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Gorija Title New CD ‘The Way Of All Flesh’

Scott — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:21:14 +0000

French metal act, Gojira will follow up their last album From Mars To Sirius with The Way Of All Flesh. Singer Joe Duplantier told Revolver Magazine it’s “more intense, more brutal, and more melodic at the same time.” than From Mars To Serius. It will be release on October 14 in the U.S. through Prosthetic Records.

The album was tracked and produced in Los Angeles by Logan Mader.

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As I Lay Dying Announce Euro Shows With Killswitch Engage

Scott — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:54:30 +0000

As I Lay Dying will be playing a bunch of Club shows after their Wacken Open Air shows. 9 of these shows will be played with Killswitch Engage. The video for Within Distruction (My personal favorite) from An Ocean Between Us is below and was shot from their February 1st show in Nebraska. Check it out!

Aug. 02 – Wacken, Germany – Wacken Open Air
Aug. 04 – München, Germany – Backstage Werk *
Aug. 05 – Leipzig, Germany – Werk 2 *
Aug. 06 – Prague, Czech Republic – Futurum *
Aug. 07 – Budapest, Hungary – Petofi Csarnok *
Aug. 09 – Maribor, Slovenia – Stuck *
Aug. 10 – Innsbruck, Austria – Hafen *
Aug. 11 – Rimini, Italy – Velvet *
Aug. 12 – Zürich, Switzerland – Rohstofflager *
Aug. 13 – Wiesbaden, Germany – Schlachthof *
Aug. 15 – Dinkelsbühl, Germany – Summer Breeze Open Air
Aug. 16 – Hasselt, Belgium – Pukkelpop Festival
Aug. 17 – Derby – Bloodstock Open Air
* denotes the shows being played with KSE

As I Lay Dying “Within Destruction”

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(Sub)Genres Part 2: Thick Skulls and Broken Balls

Scott — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:04:59 +0000

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to sit here and focus on one band. This was just the beginning of my discovery of bands like Nothingface and Mudvayne. Brilliance is creativity. Nu Metal bands are just bands that were influenced by their favorite bands and brought their own breed to the pony show. Now these days we’ve breed so many sub genres that now we are starting yet a new one called the “New Wave Of American Heavy Metal”, which I think is a total rip off of the NWOBHM. We’ve Genre’d and sub-genre’d so much that we have to recycle old genre’s with a twist.

As Metal-Heads we all know what its like to be shunned and looked at as being different just because of the music we listen to. Then we turn around and cast away one of our own just because its not like the other. There are so many bands out there today that are starting to sound the same and I see it happening all over again. Its hard for me sometimes when I go to buy a new CD and I’m afraid to buy a CD because I’m so afraid of disappointment. I’m Afraid that I’m going to buy a CD and its going to suck royally. This is exactly what led up to Napster. People were tired of getting ripped off by bands because they hear one single on the radio and go buy a CD and its full of crappy fillers (AKA Papa Roach). So hell, if I can get the song for free that’s awesome! And to totally top things of, I don’t get the rest of the crap with it, that’s a bonus. Unfortunately for the record industry and the bands this cost a lot of people a lot of money by saving a lot of people a lot of money. But this is a whole other can of rotten worms I’m not willing to open right now.

So anyway, moving on. Do we need so many sub-genres? Is it necessary to label everything? Why are people so hateful of certain sub-genres? If I hear a band that catches my ear and I really like it then I buy the CD. Why hate it just because it is not YOUR favorite genre. Everyone thinks they have something to prove and want to save face because they think something is “Uncool”. That’s what rock and roll has always been about, saying ”Screw what you think is cool or not, I don’t care so F**K OFF!”. So, once again…Is it necessary to label every different sub-genres? The record stores don’t think so, they just separate CDs by major genres, perhaps they’re on to something.

(Sub)Genres Pt. 1

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(Sub)Genres: Segregating, Separating, and Desecrating.

Scott — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:02:44 +0000

Why is it that every time a band comes out and it sounds slightly different, that suddenly we have to put a label on it and start a sub-genre. Aren’t there enough genres out there. We have been doing it since the beginning of music but started getting stupid about it in the 80’s . There was already Rock, and then Hard Rock and Punk Rock then Heavy Metal. Then something happened in Metal, someone played faster or they played harder so we had to come up with a different category. We created Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Industrial and in the past few years Nu-Metal. Why can’t it all just be metal. Soon we will need the Dewey decimal system (some are saying to themselves “What the hell is that and how could it possibly help?!?”) to tag our songs in our Media players.

If bands tune their guitars a bit lower or adds something different is it a necessity to give them a new genre. There are some genres that deserve a whole new category, like punk rock…it totally defined itself. This new breed of “Punk“, however, is different. These guys have talent (can’t say I enjoy their talent) and yet we throw them into a genre that is totally the opposite from what they are. Punk wasn’t just a genre, it was a way of life. Lets face it, Punk is dead! Thanks for the memories but its gone and not forgotten. You can emulate and imitate every punk band and mimic Sid Vicious all day but you can’t relive the time and lifestyle.

Nu Metal: I’d like to find the person who came up with this sub-genre and choke them. Then I’d like to take every person that says they don’t like a band because they are “Nu-Metal” and I’d like to choke them too. Nu-Metal has been tagged on every band in the last 10 years that has tuned their guitar below E and has added anything to the music besides the basics of a guitar, drums and vocals. I never even heard of the term Nu-metal until Slipknot came around and then I found out that a lot of the bands I liked were deemed as nu-metal and for some screwed up reason they were hated by the so called “Real Metalheads”.

I first heard Slipknot in a small record store near Watertown, NY back in 2000. They had a listening station set up and I was combing threw the new bands in the library when I came across a cd with a bunch of guys in jump suits and masks. Naturally I was curious so I started playing track one, which shortly led to track two “(SIC)”. I was amazed because up until that point metal had become boring to me, almost cumbersome. This was something new, something raw and different to me. To me this was the rebirth of heavy metal.

To Be continued…

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Welcome To MetalMartyr.com

Scott — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:38:03 +0000

Welcome to Metal Martyr, one of b5Media’s many new Music Channel blogs. My name is Scott and I’ll be your Metal blogger.

Let me begin my first blog by telling you a bit about myself. I’m a 31 year old husband to a wife of ten years. I’ve got two kids, a nine year old boy and a baby girl. I grew up in a small town and spent ten years in the military (4 yrs USMC, 6 yrs US Army). I’ve always loved music as a kid but grew up having to hear my mom playing Anne Murray, Berry Manilow, Neil Sedaka, and the Oak Ridge Boys. Needless to say it wasn’t the great start in the life of a future metal head. I had my favorite bands as a young teenager. I loved Aerosmith, AC/DC, Foreigner, Basically stuff I heard my older brother listening to. Luckily I never dug the music my sister was in to which would have put me in with the Culture Club and Kenny Rogers. I know, it’s a weird combo, but that’s my sis.

When I was 14 I was working at a diner in upstate NY when in walked this long hair dude, kinda lookin a bit in his 40’s. Long story short, Robert Plant was on tour in Albany and had went for a ride in the Adirondacks and just happened to stop by the diner I was slaving over greasy soap filled pans in. One of the waitresses recognized him, we all got autographs and he left after a walk by the lake with his band mate. At the time I didn’t really know who this was, but it sparked a curiosity in me that led me to Led Zeppelin (a band I often heard of but never really heard), which made me wonder what else out there I was missing.

I had often heard of heavy metal bands but never had the chance to hear them until 1991 (Yeah I got a late start) when I started tuning into 94.9 fm K-rock (WKLL) out of Rome, New York. K-rock is where I first heard Pantera’s “Walk”, Megadeth’s “Peace Sells” and Metallica “Seek And Destroy” (yeah, I was way behind the times). I was totally amazed and wanted more and more like an addict. In a small town as I grew up in Heavy Metal, like all things different was looked down upon and criticized as the devils music among other stereotypical B.S.. So from then on people would make fun of the music I would listen to because it wasn’t Pearl Jam, or Phish, or the Dead or whatever seemed to be popular those days. I never let it bother me because I loved it, I loved every crack of the snare drum, every heavy riff that chugged from the speakers, every growl, scream and solo that made my inner ears bleed. It was suddenly my life blood, my reason to wake up everyday.

These days I still listen to Metal but I’m open minded and I love to kick back to a little Floyd every now and then among other bands. Bottom line is that good music is good music. Metal is my passion and if I don’t like a band I will say so and I will say why. Music is the key to eternal youth and metal is just one of the many treasures beyond the threshold!

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