First Bands Announced For Asian Death Metal Festival 2009

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- First Bands Announced For Asian Death Metal Festival 2009
- Tour is metal melting pot
- Pop Listings
- Death and thrash concert in San Antonio – Friday August 7th
- The latest albums reviewed and rated
- MUSIC INTERVIEW: God Forbid
- Preview- Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2009

First Bands Announced For Asian Death Metal Festival 2009
Metal Underground
(0 Comments) Trinity Records has issued the following announcement about the line-up for the upcoming Asian Death Metal Festival:”We here at Trinity Music with our desire to unify and to push the Asian Metal scene to worldwide recognition will be organizing an ASIAN DEATH METAL FESTIVAL (Tomahawk Metal Fest 4) this coming August 29 2009 in Hong Kong. The said festival is the first of many Asian Metal Fest series that we will organize. “We are just doing this to unify the Asian metal scene and push it to worldwide recognition and nothing more. This will probably be Hong Kong or Asia in general most extreme metal show will ever experienced. This will be total aural devastation from the first to the last band.
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Tour is metal melting pot
Akron Beacon Journal
”But for many fans metal is not just their favorite music to listen to it also speaks to and informs their lives. They are part of a global community of headbangers. n Friday the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival will stop at Blossom Music Center bringing with it a mix of new and old metal bands and a variety of metal subgenres. Metal has generally been considered masculine and adolescent and for much of its history it has been derided by critics nonfans and conservative and religious groups for its embracing and some would say glorification of the ugly side of human existence. Before the rise of gangsta rap any conservative group looking for a musical target could easily set its ideological cross hairs on metal. Bands such as Metallica and Disturbed sell millions of records and sell out arenas.

Pop Listings
New York Times
org; $5 suggested donation. (Petrusich)20090730EAGLES F DEATH METAL (Thursday) The Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme was a co-founder of this group which is not as its name rather boldly suggests a death metal band. Rather Eagles of Death Metal — Mr. Homme along with Jesse Hughes and the various contributors who join the duo on tour — perform brash playful swaggering blues-rock. With Rival Schools.

Death and thrash concert in San Antonio – Friday August 7th
Examiner.com
Direct support act. The remaining support acts are all relative newcomers including death metallers.

The latest albums reviewed and rated
New Zealand Herald
It’s an all-out musical blitz of scything and flailing riffs double-bass drum carnage and a four-way vocal attack – or “vokill” attack as the band would say. Put it this way they sound like they gargle gorse killer after breakfast. It’s rough round the edges death metal – complete with sludge and dirge – like it’s been badly recorded. But as with the clattery unhinged racket of bands like High n Fire Nasum and Napalm Death that’s the point. They get away with it because the intensity of the onslaught is relentless and the decrepit run-down sound adds a unique quality to the overall album. And rather fittingly since it’s Maori Language Week they kick into the final pummelling assault of track nine (Timeut will spare you the harrowing details of the song title) with the inspired death metal catch cry of “tahi rua toru wha”. A world first for metal surely?Rough and punishing local music at its best.

MUSIC INTERVIEW: God Forbid
Rochester City Newspaper
How do you fit in the line-up on this current tour?I think it's fairly obvious we don't fit in with anybody on this tour. We have a much different approach than the rest of the bands on this tour. n one hand you have what are mostly death metal bands – even though those band each have their own sound they do their own thing and there's definitely a similar approach. And then some of the other bands like Killswitch and Trivium are more melodic and geared more toward that catchy chorus. And I think the best word to say for us is we're a bit more unconventional. I think we stand out on this tour a lot actually. And perhaps coming from a black perspective as well?I guess visually aesthetically you could say we're non-conventional.

Preview- Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2009
Examiner.com
Hot Topic & Jagermeister Stages: Plenty of major metal bands are gracing the parking lot stages this year when the festival rolls through DTE Energy Music Theatre. After a blistering performance at Rock on the Range All That Remains makes their way to their first Mayhem Fest and is still touring behind their “vercome” record. ne of the bands getting plenty of attention at Mayhem is the Polish death metal outfit. The Black Dahlia Murder plays a hometown show when it invades DTE and is getting ready to release their next album which it’s release was just slated for September 15th. ther bands on the stages include Trivium Cannibal Corpse God Forbid and Whitechapel.