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- The Gauntlet :: Arch Enemy – Heavy Metal – News – Arch Enemy Videos -…
- The Gauntlet: Death Angel Metal News
- CNFESSIN: Where does rock music go when it dies?
- The old man and the river
- Casanova rocker banned from stage
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The Gauntlet – Dec 15, 2007
What is especially interesting about this particular album though and what sets it apart somewhat from Arch Enemy’s previous releases is its more melodic moments like in the song ‘I Will Live Again’. Don’t get me wrong it’s not exactly a ballad but it does experiment more with dynamic song structure and some catchy ass guitar riffs. The title track ‘Rise of the Tyrant’ starts with a death metal assault then heads into a slightly progressive chorus and of course a blistering lead break. Hot chick or no hot chick Arch Enemy is one of the best bands making metal music out there today and its latest album ‘Rise of the Tyrant’ completely delivers. Review by: Colette Claire… Vultures It would be pretty much impossible to write an Arch Enemy review without mentioning lead singer Angela Gossow. When Arch Enemy replaced its original male singer with female growler Angela Gossow in 2001 it helped prove to the world that hot chicks are brutal too and a lot more pleasant to look at then your average sweaty hairy death metal singer. This should not distract however from the fact that Arch Enemy is an excellent metal band and one of the best out there that plays hard fast melodic music. There are many imitators but being formed by Michael Amott (who used to be in Carcass one of the bands that helped create death metal in the first place) Arch Enemy is hard to out do. Its latest effort ‘Rise of the Tyrant’ is no exception. Sticking to its formula of big epic Joe Satriani style guitar solos extremely heavy blast beat laden rhythm sections and angry growled vocals like on the opener ‘Blood on your Hands’ Arch Enemy does not disappoint its fan base. What is especially interesting about this particular album though and what sets it apart somewhat from Arch Enemy’s previous releases is its more melodic moments like in the song ‘I Will Live Again’.
The Gauntlet: Death Angel Metal News
The Gauntlet – Dec 15, 2007
division of our label Nuclear Blast America. Everyone chopped it up as drinks were consumed in mass quantities all the while RCKING to our new album for the first time “Needless to say it was hella FUN! Totally elating to witness a bar room full of music fans partying to our latest offering of jams! Best of all the entire band was there working the crowd like we do and loving it! The night concluded in the usual scenario of laughter hugs puke and blackouts! Can’t wait for the next one! Thanks to NB and all who attended!”Next day was a hung-over blur of meetings and business dealing that eventually found me back at the mastering lab meeting up with BG to make a few adjustments and print the final master. Then I raced to airport barely making my flight home with a copy of the finished disc in hand just in time to get back home with the latest slab of Bay Area thrash metal completed on December 6th which happens to be the birthday of my original inspiration to play guitar the late great Randy Rhoads. How’s that for a good sign?”Artwork should be done any day now (c’mon Hiro!) and of course Den will do the layout and turn it over to NB then it’s a wrap! Interviews have already started and we’ve heard some GREAT feedback from the press already so now ‘Killing Season’ has truly begun stay tuned for more news soon my friends! It is N!!!” Date: Dec 15 2007 As Reported by: jason Tags:… division of our label Nuclear Blast America. Everyone chopped it up as drinks were consumed in mass quantities all the while RCKING to our new album for the first time “Needless to say it was hella FUN! Totally elating to witness a bar room full of music fans partying to our latest offering of jams! Best of all the entire band was there working the crowd like we do and loving it! The night concluded in the usual scenario of laughter hugs puke and blackouts! Can’t wait for the next one! Thanks to NB and all who attended!”Next day was a hung-over blur of meetings and business dealing that eventually found me back at the mastering lab meeting up with BG to make a few adjustments and print the final master. Then I raced to airport barely making my flight home with a copy of the finished disc in hand just in time to get back home with the latest slab of Bay Area thrash metal completed on December 6th which happens to be the birthday of my original inspiration to play guitar the late great Randy Rhoads. How’s that for a good sign?”Artwork should be done any day now (c’mon Hiro!) and of course Den will do the layout and turn it over to NB then it’s a wrap! Interviews have already started and we’ve heard some GREAT feedback from the press already so now ‘Killing Season’ has truly begun stay tuned for more news soon my friends! It is N!!!” Date: Dec 15 2007 As Reported by: jason Tags:.
CNFESSIN: Where does rock music go when it dies?
Pakistan Dawn – Dec 16, 2007
Manic Street Preachers are as melodious as ever but too much of their output sounds like self-parody. Stereophonics Placebo Cardigans they keep soldiering on but not to great effect. n the metal front Iron Maiden are enjoying a resurgence both critically and commercially but their latest album (A Matter of Life and Death) falls victim to clich?cord sequences and is nowhere near as brilliant as Brave New World. And the less said about Metallica the better. They came out with a disjointed melody-free scream-fest called St Anger in 2003 and have been mercifully quiet ever since. Their last brilliant moment came and went with 1991’s Black Album.
The old man and the river
The Age – Dec 15, 2007
They looked Kbetter than many men who had something jobs and one the tallest abig fellow was still striking but it was a mystery to them why inhaving chased life they had somehow become estranged from it. It was also a mystery why it was called a piners’ punt when itwas really a square-bowed dinghy built beamy as piners’ punts hadalways been built beamy to spin in the rapids of the river. Whenthe four men first saw the piners’ punt they were taken with itsneat construction with its planks and ribs of the Huon pine withits battered yet sturdy look and welcoming lines and not least itsage which was greater than that even of the old man who seemed tothem till then about the most ancient thing short of a fossil thatthey had ever seen. They had decided that they were going to go up the river in theold man’s piners’ punt and nothing was going to stop them. No onehad been up the river that way for more than 60 years and no oneexactly knew how you might get a heavy old wooden boat such as apiners’ punt up past the rapids and the many small falls thatscratched the river at regular intervals but they knew they woulddo so they knew the river from their work as river guides andthey knew the old man and the old man said they could do it and sothey would. Keen as they were the old man was keener yet and hewas coming with them coming to show them how you might handle sucha boat in the rapids and the rainforest and so he might havesomething to say back to the shades of his sleep to be able totell them finally of his river. n the first day they travelled in the old man’s fishing boatsimilarly battered and built as he now was of bits and pieces theboat of salvaged and scrounged portholes and compasses and rebuiltold diesels the old man of two double bypasses and a metal hipjoint but for once he felt none of it as he turned the fishingboat away from the small port town that seemed to sit bewildered atthe edge of the wilderness steaming up the harbour towards thefirst river into which the river flowed… Buthe didn’t say that or anything as they drove home the followingday just laughed swore and smiling asked the big fellow if hewanted the music louder. The big fellow said he didn’t want anymusic that it had just been beer talk on the part of the old manand he wished he hadn’t said it or anything and how he wished hehadn’t. They’d talked enough to the cops hadn’t they how much talk didhe want? – they’d talk more to the coroner they were f—ingsuspects for God’s sake. He didn’t want to talk about the dead oldman and he didn’t want any song either. The man who dived like a cormorant only wished he could reachout and hold onto someone anybody anything. The car was shrinkingaround him he was trying not to scream.
Casanova rocker banned from stage
Standard-Speaker – Dec 15, 2007
- A 21-year-old heavy-metal musician convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old was banned from playing in public for five years by a judge who said he used music to win the favor of underage girls. Randall Shesto II of Waukesha described in Internet postings as having performed with a band called Nailwounds was convicted in June of second-degree sexual assault of a child. He had been accused of having a sexual encounter with an underage girl last December whom he met through MySpace. He was also convicted this year of having sex with another 15-year-old girl.
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