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Black Tide Launch "Warriors Of Time" Animated Series

Scott — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:43:58 +0000

Black Tide has just launched their Warriors of Time Animation series. The six part series is explained best by the band themselves, “Our Hero, known as The Bastard, is a living embodiment of metal music. We pit him against a robotic legion whose influence spans all of time and space. The song speaks to the urge in everyone to rage and rock out against all outside expectations. It is a call to arms against a mundane existence, and the Bastard is always there to answer in force, slaughtering the robot conformist authority for the sake of youth, rebellion, and the undying spirit of true metal.” Check out the first episode below.

Black Tide: Bastard v Bots Episode 1 – Black Tide

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Black Tide Voted Into Winner’s Spot On Yahoo! Who’s Next

Scott — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:21:57 +0000

Black Tide’s diehard fans have voted the band into the winner’s spot of Yahoo! Music’s Who’s Next?! Black Tide’s album Light From Above is in stores now!

Video Source: Yahoo! Who’s Next

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Black Tide Contest Winner

Scott — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:25:07 +0000

I almost forgot about this. There wasn’t many entries in the contest so everyone chances of winning were pretty good. So without further delay the winner is fellow b5 blogger Trench Reynolds. Trench will be getting an Autographed Picture of the band, two Black Tide Stickers, the Shockwave EP and a mini-poster of the band. Trench drop me an e-mail so I can get this stuff out to you. Thanks to everyone for participating.

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End Of March Metal Meltdown

Scott — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:16:20 +0000

The month of March was quite interesting. A lot of great things happened for me and a few great CD’s came out this month. I gave away some cool prizes and the first batch of the MetalMartyr.Com Compilations went out as well. Below is a list of links to some of this months posts that I think are worth a re-run.

The RIAA is still relentless about screwing artist out of money they get from settlements from illegal, Read about it here

I gave a list of My top 10 songs and cds this year. Some are new and some are old favorites. Check them out. Metal Martyr Top 10

I had a chance to check out a great show the beginning of the month and I got video Interviews with All That Remains Phil Labonte (Part 1 and Part 2), Light This City’s Laura Nichol and Ben Murray, and Black Tide.

Metallica Is Reissuing older releases on Vinyl.

Creator Destructor Records is a label operated by Light This City’s Drummer Ben Murray. Starting small but sure to get much bigger.

The Metal Potential Of 2008 is going to be great with all the great bands releasing new work and touring this year.

Sub-genre Hatred is never ending. Do you hate Metalcore?

I did a review of Marc Canter’s Book Reckless Road, the first years of Guns N Roses. I also called Slash Saul Rosenburg when his real name is Saul Hudson. Must have heard The Jerky Boys say Saul Rosenburg a few too many times and it stuck in my head.

I did a quick interview with Troy Medlin (T-Roy) of Southern Sludge Metal Band Sourvein here.

Metal has never been really radio friendly except on satellite radio

Do you think DragonForce’s song Through The Fire And Flames compares to the classic Eddie Van Halen Solo song Eruption? Let me know.

Black Tide released Light From Above on Interscope records and the Cavalera brother reunited for the Cavalera Conspiracy. Is there a possibility of a Sepultura reunion?

I did a quick review on As I Lay Dying’s First Recordings on The Long March

I talked about My favorite Concert and stepped away from Metal for a moment and talked about Straight Edge Punk legends Minor Threat.

Dimebag Hardware Clothing Line is up and running.

In Flames Release A Sense Of Purpose tomorrow. I got a copy early and I love it!

Metal fans are like rabid Pitbulls and sometimes we turn on our own. Read about it in I Am Hated part 1 and Part 2.

That’s about it for the month of March. If you want to see what else got posted this month, Click here.

As for me, I’m going to take the rest of the evening easy, throw some new Ernie Balls on my Ibanez and play around a bit. See you next month and thanks for coming!

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Black Tide | Light From Above Review

Scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:22:52 +0000

Metal fans are hateful critics, everyone of us. The review for Light From Above on Interscope Records on Blabbermouth.net was a mediocre review and then came the comments. Everyone was bashing the band with the exception of a few people. I bought it yesterday and for a cheap $9.99 ate FYE. Forget what you see about people saying they are over-hyped, oversold and over rated. Judge them for yourself. If your into old thrash, G N’ R, Motley Crue type stuff you will probably like it. If you’re looking for growling vocals, super-distorted, down tuned guitars and double bass blast beats then forget about Black Tide. What you will find is good song structure, good singing, ripping solos and an overall fun record.

Now I said before that the lyrics sounded young. They were written by a young kid so I should have expected that. Your not going to expect a 15 year old kid to write about deep politics or the struggles of life. Call them manufactured, whatever. Call them false metal, who cares. These guys put out a pretty good debut record and put on a great live show. I can only see them getting bigger and better in time. Their cover of Metallica’s Hit The Lights was an honorable cover as well. At least they didn’t cover Enter Sandman or Fuel.

Now some people on another news/message board said all sorts of defamatory stuff about these guys. One person said they were all assholes. When I met with them and did the interview they were all really cool, Gabriel seemed a bit shy but that’s not a bad trait. Even after the interview when I went back to get them to sign the Picture for the contest they were cool with me bothering them. As far as people saying “Touring with your dad is not very Metal”. All the other guys are 18 and 19 years old. Gabriel is 15. No parent in their right mind that loves their child would let them go touring the country with their friends and other people they don’t really know at 14 years old. It’s probably a legal thing with the record label. Besides, having that kind of support from you parents is something that a lot of kids wish they could have.

Yes interscope Records and Total Assault have made great efforts to publicize the shit out of this band. Do you expect them to sign a young band and not promote them? As far as Black Tide ditching their original manager, this “Chris” guy? I’m sure they probably had a reason or the record label was more comfortable going with someone they knew or more established. The band got a load of shit for not thanking some people in their liner notes. You can’t thank everyone and I’m sure the label did some editing.

Lastly, these guys are doing what most of us wish we were doing. Hate them for it if you want to but the fact is the Light From Above is a good fun debut album from a band that has promise. If you have heard the EP or the stream and you think you like it then spend a little bit of money on the CD. In the past week over 11000 other people have and that is pretty good for a debut record for a hard rock/metal band.

3 out 4

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Black Tide Video Interview And Contest

Scott — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:41:51 +0000

Last week when Black Tide’s Light From Above was released I also posted a video interview I did with the band before the Charlotte show on March 3rd. Along with that I started a contest that you can enter here as well. Contest rules are simple. Comment once and your entered to win. The prizes are an autographed 4X4 press photo of the band, the Shockwave EP, a Black Tide Stiker and Min-poster. You must be a resident of Canada or The United States to enter (Because shipping isn’t cheap overseas…you know, to like Mexico). Winner will be chosen at random and announced at the end of the month.

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Black Tide Release Light From Above On Interscope Records

Scott — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:00:23 +0000

Black Tides long awaited release of Light From Above on Interscope Records is out today! You know what that means for Metalmartyr.com? Another Interview to post and another contest! This contest is going to last until the end of the month. Check out the interview below and then look below that for your chance to win A photo of the band signed by each member, the Shockwave EP, a Black Tide sticker and a Black Tide mini poster. Video after the fold…

This was My very first interview with a band of any kind. It was kind of not thought out very well and honestly I wasn’t prepared, but live and learn. The Band was real cool and good sports about me taking up their time. Anyway, on with the contest.

So how do you win this black tide contest? Real easy. All you have to do is leave a comment of relevance to the band and at the end of the month I will throw all the names in a hat or something and draw a winner. That easy. So who wants it?

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Black Tide’s Light From Above Out 3/18

Scott — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:32:27 +0000

Light From Above, Black Tide’s debut recording release will be out on Tuesday 3/18. By request from Total Assault (Black Tide’s PR) that will also be the date I post my brief video interview with Black Tide. That will also be the date I start the Black Tide contest where you can win the Shockwave Ep and a signed photograph of the band. Check out the video for “Shockwave” Below

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The Metal Potential Of 2008

Scott — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:00:26 +0000

There is so many great bands releasing new albums this year it’s amazing. Just to name a few, you have young talented thrashers, Black Tide to release their Debut album Light From Above that I think will surprise a lot of people and blow them away. You have All That Remains that will be releasing their follow up to The Fall Of Ideals this summer, you have Children Of Bodom’s Blooddrunk and supposedly in September we will see the new Metallica record.

Those are just a few that we have to look forward to. Some that have already been released or also released soon are Meshuggah’s new one obZen that comes out tomorrow on Nuclear Blast , Death Angel just released Killing Season, Byzantine put out Oblivion Beckons, a great record right before breaking up and Grief Of War, the Japanese thrashers released their 3 year old debut record for the first time in America on Prosthetic Records. Testament will be releasing their next record The Formation OF Damnation on April 29th. You can hear a song More Than Meets The Eye (No it’s not the Transformers theme song) from The Formation Of Damnation on Thier Official Myspace site. Damn the list goes on and on! Disturbed is releasing a new record this year as well and we are supposed to see a new Slipknot record too. Both of which bands are going to be on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour. Light This City will be back in the studio some time this year. I’m not sure if the new record will be released in ‘08 or not but I’ll be checking on that from time to time. Lastly for all you haters out there, Trivium is supposed to release something new this year as well.

It used to be that a band would take 3 or four years before releasing a new record and often times it would be either well worth the wait or a substandard piece of cat shit. Now days metal bands take two years at the most and release great recording with no filler what so ever. And even between you have side projects from members of the bands that make for great head banging.

So in summary, 2008 is going to be a kick ass year in Metal!

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Black Tide To Perform At SXSW Bash

Scott — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:02:01 +0000

Black Tide have just announced that they will be performing at Hot Topic’s annual South by Southwest bash on March 14th at La Zona Rosa in Austin. The SXSW party will also feature live sets from UK sensations Enter Shikari and Texas natives Flyleaf. Headlining the event will be System of a Down frontman, Serj Tankian!
Black Tide are gearing up for the release of Light From Above, their Johnny K (Machine Head) produced debut album which comes out on March 18th.

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