HEROIN NEWS

BACK TO BLACK

YES, yes I’m aware I’ve been away for a while. I’d like to say I’ve been off having sexy highly dangerous adventures with beautiful french models who have a license - to thrill. Alas, the reality isn’t nearly as stimulating as the aforementioned fantasy, a heady mixture of back breaking work and prescription (that i totally wasnt prescribed) drugs have kept my busy hands suitably preoccupied. I’m afraid that a few (thousand) things have slipped under my occasionally harsh radar but fear not, ill list those a little later on. For now, a much larger more pressing matter has come to my attention

BLACK MOTHER FUCKING SABBATH ARE FUCKING REFORMINGING THE FUCK OUT OF THEMSELVES - FUCK!

now this is just a whisper I’ve picked up on a news feed and as I’m far to lazy to do any real research about anything so I’ll assume this word of mouth to be gospel and continue to preach on like that guy who sells hot dogs outside west quay, not the young new guy, the old guy. he’s a healer dontchaknow,  BY THE POWER OF GOD….ect.

i have mixed feelings about this, yeah i mean come on SABBATTHHHHH! i love them as much as the next guy… well 13 year old HEROINNEWS did.. i don’t really have the time for them now. Not to say that if Tony Iommi came to my house I’d pull his fake fingers off and demand he shoved them up his arse because HE AINT BRUTAL NO MORE INNIT but my musical tastes have leaned towards the heavier, darker side of metal that twisted and arched out of the seed BLACK SABBATH spaffed out over Manchester all those years ago. GASP SHOCK HORROR, I’m not paying homage to the fathers of the genre, well i suppose i am in a round about sort of way but in reality my tastes have changed and although i can still appreciate a few tracks i almost definitely wont be throwing that on next time i stumble through the door in an opiate fueled haze.

so what am i acutally talking about, im sure there was a point in here somewhere..

RIGHT. so yeah, sabbath may be coming back and that is pretty interesting. but is it a good thing? now i KNOW that there are a lot of heads that still really love old BS, i mean witchcult wouldn’t exist without them to name one out of millions, and I’m sure the tour would sell out in nanoseconds, but has anyone seen ozzy play in the last 5 years? maybe even 10 years? its safe to say hes not up to scratch, and that’s just ozzy. where has everyone else been?

All I’m saying is that unlike a good whiskey people do not get better with age past a certain point. Are you going to be paying £40-£60 to see one of the legendary black sabbath suffer cardiac arrest after one too many headbangs?

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Now that i put it like that, yes, i probably would. but aside from possible member death would the overall experience be cheapened by a possible poor performance? One could argue that “they weren’t in my era, i love them and never got to see them live, this could be my only chance” but on the other side of the same coin what if the band you’ve placed on such a high pedestal slipped and came crashing down, smashing through your glowing love for them into a pit of disregard, disappointment and adult diapers.

Who knows, maybe (hopefully) its going to be the most extreme awesome comeback the world has ever seen,  but in my opinion sometimes its always better to put an old dog down, rather than attach its redundant back legs to one of those little doggy wheelchairs and force feed it valium and ketamine for the rest of its miserable life just so you can see it for that little bit longer, i mean yeah rovers still around be he sure as hell wont be playing fetch.

IN OTHER HEROIN NEWS

• http://www.facebook.com/acallofsirens - urghhhh what is this. i mean come ON this is just boring, boring boring boring boring bored bored bored. who needs song structure right? wrong. you do. you need it. really really bad. also, whys two average vocalists necessary? just get one good one. has no one ever told you two wrongs don’t make a right?
• http://www.facebook.com/deadlinesuk?v=app_178091127385 -  i know i bang on about it but…come on. do i even need to say anything. fuck it. Don’t use the word fam, don’t cover ellie goulding, STOP FUCKING SINGING STOP FUCKING SINGING STOP FUCKING SINGING JUST PICK A GENRE AND STICK TO IT FUCK
• http://www.facebook.com/Almeidaofficial  - now this, this is a whole sack full of crazy. when i first saw these guys at the H20 show the other day i wanted to hate them, and i mean REALLY hate them. unfortunately for me the musicianship is unparalleled. everything is perfectly executed and just so so so well written. real musical talent even if the genres are a little all over the ballsing place. check them out.

• there’s some other things i should write about, but ill leave it for now. mainly because i need to go and fill a pick and mix bag with various drugs from various pensioners, crazy what people will give up for a little company isn’t it?

BIG LOVE

HRN

NWS

WE STILL CHILLIN’ HOLMES.

unfortunately due to an unforeseen influx in hustlin’ HEROIN NEWS has been a tad on the utterly silent side, but fear not haters/raters we ARE STILL CHILLIN’ and looking for stuff to be illin’ over so hold tight.

seeing as it appears I’m all out of applicable n’ abbreviations ill wrap this up neatly, as usual keep an eye out for real reviews on real bands blah blah BLAHHHH

oh yeah I’ll review crustival at some point, although the majority is a blur as i was SUPER DRUNK.

in a nutshell it was nice, and i bled on everyone.

LOVE

HRN

NWS

DOOMED FROM DAY ONE - THE WASTED WORLD

FUCK YEAH.

Its been a good old while since I’ve heard a metal album that wasn’t afraid of what it was, seems to me as a lot of bands now a days have to masquerade as down-tempo hardcore bands or DJ-ing ents  to be accepted by the high top wearing flat peak clad masses  of today. When did metal become a dirty word? Why do we have to smother it with a sticky layer of two step breaks or lovely clean vocals to make it a palatable morsel? yet again I’m hideously generalising and there actually IS a pretty healthy metal scene throbbing away out there, but it’s nowhere near as reputable as it was say 6 years ago, no one gives a shit about black dahlia murder anymore, suicide silence released some new shit recently, did you care about that….probably not.

But that’s ok, we have a shiny new replacement to cram into our fickle faces.

THE WASTED WORLD has perfectly encapsulated what a good metal record was meant to be, brutally heavy without mashing out your eardrums into sludgy goo(which is great, but you can’t have lobster for dinner every night can you?), dark and atmospheric – but not in a ‘Norway in the winter’ kind of way and  simply cram packed with awesome riffs, groovy breaks and technical pieces that will rip your fucking eyes out and DEMAND THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO HOW FUCKING TECH THAT WAS, DID YOU HEAR WHAT JUST HAPPENED? WELL FUCKING DID YOU? Not to mention the quintessential shred-tastic ,slightly cheesy solo’s dotted all over the place.

Even with all the beautifully executed ‘essentials’ this record has it hasn’t been afraid to take a sneak peak out of its metal fortress to see what’s been going on with the outside world. Using a fine toothed comb its painstakingly picked through all the interesting little quirks that have been flying around recently. Although I DO hate computerised nonsense it’s been used well in this instance, yes I DID think that the intro was a little pointless and obtrusive but everywhere else it just works. There’s also a slight grinding edge to this record that really sets it off for me especially on the tracks ‘from here on out’ and ‘you were meant to suffer’. Oh, did I mention there’s melodic jazz parts that spring out at you from fucking NOWHERE too?

Yeah I know, melodic jazz, weird huh?

Well no, not really, this record does have a pretty stonking undertone of lamb of god (the record wrath springs to mind) so its unsurprising that the odd clean quasi Latina guitar break would flop itself out from time to time. But that’s ok, it’s cool, its different, and I like it. As I mentioned earlier  (in a roundabout over the top sort of way) the musicianship within this band is phenomenal , and most importantly they are all working as one big fucking totally rad unit, like the shred fuelled S.A.S they move as one to perfectly execute that breakdown and overcome that problematic pentatonic sweep section. There’s no singular entity in this band, doomed from day ones spotlight is broad and welcoming as opposed to the narrow pinpoint that a lot of bands seem to favour, which I think teaches us a valuable lesson. Fuck a big name, just bring you’re A game.

Overall Doomed from day one have done an excellent job here, although I don’t think the record flowed as well as it could of as a whole each track stands up for itself with a towering “look how fucking great I am” stance effortlessly. There is no weak track on this record, it truly is all killer and no filler, if good things don’t happen for doomed from day one in the next year or so there is something clinically wrong with the world today.

-1 +0

Its seems as though the (d)gents in ECHOES have taken a step in some kind of new direction by removing the clean vocalist Dan Gilliver, I’m going to go out on a limb here - and call me presumptuous - but i think that this particular limb will be a djent one. If not a “djent”direction what else could it be? i mean they’re already a hardcore band right?

WRONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

now as much as I’ve slated ECHOES in the past i have to admit i though that the mix between the two vocals actually worked pretty well. Dan was the yin to Josh’s yang, the krispy to his kreme, the plummeting scoop in his V neck and although YES it was samey and NO i didn’t really like it, it was still a nice contrast between one weak and one not so weak vocal.

So where does this leave ECHOES now? halfway up a downtuned creek with a samey boring vocal paddle? yeah…pretty much.

BUT WHO KNOWS, i could be wrong, I’ve been wrong before….oh wait no..i haven’t, I’m like the musical equivalent of Nostradamus - predicting musical short comings in a round about way using silly metaphors THAT ARE NEVER WRONG.

so go ahead, moan about me picking on people blah blah blah but am i wrong AM I WRONG?

well…we’ll see.

Information, but with pretty moving pictures and comedy so you can digest it better-er

jamaispairouimpair asked: http://vimeo.com/23958724

THANKYOU, i have the orginal demo of this song and was under the impression ASBESTOS had fallen into the musical pit of no return. so happy with this, its like christmas in may. screamo christmas.

I HAD WANTED TO PUT THIS OFF FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE…

BUT ITS LIKE SUGAR TO ME….  now I’m painfully aware this has turned into a “flood the sky are shit” blog over the past month (and rightly so i suppose) so I’ll try and keep this as brief as possible.

As i previously predicted, FTS broke up and in the shake of a lambs tail the almost identical twin of flood the sky DEADLINES was shat all over our news feed in the usual “check out our new band we made 5 minutes ago in an attempt to appear unscathed by the rejection of our music by the public”  fashion followed by a series of posts referring to likes and demos and vocalists and everything else you (i) don’t care about.

So today, as they reached 100 fans or something tediously attention grabbing like that they released a VOCAL TRY OUT TRACK.

Appalling.

Essentially its FLOOD THE SKY, with a slightly different guitar tone, and alot of material literally lifted directly out of of this particular SIXTH song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAyqaLpJTQg… even though this is just a slightly polished duplicate of its predecessor (and i don’t use duplicate lightly, they use THE SAME LICKS IN THIS SONG) they seemed to have learned from one mistake they made time and time again, toby’s vocal line is alot less busy and warbly - although if your making a “djent” band is that even really necessary? I’m sorry buddy, but GOBP is gone, its time to let go.

So in short here we have another band desperatly clawing at the walls of potential recognition, only to clamber their way to the watermark where so many waves have crashed and broken before, to fall back down into obscurity yet again. It might take a month, it might take a year but sure as the sun will set, This deadline wont be met.

killboy asked: review tear yourself apart?

if you have any copies of thier record (if they released one) i’ll give it a listen,

ALL THE REAL HEADS ARE ROARIN’ HOLY

you can now download or purchase a totally for reals copy of DESOLATEDs record from holy-fuckin-roar right here http://holyroarrecords.com/album.php?id=933&shop=1

Its nice to see all these Southampton based bands rocking it out with the big boys, maybe its because all our promoters keeping using buzzwords and stuff.

“CRUSHSWELLMETALSATANISMMMXVIIMXIVIXIMIXIV!”

OR MAYBE ITS BECAUSE WE GOT SOME TALENT UP IN THIS BISH, FOR REAL.