Don’t listen to Process of a New Decline on your laptop speakers. Don’t play it in your car with your friends. Set aside an hour, grab your favorite pair of headphones, a sleeve of fig newtons, and a box of depends, lock the door, and come with me on the magic journey that is Gorod’s newest masterpiece: Process of a New Decline. (more…)
The teaser videos, the little puzzle on the website, the merch. The anticipation for the new Suicide Silence album has been increasing more and more lately. On 4/20, the band released the track “Lifted” on their myspace. On 6/1, they did the same with “Wake Up”.
I pre-ordered my copy of the album through cmdistro.com. They told me it would ship on 6/23, a full week before the album officially releases. I figured that even with a few days shipping I’d still be able to get it early. Yesterday, it arrived. I tore open the packaging and plugged it in to give it a complete listen.
Here’s the tracklist: 1. Wake Up (3:48) 2. Lifted (4:08) 3. Smoke (3:08) 4. Something Invisible (2:57) 5. No Time To Bleed (2:22) 6. Suffer (3:56) 7. …and Then She Bled (3:55) 8. Wasted (3:13) 9. Your Creations (3:59) 10. Genocide (2:17) 11. Disengage (4:04)
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The first couple tracks, Wake Up and Lifted, are both heavy as hell, but I’m assuming you’ve all heard these already. Track 3, Smoke, starts out with this horror movie sounding effect, which is sure to shatter your eardrums if you turn it up too loud. A little drumming, and then the song starts. It’s loud, it’s angry, and it’ll throw you all over the place.
Right now, my favorite track on the album is No Time To Bleed, by far. This song is packed with so much brutality it’s insane. Some of the lyrics are “AND THIS IS NOT A CHURCH, AND I DO NOT PREACH, AND I HAVE NO TIME TO BLEED”. About 1:45 into the song is what I love so much about it. This breakdown is so immense and loud it’s hard to fight back the desire to destroy something whenever I listen to it.
Track 7, …and Then She Bled, is a bit of an interlude. This track has no vocals, overlaying what sounds like a 911 call where a woman is getting murdered. Ironically, this is probably one of the more relaxed tracks on the album. Wasted has one of my favorite ways to start a metal song; a loud blast from a drum and then the whole band starts in with all the grindcore rage that they do.
Overall, this album is an easy 5/5 from me. The vocals on this album have a bit of a different sound to them, but overall it definitely still has that brutal unique sound that only Suicide Silence seems to have. I think back to The Cleansing, with tracks like Unanswered, The Diseased, and In A Photograph, and I realize that they don’t really have directly comparable tracks. Some may dislike this, but personally I love it. The whole album is fresh, I don’t feel like I’m listening to The Cleansing, and that’s definitely a good thing.
This past weekend, a few of the guys and I took set out to make good on our word and check out a little local color…and holy shit, was it amazing. We ended up hitting up C.B.R.’s in the Brewery District in Columbus, Ohio. By the way, if you ever get the chance to hit this place up, DO IT–Great drink prices, the bar tenders are awesome (some are really nice to look at too). On to the line up: On first was Admission of Guilt, followed by Gangster Like Drive By, then Bless the Child, then Let the Guilty Hang from West Virgina, and the headliners Sourblood. I originally thought it was only going to be 3 bands, but it appears we were all in for a face melting treat . Hit the jump for the complete run down. OH WAIT! Did I mention that Suicide Silences old bass player was there? I didn’t? Well, he was there.
Now lets take a trip to Imagination Land here for a second. Picture this, you and your family living in quite suburbia, with kids playing in sprinklers, and parents are working on the garden. All of the sudden your little “squirt” is crusin’ down Maple Ave. in this brutal beast of a car! Everyone will wonder how your kid is going to turn up in their later adult years. This car, by far is probably _the_ coolest kid buggy ever.
The first time I met Ben Falgoust of Soilent Green, his phone kept going off in the radio interview… and he cracked up every single time because his ring tone was from… I want to say… Robot Chicken.
It’s been quite obvious that Ben and both the rest of the dudes in Goatwhore and Soilent Green have been Adult Swim fans for some time now so it didn’t surprise me one bit to learn that Soilent Green recorded the new theme song for the fourth season of Squidbillies!
From the Metal Blade Records press release, Ben Falgoust comments; “Squidbillies is the best cartoon…excuse me…show on TV/Internet/Cable around! I felt that way before we did the theme tracks and I feel even stronger about it since I’ve seen the new episodes, despite our involvement with the program, of course.
It was an awesome and strange experience to track these theme songs for the Squidbillies. It was pretty shocking when were contacted by them to be involved with this project. I give credit to the rest of the guys in the band for pulling it off from a strange but fun perspective in incorporating Soilent Green’s style into the theme song for the show.”
Soilent Green’s latest album is the Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction and will be playing Hellfest in France later this year.
In an interview posted on CNN.com today, Moore basically, in so many words, announces her love of heavy metal, and her plans to start a heavy metal band.
Says Moore: “There is a lot of music in the house, whether someone is playing it, or there’s a record on or something. I’ve been introduced to a lot of metal in my relationship, which is pretty cool, because my guy is a big metal fan, and it isn’t something I would necessarily investigate on my own — but I do like it. It’s just nice to have that truly built-in support system that someone is unbelievably understanding of [blah blah blah, something not about metal]”
There was also some other stuff in the interview, I think. Something about how she has officially, legally, changed her name to “Cornish Gamehen”, I dono, I have a short attention span. Check out the full interview here.
So wer are going to try something new here at Knuckles First. We are going to start hitting up local metal shows in the Columbus area. So here’s the deal. If you are in a metal band, OR if you know of any shows that are going down, hit us up on twitter, or shoot us an email: local[at]knucklesfirst.com.
Katie Brutal does a lot of reviews of shows that she has been attending. I on the other hand would rather go to a bar, pick up some ladies. But I’m scarificing that for awhile. So be on the look-out.
Representin’ Sioux City, Iowa and the big dude upstairs, For Todayis a very well known Christian Metal band. Their new album Portraits hit the shelves today, and now it’s time to give this bitch the Butters Rundown. What does such a rundown consist of? I don’t know, but it sounded sweet at the time…so let’s press play on track one and see what comes to me…
As previously stated, For Today is pretty popular in the Christian community, but don’t let that scare you off if it isn’t your thing — whether you bow to Budha or Mark-Paul Gosselaar, there’s something here for everyone. A great follow up album since their release of Ekklesia (2008), Portraits is everything that I could hope for from a new release. Vocals, guitar, drums, and bass — they’re all a bit more polished this go-round, and all-in-all it’s pretty tight.
As I’m writing this, Drew would like to contribute from the peanut gallery: “That album art is awesome.” Seconded.
I’m so glad I watched this. Fuck Monday’s and Fuck Bret Michaels and his fake fucking hair, and that stupid bandana (yea I wear one too, but I don’t have fake hair). I don’t know the full story behind this, but I don’t think it needs a backstory.
2009 Tony Awards. Bret Michaels “singing”. End Song. Que stage change. Bret wants to be on stage a little long. Head gets lopped off by a massive set piece coming from above.
Bret Michaels + Massiv Ego + Set Piece coming from above = Pure awesomeness!
So it’s been a bit since I have been able to take in a show…I thought Summer Slaughter would be the perfect opportunity to get back into the thick of the metal scene again. Got started a little late, was 3:15p.m. by the time I got on the road but Baltimore is only about an hour away from where I live so I figured I may miss Beneath The Massacre but would get to see everybody else I wanted to see.
Except I forgot that I live in northern Virginia. And it was a Friday. And it was raining. I literally rode my brake all the way to Baltimore – it took me 3 hours to get there. I started texting friends that I knew were at the show and found out that Origin was taking the stage… and I had just barely driven over the Maryland state line at that point. Origin, who put out one of my favourite albums of last year, was the reason I wanted to go see this show. While they ruled the stage, I was watching the guy in the car behind me play with his miniature soccer ball hanging from his rearview mirror. When I finally pulled into a parking spot the gas gauge on my car said “0 miles until empty.” I was so frustrated by that point I said fuck it, I’ll figure out my lack of gas situation AFTER the show.
I slammed a crown and diet then ordered a second one… took a breath and started enjoying the show. I managed to catch the last song of Born of Osiris and then settled in to watch Dying Fetus… I grinned all the way through their set. They played two songs off their upcoming September release and both of them were heavy as shit. I could have watched them play for another hour, but eh, it’s a festival and everyone has shorter playtimes to keep everybody moving. They will be heading over to Europe later in the summer to open for Cannibal Corpse… I’m thinking about how I may stow away in their luggage…
Traipsing back and forth between the two rooms at Sonar (a slew of local bands played the smaller stage in between the main stage sets) I re-entered the room to catch Winds of Plague, whose singer was rocking a Mohawk… cuteness. Ha. Good energy, thought they did a great job.
Saw a bit of Darkest Hour, they ALSO have a new one coming out…which I didn’t know about. Played lots of old shit, which was fun plus the new tracks, which seemed a bit heavier than the Deliver Us album… so now I’m interested in hearing the new one, “The Eternal Return” when it drops June 9th… which is this Tuesday.
Suffocation rocked out 3 new songs, which is good… I suppose. I wanted to hear more old shit. I don’t think they played one track off of Souls to Deny and Frank forgot the lyrics of his last song and apologized, saying that it was his fault and that it won’t ever happen again which I found humorous… This WAS the first show of the tour, of course it will be a bit bumpy and other than the lack of songs that I wanted to hear, they didn’t disappoint. July 3rd we will see the “Blood Oath” release.
Necrophagist was great. As always. So now, post-show, I still had the problem of the empty gas tank. And a bassist by the name of Ji Park is now my new hero, leading me to the nearest gas station and not letting me be stranded in the middle of Downtown Baltimore. Thanks dude. See you guys at Dillinger at the Rock and Roll Hotel on Thursday…
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