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Little known fact: June 1st is an international holiday called “Listen to an Unsigned Band Day.” So do your good deed for the day and listen to Errata, Reserve de March, or the Observer… or do a triple mitzvah and listen to all three.
Ever since Jesse Leach re-joined Killswitch Engage, there have been two big questions on the minds of fans: 1) Will Leach enable KsE to finally make another killer album, and 2) What will it sound like when Leach sings songs from the Howard Jones era?
Well, now we have the answer to the second question at least. Reader Kyle Brahe sent us these videos of Leach and the band performing in the End of Heartache‘s title track and “Bid Farewell” in Utrecht last night, as well as the group’s lauded cover of Dio’s “Holy Diver.”
Not shocking: Leach can handle these tunes admirably. So if for some reason you were worried about that… don’t be.
More videos after the jump!
Call Me No One’s debut album Last Parade is really, really good. If it sounds like the members of Sevendust wrote a Foo Fighters album, as Axl remarked to me earlier today, that’s because the two main contributing members of Sevendust — guitarist Clint Lowery and Fifteenth Best Modern Metal Drummer Morgan Rose – basically did just that.
There’s something really appealing about talented metal musicians taming their technicality to write smart hard rock (or even pop) songs, their virtuosity bubbling just under the service. It’s why Anso likes Look Right Penny so much, it’s why I enjoy Shinedown, and it’s why Axl and I enjoy Call Me No One. In a way, Last Parade is kind of like Dark New Day’s non-existent third album. It’s hooky and it’s heavy, but it’s got that pro-songwriter sheen that can’t be taught, that only guys like Lowery and Dave Grohl have in their bones.
Check out the new song “Pleased to Meet Me,” now streaming at Noisecreep. It’s got certain trademark elements of the Sevendust sound, but reworked into a more hard rock-based shell without the angry riffs and vocal delivery. There are heavier songs on this album too, by the way; we can’t wait for you to hear it when it comes out on June 5th.
-VN
Well, this is totally awful.
Animals as Leaders were scheduled to support Thrice in Toronto earlier this week, but had to disappoint fans and bow out. The reason? Co-guitarist Javier Reyes (above) had to be in court in Boston for an arrest that took place earlier in week… an arrest that was apparently both completely unlawful and totally abusive.
After the jump is the message Reyes posted on AAL’s Facebook page, including a description of the event written by a friend who witnessed the incident. Most of the names of the involved parties have been witheld, although Vince noted that at one point the officer is named as “Cooley.” Anyone know a Cooley in the Boston PD?
Morbid Angel have announced their first North American headlining tour in six years, and I can say with 100% sincerity that I am totally curious what the turn-out will be like. Do enough people not care about Ilud Whatever the Fuck to go see this band, even though they’re guaranteed to play at least a few songs from it live? To what extent will a TERRIBLE — not just bad, but TRULY FUCKING AWFUL — album hurt an already-established band’s chances of packing houses and selling lots of merch? I wonder if people ultimately don’t care about Insanus, and will be happy to just go hear the old songs and go take a piss during the new ones.
So do you still wanna see this band, or are they just a huge joke to you now? Weigh in with your thoughts below. Dates are after the jump. Support will come from Grave, Dark Funeral, and, for the East Coast dates only, Vadimvon.
So hey like remember last week when Vince posted what were the first two rumored dates for a tour with Devin Townsend, Katatonia, and Paradise Lost?
Well, we have the full tour itinerary, and they’re not rumored dates anymore. This tour is happening for really real! Devy and Katatonia will co-headline with Paradise Lost acting as direct support. Additional support will come from a band called Stolen Babies that I’d never heard of before we got this press release. I’m listening to them now and I don’t like them very much, but maybe if you’re a girl who used to cut herself in high school, you’ll dig it.
Anyway, enough about the follies of youth. Here are tour dates!!!
Ok, I give up. In fact, everyone should just give up. What have we learned in the last couple weeks of MLB? We’ve learned that everyone gets injured in every way, all the time. If it’s not Doug Fister getting injured for the second time in our short season, then it’s Matt Kemp making his quest for a historic season more difficult by getting some stupid injury or another. There are so many players missing games due to some physical hazard that it seems like the successful teams are merely the ones getting luckiest in avoiding the injury bug. Here’s a short list of key players that’ve missed games already:
Last week we gave away a Primitive Weapons’ t-shirt and their slammin’ new jam The Shadow Gallery in our weekly Photo Caption Contest. The photo at right was taken by MS reader Bonesnapper from Ross Sewage of Ghoul’s Facebook page and is purportedly of his mom; pretty righteous, way more metal than my mom would ever get! And so, here’s the winning caption:
This week we’ve got a big package of CDs from Metal Blade Records: one winner will receive one copy each of Electric Wizard’s Witchcult Today re-issue, Grand Magus’s Iron Will re-issue and Wolf’s Return re-issue and Fates Warning’s Inside Out 2CD/DVD expanded edition. You know the game: leave a comment with the funniest caption to the photo below (sent in by reader Patrick A.).
Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli…
The Wire mainstreamed the notion of Baltimore as a third world demilitarized zone, but Dying Fetus have been giving the state of Murderland a (very) bad name for over 20 years. The death metal institution did things the old-fashioned way: building their rep via a couple eyebrow-singing records in the minors, attracting the attention of a then-nascent scene powerhouse (Relapse), making just the right personnel adjustment to take the slams to the next level (securing guitarist John “Sparky” Voyles), then defying everyone’s expectations by delivering a hook-heavy, crisply produced powerhouse. That breakout third album, Destroy the Opposition, is the latest honoree in Decibel’s Hall of Fame, and—like most true classics—is the product of creative people with a singular identity and vision, executing it without interference. Pervasively influential (mostly in a good way), Opposition wound up being the one-and-done for DF’s most beloved lineup, as the eventual fracture spawned still going-concern Misery Index.
Fond memories persist for those who lived through it. Occasional Decibel contributor Brian Straight was among them, and like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, he has the pictures to prove it (not sorry at all), not to mention a pretty cool anecdote that he recently shared via email. Crank up the wayback machine:
As u may know, Chris Jericho is not only a popular professional wrestler but the vocalist for GED-metal/zakkwyldecore band FOZZY, who recently inked a deal with leading independent music retailer CENTURY MEDIA. In this video, he talks about how excited is he is to be ‘in the big leagues,’ and how inspiring it is to be labelmates with some of his favorite artists like SUISIDE SILENCE, THE LACUNA COILS, and ENFLAMES.
He seems like a cool guy, but I’m sorry he comes off like a total poser in this video!!! Speaking as a REAL Centery Medias fan, I find it insulting on both a personal and professional level that he left out what both critics and fans agree are the most meaningful and influential releases from their catalog. Chris, do u even STUCK MOJO, MY OWN VICTIM, AGENTS OF MAN, DEMOLISHER, and MUCKY PUP????
-Sergeant D.
Read REAL Centery Medias fan Sergeant D. every day at Stuff You Will Hate.
Shame on me! Even though I once praised Australia’s Be’lakor “the best unsigned band in metal,” I didn’t get around to actually checking out their new release, Of Breath and Bone, until the band released the full-album stream today via YouTube. Man oh man, is this ever some truly epic shit or what? If you dig Insomnium or Daylight Dies, it really is impossible for me to imagine you will not dig this.
Of Breath and Bone comes out tomorrow via Kolony Records. Give it a listen below, then order it here!
Check out the rest of the album after the jump!
Brb barfing into a potted palm
It’s been ages since Queensryche fans could show their faces in public. Shit has been so uncomfortably weird for so long — and not Tool-video weird (i.e. cool) or Dave Mustaine-interview uncomfortable (fun). Just gross and ugly. Let’s see, in recent years there were cabaret-style tours that featured busty lady dancers yet vibed powerful gayness. And the compositionally sturdy but aesthetically nauseous Dedicated To Chaos album, all old-man dancey and lulzy modern. Oh, and the drafting of singer Geoff Tate’s son-in-law for second guitar duties. Welcome to Yuck City.
But that creepy shit was nothing! Recently Queensryche has exploded through to a whole new gross, lumpy, hateful weirdness. Didn’t think that was possible? Check it out:
By now you’ve all surely heard and seen the WTF??-ness that is BabyMetal, so no need to re-hash that here. But did you know these cute little Japanese girls embody the spirit of God himself when they perform and also happen to worship Cannibal Corpse? Those revelations and more with this highly entertaining interview conducted by Otaku Verse Zero. The “interview” with Babymetal’s “producer” is full of aces, too.
In all seriousness, MetalSucks would like to know who these girls’ parents are. Is this like the Michael Jackson thing, where his parents forced him into being a star against his will through relentless practice?
-VN
Thanks: Jeremy Marquez
Recap: Soilwork’s Speed Strid + Arch Enemy’s Sharlee D’Angelo = the siqq as fuqq dad rock band Night Flight Orchestra!
I’ve been raving about Night Flight Orchestra for weeks, and from the couple of songs you’ve heard it seems that most of you agree: this is some great shit! Now it’s time for you to listen to their new album Internal Affairs in full at Legacy.de. If the very first track “Siberian Queen” doesn’t get you hooked instantly, something is wrong with you. Dat beat! Strid’s silky smooth voice! Those hooks!
This is one of my favorite albums of 2012 so far. Put down those Br00tal-O’s for a minute and rock out!
-VN
Ah, the good ol’ days.
Slipknot have released four whole studio albums over the course of the past thirteen years, so you know what that means: it’s time for a greatest hits album! Yup yup. The band is now ready to repackage old shit for fans who are either too stupid or too lovestruck to care that they already own all the songs on the release, or are otherwise willing to pay whatever for a couple of new and/or previously unreleased tracks. In the old days, I think greatest hits albums were also intended to act as a gateway for new fans, but that’s a fairly ridiculous concept in 2012: between digital outlets like iTunes that allow consumers to purchase individual tracks, streaming services such as Spotify, and illegal downloading, people can easily compile their own greatest hits collection.
Greatest hits albums: the stupidest thing ever, now rendered even stupider by advancements in technology. Gotta love it.
Olds dominated the big debuts last week: Slash and The Cult. Six Feet Under, Sonata Arctica, Kill Devil Hill, Saint Vitus, Firewind and more also broke into the Top 100 of the Current Hard Music chart while Tenacious D and Shadows Fall maintained in Week 2.
At least, I assume that no publicist in the world approved this press release, announcing that the band’s new album, 119, will be released on Odd Future Records, a hip-hop label which was founded by rapper Tyler, The Creator (I don’t actually know who that is. I’m just telling you he founded the label in case you care.):
So them muthafu***** ova at Odd Future records done signed a fu***** group of crackas and ni**** in a hardcore punk band called Trash Talk. I mean it makes sense since Odd Future fans is them white ni**** anyway. Trash Talk is supposed to be releasing they album called “119″ or some sh** thru they Trash Talk Collective Label in the fall.. don’t ask me what the f*** that means cuz I don’t fu***** kno. I asked Tyler’s trick ass what he thought about that sh** and I really didn’t give a f*** so I’m not gone put that sh** on here. Them Trash Talk ni**** is currently over in Europe with them musty muthaf******.
If you give a f*** about they sh**t then listen to them ni**** EP on iTunes called Awake or watch the fuckin video ni***
Pretty funny, right? I guess now we know why they’re called “Trash Talk”…
-AR
[via Metal Injection]
Relapse Records gets it. All the other metal record labels don’t.
Make it easy for your fans to download music in any format they like from a stupid-simple interface instead of making them seek it out on a small group of select services or resorting to piracy.
We all already know that Bandcamp is a piracy killer. So why are all the other bigger metal record labels lagging behind?
The entirety of Relapse’s 20+ year catalog is now posted at the Relapse Records Bandcamp, where you can stream every album ever released on the label in full for free or download them for $9.99 in high quality 320kbps MP3 or FLAC format. Baroness, Dying Fetus, Pig Destroyer, Red Fang, Necrophagist, Revocation — it’s all there. The new page joins the one they launched in April featuring Relapse “Alumni” — bands like Mastodon, Neurosis, Nile, High on Fire and The Dillinger Escape Plan that have graduated from the label — offering the same HQ download options but with only one track per release streaming.
The mighty Oderus Urungus from GWAR has released a new video on behalf of PETA, and I can pretty much guarantee that the thing is gonna leave you feeling like a schizophrenic. See, on the one had, Oderus — with some help from the other members of his band — is typically hilarious, and there are some parts of this video which are very, very funny.
Unfortunately, the rest of it consists of incredibly upsetting (and NSFW) footage of adorable animals being beaten to death, skinned, and otherwise treated like the subjects of a Cannibal Corpse song. As a metal fan I’m used to brutal imagery in my song lyrics, but that stuff is always, to some extent, hyperbolic and tongue-in-cheek; this is obviously not that at all. I mean after I watched this thing, I grabbed my dog, squeezed him tight, and wept for twenty minutes. It’s that kind of video.
So… fair warning.
-AR
Further evidence that Rwake are not the band with which you fuck: during their performance at this past weekend’s Maryland Deathfest, vocalist C.T. got sick and started vomiting… and at no point did he ever a) leave the stage, or b) even stop performing. And the rest of the band barely seems to notice.
So. FUCKING. METAL.
The fun starts around the 2:20 mark. Watch:
Rwake’s entire catalog is on Bandcamp. If for some reason you’re not already head-over-heels in love with this group, get smitten now.
-AR
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