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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>Soundgarden Is Back!? Relax, It&#8217;s the Nineties.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bayareametalscene.com/?p=2709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember that expression? &#8220;Relax, it&#8217;s the nineties.&#8221; It seemed to sum-up the general well-being in America and the world at the time. Nothing was off-limits, anyone could be or have anything. The nineties. Holy shit, that sounded like the future back then.
People were more accepting then, I think. Somehow we took a step back in the 2000&#8217;s. You never hear anyone say, &#8220;Relax, it&#8217;s 2010!&#8221; Or, &#8220;You can be anything!&#8221; Or, &#8220;I don&#8217;t care if two chicks want to get married!&#8221; Oh well. At least we have a black President.
Speaking of the 90&#8217;s &#8211; Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, STP &#8211; is it time to dust-off my flannel again? If Blind Melon come  back I&#8217;m going to crap my pants.

You&#8217;ve probably heard by now that Soundgarden are back together.
Soundgarden were one of those bands I enjoyed. They were heavy-ish, not as heavy as Alice in Chains, but they had some ...]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in The Skye With Diamonds</title>
		<link>http://www.bayareametalscene.com/main/news/alice-in-the-skye-with-diamonds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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I was seriously considering open a can of haterade upon hearing that the Deftones were playing with Alice in Chains and Mastodon. However, seeing as how I&#8217;ve never seen them perform, I will hold back judgment (well, most of my judgment) until I actually watch them live.
It&#8217;s not that the Deftones are that bad, they&#8217;re just kind of&#8230;boring. Granted, their new stuff is way better than their old Nu Metal stuff, but it&#8217;s just too hard to overlook the fact that the band basically helped Nu Metal explode in popularity in the 1990&#8217;s and early 2000&#8217;s.
Personally, all I need are Alice in Chains and Mastodon &#8211; but if the &#8220;powers that be&#8221; want to try and resurrect Nu Metal in 2010, then have at it Hoss. I&#8217;ll be at the beer garden.
http://blackdiamondskye.com/
-DS
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		<title>Megatestodus skipping the Bay!?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of the &#8220;Rust in Peace&#8221; tour by now &#8211; but just in case you haven&#8217;t &#8211; it&#8217;s Megadeth, Testament and Exodus. Awesome, right!? Wrong. The only show in California is in Los Angeles. It seems like there&#8217;s a new story every day, in some form or another, about how awesome these concerts are going to be. Which is why it&#8217;s so frustrating when shows are cancelled, postponed, or not anywhere near where you live&#8230;even if you do reside in a gigantic metropolis.
Here&#8217;s a little illustration that may explain some of our frustration (click to &#8220;embiggen&#8221;):



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		<title>Incoming Rant: &#8220;Video Game Metal&#8221; Is Getting A Little Out of Hand.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonata Arctica is on tour. With a &#8220;video game&#8221; inspired band. They&#8217;re called Powerglove.
I get it. You REALLY LIKE video game music because it&#8217;s nostalgic and people instantly recognize it and people think you&#8217;re clever for being able to transcribe video game music into rock and roll. I, myself, was quite impressed with it. Ten years ago. Not anymore though. It&#8217;s a genre almost as over-done as Pirate Metal.

The thing is, this band Powerglove totally shreds. They would be a bitchin&#8217; Power Metal band along the likes of any other modern shredding Power Metal band, if they didn&#8217;t write songs about Tetris and Super Mario. What the hell am I supposed to do after listening to this music? Go buy a Nintendo belt buckle?

You might as well strap a big sign on me that says, &#8220;I will pay you to stomp on my genitals.&#8221; For Christ-sakes, just drop the Nintendo ...]]></description>
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