#godz

[seren-dipitous-art]

Okay so I’m back with art, and since it’s not bats, it’s aerials, since that is my entire personality at the moment.

I saw Godz by headfirst acrobats on Saturday night and my bi little heart was SO fucking happy. If you wanted to see a show in the Melbourne fringe festival, THIS.

Obsessed with Cupid’s sheepish little face.

[vinylspinning]

Legend: Fröm the Fjörds (1979)

It's been quite some time since I've discovered a 'Graybeard Metal' obscurity as tantalizing and, ultimately, as rewarding as Legend's Fröm the Fjörds (all hail the gratuitous umlauts!), which first appeared as a private pressing in 1979.

Not to be confused with any number of musical entities sharing this overused name (Discogs catalogs over 100 of them!), this Legend hailed from New Haven, Connecticut, and consisted of Kevin Nugent (double-necked guitar and vocals), Fred Melillo (fretted and fretless bass), and Raymond Frigon (superhuman drums).

As its title indicates, Fröm the Fjörds conjured up a prescient Viking metal vision scored to the castle metal majesty of Rainbow and progressive musicianship of Rush, so if citing those two bands doesn't have you racing to Discogs, I don't know what will.

Maybe mentioning like-minded near-contemporaries like Cirith Ungol and Manilla Road will do the trick, or perhaps I should just let you be swept away by epic sonic adventures such as "The Golden Bell" (of course there are ominous chiming bells), "Against the Gods," and the eight-minute title cut (which drifts into jazz fusion midway through).

All of these navigate the turbulent waters where '70s and '80s musical tides intersect, and yet it's the album's very first cut, "The Destroyer," that will henceforth appear in every 'Top Ten '70s Heavy Metal Songs You've Probably Never Heard' list I ever compile.

Almost as good is the sword-and-sorcery head-banger "The Wizard's Vengeance" (later covered by Slough Feg, its slashing staccato riffs tease the looming N.W.O.B.H.M.), and the trio show a sense of humor by adding cliche country-western bookends to the album's frantic, most conventional hard rocker, "R.A.R.Z."

And rounding out the set are a pair of instrumentals, "The Confrontation" and jazzy, train-themed "The Iron Horse," that further showcase the three musicians' astonishing skills -- especially Frigon, who lets loose on the latter with a full-blown drum solo.

Making all this even more impressive, Legend were active for an exceedingly brief moment in time: forming in 1978 as Judge (named after original bassist John Judge) before changing names in '79, recording Fröm the Fjörds, and disbanding before year's end.

Frigon and Melillo went on to enjoy lengthy, if mostly behind-the-scenes careers as session musicians, but the magnificently afro'ed Nugent sadly passed away in 1983 at the age of 26, though I couldn't find the cause -- anyone?

As for Fröm the Fjörds, it has since justifiably earned cult album status been reissued in multiple guises, including a another version expanded with unreleased demos like the frankly off-point "The Court Jester" and the somewhat better "Aramis, the Lover."

Oh, and the album's cover art provides some more trivia, as it was designed by one Ioannis Vassilopoulos, who later crafted the artwork for fellow Connecticuters (yes, that's a word) Fates Warning's The Spectre Within and Awaken the Guardian.

Legendary in every way!

More Castle Metal: 3 Inches of Blood’s Battlecry Under a Winter Sun, Ashbury’s Endless Skies, Behold! The Monolith's Defender/Redeemist, Black Cobra's Feather and Stone, Brocas Helm's Into Battle, Cirith Ungol’s King of the Dead, Griffin’s Flight of the Griffin, High On Fire’s Snakes for the Divine, Isen Torr’s Mighty & Superior EP, Khemmis’ Hunted, Lair of the Minotaur's Carnage, Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s Trilogy, Manilla Road’s Crystal Logic, Manowar’s Hail to England, Omen’s Battle Cry, Queensrÿche’s Queensrÿche EP, Rainbow’s Rising, Silver Mountain’s Shakin’ Brains, Skeletonwitch’s Beyond the Permafrost, Stygian Shore’s Stygian Shore EP, The Sword’s Age of Winters, Virgin Steele’s Guardians of the Flame, Witchkiller’s Day of the Saxons EP.

[triangle-meanace]

Y.V. and Bill are the most chaotic shape ship out there. A chaos god and a gun god

Yea. Nothing bad will happen.

[spicychaosutopia]

art req

[ablubluh]

anyone in Melbourne over the fringe festival PLEASE do yourselves a favour and go see Godz. four of the most beautiful men I've ever seen. balls out. cuntiest cupid/Zeus in the world. I fell in love with Hercules. Apollo was gorgeous. Dionysus also could severely get it. Zeus's phone went off with a grindr notification. high flying routines went crazy. hades also served like the underworld depended on it. 10/10 would go again.

[florabakeryspinger]

Fanart for @littlegeecko

[ray-beanz]

ive ztarted a lizt of random animez I've watched

[ruubesz-draws]

Do you think you’ll ever draw a dummy thicc female Godzilla?