Single Review - BI·AS - Hesitation (Alternative / Nu Metal, 2019)

Fear can be a powerful feeling putting you down. This brand new single talks about that and how to overcome it.

The cover of "Hesitation", (c) by BI·AS

BI·AS is a new formation featuring David Silveria (original drummer of Korn). The single is a preview to their much-anticipated debut EP due out in 2020.

What I like so much about the track is the mixture of the heavyness with lot's of softer notes flying in between them. In detail the track opens up with a short drum intro and direct start of the melodic vocals.

It's those vocals that have heavily been worked on that give the tracks it's characteristic extra note. Here and there few guitar notes come in and finally the roughness kicks in but only with as much heavyweight as needed not breaking you down.

The second half of "Hesitation" goes a slightly rougher route. The drums already announce the new path with a dry electronic snare. Finally the track breaks all barriers at the end giving the full energy outload to the listener. It's like it's just there to give you the power you need to overcome anxiety.

I'm looking forward on how the band will move on. For the first here are some dates the band is going to play. BI·AS are currently booking shows till the end of the year.

Aug 23 - Costa Mesa, CA - Tiki Bar
Sept 26 - Logan, UT - The Cache
Sept 27 - Pocatello, ID -  Bannock County Fair Grounds - Elk stage

You can purchase the single at iTunes and Google Play just to name two. More links and the lyrics can be found at the description below the YouTube video. Follow the band on Facebook to stay up to date.

Kings Bounty preview album and open for Korn and P.O.D.

I like to have a sneak into new material from time to time.It's exciting to know things are in the makings out there and to have a thought what 2017 may have in store for us.

Kings Bounty from New York City give us a taste of the debut album "Broad Daylight" they are currently working on with Chris Collier who is known for his work with bands like Prong and Korn. The last mentioned band comes to my mind at the first run-through of the video but as quick as you realize they have something in common with them you also know they put in their very own personality. It's the special potion of heavyness I like so much in this one all along with the vocals changing all along the whole track. The drums are kicking in with much groove. A good positive push comes along with this one.

If you're quick enough you may be able to check out the band live as they've been picked to open up for P.O.D. and Korn this very weekend and the upcoming week:

Saturday March 4th 2017 – with P.O.D. Morongo Casino Resort Cabazon, CA
Monday March 6th 2017 – with Korn House of Blues Anaheim, CA SOLD OUT

The full album "Broad Daylight" is set for release during the latter part of 2017.

A live shot of Kings Bounty, (c) by Like no Other Photography, used with kind permission

Anyway, make sure to have a look at their brand new website which holds more album teaser material. Their social sites are available on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. 

Everybody Panic! prove that success is possible these days

How is it to be at a gig of a band called Everybody Panic? It looks like it is quite a cool and enjoyable experience for both fans and band alike. The combo has uploaded their self-made live video which was filmed while being on tour with Mushroomhead.

Musically this song reminds me of a classic rock 'n' metal song but pushed up to fit to modern standards. This one goes on more straight forward and that's something that I like. There's also this going over from refrain to the next part without timing change, it just glides directly over to it. This keeps the tension up for me which gives the whole track a pushing tonality. A good way to lift your mood up when you feel down.

The history of Everybody Panic! is a good example that there is hope out there in these hard time.  They are a rock band hailing from Oklahoma City, OK by way of Seattle, WA. A four piece, consisting of Ty (Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt) on vocals, Provo (Skinlab/Rikets) on guitars, Tony on bass, and Levi (Anti-mortem) on drums, formed in 2012 and released its first self-produced EP independently in February of 2013. The band supported the release with high profile dates with the likes of Five Finger Death Punch, Godsmack, Deftones, and many others. That release would go on to sell over 3,000 copies through digital retailers.

The logo of the band Everybody Panic, (c) by Everybody Panic, used with kind permission

Through hard work and dedication the band caught the attention of CaviGold Records and entered the famed and haunted Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, WA in March of 2015, to record their follow up, "Attack", which features the highly charged single “No One Gets Out Alive”, mixed by Ulrich Wild (Static-X, Dethklok).

The band is currently at CaviGold Studios in Orange, CA working on new music, videos and more. Tours will be announced soon for spring/summer 2017 so I guess a look upon the band's website from time to time or connecting with them through Reverbnation or Facebook could be a good idea.

Hellfest livestream coming up next weekend

Finally we arrived at wednesday - the middle of the week. Time to see what the weekend may bring. This time you're in for another treat. :-)

Hellfest 2016 is coming to a screen near you.

The french Hellfest is going to be broadcasted in 2016 and big and small bands have already been confirmed to have their sets shown online. Currently the schedule looks like this:

Friday 17th June 2016 (all times MEST)

Altar & Temple Stage

18:35 Inquisition
19:30 Sacred Reich
20:30 Korpiklaani
21:35 Overkill
22:40 Aura Noir
23:45 Testament
00:45 Abbath

Mainstage

17:40 Turbonegro
18:35 Bullet For My Valentine
19:40 Mass Hysteria (Différé)
20:45 Volbeat
22:05 Dropkick Murphys
00:45 The Offspring


Saturday 18th June 2016

Altar & Temple Stage

17:40 Entombed A.D.
18:35 Archgoat
19:30 Asphyx
20:25 Moonsorrow
21:20 Terrorizer
22:15 Primordial
23:15 Napalm Death
01:00 Dark Funeral

Mainstage

17:40 Sick Of It All
18:35 Joe Satriani
19:30 Disturbed
01:00 Korn


Sunday 19th June 2016

Alatr & Temple Stage

17:40 Insomnium
18:35 Taake
20:30 Empyrium
21:30 Grand Magus
22:35 Enslaved
00:45 Deicide

Mainstage

15:50 Tarja
17:40 Blind Guardian
19:40 Amon Amarth
20:45 Megadeth
22:05 Ghost

You can find the overlook page right here on the ARTE concert page. Just select the date and stage you want to see and the link will take you to a subpage with the stream on it.

Underneath every stream you can also find the updated schedule for each broadcast. Things may be changed so make sure to check in every here and there to keep up to date.

Watch Rock am Ring festival 2016 via Livestream

The open air season goes on! This weekend the legendary Rock am Ring festival will take place. For all those who cannot make it there it's surely great news that their will be a livestream of that event already starting TODAY!

The portal ARTE concert has announced to stream the following bands or set up videos as a stream on demand service (all times are MEST)

Friday 03. June 2016

15:35 - 16:30h  Amon Amarth
16:55 - 17:50h  Breaking Benjamin 
17:50 - 18:45h  Frittenbude    
18:45 - 19:45h  Disturbed   
19:50 - 21:20h  Tenacious D.
21:20 - 22:00h  Panic At The Disco
22:00 - 00:00h  Volbeat  
00:00 - 01:10h  The 1975 (Recording)

Saturday 04. June 2016
Foals / Trivium / Billy Talent / Heaven Shall Burn / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Bullet For My Valentine

Update for day 3 of the Rock am Ring livestream: the organizers have decided to close the festival due to another massive warning on the weather forecast and the city Mendig having taken down the permission for the festival. So there will be no performances and no broadcast. The linked stream page offers some of the shows of the past days as video on demand (scroll down to the bottom of the website).

Update 2 on the Rock am Ring livestream: the concerts and the broadcast will continue on 21h (MEST). The exact schedule is to be confirmed yet. Please check the subpage of the livestream for details.

Update for the Rock am Ring livestream Saturday 04. June 2016: currently the livestream shows only recorded material from yesterday. There has been a electric power failure but the staff is working hard to get the live broadcast back online again. Current plans say that it should be back at 20h (MEST) but a thunderstorm has been announced in the weather forecast so changes are always possible. The current schedule looks like this:

19:50 - 21:20 Uhr: Billy Talent

21:20 - 22:00 Uhr: Killswitch Engage

22:00 - 23:10 Uhr: Heaven Shall Burn

23.13 - 00:45 Uhr: Red Hot Chili Peppers

00:45 - 02:00 Uhr: Bullet For My Valentine

Sunday 05. June 2016
Wirtz / Johnossi / Bring Me The Horizon / SDP / Korn / Alligatoah / Biffy Clyro / Fettes Brot

The performance of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers will also be broadcasted on german television!

Stay tuned to this page as I update it wth info as soon as possible. Or have a eye on my Facebook page that I'll update with the latest info, too.

You'll find the stream of the Open Air and the on demand stuff on the website of ARTE concert.

Help Korn to fight against Type 1 diabetes

Korn's vocalist Jonathan Davin son Zeppelin has be diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.  This made the singer aware of how terrible this desease is so he has teamed up with Rallysong and JDRF to take up the fight to find a way to heal people affected by it.

If you decide to give 1 Dollar or more you can download the full new Korn song "So unfair" and take part in a raffle for a chance to fly to Bakersfield and to write and record a song with Jonathan Davis.

In the video below you can see a private message from the singer about the topic. To hear a preview of the song go to the donation page and hit the player button directly under the campaign description.
The campaign will last for nine more days.

Listening blast: hear the full new albums from Trivium,Dream Theater and Korn

By now that the autumn time is back a lot of bands seem to have just waited for the right time to bring their new CDs out. Happily a lot of them give us the chance to listen to the full albums before buying them so you everyone can check them out before buying them.

Let's start with the new Korn album called "Paradigm Shift". I like it, it comes with a fresh attempt but also has a lot of the old raw power of the band. Plus it features a track named "Never, Never". It's about how it is when you hearts broken. Who didn't already had to deal with this emotion? Anyway, here's the stream for all of you out there:


Korn - Prey For Me on MUZU.TV


To you yearn for some fresh more thrash-alike metal music? Then the new Trivium album "Vengeance falls" might be what you're looking for. The first free download track "Brave this storm" already gave hope that the album might be a killer, but the album stream now proves that this band is excellent. Check it out for yourselfes at this page.

The last in todays row are progmetal veterans Dream Theater with the new output simply entitled "Dream Theater". In my eyes they go more straight to the meat with this one, which is very welcomed by me. The last track is too lenghty in my eyes. Less repeatings and well known song structures would have worked out fine here IMHO. Listen to the full album at the Rolling Stones website.

Rock am Ring 2013 Stream and TV broadcast announced

At the upcoming weekend it's time again for the big Rock am Ring festival here in germany. The festival is sold out for quite some time already so I took a look around on the web and happily found out, that parts of the Rock am Ring 2013 festival will be streamed online. Here's the link to the streaming page. Bands and times are still to be concreted/announced. So far you can take a look at the official festival page to see which bands will play at a certain time and on which stage. Of couse I do hope that some of the metal bands that will show up there will be streamed through linked the website. 

Or simply click on the play button in the video frame below to watch since they happily gave permission this year to embedd the stream. There are two streams by the way, one send's directly the band's performances while the other one send's send with a little delay and/or not live but recorded stuff only. The second stream I mentioned can only be seen on the streaming page I linked, so If you want to see it you still need to go there to watch it.




If you do live in germany you might be happy to read that some TV stations over here will do broadcasts of this big festival event. Jump over to this page to see which TV stations and other websites will host stuff from the event. It's all in german language, but I hope it's helps you out anyway.

On a sitenote: if you also want to watch stuff from Rock im Park, the small twin of Rock am Ring just jump over to this page, there you can also see some band performances streamed live. The original streaming site from broadcast station PULS lists the following bands for today's streaming, sadly without times but I guess those are identical with the stage times mentioned here.

• SAM

• Stereophonics

• Hurts

• Blumentopf

• A$AP Rocky

• Bullet For My Valentine

• Kraftklub

• koRn

Update 2013/06/10: Sadly it's all over already again. Anyway, the radio station that hosted the stream currently has some videos up for watching on their site. Thought you might like to know.

Update 2013/06/09: And here's are the streaming times for the third and final day of Rock am Ring 2013, all times Central European Summer Time (MESZ/CEST/CEDT) ). Have fun!

Livestream

Sunday 09.06.2013
Time	Band
16:10	Bad Religion
16:55	Blumentopf
17:05	Best of Hurts
17:25	A$AP Rocky
18:05	Best of Fettes Brott
18:30	Bastille
19:15	Stereophonics
20:00	Broilers
20:55	Limp Bizkit
22:10	Best of Paramore
22:20	Capser
23:30	The Bloody Beetroots Live
22:55	Hurts

Second stream

Sunday 09.06.2013
Time	Band
18:00	A$AP Rocky
18.20	Simple Plan
18:35	Kraftklub
19.40	Dizzee Rascal
20:25	Sportfreunde Stiller
21:25	The Wombats
22:00	Green Day
23:45	Casper

Update 2013/06/08: Here's the bandlist for saturday, all times Central European Summer Time (MESZ/CEST/CEDT) ).

Livestream

Satuday 08.06.2013
Time	Band
16:05 Uhr	Leslie Clio
16:35 Uhr	tba
16:55 Uhr	Jake Bugg
17:25 Uhr	tba
17:55 Uhr	Stereophonics
18:40 Uhr	The BossHoss
19:20 Uhr	tba
20:15 Uhr	Tocotronic
21:05 Uhr	tba
21:15 Uhr	Volbeat
21:25 Uhr	tba
22:50 Uhr	Hurts

Second stream

EinsPlus Live - Saturday 08.06.2013
Time	Band
18:00 Uhr	Filius Nox
18:05 Uhr	Stereophonics
18.40 Uhr	The BossHoss
19:15 Uhr	Biffy Clyro
19.50 Uhr	Stone Sour
20:45 Uhr	Tocotronic
21:15 Uhr	Volbeat
22:30 Uhr	Phoenix
23:20 Uhr	Hurts
0:15 Uhr	The Prodigy
0:30 Uhr	The Killers
02:00 Uhr	Jake Bugg / Leslie Clio
02:20 Uhr	Bloody Beetroots Live

Update 2013/06/07: The bandlist for the internet stream has just been released. Here's what's going to be shown today (Friday 2013/06/07, all times Central European Summer Time (MESZ/CEST/CEDT) ).
I'll update the timetable for the other days as soon as I get the info for it.

Time	Band
16:50  Uhr	Imagine Dragons
17:40  Uhr	A Day To Remember
18:25  Uhr	Bring Me The Horizon
19:05  Uhr	Amon Amarth
19:40 Uhr	Tba
20:05  Uhr	Broilers
20:55  Uhr	Cro
21:20  Uhr	Bullet For My Valentine
22:15  Uhr	Fettes Brot
22:45  Uhr	Limp Bizkit
00:00 Uhr	Tba
00:30  Uhr	koRn

Korn's Path to Totality album stream up and running

At the beginning of this month Korn released their brandnew album. The band says that the people should consider this CD as a experimental album mixing the dubstep elements with the traditional Korn style. So far the reactions seem to be twisted,some like it while other's can't stand it. If you're not sure if it's worth buying then here's your chance to hear the full album legally and for free. Do you like what you hear?

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.de/page/webwheel+Korn

Liveshows from Megadeth, Trivium and Korn

The december is a expensive months for most of us. Christmas is near and it's time to give some nice presents to all those people who are next to you or who do matter the most to you. Anyway, this shouldn't keep you from having the possibility to watch some fine concerts also tickets aren't cheap and bands aren't always touring every country in the world. Here is some live stuff I gathered on youtube. Enjoy and share these gifts with as many of your friends as possible. :-)






Edit and Update 12/18/2011: the second part of the Trivium set has been taken off from youtube. Don't know why, I just found out for myselfs and just wanted to let you know so you hopefully don't wonder what's up with this. If you have more info on this, please let me know I'd like to know and put up a new link, if that's legally possible.

Listen to Korn's new song 'Sanctuary'

The time of the release of the new Korn album is getting closer. So I guess there are many of you out there that are looking forward to the 6th of December and would like to listen to more stuff in advance.

Here you go. Hot Topic has been chosen by the band to reveal the track 'Sanctuary'. Here's the link to the article with the song. Enjoy. :-)

http://community.hottopic.com/ht_music/news/hot-topic-world-premiere-song-korns-sanctuary?cm_re=Music-_-Link+1-_-KORN+SANCTUARY+VIDEO

New single from Korn up for free download

Ok,they aren't really underdogs anymore,but the giveaway is a fine thing in my eyes,so I post it here so you hopefully can still pick this up.

The new single from Korn can be downloaded for free till Saturday here

http://www.korn.com/news/49041news/49041

Update 11/08/2011: sadly, downloading is over. But that's were the joy of the official videoclip just starts.;-) Enjoy!