Category Archives: News
Chimaira: new album complete.
I should seriously get payed for all the free promotion I do for Chimaira. I don’t even like the band that much. Not at least since around the middle of the last decade (old much?). In fact, I’ve probably written ten times more posts about them than I’ve had sex in the last six months. Which is kind of a paradox, because if you multiply zero by ten, you get a zero, and I’ve clearly written a few posts about them on occasion. Explain that!
Nonetheless, the news. If you already read the post title, you know it, Chimaira have completed their new album, and they announced it via a tweet earlier tonight, which surprisingly says:
“new album complete.”
Exciting news, right? Yeah, Chimaira releasing a new album isn’t really exciting by any standards nowadays, but at least you got to see puppies in a basket. How often do you get a chance to see that shit, ha?
What if In Flames opened a restaurant
Once upon a time, I wondered what it would be like if Papa Roach were chefs (it would stop them releasing terrible music at least), and now I’m wondering what it would be like if In Flames opened a restaurant…
Oh wait, I don’t need to wonder, according to Blabbermouth, Peter Iwers (bass) and Björn Gelotte (guitar) of In Flames have partnered up to start a new restaurant in their hometown, Gothenburg. Named 2112 as a tribute to Rush‘s 2112 album, the restaurant officially opened on April 21. Wow, whatever next?
Normally I’d attempt to post my own joke right about now, but one witty Blabbermouth user won me over when he enquired if the drinks will be as watered down as the band’s music. Ouch.
Trivium have advice for Metallica
Trivium have some words of wisdom for Metallica. If I were Lars, I’d listen. These guys have obviously studied and reproduced Metallica‘s sound time and time again, so they know their shit.
“I checked [Death Magnetic] out. It was better than ‘St. Anger.’ I think they did a really good job of getting back to what made them Metallica in the first place, and I just wish they would get someone like Colin [Richardson] or Andy Sneap to mix the shit out of those records. ‘Cause [‘Death Magnetic’] and the new Slayer album [‘World Painted Blood’], if they had the production quality of, say, the new Megadeth and Exodus albums, they’d be brutal as shit. I think there’s good songwriting, but if you [combine] cool songs with killer, modern production, it really adds to the listening experience…” said Corey Beaulieu (not pictured above)
Hopefully the production quality on the next [Metallica album] and they just deliver something that is sonically crushing like the ‘black’ album was; [that record] was ahead of its time as far as album production for a metal CD. So hopefully they do that.“
Read full article here.
Leaving jokes aside, they do have a point. Why make albums if you’re gonna make the sound like shit? Or lemme put it this way… Why go through all the trouble of recording music if you’re not go all the way and present them in perfect quality?
Hopefully they’ve learned their lesson and the waveforms of the new songs won’t look like fucking bricks.
Roy Mayorga is feeling better
In case you haven’t heard, Roy Mayorga, the drummer for Stone Sour, suffered a mild stroke a few days ago. Don’t worry, he’s feeling better and he’s on his way to a full recovery, but in the meantime, a first photo of him in the hospital has surfaced. Where is it, you might ask?
On Blabbermouth, of course, next to the photos of Schwarzenegger’s illegitimate son. Click.
Napalm Death in the studio
Who’s in the mood for some noise? You are? Well, that’s good because you can now watch a 21 second video of Shane Embury laying down bass tracks for Napalm Death’s, as of yet untitled, 14th album on their Facebook page.
Am I labelling Napalm Death as noise? No, but you can’t make out anything from that studio footage at all, just that Embury’s playing something really fast. That’s some of the worst footage I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of crappy footage on Youtube.
Let’s just hope that the album is recorded in some better quality than that or else we’re getting something close to… an Anal Cunt album and who really wants that? Not me.
