25 Monday Feb 2013
Posted in Band Spotlight, Hardcore, Metalcore, News, Tour Dates, Upcoming Shit
The Dillinger Escape Plan have assigned an official release date to their highly anticipated new record, One of Us is the Killer. The album will hit the shelves on May 14th through Party Smasher Inc/Sumerian Records. Dillinger have also announced an extensive U.S. headlining tour in support of this new record with The Faceless and Royal Thunder in tow. You can check out the full schedule below:
20 Wednesday Feb 2013
Posted in Band Spotlight, Metal, News, Videos
The Faceless have release a new music video for their Autotheism track, “Deconsecrate”. This little blasphemous video goes back and forth between shots of the band performing and the band taking over a church and destroying the church goers’ faith. It’s pretty cheesy if you ask me. Anyway, check out the video if you feel like it. If not, there’s always porn.
30 Wednesday Jan 2013
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Film director Richie Valdez has teamed up with two former members of The Faceless to create a short “comedy” skit about one of my favorite subjects….. Dank Nugs. The skit centers around two homies (Derek Rydquist, Brandon Giffin) and their journey to score some nugs. Just remember this is based in Califorina so getting the weed isn’t the problem…
Even though this is a stand alone episode, Valley Scums is set to be a webisode series. So expect more in the future. Until then, watch the sketch above and check out the outtakes from the shot after the break. Continue reading »
24 Thursday Jan 2013
Posted in Bummer, Death Metal, News, Upcoming Shit
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Those of you who have seen The Faceless perform in the past week or so may have noticed that their drummer, Lyle Cooper, has been MIA. This has led some on the webz to speculate about Coopers further involvement in the band. To clear up any rumors, Lyle took to his Facebook and let the world know that he is no longer a part of The Faceless. This is what he had to say - Continue reading »
14 Wednesday Nov 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, News, Noise / Electronics, Non-Metal, Streaming Albums...
You may remember the announcement that ex-Animals as Leaders drummer Navene Koperweis would be releasing a solo, electronic centered EP under the name Navene K. Well the Human Design EP was released yesterday and is available for free download. The title track features guest bass from The Faceless’ Evan Brewer if that tickles your fancy. Anyway, stream it below.
08 Thursday Nov 2012
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The Faceless have announced that they will invade the UK early next year with the lads in The Safety Fire. The two groups will span the UK in eleven days starting January 30th. Check out the scheduled dates and a song from each band below.
21 Sunday Oct 2012
Posted in Docs, Now Playing..., Sharing The Metal, tour diaries, Videos
It’s Sunday and you should all know what that means by now. This week we are featuring the “documentary” Summer’s Laughter made by Periphery‘s touring bassist Jeff Holcomb. The film chronicles the band’s journey on this years edition of the summer slaughter tour.
Summer’s Laughter features guest appearances, interviews and live footage fromPeriphery and all the Sumerian Records bands on the tour.
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18 Thursday Oct 2012
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As you can see above, super bassist Evan Brewer (The Faceless, ex- Animosity) has posted yet another instructional bass video. This time Evan teaches you how to play segments from The Faceless‘s new track “The Eidolon Reality“. Considering this is his second installment, I am assuming this will be come a regular thing, which I think is pretty rad.
As always, I don’t know if this song is really all that hard or if Brewer is just that good at bass? I’m guessing a little bit of both. I guess I’ll find out later tonight when I try to learn it…
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17 Wednesday Oct 2012
Posted in Death Metal, Deathcore, djent, Extreme Metal, Metal, Prog Metal, Tech Death, Thrash MEtal, Tour Dates
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Autotheism, death metal, Deconsecrate The Nation Tour, Disclosure, djent, Prog metal, Revocation, Teratogenesis, the faceless, The HAARP Machine, thrash metal, tour dates
Following up on the recent release of their latest album, Autotheism, progressive death metal act, The Faceless, have just announced a headlining tour with technical thrashers Revocation, and their fellow prog Sumerian mates, The HAARP Machine spanning mostly dates from the U.S. to a select dates in Canada. All of these groups will be supporting their latest releases, The Faceless with Autotheism(Sumerian Records, 8/14/12), Revocation with Teratogenesis(Scion A/V, 9/27/12, free download here), and The HAARP Machine with Disclosure(Sumerian Records, 10/16/12). All in all, this is an excellent package and should make for a rifftastic night on the town. Check out the initial dates below as more dates should be announced soon! Continue reading »
11 Thursday Oct 2012
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As you can see above, super bassist Evan Brewer (The Faceless, ex- Animosity) has recently posted an instructional bass video. In said video Evan teaches you how to play segments from The Faceless‘s new track “Deconsecrate“. I personally love how interactive this dude is with his fans. He is always seeing what they would like and then executing it in a timely manner.
I don’t know if it’s just how good this Brewer is at bass or what but he makes the song look pretty easy. In fact I think I am going to dust off the old bass guitar and learn it when I get off work. Wish me luck.
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05 Friday Oct 2012
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adrian terrazas-gonzalez, American aftermath exclusive, Animals As Leaders, eric moore, Javier Reyes, meek is murder, sucidal tendencies, sxsw, T.R.A.M, the faceless, The Mars Volta, Tosin Abasi, TRAM
Instrumental jazzy prog band T.R.A.M originally seemed like they were going to make big waves in the undergound music pool, but now are slowly fading into another forgotten studio project. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this group, the band consists of Tosin Abasi (Animals As Leaders), Javier Reyes (Animals As Leaders), Eric Moore (Suicidal Tendencies)and Adrian Terrazas-Gonzalez (The Mars Volta). To date, T.R.A.M have only played one show.
The only show the group ever played, they headlined and it was a free event during SXSW 2011′ that featured The Faceless and Meek Is Murder. I was lucky enough to attend this show and bootlegged 3 out of the four songs they played. Continue after the jump to watch almost the entire set from the progressive super group (it includes some Eric Moore drum cam style footage).
05 Friday Oct 2012
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Bass master Evan Brewer (The Faceless, Ex-Animosity, ex-Reflux) has been welcomed to the Warwick bass family. The partnership was made public when Brewer released the above video. In the video Brewer previews new material from his next solo release on his new 5 string Thumb bass and let me just say that it sounds stellar.
I’ve always been a fan of Brewers bass work but he is really starting to come up with some next level shit. Can’t wait for the new album..
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27 Thursday Sep 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, instrumetal, News, Now Playing..., Videos
Bassist Evan Brewer (The Faceless, ex-Animosity, Climaxes) has chosen the song “Vertigo” to be the background track of his virtual NYC walk through music video. “Vertigo” is the single off of Brewer‘s solo bass album, “Alone” which was released on Sumerian Records last year.
The video is basically just high def shots of the NYC skyline, and like street shots from a Gopro. The song does compliment the overall video though. I did think it was kind of weird to choose New York as the location for this video seeing as I am pretty sure the cover art for “Alone” is Washington D.C…. Whatever.
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24 Monday Sep 2012
Posted in Band Spotlight, Learn to shred, Upcoming Shit, Videos
Rich kids rejoice!! Instrumental progressive band Animals As Leaders have announced that this winter the band will be holding a private instructional camp dubbed “Camping With Animals”. The Animals As Leaders camp will be a four-day winter retreat that includes one-on-one instruction, seminars, “gourmet meals”, Workshops”, performances and “other camp activities”. The musicians that are announced as of now are Tosin Abasi, Javier Reyes, Matt Garstka, and The Faceless bassist Evan Brewer. Several other musicians are scheduled to appear but no other specific names have been given at this date.
The camp takes place on January 2nd to 6th, 2013, at Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, New York. If you or your parents have hella cash, you can sign up here. As you can imagine, this shit is incredible expensive, but I honestly can’t imagine any normal working 18-28 year old could afford this without some sort of assistance. I bet it would be worth it though. Some of the tips could be invaluable if you are serious musician. Continue after the jump for the official press release and an introductory video from Tosin.
03 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Death Metal, Extreme Metal, Metal, Now Playing..., Prog Metal, Tech Death, Upcoming Shit
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Akeldama, Autotheism, Jazz., planetary duality, prog, sumerian records, tech death, the faceless
The Faceless are an anomaly. While containing similar elements between releases, each release nevertheless remains unique in standing. Starting as an interesting meld of technical death metal, prog, jazz, and deathcore, the band grasped my attention and quickly took hold of my ears with their debut, Akeldama. While seemingly held back by some minor chains of the contemporary sound at the time with their debut, The Faceless came into their own with their sophomore release, Planetary Duality, having solidified their status as one of the tech death god greats. Planetary Duality saw the band in their own light, containing mind-melting technical and progressive guitars, blaring vocals, and precise yet flowing drum work that rivaled and perhaps surpassed many of their contemporaries. Come August 14th, it seems The Faceless will have yet more titles attributed to their myriad of genre descriptions. Running for less than a minute, the new sample contains vocals reminiscent of Opeth, riffs reminiscent of Extol yet a sound that can only be described as The Faceless. Be sure to pre-order the album on CD, on vinyl, or digital here, here, and here respectively. Also, be sure to catch the band on any of the remaining Summer Slaughter dates below. Continue reading »
