This looks fuckin sweet! Jim Henson's version was sweet too, but this one looks a little more modern age. And withouth the muppets.
Bart: Dad, what's a Muppet? Homer: Well, it's not quite a mop, not quite a puppet, but man... (laughs, then pauses) So, to answer you question, I don't know.
Guy Kozowyk (The Red Chord/Blackmarket Activities) responds 'whatever' to playing Ozzfest.
Guy and the rest of The Red Chord are awesome dudes. Here's another reason why:
"Sure, he's excited about being on this summer's Ozzfest and appreciates his band being invited. But to him, it's no big deal — he's not nervous, like some of the other bands on the tour because, the way he sees it, Ozzfest is just another gig.
"Whatever," he said, when asked what was going through his head the morning before Ozzfest kicked off here. "Honestly, for us, it's just like another day at the office. It's definitely exciting. If you'd asked me a year ago if my band would ever be on Ozzfest, it's like, 'We're a death-metal/grindcore/whatever band — Ozzfest is never going to go for that.' And so it's definitely unexpected and definitely crazy, but at the same time, we've played over 800 shows. We've played backyards, we've played basements and we've played the Sounds of the Underground in front of thousands of people. We're ready for anything. As excited as we are, we're just going to go do what we always do."
Kozowyk, who runs his own label, Black Market Activities, knows that Ozzfest is perhaps the biggest tour his band will ever be on and has heard people talking about how beneficial a slot on the fest can be for a band like the Red Chord. But he's not letting it go to his head.
"People say Ozzfest can make or break a band, but for us, we're ready to get bigger and we're ready to go back if it comes down to it," he said. "We've played so many small shows, and we're so comfortable in the small environment, that if Ozzfest doesn't break us into the mainstream, we're ready to go back to playing VFWs and basements. We've had such a good time that it doesn't matter what happens on Ozzfest for us. We're going to just roll with it. If it comes down to us being the big Ozzfest success, that's great. We'll sell a bunch of records. But as soon as the metal/hardcore/extreme-music thing drops off, and it isn't making the Billboard charts anymore, we really don't care — whatever. We'll be happy selling 20,000 records and playing to a couple hundred kids a night. It doesn't matter to us.
"Our attitude has always been the Red Chord are normal people playing to normal people out in the crowd. We're not better or bigger than anyone," he continued. "It's intriguing to think that we can come out of this tour and be the biggest death-metal band to date, because I don't know that there's any real brutal death-metal bands that have done this in the past. I think if [death metal's] ever going to get big, this might be our only shot. If it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be. We could care less."
Paradeofflesh.com taped a couple songs (Hyperventilation System and Providence by Gas Light) both taken from their new album Hell Songs. I was surprisingly impressed w/ Daughters new material. I was thinking it was gonna be all sassy like Blood Brothers or something, and the vocals aren't screaming anymore, but the music is where it's at. And the new vocal stylings don't hurt it either. I read in an interview the singer (name?) is tired of screams which seems to be what a lot of hardcore/metal band vocalists end up feeling. Cool w/ me...The singer did seem like he was on heroine according to my roommate, Justin. I wouldn't know, but he didn't seem sober...see for yourself in the video. Thanks Paradeofflesh.com!
Mouth of the Architect / These Arms are Snakes tour
This will be good... Some dates are with Young Widows, whom I haven't heard yet, but contains members of Breather Resist so they're probably awesome.
10/17 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre w/ Planes Mistaken For Stars 10/18 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Saloon 10/19 Iowa City, IA @ The Picador w/ River City Tan Lines 10/20 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen w/ River City Tan Lines, Young Widows 10/26 Toronto, ON @ The Kathedral w/ Young Widows 10/28 Montreal, QC @ Petit Campus w/ Young Widows 10/29 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East - Upstairs w/ French Toast, Young Widows 11/1 Providence, RI @ The Livingroom w/ French Toast, Young Widows 11/2 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/ French Toast, Young Widows 11/3 Brooklyn, NY @ North Six 11/7 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn w/ Young Widows, The North Atlantic 11/8 Tallahassee, FL @ Club Downunder w/ The North Atlantic 11/9 Orlando, FL @ AKA Lounge w/ The North Atlantic 11/10 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbit's w/ The North Atlantic 11/18 San Diego, CA @ Casbah 11/20 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
On another note, Mouth of the Architect recently released their new CD The Ties That Blind on Translation Loss Records
Botch is reissuing their 1999 album "American Nervoso" with the noneother Hydra Head Industries. Hydra Head has been putting out most of Botch's releases for a while. Maybe they'll do another pre-order w/ a t-shirt like the Unifying Themes Redux pre-order. Here's what the band has to say about the reissue:"We're gonna re-release it with a bunch of extras (demos, extended versions of a couple of songs, the two opening measures of 'Hives' that accidentaly got clipped off in the original mastering, etc.)."
Gaza has put up a track from their upcoming release "I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die" (Blackmarket Activities) out Oct. 3. Guy Kozowyk at BMA describes Gaza as "a terrifying breed of dark, brooding and blasting hardcore/grindcore". I personally agree. Gaza are dark. Gaza are evil...you can hear it in the music...it's not pissed in a "hardcore revolution" type way...and it's not evil in a black-metal satanic way, it just is. Check it out for yourself.
On another note, Imagine It records almost put out a 3-way split with Gaza, Thumbscrew and Robinson. But during the getting-everything-figured-out stage, Gaza got signed to BMA and Robinson joined Debello (all of whom I have much love and respect for) leaving you with the Thumsbcrew - Within Hearts of Redemption ep you have today.
Gaza - I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die(Blackmarket Activities)
She Killed Poetry - Shut Out The Silence out tomorrow (9/26)
She Killed Poetry's debut release "Shut Out the Silence" (Imagine It) hits stores tomorrow. Most record stores will be available to order it if they don't have it in stock already. Pick this CD up, it's some of the freshest/heaviest metalcore out there today. And I hate most metalcore. :)
She Killed Poetry - Shut Out the Silence (Imagine It)
Bart: Dad, what's a Muppet?
Guy and the rest of The Red Chord are awesome dudes. Here's another reason why:
