Metal Mapping: The First Metal Cartogram?

I give you... in the name of procrastination and, of course, metal... what I might wager to say is the first (ever?) metal cartogram. For your viewing pleasure...

Each country is distorted so that its relative area is proportional to the number of metal bands registered to it on Encylopedia Metallum. Created using Adrian Herzog's excellent mediocre Mapresso cartogram applet.

What is a cartogram?

Melting Point 4/12/07: Alex's Week Off

Alex's week off; don't worry you're still in good hands. Jack and Toby take the wheel for this weeks show. Good stuff.



Stream this episode at archive.org.

Time	Artist	Song	Album
9:02 PM	Nightrage	Spiral	A New Disease is Born
9:05 PM	Raintime	Matrioska	Flies & Lies
9:10 PM	Dalraida	Szondi Ket Aprodja (2. Resz)	Kikelet
9:17 PM	Dimmu Borgir	The Serpentine Offering	In Sorte Diaboli
9:21 PM	Star One	Set Your Controls	Space Metal
9:26 PM	The Faceless	The Ghost of a Stranger	Akeldama
9:30 PM	Symphony X	The Edge of Forever	The Damnation Game
9:39 PM	Laethora	Clothing of the Dead	March of the Parasite
9:43 PM	Sonata Arctica	The Vice	Unia
9:48 PM	Conscience	When It's Over	Half Sick of Shadows
9:55 PM	Dream Theater	Under a Glass Moon	Images & Words

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Heavy Metal Baghdad

Hey everyone. We had a great show tonight, extra long @ 90mins which I'll post sometime soon hopefully (as well as last week's show. the week before that was crappy so I'm not gonna post it...).

Anyways, I found this amazing documentary on Youtube made by some indie journalists who went to Iraq to interview the country's only metal band, Acrassicauda.

See below for the full blurb.

It's a 5 part series, which you can find here.
Here's part one:

The group that made this is called VBS.tv, and they seem to be doing really cool alternative journalism stuff, all over the world: Sudan, Pakistan etc...! Check it out.

UPDATE! Here's an update from Roy Ahearn that was posted as a comment below, republished for your convenience:

Hey Guys, could not find your email, wanted to let you know that a new part about this band is up on VBS. In the final installment, the band has reunited in Damascus, Syria and play a reunion concert. We went to the show, hung out with them, and then recorded a demo with the band. Yes, a heavy metal demo in Syria! Something very rare. Through the band, we explore the Iraqi refugee crisis. The current crisis is the worst to happen in the Middle East since the creation of Israel. So far 2.4 million Iraqis have fled Iraq and 2 more million are displaced within Iraq. This is perhaps the worst refugee crisis in the world right now.

Part 1
Part 2

Dionysus Quotage

Sent to me by a friend who has recently fallen in love with the Dionysus song, "Anthem for the Children" (thanks to Melting Point):

So this is what the drummer to Dionysus said about their last album: When asked for comment on the album, drummer Ronny Milianowicz replied:

"This album is so good that you would throw away all other cds you got only to have this one. It will make you drink beer like crazy. It will make your neighbors[sic] your worst enemies. It will make you a true metal warrior."

If that isn't metal, i do not know what is.

My reply to him? "\m/"

'Nuff said.

New MUZAK: Make Requests!

Hey everyone,
Just thought I'd mix things up a bit and write a quick post updating some recent additions to the Melting Point Archives (new material and old).
This is the perfect chance for anyone to make requests! Any albums you've been dying to hear? Check out the list and drop us a note, or comment here! Or just call in during our show, Thursday 9-10pm: 802-443-6323
So without further ado... here are all the albums acquired since the beginning of April:

2007 Forthcoming Releases:

• Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands (June 22)
• Turisas - The Varangian Way (June 18)
  
• KAMELOT - GHOST OPERA (June 4)
  
• Iced Earth - Overture of the Wicked (June 4)
• Samael - Solar Soul (June 1)
  
• Akercocke - Antichrist (May 28)
• Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin (May 28)
  
• Sonata Arctica - Unia (May 25)
• Xandria - Salomé: The Seventh Veil (May 25)
  
• Altaria - Divine Invitation (May 25)
• Planet X - Quantum (May 18)
• Immolation - Shadows in the Light (May 8)
  
• Månegarm - Vargstenen (May 4)
  
• Bloodbound - Book of the Dead (May)

2007 Already Released (as of May 2, 2007)

• The Dogma - A Good Day to Die (April 27)
• Inveracity - Extermination of Millions (April 24)
• Vainglory - Vainglory (April 20)
  
• Sadist - Sadist (April 17)
• Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli (April 17)
  
• Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao (April 16)
  
• Cerberus - Dispute the Truth (April 3rd)
• Heed - Demo 2007 (April 1)
• Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (April)
  
• Overlife - El Despertar (March 30)
• Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup (March 28)
• Machine Head - The Blackening (March 27)
• Sun Caged - Artemesia (March 23)
  
• HolyHell - Apocalypse EP (March 23)
• Soulbreach - My Dividing Line (March 16)
  
• Prophesia - Eye of the Storm (March 3)
  
• Canvas - Digital Pigeon (March, $15 at http://cdbaby.com/cd/canvas07)
  
• Gwyllion - Awakening the Dream (March, €10 @ http://gwyllion.com)
• Labyrinth - 6 Days to Nowhere (Feb 26)
• Moonlight Comedy - Dorothy (Feb 23)
• Spellblast - Horns of Silence (Feb)
  
• Crystal Abyss - Word of the Darkest Ages
• Manticora - The Black Circus Part 2: Disclosure
• Supremacy - Vicious Circle
• Winds of Torment - Delighting in Relentless Ignorance (???)
  

Older Releases:

• 24-7 Spyz - This is 24-7 Spyz (1991)
• Finntroll - Wâldrock Festival, Burgum, Holland 19-06-2004 (2004)
  
• Empty Tremor - The Alien Inside (2004)
  
• Ash - Boneyard (2005)
• The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Armageddon March Eternal (Symphonies of Slit Wrists) (2005)
• Conscience - Half Sick of Shadows (2005)
• Satariel - Hydra (2005)
• Thronar - For Death and Glory (2005)
  
• Dominia - Divine Revelation (Oct 2006)
• Martriden - Martriden EP (2006)