The News Review:
- Human: Cadaver Academy – April NZ Tour 2008
- Run-DMC | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
- Pat Travers: Crash And Burn : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- The Gauntlet: Meshuggah Metal News
- Shining in its Evil Splendor
Human: Cadaver Academy – April NZ Tour 2008
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Mar 20, 2008
Since then they haveproduced a massive back catalogue of original music touredseveral times over released several music videos receivedairplay all over the world and played alongside metallegends the likes of Pungent Stench and Dragonforce. Theyhave gained a large following in the metal underground sceneand have earned a reputation as a live act to be reckonedwith. Having a crazy Monty Python meets Napalm Death side totheir music has both die hard fans and first time listenerseagerly anticipating the band next movements. Unpredictability is a handy weapon to have in any band’sarsenal – and this group has got it inabundance. ‘Cadaver Academy’ is the working title forHUMAN’s next album due to be released sometime in 2008… Cadaver Academyis a self produced effort and we have all the control in theworld on how it looks and sounds. Some of our best songs todate are on this CD – and some of our worst lyrics to datetoo. ”To precede the tour HUMAN have chosen to releasetwo tracks from the forthcoming album to their MySpace pageand to radio stations around the country that support heavymetal music. The songs will be ‘Centrifugal SkinRemoval’ and ‘Torched by An Angel’. In April 2008New Zealand has it’s chance to witness the HUMAN spectacleonce again. For full colour press quality photos tourposter and music samples please go to:www.
Run-DMC | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones | MTV
MTV.com – Mar 20, 2008
are responsible for the sound and style of the music. As the first hardcore rap outfit the trio set the sound and style for the next decade of rap. With their spare beats and excursions into heavy metal samples the trio were tougher and more.
Pat Travers: Crash And Burn : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Mar 20, 2008
In the past Travers has often employed keyboards and synthesizers to fatten his sound but in four of the eight songs here he smothers his chops and those of second guitarist Pat Thrall with a rich yet generally pointless layer of electronic frosting. Travers nearly pulls it off in the title track pounding out full-blooded organ chords with an intensity matched only by his powerful guitar riffing in the Lynyrd Skynyrd-style “Snortin’ Whiskey” and the band’s bullish workout in the blues standard “Born under a Bad Sign. ” If it wasn’t for the self-consciously dramatic production “Material Eyes” might pass as the work of a heavy-metal Genesis. But “The Big Event” an instrumental sounds too much like one of those desperately contemporary TV sports themes. And Travers’ big-beat ballad “Love Will Make You Strong” could use some of the six-string punch he musters up for his Led Zeppelin-like cover version of Bob Marley’s “Is This Love. “Pat Travers is to be commended for at least trying to break out of the guitar-hero rut. Unfortunately on most of Crash and Burn he’s just spinning his wheels.
The Gauntlet: Meshuggah Metal News
The Gauntlet – Mar 20, 2008
Thank you ALL for helping us reach new levels!”A truly lateral-thinking force genuinely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of extreme music MESHUGGAH have spent the last twenty years developing and exploring their metric art. Not surprisingly the band’s discography underwent scholarly analysis at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Music Theory Society of New York State in 2006 and the article “Re-casting Metal: Rhythm & Meter in the Music of MESHUGGAH” was published in Music Theory Spectrum the journal of The Society for Music Theory in the latter half of 2007. obZen is primed to become yet another arrhythmic testament of MESHUGGAH’s importance to the fields of recording and performing arts. Date: Mar 20 2008 As Reported by: jason Tags:… Thank you ALL for helping us reach new levels!”A truly lateral-thinking force genuinely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of extreme music MESHUGGAH have spent the last twenty years developing and exploring their metric art. Not surprisingly the band’s discography underwent scholarly analysis at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Music Theory Society of New York State in 2006 and the article “Re-casting Metal: Rhythm & Meter in the Music of MESHUGGAH” was published in Music Theory Spectrum the journal of The Society for Music Theory in the latter half of 2007. obZen is primed to become yet another arrhythmic testament of MESHUGGAH’s importance to the fields of recording and performing arts. Date: Mar 20 2008 As Reported by: jason Tags:.
Shining in its Evil Splendor
PopMatters – Mar 20, 2008
Recorded by the great Sanford Parker and mastered by Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer this is the kind of battle metal that demands to be reckoned with. He adds “I guess to some extent also it’s so much of a taboo especially in metal and especially in progressive music and it kind of feels good to do it just to see the expression on people’s faces when you tell them it’s programmed. Because it is very much a taboo and even though we know a lot of bands that do use programmed drums on albums they would never admit to doing so…There seems to be a shortage of thinking as far as that it doesn’t really matter what tools you use to get somewhere it’s all about the final product in my opinion. I don’t care whether a band programs everything or uses another vocalist on the albums. At the end of the day if they’re a live band they’re going to have to go out there and play it live and to me it doesn’t matter how you get there. If it’s a good product who gives a shit?”For all of Catch Thirtythree‘s hi-tech achievements (the programmed drums do suit that record) Haake’s presence behind the kit on obZen makes a monumental difference and is the driving force behind Meshuggah’s most outwardly aggressive disc since 1998’s Chaosphere.