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- ‘Metal is alive and kicking in India’
- Asia’s Maddening Music Biz
- … : Lamb f God zzy Get Unholy – News Story | Music…
- Heir apparent – Books – Entertainment – smh.com.au
- Bloodgood 07/07 – Interviews – Christian Music Today
- ‘Pink Floyd is the biggest influence’

‘Metal is alive and kicking in India’
Times of India – Jul 23, 2007
Theband feels there is need for Indian record labels to release and promote localmusic so that bands can expect more avenues and opportunities to perform live. As Viresh says “Metal bands from India are really getting in good shape allover. Finally people from abroad believe that metal music also comes fromIndia. ” Metakix are doing their part to promote Indian metal bands; they createda compilation Absolute Indian Metal to showcase Indian bands’ music annually. And now they are getting songs together for AIM-2. As Nicky says as a partingshot “Life is very inspiring and we all feel that the best way to expressourselves is making music. Thereare so many people out there who are in various phases of life different fromwhat we may be in but we still connect well with them owing to the music thatwe make.

Asia’s Maddening Music Biz
BusinessWeek – Jul 23, 2007
Teens and twentysomethings in Japan South Korea Taiwan and Hong Kong are "mashing up" music and video content from every imaginable source by integrating applications from their feature-laden mobile handsets personal computers and the Net. And then there is the vibrant array of musical acts to choose from everything from J-Pop acts in Tokyo to Vedic heavy-metal bands out of Mumbai and New Delhi. Yet much of Asia is nothing but trouble for the world’s biggest recording companies. They’re casting about for a business model that works in a region where pirated CDs and illicit music and file-sharing sites are ubiquitous… He’s pushing the world’s biggest music recording company which controls such labels as Decca Geffen Island Def Jam and Mercury to cultivate more quality local talent in-house and via tie-ups with regional studios. ‘Mando-Pop’ for the Mainlandn July 16 Universal announced a deal to promote and distribute pop artists under contract with Taiwan’s Linfair Records which also distributes and sells in Hong Kong and Southeast Asian markets such as Malaysia and Thailand. Linfair boasts such artists as Angela Chang a Taiwanese singer and actress who is fluent in both Mandarin and English and was nominated for Best Female Singer at the 2007 Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. Universal is hoping that Chang and other Linfair content in Mandarin will click with music lovers on the mainland where "Mando-pop" is starting to gain traction.

… : Lamb f God zzy Get Unholy – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jul 23, 2007
Adding even more variety to the mix one dad-for-a-weekend carried his kid on his shoulders despite the chaos — in the mosh pit. Lordi truly let the sparks fly with what was essentially a George Romero tribute done to metal music with monster-in-charge Mr. Lordi drenching the crowd with fake bloody body parts (.

Heir apparent – Books – Entertainment – smh.com.au
Sydney Morning Herald – Jul 23, 2007
“I was told a direct translation would refer to a container fora heart transplant and we’d get filed under medical reference. Sothey renamed it Blind. Music nods in the book were appreciated however. When Hilltoured Hamburg Munich and Berlin he found himself reading betweengigs by local heavy metal bands. The first night was in a realpuke-on-floor-broken-glass-everywhere punk club. I was thinking Ishould really jump off the stage into the crowd because when does awriter ever get to do that? I manfully resisted.

Bloodgood 07/07 – Interviews – Christian Music Today
ChristianityToday.com – Jul 23, 2007
txt –>Catching Up With …. I went from this ministry to pastoring. Plus we’re all family guys—I have three sons and we’ve been busy raising those guys. Les Carlsen: I lead worship at a church in Southern California called.

‘Pink Floyd is the biggest influence’
Times of India – Jul 23, 2007
After few months of jamming we decided to start working as a band andtry to work on few of our own compositions. Youare the first progressive metal band in Bangladesh. What was the audience’sresponse to this new sound? Wellyes we probably are the first recognised progressive metal band in Dhaka; Butthe progressive sound was not unknown to the audience thanks to WarfazeRockstrata In-Dhaka and some other senior rock bands of Bangladesh. HoweverArtcell came up with much heavier sound and technical stuffs which were acceptedand appreciated by the audience. Frankly speaking we didn’t expect this huge aresponse from the people. Whatare your influences? Allfour of us have different musical influences for example Ilike Mr Big Stuart Hamm Dave Metthews BandQueensryche; Shaju likes Lamb of God Rush Aryon; Lincoln is into Death DimmuBorgir; whereas Ershad loves Pink Floyd Symphony X and so on… In a way the UG bands are givingcompetition to the already established bands. Dopeople listen to new sound? Are they open to it? hyes they are. Can you believe the UG bands do covers ranging from Lamb of GodSlayer to Audioslave Incubus Steve Vai John Petrucci! The audience have agreat taste for good music and that’s the only thing that inspired the bands tocome up with their own distinct sound and compositions. Whatabout your lyrics? From where do you draw inspiration? WellArtcell has always been very serious about it lyrics. The type of lyrics weprefer here in the songs are somewhat different from that preferred in Kolkata. For Artcell it’s more theoretical. But it always have to be very meaningful andoften dark.