DEATH METAL MUSIC

Asking Alexandria

Inception, signing and Stand Up and Scream (2008–2009

 Asking Alexandria have their roots in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where guitarist Ben Bruce started a band. Shortly after the band release their full length debut album under the name of Asking Alexandria, The Irony of Your Perfection, they decided to disband. Bruce has in an interview at later date that the band known as Asking Alexandria from Dubai only had the name for about a month before leading to their disbandment, hence the band never embarked on this tour.
In 2008, Bruce moved back to England, leaving behind his former band and its members. However, Bruce had no plans on putting his musical career on hold and not long after the move he started fresh with new members, though deciding to carry on the name Asking Alexandria. Bruce has stated on the band's MySpace-blog that he was the inventor of the name, that he still liked it and the meaning/reason behind the name still remained, and therefore decided to continue it in the new project.^[1] He also made an emphasised statement in the same blog post that the current Asking Alexandria is not the same band that wrote The Irony of Your Perfection, in style nor members,^[1] hence they are two different bands, despite their links. The same statement has been emphasised in interviews and is known to still be a confusion to many fans.

Asking Alexandria, since their formation in 2008, has had some member changes, including going from a six-piece to a five-piece, with the departure of synthesist Ryan Binns.^[2] The last known change was bassist Sam Bettley, who replaced Joe Lancaster in January 2009.^[3] Lancaster played his final show at Fibbers in their hometown York on January 4.^[4] The band left for the United States the day after the show to promote their music through shows, as well as to prepare for the recording of their debut album.
After spending 2008 and the first months of 2009 touring, the band recorded their debut studio album between May 19 and June 16, 2009 at The Foundation Recording Studios in Connersville, Indiana, United States with producer Joey Sturgis.^[5] They announced their signing with Sumerian Records shortly after finishing the recording and released their debut album, Stand Up and Scream, on September 15, 2009 through their new label. The band spent 2009 focusing on gaining success in the United States, touring with well known bands such as Alesana, Enter Shikari, The Bled and Evergreen Terrace, amongst others.

Other releases and Reckless and Relentless (2010–present)

On December 22, 2009, 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. Then they later announced that they will be able to get into the studio June 22, 2010 on their official twitter. The band has later confirmed through an interview with Shred News that the album is scheduled for release in early 2011 and is planned to contain 12 new songs.^[6] In the same interview, the band informed that a title was not yet established. In a later interview they stated that the album will probably be able to pre order in November of 2010, and available in early 2011. One song, "Breathless" has been played live already and can be found on youtube. Danny has also released lyrics from the new album onto his Twitter account, although he did not state what songs they were from.

In March, Asking Alexandria are heading out on their first tour of the new year, yet again making their way through North America, this time with Attack Attack!, Breathe Carolina, label mates I See Stars, and the up-and-coming British metalcore act Bury Tomorrow. The tour carries through to April, ending ten days before heading off for their debut European tour with Dance Gavin Dance and In Fear and Faith, which includes an appearance at the annual Groezrock festival. They are however scheduled to discontinue the European tour two days before it originally ends to make an appearance at The Bamboozle festival in New Jersey.
Asking Alexandria announced their first ever headlining tour on March 2, taking place in North America through May to the start of June. We Came as Romans, From First to Last, Our Last Night and A Bullet for Pretty Boy were announced as supporting bands for the tour. Bruce has also confirmed through an interview with Inside Heavy that the band will be making an appearance at the Thrash and Burn summer festival tour as a main support act, though not revealing details on which other bands that will be participating.^[7] It was later revealed that Asking Alexandria would co-headline the Thrash and Burn Tour 2010 alongside Born of Osiris.
Asking Alexandria has since they embarked on The Thrash and Burn Tour performed a new song entitled "Breathless", which is to be featured on their second studio album Reckless and Relentless.^[8] The band as well recently released a cover of "Right Now (Na Na Na)" by Akon^[9] which will be featured on Punk Goes Pop 3.

During a show in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on the Short But Sweet Tour that took place in early October,^[10] Asking Alexandria was asked about the release of their upcoming album and future music videos. Bruce responded with great detail about their plans. Reckless and Relentless will be available for pre-order in December and will be released in February. He also stated that in November of 2010 they will be releasing a reissue of Stand Up and Scream, the reissue album is said to contain more of a "dubstep feel" to the content. Bruce also mentioned that it will contain a bonus DVD that will have a live music video of "If You Can't Ride Two Horses at Once... Then You Should Get Out of the Circus." They are also preparing a music video for "A Prophecy" that will be included on the bonus DVD if finished in time.
On November 23, 2010, Asking Alexandria added a new EP entitled Life Gone Wild for pre-order, set to be released on December 21, 2010.^[11] Asking Alexandria's new EP, 'Life Gone Wild' contains "Breathless", dubstep remixes of "A Single Moment of Sincerity" and "Not the American Average," two Skid Row covers of "18 and Life" and "Youth Gone Wild," and an unreleased demo version of "I Was Once, Possibly, Maybe, Perhaps A Cowboy King."
Asking Alexandria have announced that they will be playing in Australia at The Soundwave Festival in February 2011.
It has been announced that the reissue album of Stand Up and Scream, that was originally supposed to be released on November 16 then December 21, has been pushed back to January and will be titled Stepped Up and Scratched. It will be a completely remixed electro/dubstep version of their debut album including all the songs, new artwork, and new packaging. It has been announced at most UK tour shows in december that support for the UK april shows will come from Of Mice & Men, and Chelsea Grin.^[12]

 

The latest installment from SiksaKubur (English: After-death Torment), Eye Cry, as follow up the triumphs of "Back for Vengeance" and "The Carnage" has been polished with technically blazing instrumental mastery and professional recording quality. We were blown away with their excellent skills as well as neat studio efforts to create high quality metal records. This is a must have album for those demands brilliantly cruel guitar/drum/bass works along with powerful gritty thrash metal voices packaged into well produced recording.Album: Eye CryBand: SiksaKuburLabel: Rottrevore Records Track Listing:1. Renounce Me2. Destitusi Menuju Mati3.
I am The Worst4. Dunia Menjerat5. Reborn for Destination6. Pasukan Jiwa Terbelakang7. Terlahir Sampah8. Parade Luka9. Evil Beside Us10. 180898 BackgroundSiksaKubur has been around since 1996 with the first direction praising early Sepultura. As the time goes the band carry on the journey with various subgenres experimentation including death metal, grindcore and such brutal stuff. After Japra, the throaty voices joined, SiksaKubur has redefined their sound signature as wicked mixtures of thrash metal badass voice and technical death metal offering twisting melodies and ear-rupturing complex drumworks analogous to Sceptic, Sympathy, All Shall Perish, Psycroptic and alike. MusicianshipOne of attractive offering this band has is the vocal quality performed by Japra. He's voices reminiscent of Max Cavalera from Soulfly/early Sepultura. The powerful words of thrash metal pattern as well as English pronunciation (in some English songs) erupted from his throat are comparable to world class performer. The founder of the band, Gorust, man I couldn't imagine how busy he do it behind the drumkits. The dissimilarity is the king. He constantly changes the drum pattern in almost every few bars of the song with different powerful steady snare punch, double-toms hits pattern and cymbals arrangement swabs with wicked irregular tempos and stable double bass drum kicks without losing the energy in the whole songs. Certainly he's the principal brute to keep the song rhythm in its track. The guitar sound of choice shows the maturity of SiksaKubur guitarist, Andre, to present audience pleasing distortion tones without excessive nor too low level matched perfectly with his skill and mastery of he's instrument to perform acrobatic low string tunes with bunch of palm-muting and artificial harmonics in between. He's blatantly melodic harmonic solos and spicy sound effect on some songs
undoubtedly established SiksaKubur as one of excellent technical death metal band around. I couldn't be happier listening to this record where the bass sound was so awesome. All the low rumble tones produced from thunderous bass guitar axe played by Yudi were heard and felt. The bass player performance was rapid and precise yet defined clearly as counterpart of the song grooves build by other members. SongwritingHonestly I was a bit skeptical when hearing the opening part of the first track, Renounce Me, which incorporating female choir voices and keyboards as the intro. Ah, this must be Scandinavian black/speed metal again. Nope! It's only the intro. And what happened next was blasting brutal grooves guaranteed to punch your eardrums with metal vibes through the veins with enjoyable metal tunes performed equally well between four member of the band. The songwriting capabilities demonstrated by SiksaKubur is exceptional. Heavy distorted guitar riff accompanied by quick response bass lines and chaotic drumworks build song pattern that is so dynamic and exciting. Every song structured more than three melodious and vicious metal patterns style within. Interesting parts such as the solo executed well using clean amp setting on "I am The Worst" as well as the classic harmonic bass and guitar intro on "Pasukan Jiwa Terbelakang" which also incorporating classic metal solos with classy bent guitar tailing sound. A stereo panning of guitar break on "Reborn for Destination" is another big plus. ProductionTo us, this is indie label production with professional recording quality. The low and high tones are balanced. Noise floor is virtually absent. The guitar and bass sound are adequate with plenty of gain without clipping or crackling. The drum snare/toms punching with intense energy as booming as double bass drum kicks. The only minor glitch is the noise produced as the short tail of guitar ringing part after "Renounce Me" intro; it could be from distortion box or amp model. Nevertheless, you might not find that to be disturbing on your common stereo system. If I could state personal taste here, the hi-hat and cymbals could be crispier, but that might be sound of choice of the band and sound engineer to prefer dark percussions character. Thanks to Yuda-recording engineer, Dadi Bir-mixing engineer, and all the people in K studio and Dialog mastering studio, we could hear what the metal should sounded from an indie label band. SummarySkillful musicianship and dazzling technical mastery wrapped with quality production. What are you waiting for? Go download the samples to convince the shit we've spoken. Better yet, run down nearest distros or contact Rottrevore Records to torture your soul to get orgasmic listening pleasure with this graveyard tormentor. Editor recommended. ScoreMusicianship
': ***** (5 of 5)Songwriting: ***** (5 of 5)Production: ***** (5 of 5)

Gerombolan Pasukan Mati
yang sering disebut sebagai all star Death Metal group ini dan terdiri dari : DANIEL – Vocals STEVIE ITEM – Guitars COKI BOLLEMEYER – Guitars BONSQUAD – Bass ANDYAN GORUST – Drums ini, kalau tidak ada halangan di bulan September ini , tepatnya tgl 10-09-09 akan menggempur scene Metal Bali di Hard Rock café Bali, dan sebagai pemanasan berikut sekilas obrolan antara 19-21Balicorpsegrinder (BCG) dengan Deadsquad (DS) yang diwakili oleh sang bassis Bonny Sidharta (aka. Bonsquad) mulai dari kesibukan mereka sampai dengan ketidaksabarannya mereka untuk segera main di Bali.


BCG : Lagi sibuk ngapain sekarang anak-anak DS?
DS : Macem-macem sih..Coki masih sibuk tour promo sama Netral, Tepi biasa manggung sama Andra&The backbone, Andyan sibuk ngurusin toko onlinenya sekalian urusan merch DS, Daniel masih ngurus-ngurus skripsi dan gue (Bonsquad) kesibukan hari-hari dikantor....paling sekali-sekali ketemu buat latihan


BCG : Kami dengar di bulan sept ini kalian akan menggempur scene metal bali, apakah ini acara promo tour atau ada undangan khusus??
DS : Yoi bro...doain mudah-mudahan ga’ ada hambatan...undangan dari salah satu EO disana kebetulan bikin event buat DS disana


BCG : Sebagaimana antusias kalian bisa akan maen di Bali?
DS : Wah...Gila...anak-anak semua udah ga’ sabar buat maen di Bali...mungkin karena waktu itu kita sempat hampir maen disana..cuman krna satu dan lain hal akhirnya gabisa main dan digantikan sama Dead Vertical

BCG : Seberapa jauh kalian mengenal scene metal Bali ?
DS : Yang gue denger kalo dari scene metalnya lagi mulai bangun lagi disana,laporan dari bapak iblis ( Funeral Inception) setelah maen disana...hehehe...dan hal ini yg bikin kita makin semangat buat main di depan para metalhead Bali!!
( BCG: oya .. Funeral Inception yang satu lebel dengan DS dalam Rottrevore Recs. ini telah sukses memporak-porandakan scene Metal Bali lewat hajatan Forum Musik Komplikasi #7 yang diadakan oleh 19-21 Balicorpsegrinder di Peanuts club Kuta tgl 13-6-09)



BCG : Oya,,sedikit kilas balik ke belakang
BCG : Bisa ceritain dikit sejarah DS sampai formasi terkhir sekarang ?
DS :…Hmmm....singkat aja yah...awalnya gw bertiga sama Tepi dan Adyan...lalu Prisa dan Babal masuk...jalan beberapa lama...Prisa dan Babal terpaksa dikembalikan ke jalan yg benar...setelah audisi beberapa orang lalu masuklah 2 iblis..Daniel dan Coki...hahahah....dan buat gw pribadi ini formasi yg paling solid...mudah-mudahan bisa awet dan bisa bikin musik yg lebih gila dari yg sebelumnya...

BCG : Bisa certain dikit proses album Horor vision? Hingga bisa lounching barengan dengan acara Lamb of God, dan bagaimana kesannya??
DS : Proses pembuatan bener-benar intens...karena kita produksi album ini ga sampe 2 (dua) bulan dari mulai take metronome sampai jadi master...bener-benar ga’ dikasih nafas lah...smua total disitu...dan mungkin salahsatu faktornya ya Lamb Of God itu,bgitu dapet tawaran untuk membuka LOG akhirnya itu jadi salahcsatu trigger buat kita untuk segera bergerak untuk produksi album..untuk sebagian org mungkin ngliatnya agak terlalu dipaksakan.,..tapi gw ngliatnya beda....kita bisa bikin album bagus dengan waktu pembuatan yg lebih longgar dan ga terburu-buru seperti ini dan mungkin dengan budget yg lebih terencana...tapi ada satu hal yg ga bisa dibayar/dibeli/digantikan dengan apapun...MOMEN!!...yeap..buat kita itu momen yg bener-benar bagus untuk rilis album...disaat kita resmi rilis..kita bisa main didepan ribuan metalhead,kita ga perlu susah2 promo...karna promo dari event itu pun udah gila2an,otomatis efeknya kebawa untuk DEADSQUAD dari segi promosi dan yg lebih penting album kita udah siap disaat itu juga....dan kesan2nya...."that was the best show...EVER!!!! hahahaha


BCG : Siapa yg banyak berperan dalam penciptaan liryc lagu? Dan kebanyakan lagu tsb bercerita tentang apa ( atau ada visi misi kusus dalam liryc2 lagus tsb)? Dan lagu yg mana paling berkesan bagi kalian, serta alasannya?
DS :Lyric lagu semua itu bagiannya Daniel...macem-macem sih ceritanya...lebih banyak ke kritik tatanan sosoal yg udah mendarah daging khususnya yg ada di Indonesia...yah yg simple2 aja lah...Seperti knapa harus ada kolom agama di tanda2 pengenal,knapa kita diharuskan memeluk agama yg sudah ditentukan ... padahal kepercayaan itu kan bukan sesuatu yg harus dipaksakan ....kl lagu yg paling berkesan buat gw bingung lah jawabnya....tapi ada satu yg mungkin berkesan buat Daniel...Serm,on Of Deception...dia baru nulis lagu itu bener2 di studio, sebelum take vocal ...hehehehe

BCG : Untuk gender music yg kalian maenkan , kalian lebih merasa maen di jalur Death metal?Metal core? Atau teknikal deathmetal? Atau kalian punya nama gender tersendiri ?
DS : Basicly kita ada (dan pengen terus ada) di jalur Deathmetal...kalo ada yg bilang technical deathmetal...sah2 aja...itu cuman pengembangan dari deathmetal itu sendiri...gw dan anak2 masih mau tetep eksplor sejauh mungkin tapi tetep ada benang merahnya...yaitu Deathmetal!!!



BCG : Setelah keluar album tsb scene metal mana saja di nusantara ini sdh pernah dijajah? Dan di gig mana yg paling berkesan buat kalian? Alasannya?
DS :So far masih tetep mayoritas kita main di Jakarta..(masih terus nunggu panggilan dari EO2 di daerah2 lain!! hahahaha) ...kalo luar kota baru Semarang..dan responnya keren...dan gw yakin di Bali nanti juga pasti ga kalah sinting!!

BCG : Setelah sukses menjadi pembuka Lamb of God, apakah sdh ada tawaran manggung di LN termasuk tawaran dari lebel LN? dimana dan bagaimana perkembangan tawaran tsb??
DS :Hahahah..Blom ada kalo tawaran manggung diluar negri..tapi kalo tawaran kerjasama dengan salah satu label luar ada...tapi kita blom bisa sebut namanya..masih dalam tahap negosiasi soalnya...hehehe


BCG : Terakhir apa ada pesan kusus utk Band dan scene metal Bali ??
DS : Yang jelas kita semua dari DEADSQUAD bener-bener ga’ sabar untuk main disana.....Gak ada yang lebih Hebat dari ...BIR,PANTAI dan DEATHMETAL !!!!
..m/



DEADSQUAD CLOTHING :

Death metal adalah sebuah sub-genre dari musik heavy metal yang berkembang dari thrash metal pada awal 1980-an. Beberapa ciri khasnya adalah lirik lagu yang bertemakan kekerasan atau kematian, ritme gitar rendah (downtuned rhythm guitars), perkusi yang cepat, dan intensitas dinamis. Vokal biasanya dinyanyikan dengan gerutuan (death grunt) atau geraman maut (death growl). Teknik menyanyi seperti ini juga sering disebut "Cookie Monster vocals".

Beberapa pelopor genre ini adalah Venom dengan albumnya Welcome to Hell (1981) dan Death dengan albumnya Scream Bloody Gore (1987). Death metal kemudian dikembangkan lebih lanjut oleh band-band seperti Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Entombed, God Macabre, Carnage, dan Grave.
Kemudian era 2000'an, Death Metal berkembang sangat pesat. Banyak band-band jebolan aliran death metal menjadi pembaharu dalam musik metal. Band-band tersebut antara lain Inhuman Dissiliency, Disavowed, Viraemia, Hiroshima Will Burn, Amon Amarth, Inveracity, The Berzeker, Dying Fetus, Condemned, dan masih banyak lagi.
Di Indonesia, genre ini diawali pergerakan dan perkembangan-nya di tahun 1990-an dengan band thrash metal Rotor di Jakarta. Pergerakkan utama Death Metal Indonesia berasal dari munculnya inisiatif oleh band Grindcore asal Malang, Rotten Corpse, yang menggarap untuk pertama kalinya (yang diketahui) musik Death Metal. Kemunculan dan permainan Rotten Corpse akan Death Metal merupakan pertanda dari lahirnya sebuah individu musik baru, bernama Death Metal. Beberapa band pioneer Death Metal lainnya di daerah lain, seperti Trauma dari Jakarta , Insanity dan Hallucination dari Bandung, Death Vomit dari Jogjakarta , Slow Death dari Surabaya, kemudian berkembang dengan band-band yang dianggap sebagai senior karena pengalamannya masing-masing seperti: Disinfected, Ancur, Plasmoptysis, dan Jasad dari Bandung, Siksa Kubur , Funeral Inception dari Jakarta dan Cranial Incisored Yogjakarta dan Semarang Grind Buto. Abysal. R.O.H, Blast Torment dari Padang,Total Rusak dari Bukittinggi, dan Praying For Suicide Tragedy dari Bukittinggi.

Perkembangan musik Death Metal di Indonesia mengalami perkembangan yang sangat baik. Diantaranya terusulkannya suatu forum pusat dari pecinta Death Metal Indonesia, yang bernama forum Death Metal Indonesia, yang bernama Indonesian Death Metal atau disingkat IDDM. Kemudian juga muncul Indogrind.net, GUBUG RIOT, staynocase, dan lainnya. Saat ini, band-band baru Death Metal akan menyuarakan 'suara-suara maut' dalam event metal. Band-band Death Metal di Indonesia sekarang antara lain Dynasty of Waru, Bad Habit, Asphyxiate, Bleeding Corpse, Death Vomit, Kill Harmonic, Grind Buto, Infected Voice, Brain Ass, Hatestroke, Sickmath dan sebagainya.

Perkembangan Death Metal Indonesia setelah terciptanya IDDM, merupakan sebagai indikasi dan peresmian kelompok-kelompok Death Metal di seluruh wilayah Indonesia untuk go on public atau menunjukkan diri mereka masing-masing pada publik. Seperti pada saat ini, banyak sekali kelompok/komunitas Death Metal Indonesia di wilayah mereka masing-masing yang sudah menunjukkan diri mereka di Internet. Komunitas-komunitas tersebut masih merupakan bagian dari Indonesian Death Metal/IDDM. IDDM merupakan salah satu web penghubung yang menjadi tempat bertukar pikiran maupun aspirasi hingga media untuk iklan / promosi album maupun merchandise. Komunitas-komunitas tersebut diantaranya adalah Malang Death Metal Force, Bandung Death Metal, Bekasi HORDE! Death Metal, Jogjakarta Corpse Grinder, Magelang Death Metal Militia, Sukoharjo Death Metal, Semarang Death Metal, Bali Death Metal sampai Samarinda Death Metal dan masih banyak lagi komunitas di seluruh Indonesia.
Beberapa subgenre death metal:

• Technical death metal - Death Metal yang dikembangkan dengan nada-nada diatonis, merupakan perkembangan dari musik Death Metal ke yang lebih kompleks. Seringkali diasosiasikan sebagai penggabungan antara death metal dengan progressive rock dan jazz fusion.
• Melodic death metal - heavy metal dicampur dengan beberapa unsur Death Metal, misalnya death growl dan blastbeat
• Progressive death metal - gabungan antara death metal dan progressive metal
• Brutal death metal - Brutal Death Metal merupakan perkembangan dari Death Metal itu sendiri. Brutal Death Metal merupakan salah satu perkembangan yang berhasil menghasilkan perkembangan lagi di genre Death Metal. Brutal Death Metal menghasilkan Slamming-Gore Brutal Death Metal, Slamming-Groove Technical Brutal Death Metal, Slamming Goregrind, dan lainnya.
• Deathcore - gabungan antara metalcore/groove metal dengan death metal, merupakan genre Death Metal yang lebih menjurus kepada musik Post Hardcore.
• Death/Doom - gabungan antara doom metal dan death metal
• Blackened death metal - Blackened Death Metal merupakan usul-usul yang dilakukan oleh band-band Death Metal yang ingin menggabungkan kembali unsur Black Metal pada Death Metal seperti yang terjadi pada Era Pertama Death Metal, di mana Death Metal masih tercium bau-bau Black Metal.