It's #threetunetuesday and I've been thinking of a couple of songs to share for this week, but my partner informed me that she's choosing the songs today haha we have pretty similar tastes in music, except she's more into commercialized poser stuff and I'm into the real deal. "Piss off." She said with a laugh as she read what I wrote. It's a pretty interesting idea to be fair, so I'm open to letting her choose.
Funnily enough, when I said I was going to write something for today she said "It's Tuesday so I'm picking the songs." She's not even on Hive, the faker. Maybe I'll be able to finally persuade her to join, and she can create her own #TTT posts.
Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage
Here's one that I think is amazing, and if you've never heard it, check it out, especially the music video. This gives me chills every time I see it, such an amazing video and song. Absolute pungent work of art.
Ever heard Avenged Sevenfold? Well, if so, you might notice that this one sounds a little bit different than their regular stuff. This one is called The Stage, prior to this, two albums came out, Nightmare was an album released after their drummer "The Rev" died, and he's featured on a few of the songs, but mainly just recorded demo tracks for it. After that, Hail To The King came out, and it's okay but I wasn't really a fan of it.
Then, the title track and debut of the new album, with a new drummer came out, and instantly, I thought this was amazing. It was only afterwards I found out that the new drummer is the drummer from Bad Religion, a band I really like and introduced her to a few years previous.
He brought a punk beat to their music and I even noticed that there was a certain amount of a political undertone to some of their stuff which I had never noticed in their music before. I think the combination of punk and metal, where one style doesn't overpower the other is brilliantly done here and for the first time, I actually found some Avenged songs I actually sought out on my own.
My partner is a huge Avenged fan, but it was never really my cup of tea, not that I would tell her that.
Something Eerie About The Revs Passing
On Nightmare the last song on the album, is a song called Fiction, and the Rev had the word Fiction tattooed down his sternum; because he always felt that his life was too good to be true.
But, in the process of writing the song, it was called Death, and once The Rev finished recording the Demo of the song he changed the name of the song to Fiction, and three days later he died. In the recording of the song, the band used the demo of the drums and vocals, and it's the last anyone ever heard of him singing.
My partner just told me that, and I actually never knew it. She was talking while I was typing it, but it's pretty eerie, and sad, he was a really good drummer and a great songwriter, I like some of the songs he created over the years of being with the band.
Trivium - Shogun
Okay, since I could have the first one, now it's her turn to pick a song, and this is what she chose. I asked her if there was anything she has to say about it and she replied, "I like it. It's 11 minutes long and doesn't get boring."
Well, there you have it folks.
She started singing, and stopped to say, "This song makes me want to kick doors down." I don't know if she means literal doors or metaphorical doors. Upon questioning her statement, she said both.
Yeah, she's a fan of Trivium, and the funny thing is, I actually went to see them back in 2008 which wrecks her head, especially since I wasn't even a fan of theirs when I saw them, or after. I did/ do like them, but I never got into them. Although, she kind of wins on the gig front. She's seen Slipknot, Machine Head, and a bunch of other bands I'd love to see live.
I'm just letting the song play and typing whatever she says about it. "Like, it's just a perfect song to end an album with. It's such a good album and then this ending just ties it up."
She just said there, that what she likes about Trivium is that if you can't make it to one of the gigs, you can kind of still be involved as the lead singer streams them all on Twitch, and he even streams his warm-up to the gig.
It's true really, that is pretty cool, especially these days when artists are telling everyone to lock their phones up in a safes before entering the venue, which is stupid.
Alestorm - The Sunk'n Norwegian
These guys are actually pretty sick. When she introduced me to them and said they were "pirate metal" I rolled my eyes and was just thinking, "Here we go, I hate these gimmicky bands."
After the first song I was like, okay, yeah, they're not bad. But then, after a few more I grabbed me bottle o' rum and started chantin' shanties.
They're really catchy, do some great videos, and I like the big sound the band has, the singer is a nut and comes out with a mad amount of songs, and ideas. They're a good bit of fun to listen to and I think if 'the craic' was a band, it's these guys.
We were meant to see them back last year, but couldn't go because of the stupid lockdown stuff, the night was meant to be really good though and the next time they come to Ireland we'll be there.
The lead singer is from Scotland, and different members of the group live all over the place, the drummer and bassist are from Northern Ireland and the guitarist is from Hungary and lives there. When I heard that the band are living all over the place I thought it was mad, but then again, if your band was in any way successful and you were making money there's nothing stopping everyone from heading off to do their own things, to meet up as a tour starts. I mean, I'm sure they have a setup to be able to jam and write their music online.
Well, That's It For This Week
I enjoyed this new dynamic of the two of us talking about the picks. But, I'd like to get her on here to do her own posts, I had a few songs in mind I wanted to chat about, I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles though, things change.