Sounds of sci-fi
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- Sounds of sci-fi
- Web show Rockville targets savvy youths
- Jeddah dances to its own heavy metal beat
- NECRVILE: ‘The Pungency of Carnage’ Now Available – Apr. 22 2009
- Recommended Music: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down Etta James and …
- I BUILT THE CRSS: Album Title Announced – Apr. 21 2009
- Burning Human celebrates release of debut CD
Sounds of sci-fi
City Pulse
The current Lansing metalscene has absorbed that devil-horn culture and a bulk of those areabands are booked for this weekend’s gre Fest. The show is a 19-bandmetal-head blowout celebrating its third anniversary at Mac’s Bar onSaturday. all subgenres of metal bands will takethe stage for 30-minute sets from death metal and thrash to theweirder sounds of Lansing’s Cavalcade. ther highlights include localfavorites Wastelander Genocya Satyrasis Dagon and Sauron. DavidPeterman of local thrash band Satyrasis started gre Fest in 2007with quality control criteria in mind.
Web show Rockville targets savvy youths
TVNZ
Schwartz is the creative brain behind The C Chuck and GossipGirl and like all of his programmes music plays a big part inRockville CA. The show follows the fortunes of LA indie music venue ClubRockville and its cast of hip twentysomething regulars. Eachwebisode also features musical performances by bands including theKaiser Chiefs Lykke Li Bishop Allen The Kooks and Eagles ofDeath Metal. Rockville is Schwartz’s first foray into on online only show andhe is clearly targeting his viewers in more ways than one. Rockville’s easily consumable short websiodes not only appeal toa youth culture with little time who spend most of their time incyberspace it also looks to capture the more traditional interestsof youth culture – music and complicated relationships. While Rockville was in production Schwartz had this to say tothe LA Times about the focus of the show: “That age is such a time of little money and great dreams”Schwartz told the paper. “You care so much about music and it’s sofun and this is an attempt to reflect that life.
Jeddah dances to its own heavy metal beat
Menassat
” "Hard to play death metal in Saudi Arabia"Rock music set aside how has the Kingdom received death metal? “It’s kind of hard to play death metal in Saudi” said Breeze of the Dying guitarist Jude Al Dajani because it is often tied to what people call the “Satanism problem. "“Here they think people like us dressed in black coats are Satanists. And in the end we’re all peaceful and we laugh like they do” he said.
NECRVILE: ‘The Pungency of Carnage’ Now Available – Apr. 22 2009
Blabbermouth.net
Evasive Crosscurrents Check out a newly posted video clip from the studio sessions below. According to a press release “The new album daringly redefines IN-QUEST’s sonic foundations and introduces a more melodic organic and massively layered approach to songwriting. It could be described as a continuation of technical ‘Epileptic’ [2004] enthusiasm combined with the distinct emotional ‘The Comatose Quandaries’ [2005] fingerprint. Add to this the originality of the first two albums rediscovered the cold ‘Pyroclasm’ brutality reinforced and a fresh artistic and open-minded avantgarde attitude. “Vengeance hatred and existential crises are the lyrical key themes that confront the listener with the phenomenon ‘human’ anno 2009. As such ‘Made ut of Negative Matter’ is about mankind the most unfaithful breed of animals.
Recommended Music: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down Etta James and …
Austin 360
This is quite a deal; two great metal shows for one price. The earliest incarnation of Napalm Death all but invented grindcore — metal thrash at hard-core’s speed — in the mid-’80s. Several lineup changes later they are still a powerhouse.
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I BUILT THE CRSS: Album Title Announced – Apr. 21 2009
Blabbermouth.net
22 2009GATWHRE ? the New rleans-based band featuring vocalist L. Ben Falgoust II (SILENT GREEN) and guitarist Sammy Duet (ACID BATH CRWBAR) ? has set “Carving ut The Eyes of God” as the title of its new studio album due in the U. on June 23 via Metal Blade Records. For the follow-up to 2006′s “A Haunting Curse” GATWHRE headed back to St. Petersburg Florida to record with producer Erik Rutan at Mana Recording Studios with mastering being handled by Alan Douches of West West Side.
Burning Human celebrates release of debut CD
Albany Times Union
Before Shadows Fall Bittner drummed in the mid-’90s for a local band called Burning Human with bassist Jay VanDervoort guitarist J. Sunkes and vocalist Jonah Radaelli. nly a handful of the group’s death metal songs were recorded before the band dissolved. In 2006 the band was still in contact but VanDervoort had sold his bass years ago and only recently begun playing again with his young son. “I think if it wasn’t for my son I wouldn’t have been ready enough to get back in the band to record” VanDervoort said by phone in a separate interview. Bittner said “Since we figured we were gonna do this for fun let’s just go record it for fun and be done with it. But then it kind of spiraled.