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COVER STORY
DROP DEAD, GORGEOUS: With their third full-length album, The Hot N’ Heavy, primed to drop, Drop Dead, Gorgeous is feeling more confident than ever that this is their time, and that through further application of the hard work they’ve become known for, they will break to a wider audience and the success that has been calling their names since high school. We caught up with vocalist Danny Stillman and guitarist Kyle Browning ahead of the album’s release to talk about the direction their music is going, standing out from an overly saturated genre, the part being on the road plays in your personal relationships, and—um —having fake blood spit in your butt crack?
IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS
LAMB OF GOD: Having toured their metaphorical ass off, the band retreated into the studio to painstakingly craft Wrath, one of the most aggressive albums to ever be unleashed on a major label. With a 20 month touring cycle ahead of them, Lamb of God is poised to once again make everyone else seem lethargic by comparison. Drummer Chris Adler gives us his insight into the direction of Wrath and explains why the most important thing is to make the record that you want to make.
GOD FORBID keeps pushing the musical envelope. Each album has been a giant leap forward, and with new album Earthsblood, the New Jersey quintet has outdone themselves again. It is without a doubt their most progressive release with phenomenal guitarwork, compositional depth, soaring melodies, and crushing heaviness. Doc Coyle discusses God Forbid’s ongoing quest to raise its game.
VANNA: Singer/guitarist Evan Pharmakis is optimistic about the future. While still showcasing the heaviness found on 2007’s Curses, Vanna blends pop punk into a wicked metal hybrid on A New Hope and institutes a vocal exchange between screaming and harmonizing. With the premiere of their aggressive yet sincere single “Safe to Say” and a new management team in place, Pharmakis is confident that Vanna’s luck is about to change.
CANNIBAL CORPSE is back with the band’s 11th blood soaked offering, the titanic Evisceration Plague. With a never-ending wave of new bands being vomited out around the world, the five piece has remained crucial to the genre. In 2006, they delivered Kill, a career best that decimated the field, forcing the godfathers of brutal death metal to truly up the ante on Evisceration Plague. Bassist and founding member Alex Webster gives the gory details.
EDGUY: Having established a sizable following around the globe, Germany’s Edguy remains a relatively unknown entity in America. That may soon change, however, with a powerful new opus called Tinnitus Sanctus. Their brand of melodic, hard driving metal combines elements of everything from Judas Priest to Helloween to Whitesnake, resulting in a sound that is as infectious as it is unique. Lead guitarist Jens Ludwig fields some queries into what makes Edguy tick.
MAE is doing the opposite of what most acts are doing nowadays. The Virginia based band is spending the entirety of 2009 donating their music, money, and time in order to create a sense of community and to inspire the spirit of giving. Making music for a cause and to effect change, singer Dave Elkins speaks at length about Mae’s charitable endeavor and how the band is rolling up its sleeves, literally, and building a house from the ground up.
A PLEA FOR PURGING: When a band spends 300 days a year on the road, they are going to witness life at its most brutal and honest. For A Plea for Purging, the ugly truth became an awakening as well as a mirror, reflecting the bitter and unyielding reality that pours of out their latest effort, Depravity. Andy Atkins discusses how one can find prosperity through Depravity.
BORN OF OSIRIS: Logging more miles than most bands twice their age, the Chicago sextet has since grown into a well oiled machine. Driven by the insatiable hunger from a string of successful tours, the band made the next logical step and hit the studio to record A Higher Place. Guitarist Lee McKinney pulls no punches when discussing A Higher Place and exactly why Born of Osiris is metal’s most dangerous band of teenagers.
FAKE PROBLEMS is a band that refuses to make sense. Fake Problems is an indie rock band, a punk rock band, a folk band, a ska band, a DIY band, a classic rock band, a Cure cover band, a Joe Strummer tribute band, and more all rolled into one. Their music is consistently inconsistent, their spirit is disrespectful and playful, and their songs are powerful and important. Chris Farren discusses the band’s new album It’s Great to be Alive.
IMPENDING DOOM: It is hard enough to make a mark in the deathcore scene, but to do so while proudly waving the flag of one’s spiritual convictions and still be taken seriously by the elitists is even tougher. And yet the sophomore effort The Serpent Servant sounds fresh, not to mention convincing. As for the message, according to bassist David Sittig, it is not about preaching the narrow worldview. It is about telling a story from a heart that knows no judgment.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
THURSDAY
FOUR YEAR STRONG
IN FEAR AND FAITH
OBSCURA
WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH
THE DEMONSTRATION
THE SLEEPING
WINO
BURIED INSIDE
SECTIONS
SHOTFIRE: God Dethroned, Every Time I Die, Darkest Hour, THe Messenger, August Burns Red
LIVE: Trivium, Slipknot, Coheed and Cambria, Chiodos, Silverstein, A Skylit Drive, Alesana, Escape the Fate
DVDS: Arch Enemy, Demon Hunter, I Killed the Prom Queen, Lacuna Coil, Nevermore, Valient Thorr
LAST SHOT: Slipknot
GIVEAWAY: Win a guitar, CD, and poster from A Plea for Purging!
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