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This weekend I saw Overkill for the first time in 20 years!! Here's my totally nerdy in depth review of the show:


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Heavy-Metal-Concert-Review-OverkillMunicipal-WasteProng-Starland-Ballroom-NJ-92714

First new one in a while: a long overdue new installment of my "Forgotten Hard Rock Albums" series, focusing on the Die Happy discography.



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Forgotten-Hard-Rock-Albums-The-DIE-HAPPY-Discography

You knew this was coming, folks... Stormspell's post about the mighty KILLEN reissue inspired this entry. Tr00! Grimm! Kvlt!


http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Forgotten-Hard-Rock-Albums-KILLEN-1987

Nice HubPages - enjoyed reading the Metal Church Blessing In Disguise - also I had no idea that there was a later album with Dave on it.

Another great Killen story FF! Man that album sucks. I will definitely buy the reissue to prove how tr00 I am!

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Nice HubPages - enjoyed reading the Metal Church Blessing In Disguise - also I had no idea that there was a later album with Dave on it.

Thanx man. I live to entertain and inform. As for MC's Masterpeace album w/Dave -- believe me, you didn't miss much.

Witchfinder wrote:

Another great Killen story FF! Man that album sucks. I will definitely buy the reissue to prove how tr00 I am!

You can't spell Kvlt without a "K" and "K" stands for KILLEN ehehehehehehehehe!!!

Oh, and thanx for leaving a comment, Witchy.

Awesome!

Killen isn't the best example for obscure metal, but they're still better than Thrash Queen or Killer Fox.

I also disagree with the claim that nearly all of private metal records suck. There are many that I'd say are actually really good -- as a matter of fact, many that I like more than the big bands in the same genre. You've probably been looking into the wrong bands to make that "estimation".

Some of my personal favorites:

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Killen isn't the best example for obscure metal,

Perhaps not, but they've been a running gag around here for quite some time and their album getting a deluxe reissue in the near future, plus my ever-so-slight personal connection with them, made them irresistible column fodder.

As for the other examples you posted, I've heard Salem's Wych, they're actually quite good. Will give those other YouTubes a spin when I get a free minute. I believe I have heard Flames in the past but I'm not 100 percent sure.

However, I stand by what I wrote. That Killen album is spectacularly below average and it doesn't deserve one tenth of the adulation it receives.

I have Solar Eagle and Sleepy Hollow. Those are good stuff, although the vocalist for Solar Eagle is very much an acquired taste.

The vast majority of obscure, private press Metal is not very good. Some is excellent though and I enjoy finding these long forgotten albums. Killen is pure garbage.

My kids loved this silly made-for-Lifetime-TV flick starring the sour-faced Internet feline. They told me I should review it on my blog, which sounded like a good idea to me, so I did:



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Grumpy-Cats-Worst-Christmas-Ever-Movie-Review

Fat Freddy wrote:

My kids loved this silly made-for-Lifetime-TV flick starring the sour-faced Internet feline. They told me I should review it on my blog, which sounded like a good idea to me, so I did:



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Grumpy-Cats-Worst-Christmas-Ever-Movie-Review

That internet mime cat got a movie???? Good lord......

thejokeriv wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

My kids loved this silly made-for-Lifetime-TV flick starring the sour-faced Internet feline. They told me I should review it on my blog, which sounded like a good idea to me, so I did:



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Grumpy-Cats-Worst-Christmas-Ever-Movie-Review

That internet mime cat got a movie???? Good lord......

It's way worse than that. Grumpy Cat also co-hosted WWE Raw a few weeks ago.

I really need to get Tux a PR agent.

After a month or so of geeking out on the vintage game gallery at www.archive.org, I wrote a HubPage about my ten favorites (so far)...

http://hub.me/aj1ax

My first new column of 2015 is another installment of "Forgotten Hard Rock Albums" ....



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/Forgotten-Hard-Rock-Albums-Warrant-DOG-EAT-DOG-1992

It's their best album.

New entry... I was in a retro mood this week so I dug into my bag of age-old cassettes for the first time in dog years...

"Memories of a Tape Head: Hooray for Obsolete Media!"



http://fatfreddyscat.hubpages.com/hub/My-Retro-Cassette-Festival-Hooray-For-Obsolete-Media

Nice use of ephemera.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Nice use of ephemera.

I actually had to look it up to make sure I was using it correctly (and spelling it correctly)!!

Oh, now i'm not as impressed.

Wut? That's whut us wanna bee writer's do. We ain't gots book smarts so we gots ta do research 'n' stuf.

Yeah, I enjoyed the article but it made me feel old.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Yeah, I enjoyed the article but it made me feel old.

In that case, wait till you see the one I've got in the works... should be up in a few days.

Great article! Just like you FF, I had hundreds of tapes and waited forever to upgrade to the CD format. I recently discovered a box of old tapes that I hadn't gotten rid of and I'll have to crack it open and see what's in there. Unfortunately, I have no idea what I did with all my other tapes - maybe I gave them away or they got lost in a move. Bummer.

Thanx fellers.