The News Review:

- Maintaining the rage
- … f Bodom & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
- Groove to thirty hours of live music at Freedom Jam
- Rehab: it’s not rock’n'roll
- Pop and Rock Listings

Maintaining the rage
The Age – Jan 25, 2008
being in that audience with kids my age knowing thatthat was where we were making our stand against racism. Myunderstanding of the most we can do as artists is based onthat. TM: I was a fan of heavy metal music but it seemed veryunattainable because I did not have a castle on a Scottish loch anda $10000 Les Paul guitar. I had a crummy amp on a chair in mymum’s basement and then I saw the Clash in Chicago and JoeStrummer had exactly the same amp on a chair on stage. The wallscompletely disappeared. I realised that there was no magic to it. You just had to get a few chords together and say what you think istrue and then you are in a band that matters.

… f Bodom & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jan 25, 2008
textContenturl:window. href} {button:true} ); Some bands write music to score chicks others for the hope of stardom and a few even do it because they love to play. But Whitby ntario quintet Protest the Hero have an altogether different reason for rocking out. “We all just get bored really easily so we’re always trying to do something that will keep our interest” singer Rody Walker said. “When we write a record we want something that will still keep our attention a couple years down the line but it never works. Protest the Hero’s new album Tuesday’s Fortress should retain the interest of Walker and his bandmates — guitarists Tim Millar and Luke Hoskin bassist Arif Mirabdolbaghi and drummer Moe Carlson — for quite a while… The rumors are flying about this summer’s Rockstar Mayhem Tour Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman’s answer to zzfest. While Disturbed and Slipknot will anchor the bill Metal File is hearing that Sevendust Mastodon and DragonForce could be added to the lineup soon along with previously rumored performers Five Finger Death Punch Suicide Silence and Walls of Jericho. None of this has been confirmed yet but we’ll keep you posted.

Groove to thirty hours of live music at Freedom Jam
Hindu – Jan 25, 2008
There are no tickets to the shows that will be performed along the beach road and nearby tourist areas like Gandhi beach behind Le Café Children’s Park near Dupleix statue at the southern end of the beach road Seagull Restaurant and Port premises. According to a press release here the kind of music is also not restricted to any particular genre. Indipop hiphop metal fusion jazz classical metal traditional and rock name it and the festival’s got it. Former rissa Chief Minister Giridhar Gamang a seasoned percussionist will perform tribal fusion music. Internationally acclaimed classical Jazz and world music guitarist Glenn Andrew Rogers from Perth Australia will also entertain audiences. Bands such as 5AM Audiofile Blood & Iron Pipers Eric Blues Band P.

Rehab: it’s not rock’n'roll
Spiked – Jan 25, 2008
Mötley Crüe were part of the second wave of Heavy Metal. As its unitary form – as represented by Black Sabbath and Judas Priest in the 1970s – split into different strands the relentless quasi-industrial hardcore style of Metallica and the showier glam-rock influenced the metal-pop of Crüe themselves. As hardcore metal became increasingly a resistant and acquired taste more harmonically challenging (its dominant expression being the Tritone chord much loved by Wagner which hangs perpetually in suspension in the Western music scale) metal-pop provided an entry level especially for listeners in the 11-15 age bracket many of them young girls. The metal-pop bands were highly camp their names were ridiculous they didn’t seem to take themselves too seriously right?Wrong according to Sixx’s record of these years. Sixx was an artist trying to get at the heart of life and he was disdainful of bands that weren’t serious like the light-as-fluff Poison. Moreover throughout most of the 1980s and 90s he was apparently in acute emotional pain which he assuaged by locking himself in a cupboard and shooting smack and coke straight for days on end. Now clean the diaries – buffed up by a co-writer – are of course a record of those days an attempt to ‘paint a fuller picture of addiction’… As its unitary form – as represented by Black Sabbath and Judas Priest in the 1970s – split into different strands the relentless quasi-industrial hardcore style of Metallica and the showier glam-rock influenced the metal-pop of Crüe themselves. As hardcore metal became increasingly a resistant and acquired taste more harmonically challenging (its dominant expression being the Tritone chord much loved by Wagner which hangs perpetually in suspension in the Western music scale) metal-pop provided an entry level especially for listeners in the 11-15 age bracket many of them young girls. The metal-pop bands were highly camp their names were ridiculous they didn’t seem to take themselves too seriously right?Wrong according to Sixx’s record of these years. Sixx was an artist trying to get at the heart of life and he was disdainful of bands that weren’t serious like the light-as-fluff Poison. Moreover throughout most of the 1980s and 90s he was apparently in acute emotional pain which he assuaged by locking himself in a cupboard and shooting smack and coke straight for days on end. Now clean the diaries – buffed up by a co-writer – are of course a record of those days an attempt to ‘paint a fuller picture of addiction’. It is dedicated to ‘all the alcoholics and drug addicts who have had the courage to [can you guess] face their demons and to pass on the message that there is [can you guess] light at the end of the tunnel’.

Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Jan 25, 2008
(Sisario) ★ GSPEL CARAVAN (Friday) The performers at this. In one form or other the Blind Boys of Alabama have been active since 1939 and the Dixie Hummingbirds since 1928 harmonizing with a passionate intensity that directly influenced R&B and rock music… (Jon Pareles) ★ NEURSIS MASTDN (Friday) The good thing about experimental heavy-metal groups is that no matter how out there they get they stick to the rudiments of riffing screaming and pummeling. For this first of two shows at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene Neurosis a longtime “post-metal” band from akland Calif. teams with Mastodon an Atlanta group so brainy that it wrote a concept album based on “Moby-Dick.