Tonight: ...Trail Of Dead and Dethklok At The University Of Minnesota

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead


Dethklok


Download: ...Trail Of Dead - "Another Morning Stoner"
Download: ...Trail Of Dead - "The Lost City Of Refuge"
Download: ...Trail Of Dead - "It Was There That I Saw You"
Download: Dethklok - "Go Into The Water"
Download: Dethklok - "Fansong"
Download: Dethklok - "Castratikron"


Do you folks like coffee? Real Coffee? From the hills of Colombia? Well, then you're in luck because the Adult Swim sponsored tour of college campuses comes to the University of Minnesota. The tour package this time consists of Austin, TX, epic-alt-rockers ...Trail Of Dead and Dethklok, the starts of "Metalocalypse". The show is free to students but, alas, tickets are no longer available. Doors are at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m.

Directions to the venue can be found here.

Check out this AV Club feature of Brian Posehn interviewing Dethklok.

Read this scathing post about Interscope records by Trail of Dead.

Dethklok MySpace Page
...Trail Of Dead MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Dethklok - "Duncan Hills Coffee"

The popularity of this genius ruse is just glorious. The most interesting aspect of this metal experiment is that it simply proves that if you rock, you will win people over -- even if you sing about coffee.

Dethklok on MySpace

(Ian Anderson)

Stream Dethklok's DethAlbum

Download: Dethklok - "Duncan Hills Coffee Theme"
Download: Dethklok - "Awaken Mustakrakish"
Download:Dethklok: "Birthday Dethday"

The blackest, most brutal, most metal band of all - Dethklok - (and stars of Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse") will be holding an exclusive listening party for its new album,Dethalbum, on Sept. 25th at 12:01 AM. You can stream the new album - which will undoubtedly strike fear and darkness into all of our hopeless, barely beating hearts - here, when the time comes.

The new season of "Metalocalypse" doesn't start until January, but the album comes out tomorrow, with the DVD of season one to follow one week later (Oct. 2nd).

Brutal.

MySpace Page

Two more Dethklok MP3s here

(Jonathan Graef)

Do The Evolution

So, the above video caught my attention recently. I know Jon usually runs the political racket ‘round these parts, but I’ve got something to get off my chest. I'm going to use it not only as a chance to hop up on my soapbox, but as an MP3 dump.

As some of you probably know, or have surmised to some degree from my other posts, I'm a biologist. Specifically, an evolutionary biologist. From watching that video, you might not see why I'm bringing it up, but my reasons will be absolutely crystalline in a few moments.

The above video shows a crowd of people who aren't just using religion as a rhetorical weapon: They want to bring God down here to fight on their side. Physically. They want a bloodbath.

As I'm sure anyone with brains in their heads (rather than the rocks these people so clearly possess) realizes that the book of Revelation has no bearing on any actual end times, as it wasn't a prophecy. But, to them, it does. And that should scare you. These people control our country. Why plan for the future, why care for the environment, why bother with social security reform if our world won't be here in 50 years? That's how these people think.

That bloodbath I mentioned? It's a looming threat in our own country. Last week, evolutionary biologists in Colorado received threatening messages, followed by threats e-mailed to evil-utionists across the country.

Why us? Some propaganda I got from AnswersInGenesis.org clears that question up: They think evolution is the seed of evil in the world. A while back, a friend of mine said he didn't think fundies would get violent with evolutionary biologists like they do with abortion doctors. Evolution has no religious affiliation and contradicts a literal reading of the Bible (a literal reading never intended by its authors), therefore it is the seed of evil in their view. As an evolutionary biologist, they see me as the reason that there's abortion, murder, gay sex, theft and porn.

They see fighting the enemies of their narrow Biblical interpretation as integral to their plot to bring the Rapture. After all, fighting the enemies of their bastardized warrior god (such an idea doesn't even deserve a capital "g") will get them rewards in heaven. Or so they think. And, as should be clear from the video and the death threats, they'll get ugly in order to get it. They've already started on the homosexuals and the abortion doctors. They've just been warming up, assuming they have the guts to follow through with any of it, which is, admittedly, doubtful.

But society can stop them. I implore you: Don't give these nutcases the time of day. When someone starts in on you about the end times, or fighting "evil" with violence, tell them, in the words of P.Z. Myers, that they are demented fuckwits. Shut them down before they even start. Don't hide your contempt for them. Every time they encounter someone who, in the name of being PC or polite, doesn't tell them where they can shove their ideas, they get bolder. They get stronger.

In the mean time, here are some auditory libations for these troubled times:

Download: The Thermals - "A Pillar Of Salt"
Download: Super Furry Animals - "It's Not the End of the World"
Download: R.E.M - "Sweetness Follows"
Download: Explosions In The Sky - "Greet Death"
Download: Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Death To Everyone"
Download: Blur- "Death Of A Party"
Download: David Byrne- "Tiny Apocalypse"
Download: Modest Mouse - "Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes"
Download: U2 - "Until The End Of The World"



(Dethklok, "Go Forth And Die")

(April Wright)