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​Faster Pussycat, metal pig and Huminoita

2/10/2016

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I recently completed a quiz on the BBC News website to see just how “metal” I am. My expectation was that I’d score reasonably well given that the musical genre has been important to me for the best part of 30 years; but there was a chance/risk, depending upon the questions, that I’d be labelled a fake metaller – a “deaf leopard” (and I hope you get why that label is funny and perfect).

The link below will allow you to test your knowledge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/8eb5dcb6-10c6-4356-943b-659d3bb1ecef?intc_type=singletheme&intc_location=superbowl&intc_campaign=superbowl&intc_linkname=quiz_howmetal_contentcard3

Fortunately I managed to achieve seven out of ten on my first go (see associated image) and that, according to the BBC, labels me a “faster pussycat”.  The ultimate “steel panther” status was just one mark away. Damn!

Metal has been on my mind for a few other reasons too.

The latest Megadeth album is playing in my car at the moment. “Dystopia” is excellent and I recommend a listen to all my readers (though I accept that my parents won’t be tempted).

Separately, the start of the Chinese New Year celebrations prompted me to look up my associated animal. It turns out I was born in the year of the pig. So I am a pig, but not just any pig – in 1971 the pig subset was “metal”. I am therefore a “metal pig” and, though I have no idea what it means, the label is suitably Black Sabbath enough and I can live with it.

The subject of labels brings me on to Huminoita – a band from Finland. Huminoita’s record label “Luova” got in touch with me last week and sent me links to free downloads of the band’s albums and online press information.

Here’s what was shared:

"Hello Adrian,

Huminoita is a rock band from Finland. Their new album ‘All is Two’ has gained several celebrating reviews on music magazines & blogs all over Europe. Huminoita’s music can be described with the words like psychedelic, stoner, alternative, progressive, instrumental.

You may listen and download Huminoita’s new album via this link. If you prefer CD instead of digital please contact me." 


I have to admit that the approach, made via the contact form on my website, made my day. My appreciation of hard music and my inclination to blog has somehow got me on to the media radar of this record company.

​And I can’t let that sentence pass without some celebration. A business has got in touch with me because my blogger status has indicated to it that a review from me would have some value. Enough potential value to make material freely available to me in the same way that it has been made available to music journalists around the world.

I’ll admit that I felt a genuine degree of excitement and a compulsion to tell a few people the good news. A sniff of journalistic nirvana for me – the first time that I have had any approach of this nature. I so hope that it wasn’t some kind of clerical error!

I duly downloaded two albums “All is Two” and “Huminoita” and I will write a review in due course and share it with you. Because I am an old-school, CD-playing, gig-going and ageing head-banger, it will take me a little longer to listen to the albums all the way the through. Unlike Dystopia, I can’t slot the Huminoita music into my car CD player and listen to it on the way to and from work.

But bear with me because I will pay attention and I will share my feedback; the first impressions are very positive, these Finns rock! The review will just be a post for another day.

Watch this space.

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