Obituary in Paris w/M-pire of Evil, Dust Bolt, Rotting Repugnancy (@Le Divan du Monde, 29/01/2015)

Following the release of their latest, crowd-funded album, Obituary was back with a vengeance last Thursday for an unmissable night for any old-school death metal fan. I, for one, being the death metal aficionado that I am, could not have been more excited to finally catch these death metal icons. Opening up the festivities for the evening were no less than 3 bands, each of them offering a different take on heavy music, making up for a nicely balanced line-up. Within this lineup of opening bands (of which all of them were completely unknown to me) were some duds as well as some pretty pleasant surprises.

Kicking off the show was the Midlands based UK death metal band Rotting Repugnancy, whose set I will quickly skim to talk about the following bands. While there wasn't anything inherently wrong with the bands' brand of brutal death metal, I honestly didn't find much appeal in watching their set. There were a couple of groovy riffs here and there but for the most part I wasn't all that convinced. One could easily tell these were competent musicians, which leads me to suspect that the overall sound of their set was to blame. Being well aware that this is death metal that we're talking about, I found the guitar sound to be a little too muddy for its own good and lacking a bit of precision and crunch to give it a "fuller" sound.

Next up was a fresh new band from Germany, playing for the first time in Paris but visibly with the intention of not making it their last. As soon as the sound checking was done, Dust Bolt rushed to the stage and immediately made the jump to light speed with their insanely energetic crossover and thrash-revival sound. Visibly drawing inspiration from bands like D.R.I, Municipal Waste and Suicidal Tendencies, these young-bloods blasted off with an insane amount of energy, running across the stage, waving their instruments around like passionate musicians living the dream. These musicians, fueled with such pure passion and energy, visibly won over their audience that night and effectively managed to give a good deal of them a strong appetite for some friendly violent fun in the pit. If there is one lesson to be learned from this set, it would be that Thrash is definitely not dead, and that so long as we have passionate musicians and passionate fans, thrash will never die. Going all-in for their first Parisian show, Dust Bolt left the stage with some well-deserved praise, having effectively conquered some new territory through their musicianship well-deserving of an upcoming headlining set.

Up next on the bill was a band whose name visibly did not strike a chord for a good deal of us but whose members obviously did. M-pire of Evil, formerly known as Primevil, is an old-school speed metal act from Newcastle founded by ex-members of the genre-defining band Venom, including its founding guitarist Mantas. For anyone wondering where the magic of Venom went after their now-classic first three albums, look no further: Mantas and his team kept the essence and spirit from the early days of Venom and have been touring and writing music under this grossly unrecognized new name and new formation. It somewhat saddens me to know that such creative potential resurfaces only now, since such a band would have probably gotten a lot more recognition and influence, had they formed during the time when Venom and thrash metal was at its peak. Tony Dolan, having replaced Cronos in Venom for nearly 15 years, still was at the top of his game, as was Mantas. M-pire of Evils' set mostly consisted of classic Venom songs, with occasionally a couple of new original songs blended into the setlist. With the exception of a few sound issues that were quickly solved, this set was an incredible treat and an amazing surprise for any heavy metal enthusiast.

Finally it was time for Obituary to play the evening off. As silly as it may sound, I was pleased to find that guitarist Trevor Peres was still rocking his Stratocaster and that frontman John Tardys' passion for camo shorts had not died out after all these years. The band started off their set with the song "Century of Lies" and "Visions in my head" off of their latest album "Inked in Blood", off of which they will be playing the most songs alongside their classic debut album "Slowly we rot". Another great surprise was the presence of lead guitarist Kenny Andrews handling the solos, considering that the bands' previous show in Paris had been as a 4 piece. While not crucial, the presence of a lead guitarist did make for a nice addition.

For the next hour-and a half to 2 hours, the crowd went absolutely insane, turning the venue into a full-on death metal warzone for the entirety of the set. John Tardys' instantly recognizable howling screams certainly haven't aged a bit, and neither did any of Obituarys' classic 2-beat thrash grooves and their ever-so-crushing mid-tempo riff breaks.

In short, Thursday evening was an incredibly enjoyable evening, with some great opening acts and a top-quality performance from Obituary, who still live up to their reputation. Relying on their simple yet effective formula for nearly 3 decades now, these death metal veterans know all about consistency and doing what they do best.

Robin

PS: A special thanks goes to the guys from Garmonbozia booking and Relapse records for making this review possible!

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Obituary setlist:

1. Centuries of Lies

2. Visions In My Head

3. Infected

4. Intoxicated

5. Bloodsoaked

6. Immortal Visions

7. 'Til Death

8. Don't Care

9. Violence

10. Stinkupuss

11. Back to One

12. Dead Silence

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13. Back on Top

14. Inked In Blood

15. I'm in Pain

16. Slowly We Rot

Outrider-Jimmy Page

 Sorry about the bit of absence over the past couple days, I had family stuff. Too mark my return I will be doing a review of a Jimmy Page album. Outrider is a hard powerful blues and hard rock explosion with some heavy metal elements. The majority of the album is hard rock with a blues feel, but there are definitely heavy metal overtones. There is still the classic Page riffing and awesome solos, the other instruments are given a chance to show off a little as well and there are some decent vocals but this is a primarily Jimmy Page oriented album.

The guitar is fantastic. Its harder than a lot of Zeppelin, because of course Page got to do whatever he wanted with this album. There are some nice solos and a lot of really good guitar parts that keep on riffing and exploding and just driving the music on. It is a treat to listen to Page show off whatever type of music he wants. There are some really cool things done with bending string on this album that almost reminiscent of his Yardbirds days. Then there are riffs that are more Zeppelin-like in nature. Page does allow the other instruments to have their own parts though. The drums have a lot of chances to show off on this album, especially on the lead track. Also on the lead track Wasting My Time is a memorable but repetitive bass riff. Overall the guitar dominates the music but allows the other instruments a small share of the glory of this album. This album is harder than most Led Zeppelin and shows off a lot of guitar talent on Page's part.

The vocals are decent, but asides from one track are nothing to rave about, they provide a blues feel that counterbalances the heavyness of Page's guitar. There is a balance because we have high powered distorted fast songs but they are played with blues timing and singers so balance can be attained. The track “The Only One” is like Zeppelin reuniting for a bit as we get to hear Plant, Page and John Bonham's son Jason all on one record. That song sounds like any of many other classic Zeppelin songs and would fit right in in any of the albums from Led Zeps glory days. The lyrics are all classic blues type stuff. Nothing particularly sppeaks to me but they are all just well written mournful blues lyrics.

Overall this is a pretty awesome album balancing blues and heavy metal nicely creating a sound harder than Zeppelin but lighter than a lot of 80s metal. There are awesome riffs and excellent solos and if this album were given more exposure it might become a classic. Personally I really love it and think that anybody who likes 70s and 80s hard rock would love this album. Gritty blues guys who like heavy metal (like me) would particularly like this album as this is to some degree really gritty and heavy blues. There are good guitar parts and decent parts for the other instruments. The vocals are overall pretty good and this album is very much worth to listening to as it shows off one of rocks greatest guitarist Jimmy Page.

OVERALL 8.5/10

Outrider

Borrowed Time- Diamond Head

 So after my personal albums release I will review some good WELL PRODUCED metal. Today I'm doing Diamond Head's classic album Borrowed Time. This album features some classic Diamond Head songs like Am I Evil, In The Heat of The Night and Borrowed Time. This is a precursor to thrash, featuring a significantly lighter sound than some darker thrash but its still heavy. This is a good and hard rocking album featuring nice guitars a decent bass, explosive drums, good lyrics and excellent vocals. The riffs are powerful and drive the music and can be both ominous and punk-like often in the same song.

This is a loud and awesome album. Yes the riffs are lighter than on Lightning to the Nations however they are still powerful and drive the music in an explosive and powerful manner. You can definitely hear the influence Metallica got from them. The guitar work is awesome and truly admirable. The bass can be heard well as this is a 4 man group the bass has quite a few good riffs especially in the song Lightning to the Nations. That brings up a slight issues with this album there are remakes of 2 previous songs, which isn't great on a 7 song album. Otherwise the drums are good and can be both high powered and cool and also dark, and ominous foreboding the explosion of heavy metal that is to come.

The lyrics are sometimes dark, like in Borrowed Time, or other times they are about lost love, like in Call Me. Overall they are rather meaningful and fairly deep in content. The lyrics do more than just add atmosphere they are pretty good from a poetic standpoint and convey a lot of emotions. Sean Harris has a voice that can convey a lot of emotion with long sad wails. Actually his wailing can be compared to Robert Plant, he simply has a slightly deeper voice. His voice explodes in Borrowed Time and reverberates in his lordly vocal might. He has a voice that suggests a very Robert Plant like man, his voice is simply spectacular.

Overall this is a very good album with great guitar parts, nice bass fills, excellent drums good lyrics and awesome singing. This is an album that would go on to influence a lot of awesome thrash metal bands like Slayer and Metallica. There definitely are elements of thrash on this album which show you were a lot of these thrash groups found their inspiration. For me the highlight of the album is the singing of Sean Harris, the main problem is that it only has 5 songs worth of new material there are 7 songs and 2 are remakes of old songs. Other than that this is an excellent heavy metal album that anybody who is into thrash should like.

OVERALL 9.5/10

Borrowed Time

Metallica Master of Puppets

Right... FYI we are still advancing through the history of metal, i hope to get to the early 90's by the end of the weekend. So I decided to review some classic Metallica. The album starts out with an explosion. The first 39 seconds of the lead track are acoustic, and right away you go "Huh", and then at second #40 it explodes and you go, ahh there it is. One of the best Metallica albums and the last to feature Cliff Burton you have to love this album. It is explosive and shows all of the old Metallica awesomeness that you know and love. It is not the weak crap they tried to feed us later this is heavy metal and Metallica at one of its finest moments. After Enter Sandman they went downhill this is like the first album of their glory years. Not saying previously they had no good tracks but for several albums they were among the best. Nearly on par with Iron Maiden, but not quite.

And then you have one of metallica's finest songs and one of their darkest tracks. MASTER OF PUPPETS! This track is one of THE classic metal songs and just blows the speakers out with it's awesomeness. Metallica shows that they are a band worthy of the Rock and Roll hall of fame with this album. The entire album is powerful and shows off an incredible musical skill on the part of all the bad members. From the memorable guitar riffs of Hammet and Hetfield to the amazingly powerful drums of Ulrich, one of the best drummers ever, and the nice bass parts of the late bass god Cliff Burton. Everything about this album s spectacular and it is a combination of some of the worlds greatest musicians into a spectacular metal that you really can not criticize at all.

Many of the lyrics on this album are rather disturbing. Master of Puppets is one of the most disturbing songs you'll ever hear. Then there are other tracks with twisted themes like Leper Messiah and Welcome Home Sanitarium. But Hetfield is extremely capable of communicating the anger and explosiveness present in all of the songs on the record. He has a voice that is very good for this angry style of music. It is his specialty and it sounds really really good and is complicated nicely by the guitar. His voice was pretty much made for this and nothing else. The album exudes anger though. That is really just the theme of the album, anger darkness and shadows.

So this is an angry album that shows some really nice chops in the metal department. This is one of the greatest albums of the 80s and really shows remarkable talent on the part of every musician and is a really good legacy for CLiff Burton one of the best bassists of all time. Before wrapping up i would like to say that Welcome Home Sanitarium sounds suspiciously like One. Otherwise, a really amazing album that shows some of the best chops i have ever heard but it lacks some of the epicness of the best metal albums. The greatest shortcoming of metallica is their lack of ballads, they have some good ones but no spectacular ones. If there had been a really good power ballad then this album would be 10/10 already it is really high rated. Just listen to it guys you'll like it.

OVERALL 10/10

Love At First Sting- Scorpions

Right so I love the Scorpions and I felt like doing a mid-80's album. So you have a tonights review. Love at First Sting. This album starts out with a bang in Bad Boys Running Wild and keeps on rocking to the end. It showcases all of the Scorpions talents and shows off their best song Rock You Like A Hurricane which is in my list of top 20 songs. This album just explodes our of the gate with the fiery Bad Boys on the Run. During this song your like this is a pretty good song. The album would be pretty good if the rest of it is like this. But the very next song is Rock You like a Hurricane which is just like BAM blown away. Its hard to process the first time you ever hear it. You're just kind of like... is this even possible? Can you possibly record a song that good? This album is pretty much the bands legacy. Not saying they did not have other classics, they did like Winds of Change and No One Like You. But this song just blows away EVERYTHING.

The music is great. It flows seamlessly from one track to another. It is full of spectacular guitar solos, steady bass lines and really nice drum parts. The vocals are just spectacular, you have to love Klaus Meine he has a really cool voice. The music is really hard. It basically has power chord riffs and then spectacular solos. They have a really nice feel that makes you just want to headbang. Everything in the Scorpions compliments each other part really well. If you just listen to them you'll get what i'm trying to communicate its just really cool.

The lyrics are almost all based on love. This is pretty good for the first couple of songs but after a while it gets redundant. While the vocals nice and they are given a chance to shine in Coming Home they still do not have the same awesomesauce quality of Iron Maiden. They are really good though, compared to 95% of metal artists they are better. The music has an explosive quality tht can really be scene in two tracks. The first is the title track which from your silence explodes the album into existence and then Coming Home which starts out as a nice ballad but then explodes into a really hard and cool track. I would like to say now that I can not choose which is better the Iron Maiden track “Coming Home” or the Scorpions Track “Coming Home”. Yes I just said a metal band might be able to compare to Maiden. Its that good of an album that you really need to go and hear... right now, but first finish reading. I also like Big City Nights, it has a catchy chorus. Actually the entire album has a lot of fantastic choruses which is one of my favorite parts about them. They have awesome choruses to just sing loudly along to and jam with.

Overall this is a heavy metal and fast thrashy type album. It features one of the greatest tracks of all time in Rock You Like A Hurricane and has a slew of other pretty nice tracks. There is technical skill here and fantastic solos with rather unique vocals. This album can pretty much blow anybody in the world away if they listen to it for the first time. IT is one of the major proponents of metal. The only issue with it is that the lyrics lack depth otherwise listen to it, even if merely for Rock You Like a Hurricane and the fantastic guitar parts. So yeah, a really hard and metal album with great guitar and shallow lyrics. GO LISTEN TO IT!

OVERALL 9/10

BLizzard of Ozz-Ozzy Osbourne

So I felt like doing some Ozzy after reading a biography of himso here we have Blizzard of Ozz. Some pretty nifty cover art by the way. Now you have to remember that when this came out Ozz had just come out of one of the hardest periods of his life having been dumped from his old band Black Sabbath due to alcohol issues.. He was filled with resentment and this album was critical to him staying as a musician. Luckily for him he found Randy Rhoads and his job as a musician stayed secure and we have a spectacular heavy metal album. The first song I Don't Know starts out hard, has a bit of a lull in the middle and then explodes into a solo that showcases the skill that is Rhoads. After listening to this album you can easily say, Rhoads saved Ozzy's career. The guitar is just so integral to this album and rocks so hard, and is just so generally amazing that you can't help but enjoy it as you hear each crashing power chord.

But really it is the next track that always blows me away. The incredible Crazy Train with its fantastic opening riff and guitar part defined what Ozzy was to become and is his signature song. Also it was the first riff I learned on guitar which is always cool. Crazy Train is far and away the best song on the album and when I looked at the track list I was like. What the heck why isn't Crazy Train first? That is the only real mistake on the album. Everything else rocks. Ozzy's voice is just so stereotypically Ozzy that you have to love it. But I have always found it unfair to call this group “Ozzy Osbourne” Ozzy's voice is one of the 2 key aspects. With no amazing guitarist it would suck. This is obvious when you compare this stuff to Jake Lee's year with Osbourne.

Truly Rhoads and Ozzy are the band. There is really nobody else of note in the band. They are replaceable. While good they are nothing special. But there is some real artistry on this album. There is brilliant contrast between the high-powered hard rockin' Crazy Train and the next track, the sad ballad Good Bye To Romance a rather sad song. The contrast is pretty spectacular, and truly showcases Ozzy's voice. He sings more on this record than he does on any previous record as he is now in charge of his own band. But the brilliant solos are there courtesy of the fabulous Rhoads.

This is a really great album but it does have some controversial bits, namely Suicide Solution. So as a whole this album is really amazing and makes me smile. It showcases one of metal's greatest voices and is spectacular. I love listening to it it has heavy metal and then beautiful slower tracks. This album just makes me smile and shows off a great genre and two great artists. There are some minor issues though which keep it from being perfect bt it is TOTALLY worth a listen I don't see how anybody could hate it, its just too good. It shows spectacular musicianship and a great blend of harder and lighter stuff. Go listen to it now you reader person.

OVERALL 9/10

Too Fast For Love-Motley Crue

Right so today I'm covering the first Motley Crue album Too Fast for Love, again thank-you to the Uncle for the album suggestion. This is the first glam metal album I've ever really done. It is really hard and amazing for early metal. In my opinion it is harder than the Killers album I recently reviewed. This album is considered one of the first 'true' glam albums actually at #12 on Rolling Stone Magazines list of best Glam Albums. I was immediately amazed at how hard it was. You could say it was pretty much an explosion. It is all very hard and raunchy. Despite its rep as a glam album it does have some more punk and 'real' heavy metal sounds than other glam albums. At this point I think they were still realizing they were more of a metal band than a glam band. Which I find rather ironic that this heavy metal band was originally a glam band, I don't know it just strikes me as a little odd and just kind of funny.

The music is very loud and impressive. While not so much technically skilled (there are some good solos though), the music is mostly comprised of power chords, it comes out in a really cool way. The music is not about being technically skilled though, its about being loud and amazing, and thats what it does. There are some growling power chords which pretty much dominate the music. Then there are some... unique... instruments. In particular a cowbell is featured in the track Public Enemy. In fact a cowbell works spectacularly with the music it was a brilliant decision to add that in I think. The solos are all pretty nice and show some skill but they are nothing to be particularly amazed at. The solos are good but Mick Mars (the guitarist) is not going to be worshipped by anyone. He will be very much respected and seen as a guitarist who made some great music but he is by no means a 'guitar god', just very good.

The lyrics are often raunchy and rude, and generally pretty much punk and glam. Thats really the only way to describe these lyrics, simply punk and glam. So in other words there are some suggestive lyrics, protesting lyrics, angry lyrics, and others simply rock and roll. They combine to form a very heavy album that really shows how the latest metal sounded when this was released. This was the most current and up to date metal released. It shows a lot of strength and potential for an up and coming band. However The Crue while they reached international album will never be considered gods among men as Zeppelin or Sabbath is often considered. Instead they are just a step below that, at the 'very good' level.

Overall this album rocks but some bits can get repetitive and slightly meh after a while. The continued power chords eventually get a bit stale and start to go towards the failish side. It just does not end and is kind of a repetition on a theme. Fortunately the album has a very good theme so it stays strong but grows a bit stale. There are some really nice solos and power chord rythyms and shows a lot of potential but unfortunaterly the Crue stayed at basically this level their whole career. Still this is worth a listen.

OVERALL 8/10

Too Fast for Love

Killers-Iron Maiden

Ok right, so today Ima right a review of an album from one of my favorite bands. Before starting I would like to thank my awesome Uncle and regular reader Shawn, who was a major influence on my musical tastes and starting to play guitar. (He has a lot of guitars). Anyway this album is pretty unique in that it features two instrumental tracks, a pretty unique thing. Both of them are pretty good and were basically designed to show off the new guitarist on this album Adrian Smith (who is like a god). This is also the last D'Ianno album which is both a good and bad thing. It is good because Bruce Dickinson is significantly better and has an amazing voice but it is sad because D'Ianno was one of the defining voices of early metal whereas Dickinson is much more '80's', not that this is a bad thing but it is a change.

Overall the music on this album is pretty good. It features a couple really good songs like Murders in the Rue Morgue (which is also cool cause it takes place where I live). What's interesting though is that while it is not packed with classics like for example The Number of The Beast album it holds its own and as a whole rocks. It does show off the guitar playing of Adrian, which is very technically skilled and filled with some awesome riffs and solos. I especially like Genghis Kahn which comes out sounding great. (Its one of the other instrumental tracks FYI). The drums are typically Maiden drums, amazing and loud when they need to be and quiet or backgroundish when they need to be. Really a hats off to Nicko McBrain (best name ever). Steve Harris again has his amazing bass parts which make the music sound really full and nice. It sounds particularly good in “Another Life”.

The lyrics are pretty good. They have the same general angry aggressive Iron Maiden feel. D'Iannos voice is still amazing on this track. There are darker themes which are usually kind of disturbing. Murders in the Rue Morgue is about well.. murder, Killers is about a man who killed someone and then his remorse. Really its just overall dark and filled with despair and sadness almost. There are some really cool sing-a-longish bits but not quite to the level of Dickinson's Maiden which brought us the likes of Children of the Damned. This album really just comes through nicely and sounds really good. You can feel the energy coming through and it is really cool. When you hear this album you will feel the energy coming through in a way that I have only really noticed before with Zeppelin.

So yeah, all in all this is a pretty good album. It starts to get the better later Maiden tone and shows progression from the first Maiden album. The issue is that it lacks classics here. It feels really cool and comes out really well and sounds spectacular so I love it but it just has no true classics. The album is not weak, it's quiet strong but the only true classic here is Killers and to a degree Murders in the Rue Morgue. It does not give me the same explosive joy and bliss of some later albums and the awesomeness contained in the classics there. This album still is amazing. You should listen to it.. right now.

OVERALL 9/10

Killers

Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden

Right, so today I felt like listening to some Maiden and getting a review in. So we are doing what is pretty much universally accepted as the best Iron Maiden album, The Number of the Beast. This is a sick album featuring some classic Maiden songs. Actually 5 of the 8 songs on the album are classics and some of the best songs ever. Also this Album features the introduction of Bruce Dickinson. It starts out with a hard metal song Invaders, a classic and super loud metal song and it ends with Hallowed Be Thy Name probably the best metal sog ever which I am 95% sure that it is in fact about the book Tale of Two Cities.

This album just epitomizes Iron Maiden. It has all of the explosiveness and awesomeness of a metal album but with beautiful lyrics and tones that make me love Iron Maiden so much. Children of the Damned is the first song on the track and right away it shows Bruce Dickinson's amazing voice off. You get the sense that this is for those anxious fans afraid that he might wreck the band. He did not in fact wreck it. He made it. Bruce Dickinson changed Iron Maiden from a pretty big metal band into THE metal band. The music is amazing, it features some of the best intros and some of the strongest solos and choruses that I have ever heard. This album really has 'meat' if you will. It gives you a feeling of satisfaction from listening to it. It just brings me joy and a tingly feeling into the base of my stomach.

I like this album because it is loud and dirty. It has the amazing tones that make Maiden who they are, and who they are is the best metal band ever, shut up all who argue. And while the guitar and bass is all excellent and the drums are great ESPECIALLY in Run To The Hills Dickinson makes it special. Just try it, listen to a Dickinson Iron Maiden song and then listen to a non Dickinson Iron Maiden song. The Dickinson one is better 9 times out of 10. (Please note I am still a fan of Paul, but not Blaze, Blaze sucked and that's all there is too it.)

Overall this album rocks really really hard. It also features some of the best Iron Maiden ballads of all time, theses include Children of the Damned and Run to the Hills. And it also shows the true power of metal, really for the first time. It proves with the song Hallowed Be Thy Name that metal can do anything. The music is great and you really need to listen to it, it is that good and just makes me happy when I listen too it despite the darker subject matter. Just listen to this album everything about this album is amazing.

OVERALL 10/10

ps. I would like to note that Two Guys does not support satanism in any way shape or form.

The Number Of The Beast (Album Version)

NIRVANA band profile

Today I'm going to cover Nirvana and do a band profile for them. These guys rocked the 90's and rocked it hard. While lacking technical skill they had memorable riffs and are rightly rated among the rock gods even only 15ish years after Cobain, you know... *sniff*. They were one of my favorite 3 piece bands of all time. They had the brilliant Kurt Cobain, who was a guitarist and singer, he composed legendary riffs that will be remembered for decades if not centuries. Dave Grohl their main drummer was talented and powerful and made the songs steady and powerful. Krist Kristiansen (I think that's his name.) Had a great talent with the bass and people love him even today. His lines were memorable.

This band was a grunge band through and through. Actually they invented the genre. With rather unintelligible lyrics, distorted power chords and a headbanging sound they embodied grunge and everything that it should be. What was originally a simple garage band from Seattle became a legendary group with a golgafrinchan (it means big) following. In the words of “Weird” Al Yankovic “It sure beats raising cattle”. Comment please if you got either of the references made in the last 2 sentences it would be really cool to know that I'm not just babbling on and no one gets my humor, feel free to lie and say you get it even if you don't because then I'll get to feel special and have a tingly feeling on the inside.

They recorded some really good songs that will be remembered for aeons to come. Probably their most popular and important defining song is Smelled Like Teen Spirit. Other cool works of theirs include “Pennyroyal Tea” (the only rock song to mention laxatives), “In Bloom” (I love the lyrics of that one, play them to some weird little kid who like pop, make sure they have no idea what pop lyrics mean/suggest you get odd results.) and “The Man Who Sold the World” (one of my favorite covers of all time, post if you know who they covered,).

Overall this band rocks and rocked hard till Cobain.. committed suicide thus joining the 27 club and causing us to take all shotguns away from rock stars. They had a heavy defining sound and a powerful cause and meaning behind their songs. I like many others see this as THE grunge band and they are my favorite 90s band. They also called me to forever curse my music teacher from last year at school who when we talked about 90s music she was all about boy bands and Aerosmith (who was an 80s band, showing a lack of understanding of the topic.) but never mentioned Nirvana. So music teachers remember Nirvana in your next music lesson!

OVERALL 9/10