Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: Black, Black Sabbath, Iommi, master, Master of Reality, of, Osbourne, Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne, Reality, Sabbath, Tony, Tony Iommi
Iommi was king.
Ozzy merely his vessel.
Metal owes this one.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: drublic, Fat Mike, in, NOFX, punk, punk in drublic
Fat Mike is the king.
Disc over before it starts.
A quick milestone.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, O | Tags: Hombre, Inxay, Ixnay On The Hombre, Offspring, On, the, The Offspring
Catchy and intense,
Proved that they were not a fluke.
Has aged very well.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: Inch, Nails, NIN, Nine, Nine Inch Nails, Reznor, Trent, Trent Reznor, Y34RZ3R0, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Year, Year Zero, Zero
Remixes and games,
This album, hardly worth it.
I think Trent was bored.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, G | Tags: Everything, GWAR, Kill, We, We Kill Everything
Halloween is done.
GWAR’s last attempt at “wacky”.
And yet, not their best.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, T | Tags: James, Keenan, Lateralus, Maynard, Maynard James Keenan, Tool
Able intellect,
They’re from another planet.
At least Maynard is.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, M | Tags: and, Found, Lost, Lost and Found, Mudvayne, Rush
Mature, conflicted,
They’re this generation’s Rush.
Now the makeup’s off.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, T | Tags: Brooklyn, Deep, Hard, Negative, O, Slow, Slow Deep and Hard, Type, Type O Negative
Brooklyn born and bred,
Six-part metal masterpiece,
Holy f*cking sh*t.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, U | Tags: Oncoming, Storm, the, The Oncoming Storm, Unearth
An endless barrage,
Mature enough to realize.
Blackest of the black.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: bad, bad religion, Control, No, No Control, religion
Lightning furious,
And too smart for it’s own good.
Three-part harmonies.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: acid, acid bath, Audie, Audie Pitre, bath, Demos, Pitre
This band’s tragic end,
Undershadows ability.
Audie Rest In Peace.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, 0-9 | Tags: 3, 3 Doors Down, Doors, Down, Lynyrd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Skynyrd, Three Doors Down
It’s not too shabby.
It’s also not too unique.
Skynyrd is crying.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, T | Tags: A, and, Deadman, Nickelback, of, Scars, Scars & Souveniers, Scars and Souveniers, Souveniers, Theory, Theory Of A Deadman
This CD is great.
Sounds like Nickelback’s brother.
Only not as nice.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: deftones, Night, Saturday, Saturday Night Wrist, SNW, Wrist
Don’t know what to say.
Showing no signs of stopping.
Their sound is pure gold.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: Airlines, Fat, Fat Mike, Graffin, Greg, Greg Graffin, Mike, NOFX, S&M, S&M Airlines
Fat Mike is a God.
Even Greg Graffin shows up!
Blink and you’ll miss it.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: Beastie, Beastie Boys, Boutique, Boys, Brothers, Dust, Dust Brothers, Paul, Paul's Boutique
The Dust Brothers help,
Turn white-boy hip-hop around.
Geniuses. It shows.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, R | Tags: Against, De, Empire, Evil, Evil Empire, La, Machine, Morello, Rage, Rage Against The Machine, Rocha, the, Tom, Tom Morello, Zack, Zack De La Rocha
Generations led,
Zack and Tom hold the candle.
Conscious and fed up.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, V | Tags: Contraband, revolver, Slash, velvet, Velvet Revolver
This mish-mash of crud,
Barely being kept alive.
More thankful for Slash.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: album, Beatles, The Beatles, White, White Album
Legendary set,
The Beatles took some acid,
Then they all grew beards.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: A7X, Avenged, Avenged Sevenfold, City, City Of Evil, Evil, of, Sevenfold
Fine-tuned violence,
The most intricate fretwork.
ASTOUNDING album.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: Donnas, Gold, Gold Medal, Medal, The Donnas
A little too harsh,
Extremely overpolished,
Good enough, I guess.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: Ghosts, Ghosts 1-4, Ghosts I-IV, Inch, Nails, NIN, Nine, Nine Inch Nails
Halo 94.
All eerie instrumentals.
Best release in years.
Filed under: ...by Jack Gusto, D | Tags: Doors, for, Lizard, Sun, the, The Doors, The Lizard, Waiting, Waiting For The Sun
Revolution calls,
The Lizard’s voice resounding
Chaos is beauty.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, K | Tags: Alive, Alive or Just Breathing, Breathing, engage, Just, killswitch, killswitch engage, Or
A classic album,
It’s the sound of man, unfurled.
Agony is life.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: anti, Anti-Flag, die, die for the government, flag, for, government, the
Punk can have wisdom.
Punk can mean a thing or two.
Don’t die for oil.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, S | Tags: A, Down, of, self-titled, System, System of a Down
Most refreshing here,
Quite alarming politics,
ADD metal.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, M | Tags: Animals, Manson, Marilyn, Marilyn Manson, Mechanical, Mechanical Animals, Omega
Ahead of the curve,
His most time-tested release,
Got better with time.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, W | Tags: Innervisions, Stevie, Stevie Wonder, Wonder
Classics front-to-back,
Inner city requiems.
Artwork is a fright.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: A7X, Avenged, Avenged Sevenfold, self-titled, Sevenfold
Self-titled reply,
To the critics of the world.
Kinda sloppy, though.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, O | Tags: Black, Black Label, Black Label Society, BLS, Label, More, No, No More Tears, Osbourne, Ozzy, Ozzy Osbourne, Society, Tears, Wylde, Zakk, Zakk Wylde
Back in Ozzy’s prime,
Before Zakk and BLS,
Sounds most reckless here.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, R | Tags: Armstrong, Indestructible, Rancid, Tim, Tim Armstrong
Rancid can’t be stopped.
Tim Armstrong, modern mush-mouth.
Punk alive and well.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, T | Tags: Again, Dead, Dead Again, Negative, O, Peter, Peter Steele, Steele, Type, Type O Negative
Peter Steele and Co.
Back from the dead, but, don’t fret…
As great as ever.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, U | Tags: flavor, gift, of, receiving, receiving the gift of flavor, ska, the, The Urge, urge
Ska bands forgotten.
Horns and trumpets surrounding.
Their only good disc.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, K | Tags: CD, greatest, Greatest Hits, hits, Korn, Vol. 1, Volume 1
Ha ha! “Greatest Hits”!
Better buy a blank CD.
Better songs on that.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, L | Tags: Adam Sandler, Craig, Craig Machine, Lynch, Machine, Sandler, Stephen, Stephen Lynch, Steven
Funny college laughs.
Quite able guitar player.
Picked up Sandler’s mark.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, Q | Tags: Age, Era, Era Vulgaris, Homme, Josh, Josh Homme, of, QOTSA, Queens, Queens of the Stone Age, Stone, Stone Age, the, Vulgaris
It’s Josh’s show now,
And it’s not that hard to tell.
This guy loves his drugs.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: Inch, Nails, NIN, Nine, Nine Inch Nails, Slip, the, The Slip
Trent helps us pirate.
Save us all of the trouble.
Still glad it was free.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: AFI, hot topic, sing, Sing the sorrow, Sorrow
Selling out of punk,
Now, all over radio.
Hot Topic is king.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: Dr. Octagon, Kool Keith, Octagon, Octagynecologist
Kool Keith’s alias.
Nonsensical, yet charming.
Born on Jupiter.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, C | Tags: Carlin, George, George Carlin, Is, Life Is Worth Losing, Lofe, Losing, Worth
Killer Carlin’s last,
His darkest routines throughout.
Title is so true.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, S | Tags: A, Daron, Daron Malakian, Down, of, SOAD, System, System of a Down, Toxicity
Not too bad, I guess.
Because they HAVE released worse.
Daron shouldn’t sing.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, M | Tags: Mushroomhead, Savior, Savior Sorrow, Sorrow
Constipated riffs,
The good vocalist now gone.
Try the other two.
The worst of the worst.
Korn has brought us nothing good.
Really, really bad.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: acid, acid bath, bath, Paegan, Paegan Terrorism Tactics, Tactics
Beautiful women,
Emaciated and bled.
The soundtrack to harm.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, S | Tags: Araya, blood, in, Reign, Reign in Blood, Slayer, Tom, Tom Araya
The Angel of Death,
Followed by waves of crimson.
Araya is nuts.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: Benjamin, Breaking, Breaking Benjamin, Phobia
Suburban bullshxt,
So needlessly aggressive.
It’s radio’s fault.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, S | Tags: Earth, Gods, Gods of the Earth, Sword, the, The Sword
Greatest album name,
Sabbath meets the Doors meets Zep.
And just as heavy.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: Hate, Inch, Machine, Nails, NIN, Nine, Nine Inch Nails, PHM, Pretty, Pretty Hate Machine, Trent, Trent Reznor
Seething lyrics, yes.
Manson stole a lot from this.
Trent was an icon.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, C | Tags: Cray, Persuader, Robert, Robert Cray, Strong, Strong Persuader
Smooth jazz meets hard blues,
A melodic masterpiece.
Clapton’s protege.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: Brotherhood, Dark, Dark Lotus, Lotus, Opaque, Psychopathic, Psychopathic Records, The Opaque Brotherhood
Psychopathic’s stars
Finally allowed to shine.
Kind of overdone.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, T | Tags: Lizzy, Lynott, Phil, Phil Lynott, Rocker, The Rocker, Thin, Thin Lizzy
Phil Lynott perfects…
His band’s legendary sound.
But he’s a rocker!!
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, C | Tags: Cake, generosity, motorcade, Motorcade of generosity, of
Cake is uncommon,
Too bad they run the whole show.
This album’s killer.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: Abbey, Abbey Road, Beatles, Hammer, Maxwell, Maxwell's, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Road, Silver, Silver Hammer, the, The Beatles
Their last album,
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is
Worth it by itself.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, W | Tags: book, Book of Shadows, of, shadows, Wylde, Zakk, Zakk Wylde
Zakk was younger then,
Allman Brothers or Skynyrd?
Worth a shot, I guess.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, M | Tags: Comatorium, Deloused, Deloused in the Comatorium, Mars, Mars Volta, Volta
Inspired art-rock,
Pink Floyd meets Buena Vista.
Touching, yet manic.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: Bitchin', Donnas, Judas Priest, The Donnas
Four chicks that love Priest,
Sing about sex, drugs, and sex.
Guitarist is hot.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, P | Tags: Claypool, Frizzle, Frizzle Fry, Fry, Les, Les Claypool, Primus
To defy the laws…
Frantic cartoon prog-rock mush.
Les Claypool is God.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, M | Tags: Hangar 18, in, Megadeth, Peace, Rust, Rust in Peace
Glory days of thrash.
“Hangar”? Eleven solos.
My pants fill with mush.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: Dragon, Dragonforce, Force, Inhuman, Inhuman Rampage, Rampage
Unleashing triumph,
No metal’s ever come close.
On the wings of dreams.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, W | Tags: Devil, Devil Music, La, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, music, Rob, Rob Zombie, Soul Crusher, Vol. 1, Volume 1, White, White Zombie, Zombie
Zombie, our Dali,
Soul Crusher alone can kill.
Milestones were smashed.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, F | Tags: and, Dave, Dave Grohl, Echoes, Echoes Silence Patience and Grace, Fighters, Foo, Foo Fighters, Grace, Grohl, Patience, Silence
Bled mediocre,
Kurt Cobain’s death held meaning.
Dave Grohl now set free.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, E | Tags: Electric, Electric Six, Senor, Senor Smoke, Six, Smoke
Techno disco punk,
Airtight melodic rhythm.
Whatever went wrong?
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, L | Tags: Alice, Alice Cooper, Arockalypse, Cooper, GWAR, KISS, Lordi, the, The Arockalypse
Kiss, Alice Cooper,
And GWAR’s ugly love child.
God, please kill me now.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, J | Tags: Add new tag, Addiction, Dave Navarro, Jane's, Jane's Addiction, Perry Farrell, Strays
Perry’s gone insane,
Nice, loud note to go out on.
Dave Navarro rocks.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, I | Tags: Grenades, Incubus, Light, Light Grenades
Soothing soundscape mist,
Plundering bygone ballads,
“Love Hurts”, “Dig”, that’s it.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, H | Tags: Chapter, Chapter One, Hard, Hard Living, Hell's, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen, Living, One
Midwest white-boy rap,
The white bread east side hardheads,
Doesn’t withstand time.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: calculating, calculating infinity, dillinger, dillinger escape plan, escape, infinity, plan
Grind-math-fusioncore,
Stunning, fresh, and quite genius.
May just drive you mad.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, H | Tags: Danger, Harvey, Harvey Danger, little, Little by Little
Garage Indie rock,
Piano-tinged Beatle-esque
Actually, real good.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, W | Tags: album, Cuomo, red, red album, Rivers, Rivers Cuomo, Weezer
Weezer used to own,
Still catchy and worth a shot.
Now just Rivers’ band.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, V | Tags: Dechristianize, Remains, Vital, Vital Remains
Epic death metal,
Relentless and alarming.
Satan, my Satan.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: bad, bad religion, Brooks Wackerman, hell, maps, new, new maps of hell, of, religion
Never disappoints.
Brooks is all over the place.
Some filler, more gems.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: acid, acid bath, bath, kite, pops, string, the, when, when the kite string pops
Creepy backwoods sludge,
Disgusting and invasive.
Masterpiece of sound.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, L | Tags: 3, III, led, led zeppelin, robert plant, three, zeppelin
Overlooked genius,
Robert Plant wields huge, throbbing
Hammer of the gods.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, M | Tags: bungle, disco, disco volante, mr, mr bungle, volante
Patton’s on a roll,
Acid-drenched spastic chaos,
Funny art-jazz-metal.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, K | Tags: end, engage, heartache, killswitch, killswitch engage, the ead of heartache
Awesome vocal range,
Chug-chug-squeal gets kind of lame.
Not their best, but close.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, C | Tags: blood, blooddrunk, bodom, children, children of bodom, drunk, Uncategorized
Goldilocks can shred,
Band extremely talented,
Lyrics don’t make sense.
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