But that’s the name of the band’s new song — “The Conqueror.” It’s now streaming on Fit for an Autopsy’s Facebook page, assuming you’re willing to click the “like” button, which you should be, ’cause this band is br00tal, and you like br00tal things.

In case you didn’t read about Fit for an Autopsy the last time I wrote about them, they’re a new band that features former Through the Eyes of the Dead vocalist Nate Johnson, as well as guitarist Will Putney, who has already produced such killer records as The Human Abstract’s Digital Veil. Their debut album, The Process of Human Extermination (cover art above) is coming out June 21 on Black Market Activities, and features guest appearances from The Red Chord’s Guy Kozowyk, Tim Williams of Vision of Disorder/Bloodsimple fame, Full Blown Chaos’ Ray Mazzola, and The Human Abstract’s Travis Richter.

In other words, this is a record to which attention must be paid.

So headbang here, then come back and let us know what you think. My guess is that about half of you will accuse the band of playing generic deathcore, and the other half of you have ears.

-AR

I was not aware of the existence of Singlish until just now, when I watched the below video interview that Invisible Oranges‘ Cosmo Lee conducted recently with Wormrot — but I’m not at all surprised that it exists. Are the band’s lyrics in Singlish? I’ve honestly never really paid attention to what front man Arif was screeching, and, kind of unbelievably, I can’t seem to find any of the band’s lyrics online. One way or the other, though, this is pretty interesting stuff.

While we’re on the topic of Wormrot: if you’re at SXSW this week don’t forget that they’re playing MetalSucks’ ABSOLUTELY FREE South by Southdeath party at Headhunters, at 720 Red River, from 2-6pm this Friday, March 18th. Kvelertak, Havok, Red Fang, and Meek is Murder are also on the bill, and Full Blown Chaos’ Ray Mazzola is MCing. It’s gonna be a killer time so be there. And bring some weed for Vince — he does so much for you!

Wormort’s new album, Dirge, will be out May 3 on Earache. I’ve heard it. It will not disappoint you.

-AR

After seeing that Red Fang are streaming a new song, “Dirt Wizard,” over at AP, I Googled the phrase “dirt wizard” to see if it has any special meaning of which I was unaware. But Google assumed I meant “dirty wizard,” which, according to the Urban Dictionary, is actually a sexual act I personally have yet to try:

“When one waves their dick around while saying ‘abracadabra’ and then cums on the girl’s face.”

It can also mean a dude with long, greasy hair. Red Fang probably meant that. That would make more sense for a metal band.

ANYWAY, the song rocks, and you should check it out. It comes off of Red Fang’s new album, Murder the Mountains, which Relapse will release on April 12.

And don’t forget that Red Fang are playing at our absolutey FREE SXSW party, South by Southdeath, from 2-6pm this Friday, March 18th at Headhunters, 720 Red River Street. Kvelertak, Wormrot, and Meek is Murder are also on the bill, and Full Blown Chaos’ Ray Mazzola is MCing. There are probably other SXSW  shows you could go do at this same time, but only if you’re lame. You’re not lame, are you?

-AR

Havok, the neo-thrash band that makes all other neo-thrash bands look bad, have a new album coming out on Candlelight on March 29. It’s called Time is Up. Yes, it’s terrific — if you dug Havok’s 2009 debut, Burn, you will dig this, and if you didn’t hear Burn, you should hear this, and if you didn’t like Burn, go jump in a fire.

I mention this because Metal Injection have a behind-the-scenes video of Havok in the studio making Time is Up. And you should watch it! Here, I’ll make it easy for you:

If you’re going to SXSW next week, don’t forget that Havok are playing MetalSucks’ ABSOLUTELY FREE South by Southdeath party at Headhunters, at 720 Red River, from 2-6pm on Friday, March 18th. Kvelertak, Red Fang, Wormrot, and Meek is Murder are also on the bill, and Full Blown Chaos’ Ray Mazzola, a.k.a. “One of the Funniest Motherfuckers in Metal,” is MCing. Be there.

-AR

Last year (and the year before) I got way too busy with this thing called life and missed out on a lot of quality music. I am here to rectify the error of my ways, month by month.

Here are the February 2011 releases that got under my skin, burrowed their way into my brain, made my ears bleed, or simply tickled my unmentionables:

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I see a pattern developing in 2011; the only albums selling are old ones. It’s quite startling, in fact; it’s already mid-February and the new release machine is kicking into high gear, but the charts are still dominated by best-of compilations and classic albums from the likes of Metallica, Van Halen, Ozzy, Aerosmith (Idol Effect), and Guns N’ Roses and perennially charting butt-rock bands like Godsmack, Disturbed, Three Days Grace, Theory of a Deadman, Kid Rock, Linkin Park, Nickelsuck, etc etc etc. AKA bands that appeal to people mostly over the age of 30. Will 2011 be the year that folks stop purchasing music en masse? It’s too early to tell, but things are not looking good.

In any case, last week saw a variety of solid new releases in the metal world from Full Blown Chaos, Lazarus A.D., Thomas Giles (of BTBAM) and Abysmal Dawn. Not bands you’d expect chart-busting numbers from, but still, heavy hitters in our world. Sadly, only one of those bands was able to crack the Top 100 in the Top Hard Music Charts. We know better than to claim these numbers as a definitive measure of those bands’ popularity, but as long as record labels are the source of funding to launch these bands’ careers — and until there’s a better ranking system that incorporates record sales, merch sales and touring revenue into one chart — sales numbers will matter to some degree.

Let’s look at how last week’s new releases, and a few others, performed on the Soundscan charts.

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I don’t think anybody ever really reads these little intros Vince or myself write every week, so I’m gonna dispense with one today, and if that makes you sad, uh, you’re weird.

Here’s how we got our pull this week:

• We debuted new music by Abysmal Dawn, Full Blown Chaos, and Årabrot.
• We spoke to Jeff Paulick from Lazarus A.D. and Ginger from The Wildhearts.
• We checked out new releases from Xasthur, haarp, and Hesper Payne.
• We watched a nerd’s video about seeing Sunn O))).
• We tried to understand why The Big Four are only doing one show in America.
• We debated the merits and demerits of this year’s Mayhem Fest line-up.
• We celebrated the way that metal makes everything better.
• We enjoyed some new All Shall Perish music (kinda).
• We prepared for Zakk Wylde to boldly go where no guitarist has gone before.
• We got even MORE excited for Meek is Murder’s Algorithms.

Next week we’re gonna, like, totally talk about metal n’ stuff. You should come back and read it, it will be fun.

-AR

FULL BLOWN CHAOS ARE BACK! It’s been more than three years since the release of the metallic hardcore heavyweights’ last offering, Heavy Lies the Crown, but next week will finally see the release of the band’s brain-splatteringly brutal new, self-titled album. And you don’t just have to take our word for it when we tell you that this is a killer release — you can check out a brand new track, “Villains,” below. You might wanna put on a construction hard hat or a bike helmet or whatever before you hit that “play” button, though — ’cause this song is the aural equivalent of having FBC front man Ray Mazzola reach through your speakers and crack your fucking skull in the palm of his hand.

Full Blown Chaos, the album, comes out February 1 on Ironclad Recordings. Once you’ve listened to this song and subsequently returned from the emergency room, you can pre-order it right here.

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I mean, “Doomageddon?” That is so unbelievably frickin’ METAL. It sounds like a great horrible movie, y’know, like Croctopus 3D or something. I want Full Blown Chaos to make a video for the song, and I want that video to be nothing, but, well, full blown chaos. By which I mean not just endless close-ups of the band, but, rather, death and destruction on a truly offensive, socially irresponsible level. I want Rush Limbaugh to be able to blame all crime and war for the next ten years on this video. THAT kind of full blown chaos.

While we wait to see if that actually happens, you can stream the song over at The Deciblog. It opens with a killer elephants marching riff, and then it just gets doomageddonier from there.

“Doomageddon” will appear on Full Blown Chaos’ new, self-titled release, which comes out February 1 on Ironclad. And your favorite metal blog (ahem) just might be debuting a different track from the record next week…

-AR

Full Blown Chaos have been away a long time, but they finally threw their fans a bone in August when they announced that they’d signed with Ironclad Recordings and would be releasing a new album in 2011. Now the band has unveiled the cover art for that self-titled offering (above), a release date (February 1, 2011), and, perhaps best of all, our first taste of new FBC music since 2007 — a song called “The Walking Dead.” (And, no, I don’t think it has anything to do with AMC’s new zombie series.) You can check that out here.

The verdict? It sounds like Full Blown Chaos, with an extra dose of chaos. Turns out that front man Ray Mazzola wasn’t dicking around when he promised that FBC would be “capable of doing so much more” now that they’re a quintet — this might be the most aggressive track from the band yet. And it’s not like they were in the power ballad business before, y’know?

Give the track a listen here, then come back and let us know what you think. And don’t forget that FBC are on tour right now; get remaining dates after the jump.

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As of last week, it has been three years since the release of Full Blown Chaos’ last album, Heavy Lies the Crown; on that very same anniversary date a year ago, front man/incredibly awesome and hilarious orator Ray Mazzola tweeted that the band, now a quintet, was working on a new album to come sometime in 2010. That’s obviously not gonna happen now, but Gun Shy Assassin reports that the group has found a new label home with Unearth vocalist Trevor Phipps’ Ironclad Recordings*, and is hoping to finally get some new music out to the fans in January of 2011:

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Every time I come home from tour, I ask myself: “What the fuck am I going to do with all these CDs?!” Because when I go to my storage room to drop off gear and tour supplies, there they are. Literally, thousands of CDs stacked to the ceiling in multiple storage rooms. Bands like The Program, Right Brigade, Oblige, AK Corral (The country CD I put out! Haha… that’s a completely different blog I will one day write.), A Thousand Falling Skies, The Autumn Offering, Full Blown Chaos, etc., etc., etc. Basically stuff that I put out on my labels that didn’t sell well or that we pressed too many of. Now I really don’t want them going in a landfill or polluting the ocean. The thought of a baby seal choking on a Sworn Enemy CD really doesn’t sit well with me. So I figured I would take to the internet to see what could be done. Now if you really want to be a great person and buy any of them, please visit martyrstore.com or stillbornstore.com – they’re cheap! Okay? So here’s some videos to check out, you decide what I should do with this stuff!

Should I make jewelry?

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Just a few weeks ago a friend and I were wondering aloud about the status of Full Blown Chaos. I really enjoyed the band’s 2007 release, Heavy Lies the Crown, and the interview I did with front man Ray Mazzola is still one of my favorites (Ray is, no joke, a master orator, and he has some crazy fucking stories).

But in the past year or so, Full Blown Chaos seemed to have disappeared. Then Mazzola turned up on Twitter recently; and now we’ve gotten a press release announcing the band’s plans to come back big-time, with a new album to drop sometime in 2010.

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Dallas Coyle a prophet? Maybe not — but his prediction that myriad summer tours would be canceled this year because of the prohibitively high price of gasoline has proven true. Day after day I see tour cancellation announcements dropping into the MetalSucks Mansion inbox and RSS reader, most recently the “Summer of Scum” tour with Shai Hulud and Full Blown Chaos. Inevitably these press releases include vague language such as “uncontrollable circumstances” or issues “out of our hands,” which is not-so-secret code speak for financial issues, aka gas money. If respectable, successful bands like Shai Hulud and Full Blown Chaos are being forced to cancel tours, it begs the question: what lies ahead for the touring industry in these tough economic times?

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I think it’s safe to say that Full Blow Chaos front man Ray Mazzola is the funniest interview subject we’ve ever had. If you’ve read the interview, you know these dudes get into some crazy, crazy The Dirt-style shit when they’re on tour.

So it’s just been announced that they’ll be hitting the road again in July, first to do a string of headlining gigs with The Breathing Process and Sons of Azrael, then to do some shows with science fiction lovers/pure misanthropes Shai Hulud. You should really, really make an effort to go to one of these shows and buy Ray and company a drink or twelve. If you’re nice to them, I’ll bet they’ll let you co-indulge in whatever shenanigans they get up to. And there will be shenanigans.

Just leave your girlfriend/sister/mother/whatever at home. It would be a shame to see anyone you really care about get a bottle shoved up any place that is extremely uncomfortable… like the back of a Volkswagen.

After the jump, get FBC’s complete tour itinerary.

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Here’s the thing about Ray Mazzola, vocalist for New York’s own Full Blown Chaos: the guy has a natural born gift for storytelling. I learned this back in February, when I was lucky enough to be invited to dinner with the members of Soilent Green, music video auteur extraordinaire David Brodsky, and Allie Woest, Brodsky’s partner/producer/sometimes editor/general right hand. Full Blown Chaos were on a temporary hiatus from touring at the time (a hiatus which, their fans will be pleased to know, is now over), and so Ray joined us, and within seconds of sitting at the table, he was trading war stories from the road with Soilent Green/Crowbar drummer Tommy Buckley. And, as nice a guy as Buckley is and as many good stories as he had to tell, he just couldn’t keep up with Ray; I won’t repeat any of Ray’s stories second hand ’cause I could never do them justice, so I’ll just say that I can never again hear Napalm Death’s “The Code is Red” without bursting into hysterical laughter.

So after dinner I interviewed Soilent Green guitarist Brian Patton (and some of the dudes from Car Bomb, who also showed up at some point), and then Ray was cool enough to sit down and let me pick his brain for a little while – and to share one of his special stories with our readers. To say that the story is a doozy would be to put it mildly. Little wonder this dude is such a charismatic front man.

Above, watch the David Brodsky-directed video for Full Blown Chaos’ “Halos for Heroes,” from their album Heavy Lies the Crown; after the jump, read the full transcript of my conversation with Ray.

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“Man, do I feel sorry for you,” Brian Patton tells me as he chain smokes his way through what must be at least his seventh cigarette in the last hour. “You gotta transcribe this with my accent!” He’s referring to the Nawlins drawl which gives Patton and his Soilent Green bandmates – vocalist Ben Falgoust (also of Goatwhore), drummer Tommy Buckley (also of Crowbar), and bassist Scott Crochet (also of Hostile Apostle) – the easygoing air of southern gentlemen. It’s a little off putting, actually, considering that a) these dudes make some fucking furious death/grind/sludge and b) have endured about as much hardship as a band possibly could, including line-up changes, label changes, murder/suicides, and, of course, the wretched effects of Hurrican Katrina on their native turf.

But the band seems unphased, and with good reason: they have an awesome new album, Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction, coming out on their new label, Metal Blade, on April 15; and just twenty four hours prior, they completed shooting performance footage for the video of their new single, “Antioxidant,” with director David Brodsky (it’s that clip above, and you should definitely watch it at least twice – it’s arguably Brodsky’s best work to date).

I was lucky enough to fulfill every fan’s wet dream of having dinner with the band the night after the shoot; afterwards, Patton let me grab a few minutes to pick his brain about the new album, producer Erik Rutan, the state of metal today, the influence of non-metal music on Soilent Green’s work, and more. Read the full transcript after the jump.

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I’m not the biggest Full Blown Chaos fan in the world, but this is a pretty slice of post-hardcore, and I find the slightly off-key vocals during the chorus kind of oddly endearing. Plus, this clip comes from the fucked-up mind of director David Brodsky, which is always a good thing.

ANYWAY, if you’re interested, the track comes off the band’s latest album, Heavy Lies the Crown (Ferret).

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-AR