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Shit yeah! New Kylesa soon. New song is good.

http://www.myspace.com/kylesa

[Soundscape]

http://myspace.com/exivious

Debut Album is expected May 2009:

Fusion metal — a relatively new and unexplored genre in the world of metal. Holland's EXIVIOUS marks a first to truly marry jazz fusion with metal into a coherent new style. Featuring members of legendary U.S. prog band CYNIC and Dutch metallers TEXTURES, EXIVIOUS isn't an over-the-top math metal band and certainly isn't a loungy jazz combo either. But expect everything in between!

With a jazz fusion backbone, EXIVIOUS uses freaky metal riffs to decorate their organic eruption of free improvisations and complex rhythms. Guitarist Tymon comments: "We finally managed to transform a vision I had a long time ago into nine intense and fiery songs. There's an immense amount of information in there that will definitely take more than one spin in your CD player to comprehend!"

The band will release its debut album independently to preserve 100% creative freedom. This is not only evident in their music but also in the artwork. Their self-titled CD will appear in a limited 1,000 numbered copies, each single copy bundled with its own unique artwork.

An mp3 stream of the song "Waves Of Thought" is available on the EXIVIOUS web site.

EXIVIOUS is:

Tymon (CYNIC) - Guitar
Michel Nienhuis (ex-SENGAIA) - Guitar
Robin Zielhorst (CYNIC, ex-BLUE MAN GROUP) - Bass
Stef Broks (TEXTURES) - Drums

[swede]

holds up

i can get behind that statement....
they mastered the effect of slow build to balls out....translated well to the live setting as well...
one of the few cases, where the mike patton influence was balanced by originality...
keep this one in my car, because it always pleases me....

[throughsilver]

I wrote something about Carcass this evening. It's a thousand words, so I don't want to subject you to it in its entirety. I shall sticka paragraph of it here, and anyone foolhardy enough to want to read the rest of it can read it here, at my sadly blogspot-addressed, err, blog. It's essentially on the age-old topic of Heartwork vs. Necroticism.

The album begins as it means to go on, as I think about it. 'Inpropagation' (possibly my favourite of all the numerous Jeff Walker puns) has a number of these moments. There's a regular, albeit fantastic, DM solo from 4:13 to 4:35, at which point (punctuated by a death growl of 'I propagate!' that sounds as though it was recorded in a toilet bowl) a dizzying riff lurches into action - accompanied by another high swing. But while we thought the lead guitar was dead, it stirs back into harmonised action like zombie tag team, and widdles over the then-high tech riff with Maiden throwback melody. And a decade before it was en vogue to do so.

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http://myspace.com/exivious

Debut Album is expected May 2009:

Fusion metal — a relatively new and unexplored genre in the world of metal. Holland's EXIVIOUS marks a first to truly marry jazz fusion with metal into a coherent new style. Featuring members of legendary U.S. prog band CYNIC and Dutch metallers TEXTURES, EXIVIOUS isn't an over-the-top math metal band and certainly isn't a loungy jazz combo either. But expect everything in between!

With a jazz fusion backbone, EXIVIOUS uses freaky metal riffs to decorate their organic eruption of free improvisations and complex rhythms. Guitarist Tymon comments: "We finally managed to transform a vision I had a long time ago into nine intense and fiery songs. There's an immense amount of information in there that will definitely take more than one spin in your CD player to comprehend!"

The band will release its debut album independently to preserve 100% creative freedom. This is not only evident in their music but also in the artwork. Their self-titled CD will appear in a limited 1,000 numbered copies, each single copy bundled with its own unique artwork.

An mp3 stream of the song "Waves Of Thought" is available on the EXIVIOUS web site.

EXIVIOUS is:

Tymon (CYNIC) - Guitar
Michel Nienhuis (ex-SENGAIA) - Guitar
Robin Zielhorst (CYNIC, ex-BLUE MAN GROUP) - Bass
Stef Broks (TEXTURES) - Drums

Did you ever listen to Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette? Great jazz metal.

[James D]

The new Ephel Duath is supposed to be exellent. I've heard one song from it and it's a massive departure from their last one.

[Soundscape]

well certainly there have been some groups who combine Jazz Fusion (Jazz Rock) and Metal. Cynic, Gordian Knot, even Liquid Tension Experiment to extent....but it is not a highly explored genre thus far, at least visibly. Ephel Duath I've heard of, but not heard though. Maybe I should.

[Saskadelphia]

Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is set for worldwide release April 21. Sam Dunn's behind this doc, so you know it's going to be good...been looking forward to this for the past year!

Trailer:

[arkin]

Shit yeah! New Kylesa soon. New song is good.

http://www.myspace.com/kylesa

Awesome, I heard they were putting something out and now proof!
I'll take all the Georgia sludge I can get.

[raumschwein]

Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is set for worldwide release April 21. Sam Dunn's behind this doc, so you know it's going to be good...been looking forward to this for the past year!

Trailer:

Awesome.

On another note, I finished reading the 33 1/3 volume on Master of Reality this morning. What a weird, wonderful little tome. (I guess it's more of a pamphlet than a tome, but whatever.) Less informative than the one on Reign in Blood, but John Darnielle (apparently of the Mountain Goats--I know very little about them) manages to dredge up some nice (if not necessarily profoundly original) insights by dissecting the album from the point of view of a 16-year-old psych ward patient. There's a nice bit about feeding meat into a hamburger patty maker while blasting "Into the Void" through a cheap boombox--worth reading just for that.

[Saskadelphia]

On another note, I finished reading the 33 1/3 volume on Master of Reality this morning. What a weird, wonderful little tome. (I guess it's more of a pamphlet than a tome, but whatever.) Less informative than the one on Reign in Blood, but John Darnielle (apparently of the Mountain Goats--I know very little about them) manages to dredge up some nice (if not necessarily profoundly original) insights by dissecting the album from the point of view of a 16-year-old psych ward patient. There's a nice bit about feeding meat into a hamburger patty maker while blasting "Into the Void" through a cheap boombox--worth reading just for that.

Darnielle's book takes a completely different approach, but while Reign in Blood is good and thorough, Master of Reality captures the indescribable, visceral feeling of metal better than any book I have ever read. The best part is where the narrator talks about Ozzy's ordinary guy appeal, coming off like the dude who hands out quarters at the arcade.

Oh, and this interview I did last year has lots of fascinating responses from the author...
http://www.popmatter...-and-indie-rock

[Vivian Darkbloom]

On another note, I finished reading the 33 1/3 volume on Master of Reality this morning. What a weird, wonderful little tome. (I guess it's more of a pamphlet than a tome, but whatever.) Less informative than the one on Reign in Blood, but John Darnielle (apparently of the Mountain Goats--I know very little about them) manages to dredge up some nice (if not necessarily profoundly original) insights by dissecting the album from the point of view of a 16-year-old psych ward patient. There's a nice bit about feeding meat into a hamburger patty maker while blasting "Into the Void" through a cheap boombox--worth reading just for that.

Darnielle's book takes a completely different approach, but while Reign in Blood is good and thorough, Master of Reality captures the indescribable, visceral feeling of metal better than any book I have ever read. The best part is where the narrator talks about Ozzy's ordinary guy appeal, coming off like the dude who hands out quarters at the arcade.

Oh, and this interview I did last year has lots of fascinating responses from the author...
http://www.popmatter...-and-indie-rock

I spit out coffee- literally-at the description of oddball album cut "Solitude" as "some doom Fairport Convention cough syrup and beer experiment."

[Backslash M Forwardslash]

well certainly there have been some groups who combine Jazz Fusion (Jazz Rock) and Metal. Cynic, Gordian Knot, even Liquid Tension Experiment to extent....but it is not a highly explored genre thus far, at least visibly.

Ephel Duath I've heard of, but not heard though. Maybe I should.

I'll try to get The Painter's Palette uploaded tonight. It's really a fun album. Everything else the band has done is pretty terrible, though. I guess they were some form of drum machine, black metal, somethingorother on their first album. Second album added a jazz drummer who was apparently pushing 50 and had never played in a metal band before. Great mix of catchy clean vocals and some pretty brutal screaming. Third album, unfortunately lost the clean vocals and sounds a bit like a sad attempt to rip off DEP...... I stopped following on after that album, as the drummer left the band as well......

At any rate, I'll try to get that up today. In the interim, here is their myspace. I don't think there is any old stuff on there, though, and the new stuff is very different......
http://www.myspace.com/ephelduath

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Shazaaam
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
http://www.sendspace.com/file/opqu9z

[Soundscape]

Pathetic.

Faceless News
Los Angeles, California-based based progressive death metalers THE FACELESS, who will be hitting the road with MESHUGGAH and CYNIC in February, have been banned from playing the House of Blues in Anaheim, California, which is the first show of the tour. The February 1 date will continue without THE FACELESS who will join the trek the following day.

The House of Blues is owned by the Walt Disney Corporation and the venue must green-light all bands who are scheduled to perform there. THE FACELESS was not approved to play the show for undisclosed reasons.

[Saskadelphia]

Not the first time that's happened at the Anaheim HoB.

[Saskadelphia]

Oh, and I've heard the new Cannibal Corpse all the way through, and it delivers. Though I have a sneaky hunch that Kill is better.

[raumschwein]

Oh, and this interview I did last year has lots of fascinating responses from the author...
http://www.popmatter...-and-indie-rock

Wow--I had no idea that he worked in psych wards. Makes sense--that aspect of the book really does ring true.

[Vivian Darkbloom]

Ephel Duath. Sweet. They should designate a sub-bracket of that taxonomic metal band name chart that Sask posted last week exclusively devoted to Tolkien place names. Ephel Duath Cirith Ungol Amon Amarth Isengard Burzum released a record as Uruk Hai, I think (of course, Uruk Hai are a mongrel race, not a place) There have got to be others.

[Saskadelphia]

Yeah, Gorgoroth is one of the other well-known ones. Funny how the bands who tried to be the most evil started out as Tolkien nerds.