WE: LP Version f ‘A Spell For The Death f Man’ Now Available …

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- WE: LP Version f ‘A Spell For The Death f Man’ Now Available …
- Summer metal
- Green Day debut and f*cking death metal next week in Rock Band
- As You Drown ‘” REFLECTIN (Musick Review)
- John Squire swaps music for art
- Mirai Kawashima from Sigh
- Where there’s Maccabees there’s brass

WE: LP Version f ‘A Spell For The Death f Man’ Now Available …
Blabbermouth.net
A mid-July release is planned as a collaborative effort between Creeping Vine Productions and WE frontman Chris Grigg’s own label Subvert All Media. riginally released on CD by American label Stronghold Records in 2008 “A Spell for the Death of Man” received universally positive reviews and was hailed as one of the “most important black metal releases in years” by a number of publications. Although “A Spell for the Death of Man” was written and recorded as a solo project WE has since expanded into a full band (featuring members of WDS F YPRES RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER XXX MANIAK THE GREEN EVENING REQUIEM and INFERNAL STRNGHLD) one whose intense live performances have wowed audiences up and down the East Coast and gained legions of new fans with each performance. With an initial pressing of 500 copies on red wax the album features entirely new cover art courtesy of artist Justin Miller whose artwork for the CD version has been described as “the final song” by Grigg as well as a printed inner sleeve.

Summer metal
Examiner.com
Nearly every song on the album is anchored with a melodic line blended with the aggressiveness of many bands in the metal scene today. “Rise of the Tyrant” is a 2007 release by Arch Enemy. This album is another production that remains true to the band’s melodic death metal status. The vocals remain consistently aggressive throughout the album however the guitars transform from insanely fast and aggressive into beautiful and almost orchestral melodies that somehow blend together to form some of the best melodic death metal to date. However the album’s consistency seems to be its most impressive quality. Each song in of itself is a unique experience but there is not one part of this album that pales in comparison to the rest.

Green Day debut and f*cking death metal next week in Rock Band
Blast
It’s hard to believe that Green Day has yet to grace a music game but next week when “21 Guns” “East Jesus Nowhere” and the radio-friendly “Know Your Enemy” we’ll finally be able to rock out to tracks from the popular 90’s band. n the death metal side of things Harmonix is dropping 8 tunes from bands playing this summer’s Mayhem Festival (I’ll be at the August 8 show!) and fans of this particualr flavor of music can finally finally rejoice. Behemoth “Conquer All”Black Dahlia Murder “What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse”Cannibal Corpse “Hammer Smashed Face”God Forbid “Empire of the Gun”Job for a Cowboy “Embedded”Marilyn Manson “Disposable Teens”Slayer “Black Magic”Whitechapel “This Is Exile”I’m very much excited about the metal inclusion and am truly hoping for a all-out metal smackdown of a game from either Guitar Hero or Rock Band. Call it Guitar Hero Thrash? Sounds good to me.
Related from Vervemed: Weekly Rock Band Downloadable Content (Week 28 2009)

As You Drown ‘” REFLECTIN (Musick Review)
FANGRIA
The result is a deadly dose of Death Metal music doesn?t hold any punches. As You Drown?s old-school approach to song writing produces some really catchy fast picking riffs yet their cut times are filled with the stop-and-go guitar work that?s popular with newer bands today. These do-it-yourselfers have a thick guitar sound deep clicking bass plenty of harmonized counter melodies percussive samples and insanely demonic vocals. All of sonic layers in this self produced CD keep it from sounding too old-school (no doubt a benefit from having their own studio). As You Drown sounds similar to veteran bands like Cannibal Corpse Behemoth and Grave but still manages to keeps their music sounding fresh and new.

John Squire swaps music for art
BBC News
To make them Squire taught himself to weld which turned out to be an arduous process. "It’s filthy noisy and dangerous" he says. "I burnt my arms and my scalp on a daily basis I set fire to my hair the studio [and had] two visits to A&E to have shards of metal removed from my eye. "I couldn’t wait to get back to painting to be honest. But I think the results justify that torture. " The second room houses wall-hung pieces along the same theme made from a variety of materials including sheet lead beeswax rust salt and old-fashioned oil on canvas. Many incorporate the box shape while others just use the outline of the narrow hole typically found at the top of small boxes to hang them from rails on shop walls.

Mirai Kawashima from Sigh
Crave nline
CRAVE NLINE: So how did you find out about Black Metal in Japan?MIRAI KAWASHIMA: In the beginning of 1990s we were sending out our demo to the labels from all over the world to hunt the deal and luckily Euronymous showed us an interest and our correspondences began. He introduced me to lots of great Norwegian bands including Burzum Emperor Enslaved and so on which was the dawn of black metal. CRAVE NLINE: What made you decide to form a band? Where did the name Sigh come from?MIRAI KAWASHIMA: Well I started up a band to cover the bands such as Death Deathrow Venom Slayer Whiplash etc. The word "Sigh" gives you varied impressions and it sure was the easy-to-remember name so I thought this was the right moniker for us. Also back then we didn’t have the Internet so we could not verify if there’d be a metal band under the same name but I really did not think it was likely.

Where there’s Maccabees there’s brass
guardian.co.uk
It is with little doubt one of the best records of 2009 and the band are following up its success with a string of appearances at summer festivals. Today’s colliery band recording brings back fond memories for Weeks who played trumpet in his school orchestra. “I really enjoyed being in a collective ? the noise of it playing at the summer concert” he says above the breathy hum of brass players warming up next door and the scrawling sound of a death metal band rehearsing in another studio. “Brass instruments look cooler than most instruments. “For White school music lessons were less illustrious. “I was told I couldn’t sing or do anything” he says. “So I had to play xylophone.