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COVER STORY
ARMOR FOR SLEEP: Armor for Sleep was always meant to be an escape from my life, what I do to kind of get away from everything, and we still write our songs to be an escape—for us and for our fans,” singer/songwriter Ben Jorgensen says, sinking into a couch in a backstage dressing room. There is a refrigerator full of untouched Red Bull against the wall. The impeccably mannered—okay, we’ll just go ahead and say it…sweet natured—band members seem more interested in maintaining a little laid-back oasis than getting a sugar high, yet nevertheless become more animated than any energy drink could ever make them when the topic of the band’s honest-to-goodness brilliant new record Smile for Them comes up.
IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: The press release accompanying The Dillinger Escape Plan’s latest mind-bending slab of brilliance, Ire Works, reads more like a police report detailing a horrible accident than a bit of PR spin.“ Part of me feels like it’s a curse that all these things happen, and then part of me feels like maybe things happen for a reason because it always seems to push us in one direction or another. And we always seem to come out a better band in the end,” Ben Weinman, the band’s only original member, sighs.
NIGHTWISH: Combining the beauty and elegance of classical music with the power and bombast of heavy metal, Nightwish has steadily built a fan base that reaches beyond their native Finland to encompass the world. With possibly the strongest album of their careers and a dynamic new singer, the band hit American shores for the first leg of an extensive tour, which Tuomas Holopainen and Marco Hietala were more than happy to talk about.
CHIODOS Prog rock guitars, unbridled punk rock energy, and androgynous vocals come together for a high-octane mix on Bone Palace Ballet, the band’s second staggering and sprawling effort for Equal Vision Records. Inspired by author Charles Bukowski, Chiodos has a message on their new album. What is it? We spoke with Derrick Frost to find out.
SOILWORK: Sitting in a downtown Manhattan hotel, grimacing at a Flavor of Love rerun as they chase pickled green olives with a steady stream of Amstel Light, Dirk Verbeuren and Bjorn “Speed” Strid can afford to be a bit blasé about “The Pittsburgh Syndrome.” After all, they’re in New York City killing time before a Sworn to a Great Divide listening party.
THE AUTUMN OFFERING: With a new vocalist, a new drummer, and killer new material, self-proclaimed purveyors of white trash thrash The Autumn Offering has unleashed their third and most diverse collection to date, Fear Will Cast No Shadow. We caught up with Tommy Church and Matt McChesney to shoot the shit over melodic vocals, butting heads with your producer, and on the road carnage.
SWORN ENEMY has been raising a bloody knuckled middle finger in the face of the trendy with their furiously unapologetic hybrid of thrash metal and streetwise hardcore since the turn of the century. While every album from the New York band has proven them to be one of the toughest dogs in the yard, their newest release Maniacal shows just how dangerous they can be.
FAR-LESS: Shifting gears on the band’s New opus, A Toast to Bad Taste, Far-Less leaves behind the metallic screams of Everyone Is Out to Get Us in favor of a more indie rock sound. Vocalist Brandon Welch speaks about the mislabeling of Far-Less as a Christian band, being from the South, and why the group chose to abandon the bluster in favor of softer, spacier passages.
SUICIDE SILENCE: Making a killing in the underground, Suicide Silence is on the verge of bursting into the mainstream metal scene. Mitch Lucker talks about the joys of fatherhood, the rising tide of American grind/death, and why sonic violence is a very good thing.
DEMON HUNTER is back with album number four, Storm the Gates of Hell, which sees the Seattle band building on their anthemic metalcore sound and drawing from a slightly wider musical palette. Outburn caught up with vocalist Ryan Clark to talk about inspiration, the advantages of having a hands-on producer, and what it’s like to have your band logo spray-painted on a tank in Iraq.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
LIZZY BORDEN
SO THEY SAY
BULLETS AND OCTANE
TOO PURE TO DIE
THIEVES & LIARS
xAFBx
ULVER
HORRORPOPS
SECTIONS
SHOTFIRE: Kingdom of Sorrow, Ministry, Foxy Shazam, Black Tide, Stonerider, Story of the Year, J2, Gwen Stacy, and Casey Calvert of Hawthorne Heights.
SIGNING: As I Lay Dying autograph signing of Outburn #41
LIVE: Rock & Shock: Mushroomhead, Type O Negative, Dark Funeral, Lordi, Bury Your Dead, Naglfar, and Wednesday 13. Plus HIM with Bleeding Through
DVDs: The Casualties, Century Overload, Kaada/Patton, Motorhead, Thursday
LAST SHOT: Evey Time I Die's Keith Buckley
GIVEAWAY: Giant Victory Records Prize Package: CD and T-Shirt from The Autumn Offering, Autographed CD booklet from Thursday, posters from Emmure, Between the Buried and Me, Darkest Hour, Endwell, vinyl records from Darkest Hour and Between the Buried and Me, and more!
+ OVER 125 NEW MUSIC REVIEWS: Agnostic Front, The Agony Scene, Agua de Annique, Alchemist, American Steel, Arise and Ruin, Armor for Sleep, ASG, The Autumn Offering, Between the Buried and Me, Bigelf, Blood Red Throne, Bobaflex, Bongzilla, Carnifex, Chiodos, The Classic Crime, The CNK, The Color Fred, Crime in Stereo, Cry of the Afflicted, Demiricous, Demon Hunter, The Destiny Program, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Emery, Entombed, Ephel Duath, Epica, Evile, Exodus, Eyes of Eden, Farewell, Far-Less, The Feds, Fight Pretty, Fleshcrawl, Dave Gahan, Ghost Brigade, Gotthard, The Great Deceiver, Haram, Harlots, Helloween, HorrorPops, Ill Nino, Lizzy Borden, Magnet School, Meat Puppets, Monster Magnet, Moonspell, Mudvayne, Nights Like These, The Ocean, Parkway Drive, Pathosray, Plain White T's, A Plea for Purging, Prong, Remove the Veil, Sappy Bell, Scum of the Earth, Seether, Sick City, Sigh, Sodom, Streetlight Manifesto, Sworn Enemy, Serj Tankian, Thieves & Liars, Thrice, Thy Will Be Done, Trap Them, Ulver, Vodoo Glow Skulls, Zox ...and more!
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