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		<title>Tidal Wave 2010 &#8211; the videos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roseman</dc:creator>
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Here are my first videos from this year&#8217;s Tidal Wave 2010 free outdoor metal festival &#8211; i will keep adding videos as i get them up.  I have footage from all 14 bands spread across two days, so this may take a little while to complete.  Check back once in a while for ongoing updates).







7.28.2010 &#8211; Here are the first 3 videos so far: Witchaven, Vastum, Go Like This
Witchaven:


Vastum: 


Go Like This:



3 down, at least 11 more to go  


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		<title>Grimefest 2010 videos (Feral Depravity, Assailant, Fiends At Feast)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roseman</dc:creator>
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Three videos from Grimefest 2010.

Oakland Grimefest, your basic metal-fest in a car wash, wtf?!?   When i got there, there were still some families waiting around to have their cars detailed.  Meanwhile a couple of vehicles with band equipment waited patiently near the back until everything cleared out enough to unload.
Five metal bands in all:  Assailant, Lobotomizer, Condemned To Live, Fiends at Feast, Feral Depravity.
I caught the first 3 bands; videos below:
Feral Depravity:

Assailant:

Fiends At Feast:

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		<title>New Thrash Bands Have a Role Model in Vektor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RyanW</dc:creator>
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This nu-thrash trend that had taken metal by storm recently, has it&#8217;s prominent fellows that don&#8217;t really change much.  Let&#8217;s face it, bands like Warbringer write some really fun thrash tunes, and (supposedly) have a great live show to boot, but they do not by any means rewrite the thrash metal book.  One band that has done just that, is Phoenix&#8217;s Vektor.  Their 2009 release, Black Future, is an astonishingly fresh piece of metal.  It becomes pretty apparent in the first track that this band means business.  David Disanto (guitar/vox) has a Show No Mercy era Araya falsetto that will make the hairs on the back of your neck creep.  This album&#8217;s riffs school any thrash band out there today, and even compete with your classic 1980&#8217;s bands.  It&#8217;s rare where you find a band who can thrash your face off and be technical, progressive and consistent the whole way ...]]></description>
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		<title>Iron Maiden at Sleep Train Pavillion: Concord 6/20</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RyanW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was pretty apparent to me leaving the venue on Sunday that I had just seen something special.  In a day that had begun at 4:30 when I had gotten to the venue, I managed to see two of the best bands in modern metal, and have the best concert experience I have ever had.  In the line, I overheard people talking about other shows they&#8217;d been to on the Final Frontier tour, and I thought the whole time, &#8220;Wow, these guys are taking weeks off from work and spending a lot of money to follow these guys&#8230;&#8221;  I thought it was a bit weird, no matter your fanaticism, to follow a band on tour.
I was lucky enough to be a First to the Barrier winner, which is a contest for Iron Maiden Fan Club members to win early entry, so I was able to get in, get merch, and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Exodus at Slim&#8217;s 6/12/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RyanW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, we had quite the show at Slim&#8217;s yesterday.  The show wasn&#8217;t sold out, which surprised me, seeing as we had 4 bands from San Francisco on the bill.  Full crowd or not, the concert was top notch.  A few pictures at the bottom.
Passive Aggressive:
I think it&#8217;s a real shame I didn&#8217;t do my homework going into this show, because these guys sounded fun.  I picked up a copy of their demo for future listening.  They didn&#8217;t have wild stage antics or a massive crowd response (although there were one or two people trying to get a pit going throughout their set), but they had a great sound.
Anvil Chorus:
Here&#8217;s another place where my lack of concert preparation came back to bite me in the ass.  I really liked the sound of these guys, and if I had known more of their music, I might have been able to enjoy the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Cynic Re-Hash and Re-Mix with Re-Traced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 20:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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Well, this is probably going to ruin my chances of interviewing anyone from Cynic, but &#8220;I calls it likes I sees it&#8221; &#8211; and what I sees is not what I wants. Although, I did speak with Paul Masvidal outside of their last show &#8211; does that partially count?
I happen to consider myself a Cynic fan &#8211; perhaps not as much as many of you out there &#8211; but it just so happens that I like Traced In Air and Focus. Some of you old-school fans came down pretty harsh on Cynic when Traced In Air came out (kind of like when Metallica released the Black Album), but I considered it a pretty good album for not having put out an album in 15 years. I recognize that Traced isn&#8217;t quite as &#8220;Death-y&#8221; as Focus, but I don&#8217;t care. For a band with only two albums over the past 17 ...]]></description>
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		<title>An Examination of Exodus&#8217; Exhibit B</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jury, have you reached a verdict?
Yes, your Honor.
How do you find the defendant, Exodus?
On the charge of &#8220;death by melting the listener&#8217;s face off&#8221;; We, the Jury, find Exodus guilty as charged!


I think I&#8217;ll start this review by stating the first thing that comes to mind after hearing this album: and that is the fact that Exhibit B seems to be (one of) the most &#8220;melodic&#8221; Exodus efforts to date. Sure, there is plenty of awesome thrash riffing, but I can&#8217;t help but think that Lee Altus&#8217; influence of melodic Heathen writing took hold here in this Exodus album as well. For comparison&#8217;s sake, Exhibit B and The Evolution of Chaos both open with an acoustic guitar leading into awesome thrash metal riffing. Comparing this Exodus album with Heathen&#8217;s album isn&#8217;t a bad thing though, I&#8217;ve had Heathen&#8217;s last album on my playlist for a long time. Seriously, when Exodus ...]]></description>
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		<title>New Material By The Antioch Synopsis Posted</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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Sacramento technical/hardcore/experimental metal band The Antioch Synopsis has just posted 4 new tracks to their myspace page, or if you&#8217;re one of those fancy technical types you can download the torrent of their new tracks. You may not recall, but I wrote a brief description (dare I say &#8211; &#8220;synopsis&#8221;?) of the band a few months ago, outlining some up-and-coming &#8220;tech-death&#8221; bands.
TAS&#8217;s sound is kind of a combination of Job For a Cowboy meets Converge meets The Black Dahlia Murder, with more of an emphasis on the heavy riffing. Overall, I like the direction these new songs are heading in &#8211; both in the production and the style. Check out the first track, Fearless Leader: Guide Us to Oblivion for a taste of what they have to offer.
Oh, and apparently they&#8217;re looking for a new drummer as well.
-DS
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		<title>Video: Hypocrisy at the DNA Lounge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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This show brought to you by Iron Man 2 the video game (seriously).
The DNA Lounge played host last night to Hypocrisy&#8217;s &#8220;USA Tour 2.0&#8243;. They brought a pretty good line-up overall &#8211; Scar Symmetry, Hate, Blackguard and Swashbuckle &#8211; Hypocrisy were, without a doubt, the reason most people were there. I actually arrived somewhat on time and got a chance to check out all of the bands; here&#8217;s a brief take on each one of them:
Swashbuckle
I was expecting something much worse, but these guys actually sounded really good. I&#8217;m kind of over the whole &#8220;Pirate Metal&#8221; thing, but these guys brought it and basically just had a good time. I caught the last few minutes of their set, so I&#8217;ll need to watch them again to get a full opinion. There were lots of Swashbuckle shirts in the crowd though.
Blackguard
Some people write this band off as a Children of Bodom ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Drill&#8217;s New Album An Exercise in Brutal Spasticity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 23:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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I picked-up a copy of Brain Drill&#8217;s new album Quantum Catastrophe this week. I guess it&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve heard their stuff, because I forgot how impressive they are with their brutally spastic arrangements. It&#8217;s like 4 dudes got together and wanted to write the most insane death metal album you could think of. It almost makes the last Cannibal Corpse album sound like Slayer. Well, maybe I wouldn&#8217;t go that far, but you kind of wouldn&#8217;t expect anything less from a death metal band called Brain Drill.
Before I get into the album review, check out the video they have for Beyond Bludgeoned real quick:

I love how all these incredibly talented death metal bands that come from Santa Cruz shoot their videos on these beautiful green landscapes. For starters, when I see awesome landscapes and windmills next to the ocean I start getting all introspective and philosophical, I don&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Skeletonwitch, Cannibal Corpse at Slim&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 19:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damn, I was looking forward to this show for a long time! Cannibal Corpse brought the house down at Slim&#8217;s last night. They played for about an hour and a half, included all of the favorites (more or less) and basically reaffirmed everyone&#8217;s beliefs that they&#8217;re the most legendary death metal band of all-time.
As if there are any doubts amongst those out there, Corpsegrinder officially gets the trophy for &#8220;best metal head-banger&#8221;. I mean, just look at the neck on the guy and you know he doesn&#8217;t fuck around:

1349, Skeletonwitch and Lecherous Nocturne were pretty awesome opening  bands. I didn&#8217;t get video of 1349 because I was tending to some wounds after slamming into one of the damn support poles that prevents Slim&#8217;s from caving in on itself, but honestly, I think they&#8217;re kind of boring. I know they&#8217;re pretty revered  in the blackened-death-frost-norway-metal community, but I couldn&#8217;t ...]]></description>
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		<title>Triptykon Breathe Life Back Into Celtic Frost Fans With &#8220;Eparistera Daimones&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 03:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RyanW</dc:creator>
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I feel like it was just yesterday when I was legally buying Celtic Frost&#8217;s final album, Monotheist.  After hearing they were breaking up, I was unable to smile for a few days.  But when I found out about another Tom G. Warrior project would have an album out in 2010, I was ecstatic.  Now here I am, listening to what very well could be the heaviest album I&#8217;ve heard in a long time.
Eparistera Daimones, the debut of said Warrior led project, Triptykon, is one of those albums where you know it&#8217;s going to be good about 10 seconds into it.  Simply put, this album doesn&#8217;t have any bullshit moments.  It lets you know what it&#8217;s there to do, and does just that.  Eparistera Daimones is Warrior&#8217;s darkest effort to date, and arguably his greatest.  The entire album is chock full of heavy and crushing riffs, and each is delivered with ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Tidal Wave 12 (FREE 2-day outdoor metal concert in S.F.) is BACK!! (final update 7.28.2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 06:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roseman</dc:creator>
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YES!!!!!  CONFIRMED, The Tidal Wave (a FREE 2-day outdoor metal concert in San Francisco) is coming back! This is the big news we have been waiting for.   (final update 7.28.2010 &#8211; link  to videos from the show at bottom of post)

The Tidal Wave 12 is Saturday &#38; Sunday July 24 &#38; 25,  2010 Noon-6pm @ McLaren Park Amphitheater, S.F. (a.k.a. Jerry Garcia Amphitheater).
This is a daytime event, Noon-6pm both days (Saturday &#38; Sunday).  Yes, it actually starts at Noon, due to a very tight schedule, ends by 6pm both days, usually about 7 good metal bands each day.
(7.20.2010 updated):  Featuring: 
SAT:  Near  Life, Desecrater, Abysmal Dawn, Giant Squid,  Stone  Vengeance, Anvil  Chorus, RAVEN.
Sun:   Go Like This, My Victim, Blind Illusion, Witchaven, Vastum, Elk, Amber Asylum.

Did i mention it&#8217;s FREE?
Of course a few details might change between now and the show.  But MARK YOUR CALENDARS ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hellbeard Envy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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Oakland-based sludge metal band, Hellbeard (I guess &#8220;Sweetbeard&#8221; was already taken).
If you&#8217;re looking for a show to go to tonight, or looking for some new bands, then you&#8217;ll want to go checkout Hellbeard. Shoegaze / sludge rock is something I just kind of got into the past year or so, so pardon me if this post sounds semi-retarded, but I dig the way these guys really layer on the sludge. The vocals are probably the heaviest I&#8217;ve heard for this type of music, and they manage to keep it &#8220;ambient&#8221; and &#8220;hypnotic&#8221; in some parts without sacrificing any of their manhood.
The band is finishing an 8-song album that looks like it will be released sometime this year, two tracks of which are available online. From their myspace page:
We are waiting for the final touches to be done on our CD, which includes 8 brand new songs that really define the ...]]></description>
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		<title>LidToker Stoner metal. So very stoner. (video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>roseman</dc:creator>
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Oh my. Another day, another East Bay warehouse show!
Here&#8217;s Stoner Metal band LidToker, playing at WC.
The crowd starts waking up around 11 minutes, just in time for&#8230; a pillowfight?
LidToker &#8211; at WC &#8211; 4.17.2010

roseman (kevin) &#124; MySpace Video


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