sábado, 28 de agosto de 2010

Whiskey in the jar





Whiskey in the Jar is a famous Irish traditional song which has first-person story of a bandit who is betrayed by a woman, which is not safe if your wife or lover.

It is one of the most performed Irish songs, and has been covered by artists like The Dubliners, The Pogues, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Highwaymen, Roger Whittaker, Clancy Brothers, Tommy Makem, The Irish Rovers, Poxy Boggards, The Limeliters, King Creosote, The Shatilla Shakers and The Brobdingnagian Bards. In the field of rock music.

Ozzy Osbourne





John Michael Osbourne (born in Birmingham, England on December 3, 1948) is a singer, musician and songwriter with a career spanning more than forty years of activity. In the beginning, was part of the original members of the prestigious and influential heavy metal band Black Sabbath which is credited with being the creator of this genre, the late 60s and early 70s, then start a solo career in the early '80s, making big hits and revolutionizing the genre again. It is known as The Madman (The Fool), The Godfather of Heavy Metal (The godfather of heavy metal) and The Prince of Darkness (The prince of darkness). He has been certified by the RIAA multiplatinum sales of several of his solo albums. At the turn of the century has also gained a wide media coverage, especially for his appearance on the reality show broadcast by MTV The Osbournes, based on the daily life of its controversial family.

Megadeth








Megadeth is an American heavy metal band led by founder and principal songwriter Dave Mustaine. It is a major heavy metal bands, has appeared several times in the top 10 of Billboard charts and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. [2] was created in 1983 after Mustaine kicked out of Metallica, where he held the post of lead guitarist. Since then, the band has released twelve studio albums, three EPs and two albums live.

The formation of Megadeth has changed a lot and constantly throughout its history, in part because of substance abuse by Dave Mustaine, which has caused various problems with the rest of the band. After finding sobriety and securing a stable lineup after being admitted to a clinic because of such problems, Megadeth album scored several platinum and gold, including multi-platinum album and Grammy nominee, Countdown to Extinction, in 1992. Megadeth disbanded in 2002 after Mustaine suffered a severe nerve injury to his left arm, but after an intense physical therapy, guitarist reformed the band in 2004 and Megadeth released The System Has Failed, followed by the album United Abominations released in 2007, and the successful Endgame, released in 2009.

Megadeth is known for his distinctive guitar style, the peculiar form of singing Mustaine, and the subjects of his lyrics, often recurrent, politics, war, and, more recently, relationships. Two music videos of the band have been censored at the MTV music channel because of alleged issues in favor of suicide [3].

Megadeth is a thrash metal bands most famous in history, as it has sold over 25 million albums worldwide, [4] including nine consecutive platinum albums and seven consecutive Grammy nominations in the category of Best Performance Metal. Through more than 25 active years, Megadeth has had 18 official members, with Mustaine the only permanent member and main songwriter. Megadeth is often mentioned as one of the Big Four thrash metal alongside Metallica, Slayer and Anthrax.

jueves, 26 de agosto de 2010

Black Sabbath




Black Sabbath is an English heavy metal band formed in 1968 [4] in Birmingham by Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar), Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums). Since then, the band has undergone many lineup changes, with more than twenty-five former members. Formed originally as a rock blues band called Polka Tulk at first and later, Earth, the group sat on the occult and horror lyrics with guitars tuned in a more severe, changing its name to Black Sabbath and getting several gold and platinum the 1970s. As one of the earliest and most influential heavy metal bands of all time, Black Sabbath helped develop the genre with publications such as Paranoid album that was four times platinum. They have sold over fifteen million copies in the United States.

Ozzy Osbourne was fired from the band in 1979 to be replaced by Ronnie James Dio, former vocalist of Rainbow. However, Black Sabbath saw how, over the 1980s and 1990s, it took four more vocalists Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, Ray Gillen and Tony Martin. The original lineup met in 1997 and released a live album, Reunion, whose song "Iron Man" won the Grammy Award in 2000, thirty years after its original publication in Paranoid. The alignment of the early 1980s consisting of Iommi, Butler, Dio and Vinny Appice met in 2006 under the name Heaven and Hell, a title taken from the Black Sabbath album of the same name.

Lars Ulrich




Lars Ulrich, is a Danish drummer best known as co-founder and co-leader (with James Hetfield) of the heavy metal band Metallica.

Born December 26, 1963 in Gentofte (Denmark), within a family of upper-middle class. Being a tennis prodigy in his youth, Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of sixteen to pursue his education, but instead to continue playing tennis, he decided to battery. After publishing an advertisement in a local newspaper in Los Angeles called The Recycler, he met James Hetfield.

His playing is very varied, ranging from the simple rhythms of rock album The Black Album, to the complex and fast parts in many of the themes of the heaviest Metallica albums like Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning or ... And Justice for All (the latter made some of the most difficult and complex rhythms of all who have the group). It is also recognized as one of the best drummers of all time.