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Your Kind” pack a heavy punch that disproves any notion that they’re in this for the money. The aforementioned songs and more can be heard on their MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/ untilwesleepmusic. Content that I have supplied you with enough information, I will go ahead and draw this month’s column to a close. Remember to keep the news, comments, hecklings, etc. flowing to norcalmetal@ ksjs.org. It would be a shame not only for your big announcement to reach as many ears as possible, but also if I don’t get cut down to size every now and again. Don’t worry - I’m a big man. I can take it.
Exodus is the latest band to cross over to the comic book world. Nuclear Blast Records and Terminal Press are teaming up to deliver “Exodus: Death Begets Death,” being described as an apocalyptic horror comic filled with violence and dark humor that will incorporate themes and imagery from their entire body of work. Briefly, the story will involve the members of Exodus being summoned to stop a supernatural being from wiping out military forces in an American wasteland. We can only hope that the ghost of Paul Baloff has a poser-disposing cameo. The comic will be available in early 2010. You gotta love a band with the balls to call themselves Metal, Inc., so let me tell you about
them. They formed in summer 2008 to do their part to bring thrash back to the forefront of the metal scene, and are making a name for themselves one show (and friend request) at a time. They currently have a 3-song demo available and will soon release a new EP entitled Media Bleed Out. Check them out at http://www.myspace.com/mimetalinc to hear them for yourself and get in on the ground floor. Until We Sleep is a new band formed in San Jose featuring former members of Blessings of Affliction and Suffer Tree. Their sounds leans more towards the mainstream end of the metal spectrum but tracks like “Cutter” and “Kill
NORCAL UNLEASHED
Top 10 Playlist for period 8/13 – 9/10 (NorCal Unleashed airs on 90.5 FM KSJS on Thursday nights from 11pm-midnight. Contact madman@ksjs.org for information on how to submit your music for airplay) 1. Becoming – Sonic Revelations 2. In Virtue – Delusions of Grandeur 3. Silent Sinner – Higher Power 4. Taunted – Bleeding Black 5. Arsonists Get All The Girls – Portals 6. Skinlab – The Scars Between Us 7. Sol Asunder – Mechanize 8. Falling to Pieces – Awaken The Weak 9. Zed - Demo 10. Dreams of the Fall – Wings of Innocence QUICK BITS: Imagika will enter the studio this month to record their new CD Portrait Of A Hanged Man, tentatively scheduled for worldwide release in spring 2010 through new label Metalville Records . . . Defiance’s longawaited new album The Prophecy is now set for release on October 20th via Candlelight Records . . . Hysteria is in need of a new guitarist . . . High on Fire have commenced work on the follow up to 2007’s Death Is This Communion, which will mark their first release for new label E1 Music, with eyes on an early 2010 release, and will soon embark on the Adult Swim Tour featuring co-headliners Dethklok and Mastodon and opening act Converge . . . former members of Suffokate and Legacy of Pain have joined together to form The Golden Knife . . . Vomit Trough is currently auditioning drummers . . . not to be outdone, Sympathy Ends is looking for a drummer AND a vocalist . . . Mudface are at work writing the follow up to last year’s selftitled EP . . . the new album from Dirty Penny, Young & Reckless, should be available now.