Comments on METAL INQUISITION: Introducing: Budget Italian Power Metal

Next time you happen in Italy call me, I have a fu...

2009-10-21T07:06:36.765-04:00

Next time you happen in Italy call me, I have a fucking HUGE collection of terrible Italian metal demos, we made a race on who could get the worse, and man, you have to hear some of these.

agreed about Adramelch, well put. and cheers for t...

2009-10-18T11:12:25.218-04:00

agreed about Adramelch, well put. and cheers for the Mystic Circle pic. I never tire of them. sorry for derailing this a bit then, I just feel this band is one of the many 90s gems that really deserve the MI treatment.

That Kaledon video has Enrique Iglesias written al...

2009-10-16T12:19:29.967-04:00

That Kaledon video has Enrique Iglesias written all over it.

here's one of the photos in question, they wasted ...

2009-10-15T22:13:19.818-04:00

here's one of the photos in question, they wasted a pro-printed insert on this. It would have looked less embarassing if it was a photocopy

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-836669-1249627111.jpeg

Adramelch was great, that is what italian power me...

2009-10-15T22:06:38.984-04:00

Adramelch was great, that is what italian power metal should look like. "blue colar power metal" style.

I leaned to avoid Mystic Circle early, thanks to the split 7" with Blood. The photos were much more ridiculous than those ones; you could tell they were 15 years old back then. They should have waited until they were 16 like Emperor. but this is off-topic because MC is not italian.

mortuary drape (lolfunyclothes I know), early deat...

2009-10-15T14:02:03.073-04:00

mortuary drape (lolfunyclothes I know), early death ss, black hole, paul chain, the black and that's just from the top of my head. great fucking stuff from Italy.

on the other hand italy has lots of faggy non-powermetal too, Stormlord figure prominently. the biggest doucheband since Mystic Circle (Ger) (who hopped on ALL trends and failed at all of them, and on whom you need to do a feature, or maybe on the German label Last Episode more generally: some of THE GAYEST 90s trying-real-hard black metal to be found there).

taste this German douche-steel:

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/les%20goupes/M/Mystic%20Circle/pics/3.jpg

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/membre_groupe/photo/Beelzebub-7208.jpg

http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/membre_groupe/photo/Ezpharres-7209.jpg

do it. also there was a ton of hilarious promo pics of this band that seem to slowly 'disappear' from the net. if anybody has them, please post! one had the singer with two Labradors, EVIL fucking family dogs. I shit you not, prime MI material..

i must have missed the point of time when the term...

2009-10-15T14:00:10.526-04:00

i must have missed the point of time when the term "power metal" came to be used for describing horrible bands like this. in the eighties/ early nineties, power metal bands for me were bands like metal church, savatage, helstar etc., good bands that were too heavy to count as "heavy metal", but not heavy enough to be considered thrash.
on another note, the stoner/psych/doom rock scene in Italy is really amazing. there are so many good bands (ufomammut, alix, malasangre, that's all folks, deadpeach, colt.38, l'ira del baccano, paul chain just to name a few) it is unbelievable. guess the weed grows nicely under the mediterranean sun.

necromass, sadist, monumentum, necrodeath, bulldoz...

2009-10-15T13:10:07.871-04:00

necromass, sadist, monumentum, necrodeath, bulldozer, dungeon...that's italian metal !

Fuck off asian foods...I can't stand the chinese a...

2009-10-15T11:46:42.036-04:00

Fuck off asian foods...I can't stand the chinese after I saw how they tear apart alive dogs and torture bears...a huge FUCK OFF, really.

TAKE YR NOODLES AND SHOVE EM UP YOUR NADS!!

2009-10-15T10:19:21.806-04:00

TAKE YR NOODLES AND SHOVE EM UP YOUR NADS!!

about the food thing: i'm not saying it's not good...

2009-10-15T10:10:28.229-04:00

about the food thing: i'm not saying it's not good or taste afwul. i'm saying it's overrated: meaning people giving it to much credit! Just look at the asian foods; so much more different flavours and so much more sophisticated..blah blah..i know i can't win from italians..that's one of their problems..they think they are the best at everything..they have not heard of self-mockery..fuck 'em i'm off to the noodle restaurant

Italian metal is awful, but in my opinion, the cou...

2009-10-14T17:09:49.281-04:00

Italian metal is awful, but in my opinion, the country gets a pass for giving the world the travel-size Elvis, Glenn Anzalone. Yeah, I know he's a punchline today, but he wrote basically everything on the Misfits' first three albums, every Samhain album, and the first four Danzig albums and all of those albums are monsters. Yeah, they're all beyond cheesy and hopelessly embarrassing, but that's what makes them so amazing.

That's all I have to say, really. That and "Great nads, indeed!"

"Great Nads" HAHAHAHAHA! ooops!

2009-10-14T13:48:04.480-04:00

"Great Nads" HAHAHAHAHA! ooops!

Kill all those fucking Helloween-wannabes, i hate ...

2009-10-14T12:09:56.905-04:00

Kill all those fucking Helloween-wannabes, i hate fucking power-metal, what fucking power is there in it ? it's impotent metal ! Riff salad, wanking, and gay singing all the way thru ! And...fucking KEYBOARDS !!! How come those lame asses try have been trying to make Keeper part III since two decades ??? It smells bad !!!

Italy, bad ??? Heard of EVOL ???
Ciao agli nostri cugini d'oltre Alpi di un Francese.

one word: BULLDOZER.

2009-10-14T07:30:24.658-04:00

one word: BULLDOZER.

Two giants with three normal dudes, or two normal ...

2009-10-14T07:03:20.295-04:00

Two giants with three normal dudes, or two normal dudes with three Italians? You decide.

As far as the sympho cheesefest goes, this ain't half bad, though. The drummer's got chops. Too bad the singer blows what little liras he has at Massimo Dutti and has to get his underage cousin Fabrizio to do their artwork.

I mean bands not nads...

2009-10-14T05:34:09.192-04:00

I mean bands not nads...

@Matt: You're right, great nads indeed!!...I choos...

2009-10-14T05:17:51.214-04:00

@Matt: You're right, great nads indeed!!...I choose to be sinthetic :D

Mille Petrozza and the Cavalera brothers are of It...

2009-10-14T04:04:21.783-04:00

Mille Petrozza and the Cavalera brothers are of Italian origin, so I guess we should give some extra points for this?! Just trying to help, people!

...and Dark Quarterer? and parody legends, Nanowar...

2009-10-14T03:40:15.363-04:00

...and Dark Quarterer? and parody legends, Nanowar?!

Helldorado, what about Doomsword or Battleram? Gre...

2009-10-14T03:38:20.278-04:00

Helldorado, what about Doomsword or Battleram? Great Italian bands!

Ahahah can't stop laughing...I know the guy that p...

2009-10-14T03:32:45.809-04:00

Ahahah can't stop laughing...I know the guy that painted the "amateur" cover of "2008's Legend of the Forgotten Reign - Chapter 5: A New Era Begins." . He is so proud of this work...
Kaledon are one of the shitty power metal bands that infest our country(oh sorry, I forgot to mention that I'm Italian),but there are some bands that kick ass! Stormlord(where the midget drummer of Kaledon plays) or Domine.

Physcos - katalaba k sumfonw apoluta! Greece has m...

2009-10-14T02:36:55.998-04:00

Physcos - katalaba k sumfonw apoluta! Greece has made a big contribution to black metal and bands like Iced Earth have been elevated to God-like status in the country. Think even Manowar probably tour in Europe more than they do in the US..

This was a beautiful post. I remember as a child ...

2009-10-14T01:21:57.883-04:00

This was a beautiful post. I remember as a child sneaking into my grandmother's dining room to gaze at the rack of fine china no one had ever dared dine on and the table with the white cloth exactly as you described that no one had ever eaten on.

Did you Italian family have a parlor used twice a year and never again also?

Hey, I grew up on Blind Guardian! Still think they...

2009-10-13T20:47:52.140-04:00

Hey, I grew up on Blind Guardian! Still think they're awesome, especially when you're totally drunk in a club with 5 guys who can all sing Mirror Mirror by heart! To the music, that is, just singing it without any reason would be quite lame, actually...
My dreams of a Rhapsody interview will go unfullfilled, it seems they're on hiatus or something.