October 27, 2009

Give away music for free, redux

Until this month, Death Metal Invasion was just another illegal download blog, with traffic far in excess of that of this site. Then it admirably switched to featuring only legal, band/label-approved downloads. Its readers revolted. People up in arms over not being able to download illegally — when the rest of the Internet is available...

Motörhead - Bomber

Click to enlarge Motörhead’s Bomber turns 30 today. Incredibly, the band also put out Overkill in 1979 (see here). Bands these days take longer to write worse records. I prefer the music on Overkill, but Bomber is no slouch. The Overkill/Bomber/Ace of Spades trilogy is as fundamental to heavy music as Black Sabbath’s first six...