Weekly Music News 22.12.24
Updated: 10 hours ago
Thirteen years have passed since the last album by Shabak Samech and this week they release their seventh album and start preparing for their annual show on January 2, 2025, at Hangar 11 in Tel Aviv. The album was produced by rappers and musicians Tzukush and Cohen, with songs that reveal an intriguing new tone from a band that knows how to bring distortion and drums into its hip-hop!
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It has become an annual ritual: Paul McCartney sends his fans greetings for Hanukkah and Christmas, which fall on the same day again this year. He wrote: "Happy Christmas all round the world and have a heck of a Hanukkah - Paul"
The magazine "Rolling Stone" has published its list of the 20 best metal albums released in 2024.
How many albums on the list do you know?
Kerry King, ‘From Hell I Rise’
Opeth, ‘The Last Will and Testament’
Crypt Sermon, ‘The Stygian Rose’
High on Fire, ‘Cometh the Storm’
Bruce Dickinson, ‘The Mandrake Project’
Blood Incantation, ‘Absolute Elsewhere’
Judas Priest, ‘Invincible Shield’
Huntsmen, ‘The Dry Land’
Chat Pile, ‘Cool World’
Thou, ‘Umbilical’
Paysage d’Hiver, ‘Die Berge’
Sumac, ‘The Healer’
Knocked Loose, ‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’
Unholy Altar, ‘Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite’
Whores., ‘War.’
Gouge Away, ‘Deep Sage’
Darkthrone, ‘It Beckons Us All…….’
Battlesnake, ‘The Rise and Demise of the Motorsteeple’
Tzompantli, ‘Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force’
Body Count, ‘Merciless’
Speaking of metal, one of our favorite subgenres is metalcore. Here is "Loudwire" magazine's list of 15 metalcore and hardcore albums of 2024:
156/Silence, People Watching
Alpha Wolf, Half Living Things
Better Lovers, Highly Irresponsible
Candy, It's Inside You
The Chisel, What a F***ing Nightmare
Contention, Artillery From Heaven
Erra, Cure
Knocked Loose, You Won't Go Until You're Supposed To
Missing Link, Watch Me Bleed
Nails, Every Bridge Burning
Poppy, Negative Spaces
SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Coup De Grace
Speed, Only One Mode
Thrown, Excessive Guilt
WristMeetRazor, Degeneration
This may belong to last week's news, but it is still excellent and we want you to know that King Diamond has released a new song, "Spider Lilly". It is the first single from his upcoming horror trilogy, whose first part will be called "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920" and is expected in 2025, with no release date announced yet. King Diamond wrote the music and lyrics, sings and plays Hammond organ. He is joined by Andy La Rocque and Mike Wead on guitars, Pontus Egberg on bass and Matt Thompson on drums. Danish singer Myrkur guests with stunning backing vocals.
Also, Rami Fortis released a first single last week, seven years after his last album, "Mador Feyot". The song, "HaGirsa HaHadasha", is a moving dream of a different country. Fortis wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music with Uri Kutner, who also produced it. The single was recorded with his live band: Kutner, Guy Fortis (his eldest son), Anna Raz and Danny Ever-Hadani.
This is also from last week, but do not miss it: the full two-hour documentary about Phil Collins released by drum education platform Drumeo, which has long offered much more than lessons. If you do not know it, it is worth exploring. "Phil Collins: Drummer First" follows Collins' career and, as its title suggests, his view of himself as a drummer first and everything else second.
The album "Nevermind" by Nirvana continues breaking records. This week it becomes only the ninth album to spend more than 700 weeks on the Billboard 200, despite having been released over 30 years ago. The album shot up the sales charts within months of its September 24, 1991 release. In January, it knocked Michael Jackson's "Dangerous" off the top of the Billboard 200. This week it sits at No. 120, between Linkin Park's "Hybrid Theory" and a Metro Boomin album.
You have probably heard the headlines about Taylor Swift's latest tour becoming the highest-grossing tour of all time, with over five million tickets and a billion dollars in revenue. So you might be surprised to learn that "Metallica" is in tenth place. With the M72 tour, which began in 2023, the band sold over 1.5 million tickets, bringing in over $180 million.
Meitav Sherman releases a new single, "Machar Achzor Bachazara". Meitav wrote the lyrics and music. The song seems to look back at all the bad things its character has experienced or done, asking whether she will return. The recording features Omer Funk on drums, Ron Yitzhaki on guitars and Ariel Yom Tov on bass.
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