Posts Tagged ‘stereomud’

DANGEROUS NEW DANGEROUS NEW MACHINE VIDEO

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 12:00pm by Vince Neilstein

I’ve written about my unabashed, non-ironic love of early-’00s not-quite-supergroup Stereomud many time on these pages. I’ve also written about singer Erik Rogers’ new group Dangerous New Machine and the sparks that flew after he tried to call the new band Stereomud.

So Dangerous New Machine have a new video for their song “Burn.” Dig it. Like Metal Inquisition’s Sergeant D and Crazytown, I’m just a sucker for this stuff. Ain’t nothin’ kvlt/br00tal/tr00 about it. It isn’t even all that original. But the songs are good and I love it!

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CONFESSIONS OF A STEREOMUD FAN

Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 10:50am by Vince Neilstein

stereomudSo. I love Stereomud. I’ve written about them several times on this here webernet site. For those with short memories: Stereomud was an early-2000s supergroup of sorts, featuring members of Life of Agony, Stuck Mojo, and Pro-Pain. I know, I know, they were bottom of the barrel, C-rate post-nu-metal… but I can’t help it! “Pain” and “Steppin’ Away” were just so good! No, I’m not being ironic. And their second record Any Given Moment, which resulted in the band being dropped from Columbia, was a damn fine effort too.

With that in mind, question not why I’ve been following the drama that recently unfolded when Stereomud vocalist Erik Rogers attempted to form what amounts to a new band under the “Stereomud’ moniker. When actual members of Stereomud put up a stink, he was forced to change the name of the new band to Dangerous New Machine and issued a protracted public apology.

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HELLO DEMONS.. MEET SKELETONS: METALSUCKS SPEAKS WITH SEVENDUST’S CLINT LOWERY ABOUT NEW SOLO EP

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 4:29pm by Vince Neilstein

hello demons meet skeletons clint lowery

Recently re-united with his brothers, Sevendust co-founder / guitarist / background singer / musical genius Clint Lowery just released a record of his own, Chills, under the moniker Hello Demons..Meet Skeletons. The mostly acoustic record — on which Clint plays all the instruments and sings all the vocals — is a deep, dark, haunting album that reflects an equally dark time in his life. Written in spurts over the past year or so, the music on Chills stands on its own as a creative work in his own distinct style but is far different from anything Sevendust have ever done.

Lowery’s patience has been tested in recent years — after writing an entire new Dark New Day album that will seemingly never see the light of day, Lowery left the band to re-join Sevendust on the eve of a new album release he had no part in writing. Anxious to get some music of his own to the masses, Lowery elected to record a solo album on his own between Sevendust tours — with production, engineering and mixing help from his brother Corey [also of Dark New Day, Stereomud and Stuck Mojo fame] — and to self-release it on the Internet. After an online ordering snafu that was entirely my fault, I ended up on the other end of an email string with Mr. Lowery himself and he agreed to answer a few questions via email, making him the only person ever in the history of MetalSucks to be interviewed twice — about two separate bands, no less. Read the 7D interview from this past April here, and the new solo EP interview after the jump.

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SPEAKING OF STEREOMUD

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 12:29pm by Vince Neilstein

I was genuinely shocked at the mostly positive reactions to yesterday’s Stereomud Mini-Reunion post, so here’s another tidbit. Most of our commenters were in agreement that the band’s first record Perfect Self was solid but that their second and final album Every Given Moment was a real dud. Not so — the album had ONE killer song, “Breathing,” but yes, the rest of it was terribly weak. From what I can find “Breathing” never got the official video treatment, but some enterprising young YouTuber gave it an unofficial treatment for her college coursework, and while the results are incredibly trite they allows us to listen to the song. So here here.

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STEREOMUD MINI-REUNION

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 4:11pm by Vince Neilstein

I’ve always been a sucker for the minor hit song “Pain” by Stereomud, an early ’00s nu-metal supergroup of sorts that featured members of Life of Agony and Stuck Mojo. At a benefit show in Atlanta this past weekend, bassist Corey Lowery (now of Dark New Day) reunited with his former Stereomud bandmates who are now in the band Love Said No to play that song. Erik Rogers sounds pretty decent, no? Stereomud may never have amounted to too much but I still think this is a kick-ass song, haters be damned. Bring it on.

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