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Add See You Next Tuesday to the list of bands that seem to be breaking up while claiming they’re not breaking up. To wit, this statement from the band:

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What the fuck is happening in the world of deathcore? Job for a Cowboy’s Genesis didn’t really sound like Doom, All Shall Perish’s Awaken the Dreamers didn’t really sound like The Price of Existence, Suicide Silence’s No Time to Bleed doesn’t really sound like The Cleansing, and all evidence suggests that Born of Osiris’ A Higher Place will not really sound like The New Reign. Whether you love or hate these bands, there’s no denying that they’re evolving at a rapid pace.

And it looks like we can add Arsonists Get All the Girls to the list. The band has a new song, “Saturnine,” currently streaming on their MySpace page, and while it retains a lot of the Sumeriancore elements we love about the group, it’s a pretty far cry from anything off of The Game of Life. And although all the line-up changes since that album’s release probably have something to do with that, I don’t think there can be any doubt that the band has a creative desire to stretch their wings, too.

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Two of metal’s most prominent young bands now have front men who need serious medical attention and, as is so often the case these days, do not have the health insurance to pay for it. Find out how you can help after the jump.

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CMJ is almost dunzo. Vince partied way harder than I did and will probably need the weekend to recover. But don’t fret, he can’t be in terrible shape ’cause I didn’t find any piles of vomit in weird places around the MetalSucks Mansion.

If you live in the NYC area and still wanna check out some cool shit and get stupid sloppy drunk like Vince, it’s not too late: Heavy Hitter Inc. have their showcase tonight, with See You Next Tuesday, Arsonists Get All the Girls, Unholy, Catalepsy, and, oh, IWRESTLEDABEARONCE.* Doors are at seven and it’ll cost you a whopping ten bucks to get in. That’s right – for less than the cost of seeing whatever shitty movie opened this weekend, you can see five awesome metal bands.

I saw Despised Icon play this same room last year at the Heavy Hitter CMJ show, and they fucked shit up so hard I almost can’t believe that the Bowery Poetry Club was willing to have Heavy Hitter back. But hey! The loss of the cost of the property damage is metalheads’ gain.

Vince and I will be there. I’m not gonna do that thing where I tell you what we’re wearing so can find us. If you wanna find us, fucking find us.

More details on the show are avail here.

-AR

*Who I think should temporarily change their name to ISHOTABEARFROMAHELICOPTERONCE in Sarah Palin’s honor.

Thanks to MetalSucks Maniac Jon Dolente for tipping us off that there’s been some line-up changes in the IWRESTLEDABEARONCE camp. On the band’s MySpace blog, guitarist Steven Bradley explains in typically Lokian fashion:

“Being on tour and signing to a label and being poor and living in a van for all of eternity and blah blah isn’t for everyone. you’ve probably noticed that most full-time touring bands go through member changes and.. well.. shit happens.. we still love john/brian/ryan, but life goes on and iWaBo will continue until we all fall apart or die in an epic van/plane crash!

“that said.. we have 3 new members that you might not recognize from the original line-up and the “tastes like kevin bacon” video! after much searching, we feel that we have found the perfect touring/writing line-up and i don’t think things will be changing again.

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Vince Neilstein isn’t at the MetalSucks Mansion today. He told me he had to rush to Washington to save America from our financial crisis, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find him blogging for the guys over at Metal Injection instead. He’s a slippery one, that Vince.

ANYWAY, some cool tours have been announced over the past couple of weeks, and yesterday came the announcement of a tour that strikes me as especially odd, and I feel like discussing, so let’s discuss.

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When pimply fat dudes handed the keys to grindcore over to skinny kids with tight pants and funny haircuts that didn’t like emo, things got a little weird. Suddenly every town with a metal scene started spouting bands with sentence-long band names that played nothing but brief, hugely dissonant walls of sound. And while this resulted in some interesting output, it quickly devolved into what most scenes devolve into – kids who have no idea how to play music associating themselves with avant-grindcore for something to do and to be noticed. And even though this brand of heavy is hard to listen to for sustained periods of time, due in part to its design but also the fact that the genre’s shittiest bands are clearly making noise to mask the fact that they don’t know how to write songs, the better bands know how to jostle grindcore’s carcass and find new places on which to feast. Through just 30 unnerving minutes, Intervals, the latest by See You Next Tuesday, manages to tear you asunder by being both low and lumbering and fast and precise, always in eerily perfect portions.

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There’s a lot of talk right now about John Baizley, the Baroness frontman who also is the cover artist du jour.

There’s considerably less talk about Dennis Siebeijn at Damnengine, though, which is too bad, ’cause, like Baizley, he’s done some of the coolest, most distinctive metal cover art in recent memory, including recent releases from Chimaira, Job for a Cowboy, Sworn Enemy, and See You Next Tuesday. Siebeijn’s work is usually epic in scope and immediately captures the eye; I suspect he’s not getting as much press because it doesn’t look quite as “home made” as Baizley’s work. Still, I think it’s pretty rad. Look at some samples after the jump.

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