Fall Headlining Tour Kicks Off October 24 in Orlando, FL

Renowned for their status as agents provocateur of the underground hard rock and industrial metal scenes, the latex defining and pop-culture defying Genitorturers return with the Nov. 3 release of Blackheart Revolution [G-Force/MVD Entertainment].

The outfit’s fifth studio release, Blackheart Revolution is a mesmerizing blend of infectious riffs and riotous overtures that lay the sexually-charged foundation for frontwoman Gen, the master of turbo-charged ceremonies and erotic rituals. The Genitorturers live spectacle returns to the road October 24, with the first leg of dates running through November (itinerary below).

“We wanted to make a big rock record that translates the same excitement I felt when I heard AC/DC’s Highway to Hell for the first time, combined with the dark intrigue of Alice Cooper’s Welcome to My Nightmare,” says Gen of the new release. “We wanted something that shakes the walls, grabs you by the balls, and scares you a bit in the process!”

Mission accomplished, as Blackheart Revolution combines the band’s signature, genre-bending style of aggressive rock, seductive metal and underground electric pop. Co-Produced by David “Evil D” Vincent [Morbid Angel] and Scott Humphrey [Motley Crue, Rob Zombie, Ozzy Osbourne], the album is a roller coaster ride of musical twists, sonic turns and reckless abandon.

A product of Orlando, Florida’s musical underbelly, what Genitorturers lack in wholesome family fun, they make up for in their celebration of the unspeakable, embracing and exploring our conservative culture’s taboos. They caught the ear (and eye) of legendary music industry magnate Miles Copeland, who signed the band to their first deal on his I.R.S. label, where they joined the ranks of fellow Copeland signings Gary Numan, The Go-Gos and R.E.M.

The lead single from Blackheart Revolution, “Cum Junkie,” is currently available via digital release, as well as in limited-edition, 7-inch vinyl. The collectible physical release will be the first in a series of vinyl singles to be released from the album, each complete with expansive packaging and uncensored artistic detail.

From their beginnings as upstart mavericks, to their current status as veteran iconoclasts, the only boundaries the Genitorturers know are the boundaries that they shatter.

GENITORTURERS FALL HEADLINING TOUR

Sex Slaves support on all dates starting November 6

OCTOBER

24 Orlando, FL Firestone
28 Denver, CO Cervantes Theater (Gen-XX + Combichrist)
30 Seattle, WA El Corazon
31 Salt Lake City, UT Club Vegas

NOVEMBER

1 Las Vegas, NV Hardrock Hotel & Casino
6 Tampa, FL The Ritz
7 Asheville, NC The Rocket Club
8 Baltimore, MD Sonar
9 Teaneck, NJ Mexicali Live
10 Providence, RI Club Hell
11 Montreal, QUE Les Foufounes
12 Rochester, NY Penny Arcade
13 Detroit, MI Blondies
14 Cleveland, OH Peabody’s
15 Toronto, ONT Mod Club
16 Boston, MA Middle East
17 New York, NY Gramercy Theater
18 Springfield, VA Jaxx
19 Virginia Beach, VA Peppermint Beach Club
20 Raleigh, NC Volume 11
21 Spartanburg, NC Ground Zero
22 Charleston, SC Music Farm
25 Atlanta, GA Masquerade

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Metalhammer.de’s top 10 Death Metal Songs

1. Cannibal Corpse – ‘Hammer Smashed Face’ from Tomb Of The Mutilated
2. Arch Enemy – ‘We Will Rise’ (from Anthems Of Rebellion
3. Death – ‘Crystal Mountain’ from Symbolic
4. Amon Amarth – ‘Pursuit Of Vikings’ from Fate Of Norns
5. Vader – ‘Carnal’ from Black To The Blind 
6. Sepultura – ‘Arise’ from Arise 
7. Carcass – ‘Heartwork’ from Heartwork 
8. In Flames – ‘Only For The Weak’ from Clayman 
9. Kataklysm – ‘In Shadows And Dust’ from Shadows & Dust 
10. Behemoth – ‘Christians To The Lions’ from Thelema.6

And now for mine…and this wasn’t easy by any means.

Metal Martyr’s Top 10 (Favorite) Death Metal Songs

1. Death – Zero Tolerance from Symbolic. This is one of Death’s best records and was a great follow up to Individual Thought Patterns.
2. Carcass – Carneous Cacofinny from Necrotism: Descanting The Insalubrious. Sadly most people only know of the album Heartwork, which is a great album but so is Necrotism’ and Swan Song.
3. Morbid Angel – God Of Emptiness from Covenant. I’ve always loved David Vincent’s voice. While this song is not “brutally fast”, it’s a slow, heavy and evil sounding song that would probably give small children nightmares if played before bedtime.
4. Entombed – Hollowman from the Hollowman Ep and Wolverine Blues
5. Grave - …And Here I Die Satisfied from the Ep of the same name.
6. Malevolent Creation – Self Important Freak from Joe Black.
7. Cannibal Corpse – Stripped Raped & Strangled from The Bleeding. Typical Cannibal Corpse lyrics, but the guitar is what got me hooked.
8. Suffocation – Breeding The Spawn from Pierced From Within.
9. Bloodbath – Death Delirium from Resurrection Trough Carnage.
10. Obituary – The End Complete from The End Complete.

I could probably keep on going with this list all day. How can you narrow a list like this down to 10? It really had me looking back in to my collection and remembering a lot of great death metal songs, especially ones that never got enough credit or play. So what would you top ten look like?

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“I’d say it’s like an assemblage of all sorts of stuff from the catalog and some new influences. I listen to a lot of hardcore [techno] music now — the fuckin’ serious, artistic stuff, not that crap you hear at the clubs. That stuff has impact and it’s really extreme.”

Morbid Angel is the last band I want to hear with any kind of electro, techno-metal effects like Rob Zombie. I just want another brutal, typical death metal album like Alters Of Madness, Blessed Are The Sick or Covenant.

I’m just probably misreading a statement that could be misleading in the sense that they may go in a totally different direction that is typical of the Morbid Angel sound, but lately you never really know what to expect from a band these days. In order to stay relevant to the times and set themselves apart from all the other bands on the scene, some bands attempt to define themselves with a new, more modern sound. I doubt that we will be too disappointed with a new Morbid Angel record, let’s just hope it’s not too outside the box.

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January’s issue of Revolver Magazine has a great article on the history of Florida Death Metal with contribution from David Vincent (Morbid Angel), Glen Benton (Deicide), John Tardy (Obituary), Paul Masvidal (Death, Cynic) and Scott Burns. If you don’t have a clue who Scott Burns is, he is responsible for many early productions of death metal bands from the Florida scene.

I highly recommend this article. It’s a great read and you get to see just how much of a demented bastard Glen Benton really is. The Article talks about how, when the grunge scene errupted in the early/mid 1990’s how like most other genres, Death Metal kind of got pushed back underground like most metal did.

Even these days with the rise of the Metal/Deathcore bands popping up like mushrooms on a damp spring day, the death metal bands that persevered through the slump still live on strong. Sadly, most snot-nose kids in the cookie-cutter bands we see all over the place, growling into the microphone haven’t a clue when, where or with whom the scene began to form and they could care less. Most of them just want fame and to make a few bucks. Unless they present themselves as something epic, that’s all they’ll ever make…a few bucks. Regardless of the garbage that plagues the shelves of record stores and myspace, we’ll always have the bands that put the American Death Metal scene together, whether they’re from Florida, NY, California or Hell’s Half Acres. They can’t take away what’s already been carved in to metal history no matter how much they taint it.

Also, yesterday, December 13th marks the day that Chuck Schuldiner of Death, died at a far too young age of 34 years old back in 2001 of brain cancer. Chuck was one of the first great pioneers of the genre.

R.I.P., Chuck~

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IGN.Com

• Frank Mullen – Suffocation
• Lars Göran Petrov – Entombed
• Paul Pavlovich – Assük
• David Vincent – Morbid Angel
• Mikael Akerfeldt – Opeth/ Bloodbath
• Antti Boman – Demilich
• John Tardy – Obituary
• Martin Van Duren – Hail Of Bullets
• Chuck Schuldiner – Death
• Thomas Lindburg – At The Gates

Check out my picks after the fold…

• Frank Mullen of Suffocation – Suffocation are one of the earlier pioneers of NYC Death Metal. While I haven’t heard much of the earlier stuff I really dig their last self titled effort on Relapse Records and I think the modern generation would probably dig this one as well. The production is much better and vocals have more clarity to them. This band kills live too!
• Lars Göran Petrov Of Entombed – Another very more clarified death metal voice, I’d have to pick Wolverine Blues as my Favorite, and the Hollowman EP comes in a close second. With all the other “deathcore” and death metal out there these days, this is one of the staple bands out of the overlooked death metal scene.
• David Vincent of Morbid Angel – I was fan as soon as I heard the doom ridden, creepiness of God Of Emptiness. The entire Covenant album is awesome as well as Blessed Are The Sick, Alters Of Madness and Domination. Domination doesn’t get as much credit as it should.
• Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth/Bloodbath – Even though I have only come to really know Opeth and Bloodbath in the past 6 or 8 months, I can’t get past the sound the Mikael’s voice. First you wouldn’t expect such a vicious sound to come from the same pipes that sing the beautiful melodies that you hear in the softer Opeth songs. I only have 2 Opeth CDs, but Blackwater Park is an amazing album and Bloodbath’s Resurrection Through Carnage and the recent Unblessing The Purity EP are about as brutal as they come. I need to get the new Fathomless Mastery CD. Maybe the merch table at tonight’s Opeth show will have it.
• John Tardy of Obituary – John Tardy had a different sound to his voice than most of the death metal vocalists when they came in to the scene. A unique range with clarity and the more they progressed the better he sounded…to me anyway. It wasn’t a low guttural voice that had to be done with mic directly to mouth in an inaudible tone. He has a voice that stands out and makes it look and sound effortless. Ever tried to imitate his voice? The End Complete is my pick as well but World Demise is a great album too.
• Chuck Schuldiner of Death – Chuck was another unique voice like John Tardy. Not only could Chuck sing with a different range of most Death Metal vocalists, he could rip on guitar as well. My album pick would be Symbolic but if you want a good mix check out Fate: The Best Of Death. Death had a melodic yet brutal sound to them with speed and breakdowns that were hard to top.
• Jeff Walker of Carcass – Once more a unique voice…at the time. Now every other deathcore band tried to sound like Jeff, but they have no friggin’ clue who he is or the legacy of Carcass. As you can see, clarity in vocals is a big thing for me. I like to understand what they are saying. It makes it much easier to sing along when you know the words. Carcass’s Heartwork is a great metal album as well as the slightly slower and often under-rated Swansong.
• Chris Barnes Of Six Feet Under/ ex-Cannibal Corspe – Okay, this is the exception to the clarity thing. Some songs you can catch a lot of the words from Chris Barnes and some not so much. Chris just has that deep guttural voice that sounds grim and evil. Six Feet Under’s Debut album, Haunted is a great example of Chris’s voice as it most Cannibal Corpse’s early albums but mostly The Bleeding in my opinion.
• Maurizio Iacono of Kataklysm – Maurizio has a great death metal voice. Deep, clear and powerful. Their latest release, Prevail, is a great example of Maurizio’s voice. If I said that all the others sounded as good I would be lying because I have yet to explore much more of Kataklysm’s work.

Honorable Mentions

• Jörgen Santöm formerly of Grave
• Tim King Formerly Of Oppressor
• Johnny Hedlund of Unleashed

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Holy shit it’s been forever since I did a Metal Shavings bit. I’ve been covering so much press releases and such lately that I have lacked the human side of this site. My opinion is my outlet on things that are wrong, right or indifferent. And like everyone else I have to get shit off of my chest. Let’s see what we have on our platter tonight…

Anheuser Busch settled it’s lawsuits with the families of victims of the 2003 Station nightclub fire, paying 21 million dollars as opposed to going any further with legal actions and fees. How the hell Anheuser Busch was responsible in any way of this tragedy is beyond me. It’s like the stupid woman that didn’t know here McDonalds coffee was hot. The legal and justice system in this country is all f*cked up. Next up to settle is the company that makes the urinal candies…cause you know they are responsible for this somehow as well.

Morbid Angel announced earlier this week that they have added a new guitar player into the mix. That’s cool to take a little pressure off of Trey Azagthoth. It’s also really cool to see the band back to the best line up with David Vincent back on vocals. The new guitarist is Thor Anders Mythren from Zyklon.

You may have saw earlier that All That Remains have names their new recording ‘Overcome‘ as opposed to ‘Fozzy’, which I suggested on Blabbermouth awhile back due to Chris Jericho’s band naming their last album All That Remains. ‘Overcome’, a kind of a generic name for an album in my opinion but I think Phil may have been having some personal problems during the time of recording or whatever and perhaps this is where the name came from. Phil also said it’s a much darker album than The Fall Of Ideals. I don’t give a shit what they name it, it’s sure to kill! ATR!!!

Lars Ulrich’s father says the new cd “Sounds like Metallica” which could mean a number of things but at least he didn’t say “Delete that” like he did on Some Kind Of Monster, which in my opinion they should have listened to him. Whatever…we’ll see.

Hammerfall is releasing a Cover album with a bunch of cool songs on it…Makes me wonder why Dream Theater never did this because whenever you heard them doing covers live, they always sounded amazing. Or did they actually do this? They should.

Tommy Lee will be lending his voice to a half hour animated series called “The Life and Times Of Jimmie Jaxx” which is supposedly based on actual events of his life. So what they are saying is this cartoon is going to be about a mediocre drummer who screws a super-model, makes 4 different career changes in an attempt to stay relevant, and ends back up in the same band that gave him fame but he wanted to abandon but realized that THIS was the only way he could stay semi-relevant….does that make sense?

Well that’s all the cynicism and/or enthusiasm I can expend in one day.

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People seem to love Job For A Cowboy but I can’t get past the vocals. That’s all I hear. While I think Johnny Davy has a really cool low toned bad-ass growl, I can’t hear anything going on. This is what I loved about Cannibal Corpse. The blast-beat of the drums and the fast crunchy guitar work. But with a lot of bands like Job For A Cowboy and Gojira (another great band) the vocals are overpowering everything else. I don’t know, maybe I’m just getting too picky these days, but it just doesn’t seem to be what it used to.

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After keying in the basic bands that every metalhead should be listening to I would try to bring it more modern by introducing bands that have come and gone like Guns N Roses. There is someone out there right now saying “But GNR aren’t gone, Axl just hasn’t put out the new CD yet”…trust me…G n R are dead but they are not forgotten. While more hardrock than metal in my opinion, you can’t deny the fact that they ruled their world during their day.

Moving on. I would also try to convince them to listen to some death metal to get a feel for what is to come in the present day metal. Bands like Carcass, Entombed, Morbid Angel, Grave, Sepultura, Obituary, etc., etc. And of course I would have to include some GOOD nu metal (your scratching your head wondering if there is such a thing). Bands like Nothingface, Slipknot, Mushroomhead, Fear Factory, and yes, even some Korn. Limp Bizket can kiss my choclate star fish, the only thing I would recommend for them is the trash can.

Moving Forward I would show them bands of today like Lamb Of God, Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Yakuza, Hatebreed, Mastodon, Shadows Fall, Machinehead. Bands that are still on top of their game and just continue to get better with time.

I would also urge them to sit down and see just exactly where metal has gone and see what trends have come about in metal and show them how much carbon copy bands there are being signed by every other label out there. I would show them bands that have stood the test of time and bands that are fighting to stay in the scene due to the digital era.

These are just some of the things I would recommend to a new metal enthusiast. So that brings me to my question,(which may in turn introduce me to some new bands)…What would YOU recommend?

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With dominant anti-religion lyrics, ambient sounds that send a chill down your spine and a singer that sounds like Satan himself, Morbid Angel set a high standard in mainstream Death Metal. From the opening Riffs of Rapture to the slower grooves of world of shit M.A. show their diversity. And to the Unholy Grail of this album, God of Emptiness. The creapyness of this song digs deep into your evil side, making your eyes roll back into your skull committing yourself to a slow at times head bang and wailing on your air guitar when the solo finally arrives. Then comes the final chorus “Just Bow To Me Faithfully, Bow To Me Splendidly!” Covenant is one of my favorite death metal recordings…I first owned it on cassette.

Domination is a slightly different world. The follow up to Covenant sounds a bit cleaner and alot better mix. With additional guitars of Erik, Rutan, I think it added a little more depth to the music. Some of my favorites on this record are Dominate, Where The Slime Live, Eyes to See and Caesars Palace. Caesars Palace being my most favorite of the bunch is due to the intro leading up to a fury of Vincent’s brutal vocal assault on your ears while the guitars keep it fairly simple instead of overdoing it like so many death metal songs are done (they should play this in Vegas). The song following Caesar’s Palace, Dreaming is an ambient instrumental with chimes keyboards and a marching bass drum beat that makes you want to fall asleep…but you know better! Trey Azegthoth said in an interview a few years ago that this was his least favorite due to “Mundane lyrics”. I still like it

Morbid Angel came Back to classic line up once again in 2003  to release Heretic and a new album is rumored to be due out sometime this year.

If you must enjoy Death Metal, ensure that you get yourself a large helping of Morbid Angel. I can almost guarantee you’ll be back for seconds!

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Let me give you a run-down, and I may miss some so feel free to let me know which ones I missed. Ok, so Korn are going to be doing a cover album. Ozzy did one last year…it was mediocre. Guns and Roses did the Spaghetti incident which had a few good ones on it. Metallica did some awesome covers on Garage Inc. Slayer’s Undisputed Attitude covered some great old school punk and cross-over songs. Megadeth released Hidden Treasures which was covers and songs from movie sound tracks…I liked it.

Over all, these cover records haven’t really bombed, except maybe Ozzy’s. I wasn’t rushing out to buy that one but I still respect the blabbering “Geezer”. Over the years some metal bands have covered some kick ass songs. Soulfly did Smoke on The Water, a timeless classic with a hell of a kick. Mushroomhead did Seal’s Crazy which was crazy but it actually made me like the song…their version. Deadsy (don’t care for this band) covered Tom Sawyer from Rush, Korn covered “Word Up” and Slayer ripped through Iron Butterfly. And Lastly and perhaps least is Type O’s version of Summer Breeze. There are a load of others that I dont have time to name right now.

When Bands do cover songs a lot of thought goes into which song they do. They don’t want to do a song that everybody and everybody has done because when it comes out most people are more “wowed” by a cover of a song that they haven’t heard in awhile and don’t expect to hear from a metal band. Imagine King Diamond covering Marvin Gaye’s classic Mother. That’s what has to be done. I think Korn have picked some great tunes to cover and it may just be interesting enough. It has been mentioned that they covered Morbid Angel’s God Of Emptiness…we’ll see.

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