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- Cattle Decapitation’s 10 Favorite Cali Metal Bands
- Impartial Dismemberment growing Staten Island’s deathcore music scene
- Show at Harpos brings together 20 metal bands for one intense night

Cattle Decapitation’s 10 Favorite Cali Metal Bands
IGN CA 
html’>Cattle Decapitation. The San Diego band specialize in the kind of frenzied uncompromising metal bands like Carcass Suffocation and General Surgery favor. The band has just released The Harvest Floor which may very well be their most intense and accomplished work yet. IGN asked Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan who his favorite fellow Golden State metal bands were. Not surprisingly he went with all underground on us which is perfect for this kind of thing. So take a second and check out some of these bands if you haven’t already.

Impartial Dismemberment growing Staten Island’s deathcore music scene
Staten Island Advance – SILive.com NY 
“Staten Island is different from a lot of other places — it’s sort of who you know when it comes to getting people to shows” says Port Richmond musician Boudreau 22 who writes lyrics with Diaz. “But it’s coming back. In a way deathcore is saving death metal because it’s introducing a new group of kids who are hardcore fans to an older type of music. Diaz and Boudreau say they borrow some of the gory lyrical themes of death metal and blend them with some of the more social issues found in hardcore lyrics. They swear they never ever “write about girls. ” Their anti-emo teenage fans seem to enjoy this fact. Evidence can be found in the band’s song “This Time.
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Show at Harpos brings together 20 metal bands for one intense night
Detroit Free Press United States 
What other show can a band go to and play and have 19 other bands there that they can talk to?”While Detroit has plenty of metal bands of its own and has seen a few such as the Black Dahlia Murder go on to bigger things the scene hasn’t yet developed a signature sound. What it has done though is spread beyond the metro area to the western side of the state where some kids are eschewing a Warped Tour-style for the more demanding rigors of true metal even if they don’t necessarily appear to have been inspired by mid-’80s Megadeth. “Metal we love it because it’s a really talented kind of music” says Drew Kunkel the drummer for Grand Rapids young metal outfit Look Left Swing Right. “It’s brutal and we love the intensity of it. We all have our different reasons. I started off listening to hardcore alternative rock and then it just kept getting heavier and heavier and it came to this. We love playing music and this is the most intense kind of music we can play.