Posts Tagged ‘Arsis’

A lot of the younger generation have it in their head that guitar players of yesterday are not as good as the technical guitar players of today and do not give the true guitar greats enough respect. In a sense, they are correct in the guitar players of today are perhaps more technically advanced players than those that pioneered rock and roll in to the metal foundries of today.

Let’s first look in that reasoning. The technical death metal guitar players of today play notes at a much higher rate of bpm than anything that was being played back in the late 60’s, right up in to the mid 90’s even. With maybe the exception of one Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption, that melted the faces of many people in 1978 before “melting faces” ever became a stupid, overused term in metal. From then on he was emulated and ended up inspiring many more guitar greats. Read the rest of this entry »

Scion is putting on more FREE metal shows. Last year it was the one-off epic Scion Rock Fest that featured Mastodon and many other amazing bands. This year, this Saturday (March 13th) in fact, will be held in Columbus, Ohio and features 24 more bands that you may know pretty well.

April 13th and 14th they will be featuring Death Angel and Arsis for the Scion Metal Show. April 13th will be at The Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia, home of last years Scion Rock Fest. April 14th they will be in west Hollywood at The Roxy. All you have to do is RSVP HERE and show up for the show. Tickets are limited for this free event, so get your while they last.

Arsis have a Guitar Hero-ish game now. It’s quite simple. Use your number pad at the top of your keyboard to hit the notes. You can also choose to strum too. To do that, you will have to play the game at Jamlegend. Try playing legendary. You probably won’t be able to, but try it just once. Have fun.

In Starve For The Devil, you will find that Jim Malone has shed some of the over-technical guitar work to make room for more of a death-thrash sound that just may turn off some fans. At the same time it doesn’t take away from the sheer wizardry of song writing that is Jim Malone. You’ll find a common theme in most of the songs to be that of self-destruction and, um, the devil. Along with an entirely different line-up than We Are The Nightmare and return of co-founding member, Mike Van Dyne, Starve For The Devil is instantly my first favorite of 2010.

Rating: 4.5/5

For a much more in depth review, check out Number Of The Blog’s review of Starve For The Devil. (It’s Saturday and I’m a lazy bastard!)

But who forced them to wear the fuckin’ eye-liner? Great song. Meh video.

Four albums in line for review right now are (in no particular order):

• Arsis – Starve For The Devil
• Fear Factory – Mechanize
• Overkill – Ironbound
• Dynahead – Antigen
• Warpath – Damnation
• Cobalt – Gin

Some of these reviews may be extensive, as in a few paragraphs, while others may be short and to the point.

Hooked

Yes, I know I’m way behind and next week I may just get around to that Pantera/Tribute podcast I mentioned before. Until then, here is a podcast of some of my honorable mentions for 2009. Also there is a link at the bottom for some free music from Spinelanguage that I mentioned right at the end of the podcast.

1. Barren Earth –  Our Twilight
2. Katatonia – Liberation
3. Killswitch Engage – Reckoning
4. Slayer -Public Display Of Dismemberment
5. Arsis -Forced To Rock
6. Lamb Of God – In Your Words
7. The Black Dahlia Murder – I Will Return

Download Tomb Of The Unknowns courtesy of Spinelanguage

Arsis have posted yet another new song [on Myspace from their upcoming February 9th release, Starve For The Devil. The song is called Forced To Rock and I’m diggin’ it. There will also be a video for this new single coming as the band finished up filming it quite recently. Check out Forced To Rock at Arsis’ Myspace.

There will be a special limited edition of Starve’ being released by Nuclear Blast mail order and only 1000 copies of it will be available. You can view the slipcase cover (to the right) and tracklisting below. Lyrics to the song are after the fold.

Starve For The Devil track listing:

1. Forced To Rock
2. A March For The Sick
3. From Soulless To Shattered (Art In Dying)
4. Beyond Forlorn
5. The Ten Of Swords
6. Closer To Cold
7. Sick Perfection
8. Half Past Corpse O’Clock
9. Escape Artist
10. Sable Rising
11. A Pound Of Flesh (Bonus track)
12. The Lake (Bonus Track, King Diamond cover)

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Arsis have posted a new song on their Myspace from their upcoming album, Starve For the Devil, due out February 9th 2010. It sounds really good to me at first listen. Can’t wait to hear the rest of the album. Music aside, from the new press photos you can really see that James Malone has lost a shitload of weight from his battle with anorexia. I certainly hope for his own sake that he has things under control now.