As devoted followers of Metal Oda Instagram page might already know, each month I pick a classic vintage car and post a short review entitled “The Classic Car of the Month”. As the first post on classic cars at metaloda.com web page, we have prepared this month’s article along with Alp Karpuzoğlu, Anesthesia Band vocalist Ege’s brother, a classical cars enthusiast and an expert in this field. For metaloda.com, Alp chose a very special classic car, the 1962 Chevy Impala SS Sport Golden Anniversary.
When I wrote about the best metal albums of 2021 in December, I didn’t tell you which one I thought was the best among them. There was one hint though about its release date for the attentive reader. As I said in this article, there was that one album in 2021 which left me speechless and this is the “Moonflowers” by the Finnish death-doom masters Swallow The Sun. When I reviewed Iron Maiden’s Senjutsu in September, I remember saying it was too early to label this or that as the best metal album of the year, although I am a great Iron Maiden fan.
Some musicians hold a special place in my heart, one good example is prog metal master Steven Wilson. In October 2021, I made a broadcast in Clubhouse Metal Oda on Steven entitled “The Genius of Steven Wilson” where we explored his music through the years. Steven was nominated for 2022 Grammy Awards at the end of November: this was when I started to write this article. Many familiar faces in Rock & Metal genre are nominated for 2022 Grammy Awards in different categories: those who come immediately to my mind are Gojira, AC/DC, Mastodon, Dream Theater, Deftones and Rob Zombie. When I checked Wilson’s nomination, I was surprised to find out it was in Production-Best Immersive Audio category and not in song writing. So, here it would be appropriate to dive a little bit into Immersive Audio.
A lot has been said and written about the album “Fortitude” by the French technical death metal band Gojira, since its release in April 2021. Now as the end of the year draws near and we go through the best albums of 2021, I wanted to say a few words on this powerful album. Read more
As the end of 2021 nears and we discuss the Best Metal Album of the Year, here is a list of my favorite ones, which I have listened to as soon as they hit the digital platforms: (remark: this is a random order, not a ranking).
Icelandic piano superstar Vikingur Olafsson who has been on my radar for many years now, has won the 2021 Limelight Recording of the Year Award with his album ‘Mozart & Contemporaries’. This little essay is the outcome of my excitement with the news. Read more
LEPROUS-APHELION 14/11/2021
Dear Metalheads,
In this first music article on my own website, I wanted to talk about the new progressive metal band Leprous album Aphelion, released on August 27, 2021. At the beginning of September, I had listened to a few tracks from this beautiful album, in the middle of all the Senjutsu and the Metallica Blacklist tumult. Read more
It has been exactly 30 years since the release of the cult album “Metallica” by the legendary band Metallica, which is known as “The Black Album” due to its cover design. The group’s best-selling, best-known album, whose tracks are among the classics, entered the Billboard 200 charts at number one in 1991. Like Master Bruce Dickinson once said, The Black Album introduced metal to the masses and paved the way for the successors of the genre. To celebrate the 30th year, more than 50 artists from various countries and continents of the world, who make music in very different genres, were asked to interpret their favorite Metallica song from the album; and this is how the Metallica Blacklist was born, including 53 cover tracks, all profits of which will be donated to charities.
FROM SENJUTSU TO SEPPUKU, FROM DUNKERQUE TO SHOGUN
Dear Metalheads,
Here I am with you, eagerly ready to review “SENJUTSU”, the 17th studio album of IRON MAIDEN, one of the biggest Heavy Metal bands of all time. The album streamed on all digital platforms at midnight on September the 3rd, 2021, that is 6 years after their last “Book of Souls”. Read more