Oftentimes, the best way to move forward is to take a step back. Pump the brakes, take a breath, focus and contemplate the bigger picture. Take inventory of yourself and where you came from. Tap into that raw essence to fully discover the pathway forward.
A seasoned troubadour from down South with a dense, rich, and colorful life experience, Rex Brown is far greater than the sum total of his already impressive discography as it’s been laid down. Stepping out as a frontman for the first time, Rex reintroduces himself to the world on his barn-burning debut solo album, " Smoke On This".
Rex Brown is an American musician and author, who is best known as having been the longtime bassist for the Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling, now defunct band PANTERA (1982–2003). He is a former member of DOWN (2001–2011), and is currently the bassist for the band KILL DEVIL HILL. He released his debut solo album "Smoke On This" on July 28, 2017. For the first time in Brown's career, the work features him not only as a bassist but also as lead vocalist and guitarist.
His solo album consists of folloing musicans:
Rex Brown – lead vocals, bass guitar, guitar
Lance Harvill – lead guitar
Joe Shadid – rhythm guitar
Johnny Kelly – drums
Today's tune "Buried Alive", taken from his debut solo album "Smoke On This", enjoy!
Swedish underground metal act NALE have released their first single and video, it's the title tune from the upcoming album "Death. Skulls. Satan"! The album will be released on 23rd of Mars on Black Lodge/Sound Pollution.
With a vicious blend of metal in the likes of PANTERA and THE HAUNTED with the fast paced rock of DANKO JONES and a punk fueled in-your-face attitude of MOTÖRHEAD. NALE delivers a high octane album with massive drive, heavy riffs, brutal vocals and groove that will leave necks, and hips, sore for days. This could surly be of one of Sweden’s hottest upcoming acts.
NALE was formed 2007.
Line-up
Mathias Blom - Vocals
Tomas Åkvik - Guitars
Anders Ljung - Drums
Johan Risberg - Bass
Today's tune "Death. Skulls. Satan" is an modern and innovative piece of music, enjoy!
Yesterday it was time again for the annual hard rock evening that is always on eve of Twelfth Night. With some great excitement to hear what the other participants have made up for this event and see what others liked my view of things. But one of the best is to discovering some new music, but the best of all is that you get an evening together with friends of the same kind, where the music is the topic, one thing that I hold so dear!
Here is the gang!
My record for the evening!
So in the biggest secret I have carved out the tracks for this evening, some new discoveries that showed up at the last minute and some tunes which I had in my baggage for a long time. But as usual the record was made in the last minute. Some of the tracks were pretty obvious through the presentation of the 2015's best albums that was publish here during Christmas and New Year.
As always it's really difficult to choose songs, how the hell select one. Well, I simply had to find a type of theme, a red thread to follow in order to separate out a bit, to make the life easier in the selection of the tune. But this time my red thread never got complete, always one or two categories that screwed things up so I decided to just pick some tunes without a theme. I will start earlier next year to be able to figure out some great tunes in a theme. My choices ended up as a pretty fuzzy story.
This years line up of categories was:
1. Joy of Play and Swing.
2. Best finish/end song.
3. In The Shadow Of Big Four.
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
So over the next few days I'll present all my choices in the order of recording I had with me, but this time I will mix it with tunes from the others :)
Here they come. Track no. 1 (track no.2 tomorrow and so on...)
My choice from yesterday's Hard Rock Night in the categorie 1. "Joy of Play and Swing".
CLUTCH - "Noble Savage" A tune that makes it really hard to sit still and the Air Guitar is ready in it's flightcase. A real rocker!
Other tunes in the same categorie that was played.
MOTÖRHEAD - Orgasmatron,
ELECTRIC BOYS - Groovus Maximus,
PANTERA - 5 Minutes Alone,
AIRBOURNE - Runnin' Wild,
FACEBREAKER - Zombie flash cult,
SATAN'S WRATH - Only Satan Is Lord,
IMPERIAL STATE ELECTRIC - Anywhere Loud
So today's tune "5 Minutes Alone" was played by the host of the evening, thanks man for this. The tune is taken from PANTERAs 1994 album "Far Beyond Driven"
STORY BEHIND THE SONG (from Vinnie Paul): There was a guy in the front row in San Diego who was heckling Phil Anselmo (vocalist). Phil finally had enough, so he incited the crowd to jump this guy's ass and beat the shit out of him on the spot, so he sued us. And when his dad called our manager, his exact quote was, "You just give me five minutes alone with that Phil Anselmo guy and I'll show him who's big daddy around here." Phil's response was, "You just give me five minutes with that cat's dad and I'll whoop his ass." That's where that song came from.
Black Label Society is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California formed by Zakk Wylde. The band has, thus far, released nine studio albums, two live albums, two compilation albums, one EP, and three video albums.
On May 3, 2013, it was announced that Black Label Society would be included in the year's installment of Gigantour, along with Megadeth, David Draiman's new band "Device", former Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul Abbot's band Hellyeah, Jason Newsted's own band "Newsted", and upstart band "Death Division"
In August, 2013, after Unblackened single's released through iTunes, Zakk stated that he would begin writing a new studio album, and it would be schedued for a 2014 release
Todays tune is a cover of Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" taken from the live acoustic album "Unblackened". It was recorded live on March 6, 2013 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Disc 1 consists on live tracks, and Disc 2 consists also of live tracks among 6 newly recorded songs, which of 3 are re-recordings of previously released songs of Black Label Society's studio albums. The album was announced back in 2012, but was delayed due to the delaying of the show, which was settled to be recorded in August. Black Label Society started the pre-ordering of the album in August 2013, also offering a Deluxe Edition Box Set containing a double live CD pack, a DVD of the show, a replica of Zakk's pewter dagger necklace, a photo book with photos taken from the show and a custom package. On August 9, 2013 "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone" was released as a single through iTunes on North America.
"Ain't No Sunshine" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album Just as I Am, produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass guitar and Al Jackson, Jr. on drums, as well as Withers on lead vocals and guitar. String arrangements were done by Booker T. Jones, and recorded in Memphis by engineer Terry Manning. The song was released as a single in September 1971, becoming a breakthrough hit for Withers, reaching number six on the U.S. R&B chart and number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
More info @
Official Black Label Society Web
Official Zakk Wylde Web
Listen to ”Black Label Society - Ain't No Sunshine " on Spotify here!
Just when you've landed back home again after two weeks in Gothenburg you get snatched it up like a potato plant and thrown out on new adventures, have gone around like a migratory bird the past few days, will try to come up with a report as soon as I have time, like in september or something :) hmmm quite so long shouldn't it take , but someting will come soon, be patient.
Today I will not sink deep into something special, so today we say Happy Birthday to two birthday children, namely Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) today would have turned 63 years old and Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) would have turned 46 years old, Tune Of The Day says congratulations with a Pantera song.
Todays tune "Cemetery Gates" is a song taken from "Cowboys from Hell", the band's fifth album and second with lead singer Phil Anselmo (though the band considers it their first "true" album, officially ignoring their earlier independent releases as it was their first album with the groove metal genre). "Cemetery Gates" showcases Anselmo's vocal ability and range, concluding with screaming high notes answered by Dimebag Darrell on guitar in a trade off. The song is also Pantera's longest song ever recorded, clocking in at 7:03.
Kill Devil Hill played their first gig back in April 2011, followed by a 5-week tour in October to test audience reactions. Without relying on the familiarity of Black Sabbath or Pantera covers, the band was able to win over audiences after just the first few songs. The band states that “We’ve never experienced that with a band at such an early stage.” Anyway, take a listen on todays tune "Strange", taken from the debut record.
Recently at the Revolver Golden God Awards a new song, titled Piss, was debuted after being discovered in the Pantera "vaults" by Vinnie Paul. A music video was made for Piss and shown at the awards show and, according to Vinnie Paul, is the only complete previously unheard Pantera Track. It was recorded during the Vulgar Display of Power sessions.
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul (drums) and Dimebag Darrell (guitar) in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as the new vocalist. Pantera has sold around 20 million albums. Starting as a glam metal band, Pantera played a heavier groove and thrash sound when they released Cowboys from Hell in 1990. Their second album Vulgar Display of Power, released in 1992, revealed a heavier sound than Cowboys from Hell and their 1994 release of Far Beyond Driven debuted at No.1 in the Billboard 200.
Tensions began to surface amongst the band members when Phil Anselmo became addicted to heroin in 1995. This resulted in the recording sessions for The Great Southern Trendkill to be held separately. The ongoing tensions lasted for another seven years, in which only one studio album, Reinventing the Steel was released. The Abbott brothers disbanded Pantera in 2003 and subsequently formed Damageplan. Any hopes of a reunion were lost on December 8, 2004, when Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed onstage by a mentally unstable fan during a Damageplan performance.
Todays tune "Piss" is the last unreleased track by Pantera. It was recorded during the Vulgar sessions & stored away. Piss was available on Itunes April 12th! It will also be included on the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vulgar Display of Power which hits store on May 15, 2012.
It have been to much music that eint our cup of tea here at Tune Of The Day.. So lets get down to the shit WE LIKE :D
I runned across this guy that I really like....His way to handle the guitar is quite remarkable, his name is Ola Englund and the bands he is in are:
Scarpoint
and Feared:
This is how he himself describe himself:
"I’m Ola Englund, born 1981, live in Stockholm Sweden together with my wife, son and dog. I’ve been playing guitar since 1994. My biggest influence that got me into guitar playing was actually Kurt Cobain of Nirvana. He made it easy to play guitar. Quickly after the metal music world opened up to me, starting with Pantera and Bolt Thrower. With the release of Far beyond Driven I was hooked, I had never heard anything more raw and brutal. Dimebag is my biggest influence of all time, you could probably hear a lot of him in my riffing. I can name a lot of other thrash/metal bands that I listened to to this day but I’m just going to the name the ones that really made an impact on me playing and music wise. I started listening to Dream Theater and John Petrucci with the release of their Falling into infinity album. Some claim it’s their worst album but it’s actually my fave. Shows a different side to Dream Theater other than Awake and Images and Words. Anyway John Petrucci has been a big influence on my lead playing.
At this time I started playing in bands, the most serious and successful(if you can call one record release a success) one was Subcyde. If you search for it on google you’ll probably going to find old demos and reviews and stuff. We kept going from 1997-2007 so it was kind of a long journey with great friends. In 2007 we put the band on hold. We all needed to get away from each other and try out new things. I had a lot of songs piling up so I found this singer and we started the project Feared together. Easy setup. Just me recording songs and then put vocals on them. We formed a real band and did around 10 gigs. The singer moved to another town in Sweden so we put the real band on hold. But I’ve kept recording songs as you can see and hear on my youtube page. In the beginning of 2010 I joined the band Scarpoint as a second and lead guitarist.
I’ve always been a huge fan of brutal guitars and I’ve always been searching for the perfect sound(don’t we all!). I’ve been recording bands and stuff since Cakewalk 8 or 9 so I’ve had my share bit of recording. Also went to school a year for a Audio Engineer degree. In 2003 I built a studio together with a friend in Stockholm. The studio is still active and is called Midtown Music."
His 7 string guitar
More info on Ola Englund @ homesite! Info on Feared Here! info on Scarpoint Here!
The tune we are playing for u today doesnt have a name, but Ola called it "57", Ah well Enjoy, Duuuudes and Dudettes
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Listen to ”Black Label Society - Ain't No Sunshine " on Spotify 
