DEATH - Salah satu Death Metal band yang paling berpengaruh

DEATH

Death adalah Death Metal band dari Orlando, Florida, Amerika Serikat yang didirikan pada tahun 1983 oleh Chuck Schuldiner (vokal, gitar) dengan namaMantas, menggambar musik dan inspirasi dari Venom dan Slayer. Mei 1985 berubah menjadi Death.

Death merupakan salah satu Death Metal band yang paling berpengaruh. Debut album "Scream Bloody Gore" telah digambarkan sebagai "Dokumen pola dasar pertama Death Metal".

Para penulis biografi musik menganugerahi Schuldiner sebagai "Bapak Death Metal" dan "Pendiri Death Metal Amerika Serikat".

Pada tahun 2008, album Death telah terjual lebih dari 2 juta album di seluruh dunia, dengan lebih dari 500.000 eksemplar terjual pada desember 2009 di Amerika Serikat.

Death bubar setelah Schuldiner meninggal karena kanker otak pada tahun 2001.

Anggota :

Chuck "Evil Chuck" Schuldiner / Charles Michael Schuldiner – Vokal, Gitar (1983–2001)

Shannon Hamm – Gitar (1996–2001)

Scott Clendenin – Bass (1996–2001)

Richard Christy (Demons & Wizards, Iced Earth) – Drum (1996–2001)

Mantan Anggota :

Gitar : Rick Rozz (1983–1985, 1987–1989), Matt Olivo (1985), John Hand(1987), Paul Masvidal (1989, 1991–1992), Albert Gonzalez (1990), James Murphy - Obituary (1989), Andy LaRocque (1993), Ralph Santolla - Obituary, Iced Earth (1993), Craig Locicero (1993), Bobby Koelble (1995)

Bass : Scott Carlson (1985), Erik Meade (1985), Terry Butler (1987–1990),Steve DiGiorgio - Iced Earth (1986, 1991, 1993), Skott Carino (Human Tour),Kelly Conlon (1995), Brian Benson (Symbolic Tour)

Drum : Barney "Kam" Lee (1983–1985), Eric Brecht (1985), Chris Reifert(1986-1987), Bill Andrews (1987–1990), Sean Reinert (1991–1992), Gene Hoglan (1993–1995), Richard Christy (1996–2001)

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Diskografi :

Scream Bloody Gore (1987) download

Leprosy (1988) download

Spiritual Healing (1990) download

Human (1991) download

Individual Thought Patterns (1993) download

Symbolic (1995) download

The Sound of Perseverance (1998) download

SKYFIRE - Melodic Death Metal / Extreme Power Metal / Progressive Metal band Swedia

SKYFIRE

Skyfire adalah Melodic Death Metal / Extreme Power Metal / Progressive Metal band dari Höör, Swedia, yang dibentuk pada tahun 1995 oleh Andreas Edlund (gitar), Martin Hanner (bass, keyboard), Jonas Sjögren (bass) danTobias Björk (drum).

Skyfire mencampurkan unsur-unsur Melodic Death Metal, Black Metal, Power Metal, Neo-Classical Metal, Progressive Metal dan Symphonic Metal dalam musik mereka. Lirik Skyfire bertemakan tentang kesedihan dan depresi.

Pada tahun 2003, Skyfire tur Eropa bersama Ancient Rites, Blood Red Thronedan Thyrfing. Pada tahun 2004, Skyfire tur bersama Dark Moor dan tampil diBusan Rock Festival bersama Arch Enemy, Soilwork dan Rage di Korea Selatan.

Setelah hiatus singkat dan serangkaian perubahan anggota, Skyfire bangkit kembali pada tahun 2007.

Skyfire menghabiskan dua setengah tahun untuk menulis bahan album "Esoteric"(September 2009) dan direkam di Powernest Studios, Gothenburg, Swedia. Di album "Esoteric", Skyfire menggunakan paduan suara orkestra, lebih progresif dan riff berat.

Anggota :
Joakim Karlsson - Vokal (2007-Sekarang)
Andreas Edlund  - Gitar, Keyboard (1995-Sekarang)
Johan Reinholdz - Gitar (2005-Sekarang)
Martin Hanner - Bass, Keyboard (1995-sekarang)
Joakim Johnsson - Drum, Gitar (2001-Sekarang)

Mantan Anggota :
Mattias Holmgren - Vokal (1997)
Henrik Wenngren - Vokal (1998-2007)
Jonas Sjögren - Bass (1995-2004)
Tobias Björk - Drum (1995-2001)

Diskografi :
Timeless Departure (2001) download
Mind Revolution (2003) download
Spectral (2004) download
Esoteric (2009)

Today’s Lady News: Metal Band Gwar Disembowels Sarah Palin Effigy Onstage

• The monster-costumed death metal band Gwar disemboweled a Sarah Palin effigy onstage at a concert. I’m no Sarah Palin fan, but that’s hella disturbing even for “death metal.” (Apparently the band “kills” lots of public figures onstage, both males and females. So it’s not necessarily misogynist, but I still can’t help but be freaked out by what kinds of people enjoy seeing her effigy “die” onstage.) [Daily Beast]
• Crap, how could I have missed this one? Yesterday was the 55th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ historic refusal to give her up bus seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. [ColorLines]
• A civil union bill passed in the Illinois state senate on Monday that affords gay couples some of the same benefits as married couples, like the right to visit a partner in the hospital. The bill has already passed in Illinois state House. Illinois now joins California, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington in giving civil unions or domestic partnerships to gay couples. [Feminist.org]

• A Minnesota politician was picked up by police for hanging out in a Planned Parenthood parking lot with a loaded gun and claiming he was “checking on” his online girlfriend. Rep. Tom Hackbarth was spotted by the security guard at St. Paul Planned Parenthood. (At least he was carrying his gun legally.) The pol called it a “misunderstanding” and said he didn’t know he was in the PP parking lot, but thought his online girlfriend was on a date with another man. Police are suspicious because Harkbarth could not name the online site he met her own, her phone number or her address. Republican leaders in the state house have since stripped him of his leadership positions. [Talking Points Memo]
• The suicide rate among female veterans is nearly three times as much as among civilian women. That’s according to a study of nearly 6,000 suicides in 16 states that will be published in the journal Psychiatric Services. Certainly this underscores the concerns had by many that female veterans need special attention paid to their mental health needs. [U.S. News & World Reports]
• Meet Ann Wagner, a former Missouri party chairwoman who could become the first woman elected to head the Republican National Committee. [The Daily Beast]
• Meet California’s first female attorney general, San Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris. She will also be the first African-American and first Indian-American in the position. As DA, she worked to make human trafficking illegal in CA and advocated to strengthen services for survivors of domestic violence. She’ll be sworn in on January 3. [Feminist.org]
• An anti-abortion Florida politician is changing his tune on his support for his state’s proposed “fetal personhood amendment,” which would define fetuses as people and therefore make abortion akin to murder. Rep. Dennis Baxley said he is still anti-abortion, but he is unsure that the “fetal personhood amendment,” which is typically considered a fringe item among the many states that have tried and failed to pass one, is the way to go about banning abortion. [Florida Independent]
• Flo Henry of McKinney, Texas, is fighting to get a once-segregated cemetery preserved as a historic site. [The Grio]
• A prostitute working in Pensacola, Florida, may have been murdered by one of her johns. The rest of this news article rather obnoxiously speculates that a “serial killer is targeting prostitutes,” even though only one has died. [WKRG]
• World champion boxer Christy Martin was allegedly shot and stabbed by her husband last week after telling him she was leaving him for a woman. As a former Sports Illustrated cover girl (for athletics, not bikinis), Martin is apparently credited with legitimizing women boxers. [Advocate]
• Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge is holding a special exhibition on letters and diaries written by Southern women during the Civil War. [KLFY]
• Soccer star Brandi Chastain opens up about the state of women’s soccer. [Bleacher Report]
• This journalist is begging and pleading for no more trend pieces about women based on “Sex and the City.” Sounds reasonable! [NPR]

INTERNATIONAL

• Say what? The Puerto Rican first lady, Lucé Vela, yesterday told reporters at a World AIDS Day event in San Juan that there is a cure for AIDS. She appears to have been telling a news station that if people get tested for HIV early enough, they can be cured of it — which is not true. [Guanabee]
• An army colonel in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the subject of a travel ban and asset freeze for his involovement on multiple massacres of women and children, as well as mass rapes of women and girls. [AllAfrica.com]
• Cartagena, Colombia, in South America holds dueling beauty pageants: one for the wealthy and one for those who live in the city’s slums. [New York Times]
• The documentary “Bhutto” tells the life story of former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, a groundbreaking pro-democracy feminist, who was elected in 1988. Bhutto was killed in 2008. [Film School Rejects]
• Watch actress Rosumund Pike, co-star of “Made In Dagenham,” discuss the ‘60s women strikers at the Dagenham Ford plant in the UK. In case you missed my Q&A with the star, Sally Hawkins, you can check it out here — orread my movie review. “We’re marking in this film a sea change in consciousness,” Pike said. “But it’s not a film about male chauvinism.” [Guardian UK]

AT THE GATES Confirmed For Sweden's METALTOWN Festival - Dec. 6, 2010

Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Metaltown festival, set to take place June 17-18, 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: SYSTEM OF A DOWN AT THE GATES CRADLE OF FILTH PARKWAY DRIVE RAUBTIER Commented AT THE GATES in a statement: "AT THE GATES will do a limited run of select shows in 2011. Simply put, we had the time of our lives during the 2008 reunion and have decided to do a couple of more shows. Although we won't be touring extensively, and we stick to the initial promise of not making any more music." AT THE GATES' "The Flames Of The End" DVD was released on April 6 in the U.S. through Earache Records. AT THE GATES released its definitive album, "Slaughter Of The Soul" — often regarded as one of the all-time greatest metal albums — onEarache in 1995, before touring the world and abruptly disbanding. Members of the band went on to play major roles in other notorious metal acts such as THE HAUNTED and CRADLE OF FILTH, before reforming for a one-off tour in 2008 to rapturous response.

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Mapalas Unitomo Gelar Konser Amal Korban Bencana

Surabaya - Tergerak memberi bantuan korban letusan Gunung Merapi Yogyakarta, Mahasiswa Pecinta Alam dan Seni (Mapalas) Uniersitas Dr Soetomo (Unitomo) menggandeng musisi rock Surabaya menggelar konser musik amal, Kamis (25/11/2010). 

Belasan grup band dipastikan ambil bagian dalam ajang bertitel Mapalas Ben-Benan Spesial Merapi itu. Acara konser musik amal itu akan digelar nonstop mulai pukul 15.00 WIB hingga 23.00 WIB di halaman kampus Unitomo Jalan Semolowaru.

Kelompok musik yang ambil bagian dalam konser musik amal antara lain Creme Caramel, Plester-X, Macan dan Devadata. Gitaris senior dari grup band Power Metal, Ipunk juga akan tampil berkolaborasi dengan band-band yang hadir. 

Ketua panitia Maplas Ben-Benan Spesial Merapi, Supardi Tamia (20), menyatakan
pagelaran musik amal itu diselenggarakan untuk mengetuk rasa kepedulian dan kebersamaan musisi, pecinta musik dan masyarakat Surabaya pada umumnya membantu korban bencana Merapi. Event itu juga merupakan bentuk upaya mahasiswa membantu sesama.

"Kami mengupayakan bentuk dukungan pada saudara kita di Jogjakarta melalui cara kami bisa lakukan, selain memberi bantuan secara langsung kami juga mewadahi para musisi dan pecinta musik Surabaya," kata Supardi yang tercatat sebagai pengurus Mapalas Unitomo.

Mahasiswa dan FIA semester lima ini menambahkan para musisi dan grup band yang berpartisipasi beriniatif tampil meskipun mereka tidak dibayar. "Padahal mereka band ternama, bukannya dibayar mereka juga ada yang menyumbang selain ikut tampil," tambah mahasiswa yang biasa dipanggil Adi itu.

Acara konser musik dibuka untuk umum. "Gratis, tidak ada tiket masuk, tapi kami mengimbau masyarakat yang menonton memberi sumbangan bantuan sukarela," tegas Adi.

Bantuan dari penonton nantinya akan langsung disalurkan ke posko penannan
Pengungsi Merapi di Jogjakarta. Sementara itu para musisi Surabaya yang ikut tampil dalam Mapalas Ben-Benan Spesial Merapi menyatakan senang bisa tampil sekaligus membantu korban Merapi. 

"Kami dan teman-teman dengan senang hati ikut berpartisipasi," ujar Gatuk, musisi senior Surabaya yang juga gitaris kelompok musik Macan.

Hal senada juga disampaikan Bodhas, vokalis dan gitaris Devadata yang dengan
senang hati mendukung kegiatan koner amal itu. "Kami tetap akan tampil maksimal meski ini konser amal," tegas Bodhas

Black Label-Lamb of God Lyrics

The human confrontation, I've built a phobia

It takes my essence somewhere

somewhere to take control

I may be far from rocking

I am the one alone

I may be far behind lines

and made them turn away

I want to know, hey you watch out!

I've made them turn to cripple, hey you watch out!

When i will know, who'll know, back fight!

why time would let me die to control.

I fear nothing, why don't you know

I rip my mind and why don't you bleed

i fear no one, why you turn back

i may not stop.

My freedom can't contain but tell me

The pain I liberate

Riff hostility to anyone

Has made us so much hate

I made them turn from hate but tell me

The pain and suffering

I made them turn from hate but tell me

The pain and suffering

I........... know.