<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815</id><updated>2011-12-15T03:36:58.182+01:00</updated><category term='Heavy music'/><title type='text'>And Music For All</title><subtitle type='html'>A Blog about news, music reviews and interviews...and the best is yet to come!!!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>74</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-7816453240779415998</id><published>2011-02-05T10:44:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-05T10:47:40.872+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0cpp7clEI/AAAAAAAAAE8/T0C-4mqdl0c/s1600/untitled.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570139816082576450" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0cpp7clEI/AAAAAAAAAE8/T0C-4mqdl0c/s320/untitled.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOUSEBREAKING&lt;br /&gt;“Out Of Your Brain”&lt;br /&gt;(Autoprodotto)&lt;br /&gt;Voto: 85/100&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PER CHI ASCOLTA - Thrash Metal Moderno&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Attivi dal 1994, gli Housebreaking giungono al sospirato esordio non tradendo le aspettative: “Out Of Your Brain” è imperioso groove metal di scuola Machine Head che mai perde di vista il gancio melodico. Concedono il bis le cadenze schiacciasassi di “Clandestine”, bestiale assalto à la Slayer parimenti a“Saint’s War”, sintesi di metalcore (Hatebreed, Trivium) e thrash Bay Area (Testament su tutti). La policroma “Blessed Be” vira, invece, verso la componente teatrale, specialmente nei cantati, rivelando un gruppo che non teme di sperimentare, tra azzeccati inserti in italiano e selvaggi breaks che spingono sull’acceleratore senza pietà.“Odissey” ne sfrutta la scia, tra chirurgici stop&amp;amp;go e ritornelli a presa rapida, gli stessi di “Crash Attitude”, pugnace thrash ‘n’ roll. Un leit motiv che ritroviamo in “Retro-active” con i Metallica a far capolino e dopo tale esplosione di violenza è apprezzabilissima la collocazione di “Finally Ready”, introdotta da un lugubre arpeggio che fa pensare ai Mercyful Fate e fregiata di un chorus dove si intravedono i Paradise Lost. Di contro, “Housebreaking” torna a randellare infliggendo una squassante bordata hardcore, degno epilogo di “Out Of Your Brain”, riuscito connubio tra potenza distruttiva asservita ad impegnati temi lirici ben calati nell’amara realtà post-moderna. Di cui, sia detto senza mezzi termini, gli Housebreaking si propongono come tra i più credibili cantori di recente ascoltati (Cristiano Mastrangeli).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;COSA FUNZIONA - Songwriting e produzione&lt;br /&gt;COSA SERVE - Soltanto essere notati &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-7816453240779415998?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/7816453240779415998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=7816453240779415998' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/7816453240779415998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/7816453240779415998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2011/02/housebreaking-out-of-your-brain.html' title=''/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0cpp7clEI/AAAAAAAAAE8/T0C-4mqdl0c/s72-c/untitled.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-8510132110230063591</id><published>2010-04-28T19:11:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T19:38:29.534+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Heavy music'/><title type='text'>Housebreaking, "Saint's War Promo 2010"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/S9htVk2WQmI/AAAAAAAAAD8/SJfqr8gclrU/s1600/28532_115619268460519_100000373405725_156477_372162_n.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 225px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/S9htVk2WQmI/AAAAAAAAAD8/SJfqr8gclrU/s320/28532_115619268460519_100000373405725_156477_372162_n.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465238365250404962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Housebreaking, “Saint’s War Promo 2010”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“C’è un solo modo di fare le cose ed è quello giusto...” sosteneva Sean Harris dei Diamond Head. Ed a tale filosofia si sono sicuramente ispirati gli Housebreaking per la realizzazione di “Saint’s War”. Il territorio in cui si muovono, come belve lasciate in libertà, è quello di confine che va dal death/thrash all’HM made in UK passando per un’attitudine fieramente hardcore. Il risultato è letale, vuoi per il travolgente impatto, vuoi per un’immediatezza contagiosa, però mai sfociante nella melodia ruffiana. Chitarre taglienti come bisturi, basso/batteria che conducono agilmente le danze ed il carismatico Markus, che sarebbe riduttivo definire un semplice vocalist. Questi sono gli Housebreaking anno 2010, riuscito connubio tra potenza distruttiva asservita a temi lirici perfettamente calati nell’amara realtà post-moderna. Di cui, sia detto senza mezzi termini, si propongono come tra i più credibili cantori ascoltati di recente (CM).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;http://www.myspace.com/housebreaking&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-8510132110230063591?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/8510132110230063591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=8510132110230063591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/8510132110230063591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/8510132110230063591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2010/04/housebreaking-saints-war-promo-2010.html' title='Housebreaking, &quot;Saint&apos;s War Promo 2010&quot;'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/S9htVk2WQmI/AAAAAAAAAD8/SJfqr8gclrU/s72-c/28532_115619268460519_100000373405725_156477_372162_n.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-3817845342258156539</id><published>2007-11-29T12:49:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-11-29T12:51:24.313+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Kevin Dubrow dies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/R06nnpUjgUI/AAAAAAAAACg/GqfqLC8E--0/s1600-h/ALeqM5izdFHyyEVT3_aENX1e2pZIo8-1xw.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138228524425118018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/R06nnpUjgUI/AAAAAAAAACg/GqfqLC8E--0/s320/ALeqM5izdFHyyEVT3_aENX1e2pZIo8-1xw.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot that scored a hit with "Cum on Feel the Noize," was found dead in a Las Vegas home. He was 52. The cause was not immediately known.&lt;br /&gt;A neighbor summoned police and paramedics Sunday to the house where he was pronounced dead, police and coroner's officials said.&lt;br /&gt;There was no forced entry, and no suspicious circumstances were reported, police Officer Jose Montoya said Monday.&lt;br /&gt;Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of "Cum on Feel the Noize." The song, featuring Dubrow's powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band's album "Metal Health" — which was the first by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.&lt;br /&gt;DuBrow recorded his first solo album in 2004, "In for the Kill," and the band's last studio CD, "Rehab," came out in October 2006.&lt;br /&gt;"I can't even find words to say," Quiet Riot drummer Frank Banali wrote on his Web site. "Please respect my privacy as I mourn the passing and honor the memory of my dearest friend Kevin DuBrow."&lt;br /&gt;Determination of the cause of death was pending an autopsy and toxicology results, Clark County coroner's spokeswoman Samantha Charles said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-3817845342258156539?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/3817845342258156539/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=3817845342258156539' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/3817845342258156539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/3817845342258156539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2007/11/kevin-dubrow-dies.html' title='Kevin Dubrow dies'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/R06nnpUjgUI/AAAAAAAAACg/GqfqLC8E--0/s72-c/ALeqM5izdFHyyEVT3_aENX1e2pZIo8-1xw.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-2479806337478086381</id><published>2007-06-15T11:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-15T11:12:24.183+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Necrodeath - Live in Selargius (CA), 3 Febbraio 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJW27XViPI/AAAAAAAAACY/NP73ygbRX_I/s1600-h/IMG_0054.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076215231648467186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJW27XViPI/AAAAAAAAACY/NP73ygbRX_I/s320/IMG_0054.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWtrXViOI/AAAAAAAAACQ/T6LKrNQ5bqI/s1600-h/IMG_0033.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076215072734677218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWtrXViOI/AAAAAAAAACQ/T6LKrNQ5bqI/s320/IMG_0033.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWkbXViNI/AAAAAAAAACI/VR1iMLmNkYI/s1600-h/IMG_0026.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076214913820887250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWkbXViNI/AAAAAAAAACI/VR1iMLmNkYI/s320/IMG_0026.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWarXViMI/AAAAAAAAACA/mSBEXDmYW68/s1600-h/IMG_0021.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076214746317162690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWarXViMI/AAAAAAAAACA/mSBEXDmYW68/s320/IMG_0021.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWPLXViLI/AAAAAAAAAB4/bab_u6LxfpE/s1600-h/IMG_0013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076214548748667058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWPLXViLI/AAAAAAAAAB4/bab_u6LxfpE/s320/IMG_0013.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWE7XViKI/AAAAAAAAABw/1V4JKliTtgI/s1600-h/IMG_0012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076214372655007906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJWE7XViKI/AAAAAAAAABw/1V4JKliTtgI/s320/IMG_0012.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJV6bXViJI/AAAAAAAAABo/nNo3f_wOXdE/s1600-h/IMG_0008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076214192266381458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJV6bXViJI/AAAAAAAAABo/nNo3f_wOXdE/s320/IMG_0008.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJVv7XViII/AAAAAAAAABg/MrKtgROMPtE/s1600-h/IMG_0007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5076214011877755010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJVv7XViII/AAAAAAAAABg/MrKtgROMPtE/s320/IMG_0007.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Un eterogeneo pubblico accorso da ogni angolo dell' isola accoglie con calore i Necrodeath che, in precedenza, mai si erano esibiti in una regione notoriamente a digiuno di concerti quale è la Sardegna. Preceduti dai volenterosi apripista locali Mutilated Soul (tra Deicide e Cannibal Corpse) ed Achernar (Swedish death metal), Peso &amp; co. partono in quarta, sferrando l'assalto con "Southenerom", "Forever Slave" e "Necrosadist", tenendo da subito in pugno la famelica audience, che pende letteralmente dalle labbra dello spiritato Flegias. Le dimensioni ridotte del palco e la mancanza di barriere protettive fanno sì che gruppo ed astanti si fronteggino nel corpo a corpo, celebrando quella comunione officiata da "Mater Tenebrarum", "Process Of Violation" e "The Creature" in momenti di pura estasi black-thrash collettiva. Nella bolgia del pogo che si sussegue ad ondate culminanti in stagediving sembra di essere tornati negli anni '80 e puntuale arriva la storica "Fragments Of Insanity", legata ad una ferocissima rilettura di "Black Sabbath" che fa quasi saltare in aria un locale ormai divenuto girone dantesco. Ma non è finita. I quattro genovesi decidono di infierire, dapprima con estratti recenti ("100% Hell", "Master Of Morphine"), per poi calare la ghigliottina di "Mountains Of Madness" e della slayeriana "Black Magic", eseguita a mille all' ora e con rabbia inusitata. L' epitaffio recitato da "At The Roots Of Evil" e "Ton(e)s Of Hate" spalanca definitivamente i cancelli dell' inferno, concludendo la performance degli indistruttibili Necrodeath, apparsi in forma e caricati come ai vecchi tempi. (CM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-2479806337478086381?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/2479806337478086381/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=2479806337478086381' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/2479806337478086381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/2479806337478086381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2007/06/necrodeath-live-in-selargius-ca-3.html' title='Necrodeath - Live in Selargius (CA), 3 Febbraio 2007'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RnJW27XViPI/AAAAAAAAACY/NP73ygbRX_I/s72-c/IMG_0054.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-3384833853939439989</id><published>2007-03-12T19:10:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T19:13:00.215+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hysterya "Promologue"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RfWYDYRCqlI/AAAAAAAAABU/rNvokC3cz9I/s1600-h/1273048383_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041102541732096594" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RfWYDYRCqlI/AAAAAAAAABU/rNvokC3cz9I/s320/1273048383_m.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hysterya, “Promologue” (Selfproduced)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Attivi dal 2001, i milanesi Hysterya giungono solo oggi al sospirato debutto su Cd. L’ incipit di “Nihim” possiede quell’ approccio ossianico caro a bands quali Candlemass e Solitude Aeturnus, puro doom sound che si evolve su stilemi progressivi, bilanciato tra porzioni vocali recitate, base ritmica in costante mutamento e frammenti di elettronica non invasiva ed alquanto inusuale. “My Own Self” parte in quarta svelando le origini death metal del gruppo, tra sfuriate al cardiopalma, repentini stop &amp;amp; go ed un dedalo di riffs che rimandano ad Atheist e Death, inframmezzati da un incisivo solismo fusion. La sperimentazione ritorna prepotentemente nell’ apertura simil space rock di “A La Memoria De La Muerte Y De L’ Inferno”, presto fagocitata dal growling bestiale inserito in una composizione camaleontica giocata su accelerazioni e rallentamenti letali. Sorta di mix tra brutalità di scuola americana e svedese “A La Memoria…” si candida a top track dell’ intero lavoro, il cui epilogo è affidato a “Kaos”, ponte tra sonorità thrash e più oltranziste, in conclusione sommerso da un mare di feedback. Registrato in maniera assai pulita, seppur non potentissima, “Promologue” realizza un’ osmosi tra differenti generi musicali, rielaborati attraverso una proposta personale che gli Hysterya plasmano con convinzione nei propri mezzi e valida capacità di sintesi. File under: progressive psychotic extreme metal. (CM)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hysterya.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.hysterya.it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/hysterya"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;www.myspace.com/hysterya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-3384833853939439989?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/3384833853939439989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=3384833853939439989' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/3384833853939439989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/3384833853939439989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2007/03/hysterya-promologue.html' title='Hysterya &quot;Promologue&quot;'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RfWYDYRCqlI/AAAAAAAAABU/rNvokC3cz9I/s72-c/1273048383_m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-5615832346530298234</id><published>2007-01-20T05:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-20T05:38:47.751+01:00</updated><title type='text'>House Breaking “3 tracks promo CD”</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGa22kbK2I/AAAAAAAAAA0/r_5v7qJb3Zc/s1600-h/Sor+mariano.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021965326646717282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGa22kbK2I/AAAAAAAAAA0/r_5v7qJb3Zc/s320/Sor+mariano.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGax2kbK1I/AAAAAAAAAAs/QZw2HEISprU/s1600-h/Lear+corruption.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021965240747371346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGax2kbK1I/AAAAAAAAAAs/QZw2HEISprU/s320/Lear+corruption.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGatWkbK0I/AAAAAAAAAAk/RUbFGWED2xs/s1600-h/Il+bono.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021965163437960002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGatWkbK0I/AAAAAAAAAAk/RUbFGWED2xs/s320/Il+bono.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGanmkbKzI/AAAAAAAAAAc/GV35EQjkI-M/s1600-h/Drum.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021965064653712178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGanmkbKzI/AAAAAAAAAAc/GV35EQjkI-M/s320/Drum.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021964957279529762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGahWkbKyI/AAAAAAAAAAU/plYqSdhwxkM/s320/Alex+mustaine.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGaamkbKxI/AAAAAAAAAAM/pztwJqUor4A/s1600-h/Coro2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021964841315412754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGaamkbKxI/AAAAAAAAAAM/pztwJqUor4A/s320/Coro2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;House Breaking “3 tracks promo CD”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ascoltare e suonare heavy metal in Italia tra la metà degli anni ’80 e l’ inizio dei ’90 non era cosa da tutti. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;E diventava impresa ancor più ardua farlo nella provincia centro meridionale, tra bigottismo, chiusura mentale e, soprattutto, molta ignoranza, quegli stessi elementi che spesso portavano i “benpensanti” ad additare un nugolo di appassionati, oggetto di attenzione più per i loro capelli o le truculente t-shirt, che per i loro atteggiamenti spontaneamente giovanili. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In tale contesto, senza internet, con pochi negozi di dischi, rarissimi concerti ed all’ ombra di un monastero minaccioso come un boia, gruppi quali Nemesis, Hatred, Mrs. Fear, Darkness ed House Breaking costruirono una tenace scena hard &amp; heavy, di sicuro ingenua, a volte spaccata al suo interno, espressione di quel bruciante amore di cui solo i fans della musica pesante sono autentici portatori. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;E’ quindi innegabile la soddisfazione provata ritrovando gli House Breaking che, ponendo fine ad un silenzio durato oltre un decennio, risorgono dalle proprie ceneri e lo fanno alla loro maniera. Sostituiti, non a malincuore, lo storico cantante Marcello Zabot, nonché l’ ormai arrugginita sezione ritmica, i nuovi HB continuano a ruotare intorno a Mariano Fontane, decano della scena locale che, alla soglia dei 40 anni, ha ancora voglia e forza per provarci. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ed i fatti gli danno ragione, visto che questo promo di 3 brani conserva la rabbiosa carica della formazione originale, attualizzata con soluzioni più moderne ed il bagaglio tecnico di musicisti giovani seppur già smaliziati. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;La prima traccia, “House Breaking”, è retaggio della vecchia line-up, un inno metal-punk travolgente ieri come oggi, rivisto negli arrangiamenti e col batterista che mette il piede sull’ acceleratore per mai togliervelo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Impressiona anche il nuovo vocalist, che regge bene il confronto col suo predecessore, dilaniandosi le corde vocali in maniera non dissimile da Corey Taylor degli Slipknot. “Infected” è thrash-metal come dovrebbe essere suonato negli anni 2000: riff a cascata, stop&amp;amp;go cronometrici, oscuri rallentamenti stile Metallica dei bei tempi e finale al cardiopalma condito da assolo ala Mustaine. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“3” chiude il Cd ed è la canzone più diretta: l’ impatto hardcore è asservito ad una bordata heavy di scuola Mercyful Fate dall’ intensità stordente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Queste le premesse, ora sta a voi concedere una chance a questa band (in studio la prossima primavera) pronta a recuperare il tempo e le occasioni perdute, sempre all’ insegna di quel credo metallico che per alcuni rappresenta ancora un ideale e non una semplice moda (CM).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-5615832346530298234?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/5615832346530298234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=5615832346530298234' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/5615832346530298234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/5615832346530298234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2007/01/house-breaking-3-tracks-promo-cd.html' title='House Breaking “3 tracks promo CD”'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/RbGa22kbK2I/AAAAAAAAAA0/r_5v7qJb3Zc/s72-c/Sor+mariano.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115783667572459556</id><published>2006-09-09T23:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-09T23:19:28.610+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Jon Nodtveindt' suicide</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/bc29237a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/bc29237a.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dissection&lt;/strong&gt; singer &lt;strong&gt;Jon Nödtveidt&lt;/strong&gt;, 31, was found dead on August 16th at his flat in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;He shot himself in the head and was surrounded by lit candles. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Shortly before the suicide, he sent farewell letters to his father and to his girlfriend explaining to a friend, "I'm going away for a long, long time. I'm going to Transylvania."Sometime between Monday (August 14th) and Wednesday, Nödveidt chose to take his own life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115783667572459556?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115783667572459556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115783667572459556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115783667572459556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115783667572459556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/09/jon-nodtveindt-suicide.html' title='Jon Nodtveindt&apos; suicide'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115783373682354637</id><published>2006-09-09T22:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-09T22:28:56.836+02:00</updated><title type='text'>First samples of Europe' new tracks</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Audio samples of 2 new &lt;strong&gt;Europe&lt;/strong&gt; songs &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Let the Children Play&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Always The Pretenders&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; have been posted online at the band's official &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.europetheband.com/news.php?ID=81" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;web site&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Both songs are taken from the reunited Swedish rockers' new album titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secret Society&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which will be released in Europe on October 27th (November 18th in Japan). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A release in the United States is still unknown.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115783373682354637?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115783373682354637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115783373682354637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115783373682354637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115783373682354637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/09/first-samples-of-europe-new-tracks.html' title='First samples of Europe&apos; new tracks'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115722698804493321</id><published>2006-09-02T21:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-02T21:56:28.046+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Jesse Pintado dies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/jessepintado.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/jessepintado.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Century Media Records confirmed that guitarist &lt;strong&gt;Jesse Pintado&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Terrorizer&lt;/strong&gt;, ex &lt;strong&gt;Napalm Death&lt;/strong&gt;) died over the weekend in a Dutch hospital. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A true pioneer in the death-grind genre, Pintado's final release was the long-awaited &lt;strong&gt;Terrorizer &lt;/strong&gt;reunion album, titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Darker Days Ahead&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, published last week on Century Media Records. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115722698804493321?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115722698804493321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115722698804493321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115722698804493321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115722698804493321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/09/jesse-pintado-dies.html' title='Jesse Pintado dies'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115722678358122140</id><published>2006-09-02T21:50:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-02T21:57:40.910+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Skid Row revolution</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Skid Row&lt;/strong&gt; completed their new studio album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revolutions Per Minute&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It will be released in Europe on SPV.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The 12 new songs on &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revolutions Per Minute&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; see &lt;strong&gt;Skid Row&lt;/strong&gt; pulling out all the stops. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bolan, Hill and Sabo play their guitars with a vengeance, firing off power chords by the second, turning their amps to the max and apparently knowing but one direction straight ahead! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Whether on the hook-oriented opener, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Disease&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the aggressive &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Another Dick In The System&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the catchy &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;White Trash&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; or the programmatic &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shut Up Baby&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;I Love You&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - their unadulterated vitality seems to practically jump at the listener. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The two, six string magicians expertly throw the bait to vocalist &lt;strong&gt;Johnny Solinger&lt;/strong&gt;, who skillfully elaborates on the theme, refining the material further. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Like his predecessor, Solinger pulls all the compositional strings, the material is constructed around him, he is at the epicenter of a soundquake that comes at the audience with full force. It is the power of a track named &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Strength&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that marks &lt;strong&gt;Skid Row&lt;/strong&gt; in general and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revolutions Per Minute&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; in particular. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;And it is the close attachment of the five band members to their home country that continues to shine through and that &lt;strong&gt;Skid Row&lt;/strong&gt; express on their country rock number, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You Lie&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Line-up: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Johnny Solinger&lt;/strong&gt; - Lead vocals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rachel Bolan&lt;/strong&gt; - Bass, backing vocals &amp; percussion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scotti Hill&lt;/strong&gt; - Guitar, backing vocals &amp;amp; lap steel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Snake Sabo&lt;/strong&gt; - Guitar &amp; backing vocals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dave Gara&lt;/strong&gt; - Drums &amp;amp; backing vocals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;More here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.skidrow.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://www.skidrow.com/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/skidrow1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.myspace.com/skidrow1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115722678358122140?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115722678358122140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115722678358122140' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115722678358122140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115722678358122140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/09/skid-row-revolution.html' title='Skid Row revolution'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115722655316079748</id><published>2006-09-02T21:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-02T21:49:16.300+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Deicide new logo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/newlogo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/newlogo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Floridian death metallers &lt;b&gt;DEICIDE&lt;/b&gt; have unveiled their "new" logo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115722655316079748?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115722655316079748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115722655316079748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115722655316079748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115722655316079748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/09/deicide-new-logo.html' title='Deicide new logo'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115582537094093608</id><published>2006-08-17T16:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T16:36:10.956+02:00</updated><title type='text'>No Heroes for Converge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/3494c36e767972aff3c0bad945be5153.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/3494c36e767972aff3c0bad945be5153.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Converge&lt;/strong&gt;’ new album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;No Heroes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, will be released on October 24th via Epitaph Records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 Heartache&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2 Hellbound&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3 Sacrific&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 Vengeance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5 Weight Of The World&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6 No Heroes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7 Plagues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8 Grim Heart / Black Rose&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9 Orphaned&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 Lonewolves&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Versus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12 Trophy Scars&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13 Bare My Teeth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;14 To The Lions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115582537094093608?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115582537094093608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115582537094093608' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115582537094093608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115582537094093608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/no-heroes-for-converge.html' title='No Heroes for Converge'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115573627838238149</id><published>2006-08-16T15:44:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-17T15:55:28.270+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Use Your Illusion</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/Slayer_photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/Slayer_photo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Slayer&lt;/strong&gt;' new album &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christ Illusion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; sold more than 62,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States jumping at position N° 5 on The Billboard 200 chart. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It's the highest position ever on the chart for Araya &amp;amp; co., who previously reached N° 8 with their 1994 release &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Divine Intervention&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; after moving 93,000 copies of that album in its first week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christ Illusion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; also entered the Norwegian national chart at position N° 10. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Other &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Christ Illusion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; first-week charts:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Finland (#2), &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Australia (#9)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115573627838238149?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115573627838238149/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115573627838238149' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115573627838238149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115573627838238149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/use-your-illusion.html' title='Use Your Illusion'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115573567535263591</id><published>2006-08-16T15:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-16T15:43:28.663+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Krokus' resurrection</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/krokus_060815_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/krokus_060815_2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Krokus&lt;/strong&gt; new album, titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hellraiser&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, will be released on September 18th in Europe (except Germany and Switzerland, where it will be published on September 15th) and on October 24th in North America via AFM Records. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The follow-up to 2003's &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rock The Block&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was recorded with producer &lt;strong&gt;Dennis Ward&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The new &lt;strong&gt;Krokus&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;'&lt;/em&gt; single, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Angel Of My Dreams&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, has been made available for download at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://krokusonline.seven49.net/data_access/krokusonline/audiofiles/Angel%20of%20my%20dreams.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and audio sample of the album's projected title can be downloaded &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://krokusonline.seven49.net/data_access/krokusonline/audiofiles/Hellraiser.mp3" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Recently the Swiss veterans revealed the addition of German drummer &lt;strong&gt;Stefan Schwarzmann&lt;/strong&gt; (ex-&lt;strong&gt;Accept&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;U.D.O.&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Helloween&lt;/strong&gt;) to t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;he band, which current line-up is completed by vocalist &lt;strong&gt;Marc&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Storace&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Tony Castell&lt;/strong&gt; on bass, &lt;strong&gt;Mandy Meyer&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Dominique Fave&lt;/strong&gt;, both on guitar.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115573567535263591?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115573567535263591/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115573567535263591' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115573567535263591'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115573567535263591'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/krokus-resurrection.html' title='Krokus&apos; resurrection'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115566195238351315</id><published>2006-08-15T19:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T19:12:32.470+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sinister prophecy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/sinisterdvd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/sinisterdvd.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dutch death metallers&lt;strong&gt; Sinister&lt;/strong&gt; have revealed the cover artwork for their forthcoming live DVD, which they plan on filming at their August 24th, 2006 performance in Warsaw, Poland. Titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prophecies Denied&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, this DVD will be released at a later date on Metal Mind Production. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sinister&lt;/strong&gt;'s current line-up is:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aad Kloosterwaard&lt;/strong&gt; - Vocals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alex Paul&lt;/strong&gt; - Guitars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bas Van Den Bogaard&lt;/strong&gt; - Bass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Beltman&lt;/strong&gt; - Drums&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115566195238351315?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115566195238351315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115566195238351315' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115566195238351315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115566195238351315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/sinister-prophecy.html' title='Sinister prophecy'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115548009858571710</id><published>2006-08-13T16:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-13T16:47:11.486+02:00</updated><title type='text'>I Want It Loud(ness)</title><content type='html'>&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#0000ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/tkba1095.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/tkba1095.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Japanese veterans &lt;strong&gt;Loudness&lt;/strong&gt; will release a new live DVD, titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Loudness in America 06: Live Shocks World Circuit 2006 Chapter 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, on August 23rd. It will feature footage from the band's North American tour, which took place earlier in the year.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;01 Introduction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;02 Exultation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;03 Lunatic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;04 Crazy Night&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;05 Crazy Doctor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;06 In The Mirror&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;07 The Winds Of Victory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;08 Crazy Samurai&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;09 Cross&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10 The Pandemonium&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;11 S.D.I.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;12 The Battle Ship Musashi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;13 Rock Shock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;14 Encore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;15 Let It Go&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;16 Like Hell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;17 Circuit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115548009858571710?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115548009858571710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115548009858571710' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115548009858571710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115548009858571710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-want-it-loudness.html' title='I Want It Loud(ness)'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115537442747375463</id><published>2006-08-12T11:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T11:28:08.470+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vinnie Paul's new band</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/300-vinniepaul.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/300-vinniepaul.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Former &lt;b&gt;Pantera&lt;/b&gt;/&lt;b&gt;Damageplan&lt;/b&gt; drummer &lt;b&gt;Vinnie Paul Abbott&lt;/b&gt; has joined members of &lt;b&gt;Mudvaine&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Nothingface&lt;/b&gt; in a new band who has been composing and recording songs in Dallas, Texas for what will eventually become its debut album, tentatively due in early 2007. A name has already been selected for the group, but has not yet been revealed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="regular"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="regular"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Here is the line-up is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chad Gray&lt;/b&gt; (Mudvayne) - Vocals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Greg Tribbett&lt;/b&gt; (Mudvayne) - Guitar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tom Maxwell&lt;/b&gt; (Nothingface) - Guitar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jerry Montano&lt;/b&gt; (Danzig, Nothingface) - Bass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vinnie Paul Abbott&lt;/b&gt; (Pantera, Damageplan) - Drums&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="regular"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Also an headlining tour is expected to take place before the end of the year, although this has yet to be officially confirmed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115537442747375463?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115537442747375463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115537442747375463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115537442747375463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115537442747375463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/vinnie-pauls-new-band.html' title='Vinnie Paul&apos;s new band'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115536392561329968</id><published>2006-08-12T08:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-12T08:25:25.630+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Nevermore reissues</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nevermore&lt;/strong&gt; will re-release the following CDs &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nevermore&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1995), &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Memory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1996) and The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Politics Of Ecstasy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (1996) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;in Europe on September 11th (September 8th in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux) via Century Media Records. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Here are the details of these reissues:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nevermore &lt;/em&gt;CD reissue:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original album:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 What Tomorrow Knows&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02 C.B.F.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;03 The Sanity Assassin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;04 Garden Of Gray&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;05 Sea Of Possibilities&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;06 The Hurting Words&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;07 Timothy Leary&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 Godmoney&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus tracks:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09 The System's Failing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 The Dreaming Mind (unreleased - from spring 1992 demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 World Unborn (unreleased - from spring 1992 demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12 Chances Three (unreleased - from spring 1992 demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13 Utopia (unreleased - from 1992 demo)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total running time: 61:54&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Video enhancement: &lt;em&gt;What Tomorrow Knows&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In Memory&lt;/em&gt; CD reissue:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original EP:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 Optimist Or Pessimist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02 Matricide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;03 In Memory&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;04 Silent Hedges / Double Dare&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;05 The Sorrowed Man&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus tracks:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;06 The Tiananmen Man (demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;07 The Seven Tongues Of God (demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 Passenger (demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09 This Sacrament (demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 42147 (Instrumental - demo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total running time: 53:17&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Politics Of Ecstasy&lt;/em&gt; CD reissue:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original album:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 The Seven Tongues Of God&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02 This Sacrament&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;03 Next in Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;04 Passenger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;05 The Politics Of Ecstasy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;06 Lost&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;07 The Tiananmen Man&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 Precognition (instrumental)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09 42147&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 The Learning&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bonus tracks:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Love Bites (Judas Priest cover)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total running time: 67:54&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Video Enhancement: &lt;em&gt;Next In Line&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All three Cds will feature new artwork and will include extended liner notes.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115536392561329968?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115536392561329968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115536392561329968' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115536392561329968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115536392561329968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/nevermore-reissues.html' title='Nevermore reissues'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115523355392441632</id><published>2006-08-10T20:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T20:12:33.966+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vicious Rumors start a war</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/viciousrumors_warball3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/viciousrumors_warball3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;San Francisco Bay Area metallers &lt;strong&gt;Vicious Rumors&lt;/strong&gt; will release their new album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Warball&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; in October via Mascot Records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The CD was recorded at Trident Studios in Pacheco, CA by &lt;strong&gt;Geoff Thorpe&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Juan J. Orteaga&lt;/strong&gt; and includes lead-guitar contributions from &lt;strong&gt;Brad Gillis&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Night Ranger&lt;/strong&gt;) and &lt;strong&gt;Thaen Rassmussen&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Anvil Chorus&lt;/strong&gt;). The group's first CD with new vocalist &lt;strong&gt;James Rivera&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;strong&gt;Helstar&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Killing Machine&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Seven WIitches&lt;/strong&gt;) is rumored as "a darker and more aggressive version" of the band's classic &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Digital Dictator&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; album (1987). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Warball is the first &lt;strong&gt;Vicious Rumors&lt;/strong&gt; album with &lt;strong&gt;Geoff Thorpe&lt;/strong&gt; doing all rhythm and acoustic guitars and most of the solos. "In the past I've always split the guitar duties up with our other guitarist," he said. "As I rebuilt the band, I decided to knock it out myself. I always planned to have some special guests on the record, and it turned out great.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A European tour with Agent Steel will follow in March 2007. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115523355392441632?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115523355392441632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115523355392441632' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115523355392441632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115523355392441632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/vicious-rumors-start-war.html' title='Vicious Rumors start a war'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115513169572059440</id><published>2006-08-09T15:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-09T15:54:55.753+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Visions of...Steele!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/VOE-cover.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/VOE-cover.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The 11th &lt;strong&gt;Virgin Steele&lt;/strong&gt; album titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Visions Of Eden - The Lilith Project - A Barbaric Romantic Movie Of The Mind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will be released on September 8th 2006 via T&amp;T/Sanctuary. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 Immortal I Stand (The Birth Of Adam) 6:33&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02 Adorned With The Rising Cobra 9:40&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;03 The Ineffable Name 7:49&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;04 Black Light On Black 7:03&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;05 Bonedust 6:10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;06 Angel Of Death 8:37&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;07 God Above God 7:13&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:createWindow(" width="765,height=383,resizable=no,scrollbars=no')&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 The Hidden God 6:51&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09 Childslayer 5:22&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 When Dusk Fell 6:57&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Visions Of Eden 7:16&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;More infos at:&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.virgin-steele.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;http://www.virgin-steele.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115513169572059440?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115513169572059440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115513169572059440' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115513169572059440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115513169572059440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/visions-ofsteele.html' title='Visions of...Steele!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115504335312370564</id><published>2006-08-08T15:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T15:32:07.270+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Final Countdown...to Europe DVD</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/teaserDVD.2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/teaserDVD.2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;To celebrate the 20th anniversary of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Final Countdown&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; album &amp;amp; tour, &lt;strong&gt;Europe&lt;/strong&gt; and Warner Bros. will release a new DVD on October 4th, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Final Countdown Tour 1986 - Live In Sweden&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The DVD features 13 track a live gig from Solnahallen in Stockholm 1986. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Remastered in Dolby Digital and restored in widescreen format, it includes interviews with the band made in 2006 plus a gallery with rare and never seen pictures from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;TFC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; tour and the band revisiting the Powerplay Studios where they recorded &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Final Countdown&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; album.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Plus an added bonus: the only existing unreleased outtake from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;TFC&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; recording sessions, the instrumental &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where Men Won't Dare&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The first 5,000 printed copies, will also include an exclusive 8 page colour booklet, with rare and unseen pictures, plus brand new liner notes by the journalist Anders Tengner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115504335312370564?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115504335312370564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115504335312370564' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115504335312370564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115504335312370564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/final-countdownto-europe-dvd.html' title='The Final Countdown...to Europe DVD'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115503924654572067</id><published>2006-08-08T14:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T14:15:38.946+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Platinum Tarja</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/Tarja_premio_big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/Tarja_premio_big.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ex &lt;strong&gt;Nightwish&lt;/strong&gt; singer &lt;strong&gt;Tarja Turunen&lt;/strong&gt; received a platinum sales award for sales in excess of 10,000 copies of her Christmas single &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yhden Enkelin Unelma&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, which reached the top of the Finnish charts in 2004 and in 2005 too. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115503924654572067?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115503924654572067/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115503924654572067' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115503924654572067'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115503924654572067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/platinum-tarja.html' title='Platinum Tarja'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115495989179586454</id><published>2006-08-07T16:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T16:40:15.493+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (1946-2006)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/Syd.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/Syd.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett&lt;/strong&gt; died exactly a month ago, on July 7th, even if his passing was revealed just a couple of weeks later. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So I would just pay homage to the founder of one of the greatest bands ever, &lt;strong&gt;Pink&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Floyd&lt;/strong&gt;, a group which will always be a cultural landmark in mankind's venture on the ever going road to the unknown. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A silent hero is no longer with us (although he never really "was" with us - it was always us trying to reach him through his magic music). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;One thing is for sure: if it weren't for Barrett, music would have never been the same. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Farewell Syd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Remember when you were young,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You shone like the sun.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shine on you crazy diamond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now there's a look in your eyes,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Like black holes in the sky.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shine on you crazy diamond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You were caught on the crossfire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Of childhood and stardom,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blown on the steel breeze.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come on you target for faraway laughter,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You reached for the secret too soon,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You cried for the moon.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shine on you crazy diamond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Threatened by shadows at night,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;And exposed in the light.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shine on you crazy diamond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well you wore out your welcome&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;With random precision,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rode on the steel breeze.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come on you raver, you seer of visions,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;[&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shine On You Crazy Diamond&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;Pink Floyd&lt;/strong&gt;'s 1975 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wish You Were Here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; album] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115495989179586454?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115495989179586454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115495989179586454' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115495989179586454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115495989179586454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/roger-keith-syd-barrett-1946-2006.html' title='Roger Keith &quot;Syd&quot; Barrett (1946-2006)'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115495805142027712</id><published>2006-08-07T15:28:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T15:40:51.466+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Another reunion: Spread Eagle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/1.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/1.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Guitarist &lt;strong&gt;Chris Caffery&lt;/strong&gt; (Savatage, Trans-Siberian Orchestra) will be joining &lt;strong&gt;Spread E&lt;/strong&gt;agle on the road beginning on August 18 in Westfield, MA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Formed in 1989,&lt;strong&gt; Spread Eagle&lt;/strong&gt; burst upon the scene playing a brand of rock that came straight from the NYC gutter. When &lt;strong&gt;Paul DiBartolo&lt;/strong&gt; (guitar), &lt;strong&gt;Rob De Luca&lt;/strong&gt; (bass) and &lt;strong&gt;Tommi Gallo&lt;/strong&gt; (drums) moved to the City and met up with vocalist &lt;strong&gt;Ray West&lt;/strong&gt;, a new attitude was instantly born, while rehearsing/writing in a East Village basement for their first gig, rumors began leaking out to the record industry. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The group was quickly signed by MCA/Universal,and sent into the studio. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The self-titled debut featured wailing vocals and razor sharp guitar, demonstrated through songs such as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Switchblade Serenade&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scratch Like A Cat&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broken City&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The honesty of &lt;strong&gt;Spread Eagle&lt;/strong&gt; debut release gained the band critical acclaim even if sales were not so big. 4 years later, after the release and touring of their second album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Open To The Public&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, the group disappeared and went about their own personal projects. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rob De Luca&lt;/strong&gt; went on to play with Sebastian Bach, Joan Jett, George Lynch, Of Earth, and Ouijipig. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ray West&lt;/strong&gt; has been locked up in a studio in south Florida by way of NYC creating and producing powerful new music. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul DiBartolo&lt;/strong&gt; went on to score music in the motion picture industry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Check out &lt;strong&gt;Spread Eagle&lt;/strong&gt; online at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.myspace.com/spreadeaglenyc" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.myspace.com/spreadeaglenyc&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115495805142027712?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115495805142027712/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115495805142027712' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115495805142027712'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115495805142027712'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/another-reunion-spread-eagle.html' title='Another reunion: Spread Eagle'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115495146802468025</id><published>2006-08-07T13:44:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T13:51:08.036+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Gamma Ray... longest DVD title ever!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/graydvd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/graydvd.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gamma Ray&lt;/strong&gt; have set &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hell Yeah! The Awesome Foursome (And The Finnish Keyboarder Who Didn't Want To Wear His Donald Duck Costume) Live in Montreal&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as the title of their upcoming DVD, which will feature a multi-camera recording of the band's May 6th, 2006 gig at Medley in Montreal, Quebec as well as lots of bonus features, such as a road movie, a documentary covering the group's history, behind-the-scenes footage, and videos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Current line-up is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kai Hansen&lt;/strong&gt; - Guitar &amp; vocals&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dirk Schlächter&lt;/strong&gt; - Bass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Henjo Richter&lt;/strong&gt; - Guitar &amp;amp; keyboards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Daniel Zimmerman&lt;/strong&gt; - Drums&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115495146802468025?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115495146802468025/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115495146802468025' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115495146802468025'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115495146802468025'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/gamma-ray-longest-dvd-title-ever.html' title='Gamma Ray... longest DVD title ever!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115489927300477525</id><published>2006-08-06T23:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T23:21:13.006+02:00</updated><title type='text'>...Motorhead's Kiss Of Death</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/motorhead-kissofdeath.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/motorhead-kissofdeath.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Motörhead&lt;/strong&gt; returns to the metal fold with a brand new studio album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kiss Of Death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, out on August 29th via Sanctuary Records. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Produced by &lt;strong&gt;Cameron Webb&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kiss Of Death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; continues the &lt;strong&gt;Motörhead&lt;/strong&gt; legacy of fast, hard and incredibly loud music.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115489927300477525?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115489927300477525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115489927300477525' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115489927300477525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115489927300477525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/motorheads-kiss-of-death.html' title='...Motorhead&apos;s Kiss Of Death'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115489904908120393</id><published>2006-08-06T23:09:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T23:22:59.876+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Talisman new album</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/talisman-7-250.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/talisman-7-250.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Frontiers Records announces &lt;strong&gt;Talisman&lt;/strong&gt; upcoming studio album &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;7&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; that will be released on October 20th.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;T&lt;strong&gt;alisman&lt;/strong&gt;' new album was recorded by Swedish bass player and songwriter&lt;strong&gt; Marcel Jacob&lt;/strong&gt; (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen Band) with experienced vocalist &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Scott Soto&lt;/strong&gt; (Soul Sirkus, currently in Journey), drummer &lt;strong&gt;Jamie Borger&lt;/strong&gt; (Treat) plus guitarist &lt;strong&gt;Fredrik Akesson&lt;/strong&gt; (now in Arch Enemy).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;The album will be released in Japan by &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;King Records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/talismansample01.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Falling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/talismansample02.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;here Fast&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/talismansample03.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rhyme Or Reason&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 End Of The Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5 The 1 I'm Living 4&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6 On My Way&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7 Forevermore&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8 Succumb 2 My Desire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9 Shed A Tear Goodbye&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 Troubled Water&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Back 2 The Feeling&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115489904908120393?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115489904908120393/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115489904908120393' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115489904908120393'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115489904908120393'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/talisman-new-album.html' title='Talisman new album'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115489693967581791</id><published>2006-08-06T22:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T23:30:52.616+02:00</updated><title type='text'>'80s Metal Tribute To Van Halen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/B000FUF8NY[1].01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/B000FUF8NY%5B1%5D.01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Deadline/Cleopatra Records has released &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;80s Metal Tribute To Van Halen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, a compilation of Van Halen covers performed by some of the most famous hard rock musicians of the '80s metal era. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 Paul Di'Anno (ex Iron Maiden) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;02 Jack Russell (Great White) &amp; Dweezil Zappa - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Unchained&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;03 Mark Slaughter (Slaughter) &amp;amp; Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake, ex Ronnie James Dio Band, Bad Moon Rising, Lion) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;I'm The One&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;04 Jani Lane (ex Warrant) &amp; George Lynch (ex Dokken, Lynch Mob) - &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Panama&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;05 Gilby Clarke (ex Kill For Thrills, Guns N' Roses), Fred Coury (Cinderella), Frankie&lt;br /&gt;Wilsey (Sea Hags) &amp;amp; Colby (Hollywood Rose) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Ice Cream Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;06 Fee Waybill (The Tubes) &amp; Brad Gillis (Night Ranger) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Atomic Punk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;07 John Corabi (ex The Scream, Motley Crue) &amp;amp; Bruce Kulick (Kiss) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Hot For Teacher&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 Stephen Pearcy (Ratt) &amp; Jake E. Lee (ex Ozzy Osbourne Band, Badlands) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Running With The Devil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;09 Joe Lynn Turner (ex Deep Purple, Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Rainbow) &amp;amp; Reb Beach (Winger, Whitesnake, ex Dokken) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Dance The Night Away&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 Enuff Z'Nuff - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Yankee Rose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 Jeff Scott Soto (ex Yngwie Malmsteen Band, Talisman, Soul Sirkus, Journey) &amp; Blues Saraceno (ex Poison) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;So This Is Love?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;12 Doug Pinnick (King's X), Yngwie Malmsteen &amp;amp; Billy Sheehan (ex Talas, Ufo, David Lee Roth Band, Mr. Big) - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Light Up The Sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115489693967581791?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115489693967581791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115489693967581791' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115489693967581791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115489693967581791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/80s-metal-tribute-to-van-halen.html' title='&apos;80s Metal Tribute To Van Halen'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115477843852110566</id><published>2006-08-05T13:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T13:50:55.976+02:00</updated><title type='text'>TNT on DVD!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/tnt-liveinmadrid-dvd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/tnt-liveinmadrid-dvd.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;MTM MUSIC announces the release of &lt;strong&gt;TNT&lt;/strong&gt;'s first DVD, out on September 22nd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This DVD is a chance to relive a &lt;strong&gt;TNT&lt;/strong&gt; show full of energy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Live In Madrid&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a DVD with an extended audio CD with 82 minutes of &lt;strong&gt;TNT&lt;/strong&gt; live plus booklet liner-notes written by (ex) singer Tony Harnell about his work with &lt;strong&gt;TNT&lt;/strong&gt; as well as an additional tour documentary by Darren Paltrowitz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;DVD and CD tracklist: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;01 Invisible Noise&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;02 As Far As The Eye Can See &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;03 Downhill Racer &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;04 A Fix &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;05 She Needs Me &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;06 Give Me A Sign&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;07 Guitar Solo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;08 Caught Between The Tigers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;09 Listen To Your Heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10 Black Butterfly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;11 Seven Seas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;12 Forever Shine On&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;13 Fantasia Espanola&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;14 My Religion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;15 10,000 Lovers (In One)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;16 Intuition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;DVD specials interactive animated menus with sound, scene access, bonus material including additional concert videos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115477843852110566?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115477843852110566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115477843852110566' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115477843852110566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115477843852110566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/tnt-on-dvd.html' title='TNT on DVD!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115477368509586113</id><published>2006-08-05T12:22:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T23:08:47.936+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Up the Irons! Maiden are back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/maiden_amolad728x90A.png"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/maiden_amolad728x90A.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/-sing.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/-sing.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/---.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/---.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Iron Maiden&lt;/strong&gt; will release the single &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; on August 14th. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;The full lenght &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Matter Of Life And Death&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will be published on August 28th (Europe) and September 5th (USA) via EMI.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 Different World (Smith/Harris) 4:17 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2 These Colours Don't Run (Smith/Harris/Dickinson) 6:52 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3 Brighter Than A Thousand Suns (Smith/Harris/Dickinson) 8:44 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4 The Pilgrim (Gers/Harris) 5:07 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5 The Longest Day (Smith/Harris/Dickinson) 7:48 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6 Out Of The Shadows (Dickinson/Harris) 5:36 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7 The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg (Murray/Harris) 7:21 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8 For The Greater Good Of God (Harris) 9:24 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9 Lord Of Light (Smith/Harris/Dickinson) 7:23 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 The Legacy (Gers/Harris) 9:20 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115477368509586113?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115477368509586113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115477368509586113' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115477368509586113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115477368509586113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/up-irons-maiden-are-back.html' title='Up the Irons! Maiden are back!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115476951302140942</id><published>2006-08-05T11:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-07T15:49:44.433+02:00</updated><title type='text'>SPV signs Whitesnake!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/goldsidebar.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/goldsidebar.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Steamhammer/SPV has announced the signing of &lt;strong&gt;Whitesnake&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;On November 3rd, 2006 in Germany and on November 6th, 2006 in Europe will be released &lt;strong&gt;Whitesnake &lt;/strong&gt;new double live album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Live ... In The Shadow Of The Blues&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The album will feature lots of the hits from &lt;strong&gt;David Coverdale&lt;/strong&gt;'s band, as well as 2 timeless Deep Purple songs like &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Burn&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stormbringer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Coverdale fronted Purple between 1973 and 1976, making a significant contribution to numerous highlights during this era. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Live ... In The Shadow Of The Blues&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will also include 4 previously unreleased tracks in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ready To&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;If You Want Me (I'll Come Running)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;All I Want Is You &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The limited version of the double album will be available in a top-quality digipack, featuring some surprises, among them the bonus track &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Crying In The Rain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, including a drum solo by drummer &lt;strong&gt;Tommy Aldridge&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Whitesnake&lt;/strong&gt; current line-up is completed by 2 guitarists like &lt;strong&gt;Doug Aldrich&lt;/strong&gt; (ex-Lion, Bad Moon Rising, Dio) and &lt;strong&gt;Reb&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Beach&lt;/strong&gt; (Winger, ex-Dokken), drummer extraordinaire &lt;strong&gt;Tommy Aldridge&lt;/strong&gt;, bass player &lt;strong&gt;Uriah&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Duffy&lt;/strong&gt; and keyboard player &lt;strong&gt;Timothy Drury&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CD 1:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 Bad Boys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02 Slide It In&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;03 Slow An' Easy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;04 Love Ain't No Stranger&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;05 Judgement Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;06 Is This Love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;07 Blues For Mylene&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 Snake Dance&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09 Crying In The Rain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Fool For Your Loving&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12 Here I Go Again&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13 Still Of The Night &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CD 2:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 Burn - Stormbringer &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02 Give Me All Your Love Tonight&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;03 Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;04 The Deeper The Love&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;05 Ready An' Willing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;06 Don't Break My Heart Again&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;07 Take Me With You&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 Ready To Rock &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(new studio recording)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09 If You Want Me - I'll Come Running &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(new studio recording)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 All I Want Is You &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(new studio recording)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Dog &lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;(new studio recording)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Bonus track (Limited Edition):&lt;br /&gt;13 Crying In The Rain (extended version with Tommy's drum solo) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115476951302140942?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115476951302140942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115476951302140942' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115476951302140942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115476951302140942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/spv-signs-whitesnake.html' title='SPV signs Whitesnake!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115476092733645861</id><published>2006-08-05T08:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T08:55:27.336+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Apocalypse now: here's the new Belphegor LP</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/-bel.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/-bel.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Austrian death metallers &lt;strong&gt;Belphegor&lt;/strong&gt; will release their new album titled &lt;strong&gt;Pestapokalypse VI&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;on October 27th, 2006 via Nuclear Blast Records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I Belphegor – Hell's Ambassador&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;II Seyn Todt In Schwartz&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;III Angel Of Retribution&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IV Chants For The Devil 1533&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;V Pest Teufel Apokalypse &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VI The Ancient Enemy&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VII Bluhtsturm Erotika&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VIII Sanctus Perversum&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IX Das Pesthaus / Miasma Epilog &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;More infos here:&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.belphegor.at/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;www.belphegor.at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115476092733645861?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115476092733645861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115476092733645861' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115476092733645861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115476092733645861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/apocalypse-now-heres-new-belphegor-lp.html' title='Apocalypse now: here&apos;s the new Belphegor LP'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115476044496119598</id><published>2006-08-05T08:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T08:47:24.983+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Evanescence will be soon open their door...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/-eva.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/-eva.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Due on October 3rd on Wind-Up Records, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Open Door&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; will follow up 2003's six-million-selling &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fallen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Evanescence &lt;/strong&gt;has choosed &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Call Me When You're Sober&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; as the first single from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Open Door&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. The track can currently be previewed at the Wind-Up web site: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mms://windup.wmod.llnwd.net/a68/o1/bands/evan/EvTheOpenDoor_CMWYS_clip_long-1.wma" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Windows Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://play.rbn.com/?url=windup/windup/g2demand/evanescence/clips/theopendoor/cmwys_2min.rm&amp;proto=dual" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Real Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. The video for the song will debut on MTV this Monday, August 7. Catch the clip on MTV2 at 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.; then again at 2:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., 1:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Touring plans are yet to be announced.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tracklist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;01 Sweet Sacrifice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;02 Call Me When You're Sober&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;03. Weight Of The World&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;04 Lithium&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;05 Cloud Nine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;06 Snow White Queen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;07 Lacrymosa&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;08 Like You&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;09 Lose Control&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10 The Only One&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;11 Your Star&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12 All That I'm Living For&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;13 Good Enough&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More infos here:&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.evanescence.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;http://www.evanescence.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115476044496119598?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115476044496119598/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115476044496119598' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115476044496119598'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115476044496119598'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/evanescence-will-be-soon-open-their.html' title='Evanescence will be soon open their door...'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115454189231370813</id><published>2006-08-02T19:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-05T08:59:32.373+02:00</updated><title type='text'>United Abominations: here's the new Megadeth' opus</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/-Vic_Rattlehead__Part_I_of_II_by_MightyDangLo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/-Vic_Rattlehead__Part_I_of_II_by_MightyDangLo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;United Abominations&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the title of the new &lt;strong&gt;Megadeth&lt;/strong&gt;' album that will be released on October 31st by Roadrunner Records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It was produced by &lt;strong&gt;Dave Mustaine&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Balding&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Songtitles rumored to appear on the CD are &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;United Abominations&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Washington Is Next&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gears Of War&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In February the group was joined by bassist &lt;strong&gt;James Lomenzo&lt;/strong&gt; (ex-Black Label Society, White Lion) following the split from &lt;strong&gt;James MacDonough&lt;/strong&gt; (ex-Iced Earth).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115454189231370813?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115454189231370813/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115454189231370813' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115454189231370813'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115454189231370813'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/united-abominations-heres-new-megadeth.html' title='United Abominations: here&apos;s the new Megadeth&apos; opus'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115452375108237823</id><published>2006-08-02T14:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T15:02:31.093+02:00</updated><title type='text'>IV...it's time for Winger' comeback album!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/winger-iv750.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/winger-iv750.1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;13 years since the release of &lt;em&gt;Pull&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Winger&lt;/strong&gt; are back with a new line-up comprising of &lt;strong&gt;Kip Winger&lt;/strong&gt; (vocals and bass), &lt;strong&gt;Reb Bea&lt;/strong&gt;ch (guitar), &lt;strong&gt;Rod Morgenstein&lt;/strong&gt; (drums), &lt;strong&gt;John Roth&lt;/strong&gt; (guitar and keyboards) and the new man, &lt;strong&gt;Cenk Eroglu&lt;/strong&gt; (guitar and keyboards).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Winger&lt;/strong&gt;' new studio album (simply titled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;IV&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) will be released by Frontiers Records on October 20th (in Japan will be released by King Records).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;1 Right Up Ahead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;2 Blue Suede Shoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;3 Four Leaf Clover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;4 M16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;5 Your Great Escape&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;6 Disappear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;7 On A Day Like Today&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;8 Livin' Just To Die&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;9 Short Flight To Mexico&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10 Generica&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;11 Can't Take It Back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In the followng links you' ll find previews for:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/Portals/0/multimedia/winger_sample01.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Right Up Ahead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/Portals/0/multimedia/winger_sample02.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Blue Suede Shoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/Portals/0/multimedia/winger_sample05.mp3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Your Great Escape&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115452375108237823?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115452375108237823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115452375108237823' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115452375108237823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115452375108237823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/ivits-time-for-winger-comeback-album.html' title='IV...it&apos;s time for Winger&apos; comeback album!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115449856670712160</id><published>2006-08-02T08:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T08:02:46.710+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Flash magazine online: the updates</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/open.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/open.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;ATTENTION!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;On &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;www.flashmagazine.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; you' ll find the &lt;strong&gt;IRON MAIDEN&lt;/strong&gt; preview with pics, London report and the first impressions about their new album!!! There will be also other specials regarding &lt;strong&gt;BANG YOUR HEAD&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;EVOLUTION&lt;/strong&gt; festivals, plus the &lt;strong&gt;DEF LEPPARD&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;MISFITS&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;BON JOVI&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;HYDROGYN&lt;/strong&gt; gigs. More hot stuff is coming!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The links:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flashmagazine.it/anteprima/ironmaiden/anteprima.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;http://www.flashmagazine.it/anteprima/ironmaiden/anteprima.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flashmagazine.it/anteprima/bangyourhead/speciale.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;http://www.flashmagazine.it/anteprima/bangyourhead/speciale.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flashmagazine.it/anteprima/evolutionfest/speciale.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;http://www.flashmagazine.it/anteprima/evolutionfest/speciale.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;http://www.flashmagazine.it/anteprima/livearoundtheworld/speciale.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115449856670712160?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115449856670712160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115449856670712160' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115449856670712160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115449856670712160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/08/flash-magazine-online-upda_115449856670712160.html' title='Flash magazine online: the updates'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115424921464732489</id><published>2006-07-30T10:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T10:49:20.343+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Meshuggah and Suidakra new albums are coming...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/mesh.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/mesh.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/suidakra.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/suidakra.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meshuggah&lt;/strong&gt;' upcoming remixed version of its acclaimed 2002 effort, &lt;em&gt;Nothing&lt;/em&gt; will be out on September 15th through Nuclear Blast Records.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The CD will include a bonus DVD containing live footage from the Swedish metallers' most recent European tour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;German melodic black/death metallers &lt;strong&gt;Suidakra&lt;/strong&gt; are mixing their new album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caledonia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, tentatively due in October via Armageddon Music. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The follow-up to 2005's &lt;em&gt;Command To Charge &lt;/em&gt;was recorded at Gernhart Records studio in Siegburg, Germany. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;According to the band, "&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Caledonia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; adopts the lyrical concept of ancient Scottish history, which explains song titles such as &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Highland Hills&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Forth-Clyde&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The IXth Legion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115424921464732489?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115424921464732489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115424921464732489' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115424921464732489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115424921464732489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/meshuggah-and-suidakra-new-albums-are.html' title='Meshuggah and Suidakra new albums are coming...'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115420263904243221</id><published>2006-07-29T21:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T21:58:33.276+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Misfits, new tour dates added</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/glowskull2g.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/glowskull2g.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In September &lt;strong&gt;The Misfits&lt;/strong&gt; will return to the UK headlining festivals structured in celebration of 30 years of punk rock.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 21 LONDON, UK: ELECTRIC BALLROOM &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 22 SHEFFIELD, UK: PLUG &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 23 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.misfits.com/PunkFestival_2.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;DURHAM, UK: UNIVERSITY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 24 EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND: LIQUID ROOM &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 26 LEEDS, UK: METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 27 BOURNEMOUTH, UK: OPERA HOUSE &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 28 CARDIFF, UK: COAL EXCHANGE &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 29 BIRMINGHAM, UK: CARLING ACADEMY &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SEPT. 30 MANCHESTER, UK: ACADEMY 2 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;More details here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.misfits.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;www.misfits.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115420263904243221?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115420263904243221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115420263904243221' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115420263904243221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115420263904243221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/misfits-new-tour-dates-added.html' title='The Misfits, new tour dates added'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115419955409594322</id><published>2006-07-29T20:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T21:59:29.543+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Cradle Of Filth new album, Thornography</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/CoFthornography.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/CoFthornography.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;British black metallers &lt;strong&gt;CRADLE OF FILTH&lt;/strong&gt; have finalized the track listing for their new album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thornography&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, due on October 16th via Roadrunner Records. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The follow-up to 2004's Nymphetamine, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thornography&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was recorded at Lincolnshire, England's Chapel studios with producer Rob Caggiano (BLEEDING THROUGH, ANTHRAX) and was mixed at Backstage Studios in Derbyshire, England by Andy Sneap (MACHINE HEAD, SKINLAB, NEVERMORE). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;01 Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;02 Dirge Inferno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;03 Tonight in Flames&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;04 Libertina Grimm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;05 Byronic Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;06 I Am The Thorn&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;07 Cemetery And Sundown &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;08 Lovesick For Mina&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;09The Foetus Of A New Day Kicking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10Rise Of The Pentagram&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;11 Under Huntress Moon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;12 Temptation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115419955409594322?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115419955409594322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115419955409594322' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115419955409594322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115419955409594322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/cradle-of-filth-new-album-thornography.html' title='Cradle Of Filth new album, Thornography'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115418061052098830</id><published>2006-07-29T15:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:01:13.930+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kingdom Come: the return!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/kingdomcome-2006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/kingdomcome-2006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Frontiers Records announce the completion of &lt;strong&gt;Kingdom Come&lt;/strong&gt;'s new studio album entitled &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ain't Crying For The Moon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to be released in Europe on October 20th.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"After having done a lot of experimenting with &lt;em&gt;Perpetual&lt;/em&gt;", says &lt;strong&gt;Lenny Wolf&lt;/strong&gt;, the mastermind behind &lt;strong&gt;Kingdom Come&lt;/strong&gt;, "I thought it was the time to take out the axe again and rock the house. The new CD will be one of my heaviest recordings ever. I was trying to build walls of guitars in combination with that typical &lt;strong&gt;KC&lt;/strong&gt; moody and spacey approach. It does not have the typical blues factor anymore, which many of you may remember from the first records. I have transported my roots into the year 2006. "Still the new album keeps on having a very personal and quite recognizable touch, even if &lt;strong&gt;Kingdom Come&lt;/strong&gt; are an ever-evolving musical reality. "Of course when we will come to your towns, we will definitely play songs from our early days as well", adds Wolf who, as a special gift to the fans, decided to include in the new album track listing an exclusive remake of &lt;strong&gt;Kingdom Come&lt;/strong&gt;'s first US hit &lt;em&gt;Get It On&lt;/em&gt;, originally released on the band's debut album in 1988. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ain't Crying For The Moon&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; shall include the following tracks (click on the song title to hear an MP3 sample):&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/kingdomcomesample01.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Two Legged Sheep&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Not Here To Be Your Friend&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Same Old Stars&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/kingdomcomesample04.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ain't Crying For The Moon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/kingdomcomesample05.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Perfect Citizen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;This Is My Life&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bon Scott&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Removed The Sting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.frontiers.it/portals/0/multimedia/kingdomcomesample09.mp3"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Friends In Spirit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Darkroom&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Look At You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Across The Universe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Get It On (2006 version)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Frontiers Records will release the album in Europe exclusively on October 20th. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115418061052098830?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115418061052098830/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115418061052098830' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115418061052098830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115418061052098830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/kingdom-come-return.html' title='Kingdom Come: the return!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115417995713720501</id><published>2006-07-29T15:30:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T14:05:56.076+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Pamela Moore new album, Stories From A Blue Room</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/pamelamoore-storiesfromablueroom.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/pamelamoore-storiesfromablueroom.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CDInzane is proud to introduce&lt;strong&gt; Pamela Moore&lt;/strong&gt;'s 2nd studio release, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Stories From A Blue Room&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;A mix of electric and hardrock, backed by one of the leading female vocalist of rock! This CD also features &lt;strong&gt;Michael Wilton&lt;/strong&gt; (Queensryche), &lt;strong&gt;Jeff Loomis&lt;/strong&gt; (Nevermore), &lt;strong&gt;Terry Nunn&lt;/strong&gt;, vocalist of Berlin gets together with Pamela to sing on a few tracks!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pam leaves in about 1 week to start the 4 month tour with Queensryche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;More infos here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pamelamoore.net/" target="new"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.pamelamoore.net&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115417995713720501?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115417995713720501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115417995713720501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115417995713720501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115417995713720501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/pamela-moore-new-album-stories-from_29.html' title='Pamela Moore new album, Stories From A Blue Room'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115409787492158843</id><published>2006-07-28T16:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:24:33.080+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Dan Lilker is back!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/bandphoto1c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/bandphoto1c.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Rochester, NY "'70s black metal" band &lt;strong&gt;Crucifist&lt;/strong&gt; - featuring bass player &lt;strong&gt;Dan&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Lilker&lt;/strong&gt; (Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, Brutal Truth, The Ravenous), &lt;strong&gt;Mike Waske&lt;/strong&gt; (drums, Orodruin), &lt;strong&gt;John Gallo&lt;/strong&gt; (guitar, Orodruin, Blizaro) plus &lt;strong&gt;Ron Blackwell&lt;/strong&gt; (vocals) - has completed the initial recording sessions for its debut album. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The CD will now be mixed and mastered prior to release. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The tentative track listing is as follows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;01 Intro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;02 Putrid Mother Lode&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;03 Witchgrip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;04 Skull-Smashing Face-Ripping Death&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;05 Honor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;06 Demon-Haunted World&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;07 Curse of the Plasma Hound&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;08 Tumefaction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;09 Anus Mundi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10 Angel Of Death (Angel Witch cover) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Right now &lt;strong&gt;Crucifist &lt;/strong&gt;has booked the following gigs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;July 29th - Toronto, Canada - Smiling Buddha Bar (with Rammer, Demontage, Maniac)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;August 12th - Detroit, MI - 2500 Club (Detroit Death Fest)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;November 7th - Rochester, NY - Penny Arcade (with Celtic Frost, Goatwhore)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;For more infos, visit &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crucifist.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.crucifist.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115409787492158843?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115409787492158843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115409787492158843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115409787492158843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115409787492158843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/dan-lilker-is-back.html' title='Dan Lilker is back!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115393935611541423</id><published>2006-07-26T20:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:29:50.103+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hands down: Helmet are back with a very good album, Monochrome</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/B000G6BNRM.01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/B000G6BNRM.01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;For the follow up to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Size Matters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Helmet &lt;/strong&gt;left Interscope Records and got signed to Warcon, enlisting new drummer &lt;strong&gt;Mike Jost&lt;/strong&gt;, bass player &lt;strong&gt;Jeremy Chatelain&lt;/strong&gt; plus &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Strap It On&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Meantime&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; soundman &lt;strong&gt;Wharton Tiers&lt;/strong&gt; to co-produce the record. Even going as far as recording on the same tape machine they used on those records. The result is of course something new with a little bit of old, but always good. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Listening to all the &lt;strong&gt;Helmet&lt;/strong&gt; LPs, it's plain to see how far the band's influence goes, from Deftones, Chevelle, Norma Jean, to even Killswitch Engage. Guitar master &lt;strong&gt;Page Hamilton&lt;/strong&gt; and the band have even been around since way, way before Korn and similars. These guys have made modern metal way before modern metal got started. This is a good reason to give this album a chance, listen to &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Monochrome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and you won't be surely disappointed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Unfortunately &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Monochrome&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; registered a first-week tally of almost 5,500 copies landing on N° 159 of the Billboard chart - a step down from the nearly 10,000 units that its predecessor, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Size Matters&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, opened with back in October 2004.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115393935611541423?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115393935611541423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115393935611541423' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115393935611541423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115393935611541423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/hands-down-helmet-are-back-with-very.html' title='Hands down: Helmet are back with a very good album, Monochrome'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115388606958111193</id><published>2006-07-26T05:50:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:29:17.020+02:00</updated><title type='text'>www.flashmagazine.it</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/banner.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/RhapsodyofFireLogo_small.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rhapsodyoffire.com/pics/toa1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.rhapsodyoffire.com/pics/toa1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rhapsody Of Fire &lt;/strong&gt;is the new monicker of the Italian symphonic metal act formerly known as &lt;strong&gt;Rhapsody&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The new outfit will release the next album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Triumph Or Agony&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, on September 25th on Magic Circle Music. Keyboardist/songwriter &lt;strong&gt;Alex Staropoli&lt;/strong&gt; commented, "The name &lt;strong&gt;Rhapsody Of Fire&lt;/strong&gt; better represents the energy that has always been present in this band and its music.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;New tracks include &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Silent Dream&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Son Of Pain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and the epic 16-minute tour-de-force &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Mystic Prophecy Of The Demonknight&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Vocalist &lt;strong&gt;Fabio Lione&lt;/strong&gt; gives his songwriting debut for &lt;strong&gt;Rhapsody Of Fire&lt;/strong&gt; with the song &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Il Canto del Vento&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.The album also features an array of guest narrators and character actors, including several recruits from the London theatre scene, actress Susannah York of the Superman film series and a return appearance by renowned actor Christopher Lee as the all-knowing Wizard King. Also debuting is his daughter, Christina Lee, as Princess Lothen. Turilli explains a bit of the story behind the album. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Triumph Or Agony&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; represents the chapter of the saga when our heroes - Khaas, hero of the middle lands, Tarish the elfking, Princess Lothen, Dargor, the shadowlord, and the wise wizard Iras Algor, are ready to enter the dark caves of 'Dar-Kunor', a subterranean labyrinth of horrors located in the heart of the misty darklands. The heroes have to challenge the ancestral secrets of 'Dar-Kunor' in order to search for the last of the seven black books written in primordial times with the blood of the angels by Nekron, the demonknight, son of the hellgod Kron. This black book could contain the worst of the prophecies threatening the known world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rhapsody Of Fire&lt;/strong&gt; are: &lt;strong&gt;Fabio Lione&lt;/strong&gt; - Vocals, &lt;strong&gt;Luca Turilli&lt;/strong&gt; - Guitars, &lt;strong&gt;Alex Staropoli&lt;/strong&gt; - Keyboards, &lt;strong&gt;Patrice Guers&lt;/strong&gt; - Bass, &lt;strong&gt;Alex Holzwarth&lt;/strong&gt; - Drums.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Triumph Or Agony&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; was produced by &lt;strong&gt;Luca Turilli&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Alex Staropoli&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;01 Dar-Kunor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I Echoes From The Elvish Woods &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;II Fear Of The Dungeons &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;02 Triumph Or Agony &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;03 Heart Of The Darklands &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;04 Old Age Of Wonders &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;05 The Myth Of The Holy Sword &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;06 Il Canto Del Vento &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;07 Silent Dream &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;08 Bloody Red Dungeons &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;09 Son Of Pain &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10 The Mystic Prophecy Of The Demonknight &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I A New Saga Begins &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;II Through The Portals Of Agony &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;III The Black Order &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;IV Nekron`s Bloody Rhymes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;V Escape From Horror &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;11 Dark Reign Of Fire &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I Winter Dawn`s Theme&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115373472517176670?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115373472517176670/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115373472517176670' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115373472517176670'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115373472517176670'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/rhapsody-becomesrhapsody-of-fire.html' title='Rhapsody becomes...Rhapsody Of Fire!'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115319780667167251</id><published>2006-07-18T06:41:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-18T06:43:26.680+02:00</updated><title type='text'>EVOLUTION FESTIVAL, Toscolano Maderno, Italy, July 14-16th</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/evo06f.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/evo06f.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115319780667167251?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115319780667167251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115319780667167251' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115319780667167251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115319780667167251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/evolution-festival-toscolano-maderno.html' title='EVOLUTION FESTIVAL, Toscolano Maderno, Italy, July 14-16th'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115192066545980934</id><published>2006-07-03T11:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:20:34.086+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Honey For Christ, "The Darkest Pinnacle Of Light"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/disc_tdpol.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/disc_tdpol.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Style: Heavy Metal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Label: Rundown Records&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Total playing time: 26:24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Web site: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.honeyforchrist.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#ff0000;"&gt;http://www.honeyforchrist.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;1 Satan &amp; Swastika&lt;br /&gt;2 The Final Transition&lt;br /&gt;3 The Darkest Pinnacle Of Light&lt;br /&gt;4 Sorrow Descending&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;5 Signs Of Bitterness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Believe it or not, &lt;strong&gt;Honey For Christ&lt;/strong&gt; have came out with their strongest material to date. Formed in 1998 this Northern Irish trio have released a bunch of demos but &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Darkest Pinnacle Of Light&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; it’s without any doubt their best one. First of all: praise should be given to &lt;strong&gt;HFC&lt;/strong&gt; for producing these tracks by themselves and coming out with a thundering and polished sound, even if the final mix could be better. Anyway actual musicianship it’s impressive and that’s the only thing I care for. More aggressive than the previous demo (&lt;em&gt;Forging Iron Will&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Darkest Pinnacle Of Light&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Honey&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;For Christ&lt;/strong&gt; continue - thanks God, or maybe Satan, hihi! - to escape any standard classification. These Irish dudes are a powerful metal band, that’s it. The blasting &lt;em&gt;Satan &amp;amp;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Swastika&lt;/em&gt; and the bloody title track take a total all-guns-blazing drums assault with some perfect timing riffs and a bit of clean vocals which show some well appreciated pieces of originality. &lt;em&gt;The Final Transition&lt;/em&gt; it’s more mid paced and surely it’s one the most well arranged track of this EP. &lt;em&gt;“Sorrow Descending”&lt;/em&gt; it’s a very challenging song, kinda of Katatonia-meets-Moonspell type of magnetic ballad. &lt;em&gt;Signs Of Bitterness&lt;/em&gt; it’s darkish too, not so straightforward but with a strong section which will blow your head away. In conclusion: a band that doesn’t fear to experiment and cross the heavy sub-genres. &lt;strong&gt;Honey For Christ&lt;/strong&gt; cannot be considered a promise only, but one of the best Emerald island current bands. Give them a chance instead of listening to copycats clones or fake make-up-only clowns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115192066545980934?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115192066545980934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115192066545980934' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115192066545980934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115192066545980934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/07/honey-for-christ-darkest-pinnacle-of.html' title='Honey For Christ, &quot;The Darkest Pinnacle Of Light&quot;'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115156781562564758</id><published>2006-06-29T09:48:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:13:45.886+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Apocalypse is coming: here's Arch Enemy first DVD</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/Fullcover_final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/Fullcover_final.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Disc 1:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*01. Tear Down The Walls &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*02. Enemy Within &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*03. Silent Wars &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*04. Burning Angel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*05. Dead Eyes See No Future &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*06. Dead Bury Their Dead &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*07. Bury Me An Angel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*08. Drum Solo &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*09. Instinct &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*10. Savage Messiah &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*11. First Deadly Sin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*12. The Immortal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*13. Bridge Of Destiny &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*14. We Will Rise &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*15. Heart Of Darkness &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*16. Snowbound &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*17. Ravenous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*18. Fields Of Desolation &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;*19. Nemesis &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;**20. My Apocalypse &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;**21. Skeleton Dance &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Disc 2:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;01. Ravenous (video clip)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;02. We Will Rise (video clip)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;03. Nemesis (video clip)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;04. My Apocalypse (video Clip)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;05. Dead Eyes See No Future (multi-angle)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;06. Bury Me An Angel (multi-angle)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;07. Heart Of Darkness (multi-angle)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* Live in London, England December 2004, Sound in 5.1, Mixing by Andy Sneap&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;** Live in Manchester, England 2005, Sound in Stereo, Mixing by Rickard Bengtsson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bonus material:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* Interviews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* Backstage footage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;* On The road from 2004-2005 Tour&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Swedish/German extreme metallers &lt;strong&gt;Arch Enemy&lt;/strong&gt;will release their first DVD, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Live Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, on July 24th via &lt;strong&gt;Century Media&lt;/strong&gt; (August 8th in USA). The disc is "chock-full of phenomenal live footage, in-depth interviews and promotional video clips," according to a press release. Commented guitarist &lt;strong&gt;Mike Amott&lt;/strong&gt;: "The &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Live Apocalypse&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; DVD is now finally complete. This shaped up to be an ultra cool two-disc affair, and I honestly couldn't be happier with it. The main show is from The Forum in London, U.K. (December '04), and we also have footage from Manchester, U.K. in December '05 (there'll be three songs included from that). There are tons of extras and special features, as there should be. The artwork was done by &lt;strong&gt;Niklas Sundin&lt;/strong&gt; of Cabin Fever Media. &lt;strong&gt;Andy Sneap&lt;/strong&gt;'s audio mix (5.1 and stereo) is so heavy, it almost blew my speakers out! He really captured the live feel and power of the show; it's like you are right there in the audience. Brilliant! This DVD crushes some of my favourite metal DVDs from my own collection — and I have a sick collection. Once again, I am happy that we work with the best. They make us look and sound great."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115156781562564758?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115156781562564758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115156781562564758' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115156781562564758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115156781562564758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/apocalypse-is-coming-heres-arch-enemy.html' title='The Apocalypse is coming: here&apos;s Arch Enemy first DVD'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115156715744844120</id><published>2006-06-29T09:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:10:19.386+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Black Label Society new album, Shot to Hell</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/BLSC_COVER-MINI.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/BLSC_COVER-MINI.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Produced by &lt;b&gt;Zakk&lt;/b&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Wylde&lt;/strong&gt; &amp; &lt;b&gt;Michael Beinhorn&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Line-up:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zakk Wylde&lt;/strong&gt; - Vocals &amp;amp; guitars&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John "J.D." DeServio&lt;/strong&gt; - Bass&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Craig Nunenmacher&lt;/b&gt; - Drums&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shot to Hell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; takes the ferocious hard rock of such &lt;b&gt;Black Label Society&lt;/b&gt; albums as 2003's &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blessed Hellride&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/b&gt;and 2005's &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mafia&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to a whole new level of "brewtality."&lt;br /&gt;"I never run out of ideas," Zakk says. "We just came in here and started knocking it out. That's how you make records." That take-no-prisoners attitude is all over such snarling tracks as &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Concrete &lt;/em&gt;Jungle&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blood Is Thicker Than Water&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Give Yourself To Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, while reflective ballads like &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lead Me To Your Door&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sick Of It All&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; mix moody melodies with screaming guitar solos. "It's a real cool mix of heavy shit and mellow shit," &lt;b&gt;Zakk&lt;/b&gt; explains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shot to Hell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is scheduled for release on September 19th via &lt;b&gt;Roadrunner Records&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115156715744844120?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115156715744844120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115156715744844120' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115156715744844120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115156715744844120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/black-label-society-new-album-shot-to.html' title='Black Label Society new album, Shot to Hell'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115134053870188924</id><published>2006-06-26T18:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:06:43.886+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Saracen new album, Vox In Excelso</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/saracen-voxinexcelso.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/saracen-voxinexcelso.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Escape Music are pleased to announce the signing of British epic rock merchants &lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt; to the label. As Khalil Turk puts it, "This signing adds one of NWOBHM's best loved bands to an already impressive roster here at Escape. &lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt; also bring with them their unique brand of heavy symphonic rock music - complimenting our present line-up of primarily 'Heavey melodic Rock &amp; AOR' specialists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt;'s initial reign was in the late 70s and early 80s, which saw the release of their now legendary debut album &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heroes, Saints &amp;amp; Fools&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Some twenty years later, in 2003, they then surprised &amp; delighted fans with the release of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Sky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Both albums plus 4 bonus tracks, will infact feature in a special 'boxed set' with a new artwork, and new mastering!!, due to be released on the Escape Music later this year!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main focus of the signing, however, is &lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt;'s eagerly awaited new album - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vox In Excelso&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. A concept album, based around the very same story that underpins Dan Brown's best seller &lt;em&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/em&gt;, this promises to be a 'must have' for every fan of epic rock. According to Khalil, "Rob, from the band, played me the album demo recently, and it sounds awesome. I can't wait to help see it through to the finished product. We're lining up some impressive names to work on the production front, so it's all systems go".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Biography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;British rock band &lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt; are now in their 25th year…..yet musically speaking they're as strong as ever! Their unique brand of heavy symphonic rock music is proving as popular now, with fans from every continent, as it was back in the band's halcyon days of the early 80s. The combination of original members, i.e. vocalist &lt;strong&gt;Steve Bettney&lt;/strong&gt; and guitarist &lt;strong&gt;Rob Bendelow&lt;/strong&gt;, new blood, former Helloween drummer &lt;strong&gt;Mark Cross&lt;/strong&gt; amongst others), new albums, and the backing of a new record company, promises to be an exciting cocktail for the band's third decade. The band is, and always has been, a classic 5-piece line-up of drums, bass, guitar, keyboards &amp;amp; vocals. From the original five, two members are still there at the heart of &lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt;' s initial reign was in the late 70s and early 80s, which saw the release of their now legendary debut album &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Heroes, Saints &amp; Fools&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Some twenty years later, in 2003, they then surprised &amp;amp; delighted fans with the release of &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Sky&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Both albums plus bonus tracks now feature in a special boxed set, with new artwork and mastering, released in January 2006 on the Escape Music label.The main focus of the signing, however, is &lt;strong&gt;Saracen&lt;/strong&gt;'s eagerly awaited new album – &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vox In Excelso&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. A concept album, based around the very same story that underpins Dan Brown's best seller The Da Vinci Code, this promises to be a must have for every fan of epic rock. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vox In Excelso&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a concept album, based on the mysterious and controversial history of the Knights Templar – a medieval body of warrior monks, who grew to become one of the most powerful military &amp; financial organisations in Europe. But their story goes far beyond battlefield exploits - the Knights Templar were guardians of an Ancient Knowledge; secrets that had major implications for the nations and religions of the western world... that are still cherished and protected even to this day...&lt;strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;Vox In&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Excelso&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (pronounced Ex-chel-so) is laced with poignant narration, linking the tracks, and thereby helping the listener to navigate this turbulent yet touching epic story.The first 1000 albums will be available in special edition booklet format, rather than the conventional jewel case presentation, adding greatly to the collectability of what promises to be another milestone production from this much loved band.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Line-up:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steve Bettney - Vocals&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rob Bendelow - Guitar&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Richard Bendelow - Bass&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark Cross - Drums&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paul Bradder - Keyboards&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115134053870188924?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115134053870188924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115134053870188924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115134053870188924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115134053870188924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/saracen-new-album-vox-in-excelso.html' title='Saracen new album, Vox In Excelso'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126463029237501</id><published>2006-06-25T21:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T21:02:59.693+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Blondie - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/dddddddd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/dddddddd.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Deborah Harry, già trascurabile cantante rock alla fine degli anni ‘60 (interpreta un brano nell’album folk Wind in the willows del 1968) ed anonima commessa e manicure (prima che il suo corpo venisse scoperto da Playboy) compie il primo salto di qualità quando è assunta come cameriera nel club Max’s. Qui treccia alcune amicizie importanti che nel 1973 la portano a fronteggiare una band formata da Fred “Sonic” Smith (MC5) e Chris Stein.Questi, nel 1975, decide di costruirle un gruppo intorno e nascono così i Blondie. Coinvolta nelle follie notturne che si svolgono presso il celebre locale Studio 54, grazie alla sua immagine da “Marylin Monroe in versione punk” ed al pop coinvolgente della sua banda, Debbie Harry diventa velocemente la nuova icona da venerare nel periodo New Wave. Le fresche melodie di X offender (Private Stock, 1976) e soprattutto l’innata sensualità della ballata In The Flesh (Private Stock, 1976) trasformano la curiosità estetica in interesse musicale. Il primo album, (Blondie, Private Stock, 1976), sulla scorta di due singoli vincenti diventa colonna sonora di un’epoca: il sound - un astuto compromesso, troppo rifinito per essere definito Punk e troppo irruente per essere catalogato come Pop - fa strage di vendite. L’idea di Stein e del tastierista Jimmy Destri è quella di plasmare un nuovo genere, una sorta di disco-music per punks che mischia il mal de vivre dei nuovi maledetti con la necessità di far ballare chi frequenta le discoteche, un melange tra garage e dance music che si catalizza in una cantante dotata d’indubbia carica erotica. Dopo Plastic Letters (Chrysalis, 1977), che piazza i mega-singoli Denis, Kidnapper e Presence Dear, i Blondie sfondano letteralmente negli States con Parallel Lines (Chrysalis, 1978). Le charts vacillano sotto i colpi di Heart Of Glass, mentre Hanging On The Telephone, Sunday Grl e I'm Gonna Love You Too impongono il mito della nuova femme fatale. Il successo internazionale arride nel 1979 attraverso i brani Dreaming ed Atomic, impreziositi da un organo psichedelico, interpretati con la foga naif delle girl-bands stile anni sessanta, resi scintillanti da una produzione laccata e pervasi dal fatalismo consono alla blank generation. Sono queste le basi su cui si fonda Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis, 1979), le cui Union City Blue e Shayla non fanno che confermare un successo inarrestabile. Nei due anni successivi i Blondie si limitano a ripetere la formula che li ha resi famosi, dapprima con Rapture, tratto dal loro album più particolare, l’ambizioso, Autoamerican (Chrysalis, 1980) e poi con lo storico singolo Call Me, prodotto da Giorgio Moroder. Nel 1981 Debbie Harry decide di giocarsi la carta da solista pubblicando il suo primo album, Koo Koo (Chrysalis, 1981) e la saga dei Blondie, passata la sbornia delle “Saturday nights”, si conclude mestamente con l’interlocutorio Hunter (Chrysalis, 1982).Il decennio che segue è da triste viale del tramonto. Stein ha un infarto e si defila dalle scene mentre la Harry cerca, da un lato d’imporsi - fallendo - in film di secondo piano e dall’altro di confermarsi come chanteuse attraverso vari album che contengono qualche gemma ed iinumerevoli riempitivi: Rockbird (Geffen, 1986, con le belle French Kissing e I Want You), Def Dumb &amp;amp; Blonde (Chrysalis, 1989, con gli hits I Want That Man e Maybe For Sure) e Debravation (Sire, 1993). Sul finire degli anni ‘90 Stein, Destri e la Harry (contornati dal solito stuolo di turnisti) decidono di riformare i Blondie.Il risultato del nuovo sodalizio è No Exit (Beyond/BMG, 1999), album maturo realizzato da un gruppo ormai assai smaliziato. Questa volta l’hit planetario è il singalong di Maria, ma convince anche il restante materiale: Forgive And Forget è wave ottantiana d’autore, Double Take è l’usuale ballata arrangiata con innegabile classe, Nothing Is Real But The Girl richiama il groove di bands contemporanee come No Doubt e Garbage che loro stessi hanno contribuito ad influenzare. Episodio a sé stante è The Dream’s Lost On Me, folk song d’annata. Deborah Harry, smessi i panni della “coniglietta” si dimostra interprete competente e dall’intramontabile fascino. I rinati Blondie si confermano col seguente The Curse (Beyond, 2003) che, però, non contiene un vero brano spacca-classifiche.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© CM 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126463029237501?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126463029237501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126463029237501' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126463029237501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126463029237501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/blondie-biografia.html' title='Blondie - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126430831325730</id><published>2006-06-25T21:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T20:57:10.053+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Glenn Danzig - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/danzig.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/danzig.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/011.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/011.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Glenn Danzig, con i Misfits prima, insieme ad i Samhain successivamente ed infine come solista, è stato una delle massime espressioni del rock più tenebroso, impersonando come pochi altri quell’insano melange tra mal de vivre ed occultismo - talvolta d’accatto - che si cela dietro parecchi racconti cari ad una - ironia della sorte! - defunta pubblicazione quale Weird Tales. Dai tardi anni settanta sino ad oggi, il nerboruto cantante è divenuto non un personaggio di culto ma il culto di quel personaggio, come se un fumetto prendesse vita animandosi improvvisamente.&lt;br /&gt;I classici di Danzig hanno una precisa collocazione in quel percorso del gotico musicale che ha inizio con il “patto diabolico” siglato da Robert Johnson per arrivare sino ai Sisters Of Mercy, Nick Cave e Type O Negative, passando per Doors, Black Sabbath e Johnny Cash.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nella sua musica il riferimento all’horror - principalmente di matrice underground - è palese: la macabra icona dei Misfits - il celeberrimo Fiend Skull - è tratto da un serie televisiva (The Crimson Ghost), mentre quello dei Samhain è lo stesso usato per il fumetto Crystar, edito dalla Marvel; i caratteri del logo Misfits sono, invece, i medesimi dei fumetti Eerie And Creepy e Famous Monsters Of Filmland.&lt;br /&gt;Il gioco dei rimandi non può poi non estendersi ai Misfits che, guarda caso, celebrano il proprio scioglimento la notte di Halloween del 1983.&lt;br /&gt;A questo si aggiunga che molti titoli (valga per tutti Night Of The Living Dead) sono tratti di peso da celebri pellicole dell’orrore; la copertina di Walk Among Us è il poster di Earth vs. The Spider; un’altra copertina (quella del primo LP) ripropone una foto del ragno celebrato in un puntata intitolata The Zanti Misfits (dal TV serial The Outer Limits).&lt;br /&gt;E’ a questa preziosa sottocultura che Glenn Danzig si abbevera, mutuando altresì le personalità dannate di alcuni suoi idoli (Jim Morrison) che fagocita in un ottica ancora più dark.&lt;br /&gt;I rituali pseudo satanici da lui officiati in musica non fanno che ripetere all’infinito la formula della disperazione più cupa che la cultura dei bianchi ha rubato dal blues, originario patrimonio della tradizione nera; la sua voce baritonale domina tali drammi teatrali come solo pochi show-men hanno saputo fare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dopo lo scioglimento dei Misfits, Glenn Danzig (che nel 1981 aveva già esordito da solista con il 45 giri Who Killed Marilyn?) dà vita ai Samhain con il batterista Steve Zing ed il bassista Eerie Von, già fotografo/roadie dei Misfits. La prima uscita a loro nome (Initium, Plan 9, 1984) è attesa da una folta schiera di seguaci guadagnati grazie ad un continuo passaparola underground.&lt;br /&gt;I Samhain si collocano sulla stessa scia dell’hardcore mortifero dei Misfits, con maggiori sfumature metalliche che la rendono al passo con i tempi. Le liriche invece rifuggono dal “trend comics” per concentrarsi su - inediti - temi vicini al paganesimo; in realtà, la differenza principale tra i Misfits ed i Samhain è costituita dal sempre maggiore affermarsi della personalità di Danzig; l’inno del gruppo (Samhain), l’inquietante Archangel e la nostalgica All Murder All Guts All Fun (il brano più vicino alla follia ludica dei Misfits), si aggiungono ad un pugno di altre tracce già divenute dei classici.&lt;br /&gt;Di contro, il successivo mini album (Unholy passion, Plan 9, 1985) re-interpreta l’originaria ispirazione horror ottenendo - talvolta involontariamente - effetti ancor più clowneschi dei Misfits stessi (Moribund e The Hungry End sono impeccabili quanto prevedibili esibizioni di un acquisito manierismo da parte di Danzig).&lt;br /&gt;La breve, ma intensa saga dei Samhain ha termine nel 1986 con il secondo album (November Coming Fire, Plan 9, 1986). Dilatato a dismisura lo spirito gotico di molti brani (le tematiche affrontate appaiono ora meno truculente), enfatizzato ulteriormente lo stile del suo lamento vocale e confermata la cadenza funerea divenuto inconfondibile trademark, Danzig maneggia la propria musica con innegabile mestiere.&lt;br /&gt;Gli slanci verso un heavy metal tout court (palesi in Halloween II), non possono mascherare la sua vera passione, il pop adulto: Let The Day Begin è un anthem trascinante, il suo teatro del grand guignol va in scena con Mother Of Mercy, gode perversamente nel convulso sabba infernale di Human Pony Girl ed ha il suo diabolico acme in To Walk The Night, dove il fantasma di Jim Morrison continua a non volersene andare.&lt;br /&gt;La compilation postuma (Final Descent, Plan 9, 1990) rivelerà almeno un’altra inedita perla di valore: Lords Of The Left Hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il sinistro pantheon di Danzig, popolato da mostri di ogni genere, vampiri, streghe, incredibili marziani, cannibali, licantropi e zombies, rifugge da qualsiasi pretesa intellettuale, ma fornisce una valida rappresentazione dell’esistenza contemporanea. Nelle sue morbose liriche rivivono, infatti, i drammi sociali di un’umanità di emarginati, esattamente come nella cinematografia di serie B (cui spesso sono stati paragonati i suoi testi) si rispecchiano le paure recondite tipiche della middle class. A tal proposito Glenn espone il suo intento filosofico: demolire il concetto del male contrapposto al bene ideato sia dai dogmi religiosi che dalle correnti laiche, restituendogli così quella valenza più indefinita e misteriosamente arcaica che lo contraddistingueva presso le civiltà pagane.&lt;br /&gt;Ogni suo lavoro può, in effetti, essere interpretato come un dictat, un’esposizione del “Danzig pensiero” di un mondo in cui il - labile - confine fra bene e male è stato spostato in un punto ignoto e non facilmente localizzabile. Approfittando di una rinnovata esplosione d’interesse per i Misfits (principalmente fomentata da Metallica e Guns N’ Roses, che non perdono occasione per citarli come fonte d’ispirazione), abilmente manovrata dal producer-guru Rick Rubin, che circonda Glenn Danzig di una band talentuosa (gli ex compagni dei Samhain Eerie Von al basso e John Christ alla chitarra più la leggenda underground Chuck Biscuits, batterista di lungo corso già con: D.O.A, Red Hot Chili Peppers - nel 1985 - Black Flag, Nig Heist, Circle Jerks, Descendents, Fear, Social Distortion e, addirittura, Run DMC! - l’album è Tougher Than Leather), sono ufficialmente lanciati i Danzig.&lt;br /&gt;La campagna promozionale che li spinge verso le masse statunitensi è astutamente volta ad esaltare il “dark side” del leader, il cui l’omonimo album d’esordio - Danzig (Def American, 1988) - ne è il legittimo manifesto.&lt;br /&gt;Originariamente la denominazione prescelta era Glenn Danzig And The Power And Fury Orchestra, poi accantonata in favore del più semplice Danzig, su pressione del pigmalione Rubin; riprendendo le infernali trame sonore dei Black Sabbath, Glenn Danzig celebra messa nella sua cattedrale sconsacrata: Am I Demon (che definire Doom è quasi un eufemismo) e Mother (che rimarrà il suo maggiore hit) risuonano di un potere quasi ancestrale ed iniziano a mietere vittime presso i fans d’oltreoceano, da sempre attratti da istrioni grotteschi e dal forte contenuto spettacolare (da Alice Cooper ai Kiss per finire con WASP e Marilyn Manson).&lt;br /&gt;A stemperare il clima da tregenda del disco giunge She Rides, con cui Danzig si re-incarna nel cantore maledetto per antonomasia, Jim Morrison; questo, come tanti altri brani, dimostrano quanto la sua vena di interprete abbia radici nella tradizione nera, vedasi la magnifica Soul On Fire, quasi un gospel trasfigurato da sonorità metalliche o Not Of This World, che lo vede in un’inedita versione da heavy crooner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucifuge (Def American, 1990) accentua ulteriormente le similitudini con i Doors, ma la qualità dei brani è innegabile: Long Way Back To Hell è un boogie rock, 777 è uno spiritual stravolto che annichilisce, Killer Wolf è invece puro Delta bues.&lt;br /&gt;I' m The One rimescola le carte in tavola, trattandosi di uno shuffle acustico immerso in una palude del Mississipi intonato con un’ alternanza di tenui sussurri e grida da pelle d’oca. Danzig sembra quasi un Presley appena tornato dall’oltretomba; discorso simile vale anche per Blood And Tears sorta di ballad fuori dal tempo nata sempre sotto l’influsso di Elvis.&lt;br /&gt;Tuttavia, ciò che emerge più prepotentemente è il ritratto di un artista sempre tormentato, che si aggira solo in un universo morale sempre più plumbeo; le stesse immagini del male sono ora metafore oniriche che talvolta lambiscono la paranoia.&lt;br /&gt;L’ “horror-core” dei Misfits, parodia degli anni ‘50, si trasfigura nel “folk-core”, ideale colonna sonora dei primi ‘90; come nel caso del cinema di serie B, anche la componente meta-culturale finisce col riempirsi di profonde valenze psicologiche, dove è sempre il dolore a regnare incontrastato.&lt;br /&gt;Anche un brano meno ispirato (Tired Of Being Alive) rivela una profonda disperazione esistenziale, emozioni vissute sulla propria pelle unite ad un horror interiore, uno spiritual orgiastico suonato in un bar dell’inferno da una banda di demoni invasati. In linea di massima, il disco esplode con una potenza ed un’intensità terrificanti; i vertici drammatici sono racchiusi nelle imitazioni più fedeli: Devil's Plaything ricorda Crystal Ship dei Doors, mentre Her Black Wings si avvicina all’isteria Dark di Nick Cave.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il terzo album - How The Gods Kill (Def American, 1992) - consolida il trademark del gruppo senza apportare sostanziali innovazioni al suono; le pachidermiche ritmiche stile Black Sabbath (Godless) si alternano a momenti di maggior tensione dal taglio - Led Zeppelin (Bodies, quasi un plagio di How Many More Times), ma Glenn Danzig, ormai istrione smaliziato, riesce ancora a comunicare una violentissima scossa emotiva anche nei contesti più easy, come nelle tragiche strofe di Anything (uno dei brani più radio friendly).&lt;br /&gt;E l’originario amore per il blues più luciferino (Heart Of The Devil) è sempre lì a dimostrarlo; l’apice è raggiunto con la ballata Sistinas; per una volta Danzig, messo da il parte machismo farsesco che spesso lo caratterizza, miscela Cave, Morrison e Presley per una discesa negli abissi più torbidi dell’umana psiche; il suo sinistro universo popolato di diavoli e freaks diventa una tetra allegoria e le canzoni fungono da meste parabole di vita, piuttosto che crude cronache di morte.&lt;br /&gt;Ed il paragone con le Murder Ballads di Nick Cave sembra azzeccato.&lt;br /&gt;Il seguente EP - Thralldemonsweatlive (American, 1993) - monetizza la popolarità del combo, pur non aggiungendo alcunché di significativo (solo due le nuove composizioni, It's Coming Down e The Violet Fire); il primo parto da solista di Glenn Danzig era invece arrivato l’anno precedente: Black Aria (Plan 9, 1992) una sorprendente, sinfonia classica strutturata in nove movimenti in cui il mastermind è affiancato dalle cantanti Janna Brown e Reneé Rubach; parte del materiale di questo album risale a registrazioni effettuate nel lontano 1987.&lt;br /&gt;Danzig 4 (American, 1994), il quarto album, segna decisamente il passo; la stasi creativa è rivestita da un vernissage di arrangiamenti più magniloquenti del solito, ma la sostanza non cambia. sconcertano le continue auto-citazioni e l’incapacità di proseguire il discorso dark/heavy/blues brillantemente intrapreso in precedenza; a salvarsi sono stavolta il primo singolo Cantspeak (tra loops e tastiere che contornano una maiuscola odissea vocale di Danzig) ed il trip hard/psycho di Sadistika, che riescono a sfruttare sapientemente le nuove tecnologie, senza snaturare un sound che dà preoccupanti segni di involuzione. Biscuits decide di mollare, seguito in rapida successione dagli altri componenti, lasciando il solo Glenn Danzig al timone di una band che naviga in acque sempre più agitate.&lt;br /&gt;Blackaciddevil (Hollywood, 1996), è il disco di rottura, sia con il nobile passato dark che con la vincente partnership Rick Rubin/American Recordings. Dismessa in toto la vecchia formazione e con le collaborazioni - purtroppo impalpabili - di Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains) prima e Tommy Victor (Prong) dopo, Danzig offre una colata di industrial/metal posticcio e scadente che in parte perpetra la vena sperimentale di IV; pochi sono i brani memorabili: il singolo Sacrifice, Power Of Darkness ed una stravolta cover di Hand Of Doom. L’inevitabile conseguenza è che il fedele seguito costruito in tanti anni di attività in studio e sul palco si mostra del tutto disinteressato ai nuovi Danzig, facendo sì che Blackaciddevil si riveli un disastro commerciale di proporzioni colossali.&lt;br /&gt;Del gruppo si perdono le tracce per circa tre anni, durante i quali l’instabilità della formazione raggiunge punti critici (si avvicendano alle chitarre Mark Chaussee, Dave Cushner e l’ex Pygmy Love Circus Jeff Chambers), con il solo Joey Castillo a fungere da stabile componente insieme al cantante (per un breve periodo anche il bassista - ex roadie - Josh Lazie lascia in favore di Rob Nicholson, prima di tornare sui suoi passi).&lt;br /&gt;Glenn Danzig ricompare finalmente nel 1999 con un nuovo, roccioso album - 6:66 Satan's Child (Nuclear Blast, 1999) - il primo ad essere inciso per una etichetta indipendente. L’iconografia satanica continua ad essere ostentata, rivelando una certa stanchezza di idee anche sotto il profilo estetico ed disco si dipana tra voglia di sonorità moderne e nostalgici richiami agli esordi. L’impressione generale è che proprio questi ultimi (le ottime ballate notturne Thirteen and Cold Eternal) forniscano motivo di interesse, a differenza dei brani più recenti (il singolo Belly Of The Beast, tormentone mortalmente deja vu).&lt;br /&gt;La formazione (Glenn Danzig, Josh Lazie, Jeff Chambers, Joey Castello) si sfalda poco dopo l’uscita dell’album: Chambers viene licenziato per problemi di immagine (?!) ed al suo posto entra Todd Youth, chitarrista dal curriculum punk/hardcore di tutto rispetto: Warzone, Agnostic Front, Murphy’s Law, D-Generation e Chrome Locust.&lt;br /&gt;Live On The Black Hand Side (Restless, 2001) è un doppio album dal vivo che giunge a colmare una lacuna nella discografia della band, cercando altresì di riconquistare quella fetta di pubblico che sembra non aver ancora perdonato ai Danzig la svolta industriale che ha caratterizzato la seconda fase della loro carriera.&lt;br /&gt;Ed infatti sono proprio le esibizioni del periodo 1992-94 quelle che lasciano il segno dimostrando una band compatta, musicalmente preparata e guidata da Glenn Danzig con l’usuale maestria; di contro, lo show risalente al 2000 fa apparire la band quasi come la parodia di se stessa, nonostante sia formata da smaliziati veterani della scena punk (Todd Youth, alla chitarra, Howie Pyro - ex The Blessed/D-Generation - al basso ed il batterista Joey Castillo - già con Wasted Youth/Sugartooth/Hide) che finiscono col fare la figura dei meri comprimari assoldati quasi in una cover band. Danzig continua a mostrare i muscoli, ma ormai sembra alla corda.&lt;br /&gt;Il successivo nuovo lavoro - 777 I Luciferi (Spitfire, 2002) - si riavvicina nuovamente alle sonorità 70s dei primi dischi, ma i risultati sono appena soddisfacenti; non basta una manciata di polverosi riffs presi a prestito per - l’ennesima volta - dai Black Sabbath (Kiss The Skull, Angel Blake) a nascondere una vena ormai prossima ad esaurirsi. Tanto meno entusiasma la copia carbone del motivo portante di Paint It Black propinato in Naked Witch. Alla fine proprio le belle aperture gotiche di Dead Inside e Coldest Sun (in assoluto il miglior brano del lotto) finiscono con l’annegare nella noia della maggior parte dei brani presenti; gli strumentisti continuano a svolgere diligentemente il proprio compito, Glenn Danzig cerca di dare ancora la zampata del vecchio leone, però la convinzione non sembra più quella di un tempo, come anche la voce.&lt;br /&gt;Lo stesso, testardo riproporre tematiche mefistofeliche (Black mass, I Luciferi) sembra una scelta legata più all’immagine da conservare che non una reale, convinta necessità ideologica; curiosamente, nella tournee di supporto, ad aprire sono i Samhain, riformati nel frattempo da Glenn Danzig insieme a Steve Zing e London May e protagonisti di una serie di concerti che riscuotono ottime critiche. Il classico “Samhain sound” diventa più heavy e preciso grazie all’essenziale chitarra di Todd Youth, che completa il gruppo; ovviamente il rischio del fenomeno revivalistico rimane evidente, ma la “sindrome da reunion a tutti i costi” - che tante vecchie glorie ha colpito negli ultimi anni - viene affrontata con dignità ed una sana dose di divertimento.&lt;br /&gt;Nel frattempo, dopo anni di battaglie legali relative all’ utilizzo del nome (e risoltesi in favore del bassista Jerry Only) sono resuscitati i Misfits, ovviamente orfani di Danzig, autori di quattro album (American Psycho - Geffen, 1997; Famous Monsters - Roadrunner, 2000 e Cuts From The Crypt - Geffen, 2002) dalle alterne fortune. I rinnovati Misfits (messi in piedi dopo il gran rifiuto di Dave Vanian dei Damned di prendere il posto di Glenn Danzig), tornano sulla breccia con un disco (Project 1950, Misfits Records/Rycodisk, 2003) che, messa da parte l’irruenza heavy/core, preferisce concentrarsi su un convincente recupero degli stilemi rock ’n' roll a velocità supersoniche. La loro formazione composta da Jerry Only (unico superstite dei membri fondatori), Dez Cadena (ex Black Flag) e Marky Ramone (Ramones) tuttavia avrà breve durata.&lt;br /&gt;Nel mentre, Glenn Danzig, escluso Joey Castillo (sostituito dapprima da Charlee X e poi da Johnny Kelly dei Type O Negative), decide di riesumare il suo gruppo, ripescando Tommy Victor ed inserendo il bassista Jerry Montano (ex Deadlights) insieme al batterista Bevan (ex Jerry Cantrell Band).&lt;br /&gt;Da questa nuova partnership nasce l’ottavo capitolo dei Danzig, Circle of Snakes (Evilive in America, Re-Again in Europa, 2004), accolto tiepidamente e passato completamente inosservato se non fosse per la tournee di supporto, dove l’opening act…sono i Misfits.&lt;br /&gt;Glenn, infatti, riappacificatosi, con Jerry Only, propone mezzora di classici senza tempo che, ironia della sorte, finiscono con l’esaltare il pubblico, più degli stessi headliner Danzig.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CM © 2006 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126430831325730?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126430831325730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126430831325730' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126430831325730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126430831325730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/glenn-danzig-biografia.html' title='Glenn Danzig - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126275264760628</id><published>2006-06-25T21:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T10:25:43.750+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Prong - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/1209_photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/1209_photo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tra i pionieri della fusione tra heavy metal, hardcore ed industrial non possono non essere annoverati i Prong. L’influenza da loro esercitata tanto su band alternative (Helmet, White Zombie) quanto sulle nuove sensazioni nu-metal (Fear Factory, Korn, Static X) è enorme, soprattutto per il concetto di ritmo da loro estremizzato.I Prong prendono forma nel 1985 nel Lower East Side di New York, ove la prima New Wave ha avuto la propria genesi: Tommy Victor (cantante-chitarrista) è uno degli ingegneri del suono presso il leggendario locale CG BG’s del quale Mike Kirkland (basso) è uno dei buttafuori mentre Ted Parsone (batteria) suona per tutte le bands prive di batterista. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="pri"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Nel primo LP, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Primitive Origins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Mr Bear, 1987), l’ibrido Thrash-Core dà luogo a sfuriate velocissime (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Denial&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) alternate a monoliti cadenzati (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Watching&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;In My Veins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) o dalla dinamica particolarmente complessa (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dreams Like That&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), segnata da vorticose svisate solistiche. Uno dei picchi del disco è la piece strumentale (&lt;strong&gt;Persecution&lt;/strong&gt;), una composizione tesissima che si snoda attraverso un heavy-blues incandescente come se i Led Zeppelin jammassero con i Metallica. Il funambolico Parsons dirige le danze del ritmo in pieno jazz style, Victor destruttura e ricostruisce i brani con accordi che richiamano Hendrix, Kirkland fornisce un adeguato contrappunto. L’album è accolto con unanime entusiasmo dalla critica, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="for"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;allo stesso modo della - impegnativa - seconda prova, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Force Fed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Spigot, 1988); le bordate metal tout court (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Aggravated Condition&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) sfociano nello Speed più intransigente e meno convenzionale (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Decay&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;). La vena sperimentale segna &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Force Fed&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (un turbinio di ritmi che si inseguono) e &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Primitive Origins&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, che forgia le nascenti sonorità industrial-metal, ma si esalta soprattutto in &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Look Up At The Sun&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, trip psichedelico iniettato d’acciaio. Questa volta i brani strumentali sono addirittura due (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Coliseum&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;It's Been Decided&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), sempre all’insegna di un melange che coinvolge Black Sabbath, Metallica ed influenze new wave che iniziano a delinearsi con sempre più frequenza. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Beg To Differ&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Epic, 1990) segna il passaggio alla major Sony e perfeziona il “Prong sound” attraverso una produzione più curata. Fondamentalmente si assiste ad un rallentamento dei tempi rispetto alla frenesia degli esordi ma si tratta pur sempre di un album dai forti tratti avanguardisti. Le parti strumentali sono ulteriormente dilatate da accordi irregolari e architetture ritmiche sincopate dettate dal binomio compositivo Victor-Parsons. Impressionano il brano omonimo (sorta di incontro/scontro tra Black Sabbath ed Einsturzende Neubauten), i riffs “a cascata” di &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;For Dear&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Life&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, i repentini stop &amp; go di &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prime Cut&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; e l’enfasi dell’ennesima strumentale (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Intermenstrual&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;).Il salto verso un suono ulteriormente maturo è rappresentato da &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prove You Wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Epic, 1991); il bassista Troy Gregory (ex Flotsam And Jetsam) subentra a Mike Kirkland, ma il panzer Prong prosegue incessante. Le soluzioni scelte restano eterodosse in canzoni che tentano la strada del ritornello più catchy (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unconditional&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hell If I Could&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), ovviamente sempre in chiave ultra metal grazie alla titanica produzione di Mark Dodson. La sperimentazione prosegue con la tribale &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Irrelevant Thoughts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shouldn't Have Bothered&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, permeata di funky nevrotico e nella scelta di omaggiare gli Stranglers in una coinvolgente versione di &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Get A Grip (On Yourself)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="pro"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Il coraggioso EP successivo, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whose Fist Is This Aanyway?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Epic, 1994), riveste un’importanza capitale per le sorti delle sonorità degli anni ‘90 in quanto inaugura ufficialmente la moda del remix techno; Paul Raven (Killing Joke) e Jim Thirlwell/AKA Foetus remixano alcuni brani acuendo la vocazione danzereccia di &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Prove You Wrong&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a name="cle"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Mai nessuna metal band si era spinta tanto oltre verso la frontiera dell’elettronica. Il nuovo album, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cleansing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Epic, 1994) presenta due novità di rilievo: la terremotante produzione di Terry Date e l’inserimento di due ex membri degli idoli Killing Joke (Paul Raven - che sostituisce Gregory - al basso e John Bechdel ai campionamenti); il gruppo vira ulteriormente verso modelli dark-wave, anche se il disco risulta uno dei più “pesanti” della loro intera carriera. Inevitabilmente l’influenza dei Killing Joke emerge con forza (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Broken Piece&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;), ma i germi dell’originalità affiorano ancora una volta (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Out Of This Misery&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) e centrano il bersaglio con la deragliante &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whose Fist Is This Anyway&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - quasi un boogie degli ZZ Top elevato all’ennesima potenza, nel brano manifesto &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Snap Your Fingers Snap Your Neck&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - un classico delle loro esibizioni dal vivo e nel thrash oltranzista di &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cut-rate&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, che presenta influenze dei Megadeth nella chitarra di Victor. Piace anche &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Not This Earth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, andamento da ballad strascicata stile Bauhaus permeata dalla profonda cupezza tipica del dark inglese (Joy Division). Di contro, la componente elettronica non è mai invadente, semmai accennata, chiamata talvolta ad impreziosire le trame.Ted Parsons si produce in una performance da applausi risultando il degno erede di Ginger Baker e Neil Peart in virtù di un approccio estremamente tecnico, ma sempre finalizzato alla forma-canzone. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rude&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Awakening&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Epic, 1996), rappresenta l’apice dello stile della band. Terry Date forgia un suono pesantissimo e super-rifinito dove l’elettronica non fa più soltanto capolino ma emerge con prepotenza nei bellissimi campionamenti firmati da Charlie Clouser dei Nine Inch Nails. I brani sono indissolubilmente legati sotto forma di concept album e rappresentano un autentico campionario di perle: dall’opener &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Controller &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;(Prodigy meets Metallica?) alla title-track (vero inno alla disperazione), sino a &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unfortunately&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; e &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dark Signs&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. Ad un simile sforzo creativo non corrisponde un adeguato spinta promozionale della Epic-Sony che, ad un mese dall’uscita dell’album, decide di abbandonare il gruppo a se stesso. Di fronte ad un tracollo organizzativo di tali proporzioni (la band perde contratto e management) i Prong alzano bandiera bianca; Tommy Victor ne approfitta iniziando fugaci collaborazioni con Danzig prima e Rob Zombie poi, mentre di Ted Parsons si perdono letteralmente le tracce.Dopo molti anni di silenzio, Victor - che per alcuni anni ha abbandonato completamente la scena - resuscita la sua creatura. Purtroppo ad affiancarlo non è l’insostituibile Parsons (nel frattempo trasferitosi in Norvegia) ma una band nuova di zecca con la quale pubblica il live &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;100%&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (Locomotive, 2003), rilettura un po’ stanca dei vecchi classici.Partner compositivo di Victor diventa il quotato Monte Pittman (chitarrista della band di Madonna) ma il nuovo studio-album (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scorpio Rising&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Locomotive, 2003) delude le aspettative; complice una produzione “povera” che accentua parecchio il ridimensionamento nonché una line-up di onesti mestieranti, i Prong degli anni 2000 sembrano solo la copia sbiadita del gruppo innovativo che furono un tempo. Non bastano varie tournee (di cui una supporto agli agonizzanti Anthrax) a sensibilizzare il grande pubblico, che li accoglie tiepidamente. Di qui la decisione di Victor di riunirsi a Glenn Danzig per una collaborazione che stavolta sia più incisiva della precedente. Recentemente, inoltre, è riemerso anche Ted Parsone, impegnato dietro i tamburi dei Killing Joke nella tournee che è seguita al disco della reunion (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Killing Joke&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, Zuma-Sony, 2003). Le ultime notizie danno Tommy Victor nuovamente impegnato nelle registrazioni di un nuovo album dei Prong con una formazione ancora tutta da decifrare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© CM 2006&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126275264760628?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126275264760628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126275264760628' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126275264760628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126275264760628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/prong-biografia.html' title='Prong - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126213476889858</id><published>2006-06-25T21:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T12:03:51.906+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Megadeth - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/pic_band20.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/pic_band20.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/Megadeth_logo_chrome.0.png"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/Megadeth_logo_chrome.0.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Dave Mustaine è uno degli inventori delle sonorità Thrash Metal, senza ombra di dubbio una delle personalità maggiormente dotate di carisma e talento in una scena letteralmente costruita sulle fondamenta gettate dai suoi gruppi, i Metallica e - soprattutto - i Megadeth.&lt;br /&gt;Estromesso polemicamente dai primi nel 1983, Mustaine (affiancato dal batterista Mike Leswick e dal chitarrista Robbie Cromwell) dà vita ai Fallen Angels, un ensemble che dura soltanto sei mesi, abbandonato per concentrarsi sulla nuova creatura, i Megadeth. Di questi ultimi fanno inizialmente parte il vicino di casa David Ellefson (basso), Lee Rash (batteria) ed, addirittura, Kerry King (chitarra), che milita nell’altra band estrema della Los Angeles del periodo: gli Slayer.&lt;br /&gt;Dopo alcune urticanti apparizioni dal vivo ed il primo episodio di una girandola di avvicendamenti nella line-up che diventerà purtroppo una costante (Chris Poland subentra a King che decide di concentrarsi sul suo gruppo principale, mentre Rash è sostituito da Gar Samuelson), i Megadeth danno alle stampe l’album di debutto. Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good (Combat, 1985), inficiato da una produzione deficitaria (oltre che da un songwriting ancoro acerbo), non regge però il confronto con l’opera prima dei rivali Metallica (Kill’em all, Megaforce, 1983).&lt;br /&gt;E’ la prestazione dietro il microfono di Mustaine a non convincere: le sue rauche urla male si sposano con sferraglianti cavalcate in pieno stile N.W.O.B.H.M. (Loved To Death, una delle più riuscite) ed anche gli arrangiamenti non sono adeguatamente curati (se non in The Skull Beneath The Skin od in Mechanix, variante di uno dei primi brani dei Metallica, Jump In The Fire). Tutto ciò non impedisce al disco di diventare un autentico caso: il passaparola underground tra i fans, sempre affamati di sonorità oltranziste, porta alla vendita di oltre 200.000 copie ed i Megadeth sono messi sotto contratto dalla major Capitol.&lt;br /&gt;La conseguenza più immediata è che il secondo album - Peace Sells…but Who’s Buying? (Capitol, 1986) - rappresenta un enorme salto di qualità. Aiutati dalla valida produzione dell’esperto Randy Burns i Megadeth danno alle stampe quello che - a ragione - dovrebbe essere considerato il loro “vero” album d’esordio. Le trame di chitarra acquistano rilievo strumentale, una Babele di intrecci ritmici e melodie sofferte che, negli anni, diventerà un trademark inimitabile; Mustaine convince sia per una - pressoché inedita - enfasi vocale che per composizioni dinamiche ed originali. Con i singoli Wake Up Dead e Peace Sells sino a Devil’s Island passando per My Last Words (bordata Speed al cardiopalma), il gruppo dimostra una coesione notevole, accostabile soltanto a quella dei contemporanei Metallica. Dal punto di vista dei temi trattati Mustaine mette da parte alcuni clichè tipici del “Rock duro” per concentrarsi su argomenti più reali (vedasi l’impegnata title track). Brillante poi la rilettura di I Ain’t Superstitions, un classico di Willie Dixon, ibrido Blues-Speed Metal che svela uno dei tanti lati nascosti della multiforme personalità del fulvo cantante.&lt;br /&gt;Due anni dopo - pericolosamente vissuti, in quanto l’intera band è afflitta da gravi problemi di dipendenza da droghe - arriva So far… So Good… So What (Capitol, 1988), terza fatica sulla lunga distanza preceduta da un terremoto nella formazione: Poland e Samuelson sono bruscamente licenziati per far posto a Jeff Young e Chuck Behler. I rinnovati Megadeth si ripresentano con un altro colpo vincente; il solismo fusion di Young ben si coniuga con quello di Mustaine ed i brani sono un susseguirsi di emozioni forti. Da Mary Jane alla drammatica In My Darkest Hour (sentito omaggio tributato a Cliff Burton, morto due anni prima) fino a Set The World On Fire e Anarchy in the UK (reprise del celebre inno degli idoli Sex Pistols con l’ospite Steve Jones), che diventa un hit da Top 20 nella classifica inglese.&lt;br /&gt;Coinvolta in un’estenuante tournee mondiale (e nei soliti guai con gli stupefacenti) la band si sfalda perdendo sia Young che Samuelson; Mustaine - sempre in compagnia del fidato Ellefson - si barcamena con una cover di Alice Cooper (No More Mr. Nice Guy) prodotta, tra mille litigi, dal Re Mida del Pop-Metal (Desmond Child) e presente nella colonna sonora di uno dei film più visti nel 1989: Shocker.&lt;br /&gt;E’ proprio grazie a questo stratagemma che i Megadeth sopravvivono conservando una certa visibilità sino al 1990. Seppur alle prese con il ricorrente problema-droga Mustaine cerca di rifondare la sua creatura. Dopo aver incassato i secchi rifiuti dei chitarristi Jeff Waters (Annihilator) e Dimebag Darrell (Pantera), sono prescelti due musicisti di assoluto spessore: il virtuoso della sei corde Marty Friedman (ex Hawaii e Cacophony) ed il batterista di estrazione jazz Nick Menza (in precedenza roadie degli stessi Megadeth e già dietro i tamburi su No More Mr. Nice Guy).&lt;br /&gt;I risultati gli danno pienamente ragione. Rust In Peace (Capitol, 1990), forte dell’ intervento di Mike Clink dietro la consolle, è uno dei più bei dischi di Thrash Metal degli anni ‘90.&lt;br /&gt;Le parti ritmiche appaiono in continua evoluzione formando un’ architettura complessa e serratissima nella quale ogni nota è pensata con furia maniacale. Friedman impazza con fraseggi ed assoli da brivido (la celeberrima Hangar 18, un tour de force di violenza ed armonia tuttora ineguagliato), Menza ed Ellefson conducono le danze con precisione e stile (Dawn Patrol), Mustaine prorompe nel suo efficace grido strozzato (l’iper-tecnica Holy Wars…The Punishment Due e Tornado Of Souls). Della brillantezza della scrittura ne beneficiano anche le liriche imperniate su tematiche religiose (Holy Wars…The Punishment Due), science-fiction (Hangar 18), esoteriche (Five Magics) o fortemente personali (l’amarissima Lucretia, quasi una confessione di Mustaine).&lt;br /&gt;Sulla spinta di entusiastiche reazioni di stampa e pubblico, i “nuovi” Megadeth affrontano nuovamente le platee statunitense ed europea, dapprima col il Clash Of The Titans Tour (dividendo il palco con Alice In Chains, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, Testament e Slayer), poi da headliner ed, infine, come una delle principali attrazioni del Monsters Of Rock del 1992 nel quale presentano i brani del quinto LP: Countdown To Extinction (Capitol, 1992). Quest’ultimo, rispetto al predecessore, presenta un notevole rallentamento dei ritmi (i mid-tempos prevalgono nettamente sulle usuali sfuriate) cui corrisponde una certosina perfezione degli arrangiamenti ed impone tre singoli da Top 20 (Symphony Of Destruction, Skin O’ My Teeth e la semi ballad ecologista Foreclosure Of A Dream) divenendo il primo vero successo di massa per i Megadeth. Complice la produzione di Max Norman, l’esuberanza tecnica è messa in secondo piano in favore di un approccio più diretto, maggiormente interessato a brani di senso compiuto e profondo respiro, piuttosto che a mere acrobazie strumentali.&lt;br /&gt;Mustaine dimostra di aver imparato a modulare il suo timbro allo stesso modo di quanto fatto nel corso degli anni da James Hetfield ed in effetti le similitudini con “gli ex nemici” Metallica (per i quali fungono da gruppo di apertura in vari concerti in Europa) iniziano a far capolino per poi sfociare definitivamente in Youthanasia (Capitol, 1994), sorta di “Black album” dei Megadeth. La volontà di strizzar l’occhio alle classifiche è evidente in una manciata di brani impeccabili (Reckoning Day, Train Of Consequences, I Thought I Knew It All e la nuova ballata A Tout Le Monde) ma che cominciano a far mormorare i fans di vecchia data. Questa scelta, comunque, si dimostra la più opportuna per Mustaine e soci che sbancano nuovamente le charts, confermandosi come una delle band leader non solo della scena Metal, ma ormai anche di quella Rock.&lt;br /&gt;L’anno successivo esce Hidden Treasures (Capitol, 1995), raccolta di brani tratti da colonne sonore e cover di Black Sabbath (una scolastica rilettura di Paranoid) e Sex Pistols (Problems).&lt;br /&gt;Seguendo un iter stilistico prossimo a quello dei Metallica, i Megadeth pubblicano in seguito Cryptic Writings (Capitol, 1997), sempre all’insegna di un approccio melodico e meditato (l’ottima Trust, dove compaiono sorprendenti partiture affidate ad archi), in chiave più hard che metal (Almost Honest e Have Cool Wll Travel). Il suono - levigato all’ inverosimile dal produttore Dan Huff - assume quasi toni da Rock FM (l’ennesima ballad, l’orchestrale Use The Man) ed incontra immediatamente i favori del pubblico statunitense che ne decreta il successo a differenza di quello europeo.&lt;br /&gt;La rottura definitiva con i fans degli esordi è ormai alle porte e giunge con l’ottavo album Risk (Capitol, 1999) che segna un’ulteriore novità: l’ingresso del nuovo batterista Jimmy DeGrasso (ex Y&amp;T, White Lion) in luogo di Menza. La conversione all’Hard Rock melodico da classifica pare quasi il disperato tentativo di salvare una carriera che non è mai riuscita a raggiungere il livello degli “amici/nemici” Metallica. Mustaine ha ormai chiuso con le droghe, ha messo su famiglia e vorrebbe semplicemente riuscire ad imporsi oltre l’audience Metal, anche per questo scrive ben cinque brani assieme al manager Bud Prager (cui sarà dato il benservito di lì a poco).&lt;br /&gt;Il primo singolo (Crush ‘Em, un Boogie Rock tronfio e privo di mordente) è l’avvisaglia che stavolta qualcosa non torna. Ed infatti Risk flirta in maniera imbarazzante con gli stili più disparati - dai Bon Jovi agli Stone Temple Pilots per finire ai Nine Inch Nails - centrifugandoli in un insieme spesso confuso (Insomnia).&lt;br /&gt;Neanche la ballad di turno (Breadline) riesce a risollevare un livello generale che si attesta sulla mediocrità ed il grosso pubblico, per la prima volta, volta le spalle ai Megadeth che, abbandonati anche da Friedman, sono scaricati dalla Capitol (che nel 2000 pubblica la trascurabile raccolta Capitol Punishment) ed approdano alla Sanctuary.&lt;br /&gt;Ridimensionate le proprie ambizioni (egualmente ai Metallica, scivolati a loro volta verso improbabili derive Rock con Load e Re-load), Mustaine chiama il chitarrista Al Pitrelli (Asia, Widowmaker, Savatage) a condividere le responsabilità chitarristiche.&lt;br /&gt;Il primo parto di questo nuovo sodalizio è il doppio album dal vivo Rude Awakening (Metal Is, 2000), penalizzato da una registrazione poco incisiva che mette in risalto la carenza di amalgama di un gruppo ormai in crisi; l’agonia si protrae nel successivo lavoro in studio (The World Needs A Hero, Metal is, 2001), mesto tentativo di recuperare i vecchi aficionados che, però, non concedono la prova d’appello. Burning Bridges cerca - invano - di ripercorrere l’epicità degli esordi, Dread And The Fugitive Mind alza i ritmi ma è impalpabile, Return To The Hangar - strombazzato seguito della storica Hangar 18 - si trascina stancamente tra svisate solistiche poco ispirate. Come da tradizione, Mustaine non accenna a cedere lo scettro della leadership compositiva ad alcuno (nel caso Pitrelli, che co-firma soltanto un’anonima canzone) ed il disco registra un fortissimo contraccolpo nelle vendite inducendo la band all’inevitabile scioglimento.&lt;br /&gt;Tuttavia nel 2003, Mustaine, liquidato lo storico partner Ellefson, resuscita i Megadeth, coadiuvato dal ritrovato Chris Poland e dal turnista Vinnie Colaiuta.&lt;br /&gt;Il frutto di questa collaborazione è The System Has Failed (Sanctuary 2004), buon ritorno a sonorità oltranziste, eseguito ineccepibilmente, seppur non memorabile dal punto di vista compositivo, che consente a Mustaine di imbarcarsi nell’ ennesima, estenuante, tournee. In questa, è affiancato stavolta dai fratelli Glen (chitarra) e Shawn Drover (batteria), onesti mestieranti prelevati dai carneadi canadesi Eidolon nonché da James MacDonnough, ex bassista in precedenza in forza agli Iced Earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© CM 2006 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126213476889858?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126213476889858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126213476889858' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126213476889858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126213476889858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/megadeth-biografia.html' title='Megadeth - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126198988231912</id><published>2006-06-25T20:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T12:00:03.503+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Portishead - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/portishead.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/portishead.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definire la proposta dei Portishead - il nome è quello di un quartiere di Bristol - come semplice Trip Hop equivarrebbe a limitarne l’importanza filologica; in realtà, le loro non sono semplici canzoni, bensì mini sinfonie, colonne sonore di film costruiti sulle nevrosi quotidiane ed ambientati nelle realtà suburbane. Se è quindi innegabile che rappresentino la band leader - se non addirittura quella originatrice - dello stile Trip Hop, è altrettanto vero che si spingono ben oltre i limiti di un genere definito. Formati da Geoff Barrow (produttore ed autore per Neneh Cherry del brano Sunday), l’ingegnere del suono Dave McDonald, il chitarrista di estrazione Jazz Adrian Utley e la magnetica vocalist Beth Gibbons, rappresentano il classico esempio di come quattro personalità alquanto eterogenee possano dar vita a qualcosa di assolutamente originale. L’album d’esordio, Dummy (Go Disc, 1994), è una collezione di mantra crepuscolari che rimodellano stilemi presi direttamente a prestito da compositori quali Angelo Badalamenti, David Arnold e Barry Adamson, rivisti in un’ottica neo-Soul (l’ugola della Gibbons) ed ammantati di un perfezionismo tecnologico (scratch, basi campionate, frammenti lounge anni 60) dove lo studio di registrazione diventa protagonista alla pari degli altri strumenti usuali. Roads è puro melodramma cinematico: archi maestosi spezzati da chitarre fluttuanti che contornano il glaciale sussurro della Gibbons, quasi una Sade in versione Dark. Mysterons è elettronica da camera, It's A Fire è scandita da un organo di chiesa gospel, Strangers è un gioco di incastri tra soul d’annata, echi e poli-ritmi. Sour Times ricorda le composizioni orchestrali di Nino Rota rinforzate da puntuali interventi della chitarra di Utley, Numb è costruita su plumbei tempi Dub affini ai concittadini Massive Attack mentre la conclusiva Glory Box è un Blues hi-tech, ideale tributo a Bessie Smith e Billie Holliday. Non sorprende che un disco di tale spessore superi il milione di copie vendute, nonostante il gruppo si rifiuti di pagar pegno alle necessità estetico-visive (rarissime le foto promozionali, altrettanto assenti gli usuali gossip, assai spartane le esibizioni dal vivo, con una Gibbons perennemente aggrappata al microfono). Il successivo Portishead (Go Beat, 1997), accentua ulteriormente la cupezza di fondo. Le liriche diventano ancora più amare (Undenied, uno dei brani più pessimisti della loro intera produzione), la componente Jazz viene accentuata (la stupenda All Mine e Western Eyes) e sconfina ora nel requiem Blues (Over, ballad da giorno del Giudizio Universale) ora nel dramma teatrale (Humming). La trasversalità stilistica che aveva contraddistinto l’album d’esordio ha un degno seguito in Half Day Closing, un pastiche sonoro composto da mille e più frammenti (patterns percussivi, diverso registro canoro, chitarre multiformi) che si incastrano come in un mosaico bizantino. Rispetto a Dummy si nota una volontà di allontanarsi dai clichè dell’elettronica in favore di una maggiore ricercatezza trans-generica, per un suono probabilmente meno caldo ma infinitamente più cerebrale (ovviamente sempre nel classico contesto della forma-canzone) che cela una profonda ricchezza intellettuale (i campionamenti rimangono curati con assoluta maniacalità). Beth Gibbons, più che un’algida musa incastonata tra battute in bassa frequenza, sembra una folk-singer tormentata trapiantata in un ambito di avanguardia electro; conseguentemente, tanto il grande pubblico che lo - sterminato - stuolo di imitatori ne rimangono disorientati. Dato alle stampe un disco dal vivo (Roseland NYC Live, Go Beat, 1998) la band scompare nuovamente tra le nebbie della natia Bristol, dispersa in un prolungato hiatus interrotto soltanto da alcune uscite solistiche. Nel 1999, infatti, Adrian Utley mette in circolazione un EP - Warminster (Ochre, 1999) - indirizzato verso l’elettronica più sperimentale.Tre anni dopo, Beth Gibbons, affiancata da Paul Webb (compositore degli &lt;a href="http://www.scaruffi.com/vol6/orang.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;O’Rang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;), realizza Out Of Season (Go Beat, 2002), un lavoro atemporale e completamente fuori dalle mode, pregno di magniloquenti suggestioni orchestrali (Mysteries) e richiami all’epoca dell’easy listening (Tom The Model, Romance); l’amore per il Jazz da night-club fumoso riemerge invece nella superba Show. I Portishead sono da tempo impegnati nelle registrazioni del terzo album, la cui data di uscita ha già subito parecchi posticipi e rimane al momento sconosciuta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© CM 2006&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126198988231912?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126198988231912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126198988231912' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126198988231912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126198988231912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/portishead-biografia.html' title='Portishead - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126172667598395</id><published>2006-06-25T20:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T22:02:56.446+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Slayer new album, Christ Illusion</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/christillusionbig.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/christillusionbig.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Slayer, &lt;em&gt;Christ Illusion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Release date:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;August 8th 2006&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Produced by Rick Rubin &amp;amp; Josh Abraham&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Line-up: Tom Araya, Jeff Hanneman, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tracklist:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;01 Flesh Storm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;02 Catalyst&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;03 Eyes of the Insane &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;04 Jihad &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;05 Skeleton Christ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;06 Consfearacy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;07 Black Serenade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;08 Catatonic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;09 Cult &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;10 Supremist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"People won’t be disappointed. We’re not going to come out with something completely different." (Tom Araya) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"It's fast, heavy — maybe faster than anything we've done before. It's going to be brutal. It's what everyone expects from a Slayer record." (Tom Araya)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126172667598395?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126172667598395/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126172667598395' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126172667598395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126172667598395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/slayer-new-album-christ-illusion.html' title='Slayer new album, Christ Illusion'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126134839402529</id><published>2006-06-25T20:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T21:01:11.130+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Slayer - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/SlayerLogo1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/SlayerLogo1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/sssssssssssssssssss.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/sssssssssssssssssss.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Gli Slayer nascono nel 1982 ad Huntington Beach, L.A., in California proponendosi come la risposta statunitense al primordiale Black Metal dei britannici Venom. Fondati dal bassista-cantante Tom Araya insieme ai chitarristi Kerry King (già nei Megadeth) e Jeff Hanneman (cui si aggiungerà in seguito il batterista Dave Lombardo), conquistano immediatamente l'immaginario dei ragazzi nutriti con horror movies e fumetti splatter attraverso una serie di canzoni ispirate palesemente al male espresso nelle sue forme più sordide. Il primo album, Show No Mercy (Metal Blade, 1983) è ancora piuttosto acerbo. Evil Has No Boundaries è estremismo sonoro alquanto dozzinale, derivativo della New Wave Of British Heavy Metal pur se tremendamente malvagio. Tuttavia, le composizioni più virulente, come The Anti-Christ e Die By The Sword, fanno presagire un’evoluzione che, negli anni, si realizzerà compiutamente. Le bordate di Chemical Warfare e Captor Of Sin dell’EP Haunting The Chapel (Metal Blade, 1984) fomentano velocemente un passaparola tra i fans che inizia ad assumere connotati sempre più ampi.Il secondo LP, Hell Awaits (Metal Blade, 1985), è un successo underground da oltre 100. 000 copie nei soli Stati Uniti. Il suono diventa maggiormente curato, soprattutto a livello chitarristico e vocale, Lombardo spinge ancora di più sull’acceleratore, i temi trattati rimangono mortalmente oscuri. Reign In Blood (Def Jam, 1986) esplode in soli ventinove minuti lanciando la band nel Metal-rama internazionale. La furia Speed della controversa Angel Of Death (che illustra le gesta di Josef Mengele) e Postmortem non è solo parossismo iper-cinetico, ma anche letale come una pugnalata e trae linfa vitale dalle choccanti rappresentazioni visive dei contemporanei (WASP, primi Motley Crue). Brani assolutamente frenetici come Altar Of Sacrifice sono documentari di raccapriccianti cerimoniali satanici proiettati a velocità siderali mentre Raining Blood terrorizza come se il giorno del giudizio universale fosse ormai imminente. Reign In Blood diventa una delle pietre miliari del genere (grazie anche al produttore Rick Rubin, che li seguirà per il successivo decennio) e raggiunge velocemente le 500.000 copie vendute. Il successo crescente non impedisce però a Lombardo, insoddisfatto per i rapporti con i suoi colleghi, di mollare tutto (sarà sostituito per una manciata di date dall’ex Whiplash Tony Scaglione, ma tornerà presto sulla sua decisione). South Of Heaven (Def Jam, 1988) riduce parecchio la velocità di esecuzione, suscitando qualche critica. Il brano omonimo si dipana tra ritmi più particolari e le consuete, agghiaccianti, urla belluine; il cambiamento si ripercuote soprattutto sul forsennato drumming di Lombardo, un modello di dinamismo tutt’oggi insuperato. Ciò nonostante, il senso di morte e la disperazione senza tempo continuano a permeare brani quali Mandatory Suicide, autentico catalogo di orrori inenarrabili; come il predecessore, il disco diventa d’oro negli States.Il quinto album, Seasons In The Abyss (Def American, 1990), regge appieno il confronto con i due formidabili precedenti; War Ensemble e Spirit In Black, nonché la morbosa Dead Skin Mask (ispirata al serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer), entrano a far parte del repertorio classico. La title-track, che sperimenta lugubri arpeggi e rallentamenti da brivido, diventa un videoclip ambientato in Egitto; S.I.A. supera il milione di copie divenendo il primo disco di platino degli Slayer. Live - Decade Of Aggression (Def American, 1992) cattura fedelmente la band dal vivo. Si spengono le luci dello spettacolo tipiche di certo Heavy Metal degli anni ‘80 eclissate in un’atmosfera da incubo lovecrafthiano; terrificanti le versioni di Angel Of Death, War Ensemble, Postmortem e Black Magick. Altrettanto impressionante è la partecipazione del pubblico incisa tra questi solchi, una comunione, indissolubile e sconsacrata, tra sacerdoti ed adepti che conduce al secondo disco di platino. Quasi contemporaneamente, riemergono quegli antichi dissapori tra Lombardo ed i suoi colleghi che conducono all’ennesimo allontanamento del batterista, sostituito da Paul Bostaph (ex Forbidden); il suo esordio è su una cover degli Exploited (Disorder) facente parte della colonna sonora del film Judgment Night; il duetto con il rapper Ice T apre la strada al nascente crossover tra Hip Hop ed Heavy Metal.Divine Intervention (American, 1995) ribadisce un successo ormai planetario. Se Sex Murder art ripropone un tema discutibile (quelli di omicidio), Dittohead e Serenity In Murder sono costruiti su mid tempos ferali dall’impatto più immediato. L' lp debutta incredibilmente al N ° 8 della classifica di Billboard e Bostaph decide che è già arrivato il momento di lasciare; dietro i tamburi si accomoda John Dette (ex Testament). Undisputed Attitude (American, 1996) presenta il lato maggiormente celato del gruppo che flirta con brani Punk/Hardcore (mai sopita passione di Hanneman e convince appieno anche i più scettici. Sei mesi dopo l’uscita del disco Dette è licenziato per far posto al rientrante Bostaph.Diabolus In Musica (Columbia, 1998) si dimostra, però, un lavoro interlocutorio. La pesantezza sonora non è assolutamente in discussione, ma l’alternanza tra brani veloci ed altri maggiormente rallentati fa intravedere qualche indecisione a livello di ispirazione; anche la partnership con Rick Rubin dà segni di stanchezza e le vendite subiscono un contraccolpo. God Hates Us All (American, 2001) segna il brillante esordio di Matt Hyde dietro il mixer e, di conseguenza, il monolitico “Slayer sound” viene in parte aggiornato. All’ originaria potenza Metal si aggiunge una componente Hardcore (soprattutto a livello vocale), verniciata da una produzione moderna e tagliente. Brani come Disciple, New Faith e Bloodline, si impongono come nuovi classici per un gruppo nuovamente ispirata e furente on stage come pochi altri.Di lì a poco, Bostaph deciderà di mollare per far posto all’acclamato rientro del transfuga Lombardo in una mirabile serie di esibizioni dal vivo che rialzano l’interesse verso il gruppo (oltre 200.000 le copie vendute). La formazione originale degli Slayer pubblica in questi giorni il nuovo disco (Christ Illusion), preceduto dai DVD War At The Warfield, Reign In Blood: Still Reigning e dal box quintuplo Soundtrack For The Apocalypse, sorta di greatest hits formato maxi, arricchito da bonus tracks, demos etc. La musica degli Slayer non è definibile del terrore, bensì dell’orrore. E’ un’analisi fredda e razionale della paura inflitta da uomini a loro simili; le drammatiche atmosfere delle loro canzoni mirano a sottolineare il lato oscuro dell'esistenza, destinata a vivere dell’odio che la stessa fomenta. Etimologicamente, l’ horror degli Slayer trae sostanza dalla realtà quotidiana maggiormente recondita, dai capitoli più bui della storia dell’umanità. In tal senso si qualifica come un’astrazione metafisica della condizione umana, proponendosi in modo diametralmente opposto al grand guignol meramente teatrale delle bands di Los Angeles ed aprendo la grande stagione del Death Metal floridiano e scandinavo dei primi anni 90. In precedenza, né la tensione ancestrale dei Black Sabbath tanto meno la sulfurea malignità dei Venom si erano spinte sin qui varcando l’abisso che separa la realtà dall’incubo e viceversa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;© &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CM 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126134839402529?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126134839402529/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126134839402529' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126134839402529'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126134839402529'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/slayer-biografia.html' title='Slayer - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115126089538204560</id><published>2006-06-25T20:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T12:02:17.860+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fear Factory - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/promo_3_full.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/promo_3_full.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/ff.0.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/ff.0.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I Fear Factory si formano a Los Angeles nel 1990 per mano di Dino Cazares (chitarra), Burton C. Bell (cantante) e Raymond Herrera (batteria). Gli affreschi sonori realizzati nel primo album - Soul Of A New Machine (Roadrunner, 1992) - costituiranno il diktat ideologico-musicale per la nascente generazione cyber-punk. Plasmati dall’esperta mano del produttore Colin Richardson, i ritmi post-Grind si frammentano lasciando spesso campo alla pura angoscia esistenziale dettata dalle glaciali cadenze dell’Industrial music. La disperazione cantata dai Fear Factory eguaglia l’impatto fisico di gruppi come i Napalm Death, suonando addirittura più terroristica. Il loro pantheon infernale non è circoscritto al ruggito primordiale Death Metal di Leechmaster e Lifeblind; la carica di Scapegoat è una scudisciata d’indicibile potenza; Martyr (chitarra usata chirurgicamente su vocalizzi simil gregoriani) e Self immolation presentano germi di originalità che saranno saccheggiati da tante altre bands, mentre Scumgrief è una cinica visione apocalittica. C’è sincero, cupo malessere esistenziale dietro queste detonazioni sonore; stupiscono le metamorfosi vocali di Bell: Crisis è fondamentalmente un duello tra un angelo ed un demone affrontato dal medesimo, tormentato protagonista. Fear Is The Mindkiller (Roadrunner, 1993) è la successiva, rischiosissima, evoluzione: un mini album di remix assemblato da Rhys Fulber e Bill Leeb dei Front Line Assembly. Da un punto di vista meramente cuilturale si tratta di un’opera che non è esagerato definire pionieristica: dopo i Prong, un’altra metal band si affranca dai pregiudizi tipici del genere per abbracciare la dj culture. Il disco successivo - Demanufacture (Roadrunner, 1995) - prodotto da Rhys Fulber - segna l’ingresso del bassista definitivo (il belga Christian Olde Wolbers) e, soprattutto, la nascita ufficiale del cyber-metal. Demanufacture è un’alternanza di accelerazioni hardcore e stacchi di ampio respiro; Self Bias Resistor diventerà un richiestissimo anthem dei loro concerti; Zero Signal è come se Vangelis suonasse con i Pantera; PissChrist è una mitragliata culminante in un crescendo altamente drammatico; la conclusiva A Therapy For Pain è catarsi in sinfonia dark. La musica non sembra nemmeno provenire da esseri umani bensì da macchine che non lasciano scampo, in particolare la batteria di Herrera, un propulsore ritmico che estremizza la lezione di Dave Lombardo. Il campionario dei Fear Factory è fuori discussione: la voce di Bell si trasforma da grugnito primitivo a tono crepuscolare stile Nick Cave (l’hit underground Replica); la cover degli inglesi Head Of David (formazione pre-Godflesh), Dog Day Sunrise, dimostra, inoltre, come i Fear Factory siano profondi conoscitori della materia e non meri calligrafi. Remanufacture (Roadrunner, 1997) completa il cammino iniziato con Fear Is The Mindkiller: Si tratta, infatti, di un remix-album griffato da Rhys Fulber, Junkie XL, DJ Dano e Kingsize, nonostante la validità del quale il conservatore pubblico Metal continua a storcere il naso. Il seguente LP - Obsolete (Roadrunner, 1998) - è una ri-proposizione - complice la produzione di Fulber - non particolarmente aggiornata del “FF sound”. Shock e Hi-tech Hate sembrano outtakes di Demanufacture, Timelessness (in cui compare un’orchestra) e la melodica Resurrection cercano di esplorare nuovi orizzonti, riuscendoci però solo parzialmente, nonostante l’ambiziosa struttura dell’ album (un concept chiaramente ispirato alle saghe di Philip K. Dick). Il singolo di turno è Edgecrusher, completato da un bell’inserto di scratch ma i Fear Factory arrivano a vendere 500.000 negli States solo grazie all’EP seguente (Cars) che riesuma in chiave Metal un vecchio brano del nume tutelare Gary Numan, facendone il loro unico, vero hit. Digimortal (Roadrunner, 2001) è annunciato come un best seller ma fallisce clamorosamente: gli arrangiamenti non convincono ed il gruppo si limita a rivisitare idee e suoni già noti. Questa volta anche la produzione di Fulber (cui il gruppo si rivolge dopo aver incassato il rifiuto di Bob Rock) si limita a riverniciare brani anonimi (What Will Become), che virano verso il trend Rap-Metal (l’imbarazzante Back the fuck &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;up, con l’ospite B-Real dei Cypress Hill) o che scadono nella noia (Damaged, Byte Block). Non bastano l’abile sintesi radio friendly di Linchpin, la semi-ballad Dark Invisibile Wounds (Dark Bodies) o la conclusiva (Memory Imprints) Never End (degno seguito di A Therapy For Pain e Timelessness) a risollevare un disco che si dimostra un’ecatombe commerciale, stritolato dal filone Nu-metal che gli stessi Fear Factory hanno contribuito a creare, pur non riuscendo mai a carpirne l’immediatezza compositiva. Squassata da una crisi interna la band decide di sciogliersi per poi riemergere nel 2003, orfana di Cazares e con Byron Stroud (Strapping Young Lad) posizionato al basso (Olde Wolbers passa alla chitarra). Dopo la pubblicazione di Concrete (Roadrunner, 2001, ossia la prima, acerba registrazione di Soul Of A New Machine, curata dall’allora sconosciuto Ross Robinson) e della pressoché inutile raccolta di B-sides Hatefiles (Roadrunner, 2003) i rinnovati FF si ripresentano nel 2004 con Archtype (Liquid 8 Records). Si tratta di un come back, per certi versi, inaspettato, con sonorità collocabili a metà strada tra l’oltranzismo del periodo Soul Of A New Machine e la vena maggiormente sperimentale di Demanufacture; Burton C. Bell canta come mai era riuscito a fare in precedenza, assecondato dalle consuete mitragliate chitarristiche di una band che procede come un cyborg tra frequenti echi New Wave e rabbia in pieno stile Death Metal. L’obiettivo da sempre perseguito e sinora mai raggiunto (ossia la brutalità coniugata a convincenti linee melodiche) è finalmente alla portata di un gruppo che sembra giunto al suo acme esecutivo e che non ha più paura di osare (School, travolgente cover dei Nirvana). La ritrovata brillantezza artistica sfocia, infine, nel seguente, ottimo, album, Transgression (Calvin/Roadrunner, 2005). Avvalendosi del contributo compositivo di musicisti del calibro di Billy Gould (Faith No More) e Jack Morton (Lamb Of God) e dell’ eccellente produzione dell’ illustre Toby Wright, i FF presentano quello che si potrebbe definire l‘album della loro maturità. La pesantezza dell’ extreme Metal è asservita a brani dotati di ottimi refrain (la splendida Supernova), granitici nelle parti strumentali e carichi di pathos nei vocalizzi di Burton C. Bell. Sorprendono le, fedeli, riletture di due brani come I Will Follow (U2) e Millenium (Killing Joke) ma sorprende più ogni altra cosa la continua freschezza di un suono che i Fear Factory hanno forgiato negli anni, prima che se ne appropriassero le mode e mille altri gruppi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© CM 2006 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115126089538204560?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115126089538204560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115126089538204560' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126089538204560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115126089538204560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/fear-factory-biografia.html' title='Fear Factory - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115125994876434002</id><published>2006-06-25T20:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T12:02:46.433+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mission - biografia</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/wayne04.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/wayne04.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Più di tanti altri loro epigoni contemporanei (The Cult, Sisters Of Mercy), i Mission sono stati capaci di trasformare il Rock gotico da movimento underground in fenomeno di massa grazie ad una capacità di scrittura non comune sapientemente asservita al classico look decadente. Formati nel 1986 da due ex Sisters Of Mercy (il cantante/chitarrista Wayne Hussey presente addirittura in una primitiva incarnazione dei Frankie Goes To Hollywood e prima ancora nei The Walkie Talkies e nei Dead Or Alive, abbandonati nel 1984) ed il bassista Craig Adams, i Mission (completati da Simon Hinkler e Mick Brown, rispettivamente alla chitarra e batteria) hanno una genesi alquanto travagliata.All’inizio il nome prescelto è - polemicamente - il medesimo del fan club dei Sisters Of Mercy (The Sisterhood) e con questo realizzano nel 1986 l’album Gift. Successivamente, la scelta cade sulla denominazione The Mission (curiosamente il titolo previsto per il nuovo album dei Sisters Of Mercy era proprio On A Mission To Rise And Riverberate) e la band parte per un tour europeo di supporto ai Cult per poi incidere due singoli (Serpent’s Kiss and Like A Hurricane, Chapter 22 Records, 1986) che raggiungono le vette delle charts alternative inglesi.Sull’onda di un seguito sempre più vasto, il 7 Luglio del 1986 i Mission firmano un contratto con la Polygram per la quale esce il singolo Stay With Me che entra direttamente al No. 40 delle classifiche inglesi - divenendo No. 30 una settimana dopo, seguito dal debutto su lunga distanza di God’s Own Medicine (Mercury, 1986) che si piazza al No. 14. Il disco è un successo annunciato da cui sono tratti cinque singoli che portano al disco d’oro in Inghilterra, in virtù di un songwriting assai brillante che spazia dalle ballate crepuscolari dal gusto tardo romantico (Stay With Me e Severina, quest’ultima impreziosita da influenze quasi morriconiane) a composizioni Rock tout court (la trascinante The Wasteland). In particolar modo Severina impone la band su larga scala portandola sull’ambito palcoscenico di Pop Of The Pops, profetico preludio al primo tour mondiale (World Crusade Tour) che ha inizio il 18 Marzo del 1987 presso la Sheffield City Hall.In questo periodo è inoltre messa in circolazione la compilation First Charter (Chapter 22 Records, 1987) che raccoglie i primi singoli ed altro materiale anteriore.Il 5 Febbraio del 1988 è pubblicato Tower Of Strenght, primo estratto da Children (Mercury, 1988), il secondo album, prodotto da John Paul Jones. L’influenza dei Led Zeppelin emerge con prepotenza, ma è proprio l’inedito connubio Hard Rock-Dark a confermare un successo che conduce celermente al nuovo disco d’oro in Inghilterra, trainato dal secondo singolo (Beyond The Pale, che si posiziona al No. 32). Di quest’ultimo colpisce la ricchezza di arrangiamenti (intrecci sitar in pieno Jimmy Page style alternati ad una sensibilità synth Pop di matrice Depeche Mode) che rende il brano quasi ballabile, anticipando alcuni futuri sviluppi del “Mission sound”; Wayne Hussey interpreta con un’abilità drammatica assai vicina alla disperata tonalità di Bono Vox.Il 1° Gennaio del 1990 è la volta di Butterfly On A Wheel, antipasto del terzo LP, Carved In Sand (Mercury, 1990). I Mission, tornati a lavorare col produttore dei loro esordi (Tim Palmer), raggiungono lo zenit compositivo: Butterfly On A Wheel (che debutta al No. 12 della classifica inglese) dilata la brillantezza Pop in chiave barocca mentre la monumentale Deliverance (loro settimo hit consecutivo nei Top 30) è un magnifico esempio di Rock anthemico che flirta con l’enfasi epica, portando la band per la seconda volta al passaggio su Top Of The Pops ed inaugurando il Deliverance World Tour che parte al Leeds Polytechnic, il 1° Marzo del 1990.Di ritorno dagli Stati Uniti i Mission calano l’ennesimo singolo (Into The Blue) che però non va oltre il 35° posto in classifica, denunciando qualche crepa a livello compositivo nonché una crescente tensione interna che sfocia nella dipartita del chitarrista Simon Hinkler.Al fine di prender tempo ed organizzare la nuova formazione è pubblicato Grains Of Sand (Mercury, 1990), raccolta di B-sides ed extra tracks, il cui singolo (la vigorosa Hands Across The Ocean, quasi una Deliverance Part II), entra, seppur faticosamente, nei Top 40.Il quarto album, inizialmente titolato Shade Of Green ed infine chiamato Masque (Mercury, 1992) presenta il nuovo innesto alla chitarra (Mark Gemini Thwaite) ma nasce all’insegna di accese incomprensioni tra Wayne Hussey ed il produttore Mark Saunders. Conseguentemente, i tre singoli che vengono estratti (Never Again, Like A Child Again e Shades Of Green) mostrano varie indecisione stilistiche ed un brusco allontanamento dal sound originario; i ritmi dance prendono il sopravvento e le spigolosità chitarristiche sono limate in favore di un approccio fortemente easy listening.Sconcerta Like A Child Again, che finisce con l’essere quasi un plagio dei Cure e Craig Adams decide che è giunto il momento di mollare il gruppo; il sostituto prescelto è Andy Cousin. L’inversione di tendenza finisce inevitabilmente col colpire le vendite che subiscono un forte contraccolpo e la band lascia la Phonogram per passare alla Sony/Dragnet per cui è rilasciato nel 1994 Neverland. L’lp è un tentativo - solo in parte riuscito - di riscoprire le radici del gruppo ed i tre singoli (Raising Cain, Swoon e Lose Myself In You), non riescono a rialzare le quotazioni di una band comunque ancora capace di scrivere almeno un nuovo, grande brano (Daddy's Going To Heaven Now).Nello stesso anno, quasi contemporaneamente la Phonogram pubblica Sum And Substance, un greatest hits in cui spiccano due tracce: il remix di Tower Of Strength (sottoposta alle cure di Youth dei Killing Joke) e la zeppeliniana Afterglow, prodotta da Wayne Hussey insieme a Joe Gibb.Dodici mesi dopo è la volta dell’album più interlocutorio della carriera dei Mission, Blue (Sony/Dragnet, 1995), da cui viene estratto un unico - tutt’altro che felice - singolo (Coming Home); l’immediata conseguenza dell’insuccesso commerciale è l’ inevitabile scioglimento del gruppo. Dopo un’assenza durata oltre quattro anni (durante i quali Wayne Hussey produce, remixa e scrive musica per film) i Mission si riformano intorno al loro leader più Craig Adams, Mark Gemini Thwaite ed il nuovo batterista Scott Garrett. Sulla spinta di Resurrection (Cleopatra/Eagle Rock, 1999), una raccolta di classici rivisti in un’ottica palesemente danzereccia e nel pieno della riscoperta della scena Electro-Dark degli anni ottanta, i rinati Mission sfruttano le circostanze imbarcandosi in una lunga tournee mondiale che culmina in alcune apparizioni memorabili (i festival Eurorock e M’era Luna nel 2000) ed in un tour europeo (Novembre-Dicembre 2000) particolarmente apprezzato. L’anno seguente esce AurA (Cleopatra, 2001), il primo nuovo disco in studio dal 1995; l’album è un convincente ritorno all’inconfondibile trademark dei vecchi Mission, grazie anche all’apprezzato apporto in sede di missaggio di Dave Allen (The Cure, Sisters Of Mercy, Feline ) e Steve Power (Robbie Williams). Le basi elettroniche lasciano spazio a ritmiche fortemente rockeggianti (Lay Your Hands On Me) ben interpretate da Wayne Hussey, nuovamente ispirato dopo anni di torpore creativo; efficacissimi il singolo Evangeline, la catchy Shine Like The Stars o la marcia ipnotica di (Slave) To Lust. L’apice è raggiunto con Cocoon, eccellente litania pyscho/goth, quasi gli U2 che suonano Dark, letteralmente dominata dalla sentita interpretazione del cantante.La rinnovata vena dei Mission è premiata anche dal pubblico: l’album si colloca al No. 1 della classifica alternative tedesca e ivi rimane per otto settimane. Il successivo tour (di supporto ai discepoli HIM in Germania e come headliner nella restante parte d’Europa per sei settimane) non fa che confermare la band nel suo ruolo di storico gothic act e funge da preludio ad un’altra raccolta.Aural Delight (Playground Recordings, 2002) è una collezione di B-sides e tracce demo che colpisce nuovamente nel segno (affascinante la cover del classico dei Depeche Mode Never Let Me Down come pure valide sono le ri-proposizioni di Never Again, Melt e la versione Trip Hop di Mesmerized). Nel 2002 Wayne Hussey decide che è arrivato il momento di tentare la carta da solista: parte per una tournee mondiale (che durerà quasi due anni) dove ad accompagnarlo sono soltanto una chitarra acustica, un pianoforte ed un esteso catalogo di brani (perlopiù dei Mission più alcune covers e due nuove composizioni scritte per l’occasione). Da ultimo, nel 2004 i Mission tornano insieme per una serie di attese esibizioni in Europa, in attesa della pubblicazione di un nuovo album.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© CM 2006&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115125994876434002?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115125994876434002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115125994876434002' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115125994876434002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115125994876434002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/mission-biografia.html' title='The Mission - biografia'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115122845581804434</id><published>2006-06-25T11:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-25T11:53:23.576+02:00</updated><title type='text'>HOUSE BREAKING reunion, summer 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/1.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/1.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;RISING FROM THE ASHES OF THE PAST!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Rumors are finally confirmed: Italian Punk-Metal cult band &lt;strong&gt;HOUSE BREAKING&lt;/strong&gt; have just reformed!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The original line-up of &lt;strong&gt;HOUSE BREAKING&lt;/strong&gt; (reinforced by a new talented lead guitarist) is planning to play some live gigs during this summer, watch out for the forthcoming dates!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOUSE BREAKING&lt;/strong&gt; broke up in 1996 right after the release of a demo tape following a bunch of succesful concerts which gained the group a growing local fame.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Don't forget to check out the &lt;strong&gt;HB&lt;/strong&gt; page in the search engine of &lt;strong&gt;http://www.metal-archives.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115122845581804434?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115122845581804434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115122845581804434' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115122845581804434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115122845581804434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/house-breaking-reunion-summer-2006_25.html' title='HOUSE BREAKING reunion, summer 2006'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115122771156904289</id><published>2006-06-25T11:23:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T20:56:59.076+02:00</updated><title type='text'>HEINEKEN JAMMIN' FESTIVAL, Imola, Italy, June 17th 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/125_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/125_logo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/NNN.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/NNN.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMOLA, JUNE 17TH 2006 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;METALLICA&lt;br /&gt;THE DARKNESS&lt;br /&gt;AVENGED SEVENFOLD&lt;br /&gt;LACUNA COIL&lt;br /&gt;THE LIVING THINGS &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRIVIUM&lt;br /&gt;AMPHITRIUM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;METALLICA’ setlist:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 The Ecstasy Of Gold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2 Creepin’ Death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Fuel Wherever I May Roam&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4 New Song&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5 The Unforgiven&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Master Of Puppets 20th year anniversary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6 Battery&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7 Master Of Puppets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8 The Thing That Should Not Be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9 Welcome Home (Sanitarium)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10 Disposable Heroes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11 Leper Messiah&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12 Orion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13 Damage, Inc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14 Sad But True&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15 Nothing Else Matters&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16 One&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17 Enter Sandman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 Last Caress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19 Seek &amp;amp; Destroy&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115122771156904289?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115122771156904289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115122771156904289' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115122771156904289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115122771156904289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/heineken-jammin-festival-imola-italy.html' title='HEINEKEN JAMMIN&apos; FESTIVAL, Imola, Italy, June 17th 2006'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115043537736112649</id><published>2006-06-16T07:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-25T11:42:46.683+02:00</updated><title type='text'>FLASH N° 206 Giugno 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/__Flash%20-%20Giugno%202006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/__Flash%20-%20Giugno%202006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115043537736112649?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115043537736112649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115043537736112649' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115043537736112649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115043537736112649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/flash-n-206-giugno-2006.html' title='FLASH N° 206 Giugno 2006'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-115004964246133127</id><published>2006-06-11T20:11:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-25T11:36:00.473+02:00</updated><title type='text'>GODS OF METAL 2006, Milan, Italy, from June 1st to 4th</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/poster.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/poster.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-115004964246133127?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/115004964246133127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=115004964246133127' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115004964246133127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/115004964246133127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/06/gods-of-metal-2006-milan-italy-from.html' title='GODS OF METAL 2006, Milan, Italy, from June 1st to 4th'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-114813459036711865</id><published>2006-05-20T16:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-20T16:16:30.376+02:00</updated><title type='text'>FLASH N° 207 Maggio 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/Flash%20-%20Maggio%202006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/Flash%20-%20Maggio%202006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-114813459036711865?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/114813459036711865/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=114813459036711865' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114813459036711865'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114813459036711865'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/05/flash-n-207-maggio-2006_20.html' title='FLASH N° 207 Maggio 2006'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-114481894125703140</id><published>2006-04-12T07:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-12T15:42:07.460+02:00</updated><title type='text'>FLASH N° 206 Aprile 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/__Aprile%202006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/__Aprile%202006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"FLASH" NUMERO 206 – IN USCITA!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HARDCORE SUPERSTAR&lt;/strong&gt; wild boys will be wild!!! Torna in vita il rock’n’roll ottantiano!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEF LEPPARD&lt;/strong&gt; open up and say… yeah! Gli ultimi trent’anni di Joe Elliott!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THEATRE OF TRAGEDY&lt;/strong&gt; intervista con la nuova singer della rediviva band norvegese!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KAMELOT&lt;/strong&gt; one cold winter’s night! Ad Oslo, sul set del Dvd!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BLIND GUARDIAN&lt;/strong&gt; lavori in corso! Hansi Kursch ci introduce a quello che sarà il prossimo album!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MINISTRY&lt;/strong&gt; Al Jourgensen si scaglia contro il mondo!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RAGE&lt;/strong&gt; il mitico Peavy Wagner tra passato e presente!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KIRLIAN CAMERA&lt;/strong&gt; illegal apology of crime! Incontro con la storica elektro-goth band italiana!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABORYM&lt;/strong&gt; nera cronaca con l’esplicito Fabban!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE UPPER-CLASS BASTARDS&lt;/strong&gt; rock’n’roll made in Italy con la tosta Charlotte Sometimes!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;REZOPHONIC&lt;/strong&gt; il rock italiano si mobilità per l’Africa!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GLENN TIPTON&lt;/strong&gt; (Judas) …and music for all!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BERNHARD WEISS (Axxis)&lt;/strong&gt; la prima volta di…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCHI DEL MESE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Towers Of London: la nuova bomba UK!&lt;br /&gt;Astral Doors: in rock we trust!!!&lt;br /&gt;Angtoria: suicide on my mind!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALTRE USCITE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Backyard Babies, Beyond Fear, Darkthrone, Das Ich, Dio, Evergrey, Flower Kings, Hallows Eve, Impaled Nazarene, Joe Satriani, Jutta Weinhold, Lana Lane, Mago De Oz, Moonspell, Necrodeath, Queensryche, Rage, Samael, Satyricon, Scar Symmetry, Summoning, Survivor, The Gathering, The Quill, Theatre Of Tragedy, Tiamat, Vandenplas, Vernon Reid, Wetton/Downes… per un totale di 121 recensioni!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TALEZ FROM THE GLAM CRYPT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il glam/street in 50 dischi!!!&lt;br /&gt;Dall’83 ad oggi gli album che non possono mancare nella bacheca di ogni vero rock’n’roller che si rispetti!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BACKSTAGE 10X10 - IL ROCK VISTO DA DIETRO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La scandalosa Velocity Chyaldd tiene a bada osipiti illustri come Davide DeFeis dei Virgin Steele, Andreas Lill dei Vandenplas, Christofer Johnsson dei Therion, Jake Starr degli Adam West, Ola Henriksson dei Witchcraft ed altri ancora!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES POWER - L'ALTRA FACCIA DEL ROCK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Tremate, le streghe son tornate!!! Nostre ospiti sono questo mese Nera, singer dei polacchi Darzamat, Sarah Jezebel degli Angtoria e già con Cradle Of Filth e Lady Angellyca dei Forever Slave!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ABSOLUTELY LIVE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;I concerti di Him, Dark Funeral, Naglfar, Endstille, Soulfly…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HARD WORKS - ...COSE DALL'ALTRO SECOLO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foto e recensioni Zakk Wylde, Helstar, Kooga, Pariah, Tygers Of Pan Tang, Holy Terror, Dokken, Kingdom Come, etc…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FANS WORLD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Algalord Chronicles e Rhapsody!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VIDEODROME - IL LATO OSCURO DEL CINEMA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Con Aeretica degli Amethista, Steve Sylvester e i film-culto degli anni Settanta!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DRAW THE LINE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;fumetti ad alto tasso metal!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEAVY GAMERS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Videogiochi metallici per tutti i gusti!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;KULT – ALTERNATIVE FASHION&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In California con Astrid!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIGHT FEVER - CULT ROCK CLUBS!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FLASH CONTEST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vinci una fantastica e diabolica chitarra JIM REED FLASH!!!&lt;br /&gt;VINCI 20 SPECIAL EDITION CD del nuovo KIRLIAN CAMERA!!!&lt;br /&gt;VINCI Cd, spille, adesivi e magliette dei The Upper-Class Bastards!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-114481894125703140?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/114481894125703140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=114481894125703140' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114481894125703140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114481894125703140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/04/flash-n-206-aprile-2006.html' title='FLASH N° 206 Aprile 2006'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-114424825686339186</id><published>2006-04-05T16:41:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-26T21:04:32.396+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Blizzard - 3 Track Demo</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blizzard - 3 Track Demo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/Blizzard.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/Blizzard.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ha senso nel ventunesimo secolo proporre un demo di sole covers?&lt;br /&gt;Assolutamente sì, devono aver pensato i &lt;strong&gt;Blizzard&lt;/strong&gt;, giovane quartetto proveniente dalla provincia di Frosinone, impegnato a rinverdire i fasti di quell’ Ozzy Osbourne ormai sbiadita ombra di se stesso.&lt;br /&gt;I 3 brani del Cd abbracciano sia la produzione datata che quella più recente dell’ (ex) macellaio di Birmingham ed in entrambi i casi il risultato è brillante: la fedeltà con cui sono riproposti i 3 classici colpisce per la precisione strumentale e per la passione che i 4 profondono nell’ esecuzione.&lt;br /&gt;Una registrazione nitida ed un missaggio altrettanto efficace regalano momenti dal sapore dejavu (non potrebbe essere altrimenti) e piacevolmente nostalgici, caratterizzati da Valeriano, cantante abilissimo a calarsi nei panni di Mr. Osbourne, sia nei frangenti più atmosferici (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mama I’m Coming Home&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) che in quelli più psicotici (&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Flyin’ High Again&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;Il resto del gruppo non si risparmia, ricamando assoli fedeli ai maestri Rhoads/Wylde sostenuti da un connubio basso-batteria che bada alla sostanza conducendo le danze con dinamismo. Premesso che il contesto live è quello in cui i &lt;strong&gt;Blizzard&lt;/strong&gt; si trovano maggiormente a proprio agio esprimendo appieno doti di consumati performers, non vedo perché questo 3 track-demo non possa interessare gli aficionados del Madman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© 2006 CM&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-114424825686339186?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/114424825686339186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=114424825686339186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114424825686339186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114424825686339186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/04/blizzard-3-track-demo.html' title='Blizzard - 3 Track Demo'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-114270349782240049</id><published>2006-03-18T18:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T10:44:24.803+02:00</updated><title type='text'>HOUSE BREAKING - Biografia ufficiale 1995/96</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/28.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/28.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/26.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/26.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/17.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/17.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/06.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/05.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/House%20Breaking.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/House%20Breaking.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOUSE BREAKING - Biografia ufficiale 1995/96&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ladies &amp; gentlemen: introducing House Breaking… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perché scrivere una biografia-racconto sugli House Breaking? Semplicemente per il personale gusto di farlo e per fissare una lunga serie di ricordi un tempo malamente scritti su carta e probabilmente destinati a perdersi. Tutto qui. A meno che non vi chiamiate Lester Bangs o Claudio Sorge, scrivere biografie è cosa tutt'altro che facile.&lt;br /&gt;Il rischio che si corre è di non risultare sufficientemente obbiettivi o peggio di cadere in banali mitizzazioni.&lt;br /&gt;O peggio ancora di annaspare tra informazioni secondarie a scapito di dati di maggior rilievo. Ebbene, il mio compito (che parolona…) in questo frangente è stato ancora più arduo dato che presi anch' io parte a molti degli avvenimenti in seguito trattati. Per evitare dunque di cadere (facilmente) in fuorvianti contraddizioni ho preferito che il tutto fosse descritto come un resoconto il più fedele possibile, limitando i commenti strettamente personali, presenti soltanto ove li ho ritenuti necessari secondo la mia discrezionalità.&lt;br /&gt;Ovvero praticamente ovunque. Almeno... queste erano le mie intenzioni prima di cominciare a scrivere.&lt;br /&gt;Che le abbia rispettate o meno è tutto da vedere.&lt;br /&gt;Se qualcuno, leggendo queste pagine, per una qualunque ragione ritenesse di essere stato offeso, vilipeso etc. si ricordi che ha già le mie scuse anticipate pronte a rinfrancarlo.&lt;br /&gt;Per favore, non fatemi causa: peace &amp;amp; love to everybody. In seconda battuta, vorrei chiarire che quanto segue non ha la pretesa di essere considerato un opus assolutamente perfetto sia dal punto di vista formale che da quello del contenuto, figuriamoci. Il motivo di ciò è presto detto: il tutto è stato scritto di getto e senza troppi ripensamenti. Ho seguito questa strada soprattutto per imprimere al testo maggiore credibilità e per evitare di renderlo troppo artificioso. Prendetelo quindi come un flusso continuo di emozioni. Non posso immaginare, allo stato delle cose, se il racconto in questione verrà un giorno letto da qualcuno. Se questo accadrà però mi piacerebbe che il lettore (o magari una bella lettrice, ooops!) pensasse che si tratta di una storia interessante, contrastante, ma anche (anzi soprattutto) sincera. Qualora poi pensasse che è anche scritta degnamente non potrei che esserne ulteriormente lieto.“House Breaking: 1995 - 1996” non ha alcuna pretesa, di nessun genere, insomma cerca di essere come furono gli HB in quel periodo, per certi versi, irripetibile. Qui non troverete molto sex ‘n drugs…ma solo rozzissimo rock ’n roll.&lt;br /&gt;A tonnellate.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So Far… So Good… So What… le origini lontane &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non essendo un componente originario degli HB non posso indicare con assoluta certezza quando iniziarono la loro avventura, tanto meno quelli che furono i motivi che li indussero ad intraprendere un viaggio che sarebbe durato per oltre un anno. Per quel che ne so, gli HB nacquero nei primi mesi del 1995 da una idea di Bruno De Sanctis e Marco Noschese. Del primo avremo modo di parlare in maniera più estesa in seguito, quindi è su Marco che dobbiamo ora concentrare la nostra attenzione. Meglio noto con il soprannome di “Sarcofago” (derivatogli da una oscura black - death metal band di cui il nostro è probabilmente uno dei pochi estimatori a livello planetario!), Marco Noschese è da sempre stato letteralmente ossessionato dall’ idea di mettere su un gruppo e, sino all’ esperienza con gli HB, i suoi tentativi erano stati costellati da altrettanti insuccessi (al suo attivo vari gruppi “fantasma” – memorabili i Brutal Virus, demo registrati con stereo portatile, intro più lunghi dei brani, flyers – rigorosamente - scritti a mano etc. etc.). Comunque sia, nel momento in cui si unì (in senso musicale, intendiamoci...) al suddetto Bruno, le cose per Sarcofago sembrarono volgere al meglio dato che i due furono raggiunti (circa un paio di mesi dopo le prime, disastrose, prove) da alcuni “nomi illustri”…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 2&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Born To Be Wild: nascono gli HB &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondo voi, Marco e Bruno avrebbero mai potuto continuare l’avventura da soli o, peggio, prendendo in prestito da famigerate band locali pseudo - musicisti svogliati e presuntuosi?Penso proprio di no.Penso sia stata la stessa cosa che avranno pensato Mariano Fontane e Michele Petrecca (ovvero i “nomi illustri” di cui sopra) che decisero di collaborare con i due giovincelli.I motivi di questa collaborazione ancora oggi non li ho ben compresi.&lt;br /&gt;Probabilmente perché non ci sono. Mi riesce difficile pensare come due persone (musicalmente assai smaliziate) quali Mariano e Michele abbiano (spero razionalmente) deciso di dar vita ad un progetto la cui metà, seppur ricca di entusiasmo, era contraddistinta da penose carenze tecniche e, soprattutto, da una gran dose di ingenuità. Fondamentalmente credo che le motivazioni che li indussero a questa decisione (apparentemente alquanto avventata) furono due: evitare ai due giovani brutte figure ed, in secondo luogo, tornare a far parte dell’agonizzante scena musicale locale, da cui si erano allontanati per ragioni di lavoro e per adempiere agli obblighi di leva. Il primo problema che si presentò agli House Breaking (questo fu il nome scelto, dopo aver accantonato l’originario, imbarazzante, Popcorn Scaduti) fu quello di trovare un bassista che potesse occupare un posto vacante sin dall’inizio. La scelta cadde sull’oscuro Davide (cognome… ignoto), (nel bene e nel male) un passato nei Preachers (ennesima joke band locale) ed un presente (ed anche un futuro) da alcolista (e non solo purtroppo…).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crazy Train: si comincia a fare sul serio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stabilizzata la formazione, gli HB, con Mariano e Bruno alle chitarre, Davide al basso, Michele dietro le pelli e Marco alla voce, iniziarono le prime vere prove dalle quali emerse immediatamente l’impossibilità del cantante a distaccarsi dalle tonalità gutturali (avete presente un lavandino intasato?) che l’avevano reso famoso (si fa per dire!) nel circondario.&lt;br /&gt;Il caso volle che la prima volta (Aprile ’95) che assistetti alle prove degli HB si presentò (sempre come ascoltatore) Marcello Zabot, altro “nome illustre”, reduce da varie esperienze musicali nelle quali si era sempre messo in evidenza come frontman affidabile. Quasi è superfluo dire che a Marcello fu quasi proposto all’istante di entrare nel gruppo come vocalist, proposta di fronte alla quale il nostro apparve titubante (per non più di trenta secondi!), ma che accettò con rinnovato entusiasmo. Le conseguenze di ciò non si fecero attendere: da un lato il “licenziato” Sarcofago cominciò a sparlare a più non posso sui suoi ex compagni d’avventura (atteggiamento questo, tipico dei “musicisti” cassinati) che, a parere mio, l’avevano aiutato in tutti i modi (non solo nella band). Dall’altro lato, crebbe l’interesse intorno agli HB. I primi mesi della rinnovata formazione furono caratterizzati da innumerevoli prove finalizzate ad acquisire un affiatamento agli inizi inimmaginabile e ad allestire un repertorio per futuri live shows. Da una delle suddette prove fu tratta anche una registrazione audio - video grazie all’incommensurabile aiuto del mitico padre di Marcello, capace di cimentarsi alla chitarra in brani di Santana e Clash!) in cui feci anch’io un’ apparizione come corista in ”Antisocial” (il brano dei francesi Trust, poi portato al successo dagli Anthrax, quelli veri, non le patetiche macchiette di oggi). Naturalmente (almeno per noi) tale registrazione fu in seguito ripetuta in quanto il buon padre di Marcello, per eccesso di entusiasmo, dimenticò di registrare anche l’audio, davvero strepitoso (come Marcello d’altronde, abbigliato con t-shirt “smanicata” dei Megadeth e mimetica d'ordinanza!)!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 4 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Garage Days: i primi concerti &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E finalmente giunse il momento del fatidico primo concerto. Non posso che ricordare con grande piacere il viaggio iniziato dalla sala prove ubicata in quel di Piedimonte S. Germano con destinazione Formia.La piccola comitiva era formata da due macchine.Nella prima trovavano posto Marcello (abbigliato con chiodo d’ordinanza e nervosissimo) e relativo fratello (riconoscibilissimo dal cappellino della Juventus!), Bruno ed un crucciato Michele (preoccupato per il previo sopralluogo nel centro sociale ove si sarebbe tenuto il concerto). Nella seconda auto sedevano invece Mariano ed il sottoscritto (prontamente arruolato come roadie), trasportando anche il drum kit, automobile che avrebbe dato prova di scarsa affidabilità durante il tragitto attraverso una serie di rumori non ben definiti (oggetto di una lunga serie di battute tra il tragico ed il divertito da parte mia e di Mariano). Arrivati al centro sociale, prima delusione, almeno per me. Il luogo infatti non era altro che una vecchia fabbrica in disuso, “popolata” da “anarchici” (le virgolette non sono un refuso) che ci diedero il benvenuto con una frase memorabile (“Chi cazzo siete voi?”). Inutile o quasi notare che i soggetti in questione non avevano neppure la più pallida idea di cosa fosse la vera anarchia e che si rivelarono essere solamente dei figli di papà che avevano occupato la fabbrica in cerca di forti (secondo me nemmeno tanto) emozioni estive (si era nel mese di Giugno). Ovviamente scoppiò subito una diatriba con Mariano ed io (da una parte) ed un bestione ignorante con t-shirt dei Dead Kennedys ("Holidays in Cambodia”, che disco!) dall’altra. Risultato? Lasciammo stare dopo aver capito che il figuro altro non era che un demente. Il secondo passo fu il trasporto della strumentazione (e nessuno mosse un solo dito per aiutarci, come non lo mosse un già “perso” Davide). Che dire poi dell’altro gruppo con cui suonarono gli HB quella sera? Ridicoli punk sulla quarantina, autentiche nullità sia come musicisti che come persone. Tornando al concerto (che io ripresi, sopportando stoicamente gli sfottò di numerosi presenti…sapete come è…”fa molto punk” prendere per il culo qualcuno intento a riprendere i suoi amici sul palco…), sicuramente fu tutt’altro che esaltante. Affiatamento all’improvviso scomparso, suoni nemmeno definibili come tali, un Davide da dimenticare (completamente “sconvolto”), un pubblico che se avessi suonato io lo avrei preso a calci, un intro (“Smoke On The Water"! tutt’altro che azzeccato in quel contesto e, per ultimo, un Marcello con cappellino della Ferrari (dove l’avesse preso e, soprattutto, perché l’avesse messo ce lo stiamo ancora chiedendo…) oggetto di derisione continua da parte del pubblico.Fu per tutti questi motivi che, a concerto ultimato, gli HB decisero di sostituire Davide.Da ricordare che, sulla strada del ritorno, un infuriato Marcello sbagliò direzione finendo a Gaeta! Un episodio a dir poco memorabile!). Rientrati (dopo mille peripezie ed altrettanti sfoghi da parte di un Mariano molto amareggiato) in saletta quella stessa sera gli HB si riunirono, a lume di candela (dato che Orazio, il proprietario, nonostante previo accordo, aveva ben pensato di staccare la corrente) per decidere sul nuovo bassista. La scelta cadde su Raffaele "Bastiano" Rodia, un bassista non eccelso, ma con un minimo d’esperienza, mentre la mia proposta cadde nel vuoto, anche perché non insistetti più di tanto. Di quella famosa riunione, tenutasi alle tre del mattino, non posso che dimenticare la rabbia della band nei confronti di Davide (individuato come principale responsabile della brutta figura generale) e la grande fretta di Marcello, che la giustificava con il sonno che avrebbe dovuto avere il fratello (che invece sbottava dicendo: “Io non ho sonno”), davvero una scena da Oscar. Comunque sia due soli giorni dopo lo sfortunato esordio gli HB erano di nuovo pronti a tornare su un palco, questa volta a Cassino (e per giunta davanti al Tribunale!), in occasione di una manifestazione organizzata dal Liceo Artistico e procurata da Bruno, studente di quella scuola.Constatazione: anche in quella circostanza i nostri non poterono usufruire di adeguati mezzi tecnici, ma il tutto si risolse in una gran festa dove nemmeno sarebbe stato giusto pretendere più di tanto. Il concerto degli HB non fu malvagio, però nemmeno esaltante.Suonarono quattro brani (l’ originale “House Breaking”, “Anarchy In The UK” - Sex Pistols, “Antisocial” - Trust, “Motivator” - UK Subs) e feci il mio esordio come corista (i Motley Crue avevano come coriste due fighe da urlo… gli HB me!). Ancora oggi mi chiedo dove trovai il coraggio dato che: a) non avevo mai provato con il gruppo; b) non avevo mai cantato davanti ad un pubblico; c) ero alle strette finali per un terrificante esame di Diritto Privato.Una sola cosa è certa: ero sobrio, dunque la decisone fu presa in totale incoscienza (o spirito punk, scegliete voi). Da menzionare, ancora una volta, la prova di Marcello (ancora con cappellino della Ferrari che, cadendogli, gli suscitava un' immediata, clamorosa bestemmia !), capace di intimorire le ragazze presenti nelle prime file con una serie di movenze non proprio ortodosse, seppur indubbiamente ammirevoli.&lt;br /&gt;Immaginate un Henry Rollins stressato dopo un turno di otto ore in fabbrica ed avrete una vaga idea di Marcello. “animale da palco”. Da antologia del rock poi il suo incipit del concerto: “(…) in questa bella giornata di sole…dall’album "Nevermind The Bollocks"… "Smells Like Teen Spiriiiiiiiiiiitttt"!!!”. Ma i guai per gli HB non erano ancora finiti… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;CAPITOLO 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Good Times, Bad Times: il bassista definitivo… almeno per un po’… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sicuramente gli HB non avevano troppa fortuna con i bassisti.&lt;br /&gt;Anzi non avevano proprio fortuna. Infatti, circa una settimana dopo il secondo – discreto –concerto, i nostri furono letteralmente costretti a “licenziare” Raffaele “Bastiano “ Rodia, i motivi? Lo scarso impegno dimostrato nonostante l’occasione concessagli (scarsa serietà di cui avevo già messo al corrente Mariano nel momento in cui Raffaele era stato prescelto, come poi mi fu riconosciuto). Certamente quando venne a sapere di essere stato estromesso dal gruppo non la prese bene; iniziò a criticare a destra e a manca, telefonandomi per complimentarsi dato che ero stato scelto per sostituirlo e (badate bene, tutto nello stesso tempi) andando in giro a criticarmi dato che a suo dire avevo convinto il resto del gruppo a cacciarlo. Come avrete capito...ero diventato il nuovo bassista. Di sicuro per gli HB non si trattava della scelta più logica in quanto non solo non avevo mai suonato il basso ma potevo ormai considerarmi anche un ex chitarrista. Perché mai quindi la scelta cadde (letteralmente) su di me e non su Mario “so tutto io” Torcinaro che si era auto-candidato al posto proclamando: “Sono anche andato a lezione di basso da…”? Credo perché conoscevo ed ero in amicizia con almeno i ¾ del gruppo ormai da vari anni ed anche perché il citato Mario (per inciso: un bravo ragazzo all'epoca ossessionato dai guitar heroes, come molti di noi d'altronde) non era affatto ben visto a cause delle sue manie di perfezionismo (a volte era davvero difficile sopportarlo). A dirla tutta, a mia entrata gli HB fu una sorpresa anche me. In una calda mattina di Giugno infatti, sul presto (saranno state le otto), Mariano e Bruno (che già erano passati a casa mia per il consueto scambio di materiale fonografico… leggi: registrazioni a manetta di cd e delle leggendarie audio cassette Sony/TDK 90), stufi dell’ennesima “buca” di Raffaele (che, tra l’altro, abitava a un tiro di schioppo da casa mia), bussarono di nuovo.“Scendi Cristià”, con queste parole urlate al citofono Mariano mi annunciava l’ingresso nel gruppo e io non me lo feci ripetere due volte (misi un paio di scarpe e via, senza nemmeno cambiarmi, davanti agli occhi divertiti di mia madre), nonostante fossi impegnato nella prima, vera, dura sessione di esami universitari. E’ così che cominciò il mio primo giorno negli HB. L’accoglienza che mi riservarono fu grandiosa…e come poteva essere altrimenti? Solo Michele era un po’ titubante (a ragione). Incredibile il pluri menzionato Marcello che, vedendomi, esclamò felice come un bambino: “Porco d**…con te possiamo fare anche i Voivod!”. Sono queste le cose per cui vale la pena vivere.Nello stesso giorno mi furono mostrate le parti da imparare di una serie memorabile di brani: “House Breaking”, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Antisocial”, “Motivator”, “Clash City Rockers” (curiosamente a quei tempi i Clash non mi dicevano un granchè oggi invece li adoro alla follia), “Anarchy In The UK”, “Running free” (devo scrivere di chi è?) e “Assassin” (brano omonimo un’ oscura thrash band tedesca adorata da Marcello).Sicuramente il compito che mi attendeva non era facilissimo, visto che il basso in precedenza non l’avevo mai sfiorato. Nemmeno col pensiero. Normale quindi che, prima e dopo le prove che seguirono, passassi il tempo a massacrarmi le dita a suonare quei brani a casa mia, cercando di eseguirli nella maniera più vicina possibile a quegli immortali originali.Però non credo di esagerare dicendo che il periodo che seguì sia stato il più spassoso della mia carriera musicale (OK ne seguirono altri ben più ricchi di soddisfazioni con altri musicisti, soprattutto da quando la musica è diventata la mia fonte di reddito, ma questo è un altro discorso). Immaginate un gruppo di amici che suonano (mossi solo dalla passione, cosa rara oggidì) in una caldissima saletta, sperduta nella campagna ciociara, a volumi altissimi ed in assoluta spensieratezza.Un autentico spasso, caratterizzato da una serie di episodi, bestemmie e battutacce che avrebbero bisogno di un intero libro per essere descritte. Tra i tanti, un episodio mi è rimasto impresso: Bruno, partito con la famiglia per una breve vacanza, dopo gli esami di maturità, fu sostituito da Marcello – arrivato alle prove con una Maserati del cognato, parcheggiata ad 1 cm. dal muro! – che riproponeva le parti di chitarra a voce...un precursore dei Fantomas di Mike Patton! E come non ricordare poi Michele che, memore del periodo della naja, si esibeva nel “lancio perfetto della granata”?&lt;br /&gt;Che tempi…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 6&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In Union We Stand: i membri degli HB (ehm…non fraintendete) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prima di andare avanti vorrei aprire una parentesi parlandovi un po’ più in particolare dei membri degli HB, iniziando dalla vera anima degli HB ovvero Mariano Fontane (25 anni all’epoca, oggi 33enne e felicemente sposato). Prima dell’esperienza con gli HB aveva già avuto modo di mettersi in luce con i Nevermind (e, seppur per un brevissimo periodo di tempo con i più noti Nemesis), gruppo punk - metal che fu tra i primi della zona a proporre certe sonorità.&lt;br /&gt;La prima volta che lo vidi fu su 1 foto apparsa sulla Bibbia metal italiana Metal Shock.Chitarrista senza tanti fronzoli e del tutto disinteressato al mero esibizionismo, Mariano è sempre stato il più convinto nel portare avanti gli HB, con una coerenza e una convinzione (testardaggine?) che pochi hanno. E' un idealista, purtroppo (o per fortuna) per lui al 100%.Dal punto di vista umano aggiungo solo che (a Cassino) è una delle poche persone di cui ci si possa fidare ciecamente, anche se personalmente, per una serie di ragioni (anche banali), non ho più rapporti con lui (per sua “fortuna”). Nei Nevermind suonava con Michele Petrecca (anch’egli oggi 33enne), ovvero il batterista degli HB. Di Michele non posso dirvi tanto visto che non lo conosco benissimo (ed ha un carattere alquanto chiuso, quindi…). Dal punto di vista musicale è un elemento molto valido (tecnicamente non è un “mostro” però è molto preciso), come persona è invece alquanto discutibile (burbero, scontroso e politicamente schierato a destra, almeno credo), a volte terribilmente cinico, ma non credo sia cattivo e non lo vedrò da circa cinque anni.Passando a Marcello (oggi 33enne e convolato a nozze da un paio d’anni) che dirvi?Prima degli HB aveva già fatto parte dei Nevermind e degli ottimi Hatred thrash band valida ma dallo sfortunato destino) insieme a Michele; è un cantante dotato di una notevole voce (per me mai sfruttata appieno) e capace di esibizioni on stage al fulmicotone (spesso davanti a suo padre!), ha sempre mantenuto altissimo il morale del gruppo, semplicemente comportandosi in maniera naturale per lui… ma non per gli altri (scherzo!).&lt;br /&gt;Incredibile un suo concerto con gli Hatred svoltosi anni addietro in un locale per anziani presso S. Giorgio a Liri, roba che molti ancora lo ricordano. Si tratta di un’ ottima persona, di certo la più genuina che conosca e che ho rivisto recentemente ad un concerto: non è cambiato per niente. Grazie a dio. Gli anni passano, i chili aumentano, ma la voglia di musica è sempre quella di un ragazzino di fronte al primo disco.Venendo a Bruno De Sanctis (17 anni all’epoca, oggi 24enne) che dire? Musicalmente era (e spero sia ancora oggi) bravissimo e potrebbe esserlo ancor di più se si spogliasse di certi atteggiamenti e di qualche pregiudizio.Prima degli HB aveva avuto solamente esperienze di scarso rilievo, completamente da dimenticare.Dal punto di vista umano non posso rimproverargli quasi niente, è un ragazzo dal cuore d’oro e credo che crescendo avrà abbandonato anche quella dose di infantilismo che a volte emergeva 8anche lui…saranno cinque o sei anni che non lo vedo). Ed infine ci sono io, Cristiano Mastrangeli (21 anni a quei tempi… 29 oggi… arggg!!!), all’inizio impegnato al basso.Autodescriversi non è mai cosa facile (e positiva, aggiungo io), comunque…prima degli HB avevo avuto esperienze musicali tutt’altro che brillanti con una fun band chiamata Dust Of Death, nella quale si passava più tempo a litigare che a suonare, nonché una parentesi nei thrashers Insurrezione (fortunatamente brevissima).Dal punto di vista umano non posso dire niente di me, lascio che siano gli altri a farlo, sperando (nemmeno tanto… but who cares?) nella buona opinione che abbiano di me. Dopo gli HB ho avuto altre esperienze musicali, molto valide e con bellissimi ricordi. Posso dire di… aver rischiato di farcela (come musicista intendo) ma di non esserci riuscito (soprattutto per colpe mie ed una buona dose di ingenuità), ho appeso da un paio d’anni lo strumento al chiodo e sono riuscito ad entrare in una major discografica. Magari non è la carriera che sognavo da adolescente, ma ne sono stra-stra-stra-stra (devo continuare?) soddisfatto (alla faccia di chi proclama eterna fedeltà alle realtà "alternative" od "underground"). Il bassista di cui presi il posto Davide è invece stato stroncato da un' overdose circa quattro anni fa e, ancora oggi, nessuno mi leva dalla mente che la sua sia stata una fine (tristemente) inevitabile.&lt;br /&gt;Sarò retorico, ma credo che sia stato un punk sino in fondo, almeno mi piace ricordarlo così: sandali da mare, un apribottiglie appeso al collo, una macchina scassata, ma una persona sincera e spontanea come poche ce ne sono.&lt;br /&gt;Questo era Davide.&lt;br /&gt;A cui mi piacerebbe che queste pagine fossero dedicate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 7&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Live After Death: i concerti del riscatto &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E giunse finalmente il tanto atteso giorno del primo concerto con la nuova formazione: 30 Luglio 1995, festa di Rifondazione Comunista, presso la Villa Comunale di Cassino. Alla prova generale della mattina subito sorse il primo di una lunga serie di problemi: Marcello non si presentò (giustificandosi, secondo noi senza alcun motivo, nel dover aiutare un non ben identificato parente…. mah!). In seguito, interpellato telefonicamente per comunicargli l’ora del soundcheck, esclamava (in modo poi divenuto materia di leggenda locale): “Devo venire a provare il microfono?”. Incredibile. I guai però non erano finiti: Giove Pluvio (o quel porco di d**, a seconda dei casi) decise di accanirsi contro noi malcapitati rovesciando temporali di proporzioni bibliche. Profeticamente previsti da Michele, visto sempre più come un terribile iettatore.Questo per tacere degli altri imprevisti (tra cui un’organizzazione che ci diede dieci minuti – sì, avete letto bene! – per suonare ed un soundcheck in cui mi ritrovai a provare con il batterista più arrogante del pianeta, componente degli headliner Band Of Joy (nomen omen, come ripetevano i Latini).Quella stessa sera suonarono anche gli Insurrezione, formati da: un cantante afono e impegnato – a parole – socialmente, oggi sposato e finito a fare il ragioniere stile “italianomedio” (Igor); un bassista… con un basso più di grande di lui e che non vedo da cinque / sei anni (Francesco Albergamo), un chitarrista innamorato del suo modo di suonare ed oggi “redentosi” (Mario Torcinaro). Ed infine un grande batterista (Stefano Scardamaglia, anche lui ormai sposato e fuori dal giro musicale). Per ingannare (il tempo e, soprattutto, il nervosismo…nemmeno fossimo stati headliner al festival di Donington!) decidemmo di recarci alla stazione ferroviaria accompagnati da Anita (oggi felice Sig.ra Fontane), dove Michele espletò i suoi bisogni fisiologici.Mai decisione fu più saggia! Tornati sul luogo dello show ed accolti da un Marcello furibondo per il tempo infame (ed autore di alcune delle più tremende bestemmie mai pronunciate sul suolo italico!) ci accingemmo a salire sul palco ed il fatidico momento arrivò.Solo chi ha suonato dal vivo può capire cosa si prova in quegli attimi, l’ adrenalina che ti scorre velocissima nelle vene e ti elettrizza e la felicità ti riempie l’anima. Non credo di esagerare che lo spettacolo da noi offerto quella sera fu notevole, suonammo solo quattro brani (“House Breaking”, “My motivator”, “Antisocial”, “Assassin”), ma con una carica ed una ferocia spaventosa. Tecnicamente perfetti (Mariano e Bruno davvero micidiali, Michele che non sbagliava un colpo, Marcello invasato come nemmeno lo era Cronos ai suoi tempi ed io, nel mio piccolo, molto preciso), nonostante suonassimo praticamente alla cieca grazie a fonici che di mestiere avrebbero dovuto fare tutt’altro! Non mi meraviglia che fummo il gruppo più applaudito della serata (da cinetica Marcello che sbatte i pugni sulle assi del palco facendolo traballare!) e serata conclusasi con una sana bevuta…a nostre spese (alla faccia del Comunismo degli organizzatori!) e con il trasporto della strumentazione a Piedimonte, sempre da parte dell’infaticabile Mariano, col resto del gruppo al seguito. Il day after ci avrebbe riservato un’altra piacevolissima sorpresa…infatti, non ben precisate persone, ci comunicarono che avremmo suonato il 2 Agosto al Festival Beer e (udite, udite) senza dover pagare nemmeno una lira all’ambiguo organizzatore Cicero. Si avverava un sogno, ovvero suonare su un palco davvero bellissimo e di fronte a una moltitudine di persone (ovviamente lì non per noi… figuriamoci!). Come previsto da Michele (ormai la nostra “Sibilla Cumana”) non tutto doveva filare liscio, anzi; il 2 Agosto, infatti, Giove Pluvio si ricordava di noi riversando un autentico nubifragio su Cassino ed impedendoci di effettuare il sound check, tra le imprecazioni di un Marcello sempre più blasfemo. Comunque sia, alla fine riuscimmo a salire sul palco (nervosi ed irati come non mai) e dovendo sopportare una presentazione chilometrica e snervante da parte di idiota chiamato presentatore (da me poi definito “quell’uomo è un mito”, ma questa è un’ altra storia).Come se non bastasse fummo anche costretti a “recuperare” (chiamandolo dal palco) Marcello, nel frattempo andato tranquillamente a comprare una bottiglia d’acqua (appena salito sul palco lo perdonammo subito: fece un ingresso spettacolare con braccia alzate e segno delle corna stile vecchio metal singer)! Lo spettacolo che offrimmo fu buono, anche se non esaltante.&lt;br /&gt;Suonavamo col freno a mano tirato e non neanche oggi ne conosco il perchè.Che qualcosa dovesse andare storto lo capimmo dalle battute iniziali quando (nel mezzo del primo brano) Michele…si vide sfuggire una cassa, prontamente risistemata grazie all’onnipresente Stefano degli Insurrezione.Suonammo solo tre brani (“House Breaking”, “Assassin” e “Antisocial”), ancora una volta danneggiati da un sound precario manipolato da babbei travestiti da fonici.Sicuramente non sfigurammo (nemmeno a confronto dei più celebrati – si fa per dire -Tremors guidati quella sera da un redivivo - irriconoscibile Mirko), ma il solo Marcello (nuovamente con t-shirt da hooligan) si comportò come da copione. Alla fine però tutti soddisfatti (compresi i miei genitori che avevano assistito compiaciuti alla show e che avevo trovato a chiacchierare allegramente con Marcello nel back stage) per la performance e conclusione fotografica con session fotografica (cui Michele voleva all’inizio sottrarsi… poi è risultato quello più fotogenico) ed infine, solenne bevuta. Ci lasciammo con la promessa di incontrarci per i concerti previsti per Settembre e andammo tutti in vacanza (davvero meritata).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 8&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Die Die My Darling: House Breaking addio &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quasi mi dispiacque partire per le vacanze, lasciando il gruppo nel momento del suo massimo fulgore (leggi: massima decenza mai raggiunta). Curiosamente provammo anche un tastierista, un certo Maurizio Mazzarella, faccia da bambino, totale inesperienza (non aveva mai suonato con qualcuno… e mai lo fece in seguito) e completa ignoranza musicale (non sapeva nemmeno cosa stessimo facendo… non aggiungo altro).&lt;br /&gt;Per (soprattutto sua) fortuna, assistette solamente a un paio di nostre prove, mi chiedo ancora oggi chi ebbe l’idea di inglobarlo nel gruppo. Ripensandoci, era come se avessi previsto qualcosa. Più volte durante quelle vacanze la mia mente tornò a quei due concerti (lo stesso credo sia avvenuto per gli altri membri, ma forse mi sbaglio), così il ritorno (anticipato di parecchio) lo accolsi quasi come una liberazione, anche se un evento inatteso era dietro l’angolo. Lasciandoci ai primi di Agosto ci eravamo accordati che ci saremmo ritrovati ad Aquino per il concerto della festa di Rifondazione Comunista; c’eravamo tutti…tranne Michele. Fino all’ultimo sperammo che si presentasse. Ma così non fu. Inutile dire che fu una delusione immensa (come se ad un appuntamento invece di presentarsi Tracy Lords… si presentasse Milly D’Abbraccio, non ti dispiace, ma rimani parecchio deluso…), assorbita da Mariano e Bruno con una sbornia colossale, da me e Marcello nella frustrazione più nera (e con una serie di bestemmie terrificanti da parte del buon Zabot… con la sua ragazza… presente e, comprensibilmente, allibita).Purtroppo la serata finì ancora peggio di come era iniziata.Decidemmo infatti (mi chiedo ancora il perché) di suonare “Assassin”… senza batterista. Fu un flop clamoroso, fortunatamente bloccato sul nascere da Marcello e me (e che dire poi del penoso spettacolo offerto poi da Bruno accompagnato dal “resuscitato” Davide e Stefano per una sgangheratissima versione di “Anarchy in the UK”)?. Tornammo quindi mestamente nella nostra saletta, io con Marcello, Bruno con Mariano. Durante il viaggio, un Marcello davvero distrutto mi manifestò il suo proposito di abbandonare il gruppo, chiedendomi inoltre (a ripetizione) di guidare la macchina di Mariano a Cassino (se non è affetto questo…). Arrivati alla sala prove, tenemmo una breve riunione nella quale Mariano (ripresosi quasi del tutto) cercò di calmare me e Marcello, alla fine decidemmo di riparlarne a mente fredda, ma da quel giorno gli HB non furono più gli stessi.Come se non bastasse, il giorno seguente, si profilò la possibilità di suonare al pub Excalibur (altra meta da noi ambita); irreperibilità di Michele e gli impegni di lavoro da parte di Marcello, sommate alla grandissima voglia di suonare ci stavano per indurre a suonare con questa formazione: io al basso e voce, Bruno e Mariano alle chitarre ed un non meglio identificato batterista (per l’occasione ubriaco) e che io avevo violentemente insultato l’anno prima, nello stesso momento in cui avevo capito chi fosse (ossia un borghesuccio ignorante e viziato). Alla fine Mariano ed io (fortunatamente) decidemmo di non suonare, a differenza di Bruno che suonò col suddetto batterista più il solito Davide al basso e voce. Che pena vederli. La serata si concluse con gli Insurrezione (bravissimi ad Aquino ma molto imprecisi quella sera). Nei giorni successivi decidemmo il futuro del gruppo: Marcello lasciava (lo ritroveremo poi in una cover band dei Dream Theater, con la quale suonerà la sua musica preferita coronando un lungo sogno), mentre Michele (rimasto calmo ed imperturbabile come se nulla fosse successo) veniva estromesso senza troppi fronzoli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 9&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hit The Lights: si ricomincia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il terzetto superstite decideva di continuare. Le ricerche di un nuovo batterista si concludevano con la scelta di Vincenzo Giacomi, già componente dei Death Rays. Oggi 31enne, tipo gioviale, sempre allegro, animato da una gran voglia suonare, Vincenzo (mia vecchia conoscenza sin dai tempi del Liceo) si ambientò immediatamente e benissimo (facendo dimenticare a me e a Mariano i vani tentativi di “convincere” Roberto Vincitorio, dei bravissimi Nemesis (una band che ebbe un solo difetto: quella di essere nata in Italia). Il cambiamento di formazione coincise inoltre con il cambio di sala prove: ci spostammo infatti (per motivi logistici) a Cassino, presso la sala dell’ambiguo Walter Cipolletta (un passato da batterista con Rita Pavone - Adriano Pappalardo, un presente da lavoratore ANAS), scelta questa che alla lunga risulterà fatale (anche per la grande invadenza del suddetto Walter). Ricominciare non fu affatto facile, innanzitutto perché Vincenzo necessitava di un po’ di “rodaggio” (dato che non suonava da circa un anno) e poi perché si cerò di inserire un cantante di nome Michele (ex Preachers). Tempo due settimane ed il nuovo cantante fu congedato (non ho mai capito chi lo invitò ad unirsi a noi), non per sua scarsezza, quanto per incompatibilità con la proposta musicale del gruppo. Tra l’altro, ci lasciò vendendomi un basso (pressoché nuovo) ad un prezzo irrisorio, questo fu l’unico contributo concreto che diede al gruppo (e da quei giorni non lo vidi più). I cambiamenti non erano però finiti. Con una delle poche decisioni logiche prese a quei tempi, decidemmo di spostare Mariano al basso (vista la sorprendente abilità con cui lo suonava), mentre io tornai all’amata chitarra; sinceramente non so quanto ciò fece piacere a Bruno (che in precedenza aveva la responsabilità di tutti gli assoli), che divenne anche il cantante dei nuovi HB. Di lì a poco nasceva “Anime violate”, che sarebbe diventato il nostro cavallo di battaglia e le cui musiche/liriche furono scritte da noi quattro, segno di una rinnovata armonia tornata nella band dopo tante vicissitudini. Almeno così sembrava.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Garage Days (Revisited): la registrazione del demotape&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E così, dopo circa due mesi di continue prove (Sabato sera e – follia - Domenica mattina con Mariano sempre instancabile tassista!), (su mia iniziativa), decidemmo di registrare il primo demo tape, sempre nella saletta dell’oscuro Cipolletta (non più presente alle nostre prove dopo precisa richiesta di lasciarci soli). I mezzi a disposizione, ovviamente, non erano dei migliori: un mixer vecchio di trent’anni, un piastra fantomatica, una serie di microfoni… stra abusati.Le registrazioni si tennero in un (tranquillo) weekend (di terrore) di Novembre e ad esse partecipò anche Anita, vocalist improvvisata nel brano “Another Day With You”, ballatona rock, la nostra composizione più recente. Quasi superfluo dire che quei due giorni furono contraddistinti da un nervosismo ed uno stress notevoli, che ci portarono spesso a litigare per i motivi più futili (Anita che non accettava alcun consiglio, Bruno che voleva suonare senza accordare, io che volevo suonare accordando trenta volte…). Credo che fu grazie alla perseveranza di Mariano e Vincenzo che riuscimmo a completare le registrazioni.Alla fine i brani portati a termine furono: “Anime Violate”, “Another Day With You”, “Change Your Reality” (mio discutibile esordio alla voce… e mio ego soddisfatto!) ed un’ introduzione (sempre con Anita alla voce).Considerando la scarsezza dei mezzi tecnici utilizzati penso che quello che ne venne fuori non possa definirsi malvagio.&lt;br /&gt;Ma d’altronde…avete mai sentito qualcuno parlare male della propria musica? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 11&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rust In Peace: i primi contrasti e l’ultimo concerto&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Registrato il demo tape incominciarono i primi problemi. Le avvisaglie si ebbero nel momento in cui Anita fece il suo ingresso nella band (ingresso caldeggiato da Mariano, ma accettato, a malincuore, dai restanti), urtando la sensibilità artistica di qualcuno (che forse temeva di non essere più considerato il centro focale del gruppo). L’altro problema era quello della lingua da usare, problema questo secondo me direttamente collegato al precedente. In verità Bruno non conosceva l’Inglese e voleva usare l’Italiano in modo da escludere Anita e me (visti come “pericolosi concorrenti”). L’ultimo punto controverso riguardava il nome della band. Non so perché ma si decise di cambiarlo, penso che comunque fu una decisione dovuta all’instabilità (o meglio confusione generale) di quel periodo. Alla fine gli HB diventarono gli Hamis (dopo aver scartato Avalon, Essylt, La Strana Saletta e mille altri).&lt;br /&gt;Fu inoltre deciso (nonostante la mia opposizione) che in futuro si sarebbe utilizzata la lingua italiana.&lt;br /&gt;Con buona pace di qualcun altro.Arrivammo così al primo concerto programmato per il 16 Dicembre 1995 al Village Club, tragicomico pub situato in località Olivella.&lt;br /&gt;Della serie: Ciociaria uber alles...il primo concerto degli Hamis (supportati dai giovanissimi The Heaven, che suonarono con la nostra attrezzatura) si svolse nelle usuali condizioni di assoluta precarietà tecnica (nessun mixer, acustica inesistente e pubblico a meno di mezzo metro di distanza da noi). Lo spettacolo (ammesso che si possa definire tale) non fu malvagio (a parte qualche diverbio con il pubblico di “amici”, pronto a sghignazzare al minimo errore), a parte il (noiosissimo) intro, suonammo “Anime Violate” (in due versioni: fast e slow. Identiche), “Motivator” (resa al doppio della velocità usuale), “Change This reality” (cantata da me ed “accorciata” grazie a un errore di Bruno), “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “When I Come Around” (orrendo hit dei Green Day), riproposto anche nell’acclamato bis. Di questo concerto conservo un buon ricordo se non altro perché usai il mio nuovo gioiello (una chitarra Ibanez), atteso da tempo immemore; nemmeno il tempo di finire e corremmo a S. Giorgio a Liri per assistere a un concerto dei nostri amici romani Mindscape, autori di uno show di ottimo livello. Il giorno dopo ci saremmo dovuti esibire al pub Excalibur. Messi i vari rancori da parte, credo che quella sera fossimo davvero parecchio “carichi”, il tutto però si risolse nell’ennesima, enorme, beffa. Prima di suonare infatti (davanti a un pubblico pressoché inesistente) ci fu chiesto (ancora oggi stento a crederci) il pagamento delle nostre consumazioni (dimenticavo… con i nostri concerti non guadagnammo mai nemmeno una lira). A dir poco sdegnati, decidemmo all’unanimità di non suonare, nonostante i vari tentativi di convincimento del subdolo Cicero (la cosa grandiosa fu che le consumazione non le pagammo...senza suonare). Quella sera quindi suonarono soltanto The Heaven (sempre grazie a noi), molto più rilassati rispetto all’uscita della sera precedente. Fu quella l’ultima serata dal vivo degli HB (o meglio degli Hamis…che bel nome eh?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 12&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Until It Sleeps: bye bye House Breaking &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quello che ne seguì portò al rapido scioglimento del gruppo. Mi allontanai dalla band per circa due mesi durante i quali fui totalmente assorbito dalla sessione d’esami invernale e, quando contattati nuovamente i miei (ex) compagni d’avventura... il gruppo non esisteva più.Mariano aveva deciso di andarsene motivando la sua decisione con i suoi impegni di lavoro e con Whiplash (la sua piccola etichetta discografica, rimasta tale negli anni). In realtà, credo che non ne potesse veramente più di quella situazione di stallo, da loro stessi creata. Erano dunque rimasti Bruno e Vincenzo (finalmente al timone da solo), cui si erano aggiunti prima Massimo Cappiello (oggi – secondo voci di corridoio - ridotto alquanto male) e poi Davide al basso. Non ho mai avuto la (s)fortuna di assistere a una loro prova, penso che comunque suonarono senza accordare nemmeno una volta. Nei mesi successivi ci furono vari tentativi da parte di Mariano (che conserverà per sempre, credo, il rimorso di non aver registrato “Ossessioni”, nostro ultimo brano, il migliore mai scritto, orecchiabile e potente come i Timoria sapevano un tempo essere) di riformare il gruppo con la speranza di incidere un Cd.&lt;br /&gt;Speranza vana, come tante altre. In verità, un accordo di massima per tornare a suonare insieme era stato raggiunto, ma Bruno (impegnato con mille altre band da burla) seppur in apparenza favorevole, si dimostrò infine titubante ed il tutto si risolse in un nulla di fatto. Comunque sia, Mariano ed io decidemmo di pubblicare ugualmente il demo (ormai chiuso nel cassetto da sei mesi), accollandoci tra l’altro una spesa non indifferente, in modo da non vedere vanificati gli sforzi di oltre un anno di attività di gruppo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAPITOLO 13&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A New Beginning: “Stories, 1996” &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credete sia facile far uscire un demo tape? Ebbene, non lo è affatto, non lo era nel 1996 (Internet era ancora una parola "strana"), anche “grazie” al nostro grafico (che viveva in Sardegna) e che era la persona più sbadata e pasticciona d’Italia! E così una cassetta che sarebbe dovuta uscire a Giugno…usciva ad Ottobre. Il demo si intitolava “Stories 1996” ed era composto da: un (noioso) intro (“Essylt”) del tutto fuori contesto, “Anime Violate”, “Change This Reality”, “Another Day With You” ed un outro strumentale (che vedeva impegnato alla chitarra l’ospite Mario Torcinaro). A questi brani in studio se ne aggiungevano quattro suonati dal vivo (“Anime Violate”, “Motivator”, “Change This Reality”, “When I Come Around”).La registrazione (occorre dirlo?) non era delle migliori, nonostante fosse stata remixata da Enrico Germani (ex chitarrista dei Nemesis e poi proprietario di uno studio di registrazione). (Che io sappia) il demo non è mai stato recensito da alcun giornale specializzato, nessuno me lo ha mai richiesto, me ne sono guardato bene dal farlo ascoltare a qualcuno ed era abbastanza penoso.&lt;br /&gt;Tuttavia, non mi pento affatto di aver buttato dei soldi all’aria per contribuire a realizzarlo.&lt;br /&gt;Allora era giusto farlo.&lt;br /&gt;Anche se oggi non lo rifarei nemmeno se mi puntassero una pistola alla tempia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE END&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come avrete capito (ammesso che siate arrivati a leggere sino a qui) termina con il demo tape. Gli HB sono definitivamente morti e sepolti e non credo che questo racconto avrà un seguito. Nell'Agosto del 1997, non soddisfatti delle nefandezze sonore in precedenza (abbondantemente) propinate (ed in piena sindrome nostalgica), tentammo anche la carta della reunion, ma durò solo un giorno e fu una cosa davvero patetica, contraddistinta, tra l'altro da una tensione enorme. Almeno io, mi sentivo come a suonare con gente estranea, feeling zero e divertimento...sotto zero. Comunque sia, conservo bei ricordi di quell’esperienza anche se non penso serva molto basare la propria vita sui ricordi del passato, in caso contrario ci sarebbe il forte rischio di riviverli ogni giorno e francamente non è una cosa che fa per me. Va bene custodire gelosamente i “fantasmi del passato” mai guai a diventare a propria volta “fantasmi". D’ altronde se Seneca diceva: “(…) vindica te tibi et collige et serva tempus”, un motivo ci dovrà pur essere… &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Completed on November 5th 1996 (revisited during the year 2003 Anno Sathanas)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;© CM 2003&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Ben accetti suggerimenti, chiarimenti, insulti o proposte oscene a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:mastrangel@libero.it"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;mastrangel@libero.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-114270349782240049?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/114270349782240049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=114270349782240049' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114270349782240049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114270349782240049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/03/house-breaking-biografia-ufficiale.html' title='HOUSE BREAKING - Biografia ufficiale 1995/96'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-114240486271133859</id><published>2006-03-15T07:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-03-15T16:48:57.966+01:00</updated><title type='text'>FLASH N° N 205 Marzo 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/__Marzo%202006.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/320/__Marzo%202006.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/"&gt;And Music For All&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"FLASH" NUMERO 205 - IN USCITA!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DORO&lt;/strong&gt; intervista/anteprima con una delle icone del classic metal europeo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BEYOND FEAR&lt;/strong&gt; intervista/anteprima con Ripper Owens e la sua nuova creatura!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEATH SS&lt;/strong&gt; l’apocalittico settimo sigillo di Steve Sylvester!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEPULTURA &lt;/strong&gt;il possente Derrick Green novello Dante Alighieri?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LIV KRISTINE&lt;/strong&gt; l’incantevole singer norvegese “balla da sola”!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AXXIS &lt;/strong&gt;Will God Remember Us? I tedeschi al disco della svolta!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MACBETH&lt;/strong&gt; il goth rock della “signora omicidi”!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEIL ZLOZOWER&lt;/strong&gt; intervista col fotografo di Aerosmith, Kiss, Van Halen, Rolling Stones e Led Zeppelin!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE BLACK&lt;/strong&gt; Mario Di Donato ripercorre una carriera lunga una vita!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BENEDICTUM&lt;/strong&gt; Veronica Freeman comes to Italy! San Diego-Milano: tutto in cinque giorni!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CRUCIFIED BARBARA&lt;/strong&gt; reportage e backstage del tour italiano!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCHI DEL MESE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Lacuna Coil: the silence is broken!&lt;br /&gt;Venom: il Male di nuovo tra noi!&lt;br /&gt;Rob Zombie: The Devil Inside&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALTRE USCITE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Aborym, Ace Frehley, Andre Andersen, Bal-Sagoth, Blackmore's Night, Covenant, Dark Lunacy, Death SS, Eldritch, Ensoph, Helstar, Ian Parry, Jadis, Jim Peterik, Jorn, Killing Joke, Maryslim, Mystic Prophecy, Nasum, Paul Sabu, Pentagram, Revolting Cocks, Sadus, Shadowman, Slave To The System, Trouble, Type O Negative, Robbie Valentine, Witchery… per un totale di 117 recensioni!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES POWER - L'ALTRA FACCIA DEL ROCK&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo mese sono nostre gradite ospiti quattro autorevoli rappresentanti della nuova scena metal europea: Floor Jansen, Sabine Edelsbacher, Helen Vogt e Carmen Elise Espanaes, frontwomen di After Forever, Edenbridge, Flowing Tears e Midnattsol!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BACKSTAGE 10X10 - IL ROCK VISTO DA DIE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-114240486271133859?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/' title='FLASH N° N 205 Marzo 2006'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/114240486271133859/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=114240486271133859' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114240486271133859'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/114240486271133859'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/03/flash-n-n-205-marzo-2006.html' title='FLASH N° N 205 Marzo 2006'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-113966863658622833</id><published>2006-02-11T15:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-02-11T15:46:11.283+01:00</updated><title type='text'>FLASH N° 204 Febbraio 2006</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/1600/copertina1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4712/2152/400/copertina1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"FLASH" NUMERO 204 - IN USCITA!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BENEDICTUM&lt;/strong&gt; faccia a faccia con Veronica Freeman, singer della heavy metal band americana invitata al Gods Of Metal 2006!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALICE COOPER&lt;/strong&gt; disco per disco i miei primi 40 anni!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOTO&lt;/strong&gt; Bottom Of Your Soul!!! Parla Steve Lukather!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WHITESNAKE&lt;/strong&gt; David Coverdale: Here I Go Again..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RHAPSODY&lt;/strong&gt; Riding The Winds Of Eternity!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEVIN TOWNSEND&lt;/strong&gt; A ritmo di “vampolka!!!”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TRACII GUNS&lt;/strong&gt; Icona rock n roll!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DIRTY RIG&lt;/strong&gt; Il nuovo Kory Klarke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I 100 DISCHI CHE OGNI AOR FAN DOVREBBE AVERE!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Guida all’ascolto: dagli Airborne agli Alias, dai Biloxi ai Giant, passando per Heart, Le Roux, Michael Thompson Band, Petra, Signal, Spys, Strangeways, Tycoon e tanti altri ancora!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;INSIGHTS – DENTRO LA NOTIZIA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Carodisco, pirateria e mercato saturo: &lt;strong&gt;CHI SALVERÀ LA MUSICA?&lt;/strong&gt; Abbiamo intervistato i responsabili di Nuclear Blast, SPV, Frontiers Records, Dockyard1, MTM Music e Season Of Mist per capirne di più.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LADIES POWER - L'ALTRA FACCIA DEL ROCK&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E’ l’incantevole &lt;strong&gt;Simone Simons&lt;/strong&gt; degli Epica la nostra ospite di lusso, assieme alla mitica&lt;strong&gt; Roxy&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Petrucci&lt;/strong&gt; delle Vixen, alla scatenata &lt;strong&gt;Moa Holmsten&lt;/strong&gt; dei Meldrum e alla giovanissima singer losangelena &lt;strong&gt;Sabrina Korva&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DISCHI DEL MESE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Katatonia&lt;/strong&gt;: la sottile linea gotica!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Toto&lt;/strong&gt;: ‘fanculo vecchiaia!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rhapsody&lt;/strong&gt;: live in Montreal!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALTRE USCITE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Iron Maiden, Shining Fury, Elvenking, Arachnes, Axxis, Adagio, Proto-Kaw, Green Carnation, The Tangent, Ritual, Twilight Guardians, Black Funeral, Dark Fortress, Phenomena, Whitesnake, Danger Danger, Platitude, Nightranger, Amorphis, Of The Wand &amp;amp; Moon, Ajattara, Necromantia, American Dog, Danko Jones, Vain, Fireball Ministry, The Berzerker, Kataklysm, Spiritual Beggars, Devin Townsend Band, Les Claypool, Warrant, Tool, Bestial Mockery, Norther, Driller Killer… per un totale di 112 recensioni!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BACKSTAGE 10X10 - IL ROCK VISTO DA DIETRO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' la sfrontata singer dei rocker americani Vexy Strut, &lt;strong&gt;Tuesdae&lt;/strong&gt;, che introduce questo mese ospiti come &lt;strong&gt;Anders Nystrom&lt;/strong&gt; dei Katatonia, &lt;strong&gt;Jim Peterik&lt;/strong&gt; dei Pride Of Lions, &lt;strong&gt;Tommy Massara&lt;/strong&gt; degli Extrema, &lt;strong&gt;Daniel Bowes&lt;/strong&gt; dei Thunder e &lt;strong&gt;Kevin Steele&lt;/strong&gt; della Roxx Gang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ALMOST FAMOUS - A UN PASSO DALLA GLORIA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Il ciclone &lt;strong&gt;Lorraine Lewis&lt;/strong&gt; dei &lt;strong&gt;Femme Fatale&lt;/strong&gt;. Uno dei sex symbol degli anni Ottanta ci racconta storia, curiosità e fatti inediti di un’epoca!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HARD WORKS - ...COSE DALL'ALTRO SECOLO&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foto e recensioni di Ufo, Paul Chain, Accpet, Status Quo, Blue Oyster Cult, Triumph, Tigertailz, Demon, Vinnie Vincent, Guns N’Roses, Great Kat…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOOLIGAN'S HOLIDAY - ROCK MEETS FOOTBALL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Calcio e metal, Luca Turilli dei Rhapsody e Steve Morris degli Heartland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VIDEODROME - IL LATO OSCURO DEL CINEMA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con Steve Sylvester, Wendy Yanko + news e recensioni Dvd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FANS WORLD - LA VITA NEI CLUBS!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Toto ed Evanescence Italian Fan Clubs!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FOOD'N'ROLL - IN CUCINA COI ROCKERS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Partecipano Daniel Gildenlow dei Pain Of Salvation, Dan Lorenzo degli Hades e Robert Vintervind dei Beseech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MATCH MUSIC - ROCKERS AI RAGGI X!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Grom degli Ancient mette a confronto Mike Portnoy e John Macaluso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ROCK TOOLS&lt;/strong&gt; – I ferri del mestiere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HEAVY GAMERS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Videogiochi metallici per tutti i gusti!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NIGHT FEVER - CULT ROCK CLUBS!!!&lt;br /&gt;TRIBAL BIOMECH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tatuaggi di Max Cavalera!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DRAW THE LINE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Fumetti ad alto tasso metal!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FLASH CONTEST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vinci un superbo esemplare della chitarra RRV BLACK e accendi il diavolo che è in te!!!&lt;br /&gt;Vinci 20 kit (Cd + foto + spille) del gruppo rivelazione Helalyn Flowers!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21292815-113966863658622833?l=andmusicforall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/feeds/113966863658622833/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21292815&amp;postID=113966863658622833' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/113966863658622833'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/21292815/posts/default/113966863658622833'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://andmusicforall.blogspot.com/2006/02/flash-n-204-febbraio-2006.html' title='FLASH N° 204 Febbraio 2006'/><author><name>CM</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16032413964360415476</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='26' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xvl6J1iiCvE/TU0dYXZMJAI/AAAAAAAAAFE/o9FmznWl7vI/s220/untitled8.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292815.post-113809058086138308</id><published>2006-01-24T09:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-07-15T10:34:33.130+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Interviews 2002-2004</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/inside.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Inside, March 2004&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/handfull.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Handful Of Fate, December 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/thecrown.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Crown, December 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/tidfall.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Tidfall, October 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/destruction.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Destruction, October 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/oldmanschild.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Old Man's Child, September 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/7thnemesis.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;7th Nemesis, March 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/honeyforchrist.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Honey For Christ, February 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/thegathering.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Gathering, February 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/thebetrayer.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The Betrayer, February 2003&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/darktranquillity.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dark Tranquillity, December 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/mournbeloveth.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Mourning Beloveth, December 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/howlikeawinter.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;How Like a Winter, November 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/lacunacoil.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Lacuna Coil, November 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/dipnoi.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dipnoi, November 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/deinschatten.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dein Schatten, October 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/redharvest.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Red Harvest, October 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/septicflesh.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Septic Flesh, October 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://anesthmesc.altervista.org/metalpills/interviews/nattas.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Nattas, October 2002&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inside - Marzo 2004&lt;br /&gt;Inside - File under: new death metal gods. Quando la rabbia della musica estrema si unisce all'intelligenza di un suono vario e curato nascono gli Inside. Intervista con Ago e Vitaliano. Read on… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Iniziamo con una breve storia del gruppo…&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Gli Inside nascono dalla fusione di diversi gruppi. Ad esempio io (alla chitarra ritmica) e Vitaliano (batteria), già vari anni fa suonavamo assieme in un gruppo death metal, molto, molto tecnico. Io inoltre suonavo in una cover band Metallica/Megadeth ed in un altro gruppo di Caserta, gli Ossian, orientati sul power progressive. Poi i tre gruppi si sono sciolti, mi sono messo in testa di formare una band seria e pian piano abbiamo trovato altri gli componenti che ci interessavano per mettere insieme gli Inside. Che suonano?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: A detta di parecchi suoniamo un death metal abbastanza particolare, perché c'è il power e il progressive. Power per la voce acuta (qualcuno dice Nightwish altri Control Denied), ritmiche death alla Schuldiner e death metal più in generale, visto che ascoltiamo dagli Iron Maiden a Burzum passando per i Dream Theater. Io, oltre ad essere il chitarrista solista sono anche la prima voce assieme alla cantante. La mia è screaming.&lt;br /&gt;Influenze del gruppo?&lt;br /&gt;A detta di molti: Death, Children Of Bodom, In Flames…qualcosa dei Dark Tranquillity…con la voce mia.&lt;br /&gt;Quali sono i motivi che vi hanno spinto ad unire le vostre forze negli Inside?&lt;br /&gt;Innanzitutto perché proveniamo da conoscenze ed esperienze musicali diverse. Il bassista studia anche jazz e fusion, oltre al metal che gli è sempre piaciuto. Ognuno di noi ha le proprie "fisse" musicali, ma per non suonare sempre lo stesso genere (brutal, black, power, progressive), abbiamo deciso di mettere insieme tutti questi stili.&lt;br /&gt;I can't scream è il vostro primo demo?&lt;br /&gt;No, è il secondo. Tra l'altro, abbiamo avuto intervista e top demo su Metal Shock e buone recensioni su diverse fanzine. E' andato abbastanza bene quindi, il primo era più di impatto.&lt;br /&gt;E' cambiata la vostra formazione rispetto al primo demo?&lt;br /&gt;No, è sempre la stessa e sarà la stessa anche sull' album. Ovviamente ci auguriamo di non dover registrare defezioni in futuro, ma se purtroppo accadrà andremo avanti lo stesso. Se hai le idee chiare puoi fare tutto, sia nella musica che nella vita.&lt;br /&gt;Come è andata sino ad oggi la vostra attività dal vivo?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Abbastanza bene. Anche se purtroppo, come ben sai, in Italia non si suona tanto se non con conoscenze e puntini puntini. Ultimamente abbiamo suonato di spalla ai…&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: ...Death SS.&lt;br /&gt;…sì con i Death SS (in Agosto), con i Novembre, nonché con gli Enemy Inside.&lt;br /&gt;Un gruppo con cui suonereste dal vivo ed uno con cui non suonereste mai.&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: vorrei suonare con gli Extrema.&lt;br /&gt;Come mai?&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Perché secondo me sono il gruppo metal italiano per eccellenza, correggimi se sbaglio.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: io invece, dato che ora i Death purtroppo non esistono più, suonerei con i Children Of Bodom.&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Io suonerei con chiunque.&lt;br /&gt;Che significa la parola metal per voi?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Il metal è nel DNA, il metal non è per tutti.&lt;br /&gt;Da quanti anni suonate?&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Io da circa dieci anni, anche se ho studiato soltanto negli ultimi quattro.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Io qualcosa in meno…circa dieci anni.&lt;br /&gt;Siete autodidatti?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: No, nessuno di noi lo è.&lt;br /&gt;Età media del gruppo?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Dai 19 sino ai 27, la cantante è la più giovane. E speriamo che la sua voce farà cambiare opinione rispetto all'età.&lt;br /&gt;E' più importante il feeling o la tecnica?&lt;br /&gt;Ago+Vitaliano: Tutte e due.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Forse più il feeling che la tecnica, che usata eccessivamente rovina…anche se non la penso così. Il gruppo non è solo tecnica. Dipende se tu sei un amante della tecnica oppure no…&lt;br /&gt;Diciamo di sì, se ad esempio ci riferiamo a un gruppo come Cynic, no se ci riferiamo all'ultimo Malmsteen, che poi di tecnico ormai ha ben poco…&lt;br /&gt;Ago: vero, ha inventato certe scale e le continua a ripetere. Anche se le ha inventate e per questo è importante. Hai detto niente.&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Se parliamo di chitarristi tecnicamente direi Steve Vai.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Io no, sono un amante dei Cacophony…Jason Becker…Marty Friedman. Steve Vai è un mostro ma non mi ispira. Meglio Satriani.&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: MA torniamo agli Inside…che è meglio.&lt;br /&gt;Come componete i vostri brani?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: In linea di massima porto lo scheletro del pezzo in sala. Lo faccio vedere a lui, lo insegno agli altri e gli altri arricchiscono il tutto, diamo spazio a tutti.&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Di solito comunque quando proviamo il pezzo in sala prove spesso ci siamo solo noi due più il bassista.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Io non sono il dittatore, ma essendo in sei, è necessario però che ci sia qualcuno che prende le redini della situazione…&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Poi, a livello compositivo, io spingo di più per il potente…&lt;br /&gt;Ago: …e io per il tecnico.&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: …e Andrea (il bassista) frena entrambi.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Comunque ognuno ha il suo spazio. Tutti amiamo i Death di Chuck Schuldiner, dei Cynic…&lt;br /&gt;…anche la cantante?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Lei è una patita dei Death.&lt;br /&gt;Che ne pensate della scena italiana?&lt;br /&gt;Ago: I concerti ormai ci sono…&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Purtroppo i metallari italiani spesso impazziscono solo per i gruppi esteri e non per quelli nostrani…&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Mi fa rabbia quando vedo che davanti al gruppo estero pogano da matti e davanti a quello italiano non si muovono. Mi dovrei portare un lanciafiamme sul palco…&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Molti vanno a un concerto di un gruppo italiano pensano più a fare critiche…aspettando che qualcuno sbagli…&lt;br /&gt;Testi o musica: quale dei due è più importante?&lt;br /&gt;Ago+Vitaliano: Musica.&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: La musica, perché è lei che dà l'impatto.&lt;br /&gt;Death o black metal? E, a proposito il death metal è finito?&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: Il death metal non finirà mai.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Concordo. Per quanto riguarda il black metal…apprezzo molto i gruppi estremi come Burzum, Mayhem, Dark Funeral, Marduk …Nemesis divina dei Satyricon…che disco!&lt;br /&gt;Vitaliano: …Immortal. I nuovi gruppi invece sono solo degli illusi.&lt;br /&gt;Ago: Io però sono contento delle loro convinzioni…se sono vere.&lt;br /&gt;Che ne pensate di Internet?&lt;br /&gt;Abbiamo un sito (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inside.3000.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.inside.3000.it/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;) e iscrivendosi alla mailing list si può anche scaricare gratuitamente il nostro primo demo.&lt;br /&gt;Progetti immediati?&lt;br /&gt;Abbiamo in mente di autoprodurci l'album. Dovremmo registrarlo a breve nello studio dei Novembre e poi mixarlo in America, a Los Angeles, con Fabrizio Grossi. Inoltre, al momento stiamo cercando un distributore. Abbiamo fatto, stiamo facendo e probabilmente faremo ancora sacrifici (economici e di ogni genere) enormi ma noi continuiamo ad andare avanti.&lt;br /&gt;On the web: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.inside.3000.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.inside.3000.it/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; Mail: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:insideteam@libero.it"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;insideteam@libero.it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2004 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Handful Of Hate - December 2003&lt;br /&gt;Italian Black Metal Armageddon… that's the way I would like to introduce Handful Of Hate… Interview with the drummer Gionata Potenti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First of all congratulations on an excellent new album, but why the hell did you make us wait for it so long? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Thank you. Well, the reason is quite simple: we got thousand troubles concerning line ups as well as labels. You have not idea of how many idiot we found on our path during all these hard years… We changed around 5-6 musician during period 1999-2003 and our previous label failed on summer 2001. In fact we didn't get promotion, neither support or everything else. We fought to survive playing live and trying to do our best to find a suitable label but failing until autumn 2002 when we got signed with code666. They have been hard years also because our genre (Black-Metal I mean) slowly faded out from magazines and general people's interest so it's a miracle we're still here. Luckily me and Nicola are two die hard metal maniacs and our band will survive for a long time, you bet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;What were you trying to achieve with "Vicecrown"? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Surely first off we're trying to achieve our finest and personal satisfaction. During all these hard years too many times we got in troubles and too many times rip-off labels tried to sell us out… "ViceCrown" represents our revenge we spread with vengeance upon the music business… we are still live and we are here to stay. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Does "Vicecrown" follow a lyrical concept or does each song have its own sick story? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Each songs have its own sick story but the topic treated within the entire album is always the same: the sexual perversions inside everyone of us. Maybe a song talks about a snuff/murder, one talks about a rape and another can talks about fetishism but the whole idea is always the same: talk about the sickness deep inside your own.&lt;br /&gt;The cover artwork is very obscure... in which way is it linked with the whole album concept?&lt;br /&gt;(Gionata) Well, I've just explained the lyrics so the connection with the cover should be clearer now. The cover represent a chained girl turned as her backs in a very dark place… the whole idea is really dark and the figure in black really suggestive and sick. We are really satisfied about it and I think it's a great artwork indeed, far from usual Black-Metal standards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In 2001 you released 7'' "Death from Above" through Downfall Rec. it contains 2 songs from your Promo 2000 if I'm not wrong... could you spend some words about it? Any differences with the new material? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Yes, that 7"-ep is a pure cult item at the time being because it was limited to 666 hand numbered copies and it should be considered sold out now… we have at least 5-6 copies left just to be sold to our closest fans during live shows. Swedish Downfall Records got surprised about a 3 tracks promo tape we recorded during September 2000 just to find a new deal and they asked to publish it on limited Vinyl… we of course agreed to their proposal and the result is "Death From Above EP" that contains just 2 of the 3 tracks recorded at that time. Downfall Records rules and the guy behind it (Mikael) is a totally underground supporter they way everyone should be. The songs included are our natural evolution from the "Hierarchy 1999" period (our second album) to the "ViceCrown" era. Our Swedish based influences were still within the tracks themselves but the whole work is much more well recorded and played than our second album. Actually we have some Death-Metal influences indeed but those tracks are still pure Black-Metal so basically I can say they are a bit different from the newest stuff. Anyway for everyone who don't have a Vinyl reader or who was unable to get "Death From Above EP" when it have been released, we're actually waiting for the complete promo 2000 reprint on MCD still through Downfall Records. That MCD will be called "Blood Calls Blood" and will contain the 3 tracks promo plus an intro and a bonus song coming from 1999 and never released before. Release date is supposed to be during late December 2003. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The band went through some personal changes since your early days, what happened? Any particular reason for this? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) As I've previously said, since the beginning Handful Of Hate have been afflicted by continue line-up changes… From the initial combo just Nicola (Guitar/Vocals) remained so you can easily imagine also the reason why the sound changed too. Every recording got a different line up so I think it was natural to get a different sound release by release. Anyway also time changed us as people… We grew up a lot during these years and our listening changed too with us. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Does Handful of Hate work as a team regarding writing music and lyrics or is there a one person handling most of the work? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Nicola write the most of the stuff but we arrange everything as a team during the final process that will fix the definitive song version. In the past also other guitarists wrote something but the most of the work has always be done by Nicola itself. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;How much do you think Handful of Hate changed over the last years? Is there same enthusiasm as when you started it in '93? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) I wasn't into the band at its beginning… I've been into the band since 1998 so I can talk just for my period. Well, I can say that when I got into the band I was really excited to be a part of it because Handful Of Hate have always been one of my favourite band at that time so you can easily imagine how I felt when Nicola asked me to join them… lately things went a bit complicated because there were lots of problems concerning line ups and organization in general so we passed really bad periods… Actually things are going really fine and I can say this is the best period I've ever seen as a band member. We finally got our third album after a 4 year silence and finally our work has been released by a serious and professional label. What can I ask more? When I got into the band I was young and inexperienced, now after lots of live shows, recording sessions, delusions but also satisfaction, I can define myself as a man able to do his work. We are some kind of veterans and we know how things goes on. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;What's the most important thing to Handful of Hate? Emotion, atmosphere, musicianship, originality, or is it something else? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Violence, aggression and musicianship with the right mood. Our songs are extreme and powerful… I'm not sure they are emotional or atmospheric just in case you don't listen to it with a different view. What is original out of there? Everything has already been done by others before you… it's very rare to do something can be considered original… anyway I think that a band should think to personality, that's doesn't mean originality though. There are a lot of things that could be done to become interesting as a band… so you just need to be as skilled as you can to reach your goal. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;What kinds of change have come to you after changing to a bigger label, Code666? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Code666 is really professional, they respect and support each band and of course work really well concerning distribution and promotion. Code666 is definitely what we were looking for since a long time… we've always been unlucky concerning labels but code666 is of course the best thing happened during our entire life as band. Changing? Lots of reviews all around the globe, intensive promotion and distribution, interviews on the most popular magazine and lots of contacts from people who just want to see us on stage… I think it's enough, or doesn't it? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;What do you think of the other bands on Code 666? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Some of them are really interesting other a bit less, you know it's a matter of musical tastes. I personally love Unmoored, Manes, Void Of Silence, Bloodshed, Konkhra and Negura Bunget… all great releases. Personally what I really like from code666 is the high quality standard they usually set for every release… Everything is perfect, from the production to the packaging… Every code666 release is a special one and I really appreciate a label that takes care of their bands (but mostly of the customers) like that. That's great! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;What recent album made the biggest impression on you? Are you pleased with the quality of today's releases? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) I've always been a big Death-Metal/Grind-Core follower and I have to say that today's releases are surely the best one can get from the extreme metal scene… take for example the new Aborted, Inhume, Regurgitate, Severe Torture or Nasum ones… all big quality stuff! I'm proud to see that mostly of the big and famous label out of there are starting spending much money on Death-Metal again because there are a lot of great bands towards the scene nowadays and it would be a mistake don't support them. Yes, I'm really satisfied about today's releases! You can say it loud! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;What do you think about Italian scene? According to me it is growing always more and more.. but in the right way? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Italian scene is one of the worst I personally know. People here seems to be more interesting in talking instead of playing seriously at all. A band means "music" and "music" should remain. I don't care about band's ideas, people's tastes or band member's "true" attitude… Just music interest me and what I hear is mostly bad. Of course fortunately there are also several exceptions and I'm proud to be Italian also thanks to them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Well, I'd like to thank you for your time. Any comments? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;(Gionata) Thanks to you for your support! Take a look to our official website at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.handfulofhate.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.handfulofhate.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; where you can find infos, photos, mp3 and also up-dates regarding our live campaign… Feel free to write us for everything. Give "ViceCrown" an opportunity, you won't loose your time. See you on stage. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Interview courtesy of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tragenda.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.tragenda.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Crown - December 2003&lt;br /&gt;Another extreme metal band coming from Sweden…here are The Crown… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello and thank you for another great piece of extreme metal you offered with Possessed 13...it seems to be a kind of summa of your whole career...do you agree?&lt;br /&gt;Yes! Bang on target pal! It is the sum up of our 13 year career.&lt;br /&gt;You used many riffs from your early songs, who did come up with this idea? Why you never used those parts before?&lt;br /&gt;It was my idea. But we have always been recycling old riffs, because sometimes you have a great riff in a bad old song that you don´ t use anymore. So that has been done ever since the Eternal Death days. There is a time and place for everything. Now was the time to sum up and use up all the old magic unforgettable riffs. But it is done in an updated way I think. It sounds fresh and new but the old-school dudes can still recognize the old classic way of riffing and rocking but in the year 2003.&lt;br /&gt;I've read for sure you have just to re-record "Crowned In Terror" with Johan vocals...why do you do this? How the album has come up?&lt;br /&gt;Metal Blade asked us if we wanted to do it, and we said;- why not? It would be stupid not to grab this opportunity to do it. It will feel good to have all our albums with the same true line-up. I don´ t know anyone who have done something like this before, but we don´ t care. If you don´ t want it - Don´ t get it. But we were never satisfied with the mix of the original album either, so now everything will be like we want it. We have already recorded the vocals and it sounds so much better I promise you, Johan is the man! We have also changed a lot things and details, sound-replaced the drums and recorded new bass tracks as well. We will be mixing it the beginning of 2004. - Crowned Unholy!&lt;br /&gt;How did you get Johan back on the band? I remember that he seemed a bit fed up...&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, he needed a break, but then the hunger started to grow again. Marko just asked him if he was up to it at a pub and he was just like: "hey I´ m always ready to get back in THE CROWN again!" So it was nema problemos.&lt;br /&gt;Did this line-up change have an influence on the song writing of Possessed 13? Maybe the reason why musically you back on your early days on this album...&lt;br /&gt;Well I think we had all the songs ready before he returned, but sure, the original line up back in business made the whole summing up thing a very natural thing to do.&lt;br /&gt;Which are the main differences between Crowned in Terror and Possessed 13, sung piece apart?&lt;br /&gt;It is two completely different albums. But it is the same band. I think possessed 13 is more controlled, more focused and more complete as a whole. While Crowned in Terror has a lot of really good ideas but doesn´ t really pull it off. But that´ s what we will try to fix now with the re-recording.&lt;br /&gt;What have been your influences for this new album? Through the lyrics, is there a personal message?&lt;br /&gt;It is more a universal message than a personal I guess. The lyrics has been very influenced by the classic death metal way of writing, plus the rock way of lyrics. I also was influenced by the thinking of Aleister Crowley and Carlos Castaneda. Plus I did some whole stuff subconsciously.&lt;br /&gt;I suppose the album is a concept...was it thought as a concept since the begin of the composing process? I read you have came up with this idea after had seen the cover...is it true?&lt;br /&gt;No, not true, there was never thought as a concept album more than the concept of doing the ultimate Crown album. It had nothing to do with the cover.&lt;br /&gt;Possessed 13 cover is really great! what do you think about it?&lt;br /&gt;I love it! I am actually behind the concept. It was an idea I had about a classic horror cover, with the girl I found in an old horror comic and the bloodstained white/black look. I gave this and told the idea to some friends of mine who did the whole thing. It was the first time that they did an album design, and now they´ve started locust constructions. It is all good.&lt;br /&gt;The Crown have always been working like a team...was also composing the new album?&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, during rehearsals we all have a saying and eveyone put their signature on it. And everyone must be happy with a song until we are satisfied. But we still write songs separately. It may seem like we co-operate a lot, but it is just me stealing Markos riffs and putting them in my songs. He! He! He!&lt;br /&gt;Is The Crown only a death metal band? how would you define your music?&lt;br /&gt;Yes, we are a death metal band, but I think we have developed our own sound, which is a bit more rocking and ass-kicking than your average death metal.&lt;br /&gt;You said recently "With "Possessed 13" we really feel we have closed a chapter in our career" so you are supposed to move from extreme metal...is this correct? Will you use The Crown as monicker or you go to change it?&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, we don´ t really know what will happen in the future. Right now we are concentrating on promoting Possessed 13, the rest is unknown.&lt;br /&gt;Do you think your fans will understand your longing for changes or they will be narrow minded? I don´ t know, metal fans can be more open minded than you would expect. But on the other hand metal fans want you to stay forever and never change.&lt;br /&gt;It seems for Metal Blade you've become a priority, it seems you're growing more and more with time passing by...which are your feelings about that?&lt;br /&gt;Yes it is true, we have constantly been growing since day one. And all our albums have sold more and more for each release. Of course that feels great, to still be on the rising wave. It has pushed us further all the time. It must be horrible to have peaked on your debut album and just go downhill ever since.&lt;br /&gt;Which is the relationship between The Crown &amp; Swedish death metal scene? What do you think about it? [musically/personally]&lt;br /&gt;We have always been very independent of the Swedish scene, and thanks to that I think that we have our very own place in the scene. I think that the Swedish scene used to be great and still has a lot of high-quality but I am not very much into it anymore.&lt;br /&gt;Was it hard recording your albums? Or did you enjoy doing it?&lt;br /&gt;We enjoyed it very much. There were no troubles and everything was just smooth and nice. and it sounded just great since day one. And Patrick was a natural born entertainer. A highly pleasurable experience.&lt;br /&gt;Are you planning touring all over Europe?&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, just come home from 20 gigs in Finland and central Europe actually.&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to say whatever you want to your fans...&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to everyone who have been supporting us, buying our albums, coming to our shows and listening to our music. You have kept us alive!&lt;br /&gt;Interview courtesy of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tragenda.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.tragenda.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tidfall - October 2003&lt;br /&gt;Abraxas speaks…interview with Norvegian black metal act Tidfall… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's more than 1 month that your new album is out...which kind of feedback are you receiving?&lt;br /&gt;We are receiving a really good response with great reviews almost everywhere! It seems many liked the album!&lt;br /&gt;You changed a lot with this album...which kind of reaction has the album get from blacksters?&lt;br /&gt;Well...maybe many in black metal scene will not like Nucleus, but I think a band has to evolve to improve itself.&lt;br /&gt;Are you satisfied with how it came out?&lt;br /&gt;Yes, totally... After Instinct Gate we made a European tour, a tour which made us even more determinated! It took about 8 months to compose the music and we spent much more time in the studio than our previous albums.&lt;br /&gt;Which are for you the more remarkable aspects of it ? I've much appreciated your different attitude that let you improved following other guideline than usual black metal bands… Yes we have a different approach than other black metal bands, because we want to explore new things in our music without repeat ourselves and I think we manage to do it with Nucleus.&lt;br /&gt;Do you agree when someone file your music under cyber black metal? Do you think your music can be yet filed under black metal?&lt;br /&gt;I don't care much about how people label pur music...maybe industrial black metal...or something like that...&lt;br /&gt;You recorded the album at Akkerhaugen Studios...&lt;br /&gt;Yes and we are very satisfied with the sound we get...really powerful and clear. It's a cool studio!&lt;br /&gt;I think your style can be defined as a well done mix between And Oceans, Dimmu Borgir and Samael plus some electronics inserts...what's your opinion about that? What do you think of these bands?&lt;br /&gt;Well…all of them are really great bands so any comparison with them is a honour...I like them very much and maybe something in our music can remind to that bands but not so much according to me.&lt;br /&gt;Is the cover linked with the album concept? I think it really fit with the whole concept...&lt;br /&gt;Yes, the cover really capture the Nucleus in an excellent way. Jens Karlsson did it, he's a great designer. We also have a brand new website with a great design and I think it worths a visit!&lt;br /&gt;What's about the album title? I read that the Nucleus is intended as the innerself inside every man...can you spend some words about this matter? Lyrics got also a futuristic touch...do you agree?&lt;br /&gt;Yes, they are kinda futuristic. Nucleus is dealing with the concept that you are what you are, no matter how much someone is trying to change you, alter you, or to squash you in that tiny "box" where they want every "healthy individual" to be. Whatever what norms or rules the society lays out for you to follow.&lt;br /&gt;But don't you think environmental issues can manipulate the core of a person?&lt;br /&gt;I don't think so...maybe on the surface but the true core remains still.&lt;br /&gt;How important are for Tidfall the lyrics?&lt;br /&gt;They are very important I think on the same level of the music.. We spend much time to compose lyrics , almost the same to compose the music!Did you have a certain concept when writing your songs? What are your greatest influences.&lt;br /&gt;This is your second album released through Nuclear Blast. Are you satisfied with them? Why did you part with Nocturnal Art?&lt;br /&gt;Yes we are very satisfied with them...they are a really professional label...we aren't a top priority, but anyway they take care of us very well. We part away with Nocturnal Art just because to be on Nuclear Blast was a great opportunity for us. Also Nocturnal Art is a very cool label anyway.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think of the future of black metal? Or better...Is there any future for black metal how it was intended in the '90?&lt;br /&gt;I don` t know what the future brings. I think that is has the change to let new elements raise, electronics might be one of them. But at the same I like bands like Darkthrone that are coherent with themselves offering that kind of music.&lt;br /&gt;How about the tour in 2002, did you get success ? Do you plan a tour for this album?&lt;br /&gt;Yes I will say it was a success, we met our fans in Europe. A lot of problems during the tour anyway. but we had a great time with Dark funeral and Occult. And most important we finally had the chance to play for a crowd outside Norway!!&lt;br /&gt;Can you imagine how the Tidfall' sound will develop in the next future?&lt;br /&gt;As now I don't know but I hope we will evolve in an original shape improving our skills.&lt;br /&gt;Interview courtesy of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tragenda.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.tragenda.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Destruction - October 2003&lt;br /&gt;German thrash metal legends Destruction doesn' t really need a long prologue. Every metal fan should know about what they created in the 80s and re-created after the reunion of the late 90s. So let's listen to guitarist Mike talking about the new album and more… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi Mike, first of all, thank you very much for "Metal Discharge", a real killer album. How is it going? Are you glad about the response you are receiving?&lt;br /&gt;Hi! Thank very much! Yes we are very satisfied with the album and with the feedback it's receiving!&lt;br /&gt;The sound is quite different than the previous albums...&lt;br /&gt;Well, you know the first two reunion albums have been recorded in Sweden at the Abyss Studios with Peter Tagtgren, all with digital equipments, while this time we went to a little studio in Switzerland, with a smaller equipment, and everything has been recorded analogically. we didn't use a pro-tool program like we used with Peter Tagtgren, modern productions smell like plastic too much. That's the main difference I guess.&lt;br /&gt;Do you think stylistically there are differences between this album and the last one?&lt;br /&gt;We hadn't so much time to compose the songs this time, we had to play in so many tours you know, we've always been on the road and we are people that cannot write music on the way, Lucky the ones to manage in doing it! (laughs)I need the quiet of my room to do that, so we had two-three months to compose the songs, moreover we have a new drummer that comes from Berlin that is almost one thousand kilometres faraway from where I live and so it's not so easy to practice each day, and we have been quick this time, we worked on a tape using a drum machine and then passing it to Mike...the studio work has been very fast especially.&lt;br /&gt;How much have you changed in almost twenty years of career? What are the differences between?&lt;br /&gt;Not much...we have always been listening to different stuff in the past and still today. I think that if you don't change yourself you're kind of a stupid, getting older you become more intelligent and open your mind much more, if you don't you're only so boring!&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, is there some kind of message you like to communicate or some philosophy you feel to follow as a band?&lt;br /&gt;We want the ones listening to our music think of their own without to be influenced by the environment.&lt;br /&gt;What do you listen to today? Is there a group that captured your attention lately?&lt;br /&gt;Well, I like technical stuff, Watchtower, Fates Warning, Dream Theater.&lt;br /&gt;Which are the main differences between to play heavy metal in the '80, in the '90 and in the new millenium?I think you are one of the most suitable person to answer this question!&lt;br /&gt;Uhm... according to me there aren't so much differences, maybe the main difference is in your head! When you grow hopefully you change your mind so you see things with different perspectives... Apart that today is even better than the old days, there's more people into metal now!&lt;br /&gt;As usual promos don't got lyrics, what do they talk about?As always they deal with our daily lives...&lt;br /&gt;So your background in your daily life influenced you also artistically?&lt;br /&gt;For sure! both lyrically and stylistically!&lt;br /&gt;What happens when your come-back album was released? Fans have been waiting for this reunion and how was the support from the magazines and the crowds? Was it a great welcome?&lt;br /&gt;It seems so! We had very surprised of the reaction we had for the reunion album...it was overhelming! Now we're visiting so many different places, like for example Australia, Japan, Turkey, South America.&lt;br /&gt;Do you have any other influences today . . . do you feel like you have to prove something, or have something you want to accomplish?&lt;br /&gt;Well...I think I have something to prove but just to myself...I want to be satisfied with the things I do without regrets...&lt;br /&gt;Till 3-4 years ago years it was difficult to get thrash metal albums released when in the last years there are being released thousand of albums, bands playing other genres change their music becoming always more close to thrash way to play. Why according to you is all this happening?&lt;br /&gt;Actually I've talked with many people and they are showing more and more interest for thrash metal even in the USA.. there's much attention for the old bands and this is a great thing for us!&lt;br /&gt;Website: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.destruction.de/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.destruction.de/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interview courtesy of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tragenda.net/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.tragenda.net/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Old Man's Chil - September 2003&lt;br /&gt;Galder of Old Man's Child / Dimmu Borgir"In Defiance of existence" it is the sixth opus by founder, vocalist, guitarist, producer Galder (also guitarist for Dimmu Borgir). &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This album seems to be the definitive Old Man's Child album…new fresh (and blood) for the extreme metal scene ?&lt;br /&gt;CM: To begin, how do you consider the previous Old Man' s Child albums?&lt;br /&gt;Galder: When I was making "The pagan prosperity" I knew that this form of black metal was completely new and I was a bit concerned how people would react to it just because of that. People certainly had mixed feelings about it; the album seemed to be more appreciated in the States, for example, than in Europe since, at that time, most people were still hanging on to that old school black metal thing.These days everybody seems to be mixing different styles into the music -- heavy, thrash, death, etc.That was exactly what OMC was all about since the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;CM: "In defiance of existence" starts with the most furious song of the whole album ("Felonies of the Christian Art"). Why did Galder you decide to put it as the opening track?&lt;br /&gt;Galder: This is the album where I had the most problems when deciding which songs to put where, so I suppose that it was more of a coincidence than on purpose, but I also like to start off the albums of with a heavy song.&lt;br /&gt;CM: In your opinion which links "In defiance of existence" and "The pagan prosperity"?&lt;br /&gt;Galder: Actually, I think that all my albums can be connected in one way or another, but you're right about one thing -- there are many ideas on this album dating back to "The pagan prosperity" days, especially with the acoustic guitars.&lt;br /&gt;CM: Could we consider this album like a solo project from Galder or a whole group effort?&lt;br /&gt;Everything in Old Man's Child goes through me in one way or another, I' m very open-minded, so if the other guys have some cool ideas, then, of course, I'm always willing to listen to them. 99% of everything involving the band is done by me, however.This is not something I want it to be like, it' s just the way it' s been over the years.&lt;br /&gt;CM: Did the frequent line-up changes increased Old Man's Child background?&lt;br /&gt;Galder: I don' t think they have hurt the music in any way, since I'm always looking for the right musicians for each album, but, of course, having line-up changes also has its downsides sometimes.Generally it is a good thing for us since it gives the music a fresh input.&lt;br /&gt;CM: It seems that mixing the harsh style of black metal with keyboards and atmospheric tunes captures the real darkness of your band...&lt;br /&gt;Galder: I agree, I think it' s a combination of the different styles I grew up listening to when I was younger. I have never really stuck in one direction and that is very easy to hear in OMC.&lt;br /&gt;CM: You often worked with talented drummers like Gene Hoglan, Grimar, Tjodalv and Nicholas Barker all as sessions members…&lt;br /&gt;Galder: Old Man's Child would never work without a high class drummer. I have tried out many different, very good drummers, but not with a very good result.I really don' t know why that is, but there must be something in the music that, for some reason, many drummers find hard to play or something...being a good metal drummer is more than just the ability to play fast on bass drums -- you also need the "groove", which many drummers lack.And that' s definitely a quality that Gene (Hoglan) and Nick (Barker) got.&lt;br /&gt;CM: You're also a player for Dimmu Borgir. Why did you decide to join them and which your contribution to DB songwriting is?&lt;br /&gt;Galder: I have done a lot on the album, but that' s the good thing with Dimmu -- everyone has ideas, so making music in this band is far easier than anything I have done in the past.We did have a strong bond even before I joined the band, growing up together and listening to the same music, etc. (Please note that at the beginning Old Man's Child and Dimmu Borgir shared a split cd).&lt;br /&gt;CM "In defiance of existence" latss with a super track ("Life deprived"). Why did you choose this song?&lt;br /&gt;Galder: I wanted the album to open hard and close really hard.That' s the main reason for that choice. I also think that song was the one that separated itself the most from the other songs on "In defiance of existence".I really didn' t know where to put it.Those songs always end up last for some reason.&lt;br /&gt;CM: Final thoughts…&lt;br /&gt;Galder: Well, first of all thanks for the interview; we hope to come over your country for a few weeks."&lt;br /&gt;Old Man's Child website: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oldmanschild.tk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.oldmanschild.tk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7th Nemesis - March 2003&lt;br /&gt;New breed for high quality technical Death Metal from France…here is 7th Nemesis... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about the name of the band means to you? Does it appropriate to the music you bring (in your opinion) or does the name has an influence for/in our life or kinda like that?&lt;br /&gt;Well, in Greek mythology, Nemesis is the goddess of divine justice and vengeance. Her anger is directed toward human transgression of the natural, right order of things and of the arrogance causing it. Nemesis pursues the insolent and the wicked with inflexible vengeance. It also means a vengeful opponent and an implacable punishment.The 7th is a direct allusion to the octave law, which represents universality to us. The 7th note (B) that is, as each note, an impulse is the ultimate one before the return of the C (the original one).Thus, the 7th note is the ultimate impulse leading to the return to the original note as well as the 7th NEMESIS is the ultimate punishment, vengeance or disaster leading to the return to the origins. As Nemesis also represents the opponent, the enemy, this impulse or advent shall only come through adversity and by a founding violence.Beyond this generic definition, this name definitely incarnates the general concept that we will develop during the next albums at least within the first four as we are creating a first cycle that will take the form of a tetralogy (violence, chaos, reification and existence). So, that name is clearly about what our music shall be. It doesn't have any influences in our life as 7th NEMESIS is "merely" a musical, conceptual and intellectual process.&lt;br /&gt;Give us some bio notes about the band.&lt;br /&gt;Well, in December 2000, Mat (Bass), Pascal (Guitars) and Sargon (Vocals) joined their forces with Alex (Guitars), from Inward Mind, and Andrew (Drums) after the split of Sarganas (Black-Death Metal) to create a more Death Metal oriented project with some 70's influences.As Pascal left the band during the Summer 2001 for personal reasons, Xavier, also from Inward Mind, replaced him in September bringing more techno-death influences in the band's way of composing. The line-up definitely dealt with, the band was baptized 7th NEMESIS.&lt;br /&gt;You recorded an LP plus a promo. Which were the reactions from the press?&lt;br /&gt;The LP is being recorded right now, indeed. When we recorded our Promo CD, in April 2002, we've already composed the songs that will appear on our forthcoming LP and we decided to record 3 of them as a demo to promote ourselves. The press reaction was quite nice really, we didn't expect such enthusiasm for our work but it seems that our music really appeals to many. According to many reviews, we bring something refreshing.&lt;br /&gt;Who always (de)composed your muSICK and lyrics in every song significantly? How you made muSICK (which I mean the process) and also what have influenced the lyrics too?&lt;br /&gt;MuSICKally, the basis always comes from the guitar work. Alex or Xavier produce something from their tortured minds and then we all empoison the muSICK with our instruments until we are all satisfied with the result according to both the musical and conceptual point of view. And I (Sargon) write all the lyrics but I never really understood what I was writing… I'm some kind of autistic guy, you know… So I'm probably influenced by my own sickness…&lt;br /&gt;When the band write lyrics and muSICK, what would you like to get from the listeners and fans? What do you want from them for example: a mental reflection, murder, make it fun, emotions, just bang the head or enjoy the lyrics with muSICK? How important are for the lyrics for you then?&lt;br /&gt;If we manage to arouse mental reflection and emotions, we would say then that we've reach an objective but I think that as soon as a work is published, it doesn't belong to its creator anymore. If people only bang their heads and really enjoy our music that's ok with us.About the lyrics, they are definitely really important, as we are creating a conceptual work in four pieces.&lt;br /&gt;Do you really want to become a real musician as a life or have a band just for fun or maybe just to express the skills/ideas you have? Is that possible to make a living out of muSICK in your country especially for heavy metal muSICK 'coz I see some bands making tours there outside of your country which that needs some lot of money, right?&lt;br /&gt;Well, we mainly consider music as a passion and honestly we don't want to make any compromise with it. We don't think that Heavy Metal is a possible way to make a living in France, so we merely consider 7th NEMESIS' music as an art not as an occupation. And we also don't care about what other bands do.&lt;br /&gt;What are your fave bands, 'zines and labels today but especially for your fave bands, have they influenced your music and style's characters? If yes, how did they influence the band?&lt;br /&gt;Well, our fave bands are MAGMA, PINK FLOYD and BLACK SABBATH for most of us and they influence us, I don't know how, but they do…&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the Underground publications such as magazines/fanzines and webzines/netzines for the band's itself ? Are they still needed and necessary for the bands in the (Underground) metal scene and what Underground means to you?&lt;br /&gt;Any zines are necessary to support the underground, for a young band as us it represents a great mean of promotion.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the metal of the new millennium (nu metal and similar)?&lt;br /&gt;I do not consider any Nu Metal band as a Metal band, this is just something different, some kind of Hip-Hop played loud and heavy, but this is not Metal. So I can't consider that this so-said Nu Metal is the new millennium Metal.&lt;br /&gt;Many extreme metal bands express racist ideologies. Which are your thoughts on that?&lt;br /&gt;Racism is the petty-minded people's hatred. 7th Nemesis has nothing to do with this kind of bullshits.&lt;br /&gt;Can you describe us a typical 7th NEMESIS live show?&lt;br /&gt;I'll tell you when we'll perform one.&lt;br /&gt;Which are your future plans? Have you found a label? Are you going to release a new full length album?&lt;br /&gt;Well, we will release a split CD with the Austrian Death Metal Band Punishment in April/May. We'll start to perform some gigs in April and then we'll try to find a label to release our album later this year.&lt;br /&gt;That's all! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to add?&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for this interview and for your support. All Hails to Italy. Don't hesitate to check our website &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.7thnemesis.fr.st/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.7thnemesis.fr.st/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; and download the mp3s (for free). Stay fuckin' brutal!!!&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Honey For Christ - February 2003&lt;br /&gt;Hard &amp; honest Heavy fucking Metal. That's what Irish HONEY FOR CHRIST play in their own words. Surely a perfect description for a true band. Guitarist Andy gave us some interesting answers…enjoy it. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief us on the band history. Which are the most significant moments in the band's life? And, mostly, what the HONEY FOR CHRIST moniker means?&lt;br /&gt;We formed in 1998, November I believe. Me and Jason met at a party, got pissed and realised we both had the same passion for metal and decided to make some metal together. I had been jamming with Chris for years so he was obvious for drums, then we managed to sucker Paul in on bass.&lt;br /&gt;Most significant, mm tricky. Probably recording our first CD. You really can't imagine that ever happening when you're starting out, that was a real land mark for us. It also brought to light the fact that people actually liked what we played, besides us! Very cool. Supporting MDB was a major moment for me cause they're my favourite band of all time. The HFC moniker has many different meanings, I like people to draw their own conclusions. To me it sounds like a paradox, which is what HFC is - a bastard creation of all things metal, no specific route or genre, just a mixed bag of everything!&lt;br /&gt;Love/hate question for every musician: how would you describe your music?&lt;br /&gt;Really I can only say, "100% raw, unclean, uncut, hard &amp;amp; honest heavy fucking metal!!!" Sorry, but that really sums it up.&lt;br /&gt;What are your lyrics talking about? What gives you inspiration?&lt;br /&gt;Jason does all the lyrics so I can't really comment to be honest. I know he is deeply impacted by the rest of us. He write about things that are happening to us or one of us. It's very much based on human emotions through personal experience, which I like, something everyone can relate to. Well, that's what I hear anyway!&lt;br /&gt;How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you always follow?&lt;br /&gt;More times than not I would have a couple of riffs or Paul would come up with a bass line, and I would try to get a melody of it or vice-versa. Jason would pick the kinda riffs he liked singing on and we'd create the song around that pattern. There's no direct formula. Sometimes we can write a song in a night if it's flowing, others can take up to a year to get right. We played Forging Iron Will the song for about a year before we were totally happy about it. We don't use any material unless all 4 of us are really into it. In practice I can tell when a songs working cause we'd all be head banging and getting totally sucked into the music, cool when that happens. We're very critical of our stuff and it does take us a long time to get the songs the way we like them. Often we kinda go too into it and have to scrap a song cause we get too close and then maybe use the riffs later on.&lt;br /&gt;What kind of feelings do you have when you play your music?&lt;br /&gt;It varys. Sometimes I get totally happy and enthused by the whole thing. Playing with 3 other guys I'd die for feel the real bond between us. Other times, especially live, I get really wound up and almost angry. I've often left stage with blood spilling from somewhere. Then in practice I would get totally into the melancholy of some of the songs, like Movements Below The surface, or Orion Dust. It's very moody.&lt;br /&gt;Can you describe us a typical HONEY FOR CHRIST live show?&lt;br /&gt;Chaos! We're very unpredictable live. Jason is a maniac sometimes! Him and I really feed off each other live, we're a bad combination. We really wind each other up, give each other more energy to give it everything! Performances are very explosive, full of energy, always something to look at!&lt;br /&gt;How do you consider the Underground of your country?&lt;br /&gt;It's very varied. In the North, where we're from, there are many bands playing many different styles. It is pretty healthy numbers wise, but personally I feel there are only about 6 main players in the underground scene. A lot of bands don't hack the pace, cause it's tough in such a small country to play different places, especially with all the bands sounding so different from each other.&lt;br /&gt;Are you in touch with some label for a possible deal?&lt;br /&gt;Nothing as yet. We haven't started labels with the new CD, we were waiting on the mags reponses first, which have been very positive so far. I'll keep you informed!&lt;br /&gt;Which represents the cover of "Forging iron will" ?&lt;br /&gt;HONEY FOR CHRIST! It shows what metal is to us. You have the blood on the page on the background, which is really Jason's actual blood scanned in from a bloodied page! It's my own bullet belt which is totally metal!!! Every one should wear bullets! Then behind the burned edge is a passage from Aleister Crowley. It really just demonstrates HFC - totally metal, passionate about what we do, but there is an important message in there too.&lt;br /&gt;Are you usual to play some covers with HONEY FOR CHRIST?&lt;br /&gt;Nah, not any more. We used to do a great cover of "Mandatory Suicide" when we used two guitarists but when we went to one we stopped. It was good fun though! Chris was especially on the ball when it comes to Slayer!&lt;br /&gt;Which are your occupations besides the band?&lt;br /&gt;I'm working in a factory at the moment on a production line, Paul drives a fork lift in an off license warehouse, Jason works in a warehouse doing fuck know what and Chris is on sick benefit cause he has a bad back!&lt;br /&gt;Which are the future plans for HONEY FOR CHRIST?&lt;br /&gt;Try and get gigs outside the UK, hopefully Europe. I have been in touch with a guy from Belgium which is looking pretty promising. Also record another EP, probably just another 3 new tracks, but spend a little more money and get a better production. A deal would be nice too!&lt;br /&gt;That's all. Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to add?&lt;br /&gt;Nope. Thanks very much for your time and don't forget to mention the website! Oh, and tell everyone to buy our CD - we also just got T-shirts done as well!&lt;br /&gt;All for now, stay in touch!&lt;br /&gt;Check out HONEY FOR CHRIST website: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.honeyforchrist.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.honeyforchrist.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Gathering - February 2003&lt;br /&gt;Dutch "trip Rock" masters The Gathering are finally back with an amazing new album called "Souvenirs". Drummer Hans Rutten gave us some interesting answers about various topics. Read on… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which are in your opinion the main differences between "Souvenirs " and "If_then_else" ?&lt;br /&gt;We had more time with Souvenirs, so we worked more on the song material, we demo-ed way more, and the recording process was way much longer then if_then_else. Besides that we didn't tour that much, so we had more time to make the best album we could. Souvenirs is more dark, gloomier and more a unity, as if_then_else was more a mix of influences. Good, but I think Souvenirs is more balanced.&lt;br /&gt;You worked with a producer like Zlaya Hadzich. Did he engineered "Souvenirs" only or influenced your songwriting too? And which are the differences between his studio skills and your previous producers (Waldemar Sorychta &amp; Siggi Bemm)?&lt;br /&gt;He wrote things, played some side instruments like guitars and percussion, and was a 6th band member the whole period. He was a real slavedriver sometimes, but he got the best out of us. Waldemar and Siggi were more recorders, they didn't influence the songs so much.&lt;br /&gt;How and when did you get in touch with Trickster G.? Which are the artists that you would like to have as guests on a (future) The Gathering' LP?&lt;br /&gt;I send him an e-mail, as a huge admirer of his work with Ulver. He was polite to send me an e-mail back, and one day I asked him to work with us. I asked Piggy from Voivod too, but we never had some space to work out a song with him. Maybe the future? Besides Piggy we would love to work with bands such as Mogwai,.. Well, we will see...&lt;br /&gt;How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you always follow?&lt;br /&gt;No, we always try to make a unique new atmosphere as it comes to writing. Sometimes We strip a song totally, or throw it away, rerecord it again, whatever. Someone comes up with an idea, and we all fill in the colours of the song. But it differs from song to song. We don't have a formulae...&lt;br /&gt;This is your first full lenght after your split from Century Media.Which were the reasons why you leave them and what about your new label (Psychonaut Records)?&lt;br /&gt;Because our contract was fulfilled, and we wanted to give our label a push. Now we have total creative freedom, and we can do whatever we want, good or bad,.. But we have the freedom ;o)&lt;br /&gt;6) Which represents the cover of "Souvenirs"?&lt;br /&gt;A girl who makes a beautiful leap forewards, like the band.&lt;br /&gt;Can we consider "Souvenirs" a concept album?&lt;br /&gt;No. Not at all.&lt;br /&gt;This time Anneke's lyrics seem to be gloomy more than ever. Which inspired her?&lt;br /&gt;Our personal and social lifes of the last 3 years, and our youth, our innocent beginning of the strange thing called life. Everybody has to figure out the lyrics by themselves!&lt;br /&gt;What do you remember about the days of your beginning ( "Always"era)?&lt;br /&gt;Beautiful days! A new world opening.&lt;br /&gt;I consider your music very cinematic and I think that the "Souvenirs" LP could be the perfect soundtrack for a Lars Von Trier movie. Did you consider the chance to write something for a movie or similar?&lt;br /&gt;Yes, this would be a great thing for us, and we hope some day we can work with a cineast to work out some film-music.&lt;br /&gt;Currently can a band like The Gathering live by their music only?&lt;br /&gt;We already live from TG already for 8 years. With ups and downs..&lt;br /&gt;With the "Mandylion" LP, you were the first band to use a female lead singer in a gothic/heavy context. Actually, what do you think all these bands playing (often) the same things that you wrote in 1995?&lt;br /&gt;A pity, because it is so much fun working out your own niche. I can imagine needing a starting point, but at a certain point you have to grow, to stand on your own feet. But it is a compliment in the end!&lt;br /&gt;Thank you! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to mention?&lt;br /&gt;Give Souvenirs some spins! It's worth it!Thanks for the nice questions!!!&lt;br /&gt;Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;Hans Rutten&lt;br /&gt;Check out the Gathering website at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gathering.nl/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.gathering.nl/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Betrayer - February 2003&lt;br /&gt;A new metal band coming from the States. Just imagine a crash between old Megadeth &amp; Iron Maiden and you’ll get BETRAYER. New blood for the American Metal… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note: CM = Chris Mastrangeli - Obscuritas LatebrarumNM = Norm Michaud &amp;amp; SH = Shawn Hebert both from BETRAYER&lt;br /&gt;CM) Brief us on the band history. How was it created? Which are the most significant moments in the bands so far life? Did the Kreator song “Betrayal” inspire the BETRAYER moniker?&lt;br /&gt;NM) Brief us on the band history. How was it created? Which are the most significant moments in the bands so far life? Did the Kreator song “Betrayal” inspired the BETRAYER moniker ? Well, the band was first formed when Shawn Hebert (drums) and Jeff Klingbeil (lead vox, guitars) met in the summer of 1996. Various members came and went until Norm Michaud (backup vox, bass) joined in 1999 and Bill Lozon (guitars) completed the current lineup in 2001.&lt;br /&gt;In my opinion the most significant moment was the response we received during radio interviews, and the great crowds we played to at the Playdium Band Fest.The band's name, BETRAYER, was not inspired from Kreator's song (but they're still a great band). The name reflects how our music 'betrays' the current trends in music and how we play the metal we like.&lt;br /&gt;CM) Usual love/hate question for every musician: how would you describe your music?&lt;br /&gt;NM) I'd say that if you were to combine Megadeth during the Countdown-era and mix it with the Iron Maiden, around Peace of Mind, and that's a rough idea of Betrayer. The members all add subtle influences ranging from Iced Earth to Guns N' Roses to the Scorpions. Vocally - Dio, Ozzy, Bruce all come to mind. To us, the melodies and harmonies in a song are equally as important as the riffs and solos.&lt;br /&gt;SH) I describe our music on a Spiritual level. We take the time with our music cause we know it’s going right back to the people, it’s important to have solid messages behind each song. I believe if you record a song and don’t spend the quality time that was needed, it was a waste of everyone’s time. Music is an art that should always be passed on through the love, dedication and pure devotion it speaks and not hate.&lt;br /&gt;CM) What are your lyrics talking about? What gives you inspiration?&lt;br /&gt;NM) Personally, I'll just have an idea and write about it. 'Waiting' is inspired from how some sick asshole didn't leave my sister allow after they broke up. 'Tribulation' is about the pressures about playing in a metal band. 'Rusted Icons' was written after Metallica's issue with Napster and Megadeth's new direction in music disappointed me. All of our lyrics just follow a story or send a message.&lt;br /&gt;SH) Our lyrics are about the every day situations of life. I look at them as a solution to the problem. We aim at giving the listener a level of self-confidence in our lyrics. “Rusted Icons”, our first album really didn’t get the chance to really hit what we really wanted out of our songs, though some songs do speak full truth. I believe that we weren’t grown up into a musicianship, into our full creation as we are now, now we can expand on our true feelings.&lt;br /&gt;CM) How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you always follow?&lt;br /&gt;NM) A song will usually have a few parts created by one member, who brings it up to the band at practice. We'll jam too it and add our own individual parts and get a feel for the general arrangement. After we agree on all the parts and the song's structure, the vocal melodies and solos are planned. Lyrics are added the vocal parts and then we finish up the loose ends.&lt;br /&gt;SH) We all sit down and work on the music itself. Each band member will have an idea that eventually adds to the song. The writing part of our songs normally comes from the singer and I. We really map out the song so that it fits in away that it can make you feel many emotions. That is very important to the band and to the listener.&lt;br /&gt;CM) What kind of feelings do you have when you play your music?&lt;br /&gt;NM) A huge rush of energy. Pure adrenaline, for sure. I love the heat of the stage lights, feeling sweat drip while I'm head banging, having the music pounding around me - it's awesome!&lt;br /&gt;SH) I personally have feelings of joy, feelings that give me tears of happiness. There have been many occasions where we’ve played gigs and I’ve felt myself wanting to cry, wanting to give even more to the music. When the crowd feels what you feel, you just want to explode with the power that music generates.&lt;br /&gt;CM) Can you describe us a typical BETRAYER live show? How is the reaction from the audience?&lt;br /&gt;NM) At most shows we get a great response. We have a tremendous following of great fans and we always manage to make new ones. For the live show, we like to be as entertaining as possible, making as strong stage show and having fun.&lt;br /&gt;SH) BETRAYER gives you a show, in every song and in every movement that we make upon the stage. The crowd always reacts as if this band is something so new, so powerful that they need more. I’m serious; our audiences have blown me away, time and time again.&lt;br /&gt;CM) Which is in your opinion the differences and the similarities of all the material you recorded till now?&lt;br /&gt;NM) I like the different styles of songs we have on 'Rusted Icons'. The new material is in the same vein, that each song is different from the last. On 'Icons', each song had a different vibe and feel. We don't have a specific goal of how we MUST sound; we just try to write the best songs that we can. If we like them, we're hoping that others will too.&lt;br /&gt;SH) The differences show that we’ve really grown into our music. We can do a lot more with it and not be limited. The similarities are that we haven’t backed down from our true name “BETRAYER” … we betray trends and stick to the heart. People out there want to hear traditional metal and you can see it in every member of the crowd. The similarity to our music is still the driving force of BETRAYER.&lt;br /&gt;CM) Are you in contact with some label to put out your stuff?&lt;br /&gt;NM) Well, there aren't any heavy talks yet, but we are always finding new contacts and sending out our promotional material. It would be awesome to be able to do what we're doing at a larger level.&lt;br /&gt;SH) We’re trying to find a label at the moment. We were in one label but they really couldn’t support the dedication of getting the music out. It was really hard for them and we both decided to go our own ways. BETRAYER, to continue their search and the label to continue their research. We wish them all the best and we know that all music is never forgotten, it just takes a lot of patients and good people to find the right label for your band.&lt;br /&gt;CM) Did the September 11th events influenced your songwriting?&lt;br /&gt;NM) Our songwriting hasn't been affected by 9/11, but with our band located so close to the Detroit, MI., we felt the impact of the tragedy. It did affect our ability to play in the States.&lt;br /&gt;SH) BETRAYER hasn’t written anything on the events of 9/11. Though that time was added to the tragic events of history, I’m sure we will have a lot to write about. Right now we’re trying to cover what other mistakes have been made in history, sad events from hate to pain… trust me, when you think about it, you can write a book.&lt;br /&gt;CM) What do you think about the Heavy Metal underground in the States? Which are the bands you're most in contact with? Do you know some metal band from Italy?&lt;br /&gt;NM) We haven't enjoyed a tremendous amount of success from the US underground. The best Metal scenes right now are in Asia and Europe. I've spoken to a band from Italy, but I can't remember their name. I'd like to make more contacts in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;SH) I don’t really know the situation with the underground metal music from the States. I only follow the heavy metal chain of Europe. We haven’t had the honor of meeting any bands from Italy, though we have ran into many other bands from many different countries trading CD’s and contact info.&lt;br /&gt;CM) Which are your occupations &amp; hobbies besides the band?&lt;br /&gt;NM) I help manage a computer and video game retail store to help pay the bills and such. I like to karaoke, play video games, paintball, play pool, tattooing and camping.&lt;br /&gt;SH) The band is enough. The dedication and full time commitment that it takes to just rip a hole in the industry is never ending. I am so happy with music that it’s not just my full occupation but also my full hobby. Music is my life…it’s what I bleed.&lt;br /&gt;CM) What's the future for BETRAYER? Which are your plans?&lt;br /&gt;NM) Our main plans right now are to finish writing our newest material and record it. We are hoping to have a breakthrough summer in 2003 and make as big an impact in the metal community as we can. In the meantime, we will play as high-energy shows as possible and work on making the best music we can.&lt;br /&gt;SH) The plans for BETRAYER are simple. With every band’s dedication there is always a will, our will is to give our music to the world and change so many hearts and so many faces. Who wouldn’t want to write positive material and watch so many people get an awesome reaction from this. Music is an art that has been around for ages and ages; we’re only doing what is right. CM) Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to mention?&lt;br /&gt;NM) Well, I'd just like to say that it's great to have the opportunity to answer these questions. We've been very fortunate to have some of the most wonderful people on our side. Our fans are amongst the most loyal that I could ever think of and the response we get from first time listeners always motivates us to do more. Thank you for taking an interest in us and we hope to hear from you again.&lt;br /&gt;SH) No you haven’t. The questions were perfect and I hope you enjoy my answers. God Bless!&lt;br /&gt;Check their cool website: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.betrayer.ca/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.betrayer.ca/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2003 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dark Tranquillity - December 2002&lt;br /&gt;Well, a band like DARK TRANQUILLITY really doesn't need along introduction.They just wrote the best pages of the extreme Metal history during the 90s.Swedish pioneers had just released their latest opus, the amazing "Damage done". We had an interesting chat with Niklas Sundin. Enjoy it…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is in your opinion the main difference between "Damage done" and your previous recordings? Which is the meaning of "Damage done"?&lt;br /&gt;It's hard for us to analyze our own music, but I guess that "Damage done" is something of a logical continuation of "Haven", containing clear traces of our older stuff. As for the meaning, it's up to the listener to come up with a fitting explanation if the need occurs. Musically speaking, the new album is more intense than the previous two albums, and we wanted this to be reflected in the title. Something direct, harsh and not too poetic was needed, and "Damage done" seemed to fit perfectly. For the first time you recorded an instrumental ("Ex nihilo"). Which led to you to this (brilliant) decision?&lt;br /&gt;It just felt like the right part in our career to have a proper instrumental song on an album. The purpose of "Ex nihilo" is to sum up the rest of the album in a good way, to re-enact it without words.&lt;br /&gt;I really liked your new videoclip for "Monochromatic stains". Who directed it? And what about its filming?&lt;br /&gt;The video was done by a Greek friend of ours, Achilles. He approached us with the idea when we were writing the material for the album, and since we liked the concept and have always been very impressed with his artistic skills, we desided to give him totally free hands with the video. He even designed the clothing for the characters himself, and we're really pleased with the result. Our old videos have been a bit boring, since we've had really low budgets to work with, but the "Monochromatic stains" clip really feels like something different that represents us well.&lt;br /&gt;How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you always follow?&lt;br /&gt;Usually, all members of the band contribute with music and ideas, and the songs are assembled in the rehearsal room, with everybody having their say and expressing their opinion. We're pretty pedantic, so most songs get re-arranged a couple of times before everything's perfect. When the music is finished, vocals are added and the final changes are then made. If there is time, we usually make a rough demo recording of each song before going to the studio for an album recording.&lt;br /&gt;You recorded "Damage done" with Fredrik Nordstrom. Which was the funny thing happened during these recordings?&lt;br /&gt;I can't think of anything funny that happened in connection with the recording. Recording an album usually means a lot of stress, anxiety and frustration since it's a very important situation where you have to give 110% all the time. Don't get me wrong - the atmosphere was relaxing and we always enjoy recording at Fredman, but to me, the studio is a place of hard work and nothing else.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the re-release of your older albums from Osmose? Don't you think that their "tech trick" (PC cannot read the tracks) is a bit exaggerated?&lt;br /&gt;I want to make it clear that we, the band members, had nothing to do with the copyright protection mechanism on the recent pressings of the Osmose albums. We didn't even know about it before people began emailing us about it, and I'm personally against this particular move since people that listen to their bought albums on a computer or an mp3 player won't be able to play them - it's ridiculous! A lot of people listen to CD's on computers when at work and so on. Also, apparently it isn't even mentioned on the albums that they feature this copyright protection, which is a big rip-off in my opinion. I fully understand why the labels are concerned about pirating, but in my view this isn't the right way to solve the problem.&lt;br /&gt;Which are the best and the worst things of being an underground musician?&lt;br /&gt;I can't think of many bad things right now. Being in a band is nice, and there isn't much to bitch about at this moment.&lt;br /&gt;Can DARK TRANQUILLITY live by their own music or have regular jobs?&lt;br /&gt;Ha ha, we're not even close to making a living out of the music. The band is a hobby for us; we all have other jobs and obligations to support ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;You released lots of very good artwork &amp; covers. Which is the one do you prefer and why?&lt;br /&gt;I don't have any particular faves among my own work. The important thing is that the artwork and design reflects the musical and lyrical content and that the style corresponds to what the band needs. I think that the last In flames cover turned out really good, but I'm generally very self-critical and tend to focus on the things that could have been done differently if there was more time and resources.&lt;br /&gt;What do you remember of the tour with In Flames, Arch Enemy &amp;amp; Children Of Bodom? If I'm right in the concert you played in Rome most of the band was ill.&lt;br /&gt;That was a great tour, but I never was satisfied with the choice of songs we played. Some of the "Projector" material didn't transfer very well to a live situation. The Rome gig was totally great, as gigs in Italy usually are, and I'm sure that we all were ill or near the brink of insanity since it was one of the last gigs of the tour. It's impossible to avoid getting ill and feeling like shit after a couple of weeks on the road.&lt;br /&gt;Are you planning to release a live CD?&lt;br /&gt;Not right now, but there will actually be a live DVD released early next year. The details aren't confirmed yet, but we are trying to get as much interesting stuff as possible on it. I guess it's not impossible that the show, which took place in Krakow, Poland, will be released as a live CD too, but we'll see what happens.&lt;br /&gt;What kind of feelings do you have when you play your music?&lt;br /&gt;Wow....it's impossible to give a good reply to this. It can be just about anything, from being totally absorbed in the music to being completely bored thinking about what you'll be having for dinner later.&lt;br /&gt;What do you remember of your early days (when you released a 7inch with a mexican label, if I'm right)?&lt;br /&gt;Yes, we did a 7" EP with Mexican label Guttural records, and we also put out another one on a very small German label. Things were very different back then. We were 17-18 years old and spent many hours every week writing letters, trading tapes and generally promoting the band. It was a very interesting period in many ways.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks a lot. Do you wanna add something more?&lt;br /&gt;Well, I can't think of anything right now - so thanks a lot for the interview and sorry for the delay in replying. Things have been very busy and we haven't been at home so much.&lt;br /&gt;Check out the DARK TRANQUILLITY website at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.darktranquillity.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.darktranquillity.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2002 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mourning Beloveth - December 2002&lt;br /&gt;From Ireland an amazing Doom Metal band comes: MOURNING BELOVETH. A must for every suffering soul of this twisted Earth. Let's discover what's the emerald isle hides…&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief us on the band history. How was it born? What did you want to achieve with your band? Which are the most significant moments in the band's life? And, mostly, which the Mourning Beloveth monicker means&lt;br /&gt;The band was born in 1993. The main idea was to create heavy, slow torturous and melancholic music. The first demo was released in 1996 and after this I joined. The 2nd demo "Autumnal Fires" was released in 1998 to critical acclaim throughout the underground. After this we set a date to record our first album in Academy studios in 2000 . We self-released it due to the face we couldn't find a good label and this was re-released last October by my label Sentinel with an extra track taken from our 2nd demo and a new song from our "Sullen Sulcus" recording session. We recorded our new album last April/May ,again in Academy with the Doom god Mags on recording/production duties. This is being released by aftermath records from Norway next week for the whole of Europe and licence deals are being worked on for USA and Brazil.&lt;br /&gt;Love/hate question for every musician: how would you describe your music? Am I wrong if I label your proposal as "catatonic for the soul"?&lt;br /&gt;That would be a good analysis I guess. It is a release for the pent up emotions from within. It is a tonic for all that ails us and you can say " This music to calm the savage beast" .&lt;br /&gt;What are your lyrics talking about? What gives you inspiration?&lt;br /&gt;Darren writes the lyrics and his inspiration comes from his own personal shitty life experiences and the demons from inside his own mind. I think the title he picked for the new cd "The Sullen Sulcus" has a very personal touch to it and I really like it. If you can understand what the title and the lyrics mean as a whole you should be able to grasp once again what Mourning Beloveth are all about.&lt;br /&gt;How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you always follow?&lt;br /&gt;The way we write can usually be one of 2 different ways and I suppose most bands are the same. Either each one of us bring in something we have come up with on our own at home to the rehearsal room or we have a good jamming session in rehearsal and see what comes out from that. The latter is where the strongest of our material emanates from as we are all in there free styling if you can say that and it's the full band gelling together as one and everything feels just right. This is my favourite way or writing.&lt;br /&gt;Which the word doom means for you?&lt;br /&gt;Misery-darkness-torment-reflection-heavy-melancholic-uplifting.&lt;br /&gt;Can you describe us a typical Mourning Beloveth live show?&lt;br /&gt;Mostly people would stand there and watch our meandering stage presence whilst reflecting on their inner sadness that our music stirs up in them as the music flows over them.&lt;br /&gt;How the Celtic culture is important for you?&lt;br /&gt;I am proud to be a part of the Celtic culture-one of the oldest civilisations in the world. It's what sets people apart I suppose but we are all skin and bone at the end of it all. Some of us have tits and some don't he he. But seriously, I don't go and preach my Celticness or whatever. In the words of Doro "All we are ,all we are, we are ,we are all , all we need." I must say though that we recorded a track last weekend for a split 7" and the engineer said there was a slight celtic touch to it, whatever he meant!&lt;br /&gt;The "Dust" cd was re-mastered by (ex?) Cradle Of Filth member Stuart. How and when did you get in touch with him? And what do you think about the major step, I mean the Sony deal, they went?&lt;br /&gt;Stuart is a good friend of Brian who does the Sentinel record label with me and when we were thinking about releasing the In Unison 19 band Irish Comp we approached him to do the mastering. He wasn't long after leaving Cradle and he had set up his own home studio with a mastering suite. We knew he had done some mastering so we got him. And then when the Mourning Beloveth thing came around we asked him again as we knew of the good work he could do. He has also mastered the new Mourning Beloveth cd too. Regarding their move to Sony. I don't really care. COF for me doesn't really rock my coffin. Their first cd was and will remain their best as far as I'm concerned. Big Label=Big money. And then again, all of Dimmu Borgir have day jobs so a big label won't pay your rent will it ?&lt;br /&gt;Tell us something more about your forthcoming cd?&lt;br /&gt;We went back to Academy again as we were very happy with Mags work on the "Dust" cd and it is better to be with a producer you are comfortable with too. The artwork was done by Paul McCarroll who did some stuff for Sentinel (Abaddon Incarnate) and some other Irish bands (Waylander). He has a very warped sense of creating images and produces very abstract but strong pictures. The first 2 reviews we got for the new cd were from Scream in Norway with 5/6 and 6/7 from Hammer Mag in Germany, both magazines being the biggest in their own respective countries and we have just completed interviews for them this week. I have done 25 interviews for magazines in the last 6 weeks alone and they have come from promotion for the "Dust" re-release so there should be plenty more on the way. Myself and Darren share the band work between us with the other 3 guys doing a bit here and there. The music on the new cd hhmmmmmmmm…well it's a lot more heavier and in your face I would have to say. The long riffs are still there and the haunting melancholia intertwined with the dark and brooding vocals and rhythms still breath the sense of despair that we as a band have now gripped and made our own.&lt;br /&gt;Lots of good band came from the emerald isle, what do you think about the Irish (heavy metal) underground ? Which are the bands that you're most in contact with?&lt;br /&gt;The Irish Metal scene is a lot better than it was 3 to 4 years ago. It was pretty bad then with hardly any foreign bands coming here as a part of their tours until Emerald stepped in, Horray! But it was crap all the same. The Irish band scene was pathetic with fuck all underground gigs and not many people to go to them. Now there is some infrastructure with the Metal Ireland website, 3 Metal labels, some more venues and more bands to play.&lt;br /&gt;Which are your occupations besides the band?&lt;br /&gt;I have a normal job doing air conditioning which is pretty boring and non-metal. Besides the band I do the label and promotion company I have mentioned I help out as many bands as I can with gigs, contacts etc and anything else I can. I used to play in a Black/death band called Kingdom but left as I had not enough time for them with the rising force of Mourning Beloveth.&lt;br /&gt;What's the future for Mourning Beloveth?&lt;br /&gt;Well to get our new cd out and support it with our European tour in February 2003 is priority now. This weekend we are recording a song for a split 7" we are releasing through Sentinel and it will be with another Irish band called Lunar Gate. That should be out in the Spring and will be limited to 300 copies.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to mention?&lt;br /&gt;Many thanks for the interview. I hope I have made enough sense for people to go and order our cd. If you could please print these websites for anyone interested in us and the Irish Metal Scene too it would be great. I hope to meet you sometime and the best of luck with Obscuritas Latebrarum. We are scheduled to play in Milan as part of our tour so be there!&lt;br /&gt;Check out these web pages:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mourningbeloveth.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.mourningbeloveth.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; - Band homepage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aftermath-music.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.aftermath-music.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; - Mourning Beloveth' s record label&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sentinelireland.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.sentinelireland.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; - My label, We re-released the "Dust" cd&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metalireland.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.metalireland.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; - Irish Metal website-lots of info on the Irish scene&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.emeraldpromotions.8m.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.emeraldpromotions.8m.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; - Ireland's leading extreme Metal promoters&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2002 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How Like A Winter - November 2002&lt;br /&gt;New ways for Gothic metal. Forget the usual clichés because Italian How Like A Winter are a band here to stay, as Jonathan Davis says. So, let's discover their world in their own words… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief us on the band history. How was it created?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "I began writing the first phrasing and melodies (that later became part of the song "The beauty, the beast") between the year 1994 and 1995, but at that time what I had in my mind was something more doom. I came out from an experience - that I shared with Emiliano (Mist) - in a prog band, where I've played as keyboardist, is there that I knew him; and there, playing that music, I've understood to deserve something else, something more "personal", something that was not just move my hands on a keyboard and make sounds. When we decided to create the band, it was not so easy: we've changed a lot of time our line-up and it was needed years before we arrived at the present one. It was hard but, with a lot of patience and trust, here we are...and I'm very proud of it!" Which are the most significant moments in the band's life?&lt;br /&gt;Bane: "All the time spent all together playing before into our garage and then in Dust's home, a place where we easily find tranquillity and inspiration…the record sessions…all the time spent in Rome (getting drunk, of course!)."&lt;br /&gt;What did you want to achieve with your band?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "I don't like to look forward too much, I never point at a precise goal in my way: I just walk, looking and listening what surrounds me."&lt;br /&gt;Love/hate question for every musician: how would you describe your music?&lt;br /&gt;Hlaw: "It's difficult put our music into a label or definition…we mean, you could say we're gothic, doom or something like that…our music is simply something coming from ourselves, from our different experiences and attitudes…when everything amalgamate becomes what you listen to." I think that that you sound close to bands like the old Solitude Aeturnus and Anathema. What do you think about this?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "Well, it's very usual...a lot of people associate us with other bands, and I think it's natural that in our music you could find traces of bands like Anathema, My Dying Bride, etc. ...maybe just because we are grew up listening those bands. Sincerely I'm not afraid to admit that My Dying Bride gives me a lot, I believe is not a bad thing...in the life everyone teaches you something, and everyone has a master."&lt;br /&gt;What are your lyrics talking about?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "Of Love and Death: the most important things in life for me, because Love paints the life with vivid colours, makes the life itself lives; while Death, or better, the AWARENESS of Death, fill it with darker shades. The sight of the end makes us live with passion... so, in that way, we can't waste a thing. And when this two concepts join together, they take on an incredible charm."&lt;br /&gt;What gives you inspiration?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "Inspirations may come from everywhere: from something whispered me by the eyes of the woman I love; by a scene saw in a book or in a movie... anyway, everything that touches the inner part of myself and makes it vibrate."&lt;br /&gt;How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you alwaysfollow?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "I start by a first idea (that can be a lyric or a melody, of piano or guitar) and on it I begin to build a kind of "musical framework" with a rough draft of drums. Then I show it to Emiliano and he begin to spin a web around it; then comes into play Massimiliano (Bane) and, also following his ideas, the drums-line is completed. At last, with the whole structure finished, I begin to work at the keyboards, at the violin harmonies and the vocal plait."&lt;br /&gt;What kind of feelings do you have when you play your music?&lt;br /&gt;Hlaw: "Playing something that took shape from what you have inside gives you back a lot of different things…deep emotion, recollections…Sometimes it happens that when we play a song every of us looks the others noticing that they live the same feeling…that's absorbing…&lt;br /&gt;Can you describe us a typical How Like A Winter live show?&lt;br /&gt;Hlaw: "How like a winter are still working for their first live show, however what we have in our minds it's something more "theatrical" than a music show. We hope that our ideas become reality".&lt;br /&gt;Next year will be released your debut CD. You signed a deal with American label Martyr Music. How and when did you get in touch with them?&lt;br /&gt;Mist: "Simply doing what, I think, all emerging bands should do: promoting themselves. We sent our music around and around, from the biggest label to the smallest one, of course to magazines and webzines. Maria Abril from Martyr Music wrote us sometime during April 2002, she was interested in How Like A Winter after having listened to "The winter's near" and we started our negotiation with her.We were excited for her enthusiasm, we felt very highly honoured that she liked so much our music…of course Maria trusted us from the beginning and we hope to pay her back for she has done for us.&lt;br /&gt;Did you get different proposals from any other label?&lt;br /&gt;Mist: "Yes, we received other proposals, but since the beginning Maria and Martyr Music paid a lot of attention to Hlaw and we made a profound friendly relations. We thank her for the patience and her serious work."&lt;br /&gt;Tell us something more about your forthcoming debut. It will be a concept?&lt;br /&gt;Hlaw: "No, by the way there's a guiding principle that links all the songs in a kind of concept. Musically speaking, the sound it's more full-bodied than in "The winter's near" demo, especially for the guitars.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the Italian (heavy metal) underground? Which are the bands you're most in contact with?&lt;br /&gt;Bane: "We didn't play concerts around so we are in contact with few bands. The Italian underground offers a lot of really good bands, but you know how is difficult to emerge.The most important thing, however, is playing for ourselves, for passion…"&lt;br /&gt;Which are your occupations besides the band?&lt;br /&gt;Hlaw: "Dust studies dubbing, works in an advertising agency and acts in a theatrical company; Mist runs a pub; Bane studies at university (turistic matters); Misery works in the motion-picture industry; Agony and Tragedy study at school."&lt;br /&gt;What's the future for How Like A Winter?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "I believe it's a little early for answer this question... I'm still walking..."&lt;br /&gt;Thank you! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to mention?&lt;br /&gt;Dust: "Mmm no. I think that's all. Thank you Chris and farewell!"&lt;br /&gt;Give a chance to How Like A Winter also visiting their website: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.howlikeawinter.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.howlikeawinter.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2002 All Right Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lacuna Coil - November 2002&lt;br /&gt;There's no need of a long prologue to introduce a well known band in the Gothic/Metal scene like LACUNA COIL. These Italian goth rockers recently released "Comalies", their third full length CD. Surely their best one. So, relax yourself and read what LACUNA COIL muse (Cristina Scabbia) told us… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which the word "Comalies" means? Which are in your opinion the differences between "Comalies" and your previous records?&lt;br /&gt;The word "Comalies" represents the mood surrounding us during the songwriting, months ago. We were composing in a sort of another dimension, completely absorbed by the music, forgetting every other thing around us. Nobody could have been enter this dimension with us. We were closed in a sort of "coma", that's why, when we had to chose the title of the album we went back in time and we remind that weird atmosphere in these days. Then we wanted to play more with the words and we chose "Comalies" instead of "Comalized" (by the music).Now, compared to the previous albums we are able to write good music avoiding to overload the songs with too much stuff, too many melodies and vocal lines. Probably the main component in "Comalies" is the elegance. Sometimes is better to go straight to the point being very simple but taking a very big care of "details" like the choice of every single sound and the arrangements. Waldemar Sorychta produced all your releases and could be almost considered LACUNA COIL seventh member. Have you ever thought to use another producer instead of him?&lt;br /&gt;Why? Just to be proud to show a new name in the booklet? As soon as we still have fresh and new ideas and we have clear the result we want to reach we don't need another person that maybe could change our sound. Waldemar cannot be considered a member of the band (note from Chris: I said almost a member, not a real one…) as soon as he doesn't compose the songs but just helps us to record everything in the proper way. Some people seems to think that just changing the person who direct your work you can create something new, and that's the biggest lie ever. We co-produced this album and we are totally satisfied about the final result.&lt;br /&gt;What kind of feelings do you have when you play your music?&lt;br /&gt;We are expressing our deepest feelings and sensations, we are translating with notes and world our vision of life.&lt;br /&gt;How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you always follow?&lt;br /&gt;It depends from the song. Usually we start from a riff or a melody and we build the whole music around them. Then we meet each other in the practice room and we play for hours changing structure millions of times until we get the result we like the most. then we go for the vocal line and the lyrics are coming at the very end.&lt;br /&gt;Usual love/hate question for every musician: how would you describe your music?&lt;br /&gt;Is an hybrid between rock, gothic and metal with a modern touch. Basically is an artistic expression nobody could give a name to, because is too personal.&lt;br /&gt;You toured the States with Moonspell. Which is in your opinion the difference between the European and the American audiences?&lt;br /&gt;The whole tour has been absolutely great. The people at the shows had an unexpected reaction, they were simply going crazy!They were able to sing the songs, to scream with us and they could feel the good vibe on stage. We gave and we received energy, pure energy. To be honest I didn't really find differences between the American audience and the European one.&lt;br /&gt;Which were the best and the worst experiences happened to LACUNA COIL on stage?&lt;br /&gt;Luckily we've never had bad experiences on stage! I have a big collection of good experiences indeed, from the various festivals like Wacken, Dynamo, Rock Machina...then the gigs in America and Mexico and all the tours we did...so many cool moments, is too difficult just to mention few of them.&lt;br /&gt;Which band would you tour with and why?&lt;br /&gt;Maybe a very big band, I cannot really tell you a name. We did so many tours that the best thing would be to play in front of very big audiences.&lt;br /&gt;I think that sometimes your deep vocals are close to Garbage's Shirley Manson. What do you think about this? Which are your fave singers?&lt;br /&gt;She's not one of my fave singers, even if I like Garbage music, in some cases, but just because I don't have a favourite singer. Basically I prefer black vocalists, no names in particular. They can be very emotional and intense, even if they don't care about the supertechnical parts. That's what I like.&lt;br /&gt;Did you listen to the debut cd from Cayne (formed by ex guitarists of yours)? If you did, what do you think about them?&lt;br /&gt;I don't think anything in particular.&lt;br /&gt;Can L.C. live by their own music or have you regular jobs?&lt;br /&gt;We are gaining more than in the past but when we are at home we have some free periods we can use to do part time jobs. Of course not real jobs as soon as in any place you couldn't say "Ok, I'll stay for two weeks and then I'll be away for two months…"&lt;br /&gt;What's the future for LACUNA COIL ? Which are your plans?&lt;br /&gt;We just finished 2 days ago a very successful co-headliner tour in Europe with Sentenced. Now we'll have a short break, in the meantime I'll be doing some promotion and the next year will be very busy, talking about tours and festivals. Everybody who's interested in our dates all around the world can check our Web page &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lacunacoil.it/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.lacunacoil.it/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; . As soon as a gig is confirmed we post it.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to mention?&lt;br /&gt;Well, that "Comalies" is a great album and the people has to listen to it ;-)Thanks for this interview!&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2002 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dipnoi - November 2002&lt;br /&gt;Psycho Metal Core from Brazil? Yes. That's what DIPNOI play. An emerging band from the land of Ronaldo…and Sepultura. Talking with their guitarist Mario Izzo about music, the Underground scene and more… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about the name of the band means to you? Does it appropriate to the music you bring (in your opinion) or does the name has an influence for/in our life or kind like that?&lt;br /&gt;Mario Izzo: DIPNOI is definitely an "alternative" name for a metal band. That's what we were going for when we named the band. In the beginning, we just thought that if the band wanted to have its own style, we should also try a different name. And that's what happened.&lt;br /&gt;Give us some bio notes about the band. Mario Izzo: DIPNOI is a Brazilian band from Sao Paulo, formed in 1994. One year later, we released our first demo, called "A good Moonza/A better Moonza", which contains songs from the beginning of the band, such as "Gimme some beer", "Underneath" and others. In 1999, the EP "FKDDD" came out with 6 new songs and taking a turn for Heavy/Thrash metal, as you'll notice if you listen to the song "FKDDD". Finally, we had some problems in the line-up of the band, but in the middle of 2002 we finally released the single "Torn", which is the CD we' re promoting right now around the world. Just 3 songs right in your face!&lt;br /&gt;Usual love/hate question for every band: how would you describe your music?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: Psycho Metal Core.&lt;br /&gt;Who always composed your music and lyrics in every song significantly? How you made music (which I mean the process) and also what have influenced the lyrics too?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: The band always composes all the music, we work as a team. That seems to be bullshit, because all the bands say it, but that's the true. I come out with the guitar riffs, C.I.C. with the drumming, Andrea with his bass lines and, after that, he tries to put everything together. In the end, Matsumoto adds the vocals and writes the lyrics. About these, they only express our experience in this planet.&lt;br /&gt;When the band write a lyric and music, what would you like to get from the listeners and fans? What do you want from them, for example: a mental reflection, murder, make it fun, emotions, just bang the head or enjoy the lyrics with music? How important are for the lyrics for you then?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: Well, I expect from the listeners at least any reaction. Excepting murder, which is not our goal, I believe all reactions you mentioned are acceptable and desirable. The lyrics are important, but for me the music is always the main thing in a song.&lt;br /&gt;If I'm right, on the "Torn" cover there's a locust. Which this means?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: It means nothing in particular, it's just an image we liked a lot, a friend of ours put it together for us. We decided to use it as the cover to "Torn", because it's aggressive and unusual like our music.&lt;br /&gt;What are your fave bands, 'zines and labels today but especially for your fave bands, have they influenced your music and style's characters? If yes, how did they influence the band?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: My fave bands are, in this order: Black Sabbath (1970-74) and Metallica (1983-87). But I also like a lot Dead Kennedys, Faith No More, Helmet, AC/DC, Randy Rhoads' Ozzy era, 70's King Crimson, Focus, Beastie Boys, Elvis, Sex Pistols, Anthrax, etc...Adding a little of Death Metal and Jazz, we're close to all the influences of DIPNOI. All the bands I mentioned influenced us somehow, but I don't believe the individual influences are so visible.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the Underground publications such as magazines/fanzines and webzines/netzines for the band's itself ? Are they still needed and necessary for the bands in the (Underground) metal scene and what Underground means to you?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: These publications are essential to the band, we're looking for them all the time. We don't have any means to get in the mainstream media, so that's what we got. Without webzines like yours we certainly wouldn't be talking right now. We're very thankful to all the people that supported us all these years, it's just like a family. Underground for me is everything and it's essential to DIPNOI's life.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the metal of the new millenium (nu metal and similars)?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: There are good and bad bands, just like in every genre. I like System Of A Down very much. Soulfly is a good band too.&lt;br /&gt;What about the Brazilian band Underground?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: The Brazilian underground is growing and it's better than in the past years. But we suffer from the same problems that exist everywhere, I guess: lack of support, not too many places to play, etc.&lt;br /&gt;Can you describe us a typical DIPNOI live show?&lt;br /&gt;M.I.: It's an orgasmatic party with naked girls and lots of booze.&lt;br /&gt;Which are your future plans? Have you found a label? Are you going to release a new full lenght album?&lt;br /&gt;M.I: We intend to record a full lenght album until the end of 2003, and we're searching for a label to support us. If we can't find anyone to do it, we'll release our next album by ourselves anyway.&lt;br /&gt;That's all! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to add?&lt;br /&gt;I guess that's all. I thank you very much for this opportunity and your support. Anyone can download our entire new single from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mp3.com/dipnoi"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;www.mp3.com/dipnoi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;. If you wanna talk to us: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:dipnoi@uol.com.br"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;dipnoi@uol.com.br&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; . We try to answer all the emails that people send to us, so don't be shy, we want to make friends all over the world. If you want to contact us by regular mail, our address is: Caixa Postal 2313, CEP 01060-970, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil. And visit our site: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dipnoi.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.dipnoi.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; .WOWWWWW&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2002 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dein Schateen - October 2002&lt;br /&gt;A must for every fan of Dark/Pop music: from Germany the one man band DEIN SCHATTEN comes. Let's hear what Born Zero told us about some interesting topics... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brief us on the band history. How was it created? Which are the most significant moments in the band's so far life?&lt;br /&gt;Musically is D.S. a one man show. I still work alone.DEIN SCHATTEN wass born out of a coincidence. It began in the summer of 1999 when I went on vacation in the Netherlands with my wife and children. In this place we met Ussama "Ussi" Christian Absi an ex "Gruftie" and his family. Two months after we met again in Marburg and Ussi asked me: "Come on Dieter make one dark song for me, just for joke". I have never played the sound of gothic, and I have thought, this is a chance to try a new thing. The song "Er kommt zurück" was the first result, and Ussi said: "Hey Dieter it's great, you must write more songs of this kind of music, you have a very good talent for this sound". At this time I was working for a German hip hop artist from Hamburg and I had always problems with these guys. "Make the lyric more mainstream or give the bass drum more kick, and too much melodies" and bla bla bla. I think a little bit of hip hop is okay, but always it's a torture. Ussi said: "Okay Dieter, I will help to promote this music together with you".&lt;br /&gt;Usual love/hate question for every musician: how would you describe your music? I think my music it is dark pop. It's kind of gothic, dark wave, but also pop, rock and a little bit of jazz. What I do it is a mixture from little stories about the inhuman civilization and pure entertainment. I've played and also written many kinds of music styles in my life. I can't make only one music style, and I'm so happy about this, so I can put all I my experience in the new project DEIN SCHATTEN. Playing guitar writing lyrics and the song-writing stuff. Every music has a special chords pattern, melody and sounds arrangement if you play jazz, rock, new wave, classic, country or gothic. Many years ago I've studied jazz guitar-players like George Benson, John Abercrombie, John Mc Laughling and also many country, classic, latin and rock guitar-players. I've written lyrics in German or English (that's very strange for me) whether rock or chanson or hip hop and now dark wave. I mixed all the styles in my new project and I believe that it got a new sound in the scene.&lt;br /&gt;What are your lyrics talking about? What gives you inspiration?&lt;br /&gt;I sing about many things as the dark side of life, about depression ("Traenen der Seele") or bad sexuality ("Geister in mir"), about the dead ("Abschied") or vampires ("My name is LUC-if-A"), ("Er kommt zurueck") and about psychotic freaks ("Das Tier"), ( "Hallo?"). Also about the beginning of the end of human race ("Ewiges Eis") and many more. Let me put this way: the lyrics are a mixture of sophisticated and social things with a drama humour.The inspiration it is in the air, and I think in the past I hear many radio dramas. It is good for the brain.&lt;br /&gt;How do you compose your music? Are there some specific steps you always follow?&lt;br /&gt;Mostly I sit in my practice room and play guitar and jam with myself. Or work on the drum machine to form new grooves. Everyday spirituality in the air. Many ideas ending however in the trash. However every idea it is a piece for a new song in the future, nothing is without a reason. To play guitar and making samples or play the other instruments it is very simple for me. Not so for the lyrics. However to create the lyrics it is the hardest work for me.I need absolutely silence when I write or compose. The best ideas for the lyrics come at night before I sleep and in the morning I must remember the ideas. Also many ideas come with rhymes when I'm riding my bicycle. Many lyrics I write on the playground or at coffee shop and the tech to touch up in my little studio. The first ideas to the composition to originate through jam session with myself. I worked two years on "Ewiges Eis". At this time I was looking after my daughter, since my wife was still in her education. My biggest achievement was to have Anna Lina sleeping tightly when I'd reach my practice room so I would have around two hours when I could work.&lt;br /&gt;What kind of feelings do you have when you play your music?&lt;br /&gt;I feel very, very good. I believe, when I stopped my music career, there was a change in my life to 180°. I cannot never stop to play guitar and composed. I need the music like my heartbeat.&lt;br /&gt;Can you describe us a typical live show of yours?&lt;br /&gt;No, I can't. DEIN SCHATTEN never played live in the past. But I can say something about the show in the future. I will be really playing live like a fury on the guitar on "Ewiges Eis" I got no time to practice on my instrument.&lt;br /&gt;Which the word dark means for you?&lt;br /&gt;Sorry, I don't know. I don't understand some of your questions. (It's my own problem, I have never learned English in the school). Okay, I make a test. Dark and gothic I believe is the biggest game of the world. Right? No? Okay next question!&lt;br /&gt;When the band write a lyric and music, what would you like to get from the listeners and fans? What do you want from them for example: a mental reflection, murder, make it fun, emotions, just bang the head or enjoy the lyrics with music? How important are for the lyrics for you then?&lt;br /&gt;I hope a little bit of all things that you tell me about what the listeners like.&lt;br /&gt;What's the future for your band? Which are your plans?&lt;br /&gt;Next year I'm planning to make a European tour. I have a fantastic drummer from Hamburg. He played with the international pop band Heathhunter and I got a contact with a great guitar player from London. He plays in the bands Meeker Seeker and Bliss.I gathered experience by more than 3000 concerts around the world in the past. I think this is a very good basic for shows in the future. I'm very satisfied. More than 100 excellent reviews is good for the start. But first time I must promote "Ewiges Eis", and also very important is the "Vision Europe - Vision Peace" thing. I'm the founder of this anti war organisation. Many bands all over the world building now together a peace front.The Ramones, No FX, Donots, Massive Attack, Retrosic and more than 70 bands . Okay, and than I'm gonna to play with my band in Europe. I need new impressions, new cities, new peoples about whom write new songs. It's crazy but "Ewiges Eis" will first be published in Russia at the Irond Record label. The times it's coming when more light is falling on the project DEIN SCHATTEN.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the underground goth scene in Germany? Which are the bands you're most in contact with?&lt;br /&gt;I don't know. Never imagine to making dark wave and gothic. I'm my own source of inspiration in the last 10 years and I'm not going in the clubs. I'm not really especially interested what the other guys and girls of this planet are playing. I know Juergen Engler since we made a record with "Guru Guru" at his studio in Düsseldorf. Today Juergen lives in Texas/USA. Last year I fold Juergen the story of DEIN SCHATTEN, and he said that he would like to make a remix of the songs "Respekt" and "Woanders sein". Mostly I work alone and I don't like to be influenced by another mind.Today I have a little bit contact with the band Retrosic.&lt;br /&gt;Which are your occupations &amp;amp; hobbies besides the band?&lt;br /&gt;Nothing. Yes I like cooking, and make a little bit sports.&lt;br /&gt;We're writing you from Italy... so if you got the chance to meet the Pope what will you ask him?&lt;br /&gt;I would ask him: "How do you do? Are you feel good? Okay, good, hey have a nice day, and salute god for me".I have no questions on the pope. The father of my wife is pope and professor in Malawi/Africa.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to mention?&lt;br /&gt;Thank you very much for your questions, and I hope my answers are a little bit interesting for the readers. I wish you and the readers health and peace and I hope to see you on my tour in 2003.&lt;br /&gt;Check out DEIN SCHATTEN at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dein-schatten.de/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.dein-schatten.de/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2002 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Red Harvest - October 2002&lt;br /&gt;RED HARVEST: dark industrial paranoia Metal. Let's discover Norway's most hidden and wicked secret with Ketil... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What about the name of the band means to you? Does it appropriate to the music you bring (in your opinion) or does the name has an influence for/in our life or kinda like that?&lt;br /&gt;RED HARVEST doesn't have a specific meaning, but I guess it reflects visions of blood and manslaughter. Or just an extremely brutal autumn.&lt;br /&gt;Give us some bio notes about the band.&lt;br /&gt;RED HARVEST is a Norwegian band, based in Oslo. We are true veterans of Norwegian metal music, along with such bands as Mayhem, Cadaver and Darkthrone. We have never been part of the controversial Black Metal scene, yet our music contains more than enough energy to burn down churches by its sonic impact alone. We have been touring both domestically and abroad, but I guess you can say that we still are something of a rather well kept secret among connoisseurs of dark, driving metal music.&lt;br /&gt;Usual love/hate question for every musician: how would you describe your music?&lt;br /&gt;Sick, dark industrial paranoia metal. RED HARVEST is hopefully like being strapped to an electric chair in front of a nuclear freight train while Al Jourgenson and Tom Warrior have a growling contest.It's cold and dark, with much energy and some floating parts.&lt;br /&gt;Who always (de)composed your music and lyrics in every song significantly? How you made music (which I mean the process) and also what have influenced the lyrics too?&lt;br /&gt;We all contribute when it comes to creating the music. It usually starts with a riff and an idea about a vibe or state of mind/situation you want to pass on to the listener. Usually a feeling within yourself. The music is made basically from what we live through every day, what we see, hear and read.Where some people see the roses, I see the thorns. "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi" is about all the paranoia in the world and in our heads. A mixture of ideologies of various deathcults and a plain, objective observation of the world and its humans dying.&lt;br /&gt;When the band write a lyric and music, what would you like to get from the listeners and fans? What do you want from them for example: a mental reflection, murder, make it fun, emotions, just bang the head or enjoy the lyrics with music? How important are for the lyrics for you then?&lt;br /&gt;Lyrics is very important of course, but you don't have to know the lyrics to enjoy the music.I want people to feel the way I felt after I had seen David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive".Totally confused and exhausted. Or like you have taken an overdose.&lt;br /&gt;Do you really want to become a real musician as a life or have a band just for fun or maybe just to express the skills/ideas you have? Is that possible to make a living out of music in your country especially for heavy metal music 'coz I see some bands making tours there outside of your country which that needs some lot of money, right?&lt;br /&gt;Music has always been important for me and I have always enjoyed playing guitar. We make a living playing in RED HARVEST, cause we're the biggest industrial Black Metal band here in Norway and we have been around for more than ten years.&lt;br /&gt;What are your fave bands, 'zines and labels today but especially for your fave bands, have they influenced your music and style's characters? If yes, how did they influence the band?&lt;br /&gt;I am an all eater when it comes to music as long as there is some kind of quality in the music.I think Neurosis, Isis, Ministry, Godflesh, Slayer, Voivod have been important to all of the guys in Red Harvest. I guess it sounds in the music we play. I read Abyss Magazine from Portugal, Eclipse magazine from the US. Relapse is a cool label.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the Underground publications such as magazines/fanzines and webzines/netzines for the band's itself ? Are they still needed and necessary for the bands in the (Underground) metal scene and what Underground means to you?&lt;br /&gt;It's always nice to have something solid, printed on paper, so zines is great, even though the internet has taken over a lot of the propaganda function I guess. It's great tools for the underground. Underground music is music you don't hear on national radio stations.&lt;br /&gt;What do you think about the metal of the new millenium (nu metal and similars)?&lt;br /&gt;I don't like NU-metal. Metal with credibility will hopefully grow more extreme and push the limits to the max.&lt;br /&gt;Many extreme metal bands express racistic ideologies. Which are your thoughts on that?&lt;br /&gt;RED HARVEST is non-political. I leave shit like that to Bono.&lt;br /&gt;Can you describe us a typical RED HARVEST live show?&lt;br /&gt;It depends on if we headline or not. On a good night it's loud, brutal as fuck and with lots of energy.&lt;br /&gt;Which are your future plans?&lt;br /&gt;Play gigs and make a new album next year.&lt;br /&gt;That's all! Have I forgot to ask you anything and you'd like to add?&lt;br /&gt;Stay sick, stay dark and stay true!&lt;br /&gt;You can check out RED HARVEST at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.redharvest.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;http://www.redharvest.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Obscuritas Latebrarum Copyright © 2002 All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Septic Flesh - October 2002&lt;br /&gt;A true original metal band from Greece. After so many years of Underground career SEPTIC FLESH are ready and willing to expand their dominion. Let's talk about it (and more) with Sotiris… &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next year your new album will be out. Will it be another concept? And what will differs from your previous recordings?&lt;br /&gt;In "Sumerian Daemons" I preferred to write about a variety of thoughts and dreams of mine rather than following a specific concept. You can say that it has a more timeless and spiritual direction in contrast with "Revolution Dna" that was more down to earth, portraying themes about the present and near future. The basic difference between our new album and the previous releases is that it is definitely the most heavy, brutal and dark album we have ever released.&lt;br /&gt;Why you left your longtime label Holy Records? There were rumors about the chance for you to sign with Emi Greece... Indeed, we were very close in releasing our new album from the Greek department of Emi Recs. The problem with the giant multinational labels is that your contract depends highly on the specific local manager that is in charge in your country (Note from Chris: I know, I work for a major…). Unfortunately in our case, this person that was positive about a collaboration and was entrusted with the fate of our contract, quit his office for another label. We didn't managed to obtain a decent communication or a concrete timeline about our contract from the new man in charge, so we closed that chapter and went on. Finally, we decided to sign to Hammerheart Records because simply we felt a lot of potential behind this label and honest support, in good terms.&lt;br /&gt;Can Natalie Rassoulis be considered a permanent member of your band or is she just a guest?&lt;br /&gt;Your question is reasonable as Natalie is an artist with great talent and personality and stands out from the lot. However she is not an integral part of SEPTIC FLESH. Her voice is considered from the band as an exquisite instrument and we use it when we feel it is needed on the songs and not on a permanent basis.&lt;br /&gt;When the band write a lyric and music what would you like to get from the listeners and fans? What do you want from them for example: a mental reflection, murder, make it fun, emotions, just bang the head or enjoy the lyrics with music? How important are the lyrics for you then?&lt;br /&gt;We write our material in order to express our emotions and thoughts. That 's why the lyrics are important for us. Of course we realize that the reaction of the fans depends on their own personality and way of thinking so some will enjoy the full trip, getting to bottom line of the lyrical content and others will be happy with the music and rhythm without further exploration. That's OK. The most important rule for us is to be true to ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;How your country background (culture, tradition etc.) influences your music?&lt;br /&gt;Our ancient inheritance has made a high impact on our mental state and taste. You can find many ancient Hellenic elements both musical and lyrical in all our albums and especially on "Esoptron" as its title suggests. However, we simply hate the present "evolution" of traditional Greek music.&lt;br /&gt;After so many years of career which are now the goals of a band like yours? How changed your musical perspective from the "Temple of the lost race" era?&lt;br /&gt;Every album is different from its predecessor as we like to experiment in new ideas rather than repeating our selves over and over. But our goal is always the same, to make intensively emotional music that will give something special to the listener.&lt;br /&gt;"The future belongs to the brave": who's the brave for you actually?&lt;br /&gt;The one that realizes that the future is here and now. The one that dares to think and act avoiding the warm lure of passive hope that his dreams will come true and his nightmares will just van
