Welcome ladies and gentlemen to yet another warm hearted, California sunshine edition of Myspace Malediction. Today we will be talking with the Godzilla of metalcore in California, Katsumoto! These guys are full of melody and full of riffs that has the possibility of turning them into the Killswitch Engage of the West Coast. 2008 [...]

Throughout the 70’s and 80’s, during metal’s greatest growing spurt, falsetto and otherwise clean vocals were commonplace and the preferred means of delivering the message of metal. However, even from the early days, there has been a backlash against the purveyors of pipes in the form of grindcore, death metal and even to a certain [...]

January
03 - Zwolle, Holland - Hedon
04 - Tilburg, Holland - 0 13
05 - Osnabrueck, Germany - Hyde Park
06 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
08 - Warsaw. Poland - Proxima
09 - Krakow, Poland - Studio
10 - Graz, Austria - Orpheum
11 - Vienna, Austria - Planet Music
12 - Zagreb, Croatia - Boogaloo
14 - Florence, Italy - The Viper [...]

The Black Dahlia Murder and company will soon be kicking off their North American tour with the following dates. This is a tour that you cannot miss!
Jan 15 2008      8:00P
Club @ Water Street     Rochester, New York
Jan 16 2008     8:00P
B.B. King Blues Club     New York, New York
Jan 17 2008     8:00P
Ottobar     [...]

Blabbermouth has reported that Middian, stoner/doom metal band from Oregon has been served a cease and desist order from Wisconsin based Midian, which would require them to strip themselves of their namesake in every possible form. Middian is a great band, and they need the metal community’s help to overcome this. Here is the original [...]

Ah yes, power metal—straight up, generic, uninspired, and boring. I will say right up front that I cannot stand most power metal anymore because it all sounds so much alike. While there are gimmicky catches, like the utterly ridiculous speed of Dragonforce or the catchy lyrics of Sonata Arctica, typical power metal consists of drumming [...]

Maybe it’s because I was listening to a generic power metal album just previous to this, or because this one is so different from many I’ve heard lately—despite my lack of enthusiasm for power metal in general, Nightwish has blown me away with their new album, Dark Passion Play. From the very first song, it [...]

Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize is my first exposure to Vomitory and prior to listening to the album I did some research to give myself an idea of what to expect. Wikipedia, MySpace, and various other pages told me that they were a Swedish Gore/Brutal Death Metal band that is fairly big in the Brutal Death Metal [...]

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Album: Rage of Creation
Year: 2000
Label: Rob Rock Music