Brand New Nixon The Insider Stainless Steel Black Watch

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SAOSIN – NEW ALBUM IN STORE NOW !

Sep 04, 2009
LIVE IN LA AND CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF SAOSIN LIVE?
Make sure to catch Saosin during the first week of their highly anticipated new release In Search Of Solid Ground out on Tuesday, September 8. See below for all the exciting events happening in your neighborhood. The band will sign your copy of their NEW ALBUM after each set!

Monday, September 7
Secret Show at Pac Sun
Time: 4:00 PM
LOCATION: TBA!

HIM

HIM frontman Ville Valo seems totally at home sitting poolside at his hotel in L.A. Sipping tea between cigarettes, the lead singer of the first Finnish band ever to go gold in the U.S. is happy to be back in L.A. after spending months at home recording the band’s follow up to 2005’s Dark Light, the aforementioned gold record. Then again, if the quintet hadn’t been at home during the dark, cold winter months they might not have recorded the aptly named Venus Doom, an album that Valo describes as being “Like a trip into my personal hell to a certain extent.”

Musically, the album is the dark, hard rocking soundtrack necessary to accompany Valo’s downward descent. “I felt that we needed a lot less keyboards and there was just going to be more punching to the face type of thing,” Valo says, referring to the differences between Dark Light and Venus Doom. “The whole vibe seems fresh cause the direction we had with the last album we couldn’t go further. So the album sonically is a bit more sparse. That’s the direction we’re heading; heavier, doomier, and gloomier, and it’s great to tour that kind of stuff.”

HIM will get the chance to see how the new material translates to the stage over the summer when they join Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, and more on the main stage of L.P.’s Projekt Revolution tour. “All the bands are kind of crossover in what they do, that’s really interesting,” Valo says. “This is the first kind of traveling festival type of thing we’ve done cause they don’t have anything like that back in Europe, so it’s exciting.” He’s also intrigued by the eclecticism of the tour. “That’s one of the reasons we wanted to be there,” he says of the mix of bands.

Atreyu – Keep Rockin’s

Since they muscled their way onto the Orange County metal scene in 1998, Atreyu have sold over a million albums by constantly challenging themselves and their audiences with charged music and acrobatic performances that both have pushed the boundaries of catharsis and emotional exorcism.

But even those who have grown used to the unexpected from Atreyu will be blown away by the musical growth, determination and depth of the band’s Hollywood Records debut Lead Sails Paper Anchor.

Embracing new styles of singing and playing, a previously unexplored level of melodicism and a genre-shattering range of instrumentation – including Turkish saz, trumpets, strings, piano, opera vocals and pedal steel guitar – Atreyu have created an exultant disc that expands the parameters of heavy music and unabashedly exposes the band members’ love of ‘80s metal, thrash, industrial, hardcore, alternative and even alt-country. At the same time, Atreyu have written some of the heaviest, most brutal tracks of their career. “Can’t Happen Here” starts with the sound of machine guns, helicopters and screaming children, then breaks into a marching snare beat before bursting into a melodic mix of raging vocals, abrupt rhythmic shifts and a trademark Atreyu monster hook refrain. And just try to find progressions as driving and pounding as “Becoming The Bull,” “Honor” and “Doomsday.”

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND – Biography

In any life, the end of adolescence and the coming to terms with adulthood is a cataclysmic time. But imagine vaulting that hurdle while a member of a rock n roll group skyrocketing their way to fame, living through and adjusting to these changes in the public spotlight. Imagine trying to learn from your mistakes with an ever-growing army of rabid fans hanging on your every gesture, attempting to ride out both the emotional tsunami and some truly life-altering experiences. Since their inception just three years ago, gale-force Welsh rockers Funeral For A Friend have experienced more extraordinary highs and lows than most people will go though in their entire existence.

In their native UK, the band have been nothing less than a phenomenon, scoring three Top 20 singles, a gold-certified debut album, headlining the second stage of the world famous Reading/Leeds Festival and winning Kerrang!’s Best Newcomer award. Here in the States, the band has received reams of critical praise while growing their ever-increasing fanbase via tours alongside such like-minded outfits as Linkin Park, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed & Cambria, From Autumn To Ashes and Atreyu. All of which can be quite a headfuck, especially if you factor in the twenty-something tumult as well.

“HOURS,” Funeral For A Friend’s eagerly anticipated second Atlantic Records release, tells the story of that headfuck, passionately essaying the vulnerability of young adulthood via such potent tracks as the album’s first single, “Streetcar.” Following on the heels of 2003’s breakthrough label debut, “CASUALLY DRESSED & DEEP IN CONVERSATION,” Funeral For A Friend have carefully cast a sound by turns heavier and softer than before, with the band’s dual impulses for metallic riffage and melodic bloom no longer at odds with each other.

“We wanted to make a record that had no sense of compromise,” adds guitarist Kris Coombs-Roberts. “Something people would either really love or hate, that no one would feel “wishy-washy” about. There’s no middle ground.”

AUGUST ROCK SOUND WITH FFAF COVER & FEATURE OUT NOW

The August edition of UK rock monthly Rock Sound is out now & features a FFAF cover & feature with some ace new photos taken from the band’s trip to New York last month.

Check it out!