Well, we haven't had a thread on the Hammers for about 5 minutes...

[JayKeeley]

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE new album and US tour.

HAMMERS OF MISFORTUNE will start the recordings of their third Album at the beginning of 2005. The working title is “The Locust Years” and it is announced as extremely EPIC!

H.O.M. will also be on an extensive US tour during July and August. A great chance to check them live!!!



If you don't own any Hammers of Misfortune yet (meaning everything they have ever released), then you are gay and unworthy.

 

[NAD]

It is now time for celebration. Bring on the raw bacon and Hammers CDs!

 

[MajestikMøøse]

*insert BSW's mastrubating squirrel .gif here*

 

[JayKeeley]

By the way, any thoughts on Fireball Ministry? Just curious since I was over at Aquarius Records and I noticed that Janis Tanaka (HoM bass player) also played on FMEP and The Second Great Awakening.

Anyway, I'm thinking about buying the vinyl version of The August Engine, just to get the alternative cover. John Cobbet actually drew this himself, heh:

I thought this was an interesting write up...

Bursting out of the gates with an adrenalized instrumental opener that thrashes like Megadeth while remaining as gloriously 'classical' and over the top as anything on The Bastard, we can't say The August Engine never lets up. It does, but only in the sense that some decidedly unusual, and sometimes mellow avenues are explored. But for every non-metallic moment of sweet singing and pleasant acoustic guitars, you get plenty of shredding electric ones, with pounding drums, dramatic male and female vocals on a grand scale, and headbanging riffage. Advanced metal mastery here folks. Pretentious? Indulgent? Arrogant? No, simply mighty. The 10-out-of-10 review this album has already garnered from veteran metal scribe Martin Popoff likened them to a psychedelic version of the best of Iron Maiden, who are we to argue?

 

[NAD]

I saw Fireball Ministry open for Danzig once, good stuff. I'd call them booze rock because it's pretty standard fare stoner except you can just picture all of them chugging Butt Lights for whatever reason.

 

[Krilons Resa]

There is actually a thread inquiring about Hammers on the GMD forum of ALL forums.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

oh yeah and: >>>>>>>

 

[NAD]

I agree. That second one is preparing to suck dick, the first one is just showing reverence.

 

[Demonspell]

The yellow smiley looks like it's bending down to vomit...but who gives a shit? Bring on the third album and the tour!

 

[jimbobhickville]

I'll bet they DON'T come to Utah, but I'll go check just the same.

 

[NAD]

The August Engine part 2
3:59
My balls begin to empty for a full minute straight and I become comatose immediately afterwards.

Seriously. This is the stuff that music was invented for.

 

[Krilons Resa]

The merging of the first 2 tracks on The August Engine is pure fucking genius as well.

 

[NAD]

Time it takes to get from my guitarist's pad to my apartment: the exact length of The August Engine Part 2. IF THAT'S NOT KARMA THEN I GOD DAMN DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

 

[JayKeeley]

Did you know that there was an entire song that never made it to the final cut of The August Engine? It's completely finished too, so I'm not sure what they intend to do with it, since it probably won't fit into the next album concept.

I hope they release it as a 7" or something. Can you imagine? It's like finding a lost treasure.

 

[NAD]

They need to mail me a special copy of it.

 

[JayKeeley]

Where can one find MP3s for video game music? There's gotta be a site out there somewhere....

In other news, John and Chewy, along with Jamie and Mike of Hammers and Ross and Laurie (of John's other band Ludicra) recently completed 12 metal compositions for "The SIMS 2" and "The SIMS Bustin' Out". Those of you who know anything about video games probably recognize those titles. A very interesting job it was. Too bad those compositions don't belong to us anymore, or we'd post mp3's just for kicks.

 

[NAD]

Cool! I've seen a ton of sites for classic video game music, don't know about modern crap though. Might find a Sims message board and ask around though.

 

[Demonspell]

I think they should post the leftover track as an exclusive mp3...not on their website but here, considering this forum has been their biggest supporters besides LOTFP, whose disdain for downloaders is well known...

 

[NAD]

Whoever rated this one star is gay and lying.

 

[Black Winter Day]

I listened to that CD-R of The August Engine again today... it didn't exactly get me off, but it fondled with me at times in teasing ways.