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Motionless In White Shoot Music Video With Slipknot’s Clown

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on April 24, 2013 @ 10:00am
Category: Music / Videos

Hard rockers Motionless In White have released a lyric video for “America”, which comes off their Infamous album. A full music video will be released next month and was directed by Slipknot percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. The video can be seen below.

The band has also announced that The Witch Was Right drummer Brandon Richter has joined their ranks. The band is currently on a tour with Asking Alexandria and will also be appearing on the 2013 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival. All tour dates can be found below. READ MORE

Rammstein Unveils New ‘Videos 1995-2012′ Release Date

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on February 12, 2013 @ 1:45pm
Category: Music / News

German band Rammstein have announced that they will be releasing Videos 1995-2012 on Mar. 12th. The collection features 25 music videos, 24 behind-the-scenes clips of the making-of-the-videos and a 56-page booklet. The three DVD or two Blu-ray collection was supposed to come out Jan. 15th but was delayed due to a manufacturing plant error.

Head on below to see the explicit video for “Mein Herz Brennt”. READ MORE

6 Dream Tour Pairings!!!

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on January 23, 2013 @ 11:00am
Category: Music / Editorials

How many of you have thought, “Man, wouldn’t it be just awesome if [insert band name here] toured with [insert band name here]?” I know I’ve done it on more than one occasion. Hell, I do it all the damn time. There are some tour pairings that make so much sense that it simply boggles my mind that the’ve never been done. These are tours that would get fans salivating, drool flowing from the mouth like waterfalls.

So I put together six of my most desired tour pairings, ones where the headliner and co-headliner would not only compliment each other but would take things to an entirely new level. Head on below to see my list! READ MORE

Rammstein Video Collection ‘Videos 1995-2012′ Release Delayed

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on January 11, 2013 @ 3:45pm
Category: Music / News

The upcoming video collection Videos 1995-2012, which compiles all music videos that German hard rock band Rammstein has released, has been delayed due to a manufacturing plant error. A February release date is being finalized and a final date will be announced next week. Fans who purchased the pre-order through Amazon will receive the collection on the new release date.

Rammstein’s “Mein Herz Brennt” landed on our Top 10 Music Videos Of 2012 list. Check it out here. READ MORE

Rammstein Release Explicit Video For “Mein Herz Brennt”

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on December 14, 2012 @ 11:20am
Category: Music / Videos

German industrial metal band Rammstein has released an explicit video for their track “Mein Herz Brennt”, which was originally on their 2001 album Mutter. The video, like most Rammstein offerings, is dark, vicious, and probably best saved for when you’re at home. You can check out the official video, as well as the official video for the piano version (which is really beautiful), below.

You can grab the “Mein Herz Brennt” single on iTunes that includes a several versions of the song as well as a new song entitled “Gib Mir Deine Augen”.

The band will also be releasing a DVD/Blu-ray collection entitled Videos 1995-2012. Every music video they’ve released will be included on this collection as well as two new videos for “Mein Herz Brennt”. Pre-orders are available here. READ MORE

Rammstein To Release Explicit Video For “Mein Herz Brennt” This Friday

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on December 11, 2012 @ 5:15pm
Category: Music / News

German industrial metal band Rammstein will be releasing an explicit video for “Mein Herz Brennt” this Friday here. The website has a ticking clock counting down the release. The decrepit building has several shattered windows that will glow red if you click on them (the hospital “plus” symbol does the same”. The bell in the steeple turns the sound on and off. All in all, it’s a rather eerie website.

While the song originally appeared on the album Mutter, a single of it was released today on iTunes that includes a piano version (watch the really unsettling video below), four other versions and a new song entitled “Gib Mir Deine Augen”.

The band will also be releasing a DVD/Blu-ray collection entitled Videos 1995-2012. Every music video they’ve released will be included on this collection as well as two new videos for “Mein Herz Brennt”. Pre-orders are available here. READ MORE

Rammstein Releases Very Unsettling Music Video For “Mein Herz Brennt”

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on December 07, 2012 @ 10:00am
Category: Music / Videos

German industrial metal band Rammstein has released a music video for “Mein Herz Brennt” that is incredibly eerie and unsettling. First of all, the song is not the original one that we’re used to hearing from the album Mutter. Rather, it’s a totally stripped down version that is just singer Till Lindemann hauntingly singing over a piano. As for the video, a filthy, dress-wearing Lindemann walks around a decrepit bath room (one that looks very much like the one in the blood bath scene in Hostel 2). He often smiles into the camera, showing disgusting, stained teeth, but the smile is full of sadness, his eyes wet with unshed tears. Check it all out in the video below.

The single is being released as a CD, digital download and 7″ vinyl and includes, besides the “Piano Version” of “Mein Herz brennt”, four B sides, one of them being the previously unreleased track “Gib mir Deine Augen”.

The video will be a part of the Videos 1995-2012 collection, which is coming out Jan. 15th, 2013 in the States. You can find more information on that boxset here. READ MORE

A Pale Horse Named Death Announce Sophomore Album: Aim For Spring 2013 Release

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on November 29, 2012 @ 2:15pm
Category: Music / News

A Pale Horse Named Death is aiming to release their sophomore album, the follow-up to 2011′s And Hell Will Follow Me (review), in late Spring of 2013. The band has once again commissioned famed artist Sam Shearon AKA Mister-Sam (Rob Zombie, Fear Factory, Rammstein) to create the artwork for the as yet untitled album.

Vocalist/guitarist Sal Abruscato (who was also Type O Negative‘s drummer) gives an update, “The sound has evolved and become a bit more orchestrated. More harmony work has been done on this album, including new elements such as a Hammond B3 organ and piano. To me the album has an even darker sound and feel than the first one.”

He continued, “The new album is a natural progression in song writing and vocals yet keeping continuity with the first album musically and artistically. Fans of our first album will find all the traits they love melded with even bigger production and mastering. Ted Jensen of Sterling Sound will be mastering the album.” READ MORE

Rammstein Announces New DVD/Blu-Ray ‘Videos 1995-2012′

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on November 23, 2012 @ 11:15am
Category: Music / News

German industrial metal band Rammstein have announced that they will be releasing Videos 1995-2012 on Jan. 15th, 2013. This three DVD/two Blu-Ray set will include all official music videos that the band has shot over their career as well as two new videos for the song “Mein Herz Brennt”, which appeared on their 2001 album Mutter. The set contains over seven hours of material featuring 25 music videos, 24 behind-the-scenes clips of the making-of-the-videos and a 56-page booklet.

“Mein Herz Brennt” will see new versions of the song released on December 11, 2012 as a six-track digital single with booklet available exlusively through iTunes. The single package also inludes the previously unreleased track, “Gib Mir Deine Augen”. Fans can also purchase the two new videos via iTunes – one on December 11 and the other on December 18.

All I’ll say is that I’ll definitely be getting a copy of this. I LOVE Rammstein! READ MORE

Rammstein Announces European Tour Dates

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on November 15, 2012 @ 12:00pm
Category: Music / News

German industrial rock band Rammstein have announced 12 European tour dates, nine in April and three in July. These dates are in addition to two European festival performances. There is, as of now, no word on whether or not the band might return to N. America for more tour dates like earlier this year.

I got the opportunity to see Rammstein earlier this year at the Palace of Auburn Hills and it blew my damn mind! Explosions, amazing live presence, and a fantastic set list all combined for one hell of a show. Fingers crossed that they come back!

You can check out the tour dates below. READ MORE

[Editorial] Why I Prefer Listening To Musicians Sing In Their Native Tongue

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on November 03, 2012 @ 2:00pm
Category: Music / Editorials

I’m one of those guys who pops in a foreign horror movie into my DVD player (I still haven’t upgraded to Blu-Ray. Shove off.) and makes sure that it’s set to English subtitles and the original language as my audio. I’d rather read the text at the bottom of the screen than see mouths move without the words matching. That throws me off more than anything else.

But the main reason I do this is because I love hearing the languages of the world. I want to hear the difference between Spanish and Portuguese. I want to hear how Serbian is different from Russian (True story: Since I know a bit of Russian, I was actually able to understand several words and phrases in A Serbian Film). It’s so exciting to hear the flow and intonations of other languages and it makes the world a much richer place for me.

The same thing applies to my love of music. I love hearing people sing in different languages because it makes it that much more of an adventure. While I may not understand what they are saying (that’s why translations are available), their passion and the musical flow of their voice is so enchanting that I’m hooked. READ MORE

Wacken Open Air 2013 Sold Out Almost A Year In Advance

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on September 22, 2012 @ 2:30pm
Category: Music / News

It’s no secret that the Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany is probably the largest metal festival in the world. Drawing in tens of thousands of people from across the globe, this festival brings some of the biggest names in hard rock and metal as well as showing the more underground, extreme acts that people would otherwise have no chance to see.

Now, the 2013 incarnation of this extremely popular festival is officially sold out. Let me rephrase that in a way that should have a mind-blowing effect on you: Wacken Open Air has sold 75,000 tickets almost one year in advance. There is one set price for tickets ($140) and they are sold on a first come, first served basis for the Aug 1st – 3rd festival. Without knowing the full line up for the show, people have spent $140 plus fees and postage. It’s unbelievable but it also says that Wacken is doing something right. They have been selling out the festival for several years now and it looks like there is no sign of them stopping.

Below is a list of bands that are so far confirmed to play at the show (a TON more will be added over the next months, so keep an eye out at the official website to stay up-to-date) READ MORE

[Random Cool] Rammstein & Nelly Furtado Mashup “Los Maneater”

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on August 31, 2012 @ 2:00pm
Category: Music / Videos

It’s been a little bit since I’ve heard a mashup that I thought was cool enough to share with you readers. Then this one came along and I decided that it had to be posted. YouTube user heifle88 went ahead and mixed Rammstein‘s “Los” with Nelly Furtado‘s “Maneater” and it actually works out pretty damn well! Check it out below and leave me a comment if you’ve heard an awesome mashup that I should check out! READ MORE

[Album Review] Katatonia ‘Dead End Kings’

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on August 03, 2012 @ 4:00pm
Category: Music / Reviews

In October of 2009, I became a contributor to Bloody-Disgusting Music. I submitted two album reviews, one being Rammstein‘s Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da and the other being Katatonia‘s Night Is The New Day. So, in a strange way, being given to opportunity to review Katatonia’s newest effort, Dead End Kings, is, in a way, a full circle journey.

But it’s more than that. One of Katatonia’s earlier albums, Viva Emptiness, was an album that shaped my view of metal, molding it into an understanding of how nostalgia and melancholy can be used as to make the listener feel incredibly powerful and poignant emotions.

So, with this history firmly in mind, I began my journey into Dead End Kings, apprehensive but hopeful of the musical path that was open before me. READ MORE

10 Horror Games And The Bands That Should’ve Scored Them

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Posted by Adam Dodd on April 29, 2012 @ 6:36pm
Category: Games / Editorials

Sometimes I get really bored. I’m only human, and like the rest of you, there are times when I need a little entertainment. During one of my recent fits of boredom where I was lying naked on the floor of my room in a sticky puddle of dried up Mountain Dew while staring up at the ceiling wondering what wordsmith came up with the word ‘orange,’ I decided to come up with a little game — something to fill my time so I didn’t have to finally concede to what the voices in my head were telling me to do. For the unaware, at Bloody Disgusting lies a mythical creature known as a Jonathan Barkan. He runs the music section on BD with a tyrannical fist and a sweet moustache. If I were reviewing Jon, his Baby Factor would go something like ”If Albert Wesker and a Big Daddy got together to make sweet, sweet love inside a record store, Jonny B would be their musically inclined offspring.”

All that is a long-winded way of saying he knows his music, and he also happens to share my love of video games. So let’s get back to the game I was teasing earlier. I gave Jon ten video game franchises and asked him who he thought would be best suited to score the soundtracks for that series. For example, if Akira Yamaoka had never joined Konami to craft the incredible scores the Silent Hill series is known for, who could’ve taken his place? Find out whom he chose for Silent Hill, as well as nine others, after the jump. READ MORE

[OMFG] Rammstein Meets Meshuggah In This ‘Benzin Remix’

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on March 23, 2012 @ 5:26pm
Category: Music / News

[OMFG] Rammstein Meets Meshuggah In This Benzin Remix

Yes, this is quite the old video. No, I don’t care. Know why? Because I’m currently head banging so hard I think my spine is flapping in the wind. Below you can check out an awesome remix that Meshuggah did for Rammstein‘s Benzin, which originally appeared on the Rosenrot album. To say that the song is heavy is an understatement. Check it out and let me know your thoughts!

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on January 12, 2012 @ 6:21pm
Category: Music / News

espnew2012 ESP Unveils 2012 Guitar Line Including Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax Signature Guitars

I’m a fan of guitar porn. Y’know, just sitting back, flipping through images of guitars and drooling while touching myseTOO MUCH INFORMATION! Sorry about that! Anyway, it is this addiction (I seriously do it all the time) that led me to checking out ESP’s new 2012 line that they just announced via their Facebook. While I’m not the biggest fan of many of their models, they did announce some awesome signature guitars from Kirk Hammett (Metallica), Jeff Hanneman (Slayer), Rob Caggiano (Anthrax), Richard Z. Kruspe (Rammstein), and many more. You can check out several below as well as follow a link to the full album.

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on July 08, 2011 @ 6:50pm
Category: Music / News

Confession time: I’m a huge fan of choirs, a cappella groups and other assorted all-vocal groups. So, when a video like this comes across my path, I just have to share it with all of you. Why? Because it’s f&*king badass, that’s why! After the jump, you can watch a video of Serbian choir Viva Vox Choir performing their a cappella rendition of Rammstein‘s classic hit Du Hast.

vivavoxchoir OMFG Of The Day: Serbian Choir Rocks Rammsteins Du Hast

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on May 20, 2011 @ 7:19pm
Category: Music / News

For those of you who might’ve missed it, Rammstein rocked out Du Hast on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. It’s a perfect representation of what their live show is like, a.k.a. fire, sparks, explosions and glowing mouths. Yeah, you read that last one right, glowing mouths.

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on March 29, 2011 @ 9:51pm
Category: Music / News

GWAR has been nominated for Best Live Performance at the 2011 Revolver Golden Gods show. They are facing competition from Megadeth, Avenged Sevenfold, Iron Maiden, Rammstein, and Sevendust. You can cast your vote HERE and then receive your complementary prize of sexual relations with Oderus Urungus. Check below for all the details.

“Our show is reality…we don’t know what you mean by live performance…we get attacked by dinosaurs while doing what we enjoy best—luring you to your death with our mutant metal–and then slaughtering you! Don’t let this category be won by a band whose show is just as good as the millions they can spend on it, all for an hour and a half show……vote for the band where the show never stops! Vote for GWAR!!!!”

“I pledge to have sex with anyone who votes for us. It will all be arranged thru the interweb, and on the next tour I will personally meet our supporters out behind the trash dumpsters and fuck them, suck them, whatever they want. If they don’t want to do that, then I will have sex with something they own, like a dog, or a lunch-box. I will also be glad to rough-up anyone, ya know, smack ya around a bit, throw you in the garbage, hell even kick ya in the tummy….won’t kill ya though…want you to be able to brag about it to your co-workers.”

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on March 28, 2011 @ 9:51pm
Category: Music / News

Industrial band Combichrist has been announced as the opener for Rammstein on their upcoming N. American tour. They’ve also announced several dates around the Rammstein stops, allowing them to do a more spread out tour. They will be supported by iVardensphere and Star Killer on all the off-dates. Check out the dates after the jump and I hope to see SOMEONE at the Detroit show.

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Posted by Vinny-Mac on March 02, 2011 @ 3:44am
Category: Music / News

Hey all you rabid concert goers, BD Music’s own Vinny Mac has put together a list of five bands that he feels you have to see live before you leave this mortal coil. Check out the list after the jump and let us know YOUR favorite live acts.

Vinny Mac:

In honor of the newly announced Rammstein tour dates, I thought I would voice my opinion on some concerts. I have been to a large number of concerts in the last decade and now I bring you the top five bands that, in my opinion, you must see live.

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Posted by JonathanBarkan on February 19, 2011 @ 4:31pm
Category: Music / News

Late last year Rammstein played their first US show in over nine years at New York’s Madison Square Garden, considered one of the most famous arenas on the planet. Now, Rammstein will be playing nine shows across N. America, starting May 5th in New York and ending May 21st in Las Vegas. Check after the jump for tour dates AND to find out how you can win a pair of tickets to see Rammstein at the show of your choice.