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- The Gauntlet :: Epicurean – Heavy Metal – News – Epicurean Videos -…
- Ed O’Loughlin Gaza and Sderot
- Buried At Sea: A Cemetery For Fish Lovers Underwater Necropolis 45…

The Gauntlet :: Epicurean – Heavy Metal – News – Epicurean Videos -…
The Gauntlet – May 10, 2008
So the second have is Gabriel searching for Anathema who he finds in the next chapter. So there you go!!! And the story continues! Ha-ha. You worked with Don Debiase a very well known well respected producer in the Death Metal Scene. How did you get in touch with him and what was it like working with him?He actually found us! We were still an unsigned band and we played a festival in Indianapolis and he said he checked us out because of our gear ha-ha. So yeah he passed us on to our manager and it pretty much just went from there. All of that passion that you play with must be tough on you physically. How do you prepare for the physical demands of a tour? Especially when you tour incessantly as you guys do?We try really hard to keep up on working out when we’re on the road and eat as well as we can… What is next for Epicurean?We’ve been talking with a few different booking agents about putting some things together. We’re really hoping to get out to Europe by the end of the year as well. Besides that we’re always working on some new music so at some point we’re going to take some time off to work on new material and then just tour as often as we can!!!!Thanks for taking the time to do this with me!!! Hope everyone gets a chance to check out the record and hope you enjoy it! Thanks!!!.

Ed O’Loughlin Gaza and Sderot
The Age – May 10, 2008
“I liked working there” he remembers fondly. “It was like adifferent atmosphere to anything else in Gaza. There was alwaysmusic people having a good time. Then in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2006 unknown gunmenbroke into the closed building and blew it up. The Beach Club neverreopened and Daoud lost his job. Apart from all its other problems Gaza City is a town with nocheer. Following Hamas’ military takeover last year Israeltightened its already severe blockade on ordinary goods entering orleaving the strip… The pilot a veteran IDF aviator could have been speakingfor many ordinary Israelis when he complained that “we have tostart fighting back: the problem is that our response wasn’tfiercer and more disproportionate seven years ago”. But were not the people of Gaza already paying a terrible pricefor the militants’ rockets I asked him. Instead of escalating theviolence why not explore the Palestinians’ latest offer of aceasefire?He smiled indulgently: most of the stories of suffering anddeath from Gaza were fake he said. “All the reporters there arePalestinians. You give them cameras but what they do is notreporting it’s propaganda. If you wanted to go to the other sideand be a free reporter in the Gaza Strip you’d be kidnapped. Youcan only say what Hamas will tell you to say.

Buried At Sea: A Cemetery For Fish Lovers Underwater Necropolis 45…
CBS News – May 10, 2008
25 miles off the coast of Key Biscayne Fla. Creators of the reef hope it will become a memorial for the dead and a diving site. Instead of a burial funeral people can pay to have their remains placed in one the reef\’s structures after their death. jpg’ alt: ‘Underwater Cemetery’ text: ‘A bronze plaque marking the site of the remains of 93-year-old diver Bert Kilbride who called himself the Last Pirate of the Caribbean is shown Tuesday April 29 2008 on the Neptune Memorial Reef 45 feet under the surface 3… I wanted it to be contemporary or modern in design. As a diver swims down the pathways of the reef there will be themed areas like dancing or sports. “If it’s music I might have concrete or metal musical instruments” Brandell said. “Nothing is going to be in words to describe these features – it will be sculptural elements. Location and temperature made it an easy-to-make reef Norman said. “It’s very conducive to marine habitat growth. You’ve got marine organisms light and water” he said.