New Converge Album Titled

Two in one day! The PRP has picked up on a tidbit from Decibel magazine saying that Converge have titled their soon to be recorded album All We Love We Leave Behind. Now we've just got to sit back and wait....

Every Time I Die announce "Ex-Lives" and release video for "Underwater Bimbos from Outerspace", I soil myself

Every Time I Die have revealed that their new album will be called Ex-Lives.  They have also released a video for "Underwater Bimbos From Outerspace" which can be viewed below.



You can also view the numerous pre-order packages available for the album by checking out www.ex-lives.com

I'm also happy to announce an interview that I'll be conducting with drummer Ryan "Legs" Leger in the very near future. Leave any questions you would like asked in the comments section below.

Ex-Lives gets released March 6th on Epitaph.

New Every Time I Die Song

A new ETID song has made its way on to the internet! After posting their set list from their annual hometown Buffalo Christmas show on the groups Tumblr blog, I checked youtube for a video...



Sounding nothing like "Underwater Bimbos From Outerspace", or anything else the band has done before, this new track shifts my speculation for just what sort of ETID specific sound we can expect from the yet untitled new album. If I had to place the tracks in a sonic era, this newest one sounds like it would be more at home on The Big Dirty, while "Underwater Bimbos" skews very Hot Damn! to me.
Though conjecture is fun, I'll be very interested to hear some official high quality versions of these songs.  Here's hoping the band (or perhaps Epitaph) don't keep the lid on details like album title, track listing and album art too much longer.

New Unearth Album Titled

According to @unearthofficial, the new Unearth album will be titled "Darkness in the light". \

Bitchin.

We'll see if it can challenge my favorite Unearth album "III: In the Eyes of Fire", for the title of "Most Bitchinist Unearth Album".

Every Time I Die Release Title of New Album

I'm about to break it wide open. The new Every Time I Die album is called 'New Junk Aesthetic". Get pumped.

Stoked

About this.

New Every Time I Die Track Names

Check out this article at Rock Sound for as much of an update about the ETID as anyone has.

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.

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

Mastodon Artwork and Article

Blabbermouth has posted the artwork and long interview (not much new information) for Mastodon's upcoming Crack The Skye.

Looks like pretty typically sweet Mastodon artwork.  There is also a teaser for the first track of their new album on their official website (not really worth your time).

Just Like The Good Ole' Days

The first track from New Found Glory's upcoming album Not Without A Fight can now be seen below.  



This song could be "My Friends Over You part 2" for a number of reasons, but mainly because its totally awesome. I was right in my hope that this album would be more like the music that got me to love music like I do. I can already imagine blasting this cd with my windows down on the first warm spring day.

Presenting: Lamb of God - Contractor

Unlike the live concert video that has given us our previous peeks at the new Lamb of God, finally we have a near studio quality rip of a new track off of one the most anticipated albums of 2009. Be amazed by "Contractor".

Watch more YouTube videos on AOL Video

 This whole album is gonna be a shark attack. (Oh, and there's album art too).

Punk Goes Pop 2 Tracklisting

This is gonna be awesome.  The tracklisting for Punk Goes Pop 2 has been released, and it's totally badass.

Alesana- "What Goes Around...Comes Around" by Justin Timberlake
Attack Attack- "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry
August Burns Red- "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears
Bayside- "Beautiful Girls" by Sean Kingston
Breathe Carolina- "See You Again" by Miley Cyrus
The Cab- "Disturbia" by Rihanna
A Day To Remember- "Over My Head (Cable Car)" by The Fray
Escape The Fate- "Smooth" by Rob Thomas
Four Year Strong- "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles
Mayday Parade- "When I Grow Up" by Pussycat Dolls
Silverstein- "Apologize" by One Republic
A Static Lullaby- "Toxic" by Britney Spears
There For Tomorrow- "Ice Box" by Omarion

I'm exited as hell for this.  My love for pop covers runs deep, and imagining what some of these bands are gonna do to some of these songs has me giddy.  I can hear Bayside's version of "Beautiful Girls" in my head already.  It's gonna be a long wait till March 10th (that's when the album comes out.   See what I did there?)

More Mastodon Album Details

More details about Mastodon's upcoming album Crack The Skye have been reveled.

From Blabbermouth:

Patrizia Mazzuoccolo of the "Tinitus" radio show, which airs every Wednesday on Norway's NRK P3, spoke to MASTODON drummer Brann Dailor in late November prior the band's concert in Oslo as part of the"Unholy Alliance: Chapter III" tour with SLAYER, TRIVIUM and AMON AMARTH. 

Although MASTODON's new album, "Crack The Skye", is a conceptual piece in the same vein as the band's previous releases, it is not about air but "ether." "The whole story has little to do with what the album emotionally is really about," clarifies Dailor. "But everything in the lyrics and the story is metaphors. We wanted to stick with elements and we wanted to do the 'ether' record. Ether is what the soul is made out of and it took a few months to connect all the dots."

Dailor goes on to explain the "Crack The Skye" concept: "There is a paraplegic and the only way that he can go anywhere is if he astral travels. He goes out of his body, into outer space and a bit like Icarus, he goes too close to the sun, burning off the golden umbilical cord that is attached to his solar plexus. So he is in outer space and he is lost, he gets sucked into a wormhole, he ends up in the spirit realm and he talks to spirits telling them that he is not really dead. So they send him to the Russian cult, they use him in a divination and they find out his problem. They decide they are going to help him. They put his soul insideRasputin's body. Rasputin goes to usurp the czar and he is murdered. The two souls fly out of Rasputin's body through the crack in the sky(e) and Rasputin is the wise man that is trying to lead the child home to his body because his parents have discovered him by now and think that he is dead. Rasputin needs to get him back into his body before it's too late. But they end up running into the Devil along the way and the Devil tries to steal their souls and bring them down…there are some obstacles along the way."

The title track, "Crack The Skye", features vocals by Scott Kelly ofNEUROSIS. "We heard Scott's voice all over that track," Dailor says. "It's really NEUROSIS-sounding and then when it became the title track, in particular vocally and lyrically it had a lot to do with Skye so it made it even more perfect that Scott would be doing the verses on it just because he is very familiar with that tremendous loss, suicide, stuff like that…"

The album, due out for release in March 2009, is a dark conglomeration of musical as well as conceptual layers. "'Crack The Skye' means a number of different things," Dailor offers. "You'd probably get a different answer from the other members of the band as to what the meaning of it is and I can also come up with three different ones. The main one for me would be (that) Skye was my sister’s name and she died when I was 15. She was 14, she killed herself and it changed my life. When we started working on the material, I knew that Brent [MASTODON singer/guitarist Brent Hinds] was coming from a deeper place musically. He was shaken up from his accident in Las Vegas, was traumatized by that and I think that has a lot to do with the sound of the record. He is pretty emotive with the guitar and from that depression he was in came a lot of that material — kind of slow and spaced out, real psychedelic. I could see that there was something a lot deeper going on so it was the perfect opportunity lyrically to dig a little deeper myself into some demons in the past and I'd never really gone there before; you know, it's a touchy subject. But I felt that with the songs being the way they were that it was the perfect opportunity to get rid of some stuff myself… the 'Crack in the Skye' is the moment you realize that that person is gone."

Exclusive excerpts from the interview were originally aired on the November 26, 2008 edition of "Tinitus". The show is now available on podcast at this location.

Darkest Hour Interview

Well, it's not really an interview, it's a studio update, but whatever.  You can read it myah.  There are also some tour dates at the bottom that I hadn't posted before.  You'd be a lucky dog to get to go.

God Forbid Album Teaser

God Forbid has a teaser of sorts for their new album Earthsblood:  

Though this band is definitely capable of putting together some badass music, I think that this will be the album that either makes them or breaks them.  Constitution Of Treason was good, but kind of lacked flow.  Hopefully this album will pace itself better.

New Found Glory Album Title and Release Date

New Found Glory has announced that the name of their upcoming return-to-form and Mark Hoppus produced album will be called Not Without A Fight and it will be released March 10th.  Boo-yah.

I realize as I was ascribing tags to this post that I didn't actually write a show review for Easy-Core Tour (New Found Glory, A Day To Remember, Four Year Strong, ISHC, Crime In Stereo), but lets just say that especially after hearing the Tip of the Iceburg EP, I'm super stoked for this album.

News Flash: Rolling Stone Makes Noteworthy Music Contribution

Click myah for a link to a video interview with Adam and new guitar player Matt.

Mark Morton on "Wrath"

Check out an interview that MTV did with Mark Morton myah. Morton talks about Wrath and how it "sounds nothing like Sacrament." Thrash is back, totally stoked.

More Mastodon Album Details

More details about Mastodon's new album:

The Quietus: You've been quite vocal in the press saying that it isn't a concept album about Rasputin [Russian mystic Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin].

Brann Dailor: "No one wants to go head to head with BONEY M…"

Troy Sanders: "Exactly!" 

The Quietus: Is there a theme or a concept?

Brann Dailor: "Yeah, there's a story which goes from start to end. And there is Tsarist Russia in there and that was picked because ever since the first record we've wanted to do something about this period and their art aesthetics, with the black lacquer boxes and that look was something we were going for. From there, you take elements of that, and it's multi-dimensional and it goes into outer space and it's about the ether and deals with astral travel, out-of-body experiences and deals with Stephen Hawking's theories on wormholes. But I think one of the cool things about our band is that we will leave it ambiguously for the listener to dive into the lyrics themselves and maybe come to their own conclusions and form a little movie that plays in their heads." 

The Quietus: This is what's great about heavy metal — you would never get an OASIS or ARCTIC MONKEYS album about something like this. Just an album about having a top laugh with your mates.

Brann Dailor: "It's fun for us to research all that stuff and get it all in there and make it as nuts and as far out as we can. I feel like we've worked hard on the lyrics, that they're more meaningful and they're going to be able to get more out of them this time. I mean, it's all metaphors for stuff that goes on in your everyday life, like being away from home and missing your lady or whatever, but it's not so literal. You tell it through a totally different mindset. So it becomes that we're not going on tour but we're going into outer space. But that's how you feel sometimes. You're on tour and you can't get Internet and your mobile doesn't work and you haven't talked to your wife for a week and you feel lost… That's what it's like sometimes." 

The Quietus: A good metaphor is a good metaphor and should be celebrated. I for one don't want to hear about how much it sucks being a rock star or how it's not that good being on tour.

Both: "Exactly." 

Brann Dailor: "There are ways you can explain those feelings differently through lyrics."