Amorphis Guitarist Esa Discusses Their New Album “Skyforger”
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- Amorphis Guitarist Esa Discusses Their New Album “Skyforger”
- The Great Kat. Scarily fast on the guitar. And plain scary.
- Music Snob’s Concert Picks
- ’80s music fuels 2-day Rock Fest
- Using ‘music as a weapon’
Amorphis Guitarist Esa Discusses Their New Album “Skyforger”
Metal Underground
So it has really gone far with that. I try to stay up with what?s going on but I really can?t it?s too difficult. Metal music has grown so much. There are so many more sub-scenes going on. You?ve got death metal bands and then you?ve got whatever metal bands. In a way I think it?s good but for the new bands it must be a nightmare to try to come up and prove that you are something special. It has grown a lot that?s for sure.
The Great Kat. Scarily fast on the guitar. And plain scary.
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Written by Emma Mayall. The latest effort from guitar shredder The Great Kat who?s self-declared mission in life is to bring classical music to the masses by merging it with metal did not convert me. That?s not to say she didn?t impress me. The video clips on The Great Kat Beethoven?s Guitar Shred are worth looking at for sheer shock value. And if you don?t really like them as I didn?t they are mercifully short.
Music Snob’s Concert Picks
NBC Washington
"Ambient metal" may sound like "metalvator music" which may be true but that’s an elevator I’d love to be stuck on. Expect a lot of long monolithic songs with as much texture and soft melodic atmosphere as sludgy metal riffing. These songs are dense brooding emotive and absolutely epic. April’s "Wavering Radiant" is as deliberately plotted as most Isis records a roller coaster in slow motion and Aaron Turner continues to include more singing and less growling in his vocals which are as sparsely and specifically placed on the album as ever.
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’80s music fuels 2-day Rock Fest
San Antonio Express
Dismissed by critics but loved by anyone who owned a Quiet Riot cassette the so-called hair-metal genre keeps rocking like a hurricane. "I don’t feel the need to defend ’80s music" said McMaster who toured with Judas Priest the Cult and Faster Pussycat when the Toys were in regular rotation on radio and MTV. "It’s not about the ’80s or ’90s or whatever; it’s about making kick-ass in-your-face hard rock or metal music. Same thing with Motorhead Slayer and Pantera. Look at newer bands like Danko Jones and Airbourne who carry the old-school torch but are very much current and reaching a new generation. "While Saxon and Queensryche have remained active beyond their presumed expiration dates most of the names at South Texas Rock Fest have been off the radar off the rails (see Steven Adler) or otherwise preoccupied with day jobs family and lower-key musical projects.
Using ‘music as a weapon’
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comFor most bands in the heavy music genre opening for Disturbed is no doubt a dream come true. Just ask Lansing-based metal group Bloodletting. They recently got that chance. You see Bloodletting won the Fusion Shows “Headbang for the Highway” Battle of the Bands to land a slot on the skull-cracking “Music as a Weapon Tour” which features metal acts Disturbed Killswitch Engage Chimaira and Lacuna Coil. Bloodletting opened the Battle Creek show on April 30.
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