June 2010 Releases

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

List of Blu-ray movies, CDs, PlayStation 3 games, and Nintendo DS games to be released in June 2010.

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Kverke.com Top 10s of 2009

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Top 10 Metal CDs of 2009

1. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
2. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
3. Dååth - The Concealers
4. Lamb of God - Wrath
5. Arsonists Get All the Girls - Portals
6. Megadeth - Endgame
7. ZAO - Awake?
8. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Worse Than Alone
9. Slayer - World Painted Blood
10. DevilDriver - Pray for Villains

Top 10 Hip-Hop CDs of 2009

1. Zion I - The Take Over
2. The Alchemist - Chemical Warfare
3. Souls of Mischief - Montezuma’s Revenge
4. MF Doom - Born Like This
5. Swollen Members - Armed to the Teeth
6. Afro Classics - Classic Rock
7. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
8. B-Real - Smoke N Mirrors
9. Gift of Gab - Escape 2 Mars
10. The Grouch & Eligh - Say G&E!

Honorable Mentions

(in no particular order)

• iwrestledabearonce - It’s All Happening
• Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3
• The Lonely Island - Incredibad
• Mastodon - Crack the Skye
• Peaches - I Feel Cream
• Afro Classics & Bash Bros. - Workaholics 2
• GWAR - Lust in Space
• Seventh Void - Heaven Is Gone
• CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume One
• Behemoth - Evangelion
• Eminem - Relapse
• Brother Ali - Us
• Obscura – Cosmogenesis

Lamb of God – Wrath

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Overall

The levels seem weird, like I’m listening to the radio or a cassette tape. I hope it’s just a shitty rip or transcode or something. I like the drum tone on the last two albums better as the snare sounds bizarre at times. It’s Lamb of God and it fucking rocks. I can’t wait to get the special edition and scream along in the car.

Track By Track

1. The Passing (1:58)
   The acoustic intro sounds more like Down song than Lamb of God
2. In Your Words (5:24)
   Comes in fierce, sounds like a pre-Ashes Lamb of God song, then the sung vocals remind me of later Type O Negative sung vocals
3. Set to Fail (3:46)
   Sung pre-chorus voice reminds me of Damageplan, other than that, sounds like it could have been on Sacrament
4. Contractor (3:22)
   Reminds me of “An Extra Nail For Your Coffin”, the Japanese bonus track on Ashes of the Wake
5. Fake Messiah (4:33)
   notes
6. Grace (3:54)
   A finger-picked intro, almost Spanish guitar style,
7. Broken Hands (3:53)
   notes
8. Dead Seeds (3:40)
   notes
9. Everything to Nothing (3:50)
   notes
10. Choke Sermon (3:20)
    notes
11. Reclamation (7:05)
    Waves crashing, acoustic (dropped-D?) intro, comes in with a hard groove and a growl, acoustic outro fades to waves crashing.

I haven’t heard any of the bonus tracks yet.

February 2009 Releases

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

New Blu-ray, CD, DVD, NDS, and PS3 releases for the month of February that seem interesting to me for one or more reasons. If something is too special to come out on a Tuesday like everything else, it’s getting lumped in with the next Tuesday in the list.

February 03, 2009

Blu-ray

• Afro Samurai: Resurrection Director’s Cut [2009]
• Clerks II [2006]
• The Cure – Trilogy [2008]
  • Three separate shows at the Tempodrom arena in Berlin
• Friday the 13th: Unrated Deluxe Edition [1980]
• Napoleon Dynamite [2004]
• Office Space: Special Edition with Flair! [1999]
• Taxi Driver [1976]
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno [2008]

CDs

• Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague - preorder
  • Includes bonus “Making of” DVD
• Dir En Grey – A Knot Of (The End)
• Sunspot Jonz – The Darkside ov Heaven preorder
  • Features The Temper Twins, Myka9, and Luckyiam
• Sunspot Jonz – FIGHT, DESTROY, ROCK preorder
  • Features Himself, Myka 9, DWP, Z-Man, Equipto, White Mike, Kwanz, Luckyiam, Moka Only, with production by Sunspot Jonz, Adamatic, Mr. Nemo, Young Kruse, Creasey Buscemi, Nima Fadavi, Moka Only, DJ Fresh, Dirt Nasty, TD, Underrated, Cminus, and Wiz.

February 10, 2009

Blu-ray

• The Boondock Saints [1999]
• Donnie Darko: Collector’s Edition [2001]
• Raging Bull [1980]
• A Time to Kill [1996]

CDs

• 7L & Esoteric – Serve or Suffer
  • All new Esoteric instrumentals
• Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique 20th anniversary
• C-Rayz Walz – Who The F%@k Are You?
  • Features Vast Aire, Slug and others.
• The Lonely Island - Incredibad
• Napalm Death – Time Waits For No Slave
• NASA – The Spirit of Apollo
  • Features Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, Z-Trip, Method Man, RZA, KRS-One, Kool Keith, George Clinton, M.I.A., Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Ghostface Killah, and others.
• Warren G – The G-Files

Nintendo DS

• USA Today Puzzle Craze screenshots

PS3

• F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin – videos
• Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection – screenshots
  
  • 720p versions of over 40 classic SEGA games including:
    • Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2 and 3
    • Columns
    • Ecco the Dolphin
    • Shinobi III
    • Space Harrier
    • Streets of Rage
• X-Blades – trailer

February 17, 2009

Blu-ray

• Kramer vs. Kramer [1979]
  
• The Passion of the Christ: The Definitive Edition [2004]
• Pulp Fiction [1994] import

CDs

• … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – The Century of Self
• Odd Nosdam – T.I.M.E. Soundtrack
• Zion I – The Takeover
  • Features Brother Ali and others.

Nintendo DS

• Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride – screenshots
• Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon – Feb. 16 – Videos

PS3

• Flower – Feb 12 – videos
• Street Fighter IV – videos
  
• Street Fighter IV Collector’s Edition
  • includes a CD, a mini guide, a figurine, an animated video, and more.

February 24, 2009

Blu-ray

• Akira [1988]
• The French Connection [1971]
• The French Connection II [1975]
• Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder [2009]
• Neil Young : Archives Volume One (1963-1972) [2008]
• Ronin [1998]

CDs

• B-Real (Cypress Hill) – Smoke N Mirrors
  • Features Buckshot, Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Kurupt, and others.
• Hatebreed – For the Lions
• Havoc (Mobb Deep) – Hidden Files
• Kool Keith – Tashan Dorrsett CD+DVD
  
• Lamb of God – Wrath
• Mobb Deep – The Infamous Instros

Nintendo DS

• Blue Dragon Plus – official site, screenshots
• C.O.R.E. – official site
• Legacy of Ys: Books I & II – screenshots
• Puzzle Quest: Galactrix – video, screenshots

PS3

• The Godfather II – videos
• ShellShock 2: Blood Trails – trailer

Metallica, Lamb of God, and The Sword at Key Arena

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Jason got us row 5 tickets for $60, day of show. It took me over an hour to get there, regardless that I live only 12 miles from the venue We missed The Sword completely, but caught the last half of Lamb of God’s set.

Lamb of God was good. Not as good as when they were headlining the show I saw in Spokane at the Big Easy in 2007 mainly because their sound equipment was nowhere near as extravagant as Metallica’s. Seemed like they had their jam-room equipment onstage, whereas Metallica had every speaker in the building hooked to their shit.

Metallica was so fucking loud and badass, though they sounded sloppy/lazy on most of their older solos and seemed to be off-time when entering older choruses. No songs off Load, Reload, or St. Anger were played. I nearly jizzed across the Arena when they went from “Master of Puppets” right into “Blackened”. I was basically screaming every word to all the older songs (hadn’t listened to the new album enough to know the lyrics yet). And Lars is the biggest Diva in metal.

There was no beer “at request of the tour”.

Setlists

The Sword

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Lamb of God

1. Hourglass
2. Laid to Rest
3. Walk With Me in Hell
4. Ruin
5. Overhauled <- I caught from the middle of this song on
6. Now You’ve Got Something to Die For
7. Redneck
8. Black Label

Metallica

1. That Was Just Your Life
2. The End of the Line
3. Creeping Death
4. Harvester of Sorrow
5. One
6. Broken, Beaten & Scarred
7. Cyanide
8. Sad But True
9. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
10. Wherever I May Roam
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master of Puppets
13. Blackened
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter: Sandman
16. Motorbreath
17. Die, Die My Darling
18. Seek & Destroy

My ears and voice were fucked for several days after the show. Good times.