Metal proves to be a mainstay niche for guitar makers

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- Metal proves to be a mainstay niche for guitar makers
- Who: Nile and ChthoniC When: 6 pm Monday Where: Jaxx Springfield
- Bumbershoot Announces 37th Lineup: Wu-Tang Shins Panic! at the Disco
- Music Mix: The Number 12 Looks Like You resists being labeled.
- Metal File: Despised Icon Himsa Dekapitator & More – News Story…
- … : Lamb f God zzy Get Unholy – News Story | Music…

Metal proves to be a mainstay niche for guitar makers
International Herald Tribune – Aug 27, 2007
Fueled by a resurgence in heavy metal music and its numerous dark sub-genres Halo makes and sells evil looking instruments with bodies carved to resemble rotting flesh distended eyeballs and bone. The demonically themed guitars primarily find their way into the hands of death metal musicians. Regular heavy metal music can cover the usual topics of scorn and despair while the death metal sub-genre leans heavily on growled vocals and themes such as Satanism and dark mythology. Both are an important niche for electric guitar manufacturers like 5-year-old Halo. It sold 200 guitars its first year in business and now sells 200 to 300 a month in direct sales and another 200 per month to dealers said co-founder Waylon Ford. Today in Business with Reuters.

Who: Nile and ChthoniC When: 6 pm Monday Where: Jaxx Springfield
Washington Post – Aug 23, 2007
Nile’s death metal is almost utterly devoid of melody with the genus’s trademark growled vocals. ChthoniC embraces black metal’s willingness to experiment more with melody and place a greater emphasis on the visual aspects of performance; the band members wear the subgenre’s customary face paint. The death and black metal subgenres are descended from the most extreme form of the speed and thrash metal music of the 1980s as created by bands such as Slayer. The evolutionary principle is the idea that if fast and violent are good faster and brutal would be better. Monday’s roster of opening bands includes local extreme metal bands Dead Syndicate Azrael and Aeturnus Animus. WDRW IRVINTickets are $22 in advance or $25 the day of the show.

Bumbershoot Announces 37th Lineup: Wu-Tang Shins Panic! at the Disco
Rolling Stone – Jul 6, 2007
Even without your favorite headliners this is hands down one of the most fun of Seattle’s summer parties. Come with an open mind enjoy some food people watching general “fun in the sun”.

Music Mix: The Number 12 Looks Like You resists being labeled.
Free with registration – Messenger-Inquirer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 3, 2007
3–Metal fans are fond of their labels. No other genre of music is as classified stratified and categorized as heavy metal. Fans of say Norwegian black metal will rail a.

Metal File: Despised Icon Himsa Dekapitator & More – News Story…
MTV.com – Jun 8, 2007
“I don’t understand why people take labels so seriously” he continued. “I guess you could call us ‘deathcore’ or ‘death metal’ or ‘death metalcore’ or ‘death metal with metalcore influences’ or ‘metalcore with death-metal influences. ‘ I like to let the music speak for itself. Despised Icon’s third LP The Ills of Modern Man which was released late last month and sold more than 2000 copies its first week on store shelves (the label shipped a mere 8000 copies) is unquestionably some of the band’s heaviest material to date. Erian said that was no accident but it definitely evolved naturally over several months of touring. “You don’t want to put out the same album twice and this album came out exactly two years after our previous effort [2005's The Healing Process] and so we’ve toured quite a lot since then” he said. “We’ve improved as musicians and we’ve toured the death-metal circuit [with the likes of Behemoth Morbid Angel Suffocation and Cryptopsy] so we’ve added a few new influences here and there to spice things up and make things a bit different… Erian said that was no accident but it definitely evolved naturally over several months of touring. “You don’t want to put out the same album twice and this album came out exactly two years after our previous effort [2005's The Healing Process] and so we’ve toured quite a lot since then” he said. “We’ve improved as musicians and we’ve toured the death-metal circuit [with the likes of Behemoth Morbid Angel Suffocation and Cryptopsy] so we’ve added a few new influences here and there to spice things up and make things a bit different. But overall it’s the same band — same sound. I think this record does come across as being a bit more heavy than the previous one but it wasn’t intentional. It just came out that way. So at least now kids can say we’re not selling out or anything because this album is actually more brutal.

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MTV.com – Jul 23, 2007
Daath and 3 Inches of Blood brought the heat bludgeoning the crowd with their respective armaments: a six-piece death-metal assault screaming its way out of Atlanta (. (3IB lacked their howling death-metal singer Jamie Hooper but guitarist Justin Hagberg held his own filling in during the five-song set. )Also on the second stage Chthonic and Behemoth repped the black-metal set (or rather sect) while Queens of the Stone Age alum Nick liveri and the Mondo Generator injected a dose of hard-rock humor into the fest and Hatebreed placated old-school vets with an hour-long blitzkrieg. By the time the second stage wrapped and the action shifted to the main one the lines outside the gates were atrocious — evidence that the early bands were just too anonymous on the whole and not able to drive in the masses. But by that point the bands were only half the entertainment: zzfest proved once again that if nothing else it succeeds in coaxing some really slimy specimens out from hiding. Scattered fights with the fuzz tired shouts of “Show me your t–s!” and passed-out sunburned people (.