Chi town here I come...

6 more days and I get to witness this band and a few more amazing ones at the Burning Fight Book release show in Chicago this coming weekend, I'm pretty excited about it.

BurningFightBook.com

Where The Wild Things Are

I haven't been this excited about a movie in ages, my all time favorite book as a child called "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak is coming out as a full length feature movie and set for release this fall.


The book tells the story of Max, who one evening plays around his home, "making mischief" in a wolf costume by chasing the dog with a fork and growling at his mom. As punishment, his mother sends him to bed without supper. In his room, a mysterious, wild forest grows out of his imagination, and Max journeys to the land of the Wild Things. The Wild Things are fearsome-looking monsters, but Max conquers them "by staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once," and he is made "the King of all Wild Things." However, he soon finds himself lonely and homesick, and he returns home to his bedroom, where he finds his supper waiting for him, still hot.

The Force

A little Star Wars LOL for you.

No Drugs for Rollins

Mr. Henry Rollings doing a anti-drug commercial

Stigmata

I might as well keep throwing up some downloads while I think about it and this current post is on Troy's New York own mighty Stigmata. For years the only album I thought existed by them was their one album release on Victory Records entitled "Do Unto Others" which was released in 200, it never really impressed me that much.But their strongest and most epic album is the head stomper entitled "Hyms from a Unknown God," when I got my hands on this album it totally fucking floored me, it's more than just a solid record it's pretty much a 101% perfect metallic hardcore album. Their first 2 albums are two hard-to-find CD's, "The Calling of the Just"and 'The Heart Grows Harder' both of course a now-defunct labels. I don't even remember how I came across the CD form of the album, I think I ran across it at a used CD store around 2000 but I glad I didn't give up on them after hearing their Victory release but this album was jaw dropping.

Fronted by the massive front man Boby Rily and this guy knew how to pick up a lineup. They incorporated some awesome muscians over the few albums they released but most notable member is the riff machine of Mike Maney. Who really has don't a lot of bands from what I know of after Stigmata called it a day, which is a total shame because this guy knows how to write a hard song.
This album totally shows off his talent as a guitar player and the over all song structure of this band is just plain sick. It's had some of the most interesting and heavy riffs I have heard from any hardcore or metal bands rolling out in 1995. The only thing really hardcore about this album is the breakdowns and some of the vocal delivery but most of it is just heavy grooved out metal that will throw you for a curve ball with the riffs this band can spit out. Though some of Boby Riley vocal patterns blow me away espically on the 2nd track..Murder of Life the way he flows over some of the drum beats and guitar riffs are mind blowing, its very interesting to listen to this album from a singer standpoint because he some really cool things. Some of the songs could honestly put Slayer, Hatebreed, and even Merauder too shame in the hardness dept., the entire album feels like a ten ton hammer crashing down on your house.

Not a lot of bands around the late 90's where putting out hardcore like this espically in 1995 it was probably to heavy for most, their song structure really made them stick out but it still shocks me they never were that popular then and still aren't today.You can shoot me if you like but I find this album almost equally good to Merauders classic "Master Killer" album, too me it's 10x more pissed off sounding.



Stigmata - "Hyms from a Unkown God"
[Too Damn Hype Records : 1995]
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1. Save Us
2. Nothing But Enemies
3. Murder Of Life
4. Ignorant & Wire
5. Clipper Of Wings
6. Hands Of Gods
7. Burning Humana

The hardest jams out of Texas

Iron Age The Sleeping Eye promo from S. Khan on Vimeo.

After over 2 years Iron Age is finally getting close to releasing their new full length album "The Sleeping Eye". A album I've been waiting for a long time, I heard the teaser and it blew my mind so I had to spread the word on this. They way this sounds they might possibly giving Pantera a run for their money as the hardest thing to come out of TX in a good while, minus Bitter End of course. From the songs I've heard I can almost guarantee this is going to be of the best and probably the heaviest album of the new year.

www.myspace.com/ironagetexas

Six Feet Deep - "The Road Less Traveled"

When majority of people think of Cleveland hardcore the first few things that hit your mind is dark, heavy, and a evil sounding hardcore and majority of bands that came out of Clevo since the late 80's and early 90's where just mind blowing. Cleveland, OH has produced some legendary yet underrated bands for years and one of those finest and very over looked was Six Feet Deep.I think they were from the city of Elyria, Ohio but did majority of their time in Cleveland. They never released anything on Victory or any other strong label in the 90's and I'm sure being a Christian band didn't help them either at the time, since they where practically one of the first spirit filled heavy bands to come from the hardcore scene alone with Unshamed, Overcome, The Cruicified, Focused, Strongarm, and a few others. Now was I think about it's a little shocking this band came from the Cleveland hardcore scene which always has been a city that is known for it's very outspoken anti-god bands.

Six Feet Deep played my city of Evansville, IN back in 1996 or 1997 at an amazing old venue called The Rev which was in the basement of a old church that was built in the 1800's in the downtown area, hopefully I'll get the time to do a story on that venue at some point. I missed the show but the next day I saw a few of my friends running around high school with their t-shirts and hyping the band up like they were the next big thing all this talk really caught my attention for this band. So I Finally picked this great album up at the used cd store a few months later and was blown away. If you are person that can look past the religious side of this band then I think you will be impressed, "The Road Less Traveled" really stands the test of time as one solid 90's hardcore album. The recording is very evil, powerful, and dark sounding well at least for a christian band I guess. "The Road Less Traveled" was their second and final full-length for R.E.X. Records, released in 1996 right around the time the label apparently went out of business, thus kicking off the unfortunate dissolution of the band. While their early work was more "chugga" oriented, and thier work on "The Road Less Traveled" is melodic, developed, and darker. It really brings a strong match up with one of my favorite Integrity albums "System Overload". The vocals are intense and the song writing as your usual early heavy 90's hardcore vibe, it a little less metal and stick to more of a slighlty melodic feel at times. It's got plenty of slow head jolting riffs and a serious penchant for hooks. And the hoarse vocals carry enough power to dishevel the head of even the most fastidiously coiffed screamo nerd, hell even listening to the instrumental track on the album gave me chills when I was younger. This is one of the hardest christian hardcore and just straight up hardcore albums I've ever heard when I was younger so give it a shot.

I've been trying to get a post up on this band for years and I finally rememberd and had the time to do it so please give this album a listen. You can't find their music in print anywhere but checking amazon.com and ebay their are still tons of the CD format of this record around. Six Feet Deep does have a tribute myspace page with further information about the band: www.myspace.com/whatyouembraceiswhatyoubecome



Six Feet Deep - "The Road Less Traveled"
(R.E.X Records / 1996)
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1. Congruent
2. Purify
3. Slip
4. Apathetic
5. Narrow
6. More In Sorrow...
7. Steadfast
8. Meaningless
9. Broken Tree
10. Quick Time
11. (untitled) (hidden track)