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- Thrash-metal band performing Dec. 27 at Kennewick Jack-son’s
- Firewind: The Premonition – Music Review
- From metal to ambience: Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
Thrash-metal band performing Dec. 27 at Kennewick Jack-son’s
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald WA
25 2008 Comments (0) Thrash-metal band performing Dec. The Kennewick thrash-metal band is performing at 10 p. 27 at Jack-son’s Sports Bar 3320 W.
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Firewind: The Premonition – Music Review
HotIndieNews.com NY
While my sister was listening to Menudo and my mom listening to Sonny and Cher I was listening to Iron Maiden Motorhead and DI. Yea I had my head on straight! I missed those days of gut wrenching melodic metal. Sure bands have come along since and have attempted the style but tend to fail miserably. Nothing can beat the style grace and musicianship of that metal genre and no band has really captured that true essence of what metal REALLY is.
From metal to ambience: Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
Los Angeles Times CA
"The fact that the film is set in New Jersey didn’t hurt either. Mansell wanted an instrument that could reflect the grittiness of the setting and the character even if the ultimate sound was soft. "He loves his metal music and he lives in New Jersey and all those things started pushing me toward the fact that the guitar might be the instrument that represents this character’s voice. "Mansell is the go-to composer Aronofsky. The two first worked together on Aronofsky’s first feature-length film "Pi. " Typically Mansell and Aronofsky begin plotting the music before shooting begins. In the case of "The Wrestler" the idea of using a simple guitar score wasn’t easily arrived at.