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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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Disturbed (band)
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Disturbed is an American heavy metal band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1994. The band includes vocalist David Draiman, bassist John Moyer, guitarist Dan Donegan, former band members are vocalist Erich Awalt and bassist Steve Kmak. The band has released six albums, five of which have consecutively debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Before David Draiman joined Disturbed, the lineup consisted of vocalist Erich Awalt, guitarist Dan Donegan, drummer Mike Wengren, Awalt left the band shortly after the recording of a demo tape, the other three members advertised for a singer. They posted an advertisement in the music publication in Chicago, Illinois. Draiman answered the advertisement after going to twenty other auditions that month, guitarist Dan Donegan commented on Draiman, You know, out of all the singers that we had talked to or auditioned, he was the only singer who was ready to go with originals. And that impressed me, just to attempt that, yeah, well give you a call back. Im like, There is something here, as drummer Mike Wengren commented, We clicked right off the bat. Draiman then joined the band in 1996 and the band was renamed Disturbed, when asked in an interview why he suggested to name the band Disturbed, Draiman said, It had been a name I have been contemplating for a band for years. It just seems to symbolize everything we were feeling at the time, the level of conformity that people are forced into was disturbing to us and we were just trying to push the envelope and the name just sorta made sense. The artwork was composed of the recently created pet, The Guy. The band eventually signed with Giant Records, in 2000, the band released its debut album, titled The Sickness, which launched the band into stardom. The album peaked at twenty on Billboard 200, and it has sold over four million copies in the United States since its release. He took the escape to exit the building while the elevator was being used to move their equipment downstairs. Kmak skipped the European trek of the tour, but he did perform with the band on January 11 and 12,2001 at Disturbeds show in Chicago, during the European tour, Marty OBrien replaced Kmak until he was able to tour again. In September 2001, production of their studio album began. On September 17,2002, Disturbed released their studio album, titled Believe. The music video for the first single from the album, titled Prayer, was pulled from most television stations, David Draiman recorded vocals for a song titled Forsaken, a song written and produced by Jonathan Davis of the band Korn, released on Queen of the Damned
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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage
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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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Nu metal
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Nu metal is a form of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk and grunge. Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, Nu metal rarely features guitar solos, the genre is heavily syncopated and based on guitar riffs. Many nu metal guitarists use seven-string guitars that are down-tuned to play a heavier sound, DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Vocal styles in nu metal include singing, rapping, screaming and growling, Nu metal is one of the key genres of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, many heavy metal fans have criticized nu metal, and do not regard it as true heavy metal. Many nu metal musicians have rejected the nu metal label and also have rejected being labeled as heavy metal, Nu metal is also known as nü-metal and aggro-metal. It is a subgenre of alternative metal, MTV states that the early nu metal group Korn arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way college rock became alternative rock. Stereogum has similarly claimed that nu metal was a outgrowth of the Lollapalooza-era alt-metal scene. Nu metal merges elements of metal music with elements of other music genres such as grunge, hip hop, funk. Nu metal bands also are influenced by and use elements of genres of metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, alternative metal. Some nu metal bands such as Static-X and Dope made nu metal music elements of industrial metal. Nu metal music is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs, mid-song bridges and a general lack of guitar solos contrasts it with other genres of heavy metal. N its efforts to tune down and simplify riffs, nu-metal effectively drove a stake through the heart of the guitar solo. Another contrast with other metal genres is nu metals emphasis on rhythm, rather than on complexity or mood. The wah pedal is occasionally featured in nu metal music, Nu metal guitar riffs occasionally are similar to death metal guitar riffs. Nu metal bassists and drummers are often influenced by funk and hip hop, respectively, blast beats, which are common in heavy metal subgenres such as black metal and death metal, are extremely rare in nu metal. sound a Mack truck being crushed by a collapsing skyscraper. Some nu metal bands use seven-string guitars that are generally down-tuned, likewise, some bass guitarists use five-string and six-string instruments. Bass guitar-playing in nu metal often features an emphasis on elements such as slap bass, a percussive style of playing in which the thumb slaps the low strings
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Alternative metal
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Alternative metal is a music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. The term has been in use since the 1980s, although it came into prominence in the 1990s, other genres considered part of the alternative metal movement included rap metal and funk metal, both of which influenced another prominent subgenre, nu metal. Nu metal expands the alternative metal sound, combining its vocal stylings and downtuned riffs with elements of genres, such as hip hop, funk, hardcore. They also remarked that alternative metal was originally a style united by its nonconformist sensibility rather than any immediately classifiable sound, one of the main characteristics of alternative metal and its subgenres are heavily downtuned, mid-paced chug-like guitar riffs. However, funk metal bands use a more conventional riffing style influenced by 1980s thrash metal. Alternative metal features clean and melodic vocals, influenced by those of alternative rock, later bands frequently incorporated vocal styles that alternated between clean singing, growls and screaming. Examples include alternative metal bands associated with the nu metal movement, such as Korn and Deftones, jonathan Gold of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1990 Just as rock has an alternative, wing-bands like the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. -so does metal. Alternative metal is alternative music that rocks, and alternative metal these days can reach 10 times the audience of other alternative rock. Janes Addiction plays an intense brand of 70s-influenced arty metal, so does Soundgarden, in fact, the arty meanderings of Sab and the Zep themselves would be considered alternative metal. Houston Press has described the genre as being a compromise for people for whom Nirvana was not heavy enough but Metallica was too heavy. The first wave of metal bands emerged from many backgrounds, including hardcore punk, noise rock, Seattles grunge scene, stoner rock, sludge metal. These bands never formed a movement or scene, rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences. Fudge Tunnels style of alternative metal included influences from both sludge metal and noise rock, other early bands in the genre also came from hardcore punk backgrounds. During the 1980s, alternative metal appealed mainly to rock fans. Several bands associated with the genre denied their status as metal bands, Helmet drummer John Stanier said We fell into the whole metal thing by accident, we always hated it when people mentioned metal in conjunction with us. Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of Pitchfork Media stated bands like Faith No More, Soundgarden, Primus, Helmet, the Rollins Band, and dozens more were initially marketed as quasi-metal acts. This was only possible in a climate where record labels, journalists, many established 1980s metal bands released albums in the 1990s that were described as alternative metal, including Anthrax, Metallica and Mötley Crüe. It resulted in a standardized sound among alternative metal bands, in contrast to the more eccentric
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Reprise Records
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Reprise Records /rəˈpriz/ is an American major record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It was mostly inactive from 1976 to 1987 and it is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Bros. Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to more artistic freedom for his own recordings. Hence, he garnered the nickname The Chairman of the Board, having left Capitol/EMI, and after trying to buy Norman Granzs Verve Records, the first album Sinatra released on Reprise was Ring-a-Ding-Ding. As CEO of Reprise, Sinatra recruited several artists for the label, such as fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis. The original roster from 1961 to 1963 included Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Sinatra, Esquivel, the label still issues any Sinatra work recorded while on the label and, after his death in 1998, it had great success with his greatest hits collections. One of the founding principles under Sinatras leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom. This is the reason why recordings of early Reprise artists are distributed through other labels. In Martins case, his Reprise recordings were out of print for nearly 20 years before a deal was struck with Capitol Records, in 1963, as part of a film deal, Warner Bros. purchased Reprise from Sinatra, who nonetheless retained a 20% interest in the label. Many of the artists on the label were dropped by Warner Bros. Reprise president Mo Ostin was retained as the head of the label, warner-Reprise executives began targeting younger acts, beginning by securing the American distribution rights to the Pye Records recordings by the Kinks in 1964. Reprise would soon add teen-oriented pop acts like Dino, Desi & Billy to the roster, as well, Franks own daughter Nancy Sinatra would be retained by Ostin, becoming a major pop star starting in late 1965. The label moved almost exclusively to rock-oriented music in the late 1960s, rex, the Meters, John Cale, Gordon Lightfoot, Michael Franks, Richard Pryor, Al Jarreau, Fleetwood Mac, Fanny, and the Beach Boys. In 1976, the Reprise label was deactivated by Warner Bros. an unconfirmed explanation for this move is that Sinatra wanted to be the only artist on Reprise, and Young is said to have been the only Reprise act who refused to agree to a change in labels. In late 1985, some copies of the Dream Academys hit single Life in a Northern Town were pressed with Warner Bros. labels bearing a Reprise logo,1986 saw releases bearing Reprise labels from the Dream Academy as well as Dwight Yoakam. Vice President of Promotion Rich Fitzgerald was appointed as label Vice-President and it was formerly home to the Jimi Hendrix and the Barenaked Ladies catalogs in the U. S. When the Bee Gees back catalog was remastered by Rhino Records in the 2000s, neil Young stated in a documentary about his life that Marilyn Manson was turned down by Reprise. In September 2011, several took place at Reprise Records
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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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Believe (Disturbed album)
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Believe is the second studio album by American metal band Disturbed. It was released on September 17,2002, Believe debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it Disturbeds first number 1 debut, shipping over 284,000 copies in its first week. It was certified platinum by the RIAA in the United States on September 23,2008. The album contains three singles and focuses heavily on religious and spiritual themes inspired by recent tragedies. With greater emphases on melodic dynamics, it demonstrates a broadening in Disturbeds musical range compared to their debut album. Believe was the last album to feature original bassist Steve Fuzz Kmak before he was fired from the band in 2003 and that summer, vocalist David Draimans grandfather, an Orthodox Jew, died in Israel. At a young age, Draiman was beloved by his grandfather, however and it was not until the grandfather fell ill that he wished to see his grandson. But by the word got to Draiman, who was on Ozzfest. That same month, Draiman had surgery to remove a damaged valve that was causing acid to spill on his vocal cords, the successful surgery not only repaired Draimans voice but also allegedly broadened his vocal range. The band entered Ks Groovemaster Studios in mid March 2002 to begin recording with producer Johnny K, the majority of songs, which reportedly included about 10 at the time, had been written since November the previous year, including Prayer which debuted during Ozzfest. By mid April, Disturbed had completed 12 songs for Believe, in an interview with MTV, vocalist David Draiman elaborated how the reevaluating of his own Jewish heritage and compromises of life as a musician affected his writing. Believe witnessed the band away from the waning nu metal scene and place more emphases on lead guitar. This musical progression would follow through on future Disturbed albums where guitar solos would become commonplace, while The Sickness focused on heavy compositions, Disturbeds sophomore effort varies greater in its range of heaviness and melody, closing with a somber, acoustic ballad entitled Darkness. Singer David Draiman also wished to demonstrate greater vocal dimension than the style he was previously associated with. Nevertheless, he described the content of the album as pure, as noted by Draiman, Believe contains overt religious and spiritual themes. And the right-wing reactions of religious leaders of the world to the events of 9/11 had a lot to do with the impetus of where this record came from. It angered me beyond any way I could possibly explain, the whole albums about questioning your beliefs to determine what you really can believe in. Lyrically, the deals with various other topics as well
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Indestructible (Disturbed album)
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Indestructible is the fourth studio album by American metal band Disturbed. A self-produced effort, Indestructible is the first Disturbed album that did not feature Johnny K, Indestructible was recorded at Groovemaster Studios in Chicago, Illinois. The album features two songs, Perfect Insanity and Divide, that were written by Disturbed prior to their first album, The Sickness, the album features significantly darker themes than any of Disturbeds previous work, according to the band. To match the aggressive attitude and nature of said themes, Draiman told the band members to create darker. Despite these themes, the track, Indestructible, is meant to encourage those in the military that are fighting in wars. The album also shipped over 253,000 units in its opening week, Indestructible was met with mixed reviews by critics, earning a score of 57% on review-aggregating website Metacritic, based on six reviews. The album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in April 2009 for shipping over 1,000,000 copies in the United States, the single Inside the Fire was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award in the Best Hard Rock Performance category. After touring in support of the previous album, Ten Thousand Fists. During this time, drummer Mike Wengren got married, and guitarist Dan Donegan had a child, in February 2007, after the break was over, the band went to Groovemaster Studios in Chicago, Illinois and began writing music. Indestructible is Disturbeds first self-produced effort, without Johnny K acting as producer, as he did on the previous albums, The Sickness, Believe. The band was comfortable with self-producing, despite having Johnny K produce two consecutive albums, and this being their first time without him. As vocalist David Draiman reasoned, we learned it, and wed like to try, early in the writing process, Donegan created guitar riffs. The rest of the band listened to the riffs, and wrote the rest of the music. As Donegan commented, The writing process is, pretty much the same since the beginning. Its always been riffs, something musically that Ill come up with, bassist John Moyer left the studio during the recording process, due to his wife being pregnant. Donegan and Wengren sent him demos through e-mail, and he continued to write lines for the songs from his home studio. When the instrumentation was completed, Draiman began to write lines for each song. The first song completed musically was The Night, and Draiman completed the line in three days
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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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Guarded
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Guarded is a song by the American heavy metal band Disturbed. The song was released on June 28,2005 as a single from their third studio album. It was the first single featuring their new bassist John Moyer, Guarded is featured in the soundtrack of the film Saw III. According to vocalist David Draiman, Guarded is about how his lifestyle forces him to guard himself and he said, Its a song that reflects what choosing this life forces certain people to do in a certain way — you have to remain guarded on a certain level. Guarded was released to radio stations as a single on June 28,2005. Vocalist David Draiman said, was put out there to just whet everybodys appetite and its one of the more aggressive tracks on the record, just to remind everybody where we came from and who we are. Kind of give back to the core a little bit, David Draiman - vocals Dan Donegan - guitars, electronics John Moyer - bass guitar Mike Wengren - drums Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Stricken (song)
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Stricken is a song by the American heavy metal band Disturbed. The song was released on July 25,2005 as the single from their third studio album Ten Thousand Fists. Stricken was certified gold in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America on August 18,2008 for selling 500,000 copies and it is one of the first of Disturbeds songs to include a guitar solo. The song is featured in Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero Live in addition to the Disturbed track pack in Guitar Hero 5, the song is also a part of the Rock Band downloadable content catalog. The song was featured in the Project Gotham Racing 4. The musical video for the song was filmed in an hospital in which some scenes from the 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street were filmed. Stricken was used as theme for WWEs PPV New Years Revolution. The video for Stricken takes place in an abandoned asylum, there are two women in the video. A man has an affair with both of them, as a result, the mans original girlfriend is shown upset and screaming. The other woman is going after the man. The man, on the hand, does not show emotion to the very end. All the while, Disturbed is shown playing, in the background, the second b-side, Dehumanized, was recorded during the recording of Believe. Both songs are included on the b-side compilation, The Lost Children
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Land of Confusion
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Land of Confusion is a song by the English rock band Genesis from their 1986 album Invisible Touch. The song was the track on the album and was the third track released as a single, reaching No.4 in the U. S. It also reached No.8 in the Netherlands, the music was written by the band, while the lyrics were written by guitarist Mike Rutherford. The songs video featured puppets from the 1980s UK sketch show Spitting Image, the song is widely remembered for its music video, which had heavy airplay on MTV. The video features caricature puppets by the British television show Spitting Image, the video opens with a caricatured Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, and a chimpanzee, going to bed at 16,30. Reagan, holding a bear, goes to sleep and begins to have a nightmare. The video intermittently features a line of stomping feet, illustrating an army marching through a swamp, meanwhile, the real world Reagan is shown blowing bubbles in a puddle of his own sweat. At the end of part, the chimpanzee from the prologue is shown throwing a bone in the air. Reagan is then riding the Monoclonius through the streets while wearing a cowboy hat. At the end of the video, Reagan awakens from his dream, after taking a drink, he fumbles for a button next to his bed. He intends to push the one labelled Nurse, but instead presses the one titled Nuke, Reagan then replies Man, thats one heck of a nurse. Nancy whacks him over the head with her snorkel, the video, directed by John Lloyd & Jim Yukich and produced by Jon Blair, won the short-lived Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video during the 30th Annual Grammy Awards. The video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year in 1987. It also appears on their live albums The Way We Walk, Volume One, The Shorts, as well as on their DVDs Live at Wembley Stadium, The Way We Walk - Live in Concert and When in Rome 2007. The song was to imply the complexity of the story during the finale and this song is mentioned in American Psycho. The cover version of Land of Confusion by Disturbed is used in the end credits of Bigger, Stronger, swedish melodic death metal band In Flames covered the song for their 2003 EP Trigger. Canadian singer Nelly Furtado covered the song at on her first Spanish head-lining tour, swedish Eurodance group Alcazar adapted the chorus for their song This Is the World We Live In. Norwegian folk-pop band Katzenjammer covered the song for their album A Kiss Before You Go, a music video of the song was also filmed, it was released in CD/DVD format in May 2012
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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New Zealand
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New Zealand /njuːˈziːlənd/ is an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses—the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu—and around 600 smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long period of isolation, New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal, fungal, the countrys varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealands capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland, sometime between 1250 and 1300 CE, Polynesians settled in the islands that later were named New Zealand and developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight New Zealand, in 1840, representatives of Britain and Māori chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, which declared British sovereignty over the islands. In 1841, New Zealand became a colony within the British Empire, today, the majority of New Zealands population of 4.7 million is of European descent, the indigenous Māori are the largest minority, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders. Reflecting this, New Zealands culture is derived from Māori and early British settlers. The official languages are English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language, New Zealand is a developed country and ranks highly in international comparisons of national performance, such as health, education, economic freedom and quality of life. Since the 1980s, New Zealand has transformed from an agrarian, Queen Elizabeth II is the countrys head of state and is represented by a governor-general. In addition, New Zealand is organised into 11 regional councils and 67 territorial authorities for local government purposes, the Realm of New Zealand also includes Tokelau, the Cook Islands and Niue, and the Ross Dependency, which is New Zealands territorial claim in Antarctica. New Zealand is a member of the United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, ANZUS, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Pacific Islands Forum, and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in 1642 and called it Staten Landt, in 1645, Dutch cartographers renamed the land Nova Zeelandia after the Dutch province of Zeeland. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand, Aotearoa is the current Māori name for New Zealand. It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the country before the arrival of Europeans. Māori had several names for the two main islands, including Te Ika-a-Māui for the North Island and Te Waipounamu or Te Waka o Aoraki for the South Island. Early European maps labelled the islands North, Middle and South, in 1830, maps began to use North and South to distinguish the two largest islands and by 1907, this was the accepted norm. The New Zealand Geographic Board discovered in 2009 that the names of the North Island and South Island had never been formalised and this set the names as North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui, and South Island or Te Waipounamu
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Parental Advisory
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The Parental Advisory label is a warning label first introduced by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1985 and later adopted by the British Phonographic Industry in 2011. It is placed on audio recordings in recognition of excessive profanities or inappropriate references, recordings with the Parental Advisory label are often released alongside censored versions that reduce or eliminate the questionable material. However, the label has been questioned for its ineffectiveness in limiting the amount of inappropriate material that young audiences are exposed to. Shortly after their formation in April 1985, the Parents Music Resource Center assembled a list of fifteen songs with deemed unsuitable content, particular criticism was placed on Darling Nikki by Prince, after the daughter of PMRC co-founder Mary Tipper Gore recognized its references to masturbation. Notable musicians, Frank Zappa, Dee Snider, and John Denver each testified at this hearing with strong opposition to PMRC’s warning label system, and censorship in general. In 1990, the now standard black-and-white warning label design reading Parental Advisory, the first album to bear the black ahd white Parental Advisory label was the 1990 release of Banned in the USA by the rap group 2 Live Crew. By May 1992, approximately 225 records had been marked with the warning, in response to later hearings in the following years, it was reworded as Parental Advisory, Explicit Content in 1996. The Parental Advisory label was first used on music streaming services and that year, the British Phonographic Industry revised its own music censorship policies to incorporate more prominent usage of the warning label. The BPI additionally requests that racist, homophobic, misogynistic or other language or behavior be taken under consideration when determining the appropriateness of a record. American retailers including Best Buy and f. y. e, distribute explicit and censored records, Target has sold both varieties of a given record, although has occasionally offered only the explicit version depending on the product. Online music stores, including the iTunes Store, generally have the Parental Advisory logo embedded into digital files, since its introduction, the effectiveness of the Parental Advisory label has frequently been called into question. Jon Wiederhorn from MTV News suggested that artists benefited from the label,1 by White Zombie in his childhood. In contrast, the RIAA maintains that its not a PAL Notice that kids look for and it is fairly common for an album which received the Parental Advisory seal to be sold alongside an edited version which removes objectionable content, usually to the same level as a radio edit. However, the RIAA Uniform Guidelines say An Edited Version need not remove all potentially objectionable content from the sound recording and these albums are packaged nearly-identically to their explicit counterparts, usually with the only indicator being the lack of Parental Advisory seal. Most of the time, the version will only edit the content which is absolutely necessary. The edited version of Life After Death is notable for having so many tracks omitted that it was able to be condensed to one disc in spite of being a double album. The edited version of an album will normally edit to the level in which the content would be considered appropriate for radio airplay, strong language is almost always edited out, in addition to racial slurs. Specific drug references are usually edited out, primarily slang terms for illegal drugs
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John Moyer
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John Moyer is an American musician, best known as the current bassist and back-up vocalist for the heavy metal band Disturbed. Taking over in 2004 after Steve Fuzz Kmak was fired, Moyer has played bass-guitar with the group since their third studio album, Moyer was also the bassist for the American supergroup Adrenaline Mob, joining in February 2012, and remained with the band until August 2014. He currently plays in Art of Anarchy, and in 2015 he became a member of the band Operation. Moyer was born and raised in El Paso, Texas, United States, Moyer was formerly part of the Texas hard rock act The Union Underground. Prior to his stint in The Union Underground, he was the bassist of the popular band Soak and he is the owner and teaches at Natural Ear Music in Austin, Texas, where he works with a lot of young bands. Moyer works in partnership with Silver Tongue Management, while he is still capable of playing finger-style, Moyer prefers picking because it has a more aggressive feeling. On February 8,2012, it was announced that Moyer joined the supergroup Adrenaline Mob while Disturbed is on hiatus. On April 19,2013, Moyer was announced to be filling in for Rudy Sarzo on bass for five dates in Geoff Tates lineup formed after his dismissal from Queensrÿche. On May 14,2014, Moyer was involved in a bus accident while on tour with Adrenaline Mob supporting Avenged Sevenfold. No serious injuries were sustained by any of the band-members, on August 4,2014, Moyer announced that he would not be joining Adrenaline Mob for their upcoming fall tours. As a result, the band looking for a new bassist. In January 2015, Moyer formed a new band with Scott Weiland, Ron Bumblefoot Thal, twins Jon and Vince Votta entitled Art of Anarchy, Moyer had a custom line with Traben bass company. He and the company produced his signature Traben Havoc and he also has custom amps with Kustom featuring his own design printed on the front resembling a skull engulfed in flames. Recently, Moyer has signed an endorsement deal with BC Rich Guitars and they can do this because they are owned by the same holding company as Traben. In 2014, Moyer has been seen with some Spector bass models like Euro LX5
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The Sickness
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The Sickness is the debut studio album by American metal band Disturbed. The album was released on March 7,2000, the album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 chart and it has spent a total of 103 weeks on that chart, as of June 2010. It is, to date, Disturbeds only album to not hit one on the Billboard 200. The Sickness has been certified 4x platinum by the RIAA, with around 4,248,000 copies sold in the United States alone as of 2011, making it the bands most successful album. On March 23,2010, a reissue of the album was released, which includes B-sides, new artwork and this reissue celebrates the tenth anniversary of the release of the album and is available for the first time in vinyl format. Disturbeds guitarist, Dan Donegan, commented on the reissue, its the album that put us on the map and launched our career. So we went back into the studio and we remixed it, were having it remastered, were put a couple of bonus tracks on there and touch up some of the packaging. Just a little collectors item, a tribute to that album for the fans. The two songs included in the reissue, God of the Mind and A Welcome Burden, are included in a B-side compilation called The Lost Children. The album received positive reviews upon release, in 2013, Loudwire featured The Sickness in their Top 25 Debut Hard Rock Albums list, placing the album at number 24. Voices has appeared in one of the trailers for the horror film Jeepers Creepers, the Game has appeared in the English adaptation of Dragon Ball Z, Coolers Revenge. Stupify and Fear has appeared in an English adaptation of Dragon Ball Z, the 2009 Guitar Hero game and Rock Band version have the abuse segment intact, however all curse words were removed. Guitar Hero Live also features this song in the GH On Demand feature of the game, however as the video version of the song is the version that is used. All tracks written by Disturbed, except for Shout 2000 composed by Ian Stanley and Roland Orzabal
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Dimebag Darrell
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He was considered to be one of the driving forces behind groove metal. Abbott was shot and killed by a gunman while on stage during a performance with Damageplan on December 8,2004, at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio. He ranked No.92 in Rolling Stone magazines 100 Greatest Guitarists and No.1 in the UK magazine, Abbott was born in Arlington, Texas on August 20,1966, the son to Carolyn and Jerry Abbott, a country musician and producer. Before he wanted a guitar, Abbott asked his parents for a BMX bike and he took up the guitar when he was twelve, with his first being a Hondo-style Les Paul along with a small amplifier. Upon winning a series of local competitions, most notably held at the Agora Ballroom in Dallas, Texas. He then sold this guitar to luthier Buddy Blaze, who installed a Floyd Rose bridge and emblazoned it with Abbotts signature lightning bolt paint job, Blaze returned it some years later. Coincidentally, his father had bought him a Dean ML the morning before the aforementioned competition. Abbott met his long-time girlfriend Rita Haney at an age around the third grade. Abbott formed Pantera in 1981 with his brother Vinnie Paul on drums, originally, he called himself Diamond Darrell Lance. The band was influenced with thrash metal acts such as Slayer, Megadeth, Venom, and Metallica as well as metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Motörhead. Shortly after singer Phil Anselmo joined Pantera, Darrell was invited by Dave Mustaine to join Megadeth, Darrell was willing to join, but on the condition that Mustaine also hire his brother Vinnie on drums. As Mustaine already had a drummer, Nick Menza, Darrell decided to stay with Pantera, Pantera would go on to become a key formulator of the post-thrash subgenre of groove metal. It would not be until nine years after forming that Pantera saw its first piece of commercial success in its 1990 major label debut, Cowboys from Hell. On Panteras 1994 album Far Beyond Driven, Abbott, whod been listed on all prior albums under the moniker Diamond Darrell, was listed as Dimebag Darrell. and Raw. Pantera began to suffer from mounting tensions between members in the mid-1990s, largely due to vocalist Phil Anselmos rampant drug abuse. In 2001, the group went on hiatus, during which time Anselmo worked on projects, such as Superjoint Ritual. This caused more friction within the band, as the Abbott brothers kept waiting for Anselmo to become available to work with them again, the frustration with Anselmo led to their decision to disband Pantera in 2003. After a year, brothers Vinnie and Dimebag formed Damageplan, a metal band which continued the Pantera-style groove metal sound
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
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A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 1984 American slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven, and the first film of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The film stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Amanda Wyss, Jsu Garcia, Robert Englund, the plot revolves around several teenagers who are stalked and killed in their dreams by Freddy Krueger. The teenagers are unaware of the cause of this strange phenomenon, Craven filmed A Nightmare on Elm Street on an estimated budget of $1.8 million, a sum the film earned back during its first week. The film went on to gross over $25 million at the United States box office, critics and film historians state that the films premise is the struggle to define the distinction between dreams and reality, manifested by the lives and dreams of the teens in the film. Critics today praise the films ability to transgress the boundaries between the imaginary and real, toying with audience perceptions, fifteen-year-old Tina Gray is stalked through a boiler room and attacked by a disfigured man wearing a blade-fixed glove. She awakens from the nightmare, but her mother points out four mysterious slashes in her nightgown, the following morning, Tina is consoled by her best friend Nancy Thompson and her boyfriend Glen Lantz. Later, Nancy and Glen sleep at Tinas following her mothers out-of-town departure, falling asleep, Tina sees the man and runs. Awakened by Tinas thrashing, Rod witnesses her being fatally slashed by an unseen force and he flees as Nancy and Glen find Tina, mistakenly blaming Rod. Nancy tells her father, Lieutenant Don Thompson, of Tinas death, the next day, Rod is arrested by Don, despite his pleas of innocence. At school, Nancy falls asleep in class and finds the man, calling himself Freddy Krueger, Nancy burns her arm on a pipe and then awakens. She notices the mark on her arm and is concerned. At home, Nancy falls asleep in the bathtub and nearly drowned by Freddy. Nancy goes to Rod, who tells her what happened to Tina, Nancy has Glen watch over her as she falls asleep. She tries to find Freddy and sees him preparing to kill Rod and he turns his attention on her, she runs and wakes up when her alarm clock goes off. Nancy and Glen go to the jail and discover Rod dead in his cell in an apparent suicide, at Rods funeral, Nancys parents become worried when she describes the man in her dreams. Her mother Marge takes her to a dream clinic, in her dream, Nancy is attacked again and grabs Freddys hat. When the staff wake her up, she has a gash in her arm, at home, Marge bars the windows and begins drinking heavily. She tells Nancy that Freddy was a child murderer released on a technicality, in a form of vigilante justice, the parents in the neighborhood burned him alive
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Genesis (band)
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Genesis are an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967. The most commercially successful and long-lasting line-up includes keyboardist Tony Banks, bassist/guitarist Mike Rutherford, other important members were the original lead singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett. The band underwent many changes in style over its career, from folk music to progressive rock in the 1970s. They have sold 21.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US, after splitting with King, the group began touring professionally, signing with Charisma Records. The group were initially successful in Europe, before entering the UK charts with Foxtrot. They followed this with Selling England by the Pound and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway before Gabriel decided to leave the group, after an unsuccessful search for a replacement, Collins took over as lead singer, while the group gained popularity in the UK and the US. Following A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering, Hackett left the band, reducing it to a core of Banks, Rutherford and its title track reached number one in the US. After the follow up, We Cant Dance and related tour, Banks and Rutherford recruited Ray Wilson for Calling All Stations, but a lack of success in the US led to a group hiatus. Banks, Rutherford and Collins reunited for the Turn It On Again Tour in 2007 and their discography includes fifteen studio and six live albums, six of which topped the UK chart. In 2010, Genesis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Banks and Gabriel arrived at the school in September 1963, Rutherford in September 1964, and Phillips in April 1965. The five recorded six songs, Dont Want You Back, Try a Little Sadness, Shes Beautiful, Thats Me, Listen on Five, and Patricia, a group friend gave the tape to King who was immediately enthusiastic. Under Kings direction, the group, aged between 15 and 17, signed a recording contract with Decca Records. In response Banks and Gabriel wrote The Silent Sun, a pastiche of the Bee Gees, one of Kings favourite bands, King chose The Silent Sun as their first single, with Thats Me on the B-side, released in February 1968. It achieved some airplay on BBC Radio One and Radio Caroline, a second single, A Winters Tale/One-Eyed Hound, followed in May 1968 which also sold little. Three months later, Stewart left the group to continue with his studies and he was replaced by fellow Charterhouse pupil John Silver. King felt the group would achieve success with an album. The result, From Genesis to Revelation, was produced at Regent Sound in ten days during their schools summer break in August 1968, Phillips was particularly upset about Greenslades additions. When Decca found an American band already named Genesis, King refused to change his groups name and he reached a compromise by removing their name from the album cover, resulting in a minimalist design with the album title printed on a plain black background
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Todd McFarlane
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Todd McFarlane is a Canadian artist, writer, designer and entrepreneur, best known for his work in comic books, such as the fantasy series Spawn. In 1992, he helped form Image Comics, pulling the occult anti-hero character Spawn from his high school portfolio, Spawn was a popular hero in the 1990s and encouraged a trend in creator-owned comic book properties. Since leaving inking duties on Spawn with issue No,70, McFarlane has illustrated comic books less often, focusing on entrepreneurial efforts, such as McFarlane Toys and Todd McFarlane Entertainment, a film and animation studio. In September 2006, it was announced that McFarlane would be the Art Director of the newly formed 38 Studios, formerly Green Monster Games, McFarlane used to be a co-owner of the National Hockey Leagues Edmonton Oilers but sold his shares to Daryl Katz. He is also a collector of history-making baseballs. McFarlane was born on March 16,1961 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He began drawing as a hobby at an age, and was a fan of comics creators such as John Byrne, Jack Kirby, Frank Miller and George Pérez. McFarlane created the character Spawn when he was 16, and spent countless hours perfecting the appearance of each component of the visual design. He graduated from Sir Winston Churchill High School, in the early 1980s, McFarlane attended Eastern Washington University on a baseball scholarship, and studied graphic art. He sought to play professionally after graduation, but suffered a career-ending ankle injury in his junior year. He subsequently focused on drawing, working in a book store to pay for the rest of his education. Seeking to find work drawing comics, McFarlane sent out dozens of each month to editors, totaling over 700 submissions in total. Half resulted in no response, while the half resulted in rejection letters. One of them, DC Comics Sal Amendola, gave McFarlane a dummy script in order to gauge McFarlanes page-to-page storytelling ability. They in turn passed it onto Coyote creator Steve Englehart, who reached out to McFarlane to offer McFarlane his first comic job, McFarlane soon began drawing for both DC and Marvel, with his first major body of work being a two-year run on DCs Infinity, Inc. In 1987, McFarlane illustrated the three issues of Detective Comics four-issue Batman, Year Two storyline. From there, he moved to Marvels Incredible Hulk, which he drew from 1987 to 1988, in 1988, McFarlane joined writer David Michelinie on Marvels The Amazing Spider-Man, beginning with issue 298. McFarlane rendered Spider-Mans webbing with far more detail, whereas it has essentially been rendered as a series of Xs between two lines, McFarlane embellished it by detailing far more individual strands, which came to be dubbed spaghetti webbing
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David Draiman
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David Michael Draiman is an American songwriter and the vocalist for the band Disturbed as well as for the band Device. Draiman is known for his voice and percussive singing style. In November 2006, Draiman was voted number 42 on the Hit Parader’s Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time, Draiman has written some of Disturbeds most successful singles, such as Stupify, Down with the Sickness, Indestructible, and Inside the Fire. In October 2011, Disturbed entered a hiatus, Draiman announced in the following year that he was working on an industrial rock/metal project with Geno Lenardo, formerly of Filter, which was later named Device. In June 2015, Disturbed released their first single since their hiatus and they produced it over a year before, and along with it announced a new album, Immortalized. Draiman was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 13,1973, draimans brother Benjamin is an ambient/folk rock musician who lives in Israel and performs in Jerusalem. Draimans grandmother also lives in Israel and his parents were observant, religious Jews. They intended for Draiman to receive semikhah, and Draiman frequently spent time in Israel during his early life. Of his study at Jewish day schools, Draiman stated that he was a bit resentful, but he encouraged his family to observe Shabbat. Draiman later enrolled at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, Illinois, from there, in 1991–1992, he spent a year after high school studying at the Yeshivas Neveh Zion in Kiryat Yearim, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel. After returning to the US in 1992, Draiman commenced pre-law studies at Loyola University Chicago, in 1996, he graduated from the University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government, Philosophy, and Business Administration. During his university studies, Draiman also worked as a bank teller, after graduating from college, Draiman worked as an administrative assistant in a healthcare facility. After his first year, he earned a licence and commenced running his own healthcare facility. For five years before joining Disturbed and the signing with Giant Records. Draiman said, the first record I ever bought was Kiss’ Destroyer, and those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves. I focused on the seminal metal bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pantera and Queensrÿche. Draiman continues, But I could also appreciate the hair metal bands – When you hear Whitesnake, you can’t deny their greatness. Then I went in the direction of punk and new wave, groups like the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Misfits and later The Smiths, and then when the grunge revolution happened, it was like a wakeup call. I’ll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains records, Draiman has cited James Hetfield of Metallica, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, and Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden as the three biggest influences on his singing
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Hell
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Hell, in many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in an afterlife. Religions with a divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations while Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Typically these traditions locate hell in another dimension or under the Earths surface, other afterlife destinations include Heaven, Purgatory, Paradise, and Limbo. Hell is sometimes portrayed as populated with demons who torment those dwelling there, many are ruled by a death god such as Nergal, Hades, Hel, Enma or Satan. Subsequently, the word was used to transfer a pagan concept to Christian theology, Some have theorized that English word hell is derived from Old Norse hel. However, this is unlikely as hel appears in Old English before the Viking invasions. Furthermore, the word has cognates in all the other Germanic languages and has a Proto-Germanic origin, Hell appears in several mythologies and religions. It is commonly inhabited by demons and the souls of dead people, a fable about hell which recurs in folklore across several cultures is the allegory of the long spoons. Hell is often depicted in art and literature, perhaps most famously in Dantes Divine Comedy, punishment in Hell typically corresponds to sins committed during life. In many religious cultures, including Christianity and Islam, Hell is often depicted as fiery, painful and harsh, despite these common depictions of Hell as a place of fire, some other traditions portray Hell as cold. Buddhist - and particularly Tibetan Buddhist - descriptions of hell feature a number of hot. Among Christian descriptions Dantes Inferno portrays the innermost circle of Hell as a lake of blood. At death a person faced judgment by a tribunal of forty-two divine judges, if they had led a life in conformance with the precepts of the Goddess Maat, who represented truth and right living, the person was welcomed into the Two Fields. If found guilty the person was thrown to a devourer and would be condemned to the lake of fire, the person taken by the devourer is subject first to terrifying punishment and then annihilated. These depictions of punishment may have influenced medieval perceptions of the inferno in hell via early Christian, purification for those considered justified appears in the descriptions of Flame Island, where humans experience the triumph over evil and rebirth. For the damned complete destruction into a state of non-being awaits but there is no suggestion of eternal torture, the weighing of the heart in Egyptian mythology can lead to annihilation. The Tale of Khaemwese describes the torment of a man, who lacked charity. Divine pardon at judgement always remained a concern for the Ancient Egyptians
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George W. Bush
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George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was also the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and he is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush. After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives shortly thereafter. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election and he is the second president to assume the nations highest office after his father, following the lead of John Quincy Adams. He is also a brother of Jeb Bush, a former Governor of Florida who was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the 2016 presidential election, the September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into Bushs first term as president. Bush responded with what became known as the Bush Doctrine, launching a War on Terror, a military campaign that included the war in Afghanistan in 2001. He also promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, Social Security reform and his tenure included national debates on immigration, Social Security, electronic surveillance, and torture. In the 2004 Presidential race, Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in another close election. After his re-election, Bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the spectrum for his handling of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina. Amid this criticism, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress in the 2006 elections, Bush left office in 2009, returning to Texas where he purchased a home in Crawford. He wrote a memoir, Decision Points and his presidential library was opened in 2013. His presidency has been ranked among the worst in historians polls published in the late 2000s and 2010s. George Walker Bush was born on July 6,1946, at Grace-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, as the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and his wife, the former Barbara Pierce. He was raised in Midland and Houston, Texas, with four siblings, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, another younger sister, Robin, died from leukemia at the age of three in 1953. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a U. S and his father, George H. W. Bush, was Ronald Reagans Vice President from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st U. S. President from 1989 to 1993. Bush has English and some German ancestry, along with more distant Dutch, Welsh, Irish, French, Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas, until the family moved to Houston after he had completed seventh grade. He then spent two years at The Kinkaid School, a school in Houston. Bush attended high school at Phillips Academy, a school in Andover, Massachusetts
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Metacritic
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products, music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged, Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source, a color of Green, Yellow or Red summarizes the critics recommendations and therefore the general appeal of the product to reviewers and, to a lesser extent, the public. It is regarded as the game industrys foremost review aggregator. Metacritics scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to the critics fame, stature, and volume of reviews. Metacritic was launched in July 1999 by Marc Doyle, his sister Julie Doyle Roberts, rotten Tomatoes was already compiling movie reviews, but Doyle, Roberts, and Dietz saw an opportunity to cover a broader range of media. They sold Metacritic to CNET in 2005, CNET and Metacritic are now owned by the CBS Corporation. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal wrote in September 2004, Mr. Doyle,36, is now a product manager at CNET. Speaking of video games, Doyle said, A site like ours helps people cut through. unobjective promotional language and he added that the review process was not taken as seriously when unconnected magazines and websites provided reviews in isolation. In August 2010, the appearance was revamped, reaction from users was overwhelmingly negative. Certain publications are given more significance because of their stature, games Editor Marc Doyle was interviewed by Keith Stuart of The Guardian to get a look behind the metascoring process. Stuart wrote, the phenomenon, namely Metacritic and GameRankings, have become an enormously important element of online games journalism over the past few years. The ranging of metascores is, Metacritic is regarded as the foremost online review site for the video game industry. Nick Wingfield of The Wall Street Journal has written that Metacritic influence the sales of games and he explains its influence as coming from the higher cost of buying video games than music or movie tickets. Many executives say that low scores can hurt the sales potential. He claimed that a number of businesses and financial analysts use Metacritic as an early indicator of a games potential sales and, by extension. In 2004, Jason Hall of Warner Bros. began including quality metrics in contracts with partners licensing its movies for games, if a product does not at least achieve a specific score, some deals require the publisher to pay higher royalties. In 2008, Microsoft began using Metacritic averages to de-list underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games and these are the top 10 individual games with the highest scores on the site as of 2 April 2017
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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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Blender (magazine)
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Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as the ultimate guide to music and more. It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities and it compiled lists of albums, artists, and songs, including both best of and worst of lists. In each issue, there was a review of an artists entire discography, Blender was published by Dennis Publishing. It started publishing a print edition again in 1999 in its most recent form, Blender CD-ROM showcased the earliest digital editorial formats, as well as the first forms of digital advertising. The first digital advertisers included Calvin Klein, Apple Computer, Stephen Colbert, Toyota, in June 2006, the Chicago Tribune named it one of the top ten English-language magazines, describing it as the cool kid at the school of rock magazines. Owner Alpha Media Group closed Blender magazine March 26,2009, going to a format in a move that eliminated 30 jobs. Blenders final print issue was the April 2009 issue, subscribers to the magazine were sent issues of Maxim magazine to make up for the unsent Blender issues. The Indian edition of Blender was the titles first venture outside of the United States and it commenced publication with its May 2008 issue, which featured Mariah Carey on the cover. The magazine was targeted at educated male city dwellers aged between 18 and 34, the magazine was launched through Dennis Media Transasia India, a joint venture between Dennis Publishing and Media Transasia, which also publishes the Asian versions of Blender and Maxim. The joint venture was based in New Delhi with offices in Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai
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IGN
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The website was the brainchild of media entrepreneur Chris Anderson and launched on September 29,1996. It focuses on games, films, television, comics, technology, the company is located in San Franciscos SOMA district in California, United States. Originally a network of websites, IGN is now distributed on mobile platforms, console programs on the Xbox and PlayStation, FireTV, Roku, and via YouTube, Twitch, Hulu. IGN was sold to publishing company Ziff Davis in February 2013 and now operates as a J2 Global subsidiary. com, PSXPower, Saturnworld, Next-Generation. com and Ultra Game Players Online. Imagine expanded on its owned-and-operated websites by creating a network that included a number of independent fansites such as PSX Nation. com, Sega-Saturn. com, Game Sages. In 1998, the network launched a new homepage that consolidated the individual sites as system channels under the IGN brand, the homepage exposed content from more than 30 different channels. Next-Generation and Ultra Game Players Online were not part of this consolidation, dissolved with the cancellation of the magazine, and Next-Generation was put on hold when Imagine decided to concentrate on launching the short-lived Daily Radar brand. In February 1999, Imagine Media incorporated a spin-off that included IGN and its channels as Affiliation Networks. In September, the newly spun-out standalone internet media company, changed its name to Snowball. com, at the same time, small entertainment website The Den merged into IGN and added non-gaming content to the growing network. Snowball held an IPO in 2000, but shed most of its properties during the dot-com bubble. In June 2005, IGN reported having 24,000,000 unique visitors per month, with 4.8 million registered users through all departments of the site, IGN is ranked among the top 200 most-visited websites according to Alexa. In September 2005, IGN was acquired by Rupert Murdochs multi-media business empire, News Corporation, IGN celebrated its 10th anniversary on January 12,2008. IGN was headquartered in the Marina Point Parkway office park in Brisbane, California, on May 25,2011, IGN sold its Direct2Drive division to Gamefly for an undisclosed amount. In 2011, IGN Entertainment acquired its rival UGO Entertainment from Hearst Corporation, ultimately, News Corp. planned to spin off IGN Entertainment as a publicly traded company, continuing a string of divestitures for digital properties it had previously acquired. Financial details regarding the purchase were not revealed, prior to its acquisition by UGO, 1UP. com had previously been owned by Ziff Davis. Soon after the acquisition, IGN announced that it would be laying off staff and closing GameSpy, 1UP. com, the role-playing video game interest website Vault Network was acquired by IGN in 1999. GameStats, a review website, was founded by IGN in 2004. GameStats includes a GPM rating system incorporates an average press score and average gamer score
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NME
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New Musical Express is a British music journalism magazine published since 1952. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. It started as a newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s. An online version of NME, NME. com, was launched in 1996 and it became the worlds biggest standalone music site, with over seven million users per month. With newsstand sales falling across the UK magazine sector, the paid circulation in the first half of 2014 was 15,830. In 2013, the list of NMEs The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, NME magazine was relaunched in September 2015 as a nationally distributed free publication. NMEs headquarters are in Southwark, London, England, the brands editor-in-chief is Mike Williams, who replaced Krissi Murison in 2012. The paper was established in 1952, the Accordion Times and Musical Express was bought by London music promoter Maurice Kinn, for the sum of £1,000, just 15 minutes before it was due to be officially closed. It was relaunched as the New Musical Express, and was published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the US magazine Billboard, it created the first UK Singles Chart, the first of these was, in contrast to more recent charts, a top twelve sourced by the magazine itself from sales in regional stores around the UK. The first number one was Here in My Heart by Al Martino, during the 1960s the paper championed the new British groups emerging at the time. The NME circulation peaked under Andy Gray, Editor 1957–1972, with a figure of 306,881 for the period from January to June 1964, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones were frequently featured on the front cover. These and other artists appeared at the NME Poll Winners Concert. The concert also featured a ceremony where the winners would collect their awards. The NME Poll Winners Concerts took place between 1959 and 1972, from 1964 onwards they were filmed, edited and transmitted on British television a few weeks after they had taken place. The latter part of the 1960s saw the chart the rise of psychedelia. During this period some sections of pop music began to be designated as rock, in early 1972 the paper found itself on the verge of closure by its owner IPC. Alan Smith was made editor and in 1972 was told by IPC to turn things around quickly or face closure, according to The Economist, the New Musical Express started to champion underground, up-and-coming music. NME became the gateway to a more rebellious world
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Rolling Stone
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Rolling Stone is an American biweekly magazine that focuses on popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner, who is still the publisher. It was first known for its coverage and for political reporting by Hunter S. Thompson. In the 1990s, the magazine shifted focus to a readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors. In recent years, it has resumed its traditional mix of content, Rolling Stone magazine was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph Gleason. To get it off the ground, Wenner borrowed $7,500 from his own family and from the parents of his soon-to-be wife, Jane Schindelheim. The first issue carried a date of November 9,1967. Some authors have attributed the name solely to Dylans hit single, At Gleasons suggestion, Rolling Stone initially identified with and reported the hippie counterculture of the era. In the very first edition, Wenner wrote that Rolling Stone is not just about the music, in the 1970s, Rolling Stone began to make a mark with its political coverage, with the likes of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson writing for the magazines political section. Thompson first published his most famous work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas within the pages of Rolling Stone, where he remained a contributing editor until his death in 2005. In the 1970s, the magazine also helped launch the careers of prominent authors, including Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Patti Smith. It was at point that the magazine ran some of its most famous stories. One interviewer, speaking for a number of his peers, said that he bought his first copy of the magazine upon initial arrival on his college campus. In 1977, the magazine moved its headquarters from San Francisco to New York City, editor Jann Wenner said San Francisco had become a cultural backwater. During the 1980s, the magazine began to shift towards being an entertainment magazine. Music was still a dominant topic, but there was increasing coverage of celebrities in television, films, the magazine also initiated its annual Hot Issue during this time. Rolling Stone was initially known for its coverage and for Thompsons political reporting. In the 1990s, the changed its format to appeal to a younger readership interested in youth-oriented television shows, film actors
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The Village Voice
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The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the countrys first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, since its founding, The Village Voice has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award and the George Polk Award. Among news sources, The Village Voice is known for its combination of news reporting and arts & culture coverage. The Village Voice has hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry. In addition to daily coverage through its website and a print edition that circulates in New York City. In the 1960s the offices were located at Sheridan Square, then, from the 70s through 1980, at 11th Street and University Place, in 1991 they moved to Cooper Square in the East Village, and in 2013, to the Financial District. John Wilcock wrote a column every week for the papers first ten years, another regular from that period was the cartoonist Kin Platt, who did weekly theatrical caricatures. Other prominent regulars have included Peter Schjeldahl, Ellen Willis, Tom Carson, Wayne Barrett, the Voice has published investigations of New York City politics, as well as reporting on national politics, with arts, culture, music, dance, film, and theater reviews. Writers for the Voice have received three Pulitzer Prizes, in 1981,1986 and 2000, almost since its inception the paper has recognized alternative theater in New York through its Obie Awards. The papers Pazz & Jop music poll, started by Robert Christgau in the early 1970s, is released annually, in 1999, film critic J. Hoberman and film section editor Dennis Lim began a similar Village Voice Film Poll for the year in film. In 2001 the paper sponsored its first music festival, Siren Festival, in 2011, the event moved to the lower tip of Manhattan and re-christened the 4knots Music Festival, a reference to the speed of the East Rivers current. Today, the Voice is known for its support for the civil rights of gays. However, early in its history, the newspaper had a reputation as having an anti-homosexuality slant, while reporting on the Stonewall riots of 1969, the newspaper referred to the riots as The Great Faggot Rebellion. Two reporters, Smith and Truscott, both used the words faggot and dyke in their articles about the riots, the newspaper changed their policy after the GLF petitioned the newspaper to do so. Over time, the Voice has changed its stance, and in 1982, as a testament to the Voices popularity in New York City, the paper is mentioned in the musical Rent during the song La Vie Boheme. The line states To riding your bike midday past the three suits, to fruits, to no absolutes, to Absolut, to choice, to The Village Voice. Seventeen alternative weeklies around the United States are owned by the Voices parent company Village Voice Media, in 2005, the Phoenix alternative weekly chain New Times Media purchased the company and took the Village Voice Media name. After The Village Voice was acquired by New Times Media in 2005, the Voice was then managed by two journalists from Phoenix, Arizona
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Judas Priest
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Judas Priest are a British heavy metal band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1969. The band has sold close to 50 million albums to date, MTV ranked them the second greatest metal band of all time. In 1989, they were named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging that subliminal messages on the song Better By You. The bands membership has seen much turnover, including a revolving cast of drummers in the 1970s, the current line-up consists of Halford, guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bassist Ian Hill, and drummer Scott Travis. The bands best-selling album is 1982s Screaming for Vengeance with their most commercially successful line-up, featuring Halford, Tipton, Hill, guitarist K. K. Downing, and drummer Dave Holland. Their influence, while mainly Halfords operatic vocal style and the guitar sound of Downing. Their image of leather, spikes, and other articles of clothing were widely influential during the glam metal era of the 1980s. The Guardian referred to British Steel as the record that defines heavy metal, an earlier band with a different line-up had been formed in the West Midlands area in 1969 by Al Atkins, Bruno Stapenhill, John Partridge, and John Perry. Perry was killed in a car accident, according to Al Atkins. Stapenhill came up with the name Judas Priest from Bob Dylans song The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, the band played their first gig on 25 November 1969 at The George Hotel in Walsall and then toured Scotland in December 1969 and January 1970. The group disbanded in April 1970 after their last gig on 20 April at The Youth Centre in Cannock, the line-up that took over the name of Judas Priest included lead guitarist Kenny K. K. Downing, bassist Ian Skull Hill and drummer John Ellis. The band was founded in October 1970 in Birmingham and they agreed to join with Atkins, who suggested using his old bands name, and rehearsed at Atkins mother-in-laws house in Stone Cross. The reformed group played their first gig on 16 March 1971 at St Johns Hall, with Downing as acting leader, the band moved away from their original blues influences to play hard rock. The quartet played around Birmingham and the areas with various drummers until 1974, sometimes opening for bands such as Budgie, Thin Lizzy. Eventually, financial difficulties and problems with their management, Tony Iommis company, IMA, led to the departure of Allan Atkins, at the time, Ian Hill was dating a Walsall woman who suggested her brother, Rob Halford, as the bands singer. Halford joined them, bringing drummer John Hinch from his previous band and this line-up toured the UK, often supporting Budgie, and even headlining some shows in Norway and Germany. Before the band entered the studio to record their first album, the two guitarists worked together to adapt the existing material and Tipton also received credits as a songwriter. In August 1974, the released their debut single Rocka Rolla
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Angel of Retribution
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Angel of Retribution is the fifteenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, released in 2005. It is the bands first album since Painkiller to feature Rob Halford, the album debuted at #13 on the US Billboard chart, which made it the third highest chart of a Judas Priest album. The album was produced by Roy Z, who co-wrote the song Deal with the Devil, within the album, nods to the sound of past albums and songs are found, as well as lyrics that apparently reference earlier songs. The song Demonizer references both The Hellion from Screaming for Vengeance, as well as Painkiller from Painkiller, hellrider mentions the title track of Ram It Down, and Tyrant from Sad Wings of Destiny. Eulogy references Stained Class and The Sentinel from the albums Stained Class and Defenders of the Faith, finally, Worth Fighting For acts as a sequel/prequel to Desert Plains from Point of Entry. Deal With the Devil also mentions the song Blood Red Skies from Ram It Down, Take on the World from Killing Machine, the album was released on the DualDisc format which had traditional CD content on one side and DVD content on the other side. The DVD side of this album featured a documentary entitled Reunited as well as the album in an enhanced audio format. In Japan, it was released as a 2-disc set containing Compact Disc audio, credits adapted from liner notes, Official album website
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ITunes
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ITunes is a media player, media library, online radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It is used to play, download, and organize digital downloads of music and video on personal computers running the macOS, the iTunes Store is also available on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Application software for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch can be downloaded from the App Store. ITunes 12.5 is the most recent major version of iTunes, available for Mac OS X v10.9.5 or later and Windows 7 or later, it was released on September 13,2016. ITunes 12.2 added Apple Music to the application, along with the Beats 1 radio station, soundJam MP, developed by Bill Kincaid and released by Casady & Greene in 1998, was renamed iTunes when Apple purchased it in 2000. Jeff Robbin, Kincaid, and Dave Heller moved to Apple as part of the acquisition and they simplified SoundJams user interface, added the ability to burn CDs, and removed its recording feature and skin support. On January 9,2001, iTunes 1.0 was released at Macworld San Francisco, originally a Mac OS 9-only application, iTunes began to support Mac OS X when version 2.0 was released nine months later, which also added support for the original iPod. Version 3 dropped Mac OS9 support but added smart playlists, in April 2003, version 4.0 introduced the iTunes Store, in October, version 4.1 added support for Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Introduced at Macworld 2005 with the new iPod Shuffle, Version 4.7, Version 7.0 introduced gapless playback and Cover Flow in September 2006. In March 2007, iTunes 7.1 added support for Windows Vista, iTunes lacked support for 64-bit versions of Windows until the 7.6 update on January 16,2008. ITunes is supported under any 64-bit version of Windows Vista, although the iTunes executable is still 32-bit, the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are not supported by Apple, but a workaround has been devised for both operating systems. Version 8.0 added Genius playlists, grid view, iTunes 9 added Homeshare, enabling automatic updating of purchased items across other computers on the same subnet and offers a new iTunes Store UI. Genius Mixes were added, as well as improved app synchronization abilities and it also adds iTunes LPs to the store, which provides additional media with an album. Apple added iTunes Extras as well to the store, which adds content usually reserved for films on DVD, both iTunes LPs and Extras use web-standards HTML, JavaScript and CSS. iTunes acts as a front end for Apples QuickTime media framework. Officially, it is required in order to manage the data of an iPod, iPhone, or iPad. In addition, users are able to add PDF files to their library, the PDFs can be synchronized with and read on several devices except the regular iPod. iTunes 8.0 saw the removal of several options in the Preferences window. For example, iTunes once gave users the option to display arrows beside the selected songs title, artist, album and these arrows are no longer removable, except through the direct editing of a preferences file. ITunes keeps track of songs by creating a library, allowing users to access
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The Lost Children (album)
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The Lost Children is a B-sides compilation album by American metal band Disturbed. It was released on November 8,2011, the album was announced in August 2011 by David Draiman via Twitter, where he answered several questions regarding the album. The title comes from the calling the songs their children. The only song on the album not previously available is Mine, the album artwork was revealed on September 22,2011. Hell was announced as the first radio single for the album, the first single Hell is, according to David Draiman, about a relationship with someone who keeps coming in and out of your life, and every time they come back they fuck up your whole world. The track Mine is about religion as a catalyst for war, the first online review of The Lost Children was posted by the website Artistdirect, and Rick Florino had given the album a positive review. Florino states about the album, One of the reasons why Disturbed stood out from the turn of the pack is because theyve always been as diverse as they are dangerous in their approach. The band wasnt afraid to take risks, while crafting pulse-pounding, arena-filling heavy metal, the Lost Children screams that loud and clear. In the United States, the album debuted at No.13 on the Billboard 200 chart with 43,000 copies sold, the album has sold 238,000 copies in the United States as of July 2015
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Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock
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Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock is a music rhythm game, the third main installment in the Guitar Hero series, and the fourth title overall. The game was published by Activision and distributed by RedOctane and it is the first game in the series to be developed by Neversoft after Activisions acquisition of RedOctane and MTV Games purchase of Harmonix, the previous development studio for the series. Aspyr Media published the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X versions of the game, the game, in addition to existing single-player Career modes, includes a new Co-Op Career mode and competitive challenges that pit the player against in-game characters and other players. Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock is the first game in the series to include a multiplayer feature. Initially the game offers over 70 songs, most of which are master tracks, the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions feature the ability to download additional songs. The musicians Tom Morello and Slash make appearances both as guitar battle opponents and playable characters in the game, the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows versions also include Bret Michaels as a non-playable character. The game is cited to be too difficult, creating walls of notes that are difficult to complete. The company also claimed that it is the second-best selling video game title since 1995, following Wii Play, gameplay for Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock is similar to previous titles in the series. The player hits notes as they scroll towards the bottom of the screen in time with music to maintain their performance, to hit notes using the guitar controller, the player hits the strum bar while holding down the corresponding colored fret buttons. If the player uses the controller instead of the guitar controller, the correct buttons need to be pressed. Notes can be sustained, during which the button is held until the note is complete. The game simulates hammer-ons and pull-offs for sections with a series of notes. Missing a note causes the performance meter to drop, when the meter drops too low, the player fails the song, represented in-game by the band being booed off the stage. A string of 10 consecutive correct notes earns a multiplier to increase the players score, special sections, marked by starred notes, can be used to build Star Power. While Star Power enabled, the meter increases more quickly when a correct note is hit. The player can access the three boss characters—Tom Morello, Slash, and Lou the Devil—as playable characters once they have completed their respective Boss Battles in Career mode. Although Bret Michaels appears in the game and sings specific songs, the single-player Career mode in Guitar Hero III, Legends of Rock features 8 tiers with 42 songs total. After a tier is complete, a new tier is introduced, each successfully completed song earns in-game money that the player uses at the games store to unlock new characters, outfits, guitars and finishes, bonus songs, and videos
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Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)
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Need for Speed, Most Wanted is a 2005 racing video game developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. It is the installment in the Need for Speed series. The game features street racing-oriented game play, with certain customization options from the Need for Speed, the game is succeeded by Need for Speed, Carbon, which serves as a sequel to Most Wanted. Another version of Most Wanted, titled Need for Speed, Most Wanted 5-1-0 has been released for the PlayStation Portable. In May 2012, the PlayStation 2 version was released on the virtual market, PlayStation Store, for the PlayStation 3. On June 1,2012, a reboot of the game, also called Need for Speed, need for Speed, Most Wanted received positive reviews and was a commercial success, it sold 16 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling title in the series. Most Wanted is like other Need for Speed games, where the player selects one car, three distinct regions are offered in the city of Rockport, along with cycling weather. Racing events take place between sunrise and sunset, unlike in the Underground where the took place at night. A Grand Theft Auto-like Free Roam mode is provided as in Need for Speed, Underground 2, brand promotion from Underground 2 still continues strongly, with Old Spice and the presence of Burger King restaurants, Castrol oil, Axe Unlimited and Edge shaving gel. The Cingular logo is visible in the games wireless communication system. Performance, body and visual parts that can be bought in the game are also real life companies. However, Best Buy stores did not return from Underground 2, the game provides players with three game modes. The Quick Race mode allows the player to select a car, the available cars and events are unlocked as the player progresses through the storyline in the Career mode. In the Xbox 360 version, the player is awarded with each time a Blacklist opponent is defeated. Career mode introduces a new feature – the ability to win a Blacklist opponents car, bonus functions, extra cash or car parts and decors, new cars and parts are also unlocked as the player progresses through Career mode by beating Blacklist racers. The pre-tuned cars used in each Challenge is fixed, ranging from mostly Career cars with poor handling to traffic vehicles such as a truck or police cars. Additional bonus cars may be unlocked as the player progresses through Challenge mode, the Challenge mode also has a cheat, by entering the words burgerking at the start of the game, the player can avail the exclusive Burger King challenge. Once successfully completed, the game will reward you with something, in terms of actual variations of races, Most Wanted inherits several racing modes prevalent in its Underground predecessors
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Madden NFL 06
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Madden NFL06 is an American football video game which was released in 2005. It is also a game for the Xbox 360. It is the 16th installment of the Madden NFL series by EA Sports, the product features former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb on the cover. It is the first Madden game for the PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360, the game also features WWE and UFC superstar, Brock Lesnar as a playable character for the Minnesota Vikings. Madden 06 introduces the Superstar mode, which allows the player to create, an athlete can be created by evaluating pairs of judging, based on their IQs, occupations, and hobbies, whether their child would excel in the NFL or by importing a player. Superstar mode is essentially Maddens Franchise mode seen through the eyes of this athlete, rather than manage the teams front office, the player manages the career of his athlete. It also features the new QB Vision Control, a cone, appearing as a spotlight emitting from the quarterback, simulates his field of vision. To make a pass, the quarterback must have his intended receiver in his field of vision. Passing to a receiver not in the cone reduces pass accuracy significantly, the size of the quarterbacks vision cone is directly correlated to his Awareness rating. However, this has been criticized by fans because it may resemble some bias that EA Sports. A player can shift the vision cone with the analog stick, or focus the cone on a specific receiver by holding a shoulder button. This change also met with the poor reception, although the passing system adds a whole new level of realism, it also makes the game significantly more difficult for players playing teams with less-aware quarterbacks. These players will be forced to improve their reflexes in order to be competitive, as throwing outside the QB vision cone results in a very weak, accompanying QB Vision is Precision Passing. The most critically acclaimed new feature is the stick, which functions like an offensive version of the hit stick from the previous year. When running the football, a player can push forward the right stick to run over the defender. Several features from previous titles such as hot routes, playmaker features. The player could import their created player from Own The City mode in NFL Street 2 into the games Superstar mode after finishing the game mode. The player starts as an 18-year-old rookie in NFL Superstar mode, also, draft classes from NCAA Football 06 could be imported to franchise mode
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MX vs. ATV Untamed
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It is a part of their MX vs. ATV series. The game encompasses several modes, Motocross, Opencross, Supercross, Supermoto, Endurocross, the player has a relatively wide choice of vehicles, from monster trucks, to trophy trucks, to ATVs to motorbikes. In some modes, gameplay takes place over two motos, or qualifying events, the players finishing position in the first moto determines who gets gate choice in the second moto. The players finishing position in each moto determines how many points he or she gets, the goal is to finish the weekend with the most points. Additionally, in some modes, the player can participate in a practice race, which can help players become familiar with the track. Setting the fastest time in practice gives the player first gate choice for the first moto, the game was met with an average to mixed reception. GameZone gave the Mobile phone version a score of six out of ten and called it a better-than-average mobile racer, MX vs. ATV Untamed at MobyGames
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