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Baltimore
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Baltimore is the largest city in the U. S. state of Maryland, and the 29th-most populous city in the country. It was established by the Constitution of Maryland and is not part of any county, thus, it is the largest independent city in the United States, with a population of 621,849 as of 2015. As of 2010, the population of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area was 2.7 million, founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. Baltimores Inner Harbor was once the leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States. With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed a city of neighborhoods, in the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, later the American national anthem, in Baltimore. More than 65,000 properties, or roughly one in three buildings in the city, are listed on the National Register, more than any city in the nation. The city has 289 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the historical records of the government of Baltimore are located at the Baltimore City Archives. The city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, of the Irish House of Lords, Baltimore Manor was the name of the estate in County Longford on which the Calvert family lived in Ireland. Baltimore is an anglicization of the Irish name Baile an Tí Mhóir, in 1608, Captain John Smith traveled 210 miles from Jamestown to the uppermost Chesapeake Bay, leading the first European expedition to the Patapsco River. The name Patapsco is derived from pota-psk-ut, which translates to backwater or tide covered with froth in Algonquian dialect, a quarter century after John Smiths voyage, English colonists began to settle in Maryland. The area constituting the modern City of Baltimore and its area was first settled by David Jones in 1661. He claimed the area today as Harbor East on the east bank of the Jones Falls stream. In the early 1600s, the immediate Baltimore vicinity was populated, if at all. The Baltimore area had been inhabited by Native Americans since at least the 10th millennium BC, one Paleo-Indian site and several Archaic period and Woodland period archaeological sites have been identified in Baltimore, including four from the Late Woodland period. During the Late Woodland period, the culture that is called the Potomac Creek complex resided in the area from Baltimore to the Rappahannock River in Virginia. It was located on the Bush River on land that in 1773 became part of Harford County, in 1674, the General Assembly passed An Act for erecting a Court-house and Prison in each County within this Province. The site of the house and jail for Baltimore County was evidently Old Baltimore near the Bush River. In 1683, the General Assembly passed An Act for Advancement of Trade to establish towns, ports, one of the towns established by the act in Baltimore County was on Bush River, on Town Land, near the Court-House
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Death metal
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Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Building from the structure of thrash metal and early black metal. Bands such as Venom, Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Kreator were important influences on the genres creation, Possessed and Death, along with bands such as Obituary, Autopsy and Morbid Angel, are often considered pioneers of the genre. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, death metal gained more attention as popular genre niche record labels like Combat, Earache. Since then, death metal has diversified, spawning several subgenres, melodic death metal combines death metal elements with those of the new wave of British heavy metal. Technical death metal is a style, with uncommon time signatures, atypical rhythms. Death-doom combines the deep growled vocals and double-kick drumming of death metal with the slow tempos, deathgrind, goregrind and pornogrind mix the complexity of death metal with the intensity, speed, and brevity of grindcore. Deathcore combines death metal with metalcore traits, Death n roll combines death metals growled vocals and highly distorted, detuned guitar riffs with elements of 1970s hard rock and heavy metal. English heavy metal band Venom, from Newcastle, crystallized the elements of what became known as thrash metal, death metal and black metal. Their dark, blistering sound, harsh vocals, and macabre, another highly influential band, Slayer, formed in 1981. Although the band was a metal act, Slayers music was more violent than their thrash contemporaries Metallica, Megadeth. Their breakneck speed and instrumental prowess combined with lyrics about death, violence, war, according to AllMusic, their third album Reign in Blood inspired the entire death metal genre. It had a big impact on the genre such as Death, Obituary. While attributed as having a Slayer influence, current and former members of the band had actually cited Venom and Motörhead, as well as work by Exodus. Possessed arguably did more to further the cause of Death Metal than any of the acts on the scene back in the mid-late 80s. During the same period as the dawn of Possessed, an influential metal band was formed in Florida. Death, originally called Mantas, was formed in 1983 by Chuck Schuldiner, Kam Lee, in 1984 they released their first demo entitled Death by Metal, followed by several more. The tapes circulated through the tape trader world, quickly establishing the bands name, with Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene
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Melodic death metal
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Melodic death metal is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal. The style originated and developed in Sweden and the United Kingdom during the early, the Swedish death metal scene did much to popularize the style, soon centering in the Gothenburg metal scene. The vocal style typically combines harsh screaming, sung vocals, and death growls, writer Gary Sharpe-Young considered the Gothenburg scene the commercial salvation of death metal, Gothenburg became the new Tampa and the genre received a new lease on life. Its influence lead to the diversification of modern metalcore, with melodic metalcore gaining prominence in the 2000s, stewart Mason claims that the style has become very popular in the United States, using the term Swedecore to describe Scandinavian-style metal as played by non-Nordic bands. List of melodic death metal bands Swedish death metal
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Death growl
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A death growl is a vocal style usually employed by singers from death metal music genres, but also used in a variety of other heavy metal styles, such as metalcore. Death growls are sometimes criticized for their ugliness, however, the harshness of death growls is in keeping with death metals abrasive music style and often dark and obscene subject matter. The progressively more forceful enunciation of metal vocals has been noted from heavy metal to metal to death metal. Death metal, in particular, is associated with growled vocals, sociologist Deena Weinstein has noted of death metal, Vocalists in this style have a distinctive sound, growling and snarling rather than singing the words. Making ample use of the voice distortion box, Death growls are also known as death metal vocals, guttural vocals, death grunts, growled vocals, unclean vocals, harsh vocals, and also jocularly as Cookie Monster vocals. Growls can be obtained with various effects, but the effects are usually used to enhance rather than create. Voice teachers teach different techniques, but long-term use will take its toll if done incorrectly – these techniques are designed to reduce rather than eliminate harm. However it has shown by many vocalists that long-term use of these techniques can occur without causing harm to the voice. The techniques usually involve using the diaphragm and air pressure on the throat to form the sound, as a person tries to squeeze their throat, the sound gets less intense. Some vocalists tend to use too much pressure on their throats, growled vocals may have been a part of Viking music. In the 10th century, Arab merchant Abraham ben Jacob visited Denmark and commented on the music as follows. The growling sound coming from their throats reminds me of dogs howling, in 1966, The Who released the song Boris the Spider, which featured death growls sung in basso profondo by bass player John Entwistle. This can be considered one of the first uses of death growl in popular music, the use of growling, monstrous vocals for ominous effect in rock music can be traced at least as far back as I Put a Spell on You by Screamin Jay Hawkins in 1956. Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells, Part Two, from 1973, contains a section from 11,55 to 16,30 featuring extensive use of guttural vocals which are close in style to the modern death growl. In 1969 and the early 1970s, the song 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson is notable for its heavily distorted vocals sung by Greg Lake. The songs Iron Man by Black Sabbath and One of These Days by Pink Floyd both contain brief passages of ominously growled, low-pitched vocals against a background of rock riffs. Other examples are Roger Waters screams in some Pink Floyd songs, such as Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk, Careful with That Axe, Eugene. Punk rock bands like The Clash and the Stiff Little Fingers also regularly employed gruff sounding vocals, on the other hand, the low, raspy, aggressive pitch of Lemmy from Motörhead is not unlike the growl and can be thought to presage the current style
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Cannibal Corpse
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Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in December 1988, the band has released thirteen studio albums, as of 2015, they had achieved worldwide sales of two million units for combined sales of all their albums, making them the top-selling death metal band of all time. Bassist Alex Webster came up with the name Cannibal Corpse and they have had several lineup changes since their inception, with bassist Alex Webster and drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz being the only constant members. The members of Cannibal Corpse were originally inspired by thrash metal bands like Metallica, Slayer and Kreator, as well as death metal bands such as Morbid Angel. The bands album art and lyrics, drawing heavily on horror fiction, Cannibal Corpse was established in 1988 by members from earlier Buffalo-area death metal bands, Beyond Death, Leviathan, and Tirant Sin. The band played its first show at Buffalos River Rock Cafe in March 1989, shortly after recording a demo tape. Their full-length debut album, Eaten Back to Life, was released in August 1990, the band has had many line-up changes over the years. In 1993, founding member and guitarist Bob Rusay was dismissed from the group and was replaced by Malevolent Creation guitarist Rob Barrett. In 1995, during recording sessions for a new album, singer Chris Barnes was dismissed and was replaced by Monstrosity singer George Corpsegrinder Fisher, Barnes went on to perform with the band Six Feet Under, and later Torture Killer. In 1997, Barrett, who had originally replaced Rusay on guitar, left Cannibal Corpse to rejoin his previous bands Malevolent Creation, after Barrett left, he was replaced by guitarist Pat OBrien, who first appeared on Cannibal Corpses 1998 release Gallery of Suicide. Founding member and guitarist Jack Owen left Cannibal Corpse in 2004 to spend time on his second band. He joined Deicide in late 2004, jeremy Turner of Origin briefly replaced him as second guitarist on 2004s Tour of The Wretched Spawn. Barrett rejoined the band in 2005 and was first featured on the album Kill, writing for the next album began in November 2007, as presaged in an interview with bassist Alex Webster. Evisceration Plague, Cannibal Corpses eleventh studio album was released February 3,2009 and they also released a live DVD in 2011 entitled Global Evisceration. Cannibal Corpse released its twelfth album, Torture, in March 2012. In February 2014, Cannibal Corpse announced that began recording their thirteenth album, A Skeletal Domain. Sadistic Embodiment was released as a single in July, and all of the names of the songs on the album were announced the same day. The same month, Metal Blade announced the publication of the authorized biography Bible Of Butchery
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Monstrosity (band)
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Monstrosity is an American death metal band originating from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in the death metal scene of the early 1990s. Vocalist George Corpsegrinder Fisher and drummer Lee Harrison were the founders of Monstrosity, Harrison had just left the band Malevolent Creation and George Fisher gave up a band in his hometown of Maryland and came to Florida in 1991. Jon Rubin who had played guitar in Malevolent Creation also joined to form Monstrosity, Mark Van Erp played bass in the band Cynic and he left Cynic to join Monstrosity. The four members of Monstrosity signed with Nuclear Blast, Jason Gobel who was a member of Cynic helped Monstrosity record Imperial Doom when they entered the recording studio. He was never a member of Monstrosity, the album was released in 1992 by Nuclear Blast. Monstrosity toured Europe in support of the band Pestilence for this album, after a number of problems with the label, Lee Harrison formed his own music label, Conquest Music, in 1996. Now signed to Conquest Music, the band entered the studio again to record Millennium, guitarist Jon Rubin was replaced by Jason Morgan and bassist Mark Van Erp, by Kelly Conlon. George Corpsegrinder Fisher performed vocals and Lee Harrison was on drums, the album was licensed to Nuclear Blast Germany in 1996 for Europe and later re-released in 2002 by Hammerheart Records for Europe. After completing the recording of the album Millennium, Fisher joined Cannibal Corpse, Jason Avery replaced Fisher on vocals. In 1999, Monstrosity went back in the studio and this time they recorded In Dark Purity, the album was produced by Monstrosity and recorded at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida. Conquest Music licensed the album to Olympic/Slip Disc/Century Media for better distribution in the US and licensed the album to Metal Age, Jason Avery was the vocalist, Lee Harrison, the drummer, Tony Norman, the guitarist and Kelly Conlon, the bassist. In 2001, Conquest Music released a two-CD Monstrosity package, one CD was a live album Monstrosity recorded while on tour in the US. Included in the CD was Monstrositys infamous Horror Infinity demo and their Slaves, CD two features songs from their first album almost sounding exactly the same, but of course they arent. The double CD was licensed to Hammerheart Records in Europe, by 2004, Monstrosity was in the process of recording Rise to Power with members Jason Avery, Lee Harrison, Tony Norman, Sam Molina and Mike Poggione. The album was recorded at Audio Hammer Studio, Sanford, Florida and it was produced by Lee Harrison and Monstrosity and engineered by Jason Suecof. Conquest Music licensed the album to Metal Blade Records in Europe, Monstrosity toured the US in support of the album and they were invited by the Bogotá, Colombia government to headline a musical festival in Bogotá. Avery was replaced in December 2005 by Brian Werner, Werner performed vocal duties on the bands 2006 European tour, and subsequent U. S. shows. In December 2006, Werner was replaced by Mike Hrubovcak and Mark English joins Monstrosity, Monstrosity is now Mike Hrubovcak, Lee Harrison, Mark English and Mike Poggione
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Dethklok
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Dethklok is a virtual band featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse. The first official Dethklok album was released on September 25,2007, the album debuted at number 21 on Billboard Magazines Top 200 list. The band released Dethalbum II on September 29,2009, and toured with Mastodon, High on Fire, the bands third album, Dethalbum III, was released on October 16,2012. The soundtrack to the episode, Metalocalypse, The Doomstar Requiem was released on October 29,2013. A real band was set up in order to perform the music in live shows. Both bands were created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, the music heard on Metalocalypse is performed by Brendon Small, with others needed for live concerts and albums. Brendon Small is set to release his solo album, Brendon Smalls Galaktikon II. In the Metalocalypse series, Dethklok is depicted as an extremely popular, the bands fan base includes billions of metal fanatics, who frequently endanger themselves to watch the band perform live. With their widespread success and lucrative sponsorship contracts, Dethklok is ranked as the worlds seventh largest economy by the end of the second season. The members of Dethklok are often portrayed as incompetent at almost everything not related to their profession, the band struggles to perform everyday tasks, including shopping for groceries, preparing food, and maintaining proper social relationships. They are often assisted by their manager and lawyer, Charles Foster Offdensen, the bands actions and uncanny misfortune have caught the attention of an Illuminati-style council, known as The Tribunal. The Tribunal is portrayed as Dethkloks antagonist throughout the series, and they describe Dethklok as the worlds greatest cultural force. The leader of The Tribunal, however, frequently instructs the members to allow Dethklok to do as they will. Voiced by, Brendon Small Nathan Explosion is the frontman, lead vocalist, portrayed as a tall, bulky figure, with long black hair, black nails, and green eyes, Nathan speaks with a death growl even when not singing. He did not speak a word until he was five years old and in high school excelled only in frog dissection, according to his dating profile, Nathan describes his ethnicity as White/Native American. He was raised in New Port Richey, Florida and he is the lead songwriting force in Dethklok, and uses violent imagery or plot elements when writing and composing song material. Despite this, he seem to have some knowledge in specific areas, such as negotiating a contract, extensive knowledge of rock culture. He attempts to get his GED in Go Forth And Die, and only fails in part due to the bands influence and he does, however find his parents embarrassing as they are normal parents and not brutal as seen in Dethfam
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Suicide Silence
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Suicide Silence is an American deathcore band from Riverside, California. Formed in 2002, the band has released five studio albums, one EP. They have received an amount of praise, being awarded the Revolver Golden God award for Best New Talent in 2009. The group currently consists of vocalist Hernan Eddie Hermida, rhythm guitarist Chris Garza, lead guitarist Mark Heylmun, bassist Dan Kenny, Suicide Silence was founded in 2002 in Riverside, California. At the time, it was a project made up of musicians from other bands. Their first live show was performed locally in Riverside, with a line-up consisting of Chris Garza, Rick Ash, Mike Bodkins, Josh Goddard, despite being fired soon after, Womacks vocals appeared on the bands 2003 Death Awaits demo. After Death Awaits was completed, the began recording a second demo. It was by this time the members began committing more time to Suicide Silence. Soon after, they recorded and released their first studio effort and it was initially released by Third Degree Records, and later re-released in the UK through In at the Deep End Records. 2006 marked the departure of drummer Josh Goddard, who was replaced by Alex Lopez, the album was written, recorded and completed in 2007 and was mixed by Tue Madsen, produced by John Travis and features artwork by Dave McKean. The album was released on September 18,2007 and debuted at number 94 on the Billboard 200, the sales of that week ending combined with its later sales made The Cleansing one of the best-selling debut albums in Century Media history. With the success of their album, Suicide Silence were included to take part in Mayhem Festival that took place during the summer of 2008. Afterward, they toured Europe with Parkway Drive and Bury Your Dead, Suicide Silence then followed along with a tour in Australia with Parkway Drive, A Day to Remember and The Acacia Strain in mid-2008 during the time when they were included to perform at Sweat Fest. At this point Suicide Silence were beginning to gain a wide range of fans throughout the world, shortly before embarking on Mayhem Festival in summer 2008, Suicide Silences MySpace profile title read Suicide Silence, which was the first indication of ensuring the upcoming of their second album. On June 26,2008, Mitch Lucker appeared on the Headbangers Ball blog podcast, in the interview, Lucker stated that the album would be recorded through tracks as opposed of being recorded live, such as The Cleansing. He also said the new album would blow The Cleansing away, Machine was chosen by the band to be the producer of the album. The title for it was revealed as being No Time to Bleed, Suicide Silence began recording No Time to Bleed in February with production by acclaimed producer Machine and engineering by Will Putney. During Music as a Weapon as well as the bands Cleansing the Nation tour, they began to perform the songs No Time to Bleed, Your Creations, Lifted, in April they received the Revolver Golden God award for Most Innovative Band and performed at the awards show
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Chris Barnes (musician)
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Chris Barnes is an American musician mainly noted for his deep-throat vocals and explicitly violent lyrics. Barnes designed the original Cannibal Corpse logo, the Six Feet Under logo and also created the artwork for Warpath, Barnes had started his extreme metal career at the age of 19. His first band was a band called Tirant Sin, which was formed in 1986 in his hometown of Buffalo. Other members of Tirant Sin included Paul Mazurkiewicz, Bob Rusay, Cam V and Joe Morelli and Rich Ziegler. Tirant Sin recorded three demos, all released, Desecration of the Graves in February 1987, Chaotic Destruction in fall 1987 with Dennis John on vocals. Barnes appeared only on the demo, when he re-joined Tirant Sin in January 1988. Barnes wrote all of the lyrics on the albums Butchered at Birth through The Bleeding, when asked in an interview what was his favorite Cannibal Corpse album that he had worked on, he commented, I love them all, I really do. In the same interview when he was asked about his time with the band, he responded and it was pretty much my starting point – it wasnt exactly my starting point, but it was as a professional musician. I think that it helped bring about a certain style of music. Im really proud of the imagery, and the stories that I put together on all those albums. We set out to conquer the world though, and I think we did as far as our corner of the world was concerned, Barnes left Cannibal Corpse in 1995 because of personal differences with the rest of the band. He was then able to devote his attention to the band Six Feet Under. Barnes has commented that he is proud of what Ive done with them. Being booted out of Cannibal Corpse was pretty memorable but in a good way, I didnt feel I was able to write the way I wanted to so it was a good transition for me. There was speculation about Barnes returning to Cannibal Corpse, denied by Alex Webster and its not something any of us are interested in doing. Its nothing against him, but we prefer to move rather than live in the past. In 2005, Six Feet Under released 13, their sixth full-length album, in the same year, Six Feet Under released A Decade in the Grave, a box set highlighting the previous ten years of Six Feet Under. With the success of two metal bands already under his belt, Barnes joined the Finnish death metal band Torture Killer in fall 2005
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Six Feet Under (band)
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Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band consists of five members, founding vocalist Chris Barnes, guitarists Ray Suhy and Jack Owen, bassist Jeff Hughell and it was originally a side project formed by Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary. They have released albums, and are listed by Nielsen Soundscan as the fourth best-selling death metal act in the U. S. with album sales over 370,000. After Barnes and West joined forces, they recruited Terry Butler, who knew West from his involvement with Massacre, Six Feet Under first played in 1993 at clubs, performing mostly cover songs. The band began writing material in the middle of 1994. Because Barnes was already signed to Metal Blade Records with Cannibal Corpse and their first album, Haunted, was released on September 1,1995. Haunted was produced by Brian Slagel and Scott Burns, by this point Chris Barnes had made Six Feet Under his main priority. In 1996, in the process of recording the album Vile, Six Feet Unders next release was the Alive and Dead EP on October 29,1996. A dual studio/live EP, it contains three studio recordings and four tracks from Haunted performed live, the band released their second studio album, Warpath, on September 9,1997. In 1998, Allen West left to rejoin Obituary and was replaced by Steve Swanson and this is the only line-up change that the band had until January 2011. Combined with Barnes departure from Cannibal Corpse, the arrival of Swanson helped turn Six Feet Under from a mere side-project to a band in its own right, july 13,1999, saw the release of Six Feet Unders third studio album, Maximum Violence. As the name of the album suggests, the lyrics on this release are much more violent than on past releases, the band also recorded a death-metal retooling of the Kiss song War Machine. Maximum Violence had sold over 100,000 copies worldwide, a status that hadnt been reached for a while for a metal band during the late 90s when death metal saw a decline in popularity. It led to some unexpected events for the band. During the summer of 2000, Six Feet Under participated in the Vans Warped Tour, further pursuing their interest in cover songs, Six Feet Under released an album entirely of covers, Graveyard Classics, on October 24,2000. The songs were given death metal makeovers in regards to the timbre of the vocals and instruments, songs include Black Sabbaths Sweet Leaf, Deep Purples Smoke on the Water, and Jimi Hendrixs Purple Haze. The songwriting on True Carnage is more groove-oriented than past songs, the tracks are still crashing and mostly slow-paced, but have less static. The musicianship was also improved, and the production is complementary to the brutality, True Carnage peaked on the Billboard Heatseekers charts at number 18
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Technical death metal
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Technical death metal is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s by bands such as Death, Atrocity, Atheist, in 1990 Atrocity, with their first album Hallucinations, significantly influenced many bands. Atheists second album, Unquestionable Presence, Pestilences third album, Testimony of the Ancients, Human and later Death albums have proven especially influential on later 1990s technical death metal bands. In 1991, New Yorks grindcore-influenced Suffocation released their debut album Effigy of the Forgotten, the album subsequently became groundbreaking in the genre. Another Swedish band Opeth are an important band to this subgenre with albums such as My Arms, Your Hearse, Still Life
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Suffocation (band)
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Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1988 in Centereach, Long Island, New York, United States. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Charlie Errigo, drummer Eric Morotti and bassist Derek Boyer. The bands raw death metal style uses growled vocals with a guitar sound, fast and complex guitar riffs and drumming, open chord notes, breakdowns. Suffocation was formed in 1988 on Long Island, New York, by vocalist Frank Mullen, bassist Josh Barohn, guitarists Guy Marchais and Todd German, the quintet was mainly influenced by fellow American death metal bands as well as the British band Napalm Death and Brazilian Sepultura. Smith commented on meeting Hobbs for the first time, Thats where I first noticed, Wow, the bands first EP, Human Waste, was released through Relapse Records in 1991. The full-length debut album, Effigy of the Forgotten, recorded by producer Scott Burns at Tampas Morrisound Studios, in July 1991 bassist Josh Baron was replaced by Chris Richards, as the album became substantially influential in extreme metal music. After the following album, Breeding the Spawn, was released in 1993, the 1995 release Pierced from Within, which received better production than the previous release, was followed by extensive tours in Europe, Canada, Mexico and the United States. In 1998, Suffocation released the EP Despise the Sun via Vulture Records, the EP was re-released later in 2000 and 2002 by Relapse Records. Mullen and Hobbs reformed in 2003 with Smith, Marchais and Derek Boyer of the bands Deeds of Flesh, in April 2004, Relapse Records released Souls to Deny. In 2007, the band was featured in The History Channels promotional video for The Dark Ages documentary, playing the song Bind, Torture, in 2008, the band signed to the German Nuclear Blast Records and released their album Blood Oath in 2009. The album charted on the US Billboard 200 at number 135, in 2009, Relapse released the live album entitled Close of a Chapter—Live in Québec City, that was previously self-released by the band in 2005. The release of a documentary film Legacy of Violence was set for 2010, in May 2010, Suffocation toured with Napalm Death in South America and Mexico. In February,2012, Smith left the again, to be replaced by Dave Culross. In 2012, the band was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, since after the release of Pinnacle of Bedlam in 2013, Lead vocalist Frank Mullen announced that he will retire from full-time touring with the band due to his new job. He has since replaced by various live vocal stand ins, including Bill Robinson, John Gallagher. In January 2015 Suffocation began making posts revealing that they were in the process of recording demos for a new album with a release date of late 2015. In April 2016, the ensemble toured with Soulfly, Abnormality, Battlecross, suffocations technical death metal style is influenced by grindcore. With their debut album, Effigy of the Forgotten, Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for the genre for the 1990s, blabbermouth. net described Suffocation as American death metals most consistent and punishing standard-bearers and their style as brutal death metal
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Effigy of the Forgotten
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Effigy of the Forgotten is the debut full-length album by New York-based death metal band Suffocation, released in 1991. The cover artwork was created by Dan Seagrave, both this album and Pierced from Within have been re-released by Roadrunner Records as part of the Two from the Vault series. The album was dedicated to the memory of fellow metal band Atheists bassist Roger Patterson, effigy of the Forgotten is considered to be one of the first death metal albums to have a highly sophisticated level of technical proficiency. The guitars are very low-end and down tuned whilst using a lot of tremolo picking and fast alternate picked notes alongside a lot of fast blast beats drumming and quick fills involved. Sometime around the 2,56 mark within the track Liege of Inveracity is reportedly said to be the very first slam riff in death metal history, production Produced, engineered & mixed by Scott Burns Mastered by Eddy Schreyer
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Deathcore
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Deathcore is an extreme metal fusion genre that combines the characteristics of death metal and metalcore and sometimes hardcore punk. It makes use of death metal riffs and blast beats, as well as metalcore breakdowns, Deathcore gained most prominence within the southwestern United States, especially Arizona and inland southern California, which are home to many notable bands and various festivals. Deathcore combines death metal such as blast beats, down-tuned guitars, tremolo picking. The genre is defined by breakdowns and death metal riffs or metalcore riffs played in the usual death metal tuning. Like in other extreme metal genres, deathcore guitarists down-tune their guitars to give their music a heavier sound. Deathcore bands may also employ guitar solos as well, low growls and shrieked screams are common vocalizations. Some other techniques that deathcore vocalists have used include what is known as pig squeals, sung vocals in the genre are extremely rare and most deathcore bands have never used them, but the idea has been experimented with by a few bands such as All Shall Perish and Oceano. The term deathcore originated in the mid-1990s, in 1996, Nick Terry of Terrorizer magazine wrote, in spite of this, Antagony and Despised Icon are considered to be the pioneers of deathcore. However, Despised Icon has rejected the label, Nick Vasallo is credited as being the father of deathcore. Deathcore also began to gain popularity in the late 2000s. Notable bands that brought the genre in the highlight include Bring Me the Horizon, after its release, Whitechapels album This Is Exile sold 5,900 in copies, which made it enter the Billboard 200 chart at position 118. Their self-titled album peaked at number 65 on the Canadian Albums Chart and their third album A New Era of Corruption sold about 10,600 copies in the United States in its first week of being released and peaked at position number 43 on the Billboard 200 chart. Furthermore, Bring Me the Horizon won the 2006 Kerrang, awards for Best British Newcomer after they released their 2006 debut record Count Your Blessings. However, Bring Me the Horizon abandoned the genre after the release of this album. Lastly, San Diego natives Carnifex, witnessed success with their first album Dead in My Arms, on top of their non-stop touring and methodical songwriting resulted in Carnifex quickly getting signed to label Victory Records. A variety of deathcore bands experimented with other genres into their music as influence as time went by, for example, early material by the band Fallujah was described as carrying deathcore and black metal influence respectively. On the other hand, Emmure has been credited to be influenced by nu metal and was described as the new Limp Bizkit. Deathcore has been criticized and looked down upon, especially by fans of some other heavy metal subgenres
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You Can't Stop Me (album)
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You Cant Stop Me is the fourth album by deathcore band Suicide Silence. It was released on July 14,2014, by Nuclear Blast and you Cant Stop Me is the first album featuring vocalist Hernan Eddie Hermida, and the first album to not feature original singer Mitch Lucker, who died in 2012. In April 2014, it was revealed that the title and title track come from a set of lyrics that Mitch Lucker had left behind before he died. The songs music video was released on July 1,2014, on May 6,2014, the song Cease to Exist was released as the first single on the album, and was made available for purchase on iTunes. The lyric video to Cease to Exist was also released on Nuclear Blasts YouTube channel the same day, the second single off the album, Dont Die, was released on June 12,2014. All lyrics written by Hernan Eddie Hermida, except You Cant Stop Me and Ending Is the Beginning by Mitch Lucker, all music composed by Suicide Silence
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Sun Eater (album)
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Sun Eater is the fourth studio album by American death metal band Job for a Cowboy. It was released on November 11,2014 by Metal Blade Records, the album features session musician Danny Walker on drums and also features vocals from Cannibal Corpse vocalist George Corpsegrinder Fisher. The album entered the US Billboard 200 at #91, selling 3,900 copies in the first week, the album shows a very profound shift in the bands sound, pursuing a much more progressive musical style. Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the liner notes. Ames – layout Sun Eater at AllMusic Sun Eater at Metal Blade Records
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Death (metal band)
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Death was an American death metal band from Orlando, Florida, founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner. Death is considered to be one of the most influential bands in heavy metal and its debut album, Scream Bloody Gore, has been widely regarded as the first death metal record, while the bands driving force, Chuck Schuldiner, is acknowledged as the originator of extreme metal. Death had a lineup, with Schuldiner being the sole consistent member. The groups style also progressed, from the raw sound on its early albums to a more sophisticated one in its later stage, the band ceased to exist after Schuldiner died of brain cancer in December 2001, but remains an enduring metal brand. Founded in 1983 by Chuck Schuldiner under the name of Mantas in Orlando. Death was among the widely known, early pioneers of the death metal sound along with Californias Possessed. In the late 80s, the band was both a part of and integral in defining the death scene which gained international recognition with the release of albums by a number of area acts. Together with Kam Lee, and Rick Rozz, Schuldiner started to compose songs that were released on several rehearsal tapes in 1984 and these tapes, along with the Death by Metal demo, circulated through the tape-trader world, quickly establishing the bands name. In 1984, Schuldiner dissolved Mantas and quickly started a new band under the name Death and its members included the same Rick Rozz and Kam Lee. Another demo was released, called Reign of Terror, in 1985, the Infernal Death tape was recorded and released. Rick Rozz was out of the band by early 1985, Kam Lee played with Scott Carlson and Matt Olivo, bassist and guitarist respectively, of the band Repulsion for a short time. However, Kam had some problems that caused him to be ejected from the band. Olivo and Carlson left soon afterward, Schuldiner moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and recruited DRI drummer Eric Brecht, then recorded the Back from the Dead demo. However, Chuck was not happy with this incarnation of Death, in 1986, Schuldiner got an invitation from early Canadian thrash band Slaughter to play on their album, which he accepted, moving to Canada. However, this only lasted two weeks, and he returned to the States and he returned to Florida, then moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area again, where he joined with 17-year-old drummer Chris Reifert. They recorded the Mutilation demo, which led to a deal with Combat Records, owned by Important Distribution, Scream Bloody Gore was released in 1987, widely considered a genre template for death metal. Schuldiner briefly had a guitar player, John Hand. By this time Schuldiner had moved back to Florida, splitting with Reifert who had elected to remain in California, there, Schuldiner teamed up with former bandmate Rick Rozz and two members of Rozzs band Massacre, Terry Butler and Bill Andrews
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Slayer
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Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981 by guitarist Kerry King and drummer Dave Lombardo. Slayer rose to fame with its 1986 release Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the big four thrash metal bands, along with Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Since its debut album in 1983, the band has released studio albums. Four of the studio albums have received gold certification in the United States. The band has received five Grammy nominations, winning one in 2007 for the song Eyes of the Insane, Slayer has also played at several music festivals worldwide, including Unholy Alliance, Download and Ozzfest. Slayers musical style involves fast tremolo picking, double bass drumming, riffs in irregular scales, in the original line-up, King, Hanneman, and lead vocalist/bassist Tom Araya contributed to the bands lyrics, and all of the bands music was written by King, Hanneman and Lombardo. However, its music has been influential, often being cited by many bands as an influence musically, visually. Between 1991 and 2013, the band sold 4.9 million albums in the United States, Slayer was founded in 1981, when drummer Dave Lombardo met guitarist Kerry King. Upon meeting, the two discovered they had similar taste in music and in their aspirations. King soon introduced guitarist Jeff Hanneman and recruited Chilean-born bassist and vocalist Tom Araya, the band played cover versions of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest songs at clubs and parties in Southern California. Early shows relied on a Satanic image, which featured pentagrams, make-up, spikes, and inverted crosses. Rumors that the band was known as Dragonslayer, after the 1981 movie of the same name, were denied by King, as he stated, We never were. The band was invited to open for Bitch at the Woodstock Club in Anaheim, California, performing eight songs, six of which were covers. While playing a gig, the band was spotted by Brian Slagel, impressed with Slayer, he met with the band backstage and asked them to record an original song, Aggressive Perfector, for his upcoming Metal Massacre III compilation. The band agreed and the song created underground buzz, which led to Slagel offering the band a contract with Metal Blade. Without a recording budget, the band was forced to self-finance its debut album, combining the savings of Araya, who was employed as a respiratory therapist, and money borrowed from Kings father, the band entered the studio in November 1983. The album was rushed into release, hitting shelves three weeks after tracks were completed, the tour gave the band additional popularity, sales of Show No Mercy reached more than 20,000 in the US and another 20,000 worldwide. In August 1984, Slayer released a three song EP titled Haunting the Chapel, the EP featured a darker, more thrash-oriented style than its predecessor, and laid the groundwork for the future direction of the band
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Morbid Angel
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Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They have been described as one of the most influential and emulated bands in death metal, alongside Cannibal Corpse and their first four albums are considered classics in the genre. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked Morbid Angels 1989 debut Altars of Madness first in its list Top 40 greatest death metal albums, decibel magazine also rated guitarist Trey Azagthoth as the number one death metal guitarist ever. The bands original lyrical themes focused mostly on Satanism, occultism and anti-Christian subject matter, but from Blessed Are the Sick onward, the lyrics moved toward the ancient Sumerian gods. Much of this is a nod to the Simon Necronomicon, which was influenced by Sumerian mythology, the author H. P. Lovecraft, however, some anti-religious elements continue to permeate the lyrics. Morbid Angel was formed in 1984 in Tampa, Florida by guitarist Trey Azagthoth, the band made their debut in 1987 on the New Renaissance Records record label. They recorded their album, Abominations of Desolation, in 1986. In the early stages of their career the band developed a reputation for gruesome stage antics, in 1986, David Vincent joined the band, replacing Michael Manson and Sterling von Scarborough as vocalist and bassist respectively. Fellow Terrorizer drummer Pete Sandoval soon followed and their first studio album, Altars of Madness, was released in 1989, and is regarded by many as one of the most important death metal albums of all time. It is sometimes considered the first true death metal album,1991 saw the release of their second album, Blessed Are the Sick, which was met with widespread critical acclaim, and is considered by many to be a landmark release in the death metal genre. The album differed from its predecessor, showcasing a more side to the band. Following the success of Altars of Madness and Blessed are the Sick, in the Spring of 1992 Morbid Angel were signed by Irving Azoff to Giant Records for one album, with the option of five more. Later that same year, second guitarist Richard Brunelle was kicked out of the due to alleged substance abuse. On June 22,1993 the band released their third full-length album Covenant and their record label dedicated promotional resources to the album, and commissioned music videos for the songs Rapture and God of Emptiness. These music videos were put on rotation by MTV. The band released its fourth album, Domination, on May 9,1995. It proved to be a controversial album among fans, featuring a slower, more atmospheric. Music critic describes the sound as more groove-oriented
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Judas Priest
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Judas Priest are a British heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1969. The band has sold close to 50 million albums to date, MTV ranked them the second greatest metal band of all time. In 1989, they were named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging that subliminal messages on the song Better By You. The bands membership has seen much turnover, including a revolving cast of drummers in the 1970s, the current line-up consists of Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The bands best-selling album is 1982s Screaming for Vengeance with their most commercially successful line-up, featuring Halford, Tipton, Hill, guitarist K. K. Downing, and drummer Dave Holland. Their influence, while mainly Halfords operatic vocal style and the guitar sound of Downing. Their image of leather, spikes, and other articles of clothing were widely influential during the glam metal era of the 1980s. The Guardian referred to British Steel as the record that defines heavy metal, an earlier band with a different line-up had been formed in the West Midlands area in 1969 by Al Atkins, Bruno Stapenhill, John Partridge, and John Perry. Perry was killed in a car accident, according to Al Atkins. Stapenhill came up with the name Judas Priest from Bob Dylans song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, the band played their first gig on 25 November 1969 at The George Hotel in Walsall and then toured Scotland in December 1969 and January 1970. The group disbanded in April 1970 after their last gig on 20 April at The Youth Centre in Cannock, the line-up that took over the name of Judas Priest included lead guitarist Kenny K. K. Downing, bassist Ian Skull Hill and drummer John Ellis. The band was founded in October 1970 in Birmingham and they agreed to join with Atkins, who suggested using his old bands name, and rehearsed at Atkins mother-in-laws house in Stone Cross. The reformed group played their first gig on 16 March 1971 at St Johns Hall, with Downing as acting leader, the band moved away from their original blues influences to play hard rock. The quartet played around Birmingham and the areas with various drummers until 1974, sometimes opening for bands such as Budgie, Thin Lizzy. Eventually, financial difficulties and problems with their management, Tony Iommis company, IMA, led to the departure of Allan Atkins, at the time, Ian Hill was dating a Walsall woman who suggested her brother, Rob Halford, as the bands singer. Halford joined them, bringing drummer John Hinch from his previous band and this line-up toured the UK, often supporting Budgie, and even headlining some shows in Norway and Germany. Before the band entered the studio to record their first album, the two guitarists worked together to adapt the existing material and Tipton also received credits as a songwriter. In August 1974, the released their debut single Rocka Rolla
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Black Sabbath
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The band experienced multiple line-up changes, with Iommi being the only constant member throughout its history. Originally formed as a rock band, the group soon adopted the Black Sabbath moniker and began incorporating occult themes with horror-inspired lyrics. They also composed songs about social instability, political corruption and drugs, Osbournes regular use of alcohol and other drugs led to his dismissal from the band in 1979. He was replaced by former Rainbow vocalist Ronnie James Dio, in 1992, Iommi and Butler rejoined Dio and drummer Vinny Appice to record Dehumanizer. The original line-up reunited with Osbourne in 1997 and released a live album Reunion, Black Sabbaths final studio album and nineteenth overall,13, features all of the original members but Ward. A year after embarking on a tour, the band played their final concert in their home city of Birmingham on 4 February 2017. Iommi has stated, however, that he has not ruled out the possibility of new material or one-off shows under the Black Sabbath name, Black Sabbath are often cited as pioneers of heavy metal music. The band helped define the genre with releases such as Black Sabbath, Paranoid and they were ranked by MTV as the Greatest Metal Band of all time, and placed second in VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock list. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them number 85 in their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and they have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and they have also won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance. Following the break-up of their previous band Mythology in 1968, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward sought to form a blues rock band in Aston. The new group was named the Polka Tulk Blues Band, the name taken either from a brand of talcum powder or an Indian/Pakistani clothing shop. The Polka Tulk Blues Band featured slide guitarist Jimmy Phillips, a friend of Osbournes. After shortening the name to Polka Tulk, the band changed their name to Earth and continued as a four-piece without Phillips. Iommi became concerned that Phillips and Clarke lacked the dedication and were not taking the band seriously. Rather than asking them to leave, they decided to break up. While the band was performing under the Earth title, they recorded several demos written by Norman Haines such as The Rebel, Song for Jim, the demo titled Song for Jim was in reference to Jim Simpson. Jim Simpson was a manager for the bands Bakerloo Blues Line, Simpson was also a trumpet player for the group Locomotive
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Iron Maiden
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Iron Maiden are a British heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. The bands discography has grown to thirty-eight albums, including sixteen studio albums, eleven albums, four EPs. Pioneers of the new wave of British heavy metal, Iron Maiden achieved initial success during the early 1980s,1 in 28 countries and receiving widespread critical acclaim. Their sixteenth studio album, The Book of Souls, was released on 4 September 2015 to similar success, the band won the Ivor Novello Award for international achievement in 2002. As of October 2013, the band have played over 2000 live shows throughout their career. For the past 35 years, the band have been supported by their famous mascot, Eddie, Iron Maiden were formed on Christmas Day in 1975 by bassist Steve Harris shortly after he left his previous group, Smiler. Harris attributes the name to a film adaptation of The Man in the Iron Mask from the novel by Alexandre Dumas. After months of rehearsal, Iron Maiden made their debut at St. Nicks Hall in Poplar on 1 May 1976, before taking up a semi-residency at the Cart and Horses Pub in Maryland Point, Stratford. The original line-up did not last very long, however, with vocalist Paul Day being the first casualty as, according to Harris and he was replaced by Dennis Wilcock, a Kiss fan who used make-up and fake blood during live performances. Wilcocks friend Dave Murray was invited to join, to the dismay of the bands guitarists Dave Sullivan and their frustration led Harris to temporarily disband Iron Maiden in 1976, though the group reformed soon after with Murray as the sole guitarist. Steve Harris and Dave Murray remain the bands longest-standing members and have performed on all of their releases, Iron Maiden recruited yet another guitarist in 1977, Bob Sawyer, who was sacked for embarrassing the band on stage by pretending to play guitar with his teeth. Tension ensued again, causing a rift between Murray and Wilcock, who convinced Harris to fire Murray, as well as original drummer Ron Matthews. A new line-up was put together, including future Cutting Crew member Tony Moore on keyboards, Terry Wapram on guitar, and drummer Barry Purkis. A bad performance at the Bridgehouse, a pub located in Canning Town, in November 1977 was the line-ups first and only concert, at the same time, Moore was asked to leave as Harris decided that keyboards did not suit the bands sound. A few months later, Dennis Wilcock decided that he had had enough with the group and left to form his own band, V1, as he preferred to be the bands sole guitarist, Wapram disapproved of Murrays return and was also dismissed. Steve Harris, Dave Murray and Doug Sampson spent the summer, a chance meeting at the Red Lion pub in Leytonstone in November 1978 evolved into a successful audition for vocalist Paul DiAnno. Steve Harris has stated, Theres sort of a quality in Pauls voice, a raspiness in his voice, or whatever you want to call it, that just gave it this great edge. At this time, Murray would typically act as their sole guitarist, with Harris commenting, the plan was always to get a second guitarist in, but finding one that could match Davey was really difficult
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Metallica
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Metallica is an American heavy metal band based in San Rafael, California. The band was formed in 1981 in Los Angeles when vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield responded to an advertisement posted by drummer Lars Ulrich in a local newspaper, Metallicas current line-up comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band, the bands fast tempos, instrumentals, and aggressive musicianship placed them as one of the founding big four bands of thrash metal, alongside Anthrax, Megadeth, and Slayer. The band expanded its musical direction and achieved commercial success with its eponymous fifth album Metallica. The album was also their first to debut at number one on the Billboard 200, in 2000, Metallica joined with other artists who filed a lawsuit against Napster for sharing the bands copyright-protected material without consent from the band. A settlement was reached and Napster became a pay-to-use service, the band returned to its original musical style with the release of Death Magnetic, and in 2009, Metallica was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Metallica has released ten albums, four live albums, five extended plays,26 music videos. The band has won eight Grammy Awards and six of its albums have debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The bands eponymous 1991 album has sold over 16 million copies in the United States, Metallica ranks as one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, having sold over 110 million records worldwide. Metallica has been listed as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines, including Rolling Stone, in 2012, Metallica formed the independent record label Blackened Recordings and took full ownership of its albums and videos. The band is currently promoting Hardwired. to Self-Destruct, which was released on November 18,2016, guitarists James Hetfield and Hugh Tanner of Leather Charm answered the advertisement. Although he had not formed a band, Ulrich asked Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel if he could record a song for the upcoming compilation album Metal Massacre. Slagel accepted and Ulrich recruited Hetfield to sing and play rhythm guitar, the band was officially formed in October 1981, five months after Ulrich and Hetfield first met. Ulrich talked to his friend Ron Quintana, who was brainstorming names for a fanzine, Quintana had proposed the names MetalMania and Metallica. A second advertisement was placed in The Recycler for a position as lead guitarist, Dave Mustaine answered, Ulrich and Hetfield recruited him after seeing his expensive guitar equipment. In early 1982, Metallica recorded its first original song Hit the Lights for the Metal Massacre I compilation, Hetfield played bass on the song and Lloyd Grant was credited with a guitar solo. Metal Massacre I was released on June 14,1982, early pressings listed the band incorrectly as Mettallica, the bands first taste of live success came early, they were chosen to open for British heavy metal band Saxon at one gig of their 1982 US tour. Metallica recorded its first demo, Power Metal, an inspired by Quintanas early business cards in early 1982
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Unleashed in the East
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Unleashed in the East is Judas Priests first live album, recorded live in Tokyo, Japan during their Hell Bent for Leather Tour in 1979. It is the first Priest album to be produced by Tom Allom who would remain at the helm for the decade for the band. To what extent the album was really live remains a matter of contention, three of these were from their then-current album Killing Machine, which was not well represented on the original release. Delivering the Goods and Starbreaker had been exclusive to the Japanese release, although the former would be one of the B-side tracks to the Living After Midnight 12 inch, released in March 1980. These four tracks were available on the Japanese pressing of the album. This live version of Evil Fantasies had an official CD release on Single Cuts, albeit with a 6-second edit to the start, which trims Halfords chat slightly. Beyond the Realms of Death was pressed with Rock Forever and Hell Bent for Leather on a special 3 track live EP that came with initial UK pressings of Unleashed In The East. There is also a 1979 UK cassette version with 12 songs, Rock Forever, Hell Bent for Leather, to date, this version of Beyond The Realms Of Death has still to be released on CD. All the extra songs are produced, and are of the same quality as the original nine tracks. Certain bootlegs have turned up with all fifteen tracks put in the original setlist order, two more songs, White Heat, Red Hot and Take on the World were performed but never officially recorded. However, the Take On the World 12 inch single, released in late 1978, included a version of White Heat, Red Hot recorded at The Agora in Cleveland. These tracks are available on the Priest, Live and Rare CD and they are not the same versions as on Unleashed in the East. The band was trying to avoid repetition by not including songs on the official full-length live album that were already available as live versions on singles. Judas Priest Rob Halford – vocals K. K
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Sodom (band)
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Sodom is a German thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1981. They have gone through many changes, leaving bassist/vocalist Tom Angelripper as the only constant member. Along with Kreator, Destruction and Tankard, Sodom is considered one of the Big 4 of Teutonic thrash metal, to date, Sodom has released fifteen studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums and six EPs. They achieved their first commercial success with their studio album Agent Orange, which was the first thrash metal album to enter the German album charts. Sodom remains one of the thrash metal acts of all time. Sodoms original line-up consisted of Tom Angelripper, Bloody Monster, Arius Blasphemer, the band was initiated by Tom as a desperate attempt to get out of having to work in coal mines in his home town of Gelsenkirchen. Wulf did not last in the long, and later went. For the most part, Sodom was at first not taken seriously, Frank Blackfire Gosdzik came in to fill the guitar spot Wulf had left behind. Frank convinced Tom that thrash metal was moving beyond horror/occult/satanic themes of bands like Venom to embrace political, societal, Tom was already interested in various wars yet remained a peacenik. New inspiration culminated into Franks full-length debut with the band, Persecution Mania, the new lyrical approach and increased musicianship on the part of Frank gave the band great acclaim. They soon embarked on a tour of Europe with the Swiss thrash metal band Coroner, after touring for the better part of 1987 and 1988, the band returned to the studio to make another album. The final product, Agent Orange, sold 100,000 copies in Germany alone and this made Sodom famous, giving them worldwide critical acclaim, and secured their place alongside Kreator and Destruction as one of the great Teutonic thrash metal bands. To this date, Agent Orange has sold more than any other German thrash-metal album in the world, problems were brewing inside of the band, however. Tom and Chris descended further into alcoholism, furthermore, Frank had grown tired of composing music that his band-mates would often perform poorly live. Mille Petrozza offered Frank a position with his band Kreator, after they lost their second guitarist, Angelripper went out looking for a replacement and found Michael Hoffman, formerly of German thrashers Assassin. With this line-up, the album Better off Dead was released in 1990, during the South American tour however, Hoffman decided to stay in Brazil and was therefore forced to quit. Andy Brings replaced him, and a new album was recorded, Tapping the Vein, with more of a death metal sound. This proved to be the last album with the drummer Witchhunter, He was kicked out of the band, on September 15,1991, Sodom played in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Live After Death
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Live After Death is a live album and video by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, originally released in October 1985 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in the US. It was recorded at Long Beach Arena, California and Hammersmith Odeon, London during the bands World Slavery Tour. The theatricality of the show meant that it would become one of the bands most acclaimed tours, making it the perfect backdrop to their first live double album. For the Live After Death video, the band hired director Jim Yukich to film two shows of their four night run at Long Beach Arena, California from 14 to 17 March 1985. The double LP release was recorded at Long Beach, although side four contains additional tracks. According to bassist Steve Harris, while the video used footage from two nights at Long Beach, the version is only made up of one performance. Harris also says that, even if they had had the time, they would not have added any studio overdubbing to the soundtrack, stating that we were really all that. We were very much, like, This has got to be totally live, since its release, the album has received consistent critical praise, with reviewers remarking that it is one of the genres best live albums. For the band, the release was extremely advantageous as it meant they could delay the recording of their follow up studio album. This time off following the World Slavery Tour was extremely beneficial for the band, the cover art was done by Derek Riggs, and pictures the bands mascot, Eddie, rising from a grave. Engraved on his tombstone is a quote from fantasy and horror fiction author H. P. Lovecrafts The Nameless City, also engraved onto the headstone is what appears to be Eddies full name, Edward T H--, the remainder of which is obscured by a clump of sod. The back cover depicts the rest of the graveyard and a city being destroyed by lightning, Death appears in the clouds above the destroyed city, the character is a regular feature of Riggs covers. To the cats left, there is a tombstone engraved with Here lies Derek Riggs, the intro before Aces High is a part of the We shall fight on the beaches speech made by Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on 4 June 1940. It was later used for their Ed Hunter Tour, Somewhere Back in Time World Tour, sputnikmusic argues that it is the bands best live album, concluding that Iron Maidens 1985 release has everything you could ask for. With, exciting renditions of songs, and brilliant performances. PopMatters describes it as a searing, 102-minute collection of Maiden at peak, an absolute treasure for fans went on to be universally regarded as an instant classic in the genre. The albums video counterpart received similar acclaim, with AllMusic stating that Live After Death is a visual pleasure as much as a sonic one. The elaborate staging and lighting effects are excellent, the editing is superb as well very few rapid-fire, seizure-inducing camera cuts
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Deicide (band)
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Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987 by bassist and vocalist Glen Benton and drummer Steve Asheim as Amon. They would later change the name to Deicide in 1989. The band rose to success in 1992 with their second album Legion. Since their debut album in 1990, Deicide has released studio albums, one live album. In November 2003, their first two albums, Deicide and Legion, were ranked second and third respectively in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era. Deicide is known for their lyrics, which cover such as Satanism, anti-Christianity. Their lyrics have resulted in bans, lawsuits and criticism from religious groups, Deicide was formed in Tampa, Florida on July 21,1987, after guitarist Brian Hoffman called Glen Benton, replying to an advertisement the latter had placed in a local music magazine. Hoffman and his brother, along with drummer Steve Asheim, had played together as the band Carnage. Carnage played cover songs of Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, the new band, called Amon, consisted of Benton, Hoffman, Hoffmans brother Eric and Steve Asheim. Within a month, they had recorded the Feasting the Beast 8-track demo in Bentons garage and had started playing the occasional gig in the Tampa area, in 1989, Amon recorded their second demo, Sacrificial, at Morrisound with producer Scott Burns. Malevolent Creation guitarist Phil Fasciana recalls an early Carnage show, It was like Slayer intensified a thousand times, I guess Carnage had hollowed out a mannequin and filled it with fuckin blood and guts from a butcher shop. And then they threw the fuckin thing on the floor, morbid Angel had these pit bulls with them back then and they were just tearing the meat up. It was a really weird scene, man, there was blood and meat everywhere. Benton reportedly stormed into Roadrunner Records A&R man Monte Connors office and presented him with the demo, saying, Sign us, the next day contracts were issued to the band. In 1989 the bands name was changed to Deicide at the request of Roadrunner Records, Deicide then released their self-titled debut album, also produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound, in 1990. Their debut featured re-recorded versions of all six of the Sacrificial tunes that had secured them their record deal, both Eric and Brian tended to play technical solos at fast speeds and with overlapping riffs, which gave Deicide the definitive heavy sound and complex song structures. This lineup remained intact until November 25,2004, in the wake of increasing animosity between Glen Benton and the Hoffman brothers allegedly in regards to royalties and publishing, the Hoffman brothers later went to reform Amon. Shortly after, the roles were then filled by ex-Cannibal Corpse guitarist Jack Owen
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Glen Benton
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Glen Benton is an American death metal musician. He is currently collaborating with Egyptian Artist Nader Sadek on his next record The Malefic and he is known for very low guttural growls as well as very high shrieks. Benton was born in Niagara Falls, New York but was raised in Tampa and it was here on July 21,1987, after guitarist Brian Hoffman replied to Bentons advertisement in a local music magazine, Deicide was formed. Within days the band, consisting of Benton, Hoffman, Hoffmans brother Eric and Steve Asheim, was named Amon, within a month, Amon had recorded the crude Feasting the Beast 8-track demo in Bentons garage and had started playing the occasional gig in the Tampa area. In 1989, Amon recorded their demo, Sacrificial, at Morrisound with producer Scott Burns. Benton reportedly stormed into Roadrunner Records A&R man Monte Conners office and presented him with the demo, saying, Sign us, the next day contracts were issued to the band. Benton is known for his Satanist and Anti-Christian beliefs and views of todays corrupt religious systems and he is renowned for an inverted cross he has repeatedly branded into his forehead over the years. According to Steve Asheim, this act was likely in response to press attention the band received when Brian Hoffman burned an inverted cross into his arm with a cigarette. In early years, Benton was ostensibly a theistic satanist, he implied he had held the belief of the Christian God, in the July 2008 issue of Revolver Magazine, Benton stated there was no ideological agenda in Deicide and the music was first and foremost. This claim that he would commit suicide at the age of 33 continued throughout the 1990s, however, he passed that age in 2000 and did not commit suicide. In 2006, he stated that these statements had been asinine remarks, in the early-to-mid-1990s, Benton was a frequent opponent guest to Christian radio shows, such as Bob Larsons Talk Back show. Though a serious discussion rarely took place on the program, the exchanges between the two consisted of taunts from Benton and tongue-in-cheek teasing. Larson continually invited Benton to his show, but Benton often declined. He is not one who studies the true Satanic, Luciferian ideologies and he is more of a bitter bible basher, in his lyrics and mannerisms. There are very rarely any, to practically no Satanic theorems of the Left hand Path Philosophies, let alone incantations and he basically just pontificates his hatred for Christianity and its idiocy to those who follow it. Theres nothing wrong with that, it has seemed to work for him as with his ranting ways, in 1993, newspapers reported that Benton had expressed an interest in, and participated in, the burning of live rodents such as rats and squirrels. The publicity led to a bomb attack on Benton during Deicides Legion tour at the International 2 in Manchester, England. A similar attack was attempted at a show in Stockholm
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World of Warcraft
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World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe. Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2,2001, the game was released on November 23,2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise. The first expansion set of the game, The Burning Crusade, was released on January 16,2007, the second expansion set, Wrath of the Lich King, was released on November 13,2008. The third expansion set, Cataclysm, was released on December 7,2010, the fourth expansion set, Mists of Pandaria, was released on September 25,2012. The fifth expansion set, Warlords of Draenor, was released on November 13,2014, the sixth expansion set, Legion, was released on August 30,2016. In January 2014, Blizzard announced that more than 100 million accounts had been created over the games lifetime, players may instead use a trial account that lets the player character reach level 20 for free but has many features locked. To enter the game, the player must select a server, each realm acts as an individual copy of the game world and falls into one of four categories. RP – a variant of PvE, where players roleplay in-character, rP-PvP – roleplay-PvP – a variant of PvP, where players are in-character and cross-faction combat is assumed. Realms are also categorized by language, with support in the language available. Players can make new characters on all realms within the region, to create a new character, in keeping with the storyline of previous Warcraft games, players must choose between the opposing factions of the Alliance or the Horde. Characters from the factions can perform rudimentary communication, but only members of the same faction can speak, mail, group. The player selects the new race, such as orcs or trolls for the Horde. Players must select the class for the character, with such as mages, warriors. Most classes are limited to particular races, as characters become more developed, they gain various talents and skills, requiring the player to further define the abilities of that character. Characters can choose two primary professions that can focus on producing items, such as tailoring, blacksmithing or jewelcrafting or on gathering from resource nodes, characters can learn all four secondary skills, archeology, cooking, fishing and first aid. Much of World of Warcraft play involves the completion of quests and these quests are usually available from NPCs. Quests usually reward the player with some combination of points, items
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Washington Wizards
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The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D. C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association, as a club of the leagues Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its games at the Verizon Center, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington. The team now known as the Wizards began playing as the Chicago Packers in 1961, as the first modern expansion team in NBA history, an expansion prompted by Abe Sapersteins American Basketball League. Rookie Walt Bellamy was the star, averaging 31.6 points per game,19.0 rebounds per game. During the All-Star game, Bellamy represented the team while scoring 23 points, Bellamy was named the league Rookie of the Year, but was the team finished with the NBAs worst record at 18-62. The teams original nickname was a nod to Chicagos meatpacking industry, their home arena, however, it was extremely unpopular since it was the same nickname used by the NFLs Green Bay Packers, bitter rivals of the Chicago Bears. After only one year, the changed its name to the Chicago Zephyrs. Their only season as the Zephyrs boasted former Purdue star Terry Dischinger, in their first year in Baltimore, the Bullets finished fourth in a five–team Western Division. Prior to the 1964–65 NBA season the Bullets pulled off a trade, sending Dischinger, Rod Thorn and Don Kojis to the Detroit Pistons for Bailey Howell, Don Ohl, Bob Ferry. The trade worked out well, Howell proved to be a hustling, in the 1965 NBA Playoffs, the Bullets stunned the St. Louis Hawks 3–1, and advanced to the Western Conference finals. In the finals, Baltimore managed to split the first four games with the Los Angeles Lakers before losing the series 4–2. In the late 1960s, the Bullets drafted two future Hall of Fame members, Earl Monroe, in the 1967 draft, number two overall, and Wes Unseld, in the 1968 draft, also number two overall. The team improved dramatically, from 36 wins the season to 57 in the 1968–69 season. The Bullets reached the playoffs with high expectations to go far, the next season the two teams met again in the first round, and although this one went to seven games, the Knicks emerged victorious again. In the 1970–71 season, the 42–40 Bullets again met the 1970–71 Knicks and they were swept in four games by the powerful Milwaukee Bucks led by future Hall of Fame members Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson. Even after the trades of Earl Monroe and Gus Johnson, the Bullets remained a playoff contender throughout the 1970s. Following a less than spectacular 1971–72 season, Baltimore acquired Elvin Hayes from the Houston Rockets and drafted Kevin Porter in the third round, out of St. Francis in Pennsylvania
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Denver Broncos
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The Denver Broncos are an American football team based in Denver, Colorado. The Broncos compete in the National Football League as a club of the leagues American Football Conference West division. The team began play in 1960 as a member of the American Football League. The Broncos are owned by the Pat Bowlen trust, the Broncos have played at Sports Authority Field at Mile High since 2001, after previously playing at Mile High Stadium from 1960 to 2000. The Broncos were barely competitive during their 10-year run in the AFL and they did not complete a winning season until 1973. In 1977, four years later, they qualified for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, since 1975, the Broncos have become one of the NFLs more successful teams, having suffered only six losing seasons. However, the Broncos have the NFL record for most Super Bowl losses and they have five players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, John Elway, Floyd Little, Gary Zimmerman, Shannon Sharpe, and the most recently elected member, Terrell Davis. The Denver Broncos were founded on August 14,1959, when Minor League Baseball owner Bob Howsam was awarded an American Football League charter franchise, the Broncos won the first-ever AFL game over the Boston Patriots 13–10, on September 9,1960. On August 5,1967, they became the first-ever AFL team to defeat an NFL team, however, the Broncos were not successful in the 1960s, compiling a record of 39–97–4 in the league. Denver came close to losing its franchise in 1965, until an ownership group took control. The teams first superstar, Franchise Floyd Little, was instrumental in keeping the team in Denver, due to his signing in 1967 as well as his Pro Bowl efforts on, in 1972, the Broncos hired former Stanford University coach John Ralston as their head coach. In 1973, he was the UPIs AFC Coach of the Year, in five seasons with the Broncos, Ralston guided the team to winning seasons three times. Though Ralston finished the 1976 season with a 9–5 record, the team, as was the case in Ralstons previous winning seasons, following the season, several prominent players publicly voiced their discontent with Ralston, which soon led to his resignation. Dan Reeves became the youngest head coach in the NFL when he joined the Broncos in 1981 as vice president, quarterback John Elway, who played college football at Stanford, arrived in 1983 via a trade. Prior to Elway, the Broncos had over 24 different starting quarterbacks in its 23 seasons to that point, Reeves and Elway guided the Broncos to six post-season appearances, five AFC West divisional titles, three AFC championships and three Super Bowl appearances during their 12-year span together. Reeves was fired after the 1992 season and replaced by his protégé and friend Wade Phillips, Phillips was fired after a mediocre 1994 season, in which management felt he lost control of the team. In 1995, Mike Shanahan, who had served under Reeves as the Broncos offensive coordinator. Shanahan drafted rookie running back Terrell Davis, in 1996, the Broncos were the top seed in the AFC with a 13–3 record, dominating most of the teams that year
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Metalocalypse
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Metalocalypse is an American animated television series, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, which premiered on August 6,2006 on Adult Swim. The show can be seen as both a parody and celebration of heavy metal culture, the music, written by guitarist/creator Brendon Small, is credited to the band and featured in most episodes. The animation is often carefully synced to the music with the chord positions, a one-hour special entitled Metalocalypse, The Doomstar Requiem was released on October 27,2013. In the series, Dethklok is a metal band which enjoys a popularity level unheard of in reality. The fictional band members are Nathan Explosion, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, Pickles, William Murderface and their manager is Charles Foster Offdensen. If Dethklok endorses a product or service, competitors are driven out of business. The members of Dethklok tend to cause disaster wherever they travel, the band is shown to have a callous disregard for their fans safety, as shown in the first episode where they pour scalding hot coffee over concertgoers. The bands popularity is such that impressionable fans will do anything for them, even if that means death, the bands unnatural popularity and trail of destruction has attracted the attention of an Illuminati-style group, known as The Tribunal, dedicated to monitoring Dethkloks activity and plans. Typically, episodes involve the Tribunal attempting to maintain and perpetuate public ignorance, the Tribunal, led by a mysterious character named Mr. Salacia, works off the premise that Dethkloks unusual powers are the result of an ancient Sumerian prophecy about an Apocalypse of Metal. Brendon Smalls show Home Movies ended its run in 2004, which freed Small to spend time with writer friend Tommy Blacha and they went to metal shows around the same time they were both trying to pitch shows to different networks. This was how they came up with the idea of doing a show about a band that was vastly more popular than The Beatles had been. They came up with the storyline, wrote a song and had friend Jon Schnepp design the characters. The series was originally called Deathclock, but the name could not be used due to an existing trademark, the show and the main characters band were then renamed Dethklok. The shows title was extended to Dethklok Metalocalypse, although the starring band still retained the name Dethklok. The title was shortened to Metalocalypse because the extended show title was too complicated. They pitched the show to Adult Swim, which greenlit it in 2005 with a 20-episode contract, the shows first season consists of 20 11-minute episodes, the first of which premiered on the Adult Swim Video on August 4,2006 and on Adult Swim proper the following Sunday. Metalocalypse was renewed for a season consisting of 20 episodes which began airing September 23,2007. An updated version of the Deththeme was featured in the season as well
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Metal Masked Assassin
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This is a list of characters in the American animated television series Metalocalypse. Survival from near fatal injuries in the show is a running gag. Dethklok is depicted as a popular and successful death metal band, described by their adversaries. The band has five members, frontman and lead vocalist Nathan Explosion, lead guitarist Skwisgaar Skwigelf, rhythm guitarist Toki Wartooth, drummer Pickles the drummer, the bands fan base includes billions of metal fanatics, who frequently endanger themselves to watch the band perform live. With their widespread success and lucrative sponsorship contracts, Dethklok is ranked as the worlds seventh largest economy. The members of Dethklok are often portrayed as incompetent at almost everything not directly related to their profession, the band struggles to perform everyday tasks, including shopping for groceries, preparing food, and maintaining proper social relationships. The Tribunal is an Illuminati-style group which monitors Dethklok and they appear in almost every episode to discuss Dethkloks latest activities and the dangers they pose. They seem to fear that Dethklok are part of an ancient Sumerian prophecy, in an early version of the Metalocalypse theme song posted on Brendon Smalls personal website, the voice snippets suggest that a death clock would be discovered and used by the members of the band. The episode The Metalocalypse Has Begun suggests that the event in the prophecy is an apocalypse of metal. The groups briefings are led by Senator Stampingston, who usually has experts speak based on whatever Dethklok is doing in the episode, the group has both military and religious leaders in its ranks, among others. At its head is Mr. Salacia, a man who sits in a throne in the center. There are four members, but none of them have been named. Behind the sitting members of the Tribunal are monitors showing the faces of eight more men appearing via video conferencing, the room the group meets in also becomes progressively larger and more elaborate as the series progresses. Voiced by, Mark Hamill Senator Stampingston is the speaker who reports on Dethkloks current activities. Its never made clear if he represents a state or if he simply was a past senator. He stands to the side of the television screen in the briefing room. When his back is seen, there is a scar on the back of his head. He has a diplomatic standpoint for the issues against Dethklok, often recommending espionage and he keeps a professional and calm attitude towards Dethklok, he knows they are a threat, but he never overreacts and he is rarely the one who comes up with ideas
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Blizzard Entertainment
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Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and is a subsidiary of the American company Activision Blizzard. The company was founded on February 8,1991, under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of the University of California, Los Angeles, Michael Morhaime, Frank Pearce, and Allen Adham. In 1994 the company became Chaos Studios, then Blizzard Entertainment, shortly thereafter, Blizzard released Warcraft, Orcs & Humans. On July 9,2008, Activision merged with Vivendi Games, on July 25,2013, Activision Blizzard announced the purchase of 429 million shares from majority owner Vivendi. As a result, Activision Blizzard became an independent company. Blizzard Entertainment was founded by Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham, and Frank Pearce as Silicon & Synapse on February 8,1991, in the early days, the company focused on creating game ports for other studios. Ports include titles such as J. R. R, tolkiens The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I and Battle Chess II, Chinese Chess, in 1993, the company developed games such as Rock n Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. In early 1994, they were acquired by distributor Davidson & Associates for $6.75 million and that same year the company briefly changed its name to Chaos Studios, before finally settling on Blizzard Entertainment. Shortly thereafter, Blizzard shipped their breakthrough hit Warcraft, Orcs & Humans, Blizzard has changed hands several times since then. Davidson was acquired along with Sierra On-Line by a company called CUC International in 1996, CUC then merged with a hotel, real-estate, and car-rental franchiser called HFS Corporation to form Cendant in 1997. In 1998 it became apparent that CUC had engaged in accounting fraud for years before the merger, cendants stock lost 80% of its value over the next six months in the ensuing widely discussed accounting scandal. The company sold its consumer operations, Sierra On-line to French publisher Havas in 1998. Blizzard was part of the Vivendi Games group of Vivendi, in July 2008 Vivendi Games merged with Activision, using Blizzards name in the resulting company, Activision Blizzard. In 1996, Blizzard acquired Condor Games, which had been working on the game Diablo for Blizzard at the time, Condor was renamed Blizzard North, and has since developed the games Diablo, Diablo II, and its expansion pack Lord of Destruction. Blizzard North was located in San Mateo, California, the company originated in Redwood City, California. Blizzard launched their online gaming service Battle. net in January 1997 with the release of their action role-playing game Diablo, in 2004, Blizzard opened European offices in the Paris suburb of Vélizy, Yvelines, France. On May 16,2005, Blizzard announced the acquisition of Swingin Ape Studios, the company was then merged into Blizzards other teams after StarCraft, Ghost was postponed indefinitely
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
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World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft, following The Burning Crusade. It was released on November 13,2008 and sold 2.8 million copies within the first day, the game added a substantial amount of new content into the game world, including the new continent of Northrend, home of the eponymous Lich King and his undead minions. In order to advance through Northrend, players are required to reach at least level 68, the first hero class was introduced, the Death Knight, that starts at level 55. The first expansion pack, World of Warcraft, The Burning Crusade, raised the level from 60 to 70. The death knight is the first hero class introduced in World of Warcraft, hero classes are those that start the game at a higher level than the regular level 1. Death knights are fallen heroes of the Alliance and the Horde and they are able to fill the tank and damage dealer roles. The three death knight specializations are blood, frost and unholy, the blood specialization focuses on the manipulation of blood, using an enemys blood against them while using the death knights blood to benefit themselves. Frost specializes in control, counters and combination strikes using frost related abilities, unholy specialization focuses on poisoning your opponent and sending the players permanent, controllable pet ghoul to attack the enemy. Death knights wear plate armor and wield weapons with rune engravings, newly created death knights begin with a larger set of spells and abilities than new characters of other classes. The class starts without any talent points and must unlock available talent tiers for their level by completing quests in the death knight starting area in Eastern Plaguelands, players must complete all the starting area quests in order to join the rest of Azeroth. The death knight class is available to all of the current in-game races with the exception of Pandaren, instead of utilizing rage, energy or mana for combat resources, a death knight uses a system of runes and runic power, which is generated by using runes. The death knight originally had two of each type of rune - blood, frost and unholy - available for use, after a rune is used, it enters a ten-second cooldown period before it can be used again and runic power decays over time when out of combat. With specific talents, the knight can also turn their runes into death runes. The death knight has the option of three presences, blood, frost and unholy, in the Legion expansion, death knights have six death runes instead of three types of runes and presences were removed, each specific presences effect is baked into its related speculation. Northrend is a continent in northern Azeroth. The continent is roughly half the size of the Eastern Kingdoms, although Northrend is known for its snow and ice, only parts of the continent are frozen over. Northrend features eight zones with content designed for players beginning at level 68, players arrive by boat or zeppelin either at the Howling Fjord or the Borean Tundra zones, each located at opposite ends of the continent. Howling Fjord is home to evil half-giants called the Vrykul, who reside in Utgarde Keep, the Dragonblight and Grizzly Hills zones are located in the southcentral and southeast parts of the continent respectively
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Races and factions of Warcraft
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The fantasy setting of the Warcraft series includes many fictional races and factions. Most of the protagonists of the series belong to either the Horde or the Alliance. However, there are a variety of races and factions. All player characters belong to either the Horde or the Alliance, one exception is the pandaren, who can choose to become members of either faction. By the time of Warcraft III the Horde and the Alliance both fight against the Burning Legion and the undead Scourge, who are the villains of Warcraft III. By the time of World of Warcraft, the Alliance and the Horde are not engaged in all out war any longer, however, they are still hostile towards each other and skirmishes between the two sides occasionally erupt. With Garrosh Hellscream appointed as the new Warchief of the Horde in Cataclysm and this war plays a large role in the storyline of that expansion, and continues to do so in Mists of Pandaria. The Alliance has been present in form in all Warcraft games. In all three real-time strategy games, the Alliance are the protagonists of their campaign, and are one of the two main protagonist factions in World of Warcraft and they are also the primary antagonists of Warcraft and the orc campaigns in Warcraft II. The Alliance began in Warcraft II when the kingdoms and demihumans strategically united to fend off the conquering Horde. Thus they are enemies to the Horde, the Alliance has evolved over the course of the franchise, losing allies and gaining new members, but the Alliance has endured over the years. They are united to uphold their common noble ideals and are bound together by a sense of brotherhood forged by all the battles theyve endured together. The major races of the Alliance are the humans, gnomes, dwarves, night elves, draenei, worgen, the Alliance is led by a military commander who coordinates the military actions of all the races in the Alliance. The title for this depends on the rank of the individual. This title may require an aspect of diplomacy or has strong political clout as the other leaders can choose not to commit their forces to the if they dislike the commanders leadership. Throughout the Warcraft games, the humans are modeled on medieval Europe, in Warcraft and Warcraft II they were also depicted as the protagonists of the human campaigns and the antagonists of the orc campaigns. The humans fought for the side of Heaven against the Hellish orcs, after being taught the ways of magic by the high elves during the Troll Wars, humans have become one of the most proficient races in the ways of magic as well. The Arathi formed an alliance with the elves of the far north after they aided them in a war against the Amani Empire of trolls
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Kill (Cannibal Corpse album)
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Kill is the tenth studio album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, released on March 21,2006. This release marks the return of guitarist Rob Barrett, who had played on The Bleeding. The European version of the album comes with a live DVD filmed in Strasbourg in 2004 called Hammer Smashed Laiterie, the album was produced at Mana Recording Studios by Hate Eternal guitarist Erik Rutan. Music videos were produced for the tracks Make Them Suffer and Death Walking Terror, in the week following its release, Kill became the second Cannibal Corpse album to make an appearance on the Billboard 200 chart, debuting at #170. The album cover is one of only three Cannibal Corpse album covers to not feature explicit graphic violence, alex Webster, in an interview, stated that they decided to have an album cover such as this because all the band members couldnt agree on a cover for the album. Also he stated that they wanted their fans to focus on their music and he stated this time they wanted to do something different. The original art that Vince gave us was really cool, and we decided to use it as interior art, and just have a simple band logo/album title type cover. The main focus of our band should be music anyway, so I dont think its a big deal that the not a blood soaked scene of carnage the way our others have been. This doesnt mean we wont have more bloody covers in the future though. The album has received quite positively by critics, AllMusic gave it a 3. com gave it a 4.5 out of 5 rating, with the only pros being brutal, devastating death metal. Kill was well received by the public. On Rate Your Music the album has an rating of 3.32 of 5, based on more than 1,250 ratings. Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the liner notes. Petersburg, FL, USA – recording, mixing West Westside Music – mastering Kill at AllMusic Kill at Metal Blade Records
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BlizzCon
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BlizzCon is a video game convention held by Blizzard Entertainment to promote its major franchises Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo, Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch. Since October 2005, it has held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim. The closing night has featured concerts by The Offspring, Tenacious D, Foo Fighters, Ozzy Osbourne, Blink-182, Metallica, a similar event was the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, held outside the US until 2008. Tickets for the first BlizzCon were $50 for admission to both days of activities, for the 2007 and 2008 events, prices were $100. For 2009 the price was raised to $125, for 2010, the price was raised to $150. For 2011, the price was raised to $175 and for 2013 the price remained at $175, for 2014, the price was raised to $199 and the BlizzCon Benefit Dinner went from $500 to $750, which includes admission. From 2015 to 2017, the remained at $199 for admission. BlizzCon was not held in 2012, attendees were able to try one of the two new playable races, the Blood Elves, for upcoming expansion based in Outland which was released as World of Warcraft, The Burning Crusade in 2007. Playable demos of the single and multiplayer modes of the currently halted Starcraft, a songwriting competition was judged by Jonathan Davis of Korn. Level 60 Elite Tauren Chieftain, comedian Christian Finnegan, and The Offspring performed at the closing concert, StarCraft II was available for play, as single player or 2v2 as Terran or Protoss. Much of the game was revealed and explained as well as Q&A with attendees, the Zerg race was, however, not unveiled at that time. The second expansion to World of Warcraft, titled Wrath of the Lich King, was officially announced, comedian Jay Mohr entertained at the closing ceremony followed by Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain alongside Video Games Live performing at the closing concert. Playable versions of Diablo III, StarCraft II, and World of Warcraft, the Zerg race was now playable in the StarCraft II demos. BlizzCon 2008 was broadcast live on both days as a PPV event on DirecTV for US viewers only, for eight hours per day in high definition, official Blizzard fansite WoW Radio broadcast live audio via SHOUTcast. For the closing ceremonies on Saturday, comedians Kyle Kinane and Patton Oswalt performed, the closing ceremony was performed by Video Games Live, playing arrangements from all of the Blizzard games, and a performance including the Wrath of the Lich King music. In an attempt to reduce frustrations linked to lack of availability for previous BlizzCons. Blizzard implemented a new system designed to make buying tickets easier, the new system implemented an online queue, effectively creating an organized online line for anyone who wants to purchase tickets, an improvement on 2008s chaotic sale of tickets. As in 2008, DirecTV carried both days of BlizzCon 2009 as a PPV event for eight hours per day in standard and high definition
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Bleep censor
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A bleep censor is the replacement of a profanity or classified information with a beep sound in television and radio. Bleeping has been used for years as a means of censoring TV programs to remove content not deemed suitable for family or daytime viewing. The bleep censor is a module, manually operated by a broadcast technician. A bleep is sometimes accompanied by a digital blur or box over the mouth in cases where the removed speech may still be easily understood by lip reading. On closed caption subtitling, bleeped words are represented by the phrase, sometimes the phrase or, occasionally hyphens. Where open captions are used, a blank is used where the word is bleeped, occasionally, bleeping is not reflected in the captions, allowing the unedited dialogue to be seen. Sometimes, a bar can be seen for closed caption bleep. Bleeping is normally used in unscripted programs – documentaries, radio features, panel games etc. – since scripted drama. In the case of comedies, most bleeping may be for humorous purposes, in the first example, the film may become nonsensical or confusing if the removed portion contains an element important to the plot. The bleep is sometimes used for reasons, concealing confidential information such as names and addresses. Bleep censors have seen a rare use in film, for example during Johanna Masons interview in The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. In the Philippines and Ecuador, undubbed movies on television have profanity muted instead of bleeped, television and radio commercials are not allowed to use bleeps to obscure swearing under BACC/CAP guidelines. Neither is permitted on UK television, trailers for programs containing swearing are usually bleeped until well after the watershed, and it is very rare for any trailer to use the most severe swearwords uncensored. The Federal Communications Commission has the right to regulate indecent broadcasts, however, the FCC does not actively monitor television broadcasts for indecency violations, nor does it keep a record of television broadcasts. Reports must be documented exclusively by the public and submitted in written form, the FCC is allowed to enforce indecency laws during 6 a. m. –10 p. m. local time. m. Eastern Time/Mountain may fall out of watershed at 9 p. m, to compensate, a channel may only air uncensored material after 1 a. m. Eastern Time so that the broadcast is out of watershed in the contiguous United States
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GLAAD
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GLAAD is a U. S. non-governmental media monitoring organization founded by LGBT people in the media. Before March 2013, the name GLAAD had been an acronym for Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, initial meetings were held in the homes of several New York City activists as well as after-hours at the New York State Council on the Arts. Some members of GLAAD went on to become the members of ACT UP. In 1987, after a meeting with GLAAD, The New York Times changed its policy to use the word gay instead of harsher terms referring to homosexuality. GLAAD advocated that the Associated Press and other television and print news sources follow, GLAADs influence soon spread to Los Angeles, where organizers began working with the entertainment industry to change the way LGBT people were portrayed on screen. Graddick is the son of Charles Graddick of Mobile, a circuit court judge. In 2013, Jennifer Finney Boylan was chosen as the first openly transgender co-chair of GLAADs National Board of Directors, GLAAD spokesperson Wilson Cruz stated, It is a natural progression that reflects the work GLAADs staff is already leading. We respect and honor the name that the organization was founded with. GLAADs Announcing Equality project has resulted in more than 1,000 newspapers including gay, the GLAAD Media Reference Guide is a style guide of recommendations for writers, especially journalistic outlets, to reference in positive, inclusive depiction of LGBT people. It has been published since the 1990s, with the 9th edition being the most recently published since 2014, list of LGBT rights organizations Violence against LGBT people All About Trans Trans Media Watch Myers, Daniel J. Daniel M. Cress
