Hatebreed Type O Negative keep it heavy-metal on Jägermeister Music…
The News Review:
- Hatebreed Type O Negative keep it heavy-metal on Jägermeister Music…
- The rock of aged: Boomer stars are getting old — who will replace…
- Iron Maiden makes metal for your mind
- Music Preview: Prog-rock band Coheed and Cambria is a positive force…
- The Gauntlet: Emmure Metal News
Hatebreed Type O Negative keep it heavy-metal on Jägermeister Music…
Dallas Morning News – May 29, 2008
It’s the trash that should be absent – swept away in a tornado of counterculturists in cathartic revolution. The pit that roared during Hatebreed’s headlining set Tuesday at the Palladium Ballroom wasn’t just spick-and-span. It was the largest at a major metal show in Dallas in years: a 70-by-30-foot oval whirlpool of humanity framed by six structural pillars. The body churning ceased only when the Connecticut-based band took a rare break from its incessant aural pummeling. Hatebreed’s one-dimensional variety of hard-core with elements of rap and thrash is today’s hip mosh soundtrack: The virulent eloquence of frontman Jamey Jasta and his band’s high-quality delivery of mood and method spark the maelstrom. The band showed top form and not just because the chronologically wide set (including the unreleased “Pollution of the Soul”) was recorded for a live CD-DVD… Jasta has always framed his band as reliable and principled and his emphatic performance and repeated positive declarations that Hatebreed is nothing but a conduit for the expulsion of stress bore out that rep. The music may not appeal to many but it deserves respect for what it provides. The same can be said for the Gothic stoner-thrash depths that Type O Negative specializes in especially after its flawed but charming turn. Both Peter Steele’s voice and bass gear were ill but he compensated with a sunny chatty disposition (his typical stage persona: pouty and imposing) and syrupy turns through “World Coming Down” and “An Ode to Locksmiths. ” TON wasn’t quite sweet but it was rich.
The rock of aged: Boomer stars are getting old — who will replace…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 29, 2008
“The industry just isn’t creating new superstars” says former concert promoter Rich Engler. “Unfortunately all these legends these classic attractions they’re still carrying the weight. Music was a different world back then and obviously they created a tremendous foundation which the new bands aren’t doing these days. There are many reasons why: One being radio and two there’s so many things to do now with the Internet high definition. It’s a faster world now. If there’s a three and four they would be the skyrocketing price of tickets the past several years — weeding out younger concert-goers — and the near-demise of the record industry. Obviously the major labels have been ravaged by illegal downloading and now by stars like the Eagles and Madonna going their own way… What’s likely to keep the Post-Gazette Pavilion in the black this summer besides the two Dave Matthews Band shows and the veteran acts are the country and metal tours. The country music industry an efficient star-making machine has been able to break younger acts Rascal Flatts Taylor Swift Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood by marketing them heavily on radio TV and awards shows. Metal has four days at the Post-Gazette Pavilion — on the younger side with Projekt Revolution and Rockstar Mayhem which is displacing Ozzfest and on the older side with Judas Priest and Motley Crue. When there are 80 bands playing in one day you’d think some of them could spin off into a second or even third successful tour. But after 15 years it hasn’t happened. “It’s been tried and it hasn’t worked” Anti-Flag’s Pat Thetic said earlier this year.
Iron Maiden makes metal for your mind
Georgia Straight – May 29, 2008
A 42000-capacity stadium in São Paulo Brazil sold out in one week and 125000 tickets were sold in just over two hours for three Scandinavian shows. Vancouverites have also been gripped by Maiden mania as the concert at the Pacific Coliseum this Tuesday (June 3) has been sold out for months. So why 25 years after its heyday is Maiden so popular? It could be because its fans view it as one of the few true metal acts on the scene today. Iron Maiden has always stuck to its ear-busting guns never sold out to its commercial instincts (as critics claim the mighty Metallica has done). Apart from a few years in the ?90s when Blaze Bayley took singer Bruce Dickinson?s place the band has remained a vital force one that has taken the influence of late-?70s punk melded it with the melodic twin-guitar assault of Thin Lizzy and Wishbone Ash and churned everything into a galloping thrashy racket. But the most surprising thing about Iron Maiden is that it manages to make music fast and loud as fuck without pandering to those who spent their high-school days making birdhouses and ashtrays in shop class. Maiden doesn?t make music for morons… Apart from a few years in the ?90s when Blaze Bayley took singer Bruce Dickinson?s place the band has remained a vital force one that has taken the influence of late-?70s punk melded it with the melodic twin-guitar assault of Thin Lizzy and Wishbone Ash and churned everything into a galloping thrashy racket. But the most surprising thing about Iron Maiden is that it manages to make music fast and loud as fuck without pandering to those who spent their high-school days making birdhouses and ashtrays in shop class. Maiden doesn?t make music for morons. It left that in the capable hands of Mötley Crüe. For starters Iron Maiden has a total disregard for the whole sex drugs and rock ?n? roll ethic that lured the likes of Mötley to grab guitars in the first place. Apart from original Maiden singer Paul Di?Anno?s reported dalliances with cocaine the group has never allowed its pure metal to be diluted by illicit substances. ?Drugs have been part of the music culture since the 1960s? Maiden guitarist Dave Murray told Australia?s Sydney Morning Herald recently ?but this band has just never gone down that route.
Music Preview: Prog-rock band Coheed and Cambria is a positive force…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 29, 2008
Now though Pennie is free to tour with Coheed and enjoying not only the band’s energy but the stylistic change. “With Dillinger there’s a lot of notes being played drum-wise” he says. “The music is really heavy and very busy. With Coheed there’s a lot more space. I’m working with a guy who’s crafting melodies and there’s a wider spectrum of things to work with. Instead of cramming a lot of notes into one song it’s more a matter of knowing how to use the notes. Pennie finds himself in a band with a frontman Claudio Sanchez who emulates classic-rock bands like Pink Floyd Led Zeppelin and of course Rush with whom Coheed and Cambria is often rightfully compared… With Coheed Pennie has also entered a band with its own built-in mythology. The group’s records loosely follow a story line of two characters Coheed and Cambria from Sanchez’s sci-fi graphic novel “The Armory Wars. ” “No World for Tomorrow” which ranges from harsh nu metal to epic-sounding late-’70s rock closes with a five-part suite called “The End Complete. ” How important is to know the story to appreciate the music?”The main thing that he always talks about is that it’s a band first and if you want to take more from the experience you can. When I got into the band I got into it for the music first. That was the first and foremost thing. Now being a part of it I’m learning bits and pieces.
The Gauntlet: Emmure Metal News
The Gauntlet – May 29, 2008
“They are quick to talk shit but what they won’t tell you is that when they first got signed to Victory they were pumped they loved it they wouldn’t even help us out and get on a show when we needed it because they said they weren’t a local band anymore and they couldn’t just do that. Victory put them in a Hollywood recording studio for over a month which excessively exceeded their budget and time. They were provided with one of the top directors for their music video and put in every major music magazine. You would think they would be thankful. “After their record bombed to put it gently they started getting pissy and blaming everyone underneath the sun except for themselves which seems to be the trend of that band… You would think they would be thankful. “After their record bombed to put it gently they started getting pissy and blaming everyone underneath the sun except for themselves which seems to be the trend of that band. And all but 2 members quit. “Before this tour started we started hearing how they were talking shit about us and our record which we confronted them about and they confessed and with a good heart and them being our supposed friends we let it slide and kept them on he tour. The very first day they show up they have a shirt they are selling that is blatantly a slap in the face to Victory Records and us.
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