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COVER STORY
UNEARTH: It’s been 10 years since five guys from Massachusetts got together to make some ass-kicking sounds and have some fun, unaware that the name Unearth would soon be on the lips of metal fans around the globe. There can perhaps be no better way of celebrating their first decade together than with the release of their latest album, The March, their most powerful, defiant, and affecting release to date. Recorded with Killswitch Engage man and über-producer Adam Dutkiewicz at the helm, The March sees the band stepping up to the plate with the intent of cementing their rightful place in the metal big leagues. Ahead of the start of their next touring cycle, we caught up with guitarist Buz McGrath and vocalist Trevor Phipps, two of the band’s founding members, who have devoted themselves to making Unearth the unstoppable force it has become today.
IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS
IN THIS MOMENT: If the angry, emotional roar of defiance emanating off In This Moment’s debut Beautiful Tragedy provided a hint that vocalist Maria Brink was no stranger to trial and tribulation, the band’s lush, epic, almost orchestral yet still metallic new album The Dream will confirm it. “When I went through my hard times, I would always try to remind myself, ‘I have legs and hands and eyeballs, and I live in a free country where I can make my own choices and live my own life,’” Brink explains. “I definitely relate to the anger and fear some of these kids are going through. That’s part of what In This Moment is all about. Letting it all out.”
DANCE GAVIN DANCE: Technical melodic screamo outfit Dance Gavin Dance is broken down on the side of the road. Virtuoso drummer Matt Mingus relays the news in a laid-back cadence occasionally blown out by the woosh! of passing cars. It’s probably not the most appropriate moment for a battery sapping talk about the band’s stunning new self-titled record. Mingus sounds like someone mildly disappointed that the office soda machine is out of Diet Coke, not a man stranded. It’s no fluke. He exudes the same chill vibe the next day when we catch up with him at a mall outside of Pittsburgh.
FEAR BEFORE: A band changing its name is usually akin to career suicide. However, for Fear Before the March of Flames, doing so wasn’t only an easy choice, it was the only choice. Growing tired of giving explanations regarding their long-winded name, the rockers decided it was time for something new. Factoring in the stylistic shift heard on their highly anticipated and self-titled fourth full-length album, as well as an increased camaraderie between band members, the rechristening is, in all actuality, a rebirth. Guitarist/vocalist Adam “Rupert” Fisher reintroduces us to Fear Before.
NORMA JEAN continues to create caustic noise that refuses to be neatly pigeonholed in the metalcore canon on The Anti Mother, their fourth studio album for Solid State Records. Joining forces with producer Ross Robinson, the band was once again determined to not simply repeat themselves, and thereby further enlarging the scope of their music. We caught up with bassist Jake Schultz at the start of what’s likely to be many months of touring for this band from Atlanta in order to get the lowdown on where Norma Jean stands in 2008.
ESCAPE THE FATE: Reality took a nasty turn for Escape the Fate after the release of their full-length debut Dying Is Your Latest Fashion. Co-founder Ronnie Radke fell into the addictive rock star lifestyle, which eventually led to his dismissal. Around the same time, Craig Mabbitt’s future was in question. The vocalist just parted ways with blessthefall and was contemplating his next move. He accidentally called the manager of Escape the Fate and within a matter of weeks, Mabbitt gelled with the other members. That chemistry is perfectly captured on their sophomore set, This War Is Ours, and by the sound of it, Escape the Fate is back on track.
A STATIC LULLABY: A Static Lullaby’s new album Rattlesnake! was paved by singer Joe Brown’s redemption. Brown, who reformed the fractured band with guitarist Dan Arnold after a mass exodus of members, has had a rough go of it for the past several years. Fighting hard and emerging into the light, Rattlesnake!, the band’s latest effort for Fearless Records, reflects the darker period of his life. More than happy to share his struggles, Brown answers our tough questions about rehab, divorce, and A Static Lullaby’s renewed commitment.
RISE AGAINST is not a band that takes words lightly. Their new record, the reliably fiery Appeal to Reason, takes its name from a popular weekly journal from the turn of the 20th century—a publication that helped popularize the work of writers and movement leaders like Upton Sinclair, Eugene Debs, and Mary “Mother” Jones. Inspired that a platinum selling punk band could carry on that tradition, frontman Tim McIlrath and his bandmates teamed with renowned producers Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore for their fifth studio album, one that figures to continue the band’s ascent.
DRAGONFORCE is storming back into view with their fourth album, the triumphant Ultra Beatdown. More than two years in the making, the London, England six piece has pushed themselves to come up with their boldest and most powerful musical statement to date. We caught up with guitarist Herman Li to shoot the shit over the agonies that stem from perfectionism in the studio, forays into midtempo songwriting, and how to ensure your album and song titles are unique.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
MISERY INDEX
THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE
BIGELF
ALL SHALL PERISH
CALL TO PRESERVE
SISTER SIN
ANTAGONIST
SECTIONS
SHOTFIRE: Funeral for a Friend, Carcass, WIlliam Control, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, See You Next Tuesday, Fall from Grace
LIVE: Infliktour: Calavera Conspiracy, The DIllinger Escape Plan, Bury Your Dead, Throwdown, Incite
DVDS: HammerFall, Susan M. Carr, Engine Down, Hatebreed, Laibach, Suidakra
LAST SHOT: Bullet for My Valentine Live
GIVEAWAY: Win a guitar autographed by Terror plus a prize package!
+ OVER 138 NEW MUSIC REVIEWS: The Acacia Strain, All Shall Perish, All That Remains, Amon Amarth, Anberlin, The Berserker, Bigelf, Black Stone Cherry, Bleeding Through, Brother Von Doom, Burst, Cancer Bats, Ceremony, A Coastline Ending, Cradle of Filth, Dance Gavin Dance, Dear and the Headlights, Don Caballero, Don the Reader, DragonForce, Enslaved, Family Force 5, The Forward, Fucked Up, Fuck the Facts, The Girls, Gojira, Grails, Haste the Day, The Haunted, Have Heart, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Hero Destroyed, The Human Abstract, Iced Earth, Into Eternity, Intronaut, Johnny Truant, Lagwagon, Ligeia, Lustmord, Mason Proper, Metal Church, Miseration, Misery Index, Mogwai, Motorhead, My Hero Is Me, Nachtmahr, The New Year, Norma Jean, Overcast, Portugal. The Man, The Real McKenzies, Recon, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Rhinoceros, Rudimentary Peni, Semi Precious Weapons, Senses Fail, The Showdown, Sing It Loud, Sister Sin, Sonic Syndicate, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Suffokate, These Arms Are Snakes, This or the Apocalypse, Toxic Holocaust, Trapt, Trigger the Bloodshed, Tweak Bird, Underoath, Unearth, Vader, Valencia, Wrench in Works, xTyrantx, and more!
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