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- Metal and Rock Music an utlet for Saudi Youth to Speak
- … Walls of Jericho & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
- Aldous spreads message through eclectic sound
- ‘Persepolis’ explores Islamic extremism
- … : Welcome to Musink Day 1 / tattoo art festival music…

Metal and Rock Music an utlet for Saudi Youth to Speak
Arab News – Feb 22, 2008
By best estimates from young Saudi music fans there are about 60 bands in Saudi Arabia playing Western style rock music mostly in the form of Heavy Metal bands with their pentatonic scales and rapid-fire guitar finger work and high-tempo rhythms. Hip-hop is another favorite followed to a lesser extent by jazz blues and more traditional rock. Kamal Khalil the guitarist and vocalist for the appropriately named heavy metal band Deathless Anguish says that these youth-oriented groups aren’t recognized by the established arts societies. “They think we produce shallow material” he said referring to the Saudi Society of Culture and Arts.

… Walls of Jericho & More: Metal File – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Feb 22, 2008
textContenturl:window. href} {button:true} ); You’ve got to admire a band like California death-metal deviants Brain Drill: Not only has Cannibal Corpse’s Alex Webster given them his stamp of approval (he called Brain Drill “one of the most musically over-the-top bands I have ever heard” and praised them for “truly raising the bar for technicality velocity and overall extremity in death metal”) but they have a name that’s nothing if not utterly fitting — it accurately describes their punishing sound to a friggin’ T. What’s more the band’s appropriately titled critically lauded blastbeat-heavy debut LP Apocalyptic Feasting is basically a technical death-metal lover’s wet nightmare. Drawing influence from Cannibal as well as Spawn of Possession rigin Disgorge Decrepit Birth and Necrophagia guitarist Dylan Ruskin told Metal File that Brain Drill’s origins date back to 2005 and a group of twentysomethings bent on pushing the genre’s limits to the absolute brink. “We were definitely inspired by all of those bands and I always wanted to play technical death metal — but I wanted to take those influences and make sort of a musical collage with elements from them all” said Ruskin about Apocalyptic Feasting which is in stores now. “We did not want this record to fit with any of the current trends.

Aldous spreads message through eclectic sound
Youngstown Vindicator – Feb 22, 2008
Formed less than two years ago the rock quintet ? Christopher Steven Kochera (drums) Shane Smith (vocals) Christian Tremain Hardy (guitar) Matthew Westhead (guitar) and Steve Yohman (bass) ? combines elements of hardcore funk straight-up rock and experimental sounds to create its own style. ?We?re just trying to not keep it genre-specific and add different elements to keep it interesting musically? said Hardy who graduated from Chaney High School in 2005. ?A lot of hardcore bands and metal bands they either keep it hardcore or metal and there?s really no room for breathing. We just like a lot of other things along with the hardcore and metal element. ?We also have different types of effects to kind of throw people off. It?s weird there aren?t that many places around here for us to play because of the genre. And it?s just easier to play regionally or other places where it?s a lot more people and they?re more receptive… ?Whenever we play a show at The Cellar people are receptive and come out? Hardy said. ?And any hometown show for us is a good show. ?Hardy and his bandmates whose erstwhile groups include Valerie Drive and Via Transit hope to spread their music throughout the Midwest this summer. A debut EP is in the works and the band also bought a trailer to transport its gear. ?We?re planning a tour this summer just playing as much as we can and getting our message across? said Hardy. Printer FriendlyEmail to FriendComment on Story iPod Friendly.

‘Persepolis’ explores Islamic extremism
mlive.com – Feb 22, 2008
But a slow erosion of her enthusiasm begins at age 10 when the shah is overthrown and the theocracy reigns giving her educated middle-class parents (Catherine Deneuve and Simon Abkarian) something entirely different to rebel against. Influenced by her family Satrapi started a personal rebellion. She purchases a cassette of heavy-metal music from street vendors who resemble drug dealers and is chastised for her white sneakers which counterbalanced the black veil on her head. “I was told that anyone who shows herself will burn in hell” the adult Satrapi (Chiara Mastroianni) narrates. Eventually her parents fearing for her safety in the increasingly volatile Iran send her to Vienna where she meanders through adolescence. She experiences love and pain and loneliness key elements of any coming-of-age story. But such dramas rarely exhibit Satrapi’s matter-of-fact sensibility; she finds humor and absurdity in situations but never fishes for laughs and the animation reflects this approach perfectly.

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CRegister – Feb 22, 2008
By KELLI SKYE FADRSKI The range County Register Comments | Recommend It’s the first day of the three-day. The hardcore patrons were waiting at the fences as they opened at 2 p… Rota said a few vulgar and provoking words to the audience (which I can’t repeat here) that people finally started to come alive. I guess they like the abuse. ne of Kat Von D’s all-time favorite bands Metal Skool came on next. The metal-meets-comedy act is absolutely ridiculous taking the whole ’80s-hair metal look to another level. The band rocked it with such great ’80s covers as Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and Poison’s “Talk Dirty to Me. ” But this quartet of hair-loving musicians did much more than just covers singer Michael Starr would throw the mic up into the air and miss catching it. Bassist Lexxi Foxxx the member with the biggest hair brought out his face shield and hair sprayed up his ‘do mid-song.