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Featured music software review: EZDrummer - Multi Layer Drum Sampler [November 9th, 2006]Find the latest music CD's at 101cd and browse through a collection of genres that suit you. Metal news by Blabbermouth: Says Cavalera, "This new Soulfly album, Enslaved, is its own thing. It's definitely a Soulfly record because all the trademarks are there, but it's probably the most extreme so far. I'm very proud of that. I specifically hand picked death metal orientated riffs and beats, because David Kinkade comes from a death metal school of drumming and he can play that stuff really well...I made those beats and those specific parts with David in mind, so the new Soulfly album could be the most extreme we have ever written. I mean, take "World Scum" for example. That's probably the most extreme song that I've ever done and I'm very happy that's the first single. It announces the record in a great way, it's so heavy and so brutal. It's like 'YES! We're back with a vengeance.' Regarding the selection of new bassist Tony Campos and new drummer David Kinkade, he says, "Tony is a guy I was in contact with during a Static-X tour with Soulfly a couple of years ago. Tony used to come sing with us all the time doing backing vocals and he is a really cool guy. I saw Tony perform with Prong and I knew he was playing with Ministry as well. I thought he’d be a great bass player to have on the record and I approached him and asked if he’d like to be apart of the new Soulfly lineup and he loved the idea. From the beginning, he liked the idea of being in the band and accepted pretty much straight away...David was a little different. David came in contact with me via email. He said he was an extreme death metal drummer and played with a Norwegian black metal band called Borknagar. He sent me over some tracks and they sounded killer. Blast beats and stuff like that. At the time I thought I’d really like to try something really brutal for the new record. I originally had the idea to make an extreme kind of record, so I flew David to jam with me in Phoenix, Arizona. As soon as we started jamming we locked in perfectly. He played the double bass while I played a couple of the riffs and I thought we were on the same page. So perfect." Read the whole thing! You can pre-order Soulfly's Enslaved right now, and if you're one of the first 400, you can get a signed booklet and three digital bonus tracks! Storm Corrosionis the long-discussed and highly anticipated collaboration between two of the modern progressive rock scene's most innovative and multi-talented artists: Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt< of Opeth. The pair will release Storm Corrosion on April 24 via Roadrunner Records. A little background information on the genesis of this project: Wilson and Åkerfeldt have been friends since the late '90s, when Wilson co-produced Opeth’s revered Blackwater Park album. Over the years, they’d often spoken of working on a project together, but it wasn’t until recently that they managed to make something happen, when Mikael flew over to visit Steven in the U.K. and they ended up in Wilson’s home studio throwing ideas around. That visit was the nascence of a whole self-titled album, written and produced by the pair, and mixed by Wilson. The sound of Storm Corrosion can best be described as enchanting, orchestral, ambient, epic (half the album’s tracks clock in around the 10-minute mark) and nothing short of surprising to the new ear. However, the musicians’ respective fanbases will be primed to appreciate the new output, with Wilson’s recent solo album, Grace for Drowning, and Opeth’s Heritage having brought them to a logical place to understand Storm Corrosion. This eponymous collection is almost viewed as one side of a musical triangle. Says Wilson, “If you'd asked me three months ago about the music, I would have said, 'Expect the last thing you would expect.' But actually, now that Heritage and Grace for Drowning have come out, I don't think it's going to be that much of a shock to people, because it's almost like a third part of the trilogy, in a way. If anything, it's even more orchestral, even more stripped down, even more dark, twisted and melancholic…but it certainly feels like it comes from the same place as Heritage and Grace for Drowning, which indeed it does because it was written during the same period.” “Some of the music on this record I think is the most beautiful music I have participated in ever,” adds Åkerfeldt. “There's some magical sections on there. Musically I think we've created something earthy, a bit frightening, exhausting, profound and rather intense. All at the same time. I can safely say I don't know any other band or artist that sounds anything like Storm Corrosion. I guess that was also one of our goals, so to speak.” Roadrunner Senior VP of A&R Monte Conner welcomed Storm Corrosion to the Roadrunner family, commenting, “I am honored to have the Roadrunner logo on the Storm Corrosionalbum. Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt have demonstrated time and time again that they are two of the truest and most important artists working today, and it is not often that I get to work with musicians of this caliber. This album is a beautiful piece of work that will appeal to fans of Steven and Mikael’s past records, while at the same time exploring new avenues for both artists." Here's another recent interview with John, recorded by GuitarTV back in September: Gigantour continues to roll across North America; visit our tour page to find a show near you! Pop & Rock news by RollingStone: General music news by Yahoo:
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