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BOOK
REVIEW: OZZY OSBOURNE'S I AM OZZY,
PROOF WE REALLY DO READ AT LIVEMETALNET
Posted March 12,
2010 |
| OZZY
OSBOURNE freely admits that the stories
he relates in his autobiography, I Am
Ozzy, are told to the best of his recollection,
his memory eroded by decades of extreme substance
abuse. Given the astronomical amount of booze
and other drugs he spent the better part of
his life ingesting, it’s almost beyond
belief that he is still alive and in a condition
to tell any stories. I Am Ozzy
is a wild, vulgar ride through Osbourne’s
debauchery-filled life—a yarn overflowing
with sex, drugs and rock ‘n’
roll, with an extra emphasis on the drugs.
It’s often hilarious, sometimes sad
and even scary at certain points
... Read
the I Am Ozzy Review here |
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ANOTHER
BOOK REVIEW?: NEON ANGEL: A MEMOIR OF
A RUNAWAY - HELL REALLY HAS OFFICIALLY
FROZEN OVER
Posted
March 12, 2010 |
| CHERIE
CURRIE is not a household name today—a
fact few music fans would have believed 35
years ago. She was born with show business
in her blood. Her parents and older sister
were all actors, but growing up in Los Angeles
in the 1970s with her twin sister, Marie,
music called to her first. DAVID BOWIE
was more than her hero—he was her god,
and her life changed after seeing him live
on his Diamond Dogs tour at her first
rock concert. Currie’s life
changed again when, at an under-21 nightclub,
she met guitarist JOAN JETT
and manager Kim Fowley, who offered her
a chance to audition for the band they were
forming. A few days later, Currie was the
lead singer of the teenage, all-girl rock
band THE RUNAWAYS
... Read
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway Review
here |
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ALICE
IN CHAINS LIVE AT WASHINGTON D.C.'S DAR CONSTITUTION
HALL: CONCERT REPORT, LIVE PHOTOS ONLINE
Posted March 10,
2010 |
After
a short set by the very average two-man-band
MIDDLE CLASS RUT, a giant
white curtain dropped, the lights went down
and a pulsating version of the heart from
the Black Gives Way to Blue album
cover beat down like a countdown clock.
One by one, giant silhouettes of band members
appeared on the curtain as the opening notes
of “All Secrets Known” echoed
through the sold-out crowd. Soon the curtain
dropped revealing William DuVall,
Jerry Cantrell, Mike
Inez and Sean Kinney–ALICE
IN CHAINS 2010.
ALICE
IN CHAINS CONCERT REPORT
ALICE
IN CHAINS LIVE PHOTOS |
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INTERVIEW:
MNEMIC VOCALIST GUILLAUME BIDEAU TALKS WITH
LIVEMETALNET ABOUT THE BAND'S NEW ALBUM SONS
OF THE SYSTEM
Posted
March 5, 2010 |
| They
have been revered as a groundbreaking band
and the future of heavy metal. They have been
compared to industrial heavyweights like FEAR
FACTORY and MESHUGGAH.
A little band called METALLICA
may be their biggest fans, and they have an
outstanding new album—Sons of the
System—out in 2010. With their
first two successful albums, Mechanical
Spin Phenomena and The Audio Injected
Soul, the Danish industrial metal band
MNEMIC (pronounced nem-ik,
an acronym for Mainly Neurotic Energy Modifying
Instant Creation) already had made a name
for itself. But like any band, some minor
obstacles had to be overcome, mainly the departure
of its original vocalist. After temporary
live singer, that void was filled by the ex-vocalist
of the French band SCARVE,
Guillaume Bideau, who took
the band to even higher levels on 2007's Passenger.
Now with Sons
of the System, MNEMIC
has unleashed its strongest effort, an album
that is the equivalent of a decaying industrial
world set in a future where machines and
government have formed an alliance to enslave
man.
Prior to the release of
the album, Live-Metal.net conducted a question-and-answer
session with Bideau after a our scheduled
phone interview fell through when the vocalist's
iPhone was stolen. He talks all about Sons
of the System, MNEMIC's
writing process and everything else "pronounced
nem-ik." ... Read
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REVISITED:
MEGADETH'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF RUST IN PEACE
... NEVER RESTING IN PEACE
Posted
March 5, 2010 |
In
honor of the Rust In Peace 20th Anniversary
tour lets revisit one of our "Revisited"
features, MEGADETH's Rust
in Peace ... Never Resting In Peace.
It was 1990. MTV was well into the prime of
its “video years.” Pop still dominated
the charts and airwaves, but metal was making
great strides in the music world and people
had begun to take it seriously. METALLICA
and OZZY OSBOURNE occupied
the metal throne, but metal was in the early
stages in its transition to extreme. Even
after three superb thrash metal records, vocalist/guitarist
Dave Mustaine and his band,
MEGADETH, were overshadowed
by his former band, METALLICA.
Not for long. On Sept. 24, 1990, Rust
in Peace was released and the decades
long debate had started: Who is better, METALLICA
or MEGADETH? The thrash metal
masterpiece cemented MEGADETH
in metal history and has withstood the test
of time nearly 20 later ... Read
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A
HOARD OF NEW CD REVIEWS ONLINE
Posted
February 22, 2010 |
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Several new CD reviews
have been posted within the past week, mostly
with high ratings at that. Always check
the CD Reviews page and the right hand column
of this page for the latest reviews.
Here's a quick recap
so no one misses anything:
ANNOTATIONS
OF AN AUTOPSY - The Reign of Darkness
IMMOLATION
- Majesty and Decay
SPEED
X - Flat Black
ELUVEITIE
- Everything Remains (As It Never Was)
FEAR
FACTORY - Mechanize
KISS - Sonic Boom
NILE
- Those Whom the Gods Detest
BARONESS
- Blue Record
TAKING DAWN - Time To Burn
ENTHRONED
- Pentagrammaton |
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FEATURED
ALBUM REVIEW: MUTINY WITHIN
Posted
February 13, 2010 |
The
LiveMetal crew may be somewhat divided regarding
MUTINY WITHIN's debut self-titled
album (Feb. 23, 2010), but nevertheless, writer
Greg Maki is absolutely blown away by the
new Roadrunner Records band.
"Once
upon a time, it was acceptable to be a singer
in metal. Bruce Dickinson
and a little band called IRON MAIDEN
have done fairly well for themselves. How
about JUDAS PRIEST? So why
in 2010 is a metal band that opts for melody
and “clean vocals” that a listener
can understand and sing along to rather than
the incomprehensible, guttural, vocal-chord-annihilating
growling and shrieking immediately dismissed
by a large portion of the metal community?
" ... Read
MUTINY WITHIN review here |
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DISARMONIA
MUNDI
'The Isolation Game'
Coroner
Records |
| DISARMONIA
MUNDI’s The Isolation Game
is a dead ringer to Swedish death metal bands,
namely IN FLAMES for the
vocal screams, great guitar work and sound,
and SOILWORK for the electronic
aspects and clean, soaring choruses. A lot
of this can be attributed to SOILWORK
vocalist Bjorn “Speed”
Strid’s involvement. He was
actually a member of the band a few years
back and provided vocals on the albums, Fragments
of D-Generation and Mind Tricks
... Read
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SKELETONWITCH
'Breathing the Fire'
Prosthetic |
| So
what would thrash sound like with death and
black metal vocals, you ask? OK, so I’m
sure many bands probably come to mind, but
the latest is the “true metal”
band SKELETONWITCH, whose
sophomore album Breathing the Fire
is what I’d call blackened thrash metal.
They’ve got the look to match the metal
that flows in their veins—grizzled,
bushy Viking-bearded, long-haired, tattoo-sleeved
throwbacks to yesteryear ... Read
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ANNOTATIONS
OF AN AUTOPSY
'The Reign of Darkness'
Nuclear
Blast |
If
I really wanted to make this easy on myself,
I’d describe The Reign of Darkness,
the latest by British death metal band ANNOTATIONS
OF AN AUTOPSY, in one word: brutal.
And that is most certainly a compliment. The
riffs and drums are big and bludgeoning. Vocalist
Steve Regan’s death growls could give
"Corpsegrinder" Fisher
and Chris Barnes a run for
their money
... Read
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IMMOLATION
'Majesty and Decay'
Nuclear
Blast |
| Majesty
and Decay is IMMOLATION’s
seventh album, and the band rips through these
12 tracks with a frightening intensity. It’s
more varied than fellow New York death metallers
SUFFOCATION’s last
release, with less of a reliance on whammy
bar theatrics and tremolo picking (although
there is plenty of that) and more on straight-up
pummeling the shit out of you ... Read
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ELUVEITIE
'Everything Remains (As It Never Was)
Nuclear Blast |
| After
2009’s all-acoustic, yet superb album,
Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion,
many fans of the pagan metal leaders ELUVEITIE
were wondering if the band would return to
the metal of their 2007 Nuclear Blast debut,
Slania. On Everything Remains
(As It Never Was) the answer is an unmistakable
YES.
On the new record, The Swiss eight-piece
sounds more like Gothenburg metal than many
of today’s bands that evolved from
the original scene
... Read
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BETWEEN
THE BURIED AND ME, CYNIC, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT,
SCALE THE SUMMIT
Sonar
Baltimore, MD |
| Riding
the current success of their latest album,
The Great Misdirect, BETWEEN
THE BURIED AND ME is all the buzz
right now in the rock music world. Still very
much an underground act, the band's fan base
is steadily growing with every album. Now
in 2010, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
has climbed to headliner status with their
own tour of seemingly handpicked support acts,
CYNIC, DEVIN TOWNSEND
PROJECT and SCALE THE SUMMIT.
When "The Great Misdirect tour"
rolled through Sonar in Baltimore, Md., Live-Metal.net
was there ... Read
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ARCH
ENEMY, EXODUS, ARSIS, MUTINY WITHIN
Recher Theatre
Towson, MD |
| In
Jan-Feb 2010, ARCH ENEMY
takes the road on the "Tyrants of Evil"
tour, in support of their album of re-recorded
classics, The Root of All Evil, no
doubt eager to play many of these songs that
have been absent from their live set for years.
Support on the tour comes from legendary Bay
Area-thrashers EXODUS, the
thrash/ technical death band ARSIS
and upstarts MUTINY WITHIN
... Read
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