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Norwegian black metallers 1349 are releasing a limited edition box set of their 2010 album, Demonoir. Individually numbered and limited to 1000, the box set will feature seven bonus tracks, including one previously unreleased on previous versions of the record. Other inclusions in the collection are a 12-page booklet, poster, guitar pick, patch, and an autographed photo card. U.S. fans can get their hands on the box set on November 25, exclusively through FYE.
Check out "When I Was Flesh" off Demonoir below:
Already a busy man, with the upcoming Big Four Concert at Yankee Stadium next month and the imminent release of Anthrax's new album, Worship Music, bassist Frank Bello has now added a movie role to his list of endeavors. Bello is set to play the role of punk rocker/fashion innovator Richard Hell in the upcoming indie film, Greetings From Tim Buckley.
The movie focuses on the days leading up to Jeff Buckley's renowned 1991 debut performance at his father Tim's tribute concert at St Ann's Church. Shooting for the pic began earlier this week in New York.
As we reported last week, Samson, Hartke, Zoom and Best Buy Music Gear are bringing a Metal Masters Clinic to the Best Buy Theater in New York City's Times Square on Monday, September 12.
But what we didn't mention—until now—is that Anthrax will be performing a free show at the clinic.
The clinic, which is free and starts at 5 p.m., will also feature the individual input of Charlie Benante and Frank Bello of Anthrax, David Ellefson of Megadeth, Kerry King of Slayer and drummer Mike Portnoy.
There are two ways to get in:
01. Wristbands will be available on a first come, first served basis on the day of the clinic only outside Best Buy Theater, which is at 1515 Broadway, West 44th Street. A minimum of 500 wristbands—with a limit of one per person—will be given out. All attendees should get in line early!
02. You can preorder Worship Music, the new album by Anthrax at Bestbuy.com, right here. Then go to freesecretshow.com and enter your Best Buy 12-digit order number to get your free ticket to the show. The Anthrax show starts at 8 p.m. Bring your ticket, your Bestbuy.com receipt and your photo ID to get into the show.
If you don't live in NYC, don't panic! You can watch the clinic—and the entire Anthrax performance—live, right here on revolvermag.com starting 5:30 p.m. (with a repeat showing of the clinic at 7:30) September 12. Then watch Anthrax at 9 p.m.! Be sure to tune in!
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With heavy-metal trailblazers Anthrax, Charlie Benante has revolutionized the art of drumming, blowing minds with his super-fast double-kick technique and popularizing the blast beat in thrash and beyond. A drum hero to many, Benante has his own idols and influences, of course, so when we talked to him recently, we asked him to pick his five favorite drummers.
Before answering, he clarified, "They don't have to be in one field — it could be from anywhere, right?" As such, his answers may surprise you.
Neil Peart, Rush
The first drummer that, still to this day, I get inspiration would probably be Neil Peart. I mean, what other drummer writes drum fills that people play air drums to, you know what I mean? He's still one of my favorites.
Alex Van Halen, Van Halen
I just love Alex Van Halen, always have. He just has a signature sound. When I hear it, it's like, Well, that's Alex Van Halen, you know?
Jerry Gaskill, King's X
He always kind of just makes my head spin a bit. He'll throw in these kind of syncopated fills that just always get me, you know, it's like, "Ah, god, that's great," you know. There's a song on Gretchen Goes to Nebraska where he just lays this pattern down — it's called "Burning Down" — he just does this pattern for the rest of the song and just the way he does it, he doesn't push it, he doesn't pull it — it's just beautiful. It's like a drum machine, but it's not, because it's human and it's very Jerry Gaskill.
Lars Ulrich, Metallica
Some of these Big 4 drummers have a place here, too, 'cause we all were coming up together in this whole movement, this whole thrash movement — me, Lars and Dave. And I think the three drummers always had something that was different from the other. I love the way Lars would think in a song ...
Dave Lombardo, Slayer
... and I love the way Dave's aggression in the song propelled the song. So I'd have to say those two.
Ringo Starr, The Beatles
The first drummer I ever heard was Ringo. And Ringo's one of those drummers that, Ringo started off as a fucking killer drummer — I mean, he just had that swing, everything. Later on the Beatles' albums, he kind of lost it a bit for me. He just kind of become very lazy. But those first few Beatles records, man, where he would just rock it. He's fucking awesome.
British thrash revivalists Evile are scheduled to release their third studio album, Five Serpent's Teeth on October 18 via Earache Records.
Five Serpent's Teeth was recorded at Parlour Studios in Kettering, UK, with producer Russ Russell (Napalm Death, Dimmu Borgir), who also helmed the band's 2009 release Infected Nations.
Five Serpent's Teeth Track Listing:
1. Five Serpent's Teeth
2. In Dreams of Terror
3. Cult
4. Eternal Empire
5. Xaraya
6. Origin of Oblivion
7. Centurion
8. In Memoriam
9. Descent Into Madness
10. Long Live New Flesh
Check out the album video preview here:
In honor of the hugely anticipated Big Four concert at Yankee Stadium in New York City on September 14, Revolver and Guitar World are celebrating the Big Four Weeks leading up to the show. Our websites will be giving fans eye-popping exclusives, previously unseen backstage video, excerpts from our interviews with the bands—including those in Revolver's special issue devoted to the Big Four, which you can buy right here—and much, much more. Additionally, Revolver's September/October issue (available here) features collectible trading cards, which you can view here.
While making the Big Four issue, we talked to some of the Big Four's most heralded musicians about their favorite songs from the other bands. Today, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich tells us about his favorite Anthrax songs.
"There's so many. I don't know, the cover they did of 'Antisocial' [off 1988's State of Euphoria] by [French rock band] Trust is obviously great. 'Got the Time,' [off 1990's Persistence of Time] which is a cover originally by [English new-wave artist] Joe Jackson was awesome. 'Only,' which they did on the first record with [vocalist] John Bush [1993's Sound of White Noise] was great. There's tons of them, so I don't even know where to start. Fuck. I was up in the mountains the other day, skiing somewhere, and Public Enemy came and played, so I went down and saw them. They played 'Bring the Noise,' [which Public Enemy rerecorded with Anthrax in 1991] which was cool to hear."
Photo by Anton Corbijn
More details have been revealed regarding the musical collaboration project between Metallica and Lou Reed about their upcoming album. In a statement released on their website, it was revealed that the record will be titled Lulu and is scheduled for a November 1 release in North America. The title, and indeed the album itself, is inspired by two early 19th century plays by German expressionist writer Frank Wededkind. "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box" tell the tale of a "young abused dancer's life and relationships," according to the statement.
The combo, who appear to have dubbed themselves "Loutallica," have also released titles for three of the ten tracks that will feature on LuLu. They are "Junior Dad," "Mistress Dread," and "Pumping Blood."
Photos by Anton Corbijn (top) and Jeff Yeager (bottom)
NWOBHM vets Hell have just released footage of their performance at this year's Summer Breeze festival in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. Check out that footage below.
Formed by members of Race Against Time and ParalexHell back in 1982, Hell—who have long been cited as big influences by Metallica—only just released their debut album, Human Remains, this past May.
With their debut album, God Is War (Southern Lord), All Pigs Must Die have tossed a Molotov cocktail into the musical landscape. Though the band includes members of Converge, Bloodhorse, and the Hope Conspiracy, this isn't just another supergroup, but is rather a distillation of all the things that make metal and hardcore scary. The new record is nine tracks of unstoppable rage that absolutely crushes its extreme-music competitors. Revolver sat down with vocalist Kevin Baker (also of Hope Con) to discuss his intimidating new band.
REVOLVER How did All Pigs Must Die come together?
KEVIN BAKER We've been in bands together, or whatever bands we were in have been on the road together, for years now. In 2009, Matt [Woods, of Bloodhorse] wanted to create a heavy band that embodied everything good about heavy music from an uncompromising standpoint, so we got together, put down five tracks, and recorded them. All on our own, too.
Did you guys set out with a specific sound in mind?
A lot of it was going back to the things that we've liked since we were teenagers that have stood the test of time. There's plenty of shit that you loved at some point that you listen to now, 10 or 15 years later, and think, Holy shit, that's terrible! We looked at the music that, to this day, still makes the hair on the back of our necks stand up—early Integrity, early Slayer, the first four Bathory records, Samhain, early hardcore bands like Void, Negative Approach, Discharge, the Exploited. These are the bands we really love musically, and we wanted to go in that direction and make something nasty, and to make it for ourselves, and self-finance the whole thing. So going into it, there was definitely a conscious decision of what it was supposed to be like.
The band has a really venomous tone to it but remains huge and powerful—is it hard to find a balance between big and raw?
I can't speak for the rest of the band in terms of gear and set-up and all that, but as a writer and a lyricist, I wanted to write something that wasn't happy, but that wasn't negative for the sake of being negative. It's not corny. The songs aren't about raping a corpse. We're coming from a very negative place about things that happen every day in this world, and we're trying to make it as dark as possible. We want to fuse all of our influences, but sound like us, not like a cover band. I want people to hear our influences, but not just hear those bands. I want it to be distinct.
What can you do in this band that you can't do in Hope Conspiracy?
I think the lyrics here are really blunt, and they match the tone of the music really well. The Hope Conspiracy comes from a bit more personal place. I touch on similar issues in both, but lyrically, here I'm much more focused in man's inhumanity towards man, and the idea of mankind devouring itself and destroying everything around it, the environment, the world.
The title of the album, God Is War, is a pretty blunt and brutal.
Again, we wanted to focus on man's inhumanity—not that everyone's a bad person, there's good and bad in everyone, just that the whole history of mankind is based on cruelty. The title itself actually came from the book Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy. One of the characters in the book, the Judge, who represents humanity's darker side, talks about how war is God, so we flipped it around. We thought it really worked well with our concept behind this band.
How was recording with producer—and Converge guitarist—Kurt Ballou?
We work with Kurt exclusively. He's the best in the business as far as we're concerned. For underground, heavy music, you can't beat Godcity [Studios] and you can't beat Kurt. He knows what you're going for, and he knows how to get you there. He knows what the end result is supposed to be.
With God Is War hot on the heels of your self-titled EP, it seems like you guys are making a strong push to just get music recorded and put it out there.
Everyone has commitments outside of this. We're doing this because we love to do it. There's no pressure…we never really intended to sign any record deals with anybody. We just wanted to make this music. The one label we did consider was, of course, Southern Lord, which is why it was cool that they came across the EP and loved it. We never aimed to be a big band. We just wanted to put this music out, play a show here or there when we could. The most important thing with this band is the writing, first and foremost, before playing out. That's why we started doing this—being able to write on a consistent basis and being able to record on a consistent basis. We love playing out, we really do, but we'd always much rather write and record new music. So we'll see. Hopefully this time next year, we'll have another record.
Tell me about the art for both your releases. It's incredibly striking.
Florian Bertmer did the art. He's a good friend of ours. We've known him for years. We have a circle of people surrounding this band: Kurt's one of them, and so is Florian. When the time came to do art for the band, we immediately thought to ask him. He has a real talent at creating art that represents actual music, and I think he did that very well with our art. I've bought albums based on what they look like before, so I think it's really important for a band to have artwork and graphics that stand out and also communicate the music. For both of our records, I think he really nailed it. CHRIS KROVATIN
Photo by Greg Anderson
Brooklyn, NY, heavies Hull are currently streaming the title track from their forthcoming full-length, Beyond the Lightless Sky.
Check out "Beyond the Lightless Sky" HERE.
The record, which is set for release on October 11 via the End Records, is the follow-up to the band's critically-acclaimed Sole Lord self-titled debut, and was co-produced by Brett Romnes and mixed by Billy Anderson (Sleep, Neurosis, Melvins).
Beyond the Lightless Sky features guest appearances by vocalist Jarboe, keys/ambiance by Fade Kainer (Batillus/Jarboe/Inswarm ) and cello by Joe Merolla with artwork by Tamara Waite-Santibanez (http://nogutsandnoglory.blogspot.com). You can pre-order Beyond The Lightless Sky HERE.