Using darkness to see the light
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- Using darkness to see the light
- RACHEL MAY | local music highlights Lithium disc ready to go and …
- Bending Metal
- Christian band’s album about struggles
- Metal show set for Friday night in Huntington
Using darkness to see the light
Jerusalem Post Israel -
“I’m not sure how to explain it to someone who doesn’t know all these sub-genres maybe dark atmospheric metal. But if someone doesn’t know the difference it doesn’t matter they can still enjoy it” he says from his home in a soft-spoken voice that belies his guttural yowls when he sings. “We don’t really describe our music as doom metal – it’s more like a combination of gothic and doom metal. We’ve been traveling on both musical directions ever since we started. It was after the Millennium when we started focusing on more of a slower doomier sound. But we’re getting back to our goth roots. riginally formed in 1994 Draconian has always been about emotion and the band’s fourth album Turning Season Within reflects its ability to combine ornate passages featuring Johansson’s vocals with walls of darkish riffs and violent vocal interludes to create a fusion that is as jarring as it is enticing.
RACHEL MAY | local music highlights Lithium disc ready to go and …
Detroit Free Press United States -
Its high-energy shows garnered it opening slots for big-name bands like Kittie Thousand Foot Krutch and Loudness and earned it a place last year in the finals of the 89X I’m with the Band contest which finds local acts competing for cash and prizes. With its fan base growing the band worked on honing its writing skills. “We did a lot of writing finding out who we were” says guitarist Carl Shank. “We took the identity crisis out and tightened ourselves up trying to pull all of the group’s diverse interests into a format.
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Bending Metal
FWWeekly TX -
Urizen Saturday Feb 21 at The Boiler Room 101 W Hickory Denton. With Bat Castle and Islamic Sex SecretsBending MetalUrizen breaks the rules including the one that says all metal bands have to lack a sense of humor. By CARLINE CLLIERApocalyptic Nintendo music? That’s what happens when the members of the happy-black-metal band Urizen started fiddling with the technology. When envisioning the North Texas group’s 2007 EP Universe songwriter Thomas Drinnen bought a converter so he could elicit sounds from an original Nintendo console. Creative? Definitely.
Christian band’s album about struggles
South Bend Tribune (subscription) IN -
After all heavy metal is the music genre made famous by performers such as zzy sbourne. For many Christians sbourne is the definition of the godlessness of rock music. However in a deeper sense it is not surprising that artists strive to put the Christian message in heavy metal music. After all contemporary Christian music has made room for rap and rock. “There is something about any genre that demands an emotional reaction” Keech says. “And any heavy music that requires the artist to use everything that is within you to create a sound is something that kids relate to. “Keech adds that Christian metal music has one thing in common with its secular counterpart both speak to a generation of children who feel alienated.
Metal show set for Friday night in Huntington
Huntington Herald Dispatch WV -
“It’s definitely worth coming out and checking it out especially for $5. ”Chaffin said he’s excited for the show at Shamrock’s which he calls not too big but just big enough to hold great live music. While Chaffin was once booking shows every weekend for the now defunct live music club Paradox Rift he said he hopes to get back to booking at least one showcase a month of the region’s best rock and metal bands. “I plan on doing shows more often but not too often” Chaffin said. “I want to be able to promote the show right and to get the bands that are going to be good for the shows. ”For more information about the show or if you are interested in playing one of Chaffin’s shows call Chaffin at 740-646-4081 or visit his Web site at www.
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