METAL MONDAYS!! TRUE PASSION FROM DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN!!
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Ni Bestia
—Too Big
Working on new electropunk for 2012. Photo 2005.
METAL MONDAYS: Today is definitely a Meshuggah day!
I can’t wait!
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Forest for the Trees
—Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day!! A song I wrote about 10 years ago, called as you guessed: Valentine’s Day. Enjoy!
David Gray talking about how the internet has changed the music industry.
… With a little help from my friends
We’re all fans of at least one group. A group that devours our souls like 3am, 24-hour-diner pancakes. Music is there for us at the right times, the hard times, the happy times. Sometimes it’s shoved down our throats and turned into pep rally chants that destroy the meaning of a once sacred song. Or sometimes they are sold back to us in Cadillac commercials. Sometimes you get to hear the song sung live either by the band themselves or a drunk friend on 2x1 karaoke nights. My problem is that I could never just love one group. I’ve met them all. The Metallica fans, the Britney clergy, the Tool creeps, “Radiohead is god” believers, the hippy Phish heads… I’m always amazed when I meet someone who can only listen to one band’s catalog and never get bored. I never could fit there. The thing is I mixed in with all of them. Many who know me, know that I have my phases… my Iron Maiden phase, my Nsync phase, my AFI phase. Well to their surprise my phases overlap. I could never pin down on one group and in this age of short attention spans…
Honduran writer Augusto Monterroso once wrote “Cuándo despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.” The dinosaur for me is a music industry hellbent on perpetuating the old ways of earning profits and marketing the music they think will sell, regardless of quality. We can change that if everyone does his or her part. So that’s why I’m here. I want to hear your music. I want to see your band. I want to chat with your band. I want to dedicate a space to discuss your music, attach links and build a community to promote new music outside of the “music” publicity world. So, feel free to send me a link to your band’s media page and give me some homework. I will upload a review and a link so that more people can find your music. Let me know about upcoming shows or music videos. The era of DIY has never been easier. All we need is a little help from each other and hopefully when we wake up tomorrow the dinosaur will finally be gone.
Bienvenid@s
Matavenados, Matavenados
Matavenados self-titled EP flows five instrumental tracks together to carry you down a river of beauty, pain, and fear full of carnival rides and ruthless waves. Hailing from Hermosillo, Sonora, the Mexican quartet creates a musical palette of sounds that range from melodic metal, funk, latin, and even circus breaks. The first track, _________, fuses interchanging happy guitar melodies that eventually evolve into a slow moving doom metal wall of sound. Cesar Romero, the second track, juxtaposes itself well against the intro song by introducing a circus rhythm that builds into a very loud collection clowns on fire dancing in a lion’s mouth, but this is only the beginning. Half way through Cesar Romero, the clowns are no longer dancing but are slowly being swallowed by the lion as the song slows to a beautiful solemn waltz of mastication and digestion. On Callate Los Ojos, Matavenados sails you down a fog and chilly river surrounded by a forest full of strange new creatures and rapid but calm currents. Asustame Panteon picks up the pace of the EP through very well orchestrated melodic metal. The song could be described as a midnight haunted hayride through a orange-lit graveyard on Day Of The Dead. The final piece, Furby, starts by mixing clave rhythms with an melodic interplay between the guitars. The song finishes the musical boat ride down to its epic waterfall cliffhanger leaving you wanting fall into the rocks and waves, and you do, slowly floating away as you catch your saving breath. Matavenados secures the band to fall in line with other progressive rock geniuses through its excellently executed complex rhythms, solos, and melodic movements. Be sure to check them out and look for their future releases. Matavenados is a band that you will want to say: “I heard them first.”
(Click on the photo above to download tracks from their EP)
