Friday, October 3, 2014 at 12:01AM You can listen to the full album stream of SIXX: A.M.'s upcoming new album Modern Vintage on the Eleven Seven YouTube page. Buy the album on October 7. Happy Friday!
Thursday, October 2, 2014 at 12:01AM I recently wrote a feature on the Carnival of Death tour for the Dayton City Paper. I know some of you guys really like heavy bands in addition to Glam, so I thought I'd share here.
"We’re quite satisfied with what we’ve seen our crowds do!” Suffocation bassist Derek Boyer excitedly told Dayton City Paper.
“We love to see interaction while we are performing: sick pits, stage diving, loud screaming and chanting. Dayton won’t let us down!”
Death metal fans, rise up! Just in time for fall, the Carnival of Death Tour is rolling through Dayton. The tour features a bill of death metal mainstays from across the country, and then some, including a double-headline bill of Kataklysm (of Monteral, Canada) and Long Island, NY’s Suffocation, plus Jungle Rot (Wisconsin), Pyrexia and Internal Bleeding (both from New York).
Internal Bleeding and Suffocation are often cited as two of the earliest precursors of the slam death metal style.
Read: this is not a bill for the faint of heart!
The riffs will be heavy, the shows will be hot.
The package rolls into Oddbody’s Music Room on Monday, Oct. 6.
If you’re into death metal even just a little, then you probably recognize every name on the bill.
All the bands have been together for a long time – decades in some cases. And all those years as a band equal a ton of experience, both in the studio and on the stage. The guys in Suffocation are ready to bring that experience – and energy – to Ohio, especially Dayton. That’s because the Gem City is a special place for metal bands to perform.
The local scene is pretty strong and the fans that come out to shows are loyal.
“Ohio has always had an awesome scene, ever since the ’90s,” Boyer said with excitement. “With a bunch of bands coming out of Ohio and the Ohio Death Fest, Ohio has become a great stop for tours and traveling fests.”
Continue reading this article on the Dayton City Paper website.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 12:01AM "Eleanor Rigby" happens to be my favorite Beatles tune. Imagine my surprise when Alice Cooper released a video of the song yesterday. Alice did the cover for the upcoming album The Art of McCartney, due November 18. The amazing thing here is just how well Alice's voice fits the song - it's like "Eleanor Rigby" was written for him! I enjoyed this cover and I hope you do, too.
