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- Daath’s ‘Hinderers’ offers fury finesse
- The festival may have been in Austin but its center of gravity was…
- A taste of String Cheese
- Band brings more metal fans into their fold with live performances.

Metal File: Aborted Arch Enemy Marduk & More – News Story |…
MTV.com – Mar 23, 2007
Leng Tch’e's latest full-length Marasmus was released Tuesday. It’s an album that to de Caluwé “sounds completely different from anything we’ve done. “With the previous album [2005's The Process of Elimination] we were kind of making a bridge of where we wanted to go with the music” he continued. “It’s been very much evolving since then and Marasmus is the first album where we’ve achieved what we wanted to with this band. There’s a lot more variation — the songs are longer there’s a little rock and roll there’s death metal hardcore grind… Apparently death metal is so popular in Scandinavia that everyone wants a piece of the action. The bizarre idea came together in February 2006 when at a Dismember record-release party Naima was asked to take the stage to perform interpretations of two of the band’s songs. The gag went over so well that Naima with full consent of the band decided to record an entire record of covers. Selections from the disc can be heard at Tony Naima’s MySpace page.

Daath’s ‘Hinderers’ offers fury finesse
Deseret News – Mar 23, 2007
“We have a lot of influences” he said in a written statement. “I startedplaying violin when I was 4 and I listened to everything from GustafMahler to the Doors to Aphex Twin. I don’t think we’re traditional deathmetal. I would say that we’re progressive extreme music. ” It’s true the band is quite progressive but unlike peth whose songsrarely wrap up under eight minutes Daath’s compositions lie in the three-to five-minute average. It will be interesting to see how “The Hinderers” is received by metalfans. I for one think it rules.

The festival may have been in Austin but its center of gravity was…
Chicago Reader – Mar 23, 2007
The band had covered most of the highway between Chicago and Austin in one marathon van ride the day before but despite that they were as fresh and bright as their sunshiny 60s-style pop. At eight o’clock Thursday night I was skipping between two Chicago solo acts: experimental beat maker Brenmar formerly Brenmar Someday and Yakuza front man Bruce Lamont. Brenmar was troubleshooting a table of pedals synths and mixers that wasn’t making any sound–he finally got it working in time for me to hear a couple songs–and down the street Lamont was blending loops of jazzy bebop sax and folk-blues acoustic guitar with his usual death-metal screaming. Their sets represented one end of the SXSW spectrum: the little guys sweating for a break in front of a couple dozen people who’d most likely never heard of them. Somewhere closer to the other end of that spectrum was ffice who delivered an expert set to a wall-to-wall crowd at Blender magazine’s venue later that night–part of a showcase for Scratchie Records that also included Robbers on High Street and Albert Hammond Jr. They’d go on to play several other big-name sponsored shows including one at the Fader Fort… By Saturday afternoon when A-Trak did his set at the Fader Fort many festivalgoers had been through three days and nights of shows and parties and most of them looked like the walking wounded. But the Chicago people shouting back at A-Trak were still kicking. I ended up talking to a major-label publicist from New York who wanted to know about Chicago music–specifically why there were so many Chicago hip-hop kids at a show where the DJs were just a side-stage act between rock bands. I told him what I could about how the barriers between Chicago’s different scenes are fading away making it one of the best cities for music anywhere. My four days in Texas had helped me fall for my hometown all over again. “Man” he sighed “I wish New York was like that.

A taste of String Cheese
Glenwood Springs Post Independent – Mar 23, 2007
"When you see previews for other movies that’s what our opening slot it. "Sweet as bassBassnectar never thought he’d be a DJ. In high school Lorin Ashton was in a death metal band because he loved "raw churning powerful music. " A few years later Ashton was into the all-night dance scene. It’s quite telling that Ashton graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a major of his own design that incorporated music education and social change. The ingenuity that Ashton possessed from early on helped him fall into the scene and become Bassnectar. "I don’t consider myself a DJ as much as an artist an artistic expressionist or volunteer" Ashton said.

Band brings more metal fans into their fold with live performances.
Free with registration – Anchorage Daily News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 23, 2007
23–God Forbid prides itself on reinventing its sound with every new album. It tries to bridge the gap between metal styles — not too much death not too much pop.