The Number 12 Looks Like You? I hope their tunes are better than their name. Someone enlighten me, please. Scale The Summit are heading out with Protest The Hero to support their latest release Carving Desert Canyons. If you haven’t checked that out yet, do so. Also check out their last album Monument, which is a killer instrumental album by the band. I’m not sure who’s opening for who. It also looks like Misery Signals will be a part of this tour too.

2/27 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live (Cd Release Party)
4/17 – Denver, CO – The Marquis Theater
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Protest The Hero: Fortress. So I’ve had a chance to listen to the Protest The Hero Fortress album that has been the big rave of just about every other Metal Blog that posts news with personality.
I first downloaded Sequoia Throne from iTunes and it still wasn’t enough for me to really get a good fix on them. The song didn’t do a lot for me; though it was good. It wasn’t until Christmas eve that I got a copy from a friend to listen to. I heard a few songs in the car and didn’t really listen again until …read more

Perhaps I didn’t give this more of a chance but I have heard so much good things about it, I went and sampled the new Protest The Hero cd today. I’ve heard it described as emo/prog/thrash and it the music sounded great when I was listening, but I couldn’t get into the clean vocals.
Normally I don’t have a problem with the clean/growl vocal transition but from the little bit that I heard I really wasn’t feeling it. I’ve done this before though with The Black Dahlia Murder and Amon Amarth. I first sampled both of these bands and didn’t …read more