The News Review:
- This week in the arts
- Benefit concert to showcase local hard rock bands
- MTV destroyed music quality for style
- Listening Party: Matt Young and PanaCea
- East Coast collaborators
- Faithless Saints tackle punk ska metal with debut EP
- Top 10 Metal Bands With Names Taken From JRR Tolkien Characters
This week in the arts
Columbus Dispatch
? The Taste of Chaos Tour — featuring the punk and metal bands Bring Me the Horizon Four Year Strong Pierce the Veil and Cancer Bats — will arrive next Sunday at the Newport Music Hall 1722 N. Doors will open at 5:30 p.
Benefit concert to showcase local hard rock bands
Simi Valley Acorn
Sixteen bands will perform on two stages. Stage one will feature hardcore music and stage two will have metal music. The club hopes to double last year’s attendance of 300 guests and proceeds of $3000. The event will enforce no alcohol smoking or moshing. Ins and outs are not permitted. All guests are subject to security checks.
MTV destroyed music quality for style
SCSU University Chronicle
Then came the glam-metal era. Bands took the legacy of Led Zeppelin T-Rex Black Sabbath and Mötorhead to create a false so-called edgy sound that made millions of dollars for fluff music. Motley Crüe Poison Warrant and others made metal music that sounded neutered and plastic. They sang of being rich getting laid and doing dope. Most teenagers into metal are not rich barely can get a girl to notice them did cheap dope and turned to acts like Metallica and Guns N’ Roses whose edge was more in par with the metal legends’ style. MTV did get edgy in the wake of the more hardcore metal acts in the late ’80s.
Listening Party: Matt Young and PanaCea
Spartanburg Spark
In the very early 1990s saying “metal” to almost anyone instantly summoned the image of the overblown day-glo-tights-clad terrors of the overtly commercial hair-metal movement. Today people may look upon bands like Poison as legends but to a kid just getting into popular music in the grunge era they were a campy joke. But there were still “real” metal bands to be found and you didn’t even have to look that hard. MTV not yet the station where drunken co-eds were most likely to make out with each other in hot-tubs was still mostly videos.
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East Coast collaborators
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Their job is to keep writing and being creative and loving life or hating life whatever inspires them to be creative and work really hard at developing their music. Josh Hogan is a musician as well providing larynx-shredding vocals for Halifax thrash metal band rchid’s Curse but most of his ECMA weekend will be spent as an ambassador for Atlantic Canada’s heavy metal scene and to celebrate the first year for the award show’s new loud recording of the year category. Two of the nominees Moncton bands Gallactus and Iron Giant are based on Hogan’s Diminished Fifth Records label which he started in 2006 when he realized there was “zero support” for East Coast metal bands in the larger music industry. While Diminished Fifth’s seven releases now have overseas distribution and are available through most major online sources (with a cross-Canada distribution deal in the works) Hogan took that grassroots community approach further with his online heavy metal magazine Horns High (.
Faithless Saints tackle punk ska metal with debut EP
WilliametteLive.com
The group just released their first EP Sweet Sacrilege. Salem Monthly caught up with Rios to ask him about the new band and the experience of recording the album. Salem Monthly: How would you describe the music of Faithless Saints?Robert Rios: Faithless Saints is a mix of ska folk rock and a dash of metal all rolled into 15 years of love for punk rock. SM: What if anything did you set out to explore when putting the albumtogether?RR: My bass player Erik Benton and I have been playing in a band together since we were 12. With our high school band Thirty-six Drive we put out four studio records and one live album but never had enough money for mastering or manufacturing. We had always burned and printed out by hand our CD and inserts. After going to college and getting my bachelor’s degree in audio engineering I realized it was time to grow up and put mymoney where my mouth is.
Top 10 Metal Bands With Names Taken From JRR Tolkien Characters
The Gauntlet
This list was more of an undertaking than expected. Every damn black metal band out there sounds like it was taken from Middle Earth and it seems like there is a band for every character in the writings of JRR Tolkien. But we searched from the deep seas of Ekkaia to the highest mountains of Mordor and have this weeks top 10 list. Remember this is just bands derived from characters not locations. That will be another geeked out list. AgarwaenNargothrond T? hid is name and identity and called himself Agarwaen son of ?arth.