Logan Mang
Stories (6/0)
Behemoth Is the Musical Equivalent of 17th Century Baroque Art, but for Satan
May 10, 2018. Sports Arena, San Diego CA. The first day of Slayer's Final World Tour. Hell had arrived to San Diego, and we were all welcoming it with our black hearts. After a fantastic set by OG Thrash metal heroes Testament, the prophets of hell itself Behemoth unleashed the swarms of satanic glory onto Southern California in a blistering, spectacular, incredibly dark six track set, starting with hell's national anthem "Ov Fire And The Void" and finishing with the deeply personal and incredibly blasphemous, "O Father, O Satan, O Sun". Behemoth's legacy has been well established at this point in their career, but this tour will bring them to a wide range audience that have never heard, nor seen the band before. And with a universally loved magnum opus under their belt, and an incredibly anticipated 11th album coming out this year (one of the songs they played at the show is called "Wolves of Siberia," which is the first single from the, as of this writing, untitled album), it seems that Behemoth's baroque portrayal of Lucifer in music form will continue to create more Heathen Legions around the World.
By Logan Mang6 years ago in Beat
Can Greta Van Fleet and Birdy Bardot Save Rock?
It was September 2017 and I was barreling through the 5 North to Clairmont, listening to San Diego’s Rock 105.3 when suddenly I heard a primal, raunchy, 70s-esque guitar riff. Musical Deja Vu hit as the guitar sounded insanely familiar, yet couldn’t be, for I would have remembered listening to such a Riff. Once you get past the ripping electricity of the guitar, you hear the most Robert Plant-like howl this side of Zeppelin II, and after another triumphant, roaring guitar part, the real fun commences. Bashing drums, unpolished blues guitar notes, underlying bass lines, and lyrics of driving through the highways with his special girl, the average listener would genuinely believe they’ve stumbled on an unreleased track off of Houses of the Holy or a deep cut off of Zeppelin III. But in fact what I and thousands of Americans were listening to was the track "Highway Tune" by Greta Van Fleet.
By Logan Mang6 years ago in Beat