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
- … Plus Danzig & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
- Bumbershoot Announces 37th Lineup: Wu-Tang Shins Panic! at the Disco

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.

… Plus Danzig & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Sep 21, 2007
Technical melodic death-metal band Arsis are in the studio working on their first album for Nuclear Blast. The disc tentatively titled We Are the Nightmare will be the follow-up to the Virginia Beach Virginia band’s 2006 album United in Regret.

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”.