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- The Gauntlet: Vile Metal News
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- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Serious humor

The Gauntlet: Vile Metal News
The Gauntlet – Feb 14, 2008
If I go too fast I am afraid that the albums could be too similar. This is a problem many bands have and I really don’t want to get trapped that way. The music changes as life changes and waiting lets the albums each have their own identity and style. “Right now we have about seven songs finished. We will write a few more and then trim back one or two. For this album I have been working with our new guitarist J… Now this is a statement that you also heard sell-out bands like METALLICA say. They lost pretty much all originality and drive for the music and then just said they don’t care what you think. “I am fully aware that VILE is a death metal band and that we have a following of extreme metal fans. So I recognize the need to release an extreme metal album. And one that is high quality and original. But at the same time I need to make music that does not repeat itself and is new with each release. So this is what is going to happen.

What’s n: Night & Day Weekend
Toronto Star – Feb 14, 2008
Toronto Centre for the Arts 5040 Yonge St. Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music presents "Plagues and Pestilence: Music from the Era of the Black Death" with a variety of musical styles from France Italy Spain England Germany and Silesia interspersed with readings from medieval historical and literary sources… Christ Church Deer Park 1570 Yonge St. Winger the 80s heavy metal band rocks out Fri. 50 at 416-870-8000).

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Serious humor
San Francisco Chronicle – Feb 14, 2008
tmpl –>Sleepytime Gorilla Museum is serious business. n its fourth and most recent album “In Glorious Times” the akland rock quintet parlayed its amalgam of prog goth metal and experimental sounds into an emotional blockbuster of 11 songs that raise disturbing questions about the cycle of birth and death and the darkest sides of human social and political behavior. tmpl –> Images… ” Kihlstedt who also plays violin and sings in Tin Hat and 2 Foot Yard teamed with Frykdahl and Rathbun in 1999 after watching a set by their famously theatrical band Idiot Flesh. She was looking to find a new musical identity in a non-classical idiom that would give her as much joy as playing Bartok string quartets. “Here was this music that was entirely rigorous full of detail really visceral had real brains behind it and was entirely entertaining” she said of Idiot Flesh. Those qualities now characterize SGM which after several personnel shifts now includes percussionist Michael Mellender and Kihlstedt’s husband drummer-percussionist Matthias Bossi. The music is thorny with rhythmic shifts that recall prog progenitors King Crimson and Yes and intricately ornamented with glockenspiel autoharp Tibetan bells and dozens of other instruments. But the sound is organic to the group rather than calculatedly ironic or postmodern. “The current group has the best communication dynamic ever” said Rathbun who engineers and mixes SGM recordings plays bass and has built such original instruments as the Electric Pancreas and the Percussion Guitar.