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The Acacia Strain live footage

admin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 02:49:31 +0000

Live footage of The Acacia Strain “Dr. Doom” at The Starland Ballroom in New Jersey.This was part of Infest 2008.

In addition to one main performer which has yet to be disclosed, the following artists are slated to appear:

The Black Dahlia Murder
Kataklysm
Vader
Cryptopsy
The Acacia Strain
The Faceless
Despised Icon
Emmure
Aborted
All Shall Perish
Born of Osiris
Psycroptic
Whitechapel
Since The Flood
Eternal Lord
Brother Von Doom

Whitechapel interview

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:37:40 +0000

Todd Cardini of HeavyMetalSource.com conducted an interview with guitarists Ben Savage and Alex Wade of the Knoxville, Tennessee-based death/grind metal band WHITECHAPEL on June 28, 2008 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. Watch the five-minute chat below.

WHITECHAPEL’s new album, “This Is Exile”, was released on July 8 through Metal Blade Records. The CD was tracked by Jonny Fay (ex-guitarist of THE RED CHORD) of Backyard Studios in New Hampshire and was mixed by Zeuss, who has produced ION DISSONANCE, EMMURE, BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED, SHADOWS FALL and HATEBREED, among others. The cover artwork was handled by Colin Marks, who has previously worked with ABORTED, THE END, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and THE RED DEATH). “He [did] a phenomenal job and we are extremely pleased with the outcome of his work,” the band previously stated. “He has done a wonderful job of portraying the concept of the record through his artwork.”

WHITECHAPEL’s debut album, “The Somatic Defilement”, was released last year via Candlelight Records USA.

Cryptopsy interview

admin — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:02:35 +0000

Todd Cardini of HeavyMetalSource.com conducted an interview with drummer Flo Mounier of the Montreal-based extreme metallers CRYPTOPSY on June 28, 2008 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey (where the band was performing as part of this year’s Summer Slaughter tour). Watch the four-minute chat below.

“The Unspoken King”, CRYPTOPSY’s sixth full-length and first to feature new singer Matt McGachy, was released June 24 to a wide array of reactions. Flo Mounier recently explained his intention in reshaping the dynamics of the band to Decibel magazine: “I’m a fan of different sorts of music, and I think it’s most fun when a band puts out an album that has elements of everything; you get this thing called diversity, not boredom. That’s what we’re trying to do. Still, I think people are going to be surprised how brutal this album is.”
“The Unspoken King” sold 1,300 copies in the United States in its first two weeks of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
CRYPTOPSY’s last CD, “Once Was Not”, registered a first-week U.S. tally of 1,200 back in October 2005.

Suicide Silence interview

admin — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:43:33 +0000

Todd Cardini of HeavyMetalSource.com conducted an interview with Mitch Lucker (vocals) and Mark Heylmun (guitar) of the Riverside, California-based quintet SUICIDE SILENCE on June 28, 2008 at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. Also available is footage of the band’s performance at the venue.

SUICIDE SILENCE’s “The Cleansing” album received a European release on February 18 (except in the UK, where it arrived on March 31). It comes with the exclusive European bonus track “A Dead Current” as well as a CD enhancement consisting of six live clips from U.S. and UK.

SUICIDE SILENCE recently completed a video for the track “Bludgeoned To Death” with acclaimed director David Brodsky (GWAR, THE RED CHORD).