Beer Thirty With Malacoda's Vlad Prokhorov

Are you familiar with the strange beings of Malacoda?

They're from a town in Ontario...Oaklville. Honestly, that superfluous L quite bothers me. There's no reason for that L to exist unless the city of Oaklville, ON was in some sort of feud with Oakville, Manitoba.

This scenario only works if Oaklville is in the part of Ontario that threatened secession in order to join Manitoba. It's the area of Canada I refer to as Manitario.

But I'm fairly certain no one else does.

In the mean time, get your horror rock on with them...but first let's have a beer.

1. My personal favorite beer style is the might Double India Pale Ale. The best DIPA in the world is STLIPA by Urban Chestnut. 

Tell me about your favorite style.

Album Review: "Ritualis Aeterna" by Malacoda

From the very beginning horror and heavy metal have been intrinsically linked.  In 1969 a young band from Birmingham, England called "Earth" had taken up rehearsal space across the street from a cinema.  They noticed the longest lines at the cinema were reserved for the horror movies and decided infusing the genre into their already heavy rock might distinguish their sound.  They also decided to change the name of their band to match the name of the Boris Karloff feature which was attracting such attention at the cinema, "Black Sabbath".  Heavy metal was born.

I have never been interested in horror movies, especially not the gory or violent type.  Still, there is no question, when it comes time to create a soundtrack for the macabre, the mix of horror and rock produces some of the most entertaining and enjoyable music to ever reach my ears.

Many, and it might be fair to say most, metal bands have followed in this proud tradition to some degree.  A few bands completely embrace the sub-genre of horror metal.  The second album from Canadian power metal masters Malacoda has earned a mention among the heavyweights.