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COVER STORY
ARCH ENEMY: Colossal, vibrant, and insidiously infectious, Arch Enemy reclaims the metal throne with their stunning new album, Rise of the Tyrant. Grasping the emotional depth of the music and lyrics, not just the brash and rebellious outer layer, Arch Enemy—Angela Gossow, Michael Amott, Christopher Amott, Sharlee D'Angelo, and Daniel Erlandsson—is a band that quite simply gets it. Best of all, they are some of the most down-to-earth and genuinely friendly people you could hope to meet. Vocal terror Angela Gossow and founding guitarist Michael Amott weigh in on the much anticipated Rise of the Tyrant and all things Arch Enemy.
IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS
THROWDOWN: When we last spoke with Throwdown vocalist Dave Peters, he was in a van on a cell phone in the middle of nowhere. Almost two years later to the day, we caught up with Peters again and he was... in a van on a cell phone in the middle of nowhere. "You'd be hard pressed to find us anywhere else," Peters laughs. Yet take the new Throwdown record Venom & Tears for a whirl and it quickly becomes apparent the band has not spent the last two years in suspended animation.
CIRCA SURVIVE: It seems likely that the five members of Circa Survive would contest the notion that there is something extraordinary about their band. But, ultimately, the significance of any band lies in the perception of their fans, and Circa Survive has done nothing if not attract a devout congregation of worshippers. The intensity of this dedication is even more palpable with the release of the Philadelphia group's second album, On Letting Go. "I felt pressure from myself and from the band," singer Anthony Green says.
DARKEST HOUR: The latest offering from Washington, D.C. political thrash titans Darkest Hour, Deliver Us, begins with an epically furious track darkly entitled "Doomsayer."¯ The song has all the makings of a typically morose metal masterpiece. Yet dig a little deeper into the lyric sheet and you'll find a ray of light. "I'm a relatively happy person, as angry as I may be about some of the things happening in the world today," guitarist Michael Schleibaum says.
THE RED CHORD: "It was just this creepy, ominous phrase I felt tied together a lot of stories and ideas on this record,"¯ singer Guy Kozowyk laughs. Prey for Eyes is a much more thematically decentralized record than Clients. Embracing a similar overarching eclectic ambition on the musical side of the fence, The Red Chord has succeeded in marrying thrashing, cathartic brutality on Prey for Eyes with a maturity of vision that challenges listeners' intellects even as it electrifies on a more primal level.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
PROJECT 86
MAYDAY PARADE
NORA
BAD RELIGION
PIG DESTROYER
BEDLIGHT FOR BLUE EYES
ION DISSONANCE
DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR
SEVENTH STAR
BEHEMOTH
UNDERMINDED
LAST WINTER
TUB RING
SYMPHONY X
THE MILES BETWEEN
KRUGER
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SHOTFIRE: The Warriors, Betweeen the Buried and Me, War of Ages, N3V3R 3N0U6H, and more.
LIVE: 2007 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival: The Devil Wears Prada, Dimmu Borgir, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Architect, and Lizzy Borden
LAST SHOT: Candace Kucsulain of Walls of Jericho
+ OVER 120 NEW MUSIC REVIEWS: Against Me!, The American Black Lung, August Burns Red, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Before Their Eyes, Behemoth, Boys Night Out, Caliban, Candlemass, Cephalic Carnage, Circa Survive, Damnation A.D., Dance Gavin Dance, Danzig, Dakest Hour, The Dead See, DevilDriver, Dream Theater, Driver Side Impact, Emanuel, Evergreen Terrace, The Fall of Troy, The Fold, Gallows, Gogol Bordello, Graveworm, (hed) pe, Hell Within, Himsa, Horse the Band, I Declare War, Ion Dissonance, The Junior Varsity, King Diamond, Last Winter, Mad Caddies, Malevolent Creation, Man Must Die, Mayday Parade, Municipal Waste, MxPx, Neurosis, Nile, Nocturnal Rites, Northern State, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, 108, Onesidezero, Paradise Lost, A Perfect Murder, Pierce the Veil, Pig Destroyer, Portugal the Man, Project 86, The Receiving End of Sirens, Samael, Seventh Star, Signal to Noise, Silverstein, Societys Parasites, Sonata Arctica, SSS, The Starting Line, Still Remains, Strung Out, Sullivan, Symphony X, 3, 3 Inches of Blood, Tomahawk, Devin Townsend, 27, Underminded, The Unseen, Within Temptation, xTyrantx ...and more!
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