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Lovebites: Outstanding Power

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          After what seemed like an eternity for waiting for an announcement for a new full-length studio album, Lovebites made everyone's Thanksgiving more bearable buy doing just that.  With a title that wasn't whimsical mumbo-jumbo crap that seems to plague metal these days:  Outstanding Power !      Now, I don't really do album reviews, and I especially don't write them for metal-archives, but this is an exception.  I mean my post popular post on said blog is a Lovebites' song-ranking for fuck's sake!  So I feel like I have to give a review of it, particularly since the metal press seems to be completely avoiding it, choosing to wait for the Napalm Records release instead.  Ladies, everyone says it, and I'll say it too, FIRE YOUR MANAGEMENT!  This is Jayne Andrews' levels of incompetence.  Hell, I'd entertain a bit that Andrews could do a better job!      If you want the short of it, ...
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Me vs. Loudwire: The top 3 metal songs of the 80s

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          As we know, I had two previous correction article of Loudwire's plebness (90s and 00s).  I was always planning on an 80s list, but life gets in the way and I just forgot about it ( or thought chastising Lovebites was more important, which it was ). Same deal as the other two.  Top 3 + an honorable mention. 1980: 3. Ozzy Osbourne- Crazy Train This song (and to a lesser, abstract extent,  The Ultimate Sin ) is in fact the reason you are reading this blog, dear reader.  Yup while a bunch of beta chumps and chimps were 402 bad gatewayin into metal through nu-metal and metalcore, I snuck in through the backdoor, like a pimp, through this song.  Nonetheless, I want to maintain some semblance of objectivity and not have it necessarily be #1 because it's my favorite. 2. Black Sabbath- Heaven & Hell Much like Holy Wars ten years after, this song put Black Sabbath in stadiums despite being anything but radio friendly!  Seve...
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Kai's Stupid A.I. experiments: #2 A much, MUCH better lineup for Ozzfest 2001 (with setlists!)

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     I am obsessed with setlists.  Looking them up, studying them, what bands do and don't play, positions where certain songs end up.  What usually opens a show, what closes a show.   In my spare time I love typing setlists.  A sad eccentric hobby, but its my own.      Sometimes what I'll do is I'll make bills with the opening bands as well.  Well one thing I started doing is rewriting Ozzfest history.  We all know nu-metal is trash, and unfortunately, by the 00s Ozzfest became Ozzy or Black Sabbath headlining, followed with a bunch of awful crap that self-respecting oldheads (or kids that hate the music of their generation) would rather shoot on stage than listen to their music. 2001 was particularly awful.     Well, I decided to use AI to make what I wanted Ozzfest 2001 to be.  And here's what it generated:      No, it didn't read my mind (thank god), I specifically picked those bands myself. ...
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Ten 1986 albums that are better than Master of Puppets (and 5 albums that aren't)

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          You know what I don't think is all that good that's turning 40?  Metallica's Master of Puppets .  Now as the title gives away, I don't think it's the worst album of 1986 either.  So since it turns 40, I figured I'd remember the record accurately, but fairly, so let's start with 10 albums I think are objectively better than Orion and the betas.  These are in no-order, any-genre, and reverse alphabetical order seems more satanic, so we'll go with that. So here are at least 10 albums that beat Master of Puppets  fair and square: The Smiths- The Queen is Dead Jangle-acoustic pop rock masterstroke.  This ranks higher than the album on the official 1986 RYM album list.  I agree, but they both are outflanked by.... Slayer- Reign In Blood The most obvious alternative ever.  No cleans, no quiets, just pure loud, vicious rage.  Certainly not the only album to do this, but arguably the most legendary.   Run D...
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