Nouvelles et Découvertes de Métal International – 19 novembre

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J’ai parlé à Auroch et Titan’s Eve aujourd’hui et demain c’est au tour de Otep et All That Remains de passer sur la table d’examen.  Esti de contraste pareil quand tu regardes ça, huh? C’est la beauté de Ondes Chocs, on en couvre large parce qu’on sait que vous aimez ça! Enjoy this one again…

• Après plusieurs écoutes, je dois avouer que le dernier de Vision of Disorder, « The Cursed Remain Cursed », est loin d’être mauvais.  Voici leur nouveau vidéo:

• Le nouvel album de Crown The Empire est disponible en écoute intégrale ci-dessous:

In hindsight, does it seem weird that Black and Blue and Metallica were once on the same comp? 

The funny thing about the scene back then is that those bands, especially Black and Blue and Ratt, were much heavier then they kind of ended up being. Some of those bands ultimately went heavier and some of those bands ultimately went lighter. Ratt, in the earlier days, were really heavily influenced by Judas Priest, so they all wore black leather and played heavy stuff.  But kind of like Mötley Crüe – who were also supposed to be on the first Metal Massacre comp, believe it or not — they became a lot more commercial, and a lot of the bands followed. So, in retrospect, you can say it’s an odd collection of bands, but they were much closer together at the time.

 

At what point did you realize “I could make a career out of this”? 

It took a while. For the first three years, the label was in my mom’s garage behind a house that had no AC, and I was doing everything all by myself. So I don’t think it even occurred to me that it was going to be a career until almost four or five years in. The first three years was me by myself, and after that there was an actual office and couple of employees. Even when that happened, when it was coming a little bit more, no one knew where this whole thing was going to go. There was a slow, gradual process — it definitely wasn’t an epiphany where I was like, “Oh, hey this is working.” It just started happening.

Speaking of mistakes, is there anything you regret? Maybe a band you let slip away?

I don’t think there’s any regret. If I knew then what I know now, I would have worked with Mötley Crüe, and if I had had $10,000, I could have put out the first Metallica record. All those sort of things.

The one thing I really screwed up on was when GN’R was playing all the clubs in LA ,and their management called me and asked me to go see them, and I just never went. I was like, “Nah, I’m not really into the glam thing.” I thought they were some glam band, so I never went to see them. Then Appetite for Destruction came out, and I was blown away by how good it was. We actually ended up doing a little bit of the marketing for that record. But the first time I met Slash was at an Iron Maiden after-party party in LA. I remember we had quite a few Jack Daniels over the course of the evening, and at the end of the night, he asked how come I never came to see them. [laughs] That was fun.

What do you have coming up that you’re excited about? 

I love the new Whitechapel record; those guys really made a massive step forward and made a really cool record. It sounds a little different and I can’t stop listening to it. That’s always a good thing. Before the record comes out, you have to listen to it over and over again — but now that’s gone, so I can just be a fan. I can’t stop listening to that record, I’m really excited about it. I’ve started listening to the new Six Feet Under record, that record’s been doing well.

There’s a band called Gypsyhawk we have coming out that I really like. Its kind of a little 70s style — awesome harmonies and stuff. There are a lot of other new bands, older bands, too. The new BTBAM record, the new AILD sounds really good. It’s exciting; a lot of bands are putting out a lot of good stuff. I’m saying that as a fan.

Nouvelles en Rafale: Nightwish a déjà loué son local pour les répétitions en prévision d’un nouvel album… Into Eternity, comme mentionné dans l’entrevue que j’avais fait avec le guitariste Tim, écrit du nouveau matériel pour un nouvel album attendu en 2013… Veronica, la chanteuse de Benedictum, est présentement à l’écriture de nouveau matériel pour le band, mais aussi pour un album solo, un projet qui sortira sous le nom de The V… Butcher Babies, qui était en vedette dans ma Capsule Ondes Chocs de samedi dernier, viennent de signer avec Century Media!  Comme mentionné dans l’entrevue, ils sont en composition de leur premier LP qui sortira en 2013… Pleins de vidéos disponible en suivant ce lien de Opeth en accoustique… Bad Brains a mis son nouvel album en entier en écoute en suivant ce lien… Même chose pour l’album de raretés de l’excellent band Kylesa…