…rld Song,” a number hardly lacking in sway, and when a bombastic drum fill comes in the separate everything, that’s when the real rocking begins. “Tormentor” is even more frenzied, a shot off the DEP bow, just without math being involved. Some the dramatic dynamics that made Svartir Sandir so cool head up “Ei Við Munum Iðrast,” which might be the album’s high point, complete with a finger-tapping guitar solo. With Icelandic being the band’s primar…
…leon Room 5 – Tyler, TX – Click’s Billiards 6 – Shreveport, LA – Riverside Warehouse 7 – Broussard, LA – The Station 13 – Mobile, AL – The Alabama Music Box 14 – New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s…
…o have anything to do with it. Dead Rhetoric: Speaking of changing sounds, coming off the Coma of Souls album which was your last “traditional” thrash album, you went into Renewal. And if you think about it, you were step ahead of everybody because it’s slowed-down and mid-tempo. Were you thinking that far ahead, or did not you have the will to make another Coma of Souls? Petrozza: It’s a mix of everything. When I look back on it, we got into this…
…he Devil Went Down to the Holy Land 3. Killing the Fuss 4. Cash 5. Yuppie Six Feet Underground 6. Copkiller 7. Sledgehammer 8. The Medic 9. Milk 10. Suicide Hotline Pt. 1 11. Suicide Hotline Pt. 2 12. Cannibal 13. I Hate 14. Can You Hear Me Now?…
…y a carbon copy of Left Hand Path. Thankfully Obliteration have done their homework and decided that variety is indeed the spice of (decaying) life. With some reference to their hometown, a notable addition of raw black metal grimness and small dose of punk attitude have been injected along with a hint of doom. The mixture never seems forced, and allows for lengthier tracks like the nearly 8-minute “Transient Passage” to run their course without o…
…he Devil Went Down to the Holy Land 3. Killing the Fuss 4. Cash 5. Yuppie Six Feet Underground 6. Copkiller 7. Sledgehammer 8. The Medic 9. Milk 10. Suicide Hotline Pt. 1 11. Suicide Hotline Pt. 2 12. Cannibal 13. I Hate 14. Can You Hear Me Now?…
…. Gehlke General housekeeping We recently launched a giveaway for emerging math/noise mongers Ape Machine. Click here to enter! Features Canadian thrash gang Fatality have produced yet another comedic tour diary, their 12th (!) overall. Get to know Luxembourg modern metallers Scarred. German dark metal/rockers Autumnblaze were kind enough to wax with DR about their new album, Every Sun Is Fragile. Ray Alder of legendary progressive metallers Fates…
…Press, AS I LAY DYING’s frontman will stand trial on a charge of trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife, a judge in San Diego ruled Monday. The decision came after a preliminary hearing for Timothy Lambesis that featured several hours of testimony by prosecution witnesses, including an undercover officer who said he posed as a hitman named “Red” and met with the singer. San Diego County sheriff’s Officer Howard Bradley testified that La…
…s how everything went for the first 25 years – I’d find a singer, then I’d hire a drummer, and hire a bass player and drummer for a tour and that would be a different set of guys. Then I would think about trying this drummer out, Mike Mangini has been in and out of the band with albums and tours, he’s in Dream Theater now, was in Extreme and with Steve Vai. I love working with him as he’s a fun and amazing drummer. The album after I worked with hi…
…lker: He is, and he’s proven himself to be better than me and Bill when it comes to running with the Arch Enemy thing. People can think, “Look at Bill and Jeff – they’ve had no success when it comes to running a melodic death metal band,” so it’s understandable. If you’re asking what Mike could have brought, I’m not sure. How many albums has Arch Enemy done? Dead Rhetoric: I think they’re up to eight or nine. Walker: Some people ask if I’m missing…
…my old band – all the blast-beats on the kick drum are post-punk rock. It comes from bands like Siege, DRI, etc. I might have commented about that, but to be honest, Bill was very laissez faire. It was important, but I never made a big deal about it. I didn’t put any pressure on Dan, but on his own volition, he started to play in this style and I asked why he was doing this, and he’s like, “Well, this is what suits Carcass.” So maybe he has done…
…metal observer. Extra bonus points for the comic book-like cover art, too. www.facebook.com/thebeyonddeathmetal Cadaveric Spasm – Mambo Number Grind Best title of this month’s column? Mambo Number Grind, of course. In addition to having a knack for funny album titles, Philadelphia’s Cadaveric Spasm get their grind on with equal doses of humor and rawness, proving that per the usual, there is no middle ground with grind – you’re either a political…
…he Devil Went Down to the Holy Land 3. Killing the Fuss 4. Cash 5. Yuppie Six Feet Underground 6. Copkiller 7. Sledgehammer 8. The Medic 9. Milk 10. Suicide Hotline Pt. 1 11. Suicide Hotline Pt. 2 12. Cannibal 13. I Hate 14. Can You Hear Me Now?…
…ges for this headliner as well, with more specific details on those in the coming weeks. You should make it out to a show because we have not one, but two, Australian bands on this package and we all know what a rarity that is. Also, this will be the last tour on this current album cycle for us, so we won’t be back around for awhile. See ya there.” PERIPHERY tour dates: 10/11 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live 10/14 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade 10…
…see the light of the day. “My priorities right now are having the time and freedom to be creative and productive. While still trying to keep the lights on, of course. This is both exciting and scary. “I’m not sure if I will end up with a regular career that puts me in an office five days a week or end up in another band touring full-time again. I am just taking things as they come. “I’m sure many of you have seen the reports regarding my new rock…
…rn Sweden in the late 1800’s. The central character lives in Stockholm and comes from wealth, and upon the death of his family he’s informed by the family lawyer that he has inherited a large estate up north. Having been oblivious to the estate’s existence, he decides to investigate, and once he’s there “all kinds of weird shit happens,” according to Swanö. Swanö states: “Both me and Ragnar are fascinated by old, abandoned buildings and it was pre…
…the track “The Math of the Myth” via the Soundcloud widget below. The song comes off the band’s recently-released The Inheritance album. The Inheritance is a pretty thick concept album split into different episodes and very briefly, the WITHERSCAPE story takes place in a remote village in northern Sweden in the late 1800’s. The central character lives in Stockholm and comes from wealth, and upon the death of his family he’s informed by the family…
…wife, and the security gate code to her house. He also allegedly told the agent the dates he would be with the couple’s three adopted children, in order to give himself an alibi. Lambesis, who was originally booked into jail on suspicion of two felonies — conspiracy and murder-for-hire — was ordered to wear a GPS monitor and turn in his passport and was warned by the judge that he must stay away from his immediate family. The conspiracy charge was…
…). The Inheritance track listing: 1. Mother Of The Soul 2. Astrid Falls 3. Dead For A Day 4. Dying For The Sun 5. To The Calling Of Blood And Dreams 6 .The Math Of The Myth 7. Crawling From Validity 8 .The Wedlock Observation 9. The Inheritance …
…Ben Orum was the founder and primary songwriter in ALL SHALL PERISH, lead singer Dr. Nick Vasallo is a professor of music and internationally acclaimed modernist composer, guitarist Victor Dods is completing his PhD in Math, guitarist Ted O’Neill is a 25-year veteran from the scene, and sticksman Luis Martinez is a young musical phenom trained by Ndugu Chancler….
…d signature style, “Murder Metal”… It’s a genre of one. Miraculously still comprised of the same decomposing torsos which founded the band in 1985 — vocalist/guitarist Corporate Death, drummer Dennis The Menace and bassist/vocalist Nefarious — the infamous MACABRE henchmen will stalk, slash and stampede their way through Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio with four brutalizing performances celebrating the passing of two decades since their…
…and internationally acclaimed modernist composer, guitarist Victor Dods is completing his PhD in Math, guitarist Ted O’Neill is a 25-year veteran from the scene, and drummer Luis Martinez is a young musical phenom trained by Ndugu Chancler. Their debut album Called to Rise, which was produced by Zack Ohren of Castle Ultimate Studios (SUFFOCATION, IMMOLATION, DECREPIT BIRTH, DEEDS OF FLESH), is now being reissued by Unique Leader Records. The offic…
…and internationally acclaimed modernist composer, guitarist Victor Dods is completing his PhD in Math, guitarist Ted O’Neill is a 25-year veteran from the scene, and drummer Luis Martinez is a young musical phenom trained by Ndugu Chancler. Their debut album Called to Rise, which was produced by Zack Ohren of Castle Ultimate Studios (SUFFOCATION, IMMOLATION, DECREPIT BIRTH, DEEDS OF FLESH), is now being reissued by Unique Leader Records. The offic…
…different category, one that is rife with artistic strokes that could only come from experience. As such, you’re going to be hit with songwriter-like acoustic guitars (“Dead For A Day”), serpentine mini-epics (“Astrid Falls”) and potent action-metal (“The Math of the Myth”), where some hand-clap action is introduced in the song’s second verse. (Swanö would admit to this scribe that the influence for the claps came from Judas Priest’s “Starbreaker….
…million bond, has posted the following message on his official blog: “I’ve come across many comments, both private and public, asking me to explain more about my case or to explicitly state what my current worldview is. “First, I simply am not allowed to do either of those things. “Some day I will be able to tell the story of all that has happened in detail to get the facts straight and representing the many sides to this fairly complex story. In…
…had no idea what to do with the song since I felt it was perhaps a bit too commercial for WITHERSCAPE, but after I played the demo to Ragnar, he insisted that it must be on the album!” He adds: I love how the song moves between the mellow verses à la ‘Crimson I’ and ‘II’ to the more brutal, yet melodic chorus, in the tradition of ‘Uncreation’ and ‘Twilight’ through the groovy but ‘undanceable’ 9/8 section that leads to one of Ragnar’s best guitar…
…lements found on Metallica’s Black Album, so there’s an obvious ploy to be commercial while being heavy. In America, we call such an outift Five Finger Fruit Punch, and they’re a boy band with tattoos. Suffice it to say, Sacred Mother Tongue doesn’t have to sink that low. (Putting “fruit” in there was 100% on purpose.) Outside of lead-off track “Demons,” SMT doesn’t try to play the thrash game. Unfortunately, it’s one of those pre-determined songs…
…Harley Flanagan, gained access to the VIP area because the hall failed to hire sufficiently trained security personal to protect the plaintiffs.” In an interview with the New York Natives last year, Flanagan claimed that he was invited to the Webster Hall gig and had a VIP pass which he used to enter the venue. He said he went there with “the best of intentions” hoping to mend years of bickering and make the fans happy. After he was invited to th…
…Harley Flanagan, gained access to the VIP area because the hall failed to hire sufficiently trained security personal to protect the plaintiffs.” In an interview with the New York Natives last year, Flanagan claimed that he was invited to the Webster Hall gig and had a VIP pass which he used to enter the venue. He said he went there with “the best of intentions” hoping to mend years of bickering and make the fans happy. After he was invited to th…
…or A Day 4. Dying For The Sun 5. To The Calling Of Blood And Dreams 6 .The Math Of The Myth 7. Crawling From Validity 8 .The Wedlock Observation 9. The Inheritance The Inheritance is a pretty thick concept album split into different episodes and very briefly, the WITHERSCAPE story takes place in a remote village in northern Sweden in the late 1800’s. The central character lives in Stockholm and comes from wealth, and upon the death of his family h…
