The News Review:
- Getting Angry About Prostate Cancer
- Their music for video games depends on play
- Metal ‘” An Account
- The 411 Music Top Five 12.09.08: Top 5 Stupidest Band Names
- Monster metal
- 2009 MUSINK Tattoo And Music Tour Featuring MOTÃRHEAD SOCIAL …
Getting Angry About Prostate Cancer
New York Times Blogs NY
Spending time with my wife and family helps; so does writing in my journal. But in scanning my large collection of CDs a few months ago I noticed a few heavy-metal albums I hadn’t listened to in a long time. It struck me as the right music for my mood and the result has been my own unorthodox form of music therapy. I’ve learned that heavy-metal music leaches away my fury the way a poultice draws poison from a wound. I crave heavy bands like Slayer and Meshuggah Pantera and Sepultera Isis and Neurosis. Prostate cancer seems especially suited for heavy-metal music therapy. According to Dan Nelson?s book ?All Known Metal Bands? I could let my ears pound and bleed to such disease-specific headbangers as Cancer and Metastasis Scars of Chaos and Scars of Suffering and Surgikill Incision.
Their music for video games depends on play
Los Angeles Times CA
With an expected $50 billion in global sales this year video games have turned into such a big business that established composers from film and television are signing on to create the sweeping scores and intricate sounds that help guide players through their missions. Harry Gregson-Williams who scored “Shrek” created the music for the action game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Steve Jablonsky the composer for “Transformers” wrote music for the Sims and Gears of War 2. Danny Elfman whose theme music for the 1989 “Batman” movie won him a Grammy Award scored the role-playing adventure game series Fable. The gigs pay well: Composers can receive as much as $2000 for each minute of music they write with a typical game requiring 60 to 90 minutes of music. Including the allowance for hiring musicians renting recording studios and post-production work the music budgets for top-notch games can reach as high as half a million dollars.
Metal ‘” An Account
MorungExpress India
There is also a section of society that tends to tarnish the name of metal by calling it unsophisticated music or deafening noise. I just fail to understand as to how certain people can just put down the name of an art form that truly deals with the real problems that exists in this music. The effort that goes into the workings of a metal musician’s mind and the creativity of the musician are qualities that have to be appreciated. Metal music when compared to classical music is always thought of as something for the disoriented with problems in their lives but there is no way of denying the fact that heavy metal is the one form of music that truly derives its sounds from classical music. The influences of Vogner or Beethoven in metal artists are quiet obvious. Classical metal is always associated with education and university while heavy metal is never brought even close to these words. However do we realise that one of the greatest classical musicians in history like Johann Sebastian Bach or even the great composer Mozart never went to college.
The 411 Music Top Five 12.09.08: Top 5 Stupidest Band Names
411mania.com TX
Unfortunately I do remember and there’s not a happy memory to be found. Queensryche – I have a soft spot for a lot of 80s metal bands and Queensryche was one of the few which didn’t totally disappear at the dawn of grunge. But the name? The first time I heard it back on their ’84 debut The Warning I thought maybe they were some sort of Queen cover band. Also there’s the whole Hitler situation which sort of killed the whole ‘reich’ thing no matter how ungrammatically you spell it. Limp Bizkit – My personal vision of hell is having to listen to this band for all eternity.
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Monster metal
Edmonton Sun Canada
The ferocious version of Creeping Death confirmed it. Later promised thoughts of going “off to never never land” as we all know Metallica’s most famous song that isn’t a ballad also dwells on the subject of death. Again we’re faced with the essential truth of good heavy metal music so often misunderstood. These bands don’t glorify death. They don’t celebrate devils they don’t welcome doom they don’t advocate evil. Well most of them don’t anyway. They’re laughing in the face of death they’re spiting Satan.
2009 MUSINK Tattoo And Music Tour Featuring MOTÃRHEAD SOCIAL …
Blabbermouth.net NY
“I’m sad that this year’s festival will not go on as planned but I’d rather the fans not be disappointed as there were key elements that did not come together as originally designed” says Kat Von D. Musink debuted in Orange County CA in February 2008 with over 15000 people in attendance for the three-day lifestyle event. Headliners THE USED TIGER ARMY and METAL SKOOL were joined by 300 of the best tattoo artists from around the world.