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Metalmania 2004 On Batman Begins and the Posted by Chris Beaumont on June 22, Hegelian Dialectic by Mary K. 2005 07:28 AM (See all posts by Chris Williams Beaumont) I have issues with this whole Filed under: Video, Music: Hard Rock, "tie-in" thing. I'd ... [more] Music: Live Concerts, Music: Metal, Review, Video: Music - Scroll down to On Rejected Books by JR read comments on this story and/or Pilgrim At Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard - what a ... add one of your own. A scientist embeds a high- [more] speed computer in a wall bordering an Indian slum, On Why is America so Metalmania 2004 divided? by Yensid turns it on, and watches as DVD from Music Dave, good comment. I children teach themselves to Video Distribu would agree that is a use the machine. Release date: 21 fundam... [more] June, 2005 * Watch "Hole in the Wall" On Can You Trust the Government to Do the Right * Visit the kids' favorite sites Thing by Maurice Geez Bob, you are all over Or watch: the map. Your premise ... * Kyrgyzstan— "The [more] Kidnapped Bride" On Quiz Time by Aaman * Iran— "Going Nuclear" I'd didn't know what Metalmania was until I got my hands on this Fire a couple away on this Read More... disk, which I grabbed because of thread - next time, mai... [more] the appearances of Tiamat, CLICK to become Blogcritics. Moonspell, and Soulfly. What I org sponsor On CD Review: Thor - Thor learned was that Metalmania is a Against The World by Johno festival celebrating metal, mostly of Q.E.D. How adorable. [more] SPOTLIGHT ON: the extreme variety, that takes place in Poland each year. It has On Right wingers try to claim Downing Street Memo a DICK DURBIN'S GITMO been a yearly occurrence since forgery by Voice 1 WHIRLWIND 1986. They play host to a number of metal bands from Europe and Indeed, the Downing Street Memo certainly is not a... TOM CRUISE SCRUTINIZED around the world. It has varied in [more] size, occasionally spanning a few BATMAN BEGINS days, other times just one, and On Dick Durbin... by SFC SKI

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even others filling two stages with "Then hearing all the taunts MICHAEL JACKSON - The metallic insanity. about how he's the on... Verdict Is In, What Now? [more] This is a set which features a DVD On Abortion Reality by Nancy BLOGCRITICS EDITORS' running nearly two hours focusing Dave is actually my less PICKS on the nine main stage acts. Plus, curmudgeonly, mainly cons... there is a CD featuring the thirteen [more] PARIS HILTON PROBED second stage acts. It is a great way On Artist Overview: Jefferson to be introduced to metal acts that Airplane by uao STAR WARS EPISODE 3: you may or may not be familiar Jake-- I did add a REVENGE OF THE SITH with all in the same place. The set parenthetical clarification also shows that Europe has a to ... [more] thriving extreme metal scene with a On Forgeries Abound! by lot of respect for the older metal Scott styles of the 70's and 80's which "Bush's plan on social has been left behind in the US, at security is public (the who... least at a large scale. [more]

On A Current Affair's BIG First, I'd like to take a look at the Adventure - "Tracking main stage acts on the DVD, which Manitoba's Bigfoot" by Eric is the real substance of this set. It Olsen BLOGCRITIC OF THE DAY features 23 songs split between the once again: do not post Visit and Pay Homage: under someone else's MATTHEW T. SUSSMAN 9 bands. I will also give a star rating for each act, for what they name,... [more] are worth. Are you a blogger? JOIN On Bush Backpedaling on BLOGCRITICS Social Security Privatization? The first band was Trauma, and we Bush OKs Republican Are you a small publisher or are served 3 doses of their style of Senator's Plan To Offer self-published author? THIS heavy. Each song gets successively Reform Legislation, Minus IS FOR YOU! better, and they have some good Private Accounts by Maurice riffs, but in the end I found it rather Social Security is a sore issue SAVE TIME AND MONEY! unremarkable. their stage presence with me. We have ... [more] Blogcritics is your BUYER'S was not all that imposing, as they On Lions Save Girl From GUIDE. Follow the AMAZON just stood there. Not a bad way to Abduction by Nancy links! open up the show. ** Did the lions eat the men or maybe maul them? If n... Next up is a band called Esqarial [more] featuring Grzegorz Kupczyk (don't On Charles Schumer is an ask how to pronounce either, Out-of-Touch Boob - His war please!). This was a step up in the against the video game "25 technical department, featuring a to Life" by JR nice Mozart inspired opening, and Somebody should know how some Iron Maiden inspired sound. to kill cops. Just in ca... The vocals were decent, but were a [more] little sporadic over the three songs Advertise on Blogcritics.org presented here. This is an act I On AGUILERA'S 'TORTURE' CLICK to order an ad would be interested in hearing MUSIC by SFC SKI "This is udderly ridiculous" http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/22/072832.php (2 of 9)6/22/2005 5:51:01 AM Blogcritics.org: DVD/CD Review: Metalmania 2004

some studio work from. *** Don't have a cow, ... [more]

On Rescue Me Returns The next two songs are brought to Tonight, C'mon, C'mon by us by Krisiun. These guys are fast! SFC SKI Through that speed they produce I agree, FX is putting out are really evil sound. I had heard of some really quality dra... this act before, but have never [more] Buy Now! heard them prior to this display. On Star Trek Insurrection **.5 Book: Carl Melcher Goes (Special Collector's Edition to Vietnam DVD) by Erik Enslaved took the stage and (We) then have the robotic proceeded to deliver three songs of Commander Data wigging ... dark atmospheric despair. They are [more] heavy, slow, and grinding. Their On Billy Corgan to try to style seemed to lean towards the Reform The Smashing dramatic darkness, and they do a Pumpkins by Jon good job of it. *** The new disc sounds like adore? yes if adore was r... Now it was time to change things [more] up a little bit. The next act was On WARNING: Milk Is Freefire zones, arclights, MSG, the Michael Schenker Group. Dangerous! by Andrew sappers? What was the war in I have heard Schenker over the Tan, thanks for the piece. But Vietnam really like? Go now years, never enough to really say I let's not get t... [more] with Carl to find out. was a fan, or that I was even familiar with his work, but having On White House Rejects spent time with UFO and The Democratic Push For Gitmo Click here to read more. Scorpions, as well as his own Commission by SFC SKI group, it would be hard for a rock Anything Nancy Pelosi suggests or does shold be Top Posters and metal fan to avoid coming into vi... [more] Most prolific Blogcritics for May some contact. Here, they proceed Eric Olsen (48) to deliver some metal with an old On Box Office Update: 6/17- Chris Beaumont (43) school flavor. In addition to some 19 by Aaman DrPat (33) rocking metal, there were a couple This explains the merger Matt Paprocki (33) of great solos. First there is the between Loews and AMC - Eric Berlin (32) solid Schenker, and then his bass s... [more] Jan Herman (31) player and drummer trade some Meryl (29) On The Top 100 Guitarists segments. Excellent performance. MuzikMan (27) According to Rolling Stone by ***.5 Katharine Donelson (26) alex I DONT CARE WAT ANYONE Marty Dodge (25) Now I was a little disappointed with THINKS JONNY RAMONE AND JAC... [more] [Leaderboard] our next act, Tiamat. It has nothing to do with their performance, which On Serial Killer placed on Life Show your love: was great, it was that they are a bit Support by No Milk underrepresented here with only great satirical piece, will! one song. The performance is [more] great, I have a pair of their albums On Memories by dietdoc from the late 90's that are great. gypseyman writes: "It is http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/22/072832.php (3 of 9)6/22/2005 5:51:01 AM Blogcritics.org: DVD/CD Review: Metalmania 2004

This performance makes me want better to have good and b... to go get others. It features [more] Fernando Ribeiro of Moonspell Open threads on: Link to Blogcritics! sharing the vocal duties. These Music, Video/Film/TV, Books/ guys play by their own rules Magazines, Culture/ delivering an original gothic styled Technology, and Politics metal. I knock off a star here for just one song. *** Top Commenters Most prolific Commenters for last 24 hours (updated 09:20) After Tiamat, it was time to take Nancy (27) another step back and get some old gonzo marx (23) school metal. TSA was the next act, Dave Nalle (22) I have never heard of them before, DrPat (18) John Bambenek (18) but they have played an important Eric Berlin (16) role in Polish metal for the past 20+ Eric Olsen (16) years. Their performance was good, Aaman (15) it seemed a bit off, but it was easy Bennett (15) to forgive as they seemed to be Patriot (14) having a great time up there. ***

[Leaderboard] Moonspell was next on the list. Like Tiamat, I have a few of their RECURRING FEATURES: albums from the late 90's which I am rather fond of. Here they give NEW RELEASES: us three tracks of dark leaning CDs by Al Barger metal. Not as extreme as some of Indie CDs by Jon Sobel the early acts, nor as goth as Overlooked Alternatives Tiamat, they forge their own by by Tom Johnson direction in original metal, and the Reissues by uao performance here reinforces that. DVDs by Duke De Mondo DVD Pick of the Week by They tear through with high energy Chris Beaumont and talent. ***.5 Movies by Chris Beaumont

MUSIC: The main event of the festival is Friday Morning Listen by Soulfly, headed by Max Cavalera Mark Saleski who was a founding member of Rhapsody Playlist by metal greats Sepultura, and has Robert Burke been forging ahead in new Artist Overview by uao directions for four albums of Sunday Morning Playlist Soulfly. They deliver a couple of by uao great songs. Not metal in the PODCASTS: traditional sense, but definitely Mondo Radio Podcast by metal in attitude. He has gathered Duke De Mondo a good lineup of musicians to back Dumpster Bust Radio by him up on stage, and It would have Eric Berlin been great to see more of their Donewaiting by Robert Duffy performance. ***.5 http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/22/072832.php (4 of 9)6/22/2005 5:51:01 AM Blogcritics.org: DVD/CD Review: Metalmania 2004

TV and FILM: The Week That Was by Something else important to the Chris Beaumont show is the crowd reaction. The Sci-Fi TV Films by Matt crowd is lively and vocal throughout Paprocki showing their support for each and Monthly Move Recap by every band. Something I did notice Chris Beaumont was they were engaged in the Box Office Update by Chris traditional head banging and Beaumont jumping, rather than the more violent reactions of American INTERNET: crowds. I found it refreshing. Computer Bug and Security News by Bruce Kratofil That wraps up the bands and Weekly BlogScan by DrPat crowd, but this disk is more than Friday Femme Fatales by just a collection of bands. How does Natalie Bennett it sound? How does it look? How are the production values? The VISUALS: answer on all counts are pretty The Not-Quite-Sunday good. It won't win any A/V awards, Funnies by Annie but they serve the material fine. Flickr Highlights by Phillip Winn Mundane Visual Pollution Something that is crucial in a by Chris Beaumont performance based concert DVD is editing. The editing here is very SEND PRESS RELEASES, good. I have seen some disks take REVIEW MATERIAL, the path of cutting too fast, never ADVERTISE ON BLOGCRITICS giving the viewer a chance to really see anything. That is not the case here. The timing of the cuts works very well, never distracting, giving each band member their due, good work to those involved. I also like

how there is no break in the sound when switching bands, it plays BLOGCRITICS straight through. INTERVIEWS: NEW: Eric Olsen Vicki M. Taylor The video is good, good color Rusten Currie separation, no noticeable edge Don Mancini enhancement. It does a good job of Donna Sunblad representing the show. mpho and pals on music, pt 2, pt 3, pt 4 The audio is also good, presented in Ryan Escolopio of Wakefield both Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0. I Dorice Nelson Cary Tennis watched with the 5.1 track, it is Lisa Seung much richer in tone. Sharon L. Connons Davie Allan There are even some extras here. Jenna S. Smith http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/06/22/072832.php (5 of 9)6/22/2005 5:51:01 AM Blogcritics.org: DVD/CD Review: Metalmania 2004

There is a history of the Metalmania Carol Cornwell festival listing the bills for all of the John McNally previous events. There is a photo Kit Ehrman gallery of the show, and some John Malm ('93) desktop images for your computer. Phenomenal Fleeners There is also a section with full James Longley biographical information on all of Teel James Glenn the involved bands. As an extra not Lance Anderson listed on the box, there are brief Don Hurst Eric Flint video interviews with all of the main Nadine R. Carter stage acts, asking them about what Opiate For the Masses they are expecting from the show Memphis Bleek and the creation of their recent Reza Aslan albums. The interviews are brief, Ash's Tim Wheeler but surprisingly informative, my Jane Goodall only gripe is that it takes a bit of Temple Stark, pt 2 navigation to get to them, I would Michael Geoghegan, pt 2 have liked to be able to view them Robert B. Parker, pt 2, pt 3 all in a row. Michael Z. Williamson Tom Verlaine As an even better extra there is a Daniel J. Flynn 13 track audio CD of the second "Mr P" - young Bush stage acts. I thought it would be administration operative live performances, but even better Motorhead's Lemmy we get studio tracks. Granted, it is Seed of Chucky Director a mixed bag as to what is good on Don Mancini the album, but there are definitely Gregg Hurwitz some good acts on it. High points Frank Marino include Bright Ophidia, Atrophia Hans Koning Relient K Red Sun, Tenebrosus, and The Eric Olsen Chainsaw, all acts to keep an eye Tom Wolfe on. The Golden Republic Guy Kawasaki Bottomline. This is a good set for Nicolas Cage any fan of metal. It may introduce Beyond Indigo's Kelly you to some new acts, or be Baltzell reintroduced to old favorites. Either Ginger of the Wildhearts way, you will get 2 quality hours of Raspberries live material and another hour of Douglas Rushkoff music on CD. Tim Catz of Antler Incredibles director and Recommended. producer Joe and Phil Nicolo Kevin Shirley Visit me at Draven99's Musinngs. Chimaira, Machine Head, Trivium More fine reading at Pete Trewavas of Marillion Blogcritics.org. Scroll Sascha Konietzko ('04)

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producers Richard Brookhiser Peter Tosh William Tsangares Mary Carey Andrew Loog Oldham Tucker Carlson Rick Hiebert Always Sunday Allan Slutsky Dr. Helen Smith Jan Hammer Martin Atkins Posted by Chris Beaumont on June 22, Gretchen Lieberum 2005 07:28 AM (See all posts by Chris Moby Beaumont) Billy "illy B" Martin Filed under: Video, Music: Hard Rock, Buzz McCoy Music: Live Concerts, Music: Metal, Neal Pollack Review, Video: Music Steven Van Zandt

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