It seems like M. Shadows wants to know where the angels die. Welcome to Ryan’s Metal Reviews, and today’s review is another song from Avenged Sevenfold’s seventh album The Stage. This particular song takes on a different subject matter. Written in Drop D Tuning and mostly credited by vocalist M. Shadows and lead guitarist Synyster…
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Music Review: Gorillaz “Humanz” A Welcome Addition to 2017
World famous music group Gorillaz are back with great new music in 2017 after a whopping 7 year hiatus. Gorillaz are considered the world’s most successful virtual band, with music created by British singer Damon Albarn and animations by British artist Jamie Hewlett. Since 1999 they have worked together to create videos and music with…

Ryan’s Metal Beat #2: Avenged Sevenfold’s “We’re Creating God”
According to lead singer M. Shadows, Avenged Sevenfold’s track “Creating God” addresses the fact that “computers are getting smarter and smarter, and all of a sudden they’re becoming your god; they’re so much more intelligent than you, you seem like apes to them, or ants.” The fifth track of their seventh studio album The Stage, “Creating…

La La Land Soundtrack Review: To Those Who Dream
La La Land, the record setting, award winning musical rom com starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, is truly the movie to see this season. Being nominated for seven awards in the Golden globes and winning all of them, La La Land set the record for most awards won and received for any one movie….

Ryan’s Metal Reviews: Avenged Sevenfold Starts Thrashin’ Against Politics
Avenged Sevenfold is releasing their fourth song off of their seventh studio album, The Stage, as their second promotional single for that said album. Primarily written by guitarist Zacky Vengeance, this upcoming single is one of their most thrash metal influenced songs of this record and it is entitled “God Damn”. It is set to…

Movie Review – Resident Evil: The Final Chapter: “So many limbs were cut off it was insane”
Living in the shadow of its more popular video game, virtual reality compatible counterpart, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter was very underwhelming. Lacking the backbone of already established characters from the videogames to carry it through its playtime, this spineless monstrosity flopped with fans more than a lickers tounge. One good thing about this ideration…

Ryan’s Metal Reviews: Third Progressive Masterpiece of “The Stage”
“Sunny Disposition” is the third track of Avenged Sevenfold’s recent album, The Stage. Or no wait… I should say that “Sunny Disposition” is the third masterpiece of Avenged Sevenfold’s collage of progressive thrash metal epicness, The Stage. This song takes on a lyrical concept of nuclear warfare. It’s especially found as evident in chorus 1,…

Ryan’s Metal Reviews: Avenged Sevenfold’s “The Stage” Part II
Well, Avenged Sevenfold’s album released earlier this fall, and there was misleading info about this album prior to its release. I want to set the record straight before I talk about more released music by these guys. First of all, it has a surprise release on October 28, 2016. Not on December 9, 2016 as…

Ryan’s Metal Reviews: Marilyn Manson: The leader of the beautiful people!!
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people!? It should feel great, because “The Beautiful People” is still considered one of the best songs by Marilyn Manson. Off of one of his albums, Antichrist Superstar, this song focuses on the concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, poet, and…

La La Land movie review
La La Land, the record setting, award winning musical rom-com starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, is truly the movie to see this season. Being nominated for seven awards in the Golden Globes and winning all of them, La La Land set the record for most awards won and received for any one movie. La…