If July wasn’t enough, there’s more. Local promoters and bringing the metal to you like never before. I remember a time when getting one or two good shows a month was a good month, but now its at least 2 great touring acts a week (it seems) and some weeks more (yeah, like 4 or 5 like last week). Well there’s more. Quite a few HUGE names in metal coming to town. Click through for all the info…

Note the very important and awesome (ALL AGES) tag on ALL of these shows.

First: August 8, Remmington’s Downtown
FM Productions and Downtownlivemusic.com present Hatebreed, Chimaira, Winds of Plague, Dying Fetus, and Toxic Holocaust at Remmington’s Downtown. (ALL AGES)

Second: August 10, Billiards Blue Room
Vance Productions gives us All Shall Perish at Billiard’s Blue Room with Murlesque, I Don’t Want to Die In Texas, and Screwtape Letters. (ALL AGES) Only 10 bones.

Third: September 5, Remminton’s Downtown
Forever Endeavor Productions brings in Emmure, Stick To Your Guns, Evergreen Terrace, For Today and Oceano to Remmington’s Downtown. (ALL AGES)

Fourth: October 2, Remmington’s Downtown
Forever Endeavor Productions is bringing Parkway Drive back with A Day To Remember, In Fear And Faith, and I See Stars for only $19!!! (ALL AGES)

Be sure to get out there and support the bands on tour, the venues and the promoters! Spread word!

1. Deathcore
I am still befuddled as to why most bands labelling themselves as ‘deathcore’ think it is both creative and clever to write music that consists solely of 200BPM blastbeats commonly followed by either a 40BPM open chord chugga-chugga breakdown or an excessive sweep-picking interlude (possibly broken up by a few pinch harmonics). Yes, we know that your guitarist can shred and that your drummer can gravity blast at obscene tempos but this doesn’t mean you can write a song. Being dynamic does not just mean throwing a breakdown between blastbeats, so go buy yourselves a copy of ‘Calculating Infinity’ and learn how to write some proper technical tunes.
Bands to avoid: Whitechapel, Winds of Plague, Suicide Silence

2. Avenged Sevenfold
If there is a worse looking and sounding band than Avenged Sevenfold in music today I have yet to discover them (the closest I have come so far is Atreyu). Looking like Motley Crue in this day and age is not cool, neither is sounding like Linkin Park mating with Van Halen and having ridiculous stage names like ‘Sinister Gates’ has never been (nor will ever be) cool. In fact if Avenged Sevenfold were to suddenly begin dressing like GWAR and play only Nickleback covers my opinion of them would increase a thousandfold.
Bands to avoid: Avenged Sevenfold (duh)

3. Screamo/Electronica
Admittedly I can’t claim to despise all the bands currently flying this particular genre amalgamation flag on their respective Myspace pages but when it comes to eclectically mixed genres like this the electronica component is simply not an excuse for crap screamo and boring breakdowns. Screamo/electronica is like pancakes and bacon; sometimes the bacon is nice and crispy and the pancakes nice and fluffy (hello Enter Shikari) and othertimes the bacon is flaccid and flavourless and the pancakes are soggy and taste like balls (hello Horse The Band). Unfortunately this genre is overrun by pancakes that taste like balls and thus I am forced to include it on this list.
Bands to avoid: Horse The Band, skyeatsairplane

4. Excessively slow breakdowns
The same kind of kids that get excited about sludgy snails pace breakdowns are the same kind of kids that go to shows to get ‘br00tal’ in their Bring Me The Horizon t-shirts, get Hungry Jacks after and stick Coke cans in their stretcher holes until their mothers come and pick them up at 10:30. Not that I have a huge problem with these kids, but they will eventually get the idea into their heads to begin compiling lists of their ‘totes fav most brootal deathcore breakdowns eva!’ and begin posting these compilations on YouTube (accompanied by extremely amateur Powerpoint presentations featuring photos of circle pits), sparking comment from all their Myspace friends who are ordered to watch these pieces of art via spam bulletins with deceptive, hype-inducing headlines (eg. ‘OLI SYKES is totes GAY!). These comments will then lead to a kid with the word ‘RAWWWWRRR’ in their username getting ‘paid out’ by another kid with the word ‘BBLAAARRRGGGG’ in their username because they don’t know who The Faceless are and Mr RAWWWWRRR will quite publicly (again via Myspace bulletin) announce that he has begun cutting himself regularly and will eventually off himself entirely. And this is not on.
Bands to avoid: With Blood Comes Cleansing, Annotations Of An Autopsy, As Blood Runs Black

5. Gangsta fashion sense
Whilst I’m not a huge fan of cliche’ hardcore fashion (black Macbeths, black cut-offs, Comeback Kid t-shirt, fluoro coloured cap with the brim turned up) I am much less a fan of the gangsta dress style that has emerged from the current ’straight-up’ hardcore scene. It seems to me that as soon as you put on a baggy white shirt, flat brim Afends cap and get an X tattooed somewhere on your body you automatically begin thinking that everyone is talking smack about you (and your hood) and that your ‘Straight Edge Pride’ needs to be defended at every possible occasion (insert instance of four dudes with beards in said white shirts beating the crap out of one 16 year old kid in a Cradle Of Filth shirt because he was drinking a UDL outside a gig).
Bands to avoid: Deez Nutz, Bury Your Dead, Stick To Your Guns, Comeback Kid

6. Feedback as ‘art’
As with excessively slow breakdowns, music masked by fierce bursts of feedback is a fairly poor excuse for songwriting and is NOT art. I don’t care how many pseudo-Christian poems, images of Gothic statues or artfully-blurred live photos you put in your lyric booklet I won’t change my mind. References to the fact that you are ‘making music for the sake of music and you just want to make music for people like you and not be famous’ won’t change my mind either. If you want to make music for the sake of music keep it in your backyard shed so your Mum can tell you to shut up at 7pm every night and you can go sulk in your room and reassure yourself that you are a very misunderstood artist.
Bands to avoid: The Chariot

7. Songs that begin with a breakdown
A hardcore song starting with a breakdown is the equivalent of a gangster rap song starting with a ruff-riding beat constructed of gunshot samples. A hardcore song starting with a breakdown is like a U2 concert starting with Bono giving a speech about starving African children. A hardcore song starting with a breakdown is like a 70’s horror movie starting with a teenage couple having sex and then being killed by a masked madman when one of them goes outside to investigate a noise. For a genre that is supposed to be all about passion you would think that artists would care enough about their songs to at least try and write a vaguely original start to a song.
Bands to avoid: Johnny Truant, August Burns Red, Unearth

8. Pig squeals
Who the hell decided that it would be a good idea to substitute already hard to distinguish lyrics in death metal songs for actual animal noises? Will we soon be hearing other barnyard noises in place of actual singing (or growling, whichever way you look at it)? If you’re going to pig squeal instead of write lyrics why not get an actual pig to perform vocals for your band instead of you? These are the questions that perpetually plague me when I hear bands like Job For A Cowboy so if someone could pass these on to them that’d be really great.
Bands to avoid: Job For A Cowboy, All Shall Perish, Cannibal Corpse

9. Songs with ridiculously inane names
When I first listened to ‘Plagues’ by DWP, I was honestly expecting the first track to contain lyrics describing the adventures of some ‘Goats on A Boat’. I was quite disappointed when I found the song to be some rambling crap about ’searching for security in tragedy’ but I had hope for the rest of the album. Sadly I was just as disappointed with the rest of the songs as I was with the opening track. To collate my disappointments; I did not find out why I shouldn’t forget Number Three; pondered exactly why HTML Rulez Dood; wondered who this John was and why I had forgotten his name; got obnoxious when I was told not to Dink and Drance; attempted to spell Crap Without a C (and failed miserably); was confused about what This Song Is Called; felt weird meeting Reptar King Of The Ozone; submitted to the Scorpion Deathlock and discovered That Nickels Is (actually) Money Too and wondered why a user of Australian currency would ever give a crap.
Bands to avoid: The Devil Wears Prada, A Day To Remember

10. Band merch with maritime artwork
Whilst pirates are the rockstars of the ocean (and land) it doesn’t mean your cool because you include them in your t-shirt designs. You are not a pirate by association. At least Bring Me The Horizon have a piratey name and vaguely piratey songs (‘I Used To Make Out With Medusa’) but bands like As I Lay Dying have no excuse for trying to cash in on pirate coolness. Maybe if you were called As I Lay Drowning (In Davey Jones’ Locker) I might not have a problem with you putting an anchor and/or a shark on all of your shirts. There are so many different things you could possibly have on a metal shirt that haven’t been done yet (ie. I have yet to see a Telletubbie with a chainsaw) and would be ‘totz brOOtal’ (the Telletubbie again) that bands should really start using their thinking hats and putting some creative stuff on their t-shirts. I mean, deathmetal is pretty much a joke anyways and Cannibal Corpse can get away with actually calling an album ‘Kill’ so why can’t All Shall Perish put a friggin’ Telletubbie with a chainsaw on one of their t-shirts?
Bands to avoid: As I Lay Dying, Parkway Drive, Bring Me The Horizon (etc etc etc)

I’m nothing more than your average 23 year old trying to get my life going. I currently work for a UPS Store in Washington State. It isn’t bad, the pay and hours are the only things that suck. I have my high school diploma. I’m debating on enlisting in either Coast Guard, Air Force, or Navy. I also have thought about being a reservist in those services. I have an interest in being a police officer, fire fighter, and something in the medical field.

I have made mistakes in life, who hasn’t. I don’t look back on those ‘mistakes’ and regret anything. You’re here in life to learn and experience different things and some of those things could be bad for you, people around you, that is how life is. I don’t do any drugs, I did experiment in my youth, who hasn’t? I drink socially, but I don’t mind getting totally trashed and enjoying myself.

I’m single at the moment, by choice mostly. I only seem to be attracted to Asians and Asian Islanders. Whites, blacks, Indians, and Spanish aren’t attracting to me. However, I wouldn’t turn any of those races down if her and I had common interests.

As far as music goes, I’ve been into some many different styles. When I was very young, I only listened to Guns ‘N Roses. As I grew up, I got into other forms of rock and eventually I changed my whole interest all together and got into rap/hip-hop. It was mostly that crap they play on the radio. I discovered underground hip-hop/rap by accident from Myspace when I was 17. At that time, I was listening to metal/hardcore and hip-hop/rap. It was pretty funny driving with me as I’d have bands like Lamb of God, Throwdown, MadBall, and As I Lay Dying along with Wu-Tang, MF DOOM, Blue Scholars, and Fort Minor on one CD. Now-a-days you can catch me listening to Deez Nuts, Lamb Of God, Stick To Your Guns, Son of Ran, Blue Scholars, Grips & Tonic, and Atmosphere.

I’m into Hondas. I drive a 94 Civic hatchback in frost white. It has work done to it, nothing special. Don’t think I’m like all those other kids with Hondas that slap a fart can on their stock exhaust piping and think I’m extremely fast and race on public roads. I use to be like that for the first month I had that car. But, I learned by reading from forums like Honda-Tech.com and Clubcivic.com that, with money, patience, and knowledge, you can make your econo, grocery getter into a very clean, fast, and reliable car. At the moment, my car is where I’d like to be besides some dings and a dent. Suspension is how I want it, motor on the other hand is my next step. I still won’t be the fastest, but I don’t care about going fast. How will anyone appreciate the work you’ve done when you’re blazing passed them? Much respect to those who do spend all their time and money into being clean and fast.

What you’ll be reading on this blog amongst millions of other blogs is my personal views on current events, past events, new products, and all other things. My style is aggressive and no-holds-barred. I don’t care if I offend people, if you get offended over what someone writes on the internet then you’re weak.

Genre: Hardcore / Metalcore
Country: USA
Website: Myspace

Tracklist:
15. Such An Outrage (Bonus Track)
16. Laugh Right Back (Bonus Track)

Thank God, they don’t have rulers in their hands.

That would be against our policy on torture.

Genre: Hardcore / Metalcore
Country: USA
Website: Myspace

Tracklist:
1. We’re What Seperates The Heart From The Heartless 2:36
2. Impact 3:22
3. Part of Me 2:31
4. Enough is Enough 3:58
5. Accessory Children 3:05
6. Interlude 2:16
7. Tonights Entertainment 2:37
8. We Must Look Like Ants From Up There 1:59
9. Driving Force 2:38
10. Looking For The Surface 2:28

Longest title EVER!…but it had to be said. Great f***ing work Forever Endeavor! Mad props for all the shows you’ve got coming up in the near future. Check out the full schedule after the jump…

Hit up Forever Endeavor on Myspace. In the meantime, check out this schedule of shows. HELL YES.

Flyers:

No I’m not talking about the metalcore band from Orange County, California. I’m talking about the idiom.

How old is the phrase?

Most people predict that the phrase was coined 300 years or so ago.

What does it actually mean?

It’s basically a term that comes into play when someone makes an effort to hold onto ones beliefs or position, often a position which may come under some criticism or persecution, or maybe a difficult outcome.

Where did it come from?

It most likely came from a soldier’s responsibility to stay at his post, or gun, and not run no matter how difficult the fighting became.

Why are you telling me this?

No it’s not just because I wanted to show you a picture of a squirrel with a gun, even though it is priceless.

I wanted to tell you what happened to me on the 102 bus on Friday. This is a bus I take four or five times a week, as it is the easiest way for me to get back down to my original abode. The journey is usually stress and incident free. But not this time.

The 102 looks just like that but not as eco-friendly.

We were cruising along fine until the bus’ brakes screeched and then it stopped, and then all the lights went off. We weren’t at a bus stop and we weren’t at traffic lights.

I always have my headphones in when I’m on public transport, thus I often am the last to find out about what’s going on. I looked around and saw the entire top deck of my bus in an utter state of confusion. People were shouting, getting up, running around it was quite a commotion. By now I decided to take my in-ear “can’t-hear-a-thing” headphones out.

There had been no announcement and no official instructions on what the passengers should do. But sure enough people began to get off the bus. By the time people saw another 102 bus behind us, there was a stampede to the door.

The bus was still stationary and by now it was just me and this short Irish bloke left. He asked me whether he thought we should get off. I said that I would ask the driver.

The driver was a clearly irritated Jamaican, who was by now shouting all sorts of expletives and trying to figure out why his bus had suddenly ground to a halt.

“Should we get off?” I asked politely and quietly.

“Ah doont nooo whas goin on doo ai? Steey on de bus muun!” He reassured me.

“So, I should stay on the bus?”

“Steey on de bus! Yoo ‘erd meh!”

I’m very good at doing what I’m told and instead of following the crowd, I stuck to my guns. I went back upstairs to tell the sweet paddy what the plan of action was, but before I could open my mouth he barged passed me and jumped onto the other 102 bus which had just driven by.

I began to think that perhaps my adhesivity to these fire-arms was not such a good idea. (Did I get away with that sentence?)

I was basically on a giant Taxi. I had the entire bus to myself! The only slight issue was that it wasn’t moving.

A few minutes passed by and I hesitantly got up and decided that this wasn’t a wise decision and that it was time to get off this broken down tin can.

“I should get off shouldn’t I? The bus is broken down.”

My frustrated chauffeur was still pulling all sorts of levers and pressing different red and yellow buttons in a desperate attempt to revive this dead bus.

“Steey on de bus! S’ookeey!”

VRRRUM! The engine roars into power. We were on our way. Of course, every bus stop we passed was empty, because the other 102 had picked all those passengers up 5 minutes earlier. Before long we overtook the other 102, and made it home before all those deserters.

I stuck to my guns. I succeeded. Woo!

We were warned when Forever Endeavor Productions’ Parkway Drive show was initially announced that the last slot on the lineup may not get to go to a local act. Sadly, that fear came true. Booking agents gave the spot to Fayetteville hardcore metal act The Handshake Murders, officially closing the door on putting a Springfield band in front of a potentially huge and fanatical crowd.

Okay, enough bellyaching. It’s silver lining time: THM round out a four-band lineup arguably as good as the Unearth/Emmure/Born of Osiris/Impending Doom show at Remmington’s Downtown a few weeks ago. To recap, The Handshake Murders will open for My Children My Bride and Stick To Your Guns with Parkway Drive as the headliner. Maybe local metal players won’t get to be onstage, but they have even more reasons to be in the crowd.

Even we’re a little taken aback by this one. Getting My Children My Bride back for a follow-up show two months after playing Springfield February 24 is pretty cool, but done before–Forever Endeavor scored similar back-to-back shows last year with Murder By Death, for example–but Stick To Your Guns? And Parkway Drive?! Parkway Drive!!! We even break out the rarely used multiple-exclamation point for this. We weren’t in attendace the last time PD came to Springfield, but we’ve heard things… amazing things. This has all the potential of being the hard-rock must-see of 2009. We’ve got a whole lot more about it after the break.

Here’s the full breakdown, courtesy of Dan Magnum at Forever Endeavor Productions:

PARKWAY DRIVE
STICK TO YOUR GUNS
MY CHILDREN MY BRIDE
LOCAL BAND TBA
APRIL 17
OUTLAND BALLROOM
DOORS @ 5:30
TICKETS $14 DAY OF SHOW
ALL AGES

Five-thirty, DeRosh? Are you kidding?! That’s, like, a happy-hour show! Yes, perhaps so, but there’s a reason: The Ballroom is double-booked that night, and Remmington’s Downtown is devoted to Jah Roots’s 420 Fest. Since this is an all-ages show, it would have an earlier start time anyway, so it was bumped up a bit to accommodate both concerts coming in the room that night.

In case you need more motivation to leap out of your chair with glee, here’s a little vid to fire you up. Peep the crowd in this one:

Only three months to wait…

Genre: Hardcore / Metalcore
Country: USA
Website: http://www.myspace.com/styg

Tracklist:
1. For what its worth
2. Poor mans poor sport
3. Colorblind
4. Compassion without compromise
5. For the kids, by the kids
6. A bage a brand
7. This is more
8. Fire with fire
9. Our demise
10. All time low
11. Fashion or fascist
12. There is no i in team
13. Industry of infamy
14. This is where my heart lies

(1984) Bon Jovi

1) Runaway
2) Roulette
3) She Don’t Know Me
4) Shot Through The Heart
5) Love Lies
6) Breakout
7) Burning For Love
8 ) Come Back
9) Get Ready

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(1985) 7800° Fahrenheit

1) In And Out Of Love
2) The Price Of Love
3) Only Lonely
4) King Of The Mountain
5) Silent Night
6) Tokyo Road
7) The Hardest Part Is The Night
8 ) Always Run To You
9) (i Don’t Wanna Fall) To The Fire
10) Secret Dreams

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(1986) Slippery When Wet

1) Let It Rock
2) You Give Love A Bad Name
3) Livin’ On A Prayer
4) Social Disease
5) Wanted Dead Or Alive
6) Raise Your Hands
7) Without Love
8 ) I’d Die For You
9) Never Say Goodbye
10) Wild In The Streets

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(1988) New Jers

1) Lay Your Hands On Me
2) Bad Medicine
3) Born To Be My Baby
4) Living In Sin
5) Blood On Blood
6) Homebound Train
7) Wild Is The Wind
8 ) Ride Cowboy Ride
9) Stick To Your Guns
10) I’ll Be There For You
11) 99 In The Shade
12) Love For Sale

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(1992) Keep the Faith

1) I Believe
2) Keep The Faith
3) I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
4) In These Arms
5) Bed Of Roses
6) If I Was Your Mother
7) Dry County
8 ) Woman In Love
9) Fear
10) I Want You
11) Blame In On The Love Of Rock & Roll
12) Little Bit Of Soul

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auch 2008 gehts wieder ab!
Die legendäre Hell on Earth Tour ist wieder da!
Mit dabei sind Walls of Jericho, Evergreen Terrace,
Cataract, Animosity, The Red Cord und Stick To Your Guns!

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25.09. Hamburg – Marthalle (Germany)
27.09. Essen – Fun Box Amalie (Germany)
28.09. London – Islington Carling Academy (Great Britain)
01.10. Peterborough – The Park (Great Britain)
03.10. Saarbrücken – Garage (Germany)
04.10. Magdeburg – Foximum Arena (Germany)
09.10. Schweinfurt – Stattbahnhof (Germany)
11.10. Dresden – Reithalle (Germany)
13.10. Vienna – Arena (Austria)
14.10. München – Backstage/Werk
15.10. Milan – Alcatraz (Italy)
16.10. Solothurn – Kofmehl (Switzerland)
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