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A COFFIN FOR CHIMAIRA?

Posted on February 12, 2008

Metal Hammer is pleased to report that Chimaira guitarist Rob Arnold did not die last week as a fake internet reports have suggested. A fake news story has been circulating since tuesday afternoon stating that: í¢ä‰åñChimaira guitarist Rob Arnold was found dead in car aged 25. Cleveland police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was found following a suspected road accident in Co Roscommon this morning.” í¢ä‰åŒThe man, who is identified as 25 year old guitarist Rob Arnold, was found dead inside a vehicle that was spotted in a ditch by a passing motorist in Cloonfad East at around 9am. A post mortem is due to be carried out later today to determine the cause of his death.í¢ä‰åŒ Chimaira’s publicist told Metal Hammer: í¢ä‰åñRob’s just fine and amused to learn of his death yesterday.í¢ä‰åŒ An official statement from the band is as follows: í¢ä‰åñIn more startling news, guitarist Rob Arnold has returned from the dead. Donations for his family are still being accepted.”

NEW MUSIC

Posted on February 12, 2008

Check out two new tracks from Still Remains and The agony Scene, both these tracks have been taken from albums due later this year. CLICK HERE to listen

CALIBAN SPEAK TO MIDGETS

Posted on February 12, 2008

O.k. so I wasn’t completely honest, the band havent been attacked by a circus following their tour. But they were interviewed by rockmidgets.com. CLICK HERE TO READ THE INTERVIEW Don’t forget Caliban are touring with Hatebreed from march 5th – 15th.

JUSTICE FOR JUSTIN!

Posted on February 12, 2008

Check out this great write up from this months rocksound. Giving OPEN HAND album of the month. Not only does it give you an overview and critic of the album, but offers an insight into the many trials of frontman Justin Isham The situation Open Hand’s Justin Isham has dealt with over the past couple of years is one you hope no frontman will ever have to experience. To watch your band crumble around you at the first sniff of success just doesn’t bear thinking about for most young hopefuls, even more so when it’s because your fellow musicians have given up on something you believed was their lifeblood. But that’s exactly what happened in 03 when, just as debut release ‘The Dream’ was beginning to make an impression, the guitarist, bassist and drummer all upped and left. Ask Isham why he this happened and he’ll hint vaguely at things like the band members’ increasing greed for money and the corresponding lack of it. Listen to the latest offering ‘You And Me’, however, and you’ll probable decide that it had more to do with fate. In classic ever-cloud-has-a-silver-lining fashion, Isham has triumphed against the odds to make Open Hand better that we ever hoped they could be í¢ä‰åäóì at once more accessible and more dangerous, more melodic and more aggressive, more coherent and more complex. It was already evident from ‘The Dream’ that Open Hand were no ordinary hardcore act. For a start words such as melody, pop and experimentation dominated their vocabulary. Then, when heavyweights Poison The Well brought them to our shores in the spring of 03, they were the support act that provided the light to the headliners’ impenetrable shade. With its Smashing Pumpkins-style grandiosity, ‘This Is The End’ carried the early signs of an ambition that centers on the epic, while the curiously incoherent ‘Radio Days’ and ‘Never Alone’ quietly dipped their toes into prog rock territory and found the water to be nice in deed. And so it is that ‘You And Me’ expands on those initial sparks of promise and increases them tenfold. Having created a sterling backing band by re-recruiting original bassist Micheal Anastasi and former guitarist Sean Woods, adding drummer and new vocal force Paxton Pryor (previously of The Vacation) and guest vocalist Hayley Helmericks (Monofog), Open Hand is now a truly unstoppable operation. From the bomb blast opening of ‘Pure Concentrated Evil’ through to monumental closer ‘Hard Night’, this is an astonishingly powerful album. Isham’s voice has a new found confidence that enables him to judge the songs’ twists and turns í¢ä‰åäóì both sonic and thematic í¢ä‰åäóì and ride them effortlessly, be it in the silky smooth majesty of ‘Her Song’, or the muted vocal swagger of highlight ‘Tough Girl’, where the singer battles it out with Helmericks to great gender-bending effect. Together with book and ‘Tough Guy’, and the record’s third duet ‘Take No Action’, these songs mark an edgier and altogether ballsier approach for Open Hand, one that puts them up there with ‘Antenna’ era Cave In, but still screams innovation. That’s not to say that Isham and co have abandoned their talent for dreamy melodies, and creations like the title track, ‘Jaded’ and the divine ‘Trench Warfare’ fly the flag for a kind of QOTSA lite. Open Hand have succeeded in making a record that defines them, by finally creating an audible identity while still ensuring boundaries are continually reinterpreted. They’ve also achieved that feat of feats – making sure that if you weren’t convinced the fist time around, you’ll be helpless to resist them now. CLICK HERE to go the ROCKSOUND site

FREEZING OUR BALLS OFF!

Posted on February 12, 2008

FREEZING OUR BALLS OFF! – Ill Ni퀌±o update í¢ä‰åŒWassup everyone, We’ve been in the studio for the last 35 days, freezing our balls off, writting some heavy fuckin’ shit, jamming all day, eating rice & beans and busting each other’s balls. The new music is coming out sweeter than your sister’s ass, everything we want the new CD to be, percussive, brutally heavy, latin, and very melodic, all you guys will be very pleased. We’ll start the recording process our new CD the 3rd week of February, also keep your eyes on the tour date section, as we’re playing, 2 very exclusive dates in the tri-state area early March see you all soon.í¢ä‰åŒ

BLEEDING THROUGH INTERVIEW

Posted on February 12, 2008

Check out this awesome interview with BLEEDING THROUGH,brought to us by detonator.tv CLICK HERE to go to the site

LIGHTS. CAMERA. TRIVIUM.

Posted on February 12, 2008

TRIVIUM shot the video for their current single Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr on 1/30/05 with acclaimed video director, Dale Resteghini (Fear Factory, Hatebreed). Photos from the shoot can be seen here. Rough cuts of the video have circulated through the Roadrunner offices, getting great reviews. The video looks absolutely killer and is in the vein of classic, old performance-oriented videos with a really modern flair. The video should be released soon. Trivium Ascendancy coming March 14th

DOWNLOAD

Posted on February 12, 2008

Slipknot have been confirmed to play on June 12th at ‘Download Festival 2005’. The band shall be the second main band on the sunday. For more info CLICK HERE

RARITIES & PICTURE DISCS

Posted on February 12, 2008

We are proud to announce that Townsend Records are offering two great Roadrunner singles to buy online. 1.) Machine Head – the ‘Days Turn Blue To Grey’ single CLICK HERE TO VIEW 2.)limited edition Murderdolls ‘White Wedding’ pic disc CLICK HERE TO VIEW

TIN FOIL PHOENIX – review

Posted on February 12, 2008

Deo2 take a look at Tin Foil Phoenix and their latest album ‘Living In The Shadow Of The Bat’An album of several facets that refreshes certain parts other band are too busy to explore. click HERE to read the full review. TIN FOIL PHOENIX – ‘Living In The Shadow Of The Bat’ – OUT NOW

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