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Headcharger: making new sap flow in old stumps

Monday, February 27th, 2012 at 11:10 am by Doc'

Do you feel your heart beating at only eight pulsations per minute? For a human being, that’s a very bad sign; you are probably about to die, at least from boredom, and you badly need EST. Alternatively, you could also inoculate yourself with Slow Motion Disease, Headcharger’s new album (out on XIII Bis Records), to be injected directly in your ears. First sign that this method is working: your head and feet will soon start moving up and down. That will help your blood flow.

But if you still feel that your metabolism is trudging along like the worst Derrick episode ever, the Normans have another treatment for you: something electric, whose effects are strangely akin to that of a certain blue pill that will make sap flow even in the most flaccid branches, to be administered via your little peepers.

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Kill Devil Hill: Rex Brown’s “musical journey”

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 at 1:54 pm by Metal'O Phil

Rex Brown’s enthusiasm about his new band with Vinny Appice, Kill Devil Hill, can only be matched by his refusal to talk about the Down case. Tired of being asked about his health, he even implies that his ex-colleague Phil Anselmo may have distorted reality a bit when talking about his health issues as he announced the bassist’s departure from Down. A departure Brown credits to musical reasons, his “musical journey” in which Kill Devil Hill seems to be the next step, a spontaneous and simple band who’s lyrics and artwork aren’t to be read too much into.

However, though he insists that there is no bad blood between him and his colleagues from Down and Pantera, we can’t help growing impatient about the release of the autobiography he’s currently working on to know what actually happened.


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Napalm Death: trying to change things

Friday, February 17th, 2012 at 11:23 am by Metal'O Phil

Not so long ago, I stumbled upon a video on TV, which, with a healthy dose of humor and cynicism, denounced the fact that, on the occasion of almost every presidential election of the French fifth republic, every future president made more or less the same promises, which could be summarized thus: “I will be the President who brings change”. While of course, at the same time, accusing their predecessor of being opposed to said change. Far from sharing the view that “politicians are all rotten anyway”, Mark Greenway, aka “Barney”, Napalm Death’s emblematic frontman, blames the lack of change on the political system and its restraints, rather than on the people who make it up – some of them having, after all, a concrete project.

Changing society and fighting for its ideals are life-long struggles, whose results are barely, if at all, visible. But as Barney would put it, it’s better to “try and do something and make very small steps, rather than do nothing at all and have no doubt”.

This interview is of course not all about society, but also about music. About Napalm Death’s music and its possible evolutions, and about music in general, with Barney insisting on the importance of judging a piece of art with spontaneity and through one’s emotions, rather than through classifications, of which the metal audience remains very fond.

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Korn “doesn’t give a fuck”

Monday, February 13th, 2012 at 4:41 pm by Radio Metal

Following the example of David Vincent (Morbid Angel) and his now famous “They’ll figure it out”, regarding Illud Divinum Insanus, Jonathan Davis remains supremely serene in the face of all the reactions the band’s last album has provoked. Above all, what matters to him is his personal artistic satisfaction – and that of Korn’s. “Being an artist is a selfish thing per se, it has to be”, Steven Wilson told us once. Something Davis can only approve wholeheartedly. He thus talks phlegmatically about the fact that, with each new musical evolution from Korn, the band lose some fans but gain others, a phenomenon they’re quite used to now.

The vocalist described the work that had to be done for this record, The Path Of Totality, as well as the complexity of the writing process, due to the novelty of the mix it represents. Still, Davis sees it as a coherent mix, and sees “a lot of similarities” between dubstep and metal.

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Epica: a plea for public awareness

Monday, February 13th, 2012 at 4:31 pm by Metal'O Phil

Through their new album, Requiem For The Indifferent, Epica make a plea for public awareness in terms of our planet’s economic and environmental issues. According to vocalist Simone Simons, mankind ignores those issues, voluntarily or not, and people live their lives in a very selfish way. When we broached these subjects during the following interview, we naturally drifted to more current affairs; in other words: the debate on downloading caused by the recent closing down of Megaupload. Simone’s position on the matter is firm: if a nation is economically stable, given how easy it can be to access music legally on the Internet, downloading is a no-no.

On a more musical front, we talked about the impact their previous album, Design Your Universe, had on the band’s music – a subject Mark Jansen already insisted upon a year ago. Simone can only concur: with this record, the band have established a standard that will be used as a foundation for all future productions, including this new album, Requiem For The Indifferent.

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