Crunching the numbers
The News Review:
- Crunching the numbers
- Prime your heavy metal pallette
- VMITRY: Footage From The Studio Posted nline – Jan. 8 2009
- The Gothenburg Project 01.09.09: Austrian Death Machine
- Metallica’s latest album ‘Death Magnetic’ up for four Grammy Awards
- Dig 6 Down: ‘That’s metal man’
- Metallica is magnetic again
Crunching the numbers
Buffalo News United States
5 million by year’s end. This was less surprising. Metallica was due to make a progressive metal album refraining the ambitious slabs-of-death it released in the late ’80s and “Death Magnetic” delivered it. Some good news then. The balance remains undone in the music industry but things seems to be righting themselves of their own accord. Still so many in the music business were served heaping plates of crow and shoe leather this year. For them we’ll reprise some “ffice Space” wisdom and send it on with love.
Prime your heavy metal pallette
District GA
They semi-self consciously blew up all the sonic and thematic excesses of metal to ridiculously extreme proportions all the while writing dozens of songs that are harmoniously beautiful and threatening. Piece of Mind is one of half a dozen perfect albums between The Number of the Beast and Somewhere in Time. Like Priest their footprint extends all over extreme music especially wherever double guitar harmonies can be heard. They are much beloved by power metal bands like Helloween and Angra.
VMITRY: Footage From The Studio Posted nline – Jan. 8 2009
Blabbermouth.net NY
According to the band the CD will contain “ten songs of relentless death metal. “Check out photos from the studio on the official VMITRY.
The Gothenburg Project 01.09.09: Austrian Death Machine
411mania.com TX
jpg>Band MembersTim Lambesis- Vocals guitar drums bass assorted other instrumentsArnold “Ahhhhnold” Schwarzenegger- Vocals (voice provided by Chad Ackerman of Destroy The Runner)Guest MusiciansMark MacDonald (of Mercury Switch) – guitar solo (tracks 3 9 & 16)Jason Suecof (of Capharnaum) – guitar solo (tracks 2 & 13)Eyal Levi (of Dååth) – guitar solo (track 11)Emil Werstler (of Dååth) – guitar solo (track 11)Dan Fitzgerald – guitar solo (track 5)Adam Dutkiewicz (of Killswitch Engage) – guitar solo (track 6)Nick Hipa (of As I Lay Dying) – guitar solo (track 8)Jason Barnes (formerly of Haste the Day) – guitar solo (track 15)Jerad Buckwalter (of Sworn Enemy) – cymbals (track 6)Joey St. Lucas – group vocals (track 6)Meggan Lambesis – group vocals (track 6)Duane Reed (of Destroy the Runner) – group vocals (track 6)Marc Kohlbry (formerly of Destroy the Runner) – group vocals (track 6)JP Gericke – addition guitarsMike Catalano (of Destroy the Runner) – additional percussionAustrian Death Machine is the brainchild of As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis whose apparent love of everybody’s favorite action star inspired him to start an Arnold-inspired band though he’s not the first to do so though for the life of me I can’t find the names of the other bands inspired by the Governator. In 2008 Austrian Death Machine released their debut album Total Brutal on Metal Blade records. jpg>Album InfoNothing is available for this album aside from its release date July 22 2008 and the fact that it was released on Metal Blade Records.
Metallica’s latest album ‘Death Magnetic’ up for four Grammy Awards
MLive.com MI
They had forgotten how the stuff went. That was around the time we were preparing the music for ‘Death Magnetic. ‘ It was kind of an interesting relation there in terms of the headspace that it put us in James and Lars (Ulrich drummer) specifically. Metallica is winding down its U. tour in support of “Death Magnetic” its first album of new material in more than six years.
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Dig 6 Down: ‘That’s metal man’
Maryville Daily Times TN
The other guys got together first; I was still in Drinking with Jim but when that fell apart I decided to go out and jam with them. “That was in late 2007; over the past year the guys have perfected their particular brand of metal and worked to polish their live shows. Given the proclivity for death metal in the local scene — hardcore heavy and ominous-sounding with guttural vocals and plodding rhythms — Dig 6 Down wanted to steer away from such a pattern Burcham said. “We wanted to get into more of a metal groove so the women could dance to it while the guys were doing their thing” he said. “It’s got the power and the punch of Pantera but it’s also got the sickness of Lamb of God. We wanted to break the monotony even with my lyrics. “I try to stay away from saying we’re an evil band; I want people to understand what I’m singing.
Metallica is magnetic again
Detroit Free Press United States
“And we also toured a couple of the summers when we were preparing music and actually when we were recording the album we went out on a summer tour as well. Summer tours take a little bit of time. “Metal for the massesThe smartest thing Metallica ever did was to discover that just because the band’s music was metal didn’t mean it couldn’t be pop. The technical prowess is there for fans of pure metal while hooks and Hetfield’s lyrics invite listeners who might otherwise scoff at the idea of listening to the genre. “Thrash” doesn’t sound like a word that your grandma wants to have anything to do with but Metallica’s compositions can be as intricate and rewarding as any symphony. “Death Magnetic” has classic Metallica riffs and rhythms in spades but that doesn’t necessarily mean its tunes are a bunch of retreads. “Sometimes you get on that whole retro trip where everyone’s just banking on only the hits” says Trujillo.
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