Iron Maiden and Jungle Rot

Sounds like night and day, right? Well the newest two videos of the marathon include these bands. Firstly, a unique experiment for Iron Maiden, choosing my favorite song on EACH album by the long-running metal legends.

I'll do a list of my top 15 (or more) Iron Maiden songs in the future with more editing involved. Thanks to the CKN Stream crowd for making this video a reality. What started as a suggestion turned into this.

Secondly, we get to JUNGLE ROT, who just released their newest album ORDER SHALL PREVAIL.

Not a bad effort, but pretty par for the death metal course.

1:10AM EST. We are nearing the 9 Hour mark, so we are more than 1/3rd of the way home.

6 Hour update.

With 6 hours in the books, its been pretty active over here. While only posting 5 videos thus far (including the Lamb of God track review) the stream has taken an hours worth of time and is honestly a great time for the fans to talk with me a little bit, and actually get a piece of the 24 hours action. it'll certainly be a bit more interesting tomorrow when the stream restarts when i am much closer to total sleep deprivation.

As of now, including the things I had to do prior to the start of 24HoursofCKN, I've only been up 14 hours. Not bad at all. I'm still fresh and sharp. No worries yet. Talk to me at this point in time tomorrow morning when I'll have eclipsed 24 hours and the story will be a bit different.

I think 3 more videos will be going up in the coming few hours. Then, during the dead space of morning, I'll be doing more recording than posting, that way many videos can flow starting early tomorrow morning, running up til the finish time of 4:30PM. This is a bit different than the marathon done in 2013, which began at 2PM. That subtle shift in time really causes a shift in how the videos are uploaded and handled. More will come on the back end of 24 hours than the front end, which should be interesting since many will be made at maximum sleep deprivation.

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OH MY GOD!

CKN LIVE! 24 Hours Stream #1

The first of two streams just occurred! Check out the playback!

2 Videos going up right now to go along with this one! We're motoring now!

2 hours 42 minutes in

AUGUST BURNS RED

August Burns Red kicks us off on this marathon of marathons with their newest album FOUND IN FAR AWAY PLACES>

15 minutes in and we already have a video up and going!

OH, did you see the track review of the new Lamb of God song yet? I'll put it below:

                                       That green shirt is gonna get annoying soon enough.

No worries, i'll probably change it later. It gets hot and I sweat. Shit happens.

24 HOURS OF COVERKILLERNATION 2015 HAS BEGUN!

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The countdown timer has stopped, now the count-up timer has begun!

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IT HAS BEGUN. 

24 HOURS OF CKN 2015! Some General Information:

We've come upon it! Only 24 hours separate us from 24 HOURS OF COVERKILLERNATION and the 2015 edition features a couple of new things that weren't a part of the first event that happened WAY BACK in 2013. But before we get into that....a couple basics.

1. Please like/dislike and comment on the videos you watch. As a Nation, we enhance and increase our coverage with all of these "engagement points." Thank you in advance.

2. The option for FAN FUNDING exists now. This event is 24 hours strong, which is definitely a grind. If you opt to give a little during the event, I'd be absolutely stoked and thankful. The option is on the official CKN youtube channel page, or you can contact me directly via facebook.

3. Sharing is key. I'm relying on you, Nation. During the event I'll be listening, creating and editing, so I will be unable to do the level of promotion that I usually do. Blow people's feeds up, post to websites that allow it. Lets break twitter and use #24hoursofCKN for EVERYTHING.

OK, NOW FOR THE FUN STUFF.

WHAT TO EXPECT:

   Album Reviews: 

We have 2 confirmed album reviews at this moment....

• AUGUST BURNS RED - "Found in Far Away Places" 
• JUNGLE ROT - "Order Shall Prevail" 

More will come, and not all will be NEW albums. Suggestions will be taken, but not all can be fulfilled. Remember, I need to have the album available to me. 

  Rants/Topics/CKN Reacts

Nothing is yet confirmed for this section, but they are not out of the question. In 2013 a simple video about the Black Veil Brides and Blood on the Dance Floor turned into a 50,000 view empire. As the day goes on, whatever I read or think will be documented in a video if the topic is cohesive enough. BE PREPARED. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. 

 CKN's Favorite Albums/10 Awesome Songs

CONFIRMED! There will be a new episode of EACH series during the marathon! 

 CKN LIVE

CONFIRMED! Two new episodes of the BRAND NEW Streaming series CKN LIVE will occur. One on each day. Times will be updated via the facebook page! 

HOW DO I FOLLOW THE ACTION??????

If you have this blog saved as a bookmark, check it often during the event. As videos go live, I'll be putting them both on facebook and on here. Why should you have both bookmarked? 

Because Facebook sucks. It doesn't like to deliver the work to all of you in a good timeframe. So to not miss anything, you're gonna want to be HERE. 

Check the CKN channel page or RECENT VIDEOS tab OFTEN during the 24 hour event. That updates nearly instantly, and avoids the possibility that the server gets overwhelmed and refuses to send all of you the notification. 

So one final question remains.....

Are you ready???????

Recent Videos: 5/27 - 6/2

It's that time again! Let's talk about videos posted from the past week on the CKN channel, since youtube and facebook hates to distribute those to all of you! If you're reading this, save this blog to your favorites, as I'll be trying to do a lot more with it in the coming months.

5/27: Asking Alexandria - "I Won't Give In" Track Review

The band behind FROM DEATH TO DESTINY has a new singer and a new song to check out. Overall..its rather average, but no doubt will sound good at live shows. Its got that tone.

5/27: CKN's TOP 30 Favorite Bands of ALL-TIME

This has been requested for a long time. This is a longer video, but covers 30 of CKN's favorite bands of ALL-TIME, taking about a minute to talk about each. A comment has the entire list posted, but do take the time and learn why each band is among CKN's favorites! 

5/29: 10 Awesome Songs You May Not Know: Episode #7 - MORE METAL

Songs 61-70 of this ongoing series cover a wide array of heavy metal music, going from a fringe band that exhibits metal potential to some pulverizing melo-death and melo-black metal. This series just continues to dive deeper and deeper headfirst into music and comes up with more and more gems oft obscured by the mainstream. 

5/30: Helloween - "My God-Given Right" Album Review

Helloween deliver a new album on the year of their 30th anniversary. The disc has a more positive, quirky vibe than the darker STRAIGHT OUT OF HELL that preceded it, but still gives power metal fans a dose of their favorite godfathers. 

5/30: Ghost (B.C.) - "Cirice" Track Review

Wow! Ghost (or Ghost B.C. in America) give us our first taste of upcoming album MELIORA which will be coming in August. This is easily their best song to date, and the review is an absolute must-watch.

6/1: CKN Reacts to "Modern Metal Sucks"

CKN reacts to the video "MODERN METAL SUCKS" posted by fellow reviewer CountBlagorath, and remarks on the topic as well. Considering the wealth of terrific modern metal acts out there today, these three words seem rather...impossible to say the least. 

6/2: Paradise Lost - "The Plague Within" Album Review

Paradise Lost give us album #14, and score the phrase "Paradise Lost CLASSIC" with this one. Mainly because it came in at #10 on.....

6/2: TOP 10 Albums of 2015 (So Far)

Let's face it, we are going to have a TON of albums to talk about in the second half of this year. So let's discuss the first 5/12ths of 2015 and select 10 of the best albums CKN has reviewed in that timespan!