Eagles of Death Metal at the Forum NW5

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- Eagles of Death Metal at the Forum NW5
- Ryan Adams resurrects ‘death metal’ band online
- Torche’s metal flame burns bright
- Florida technical metal titans Atheist returns: New album new DVD …
- Pop and Rock Listings
- Lazarus AD Amon Amarth Goatwhore & Skeleton Witch
- bsessed with oblivion

Eagles of Death Metal at the Forum NW5
Times nline
The bandfrom Palm Springs California have a third album Heart n in theshops and played their biggest London date yet at the end of their currentBritish tour. Homme who has maintained a semi-detached status throughout the group’scareer was not there. But Jesse Hughes the co-founder and true star ofEagles of Death Metal most certainly was. If the Village People had included a Southern rocker along with the policemanand the Indian chief he would have been a character along the lines ofHughes.

Ryan Adams resurrects ‘death metal’ band online
NME.com
com and there are three new psyche-tinged tracks available to listen to under a bizarre image of a pentagram and a pizza ? ‘Dead People Unite’ ‘Evil Weekend’ and ‘Mega Wizards’. Adams parted ways with his band The Cardinals last month. He is also due to release a book later this year.
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Torche’s metal flame burns bright
Chicago Tribune
Last year the trio’s sophomore album—”Meanderthal” (Hydra Head)—wooed both underground and mainstream press outlets which cited it as one of 2008′s best records even as it left listeners at a loss as to how to describe the incongruous blend of pop hooks down-tuned grooves intricate melodies and winding harmonies. The group’s approach is rather basic. “ur main goal is just to write music that’s either fun or something we’d want to listen to” says Torche drummer Rick Smith reached on the phone in St. Louis while en route to a gig in. “I don’t think we force ourselves too hard. We listen to a lot of different kinds of music and that helps us come up with the sound we’ve got.

Florida technical metal titans Atheist returns: New album new DVD …
Examiner.com
We also have the very last show Roger played (2 days before his death) which marked the very last time he played the music of Atheist and it’s f***ing sick!! He played his ass off that night as it was the last night of our tour and we were firing it off. even though there were only about 200 people there.

Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times
(Petrusich)NAPALM DEATH (Saturday) Ah Napalm Death. Formed in 1981 this English death metal band (did you guess?) is resolute in its aggression: the members play fast and hard and with unapologetic fervor. Blender Theater at Gramercy 127 East 23rd Street Manhattan (212) 307-7171 irvingplaza.

Lazarus AD Amon Amarth Goatwhore & Skeleton Witch
Phoenix New Times
In the past few years a slew of retro-thrash bands has emerged from the underground. With names like Municipal Waste Toxic Holocaust and Merciless Death these bands are a living tribute to thrash metal’s glory days of denim leather white high-tops and of course binge drinking. In 1986 thrash was at its creative peak. That year saw seminal releases from heavyweights Possessed Nuclear Assault Kreator Destruction and Phoenix’s Flotsam & Jetsam not to mention three albums that essentially defined the genre: Metallica’s Master of Puppets Megadeth’s Peace Sells.

bsessed with oblivion
St. Joseph News-Press
?Even after they drowned Rasputin his body kind of rigor mortised and made it look like he sat up? Kelliher says. ?There?s just some really cool imagery in there. ?Mastodon supplements the haunting story with the sounds of ominous psychedelic metal. But there are plenty of progressive and grunge elements in the music as well. Even bluegrass makes an appearance when lead singer Brent Hinds busts out the banjo at the end of ?blivion. ?At times ?Crack the Skye? is relentlessly brutal. At other times it?s astonishingly melodic.