This is Ariella Spector, a self-described MetalSucks reader “hailing from Hollywood and currently living in the Holyland.” Ariel works at a humous restaurant in Tel Aviv and rocks the nifty “Appetite for Deconstruction” MetalSucks t-shirt as she serves up humous and pita daily. Says Ariel, “I’m actually really impressed with the metal scene here. While I miss [...]

The shortlist for the Juno awards has been revealed . The fan's choice category looks more like a 'can you think of a Canadian act' round in Pointless. I'm surprised Rush aren't on there: JUNO FAN CHOICE AWARD Fire">Arcade Fire Avril Lavigne City and Colour Deadmau5 Drake Ginette Reno Hedley Justin Bieber Michael Bublé Nickelback SINGLE OF THE YEAR City and Colour Fragile Bird Hedley Universal Invincible Johnny Reid Let's Go Higher Nickelback When We Stand Together The Sheepdogs I Don't Know INTERNATIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR Coldplay Mylo Xyloto Lady Gaga Born This Way ...

My lord, when does Devin Townsend sleep? We ask because even while Hevy Devy tours under the Devin Townsend Project moniker, he still finds time to record multiple new projects. To be more exact, he still finds time to work on THREE new projects despite working his ass off in support of Deconstruction. In a [...]

Leonard Cohen Old Ideas [Sony; 2012] by Rowan Savage Rating: It’s impossible not to love Leonard Cohen. And I don’t necessarily mean platonically, though he himself manifests Platonic ideals — or at least one (of which more later). An “old scholar, better-looking now than when [he] was young” (as he wrote in his brilliant but self-indulgent novel, Beautiful Losers ), even when he’s touring merely to recover a lifetime of lost profits, this reviewer can testify that it’s impossible to believe that his disarming courtesy and gratitude are not completely sincere. A ladies’ man through and through, dead ...

After only hearing about Pariah , Dee Rees' smart, heartbreaking film of a young black lesbian growing up in Brooklyn, a friend of mine compared it to Boys Don't Cry . Meaning: It's obviously another one of those feel-good-about-feeling-bad, issue-heavy melodramas that pop up on the indie film landscape every few years. Pariah however, goes to great lengths to confuse and confound its potentially in-built audience of civic-minded, liberal cinema-goers. Pariah begins in a strip club. Gritty, hyper-stylized shots of grinding dancers and dollar bills floating around are set to Khia's raunchy early-2000s hit "My Neck, My Back (Lick ...

If I had to describe the An Idiot Abroad in three words that aren’t its title, I would call it a travel documentary deconstruction. It’s not just a way of making fun of the show’s star Karl Pilkington, but also the very concept of going to these places and filming them for a television show. If there’s one message the show wants to get across, it’s that Karl Pilkington is an idiot, but if there’s a second it’s that there’s something fundamentally disturbing about this sort of anthropological tourism in general. Karl ...

Totally swamped today but this great DJ mix from Lifelike has helped me get through a really busy day. Head-noddingly good. PLAYLIST: 1- RETROGRADE - Reset - Deconstruction Rec. 2- MENACE & ADAM - Missile Test - Fred Falke remix - Work-It-Baby 3- LIFELIKE - Motion - ComputerScience - PROMO 4- JUSTICE - Civilisation - Ed Banger/Because Music 5- DAFT PUNK - End Of Line - Photek remix - Disney 6- YEAH YEAH YEAHs- Heads Will Roll - A-Trak remix - Interscope 7- FATBOY SLIM s HERVE - Machine Can Do The Work - Skint rec. 8- DAVY DMX - The Dmx Will Rock - Streetsound Electro 9- THE BLOODY SISTERS (T.B.S.) - Slammin' - Sismic Music 10- DAFT ...

Now that Die Antwoord are no longer having their weird-ass deconstruction of dance and rap music subsidized by the likes ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media/die-antwoord/i-fink-u-freaky/60642/

Few bands can legitimately say they’ve influenced both Battles and Lamb Of God . Breadwinner is one of them. In the early ’90s, the Virginia group hashed out an off-kilter, technically dizzying deconstruction of instrumental metal that solidified the burgeoning subgenre of math-rock. Breadwinner guitarist Pen Rollings formed his latest outfit, Loincloth , in 2003, but while he left before the band released its debut full-length, Iron Balls Of Steel , the album picks up not far from where Breadwinner left off in 1992—lack of vocals, love of calculus, and all. The main difference is, Iron Balls has a lot more ...

Shortly after releasing Deconstruction and Ghost this past Summer, Hevy Devy confirmed that he was already starting work on not one but TWO new albums including Epicloud and Ghost 2. On top of that, he’s still performing all over the world under the Devin Townsend Project moniker in support of his most recent releases (including [...]

Die Indie-Popper Fanfarlo zeigen uns ein neues Video. Regisseur Tim Nackashi hat ihre Single "Shiny Things" in athletische Bilder gepackt. Zu sehen gibt es drei Damen bei der rhythmischen Sportgymnastik, die — eine nach der anderen — auf mysteriöse Weise eine gewisse Wertsteigerung erfahren. Der Song stammt aus ihrem Zweitwerk "Rooms Filled With Light", das am 24. Februar bei Warner erscheint. Zuletzt machte die Band mit ihrem Kurzfilm zu "Deconstruction" auf sich aufmerksam ( motor.de berichtete ). Hier könnt ihr den Traum einer jeden Elster bestaunen: Fanfarlo - "Shiny Things" Der Durchbruch gelang der Indie-Band mit Ihrem Debüt "Reservoir", welches sich vor allem medialer ...

" We were going to write some self-righteous diatribe about the 'good old day' - but those days weren't good - we were pissed off then and we are pissed off now - go die. Positive = Boring " - from "Darby Crash Rides Again" 7" inner-sleeve Portland hardcore stalwarts Poison Idea are the beast that will never die. While guitarist “Pig Champion” died in 2006 and one-time drummer Steve "Thee Slayer Hippy" Hanford was arrested for a string of pharmacy robberies in 2008, the band continues to soldier on under the leadership of vocalist Jerry A. Poison Idea made their recorded debut in 1983 with ...

Canadian musician/producer Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, STEVE VAI, LAMB OF GOD, DARKEST HOUR, GWAR) played four shows in London in November 2011 dedicated to his tetralogy album concept — a great journey through Devin's different states of musical moods — which he started in 2009 with the albums "Addicted" (2009) and "Ki" (2009) and finished with last year's "Deconstruction" and "Ghost".

( Teil 1 ) ( Teil 2 ) ( Teil 3 ) ( Teil 4 ) ( Teil 5 ) ( Teil 7 ) ( Teil 8 ) Platz 21 Container - LP Warum kann Techno nicht öfter so offensiv schmutzig sein? Containers Stücke klingen, als hätte er sich sein Equipment selbst solala zusammengebastelt, jeder Waberton, Klatscher, Maschinenbeat scheint am Rande zerfranst und hallt krisselig nach - selbst, wenn sie in Dissolve anfangs noch intakt erscheinen. Das Großartige an diesen krachigen Tanznummern ist aber, dass sie nicht bloß angesagt texturierter Kram zum Nebenherhören sind, sondern mit ihrem Aufbau und ihrer schieren Körperlichkeit tatsächlich zum Noiserave taugen. Wo auch immer diese Party stattfinden würde. [Stream] Container - Dissolve ...

That's right. None of this Pitchfork rubbish, even Rolling Stone couldn't get it right (the fact that Rebecca Black appears anywhere near a top-songs list makes me wonder why I ever used to buy RS...). Plus, on any major music website/magazine/TV show that compiles a best-of list, there's always a severe lack in 1. Anything other than indie rock, 2. Australian music, and 3. Awesomeness. So, I compiled One Hundred and Eighty-Eight (188) of my favourite songs from the past year into a list, everything from ambient to groove metal to hip-hop to ska punk ...