Review: Shirukume – Speaking in Colours

For fans of:  Sikth / The Dillinger Escape Plan / Protest the Hero

The debut EP, Speaking in Colours by incoming UK band, Shirukume is a fantastic introduction to their unique take on the Metalcore genre.  To be frank, pigeonholing Shirukume to a single genre is both unfair and nonsensical, as shown by their willingness to experiment with a great amount of proficiency on this EP.  Speaking in Colours is both heavy and melodic, with a great use of experimentation used.   Despite Shirukume being a relatively young band, they wield their instruments with great skill and display an immense talent for song writing.  Now defunct, Shirukume have ended and the remaining members have moved onto a new band, known as Chronographs.

Read on to see my review of Shirukume’s debut EP.

Slash is modest

“I have a hard time accepting myself as someone who is influential,” said Slash in an interview.

“So do we,“ answered Dose of Metal on this website.

Full interview here.

Bruce Dickinson tries to justify new setlist

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden tried to justify Maiden‘s setlist, that contains mostly new work, in a recent interview.

“[New fans] aren’t interested in nostalgia. They want new stuff and they want exciting stuff.” he said.

“Bullshit” I say, Bruce Bruce. Iron Maiden has a backing catalogue of 15 albums and by playing mostly only songs of the last 4 albums, you’re cheating your fans out of 11 albums of great material. I’d rather listen to the first 5 albums on repeat for the rest of my life than to listen to a whole song of your new album. Plus nostalgia is what bought you that plane in the first place. You know what plane I’m talking about captain Brucie.

In other news, Dick-in-son sounds like a pedophile’s internet pseudonym.

Anselmo kisses dead buddy's ass

In a recent interview Phil Anselmo (once again) praised Dimebag Darrell‘s guitar playing. He said “As far as heavy metal guitarists, rock and roll guitarists [go], there’s a lot of really good players out there, but honestly…” […] “I don’t think there has been a better guitar player than him before him nor after.”

Listen to the whole interview (if you can understand Anselmo‘s babbling) here.

John 5 answers fan-submitted questions

Do you enjoy being trapped in a guitar shop on a late afternoon listening to to someone indulging in a 43 minute fretboard wank? Do you like listening to a man in lipstick showing off? Then you’re probably one of the few John 5 fans out there.

The Rob Zombie and ex-Marilyn Manson guitarist recently answered fan-submitted questions for Fret 12.

Apparently no one thought to ask why he only joins shit bands if he’s such a good guitarist.  Shame.

Check out all the info and videos here.