September '09 Metal iMix

This month’s Metal iMix is up! There was really no rhyme or reason to the songs we picked this time. We just tried to find a bunch of bands that we haven’t put on previous playlists, but they have a good mix of our influences.

Dark New Day and Soilwork both have strong, melodic choruses like we try to write, and Sinergy has the heavy palm muted verses just like most of our songs do. Shadows Fall’s “Another Hero Lost” is an awesome ballad with a cool arrangement. Everything through the first pre-chorus is just vocals and acoustic guitar. Then instead of going right into the chorus from the pre-chorus, they go into a guitar solo and back into the verse. The guitar solo/interlude part is also when the drums come in, but they still leave out the bass. After the second verse the drums pick up with the side-stick on the snare for every beat in the second pre-chorus. This starts building up for the chorus, and then the bass comes in during the second half of the pre-chorus, which makes the build-up twice as huge. Staggering the entrance of the drums and bass like that leaves room in the arrangement, and each time you add a new instrument it brings up the energy another level.

Here’s the Metal iMix for September ’09 – Enjoy!

[EDIT: No idea why there are the white outlines in the iMixes, tried to get them to go away but they won't...sorry!]

August '09 Metal iMix

The Metal iMix for August '09 is here! This month features songs by most of the bands that are playing our Gotham Rocks Showcase on August 8th.

We figured this was the perfect way for you to get to know some of the other bands that we're going to be sharing the stage with at Crash Mansion in a week. We also threw The Dirty Pearls in there because they got us our last show at Crash, and also because without Tommy's help we never would have gotten this one. We put their song "Icarus (Hollywood la la la)" on there as a token of our appreciation for all the help we've gotten from the Pearls. Thanks guys!

Here are the songs for August!

July '09 Metal iMix

Here's our metal playlist for the month of July! Hopefully it will give you a taste of what bands we're into at the moment. Right now Brian's really enjoying Dream Theater's new release, Black Clouds & Silver Linings so there are two tracks on there from that album. As always, you've got two from your favorite unsigned metal band, DIVERGENCE.

We also put some on there from Alter Bridge and Shinedown, two bands with amazing lead singers that you should check out if you don't know them. Shinedown's third album (their latest, The Sound Of Madness) is starting to make a lot of noise on mainstream radio because of the song "Second Chance." Just because they're on mainstream radio doesn't mean they're soft though. We like them for the same reason we like Sevendust, who's song "Inside" is on this playlist. Both bands manage to achieve a sound that is both heavy as hell and still musically pleasing, which is something we aim for ourselves if you couldn't tell.

Here is the playlist for July, enjoy!

P.S. This is our 100th Post!!

June '09 Metal iMix

We're trying a new way of promoting the band - a monthly hard rock/heavy metal iTunes iMix! Each month we'll put up a playlist of 10 songs, including a few of ours, so that we can share the songs we're into at the moment with you. Hopefully it will be successful, and something we will keep up with!