The Gauntlet: Job For A Cowboy Metal News
The News Review:
- The Gauntlet: Job For A Cowboy Metal News
- CD Review: Lift the Curse that is Freya
- … Head ver Heels In ‘Clumsy’ Clip – News Story |…
- Dave Grohl: The Ear Candy interview
The Gauntlet: Job For A Cowboy Metal News
The Gauntlet – Sep 25, 2007
The “Radio Rebellion” tour featuring JB FR A CWBY is set to kick off on ctober 18 at Ram’s Head Live in Baltimore MD. In addition to Hurley and Converse “Radio Rebellion” 2007 tour sponsors include Revolver Magazine Smartpunk Metal Blade Records Ferret Music and Prosthetic Records. JB FR A CWBY who has seen a meteoric ascent unparrelled in recent metal history are continuing to tour in support of its debut full-length album “GENESIS”. Referred to as “the most anticipated debut release from a metal band in years” “GENESIS” debuted at # 54 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart this past May shifting nearly 13000 units in its first week of release and joined the initial releases from Stone Sour and Damageplan (which featured members of Slipknot and Pantera respectively) amongst the highest charting metal debuts to crack Billboard’s Top 200 since SLIPKNT’s 1999 self-titled album. “GENESIS” has sold nearly 50000 copies since its release. JB FR A CWBY has earned a landslide of 2007 accolades including being named “Best Underground Band” at the 2007 Metal Hammer “Golden Gods Awards” one of Total Guitar’s “Hottest Guitar Bands of 2007″ one of Alternative Press’ 2007 “Bands You Need to Know” and one of Revolver’s “Breakthrough Bands that will be Kicking Your Ass this Year”… This will be the heaviest tour of the fall! We’re excited and ready to hit the road yet again. All of you Job for A Cowboy fans can expect a show that will be worth your while. Look out!” Support for JB FR A CWBY on this extreme expedition will be provided by Polish metal troupe Behemoth highly regarded French band Gojira and Canadian technical death metal quartet Beneath the Massacre. The tour’s official admat can be viewed at this location. A full listing of upcoming JB FR A CWBY “Radio Rebellion” tour dates can be found below.
CD Review: Lift the Curse that is Freya
URI The Good 5 Cent Cigar – URI The Good 5 Cent Cigar (subscription) – Sep 25, 2007
That moniker must make them feel pretty badass huh? That much is obvious in the way they somehow keep from letting in an inch of charisma on the entire record. No they must maintain a steely angry woe-is-me the-world-is-going-to-hell attitude throughout every monotonous headache-inducing song. Some have labeled Lift the Curse a future classic but the only thing memorable about Freya’s music is how incredibly awful it is. Lead “singer” Karl Buechner screams like some sort of twisted dying monster with a nasal allergy. The lyrics he “sings” are barely intelligible most of the time over the forced growling that is his voice. While the loud obnoxious band may have some redeeming talents (as a few of their riffs suggest) it’s hardly evident in the repetitive nature of their music a feature that only manages to highlight the horror that is Buechner’s voice. Each song is barely distinguishable from its predecessor but what is obvious is how incredibly tedious it is to try to listen to the whole album through even once… While the loud obnoxious band may have some redeeming talents (as a few of their riffs suggest) it’s hardly evident in the repetitive nature of their music a feature that only manages to highlight the horror that is Buechner’s voice. Each song is barely distinguishable from its predecessor but what is obvious is how incredibly tedious it is to try to listen to the whole album through even once. Freya tries so hard to be edgy when really all they’re producing is overplayed cliché-ridden death metal. But that should have been expected from one look at the CD jacket. Black grey and a few splotches of red dominate the front cover an overly-graphic picture of some almost skeletal-looking cavemen fighting each other with one about to bash the other’s skull in. The back is a very similar picture of what looks like soldiers fighting again with one about to bash the other’s skull in. I wonder if they were trying to be symbolic to show that they’re you know deep.
… Head ver Heels In ‘Clumsy’ Clip – News Story |…
MTV.com – Sep 25, 2007
As I Lay Dying clearly have more than a few gasps left — the metal band edged out Switchfoot Jason Mraz and others to win the San Diego Music Award for Artist of the Year. AILD nabbed the same honor in 2005.
Dave Grohl: The Ear Candy interview
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Sep 25, 2007
I usually start demoing songs at home in my basement on an eight-track or a ProTools system the same way I did 10 years ago. Then I bring them t o the guys who are a great barometer for what’s good and what’s not. I write tons and tons of music and then we get together to start performing it rehearsing it and arranging it and start knocking it into shape. I really trust those guys’ opinions and their tastes as far as what songs are worth it and what songs aren’t. Sometimes things can get a little cloudy in that areas. Sometimes I am in love with an instrumental and everyone else thinks it sucks. (Laughs) So yeah I have a band of really amazingly talented people who grab hold of their corner of a song and pull it in their direction and usually it makes the songs sound bigger and better and broader… Then I realized that I have to be in a rock band. I can’t be in an acoustic alt-country band. And so then I started writing for as rock record with all these acoustic songs left over. A lot of the acoustic songs on the album are older. Some of them are 15 years old some of them are 10 years old some of them are seven years old.