…s death metal! Relentless in its vision, lethal in its execution, and steadfast in its conviction, the album is also a refreshing, genre-enriching masterpiece. On this sophomore effort, HEAVING EARTH takes death metal into undiscovered and unconquered realms. While the band’s technical prowess is undeniable, every note is played in service to the song. Above all else, this is death metal with soul and character in all its blasphemous, dark, and vi…
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…is that Chris Pupecki of Doomriders handles the guitar spot, thus making oh-so-crucial connection for folks in need of a big/respectable name (like this writer, apparently). Wormwood happen to be a Boston-based sludge/doom outfit, not to be confused with the three other bands using the moniker, or the Marduk album of the same name. As typical with the style, guitars are fuzzy and un-clear, preventing any real dynamic scope, even if the forceful at…
…ts Christian Bröhenhorst and Jonathan Stenger slice and dice at varying mid-tempo to slightly faster picking speeds – often working off time to the drumming for mood enhancement, most prevalent on the caustic highlight “7 Inch”. Cripper can occasional throw down that Sabbath meets Metallica down tuned groove that along with Dennis Weber’s slower double bass rolls gives “Animated Flesh” an impressive hook that can cause massive carnage in pits. And…
…we conduct ourselves, and hope the tour will be a fitting tribute to every service member who attends. We look forward to raging with our fans who serve or have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and thank them again for their service.” BATTLECROSS dates: October 17 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium – Rock And Shock Festival 18 – Rochester, NY – Montage Music Hall 19 – Indianapolis, IN – Emerson Theater Tour with Wretched and War Of Ages: November 26 –…
…ature of our art. Dead Rhetoric: Casting Ruin never falls prey to the verse-chorus-verse type of patterning you see with most bands. Is it a conscious decision to avoid that particular songwriting approach? Sumrell: No. I can’t say that I purposefully try and avoid a specific format. I think it ends that way not because of a decision that is made to keep it from happening, but only because the way the songs are written doesn’t allow for that to ta…
…o guitar spirit during the 6:56 oddly oriented instrumental “Damned (O)fish- L.S.D.”. About half way through the album during the slower to mid-tempo epic “The King with a Crown of Thorns” the limitations of appeal hang on the accented vocalist Angelos Ioannidis. If you struggle with pronunciation of certain English words, that can be forgiven. If you decide to go up and down in a theatrical fashion but can’t convincingly keep the melodies in key…
…new environment. When we had 2,000 cruisers we booked 40 bands. Now we will have 3,000 cruisers which means we will be inviting 60 bands to perform!” Confirmed acts now include: Annihilator, Apocalyptica, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Blind Guardian, Cannibal Corpse, Chimaira, D-A-D, Ensiferum, Equilibrium, God Dethroned, Grave Digger, Heathen, In Extremo, Kataklysm, Korpiklaani, Lake Of Tears, Michael Schenker Group’s Temple Of Rock, Napalm Death, Origi…
…any given time and that I work in multiple creative spaces. It’s really a best-case scenario on the label side right now. Anyway, when it comes to songwriting, my approach has changed over the last couple of years somewhat. I do way more “free” writing than I used to. I’ve always hesitated before, for two reasons. I was afraid to write something that didn’t fit in an existing container and therefore led me to create a new container and make thing…
…s title track was made available for purchase via iTunes and other digital service providers on April 29. Redeemer Of Souls CD track listing: 1. Dragonaut 2. Redeemer Of Souls 3. Halls Of Valhalla 4. Sword Of Damocles 5. March Of The Damned 6. Down In Flames 7. Hell & Back 8. Cold Blooded 9. Metalizer 10. Crossfire 11. Secrets Of The Dead 12. Battle Cry 13. Beginning Of The End Bonus tracks: 14. Snakebite 15. Tears Of Blood 16. Creatures 17. Bring…
…n regardless of your metal knowledge. (And yes, even the biggest metal know-it-all can devour this thing.) Abrams phoned DR HQ to talk about the book’s creation, the cast of characters that got involved and of course, the lists. Here goes… Dead Rhetoric: For starters, where did the idea for the book originate? Howie Abrams: The person I co-authored the book with Sacha Jenkins, he’s actually a journalist and he ran magazine several years ago called…
…as a worldwide thing. We were wracking out brains thinking what do want to write this time around. We’re lucky enough to get this chance to write a new record. The boys are up for it. We’ve got the producer we want, Andy Gill [formerly of Gang Of Four], he’d agreed to do it on hearing three or four songs. We were kind of thinking do we want to try and do anotherTroublegum now that we’d got this worldwide deal. And we thought this is the first time…
