The Black Dahlia Murder

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- The Black Dahlia Murder
- The Gothenburg Project 12.11.08: Dethklok- The Dethalbum
- Rock and Latin music rub elbows
- Music Review: Beneath the Massacre – Dystopia
- True beauty never found in volume control

The Black Dahlia Murder
Hour.ca Canada 
Death metal when I found it was just so huge for me. “”The imagery and the lyrics and the themes were just so aligned with the stuff that I had gotten into. I know that all those themes have been tried and done so many times [inside of music] but I can’t help myself you know? I just love old-school death metal so much and.

The Gothenburg Project 12.11.08: Dethklok- The Dethalbum
411mania.com TX 
“Awaken” is a song about summoning an ancient Finnish lake troll and “Dethharmonic” is about not wanting to pay taxes and killing people because of it. Yet the album is still incredible. Even people I know who don’t watch the show like the music. Now many people view this as plain old death metal or brutal death metal or whatever. However there is a lot of melody in this album. Each track has that special something that sets it apart from the others. Yeah the melodies aren’t as impressive as other melodic death metal bands but there’s always something there that prevents this from going into the realm of pure death metal.

Rock and Latin music rub elbows
Yes! Weekly NC 
A square amply stocked liquor bar sets in the middle of the room a stage sits at the far left and a kitchen and assembly of tables makes up La Fonda Paisa Martha and Horacio Ramirez’s Colombian restaurant. Every manner of Latin sounds blasts across the floor and urges limbs to movement: salsa meringue reggaeton and Mexican cowboy music. And with every venue owner trying to wring as much value out of their enterprise as possible and with youth tastes as ephemeral and particular as ever it should come as no surprise that independent promoters herd in the kids for grindcore death metal emo and screamo and other variations of the tribal kind of music that is generally required to be played fast loud and with aggression. There’s an early show and a late show and the patrons pass each other coming and going but the two scenes remain largely self contained. Tony Oake and his crew sit around a couple of the tables polishing off chicken plantains poached eggs rice and beans. Cigarette smoke spirals up from the tables into the airy room. Tony looks pensive and speaks softly.
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Music Review: Beneath the Massacre – Dystopia
Blogcritics.org OH 
Well it began when I first started playing Dystopia and tried to figure out what genre the band is. The first word that came to mind was grind because I was vaguely reminded of Cephalic Carnage (whose release Xenosapien was one of my favorite albums of 2007). Then as I began to read up a little on them I saw their style referred to as death metal death-core brutal death and technical death. Well color me confused. I hate these genre labels. Anyway I think they are a cross between grind and tech-death using Cephalic Carnage and Decapitated as my reference points.

True beauty never found in volume control
Grand Island Independent NE 
That the psyops interrogating prisoners used such an eclectic group of singers and musicians is a tribute to volume control culture shock and the monotony of the same tunes cranked for hours days and weeks on end. There is precedent too. During the invasion of Panama U. troops surrounded and famously serenaded dictator Manual Noriega with continual blasts of rock and heavy metal music after he fled to a papal nuncio’s residency. But one man’s Metallica is another’s Osmonds. When officials in Sydney Australia wanted to annoy and drive away a group of hooligans and hard cases who would gather nightly in a local neighborhood they played Barry Manilow through huge speakers.