Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: of, master, Ozzy Osbourne, Ozzy, Osbourne, Black, Black Sabbath, Sabbath, Tony, Tony Iommi, Iommi, Master of Reality, Reality
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: the, The Offspring, Offspring, Ixnay On The Hombre, Inxay, On, Hombre
Catchy and intense,
Proved that they were not a fluke.
Has aged very well.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: Nine Inch Nails, NIN, Nine, Inch, Nails, Trent Reznor, Trent, Year Zero, Year, Zero, Reznor, Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, Y34RZ3R0
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: Tool, James, Lateralus, Maynard James Keenan, Maynard, Keenan
Able intellect,
They’re from another planet.
At least Maynard is.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, M | Tags: and, Mudvayne, Lost and Found, Lost, Found, 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, Saturday Night Wrist, Saturday, Night, Wrist, SNW
Don’t know what to say.
Showing no signs of stopping.
Their sound is pure gold.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: NOFX, S&M, Airlines, S&M Airlines, Greg Graffin, Greg, Graffin, Fat Mike, Fat, Mike
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, White, The Beatles, Beatles, 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: Nine Inch Nails, NIN, Nine, Inch, Nails, Ghosts, Ghosts I-IV, Ghosts 1-4
Halo 94.
All eerie instrumentals.
Best release in years.
Filed under: ...by Jack Gusto, D | Tags: the, for, The Doors, Doors, Waiting For The Sun, Waiting, Sun, The Lizard, Lizard
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: the, Anti-Flag, anti, flag, die for the government, die, for, government
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: Marilyn Manson, Marilyn, Manson, Mechanical Animals, Mechanical, Animals, Omega
Ahead of the curve,
His most time-tested release,
Got better with time.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, W | Tags: Stevie Wonder, Stevie, Wonder, Innervisions
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: Zakk Wylde, Zakk, Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne, Ozzy, Osbourne, BLS, Black Label Society, Black, Label, Society, Black Label, No More Tears, No, More, Tears
Back in Ozzy’s prime,
Before Zakk and BLS,
Sounds most reckless here.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, R | Tags: Rancid, Indestructible, Tim Armstrong, 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: the, of, The Urge, urge, receiving the gift of flavor, receiving, gift, flavor, ska
Ska bands forgotten.
Horns and trumpets surrounding.
Their only good disc.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, K | Tags: Volume 1, Vol. 1, Korn, Greatest Hits, greatest, hits, CD
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: the, of, Queens of the Stone Age, Queens, Stone Age, Stone, Age, QOTSA, Josh Homme, Homme, Josh, Era Vulgaris, Era, 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: the, Nine Inch Nails, NIN, Nine, Inch, Nails, Slip, The Slip
Trent helps us pirate.
Save us all of the trouble.
Still glad it was free.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, A | Tags: Sorrow, AFI, Sing the sorrow, sing, hot topic
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: George Carlin, Carlin, George, Life Is Worth Losing, Lofe, Is, Worth, Losing
Killer Carlin’s last,
His darkest routines throughout.
Title is so true.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, S | Tags: of, System of a Down, Toxicity, System, A, Down, SOAD, Daron Malakian, Daron
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: blood, in, Slayer, Reign in Blood, Reign, Tom Araya, Tom, Araya
The Angel of Death,
Followed by waves of crimson.
Araya is nuts.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, B | Tags: Breaking Benjamin, Breaking, Benjamin, Phobia
Suburban bullshxt,
So needlessly aggressive.
It’s radio’s fault.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, S | Tags: the, The Sword, Sword, Gods of the Earth, Gods, Earth
Greatest album name,
Sabbath meets the Doors meets Zep.
And just as heavy.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, N | Tags: Nine Inch Nails, NIN, Nine, Inch, Nails, Pretty Hate Machine, Pretty, Hate, Machine, PHM, Trent Reznor, Trent
Seething lyrics, yes.
Manson stole a lot from this.
Trent was an icon.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, C | Tags: Robert Cray, Robert, Cray, Strong Persuader, 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: the, The Beatles, Beatles, Abbey Road, Abbey, Road, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Maxwell, Maxwell's, Silver, Hammer, Silver Hammer
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: Megadeth, Hangar 18, Rust in Peace, Rust, Peace, in
Glory days of thrash.
“Hangar”? Eleven solos.
My pants fill with mush.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, D | Tags: Dragonforce, Dragon, Force, Inhuman Rampage, Inhuman, Rampage
Unleashing triumph,
No metal’s ever come close.
On the wings of dreams.
Filed under: ...by Obi-San, W | Tags: music, White Zombie, White, Zombie, Rob Zombie, Rob, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, La, Devil Music, Devil, Volume 1, Vol. 1, Soul Crusher
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?