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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Soulfly
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Soulfly is a heavy metal band formed in 1997 and based in Phoenix, Arizona. The original lyrical content revolved around spirituality, political and religious themes, with later albums encompassing other themes including war, violence, aggression, slavery, hatred and anger. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the Brazilian group in 1996, to date the band has released ten studio albums, one tour EP, twenty-three singles, one video album, and twelve music videos. All of their first six studio albums debuted on the United States Billboard 200, with a position at number 32 for their second album. Soulfly has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, the band has gone through numerous line-up changes, with Cavalera being the only constant member. Cavalera was troubled during the recording of Soulflys first album, and on the website he said that he founded the band with the idea of combined sounds. As well as leaving Sepultura, one of the worlds most renowned thrash/groove metal bands, he had to deal with the death of his stepson, the self-titled debut album was released in April 1998, and reached number 79 on the Billboard 200. In addition to the band, which at the time consisted of Lúcio Maia on guitar, Cello Dias on bass. The album was recorded at Indigo Ranch Studios in Malibu, California and was overseen by producer Ross Robinson, in addition to fronting Soulfly, Cavalera also branched out into other areas not usually associated with heavy metal musicians. He became a speaker at conventions, appearing at CMJs New Music Marathon in New York and Hollands Crossing Border Festival. After recording the first album, Jackson Bandeira returned to Brazil with Nação Zumbi and was replaced by Logan Mader of Machine Head for the tour that followed. Soulfly played on the 1998 Ozzfest mainstage alongside Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth, and Tool, after the world tour in support of Soulfly, Logan Mader was replaced by Mikey Doling who had just been displaced by the breakup of Snot. Joe Nunez, from Chicago, replaced Roy Mayorga on drums for Primitive, in addition, artwork was created by longtime Bob Marley artist Neville Garrick. The release of the album was followed by tours with the likes of Pantera, Morbid Angel. In late 2001, Joe Nunez left Soulfly to join Stripping the Pistol, Roy Mayorga departed from his band Medication to rejoin Soulfly for the recording of their third album. 3 was the first Soulfly album which was produced by Max Cavalera, other musicians performing on 3 included Cristian Machado of Ill Niño, and guitarist Wiley Arnet and drummer Greg Hall, and Maxs stepson Richie Cavalera. The album reached number 46 on the Billboard 200 in that year, after the release of 3 on June 25,2002, Soulfly toured throughout Europe and North America with bands such as Slayer, In Flames, God Forbid, and Will Haven. Cavalera recruited a new lineup in October 2003 for the recording of Soulflys Prophecy album, Joe Nunez returned on drums with New Jersey native Marc Rizzo, formerly of Ill Niño, on guitar and Kentucky native Bobby Burns, formerly of Primer 55, on bass
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Thrash metal
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Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its fast tempo and overall aggression. The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, the lyrics often deal with social issues and reproach for The Establishment, using direct and denunciatory language, an approach borrowed from hardcore punk. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the fast drum beats and attitude of hardcore with the double bass drumming, heavy and complex guitar style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. Thrash metal was an inspiration for subsequent extreme genres such as death metal, Four American bands—Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica, and Slayer—are credited with pioneering and popularizing the genre. The Clash of the Titans tour, which featured Megadeth, Slayer, thrash metal has seen a resurgence in recent times, with many of the older bands returning to their roots with their new releases. A new generation of metal bands emerged in the early 2000s. Thrash metal generally features fast tempos, low-register, complex riffs, high-register guitar solos. The genre evolved in the early 1980s from combining the drum beats of hardcore punk with the style of the new wave of British heavy metal. It emerged partially as a reaction to the conventional and widely acceptable glam metal. The rhythm guitar parts are played with distortion and often palm muted to create a tighter. Vocally, thrash metal can employ anything from singing to shouted vocals. The guitar riffs often use chromatic scales and emphasize the tritone and diminished intervals, for example, the intro riff of Metallicas Master of Puppets is a chromatic descent, followed by a chromatic ascent based on the tritone. Speed, pacing and time-changes also define thrash metal, thrash tends to have an accelerating feel which may be due in large part to its aggressive drumming style. For example, drummers often use two drums, or a double-bass pedal, in order to create a relentless, driving beat. Cymbal stops/chokes are often used to transition from one riff to another or to precede an acceleration in tempo, to keep up with the other instruments, many bassists use a plectrum. However, some prominent thrash metal bassists have used their fingers, such as Frank Bello, Greg Christian, Steve DiGiorgio, Robert Trujillo, several bassists use a distorted bass tone, an approach popularized by Burton and Motörheads Lemmy. Lyrical themes in thrash metal include warfare, corruption, injustice, murder, suicide, isolation, alienation, addiction, in addition, politics, particularly pessimism and dissatisfaction towards politics, are common themes among thrash metal bands
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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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Roadrunner Records
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Roadrunner Records is a major record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal and hard rock bands. It is a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City, the label was launched in 1980 in the Netherlands. Roadrunners initial business was importing North American metal-band recordings into Europe, in 1986, Roadrunner opened its US headquarters in New York City and later opened offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, Denmark, Russia and the latest in Canada. Early successes included albums from King Diamond and Annihilator, the label also handled early Metallica releases in the Scandinavian region. The end of the 1980s saw the release of two albums that are now considered classics of their genres, Obituarys Slowly We Rot. The 1990s saw the arrival of such as Life of Agony, Machine Head, Suffocation, Type O Negative. As the 1990s wore on, several of Roadrunners bands managed to make an impact on the mainstream, most notably Sepultura, Sepulturas 1993 album, Chaos A. D. became the first Roadrunner band to crack the Top 40 on the Billboard album chart. Type O Negative became the first Roadrunner band to receive a certification from the RIAA, this was a Gold award for the 1993 album Bloody Kisses, the band also became the first Roadrunner band to receive radio play. In 2000, Slipknot became the first Roadrunner band to go Platinum, nickelback were also very successful on the label. Derek Shulman ran the label in the late 90s, beginning in 2001, Roadrunner was distributed by the Universal Music Group through a share of the label owned by The Island Def Jam Music Group. On December 18,2006, Warner Music Group signed an agreement to purchase a majority in shares of Roadrunner Records parent company and this deal became finalized on January 29,2007 after receiving regulatory approval in Germany. On June 11,2008, Roadrunner Records was voted as the Best Metal Label by Metal Hammer at their Golden Gods Awards, the award was accepted by Sharon Den Adel and Ruud Jolie of Within Temptation, one of Roadrunners biggest acts. However, Roadrunner has also accused of being a label only interested in current or trendy alternative music, reflected by their roster of mainly popular. One of the earliest names on the label, King Diamond, left the label due to alleged lack of support for the 1990 King Diamond release. In 2008, punk cabaret chanteuse Amanda Palmer was told by the label that wanted to re-edit her video for Leeds United to make her look slimmer. On April 6,2010, Palmer announced on her Twitter account that Roadrunner had dropped her, the most recent complaints about Roadrunner have come from one of the labels biggest bands Megadeth. Roadrunner Records was significantly affected by Warner Music Groups legal dispute against YouTube, most of the videos on their channel, however, are still viewable. There is even a disclaimer talking about Warners dispute right on the channel, on November 11,2010, Warner Music Group announced they had acquired the remaining of Roadrunners stock
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Max Cavalera
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Massimiliano Antonio Max Cavalera is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter who currently plays in heavy metal bands Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, and Killer Be Killed. In 1984, he co-founded the acclaimed heavy metal band Sepultura with his brother Igor Cavalera and was the lead singer. Cavalera was also involved in a side project called Nailbomb. Max Cavaleras father, Graziano Cavalera, was an employee of the Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte and he died at 40 years of age, Cavalera was nine when his father died. Cavaleras family was in a state of crisis and family turbulence when he formed Sepultura with his younger brother Igor. In the early 1990s, he relocated to Phoenix, Arizona and he did not begin to make spiritual music until after he quit Sepultura. His earlier lyrics for Soulfly were influenced by religion and spirituality and his later albums, starting with Dark Ages, began to incorporate lyrical themes of violence, warfare, anger and hatred. I mean if you look at Christ, He was hanging around with the lowlifes, prostitutes, when asked in an interview whether he was a Christian and whether Soulfly was a Christian band, he said, No. I mean, if I was a Christian I would wear all these different kinds of omens, because Christian people are so close-minded. A priest would not accept that, so I dont like the concept of Christianity in terms of being so close-minded. It is the same with music, sometimes I compare preachers to close-minded musicians or close-minded listeners, who only like one kind of music. And they dont tolerate Hindus, Buddhists or whatever, so Soulfly is not a Christian band at all. Spiritual has nothing to do with Christianity anyway and it has been here since the beginning of time. In another interview, he was asked about the Varg Vikernes church burnings and he quoted, I support church burnings 100 percent, but why dont we just burn everything. However, he claimed his views changed about the church burnings. He has stated that he believe in God, But it might be different than the God the preacher preaches about. Of enduring influence to his music, is the death of his stepson, Dana Wells. The songs Bleed, First Commandment, Pain, Tree of Pain and Revengeance are tributes to Wells, as well as Deftones song Headup, in which Cavalera featured and co-wrote
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Logan Mader
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Their second album, The More Things Change. was released in 1997 and Logan left the band shortly thereafter to divert his energy and time to side projects. Machine Head formed on October 12,1991 with Mader on lead guitar, Robb Flynn on guitar and vocals, Adam Duce on bass and he played with Machine Head through two albums until early 1998. After Logans six-year run with Machine Head, he joined the band Soulfly where he filled the slot as guitarist for their 1998 world tour, Logans union with Soulfly was short lived and the only track he technically recorded with them was one of the remixes for Quilombo. Wanting to once again pursue his own projects, Logan left Soulfly in January 1999, post Soulfly, Logan formed the heavy, yet melodic, Los Angeles rock band, Medication, with Whitfield Crane. Due to a series of issues, Medication disbanded in February 2003. Shortly after the dissolution of Medication, Logan formed the band New Black, although the band opened for a local Hed PE gig, tracked a full demo, shopped it to a few labels and created an internet buzz, they were never signed. Years later, the Stereo Black track Save Me which was later called Inside, the song was featured in the trailer for Max Payne and The Butterfly Effect 2 and in the direct to video film Never Back Down 2, The Beatdown. The instrumental of their song Fall Again was featured on the soundtrack of racing game MotoGP07, in 2011, they created a song for the Scream 4 soundtrack, titled Denial. Currently, Logan runs Dirty Icon Productions, a Los Angeles-based production team, alongside partner, Dirty Icon, published by Reverb/Universal, writes, produces, records, mixes and masters for other artists. Mader announced his new project, Once Human, in May 2015, the group signed to earMUSIC and will release their debut album, The Life I Remember, in September 2015. With Machine Head Burn My Eyes The More Things Change. A. S. P
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Conquer (album)
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Conquer is the sixth studio album by the band Soulfly. It saw official release on July 23,2008, in Australia and it was released on July 29,2008 in Canada and the United States and debuted at #66 on the U. S. Billboard 200 — Soulflys highest Billboard peak since their 2002 release,3. The album was tracked by Tim C, lau in late 2007 at The Porch Recording Studio in Orlando Florida and mixed by Andy Sneap in early 2008. A bonus edition of the album was released containing three tracks and a DVD. The DVD features a live concert from Warsaw, Poland. The album sold over 8,400 copies in the U. S. during the first week of its release, unleash was the albums first single with the accompanying music video directed by Robert Sexton. This song and its video features Dave Peters of Throwdown, the second single released was Blood Fire War Hate, the first track of the album, featuring Morbid Angel vocalist David Vincent. Touching the Void is heavily influenced by Black Sabbath as it contains doom and sludgy riffs, warmageddon explores war and Armageddon, hence its portmanteau. Conquer has thus far garnered positive reviews from most media outlets, chad Bower of About. com calls it outstanding, with great musicianship and songwriting and new styles, sounds and experiments, which also hit the mark. Nikos Patelis of Metal Invader notes the hardcore beatings, extreme thrash speeds and many implements of weird sounds that have nothing to do with metal and deems the album dark as hell. In comparison to Cavalera Conspiracys debut earlier this year, Dominic Hemy of Planet Loud considers Conquer tighter, heavier, more diverse, more original, all lyrics written by Max Cavalera except where stated, all music composed by Max Cavalera except where stated. Live in Warsaw, Poland Prophecy Downstroy Seek n Strike No Hope = No Fear Jumpdafuckup/Bring It Living Sacrifice Mars Brasil No L. O. T. M, porrada Drums Moses Frontlines Back to the Primitive Eye for an Eye Music Video Innerspirit Album
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Enslaved (Soulfly album)
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Enslaved is the eighth studio album by the metal band Soulfly. It was recorded in fall 2011, mostly in Tallcat Studios in Phoenix, zeuss and Max Cavalera produced this album. Ryan was brought in to record vocals in place of Adam Warren of Oceano, one song features a guest violinist, among other new styles that they have incorporated into their sound. The album features more death metal influence than their previous releases, world Scum is the albums only single released on January 25,2012 with a video released on February 16. The song Revengeance features Max Cavaleras sons, and the lyrics are about the murder of his stepson Dana Wells, gladiator, leaked online several days before the release of the album, is a melodic song about Roman gladiators. Plata O Plomo features Marc Rizzo playing the guitar, as well as use of Portuguese. Soulfly VIII is the first Soulfly song to feature a violin, the album debuted at number 83 on the Canadian Albums Chart. According to Blabbermouth. net, Enslaved sold 5,900 copies during the first week of its release in the US, Enslaved was moderately well received by critics. Then-drummer David Kinkade described the album as Arise on crack, according to PopMatters, every song fits into the structure and tone to create a memorable record packed with outstanding content. Q had a negative response because, according to them, world music elements are getting stale, wrote that this album is the bands best yet, as well as the least caught up in look at this. Eccentricities, adding up to an outing, one that never quite gets to death metal. Instead, its just huge, thick, thrashed-out, aggro-dude metal, all tracks written by Max Cavalera except where stated. World Scum Official Video on YouTube
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Dotdash
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About. com is an American Internet-based network of content that publishes articles and videos about various subjects on its topic sites, of which there are nearly 1,000. It is operated by About, Inc, the website competes with other online resource sites and encyclopedias. By March 2014,61,428,000 unique visitors were registered by comScore for About. com, making it the 16th-most-visited online property during that month. As of August 2012, About. com is the property of IAC, owner of Ask. com and numerous other online brands, and its revenue is generated by advertising. Founded in 1996 as The Mining Company, the site was launched on April 21,1997 by Scott Kurnit, owner of General Internet, Bill Day, and a group of other entrepreneurs in New York City. The original goal was to maintain 1,800 topic areas, but after five years of operation, the company changed its name to About Inc. and the website address from miningco. com to about. com in May 1999. The company was acquired by Primedia, Inc. in 2000 through a deal valued at US$690 million, whereby Primedia swapped 45.2 million shares for About, at the time of the acquisition announcement, About Inc. Following the purchase, which was finalized in the first quarter of 2001, in February 2005, The New York Times Company announced it was buying About. com, a purchase that was completed in the first half of the year for US$410 million. Google and Yahoo were reportedly among the other bidders, following the Times Co. acquisition, Peter C. Horan was appointed as About Inc. s president and CEO, in March 2007, About. coms patronage was measured at 33.5 million unique visitors. On May 7,2007, About Inc. acquired ConsumerSearch. com, initially conceived of in January 2007, About. coms first fully owned foreign venture, the China-based Abang. com, debuted in December 2007. At the time of the launch, the company had a Japan-based online entity, Allabout. co. jp, the About Group generated US$102.7 million in 2007, which represented a 135-percent increase from the time of the Times Co. acquisition. Meyer stepped down from the executive role in March 2008 and was replaced by Cella Irvine. Martin Nisenholtz, SVP of digital operations, temporarily replaced Irvine following her departure in May 2011, in July 2011, Darline Jean was named CEO of the About Group, after the companys second-quarter revenues totaled US$27.8 million. Jean previously served as Abouts chief financial officer and her new appointment became effective on September 1,2011, a media report published in August 2012 indicated that Answers. com had reached a preliminary agreement to acquire About. com for US$270 million. However, on August 26, Barry Dillers IAC announced that it would acquire About. com instead for US$300 million in cash. A source for the TechCrunch publication later confirmed that Answers. coms offer was valued at US$270 million. In the corresponding press release, IAC explained that the acquisition will help bolster and accompany its existing properties, Jean fulfilled her role as chief executive during the transition period, while ownership was transferred to IAC, and then left About shortly after the sale was finalized
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Rock Sound
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For the district in the Bahamas, see Rock Sound, Bahamas. Rock Sound is a British magazine which covers rock music, the magazine aims at being more underground and less commercial, while also giving coverage to more well-known acts. It generally focuses on pop punk, post-hardcore, metalcore, punk, emo, hardcore, heavy metal and extreme metal genres of rock music, the tag-line For those who like their music loud, extreme and non-conformist is sometimes used. Although primarily aimed at the British market, the magazine is sold in Australia, Canada. The British edition of Rock Sound was launched in March 1999 by the French publisher Editions Freeway, the magazine was bought out by its director, Patrick Napier, in December 2004. The magazines offices are in London, separate titles with the same name have been published under the same umbrella company in France since 1993, and in Spain since 1998. The magazine is known for including a free CD in most issues and these are now normally called 100% Volume or The Volumes, but in the past compilations were also called Music With Attitude, Bugging Your Ears. Sound Check and Punk Rawk Explosion, buyer reaction has been very negative when there has been talk of turning the CD compilation into a digital compilation. The first issue was published in April 1999, issue 2 featured British band Reef on the front cover, and later issues 3 and 8 featured Terrorvision and Foo Fighters respectively. In July 2011 a host of Through The Years articles were written to celebrate the 150th issue of the magazine, the magazine had a circulation figure of 15,005 from January to December 2010 auditored by ABC. This includes 10,162 sales in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the majority of sales come from newstrade, with some coming from subscriptions. The main rival to the magazine in Britain is Kerrang, because of the similar types of music both magazines cover. However, Kerrang. is released weekly and does not usually provide as much coverage to more alternative bands, to new and upcoming bands, at the end of every year the magazine lists their favourite 75 albums released in the previous twelve months. Thus this differs from the Yearly Top Albums lists which do not take influence into account, in each article there is normally an interview with band members, a commentary on the albums release, a look at its initial success, and reaction from other musicians as well. In some of the issues this section had been renamed to Throwback. Kerrang NME Metal Hammer Alternative Press Citations Sources Official website
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Blabbermouth.net
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Blabbermouth. net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews. Blabbermouth. net was founded and is run by Borivoj Krgin, the first version of the website was launched in March 2001, in October 2001, the record label Roadrunner Records began hosting it. Users can post comments to selected articles and album reviews. Founder Borivoj Krgin came up with the concept of Blabbermouth in January 2000, robert Kampf, a friend of Krgin who runs Century Media Records, was staying with Krgin in New York and set up a meeting with Gunter Ford of World Management. During the meeting, Ford suggested an idea for a heavy metal portal, a site which would offer news, merchandise, Ford wanted Kampf to be involved. Krgin disliked the idea and wished for a site that offered around-the-clock news, Krgin began researching how to develop and host his own website two months after the meeting. After a year Krgin felt comfortable going live, the initial primitive version of the site was launched on March 3,2001. In October of the same year Monte Conner, a friend of Krgin, and this way, Krgin could focus on Blabbermouth. nets content rather than the technical aspects involved in running a site. Blabbermouth. net is described by the London Free Press as a reliable industry, according to his own words, Krgin spends most of his time operating the site. When finding information relating to bands Krgin claims to search bands official websites, which are reported on immediately. Krgin supposedly sends e-mails and makes telephone calls daily to obtain new information, Blabbermouth. net has a submit news feature which has proved to be helpful to Krgin. When receiving a rumor he deems worthy of posting, Krgin will first research and contact people related to the band and its claimed that 90% of the information posted is either found online or is submitted directly to the website by bands, managers, labels or associated persons. Blabbermouth. net has been criticized by musicians and music industry persons for internet trolls, Krgin said he posts these articles to attract humorous comments from users, and as relief from the constant monotony of album news. Blabbermouth. net was visited by more than 1.2 million unique users each month, the busiest day so far was 298,000 unique visitors in a single 24-hour period over May 16,2010, due to the death of Ronnie James Dio. The second-busiest day was more than 200,000 unique visitors in a single 24-hour period, Blabbermouth. net is ranked as the 29,897 most trafficked Web sites according to Alexa. Prior to its recent change requiring users to log in with a Facebook account in order to post comments, Blabbermouth. net had more 101,000 registered users as of August 2011
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Sputnikmusic
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Sputnikmusic, or simply Sputnik, is a music website offering music criticism and music news alongside features commonly associated with wiki-style websites. Over time, the site has come to be established as a source, becoming a featured reviewer on Metacritic. As a general rule, the writers tend to focus on new releases, however. In June 2006, following claims made by the MPA about the illegality of music tabs, MXTabs was closed. At this time, Sputnikmusic became its own entity, with MusicianForums renamed as the SputnikMusic Forums. It was at point that the focus of Sputnik began to shift toward providing professional content, with a news page added. As part of this shift, several features have also sporadically been provided by the staff writers, including live reviews, interviews, exclusive MP3 streams. Currently on Sputnikmusic, four classes of reviewer exist that demarcate whether content should be considered professional or not, staff Writers are the writers who contribute the professional-standard content, which includes featured articles in addition to reviews. There are currently 25 staff reviewers, three of whom act as moderators and administrators for the site. Contributing Reviewers can contribute features, but are not eligible for inclusion by either Metacritic or Wikipedia, there are currently 23 contributing reviewers. Emeritus is a given to former staff writers who no longer contribute to the site. Reviews by these users are acknowledged as professional, users includes everybody who has not yet been promoted to any of the higher levels. Despite this, they can contribute new reviews, artists, and albums to the database, edit data already present. Sputnikmusic operates a simple 5-point rating system, starting at 1, as a guide to new reviewers, each of these values is assigned a word, ranging from Awful to Classic. However, certain albums have a rating system, where users cannot rate the album lower than a 2.0. This is the case with Kendrick Lamars To Pimp a Butterfly, the staff of Sputnik have not commented on this, despite being asked. As well as showing the score a reviewer has given to the album, a page will also show the scores given by other individual reviewers. A bar chart will also show how many votes each rating has once it has received at least two and a review
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Ultimate Guitar Archive
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Ultimate Guitar Archive, also known as Ultimate-Guitar. It was started on October 9,1998 by Eugeny Naidenov, UG is home of over 12,000,000 registered users. It is a community of forum users who frequent the site. The website is regulated by an administrator and moderators which are privileged members who can edit, moderators are users that are rewarded for being particularly helpful and knowledgeable in a specific subject and are responsible for moderating forums that focus on the subject they specialize in. Community members may also create guitar lessons, and have their works published on the website. Reviews of albums, DVDs, or gear and news articles can also be submitted by members. Like the tabs, the lessons and column are also rated by users, although UG encourages participation, they also have a strict guideline and set of rules that all UG users must follow. Members must be over the age of 13 to use the services offered by the site, strong media is also prohibited from use on the site. The projects community page can be here, and the digital download is available on iTunes. Although The Pit is a section, all standards are upheld. On August 12,2007, the Ultimate Guitar site launched UG Profiles and this added another feature to UG that other tablature sites do not feature. In late 2004–05, after taborama and mxtabs. net began closing due to threats from the Music Publishers Association of America. On April 10,2010, Ultimate Guitar entered an agreement with Harry Fox Agency. The agreement included rights for lyrics display, title search and tablature display with download, hFAs over 44,000 represented publishers have the opportunity to opt-in to the licensing arrangement with UG. Tabs may be requested in the Tab Talk forum, tabs can be voted from 1 star to 5 stars, and comments can be made about the tab. Tabs of entire albums can also be submitted, files such as basic guitar tabs and bass tabs can be read from an Internet browser in ASCII format. Guitar Pro and Power Tab files are run through programs that can play the tablature and these files can be saved and opened on the users computer. Tabs are searchable by artist, album, or song name, list of Internet forums Ultimate Guitar Website
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PopMatters
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PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. PopMatters launched in the fall of 1999 as a site providing original essays, reviews. Over time, the site went from a publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features. In the fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million, from 2006 onward, PopMatters produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. As of 2009, there are four different pop culture related columns each week, the PopMatters Book Imprint published Joss Whedon, The Complete Companion, edited by Mary Money, with Titan Books in May 2012. PopMatters publishes content from contributors located around the globe, based in six continents and its staff includes writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to career professionals and first time writers. Many of its writers are published authorities in various fields of study, notable former contributors include David Weigel, political reporter for Slate, Steven Hyden, staff writer for Grantland and author of Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation. And Rob Horning, executive editor of The New Inquiry, karen Zarker is the senior editor
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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Tony Campos
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Antonio Tony Campos is a Mexican American musician. He is the current bass guitarist for the metal band Fear Factory. He is a bass guitarist for metal bands Static-X, Ministry, Prong, Soulfly. Campos was part of the original Static-X lineup, playing bass guitar, along with Wayne Static he was one of the legal owners of the Static-X name. In 2001 Campos broke his collarbone in an accident leaving him unable to play in the ongoing Extreme Steel Tour. Campos continued to sing backing vocals on the tour, and Marty OBrien took over guitar duties. In 2002 Campos became part of Mexican-American metal group Asesino and his stage name, Maldito X, is Spanish for Damned X. In the same year he played the guitar with the Colombian band Agony during the Rock al Parque. Campos has played guitar for Ministry in three stints following the death of Paul Raven. From 2011-2012 he was a member of metal band Possessed. He also played with Possessed in 2013 at The Oakland Metro and he also joined Soulfly in 2011 as their bass player. In May 2015, Campos announced his departure from Soulfly, Campos has cited Blasko, Cliff Burton, Dan Lilker, Jeff Hanneman, and Kerry King as influences. Zon Legacy 5-string with EMG MM5CS pickups Neal Moser Custom Shop Scimitar 4-string with EMG-P pickup, tuned BbFBbEb Fernandes Tremor 5-strings with EMG-40DC pickups, SWR SM-900 head, SWR Goliath Senior 6x10 cab. Tech 21 SansAmp PSA-1 preamp, Dunlop 105Q Bass Wah, Line 6 Bass POD Fernandes five-string signature Tremor bass guitars with EMG-40HZ, Campos tunes to ADGCF when playing in Asesino. In Static-X, he played with several tunings, CFBbEbG and BbFBbEbAb during Shadow Zone and forward
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David Kinkade
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David Kinkade is an American former musician. David Kinkade was born in New Jersey in 1983, at the age of three, he started picking up drums after his grandfather gave him his first drum kit. He has become known for his hand and double bass speeds. Davids technique is not limited to metal, He is experienced in jazz, fusion, prog, swing, rock and his influences include bands such as Metallica, Pink Floyd, Kiss, Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Immortal, Emperor and Devin Townsend Project. In August 2011, he was announced as the drummer of Soulfly, in October 2011, he parted ways with Borknagar. In October 2012, he announced his retirement from drumming, leaving Soulfly after their show in Bangkok and he retired in order to focus on his family. Aside from his career, Kinkade is known for his interest in animal welfare. In 2007, he started a foundation called the Metal 4 Pets Foundation, the Metal 4 Pets Foundations goal is to unite the metal world to fight animal abuse. David also has a background which includes eight years of private instructions. In the summer of 2008, David worked with 13 students ranging from ages 7–13 at a school program aimed at teaching children with autism the beginning fundamentals of drums. He currently lives in Chicago and is an engineer on the railroad
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Archangel (Soulfly album)
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Archangel is the tenth studio album from American groove metal band Soulfly. It was released on August 14,2015 through Nuclear Blast Entertainment and it is the bands shortest album to date, running thirty-six and a half minutes. It is the bands last album to feature bassist Tony Campos, with a peak position of number 130 on the Billboard 200, it is Soulflys second-lowest charting album to date. The statistic is common with the number of album sales worldwide in all genres of music. All tracks written by Max Cavalera except where stated, andrew Schizodeluxe Massie of The Rockpit reviewed that the album is a somewhat diverse record with the death metal inspired tracks, the groove mid-tempo stuff and the thrashier songs mixed in there. Archangel is both streamlined and very aggressive, ray Van Horn Jr. Elpida Baphomet of Metal Invader reviewed that Archangel is characterized by its sophisticated oriental compositions, powerful grooves, multifaceted choirs and religious orientations. All of the instruments and voices stand out in the best possible way, reviewed that the album starts out with a bang showcasing expert performances and then the entertainment fizzles out in the albums second half. Richie Cavalera - vocals on Mother of Dragons Igor Cavalera Jr - vocals and bass on Mother of Dragons Anahid M. O. P
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Tommy Victor
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Tommy Victor is the lead singer and guitarist for the heavy metal band Prong that he founded in New York City in 1986. In the late 1980s Victor worked as an engineer at the trendy venue. After the release of Rude Awakening in 1996, Prong disbanded and Victor moved to Los Angeles and he took a break from Prong during which Victor worked alongside rock musicians including Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor and Glenn Danzig. Since 2012s Carved Into Stone, Prong have been active again, releasing albums. 2013 saw the release their Official Bootleg -- Unleashed In The West-album which featured re-recordings of 17 classic Prong tracks. The next studio album Ruining Lives was released in 2014 and 2015 sees the release their first ever covers album entitled Songs From The Black Hole. Victor is also working with Glenn Danzig on his upcoming Danzig album. He is also part of the rock, heavy metal. Victor has toured and recorded with Ministry, and Danzig and he has also provided guest vocals for the Soulfly album Omen. He contributed to the Argyle Park album Misguided, and wrote the riff for the song Doomsayer. He has a daughter named Victoria, Tommy Victor has been endorsed by Schecter Guitar Research ever since reuniting with Prong, using both an S-1 and C-1 in early live performances. He would later on start using their Devil guitar, which would be the basis for his signature model. In 2013, his first signature model would be released, based on the newly introduced Banshee series, but with a body and neck, ebony fretboard, EMG pickups. Before using Schecter, Tommy relied on several guitars, most famously a Charvel Surfcaster, other guitars he used around that era were a Charvel LSX, Charvel Predator, and Gibson SG Custom. Around the release of Rude Awakening, and before Prongs breakup, he was endorsed by Fernandes Guitars, using both a Vertigo and Deuce WS model
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Prong (band)
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Prong is an American heavy metal band formed in 1986. Prong had two independent releases, Primitive Origins and Force Fed, the albums attracted the attention of Epic Records, who signed the trio in 1989. The group disbanded in 1997 after the Rude Awakening tour, to date, they have released eleven studio albums, one live album, four EPs, one DVD and one remix album. A pioneer of the metal scene, Prong is fronted by Tommy Victor. Korns Jonathan Davis, Demon Hunters Ryan Clark, and Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor all cite Prong as an influence to their musical style, the band was founded by singer/guitarist Tommy Victor and bassist Mike Kirkland. Ex-Swans drummer Ted Parsons joined a few months later, Prong released an EP Primitive Origins and an album Force Fed that were noted for their brutal hardcore punk sound. The recordings were released on Southern Records in the U. K. although Force Fed was recorded and completed in 1987, due to label problems, the album was not released until early 1989, coinciding with the bands first European tour. Epic Records saw the potential and signed them in 1989. Prongs major label album, Beg to Differ, was released in 1990. In the following year, Kirkland left the band and was replaced by bassist Troy Gregory, Prong issued their fourth release, Prove You Wrong, which saw the band experiment with programming and electronic samples while still retaining an aggressive yet melodic sensibility. By 1994, Troy Gregory was out of the band and was replaced by Paul Raven and John Bechdel, the new line up released Cleansing. With a slight industrial metal influence, Cleansing contained songs that are still considered Prong classics and is Prong’s most successful release to date, the videos for these two songs became staples of MTV’s legendary Headbangers Ball. The band toured America with Sepultura and Pantera as an opener for their Chaos A. D. and they also undertook a headlining European tour with Life of Agony and The Obsessed as their support. Prongs sixth album Rude Awakening was released in 1996 and it entered the charts at No.74 and sold 10,000 units in America in one week. Epic Records decided Prong were not selling records and released them from their contract 3 weeks later. In 2002, Victor re-formed Prong with bassist Brian Perry, drummer Dan Laudo, in 2002, after a 42-show American tour that was recorded for a live CD Prong entered the studio and recorded a new CD titled Scorpio Rising which was received with mixed responses. Victor played on and off again with Glenn Danzig from 1998–2005 in between time with Prong and his final goal of playing and writing on a Danzig record was met with Circle of Snakes in 2004. Prong released a live 2-disc DVD in 2005 entitled The Vault which features performances from the Hulstsfred and With Full Force festivals and this disc has Brian Perry and Mike Longworth on bass as Longworth replaced Perry after his departure in 2003
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Greg Puciato
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Gregory John Greg Puciato is the lead singer of the band The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Black Queen, and the supergroup Killer Be Killed. He is known for his reckless live performances, wide vocal range and he joined The Dillinger Escape Plan in September 2001 and first performed with the group weeks later at the CMJ music conference in October 2001. In a scenario mirroring that of young Henry Rollins & Black Flag, when the band split with their singer Dimitri Minakakis, they searched publicly for a new singer by releasing the instrumental version of the song 43% Burnt. Puciato sent in a tape with one version of him mimicking Dimitri Minakakis and he was contacted shortly after by the band, auditioned in person, and was subsequently asked to join. Coincidentally, the bands first release with Puciato was for a Black Flag tribute compilation, in the December 2007 issue of Revolver Puciato was voted one of the 37 greatest metal frontmen of all time. In 2013 he was named number one by MetalSucks in their listing of top 25 modern metal frontmen, Puciato also sang all of the vocals on the five-song, self-titled EP of Electro-Punk-Hardcore band Error. However his position could only be considered temporary studio work, since the band never played any concerts, rumors spread later on, indicating Error was looking for a permanent singer. Puciato was also involved with Spylacopa, a musical project headed by Candiria guitarist John LaMacchia. Spylacopa released a self-titled EP in 2008, with vocals, as well as guitar and piano/programming. Similar programming and piano playing would appear on The Dillinger Escape Plans Option Paralysis album as the bonus track Chuck McChip, Puciato confirmed in 2012 that both Spylacopa and Error were dead. Puciato is furthermore a frequent collaborator, and guest on other shows and he lent his vocals to Genghis Trons song The Feast on their 2008 release Board Up the House. He contributed a remix of the song Bad Fall on the 2009 Prong remix album Power of the Damn Mixxxer and he features in A Static Lullabys song The Pledge from their 2008 album Rattlesnake. He and The Dillinger Escape Plan repeatedly joined the stage with Nine Inch Nails during their Wave Goodbye Tour in North America and he contributed minor backup vocals on the song The Marvelous Slut on the Every Time I Die album New Junk Aesthetic. In late November 2009 he appeared on stage during the two Deftones concerts at the Avalon Hollywood, in 2010 he appeared on and co-wrote the Soulfly track Rise of the Fallen on their record Omen, and has on occasion performed the song live with them. He also appears on the Architects track Year In/Year Out on their 2011 release The Here, on July 23,2010, Gregs death was faked by bandmates Ben Weinman and Liam Wilson, when they posted on their Twitter accounts that Greg had passed in his sleep. Shortly after their Warped Tour set on July 23, Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley tweeted, If Greg Puciato is dead, debunking the rumors of Gregs death. In February 2011 Puciato and Devin Townsend publicly decided to collaborate after both being Tweeted by a fan expressing interest in seeing them work together, the track ended up being called The Mighty Masturbator and was released as part of Townsends Deconstruction album. Upon hearing the vocals, Townsend remarked Ladies and Gentlemen, Greg Puciato just tore me a new asshole
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The Dillinger Escape Plan
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The Dillinger Escape Plan is an American mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The group originated in 1997 after the disbanding of the punk band Arcane. The bands current line-up consists of guitarists Ben Weinman, bassist Liam Wilson, vocalist Greg Puciato, drummer Billy Rymer and their band name is derived from bank robber John Dillinger. The Dillinger Escape Plan was founded in 1997 and emerged from a punk trio named Arcane. Arcane consisted of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie, previous to Arcane, Adam Doll, Craig McKeown, John Fulton, and Chris Pennie played together in the bands Samsara and Malfactor from 1992–1997. Now or Never Records offered to release the demo, the six-track EP was released in 1997 by Now or Never Records, and set them off on a small club tour around northeast America. Shortly before their first tour under the new name, guitarist Derek Brantley left the group and was replaced by John Fulton, during this time period, The Dillinger Escape Plan gained notoriety in the hardcore punk scene for the intensity of their performances. Their performances were increasingly wild, and often violent and these elaborate performances, as well as the creative, technical approach of their music led a record executive of Relapse Records to offer the band a multi-record contract. The band agreed to the contract, and recorded their second EP with Relapse entitled Under the Running Board, shortly after its release, Fulton left the band over creative differences. The three-song EP release served to bolster anticipation for their 1999 full-length release, before the recording of Calculating Infinity, bassist Adam Doll was involved in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. The accident was a minor fender bender, but because Doll had leaned over to pick up a CD beneath the stereo, guitarist Weinman played both guitar and bass on the album, though liner notes credited Doll as providing a great deal of help. Shortly before touring began for the new album, former Jesuit guitarist Brian Benoit auditioned for the band, taking the place of the departed John Fulton, Jeff Wood, bassist, took the place of the injured Adam Doll. Calculating Infinity was met with critical acclaim, faith No More vocalist Mike Patton, a friend of the band and one of the first people to hear the album, asked the Dillinger Escape Plan to tour with his band Mr. Bungle. Over time, their intense shows grew more so, incorporating samples, a light show, fireworks, fire breathing. After several months of touring, including appearances on the Warped Tour and March Metal Meltdown, in 2000, Now or Never Records re-released the bands self-titled album with added bonus tracks. Later that same year, the band parted ways with Minakakis, Minakakis credited his departure from the band to the rigorous touring schedule. The band remains in contact with him and they received many submissions, including one with rapping and one with death growls. While the search was underway, vocal duties were handled by a number of the friends, including Sean Ingram of Coalesce and Mike Patton
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Sepultura
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Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte. Sepultura has had changes in its lineup since its formation, with Max and Igor Cavalera departing in 1996 and 2006. Sepulturas current lineup consists of vocalist Derrick Green, guitarist Andreas Kisser, bassist Paulo Jr. since Igor Cavaleras departure in 2006, there have been no original members left in the band. Paulo Jr. who has been a member of Sepultura since 1985, is the member to appear on every release. Kisser, who replaced Jairo Guedz in 1987, has played on all of the studio albums. Sepultura has released fourteen studio albums to date, the latest being Machine Messiah and their most successful records are Arise, Chaos A. D. and Roots. Sepultura was formed in 1984 in Belo Horizonte, the city of Minas Gerais. Gracilianos death deeply affected his sons, inspiring them to form a band after Max heard the album Black Sabbath Vol.4 the very same day. They chose the band name Sepultura, the Portuguese word for grave and they would travel to a record shop in São Paulo that mixed tapes of the latest records by American bands. Their listening habits changed dramatically after being introduced to Venom, as Igor Cavalera put it, The Cavalera brothers started listening to bands such as Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Kreator, Sodom, Megadeth, Exodus and Exciter. They also had influences on Brazilian metal from bands like Stress, Sagrado Inferno, by 1984, they had dropped out of school. After his departure, Max took over the vocal duties, Jairo Guedes was invited to join the band as lead guitarist. After about a year of performing, Sepultura signed to Cogumelo Records in 1985, later that year, they released Bestial Devastation, a shared EP with fellow Brazilian band Overdose. It was self-produced and recorded in just two days, the band recorded their first full-length album, Morbid Visions, in August 1986. It contained their first hit, Troops of Doom, which gained media attention. The band then decided to relocate to the city of São Paulo. In early 1987, Jairo Guedes quit the band, Guedes was replaced by São Paulo-based guitarist Andreas Kisser, and they released their second studio album, Schizophrenia, in 1987. The album reflected a change towards a more thrash metal-oriented sound
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Excel (band)
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Excel is a punk-metal fusion band from Venice, California, founded in 1983 by singer Dan Clements and guitarist Adam Siegel. They were influenced by famous 1970s punk rock musicians like the Germs and Black Flag and they were also influenced by street art, Excel is known for painting graffiti on the streets of the cities where they make their tours, hence there are many different logos of the band. In August 2009 they edited a collection of eight DVDs of their tours around Europe and Los Angeles. As of January 2012, Excel has reformed, the band formed in 1983 under the name Chaotic Noise. Then Evan Warech joined as drummer, while the bass was occupied by a lot of different musicians that year, in 1984 Rickey Pallamino took over the four strings, with the line-up finally completed they recorded their first Demo. In 1985 Warech and Pallamino left the band, the latter was replaced by Shaun Ross who created the name Excel with his friends from the L. A. graffiti crew KSN, a few months later a new drummer joined Excel, Greg Saenz. Excel participated in the compilation Welcome to Venice which includes three of their songs, in the next few months they recorded three demos, Sonic Decapitation in February 1985, Personal Onslaught June 9 and Refuse to Quit in January 1986. Later that year, they edited their first single, a cover of the song Message in a bottle originally released by The Police in the album Regatta de Blanc in September 1979. In early 1989, Excel recorded another single, Blaze some Hate, to promote their second album, The Jokes on You. In march the band made a show at the Chuck Landis Country Club in USA, California, in November, Excel made their first tour, which was made in Netherlands in the cities of, Sneek, Heemskerk, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Goes and Den Bosch. On their return to United States, Excel played at The Palace in Hollywood, California, the Star Club in Ybor City, Florida, and Philadelphia April 29,1990. A few months later they recorded their demo, Third album demos. After three years of silence, with Brandon Rudley on guitar and Max on drums, Excel returned with a new stoner metal style to record a new album with the band Shrine. They recorded their last single to promote their third album, Seeking Refuge. After releasing the album Clements was unable to find a replacement for Max on drums, shortly after, Rudley died from a brain aneurysm at the age of 25, and Excel was officially disbanded a few months later. Excel announced their reunion in January 2012, involved in the reunion include Dan Clements on vocals, Shaun Ross on bass and Greg Saenz on drums, Adam Siegel was asked to participate but he declined the offer. Alex Barreto, a long friend of the band, replaced Siegel on guitar. On March 30,2013, Excel played their first reunion at a party at RVCA in Los Angeles
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Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, which received mixed-to-negative reactions, a sequel trilogy began in 2015 with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards and have been successes, with a combined box office revenue of over $7.5 billion. Spin-off films include Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Rogue One, Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the Most successful film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at USD $42 billion. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earned the rights to all subsequent Star Wars films. Walt Disney Studios owns digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films, the events depicted in the Star Wars franchise take place in an unnamed fictional galaxy at an undetermined point in the distant past. Many species of creatures are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a single galactic government. In the prequel trilogy, this is depicted in the form of the Galactic Republic, at the end of the trilogy and throughout the original trilogy. Preceding and during the trilogy, this government is the New Republic. One of the prominent elements of Star Wars is the Force and it is described in the first produced film as an energy field created by all living things surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together. While the Force can be used for good, known as the side, it also has a dark side that, when pursued, imbues users with hatred, aggression. The sequel trilogy introduces the Knights of Ren, an order of practitioners of the side of the Force aligned with the First Order. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and this was followed by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21,1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25,1983
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Tusken Raiders
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Tusken Raiders, are fictional creatures in the Star Wars universe. They are characterized as a warrior race that lives on the planet Tatooine. Tusken Raiders first appear in Star Wars when a pack of them attack Luke Skywalker in the Jundland Wastes, however, just as they are going through Lukes landspeeder, Obi-Wan Kenobi frightens them off by imitating a Krayt dragons mating call and rescues Luke. Anakin eventually finds her, but she is injured and dies in his arms. Seized by a violent rage, Anakin slaughters the entire tribe, the attack probably occurred due to the forts placement over one of the Raiders holy wells. The comic book series Star Wars, Republic explains that exiled Jedi Sharad Hett, Hett was one of the few non-Tuskens to be accepted into their ranks and was even given the title of warlord. Although ASharad Hett believed he was half-Tusken for the part of his life, during his training on Coruscant he learned that Humans. This leads him to believe that his mother must have been a human, captured by the Tusken Raiders at a young age and raised as a Tusken. The series Star Wars, Legacy, set some 200 years later, reveals that ASharad eventually turned to the side of the Force and, as the Sith Lord Darth Krayt. In the Junior Jedi Knights and New Jedi Order series, it is revealed that Jedi Knight Tahiri Veila was raised by the Tusken Raiders after they killed her parents. A Tusken Raider named Hoar appears as a character in the PlayStation fighting game Star Wars, Masters of Teräs Käsi. In the Xbox Original game Star Wars, Battlefront II players are allowed to play as Tusken Raiders in a game mode called hunt. Tusken Raiders appear in Star Wars, Knights Of The Old Republic and Star Wars, the Cavefish biker gang from the LucasArts game Full Throttle were designed to resemble Tusken Raiders in appearance. In the 1998 video game Xenogears by Squaresoft, the enemy Dune Men, also called Freelancers, resemble Tusken Raiders clothes and their weapon looks like the Tusken Raiders gaderffii. Tusken Raiders in the StarWars. com Databank Tusken Raider on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki
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Seven deadly sins
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The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices of Christian origin. Behaviors or habits are classified under this category if they give birth to other immoralities. According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth and these sins are often thought to be abuses or excessive versions of ones natural faculties or passions. This classification originated with the fathers, especially Evagrius Ponticus. To inspire people to focus on the seven sins, the vices are discussed in treatises. The seven deadly sins in their current form are not found in the Bible, one such antecedent is found in the Book of Proverbs 6, 16–19, however only in the Masoretic Text. Since the apostle Paul goes on to say that the persons who practice these sins shall not inherit the Kingdom of God, still another list of things that God hates comes from Revelation 21,8. While the seven deadly sins as we know them did not originate with the Greeks or Romans, Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics lists several positive, healthy human qualities, excellences, or virtues. Aristotle argues that for each positive quality there are two negative vices that are found on each extreme of the virtue, courage, for example, is the human excellence or virtue in facing fear and risk. Excessive courage makes one rash, while a deficiency of courage makes one cowardly and this principle of virtue found in the middle or mean between excess and deficiency is Aristotles notion of the golden mean. Aristotle lists virtues like courage, temperance or self-control, generosity, greatness of soul, proper response to anger, friendliness, roman writers like Horace extolled the value of virtue while listing and warning against vices. His first epistles says that to flee vice is the beginning of virtue, Gregory combined tristitia and acedia, vanagloria and superbia, and added envy. Gregorys list became the standard list of sins, Thomas Aquinas uses and defends Gregorys list in his Summa Theologica. The Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church, and Methodist Church, among other Christian denominations, moreover, modern day evangelists, such as Billy Graham have explicated the seven deadly sins. In the seven sins are seven ways of eternal death. The capital sins from lust to envy are generally associated with pride, lust, or lechery, is intense longing. It is usually thought of as intense or unbridled sexual desire, which leads to fornication, adultery, rape, bestiality, however, lust could also mean simply desire in general, thus, lust for money, power, and other things are sinful. In accordance with the words of Henry Edward, the impurity of lust makes one a slave of the devil, lust, if not managed properly, can subvert propriety
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LucasArts
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LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game publisher and licensor. Until 2013, it was also a game developer. LucasArts is best known for its graphic adventure games, as well as based on the Star Wars. Its headquarters are located in San Francisco, California and it was founded in May 1982 by George Lucas as Lucasfilm Games, the video game development group of his film company, Lucasfilm. Lucas initially served as the companys chairman, during a 1990 reorganization of Lucas companies, the Lucasfilm Games division was renamed LucasArts. LucasArts was acquired by The Walt Disney Company through the acquisition of its parent company Lucasfilm in 2012, on April 3,2013, Disney halted all internal development at LucasArts and laid off most of its staff. However, LucasArts remained open so that it could retain its function as a licensor, development of games based on the Star Wars license will be performed by Electronic Arts, through an exclusive license, for the core gaming market. Disney Interactive Studios retained the ability to develop, and LucasArts retained the ability to license the franchise for the gaming market. Development of video based upon other Lucasfilm properties will now be assumed by Disney Interactive Studios or licensed to third parties. The company was founded in May 1982 as the game development group of Lucasfilm Limited. Lucas wanted his company to branch out into areas of entertainment. The Lucasfilm Games Group originally cooperated with Atari, which helped fund the video game groups founding, the first results of this collaboration were unique action games like Ballblazer in 1984, and Rescue on Fractalus. In 1984, they were released for the Atari 5200 under the Lucasfilm Games label, versions for home computers were not released until 1985, by publisher Epyx. Lucasfilms next two games were Koronis Rift and The Eidolon and their first games were only developed by Lucasfilm, and a publisher would distribute the games. Atari published their games for Atari systems, Activision and Epyx would do their computer publishing, Maniac Mansion was the first game to be published and developed by Lucasfilm Games. The early charter of Lucasfilm Games was to make experimental, innovative, Habitat, an early online role-playing game, was one such title. It was only released as a beta test in 1986 by Quantum Link, Quantum Link could not provide the bandwidth at the time to support the game, so the full Habitat was never released outside of the beta test. However, Lucasfilm Games recouped the cost of development by releasing a sized down version called Club Caribe in 1988, Lucasfilm later licensed the software to Fujitsu, who released it in Japan as Fujitsu Habitat in 1990
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Static-X
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Static-X was an American industrial metal band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1994. The line-up fluctuated over the years, but always held constant with band founder, frontman, vocalist, founders of the band were Wayne Static and original drummer Ken Jay. The band released five albums over the course of the next decade, Machine in 2001, Shadow Zone in 2003, Start a War in 2005, Cannibal in 2007. Shortly after their last albums release, the band entered a hiatus while Static worked on his album, Pighammer. Static briefly reformed Static-X in 2012, using members of his solo albums touring band. On November 1,2014, Wayne Static died at the age of 48, Static-X was founded in 1994 after the disbandment of Wayne Statics prior band, Deep Blue Dream. Static played in the band in the late 1980s with future Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, however, when the Smashing Pumpkins began to gain popularity, Corgan made the choice to commit all of his attention to The Smashing Pumpkins, and the band eventually disbanded. Static would later move to Los Angeles to search for new members, recruiting bassist Tony Campos and guitarist Koichi Fukuda. Static-X signed with Warner Bros. Records in early 1998, and released their album, Wisconsin Death Trip. Soon after, they released their first single Push It, followed by Im with Stupid, Static-X toured strictly in support of the album and twice performed on Ozzfest, supporting Fear Factory. In the following year a promotional EP, The Death Trip Continues, was also released, the band toured heavily in support of the album, with Static recounting, It was really just a whirlwind and I barely remember it. We worked so hard and toured so hard that I dont even remember most of it and we played 300 shows in the first year and we just never went home. We would tour on one tour for six or eight weeks and that tour ends and then wed drive a few days to Boston to hook up with Sevendust. We just kept going and kept going and never went home, I mean I didnt even have a home. I lived at the space for the last year before we started touring. I had to quit my job to make the record so I didnt have anywhere to go home to. I look back at it now and I kinda wish I had taken the time to sit back. Maybe got to some of the other bands a little more and spend time and having a good time and partying. Commercially, the effort paid off, with the album going platinum in 2001
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Sitar
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The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music. The sitar flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and arrived at its present form in 18th century India and it derives its distinctive timbre and resonance from sympathetic strings, bridge design, a long hollow neck and a gourd-shaped resonance chamber. In appearance, the sitar is similar to the tanpura, except that it has frets, used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became popularly known in the wider world through the works of Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The word sitar originally derived from Sanskrit words saptatantri veena, which later was called as saat taar which eventually became sitar, another source might be from Persian seh + tar, literally meaning three strings. The instrument is thought to have been a version of the Veena, another prominent instrument in Carnatic and Hindustani music, altered in order to conform with Mughal tastes. The sitar flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries and arrived at its present form in 18th century India, in his Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya, Lalmani Misra traces the instruments development from the Tritantri veena through the nibaddh and anibaddh Tamburas also called tanbur and later the jantra. Construction of the similar tanpura was described by Tansen, a sitar can have 18,19,20, or 21 strings. The frets are movable, allowing fine tuning, the Gandhaar-pancham sitar has six playable strings, whereas the Kharaj-pancham sitar, used in the Maihar gharana, to which Ravi Shankar belonged, and other gharanas such as Bishnupur, has seven. Three of these, called the chikaari, simply provide a drone, the instrument has two bridges, the large bridge for the playing and drone strings and the small bridge for the sympathetic strings. Its timbre results from the way the strings interact with the wide, as a string reverberates its length changes slightly as its edge touches the bridge, promoting the creation of overtones and giving the sound its distinctive tone. The maintenance of this specific tone by shaping the bridge is called jawari, many musicians rely on instrument makers to adjust this. The bridges are fixed to the resonating chamber, or kaddu. Some sitars have a resonator, the tumbaa, near the top of the hollow neck. Materials used in construction include teak wood or tun wood, which is a variation of mahogany, for the neck and faceplate, the instruments bridges are made of deer horn, ebony, or very occasionally from camel bone. Synthetic material is now common as well, there are three popular modern styles of sitar offered in a variety of sub-styles and decorative patterns. The two popular styles are the gayaki style sitars and the full decorated instrumental style sitars, the gayaki style sitar is mostly of seasoned toon wood, with very few or no carved decorations. It often has a dark polish, the inlay decorations are mostly of mother of pearl. The number of strings is often limited to eleven but may extend to thirteen
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Hellhammer
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Hellhammer was a Swiss extreme metal band from Nurensdorf, active during 1981–1984. They are regarded as a key influence on metal. In June 1984, Hellhammer disbanded and founded another highly influential band, although Fischer was also blown away by the first two Discharge records - Why. and Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing - he was not into punk at all. In June 1983, the recorded their first demo tape, Triumph of Death. Although rejected by the labels they sent tapes to, the band caught the attention of newcomer Noise Records. Steve Warrior had been replaced by former Schizo bassist Martin Eric Ain and these changes were ultimately responsible for Fischers and Ains increasing perception of being limited within the confines of the purposely primitive Hellhammer vehicle. On May 31,1984, Hellhammer disbanded, and on June 1 changed its name to Celtic Frost, at the dawn of the next decade Noise Records released a new version of Hellhammers debut, retitled Apocalyptic Raids 1990 A. D. This re-issue was augmented by two tracks off the Death Metal compilation, which was something we wanted to, even back in 84. This re-release also came with a new cover design done by Martin Ain, the album was released by Prowlin Death/Century Media Records. Additionally, Tom Fischer has released a book titled Only Death Is Real, An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and early Celtic Frost 1981-1985, the book featured a foreword by Darkthrone guitarist Nocturno Culto and an introduction by the author Joel McIver. Although its former members felt proud of Hellhammers legacy by the end of the 1980s, in fact, Tom Warrior feared that his prior commitment to Hellhammer could hinder the future of Celtic Frost. Review summed up his worst fears, The truly execrable Hellhammer may now have turned into Celtic Frost, other metal publications were also skeptical of Hellhammers musical endeavor. Metal Forces, for one, absolutely loathed the group, that started a feud between that zine and Warrior, which kept Celtic Frost from playing in England for a couple of years. Rock Power was not fond of Hellhammer either - they considered it the most terrible, abhorrent, in fact, they were receiving miserable reviews everywhere, Warrior concluded. Regarding the controversial status of his band, Thomas said, A four-track 12 EP. At the time, it was regarded as one of the heaviest and most extreme records produced, both Fischer and Ain later teamed up again when forming Celtic Frost in summer of 1984. Countless Hellhammer cover versions by numerous underground bands exist, Hellhammer covers by notable bands include Napalm Death, Sepultura, Samael, Incantation, Slaughter, Behemoth, and Gallhammer. Fischers post-Celtic Frost band, Apollyon Sun, also re-worked Messiah, precious Metal, Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces
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Four Sticks
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Four Sticks is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1971 fourth album and is the sixth track from the LP. The title came from the fact that drummer, John Bonham and his decision to play the song with four sticks was a result of him being very frustrated with not being able to get the track down right during recording sessions at Island Studios. After he grabbed the second pair of sticks and beat the drums as hard as he could, he recorded the perfect take and this song was particularly difficult to record, and required more takes than usual. John Paul Jones played a VCS3 synthesizer on the track, guitarist Jimmy Page once said of the song, It was supposed to be abstract. The abstract effect is achieved by the unusual time signature of the song, featuring riffs in a mixture of 5/8 and 6/8 time signatures. After another failed take during the recording, Jimmy began to play a guitar riff out of frustration. That riff was later on developed into the track of the album, Rock. The song was re-recorded by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant with the Bombay Symphony Orchestra in 1972, during their trip to India, along another track. This version featured tabla drums and sitars, the recordings were finally released officially on the 2015 remastering of Coda. The project is said to have run into problems because the orchestra didnt keep time in the Western style, the band is only known to have played this song live once, in Copenhagen on their 1971 European tour, as has been preserved on some bootleg recordings. Also in 1994, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page had rejoined in musical collaboration as Page, a different version of this song is featured on the remastered deluxe two-CD version of Led Zeppelin IV. Known as Four Sticks, it was recorded on November 2,1970, at Island Studios,2, in London with engineer Andy Johns and assistant engineer Tony. This mix runs 4,33, while the original version runs 4,45
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Led Zeppelin
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Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968. The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones, after changing their name from the New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom. Their fourth album, which features the track Stairway to Heaven, is among the most popular and influential works in rock music, Page wrote most of Led Zeppelins music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. Jones keyboard-based compositions later became central to the catalogue, which featured increasing experimentation. The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess, in the decades that followed, the surviving members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off Led Zeppelin reunions. The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London, Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful, innovative, and influential rock groups in history. They are one of the music artists in the history of audio recording. With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units, they are the band in the US. Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and they achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums. Rolling Stone magazine described them as the heaviest band of all time, the biggest band of the Seventies, and unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995, in 1966, London-based session guitarist Jimmy Page joined the blues-influenced rock band the Yardbirds to replace bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. Page soon switched from bass to guitar, creating a dual lead guitar line-up with Jeff Beck. Following Becks departure in October 1966, the Yardbirds, tired from constant touring and recording, Page wanted to form a supergroup with him and Beck on guitars, and the Whos Keith Moon and John Entwistle on drums and bass, respectively. Vocalists Steve Winwood and Steve Marriott were also considered for the project, the group never formed, although Page, Beck, and Moon did record a song together in 1966, Becks Bolero, in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones. The Yardbirds played their final gig in July 1968 at Luton College of Technology in Bedfordshire, Page and Dreja began putting a new line-up together. Pages first choice for the singer was Terry Reid, but Reid declined the offer and suggested Robert Plant. Plant eventually accepted the position, recommending former Band of Joy drummer John Bonham, Jones inquired about the vacant position at the suggestion of his wife after Dreja dropped out of the project to become a photographer. Page had known Jones since they were both musicians and agreed to let him join as the final member
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Refuse/Resist
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Refuse/Resist is Sepulturas fourth single, released in 1994. The title song, also included as a single off the album Chaos A. D. is one of the bands best-known songs, a music video was filmed for the single which features the band playing live at a festival intercut with footage of rioting and general unrest. This video can be found on the VHS Third World Chaos, the intro to the song is the heartbeat of Max Cavaleras then-unborn first son Zyon. This song is notable for having a 20-second growl at the end. Refuse/Resist also appears in form on the bands live releases Under a Pale Grey Sky. The reverse of the shows the band playing live. The spine of the CD release does not feature the name or the name of the single. The single was released in several forms, two CD versions exist, one 3-track maxi-single and a seven-track EP, details of which are listed below. Both come in foldout card digipak cases, early limited pressings were embossed with the Sepultura thorned S logo. In addition, the single was released on cassette tape with the same B-sides as the maxi single. The single also saw two releases, both limited editions. It charted at #26 in VH1s 40 Greatest Metal Songs, * denotes tracks which were only available on the scarce EP version. Max Cavalera – vocals, rhythm guitar Andreas Kisser – lead guitar Paulo Jr. Soulfly plays the song live, a recording of this can be found on the DVD, The Song Remains Insane. Recently, Refuse/Resist was recorded in the studio and released like bonus track in their seventh album, pro-Pain covered the song on their tribute album Run For Cover. Andre Luders & Nordmacht Krisiun covered the song for their album Southern Storm, deep Coma covered the song for their album Despair As You Stare. Hatebreed covered the song for their cover album For the Lions, the cover also appears on the soundtrack for the movie Punisher, War Zone. Cataract covered the song for their homonym album Cataract, roadrunner United covered it on their live DVD*. French nu metal band Mass Hysteria covered the song in their 1998 album Live, hank Williams IIIs punk/thrash/metal band Assjack covers Refuse/Resist as part of a medley with Slayers Raining Blood, Postmortem, and Jesus Saves during some live performances
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Blood Fire War Hate
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Blood Fire War Hate is a Soulfly song, released in 2009 from the 2008 album Conquer. It is the 14th single released by Soulfly and second released from that sixth studio album, Max Cavalera commented on the Roadrunner website about this song, Im excited to open the record with a fast song. Usually Soulfly albums begin mid-tempo, but this reminds me of Beneath the Remains and this song also has one of the biggest hooks Ive ever done. I can close my eyes and picture huge festival crowds singing it, when the fast part comes in, its just war. David Vincent, Morbid Angel frontman, is the guest that greatly satisfied Cavalera, the lyrics explore each word of the song title, when hate fuels war involving fire resulting in blood. Variations of Blood Fire War Hate are sung, such as Blood, Fire, Hell, Heaven, Blood, Fire, War, Kill, the song lyrics was written by Max Cavalera of Soulfly and David Vincent of Morbid Angel. The song is featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto, Episodes from Liberty City, played in the radio station LCHC
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Cavalera Conspiracy
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Cavalera Conspiracy is an American heavy metal band founded by Brazilian brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, currently performing along with American musicians Marc Rizzo and Johny Chow. The band originally formed in 2007 as Inflikted but changed its name for legal reasons, the groups creation marked the end of a 10-year feud between the Cavalera brothers who founded Sepultura in the early 1980s. Following the brothers falling out, Max had formed a new band, Soulfly, and Igor had recorded four studio albums with Sepultura before leaving the band in January 2006. In July 2006, Max received a call from his brother. Igor joined Soulfly in concert and performed two Sepultura songs, after the show, Max suggested they begin a new project, and Igor accepted. To complete the band, Max chose Soulfly guitarist Marc Rizzo, the group then recorded their debut album at Undercity Studios in Los Angeles with engineer and co-producer Logan Mader in July 2007. Named after the original moniker, Inflikted was released through Roadrunner Records on 25 March 2008. On 16 August 1996 at 1,43 a. m, Max Cavaleras stepson Dana Wells, was killed in a car accident at the age of 21 in Phoenix, Arizona. At the time, Cavalera was the lead vocalist for Sepultura which was on promoting its sixth studio album, Roots. After hearing the news, Ozzy and his wife Sharon Osbourne hired a plane to take Cavalera and his wife, manager and mother of Dana, Gloria. After the funeral, Max returned his focus to Sepultura, told Max they wanted to replace numerous members of the bands staff, including Gloria. Andreas, Paulo and Igor proposed ending the contract with Gloria and hiring a new manager for Sepultura, the trio suggested that she could continue as Maxs personal manager but that someone else should manage the band. Max felt betrayed by his mates, especially his brother, Max decided to leave Sepultura, as he felt that his band mates were biting the hands that feeds. In an interview with Revolver magazines May 2008 issue, Max explained that Gloria had worked for Sepultura for two years without earning one dollar, just for the passion of the music. Disagreeing with the other Sepultura members, Max said, If this is how its going down, I cant just put a mask on and backstab a bunch of people that trust me. Later, Max stated that it was the hardest decision he had to make in his life and his departure from Sepultura caused a 10-year feud between the Cavalera brothers. During this period, Max formed a new band, Soulfly, Igor continued as Sepulturas drummer, appearing on the groups next four studio records before leaving in January 2006 to work on his DJ project, Mixhell, and to spend more time with his family. At the concert, Igor joined Soulfly and performed two Sepultura songs, Roots Bloody Roots and Attitude, for which Dana had written the lyrics, in an interview with Chad Bowar for About. com, Max stated that performance was the birth of Cavalera Conspiracy
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Prophecy (Soulfly song)
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Prophecy is a song recorded by Soulfly in 2003 and released on February 14,2004. The song is found on the fourth album Prophecy as the first. It is the single released from the album. Prophecy has a simple makeup with half-tribal rhythm and tuned down guitars overlaid with roaring vocals from Max Cavalera and this song opens with up and down riffs with lines of catchy vocals typical of Soulfly songs. Megadeth bassist David Ellefson plays the bass throughout the song and this song ends with fast, thrashy riff with Cavalera chanting New millennium tribal War four times. According to the lyrics, this deals with prophecies surrounding tribes devastating cities in the desert next to the Red Sea. While marching the way, he sees a sheep, crown of thorns. After reaching the destination, prophecy continues with tribal war in the new millennium, the music video was filmed and takes place in Navajo Indian Reservation in Monument Valley, Utah, meaning that Soulfly members perform in the desert on top of the pillar rock formation. Regular members Max Cavalera - vocals, rhythm guitar, writer, producer Marc Rizzo - lead guitar Joe Nuñez - drums Guest David Ellefson - bass Other staff Terry Date - mixing
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Back to the Primitive
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Back to the Primitive is a nu metal song by Soulfly, released in 2000. The song, composed by Max Cavalera, is played as the first track of the second Soulfly album, the song features simple downtuned riffs, plus tribal drumming and blabbering, it also plays berimbau to begin the song. Lyrically, this song is about demoting national government back to local tribal society. Every choruses begin with Back to the Primitive, except for the first line of lyric Um dois treis quatro to begin the song and this song begins with a berimbau, but it is not the case for the accompanying music video. Instead the intro plays tribal percussion with Soulfly chants alternately by Cavalera, the drumming intro lasts 29 seconds, compared to just 23 seconds for the berimbau intro. The most dramatic scene in the video is a man jumping onto the crowd, all lyrics written by Max Cavalera except where noted, all music composed by Max Cavalera. Include music video Back to the Primitive
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3 (Soulfly album)
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3 is the third studio album by the metal band Soulfly released in 2002 through Roadrunner Records. 3 has sold 195,000 copies as of March 11,2008, the album artwork features an Om, a spiritual icon in Indian religions. Both of the first two tracks were the singles released from the album, Downstroy and Seek n Strike. One fuses growling vocals from Max Cavalera with gripping vocals from Ill Nino’s Christian Machado. The song uses this title as first word of the two word clauses per line, One soul / One heart / One man / One truth / One tribe / One life / One God. L. O. T. M is a Native American-themed metal song named after the 1826 novel of the same name, brasil is a Brazilian metal song, especially featuring berimbau, as well as several percussions performed by Cavalera. Brasil is about overcoming the poor government of Rio de Janeiro by praying the past, One Nation plays a recorded pledge of allegiance to begin and end the song, since One Nation appears in pledge of allegiance. One Nation was originally recorded by Sacred Reich, 09-11-01 is a one-minute silence used for listeners to tribute to the victims of the September 11th,2001 terrorism acts on the World Trade Center. Call to Arms is about addressing the terrorists in a usual way, tree of Pain is noted for its ballad lasting 2.3 minutes on both ends with typical metal riff with Cavaleras growls in the middle. This song tributes to Cavalera’s stepson Dana, who was killed, zumbi and Soulfly III are world music songs. the band remains a hard-charging, tribal-drumming monster fierce enough to kick the bulldozers out of the rainforest.3 could be the charm for Soulfly. Alternative Press rated the album a 7 out of 10 stating that Streamlined, CMJ stated that This one is a winner, dont miss out. All tracks written by Max Cavalera unless stated, album – Billboard 3 at MusicBrainz
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