Job for a cowboy anyone?

Have any of you ever heard of the band Job for a cowboy? yes? no? Well if not I highly recommend taking some time to listen to them, they are very good if your into deathcore/death metal. Job for a Cowboy started as a deathcore group, and evolved into a predominantly death metal sound with their full-length debut Genesis. They have been described by The New York Times as "an Arizona band with a guttural, brute-force sound descended (indirectly) from hard-core punk" and "straightforwardly brutal act" by Rolling Stone magazine


Job for a Cowboy was founded in Glendale, Arizona during December 2003 by vocalist Jonny Davy, guitarists Ravi Bhadriraju and Andrew Arcurio, bassist Chad Staples, and drummer Andy Rysdam. They started off as a Myspace band, a long with many other bands in this genre. And automatically began to get recognition from all over. In 2005 they released their EP Doom and were picked up by an Arizona independent label King of the Monsters. The band promoted their EP nonstop to get their name out and were then picked up by Metal Blade Records which really set of their carrer in the music scene.


In 2007 they went into the studio to record their first full length album Genesis, which was highly anticipated. When it was finally released it sold 13,000 copies in the first week and  Kerrang! magazine said, "an album that quite literally obliterates everyone else currently residing within the death and grind scenes" and "one of the year's most essential metal purchases".


After touring for 2 years nonstop they went bakc into the studio to record their 2 full lenght album Ruination, which featured Jon "the charm" Rice on drums,whose been with the band since the album Genesis and Al Glassman on guitar. During the first week of sales the album racked in around 10,600 copies sold. As of 2011 the band has said to be working on a new EP.


I really do recommend everyone to listen to this band it will literally blow your mind, and for a fun fact the current drummer of this band Jon Rice, brother and sister, Blaze and Tessi Rice go to our school! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gk3EpOWxnw

album review: Reckless and Relentless, Asking Alexandria

Asking Alexandria's new album is set to come out April 5th, 2011. Reckless and Relentless was recorded during the summer and Autumn of 2010 at the Foundation Recording Studios located in Connersville, Indiana. The first official confirmation of the sophomore full-length was on December 22, 2009, wherein Asking Alexandria announced that they were to start the works on a second album in January. They informed that they were to be streaming parts of the writing process through a webcam feed via the service Stickam. It was also announced that they will be entering the studio on September 1, again with producer Joey Sturgis, who produced the band's debut album Stand Up and Scream. The band later announced that they will be able to get into the studio June 22, 2010 on their official twitter. Asking Alexandria has, as well, confirmed through an interview with Shred News that the album is scheduled for release on April, 5th 2011 and is planned to contain 12 new songs. In the same interview, the band informed that a title was not yet established. One song, "Breathless" was played live to promote the album, and was released with their Life Gone Wild EP. Worsnop has also released lyrics from the album. The song "Someone, Somewhere" has been leaked on to various music download sites and has been uploaded on YouTube, on Feb. 4th 2011. Asking Alexandria will be releasing the first official single from the album, titled "Morte Et Dabo" on February 15th. This was confirmed by them on their twitter. From and interview with Danny from the band,
TMR: The new album is “Reckless and Relentless”.  What can the fans expect in terms of the experimentation?  Is that going to progress?
Danny: We’ve tried to stretch out what we can do and try and do some things that bands in our music don’t really try anymore.  Like we’ve got a lot of old rock-and-roll influences.  I’m a big ‘80’s hair metal fan so we incorporate some of that.  We’ve got some guitar solos.  We’ve figured out what notes do.  It’s not just breakdowns anymore.
TMR: Oh wow.  It’s not just breakdowns and syncopation –
Danny: Yeah.  We’ve really tried to push ourselves.


I think this is going to be a great album, im going to see them on their upcoming tour promoting this album. so when April rolls around be sure to grab this album on itunes!

upcoming concerts

Know of any good upcoming metalcore, deathcore, heavy metal concerts in Ohio? Yes? No? Well here are some really good concerts that are coming up in the next couple of months. On February 25th, White Chapel, Chelsea grin, The Acacia Strain, Veil of Maya, I Declare War. that should be a really good one if your into really heavy deathcore music. Which consists of screaming vocals/ growls. Deathcore is heavily influenced by modern death metal in its speed, heaviness, and approach to chromatic heavily palm muted riffing and dissonance. Deathcore is defined by breakdowns and a focus on fast tempos and abrasiveness. This will be taking place at the house of blues in downtown Cleveland.

Another REALLY good one that is coing is on March 13th. Its the Reckless and Relentless tour. It consists of Asking Alexandria, Emmure, Chiodos, Miss I May, Evergreen Terrace and Lower than Atlantis. All of these bands are Metalcore, except Lower than Atlantis, they are a punk/rock/grunge band. and Emmure is a combination of metalcore and deathcore. The vocalizing technique in metalcore is generally screamed vocals, particularly common among many 1990s metalcore groups. Today many metalcore bands combine screaming vocals with the usage of clean vocals usually during the bridge or chorus of a song.Metalcore is a fusion genre combining various elements of exreme metal and hardcore punk.

Another really fun one is Warped tour, which is a festival that goes across the whole United States during the summer. Usually Warped tour has 50-70 bands play. and the band naming starts in December and ends in March. This is  really fun experience, so many different types of genres of music, so many different people. its incredible. This year it will be July 20th, but the location is unknown for Cleveland.

I can uderstand if your not into metalcore or deathcore. Thats fine, im not offended at all. But i beleive that these three concerts that i mentioned are really worht going to. the tickits for the first two are $17 and warped tour is $37, i'd say that those prices are very good. But at least go toWarped tour, theres music for everyone there and you can defiently get into some new bands. if you decided to go maybe you'll see me because im going to all three! well thanks for reading!