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Vince over at Metalsucks recently interviewed Burton C. Bell, Ascension of Watchers and ex-Fear Factory Frontman. In the interview Burton discusses his time in Fear Factory, how he’s not into metal (like it’s strange for a whole band to not have the same musical interests) and his long spiritual journey leading to start Ascension Of Watchers.
And I was kind of getting frustrated that people assumed that I was all about metal… and say all you want, but that’s not me. Don’t like it, sorry, some of it’s alright.
It’s a gut feeling in a way, but your heart really speaks to you through your dreams and your soul speaks to you through your dreams, and it’s trying to tell you something.
I said, you know what, I’m gonna go on my journey. I left LA and I traveled out to Pennsylvania, met with John [Bechdel], and basically stayed in his studio. I was already friends with John cause he had worked with Fear Factory already, so he let me stay at his house, he and his family were very warm. They have a lot of property, about 15 acres in the woods. It was a great place to be for someone who wants to get away and isolate themselves. In some ways the woods were a cloister for me, a sanctuary, and that’s where the music really flowered.
Learn more about Burton, and the role of the subconsious here.
Mother’s Day is quickly approaching, and we at Buzzgrinder thought it would be good to celebrate all of motherdom by talking with a mom who raised children that actually made something of themselves: Kim DuPree, the woman behind 4/5 of Eisley. While your mom raised a pudgy Target cashier whose crowning achievement is name-dropping Fugazi at parties, their mother produced a band that is as indie as it is accessible. We got the chance to talk to Mrs. DuPree about her favorite artists, her coffee shop, oh and her kids, too. (more…)
Lords vocalist/guitarist Chris Owens talks about their latest album on Black Market Activities. It was intended for release on Jade Tree, but said label had money woes.
“(Jade Tree) told us that they didn’t have enough money to release the record; they asked if we were interested in doing a digital–only release but that didn’t really appeal to us. We want to put out a record, not a file.”
Damn straight! More CDs! More shrink wrap! More shipping labels! Mailers! Postage!
Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake isn’t all that impressed with even his own band’s technical songwriting.
“People stating, like “this track starts in 23/16” or whatever. Our songs are actually written on a 4/4 platform — even though you could analyze it and make it into something else. That still doesn’t make it right.”
So all you fanboys out there can stop counting and impressing your friends with your fancy “odd meters” and “time changes” lingo. No one cares. Not even the drummer from Meshuggah.
“I don’t count or hear the odd numbers… if you have a riff that plays on the eighth notes, but plays nine times and then it starts over, that one just keeps going for like four, eight, sixteen, or thirty two bars and then it starts over. That’s usually how most of the stuff is done.”
Photo of the HP 35 Calculator by Seth Morabito.
Biohazard singer Evan Seinfeld says that if he catches you downloading his music, “I will kick the shit out of you.” But I guess computer programmers are fair game:
“If you are going to steal from someone, steal programs from Microsoft ’cause they can afford it.”
Got that? Downloading music created by pasty white boys that spend their days in vans and sleeping on floors is bad. But downloading software written by pasty white boys that spend their days and nights in cubicles is okay. Genius.
Kirk Miller asks Chris Carrabba the question that everyone is wondering;
“Many straight men have crushes on you. Who is your man-crush?
Cillian Murphy. He’s a beautiful man. He’s so beautiful he’s like a woman.”
Beth Ditto of Gossip, responding to the notion that the band might be a “pigeonholed as… a queer act.”
I don’t really care. I could give a shit. I think if I were someone who takes themselves completely seriously as an artist I would, but I don’t take myself that seriously, I don’t think Gossip takes itself that seriously. It’s also just such a part of who we are as a band. If you want to look at it like that, all music is pretty fucking gay. [Laughs.] I mean especially dance music or punk music, it’s all so gay.
The interview, posted two days ago, has over 500 comments. After the jump, the band performs on David Letterman. (more…)
They’re the newest sensation sweeping the internets and they’re taking the hardcore world by storm. They’re I Wrestled A Bear Once and they’re not taking you seriously. (more…)
Buzzgrinder recently spoke with John Sellers, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life (Simon & Schuster), about good music, bad music and snakes. Yes, snakes.
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Rody Walker of Protest The Hero with another fine interview.
“The generation that’s coming up now does not know Jim Carrey the comedian. They’ve seen The Number 23 and some of the other serious stuff that he’s done, and some of the children’s movies. But they missed that entire period of The Cable Guy, Dumb and Dumber, and the Ace Ventura movies, so they never saw Jim Carrey at his best. That kind of pisses me off.”
I think about those things, too. Like how some kids don’t know what vinyl is, or never heard of Windows 3.1. Man! Me and Rody, we see things on another level.
Rody also has an opinion about screamo:
“We really weren’t happy with the screamo label that was being applied to us,” Walker says. “What we tried to do, in addition to getting heavier, was also be more progressive, so that when people listen to it they’ll have trouble defining it, as opposed to writing it off as a screamo record. Screamo sucks.”
After the jump, Jim Carrey singing with Cannibal Corpse. (more…)
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