The Hills Have Eyes - Chop Suey - Seattle, WA (7-13-06)

Oh yeah!

You can listen to Thomas saying "this is our first real show", they played 8 tracks, some of them never recorded I guess.

Thanks to paintweather for this.

Chop Suey - Seattle, WA (7-13-06)

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Veil of Maya - [id]

If you're one of those who don't like metalcore, this band will probably change your mind. Well... at least you're going to like this band, they incorpore the classic elements like double pedal, hardcore screaming and all that stuff but you can understand what they are playing.

At the begining it took me a while to dig them; in the case don't like them, you gotta take some time listening to their songs to dig their riffs and solos -at least once.

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[id]

The Fall of Troy - Manipulator Bonus

Live at the Broadwalk (Orangevale, CA)

Tracklist:

1. I just got this symphony goin'

2. Ex-Creations

3. Cut down all the trees and name the streets after them

4. Shhh!!! If you're quiet, Ill show you a dinosaur

Bonus

Ideas Sobre La Unión - El Gran Escape

This is the first Chilean band I found interesting, although they are not that TFoT-ish, you can notice they are influenced by ATD-I; quite progressive. You might wonder why I say this, well, the reason for that is because mostl of Chilean bands have a generic sound like punk or hardcore, pop/rock, etc. In some parts of their songs you can listen to a bit of Erak meeting Rodriguez Lopez. Anyway, I think they must be listened for being the coolest Chilean band I've ever listened to.

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The Great Escape

Pink Gamera - Y Su Madre Volvió Rollo Cyborg

This album gives me a feeling of "The Fall of Troy meets At The Drive-in", but also including a more creative personality. You can find among their influences bands such as ATD-I, The Fall of Troy, A Perfect Circle, Circle takes The Square. They are actually dissolved into different projects: Chiptune Commando, Tornillo, The Cactus Curse, and Solia.

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YSMVRC

Kite - Tabs

The original plan was to trascribe them into Tabit, but due to time and stuff I'll just copy and paste them here.

Thanks to InerRecords for this.

Intro

e---0------12--------'
b---0--10--10--------' This are the 3 first chord
g---6--9---9---------' hear the song to get the strum.
d---7--7-------------'
a---5----------------'
D--------------------'

Play this again and then this
e---0------12--------'---------------------------'
b---0--10--10--------'---------------------------'
g---6--9---9---------'-----6-7-6-9-7-6-----------'
d---7--7-------------'----7-7-7-7-7-7--9-7-9-----'
a---5----------------'---------------------------'
D--------------------'--9------------------------'

The verse is the same.

Chorus

On the part or 5's play the harmonics.
e-----------------'--------------------------'
b---------h5------'--------------------------'
g---------h5------'--9-11-12--14s-16s-14-12--'
d---10----h5------'--x-x--x---x---x---x--x---'
a---9-------------'--7-9--10--12s-14s-12-10--'
D---10------------'--------------------------'
Hear the song to get the strum ;D



And This is the other part

e----------------------------------------------'
b----------------------------------------------'
g----------------------------------------------'
d----------------------------------------------'
a----0-2-3-2-0------------0-2s-5-3-2vvv--------'
D--5-----------5-2-0---5----------------------'

v=pull down the string
s=slide
h=harmonic

The Fall of Troy - XFM sessions

This session at XFM radio was recorded early 2006 I guess, and it was before the release of "Manipulator". It was posted in TFoT's myspace. And they include 'F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X.', 'You got a death wish JT', and 'Seattlantis'.

XFM sessions

Andrew says why TFOT broke up...

For those of you who haven't read this...

"SO

This is why I thought it was best if we broke up.

We had being doing this for 8 years, 5 albums, lotsa tours and time spent. The response was more than I had ever imagined, and thats was awesome. During those 8 years though, I didn't do a lot of things (college, steady girlfriend, etc) and while I got to live my dreams, I didn't do a lot of normal things. Also during those 8 years I started drinking, smoking, and doing other drugs at a steadily increasing pace. These things are all fine to live with, until they become a problem in your own mind.

Sometime around the release of in the unlikely event I really started getting bummed out on how I was living my life. At the same time our album came out to not too many people being stoked on it, and not selling as well as we had hoped. The album not doing super well was a bummer after putting time and money into it. I liked it when we recorded it and while I knew it wasn't very much like what we had previously done I was excited about it. So being sad about that made it easier to drink and do drugs to push it out of my mind.

So we go on tour to try to stir up more interest and sell some shit, and on tour I have a hell of a time trying to not drink, etc, which is something I actually wanted to do. When there is a ton of booze sitting around for some reason I feel the need to drink (alcoholic you think?). So as our album is failing, I'm getting more and more bummed on everything because nothing I try to do seems to work out right.

We had already talked about calling it, and the fact that I was pretty fucked up, along with money problems, the album not selling well, and our contact with EVR being over, it just seemed like the right time to call it. I don't think I could have done it any longer the way I was doing it. I needed to stop almost everything in my life and focus on getting to a place where I liked myself and my decisions.

Here's the funny part. On the cross-country drive home from the last show of tour we were pulled over for a headlight being out at 10 in the morning. I guess I shouldn't have been driving with headlights on? We had a bag of pot, but I didn't think it would be an issue as I wasn't acting suspicious or driving crazy. Immediately after the first cop pulls up, a k9 unit pulls in behind him. Long story short, due to other people's legal issues, I took the blame. I had to return to pennsylvania 2 months after for my trial, and now have a large fine, rehab payments, community service, a license suspension, and probation.

On top of these legal issues I have been looking for a job, and trying to be a person I can live with.

So thats where I'm at, and why I haven't been in the mood to really talk to anyone. I don't have much to say other than, "Life is kinda shitty right now." The thing I loved and have done for 8 years is over, I don't know where to go from here, and the government has my balls in a vice for the next year-ish.

But I know it will be over eventually, so I try to fill my time with whatever shit I can.

If anyone cares and wants to organize it all, I will keep answering questions about this or whatever. Hope all of you are good, Thomas, Tim and I are still trying to figure out one last big blowout, and as shitty as this all sounds, its okay. Just one of those weird times in life I guess.

Oh also, it wasn't a drunk post earlier just a guilty and self-esteemless one.

Laterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr."

Sunrise and Ammunition - Aquarius EP

Same EP + an intro, a new song and a re-recorded version of 'Callow'

Aquarius

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City Of Ifa - Sketchy Youth

City of Ifa's new album. Released early November 2010.

In this album now you can notice how they are evolving into a more brand new sound. In their other albums you can still listen to some of the tfot-ish influence and a bit the number twelve looks like you. This album has not too much of this.

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Sketchy Youth

The River Unrest - LP

(Updated with the real artwork)

Here's the full LP. Higher quality and more songs!

Enjoy!

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The River Unrest - LP

Seconds Before Disaster - Demo 2010

This is a brand new band from St. Petersburg, Russia. Their style is defined by bands as The Mars Volta, The Fall of Troy, Red Museum, Lady Radiator and For The Mathematics.

Demo 2010

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Timur Mamatov:

"The story itself: we gathered together in november of 2008 in St. Petersburg. At first we were mostly fooling around, playing covers and some songs of our bassist's previous band. Then, in 2009 we started to work on our own stuff and played first concert on the 19th of April. Since then and till november 2009 we've had 6 concerts. Then for some reasons our drummer left us and we disbanded for a while. We tried to find a new one but those attempts were unsuccessful and those 2 dudes we tried to play with didn't really got used to our style. However we decided to write a demo using a drum machine. The demo recording was finished on the 7th of november 2010 and we began to promote it. A couple of days ago our first drummer said he wanted to reunite with us, so, this friday we'll had our joint rehersal since last year. We're looking forward for the new songs, new gigs and new recordings.

Talking about my personal preferences, as a viloin player I love bands I Would Set Myself On Fire For You and Loom, I find it interesting to add classical instruments to modern progressive music. In our upcoming materail I am going to increase the amount of post-rockish instrumental parts and violin solos."

Panama Rise - The Making of The Panama Rise E.P

Red Museum - Quick-short News

Here's another video by Ilia, playing another song off their two new upcoming EP's, titled ' Just The Facts'.

The EP's titles are going to be 'Ea' and 'Everyone Is For Sale And Nothing Is What It Seems', which are going to be released at early 2011.

You can also check out a new song in their myspace named 'Love', which is an armonic instrumental.

The River Unrest - A Little Review

Here we have some videos of this band that really impressed my ears since the first time I listened to them. Here you can see how technical is their guitarrist "Dankie" James.

About their song "Hurry Up! I've Seen Continents Move Faster than You!"

He told me it took about a year to finish it by goin through many phases until finally they decided the song was complete. Sandia cabeza took a few days (which is pretty interesting and impressive as you can see how hard it is).

Dankie: "I'm always borrowing gear from other people. In this video I used my friend's Line 6 Pod, it was on a Marshall setting with a tube screamer. I obviously used a Ibanez 7 string in the video but most of the time I use a Washburn 7 string with Dimarzio D activators pick ups."

Splendid Teeth

Maybe you don't know who Brent Landon is. Well, he's the former bassist of the difunct band The Hills Have Eyes. The thing is that after The Hills Have Eyes stopped their music career this dude re-record all their songs with another band (that's all I know) and now he's actually involved in other projetcs. Unfortunately now he's done with Splendid Teeth.

Here you can check his projects and other stuff:

http://btlandon.blogspot.com/

Blood Machines And Poison-Eaters

The Three Stigmata Of Splendid Teeth

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Just Like Vinyl Carcrash

Yes, as most of you might have seen in your facebooks, last night JLV had a car accident.

See more details in my friend's blog

Loom - Angler

Mathcore/Violin-driven, PROBABLY is like listening to Just Like Vinyl with a violin and other vocalist and speeded up. You might like them. Cheers !

Mi espacio

Anglerrrrrrr

Less Squirrel More Europe

Finally, after days of hard work in college-related stuff (but still have some to do) I have a little time to grab a beer can (missed beer) and post something. All right, now here we have these dudes from Kensington/Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Didn't find too much info. They have a quite relaxed sound and sort of progressive, similar to Pacific Proving Ground, but more progressive. Here's their myspace and their music:

Myspace

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Panama Rise - EP Teaser

Yesterday this dudes finally finished their debut EP. This teaser was released yesterday exclusively on their facebook.

... and now I have to keep on other stuff. My apologies if I haven't written too much lately.