The News Review:

- Event promotes tolerance for metal community
- Grab on that Dru thing
- Pittsburgh Calling: Satanic Bat
- ‘Dense but spatial’

Event promotes tolerance for metal community
Jakarta Post – Oct 25, 2007
“”We put the event on because people tend to look down on heavy metal music; it’s got a bad reputation and we wanted to make people see the music is good and needs respect. That why we called the show Metal Respect”" said Aduyana of an event where hundreds of young kids let their hair down and danced without the aid of alcohol or drugs. Aduyana points out that much of society ties metal music with drugs but that he feels is way off the mark. “”We all hate drugs. ur clothes are funk or called underground and that’s what it’s about the music and clothes fun and respect. Certainly not like people think and it’s far from a drug culture. “”We want to prove with our music we are not brutal kids… “”We want to prove with our music we are not brutal kids. A lot of these kids here today are still at school and studying hard but they like this music the clothes and the culture of metal music”" said Aduyana. He added that parental support for metal music followers was strong because “”they know it is better for the kids to play music than take drugs”". The kids both in the audience and on stage bear out Aduyana’s words all are bright-eyed and enthusiastic like 13-year-old Made Yuda Prasetya of Samu in Singa Padu who followed his mates’ new band Detonator to the show. Dressed in a cropped pink jacket with skull and crossbones motifs lace up the side red pants and 18-up boots Prasetya was in his element listening to Detonator who have been playing together for a month. “”Mom likes the music and the clothes”" said Prasetya who like 17-year-old university student and Criminal Chaos band member Komang had raided Mom’s sewing box to spend hours making his own clothes. “”It’s really creative we all make our own clothes and play our music.

Grab on that Dru thing
Staten Island Advance – Oct 25, 2007
He played a lot of different kinds of music — through him I started to love The Beatles Led Zeppelin. And I had another relative a cousin — you know I’m Jamaican-American — it was important to him for me to get to know a little bit of my culture. He used to play me a lot of Bob Marley and Third World and they were huge influences” says Dru Hepkins. Dru Hepkins doesn’t have any delusions of grandeur.

Pittsburgh Calling: Satanic Bat
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Oct 25, 2007
“People make assumptions because of that name. People assume we’re black metal along the lines of King Diamond. We get inquiries from black metal bands — guys that dress up in corpse paint — asking to play gigs. I don’t know if they don’t turn the sound up on our myspace page or what. Bat beginnings: Central Pennsylvania natives Howell and Sobeck (“he’s obsessed with Vikings and anything Nordic” Howell says) formed the band as a two-piece with the idea of being like “Melvins meets Death From Above 1979 that kind of stuff. ” They jammed for a year and then added Warren and Milliren. Influences also included Sabbath Hawkwind Motorhead Cream… ” They jammed for a year and then added Warren and Milliren. Influences also included Sabbath Hawkwind Motorhead Cream. Where does the Southern rock come from?: “I was personally never a fan of that music” Howell says. “It just kind of came from playing together and we followed that direction. Initially our stuff was more disjointed metal. The songs that stuck around were the ones that we jammed on and had that Southern feel. They make noise too: Along with Southern metal thing Satanic Bat just might venture into seven minutes of experimental noise as on “A Generation of Digital Grooves vs.

‘Dense but spatial’
UI The Daily Iowan – UI The Daily Iowan (subscription) – Oct 25, 2007
Although Broadrick’s style has changed drastically his alchemy of electronic indie and pop still shines with the metal guitars that he built his reputation upon. “Look at the progression that happens a lot with sludgier metal bands” said Matt Show the owner of Iowa City record label Scenester Credentials. “They begin to explore melody. “In the mid-80s Broadrick played guitar for Napalm Death one of the first grindcore bands that fused metal with the sloppy-fast ethos of punk. Throughout the ’90s he fronted the industrial-metal group Godflesh which influenced thousands of bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Faith No More. With each passing year Broadrick seemed to up the ante producing albums more brutal than the last… Throughout the ’90s he fronted the industrial-metal group Godflesh which influenced thousands of bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Faith No More. With each passing year Broadrick seemed to up the ante producing albums more brutal than the last. But after forming Jesu in 2003 he began to explore music outside of the limitations of pure aggression and chaos. “To me [Jesu] is really atmospheric” said John Hopkins a sound engineer for the Picador and guitarist for the Horde. “It’s dense but spatial as well – and more accessible than Godflesh which was really specific shit. It was a wall of noise – super intense – dark and heavy. “Show said that when he saw Jesu in March when the band opened for Isis the fans were unusually rabid for the band from Birmingham England.