Metal Church - Metal Church

Sunday, time for a classic.

Today we do it with a tear in the eye and say goodbye to "Close-Up Magazine" that announced that after 28 years of total metal magazine dominance have to face the fact that money is out and the black flame is no longer burning. The magazine has been overruled by the digital media and is no longer a vital format for the readers to consume. I have been both a subscriber and lose number buyer for many years and found that this was a great magazine too for fill my needs for new music and old stories with they have been an excellent provider of. Both musically with all the extras you got as a subscriber, all the music that you never thought exist until someone on the magazine provide it to you as a reader. All the festivals they have given truly the years, you guys will be missed. Now there is only one magazine left on the Swedish soil that will bring some musical information to own as a reader, but they have more the commercial kind of music, the more straight forward and not the underground, the small bands that waves with there hands for some recognition. Close-Up will be missed and send all my love and hugs to Robban Becirovic for all these years that you have offered all your sweat, tears, money and love for the music business.

Thank you for your constant presence, all the readable interviews with all our heroes, all the new musical findings, all the gigs, and festivals, and not least for all the inspiration that you have provided during the years.

Rest in Peace, Close-Up Magazine. I hope that you will lie well in the Metal Church. Today's tune is for you!

Today's tune "Metal Church" is tune by the American heavy metal band METAL CHURCH. They originally formed in San Francisco, California in 1980 before relocating to Aberdeen, Washington. The tune is taken from their self-titled debut album was released in 1984.

The video is filmed live at Trees in Dallas, Texas on February 23, 2014.



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Metal Church - Watch The Children Pray

Today we present category three (In The Shadow Of Big Four) from the annual hard rock evening that always occur on eve of Twelfth Night.

"In The Shadow Of Big Four" is a really a brilliant category. "The Big Four" is the thrash metal bands METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX. Here my thoughts went to the American act TESTAMENT, a band who easily could be in the line up of "The Big Four" or why not "The Big Five".

So my choice was "Over The Wall" taken from the album "The Legacy" (1987), a classic thrash metal tune from a classic band. But for today we choose a tune that "Magnus O" played, he had chose a band called METAL CHURCH, a band that I almost have forgotten, wow what a revival it was to hear them again and what a kick ass tune he picked.

This years line up of categories and my choices:

1. Joy of Play and Swing. - CLUTCH "Noble Savage"
2. Best finish/end song. - D-A-D "Laugh 'n' A ½"
3. In The Shadow Of Big Four. - TESTAMENT "Over The Wall"
4. Good although they sing in Swedish.
5. Best song from the 2015 best album.
6. God Save The Queen - Pay tribute to England with a song.
7. The song that represents the musical best decade.
8. Best right now

Here are a few of the other tunes that was played during this evening.

HARLOTT "Proliferation"
METAL CHURCH "Watch the Children Pray"
DR. LIVING DEAD "Eternal Darkness of the Fucked up Mind"
TESTAMENT "Alone in the dark" live
OVERKILL "Never say Never"
TESTAMENT "Down for Life"
KREATOR "Extreme Agression" live


Today's tune "Watch The Children Pray" with the American thrash, heavy metal band
METAL CHURCH. The tune it taken from the second full-length album "The Dark" released on 6 October 1986 and was the last album featuring the group's classic lineup of David Wayne, Kurdt Vanderhoof, Kirk Arrington, Duke Erickson, and Craig Wells. 1999's "Masterpeace" album reunited the former four, with John Marshall replacing Wells.

"The Dark" talks of somber themes, such as assassination, death, struggle, rituals, and the supernatural: the lyrics from "Line of Death", for example, were based on Libyan hostilities in the Gulf of Sidra. "Watch the Children Pray" became the band's first music video. The album was dedicated to the late METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton, who died nine days before its release. In order to promote "The Dark", METAL CHURCH supported METALLICA and ANTHRAX on the Damage, Inc. Tour. They also opened for KING DIAMONDx.

Tomorrow it's time for a tune in the category "Good although they sing in Swedish".
Enjoy today's tune!




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