Weekly Recap March 21-March 27

It was mostly a slow week this week. Which is somewhat good because I will be pretty busy with work next week. Next week I also find out when my trial date will be on a case I am working on. My fiancee has been busy most of the week preparing for a speech for a class. She finally got everything ready to go only to find out the class was canceled that day. Frustrating.

Not much in the way of metal news. Fatalist finalized their lineup just in time to appear on a soundtrack for what promises to be a spectacularly bad horror movie.

I got albums from Arckanum, Artillery, Azaghal, Blood Ritual, Insomnium, Nocturnal Fear, Satan's Host, and Sigh as I received some of my income tax return money.

Metalsucks has been doing a list of great bands that inadvertently ruined metal. I have issues with many of their picks, particularly referring to Rage Against the Machine and Nine Inch Nails as great. Also, the list included the likes of Metallica and Black Sabbath, so I don't know.

Aborted: Slaughter & Apparatus-A Methodical Overture
Aeon: Rise to Dominate
Anal Vomit: Depravation
Ancient: Proxima Centauri
Angel Witch: Angel Witch
Arckanum: ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Armored Saint: La Raza
Artillery: When Death Comes
Atheist: Unquestionable Presence
Azaghal: Omega
Black Sabbath: The Dio Years
Blood Ritual: Black Grimoire
Burzum: Det Som Engang VarCauldron: Chained to the Nite
Charred Walls of the Damned: Charred Walls of the Damned
Coroner: R.I.P.
Dark Angel: Darkness Descends
Death Breath: Stinking Up the Night
Decapitated: Organic Hallucinosis
Defleshed: Death...The High Cost of Living
Dekapitator: The Storm Before the Calm
Dismember: Dismember
Dokken: Tooth and Nail
Entombed: Left Hand Path
Fear Factory: Demanufacture
Hail of Bullets: ...Of Frost and War
Hecate Enthroned: Upon Promeathean Shores
Helloween: Helloween/Walls of Jericho
Iced Earth: Framing Armageddon-Something Wicked Part 1
Impaled: The Last Gasp
Impiety: Terroreign
Infernaeon: A Symphony of Suffering
Insomnium: Across the Dark
King Diamond: "Them"
Landmine Marathon: Sovereign Descent
Leif Edling: Songs of Torment, Songs of Joy
Lord Belial: Enter the Moonlight Gate
Luna Ad Noctum: Dimness' Profound
Morbid Angel: Altars of Madness
Motley Crue: Dr. Feelgood
My Dying Bride: For Lies I Sire
Naglfar: Pariah
Nihilist: 1987-1989
Nirvana 2002: Recordings '89-'91
Nocturnal Fear: Metal of Honor
Obituary: Xecutioner's Return
Opeth: Deliverance
Overkill: Ironbound
Pharaoh: Be Gone
Queensryche: The Warning
Razor of Occam: Homage to Martyrs
Satan's Host: Power, Purity, Perfection-999
Savatage: Hall of the Mountain King
Scorpions: Bad for Good: The Very Best of Scorpions
Sigh: Scenes from Hell
Sothis: De Oppresso Liber
Symphony X: Paradise Lost
Tad Morose: Modus Vivendi
The Lord Weird Slough Feg: Traveller
Twisted Tower Dire: Crest of the Martyrs
W.A.S.P.: The Last Command
W.A.S.P.: WASP

Ibex Moon Records News: Fatalist Releases Video

I have mentioned it before: I am a big fan of the label Ibex Moon Records. They handle metal the right way and put out some absolutely killer records from great bands. I subscribe to Ibex Moon's newsletter through my email and, at one point, apparently signed on to be a member of their street team. I'm not sure when I did that, if it was a mistake or deliberate, but whatever. I suppose based on that, I would like to pass on whatever interesting word I receive from the label about bands who deserve some publicity. I don't expect anything out of this, I just wanted to pass along some underground metal that should be more popular.

Of their band roster, I have ordered releases from Incantation (singer John McEntee runs the label), Thornafire (twice), Estuary, Denial Fiend, Dawn of Azazel, Nominon, HOD, Master, Dreaming Dead, and Asphyx. I have ordered all of those releases from the record label and have found their prices to be fair and their shipping to be fast and reliable. What else could a metalhead want?

With that being said, Fatalist has released a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCnFFvdxxtE
http://www.myspace.com/fatalist666

Fatalist is a death metal band from California, who sound like they're from Stockholm, Sweden. Ah, Swedish death metal. Check out the video and the band.