The Bloodywood album we have on The List was only very briefly touched on in a #MontageMonday post a few weeks ago. So, today let's put the spotlight back on them and listen to their newest album, just released on Friday! Features a collab with BABYMETAL ("Bekhauf"), and also a fun song about cooking ("Tadka"). This band is an absolute delight.
Bloodywood - Nu Delhi (2025, India)
Oof, this was an excellent album to jump-start the week off with (thanks to 1001 Other Albums...oh wait, I added this one, lol). Looking forward to their new one coming out in a couple weeks!
Montage Monday | Bloodywood – Rakshak (2022, India) / Prophets of Rage – s/t (2017, US) / Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible (1994, Wales) / Rage Against The Machine – s/t (1992, US)
Today’s spotlight is the second in our new series called “Montage Monday”, where the spotlight may be brief but is packed with a lot of music. And for no particular reason, this Montage Monday we’re going to spotlight albums spanning 30 years that have some (very well-justified) anger issues, working backward in case doing so can turn back time. One key song per album is highlighted, but titrate additional tunes/anger in as needed.
Want to read more? See the full spotlight: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/03/03/montage-monday-bloodywood-prophets-of-rage-manic-street-preachers-rage-against-the-machine/
Want to skip straight to the music? Here are the listening links for the key songs (links for full albums in blog post):
Bloodywood – “Dana Dan” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65A626Ed20
Prophets of Rage – “Unfuck the World” https://prophetsofrage.bandcamp.com/track/unfuck-the-world
Manic Street Preachers – “Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart” https://song.link/ca/i/942562497
Rage Against The Machine – “Killing in the Name” https://song.link/ca/i/191450927
Happy listening!
Song has mention of sexual assault and violence, album cover has photo of someone self-immolating
Today’s spotlight is the second in a new series called “Montage Monday”, where the spotlight may be brief but is packed with a lot of music. Because, sometimes, you need a montage (montage!).[1]
And for no particular reason, this Montage Monday we’re going to spotlight albums spanning 30 years that have some anger issues – or, rather, address issues with very well-justified anger -, working backward in case doing so can turn back time. Each title is directly linked to its Bandcamp/Songlink in case you want to just jump straight in and forego the montage completely, though the montage this time around is really just suggestions of some key tunes. Titrate additional tunes/anger in as needed. Ready?
Bloodywood – Rakshak [bloodywood.bandcamp.com] (2022, India)[2] / Prophets of Rage – s/t [prophetsofrage.bandcamp.com] (2017, US)[3] / Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible [album.link] (1994, Wales)[4] / Rage Against The Machine – s/t [www.discogs.com] (1992, US)[5]
Bloodywood – “Dana Dan” (Youtube video [www.youtube.com]; Songlink [song.link]): You might think you don’t like nu-metal, until you hear this song/album/band. This band is bloody amazing, and the video for this song always gets me jacked up (CW: mention of sexual assault and violence). (Watch for their third LP, Nu Delhi [bloodywood.bandcamp.com], coming out later this month – one track [bloodywood.bandcamp.com] features BABYMETAL!)
I put a fist through the face of a rapist, and yeah, I tape this
For the viewing pleasure of the nameless faces he disgraces
And yeah, one day I may change his kind with my mind, but
I won’t bow to the beast, never make peace
Prophets of Rage – “Unfuck the World” (Bandcamp [prophetsofrage.bandcamp.com]): See also the entire rest of this album, the only LP from an explosive supergroup of members from Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill formed in the wake of the 2016 US election. So.
Give a damn, evil can’t stand, yeah
When the people take a stand
C’mon!No hatred, fuck racists
Blank faces, time’s changin’
One nation, unification
The vibration, unfuck the world!
Manic Street Preachers – “Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit’sworldwouldfallapart” (Songlink [song.link]): Contents as stated.
And lastly, for the Rage Against The Machine track, we’re obviously going to have to go with “Killing in the Name” (Songlink [song.link]), seeing as, still, some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
[Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me
The cover art is a moody painting of a large elephant emerging from the shadows, with very long tusks and gold pain on its forehead and trunk, standing behind a person kneeling down on the stone floor, looking ready to run at or pounce at something. The band name is in yellow/gold at the top center, and the album name is in smaller white font at the bottom center.] [1001otheralbums.com][
The cover art is a simple two-tone background (cream and black, each colour taking up a half triangle) with a cartoon raised fist in front of a red star. The band name is in black font in the top left corner.] [1001otheralbums.com][
The cover art is mostly a cream-coloured background with the album name at the top center in black font, band name below that in smaller font, and the track listing in very small font taking up the bottom portion. In between the band name and track listing is a triptych of paintings depicting a person wearing a bra and underwear and looking down, with an odd perspective as if the viewer was on the floor looking up. ] [1001otheralbums.com][
The cover art is a monochromatic version of Malcolm Browne's photograph of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, self-immolating in 1963. The band name is in white font along the bottom, against a black background.] [1001otheralbums.com]
1 INCH ARMY makes relectro music. #1ia #1incharmy #oneincharmy #relectro #inverselectro #electromusic #rockmusic #numetal #realhumans #humaninside #noai #handmade #masks #consciousrock
-Saint Agnes-
Concert Picture
Female Fronted is not a Genre Festival, 2024, Berlin
Picture taken by me (c) arnica montana
#FemaleFrontedIsNotAGenre #Saintagnes #MusicWomenWednesday #Berlin #punkrock #numetal
Gotten to my Blind Channel CDs, gotta link this. Definitely in my top 10 Eurovision entries this decade, glad the contest exposed me to them.
This week for #JMusicFriday, @kingu gave us a theme of "East And West" - collaborations between Japanese and Western artists.
A favorite collaboration of mine is when Amy Lee teamed up with Wagakki Band for the song Sakura Rising. https://song.link/us/i/1774459966
It's such a great song.
Additionally, they did a live show together where they did an amazing version of the Evanescence classic Bring Me to Life. Check it out: https://song.link/y/hk1GtYK7BJM
Linkin Park has a new co-lead singer, Emily Armstrong, and a new track - The Emptiness Machine.
I...did not see this coming.
Check it out here: https://song.link/us/i/1766137051
-Closed!]
@catboydale@cubhub.socialIf you like modern metal:
https://youtu.be/8t2jhcTO-5Q?si=M6UOzuPpVsL8M6mg
This is my friend's band. Just spreading the love. Their new music video came out last week.
Fun fact, in the Starless song "Regicide", I wrote the original orchestral part.
Because it’s been a while since we featured some metal from The List, our next spotlight is on number 788, submitted by @raisedfist.
While Alien Weaponry technically formed in 2010, the fact that it took 8 years for them to release their debut album doesn’t seem so shocking when you find out the band members’ ages. Started by brothers Henry Te Reiwhati de Jong and Lewis Raharuhi de Jong when they were only 10 and 8 years old, this band starting making waves between 2014 and 2016 when they opened for a couple well-known Kiwi metal/rock bands, then won a couple of competitions, then received a couple of grants to record and produce a couple music videos, and then were named by Metal Hammer as one of New Zealand’s top 10 metal acts.
I’m fairly certain they first hit my radar with their music video for “Raupatu” (Youtube [www.youtube.com]), one of the three singles off Tū. As with other songs on this album, some of the lyrics are in Māori (the de Jong brothers’s father and paternal grandmother are Māori, connected to the Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Raukawa tribes), and deal with historical events the Māori have experienced at the hands of the British invaders/colonialist government. Even if thrash/nu-metal isn’t your thing, the fact that this album was put out by high school students is impressive, and definitely worth a listen.
The band is still going strong – and it looks like they put on some great live shows – so check out their Youtube channel if you like what you hear.
The album cover has art depicting a head in a horned metal helmet, the face tattooed, teeth bared, and eyes covered. The band name is in the top left corner, the album name in the bottom right. The cover is very dark in general, with a black background.] [1001otheralbums.com][Alt text for accompanying image: The album cover has art depicting a head in a horned metal helmet, the face tattooed, teeth bared, and eyes covered. The band name is in the top left corner, the album name in the bottom right. The cover is very dark in general, with a black background.]
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/25/alien-weaponry-tu-2018-new-zealand-maori/
My picks for #ThursdayFiveList, sorted by size of #TheBlade (sorry, it's mostly rock/metal-oriented)
Trivium - Like a Sword Over Damocles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnMMe_amFKc
Bullet For My Valentine - Knives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEhek9yusks
One Eyed Doll - Fish Knife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_erDJU0p4A
Linkin Park - Sharp Edges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Ni_LskhFc
System of a Down - Needles (only one edge, but it's plural)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y45oADjAAuQ
From 2018: "Down This Side Up". I like this one a lot (except for the over compressed mix). I remember composing several of these during lunch break at school.
Third EP: from 2017, "Spirit Machine". I shamefully like some of these. I think this was the time I started getting introduced to metal genres which I think is sweet. Also has the least amount of dnb from all of these.
My second EP, from 2016 called "New Material." I'm not very fond of this one as a whole, though I can be proud to a couple particular ones.
That new Blind Channel album is fucking brilliant. If you like nu metal you won't be disappointed.
Blind Channel has a new album out. So far really good. 
