{"id":2022,"date":"2010-03-22T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2010-03-22T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:22:53","slug":"metal-monday-bolt-thrower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2010\/03\/22\/metal-monday-bolt-thrower\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Monday: Bolt Thrower"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nJust in time for Metal Monday and by pure coincidence, I found the following: Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, Metal & Politics<\/a>, “a snapshot of the Second Global Conference of Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, Metal and Politics held in Salzburg, November 2009”. Yes, apparantly there are now academic conferences on heavy metal, but then again, there are academic conferences on everything<\/em> these days. I found this book via a post at Kings of War<\/a>, which focused on the relationship between heavy metal and war.\n<\/p>\n

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\nWhich brings us neatly to the subject of today’s Metal Monday<\/cite>: Bolt Thrower, the grindcore\/death metal band from Coventry. Grindcore is a mixture of death & thrash metal influences with hardcore punk style, with short and sharp songs, fast guitars and fast, pounding drums with little sophistication. Perhaps the most famous grindcore band is Naplam Death; Bolt Thrower started out with a similar sound but migrated to a more standard death metal, even doom metal approach: slower with lower tuned guitars and drums. In both incarnations their subject matter remained the same: war, both fictional and historical. Their first album even featured artwork from Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 RPG, which is set in a brutal future where a fascist human empire are the good guys. Don’t think that Bolt Thrower glorifies war however; their best album, The IVth Crusade<\/cite> is a concept album showcasing the madness and folly of war. Not a particularly original theme, but brought powerfully. Of course, like so many other metal bands, Bolt Thrower is not blind to the “kewl” side of war, so there remains a tension between this adolescent fascination with wartoys and the genuine revulsion of the results of it…\n<\/p>\n

\nThe IVth Crusade:\n<\/p>\n


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\nFor Victory:\n<\/p>\n


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\nWhat’s your favourite Bolt Thrower track?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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