The Chariot "Daggers" Video

I know I'm a little late on this, but I just saw the video and decided that you all should see it.
The Chariot - Daggers


I'm super pumped about the new album andthe associated hot sauce. May 5th is going to be epic.

Best. Post. Ever.

Found in the news post about Slayer and Megadeth announcing a tour together.


everytimeicry 4/27/2009 3:40:54 PM
*stops showering for 3 months before the show, go to show, sweat until soaked, become the guy that keeps bumping into you*

TRUTH.

The Acacia Strain, Evergreen Terrace, Cruel Hand tour

From lambgoat:

The Acacia Strain, Evergreen Terrace, Unholy, and Cruel Hand will hit the road together this summer for a two-week tour. Here's the latest:

7/17 Doylestown, PA @ Doylestown Moose Lodge
7/18 Wilmington, DE @ Harmony Grange
7/19 West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
7/21 Mt. Clemens, MI @ Hayloft
7/22 Evansville, IN @ Boney Junes
7/23 Iowa City, IA @ The Picador
7/25 Fort Wayne, IN @ Sunset Hall
7/26 Toledo, OH @ Headliner's
7/27 Erie, PA @ Forward Hall
7/28 Albany, NY @ Northern Lights
7/29 Burlington, VT @ TBA
7/30 Manchester, NH @ Rockos
7/31 Bucksport, ME @ The Kave
8/1 Hartford, CT @ Webster Theater


Go see one of these shows if you get the chance.

Alvin Lau

I had dinner with this guy tonight.

Underoath Beefs on Chiodos, Escape The Fate, and Avenged Sevenfold

Tim from Underoath took some time off from loving Jesus to smack talk Avenged Sevenfold (deserved). He also talks some snark (I'm making it a noun) about Chiodos (undeserved) and Escape The Fate (deserved). Read the interview myah.

For My Birthday Plz

You can get me this.

ETID + DEP = JIP

Greg from Dillinger Escape Plan has written a long note railing against current governmental affairs (which can be read here). However, most pertanent to this blog is the part at the end where he mentions his guest vocals on the new Every Time I Die album. STOKED.

Throwdown "Deathless"

Everyone who has been searching the internet for "Throwdown Deathless Download" and winding up on this website for the past couple of months should read this.

The feeling of dissapointment

So, there's no reason a song featuring Clipse and Kanye shouldn't be awesome. But this is really mediocore. Normally I can excuse less than stellar lyrics for a solid beat, but this song doesn't really seem to have either. I hope Until The Casket Drops doesn't dissapoint. It has a lot to live up to as the follow up to Hell Hath No Fury.

New Kevin Devine

So I know that the new Kevin Devine album leaked a while ago, but as I've stated before, I don't endorse illegal downloading (without the inention of buying), so I haven't listened to it until right now.  Man have I been missing out.  I'm starting to feel out Split the Country, Split the Street which has a much different vibe musically than Put Your Ghost To Rest, but is still clever as hell.

Either way, I'm listning to the Brother's Blood right now and even on the first listen it's fantastic.  If you like the more folksy feel of Put Your Ghost to Rest then you'll definatly appreciate the style of Brother's Blood.  I'm pretty sure that Kevin Devine is one of those musicians who's never going to run out of steam.

New Music

Just opened up my package from Amazon.com containing Kevin Devine's Split The Country, Split The Streets and The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound. It should be a very good day for music.

China White III !!!

It's been announced that super badasses He Is Legend will release their new album It Hates You on June 9th...stoked.
It has also been announced that the Wilmington boys have been signed to Tragic Hero records (something tells me they weren't getting much support at SolidState, because they don't love their Jesus).

The tracklisting is:
Track Listing
01) Dicephalous
02) Party Time!
03) Everyone I Know Has Fangs
04) The Primarily Blues
05) Cult of She
06) Stranger Danger
07) Don't Touch That Dial
08) Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
09) Future's Bright Man
10) China White III
11) That's Nasty
12) Mean Shadows

And...........Win

Garret from Senses Fail has written on his blog about shows being ruined (and not even being that good in the first place) by tons of lights.

Stop With The Fucking Lights...

I can’t remember when we first started encountering bands bringing light “rigs” to shows, but it sucks.

We just got off the Saints and Sinners tour which featured a very talented iPod-playing group (they were really good at hitting Play) that needed their high-school-dance lights every day or else their “show” would be fucked. The lights faced towards the crowd, so you couldn’t see the fucking retards on stage flailing around in their rainbow attire…That was annoying.

Yesterday, we were in Edmonton, AB with an opening band who spent an hour laying tons of extension cords around the venue and stage. All that just to power their shitty fucking strobe lights. I didn’t watch them play.

Whatever happened to just putting on a good show by being a good live band? Don’t get me wrong— I enjoy when a band has an actual lighting person running a professional light show to go along with what that band already does well. Those bands can also afford it (sometimes) because they did something right and enough people come to see them.

Also, stop fucking listing the guy that pushes the faders on your dimmer board as a band member. Most of you assholes aren’t even a band and lights aren’t instruments.

Running MIDI light systems are just as fucking dumb. It still results in a disco show. It gives me AIDS.

I’d like to just hear the guitar riffs …not see them as if you were an opened bag of Skittles.

I bet the commission earned in the shitty DJ section at Guitar Center, the section most people don’t even know exists, is beating out the Guitar Amp section these days.

If you think you’re boring live when you just play your instruments, then maybe it’s just cause your band sucks.


They're have been a few shows where I really would have liked to kick the plug on strobe lights (Atreyu, Underoath), and some shows that with really simple and tactful lighting, totally enhanced the performance aspect of their show (Norma Jean).

Hot and Rumors of Hot

Is this a gimmick? Yes. Did I buy it anyway? Yes.

Blink-182

This.

Of Legends

So, This "Secret Band" pops up in an Absolutepunk news post.  This demo is sick, and though it shouldn't really matter who is in the band, I don't appreciate being toyed with.  Given the fact that the clue in the post is most likely "Secret", I'm led to believe its dudes from Secret Lives of the Freemasons.  However the vocals (and I'm not saying this is a definate) sound a fair amount like Jon Spencer from Scarlet and Spitfire.  Check out Of Legends.

Edit:  I don't think it's Jon Spencer.  Not because it doesn't sound like him, just because I can't imagine him singing about zombies.

New Every Time I Die Album to Feature Crunch

For more awesome videos, visit the ETID youtube page.

Hatebreed's Metallica Cover

Not sure how this one slipped by me but a couple of seconds of Hatebreed's cover of "Escape" by Metallica (off Ride The Lightning) can be heard in the video below.

Hatebreed's cover album For The Lions hits May 5th (along with some other sweet stuff).

This Is Important

This is important.  You should know about this.  Given I don't know who this Alex character is; I do know that anything that involves a collaboration between Nickle Creek and New Found Glory is important; most likely to be historic, and has the potential to be totally fucking awesome.  Keep an eye on this.

John Campbell Interview

You can read a not very interesting or informational interview, yet still-worthy-of-your-time-because-it-relates-to-Lamb-of-God interview with John Campbell right myah.

Umbrella Academy Movie

I know I usually don't do movie posts or news, but this somewhat related (and exciting).  Gerard Way's comic book series Umbrella Academy is getting turned into a movie.  Given the story line of the comic, the movie has a lot of potential.  

Then again...

A lot of movies have lots of potential, but then end up being terrible.

The article can be found here.

Instant Inspiration: Stephen Ashbrook

Telling people about this song seems like the most important thing I can do right now.  There's not a good video of it on youtube, but you can hear a sample (and buy it) here.  

Stream the New Conor Oberst

This album snuck up on me to begin with, but now almost a month before its official release date (May 5th), you can stream the new Conor Oberst and Mystic Valley Band album Outer South, at the Merge Records website.

Update:  So this is probably my wishful imagination but, the person from Omaha, Nebraska searching for Conor Oberst...

Are you there Conor?

This

Join The Band(wagon)

1,000 points if you get the Little Feat reference.

I set up a twitter page (yeah, yeah) hoping to keep things a little saucier on the blog. Expect favorite lyrics to be posted all day.

This is how it starts.

Everyone's applauding now...but just wait.