Evolution Rock Metal Podcast: Bloodshedd

Friday, January 23, 2015

Podcast 64 - KILLER BE KILLED & New February Releases 2015

The loudest, heaviest, most obnoxious and unapologetic metal show is back with our third episode of January! Ready to listen to some music with meaning this weekend? Crushing brutal new album releases for February 2015 and the most aggressive sounds of the underground from across the globe! The only place on the web where all the serious metal heads get together to catch up on what's new and to discover the best bands from the international scene.

Take a look at KILLER BE KILLED a massive metal project with Max Cavalera guitar and vocals for Soulfly/Cavalera Conspiracy, Greg Puciato vocals for The Dillinger Escape, Troy Sanders bass and vocals for Mastodon, and ex-drummer for The Mars Volta, David Elitch. The band's first self titled effort was released on Nuclear Blast this past May 2014.

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1. KILLER BE KILLED - Face Down, album: Killer Be Killed, Nuclear Blast 2014, web

2. IN OTHER CLIMES - Who Are You, album: Leftover, release Feb 27, Bastardized Recordings/Membran, web

3. TERROR EMPIRE - Servant, album: The Empire Strikes Black, release Feb 23, Nordavind Records, web

4. BLOODSHEDD - More Will, album: TBA, release: TBA 2015, web

5. DAVOLA - From Within, album: Dichotomy, release 2009, web , Download track MP3 here, DAVOLA interview New Album Studio Report click here

6. RITI OCCULTI - Revelation, album: Riti Occulti, release Feb 23, Nordavind Records, web

7. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN - When I Lost My Bet, album: One Of Us is The Killer, 2013 web

8. THE MARS VOLTA - Inertiatic ESP, album: De-Loused In The Comatorium, 2003 web

9. MASTODON - Chimes at The Midnight, album: Once More 'Round The Sun, 2014 web

10. SOULFLY - Cannibal Holocaust, album: Savages, 2013 web

11. KILLER BE KILLED - Wings of Feather and Wax, album: Killer Be Killed, 2014

12. AFFIANCE - Limitless, album: Blackout, release Sep 2014, BulletTooth Records web

13. MORTALICUM - I Dream of Dying, album: Tears from The Grave, 2014 Metal On Metal Records web

14. NUMENOREAN - Let Me In, demo: Numenorean, self-release 2014 web

15. POTERGEIST - Loves Martyr, album: Swampires, Distroball/Otherside records web

16. SIX GUN SAINTS - 5150, EP: Ashes, release 2014, Dead Inside Records web

17. DWAIL - Gang Rape, album: The Human Concern, release Nov 2014, Klonosphere web

18. BLOODSCRIBE - Enslaved by Deceptions, album: Prologue to The Apocalypse, release Feb 10, Gore House Productions web

19. EMREVOID - Riverso, EP: Riverso, Sep 2014, Drown Within Records web

20. KILLER BE KILLED - I.E.D., album: Killer Be Killer, 2014 Pick it up at the Nuclear Blast Store

Friday, March 30, 2012

Southeast Asia Heavy Metal: Philippines

Southeast Asia Heavy Metal

Podcast Tour 2012

-Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines-

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Episode 1: Philippines

Pinoy Metal or Filipino Metal, in this episode we feature heavy metal music and interviews with Filipino metal artists. Regarding Filipino people and their relationship to metal music, Yagi Olaguera, singer for the band COG states “People think that Filipinos are a very happy people, and it is true. However, I feel like metal fans here in the Philippines these are the kind of listeners that don't want too much escapism in their music. These aren't the kind of people that close their eyes to what’s happening around them. I think that people that listen to metal and hardcore and these heavier genres; they listen to this kind of music because it reflects what's happening around them; it just doesn't dismiss the surroundings. It's very difficult here in the Philippines to not talk about politics because of how corruption, poverty and all this stuff affects people's lives. So, COG and a lot of the bands here, we are not overtly political, but you can't really escape it." COG is a ground breaking metal band in the sense that the band has incorporated the use of a saxophone in their music. That combined with a prolific gifted singer, in Olaguera, and the band’s eclectic musical influences combine to make COG a band that is contributing new elements to heavy metal music. Regarding the band’s genre Olaguera states, “I don’t really like to put a label on it. Depending on the song we have, our songs sound pretty different from each other. Depending on the songs that people hear they have said we sound like Carcass; Hatebreed-which I don’t listen to very much, Isis; and Mastodon-some people have said that. I guess some of those are in the mix somehow, but we don’t really try to define it. It’s metal. That’s pretty much all there is to it. Metal with a lot of different influences thrown into the pot.”

Yagi Olaguera, vocals, COG

Filipino women are also active members of the Pinoy Metal scene. Fronting bands as lead singers, ranging from melodic to guttural death metal vocals to forming complete all female metal bands. Answering to the question, on how metal music has empowered Filipino women, lead singer for SERENUS, Rhokz Batidora, states, “It empowers women because being a female or being a woman takes great courage to listen to metal music. It’s like you're freeing the monster inside a woman's body. Well that's how I feel every time I am performing. And it takes great courage for a woman to stand in front of many people, and let them understand the message of the songs and the music itself. It is not a boys club anymore. There is a power in metal music; it’s really great.” Several of the bands featured in this special include female members, SERENUS, DESCANT GOTT, ANHURA, OREMUZ, DREADED MORTUARY, and VOICE OF TRANQUILITY. Additionally, female members Monika Preysler (vocals, Ahura) and Russel Jean Gabitanan (bass, Oremuz) are featured with an interview in this episode. In short, Filipino women are taken seriously in the Pinoy Metal scene. Making an immense contribution to heavy metal through their music, Pinoy women are also providing a little touch of Filipino beauty to the scene.

Russel Jean Gabitana, bass, OREMUZ

Influenced by their surroundings, and using heavy metal music to empower themselves. Filipinos are a people of Southeast Asia that are putting their own particular stamp to heavy metal. Innovating, experimenting, or just playing the other styles of traditional metal with something new added. Filipino metal bands are breaking new grounds in heavy metal music, today. Such is the case of COG and their wide-ranging influences that include a saxophone player in their line-up. Filipino women have become an important part of the equation in the metal scene and will continue to be a force to reckon with in the future. Above all, Filipinos might be a happy people. But they are more than content with what they have accomplished so far in heavy metal music. A scene where men and women are equal in the grounds of heavy metal; a hunger that is fueled by the trials of society; a genuine feel for experimentation and innovation; all of these are elements that make for a remarkable metal scene.