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3 months ago
Done with Tumblr
So those of you following me (for whatever reason), I’m off of Tumblr. I just finished moving my posts over to alderaanplaces.blogspot.com since it allows me to make my posts look more professional, since I would like to use these as writing samples for internships and such (already sent some to Metalsucks, just waiting on word).
Check out the new place, hopefully I’ll post more often then once a day now.
Thanks,
Ian
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3 months ago
Into Eternity’s “Fukushima” is out and DAMN IT’S GOOD!
Canadian GODS Into Eternity have finally released “Fukushima”, which they’ve been teasing for about a month. Stu Block has become one of my favorite singers recently. I’ve been a fan of Into Eternity in a minor sense, didn’t own any of their stuff, but liked every track I heard from them. I didn’t start checking out more of their stuff until I heard the new Iced Earth singe “Anthem” and was blown away. Dystopia was a phenomenal record that showcases Stu’s voice well. And now, we have new Into Eternity that shows his voice off even more, including those lovely growls that he so lovingly exudes during the track. I could sit here and praise the gospel according to Block all day, but dammit, just listen to the song.
Into Eternity will be out on the road hopefully soon, but not with Stu Block, which is a bummer, but hell, you can’t always get what you want.
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3 months ago from bookmarklet
Into Eternity - Fukushima
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3 months ago
Also, God Forbid have a new record coming out
So, I have no idea how I’ve missed this, but God Forbid is finishing up a new record called Equilibrium due out March 27th through Victory Records. I don’t know if they’ve kept it quiet or if I just dropped the ball completely, but Metalsucks put up both the album artwork and a demo released LAST FRIGGIN YEAR for the song “Where We Come From”
Here’s the artwork
and here’s the demo
This’ll be God Forbid’s first record to feature guitarist Matt Wicklund (formerly of disbanded, but still awesome Seattle Metalcore band Himsa), who became the permanent replacement for Dallas Coyle, who left the band in 2009 (former Darkest Hour guitarist Kris Norris was the temp for their tour that year with Lamb of God)
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3 months ago
Matt DeVries now in Fear Factory, did you see that one coming?
Well, looks like Matt DeVries has found himself in the middle of a wonderful little heavy metal shell game. In November, he announced that he would no longer be Chimaira’s rhythm guitarist after their annual Christmas show, this following news a few months earlier that he and fellow Chimaira guitarist Rob Arnold would become members of Six Feet Under (on bass and guitar respectively). Then last week, DeVries announced that he’d quit Six Feet Under. Well, now what’s he going to do. The man’s a great guitarist and bassist, it seems like all of this coming about seems like maybe his heart isn’t into touring anymore, especially since he’s got a 2-3 year old kid at home. Well, it seems that’s not the case, because the man has announced that he’s the new bassist for Fear Factory.
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3 months ago
Minotaur Project, the best email I received today.
I want to preface this with, my email account get’s ridiculously cluttered. With all of the sites that my email is connected to (Facebook, Youtube, Record Label Newsletters, etc) as well as the sites I can’t seem to remove myself from since I’ve forgotten the password (still get birthday emails from a pop station in Seattle from when I was 12).
Most of my Youtube emails I delete without reading. Either someone is trolling my comment or it’s my weekly suggestions from the site or whatever. But today, I got a video suggestion from someone called theMinotaurZebraBAR.
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3 months ago
The wait is over, Metallica’s big announcement teased over the weekend is…
Their own 2-day festival.
This is what was sent out on friday
and at 11 am today, the Tallica boys announced that they are going to be hosting their own Orion Music+More festival in Atlantic City, NJ. The band will headline both nights and there are 22 bands slated to appear. The lineup so far is as follows.
Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage the Elephant, Fucked Up, Best Coast, Hot Snakes, Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., Lucero, Roky Erickson, The Black Angels, The Sword, A Place to Bury Strangers, Liturgy.
And at 11 am today,
Honestly, as weird as the lineup is (and trust me, it’s weird), I think it’s great. I only know a few of these bands and there’s another few that I don’t like, but what I like about this lineup is that it brings a crap ton of different bands from different genres and bringing them together. Also cool, Metallica is going to play The Black Album in it’s entirety on one of the nights (other reports show that they’ll play Ride the Lightening in it’s entirety the other night).
For $125 for 2 days, it seems kind of worth it for the Metallica sets alone. You get to hear 2 great albums in their entirety. Plus, there are some good bands already on the lineup with 6 more bands to be announced (which could make the lineup even better).
For more info, check out the site here.
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Notes: 2 / 3 months ago
Jesse Leach seems to be the new singer for KsE…again
So, it would appear that I’ve been neglecting this blog a little bit (by which I mean a great deal), so I thought I’d try to come back to it with some pretty big news. Jesse Leach appears to be re-joining Killswitch Engage as their new vocalist.
Howard Jones, Jesse’s replacement in 2002 (after Leach quit the band via email no less), departed from the group Wed. January 4th. The news was announced on the band’s Facebook page, though many people probably saw it through Metalsucks.
After about a month of speculation over who would take up the reigns for Killswitch (Phil Labonte of All That Remains was a big choice, but he immediately denied that thought), the band’s website made the announcement that Leach would be rejoining the band in a very unofficial way, but one that speaks volumes more than a press release.
There’s the band, super happy, in the snow, with Leach and his magnificent beard heading up the center.
Now, I’m not what you would call a legitimate member of the metal press, so I don’t get press releases. I also don’t spend all my time combing every bands page, so it was nice to see this from my favorite site (you guessed it) Metalsucks.
I’m personally really excited that Jesse is coming back to Killswitch, especially after reading just a week ago that he had no idea what the band was doing (I really like Metalsucks guys). Even though I was first introduced to Killswitch after Howard joined the band, Alive or Just Breathing is one of my favorite records. The Times of Grace record The Hymn of a Broken Man is also phenomenal. With the band about to work on a new record, I’m even more excited to see how the band sounds with Jesse back at the mic.
-IH
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11 months ago
DMF 201 Book reflection
The skills I learned over the course of the term was how to effectively use a Wacom tablet so that I wouldn’t have to draw the pages out with a mouse or scan them in and trace over them. I also learned how to use Photoshop so that I wouldn’t have to redraw my characters on each page. I also learned how to use In Design to lay the pages out properly.
I learned that when it comes to a production as ambitious as this, it takes sticking to a very strict schedule. I did not keep as tight to the schedule as I would have liked, and because of that, I didn’t finish the project in time to have it printed (which would have been cool).
My plan for my book is to keep the files on my computer, maybe work on it again in the future to make it look better then possibly get it printed, however at this point I am not sure what exactly I will do, if anything. -
11 months ago
Here is my book for DMF 201. I drew it out with a Wacom tablet in Photoshop and laid out the pages in In Design.
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