“Sometimes I ain’t so sho who’s got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he ain’t. Sometimes I think aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.” – Cash

Not sure if Faulkner would have subscribed to his character’s statement or not, but there’s a little bit of truth to it.  But be careful, it can be taken way too far way too easily.

Formado em 1999, o Evergreen Terrace, quinteto de Jacksonville/Florida, mostra que é possível misturar hardcore melódico com metal sem causar estranhamento.

Para comprovar, é só dar um play no vídeo abaixo, Sending Signals, presente em seu mais recente álbum Almost Home, que saiu em setembro pela Metal Blade Records e que traz 11 faixas e participação de Tim Lambesis (As I Lay Dying).

Vale dizer que em breve eles entram em turnê pela Europa ao lado de Ignite, Biohazard, Agnostic Front, Death By Stereo, Walls Of Jericho e No Turning Back; e que o guitarrista que divide os vocais do ET com Andrew Carey é Josh James, que também é vocalista da banda straight edge Casey Jones.

Quem quiser ouvir um pouco mais do Evergreen Terrace — que provavelmente tirou seu nome da vizinhança dos Simpsons — é só clicar aqui!

E aí, Simpsonscore ou Karate Kidcore?

“the Lord put roads for travelling: why He laid them down flat on the earth. When He aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it long ways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. And so He never aimed for folks to live on a road….Because if He’d a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn’t He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.”

-Anse from As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

Estilo:

Metalcore / Christian

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39.41mb

Tracklists:

1. Meaning In Tragedy
2. Confined
3. Losing Sight
4. The Darkest Nights
5. Empty Hearts
6. Reflection
7. Repeating Yesterday
8. Through Struggle
9. The Truth Of My Perception
10. Control Is Dead
11. Morning Waits
12. Illusions

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I’m a huge music lover. My bread and butter is rock but I also love Reggae, R&B, Blues, Classical, Vocal music, and even Jazz and Bluegrass in small doses. As mentioned though, I love Rock the most; hard-driving, intense, hacked-off, loud rock.

I never really liked Heavy Metal growing up. Some of my favorites  were: Jimi Hendrix, The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Little Feat, Led Zepplin, and Sly and the Family Stone. In the 80’s I inexplicably fell in love with Disco, then Rap and as Rap became increasingly vulgar, I slowly turned back to Rock. As I and  most of my peers started listening to Classic Rock and turning their nose up to the new Rock  a funny thing happened. Kellye’s cousin Preston, a few years younger than myself, ( he and I had always sent each other music), sent me a cassette tape (yeah) of Pantera. He said in the  accompanying note; that it would seem extremely heavy but to give it a chance. It was and I did,  it slowly grew on me, and before long I was listening and enjoying all sorts of thrash, hard rock, and Metal.

Then I heard POD and everything changed.

Before that a  friend of mine was always ragging on me and saying; how could I listen to the music I did ( Sevendust, White Zombie, Godsmack, Slipknot, etc.) and be a strong Christian? My standard comeback was that I just enjoyed the music, and that I didn’t listen to the lyrics, most that you couldn’t understand anyway. He did cause me to start feeling pangs of conscious however. I heard about a good music edit program that I downloaded  and  started editing all the bad stuff out of the songs. I did that for a couple of years, drawing much ribbing from Raleigh for my  pitiful editing skills, butchering to pieces songs like House of Pain’s Jump, and Manson’s Mobscene. Anyway, back to POD.  I got into them and others: Blindside, Living Sacrifice and  realized that there was tons of good music out there where I didn’t have to listen to a bunch of cussing, dark lyrics, devilish subject matter, and just plain darkness.  Matter of fact, the more I investigated and searched , I found there was absolutely a barrage of  such music out there.

Below I  have listed my favorite bands. I hope, if you haven’t heard some or any of the them, you’ll check them out. Their MySpace sites are a good place to sample, or  ITunes.

I’ve listed first the group, a brief description, Hardmeter (10 would be the heaviest possible and 1 would be peaceful, chilled out, devo music), my favorite 2 songs by the group, the best line or the best part, the CD it comes from, and then a few songs that are really good but didn’t make my top 2.

Caveat #1. My definition of a Christian band. Most of the bands are not “Christian ” bands, i.e. that would be on the top 10 Christian sellers for the week or up for Dove awards. I don’t think any on the list are, maybe with the exception of Pillar. The MO for these bands is that most or all of the band members are Christians and their songs are about God and/or living the Christian life. There lyrics range from bold, in your face, calling you out Christian lyrics, and testimony ( Sleeping Giant) to very vague lyrics that you wouldn’t even know were about God unless you were a fan of the band (Underoath).

Caveat  #2:  Bone up on your internet lyric -finding skills because you’re going to need that with most of these bands.

Sleeping Giant

Every song  SG does is about God’s Kingdom, every one. They’re not vague about it either. Hard meter 8 on the hardest stuff but they have several chill-type praise tunes; O Praise Him, He Will Reign. If you want to get revived in your faith and like this kind of music, these guys are the ticket.

Whoremonger Scripture: Proverbs 7: 6-27  Best part/Line ” Hell  relinquish your hold on my Sons”  CD Dread Champions of the Last Days

Descending Into Hell Scripture: James 1:27  Best Line “You know what’s unbiblical? It’s Jesus sitting in some blackened room.” CD Sons of Thunder

Honorable Mention: King of Kings, The Streets Don’t Lie

Norma Jean

NJ’s CD’s have gradually got less hard with each successive one.Their absolute hardest, brutal, math core-esque was their 1st 2 cds which feature the top 2 most played songs on my ITunes account: Memphis Will be Laid to Waste, and Face: Face. Their CD Redeemer is still hard but the most blatantly Christian. Hard meter: 8

A Small Spark vs A Great Forest Scripture; James 3:1-12  Best Line : “Oh how we curse, tongue is a flame, let there be Grace”  CD Redeemer

The End of All Things Will be Televised Scripture: Revelation 21  Best Line: ” Out comes the Mercy, shutting down Hell”,” Captain, the ship is sinking, Have Mercy”. CD Redeemer

Honorable Mention:  Face Face, Memphis Will be Laid to Waste, Amnesty Please.

War of Ages

Wonderful band. So sincere. Check out front man Leroy Hamp’s testimony. Good,  Pennsylvania, power metal/christiancore with some serious guitar work and real praise of God. Very inspirational lyrics. Hardmeter 7

One Day Best Line: Chorus:  “God save Me”  CD: War of Ages

My Solitude Best line: ” my life is not in vain, proved by the stripes on his back” CD War of Ages

Honorable Mention: Guide for the Helpless, Stone by Stone

POD

There 1st 3-4  CD’s were their most in your face Christian: Snuff the Punk (my all time favorite cover art), Brown, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown,  and Satellite. All those are still frequent visitors in my CD player.

Hard meter 5.5

Run Scripture: Psalm 13 (word for word)   Best line “I will sing to You, my Lord, for You have been so good to me”  CD Snuff the Punk

Tribal Warriors Best Line “Holding the stars, is the man who carries my scars”. CD The Fundamental Elements of Southtown

Honorable Mention: Southtown, Outcast, Anything Right, Portrait

As I Lay Dying

Very hard but just as with just about all Christian heavy music, it has a goodness, a wholesomeness that non-Christian bands noticeably lack. You would think that would be true huh? You definitely need the lyric sheet with these guys and it makes it all the more awesome when you find out what they’re saying alongside such monster guitar riffs and frenetic drum runs. Hardmeter 9

Collision Best Line:” I want you to know, how much it means to have you in my life. I could never forget You. I will never be the same”. CD Frail Words Collapse

Distance is Darkness Best Line: How quickly I forget, that this is meaningless” CD Frail Words Collapse

Honorable Mention: 94 Hours, Through Struggle, Meaning in Tragedy

Life in Your Way

Jordans favorite band. They, even though scream-rock, have a very wholesome quality which exudes goodness and love ( see songs below) We’ve seen these guys live several times and have been very impressed with them off-stage. They have a holler-guy and a sing guy like a lot of hardcore bands these days. Hard meter 6.5

Salty  Grave Best Part: The Hymn, I Love You Lord halfway into the song. CD: Waking Giants

Threads of Sincerity Best Part: “Everywhere I go, everywhere my feet take me, Your compassion never fails me“ CD: Waking Giants

Honorable Mention: The Beauty of Grace, We Don’t Believe, Reach the End

Blindside

These guys went from really screaming, hardcore on their 1st CD: A Thought Crossed my Mind (HM 9) to a lot less harsh , commercial-friendly singing style on Silence (HM 5). After that, they’ve gone too commercial, and lamed out. Those 1st 2 CD’s are good though, especially Silence which is packed with great stuff. Hardmeter See above

Cute Boring  Love Song is About: Lust  CD Silence

Act Best Line ” Shift into a higher gear, place a brick on the gas. On what I left behind, I won’t shed a tear, My rear view mirror has got broken glass”. CD A Thought Crushed My Mind

Honorable Mention: Pitiful, Sleepwalking, Caught a Glimpse, King of the Closet

Underoath

These guys are probably the most commercially popular of anyone on my list, their CD’s going high up the Billboard charts, Grammy awards, and Gold records. My favorite cd is Define the Great Line which is really good, packed with killer songs. My next favorite is They’re Only Chasing Safety. Their earlier stuff is  Hardcore Screamo which I don’t really love. These guys headlined the Warped Tour when it was in Nashville a few years ago.They’re the real deal musically. Hardmeter 7

In Regards To Myself, Casting Such a Thin Shadow  CD: Define the Great Line

Honorable Mention: Returning Empty Handed, A Moment Suspended in Time,Young and Aspiring

Living Sacrifice

I bought this CD early in my Christian Rock evolution,unheard, on the recommendation of some 13 year old hardcore/Christian kid at one of Jordans soccer games when he was about 10. I got home with it, cranked it up, heard the Living Sacrifice version of the devo-song I am Not My Own and freaked out. It was about the most awesome thing I had ever heard! Praise to God in absolutely SLAMMING, breakdown, monster riff, stop-start beats, with absolutely no commercial ambitions, only to crank as hard as possible and to glorify God. Wow. Hardmeter 9

Not My Own Best Line ” Born again, born again, LIFE. Born again, born again, PEACE. Born again, born again, LOVE , I am not my own”. CD The Hammering Process

Reborn Empowered: Best Line:Reborn empowered,All strongholds broken,Old ways have died,Given new life.CD In Memoriam

Pax 217

This band is broken up now.Their music is a really good; So-Cal, optimistic, blend of rock,rap with a little reggae thrown in.Their name “Pax” is Latin for Peace, and 217 stands for Ephesians 2:17.They sound a lot like the old rap/rock band 311. I wish they hadn’t broken up. The song No place Like Home breaks my heart. Hardmeter 4

No Place Like Home. About: Divorce. Best Line: “Mom and Dad come back around” CD Twoseventeen

I’ll See You  CD Engage

Honorable Mention: Prizm, Engage, PSA, Move On This.

Oh Sleeper

One of Raleigh’s favorite bands.Wow.These guys are like listening to a hard rock representation of the book of Revelation.You’ll just have to check them out to see what I mean. Their music is a little too intense for over a couple of songs at a time for me personally.Their guitar-virtuoso rating is very high,with ex-Between the Buried an Me guitarist Shane Blay leading the way, shearing off monster riff lines. Raleigh has met these guys and says they appear to be the real deal, really friendly, accessible, humble, and God fearing. 

Vices Like Vipers  Best Line: (hard to decide) Like the Viper, I kept when You said “Let Go”.  “Take my lust, this world’s love. Great Counselor, take what’s left, Great Counselor, take what’s left…..of me.” CD When I am God

To Flagship  Best Line: “As the Sons of the first King, the Sons of Flagship” CD When I am God

Honorable Mention Son of the Morning,We are the Archers, Building the Nations

Pillar

Fireproof is my favorite with their preceding cd, Above, my next favorite which was pure rap/rock.Pillar is now more pure rock as in Where do We Go From Here, another good offering from start to finish. They’ve kind of went the commercial route and sold out since. Hardmeter 4

Fireproof Best Line ” I tried to tell you but you wouldn’t be quiet, I am FIREPROOF.”  CD Fireproof

Live for Him  Best Line ” We’re battle soldiers caught in spiritual warfare , fighting’ for the souls of the lost in this dark nightmare “. CD Above

Honorable Mention: You Should Know, Frontline, You Simply Loved

Sophia

A local band, now broken up, they are actually a few Belmont guys.This is very good stuff, especially for a local band. I saw them a couple of times. Their front man had a penchant for jumping off really high places during their performances. I always see their little bearded guitarist in the pit at local shows. Check out the history of their band name Sophia. Hardmeter 7

Suffocating the Magpie  Best Part: “I called you my Daughter, I called you my Mother, Forgive us, my sister, I am the curse“. CD My Morning; Migration

Prison Epistle Abridged Best Part: ” I am the poorest one if I give all I have to follow You Father” CD My Hands, My Greedy Hands

Honorable Mention: The Dove’s Solemn Hymn, Desertification

The Showdown

These guys are from Elizabethtown Tn. Their 1st CD A Chorus of Obliteration (HM 9) was really heavy but their 2nd Temptation Comes My Way (HM 6.5) is more Southern Heavy Rock, way, way more melodic with very little screaming. Great guitar work.

Head Down,  I Victim   CD Temptation Comes My Way

A Monument Encased in Ash This song is about the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah. Yes, awesome.

Haste the Day

This group has a good mix of screaming (almost a screech) and singing, and really good guitar driven, breakdown, hardcore rock. They are one of Raleigh’s favorites. He saw them, and As I Lay Dying at one show. Wow. Their name comes from the lyrics in the Hymn It is Well With my Soul. I read this: they asked a band member to leave the band because he no longer believed in Christ and they didn’t feel that worked with their purpose as a band. You wouldn’t think of that type commitment when you hear these guys because they are so hard but that’s  why we shouldn’t judge by appearances. ;0) Hardmeter 8.5

Walk On, When Everything Fails,  CD When Everything Fails

American Love  CD Burning Bridges

Honorable Mention Pressure the Hinges, Chorus of Angels

The Best of the Rest

August Burns Red

Bloodlined Calligraphy

Devil Wears Prada

Gwen Stacy

A Plea For Purging

I Am Terrified

Get Your Guns

Once Nothing

Demon Hunter

Project 86

El grupo de metalcore estadounidense As I Lay Dying estará presentándose en el José Cuervo Salón de la Ciudad de Méxic,o en una sola fecha. Este concierto viene a ser una oportunidad para los seguidores de este conjunto para poder verlos en vivo, pues sus presentaciones fuera de Estados Unidos vienen a ser escasas comparadas con las de otras agrupaciones, por lo que no puede uno dejar pasar esta oportunidad.

• 13 de diciembre de 2009 – Ciudad de México – José Cuervo Salón – 17:00 Hrs. – $250.00

Boletos disponibles en Ticketmaster.

As I Lay Dying surgiría en el 2000, inclinándose desde sus inicios al metalcore. Su estilo es directo y fuerte, lo que les ha valido una reputación como una de las bandas más fieles a este estilo musical.

Tim Lambesis, solistul formatiilor Austrian Death Machine si As I Lay Dying a emis urmatorul comunicat:

Habar n-am care a fost prima trupa ce a venit cu ideea de a-i aduce un omagiu lui Arnold, din ce stiu a fost Goretorture. Important este daca oamenii chiar se bucura de aceasta muzica. Nu am postat acest mesaj degeaba, recent am primit o scrisoare din partea unui fan. Va rog sa-mi spuneti ce as putea face.’

‘Traiesc in Nebraska la o ferma, unde avem foarte mult porumb. De aici a pornit dragostea mea pentru porumb apoi l-am gasit si in muzica, adica in Korn. Acum a aparut o noua trupa Schwarzenator, fondata de chitaristul Korn. Domnule Lambesis, Austrian Death Machine nu se compara cu Schwarzenator!

Muzica Schwarzenator este incredibila, umorul este subtil si din toate punctele de vedere, reprezinta o forta distructiva. Spre deosebire de Austrian Death Machine! Lambesis vei fi distrus!

Cine sunt Shwarzenator? Puteti vedea mai jos:

ეს ჯგუფი ერთხელ უკვე მოხვდა ჩემს ბლოგზე ერთი ვიდეო გამოვაქვეყნე მხოლოდ, ახალა კი ცოტაოდენ სიახლესაც მოვამატებ და ვიდეოებსაც. როგორც მოგეხსენებათ ჯგუფი ამერიკულია და უკრავენ Metalcore –ს, აქვთ სულ 4 ალბომი გამოშვებული, ბოლო კი 2007 წელს გამოვიდა, რომლიდანაც ერთ ერთ სიმღერაზე I Never Wanted გადაიღეს კლიპი რომელიც პირველივე იქნება ვიდეოების ჩამონათვალში შეგიძლიათ დატკბეთ. ხოლო მათი ვიდეომ “The Sound of Truth” გაიმარჯვა ნომინაციაში საუკეთესო ვიდეოკლიპი Hollywood Film Festival –ზე. 2009 წლის აპრილში გამოვიდა ჯგუფის DVD, რომელიც ორი დისკისგან შედგება სახელწოდებით This Is Who We Are. ჯგუფს სულ 9 ოფიციალური ვიდეო აქვთ და შევეცდები ყველა მოვათავსო აქ.

Mi papá está estrenando camioneta, camioneta nueva, estereo nuevo. Y estos nuevos discos me suenan todavia más fantásticos en él. Yeah.

01. “Estático” – Zurdok.
02. “Espiral” – Porter.
03. “Trouble” – Coldplay. (los BUENOS tiempos de Coldplay)
04. “Citizen Erased” – Muse. (los BUENOS tiempos de Muse)
05. “Store Bought Bones” – The Raconteurs.
06. “In the Castle” – Wolfmother. (han regresado, mas poderosos e inspirados que nunca)
07. “Eyes x 10″ – Fu Manchu. (lo mismo que Wolfmother)
08. “Black Egg” – Orange Goblin.
09. “Fossil Genera – A Feed From Cloud Mountain” – Between the Buried and Me. (impresionaaaaaaantes)
10. “Sunshine the Werewolf” – The Dillinger Escape Plan.
11. “Wrath Upon Ourselves” – As I Lay Dying.
12. “No Stars Over Bethlehem” – Protest the Hero.
13. “The Failure of All Things” – Horse The Band. (otro discazo de este año)
14. “Red Flags and Long Nights” – She Wants Revenge.
15. “All My Friends” – LCD Soundsystem.

… denn Morgen wird es von allein.

Heute war wieder eine meiner verhassten 4-Stunden-Nächte, diesmal so schlimm dass ich unter der Dusche As I Lay Dying¹ hören musste, um irgendwie wach zu werden. Anschließend frühstückte ich mit Musik von In Flames, Kaffee und der Zeitung. Überschrift auf der Titelseite: “Zu wenig Schlaf macht dick und dumm” – Na danke!

Auf der Autobahn war natürlich Stau, und ohne meine Kommolitonen hätte ich mir wahrscheinlich ein Bein abknabbern müssen, um die MuWi-Vorlesung wach zu überstehen.

Die Strecke von der HfM zur Uni haben wir natürlich nicht in den dafür eingeplanten 15 Minuten geschafft, sodass wir etwas zu spät zu Linguistics kamen. Aber doch noch rechtzeitig, um sich in die Anwesenheitsliste einzutragen – und ein Mid Exam zu schreiben. Ich hatte mir natürlich ausgerechnet die Lernmaterialien zum Thema des Tests nicht angeschaut, wär ja auch zu schön gewesen. Naja, muss ich halt gucken dass ich das zweite Mid Exam bestehe…

Und um diese Verkettung von Umständen nun vollends zur Tragödie werden zu lassen, habe ich gerade in Ungedanken, anstatt zwei Spam-Mails zu verschieben, meinen kompletten Posteingang unwiederbringlich gelöscht!

Das klingt jetzt schon nach einem erfüllten Disaster-Tag, aber es ist jetzt gerademal halb 3. Hoffentlich geht der Rest des Tages nicht genauso weiter!

¹eigentlich höre ich ja mittlerweile kaum noch solche Musik, aber es gibt Situationen, da gibt es keine Alternative…

Fascist art is the unwanted child of expressionism and stringent rule following, pressed and molded under the boot heel of totalitarian propaganda.  Break the grip of one or the other on the imagination of the artist, and we can, finally, get back to the business of creating humanist art.

Let me elaborate.  Expressionism is concerned with the primacy of emotional expression in the creation and consumption of art.  It is not concerned with description as much as metaphysical prescription of what is valuable, and what it is to value.  It is not hard to see that unmoored from some sense of reality and allegiance to it, expressionism can be pressed into any shape whatsoever.  Consider: What is Jackson Pollock’s entire oeuvre, if not a tip o’ the hat to just such a proposition?

We are still friends; humanists, all, even now.  But add on rule following, that will not break its own apparatus of practice and we have a subtly mixed but no less-volatile compound.  Rules cannot recuse the follower from his obligation to forsake such and such a rule due to some other lexically prior right or obligation.  The rule, “traffic allowing, turn right on a red light” does not prescribe how long one should follow this rule or where one should follow it.  It is only the dogmatic lover of right turns and red lights who would follow that rule to the end of the world, the end of his days.  This man is, of course, the artist for whom expression is the only worthwhile value, and as a consequence, expressionism is his aesthetic.

Here and there, some Augustus will establish a totalitarian regime that attaches its instruments on the coerced bodies, and suspicious minds of the chosen many.  If for some artist the only value is expression and expressionism and it can be molded to fit any need, and rules are followed though lives be lost, is it not possible that Augustus himself could set upon this artist all the riches of the land to do what, for him, is his own good?  “Set about painting the social beneficnce of war and complete drawings that speak to the communal benefits of relenting during protest; I will give you your audience.  They are the people; they are you.”   Those people, their eyes pried open, gorge on so  much declamatory art, celebrating in signs and screed so little that is kind and humane.

I’ve been pretty spoilt this year with so many awesome bands putting out new albums and 99% of them have been fucking epic.

Here are a few of the bands that I would like to put out an album.

The Warriors

As I Lay Dying

Parkway Drive

Bad Religion

Antagonist A.D.

My Dying Bride (inspiration from my favorite bands)

book by William Faulkner

annotation by Tina Rubin

In this brilliant 1930 novel, Faulkner tells the story of a rural Mississippi family on a mission to haul their mother’s body in its coffin to her native Jefferson, where she had requested burial. But Addie Bundren tells us, after her death, that this is her way of taking revenge on them. In a series of missteps told through multiple narrators in both present and past tenses, Faulkner reveals not only Addie’s revenge, but each character’s inner workings and the faceted ways they view each other.

Faulkner’s willingness to explore various techniques for this novel opened doors for me to the possible ways of structuring a story. His multiple narrators, for example, each given their own chapters, give the reader unusual insight into the characters pursuing this absurd journey. Through the voice and perception of each one, the use of repetition and irony, and a paucity of information that makes the reader work hard for understanding, Faulkner effects a stunning novel that blazed new trails for both writers and readers.

Placing the “Addie” chapter at almost exactly two-thirds through the novel was a brilliant strategy. Addie is the missing piece of the puzzle; her words clarify the other characters’ actions. Once we know Addie’s real feelings, we can see how she’s taking revenge on her family by having them make this journey. Yet Faulkner then gives us an ironic ending: the revenge is only effected upon Darl, a sympathetic character who is taken away to an insane asylum. Darl seems the most together of the whole clan and the most like his mother, intelligent and philosophical. Anse Bundren, the father, whose behavior has been amoral (taking his children’s money and his son’s hard-earned horse), gets exactly what he wants in the end—false teeth and a new wife—even before Addie’s grave is a day old. Which is sort of how things are in life, the creeps often win. We don’t want our endings to be too tidy.

Jewel, Addie’s illegitimate son who dearly loved her, was treated with irony too, but in a different way than Darl: via character rather than plot. Jewel’s eyes were frequently described as wooden, his body wooden-backed, and he said little—but his actions exhibited the most passion of all the siblings. (And his name was a perfect choice: hard, rigid, but filled with splendor.) I’m rethinking my treatment of my characters with irony in mind—but then that’s what makes literature literature.

Repetition, which Faulkner uses masterfully, is a technique I’ve been taking careful note of in my readings. When done well, it makes the point and acts as an emotional tag to remind the reader of an earlier passage or moment in time. It was most often used by other characters in regard to Jewel. The neighbor Vernon Tull also repeats his razor-edge perception of Anse: “It’s like a man that’s let everything slide all his life to get set on something that will make the most trouble for everybody he knows.” (89)

Faulkner’s use of language is inspirational too. Many passages struck me, such as in the very beginning when Darl describes Jewel’s encounter with his horse (“enclosed by a glittering maze of hooves as by an illusion of wings”). His descriptions of the flooded river, which kills the mules and nearly kills Cash, and of the fire Darl sets to the barn containing the coffin, were riveting and well paced.

It seems absurd to criticize Faulkner, but as others have noted, I thought many passages were obscure and would not have survived a writing workshop. Take this passage spoken by the youngest brother, Vardaman, for example: “Pa said flour and sugar and coffee costs so much. Because I am a country boy because boys in town. Bicycles.” (66) (What??) That said, however, I thoroughly applaud Faulkner for taking the risks that enabled us to learn from him.

So here we are, preparing for Halloween in a little under a week, and more then 3/4 of the way through the year. So far 2009 has seen the release of some great albums, everything from Eyes Set to Kill’s The Outside World, to Killswitch Engage’s second self titled album, and The Agonist’s sophmore effort Lullabies for the Dormant Mind. That’s not all though, dozens of other great albums have been released this year, so what’s left? Well I have part of an answer to that question and it is, TONS! There is still plenty of more to come from the music industry in the coming months, most to be out before the end of the year.

First up is Atreyu. Atreyu has been in the studio since mid/late-summer working on their next album, Congregation of the Damned. Since mid September Atreyu has released three seperate singles for this album; Storm to Pass, Stop, Before It’s Too Late and We’ve Destroyed it All, and most recently Gallows. From the songs released Atreyu’s new album is shaping up to be a good one.  Gallows, Atreyu’s latest single release, is only available through an online video game, Call of Duty: Metalhead Zombies. That’s right, you actually have to play a zombie shooter to get to hear Gallows. Here’s the link if any of you are interested. http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/music/article/crave-exclusive-atreyu-launches-metalhead-zombies-game-88451
The current release date for Congregation of the Damned is October 27th, though in a recent blog Atreyu said the album will be available the 26th at select locations.

Another iminent release is Memento Mori, Flyleaf’s sophmore effort. Flyleaf’s second album has been up in the air for sometime now, at one point it was pressed the album was to be released back in Febuary. Since then the album has again picked up. The only single to be released from Texas’s hard rock band is Again. That’s not all from the album though, Flyleaf has gone and actually released fifteen-sixteen second snipets of two other songs from Memnto Mori. For the time being it seems Flyleaf has stuck with there more upbeat hard rock sound, but that’s not for sure yet. We’ll just have to wait and see what Memento Mori brings from Flyleaf. Currently the album is set to drop November 10th.

Perhaps surprisingly the next band on my list is My Chemical Romance. That’s right, after three years My Chemical Romance is finally releasing a new album. Don’t expect it to be the traditional emo-punk soud though. In several interviews Gerard Way has actually said they are moving away from their old sound and actually going for a rock n’ roll effect.  They are attempting to make this new album a “Love letter to Rock and Roll.” The last release from My Chemical Romance actually comes from The Watchman Soundtrack, on which they did a cover of Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row. Otherwise currently the only releases from My Chemical Romance are live videos of three select songs from their new album. It was almost surprising to see My Chemical Romance come on stage wearing leather jackets and Gerard carrying a tamborine, that’s right a tamborine. It seems My Chemical Romance is serious about paying tribute to American rock and Roll. Currently there is no release date for the new album, but it’s said to be coming out before the end of the year.

There’s many other whisperings and rumors of new albums coming out. Bullet for My Valentine has been in the studio for several months now, releasing little notes here and there saying “Third Album Coming Soon,” but nothing more. For sure there will be a new Bullet for My Valentine album out soon, but not enough info has been released yet as to when. Also, recently As I Lay Dying has posted a blog that says they’re preparing to lock up in a studio and begin writing their next album, their hoping to have it out late this year or early 2010, but nothing more yet. Also this week Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth has posted a blog saying that the band is coming together to begin work on their next album, once more nothing more there.  There is even inklings that Evanescence is to come out with a new album. On their offical sight Amy Lee has posted an update saying she’s not allowed to say anything, but does say that she and the band have been workin’ together on music and that they’ve been meeting with a good friend of theirs who ‘just happens’ to be a producer.

Well that’s all for today.

Keepin’ you up-to-date,
Syks

Have you heard of Tim Lambesis’ latest project? His parody and tribute to actor and current governor of Ca. Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Austrian Death Machine is Lambesis’ American Trash Metal project bassed out of San Diego, Ca. and seems to be making more commotion then ArnoCorps was able to.

In July 2008 Austrian Death Machine released their first album Total Brutal on Metal Blade Records which turned out to be a smash hit. Making each song as “brutal” as possible as Ahhnold states on track 4 of Total Brutal, “You think the songs all sound the same? Of course they sound the same! Because they all sound BRUTAL!”

Austrian Death Machine is everything that you should hear from a heavy metal band, but not one to be over looked and dismissed. There sound is violent and fun; placing a guitar solo in every song, lyrics to sing along with, a fast pace tempo to you can circle pit o and an obvious build up to the breakdown for you to mosh to.

Their lyrics? Their lyrics are just fun, a fun poke at Hollywood screen writers who came up with the ideas for the greats such as Kindergarten Cop and The Terminator.  Each song is based on a different one of the governator’s flicks. There is nothing pretty about them, just fast, pissed, brutal, funny and juvenile lyrics on every track. Take a listen to Total Brutal, and when you are done you will be quoting their hilarious lines later with friends.

Tracks on Total Brutal include “It Is Not A Tumor,” “If It Bleeds We Can Kill It” and “Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers,” sensing some of Schwarzenegger’s movies?

A few months after the release of Total Brutal, Austrian Death Machine got into the holiday spirit with a Christmas themed album called A Very Brutal Christmas.

Then after some touring with As I Lay Dying, Lambesis put all of his ideas for a fallow up of Total Brutal to action in a double disk effort, Double Brutal. Double Brutal’s first disk would be all original Austrian Death Machine songs and disk two would contain a brutal complement of cover songs such as, Iron Fist by Motorhead and Trapped Under Ice by Matalica. The pre-sale of Double Brutal on the Austrian Death Machine site gave the first 100 orders a free set of three limited edition Austrian Death Machine guitar picks, Double Brutal was released in stores and online on Sep. 29, 2009.

Austrian Death Machine is a team effort of Lambesis, lead vocals, guitar, bass and drums, and Chad Ackerman, also known as Ahhnold, Schwarzenegger vocals, and a couple of their close musical friends such as; Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage, Nick Hipa of As I Lay Dying, Andrew Tapley of The Human Abstract and Buz McGrath of Unearth.

A simple brutal side project has come to amount to a great success with a strong fallowing. If you have yet to check Austrian Death Machine out, find yourself a copy of Total Brutal or Double Brutal today.

Every year the American Library Association hosts the Banned Books Week. This took place last week, and while books can no longer be banned, there are still challenges to this decision. So for today, I thought I would go through my bookshelf and make note of all the “banned” books I own.

There are of course, many more. And you can visit their website if you want to know more about banned books.

Do you have any on your bookshelf?

You should have seen this coming. I like metal, I like comedy, and I like comedy metal. Eventually, I was going to talk about Austrian Death Machine, the side project of Tim Lambesis (As I Lay Dying).

It’s an Arnold Schwarzenegger-themed metal band. Yup, you read that right. In July of 2008, the band released its debut album, Total Brutal. Here’s the fantastic video for “Get To The Choppa”, from that album:

They also played a few shows. Not many, mind you, but a few. I wish they’d do more, ’cause… well, rocking out to “Who Is Your Daddy And What Does He Do?” just looks plain awesome to me.

Anyway, they put out a new album last week, entitled Double Brutal. Yes, that’s the cover art at the top of this post. It is damn awesome. This album is two discs and the second of which is full of cover songs, including their amazing take on Agnostic Front’s “Gotta Go”. Check it out, immediately.

Október 17-én stúdióba vonult az amerikai As I Lay Dying legénysége, hogy nekiálljanak ötödik lemezük munkálatainak. Az egyenlőre cím nélküli anyagra még legalább fél évet várni kell de a zenekar szerint egész jól halad a dalírás folyamata, hiszen 6-7 nótával már kész is vannak. A tagok úgy érzik, mivel ezúttal sokkal több időt adnak maguknak a dalírásra, így a végeredmény is sokkal ütősebbre sikerül majd mint korábban.

En este episodio sobre pasamos unos cuantos temas nuevos, con alguno que otro viejo. Podéis escuchar a música de los siguientes:

Megadeth
Austrian Death Machine
Come With The Fall
Alice In Chains
Jerry Cantrell
Ace Frehley
Living Colour
Rammstein
Evile
Halford

También se habla sobre los siguientes temas:

End Game, The Big Four, Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Death Magnetic, Tim Lambesis, As I Lay Dying, Andrew Tapley, The Human Abstract, Arnold Schwarzenegger, William Duvall, Ozzy Osbourne, Mike Inez, Mike Starr, Ray Gillen, Sun Red Sun, Mark Strigl, Bionic Strigl Radio, Sunset Strip Music Festival, SSMF, Korn, Viper Room, Johnny Depp, River Phoenix, Slash, George Lopez, Bark At The Moon, Jake E. Lee, Anthony Esposito, Derek Hawkins, Scot Coogan, Otep, Brides Of Destruction, Tracii Guns, Niki Sixx, Anomaly, Alive, The Doors, Billy Morrison, The Cult, Guns N Roses, Matt Sorum, Dave Navarro, Camp Freddy, Key Club, Whiskey A Go Go, The Roxy, Gus G, ES-355, Living Colour, Chair IN The Doorway, Infected Nation, Retro Thrash, Hard Rock, Metal, Kobetasonik, Sylosis, Municipal Waste, Halford III, A Loud, Guldin, Hell’s Fire, Big Mario, ZMan, Shannon Hamm, Song For Chi, Fieldy, Munkey, Even Seinfeld, Tera Patrick, Hatebreed

El podcast se puede descargar en formato que prefiere desde aquí:

O escucha online aquí:

Tim Lambesis (vokalist i As I Lay Dying) har gitt ut en update på vegne av As I Lay Dying.

De har skrevet en del i det siste og er ferdig med 6-7 sanger. Og de har bestemt seg for å starte innspillingen av det neste As I Lay Dying albummet 17 Oktober.

Da skal de spille inn så mange sanger som mulig og han regner med albummet blir gjort ferdig nærmere nyttår.

Han håper dette vil være en god måte å utvide låtskrivingen til bandet på, siden de tidligere albummene er spilt inn på veldig kort tid.

Danh sách áo rock mới về ngày 30-9-2009 bao gồm:

• As I lay dying
• Avril Lavigne
• Black Sabbath
• Cannibal Corpse
• Children of Bodom
• Cradle of Filth
• Dark Funeral
• Death
• Deep Purple
• DIMMU BORGIR
• Dream Theater
• Evanescence
• Good Charlotte
• Guns & Roses
• Helloween
• Killswitch Engage
• Kiss
• Led Zepplin
• Linkin Park
• Metallica
• Pantera
• Queen
• Sepultura
• Six Feet Under
• Slipknot
• Tokyo Hotel
• Trivium
• WithinTemtation

và  đặc biệt là Che Guevara

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..and Justice for all

Opeth

Kamelot

Six Feet Under

Pantera

Okay since I am going in about Myanmar Metal scene and all that stuff, I think I should list up some metal genres and bands I listen to.

I like Melodeath, Thrash, Power, Death, Black, Progressive, Speed, Symphonic, Gothic, Traditional Heavy, and even Metalcore… well almost all metal genres. And I am big fan of Children of Bodom, Judas Priest and Metallica. I also like Iced Earth, Dimmu Borgir, Behemoth, Iron Maiden, Kamelot, Vanishing Point, DragonForce, Cannibal Corpse, Apocalyptica, Black Sabbath, Dream Theater, Opeth, Kreator, Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Nightwish, Exodus, Megadeth, Slayer, and so on. As for -core, As I Lay Dying, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and I Killed the Prom Queen. Okay enough for the list. Let’s get to the point.

Metal scene in Myanmar…

To say the truth, whenever I think of it, it makes me frown.

Well, I’ll say an example. There are ten metal fans from Myanmar. Among those ten, five have only listened to nu-metal and -core bands and have never heard of bands like Iron Maiden. (You can refer to those “metal fans” as “so-called”s if you want).

If you meet someone in Myanmar who claims to like metal, ask him what he listens to. Most likely, he will begin talks about Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Slipknot and/or Marilyn Manson. I’ve met some dudes who say,”Slipknot is Death Metal, so heavy!!!” and I was like “WTF was that!???”. When I show them Iron Maiden, they gave me something like “Is this even metal?”. There are also some people who say,”Metallica ain’t good. They ain’t heavy. blah blah blah”. If they want to listen to all that screaming, go listen to screamo.

Also, they are some people who’ve only listened to Slipknot and Marilyn Manson and think they’ve listened to true metal. And they blabber stuff like,”Metal is just screaming out and they don’t need to care about lyrics, blah blah blah.” Imagine how much I got pissed off. Metal is one of the music genres which has various and really lyrical themes. The themes range from Religion, Mythology, Philosophy, Politics to Society, Personal Struggles, Suffering and Love. There are also loads of concept albums (e.g-Kamelot’s Epica, Black Halo, Iced Earth’s Something Wicked Saga).

And another thing, metal isn’t all about being heavy. Try listening to bands like Vanishing Point, Kamelot, Nightwish, etc. Also, there are ballads like The Unforgiven, The Unforgiven II, etc by Metallica and A Tout Le Monde by Megadeth. What I want to say is,”Don’t blabber if you really haven’t listened to metal.”

One more thing, metal fanbase here still isn’t really big and mostly those “metalheads” listen to nu and -core. I used to like nu-metal. But I stopped listening to it, once I got in touch with Melodeath, Thrash, Power, Death, etc. Try it out. Compare nu to other metal genres. There, you will see the difference.

As for Metalcore, I still listen to it. I enjoy listening to bands like As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, I Killed the Prom Queen, etc. I used to be a big fan of Bullet For My Valentine. Even now, I listen to some of their songs. What I want to say here is just because they’ve listened to those -core bands, they act like they’ve listened to true metal. Some don’t even know AILD or KSE.

This shouldn’t happen.

To all those “so-called” “metalheads” in Myanmar, if you really like metal, explore! Go in depths! Don’t just stop with nu or -core. The bad thing here is, you can’t buy much metal CDs. About half of the albums I have were downloaded.

The underground metal bands here mostly play metalcore. Well, I like All Else I Fail and Last Day of Beethoven for metalcore. For other metal genres, I’d list Yakkhadeva, Architect of Misery and Book of Death. I also wish I could see more underground metal bands that create other metal genres than metalcore.

I guess, Metal scene in Myanmar will take some time to become like Hip Hop or Punk scenes which are currently growing rapidly.

But anyway,

Horns up!

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