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The Toll of a New Machine
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High On Fire, Priestess, Black Cobra, Bison Tour
Posted February 8 by Chris D. (6 Comments)
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Rami Jämsä's (Convulse) Top 5 Things that Suck in the Music Industry
Posted February 8 by Chris D. (9 Comments)
By Rami Jämsä (Convulse)
5. Illegal Downloading:
Too many listeners think that because you can’t eat music you don´t have to pay anything for it. Illegal downloading leads to several problems that concern all parties involved in the music business. Record companies, bands and, finally, music listeners.
4. No Money, No Records:
As the income from lower record sales is less, many bad things follow. Record companies sign very few bands today because they don’t have money to pay studio costs, press CDs, promote, etc. That is why many great bands are without record deal today. Companies don’t have the will to take risks in releasing albums that are musically interesting but might not sell as much as bigger bands.
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Alex Wade's (Whitechapel) Studio Blog
Posted February 8 by Chris D. (5 Comments)
By Alex Wade (Whitechapel)
So, we just got back from Audio Hammer Studios in the sunny (or lack thereof at this moment) state of Florida. There were some days it was 40 degrees in mid day. What's up with that? We came to Florida to record some brutality and get away from our cold homeland of Tennessee, but came to find out the weather was less than desirable. There were some days where it was actually nice out, but they were few and far between.
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Caught in a Mosh
Posted February 7 by nick (4 Comments)
Brilliant parody of classic hardcore from -- of all places -- last night's episode of Saturday Night Live. Bonus points for sneaking a Black Flag joke in the beginning. If you've heard Fred Armisen's old band Trenchmouth, it all makes sense.
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1-UP
Posted February 6 by nick (9 Comments)
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We're not going to come up with a better -- or more fitting -- description for Charlie Looker's oddball combo Extra Life than the commentors on Stereogum: "Hmmm, kinda sounds like Weird Al meets Dirty Projectors at a Boredoms concert." All three of these things hold true on Extra Life's new record Made Flesh: abrupt noise-rock freak-outs ("The Ladder"), artsy pretention (elliptical vocal patterns on "Made Flesh") and a nasal vocalist who REALLY sounds like "Weird" Al Yankovic. Actually, Looker also sounds a lot like kindred spirit Colin Meloy of the Decemberists, too, but the "Weird" Al comparison is unavoidable.
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WTF Friday: Heavy Metal Aerobics!
Posted February 5 by Chris D. (4 Comments)
Workshop in San Francisco, California is now offering Heavy Metal Aerobics. That's right, to the tune of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and more you can get all hot and sweaty (we're thinking of Olivia-Newton John's "Physical" video here). And get in shape! What a concept! The class is run by fitness metalhead Donnelle Malnik.
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Snooki Meets Judas Priest at the Grammys
Posted February 5 by Jeanne F. (12 Comments)
“This is my first interview, I have no idea what I’m doing. But who are you?”
Oh. shit.
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Decrepit Birth Studio Report, Part I
Posted February 4 by Chris D. (10 Comments)
By Matt Sotelo (Decrepit Birth)
We officially began recording for Polarity on Thursday, January 7th. We did all the drum tracking at Sharkbite Studios, with the help of engineer, Zack Ohren. We are happy to say that the drum tracking went very smoothly. The session began by setting KC's [Howard] drums up, we threw on new heads and tuned the drums up. The natural tone of his kit was sounding amazing in the middle of Sharkbite's live room. The acoustics were superb in the specially tuned room. KC was able to get his job done for the album in two days. Overall, it went very smooth... even though there were some "on the fly" improvisations that went down. Overall, KC did an amazing job and we are really happy with the outcome of his work.
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Mutiny Within, Deciblog #2: England vs. America (not a World Cup match)
Posted February 4 by Chris D.
By Andrew 'AJ' Jacobs (Mutiny Within)
AJ from Mutiny Within here for our Deciblog, week 3! This week, we'd like to let you into the thoughts and views of our two British band members, singer Chris Clancy and guitarist Daniel Bage. They have been in America now for a couple of years and they've been having a blast. However, they do miss some things from home. So we decided to see what are the things that they love and hate most about living in America!
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CONTEST: Bring Me The Fuckin' Robes brought to you by Handshake Inc.
Posted February 3 by Chris D.
Decibel Magazine and Handshake Inc. are proud to bring you the "Bring Me The Fuckin' Robes" contest to celebrate the DVD and digital download release of Disgorge, Mexico: The Movie.
One (1) lucky winner will receive an actual costume from the David Hall-directed movie and a copy of the DVD Disgorge, Mexico: The Movie.
Handshake Inc. is providing one of the robes (see image below) from the film. The robes were designed by Nekro who has previously worked with Arch Enemy's Angela Gossow and Sigh's Mikannibal.
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