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YouTube Phenom Attacks Metal Hits With Clips – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Feb 15, 2007
But the band Marcovecchio loves to hate more than any other is Florida metalcore outfit Trivium. And it’s his Trivium odium that’s helped the 18-year-old Brit become a YouTube phenomenon. When Marcovecchio isn’t in class studying music technology or working with his own band Wargazm the metalhead can usually be found at the nearest watering hole rewriting the lyrics to songs by some of the bands he just can’t stomach. When he’s done he turns to Windows Movie Maker and Photoshop to work on hilarious interpretive video creations that pair his made-up lyrics with images depicting them (like boats coats and kids on bicycles). “Me and my friend Ryan we’d go down to the pub get a bit wasted and then come back and look up funny stuff on YouTube. There are lots of interpretations on there and we always found them funny” Marcovecchio explained. “But there were lots of ones that sucked and they’re all about emo songs… “But there were lots of ones that sucked and they’re all about emo songs. So we thought ‘We’ll do one — a metal one — and show them how it’s done. ‘ “The first song to get the Marcovecchio treatment was melodic death-metal outfit Kalmah’s “Man of the King. ” Marcovecchio is a Kalmah fan so the video was an homage to the band more than anything else. But it dawned on Marcovecchio that frontman Pekka Kokko’s garbled growls were difficult to make out without a lyrics sheet. So Marcovecchio just wrote down what he heard. “It was fun to do and it got reasonably successful” he recalled.
The Gauntlet: Napalm Death Metal News
thegauntlet.com – Feb 15, 2007
To mark the birth of grindcore and the landmark release of one of the most confrontational records ever released Earache Records is issuing a special 20th anniversary edition DualDisc of ‘Scum’ containing the original album and a DVD documentary highlighting the early days of the band and examining the story behind the album and its explosive impact on the wider music scene. riginal member Mick Harris talks in depth about the scene at the time the band’s origins and takes a tour to the old band haunts along the way. The documetary also features an interview with Mark Titchner the Turner Prize nominee amongst others who explains the aesthetic angles to Napalm Death’s revolutionary noise. When ‘Scum’ was first released in 1987 DJ John Peel was one of the first to pick up on the band’s mix of hardcore punk metal riffs and blistering speed… When ‘Scum’ was first released in 1987 DJ John Peel was one of the first to pick up on the band’s mix of hardcore punk metal riffs and blistering speed. Redefining what it was to be a heavy band Napalm Death soon shot to fame on the back of NME cover stories BBC2 documentaries and the polarized opinion of the larger music community. ‘Scum’ has since become an acknowledged influence on every extreme metal band since the late ’80s. See a trailer for the documentary on the Earache MySpace page. ‘Scum 20th Anniversary Edition Dual Disc’ will be released on March 19 through Earache Records. Date: Feb 15 2007As Reported by: JAMEZ Tags:.
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Daily Mail – Feb 15, 2007
For most of us though its appeal is much more basic: Life nMars is a hilarious unapologetic red-blooded celebration of theSeventies in all their politically incorrect glory. It sings the praises of an era when real men with hairysideburns could still drive their souped-up Ford Cortinas at speedsink five pints and a pack of Embassy down the boozer at lunchtimewithout worrying about safe drink-driving limits or passivesmoking and stagger back to deliver a few fruity one-liners to thebirds in the office with no fear of being had up for sexualharassment. It recalls the long-lost innocent time when an evening’s homeentertainment comprised a couple of cans of Watney’s Party Sevens;when everyone but everyone watched Morecambe and Wise; when anIRA pub blast not an Al Qaeda dirty bomb was the worst terroristatrocity anyone could imagine; when Wagon Wheels and Curly Wurlieswere twice the size they are today; when the charts were filledwith proper music such as David Bowie and Roxy Music and none ofthat cacophonous stuff like house and garage and death metalmusic. Above all it celebrates a golden (or maybe tarnished bronze)age of British policing as embodied by the flawed but essentiallyheroic figure of DCI Gene Hunt. Yes he may be a foul-mouthed sexist pig; sure he might not betoo averse to taking the odd backhander; granted his cavalierattitude to the niceties of police procedure probably wouldn’t passmuster with the modern Crown Prosecution Service. But by gosh ishe good at beating up criminals then fitting them up and keepingthem where they belong: in prison. Quite how far the BBC meant to endorse these prehistoricsocio-political attitudes isn’t clear.
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MTV.com – Feb 15, 2007
A wave of dark music has inspired Good Charlotte to lighten up. “We look around and everything is dark dark dark theatrical death” Benji Madden said in an interview with MTV Europe. “I mean we did it with Chronicles of Life and Death two years ago. We just see music going that way and we said on [Good Morning Revival] we just want to go this way. If everyone’s wearing black we want to wear white” he said.
CD86: 48 Tracks from the Birth of Indie Pop
Pitchforkmedia.com – Feb 15, 2007
Judging by the songs he’s picked for these two discs the best I can figure is that Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley has a strange take on what that boom looked like: Either he’s blinded by nostalgia a hardcore stickler for absolute truth or just more of a collector than a historian or genre partisan. Forget showing new generations that these bands were worthwhile; Stanley’s set actually runs the risk of convincing old indie-pop kids that the music they spent their youths on wasn’t that great. There are any number of terrific songs here and the mastering leaves many sounding warmer and fresher than they have in years but Stanley’s version of what this stuff is turns out to be disappointing– pretty but awfully narrow. The impetus for this package of course is the 20th anniversary of the NME’s C86 compilation a giveaway cassette that wound up codifying the sound of the new indie wave… Part of what makes this “indie” is how much that sort of thing matters: These acts have an unassuming grace that keeps everything sounding hard-won and personal. So Another Sunny Day bash their noisy way through a song called “Anorak City” singing happy-go-lucky tra-la-la in the chorus and that’s a treat; and the Hit Parade chime through a shiny number like “You Didn’t Love Me Then” a song that makes the Monkees sound like a death metal band and that’s a treat too. Great stuff: Just don’t take Stanley’s word that the roots of UK indie pop were all quite so comfy and boyish.