No he didn’t!
Every Time I Die‘s Keith Buckley has decided to downplay his online social presence. How? By writing War & Piece Pt. 2 on his blog. Seriously dawg, it’s called a paragraph, it wouldn’t kill you to use it every now and then.
I couldn’t read through everything because my eyes started to bleed after a while, but here’s an excerpt:
On January 1st I went dark. I cancelled my Instagram account and while not deleting my Facebook or Twitter entirely, (I’m not crazy, its hard to get verified) I removed the apps from my phone insuring that I wouldn’t be tempted to race to them when inspiration or boredom or apathy struck. I intended to give myself one week. Seven days to wrangle myself from the meretricious carnival that social networking had become, at least amongst those who I volunteered to network with.
I wont name specific names, though I have no doubt that anyone reading this will find the description applicable to a number of acquaintances, and if so, I only hope that you too can muster the strength to put your desire to be happy before your fear of offending and cut them off like the unnecessary appendage that they actually have become.
For most, this is overkill. The majority of those on Twitter or Facebook are probably only giving a cursory glance to a post about someone’s child or a scan of a Polaroid on Flashback Fridays or a tweet to a mutual friend of an inside joke before dismissing them as boring or funny or whatever and then returning to their own lives as it exists in the current moment.
I could now play smart and throw big words around too (could I?), but I don’t have sand in my vagina. Nor a vagina. Instead, a personal observation, the timeline feature makes Facebook kind of look like Myspace, don’t it?
Corey Taylor speaks the truth about Stone Sour
Corey Taylor is a well spoken man. I mean, how else would he be able to sell all those books and make a tour consisting of him spewing his opinions and doing acoustic sets of SpongeBob songs? What, people are extremely gullible? Could be that, but come on, how can you not agree with him when he says that he’s looking forward to:
“…basically becoming a mad scientist in the studio and creating an album that no one wants us to make.”
Quoted for truth. A new Stone Sour album is definitely something no one wants him to make. He then kind of ruins it by saying:
“Picture [Pink Floyd’s] ‘The Wall’ meets [Alice in Chains’] ‘Dirt’ on steroids, and that will give you a taste of what I’m shooting for right now.”
Quoted as evidence of immediate necessary psychiatric help. Yeah, last time I checked Pink Floyd and Alice in Chains were all about sugary radio hits, right? To be fair, the man has done his fair share of experimenting, proof of which can be found after the jump.
Slamming Beatdown Death live… wait what?
I’m a Death Metal guy. Everybody who knows me, knows that I love Death Metal. I’m mainly into classic Death, but also enjoy quite a few Melodic, Brutal, Progressive and Blackened Death Metal bands, and in some cases even Deathgrind. I’m saying that to let you know that I’m open-minded when it comes to Death Metal. I even thought I knew quite a bit about the genre but I have never heard of Slamming Beatdown Death before.
So now I’m posting a live performance of Begging For Incest. I’ll be honest, I’m partly posting this because their vocalist Meik is a buddy of mine. But I’m mainly posting this because of how fascinating I find it that this actually appeals to me. It goes exactly against what I usually enjoy. It’s simple, it pretty much only consists of breakdowns and the vocals are mainly pig squeals.
It’s similiar to my fascination with Mortician. Dumbed down, braindead but fun Death Metal. Don’t watch it if you’re expecting something technical and challenging. If you’re able to turn off your brain and just want to have a good time with some really heavy music, watch the video above.
Rather be alive
I know this is not strictly metal news, but I love this band, so bite me. Refused are fucking dead back.
God Forbid mixing it up
No, they’re not making a dubstep album, they’re in the mixing stages of their new one. How soon will it come out? This spring it seems, and I can’t say it’ll be a long wait for me, because up until three seconds ago, I didn’t know this band still existed.
The post title holds some truth, though, because according to guitarist Doc Coyle:
“The stuff I’ve been writing has been varied from evil Morbid Angel, black metal shit to mid-tempo/power groove Machine Head-type stuff, and signature God Forbid material that is a logical progression from our previous albums.”
You can listen to a demo of a new song after the jump, and judge how much they’re straying away from their “signature sound,” though, I’m not sure what’s so “signature” about metalcore. Burn.
