All right, people. It's blog time again and today we have updates from the London Knights and the Toronto Raptors as well as a rant defending a Christian metal album. First off, let's start with the London Knights...
I haven't been blogging much about them because of the whole pile of LeBron James and Chris Bosh news that's been popping up lately and I've been keeping up with the dismal season that the Raptors are currently having. Today fellow Knights fans, I'm making it up to you. We start at the John Labatt Centre where the Knights played host to the Barrie Colts last night. The final score of the game was London 8, Barrie 1. Shots on goal for the game were 46-25 in favour of the Knights. The London goals were scored by Colin Martin, Victor Terreri (2 goals), Dane Fox, Vladislav Namestnikov, Andreas Athanasiou (2 goals) and Jared Knight. Barrie's lone goal came from Aaron Taylor. Tonight, the Knights play in Erie, Pennsylvania in the United States to take on the Erie Otters. The game starts at 7 PM. Here's the recap for the game vs Barrie: Knights 8, Colts 1 - Friday November 12, 2010
Now, onto the Raptors. As many of you may know by now, Toronto has had a rough season so far, having lost 6 straight games. That all changed last night in Orlando as the Raptors defeated the Magic 110-106. The biggest moments in the game first started in the 3rd quarter, where the Raptors used a huge run to help build a 4th quarter lead of 98-90. Orlando then attacked Toronto with a 13-5 run over an approximate stretch of 7 minutes to tie it up. The tie came courtesy of Mickael Pietrus' 7th 3-point shot of the night, leaving Toronto with 29 seconds of playing time. Not to worry, however...Toronto called a timeout and settled down to business. Jarret Jack, starting point guard for the team, received the inbounds pass, ran into the line and dished the ball out to reserve shooting guard Sonny Weems who calmly knocked down the huge 3-point shot over a defensive Dwight Howard. Sonny left Orlando with only 7.1 seconds to play. Around here, we call him "Money" Weems. After that, reserve point guard Jose Calderon stole the inbounds pass and the Raptors then hit 4 straight free throws to win the game. As former Raptors television play-by-play announcer Chuck Swirsky would say, "Ball game over! Raptors win! Raptors win! Raptors win!" Toronto's hero of the game was starting shooting guard and promising sophomore DeMar DeRozan. He scored a career-high 26 points, including 11 of those by drives and free throws. DeRozan would make an incredible 10 of 12 free throw attempts and he would also end up collecting 7 rebounds as well. Newcomer Julian Wright (from the New Orleans Hornets) was also a big contributor last night, collecting 7 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 blocks in 24 minutes of play. There were other nice things he did that don't show up on the stat sheet however. Julian drove into the lane, passed off to open teammates, hit huge corner 3-point shots, stealing an inbounds pass, and was solid on defense. All in all, Toronto played a great game and earned their second win of the season.
Some stats to consider:
- DeMar DeRozan took 12 free throws
- Mickael Pietrus made 8 three-pointers while Toronto made only 6
- Raptors outrebounded the Magic 39-34
- Raptors made 24 free throws while Magic only made 16
- 27 lead changes were present in last night's game
Toronto now goes to Miami tonight to take on the new "Big Three" of LeBron "backstabber" James, Chris Bosh, and Dwayne Wade. The start time for the game is 7 PM and you can catch the game on TSN. Here's the game recap: Yesss! VICTORY!
Lastly...the Christian metal rant. As I was surfing the Web last night, I came across a website called Metal Archives. While browsing I saw that one of my favourite Christian metal bands was on there, called Mortification. I looked further and found that one of the albums, the 1999 release "Hammer of God" had been given an average rating of 31%. Here is the link to the Metal Archives website: Metal Archives home page This confused me because many Mortification fans point to the 2001 offering "The Silver Cord is Severed" as being the weakest Mortification album. This "review" was offered on February 11, 2007 by a user named "droneriot". The catch-line reads "Haha, pathetic." with a shocking 0% rating for the album. In other words, he had nothing good to say about it. You can find this review by first logging onto the Metal Archives website, doing a search for Mortification and then clicking on the Australian option that pops up in the search results list. After doing that, scroll down until you see the band's discography (list of released material). One of them is called "Hammer of God". Click that and you will come to the album's page on the website. After that, click where it says "Average rating for reviews" and you will come to the page where reviews have been done. Finally, scroll down until you see the "droneriot" review. You will then see what I am writing about. Now let's get on with it. In the first paragraph our friend "droneriot" (who might be an atheist or a Satanist judging by his horrid metal collection which you can view by clicking on his username and then clicking where it says "View droneriot's metal collection") spends the majority of his time calling Steve Rowe and his band laughable, comparing him to convicted fraudster and creation scientist Kent Hovind, ranting because Mortification actually dares (gasp!) to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ while playing metal music, and complaining about the lyrics of the album suggesting that the lyrics show "some serious brain damage in Steve Rowe's head." Of course, as is the usual fare with these self-proclaimed "reviewers", cursing is allowed to add to the pathetic piece of junk along the way. Our expert is no exception, uttering the f-word when discussing Steve's "brain damage". I had to laugh because droneriot even had the audacity to paint Mortification as displaying "Bible belt-style Christian moronismatron." First of all, Steve and his band members don't live in the "Bible belt" or even anywhere in North America. They are from "down under" in Australia! Secondly, the term "moronismatron" isn't even a real word! The dude just made it up in his anger! Here's the proof: Word Definition Results Also too, the irony here is that droneriot is complaining of Mortification having a "Bible-belt" type of bias when he HIMSELF has a liberal, atheistic or Satanic type of bias. Can you say HYPOCRITE? Thus ends the first paragraph.
In the second paragraph of the "review" we find droneriot opening up by complaining about Steve Rowe's constant speaking (or in his words "whining") of his miraculous victory over leukemia that occurred during late 1996-early 1998. All of this is done while droneriot here has HIMSELF been whining against Mortification! Again, this is hypocrisy and it really shows how immature the person is. Also too, the following questions must be asked to droneriot about his claim of Steve for most of his career working up his reputation "by whining about his sickness in every review he could find": First, how many reviews have you heard/read Steve do about his band? Second, could you link or give evidence for them? Third, what evidence do you have that Steve is merely playing on emotions and working up his reputation by talking consistently about his cancer? It could very well be that the cancer had a profound impact on his life and he just wants to use that as a testimony for how God has helped him and also as a tool to encourage and help others, especially other Christians. This is clearly Steve's motivation if you listen to Mortification's live albums that were done after the cancer miracle occurred. Those live albums are entitled "Ten Years Live, not Dead" done in 2000 and "Live Humanitarian" done in 2007. It's especially evident on the "Live Humanitarian" album. Fourth, what evidence do you have that the doctor who helped Steve get better was an atheist? (In droneriot's review, he makes that claim in the second paragraph.) If you are going to make these claims, then you must have some evidence for them seeing as how you atheists are always harping on how we Christians supposedly don't provide evidence for our God or our faith. Yeah, what a way to write a second paragraph.
Onto the final part of droneriot's review...the music. To sum up, droneriot complains that Steve is mostly half-singing/half-screaming and doing a bad job of it, drummer Lincoln Bowen produces a soft and slower-paced sound to the music, the riffs apparently are similar to secular POP star Britney Spears in her worst times, blah, blah, blah. He also makes comparisons to other pop stars such as Michael Jackson in his song "We are the World". What he doesn't understand is that this album is mostly a combination of groovy thrash and POWER METAL, reminiscent of the old Lightforce days (Mortification's original name) back in the late 1980's. Click here for proof: Hammer of God Album on Wikipedia Therefore, you're not going to hear the growling and fast drumming here. If you're looking for that, check out Mortification's older albums dating from 1990-1995. THERE is death and thrash metal for you! Granted, the lyrics are cheesy and naive and Steve's vocals could have been much better, but it could have been a fallout from his cancer recovery. However if this album isn't your thing, don't complain about it. It makes you look like a loser. Steve Rowe's vocals have improved lately however, with the releases of "Relentless" in 2002, "Brain Cleaner" in 2004, "Erasing the Goblin" in 2006, and "The Evil Addiction Destroying Machine" in 2009. Lastly, our "expert" whines about one of the BONUS tracks on the album, entitled "God Rulz". He complains about the title and that the lyrics to the song is the title repeated over and over again. What he doesn't know is that this is an updated version of a song entitled "The Majestic Infiltration of Order" from the 1990 demo album "Break the Curse" and the debut 1991 self-titled album. The proof for this is here: Mortification band info I'll make him search for the evidence since he wrote a poor and immature review of the band. He also hypocritically complains about Steve's supposed lack of maturity while having spent the ENTIRE review whining against Mortification and being immature himself. A good example is his "conclusion". In it, droneriot actually has the gall to use coarse and profane language such as p--- and to even say that you should throw things at the Mortification band members if you ever see them live. Droneriot also says that you should flush their albums down your toilet (thereby breaking your toilet), etc. He also says that "we have established the fact that Steve Rowe is a moron..." What he actually has proven is that he knows little about Mortification's history and that he is an immature jerk who hates this music just because it is Christian and conservative (that's what his "Bible belt" remarks mean) Droneriot has also proven to us that he is a hypocrite because he complained about Steve's "Bible belt" bias while having a liberal one himself, and he complained about Steve supposedly "whining" about his cancer miracle while he goes on whining against the Mortification band. For better reviews, click the Mortification band info link I have provided and also go on to this link as well: Great Mortification Reviews done PROFESSIONALLY Granted, these reviews are done by a former Christian musician but you should still take the time to browse them. I believe you'll find them interesting. The man's name is Scott Waters. He also listens to alot of non-Christian metal music as well, so he won't be completely biased. As for this droneriot individual, he should hang his head in shame for his "review" because some average Joe or non-Christian will click them and think, "Ooh, this is a terrible band!" and will then never want to check them out for him or her self.
In conclusion, don't listen to the droneriot person, he doesn't know what he is talking about. Check out Mortification and their albums (especially the "Hammer of God" one) for yourself and see what you think. After all, it is music. Hopefully they will lead you to the truth of the Gospel and to saving faith in Jesus Christ. That's all for now and thank you for reading this special blog edition. Remember, Raptors and Knights both play tonight!
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