The Bright Side Of Brutality

Whether or not you like the idea of people wearing black t shirts, screaming obscenities at the top of their lungs,
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Turn around, bright eyes.

Have you ever gone to see a band that your really interested in only to have the show almost ruined by members of the crowd, usually found in the back of the room, screaming things like, "Hate your band dude!", "play some real metal!"....yeah, yeah, Haters. If your going to come out to a show why hate? well, i have a few possibilities but first i must make it clear to you what a hater is.

Hating is something someone does when they see someone is having more success than them. Whether its a long time success or just for a few moments, haters always find a way to pop up and interject their own jaded opinion about a matter. you can find them anywhere, from hecklers at comedy clubs, protesters(which is acceptable at times), booing members of a crowd at a sports game, most of the cast of fox news, and most recently at heavy metal shows in Lexington. They can also be refereed to as skeptics, doubters, cynics, isolationists, misanthropists, and my favorite...egotists. Egotists being my favorite because i think it truly sums up why you hear some non sense from the back section.

Watch out for that axe!

Traditionally grind core has lead the way in being the fastest, most brutal, and to some people the most un- listenable form of extreme music ever created. Typically the songs consist of undecipherable vocal leads backed up by guitar tracks that sound like chainsaws and held together by blasting drum beats that sound more like a CD skipping than actual fluid rhythms. Then On October 20 2009 the band Converge released their album "Axe To Fall" seemingly crumbling up the old idea of grind core, throwing it away, and drawing up their new design of what the genre can be. Ten years ago you never would have found a melody layered over top of a blast beat,unless your Swedish. For some reason the Swedes always happen to about 10 years ahead of American metal bands. However, they still have yet to produce a band that sounds anything like the boys in Converge. which leads me to come to the conclusion that Converges new ablum, axe to fall, is pretty metal, dude.

The MC5

Now your a kid constatnly searching for music that is faster and louder and you find out the most intense band to record music was formed in 1964 and broke up in 1971.

The Motor City 5, possibaly one of the most overlooked and uncredited bands in the history of rock n' roll, were one of the first bands to play a genre of music called punk. At the time they didnt know it but their angry version of psycadelic music would go on to be one of the biggest sub- genres in history. Their music was so powerful that they single handedly caused a race riot, they were white panthers, in downtown Detroit. They caused such an uproar that the government took every opportunity they could find to put them in jail, their manager was senteced to nine years in jail after being charged with possesion of one joint.

Wayne Krammer, Fred "Snoic" Smith, Rob Tyner, Michael Davis, and Dennis Thompson made up the classic lineup of the band. This lineup released three full length studio albums beginning with Kick Out The Jams, followed by Back In The U.S.A. (a rip on The Beatles), and ending with my favorite, High Time.

Although they may not have had the talent some bands had in that time, the MC5 made up for it by having plenty of attitude. I've heard plenty of covers of the song Kick Out The Jams and none of them seem to reach the same level of intensity the MC5 got.

White panthers, Up Agaisnt The Wall MotherFuckers, and pioneers of punk rock.

Captain America

Marvel comics has always been a place for people to go to read and look at fantastical heroes saving the day and seeking justice. Of all the characters they have created one stands out the most, Captain America. Created as a propoganda tool during WWII, Cap has always been used to inspire hope in the American people. But he has not always been used in the traditional way like in WWII. When the Vietnam war began to look grim in the late 60's, marvel writers killed off cap claiming he went down fighting an injust war. since then Cap has gone back and forth as the writers desire but he always reprsents some aspect of the American delima.