WHAT IS SUMERIAN NATION?

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 at 12:30pm by

Props to Heavy Blog is Heavy for catching this interesting update from Sumerian Records’ official Facebook page:

As HBiH notes, this sounds like it’s going to be a release (or releases) in the vein of Roadrunner United and Nuclear Blast All-Stars — basically a “who’s who” team-up of musicians signed to the label. Those offerings actually ended up being, by and large, pretty cool (I mean, of course there were some missteps, but I don’t look back at those albums and think, “Well, that was ill-advised”), and Sumerian’s current roster is one of the strongest in metal (The Faceless, Animals as Leaders, Periphery, Veil of Maya, After the Burial, etc., pretty much make up for their creatively vapid bands like Asking Alexandria and Upon a Burning Body), so it makes sense that they’d wanna do something like this.

Question is… what form, exactly, will it take? I almost don’t care, as long as Bizzy Bone is involved. Hey, it could happen.

-AR

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Delarosa/569469815 Jonathan Delarosa

    Hate to play Mr. Correcting Douche, but Animals as Leaders is on Prosthetic, even though Tosin Abasi has played with Born of Osiris.

    • Frank

      Animals as Leaders is going to sign with Sumerian in this next record.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Keith-Brown/537636633 Keith Brown

    This sounds kinda cool

  • c w

    oh my god.
    would a tosin, misha, and matt halpern collaboration on a song be the most amazing thing ever or what?
    or michael keane and marc from VoM?
    OR trent and justin with navene?
    jesus christ the possibilities are endless!!!

    • matty2fatty

      I’m almost positive Misha programmed the drums for the AAL album, so they’ve definitely worked together before.

      • booker

        I’m not so knowledgable about AAL but don’t they have a drummer? At least there’s one on the Cafo video.. and I presume live. Or were the tracks programmed in and them he had to learn them afterwards?

        • Aberosh1819

          They play with a live drummer, but word at the show (maybe 6 months ago?) was that he was new, and that previously they had even played with a drum machine live.

          Again, word at a show is not gospel.

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Bortier/1625051271 Steven Bortier

            Misha did program all the drums for the AAL album and actually helped writing the album too. At this time Tosin was the only guy working on it, it was going to be his solo project.

            When it was finished Tosin let Navene hear the tracks and he immediately wanted to be part of this band although he was allready a year without Animosity and hadn’t played drums in quite some while.

            I read something above about AAL signing to Sumerian? Can anyone confirm this?

            Haven’t read anything about them having used a drum machine live though…

      • AreWeHereNow?

        Correct. Misha programmed those drums.

    • AreWeHereNow?

      If you want to hear Keene collaborate with Veil of Maya, listen to a Veil of Maya record. He produced and, consequently, wrote anything good on them.

  • cyrollan

    Sumeriancore bands are already interchangeable! Zing!

    • Betelgeuse

      Yep. Who here remembers TrustKill Records? Same shit. That no one will care about in a few years.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Faux-King-Christoph/1567502385 Faux King Christoph

    Lets play Sumerian mix and match!
    Michael Keene + Tosin Abasi = a change of underpants
    Spencer Sotelo + Enfold Darkness = ???
    Misha + Veil of Maya = insanity
    Bizzy Bone + Conducting From the Grace = whaaaa?
    They should just throw names in a hat to determine which artists play with whom

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Austin-Pearl-Nutter/1418565949 Austin Pearl Nutter

    Gentlemen, assemble your supergroups!

    Bizzy Bone and Jesse Barnett from Stick To Your Guns handling dual vocals
    Michael Keene (guitar, The Faceless)
    Jason Richardson (guitar, Born of Osiris)
    Danny Hauser (bass, Veil of Maya)
    Navene Koperweise (drums, Animals as Leaders)

    Top that.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jared-Allen-Lucas/504804532 Jared Allen Lucas

      Nice lineup!

  • C W

    Vocals- Spencer (Periphery) and Anthony (AtB)
    Guitar- Misha(Periphery) Tosin( AaL) Marc (VoM) Trent( AtB) if any group could make 4 guitarists work, it’s the lads on Sumerian!
    Bass- Danny Hauser
    Drums- Matt Halpern (Periphery) hands down, no contest. This man IS groove.

    • Matias Demeke

      No The Faceless?
      No.

      • cw

        fuck it. add michael keane and make it five guitarists.
        i’m not sure who their bassist is, their original one left a while back :P

        • steve cum o-lot

          they should put evan brewster, the bassist that just signed with sumerian, his solo bass work is just as good as AAL

  • Bastard

    Willing to bet good money that this will be just as fucking terrible as all the other label collaborations. In fact, I’d bet even more money that it’ll be even worse, as most of the bands from which the musicians are sourced sound the same anyway.

    Silly cunts, the lot of you.

    • Bastard

      Boing boing boing, whine, RARRRR, dingy dong, tap.

      Repeat ad nauseam.

      Get signed by Sumerian. Get hyped by morons. Success guaranteed, but everyone will have forgotten about you in ten years’ time.

      • Betelgeuse

        Done and done.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sanskar-Wagley/1376400331 Sanskar Wagley

    I hope it’s awesome…Bizzy Bone with Animals as Leaders please

  • fatpuppy

    Everyone always forgets about Stray From The Path… Great band.

    Lower Than Atlantis is cool too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jose-Rodriguez-III/1435762004 Jose Rodriguez III

    Sumerian Nation = one big djent riff.

  • Lard

    Goodie!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jared-Allen-Lucas/504804532 Jared Allen Lucas

    I guarantee it will be Bizzy Bone and Veil of Maya, seeing as in how their first CD/Demo “All Things Set Aside” the last track has a rapper in it.

  • Pri

    Didn’t Roadrunner do Roadrunner United a few years back. Thankfully it should be better with Sumerian but still.

  • bropocalypse

    STYG and SFTP collab is all i would give any fucks about. all of the other bands would just be a shit ton of djent-weedily bullshit.

  • Asscrampton

    This should be really easy for everyone on summerian considering all the music is fake and recorded in their bedrooms…

    Gee… this is a no brainer!

    Yay for bullshit fake progressive metal with no songs!

    • Betelgeuse

      Uh oh. Sounds like someone commenting on MetalSucks can actually hear……….be afraid stooges……