SUNDING FF: Band brings new life to thrash metal
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- Luc Ferrari: Didascalies < Music | PopMatters
SUNDING FF: Band brings new life to thrash metal
Las Vegas Review-Journal – Las Vegas Review – Journal – May 15, 2007
In recent years however a slew of retro-minded throwback acts such as Municipal Waste Dekapitator and Rumpelstiltskin Grinder have resuscitated the thrash ranks. Formed in San Francisco in 2003 before relocating to Las Vegas Avenger of Blood — rounded out by guitarist Marc Flores and bassist Shawn Loureiro — are scene lifers who are starting to benefit from the renewed interest in the genre. "When we started out we’d have to either open up for or play with death grind or even power metal bands now any city we go to there’s going to be a local thrash metal band there" says Greaney a thin guy with long black hair and a coarse piercing singing voice. "The first show we played here was with some pretty big local metal bands and I think there were about 18 people there. Now when we play there’s 100 150 200 people sometimes. " Having become one of the top Vegas metal draws Avenger recently signed a deal with Los Angeles-based boutique metal label Heavy Artillery Records home to rising cult thrashers Merciless Death. The band won over a following in the metal underground with its 2005 debut "Complete Annihilation" which is rooted in the Germanic thrash tradition with acidic vocals swarming suffocating riffs and mortar-fire drums suggestive of seminal bands such as Destruction Sodom and especially Kreator.
Genre: HEAVY METAL
SaddoBoxing.com – May 15, 2007
Job For A Cowboy maybe a heavy and brutal death metal group but they manage to sound as dull and generic as ever. The problem with this album is that there is no progression within the music most of the tracks just sound the same with no structure and the musicianship was quite bad not to mention vocalist Jonny Davy’s screams were annoying if these guys waited a bit longer to develop their skills then maybe they would have turned out better these songs just sound dull and the guitar playing was all over the place it definitely sounded like a mess. Job For A Cowboy made a large impact on today’s… CMPLETELY!Found out these guys were touring with In Flames here in ’08 so I checked out their myspace. My first instinct was ‘meh. ‘ The music CULD be good. but the monotonic vocalist kills this band. A few songs had a nod to Nile with a slight tinge of the Egyptians in the beginning… but the monotonic vocalist kills this band. A few songs had a nod to Nile with a slight tinge of the Egyptians in the beginning. but they very rapidly dropped the ball rolling down the hill in a charnel house worse than your best Cannibal Corpse (another bad band).
Yohe’s friends family question deputies’ conduct in his…
Spokesman Review – The Spokesman Review – May 15, 2007
Billy Ashton thought if he put a set of headphones on his comatose friend and played his favorite Pantera disc it might just trigger a response. The heavy-metal music played. For a moment Ashton thought there seemed to be a twitch a response from his bruised and battered friend. But nurses said the 37-year-old patient thought to be brain dead probably didn’t hear the tunes from his favorite group including “Cemetery Gates. 5;font-size:10px;’>ADVERTISEMENTGA_googleFillSlot(“SR_Breaking_Big”);The last thing Yohe apparently heard in life were orders being screamed by Spokane County sheriff’s deputies: “Please lie still.
As the Coil Unwinds
Go Certify – May 15, 2007
Call yourself a metal a fan? Give “As the Coil Unwinds” a listen and I dare you to say it’s not heavy enough. I’ve had this album in my car CD player for the last 3 months. Because they’re from Texas I’ve read comparisons to Pantera and I just don’t hear it. This album is original and the riffs are so choice continued play is mandatory if you want to hear it all.
Luc Ferrari: Didascalies < Music | PopMatters
PopMatters – May 15, 2007
In addition to his work in the studio including composing for radio and films Ferrari wrote a number of instrumental works. Didascalies displays both his instrumental and electroacoustic writing. The CD is the third disc in a series devoted to Ferrari’s music on the Sub Rosa label. The recording features two of the composer’s last pieces and an open form piece from the 1960s the recording of which was the last the composer worked on before his death. The disc features three “virtual trios” with two live performers vying against a tape part. Pianist Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven and violist Vincent Royer are sympathetic collaborators rendering enthusiastic performances despite the myriad complications set in their path by the hail of concrete sounds supplied by Ferrari. “Recontres Fortuites” contains what the composer calls “clearly anecdotal” sounds including an orange juicer noises of a metal table being moved down a staircase speech and the sounds made by women in the dressing room at a fashion show! Despite the sometimes curious nature of the “music” made by the aforementioned sound environments Ferrari crafts a beguiling work which manages to incorporate a sinuously post-tonal pitch language attractive all by itself as well as the rhythmic and gestural materials suggested in the taped “anecdotes”… Didascalies displays both his instrumental and electroacoustic writing. The CD is the third disc in a series devoted to Ferrari’s music on the Sub Rosa label. The recording features two of the composer’s last pieces and an open form piece from the 1960s the recording of which was the last the composer worked on before his death. The disc features three “virtual trios” with two live performers vying against a tape part. Pianist Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven and violist Vincent Royer are sympathetic collaborators rendering enthusiastic performances despite the myriad complications set in their path by the hail of concrete sounds supplied by Ferrari. “Recontres Fortuites” contains what the composer calls “clearly anecdotal” sounds including an orange juicer noises of a metal table being moved down a staircase speech and the sounds made by women in the dressing room at a fashion show! Despite the sometimes curious nature of the “music” made by the aforementioned sound environments Ferrari crafts a beguiling work which manages to incorporate a sinuously post-tonal pitch language attractive all by itself as well as the rhythmic and gestural materials suggested in the taped “anecdotes”. Unlike some concrete pieces where the instrumental accompaniment seems superimposed on “Recontre Fortuites” Ferrari’s keen ear searches out an organic way to integrate two seemingly disparate media.