Day In The Life: Julie Weir founder and director of Visible Noise
The News Review:
- Day In The Life: Julie Weir founder and director of Visible Noise
- Thrash is back
- Covert Concepts – Music – Phoenix New Timespage 1 – Phoenix New Times
- The Gauntlet: Callenish Circle Metal News
- The Gauntlet: Death Angel Metal News
- A Death in Books
- The Stamford Advocate Conn.: Concerts.
Day In The Life: Julie Weir founder and director of Visible Noise
Independent – Feb 22, 2007
In the mornings I listen to Radio 1 and watch Kerrang! music television. Rock and roll TV is good at covering smaller bands now. They film live gigs so groups that have no budget to make videos can still be seen. It’s great exposure. Today I’m having a breakfast meeting at Balans on ld Compton Street with the parents of li from Bring Me The Horizon… BMTH who won Best British Newcomer at the Kerrang! Awards last year are one of the bands signed to my label Visible Noise and they’re all 18 or 19 years old so their parents are involved in the financial aspects. Visible Noise started in 1998. I was a merchandise manager and then label manager at Cacophonous Records and working with death metal bands on a daily basis was taking its toll. My boss asked me what I wanted to do and I said deal with English rock so I started up Visible Noise with investment from him. 30am After getting behind with demo tapes and having to listen to 200 in one morning last week I’ve pledged to listen to five a day. There’s nothing in today’s selection that grabs my attention.
Thrash is back
Metro Spirit – Feb 22, 2007
com’ >ERIKA BLINUnearth does not dilute its death metal. Theirs is a full-out audio attack of pulverizing guitars tornado-tough songs and blaring heavy metal vocals. “In the ’90s bands started to water down their music for radio play… That’s made us go about 40 minutes out of Boston into a place called Worcester. Many of us play at a place called The Palladium. The town and club is just a great place for metal music right now. And that’s really where the scene is coming back. And strong” Phipps said. “There’s a ton of bands from our home state that are slowly bringing heavy metal back. Just look at Job for a Cowboy for example or Cellador or Despised Icon.
Covert Concepts – Music – Phoenix New Timespage 1 – Phoenix New Times
Phoenix New Times – Feb 22, 2007
“As manly as we might or might not be we have to acknowledge that there is a feminine part of our persona and that the world isn’t made up of absolutes. To achieve balance you have to recognize every facet of yourself and everyone else around you. ” This dichotomy is audible in Isis’ music as well. While Turner’s (usually unintelligible) vocals often take on a guttural death-metal growl that rumbles and roars over spiraling guitars and crashing cymbals there are also many soft soothing soundscapes in the songs. 1 2 Next Page ». Comment by Phil from Phoenix on Feb 22nd 2007 23:17 pm loadMgr.
The Gauntlet: Callenish Circle Metal News
thegauntlet.com – Feb 22, 2007
“ver the past 15 years CALLENISH CIRCLE have left their mark on the worldwide metal scene with 5 albums released toured with many great bands and played lots of great shows and festivals. It was definitely an interesting journey for all of us and we look back at our past with absolutely no regrets only with pride. When we started this band in the early ’90-ies we were just a bunch of kids who thought it would be fun to play some cover tunes of our favourite bands at the time just think of influential bands like DEATH PESTILENCE (old) PARADISE LST and BLT THRWER. Back then we never could have imagined that almost 15 years later we would have released 5 full-length albums of which the last 3 released worldwide on the highly acclaimed Metal Blade Records and that we would have played over 200 shows and festivals all over the world being our Mexican tour 2006 one of the definite highlights in our career. “So many of you from all around the world have gotten into our music and for us musicians playing in a band that’s really what it’s all about. Having people from all over the world tell you that they’ve genuinely been moved by your music is definitely a great thing. We’re very pleased that you enjoyed what we created… When we started this band in the early ’90-ies we were just a bunch of kids who thought it would be fun to play some cover tunes of our favourite bands at the time just think of influential bands like DEATH PESTILENCE (old) PARADISE LST and BLT THRWER. Back then we never could have imagined that almost 15 years later we would have released 5 full-length albums of which the last 3 released worldwide on the highly acclaimed Metal Blade Records and that we would have played over 200 shows and festivals all over the world being our Mexican tour 2006 one of the definite highlights in our career. “So many of you from all around the world have gotten into our music and for us musicians playing in a band that’s really what it’s all about. Having people from all over the world tell you that they’ve genuinely been moved by your music is definitely a great thing. We’re very pleased that you enjoyed what we created. Those words were always an inspiration to us and we can truly walk away from CALLENISH CIRCLE with our heads held high at this point no doubt about that.
The Gauntlet: Death Angel Metal News
thegauntlet.com – Feb 22, 2007
Good vibes are flowing! Can’t wait for you to feel it”We’re pretty much going to lay low on the live shows until we get the album completed. In fact we did not plan to do any shows at all before summer but then we got invited to play in the Philippines! ‘Pulp Summer Slam Seven’ takes place at Amoranto Stadium in Manila [on April 28] and we can’t wait to hit that outdoor stage in the sizzling heat it’s gonna be insane!”K maybe one or two of the summer festivals in Europe; it’s torture passing those up!”ther than that it’s all about getting that ‘studio tan’ but you can bet your sweet ass that we’ll be coming your way after we drop our new disc on ya I also want to thank each and every one of you who continue to support and enjoy our music. You make us feel so warm and fuzzy. Date: Feb 22 2007As Reported by: jason Tags:.
A Death in Books
nextbook – Feb 22, 2007
As my small family fell apart I’d become increasingly eclectic desperate to find anything to attach myself to to make my own or be made into. I imagine my father saw relatively little to make him feel at home. He despised sports and listened only to classical music. A scientist he was suspicious of fantasy. A lover of great books he looked down on comics and other sub-literary genres. To enter my room at all then must have been as all journeys to strange lands with alien customs are a minor but not insignificant act of bravery. His present too was an aberration… Groan knowingly if you must. If you don’t well you’ll have to wait and see why this gift was so rich in irony so massively overdetermined and yet as it will turn out so ambiguously meaning-laden as to rob it of any of the salutary benefits that are supposed to accrue when books are passed from father’s hand to son’s with all the weight of tradition wisdom and hope such gifts imply. I think I thanked him but I know for sure that the book went straight into that white metal case squeezed past such childhood luminaries as Philip José Farmer and Raymond E. Feist and finding a home in the small section I’d already set aside for “serious literature. ” The novel remained there unopened. For how long? I can’t say. I know I read it before I went to college—perhaps as I recovered from my second knee operation.
The Stamford Advocate Conn.: Concerts.
Free with registration – Stamford Advocate – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 22, 2007
tomorrow Dunaway was the bassist in the Alice Cooper band the quartet that introduced the concept of shock rock and charted the course of hard rock for at least the next 20 years. The group couldn’t do wrong between 1971′s “Love It To Death” and 1973′s “Billion Dollar Babies” before parting ways. Among the contributions to classic rock in those two years are “No More Mr. Nice Guy” “I’m Eighteen” and “School’s ut. ” Dunaway who lives in the area has released “Bones From the Yard” with his current band. With The Doug Wahlberg Band.