After releasing the mediocre Demonocracy, JFAC are back with a new album, Sun Eater. Listen to "Sun of Nihility", below.
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Last week JFAC announced that they had parted ways with drummer Jon Rice. Now they have enlisted Intronaut drummer Danny Walker to play on their upcoming new album. Here is what JFAC had to say:
“Well my friends the time has come and The Charn has officially decided to step off the JFAC train. Absolutely no hahd feelins or nothin! We love the dude, cherish the memories we made with him, and in all likelihood will be seeing him again very soon…which brings up the next awesome piece of news… Our phenomenally talented friend Danny Walker is going to grace our next full length with his decidedly delicious drum tracks! We are seriously excited to hear what it’s going to turn out like- let the anticipation build!”
Jon Rice personally explained the circumstances surrounding his departure:
“As of this past August, I have decided to part ways with Job for a Cowboy. There are a few reasons for this, none of which I’m going to get into. That being said, I have no intentions of stopping touring or playing. I honestly love to tour and play live with new people, so I look forward to playing in new musical arenas in the future. The dudes and I are on very good terms with this and they understand the decision. They have a new record in the making and I’m extremely excited to hear it.
There are pretty sizable gaps in the schedule, so I’d assume more dates are going to be forthcoming.
EDIT: : All tour dates have now been released!
07/20 Los Angeles, CA – House of Blues (feat. Fallujah)
07/21 San Diego, CA – SOMA (feat. Fallujah)
07/22 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
07/23 Scottsdale, AZ – Venue of Scottsdale
07/25 Dallas, TX – House of Blues
07/26 San Antonio, TX – White Rabbit
07/27 Mission, TX – Pharr Events Center
07/28 Houston, TX – House of Blues
07/30 Tampa, FL – The Ritz
07/31 Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
08/01 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
08/02 Knoxville, TN – The Valarium
08/03 Charlotte, NC – Amos Southend
08/04 Baltimore, MD – Sonar (feat. The Contortionist)
08/05 Philadelphia, PA – The Trocadero (feat. The Contortionist)
08/07 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom (feat. The Contortionist)
08/08 New York, NY – Irving Plaza (feat. The Contortionist)
08/09 Albany, NY – Northern Lights (feat. The Contortionist)
08/10 Worcester, MA – The Palladium (feat. The Contortionist)
08/11 Montreal, QC – Heavy Montreal
08/12 Toronto, ON – Heavy Toronto
08/14 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
08/15 Detroit, MI – St. Andrew’s
08/16 Chicago, IL – House Blues
08/17 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
08/18 St. Paul, MN – Station 4
08/20 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
08/22 Seattle, WA – The Showbox Sodo
08/23 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
08/24 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
08/25 Anaheim, CA – The Grove
Exploding Horse blends all their favorite styles of metal into their songs and keeps their music and stage show full of epic, over the top energy and aggression that is unmatched by most. Exploding Horse appeals to all metal crowds ranging from new school metal core kids to the old school die hard thrashers and moshers. Their music is not for the weak of heart, for the simple-minded, or for anybody who does not want to totally fuck their neck up, and it does not matter the reasons behind their recent name change. Do not be thrown off by some of the titles they have given their songs – Blonde Mustache, Turbo Tommy, The Great Mechanical Pig – for these names do not dive into the music deeply enough. You have to listen to each of them and feel all the passion, rage, and disturbing similarities to ourselves to truly know where these guys come from. The Carolina’s metal scene is for sure alive and well, and the music I had lost touch with for so many years has come back into my life with the exact sound that Exploding Horse brings to my mind when thinking of where the aura of death metal had gone. Download their record here and check out the video for C.A.C. Vocalist Brennon explains the meaning of each song on their debut record.
Blonde Mustache
This song is about how no matter what form a culture comes in there is always a generic trendy version of it polluting it, making it look bad, and becoming more popular. Whether its pop icons on MTV or phony punk rockers who wanna fit in for the sake of fashion. No matter which form they come in, it reflects that these people would just follow some bandwagon even if they weren’t into what there into at the time. The song also mentions how famous people are basically worshipped in our society today in all of these avenues. The title of the track is unrelated but is an inside joke on how creepy dudes look with just a blonde mustache. I am one of these poor souls that only grows a blonde mustache.
Turbo Tommy
This song is about how much television has influenced society. Television alone has been the source of people’s fear of the world due to the news they watch. It has told people what to look like and what type of music they should like. It plays on insecurities telling people what they should own to make them happy or make them “fit in”. It has also dictated the standards of beauty from a mainstream level and set high standards for how woman should look and dress to be considered attractive. It is also responsible for racial profiling and a high cause of racial tension and slander of various figures in the world. The planet would be a totally different place had this device not been invented. People believe what it says and live by the beliefs they’ve gained from half information and embellishment. No need to research anything because T.V. provides it much quicker and is the supposed truth. The title of this song is also unrelated to the lyrics and is about a bizarre kid that Sam went to school with named Tommy that would run very awkwardly, from what I’ve been told.
Queen of the Parasites
This song is about an evil insect warlord queen who has become a terrorist in the parasitic world. She sends her minions into battle to overthrow other kingdoms and build her empire. The throne that she sits on is made of the exoskeletons of passed dictators she’s defeated.
C.A.C.
This song mildy touches on a few thing such as corrupt politicians and politics in general. I see all of these things as very spoonfed and forced distortedly into our lives as something we’re suppose to care about. Not that its wrong to care about these things but the information we’re receiving has been so distorted that it’s not as black and white as it should be. It makes it seem like you’re not a “normal person” if you don’t get involved and I’m not down with that. The song also touches on how we are being flooded by sales pitches at all angles of
life. There are commercials everywhere TV, radio, pop ups, billboards, stickers, clothing etc. As we are being flooded with this there is a second flood gate that opens and that is the ignorance of man that falls for these schemes. There are also a few references to war in this song and what it does to a person. Whether you have fought in a war, known some one to fight, got killed in one, known some one to get killed, or just heard about it. War effects every one some are bred for it and it becomes a part of your soul so that’s why I say in the song that
“war becomes the soul of man”. To summarize this song its basically about all this stuff and how I see it as being things I don’t want to take part in or have be a part of my life so I jumbled it together because it secondhand is a part of my life anyway. I personally wanted the song title to be an acronym that had no meaning but its really just based of a dumb joke that we should have called the song “Cheeseburger Ass Cannon”. So there ya go.
Decomposition
This song is about how young people are perceived as targets by marketers for easy manipulation by telling them what they should purchase and be like. It also reflects the world that a kid is thrown into in this day and age and how it molds them faster than they can mold themselves with distractions like drugs, cell phone apps and various perversions. It kinda talks about how Americans are very spoiled and other countries needs are getting disregarded because we’re to focused and worried about things like our bank accounts and having sex. I see this
generation as one that has no desire for revolution because every one is pumped full of Mickey D’s and Xanax. And if people don’t make a change then we shall continue to de-evolve. Like a social form of decomposition.
Land of the Manatees
The song title of this track does not fit with lyrics whatsoever. The lyrics are also not serious at all because when the song was written it was back when our band was just a side project so those things just weren’t looked at as seriously at the time. The title is based off of the observation that since manatees are called sea cows then would that mean that cows should be called “land manatees”; that’s all there is to that. The lyrics are about the old school Nintendo game Ninja Gaiden from the perspective of the main character Ryu. We even changed the title of this song for the lyrics but changed it back because it was more known with the manatees title.
Bullet Proof Fridge
This song is mostly metaphor and allegory and can be interpreted however the reader sees it. Most of it isn’t straight forward but kind of hints at man’s creations turning against him or getting out of hand. It was influenced by a lot of the allegory found in various religious texts but with my own perspective in my own universe. There is one part that mentions how cadavers will rise from there graves but not to feed on flesh but to get money. So it kind of shows mankind’s worship of money and how it transcends into death because it makes zombies
our of certain people.
An Unspoken Remembrance (instrumental)
The Great Mechanical Pig
This song is partially about how living amongst the human race has molded you into who you are. Whether you’ve experienced trauma, racism, or are easily influenced by media and crime. You’ve become that based off of other homo-sapiens you’ve come across through out your life. It becomes a shell around the innocence you once had as a child. So in the song I mention that “I’ll shed all of this world from my skin like a cheap suit” means to return to the purity I once had before the world corrupted me. There is also metaphoric meaning as I personify “ignorance”
as a female figure that consumers who buy into the world’s ways are keeping ignorance by there side like they’ve married her. I also say that “when hate becomes your life you will die” meaning that spiritual death inhabits those who’ve been consumed by hatred. This song lightly touches on Armageddon and how we are all equal in death. So a selfish sense of pride is irrelevant.
Frozen Head
This song basically says that the underground music community is like the undead. It still thrives while being 6 feet deep but will arise from the grave, feast, and remain hidden.
Sam Kinison’s Death March
This song can be interpreted however the reader reads it, but I touch on how the upper class complain about petty things in life while there lives are far greater than those in third world countries celebrities go insane when they’re not on top but at least there not eating dust pancakes.
Strychnia have posted their debut album for FREE download; a statement from the band is below.
In complete honesty, our album is not selling as well as we hoped… and we really just want people to hear the hard work we put into this album. We spent 100+ hours in the studio recording, editing, and tweaking these songs and we are dying to hear everyone’s opinion. Therefore, our entire album can be played online. You can download the entire album off our facebook page (www.facebook.com/strychnia) … we just ask of one thing… PLEASE give us some feedback. We are dedicated musicians and nothing is more awesome than hearing how much you guys dig our tunes! If you do want to support us and donate a couple bucks towards our efforts, the album is still available on iTunes for purchase. Thank you for listening!
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Job For A Cowboy have chosen “Demonocracy” as the title for their new album. The group expect to release the Jason Suecof (August Burns Red, Trivium) produced outing through Metal Blade on April 10th. The tentative track listing can be found below:
01 – “Children Of Deceit“
02 – “Nourishment Through Bloodshed“
03 – “Imperium Wolves“
04 – “Tongueless And Bound“
05 – “Black Discharge“
06 – “The Manipulation Stream“
07 – “The Deity Misconception“
08 – “Fearmonger“
09 – “Tarnished Gluttony“
Upon A Red Sky frontman Chris Breetzi takes us through the band’s new EP In A Crisis. Buy the album (if you haven’t already) and read the descriptions below:
After The Catastrophe
The first song on our EP is about the instability of our current global financial system. Latter is visualized as a big tower that could collapse every second, due to the fact that so many people doing shit with money (“Everybody is poking him”). When the tower collapses, money is worthless (“Your hive turns into dust”) and we’ll all be buried in his debris. History proved that we can’t change this system, so we rebuild the tower with the same fatal vulnerability (“We’ll rebuild you with the same unstable heart”).
Misused
"Misused" is in general about the exploitation of religion. People are following pseudo leaders ("Thousands of victims running into open arms") and think that everything commanded and told is for the sake of worshipping god ("Stealthed as Dedication To him"). I wish everyone of them the power to reveal the real motives of their leaders ("Look through the facade, exposing your leader") and go back into the right direction again ("..that deceive you from the truth that lies somewhere out there. Find out what lies beneath.")
Parasite
The topic of “Parasite” is the pollution and exhausting of mother earth. The first paragraph of the song is similar to an old Indian saying that describes that when the whole nature is gone - we finally realize that we can’t eat our money. And that’s the picture that I had in my mind when i wrote the second paragraphs. A human being sitting on a huge hive of money (“Sitting upon your own green gold”), inhaling the polluted air(“and you can inhale your industrial’s breath”) and eating it because there’s nothing else left. As I personalize the earth into a mother, its obvious that we’re treating her really bad (“Raping Mother Earth”) and that we’re mutilating her organs e.g. the rain forest (“Her green heart was ripped out of her chest”). Humanity on earth is pretty much the same as a parasite - if we would have such a parasite on our body, we would instantly react and eradicate him.
Kingslayer
Our song “Kingslayer” is about the riots going on in the whole arabic world. Finally people have the power and the courage to stand up and say no to their tyrans. I imagine the people storming the golden palace (“We’re shattering your walls”) of the despot and then destroying his monument in a physical and mental way (“And break your monument of fear”). The country is finally freed from its shackles, but its a long way to a working democracy (“Your reign is over, let us rebuild a country in ashes”).
In A Crisis
Our classic “In A Crisis” is about the financial crisis. In this song the financial crisis is portrayed as a monster that threatens the world (“Holding the ball with its huge pranks”). Another topic are human beings doing wrong things with their money (“Lots of green paper implying responsibility, responsibility misleading into distrust”). The ironic thing is that we want to extinguish the crisis with the money itself - which is the cause of this problem (“Try, to fear the monster with itself away”). Only the symptoms are being fought (“Not digging under the surface Not destroying the core”). But in the end we have to trust in our leaders, because we have no other choice (“We’re trusting in the the responsibles again and again and again and again”).
Get their EP “IN A CRISIS” on
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/at/album/in-a-crisis-ep/id497196959
AmazonMP3: (available in a few days)
Vocalist Chris had this to say about the release:
Do us a favor and share this song on Facebook if you like it and tag us in your post. https://www.facebook.com/uponaredsky
Note, that we will keep nothing of the money gained from the EP to ourselves, but invest it in new music for you, dear fan of brutal noise. So with buying our EP, you are directly supporting the music you like! ;)
DevilDriver, The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Job For A Cowboy, 3 Inches Of Blood and Impending Doom will hit the road together for the second annual Metalliance Tour in March/April 2012.
3/15 Austin, TX @ SXSW / Scoot Inn
3/16 New Orleans, LA @ The Hangar
3/17 St Petersburg, FL @ State Theater
3/18 Charlotte, NC @ Amos’ Southend
3/20 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
3/21 New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater
3/22 Danvers, MA @ Palace Ballroom
3/23 Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
3/24 Toronto, ON @ Opera House
3/25 Columbus, OH @ Alrosa Villa
3/26 Joliet, IL @ Mojoe’s
3/27 St Paul, MN @ Station-4
3/28 Winnipeg, MB @ Garrick Centre
3/29 Regina, SK @ Riddell Centre
3/30 Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Events Centre
3/31 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater
4/01 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
4/03 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
4/05 Oakland, CA @ The Pound
4/06 Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater
4/07 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater
4/09 Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
4/10 Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
4/11 Des Moines, IA @ 7 Flags Event Center
4/13 Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theater
4/15 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
4/16 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
4/19 Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
4/20 Austin, TX @ Emo’s East
4/21 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
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