#proto-speed metal

[spilladabalia]

Blast - Damned Flame

[music-is-my-life-man]

Lemmy 🤣

[drondskaath]

Midnight | Hellish Expectations | 2024

American Black/Speed Metal

Artwork by William Lacey

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

CRONOS IN LEOPARD PRINT MAKES THIS PHOTOSHOOT -- THE UK PUNK INFLUENCE ON PROTO-THRASH IS KEY!

PIC INFO: Mega spotlight on English extreme metal/NWOBHM band VENOM, photographed in a graveyard during the band's "Welcome to Hell" era, c. early '80s/1981. 📸: Ross Halfin.

"After witnessing the SEX PISTOLS and the Bromley Contingent’s notoriously foul-mouthed run in with Bill Grundy on the "Today" show in the December of 1976, the 13-year-old [Conrad] Lant became radicalised -- he knew exactly what he wanted to do.

Luckily for him a switched on music teacher would let him and a couple of other mates skip maths and chemistry lessons so they could learn to play BEATLES, STATUS QUO and AC/DC numbers on the guitar instead.

This led to the high school outfit Album Graecum who blasted out ragged hyperspeed covers of BOWIE and T-REX numbers but with a pronounced filter: that of the angry teenage punk fan: "We played "Ride A White Swan"... but five times too fast!""

-- THE QUIETUS, vThe Last Laugh: Cronos of VENOM Interviewed," by John Doran, published October 6th, 2020

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/269019777711910559, https://thequietus.com/articles/29031-venom-cronos-interview, Facebook, various, etc...

[thecreativemillennial]

Happy birthday to the late Lemmy Kilmister, who would've turned 77 today

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

""FILTH HOUNDS OF HADES" EXPLODED FROM BRITISH HELL WITH ALL THE FANGS AND FURY..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a T-shirt design for "Filth Hounds of Hades," the 1982 debut album by British heavy metal/proto-thrash power trio, TANK. Kamaflage Records.

BAND/ALBUM OVERVIEW: "March 1982. Maggie Thatcher lords over a dangerously unemployed U.K. with a hatchet face, a controversial economic policy and “a voice like a cat sliding down a blackboard.” The Falklands War debacle is just weeks away. Meanwhile, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal is about to hit its commercial peak with IRON MAIDEN’s "The Number of the Beast." MOTÖRHEAD’s "Iron Fist" is cocked, locked and ready to drop the proverbial hammer on Blighty’s dole-diving speed freaks, spot-faced rivet heads and leather-loving piss punks. Just over the horizon, VENOM’s game-changing "Black Metal" and JUDAS PRIEST’s mega-selling "Screaming for Vengeance" are poised to strike pain and pleasure into the hearts of the denim-clad faithful.

A few months prior, three lager-swilling London lads calling themselves TANK were holed up in the Who’s Ramport Studios recording their full-length debut with vast quantities of booze and speed and no less than MOTÖRHEAD’s “Fast” Eddie Clarke in the producer’s seat. The band was the three-headed fantasy headache of bassist/vocalist Alasdair “Algy” Ward, who had previously lent his unique talents to punk legends THE SAINTS and THE DAMNED, resulting in arguably the best albums from both bands (1978’s "Eternally Yours" and 1979’s "Machine Gun Etiquette," respectively).

After getting the sack from the Damned, Ward recorded a handful of demos before recruiting brothers Peter (guitar) and Mark Brabbs (drums) to form a power trio in the loud, louche and inebriated style of their future benefactors MOTÖRHEAD — a comparison they could never quite shake. Released in March of ’82, "Filth Hounds of Hades" exploded from British hell with all the fangs and fury of the three-headed Cerberus on the album’s iconic sleeve. Featuring unstoppable beer bangers like “Turn Your Head Around,” “Shellshock” (later covered by German thrash maniacs Sodom) and “(He Fell in Love With a) Stormtrooper,” the record would go on to influence METALLICA and carve TANK’s legend into the annals of heavy metal history."

– "DECIBEL" MAGAZINE, by J. Bennett, published July 6, 2017

Source: www.decibelmagazine.com/2017/07/06/tank-filth-hounds-of-hades.

[blackmalmhaus]

What other albums do you consider proto black metal/albums from other styles that influenced what was going to be black metal?

Check the ones already posted and submit yours via Q&A and i'll curate and post them mentioning you

[transformers-synergize]

Can Smokescreen fly with those wings?

(if that's what they are. Love your art btw)

No, he can't. He doesn't have flyers or seeker modification. He could have gotten them if he wanted back on Cybertron, but he can't now since the earth-stranded bots don't have the proper resources to perform that type of modification.

No cybertronian can naturally fly and require modifications to do so, there are two main types of flying modifications. Flyers who can only fly in their alt mode, while seeker/root mode flyers that can fly in root/robot mode and their alt mode. Flight is also not a natural instinct for cybertronians, and even if a bot is given additional code to help with flying, they still need to learn how. It's not second nature like driving or walking alts 

Already had the stuff below written down, but feel like this ask a decent enough excuse to share my flyer and seeker lore

The process is very unintrusive for gaining a flying alt mode, only requiring a few modifications depending on frame type. Most require an engine change modification to the t-cog housing and additional metal that can be used for wings or blades. Not all bots are compatible with flying modification, but most can be it just requires different levels of modifications.

Seekers, otherwise known as root mode flyers, are able to fly not just in their alt-mode but in their robot/root mode. It requires several extreme modifications, and only certain specific frame types are even viable to be converted into seekers. A Failed seeker modification is usually deadly, but all Seekers are prone to malfunction, often related in some way to overheating, Even with successful upgrades. Seeker frame upgrades require several intrusive modifications. Their engine is replaced with an extremely powerful one; these engines burn an extreme amount of fuel and are known for constantly overheating, which leads to seekers having to have most of their proto-metal removed along with adding a lot of extra vents and upgrading their cooling systems legs are restructured and given thrusters nonvital parts to functioning get removed even if they do serve a purpose if a bot can function without it gets removed to both bring down weight and fuel consumption another reason why most the proto-metal is removed, Bots with flyers modifications can still take on a ground base alternate mode while tripled changers with flying mods are able to take on both a ground and flying alt at the same time, bots with seeker modifications can only take on flying alts  . Seekers can't take on ground alt modes, and triple changers with seeker upgrades can only use two flying alt modes.  The decepticons sizable seeker units are often credited with their success in the later half of the war, and complete domination of aerial combat to the point most autobots avoid any form of air confrontation. seeker are able to dominate the skies in way a that regular flyers simply cant along with Decepticon habit of combining powerful experimental weapon modification with seekers it no wonder why these bots haven been referred to as flying death. It's no quintessence that most of the remaining Autobot strongholds are underground titans or in locations that make flying difficult. "I'm not a fan of heavy modification unless absolutely necessary, especially when it comes to modification for war, but the seeker modification has to be one of the worse out there other than flying in root mode, and a little extra flight speed it's got no real benefit to the bot themself while carrying all kinds of side effects, with how much energy their frame burns it cut their lifespan in half, that's if the various complications don't kill them first, whenever I get one these bots on my table I always question who would allow something like this, especially something like this to just be an accepted part of life thank to the war  At least the ones who were modified early in the war or by autobot look somewhat functional on the inside  I have had ex decepticons come to me with interiors that look more like mutilation than any kind of upgrade" Ratchet's thoughts on seekers.

[bonebrokebuddy]

I’ve been seeing a few folks complain about people writing hcs of DC characters with ooc song preferences, which it’s not that serious. But it gives me an excuse to show off my DC character playlists.

I initially created them as I saw a lot of playlists for Bruce & Jason with just a lot of dad rock.

Which, fair. Not everyone’s into metal.

But since I know it’s not an easy genre to get into, if you want inspiration, feel free to check out these playlists!

My one main rule for making playlists is that a majority, if not all, of the songs need to be in a genre I think the character would listen to based on their canon music taste. This is regardless whether or not it’s a genre I like. I try my best to find fun songs regardless of my personal preference.

The Playlists:

Batman: various genres of metal. I tried to go for more Doom Metal(slow & repetitive vs thrash’s blast beats and fast guitar) but there’s more than one genre of metal that’s characterized by slower instrumentals & I can’t keep up with all the names so it varies. Dad metal. Made sure that there was a sprinkle of Black Metal too (mainly bc I think it’s funny. If you’ve never listened to black metal, it sounds like you chucked the vocalist in a grinder at high speeds then proceeded to mix your instruments & your vocals the worst you could possibly make it. It’s nearly incomprehensible and it’s Perfect for Bruce.)

Bruce Wayne: a touch of old school doom metal, a sprinkle of black metal as you can write a Batman story without Bruce Wayne but not a Bruce Wayne story without Batman. A more chill version of the Batman playlist that I think Bruce would jam out to as not everyone’s into metal and I wanted to give people another option that didn’t have as heavy stuff in it.

Tim Drake: Mostly time accurate with 90s-2010’s punk rock & alt rock influences all the way through with a touch of metal to show his connection to Bruce & a few other off genre songs that represent his YJ98 pals. I tried my best to include as many bands as I could find that he canonically enjoyed as well.

Jason Todd: Jason was introduced in the 80s & is a canonical metalhead, so I think he’d listen to a combination of 80s dad metal, death metal (come on, it’s just too perfect of a genre name to pass up), thrash, & a little black metal (the genre I assigned to Batman).

Clark Kent: Dad metal. He canonically listens to Metallica post-crisis so I just gave him my dad’s taste in music lmao. Made sure to add a few satire ones because Clark is an little shit and would very much enjoy satire songs. Unfortunately, I genuinely could not get my Spotify recs to give me decent country music. I tried. It only gave me modern mainstream artists and after a month of trying to find good pre 2000’s country, I just gave up. So it’s mainly metal:(

If any of y’all want to send me 80s-2000’s country recs, that would be very kind of y’all. (the type of country music ma & pa kent would listen to that Clark would have grown up with)

Kon-El: is full of songs that are, well, time accurate to his original run. Ranging from 1969-2002 [the year his solo run was canceled], this playlist not only has songs he could have theoretically picked up in a record shop or blasted on a boom box during the day but is also full of bands he canonically listens to! This playlist is chalk full of Kon’s canonical alt rock & metal music taste as well as rock and proto-metal hits of the time!

Bart Allen: to be clear, Bart wouldn’t listen to any of these as music is just too slow for him. These are songs that relate to Bart or songs that represent his connections to his friends with no specific genre as I didn’t just want to have playlists full of nothing but metal. (Although I think he’d really like metal concerts as he’d probably enjoy the feeling of the heavy base resonate in his chest.)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"FIGHT, WE WILL FIGHT RIGHT, LIVING LOW IN A WORLD OF OUR OWN..."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on shots of James Hatfield of early METALLICA rocking a classic VENOM "Welcome to Hell" tee, performing live at The Stone, San Francisco, CA, on September 9, 1982. 📸: Bill Hale.

"...Destined to live right, fight, We're taking hell as our home, Burning lives burning, Asking me for the mercy of God, Ancient cries crying, Acting fast upon the way of the dog,

[CHORUS]:

Welcome to hell (4x)."

-- "Welcome to Hell" (1981) by VENOM

"JOIN VENOM'S LEGIONS -- WE'RE GOING WILD!!"

[thethroneislost]

Ripping Corpse New Jersey, US Band photos, media, and their debut LP "Dreaming With the Dead"

Somewhat of a hybrid of speed metal and proto-brutal death metal, this album delivers some great riffs over the sickly vocals done by the great Scott Ruth. Erik Rutan early cameo as well (who later went on to star in Hate Eternal).

Definite recommend if you like brutal sound.

[legendary-guest]

Motor Ed headcanons, because I really like him!

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), thrash and speed metal are what he is primarily into. Also likes hard rock and rock 'n' roll.

Motorhead is his favourite band, ever. Loves everything they have ever done, no questions. Lead bassist and singer Lemmy Kilmister is his idol, grew his moustache out to be like Lemmy's specifically.

Drakken hates Motorhead, thinks the 'singer' (quotes mandatory) has the ugliest voice he has ever heard. Not to mention half their songs (that he now knows, begrudgingly) sound like they're happening in the middle of some industrial accident. So, obviously, the solution to this is to just crank up the stereo until Drakken's yelling is drowned out (and they are both deaf with tinnitus the next day).

Eddie also loves Judas Priest (Rob Halford hits those high notes! YEEEEEAAAH!), Saxon (so many songs about bikes, cars, trains, planes), Megadeth (good sulking music. Peace Sells (Who's Buying) on repeat after getting fired from his government job), Metallica (Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning albums especially), Ozzy Osbourne but ONLY the Randy Rhoads years (all live recordings) and Anthrax (first album only. The cassette tape is worn OUT!)

Will entertain songs from other heavy metal and hard rock bands if he likes them. Contenders include Diamond Head, Elvis Presley and that one time Scorpions invented some sort of proto-thrash (Virgin Killer).

If a song is too emotional or sentimental, he will skip it, including many popular metal and rock love ballads. Except for Motorhead's, if you could call the few that they have such things. Very obnoxious in the car with the stereo as a result.

"Remind me to cut out all the sap in the next mixtape. Seriously."

Playlists. Burnt CDs. Physical mixtapes. You name it, he's done it. Organises them very well. Takes care of his music.

A rather large collection of dirty magazines. Best of the best are treated with care and reverence. Organised by publication/type and year.

A 'junk' drawer filled with cut-out pictures from magazines and the business cards of ladies of the night. Also filled with bits of worn and broken tools he uses occasionally.

Lots of car magazines and photos. May even exceed the previous collection. They feel interchangeable with all the pictures of women.

Kind of likes trains (there is a level of denial here). Peter Puff Puff was awesome, okay! Seriously.

[randomvarious]

1992 London Playlist (YouTube)

The thing that you really have to understand about early 90s London is that it was fucking bonkers. The popularity of acid house, which had taken the city by storm in the late 80s, was on the wane, but in its stead came an avalanche of new dance and electronic genres that still maintain a significant presence to this very day, from IDM, to techno, to breakbeat, to trip hop, to downtempo, to trance, and more. And London itself may not have been the actual origin point for many of these genres, but with the ground being so fertile there, thanks to club life being such an integral part of the youth experience and pirate radio being an ample venue to promote all this street-savvy, independent music, it was only natural that so much stuff would still be able to flourish in that very city.

So with this brand new playlist this week, we start to take an eclectic look back at some underrated, overlooked, and forgotten bangers from the vast London underground of 1992, a year when so many different strains of dance and electronic music were all simultaneously fixing to break out in a major way there. On here you'll find a nice assortment of all of those aforementioned genres, and hip hop too, with neither one having any sort of predominance over another. Just a small crop of London-made stuff that, after three decades, still manages to sound dope and never dated 😎.

IDM legends B12, operating here as Musicology, kick things off with "Preminition," a brilliant tune with a sweet combination of squelchiness, strings, metallic clanging, unorthodox percussion, vocal samples, and these deep and forcefully leading, Chicago-inspired piano chord stabs. This tune famously appeared on Warp Records' groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence comp, a release that played an indispensable role in kicking the whole phenomenon of IDM and 'intelligent'/listening techno into high gear. Currently at around 37.6K plays across a handful of uploads on YouTube.

Then after that is a nice, flashing-lights raver by the well-known and aptly named Future Sound of London, whose futuristic brand of acid-crunchy breakbeat here on their own remix of "Expander" sounds like some proto-Chemical Brothers shit, but from before those Chem Bros had ever released anything of their own. It's seriously like listening to Dig Your Own Hole five years earlier than anyone else—way ahead of its time and currently closing in on 28.2K plays on YouTube across a handful of uploads.

And then closing things out is a remix by a short-lived duo that was an offshoot of West London group React 2 Rhythm called Ernie & Bert, whose members were actually both named Richard. Here they turn in their steadily beating and calmly hypnotic and hazy "Travelling at the Speed of Light" take on Euphoria's "Mercurial," a trance bop that was released on dance production legend William Orbit's progressive house label Guerilla. Currently at around 68.4K plays across a handful of uploads on YouTube.

This playlist is ordered as chronologically as possible.

Musicology - "Preminition" The Future Sound of London - "Expander (remix)" Fuzzy Logic feat. Erire - "Obsession (William Orbit's Throbjam mix)" DJ Food - "Ninja Walk" Daddy Freddy - "Haul & Pull" 21st Century Aura - "Disorientation" Mimoid - "Tree of the Sun, Tree of the Moon" 21st Century Aura - "Something Started" Killa Instinct - "Un-United Kingdom" Euphoria - "Mercurial"

And this playlist is also on YouTube Music.

So with this initial posting of this playlist, we start off with a total of 10 songs that end up clocking in at 62 minutes. Might have a corresponding Spotify playlist to go along with it at some point in a future update, but we're just not there yet, because not enough of the songs I wanted to start this playlist with are actually on Spotify.

And here's a list of all the comps and mixes that were used to put this thing together too:

Artificial Intelligence (1992, Warp Records) The Desert Sun: A Higher State of Trance and Chemical Music (1997, Hypnotic Records) Jackpot Presents Guerilla by Phil Perry & Danny Howells (1997, Jackpot) Ninja Cuts: Flexistentialism (1996, Ninja Tune) The Best Rap Album of All Time (1999, Dressed to Kill) Ambient Dub Volume 1:-(The Big Chill) (1992, Beyond)

More 90s London playlists here too:

1994: YouTube / YouTube Music 1995: YouTube / YouTube Music 1996: Spotify / YouTube / YouTube Music 1997: Spotify / YouTube / YouTube Music 1998: Spotify / YouTube / YouTube Music 1999: YouTube / YouTube Music

A 90s trance update next week!

Enjoy!

More to come, eventually. Stay tuned!

Like what you hear? Follow me on Spotify and YouTube for more cool playlists and uploads!

[drondskaath]

Hellripper | Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags | 2023

UK Black/Speed Metal

Artwork by Adam Burke (Nightjar)

https://hellripper.bandcamp.com/album/warlocks-grim-withered-hags

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

IN THE NAME OF BLOOD, GUTS, HELL HOUNDS, & BEER -- HEAVY THRASHBACK THURSDAY, BANGERS!

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1412x1600 -- Spotlight on an original vinyl pressing of "Filth Hounds of Hades," debut studio album by English heavy metal band TANK, released in March 1982 on the Kamaflage label. Initial copies of the album also came with a free 7 inch. Tracks included:

"Don't Walk Away" (live)

"The Snake"

Source: http://backstageauctions.blogspot.com/2012/03/spin-this-obscure-metal-vinyl-featured.html.

[sonicasura]

2/2

Oh they would go buckwild alright. Too bad for them that they won't be able to ask him to show how it is done. The second son is not one easy to trust anyone outside of family.

Mina is the excpetion since she is like the niece none of them got. Though even she would have a hard time asking a favor like that.

The third brother is the guarded but sweet type of guy. And a bit of a himbo like his nephew. He caused the least of issues for Hina and Proto, as even the second oldest would sometimes get into fights he should not. Or even use his ablities to make someones day worse should he learn that someone hurt his family.

He is a bit of a nerd and is the second one that becomes a doctor in the family. He also likes to read and watch horror movies much to his siblings and Kafka's dread.

He also the leader of the four, a reluctant one and the most resposible as well. He can get all of his brothers to focus on whatever task they have to do, wether it be a bothersome chore, going through a boring lecture or in middle of battle. He also the one the three goes to seek advice from when there have been a fight between one of the brothers. Epecially when none of them wants to talk to their parents about it.

Abilities and skills? Another close quarter combat, but has inherited Proto's wind ability which gives him quite the ranged skills too and can sometimes make hurricanes and tornados if given enough time. He also the only one who can fly as well, and often then not uses special metal like feathers found on his body as swords when fighting someone up close.

When he those make either a hurricane or tornado, he is most often found at the center to maintain it and control the damn thing. Which not only protects him form other attacks but also leave him vulnerable as well since it takes all his got to not let the damn thing get out of control. And is the second largest of the four in size.

The fourth and youngest brother is the most oblivious one. But is also the joker and sunshine of them all. He is the easiest to get along with and a sosical butterfly to a fault. He always knows how to turn a frown into a smile.

Of course, much like the first and second, caused quite a bit of trouble too. But often by mistake or accidents. He was however the only son to not accidently transform and destroy the school that all four boys went to. Not much into academics, but has decent grades all around much like the third brother.

Ability and skill wise? The fastest and most acrobatic of the lot. Is also able to wield both fire and earth, and is know to use them to make any terrain difficult to anyone whos become his target. If not rightout burry them in both earth and fire.

He relyes mostly on his speed and elemental abilites to give devastating damage, with some ranged moves that involves flamming bloders being thrown when needed. But like his father is born with three pairs of arms, which all have blade like fingers that does quite a bit of damage on their own. He also has the strongest kicks out of all the borthers.

That school story sounds very interesting as I can imagine how embarrassed the three siblings were once they're safe. I imagine someone comparing the fourth sibling to an older Kafka from the sunshine personality alone. Again, Hina and Proto had their hands full when most of their kids are rambunctious.