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5RAND: Italian melodic death metallers unleash release details of upcoming album "Dark Mother"
By localbandz, 2019-06-29
Italian melodic death metallers 5RAND return with their second album "Dark Mother". The effort is set for a release on 6th September 2019 with powerhouse label Time To Kill Records.
"Dark Mother" has been produced by longtime collaborator Marco Mastrobuono (FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, HOUR OF PENANCE) at Kick Recording Studio and Bloom Recording Studios, while mastering has been handled by famous Swedish producer Jens Bogren (ARCH ENEMY, KATATONIA, AMORPHIS and more) at Fascination Street Studios. The epic album artwork has been designed by the talented Hans Trasid and the graphic layout by Roberto Toderico (SODOM, ASPHYX, PESTILENCE).
Watch a short video trailer with a closer look at the artwork HERE !
"Dark Mother" shows the band staying true to their diverse and catchy style, taking elements from melodic death metal and industrial throughout the album's 11 tracks. The song "Silent Spring" features arrangements by Francesco Ferrini, keyboardist and songwriter of FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE.
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"Dark Mother" Tracklist: 01. Collapsing Theory 02. Embrace the Fury 03. Several Injuries 04. The Awakening 05. Black Ocean 06. Cold Deception 07. Feel the End 08. Old Angel Midnight 09. Blind Addiction 10. Before the Flood 11. Silent Spring |
Pre-orders available HERE .
Bio:
5RAND is a metal band from Italy: their sound combines Julia Elenoir's clean and growling vocals, melodic, ethereal elements and the aggressive riffing of extreme metal, evoking a dark, disturbing violent, and yet captivating, atmosphere, often conjuring comparisons to acts such as Slipknot, Fear Factory and Dark Tranquillity.
Following on the heels of the widely hailed debut album “Sacred/Scared” (2017), 5RAND toured Italy and Europe supporting Vader and Immolation and openened for bands such as Behemoth and Sepultura in several occasions. In 2018 the band toured Europe supporting Dark Tranquillity and Equilibrium and played many more headlining shows all over Italy.
The second album "Dark Mother" will be released worldwide on 6th September 2019 via Time To Kill Records. The release will be once again followed by an intense live activity.
5RAND line-up:
Julia Elenoir – Vocals Pierluigi Carocci – Guitar Riccardo Zito – Bass Andrea De Carolis– Drums
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Guitars from the Pink Floyd frontman's collection fetched millions.
Yesterday, June 20, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour auctioned off over 120 guitars from his personal collection in New York City through Christie's. Highly anticipated throughout the guitar community, the auction shattered numerous records.
Gilmour's legendary 1969 Black Strat took in $3,975,000 , establishing a new world auction record for any guitar sold at auction — ever. Of course, this was the axe heard on “Comfortably Numb,” “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” “Money” and many other Pink Floyd classics.
The 1969 Martin D-35 Gilmour used on "Wish You Were Here" was up first, and—after selling for $1,095,000 —immediately became the most valuable acoustic guitar ever sold, according to Christie's. The pre-auction estimate for the guitar? $10,000-$20,000.
Gilmour's Olympic White "#0001" Fender Stratocaster —which he used on “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)”—was sold for $1,815,000 , making it, a ccording to Christie's, the most valuable Strat ever sold at auction.
Speaking of Strats, Gilmour's Candy Apple Red 1984 Fender Strat —which he used throughout the A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell era—brought in $615,000 .
Not content with merely setting records for Strats and acoustics, Gilmour also set an auction record for a Les Paul, after his 1955 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop fetched $447,000 .
This page will be updated as the auction continues.
"These guitars have been very good to me and many of them have given me pieces of music over the years," Gilmour said in a statement announcing the auction. "They have paid for themselves many times over, but it’s now time that they moved on. Guitars were made to be played and it is my wish that wherever they end up, they continue to give their owners the gift of music. By auctioning these guitars I hope that I can give some help where it is really needed and through my charitable foundation do some good in this world. It will be a wrench to see them go and perhaps one day I’ll have to track one or two of them down and buy them back!”
You know, sometimes you need new inspiration. Sometimes you need that push to get going in the morning or you need that one song that gets you hype for your workout or whatever. Well, I found my new inspiration for my morning run and workouts. I’m hooked on KIWMP!
I unexpectedly came across a new album by this cat Rich P. I was intrigued by the cover of a baby on the shoulders of his Dad (I’m guessing) and my first question was, this is a rap album? So I made the purchase cause I gotta support these young Black kids out here making moves.
So I go straight to “How Bad Do You Want This” cause I have my workout goals but that’s another story. And I replayed that song a good 6-7 times while I was out on my run! That song alone had me like this is one of the best rap purchases I ever made, straight up! I LOVE this song!!!! It made me feel it, like he was right there pushing me to go further! I move on to “Can’t Outshine the Master” and again I was like this is all I need to get going! I truly FELT this album. I then found myself sitting down to actually listen to the interludes cause that’s how much this album caught my attention. I HAD to LISTEN to it!
When I got to “In My Zone”, I just knew this kid was signed to some label cause this song got ME in MY zone! Lo and behold, he’s independent?!? How? No one is making music like this kid! NO ONE!
“These Are The Breaks” is straight FIRE! I was repeating songs left and right on this album. I’m an athlete so I always look for music that inspires me, gets me hype and makes me want to keep going. Kicking It With My Pops does EXACTLY that! Best music purchase I made so far in 2018! Y’all need to go get that!
From Shanon Black/ Bronx Ny
Rock and Soul Revivalists, Los Vertigos, have finally finished their new EP, Rock and Soul Salvation (Recovery Recordings), and it is now available for streaming and downloading on Amazon, YouTube, Deezer, Spotify, iTunes USA and iTunes Europe, and very soon -- on Pandora. It is also available in CD format at all Los Vertigos concerts.
Los Vertigos are also members of the Houston, Texas branch of the American Roots-Rock Coalition (ARRC). The American Roots-Rock Coalition is a grass-roots organization whose mission is to curb the excessive use of midi-sequencing in popular music and through its outreach program, expose today's youth to the virtues of public performance utilizing real analog musical instruments.
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David Gilmour to Auction Off More Than 120 Guitars From Personal Collection
By localbandz, 2019-01-30
Source: Guitar Player
By: Jackson Maxwell
David Gilmour is downsizing his personal collection for a good cause.
David Gilmour has announced that he will auction off more than 120 guitars from his personal collection through Christie's.
The auction, which will take place in New York City on June 20, 2019, will feature some of Gilmour's most prized and iconic guitars, some of which are valued at as much as $150,000. All sales proceeds will benefit charitable causes.
“These guitars have been very good to me and many of them have gifted me pieces of music over the years," Gilmour said in a statement. "They have paid for themselves many times over, but it’s now time that they moved on. Guitars were made to be played and it is my wish that wherever they end up, they continue to give their owners the gift of music. By auctioning these guitars I hope that I can give some help where it is really needed and through my charitable foundation do some good in this world. It will be a wrench to see them go and perhaps one day I’ll have to track one or two of them down and buy them back!”
Some highlights from the collection can be seen here .
Source: RollingStone
The members barely knew each other when they began recording their first LP, but all the pieces were in place: blues, power and incredible musicianship.
By Jon Dolan
It only takes the first two seconds of the first song on their first record for Led Zeppelin to make crystal clear exactly what they intend to do — and exactly what they intend to do to you . In the opening to “Good Times Bad Times,” the band drops a two-note attack that falls like a cartoon safe, clearing the air for John Bonham ’s syncopated groove, Jimmy Page ’s swift-sword guitar and Robert Plant ’s high-end howling about sex so loud it gets the neighbors talking. “It really wasn’t a pretty thing,” Plant later said. “It wasn’t supposed to be a pretty thing. It was just an unleashing of energy.”
He could’ve been talking about the entire album. Recorded in 30 hours of studio time stretched over a three-week period (“I know because I paid the bill,” Page said), Zeppelin’s debut was hardly a high-concept affair; its making has been compared to the breakneck daylong session the Beatles pulled to cut Please Please Me in 1963. Yet the essential elements the band would expand on over the next decade are all in place: There’s a miasmic psychedelic blues trip (“Dazed and Confused”), high-def Fifties revisionism (“Communication Breakdown”), shifts from tender ballad to metal body slam (“Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”), and rips-cum-retooling of folk, blues and even classical on John Paul Jones ’ Bach-bitten organ intro to “Your Time Is Gonna Come” — all unified by the band’s undeniable brute force.
Zeppelin had rehearsed the material (all selected by Page) on a brief tour of Scandinavia in the summer of 1968, shortly after Page had left the Yardbirds. In many ways, they were a collection of opposites: Page was the London-scene superstar on par with Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton; Jones was also an established studio pro; folkie Plant and wild-man wild card Bonham were unknown outlanders who’d previously played together in a group called Band of Joy. “I knew exactly what I wanted to do with these fellows,” said Page, who might have had his pick of post-Yardbirds supergroups (one possibility included Keith Moon and Beck) but wanted a band where he could enjoy “artistic control in a vise grip.”
One of the first songs Page suggested to Plant was “Babe I’m Gonna Leave You,” a tumultuous reimagining of an American folk standard Page learned from a Joan Baez live record — a unique choice for four British blues studs. On “Black Mountain Side,” Page turned to English folk for inspiration, modeling the song on guitarist Bert Jansch’s recording of a Gaelic traditional song called “Black Water Side.” Led Zeppelin is rife with these kinds of nicks and allusions, and it’s where the notion of Zeppelin as unapologetic kleptos was born — from the Howlin’ Wolf–inscribed wrecking ball “How Many More Times” to the Eddie Cochran–biting rocker “Communication Breakdown.” (Decades later, Jansch told journalist Mick Wall that Page still couldn’t look him in the eye.)
In this case, though, part of the reason for the grab-and-go aesthetic was the band’s utter newness. Led Zeppelin was recorded with almost no overdubs in London’s Olympic Studios by musicians still looking for a shared language. “Nobody really knew each other,” said Plant, who had never been in a high-caliber studio before. “I’d go back to the playback room and listen. It had so much weight, so much power — it was devastating. I had a long way to go with my voice then, but the enthusiasm and sparking of working with Jimmy’s guitar … it was so raunchy.” That raunch was rendered overwhelming and spectral by Page, who placed mics all over the studio to get a vérité sound that might recall the raw, big-room ambience of old Chess and Sun records. Uncredited engineer Glyn Johns added to the effect by putting Bonham’s drum kit on a riser to enhance his “phenomenal” sound. Much has been made of Bonham’s power (the beat on “Communication Breakdown” is nearly punk-speed), but Jones was just as impressed by his restraint: “John kept a really straight beat on slow numbers like ‘You Shook Me,’” he recalled. “To play slow and groove is one of the hardest things in the world.”
Communication BreakdownThis rarely acknowledged sense of restraint is a big key to the album’s intensity. Zeppelin weren’t the only band to merge heaviness and expansiveness, but where Cream and the Who pushed rock’s boundaries into opera and jazz-touched improv, Zeppelin honed their virtuosity into compositions; even the eight-minute “How Many More Times” was designed for maximum impact. “There was very little free-form anything,” said Johns. “They were very hard-working. The Stones took nine months to make a record; these guys took nine days — including mixing.”
When Led Zeppelin was released in January 1969, it went to the Top 10 in the U.S. and the U.K. charts, despite lukewarm reviews. The enormity of Zeppelin’s innovation wasn’t entirely easy to recognize. In an era of spiritual transcendence and tales of brave Ulysses, they’d flipped teenage rock & roll’s sex-zonked mania into something huge and seething and mythic-bestial. Eastern mysticism and Mordor and prom-ruling radio gold would all come later. This was something purer: Zeppelin as all-id power station. It was heavy metal.
By Andy Greene
Listen to lesser-known gems from the band’s catalog
Most everyone knows Pearl Jam’s early hits like “Jeremy” and “Better Man,” and their first few albums sold in the millions. But starting in the mid-1990s, they did everything possible to back away from the spotlight. Albums like Binaural and Riot Act came and went without much notice, even as their massive cult fanbase grew to insane proportions. They recorded a ton of amazing songs after No Code , and here’s a guide to 15 songs that only the hardcore fans love. (A special shout-out to Pearl Jam super fans Hillary and Kate for helping with the song selection.)
1. ‘Long Road’
Eddie Vedder's contributions to the 1995 Pearl Jam/ Neil Young collaborative album Mirror Ball were pretty minimal, but he did write the haunting ballad "Long Road" during the sessions and it was later released on the EP Merkin Ball . Vedder wrote the song as a tribute to his high school drama teacher Clayton Liggett, but it works as an all-purpose tribute to lost loved ones. It took on a new meaning days after 9/11 when Vedder sang the song with Young at the Tribute to Heroes telethon.
Source: RollingStone
Source: RollingStone
From Bing Crosby to Bob Dylan, Motown to Death Row, we rank the best Yuletide listens ever
By Jon Dolan
It’s no surprise that a Christmas song – Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas”– is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling single ever. There’s a universality to Christmas music that even transcends religion. Just ask Bob Dylan, who was raised Jewish but loved Yuletide tunes enough to record an album of them in 2009. From gangsta rap to jazz to reggae to indie-pop, from crooners to rockers, the impulse to knock out a “Blue Christmas” or a “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” knows no boundaries. Read on for our list of the 25 greatest Christmas albums of all time.
25. Weezer, ‘A Weezer Christmas’ (2008)
If there's one thing the centuries-old tradition of holiday music has always lacked, it's irony. Weezer bring it by the sleigh-load on this six-song EP. Hilariously, they choose only the most Jesus-y tunes to bash out in their vaunted flat-lined power-pop style. When Rivers Cuomo sings "Oh, come let us adore him" on "O Come All Ye Faithful," his creepily deadpan vocals sound like he's stalking the Baby Jesus, not celebrating him, and on the pooch-metal rendition of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," he's like a Dickensian droogy ready to burn his crummy Victorian orphanage if he doesn't get some figgy pudding, stat!
