Recent content by Ares Tyr

Second on the Strangelove reference. On a related note, I know someone who got a scholarship to a college based on his ability to play guitar (he was invited to be on the Jazz band). He can also beat Through The Fire on expert. The bassist of my band can also play guitar and drums, and also...

We're not trying to be a super technical band all the time though. Repitition and some simplicity is to be expected because while we do want to be good musicians and be technically profecient, we still aim for catchiness. We have an obvious death metal influence, but thats coupled with hardcore...

Which is all we ever claim to be, hahaha. We're just a melodic hardcore/metalcore outfit, its not like we act like we're some super-technical death metal thing. Appreciate it though. And I agree, we need to move more, but we're working on that. We've only played two shows to date so we're all...

I don't know how you don't notice, but we use ALOT more techniques than just power chords and we change timing and tempo often. I know atleast three of the songs I posted have finger-tapping solos, tremolo picking, breakdowns, blast-beasts, and several intricate drum fills and patterns. I know...

If that's directed at me we definetly are not a cover band at all, because all of our stuff is original music. We don't even have a cover song to speak of. If you're saying our music is a cross between glam rock and death metal then you are sorely misplacing our genre and should probably take a...

I was in a similar situation for a long, long time. First it was I couldn't find a band. Then whenver I found a prospect, the band would just fall through and flake on me (then a week later magically find a new vocalist before ever even have met me or tried me out). I finally got into one band...

Any Escapists out there in bands and wanna promote yourselves and your music to your fellow members? I'm the vocalist of a local metalcore band in Columbia, SC. Our name is Eyes Cast Down, and no, that'd definetly not some underhanded Christian thing. I would link to our myspace, but the...

Don't you EVER call Henry Rollins, former vocalist of Black Flag, a "knucklehead".

Well, in my experience the best "shows" for me are hardcore, metalcore, death metal, deathcore kinda shows. Born of Osiris I've seen twice and both times it nearly caused a riot, especially when they played "Bown Down". The first time, the crowd literally caused a human tidal wave against the...

Did you really just say Chuck Schuldiner and that choad from Disturbed are at all linked? That's like saying Lil' Jon and the East Side Boys are the poor man's Wu-Tang Clan. Or... like, Miley Cyrus is the poor man's Bob Dylan. Anyways, they have CDs by Coheed and Cambria and 311 listed under...

Here's hoping I go out on some real shit. You people are so sappy.

Of a little over a year now, yes.

I miss Bushido Blade dearly. I still wish I could find a copy. If they put it on Live Arcade I'd DL it instantly. It's the closest thing to "Zen" a video game has ever truly gotten. A beautiful, subtle work of art it was and still is. Way before its time I think. I wish they'd release a...

As a huge fighting game fan, I completely agree with and love this article. When I was a kid, I was kinda skinny, unathletic. But I played games alot, especially Street Fighter and Tekken. When Tekken 3 dropped, I discovered the fighting style of Tae Kwon Do through Hwarang, and from that moment...

That's precisely what I was hoping for, haha. Yeah, I hear that.