Author Archives: Simo

New Arkaea coming

Remember Arkaea? The Fear Factor-ish side project by Raymond and Cristian with the guys from Threat Signal? Well, now it’s their main project (lulz), and ever since the whole “new” Fear Factory fiasco, they’ve kept kind of quiet, until recently when ThePRP dug out some info about a new album being planned.

I was never much of an Arkaea fan, but I’m pretty interested in hearing this, a) because they have a reason to be pissed and b) because they have a reason to prove themselves, now more so than ever. Let’s wait and see what comes out of it.

Wish this band was real

I just love the fact that whoever made this even paid attention to the little details like the ear gauge. Courtesy of /r/metal.

Big 1 + 3 played New York

Last night marked The Big 4 playing the East Coast for the first time, which means I now have to cover it. MetalSucks and Metal Injection did the unthinkable and actually live-blogged a live show, which is kinda lame if you ask me, but then again, I get a free article out of this, so it’s a win for me.

To sum it up: same old same old, Gary Holt instead of Jeff Hanneman, Motorhead‘s Overkill instead of Am I Evil and members of Exodus joining the stage for that performance as well? (and you can see the clip of that above). That is all. We are now anxiously awaiting for The Big Four to announce the first show on the Moon, while this wave is still fresh for riding… Kidding aside, I actually enjoyed the mashup performance a lot, even with 30 people on stage.

I djent djenty djents

Hey look, I just came up with my own verb, adjective and noun, sort of like the people who came up with djent came up with their own genre! #notreally #noonecares #justcallitprogressive

Besides using hashtags in the middle of the post, where they serve #nopurpose, there’s actually something worth reading here: I’ve just found the samples for Animals As Leaders new album, Weightless! (via: ThePRP)

You can listen to them over at Amazon.co.uk, and you can see the album cover after you make the jump.

Want to judge new Tesseract?

Feel particularly bad about yourself today, and can’t wait for an opportunity to lash out at someone, you know, just because? Here’s your chance: last night Elliot Coleman, the new vocalist for Tesseract (the change of which we’ve covered in detail before, so go over the articles), tweeted a clip of the band performing at a recent show in Glasgow.

I’d personally say he sounded prettay good, but then again, I’m feeling awesome (nothing I can do about it, goes hand in hand with being awesome). Don’t let things like what I say and objectivity get in your way though, head over to YouTube and give them an earful! #teamdan