IN WHICH WE FRAKED OUR BRAINS OUT
Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 5:00pm by Axl RosenbergSo as it turns out, Periphery have a rather sizable online following. Hm. Who knew?
ANYWAY, here’s how we amused ourselves this week:
- We debuted new music by the aforementioned Periphery, as well as Meek is Murder.
- Gwar’s Oderus Urungus answered some more reader questions, and we spoke to Fredrik Andersson from Amon Amarth.
- We checked out the latest releases from Drugs of Faith and Throatruiner Records.
- We reported on all the awesome metalocity at SXSW.
- We wondered if metalheads support gay marriage.
- We offered a retort to Sumerian Records head honcho Ash Avilldsen’s anti-piracy argument.
- We started the “Best of 2011″ argumentswwwaaaaayyyy early.
- We watched the best school assembly ever.
- We wondered why good musicians join terrible bands.
- We steeled ourselves for the release of the worst album of the year.
Alright, have a good frakin’ weekend everyone! See ya Monday.
-AR




Yesterday I interviewed Greg Puciato, Liam Wilson, and Billy Rymer from The Dillinger Escape Plan (transcript coming soon); because Rymer is the band’s new drummer and this is his first album with DEP, it should go without saying that a portion of the conversation was devoted to how he joined the band, his experience as “the new guy,” and his predecessors – namely Gil Sharone and, of course, Chris Pennie. Unless you live under a Dino Cazares, you already know that Pennie is now the drummer for Coheed and Cambria; since I’m a wwwwaaaaayyyyy bigger fan of DEP than I am of C&C, I don’t spend much time thinking about Pennie these days. Which isn’t to take away from his incredible talent; I’m just saying, it’s unusual for me to have Pennie on the brain at this particular moment in time.