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My efforts to have Sumeriancore added to Wikipedia have been squashed. MS reader Ty Winchester took is upon himself to write up the entry, but it was removed within a week due to being a “neologism.” You can still see a cached version of that Sumeriancore Wikipedia entry. Next up I tried UrbanDictionary.com… and got shot down by the site’s editors in less than 24 hours.

What the fuck? I feel Sergeant D’s pain.

At least there’s a Last.FM tag for Sumeriancore now, and industry people used the term at a CMJ panel last month. Sumeriancore will live on in our hearts and in our minds… and on this website. Fuck the haters!

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Just because Metal Inquisition’s Sergeant D failed at having his own self-coined micro-genre of metal added to Wikipedia doesn’t mean we’re not gonna give it a shot; where Wigger Slam was struck down by the Wikipedia fascists, Sumeriancore shall succeed because it’s decidedly more PC.

Folks, Sumeriancore isn’t just some mistake the MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys stumbled upon whilst banging away at their typewriters; it’s a real movement, and it’s making itself felt in the scene in a serious way. Phil Freeman of the quite-reputable Allmusic.com (ex-Metal Edge) referenced the term in his review of Born of Osiris’ A Higher Place, a review which is now being syndicated by hundreds of sites including iTunes, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble. Kids are debating the meaning of the term on MusicianForums.com, while over at the SMNnews.com forums a member of MetalSucks-faves The Binary Code poses this question to the masses: “Is my band ‘Sumeriancore’?” Even on Sumerian Records’ own Last.fm page, kids are e-yelling “SUMERIANCORE!” in the comments.

So let’s get this shit going. Despite what MS Maniac Caspar Colderson commented on yesterday’s Tesseract post, “Sumeriancore” isn’t yet in Wikipedia. Can someone who’s bored at work take a stab at entering it in? ‘Cause we can’t do it ourselves, lest we make the Wikipedia Gods angry. I like Freeman’s definition: “a blend of tech-death and hardcore played by preternaturally talented youngsters,” as well as “Any band that sounds like they are/could be signed to Sumerian Records (the Faceless, After the Burial, Veil of Maya)” from the aforementioned Binary Code post.

We’ll send anyone who helps out a copy of A Higher Place signed by Glen Danzig.

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We’ve barely covered UK prog-techsters Tesseract on MetalSucks — save for a hilarious “music video” shot by some Subway Sandwich employees rocking out to the band whilst cleaning up at night — which kinda blows my mind, because this band is freakin’ awesome and I’ve been e-following them for years now. They’re pretty much the best Sumeriancore band in existence that hasn’t yet been signed to Sumerian Records, though they definitely pre-date this now wide-spread* sub-genre name.

Tesseract haven’t even released a proper studio album yet but I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one that follows this band on the Internet closely; people email us about them all the time. Apparently they’re doing some dates in their UK homeland next month, and though they’ve got a new song out there’s still no word on an album. Their new song “Lament” hit the UK radio earlier this week and summarily ended up on YouTube. Have a listen below, and if you’re lucky enough to live in the UK go see them live (dates on their MySpace page) and let us know how they are.

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[Thanks: Jesse Z.]

*and by wide-spread I mean “only on MetalSucks.”

“Reliable news source” Lambgoat is reporting that San Diego, CA-based deathcore-ish band Sea of Treachery have either been booted from or left Sumerian Records, depending on who you ask. I’d never heard of this band, so in due journalistic diligence I did my research. I’d like to posit the following theories for why Sumerian kicked the band to the curb (because, really, why would any band leave a label with as much current clout as Sumerian?):

1. They suck.
2. They aren’t Sumeriancore.
3. The most popular song (by far) on their MySpace page is a cover of Paramore’s “Misery Business.”

Apparently the band is un-phased, as they’re currently recording a new album and have a mammoth U.S. tour booked for the fall.

Less bands like this and more bands like Periphery k thx.

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The UK’s Fellsilent — a Sumeriancore band who are on, duh, Sumerian Records (and Basick in the UK) — have a new video for their track “Immerse” [sent in by Spencer B.]. The video itself is pretty cool with some neat-o lighting effects and a giant mosh pit, and makes me wish I was 19 again and tearing shit up in the pit. The song, on the otherhand… this band’s just got nothing original to offer. Fellsilent like their heroes so much that they cop Meshuggah riffs like they’re on sale at the 99¢ store (not to mention the patented Meshuggah forward-and-back headbang) and they even have two lead vocalists like Sikth, the band from which they steal their rhythm and lead guitar diddly-dos. They’re competent, sure, but being a competent rip-off artist of good bands does not a good band make by association. I call BS on Fellsilent. You be the judge.

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FELLSILENT – Immerse (official video) from Basick Records on Vimeo.