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DJ Beowvlf interviews the headliner for Packapalooza Delta Rae’s Brittany Hölljes , they discuss how the band came together, how they maintain their North Carolina sound within the mainstream music landscape and goals for Delta Rae in the future.
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Nightmare of a Softboy Chapter 2
Nightmare of the Softboy Chapter 2
I’m uncomfortable marking my infidelity as an aberration of bad choice. Maybe I would have before the accident, before I became who I am today or, I should say, realized a piece of my own figure which was given inadequate attention. It seems, one could posit, that this lack of attention is what subsequently led to a frustrated transgression, a rebellion which gives too much agency to its master when considered as a lapse in judgement. I cannot claim my body; my body claims me. As such, moving against the grain in a refusal to acknowledge an inalienable part of my being was destined to end in supposed catastrophe.
Just as I would start any day, the morning in question began at 1:00 PM. I must admit that my personal life had deteriorated severely in the preceding several months, and I must admit that I do not have a job. My days are, or were, understandably free. There is no use in explaining whatever semblance of a routine I had here in this narrative. It would be useless. It would be infinitely difficult because my days were spent inwardly, exploring tangential realities that the mind is left free to explore when material is lost with social interaction. This is why WKNC was so important to me, to us, to an entire world that has essentially disintegrated into will. Whenever the opportunity presented itself, or whenever I could be bothered (these two are operationally the same), I would switch on my house radio, which was always set to 88.1 It wasn’t me who switched it to my trusty station originally, or if it was I couldn’t remember. What was important is that I became a subject beneath it.
Such subjectivity breeds alienation, anger, hopelessness. The apparent viceroy of unbias would here point to me, or what was me, or what has always been me but historically more so, and screech with an obtuse digit that “it is your own doing, you cretin! It is (or was) you who switched to WKNC! If not, then it was still you who remained under it! Whose life was built around it!” after which I would retort, “Yes! Yes! Exactly that! I am only it and so I cannot without!”.
But, of course, rebellion creeps slowly. And I had nothing but time. It doesn’t matter how long before that morning I was listening to WKNC, the reader just has to trust that it was long enough to question my own vacuous existence. And so, in an action which was no more prophetic than it was a mistake, I tuned my dial to 102.9.
Shawn sits down with the magnetic personality that is Camerian Williams as they discuss life after college, having faith during times of struggle, and flirtatious personalities.
Melissa is the first studio album by the Danish band, Mercyful Fate. The record was recorded July 18-29, 1983 at Easy Sound Recordings in Copenhagen, Denmark and released October 30, 1983, by Roadrunner in Europe (the record company’s first release), Music for nations in the UK, and Mega Force in the USA.
Interestingly, the album (and the band) are, obviously listed in the Heavy Metal genre, but also the Black Metal genre. Like Slayer (listed as Heavy Metal / Death Metal), from the same era, it is not the lyrical delivery that determined the category, but the lyrical content. Mercyful Fate (and Melissa) are renown for the occult – demonology, witchcraft, and Satanist – subject matter.
The (now) legendary King Diamond, with his operatic vocals (notably, his usage of falsetto) and death mask face paint, wrote and performs all lyrics. The band is solidly rounded-out by the awesome Hank Sherman (guitar; composer of all songs), Michael Denner (guitar), Timi Hansen (base), and Kim Ruzz (drums). Melissa clocks in at 40:09 long, while containing seven tracks.
It was planned to be an eight song record, with a cover of, “The Immigrant Song” (Led Zepplin), but the band decided it did not fit well with the theme and feel of the rest of the record. Included in the seven track selection, clocking 11:23, is the epic, “Satan’s Fall.” The song, according to the band, contains 16 different riffs, and took “forever" to learn because Sherman kept adding parts! It was the band’s longest song for many years. One single was released for the record, “Black Funeral,” with a B-side, “Black Masses" (a song recorded during Melissa, but not making the final cut).
In 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) cited “Into the Coven" among their Filthy Fifteen (their list of objectionable songs) because of its occult content. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Melissa at 17th on their list of ‘The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time’.
1983 Track Listing:
- Evil
- Curse of the Pharaohs
- Into the Coven
- At the Sound of the Demon Bell
- Black Funeral
- Satan’s Fall
- Melissa
Favorite Songs: Melissa; Curse of the Pharaohs; Satan’s Fall
Rating: Definitely a solid 10/10!!
Melissa is simply one of the best Metal albums on the market and a MUST HAVE for the serious metalhead! BTW, Mercyful Fate have reunited and are touring during the 2019 season! Catch them if you get the opportunity!
Stay Metal,
THE SAW
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Daytime Charts 8/20
# Artist Record Label
1 PEAERA Healthy Earth Tiny Engines
2 MARIKA HACKMAN Any Human Friend Sub Pop
3 FLORAL PRINT Floral Print Tiny Engines
4 OH SEES Face Stabber Castle Face
5 PURPLE MOUNTAINS Purple Mountains Drag City
6 BLESSED Salt Pirates Blend
7 MANNEQUIN PUSSY Patience Epitaph
8 PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS And Now For The Whatchamacallit Marathon
9 SLOW PULP Big Day [EP] Self-Released
10 CRUMB Jinx Self-Released
11 MUNYA Munya Luminelle
12 SHARON VAN ETTEN Remind Me Tomorrow Jagjaguwar
13 NATHAN BAJAR PlayroomIn Real Life
14 PIP BLOM Boat Heavenly/PIAS
15 PALEHOUND Black Friday Polyvinyl
16 RARE DM Vanta Black Self-Released
17 STEF CHURA Midnight Saddle Creek
18 SASAMI Sasami Domino
19 PENELOPE ISLES Until The Tide Creeps In Bella Union/PIAS
20 TEEN BODY Dreamo Broken Circles
21 STRANGE RANGER Remembering The Rockets Tiny Engines
22 NOTS 3 (Three) Goner
23 BELLS ATLAS The Mystic Tender Loving Empire
24 POW Shift Castle Face
25 PINHEADS, THE Is This Real Farmer & The Owl
26 YOUNG MAMMALS Lost In Lima Wallflower
27 B BOYS Dudu Captured Tracks
28 A BEACON SCHOOL Cola Grind Select/House Arrest
29 KIM GRAY Plastic Memory Buzz
30 CHERRY GLAZERRStuffed & ReadySecretly Canadian
TOP ADDS
1 TROPICAL FUCK STORM Braindrops Joyful Noise
2 HANA VU “At The Party” [Single ]Luminelle
3 BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT At The Party With My Brown Friends Saddle Creek
4 LUNCH LADY Angel Danger Collective/Upset The Rhythm
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Chainsaw Charts 8/20
# Artist Record Label
1 DEVOURMENT Obscene Majesty Relapse
2 AS I LAY DYING “Shaped By Fire” [Single] Nuclear Blast
3 SKINLAB “Overcoming” [Single] Art Is War
4 WAGE WAR “Prison” [Single] Fearless
5 STICK TO YOUR GUNS “Dove and Fist” [Single] Pure Noise
6 SLIPKNOT We Are Not Your Kind Roadrunner
7 BANSHEE The Madness Visionary Noise
8 OPETH “Dignity” [Single] Moderbolaget
9 LIFE OF AGONY “Scars” [Single ]Napalm
10 BEING AS AN OCEAN “Find Our Way” [Single] Believe
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Nightmare of a Softboy Chapter 1
Nightmare of the Softboy: Chapter 1
I don’t know how to fully separate what happened before and after the event. Of course, we as people are accustomed to think of ourselves linearly, as arrow whose points end on our present and whose entire lives are essentially just training for whatever moment we might be living in. But this is misleading. I can’t say that I haven’t always been like this, as I write this. Weeks ago, before it happened, of course I would have sneered at even mentioning that my body could be stricken with such maladies as I am today, but I was no different then. Maybe less aware. My life has undoubtedly changed in that I have actualized something which has probably always been there, now. But I have no right to call my metamorphosis an offense.
It would be best, for the sake of this narrative, to start before my change. Again, the reader must keep in mind that however strangely I may have acted compared to myself now, it is still me and each of these versions have always existed within each other. But I digress.
There was, or is, a certain pleasure I took in alternativism. Prior to the accident, I found protection from the banal in layers of scratchy sweaters, ironically dirty socks, malnutrition, lazy summers, terrible interior decoration, underwatered plants, plastic glasses, four dollar green teas, occasional pink eye, etc. And even if I initially revelled in it, its boundaries undeniably remained within consumption. It was my main hobby, consumption, that is, and my lifestyle could not be uncoupled from simple variations in my consumption patterns. This included crack injected coffee, ridiculously inflated footwear, prank jeans, research chemicals, and, most importantly, my favorite radio station: 88.1 WKNC. Nowhere was my self-inflicted solitude more quickly recognized here; and through my status as a faithful listener of North Carolina’s most alternative epicenter, I retched at the idea of having my ears soiled by any other radio station. That is, until the accident.
– Cliff Jenkins
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Band of the Week: KoЯn
KoЯn is known as a Nu Metal band from Bakersfield, California; formed in 1993. They are considered to be the ones who pioneered the sub-genre of nu metal. Their discography is very impressive: KoЯn (1994), followed by Life Is Peachy (1996), Follow The Leader (1998), Issues (1999), Untouchables (2002), Take A Look In The Mirror (2003), See You On the Other Side (2005), Live & Rare (2006), Untitled (2007), Korn III: Remember Who You Are (2010), The Path Of Totality (2011), The Paradigm Shift (2013), and The Serenity of Suffering (2016). They have released two songs in 2019: You’ll Never Find Me and Cold.
In 2005, Brian “Head” Welch left the band to fight his addiction with methamphetamines. Welch said that he tried everything, “rehab, stuff on the Internet, but nothing helped me kick it. I was trying on my own to quit and couldn’t do it. I wanted to die. No one knew what I was going through. I could not quit. Church was my last shot…. I would wonder why people would go up to the front after the service. But one day it was for me. I said [to God], ‘Show me how to quit’” (MTV News). Welch has written a handful of books about his life, experience in the band, his battle with drugs, and his relationship with God. There has also been a film that summarizes his books and talks about him and his daughter.
The band never got another guitarist to fill in Welch’s place, but they continued to release albums and tour. And then on May 5, 2012, Welch joined the band on stage at the Carolina Rebellion in Rockingham to play “Blind” for the first time since his departure seven years earlier. I had friends at that festival and they said that when they saw Welch join the band on stage, they started crying. Not only were people in the audience crying but the singer, Jonathan Davis, and Welch were teary eyed and hugging on stage. The video for it is awesome!
KoЯn has always been one of my favorite bands. I grew up listening to the first three albums and the family would all jam out to it. I first saw KoЯn at the Carolina Rebellion of 2016 and they played their self-titled record in its entirety. It was AWESOME!!! I love KoЯn because you can hear the emotion’s in Davis’ voice and the pain that he is in. Even though I haven’t experienced the things that he and the band has, it’s nice to know that someone else understands the struggles that people go through and it helps create an outlet for people. Oh, and their riffs are killer!! So there’s that!
Stay Metal,
THE SAW
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Off The Record: Splash Jordan
DJ Beowvlf sits down with podcast host Splash Jordan to discuss his live podcast episode in collaboration with WKNC!