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"Let me say first thing that we are not Christian band, "says the leader TJ Miller of Still Remains," even though we are all very attached to our religious roots, we like to fuck and go to parties: it would be very hypocritical to call ourselves a Christian band. "
Since 2002, the band from Grand Rapids Michigan is committed to reducing sound and ideological boundaries that exist in the world of music. With their 2005 debut, Of Love And Lunacy, Still Remains have the added keyboards to the sound of Children Of Bodom metalcore growl made , breakdown and double pedal at will. This band is guaranteed to turn sound has a great following in the United Kingdom thanks to the supporting tour for Bullet For My Valentine and Hawthorne Heights. This year, with the dates of the Warped Tour, with the second album with the line up changes, they are ready to raise its voice even in the U.S.. The leader of
Still Remains tells us about a bit 'of the latest and the new album The Serpent.
To take away the pain immediately, tell us about changes in the line up?
Since Jordan Whelan (guitar) and I set up the project, have contributed largely to the creation of the songs. So even if we have new members, we understand that we are still Still Remains. We are still the same band that the kids have known, appreciated and even loved.
About Love, it seems you're very fond of .
There are places that take us well, since the last time we played in California, there was a lot 'of women's underwear that was pulled on stage. There were all these bras and panties flying and could not understand and thought that obviously, for California, we had some really cool look.
What inspired you when writing The Serpent? The Serpent
the narrative point of view about a series of unfortunate events, and every song has at least a couple of meanings. One half is linked to my personal experiences and the other half to something more universal, but it all relates in the snake-like evil-has an impact on us all.
Do you think this album is more explicit in terms of texts than your previous one?
In some ways yes, because I try to give hope to those who read the texts. I never wanted to write about my childhood that I grew up in a bad situation and I had to struggle against depression or loneliness. Then, I realized that my story could be helpful for other people to confront and understand that there are people who go through similar situations at all.
Your faith has influenced this decision?
Even though I am aware of the sad things that surround my life, I am a Christian who has faith in God and wants to make a difference at all costs.
You were raised according to Christian ethics, or did you get yourself?
least I have not been educated up to the age of 10 years when my father took me into custody and I moved to Michigan. Before I lived with my mother and I do not want to offend you, but living in Florida with her was awful. Although at the time I do not speak, but I knew that Jesus existed and always followed me.
How have evolved since the days of Still Remains Of Love And Lunacy?
We found enough security to produce the album they really wanted write. We have songs on this album that are harder than in the past and where he sang songs all the time, I think people will respect our evolution and how we have grown and we evolved.

Modern Life Is War-Two Minutes To Midnight

To be a band that formed in the middle of nowhere, in Marshalltown, Iowa, arriving at their level, nowadays, is half a miracle. After a promising EP, the band has unsheathed two albums, My Way Love.My Witness in 2003 and 2005 that have contributed to create a sound aggressive, but melodic at the same time, combined with personal lyrics and clearly inspired by politics. Although in some ways compared to the fury of Black Flag or the American Nightmare, frontman Jeffrey Eaton, promises that the new album, Midnight In America, take your breath away more than one person for his stylistic choices.
"We literally shuffled the cards and we feel the best of our potential," Eaton said during the tour that is carrying around with his band He Is Legend, "are fighting ways. I think right now we play in a different way compared to 99% of other bands around. " In fact, if Witness, registered under the supervision of Kurt Ballou Converge and produced by the record of increasingly Jake Bannon of Converge, was celebrated by critics as one of the best modern hardcore album, Midnight In America certainly sounds better. The new label Equal Vision-la-, the new producer and the largest budget provision has enabled MLIW to explore further developments in sound, "we felt the need to go further and do something better. I think we had the means to be bolder and I am completely satisfied with this choice, "said Eaton.
However, lovers of darkness emanating from Witness, can rest easy: "I think I'll always be attracted to my roots and my roots are in punk and hardcore scene and I think they a very dark component as a substrate that is there and does not go away, wherever I go. "

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Evergreen Terrace-Wolfbiker

A warm welcome back to Evergreen Terrace, albeit with a little 'guilty of delay on our part. I want to put things it clear: the myriad outputs that characterize the market each year , some beautiful, some negligible, this has a meaning ... it is very useful in terms of music. Let me be clear, we are not in front of the disc will change the fate of the rock era, or will, but it has its undeniable weight. Indeed, perhaps more than the album itself is just the band that has an important role in liaising and union. Yes, because Wolfbiker is the hypothetical perfect bridge between punk / hardcore and metal, or if you want to see the glass half empty the Evergreen Terrace are too technical for a regular hardcore band, but too little for a virtuous metal band with controcazzi . The good thing, though, is that the consensus could potentially be very large.

Speaking of the disc, you must say it sounds very compact and homogeneous, but at the same time jumping between different influences on balance. You go from songs as high tide or no tide, Chaney can not quite riff like Helmet's Page Hamilton (spectacular ... just the title) or Starter showing a vein similar to that of the deceased Boy Sets Fire, or in some ways of Strung Out, and tracks Bad Energy Troll as the title track Wolfbiker (spectacular!) or the furious Rip This (seems vaguely Bleeding Through) port on the sound territories metal / hardcore. Mention also for the final Damned, really well done.

In conclusion, the disc slips away quickly and accurately and gives very interesting insights. Do one thing, grab it and listen to in one breath and you will realize that, to paraphrase their own, can not Evergreen Terrace quite rock like As I Lay Dying, But More Than Enough They rock!

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Atreyu-Ordinary Life

"Open the window," he says abruptly Atreyu frontman Alex Varkatzas, interrupting the drummer / singer Brandon Saller. "No, open the window, you realize what's around here?" Saller
rises, departs from the back of the curtain and the Atreyu tour bus, parked in a parking lot of the PNC Bank Arts Arena in New Jersey, you can see the roof of another tour bus about three feet distance, a few trees and a sky of pale blue.
"Exactly, you know what I mean, no?" Varkatzas presses provocatively: "I pass the three summer months in a parking lot somewhere.
is this range of emotions: loneliness, alienation, homesickness, all familiar to those things has never been a member of a band that travels the world on tour, things that evoke the title of the new Atreyu album, Lead Sail Paper Anchor .
"Anyone who knows what this life you try to stay away from things and people you love, your family," Saller says.
"I'm not a big fan of life on the road" Varkatzas follows: "I like to go on stage, go around with friends, but the question is: I like being away from home and sleeping in a bus every night? Obviously, the positives outweigh the negatives and all the interviews put emphasis on the negative, so they stand out. "
And this brings us to another hot topic on the front man: namely, his aversion to interviews, or at least his fear that his words may backfire, as if trying to sell a story or sell off his band.
Before adding anything important to say is that Atreyu are in place and guys are not as whining as it seems to be these early stages
... Today we are sitting in the bus tour of Atreyu, the hottest day of their tour in support of Korn, which makes a stop in New Jersey.
Brandon Saller, a lover of painting and dogs ("before you give me one I do not care about them, now I've become a fanatic") and soon to be married in November, is in good spirits and friendly as usual while Alex Varkatzas, a gym, or moon is in good or really calmed down for a year now. In the past he had won a reputation as a difficult person to interview: for sure is reserved and sarcastic, but today, after breaking the ice, turns out to be talkative and helpful.
"I'm sorry, but your job is not to inflate stories?" Varkatzas responds when asked why he did this belief. "If you wrote the letter all my statements, it would be a bit 'boring because I'm a quiet guy who does not say anything controversial unless they provoke me . Complicated stories sell, selling problems. Nobody cares relax people! "
has not entirely wrong, because anyone who writes something about Atreyu will realize that they are normal people who happened to have become a famous rock band, beyond the alleged stories on alcoholism Alex, the end of the stormy relationship with the Victory, or the insults that they often receive from other hardcore band for leaving the scene, this is only a pittance when compared with other bands and basically they do good shows and have been able to return attention to the Eighties thanks to the success of cover of You Give Love A Bad Name .
"In the 80's for the last time the world has really taken seriously rock, although it was only to go on stage and have fun, but basically, if I get off the stage and do not feel satisfied, who the fuck am I doing ? ADJUDGED Varkatzas.
The new album, in fact, brings back many steps in the 80's style and collaborations with Josh Todd of Buckcherry Blow on track and, for the first time, the band was committed on political issues as in the song Can 't Happen Here , revealing a strong disagreement about the war in Iraq.
"I do not think that Bush is making the right decisions and I would say it quietly. Especially since, anywhere in the world, if the police can freely come to your house and searched and just send them to fuck off. Every empire is destined to fall and every empire is crap because of greed and because they go beyond their limits in the decisions, "says Varkatzas.
How does it feel to make such statements for the first time?
"I find her a good feeling, but at the same time frustrating. My position of dissent turns into a song, but if you can open your eyes and ears of someone, then I'm happy." Regardless
from the explanations dealing with them, it is always a sense of relaxation and a genuine anti-stardom in Atreyu: "Yes, it makes me anxious to do the interviews, Alex admits with a sigh, and you can tell by my sighs. I am very happy that people listen to what I have to say in interviews, but my opinion has no more than that of the person that the law or that the writer's interview. ... People from the rock - see?? I was going to say rock star ... I'm getting an asshole! People from the people in this huge power band and we are degrees, really, but listen to me, I woke up this morning and the first thought that flashed me was that I had to do shit, just as an ordinary person! "
Introducing Atreyu, ordinary people until the end.



Makes a Video Atreyu-Becoming The Bull

On July 16 the band transferred to Universal Studios in Los Angeles to shoot the video for Becoming The Bull with director Kevin Kerslake (Rise Against, Papa Roach), causing a minor earthquake as the fans were involved in the cast of the video.
Brandon explains what is involved in Video: "is basically a video made by these guys that can run at full speed, but it is unclear to what, presumably by the bull, and get where we are playing. It's all based on the speed and impact that must have served and are spun for 12 hours to do everything, then something very tiring.
"The curious thing is that these studios have the guided tour which we went when we were small and sometimes we were told that in some areas, access was denied because they were filming ... well, that day we were there to occupy the whole. .
"That day we had about 200 guys on the set and wanted it to be plucked what is the true energy of the band to accompany even the most of the new album."

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As I Lay Dying-Faithfully Yours

With all the arguments which I could speak, the British magazine Kerrang! has seen fit to pull for the umpteenth time to dance with the religious question ... As I Lay Dying them happy ...

The last time these five Californians across Europe, supporting Bullet For My Valentine, ransacked the club with their devastating metalcore. If you happen to see them live and know little about them, you'll be amazed to learn that these tattooed and angry metalheads are actually practicing Christians.
"Many people ignore the fact that we are Christians because of the music we play," laughs frontman Tim Lambesis, "But they are and this has enormous significance for me and it affects everything I do."
When the band also consists of guitarists Nick Grosso and Phil HIPAA, drummer Jordan Mancino, and entered the new bassist Josh Gilbert, is on tour in support of their latest recording effort and although they are open to religion, do not expect tirades, sermons, religious songs and clapping their show.
"I never write lyrics so that you express my religion, but rather so that they are open to multiple interpretations, be they Christian or not.
Actually, the fact that the texts strizzino the eye of God can be seen the new album.
"I have this friend who is convinced of wanting to take a spiritual way and to find God in everything he does, although I think it's just an excuse to justify his actions "reveals the singer," I would say that God told him to do certain things, but it's just an excuse, In fact, the song The Sound Of Truth speaks of prayer and the meaning may be lost if we only listen to what makes us comfortable listen. "
" Within Destruction The song speaks of the mistakes that we made in life and there is darkness behind these errors, yet the hope that still exists. Regardless of how much devastation there can be in life, God is always and always keeps his promises. "
Tim Speaking of things religious, not can help but admit that their religious vein has separated them from other bands of the scene: "I think for us, as Christians, it means doing things our way and always the best. From the beginning, when we played in front of 50 guys and we had barely enough money to pay us the fuel to go play somewhere else, but it has been our passion, the music that made us move forward. We believe in the things he said belief, even if they do not reflect the thinking of most people. I know that there are not many bands who think like us, but the things that interest those bands, as the popularity, money and success, we do not minimum amount, do not make us happy. As the title of the album there's an ocean between us and what others believe. "

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Interview with Zakk Wylde

We have not devoted much space to Zakk Wylde, leader of Black Label Society and now guitarist for Ozzy ... remedied immediately!

When was the last time you felt embarrassed?

I feel embarrassed every time I look in the mirror and I am torn pants on stage. Recently a friend of mine brought his grandchildren the side of the stage and I split my pants. I looked at them and at that moment I had the guitar over his head in a pose that they would have thought I was cool, not realizing that I had the balls dangling out of his pants. The brats should not have slept the night ...

If I had to give up something between sex and beer, what would it be?

Cabbage is a most difficult question ever. I can hold my beer and go to a gay brothel? My lady would be a little 'disappointed, but proud that I revealed my homosexuality and I could always be drunk.

What 'was the time you're paralyzed in front of a celebrity?

I'm lucky because all I wanted to meet people who have always been very kind, but the most glaring was the time I met Dorian Yates, the body builder. I even queued for his autograph. I was very nervous before speaking.

How come you're one of the few without tattoos?

When they exploded Guns'N'Roses all my friends, who at the time were reluctant to have a tattoo, suddenly began to get tattooed arms full of crap and I wanted to be different. I am not a follower, not do things because everyone else ... and beyond that are a pussy.

What is your best solo of all time?

I hate to say, but because they tell me is that all of No More Tears. It seems like the Hotel California or Stairway To Heaven, molti.So to do it much faster, but people want to feel like it was recorded.

What 's the biggest lie you ever told?

What I play guitar and I'm not gay. You see, my step all day to respond to interviews and I invent bales on bales, but right now I'm off I want to remove this and admit it. After this interview I will feel much better.

They offer you one million dollars to leave and replace Ozzy in Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora, would you accept?

Of course, ask a friend to replace me and I would go with Ozzy around with Bon Jovi and then open a pub of my own for a few years. Then I come back with Ozzy and Bon Jovi with Richie and everything would be fine and the world a better place. We all live with a prayer and we were fired at heart, but Bon Jovi has seen a million faces and has enhanced all (the last sentence of this translation loses a lot ... I put the original one ... We are all livin 'on a prayer We've Been and all shot through the heart, But only Bon Jovi has seen a million faces and rocked Them All)

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News

- Trustkill Records label has put the historic agreement the Too Pure To Die. To learn more about the band, go to www.myspace.com / toopuretodie .

Dillinger Escape Plan- for unknown reasons the band has canceled a European tour planned for November. Likely, there will be still a tour but certainly not with Meshuggah

Every Time I Die- the entire album streaming The Big Dirty can be found on their Myspace (www.myspace.com / everytimeidie )

Between The Buried And Me- preview of Colours on www.victoryrecords.com / albumtrailers / colors

- Hatebreed bassist Chris Beattie has launched his own line of clothing found at the following address: http://www.bridgeportrepublic.com/

Bleeding Through-the band is still touring in the coming months, this time with HIM. If you want to see 6 of Orange County in action during the tour with Slayer and Marilyn Manson went on www.yebotv.com/play/yLfFpJY5QSt

Bring Me The Horizon- as apparently it seems that the Sheffield band will come again in Italy in January, just months after their appearance with Converge.

Atreyu- after the excellent debut of As I Lay Dying, Atreyu also are placed in eighth place on the Billboard Chart in its first week of sales. Most importantly, Nov. 29 at the Rainbow will be in Milan with Still Remains.

Iron Maiden-2008 will be another busy year for Maiden, but with some comfort. In fact, using the skills of aircraft pilot Bruce, the band will be around the world on a Boeing with a picture of Eddie on the body, driven by Bruce. Expected return to Italy between July and August.

Avenged Sevenfold- the artwork of the album is well known (as opposed to that of Waking The Fallen), the release date has been postponed (October 30 and 16), and now I'm struggling with the five recordings video of Almost Easy.

Lamb Of God- big success for the DVD of the metal band that has reached the 100,000 copies sold.

Maroon- the German band has released the artwork for their next album, out October 22, The Cold Heart Of The Sun find it up here.

Machine Head-Brandon of Hostility replace Adam on bass, saw the accident happened.

Hatesphere-Heinz left the band having its intolerance to life on the road.

Unholy Alliance DVD- this is the lineup of DVD out soon: 01. SLAYER - "South Of Heaven 02. SLAYER - "Silent Scream 03. SLAYER - "Blood Red" in 2004. SLAYER - "Cult" / "Chemical Warfare" 05. SLAYER - "Eyes Of The Insane" 06. SLAYER - "Dead Skin Mask 07. SLAYER - "Hell Awaits" 08. SLAYER - "Antichrist '09. Mastodon - "Crystal Skull" 10. Mastodon - "Capillarian Crest 11. Mastodon - "Blood And Thunder 12. LAMB OF GOD - "Vigil" 13. CHILDREN OF BODOM - "Angels Do not Kill 14. CHILDREN OF BODOM - "In Your Face 15. THIN EYES BLEED - "Dark White"