Their newest release The Hunter, isn't going for a concept and things seem to have been better off, it feels like a classic metal album in all regards.  There are traces of Sabbath, Alice In Chains, early Metallica along with a host of other bands, but in the end it still sounds like Mastodon (stay tuned for a full review coming soon to RtBE)  One of the tracks that resonates and even sounds radio friendly is "Curl of the Burl":

This Saturday get your headbanging on @ 4:15 on Le Ritual Voodoo Stage with the lumbering Mastodon

Band of Horses Get Grungy on Conan

So I was just about to drift off into slumber land last night when I noticed Band of Horses were about to play a song on Conan.  I have been on such a BOH kick since Jeff and I saw them at Hammerstein early last month, I haven't gone a few days without listening to one of their albums, so I was excited to catch this Late Night Showing.  They played "Infinite Arms" peep it:

Wow...digging the homeless look on national TV, but loving the rough edged sound that they pulled off here even more!  During the Hammerstein show I commented that if this band got a little scuzzy musically to go along with the blissfully amazing vocals they would be sensational.  Hearing and seeing them amp up the distortion in the guitars and take an overall tougher tone throughout before that bombastic ending to this song made me sit up (literally) from the couch and clap.

I can not wait for their new album and hope they keep this grittier edge and add it to their growing sound as a band.

Slightly off topic, I actually flipped over during a commercial of a very funny Seinfeld episode, "The Outing".  I am glad to see this received a GLAAD Media Award (sorry for the lame wordplay) as I was wondering while watching it what the GLBT community thought of it at the time when it came out.  The phrase has entered society now so it is a bit dated but this was back in the early 90's and dealt with the subject in a proper and funny manner.


When we were out in the Hamptons during July 4th my friend Vig asked a group of us what we thought the funniest TV show of all time was, while I thought it about it for a minute I had to say Seinfeld.  There hasn't been another show that I could watch the same episode 30-40 times and still find it amazingly laughable.  I might get there some day with The Venture Bros and Frisky Dingo is flat out Boosh, but neither can really match up to Seinfeld's longevity, creativity and attitude towards a full network audience.

Just so you know, other answers people had to this question were: The Honeymooners and Cheers, they may have been others, but I can't remember off hand...not that there is anything wrong with that.  

Friday Funday Venture Brothers Music...Live

Well the other night I was a bit bored and checked in on one of my favorite TV creators blogs.  Jackson Publick (aka Christopher McCulloch) posted J.G. Thirwell's live video from his Celebrate Brooklyn show last year.  JG does the music for one of the best shows on TV in any format...the one Jackson created, The Venture Brothers!

If you have never seen the show, pick up the first season on DVD and get into it, things only get better once you have entered this universe of quirky characters and grown up boy adventurers.  The writing is amazing, the stories get more intricate and engaging (not to mention hysterical) with each season and now we got word that more is on the way... 

Getting to excited and forgetting why this post is happening though, check out JG's group Steroid Maximus run through a medley of Venture tunes...some great orchestrated arraignments, peep it:

Steroid Maximus_Venture Bros Medley from JG Thirlwell

We got,  “Fumblestealth”, “Bolly” and “No Vacancy (Venture Bros Theme)” in the medley and it is fun shiz.  Gawker calls it a "tiki-bar-meets-secret-lair soundtrack" and while that's pretty spot on, I think more James Bond on speedy Ecstasy is fitting.  You get the drift...below is one more video from the show, another Venture tune, titled "Gawker"...

Steroid Maximus_Gawker from JG Thirlwell

All this makes me proud to be drinking out of my Sgt. Hatred Water Bottle while I write this...Enjoy yer weekend everyone.

Recovery Mode

Well I am back from the greatest city not named New York and I am still mentally recovering from it, I will post a recap soon, but the good folks over at Hidden Track had some great posts I wanted to share with you.

First, the summer season is officially upon us now that Jazzfest is 360 some-odd days away (so sad!), but with the summer comes the announcements of free/benefit out door shows, Check out this link for the full run down of the two biggest outdoor spaces, but there are a bunch of highlights...Public Enemy for Free?!?!  Thank you very much.

Also some uber exciting news that PRIMUS is back together and will be playing on the waterfront in Brooklyn with Gogol Bordello, this is a show made in Booshness! Tickets go on-sale Friday, so scoop some.  Primus was the first band that really turned my ear onto good music back in 7th grade, right after I got over Poison...who am I kidding, I never got over Poison. 

And finally on a bit of the lighter side, Hidden Track also mentions a post on my favorite cartoon squid family...Squidbillies...Here is the great Billy Joe Shaver doing the intro to the funniest show I know:

and here are the creators chatting about the new season... And the AMAZING Unknown Hinson doing "Pregnant Again", his original tune about 7 minutes in, totally worth it...
I am sure I will doing a a few Adult Swim based posts now that Jazzfest 2010 is done and dusted...god what a great time, I will post about it soon.