Steve Seely Metal Animals

Steve Seeley is an illustrator who has recently done these cool animals melded with iconic metal bands: Slayer, COC, Danzig & Motorhead....

Available on Doublepunch

Treat Me Like Your Mother by Jonathan Glazer

Treat Me Like Your Mother by Jonathan Glazer

A really cool music video for a pretty good rock tune. Once again director, Jonathan Glazer smashes it.

Bazzier Studio

I'm feeling the metal tee designs from the young designer/illustrator hailing from Indonesia, Bazzier Studio...He's only 24 and has already designed merch and clothing for many bands like As I Lay Dying, The Devil Wears Prada & Asking Alexandria, and has his own apparel line, Troll Clothing.

Some Swedish Metal Vibez

High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine

High on Fire is a heavy metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, previously played guitar for the influential stoner metal band Sleep.

"I've been working my whole life for this. I've given up everything. The way I feel in my heart, everything revolves around music, my love live, my education, my everything. I put it all into my music and I'd like to be successful at it, but I'm not a very sell out type of person. It would be really hard to get me to turn to shit just for the sake of turning to shit cos it would sell more records. I'll never put a f**king bad riff on an album in my life" spells out High On Fire singer/guitarist Matt Pike.

Interview on rockmidgets.com

Visit High On Fire's official site.

Forbidden Society

With loads of released work Forbidden Society is only getting better. One of the best dnb producers atm in my opinion.

Recently releasing a crazy studio mix, this producer has to be checked if you don't know his work.


Dnb producer from Czech Republic making the sickest beats to date.


His genre-crossing style is strongly influenced by hardcore with a hint of metal.


Check out his soundcloud streams

GodMachine Dark Mystical Metal Art

‘Godmachine Lives in South Wales, Uk with his wife, two cats and his beard. Inspired in his youth by skatebording and comics and being self taught, Godmachine has managed to carve a space for himself and make a huge impact on the merch world...and soon everywhere else..’ he has worked with so many great bands and festivals on their artwork and has really carved a decent living out of dark art. I love what he's doing and am definitely planning on getting on of his prints!






See ALOT more of his psycho-cool artwork HERE.

Aqua Team Hunger Force Cut You Up

If Mastodon were bits of food, then they'd look like this.....
Spied on the Burning Candy blog!

Lyrics & Type Show Prints

I had a chance to meet and greet curator, Timba Smits (WoodenToy Magazine) last week and find out what's popping in Melbourne. While he made me a great list of things to do, I had a chance to examine the prints that he had on offer and I have to say that for the price of 49squid, you can land yourself a very pretty print indeed....(naturally, the two shown below really floated my boat)

DREW MILLWARD - UK www.drewmillward.com

MR GAUKY - UK www.mrgauky.com

NICOLAS TUAL - FRA www.dekoreone.com


Buy prints from HERE.

What did you do this weekend?

Went for a paint on Friday. Assome horror:



Had way too much to drink at Mango's then for a skate on Saturday down at Stockwell:



luckily my favourite band of all time were playing that very evening and I had 2 tickets:



Me and Selph, my friend Adam and his girlfriend Dani held it down till obnoxiously late. Adam fell off my skateboard and then we went home...

Sunday....work, boring and hungover a lot (big up Tizer, I'd still be there had you not).

Monday: Fell asleep waiting for my ladyfriend to get her crooked wizdom teeth taken out by students.......



Good times, mad props to everyone I hung out with especially Adam & Dani, J, the bald guy at the gig with the terror face and 18 hole Doc Martins, Eyehategod for making it into the country for the first time in I think 10 years, Tizer for helping me out on Sunday,and the lovely Steph for providing substantial amounts of horror today to finish off the perfect extended weekend.

Thinking about it actually all the rest is just gonna kind of suck from now on.

Paul Booth Dark & Evil Tattoos

Paul Booth is now, thanks to Jerome Tcherneyan's info, one of my fave dark tattoo artists of the 21st Century. Just look at his evil evil portraits of monsters, freaks, horror & beauty!



After devoting nearly twenty years of his life to the art of tattoo, where he is revered for his efforts to elevate the medium into the realm of fine art, Paul Booth has become a household name. His unparalleled dedication to the evolution of his craft has garnered him numerous awards around the globe, top tier magazine features (among them, many cover stories), public and television appearances including CNN, MSNBC, DISCOVERY, A&E, TLC, MTV and more.

Through his deep involvement in organizations such as The National Arts Club – one of the oldest and most respected art institutions in the Nation – Booth is continually driven to help push the tattoo industry forward in as many ways as possible. In 2000, he created an international art movement called “The ArtFusion Experiment” with Filip and Titine Leu, world-renowned tattooists from Switzerland.

Booth’s masterful paintings and macabre tattoo art is notable for its aggressive nature, and, as such, has been in high demand among dark art and tattoo enthusiasts for decades, including numerous major bands in the metal scene such as Slayer, Slipknot, Pantera, Down, Lamb of god and many more.

Booth has recently stepped into the arena of film. His directorial debut, the award–winning feature documentary The ArtFusion Experiment, continues to extend the reach and success of the movement he created. As a director and lifelong horror fan, he finds film to be an exciting and fresh form of expression.





See more of Paul's insane work HERE.

Punk Cupcakes Look Delicious

Now that's a cool present to receive!
[VIA]

Black Metal Illustrations By French

French, aka Richard Sayer, has been building up a really good reputation on the skate and black metal scenes for a few years now and currently has some work at Chapter One Gallery...




Get yourself down to Soho, to the Chapter One Gallery to catch the remnants of his show...'Isolated Magick' [Basement gallery] 3rd December 2009 - 10th January 2010
Chapter One, 33 Marshall St, London W1F 7ET
Visit French's site HERE.

Rage Against The Machine Take Christmas No.1 Slot

THE best news I have heard in AGES!!

"Rock band Rage Against the Machine ended Simon Cowell’s four year domination of the Christmas charts tonight after a hugely popular Facebook campaign helped the Los Angeles nu-metallers snatch the Christmas number one slot from X-factor’s Joe McEdlerry.

More than half a million people downloaded the band’s famously anti-authoritarian and expletive laden track “Killing in the Name” in what was seen as a broad protest against the increasing influence of manufactured pop music.

It is the first time a non-X-Factor song has made it to Christmas number one for four years and represents a major snub to the show’s creator Cowell who angrily described the campaign to him another number one slot as “very Scrooge”. - Source

For the readers not living in the UK, this is huge as the Xmas number one slot is taken very seriously and if you manage to take number one, your pop-musical career usually fares very well the year after...It's amazing to see a grassroots campaign on Facebook with a zero marketing budget able to topple the big TV networks and all their meticulous planning and PR....

Phuket Vegetarian Festival

The Phuket Vegetarian Festival kicked off on the weekend with local residents of Chinese ancestry giving up meat for 10 days.
Oh, and sticking all sorts of things through their cheeks.

Heavy Metal Church

This church in Colombia, named Pantokrator which is Greek for 'all powerful', is designed for devotees who want to express themselves through heavy metal.
Throw those devil horns in the air and headbang for the Lord.

Chinese Heavy Metal

China's youth are really starting to rebel hard against the system with bands like VoodooKungFu leading the way. Their blend of Chinese traditional musical instruments, heavy guitar riffs and screaming in Mandarin creates a very progressive sound and pushes the envelope of 'Metal' even further. It's so interesting to see how a generation gap between parents and kids can be so far removed from each other. Anyone who is 40 yrs old and above would have been brought up with a mix of Communist and Confucian education, whereas the kids now have the internet as a tool of education.






Go HERE to see an excerpt from the recently released documentary, Global Metal. This clip focuses on China and how its Metal roots were sowed. A very interesting 14 min.
Thanks to the beautiful Veggie Heart for all the info and metal inspiration!

Black Metal Audition

There should be more metal-heads joining those Talent Shows.....

[VIA]

Until The Light Takes Us

Following on from the last post, Until The Light Takes Us is a new documentary featuring key founders of the Black Metal genre. Set to be released later on this year, fans of this music will not want to miss it. Featuring interviews with Varg Vikernes of the one man band Burzum, Gylve Nagell, Kejetil Haraldstad and film maker Harmony Korine, this feature presents interviews about the murders, arson, through a candid account of a sub-culture immersed in fact/fiction, myth and mystery that spiraled out of control. For the general release date and theatre showings near you, keep an eye on the official website for updates.