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New news
2003-07-26 00:08:48
Well I am still going steady on getting clips for my next AMV, I am going to have to trim more fat off the clips I alreayd have so I can save more space for the next bit of stuff I am planning on putting in. I have a bit of doubt if I can pullt his video off, I gues sI need to get back to being in that aggressiv emodd again. The past few days I have been loungy in everythign I have done, no much anger or hyperness, either that or its because I am low on Pepsi. Either way I will try my best at the video and see if this 2 year idea is possible. Because lets face it I am doing this for me above all else, why?
The AMV would be way to violent to be hosted by golden dounut and wouldn't definitely be allowed by the Animethon 11 AMV contest.
So if things dont work out with it then I will go just remaking a few AMVs till 2004, then I will spend the rest of Spring before May working MANY AMVs or I wills tart anytime I feel like it. The only old AMVs I willr emake as soon as possible are
Cat Scratch Fever
Sweating Bullets
Vampires (add new anime into it always, got to do it drunk like last time as well)
Sounds Of War 2
All About The Pentiums
Those are the ones I want to remake at some time or another. Mos tof the others I dont have the anime for yet.
One AMV I want to remake and remember so well as the "These Eyes" AMV, I know not many liked it or many dont know it but I enjoyed making that AMV and I think it was the best drama AMV I ever made. I hope I dont ge tmy hopes up again when the award ceremony thing comes along for the site. Because every time it comes around I try to think "Maybe I have a chance" when lets face it I will never win any awards and lets face it I am just sick of trying fight for one, I just want to make great AMVs ones that i can be satisfied with and others as well.
However I still liked to compete in the AMV contest for Animethon 11, why because i get to see great AMVs, great atmosphere and hell I get a front row seat.
I have many ideas, now understand they are just pass ups I got over time, no garuntee that they will go further. One thing I know right now is that I want to send in three AMVs, one drama, one action, and one comedy.
For the drama I have two ideas
Bat Out Of Hell 3 (the final chapter that is until I hear Meat loaf's newest album when it comes out) - I'd Lie For You And Thats The Truth by Meat Loaf - Record Of Lodoss War (Orson and Sheris)
Everything I Do by Bryan Adams - XTV for Sorota and the brown haired sword girl. However Shadow Productions (Rj, if you were at the AMV panel he was the guy witht he metal patches, I have a coat similar but I didn't want to wear it that day, too hot) would have my head for it, he hates Bryan Adams music. I dont either except for three songs.
I will do BOOH3 someday but it may not be soon.
For Comedy I have been thinking hard about having something very innovative but its hard to find something that is innovative in my opinion, I was jus tlucky I stumbled upon the idea that I had for "History In Anime". The best ideas I have for a comedy so far is
Thunderball by Tom Jones - Tatewaki Kuno (Ranma 1/2) yes I am waiting for the slaps in the face.
Bad Apple by David Wilcox - Xellos (Slayers)
Dirty Little Mind by Jackyl - Golden Boy girls, not very innvative and I doubt it would be allowed because of the sexuall innuendo I plan to infuse into the AMV if I did.
For Action I have many dime a dozen ideas, the typical ones that wouldn't budge any eyebrows, I have had two DBZ ideas but don't worry I wont do them, I have tried making DBZ AMVs in the past and they have all failed except "Every Homo" or "Primitive".
Vampires II - Love Bites by Judas Priest - many vampire type anime
The MOB Rules by Black Sabbath - Patlabor, Dominion Tank Police, Burn Up W/Excess, AD Police, Mad BUll 34 (if it ever comes on DVD).
THose two have the best chance of happening but I still have to think about it, I am sort leaning on "Love Bites" since I have always been a fan of old fashion monster like vampires, warewolves, frankenstein, etc etc. I would liek to create something similar with that AMV. Love BItes would be about the villian vampires unlike the next one would be about the heroes who hunt the villians.
Symphony Of The Hunters - The Living Daylights by Aha! - Many vampire anime
Bed Time Project - Mr.Sandman by Blind Guardian - Tetsuo of Akira when he is attacked by sutffed animals in bed.
80% chance I will do that one someday
Stillborn by Black Label Society - Key The Metal Idol - THis is a weird idea I doubt it would go any further. Only had the idea onece but i thought I would say it.
Wolf by Iced Earth - Wolf's Rain - I have to watch the show completely before I make the final decision. I want to make an AMV to Iced Earth music somehow, someway that would be good. One way or the other I will make an AMV to to Iced Earth music. THis might be the right one.
Metropolis by Motorhead - Metropolis - A easy idea in some ways, it seems I only get good ideas for this one when I am at school and it pops out on my walkman, any other time I dont get anything for it. Would be nice if I can keep the ideas i had for it beyond the beginning.
St. Anger by Metallica/Damein by Iced Earth - Brolly of DBZ - yes crucify its only idea doesn't mean I will do it unless I get serious about it.
Now dont go thinking I will do these AMVs, they are all ideas, I wont thinking turly serious about them till after I finish the SWORDS project or if I decide to scrap it, but i plan to take my time with this SWORDS project, since I have no sceduals to work with since I don't go to CONs since I live in an area where I Aninethon is the the only close one, as for Anime Evolution I dont have the money to travel over there. Maybe next time around I will enter my AMVs in Anime Evolution anyway if I cant make it there. Even though lets face i know I wont win but hey trying is better than not doing.
I have been listening to purely Judas Priest and Iced Earth music constantly these days. Horror Show by Iced Earth is the greatest metal album I ever heard! also helps that I am a mosnter freak but oh well.
Another idea I have but no chance of happening is
Dead Babies by Iced Earth (Alice Cooper cover) for Key The Metal Idol. But thats an idea I jsut got right now so nevermind. -
Judas Priest
2003-07-21 03:13:57
EDITORIAL: WHY THE JUDAS PRIEST REUNION MAKES THINGS RIGHT AGAIN IN THE METAL UNIVERSE
by Brian Coles (Editor, Metal Fan)
Posted 7/21/03
Common, admit it. We all will remember where we were when were heard the PRIEST had reconciled with their original voice. I had just got through backing up my hardrive when I went and launched my email service and whack! There it was. Before I could even let it sink in I was scurrying to spread the news on this site and mailing lists and what not. Weren't we all doing this to some extent? I made a few calls as well.
Truthfully, the reunion itself was not a shocker per se, but that it happened when it did was. Any connected fan or industry type new the two parties were talking and had plans in the works, but many had assumed it would evolve in 2004 sometime, when contractual obligations and recent releases (Live In London CD ), tours (Halford was on the road recently) were no longer in conflict. Anyway, so it happened. Story broke on CNN no less and made the rounds quickly after that. But not all the reactions I got were of elation or surprise. Most were. Yet a few rolled with the punches on it more than I did. Maybe they didn't see it the way I did. I was flat out stoked. And here's why.
Think about. How many major arena acts have consistently and unwaveringly referred to themselves as a metal band first and foremost? And I am talking about heavy rock/metal bands. "Well, don't they all? I mean, they are metal, right?"
Actually, no. Very few do, if any. METALLICA once held the flag up for a new generation of adrenalized metalheads, even touting the power of their "Metal Militia." But now, Lars spends more time trying to explain why being referred to as "metal" is not important to them and that they can do whatever they want. Hey, they are Metallica, the biggest band in the world, so fair enough. Only thing is, they picked a terrible name if they are to champion genre hopping. Oh well. Next...
IRON MAIDEN. Okay, now, how much more metal can you be? I remember talking with Bruce Dickinson a few years back, and while he wasn't dismissive of the metal tag, he clearly saw Maiden as uncategorizable. They were progressive perhaps. And maybe heavy at times. But they were simply Iron Maiden. How many Maiden songs mention heavy metal? Hmmm? Get back to me when you find one.
OZZY/BLACK SABBATH. Well, for heck sakes, these are the originators of metal, right? They must be THE metal band of all time? Come on! Well, arguably, they are all those things. But let us not forget they did not consciously create heavy metal, for the term was not used in reference to music when they debuted their loud, doom induced sound. Not till the late 70s did any use of the term reach regularity. The band does, after all, seem proud of the their legacy, but they have yet to really champion the cause of metal lyrically or even forcefully in interviews.
Okay, how many other arena bands are left? Hmmm...can't think of any off hand. Now comes JUDAS PRIEST with the swagger of a reunion with the metal master himself...Mr. ROB HALFORD. This is THE metal band for the masses. Drum roll (double kick bass drum action as well please)...
I think it is fair to say you do not have to be the originator of something to be the icon for it. In fact, the originators tend to stumble upon something new, not necessarily bringing about the best or most coherent catalog. Take rock 'n' roll. Bill Haley, in an accidental and marginal way, has been credited with the starting point for rock 'n' roll via "Rock Around the Clock." Sure enough, even though others probably "started" it underground, he unwittingly brought the swing and good times to a mass media highpoint, if only for that one song. Yet it is Chuck Berry and Little Richard and even Elvis Presley, following right behind, embracing it and making it their own with little clutter. See, Bill Haley was nearly 40 when he had that hit. He had to evolve into rock 'n' roll, much the way Sabbath went from a blues band called Earth to a heavy rock outfit. In both cases, the "originators" were not born into the genre they "created." Yet it was the younger, more impressionable musicians who fell in love with the music they heard and emulated it and furthered its progress. They did this not simply by copying, but by helping to define it and energize it a notch higher. That is exactly what JUDAS PRIEST did.
With their first recording, Rocka Rolla, marking their debut in 1974, the band missed the generally agreed to starting point of heavy metal by 4 years (1970). Though not quite at the level they would be in terms of heaviness and technical skill, the album and title track was still, for its day, fairly heavy and not completely out of step with the band's forthcoming works considering that even they would often in fuse catchy mid-range rockers in future fare ("Evening Star", "Rock Forever", "Don't Go.") That being said, everything after the debut can easily be called metal. Even Turbo, though commercial metal, was structural right in there with the title track and arguably "Rock You All Around the World." From head to toe, side to side, Judas Priest albums were basically metal from year one to present.
And while Maiden may have held the honor of the elite few "metal" bands of all time, Priest actually sang about being in a heavy metal band. From "Metal Gods" to "Heavy Metal" to "Metal Meltdown" in title and in countless lyrics to other songs such as "Heavy Duty" and "Painkiller", the band made sure metal was part of the thematic assault. It wasn't simply a genre but a way of life. No, it was even more than that. It was a universal force of nature, abstract though it may be. It was a God (or many), a monster, a population, an idea. It ruled. But most importantly, it did not have any qualifiers or specifics. It simply existed proudly and dominantly. Loudly and unabashedly. It was technically impressive, emotional, gigantic and anyone who wished to join this march through time and space was welcome. Those who weren't be damned. No apologies. "Judas Priest. We are a metal band."
And all this was done with integrity for roughly 80% of the bands career. Some of the albums may have been nicked by critics here and there, but as far as consistency goes, it is hard to argue away much from 1976 - 1984. 1990 even proved an amazing year with the classic Painkiller. While the two "Ripper" albums have garnered mixed reaction, they are as metal as anything else in the band's catalog and let's face it, "Subterfuge" was classic as anything they'd ever done and that was on their last album.
Sonically, they brought metal into a well defined area. Metal, at its best, would be helacious, skillful, expansive, bigger than life...and, gulp...catchy! Where Sabbath was down-tuned, Priest was downright mean. Where Deep Purple's Ian Gillan screamed in funkified glee (Got it from Edgar Winter), Halford screamed for vengeance and higher than a mountain top. Gillan began it. Halford defined it. Metal was drama. It was also hard to play at times and the band enjoyed showing of precision and innovation with Stained Class, marked by seering riffs and break neck speed ("Exciter.") Metal was huge in sound and canvas from then on out. The gns were also memorable amidst the layred elements thanks to a sense of well-honed melody.
Image-wise, leathers were an important part of 60s biker rock (Steppenwolf) but Priest made it a uniform, complete with spikes, studs, whips (gasp!) and occasionally custom made costumes a la Defenders of the Faith and Painkiller tours. They even ushered in the craze with Hell Bent for Leather, an album that bridged the gap between developing the term "Heavy Metal" as an underground style and breaking it in to the masses the following year with the resolution of British Steele, as metal-themed as they come.
That being said, Priest also did something few bands as heavy as they were did. They had FM radio staples such as "Breaking the Law", "Living After Midnight", "Don't Have to Be Old to be Wise", "You've Got Another Thing Coming" and others to a lesser extent. Maiden fights to this day, and more than ever, to get decent play on major heavy/active rock stations. Metallica gets major play but post 1988 material only, save for a few markets. And can the general metal fan population argue this is their strongest material? Hmmmm...
At this point it is fair to say that the Priest has become an icon not only for metal, but proud metalheads everywhere. Perhaps then, there is the subtle irony that the wayward frontman had indeed left Priest, forming a metalband of his own (Fight), and then, briefly, outside the beat of Priest, delved into unholy territory with Two, a band that fought much of what defined metal's larger-than-life, take-no-prisoners approach. An industrial foray was met with concern from many loyalists. Just when metal needed heroes the most, in the mid 90s, Halford had veered onto the other side, where goths looked down on the genre he helped define, dimsiing such pride in posteuring and arena rock status. Maybe it was simply a need to evolve. Or perhaps it was the pressure to stay "relevant." Or was it something else?
Replaced he was and the Priest carried on adequately with a technically gifted fan of the band taking the reigns. Ironic in that it was the metal fan who kept it going. Yet, as metal music was pummeled and pummeled in the media, something happened. All the while its best and brightest held on tight and the truest fans did not blink. After everything settled, metal was slowly rising again, wiser and more appreciative of what it had. Soon, it was as if it was cleansed of the pomp and commercialism of the late 80s scene and was becoming so uncool it was cool. But not in a new way but in a manner that suggest the musical community as a whole is begging to accept and, though often bittersweetly, acknowledge the loyalty it commands.
Around this time, Halford too had an awakening, and returned to the fold, almost apologizing for his perceived misstep, though he has also looked upon that time fondly and many fans have accepted it. Still, metal would dominate his conscience again and rightly so.
Metal is arguably at its best when it is underground, but I take the position that the bigger it is, the more it fits the sound and textures it is characterized by. At the same time, extreme popularity suggests it has lost its edge. At this time, metal is accessible enough for the average music fan to have a chance to convert. Yet it is not as washed over with swill that the non-fan may fair-weather it into sugary, spineless calculation. Radio won;t touch its purist acts, so they do not write for it. Thank God! Right now, we are in the groove. And what better time could there be for metal's iconic band to add a whip crack, petal-to-the-floor kick in the ass? Indeed, the metal gods stand an inch...nah, a galaxy taller in the era ahead.
Welcome back to JUDAS PRIEST in full tilt - AKA metal's proudest preachers, Gods and fans all in one. Welcome back to the "Defenders of the Faith." Together we will prove that "metal rules the laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand!"
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Me and my Battlefield 1942
2003-07-21 01:37:41
All I have been doing this weekend was getting clips for my SWORDS project and playing Battlefield 1942. Maybe I should be playing it more when if I ever do my SOW3 project but that wont be for a long while. I am really additec to the game and considering I am getting somewhat good at it. I know many will say they "l33t" than me (I hate when people type that numbers with letter shit) but 2 guys who are considerably good got me into it and we spent most of the whole night having war games with me and my incompitent army fighting my two friends and their dumb army. That is one thing I dont like about Battlefield 1942, the AI is dumb and I have it on 75 and yet they are a bit more smarter they are not good enough. Tomorrow (or I should say today its 12:29 am here) I will put them up to 100 % and see how I handle them. Right now I am 15% done my capturing of clips for my SWORDS project. Today I guess since it is in the middle of the night like before I should get around 25% done of the capturing and getting of clips. After that i dont think it wont be too long before I get others and be complete. I am serious contimplating whether to use my Slayers footage for SWORDS or not. Why? well it is in VHS footage and nowadays I try to be a perfectionist and I try steering as clear from VHS as possible. I guess if I find myself lacking in footage to use for the video I will go to VHS Slayers collection so far the anime I plan to use for this project is
Roujin Kenshin - I only have the first 8 episode on DVD thanks to my friend Shadow Productions letting me borrow his DVDs
Samurai X The movie - Also thanks of Shadow
Samurai X (Kenshin OVA) - thanks to Shadow again but this anime is vital too my project
Beserk (*)
Amon Saga(*)
Record Of Lodoss War Original(*)
Ninja Scroll(*)
Ninja Ressurection(*)
x/1999(*)
Vampire Hunter D(*)
Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust(*)
many small snips of Cowboy Bebop with Vicious in it(*)
but if I run out of footage to use then I will go to
Slayers Original, Next, and Try
Record Of Lodoss War OVA
Wrath Of The Ninja
Princess Monoke (if I cant get it on DVD somewhere)
I dont own much of the DVD anime a good amount I rent from the video store (*). Sucks that most of all the anime I own is on VHS and mos tof the DVDs I do own have little to do with the project I am doing right now. I am almost convinced of what I am doing after SWORDS but they are only small projects.
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The day the day
2003-07-17 13:24:53
Somewhat bored, cant ge tnothing done till I get DVD2AVi working again. Once I get it working again I will be back in business. For now I just got a bunch of VOBs and nothing to transfer them, I think I will consider getting something else to transfer them with, Gordon Knot set doesn't seem to work all that much.
My next AMV would be somewhat of a follow up to History In Anime in scale. I am using
All Kenshin I can get my hands on
Beserk
Record Of Lodoss War Original and possible OVA
Slayers (Original, Next, Try)
Amon Saga
Bastard
and any other anime I can find or get with swords/sword battles in it to the song
I Am The Sword by Motorhead.
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Oh Happy Day!
2003-07-17 01:48:21
Rob Halford has rejoined Judas Priest!
I guess I am sure in this community not many give a shit but I dont care I am happy about it.
So what happens to The Ripper, since Iced Earth lost Matt Barlow, ther ehave been many rumors that Ripper maybe the new singer of Iced Earth. If that is so I guess I can sleep well with that just as long as he sings killer and blow Matt out of the water vocally, which is hard.
I am currently working on the SWORDS project, I already got 1/2 the clips ripped I just need to fix the fucking DVD2AVI program it seems to be screwy right now. Trying to make it produce the VOBs through huvyuv thing sorry I am bit tired right now so I cant spell it right. Once I get it worked I will get the clips I need from the VOBs then get more. I plan on working on this project for awhile since all I am doing except that is work and weight lifting, by september I am only going back to high school to upgrade on one class (physics) I will then put in an app at Nait to work on video editing or something in the television field by next year.
Now at 2004 I can expect two things except maybe passage to Edmotnon as in Nait insititue.
A new AC/DC album with John Mutt Lange possibly producing it, and a new Judas Priest album with Halford returning.
It will take awhile for me to work on my next AMV using my favorite Motorhead song (yes Motorhead, no soft music no more to use, I am going back to what I used to do that not many use that much anymore, hard heavy metal that dont get air play on the regular music video stations that much.). The video will probably be very violent so I doubt it will be allowed on the dangling carrot thing.
In 5 days I might be getting the next Queensryche album but I am having a bit of doubts, I have many mp3s of the music and the album dont sound too good I mean it is sort of lack luster. I maybe a newbie Queensryche but I just dont like the album. I download mp3s to make sure I know what I am buying is good. But that is why I never get mp3s for new Sepultura, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Motorhead albums because I know they neve rlet me down. While AC/dC dont change at least you know they wont pull 180s on you like Metallica (while St.Anger is a pretty good album but please remove Bob Rock from the producing table I hate his producing of Metallica albums).
After SWORDS that will be probably done around September or October (I am taking my time with this one) I am thinking of a few AMV ideas for the Animethon 11 AMV contest. I want to make a comedy, action, and a drama. Id oubt SWORDS would be allowed, I am pretyt muchd oing SWORDS because its one of those AMVs I am doing for myself more than others just to see if I could do it. As for getting it to be hosted, I have no idea.
Someday I want to remake my old AMVs and put them up on the dangling carrot. But I just cant seem to get the time anymore. I want to remake many that I think would be bette rnow with me having more experience
All About The Pentiums
The Valentine Video
Out Ta Get Me
Bat Out Of Hell 2 (I have Seasons 2-5 on DVD, a good amount of Season 7 on DVD, I just need seasons 1 and 6 on DVD then I can remake BOOH2 and make it look much better. I could put the remake of that one at Animethon 11.)
Enter Orsen
Sweating Bullets
Lets just say sooner or later I will remake them I hope. Maybe after I do SWORDS I will work on remakes from October to November. Get to work on the remake of BOOH2. From January to May I work on two new AMVs and put them up for contest.
Who knows I need sleep. Sleep is good right now the excitment and anticipation is killing me.
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