Category: Weirdness of the day

Yes, it's Monday again and everyone is sad and bored because the weekend is over and the next one is as far away as it can be right now, but what the hell - time flies anyway.

My past weekend included a Bolt Thrower show. Yes, Bolt Thrower came to my town and played... a lot of new stuff. If they had played something more from their classic catalogue than 33% of "World eater" and "Cenotaph" I would have enjoyed it a lot more...

Next weekend might include a Cannibal Corpse show in Stockholm... haven't decided on that one yet.

Anyway - my mission right now it to provide you with something fun to help you to survive the dreary Monday.

First of - and this is for the Swedes mostly - a blast from the past: A video of Barney talking Swedish. I shot this with my digital camera on the morning of the last day together in Japan 2004 and edited the best parts to one short but sweet movie. Barney is basically saying a lot of animal names along with some odd phrases that he has picked up from all the Swedish bands he's hung out with during the years.

Last time I posted this someone asked "Who is Barney?" and if you don't know who Barney is you should probably withdraw from all things brutal...

Barney speaks...

Second - here's a funny sound clip with a really good prankcall. Some kid has placed an add looking for members for his black metal band. Well, he probably didn't expect this specific caller... Listen closely when the kid names all his sources of inspiration.

True black metal...

Alright - this should help you make it through the day. Enjoy!

Category: Weirdness of the day

The punk community is in pain right now following the death of Poison Idea's Pig Champion (RIP, big guy) and this terrible story I will share with you now.

The other day Jack Control was stabbed badly (perhaps all stabbings are bad...) while trying to break up a fight outside a show. The knife missed Jack's heart with as little as 1 cm (to illustrate this [____] is about a cm)... so in a way it was a "good" stabbing...

The guy who stabbed him was arrested and will be charged with attempted murder and hopefully rot in some bad ass American prison.

And what about Jack? Well, he survived after four hours of surgery, but is now facing the music as the hospital wants around 80 000 US dollars for the treatment. 80 000 dollars! Now, this kind of money is absurd in so many ways, and we really need to do something to help.

Now who is Jack Control and why should I care, you might ask yourself. Well, Jack Control is "someone" in the punk community as the singer of such bands as Severed Head Of State and World Burns To Death. He's also been releasing records through his label Mind Control, for example the "Iron Columns" 2xLP which includes three rare Krigshot tracks (see the discography at the Krigshot site for more info).

Why should you care? Well, this is a guy that was a victim of violence trying to prevent violence by breaking up a fight. Most people would not go in between people fighting - I probably wouldn't, but I admire people that show "civil courage" (if that is the expression in English).

And bad things always happen to good people - the medical system in the USA seems quite sick if you excuse the pun, because something like this would never happen in Sweden. A guy being stabbed and then charged with 80 000 dollars (that's half a million Swedish crowns!)...

So, you should care and you should donate some money to help Jack Control to pay his hospital bills. Think about the money you will spend this weekend on cigarettes, drinks and greasy food and tell me that you can't spend half of them on something good, like helping a guy in need?

I have donated 100 US dollars on behalf of Nasum and Krigshot. It's not much, it's still 79 900 dollars left, but at least it's something.

Read more about the stabbing of Jack Control and how to help.

Category: Weirdness of the day

General Surgery has finished their new recording, their debut album "Left hand pathology" (brilliant title if you ask me) and a preview is available at their website.

So what's weird about it? Well, honestly nothing - I just wanted a reason to post this weird picture of Glenn adding some backing vocals, but I think it's weird that the song sounds kinda Regurgitatish and it lacks blast beats! Almost a red card for that - a preview without grind!

Nah - just rambling shit, the track is great, very Carcass-crust à la some of the punkier bits on "Reek of Putrefaction" - you should check it out. The "gag" solo towards the end is very entertaining.

Download "Capricious Provisional Cadaver Grater"


And I'd also like to publicly thank Glenn for his proof reading abilities this past spring when I wrote the texts for "Grind Finale". Thanks a lot and have a very nice first Christmas with your son and wife!

Category: Weirdness of the day

Total weirdness - as Christmas is approaching companies send out boxes with candy and as I looked on one of these I wound this weird candy with "Mieszko" printed on them! It's not a fake thing, it really is "Mieszko" candy!

If you note the little crown above the name it's related to another Mieszko from the Polish history. I am not 100% sure who this fellow was, as I heard that he was of some sort of royalty (which would explain the crown) but that's not exactly how Mieszko's father described the historic Mieszko at the funeral.



Our Finnish friends might find it hilarious that "Vitto" is written in very large letters on the candy wrapper, but never mind that! Hehe!

Category: Weirdness of the day

Haha, I got this link from Rickard Alriksson, which led me to start this new blog category. Some guy in an office environment bashing out some death metal drumming to Suffocation's "Infesting the crypts". The facial expressions on this guy is priceless, haha! Not to mention the guitarsolo!

Check it out!