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Hatebeak: The “Deathsquawk” Band with a Parrot Lead Singer

27 Nov 2025 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: hatebeak

Straight Outta Wikipedia:

Hatebeak is an American death metal band, formed by Blake Harrison and Mark Sloan, featuring Waldo (b. 1991), a grey parrot. Hatebeak is reported to be the first band to have an avian vocalist. They never tour so as to not distress Waldo. Hatebeak is signed to Reptilian Records. They released the album Number of the Beak on June 26, 2015, through Reptilian Records.

The band’s sound has been described as “a jackhammer being ground in a compactor”. Aquarius Records magazine called Hatebeak “furious and blasting death metal”. Hatebeak made its second record with Caninus, a band whose lead singers were two dogs. Hatebeak’s goal is to “raise the bar for extreme music”.

Band members

Waldo the Parrot – vocals
Mark Sloan – guitar, bass
Blake Harrison – drums (died 2024)

Discography

Beak of Putrefaction split with Longmont Potion Castle (2004)
Bird Seeds of Vengeance split with Caninus (2005)
The Thing That Should Not Beak split with Birdflesh (2007)
The Number of the Beak (2015)
Birdhouse By The Cemetery split with Boar Glue (2018)

Three Incandescent 70’s Songs

11 Nov 2025 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts

Every era of music has its standards; undeniable, indispensable, and ultimately inescapable cultural markers that live down the generations.

I don’t have to remind you that “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Hotel California” and “Sweet Caroline” are as much a part of the 2020’s as they were part of the 70’s. You already know it, and so do your children–and maybe their children.

As much as classics like these deserve all the love and longevity, it’s not the thrust of this particular blog to celebrate the ubiquitous. In fact, mostly the focus here is to redirect the spotlight to the deserving but relatively overlooked songs or artists.

In the category of Songs You May Have Missed, we feature almost exclusively songs that never cracked the US Top 40 or were never singles at all.

The songs we recall here though were hits in their time, but didn’t live beyond it–or at least didn’t have the same afterlife of those universally acknowledged classics.

No mock operatic ambitions or snazzy guitar solos here. These songs have never been sung in a sports stadium.

They are just quietly devastating, tragically honest, perfectly arranged. These songs are transcendent. And, if you haven’t heard them lately, worth a fresh listen.

Roberta Flack: “If Ever I See You Again” (1978)

The 5th Dimension: “If I Could Reach You” (1972)

Aretha Franklin: “Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)” (1973)

The Velvet Sundown explained: What’s behind the Spotify-verified AI band controversy?

05 Nov 2025 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: velvet sundown

(via Euronews) By David Mouriquand

Have you heard of the band The Velvet Sundown?

They’re blowing up right now, racking up more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify – which is pretty good going for a group that formed less than two months ago.

What’s also impressive is that the prolific four-piece psych-rock outfit have already released two albums on their “Verified Artist” profile: ‘Floating On Echoes’ and ‘Dust And Silence’, which were dropped on 5 and 20 June respectively.

There are no signs of slowing down, as their new collection of “cinematic alt-pop and dreamy analogue soul” is out soon, with their third opus titled ‘Paper Sun Rebellion’ coming out on 14 July.

Vocalist and “mellotron sorcerer” Gabe Farrow, guitarist Lennie West, “bassist-synth alchemist” Milo Rains and “free-spirited percussionist” Orion ‘Rio’ Del Mar must be thrilled with their sudden rise in popularity.

At least they would be… if they were capable of human emotion.

Yep, The Velvet Sundown don’t exist. Not really.

How John Lennon Ended His Fight With Todd Rundgren

19 Oct 2025 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: john lennon, todd rundgren

*How John Lennon Ended His Fight With Todd Rundgren© Ultimate Classic Rock*

(via Ultimate Classic Rock) by Martin Kielty

Todd Rundgren recalled how John Lennon contacted him privately to end a public war of words that broke out in 1974.

The pair met during the ex-Beatle’s infamous “lost weekend,” a time when he was frequently drunk, stoned and out of control. It had been a disappointing experience for Rundgren, a massive fan.

“I met him at a party in the period he was drinking withHarry Nilsson and misbehaving all over Hollywood,” the guitarist and producer told the The Guardian in a recent interview…

David Bowie said John Lennon revealed his three rules for songwriting to him

16 Sep 2025 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags: david bowie, john lennon

(via Guitar Player) by Elizabeth Swann

In 1974, David Bowie was fresh off his reign as the glam-rock’s biggest act. After his breakthrough success that began with Ziggy Stardust and continued through Diamond Dogs, he was about to make a turn toward soul and funk with his next album, Young Americans.

Despite his success, he could still be in awe of his idols. When the opportunity to meet John Lennon arose that year, Bowie was beside himself.

Like millions of teens in the 1960s, he had been a Beatles fan. His own career began to take off in the mid 1960s, during which time he flirted with influences ranging from the Rolling Stones to the Who to Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd. But while Bowie never dabbled in the Beatles’ style of pop, but he was enamored of the group, and John Lennon in particular.

“Oh hell, he was one of the major influences on my musical life,” Bowie said in an interview recorded in the 1980s. “I mean, I just thought he was the very best of what could be done with rock and roll, and also ideas.

“I felt such kin to him in as much as that he would rifle the avant-garde and look for ideas that were so on the outside, on the periphery of what was the mainstream — and then apply them in a functional manner to something that was considered populist and make it work. He would take the most odd idea and make it work for the masses…