Morast: Flooding Red River draws theme of metal music

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- Morast: Flooding Red River draws theme of metal music
- Interview with Chosen Guitarist Paul Shields
- Album review: The posthumous triumph of ‘UGK 4 Life’
- Fort Collins band puts pedal to the metal
- Static-X set to wow metal fans May 11

Morast: Flooding Red River draws theme of metal music
In-Forum
Metal bands have always loved pasty muscular white dues who wield swords. They?re perfect for album covers. Fargo in the Twin CitiesContinuing the Fargo-metal music connectivity a co-worker alerted me to a death metal band from the Twin Cities named Fargo. Looking at the group?s MySpace page makes me consider this is a joke band conceived by bored teenagers who also like swords ? and magic wands. But the instrumental ? read no vocalist in the band ? group does sound like it?s trying to be serious with riffs so heavy and thick they would crush any jokes propped under them. Hopefully Fargo is real because I really want one of its supposed band T-shirts ? a shirt with a picture of a ?Star Wars? Imperial Walker with the word ?Fargo? above it. That?s way better than pictures of longhaired dudes with swords.

Interview with Chosen Guitarist Paul Shields
Metal Underground
darkstar: Have you ever played with Mecha Messiah before?Paul: No this will be our first gig together. darkstar: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?Paul: I don?t like to pigeonhole music so when somebody asks me what we sound like I simply say we?re a metal band. To be honest there?s far too many sub-genres of metal music. darkstar: Who are your biggest influences?Paul: We all have different influences which helps keep our music fresh. My influences change all the time and I?m constantly listening to new music. Right now I?m really enjoying the latest Cynic album ?Traced In Air? and Akercocke?s ?Words That Go Unspoken?. But having said that my influences can come from anything in life not just from music.

Album review: The posthumous triumph of ‘UGK 4 Life’
Los Angeles Times
album:?Squeezing Life out of Death. ? Indeed other than cash-in Christmascompilations and Pat Boone novelty metal records few forms of music are moremaligned than records from dead rappers. Typically cobbled together from strayscraps of sound left by the deceased the results typically resemble an attemptto spread a tablespoon of cream cheese across an entire bagel: At best it?sdry but serviceable; at worst it?s completely tasteless. So consider ?UGK 4 Life? a major triumph not just for BunB the surviving half of Port Arthur country-rap legends UGK but for the legions of fans left mourning.

Fort Collins band puts pedal to the metal
Fort Collins Now
It wasn’t without criticism though. Many thought the band did a little too much experimentation. ne music critic labeled the sound on the album as a mix of “metalcore deathcore death metal and even some punk stylings. However none of them seem to want to step up and take control. “Regardless of the confusion the album threw some of its listeners’ way it caught the attention of the producer of “Teeth” a horror-black comedy B-flick about a girl who has teeth in her vagina. Five of the band’s songs made it onto the soundtrack of the 2007 movie and gave the band some much-needed exposure and publicity on a national level.
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Static-X set to wow metal fans May 11
Great Falls Tribune
The current album “Cult of Static” released on St. Patrick’s Day of this year is at No. 16 on the most recent Billboard Top 200 chart which includes all genres of music. “Basically they sound like they took insanity and stuck it in the light socket” said local DJ Levi “Trixsta” Gebeke of KZUS 101. 7 FM the Blitz and KEAU 102. 7 FM the Rock Hog adding that Static-X is widely popular with listeners of the Rock Hog. The quartet has had a series of hits including “Push It” “I’m with Stupid” “Black & White” and the current single “StingWray.