Napalm Flesh: Bring Me Your Metal!

Napalm Flesh
Bring me your metal!
By Bryer Wharton
bryer@slugmag.com

In the land where information and pinions on every sort of musical genre run rampant, SLUG will be unleashing a weekly, Internet-exclusive metal column. So what makes my opinion different from any other Internet trash talker or praise chucker? I could say experience and way too much of my time spent listening to all that is metal, but the answer is more simple. Like all the bloggers and opinionated beings in this great Internet, my motivations are purely self-serving. If you the reader like it, take some good tidbits of knowledge away from it or discover a band you didn’t know existed, then I’ve done something right.

Did I mention I listen to a crap ton of music yet? Yep I do, hopefully in order to save some reader the notion of spending their hard-earned money on a crappy record. Every month I churn out CD reviews by the dozens, and one of the reasons for this little column is to highlight those albums that didn’t make the print version of the magazine. I may be cynical, but I do try to keep an open mind. No genre or its massive array of sub-genres of metal is sacred, as is no genre hated. I listen to everything, and anything and hate and love insane amounts of it.

Another intended purpose of a weekly online rambling from SLUG is to stress the importance of the metal scene in not only Salt Lake, but the rest of the state as well. I’ve heard my fair share of bitching about not having a strong local metal scene or that the scene is scattered between genres of music, but that is to be expected—the extreme scene isn’t going to really play nice with the modern metal scene because of the massive stylistic differences. The simple matter of fact is there is a scene for every style and genre and it’s strong and continuingly growing— if you don’t know that, you’re living in a state of ignorance.

So, my metal friends, with my intentions of what is to come every week somewhat tossed at you, I also plea for ideas and feedback. Actually, I insist on it and thrive on it. If you think you have something worth mentioning about your band or a show you’ve put together or want a genre/band/record label to get some coverage so on and so forth please e-mail me (bryer@slugmag.com), find me in the streets and kick me in the shins to get my attention, buy me a beer at a show (wishful thinking I know), just get my attention. It’s not hard and hopefully I can attribute something more important than just bitching and moaning about the albums that are good and bad.


There is a plentiful mix of metal to wet your whistle for this August Friday the 13th weekend—a perfect time to get your metal on.

Friday hosts a local show at Club Vegas with a good old display of cover tunes from your favorite bands. The show features stunning Black Sabbath cover band Irony Man, So Cal Metallica cover act Damage Inc., NYC Queensryche cover band Rage For Order as well as Hot Flash. Cover tickets $5.

In the realm of national tours, In the Venue will play host to the latest installment of the Summer Slaughter tour on Saturday August 14th. The tour began in 2001, but didn’t really dig in until 2007. The line-up, while mostly in the death metal realm, also features a few different styles. Basically, it’s a something-for-everyone type gig, and features a massive line-up—almost festival like. Tunes get underway at 2:30, and for a grand total of 12 bands the $20.50 advance or $25.50 day-of ticket price is a damn good deal. If you want to have your ear drums blasted for hours on end, I’d advise bringing earplugs if you’re going to sit through every band, even with my already damaged hearing. It’s all ages so you can take the kiddies, but as always, at In The Venue there is a bar area. Oh, and if you are a smoker plan on paying a small fee for a wristband to get you outside for your needed dosages of nicotine.

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Posted on September 17, 2010 by Scott Wilcox

Hey, someone make a free logo for Bryer's blog--incl. a we-url--so I can put it on my upcoming comp-cd. Great Metal shows ths Sat. too at The Fifth (SEVENTKING >REVEELER STILL-BORN), Club Vegas (MEANS NOTHING, TRUCE, more), and Club Expose (All-Genre-Metalhead gathering/party.)

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