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Born Of Osiris - Singularity

Bring Me The Horizon - Sleepwalking

Wanderlust - This was hilarious. Paul rudd was funny as heck in this. The Thing (2012 remake) - Not as awesome as the original. It was faster paced and killed some of the thrill and suspense of the original. Regardless it was still good. The Sitter - Another funny movie. Jonah Hill and the kids were funny. Even if the plot did seem to play out like every other Jonah hill movie. Snow White and the Huntsman. - It was okay. It was sluggish and some of the acting was weak, but It was far too long. There wasn't enough of a payout. Would skip this. Silent Hill Revelations - It was decent. The special effects and hideous monsters were the best. The story was a bit too simplistic. I was surprised this was a sequel to the original Silent Hill movie.

Kick ass guitar shred with crazy sweeps, tapping and a cool iron maiden inspired riff. These guys destroy. Rings of Saturn - Utopia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ9sbnLjQqM

Ever since MOAB, there’s a been a divide in the diru fanbase between people who love the bands early material and despise everything they’ve done in the last couple of years. However, I have never been one of those people. I enjoy every album they put out and it’s great to see how much the band has matured as musicians. That being said, Unraveling is the first release I can say I’ve been disappointed by. For me this release was flawed from the start. I have no idea why the band decided to remake songs that were good/awesome to begin with. They put all this effort into redoing their songs and in the end none of them were as good as the originals. That’s not to say they are bad songs, but they don’t have the magic that the originals have. Sure, the songs have more layers, cool guitar work and superior sound production, but however more complex sounding and modern they are, they don’t live up to their former selves. Seriously, diru, if it ain’t broken don’t fix it. And it begs the question, why put all this time into remaking all these songs, when they could have just made a fresh batch? There are several issues that seem to plague the remakes. One of them is melody. In the bands attempt to reflect their current progressive metal style and their maturity as musicians, the more melodic aspects of the songs were lost. And for me, the melodic aspects of their old songs were pretty much the heart and soul of the music. Yes, in terms of music theory melody is there, but it no longer drives the songs. It makes a song like Bottom Of The Death Valley, a song I originally love, sound void and lifeless in a very bad way. Another issue is that band just seems to be trying too hard with these remakes. You’ve got kyo’s unnecessary vocal wails and unintelligible growls, way too much palm muting in the guitars ( again further stripping melody), and with all these added layers of guitars, vocals and instrumentation the songs lack atmosphere. Compare Macabre and it’s original counter part or even Kasumi. The only song I feel got close to the magic of the original was The Final. Everything else was fail. As a diru fan and guitar nerd I appreciate the effort and musicianship that went into the remakes, but they just don’t compare to the originals. And of course, I’m going to compare them to the originals because they are the standard those songs set. I feel the band would have been better off making original songs rather than remakes. The bad part about this is that now they’ll probably play the remake of these songs live rather the original versions. I always wanted to hear the orginal Kasumi and BOTD live, but I guess that won’t happen now. I really hope they stop with these remakes. Next they’ll mess up Cage. I give it a 7/10. Despite, not living up to standard, I can’t deny the musicianship and some of the interesting aspects that came out of the “re-imagining.”. However disappointing this was, it’s still a good release IMO. And on a side note, Shinya’s drumkit does sound a bit off. Some of the snare work and hi hats sound weird.

Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

Borderlands - Awaken Dreamers

Done.

Resident Evil Retribution. It was a good movie. I don't get all the hate. I feel like people take this series too seriously. Lots of action, gunplay, crazy fight moves and zombie bashing. It was fun.

Will add Tokyo Shoegazer' s new album Turn Around to the list. And I'm excepting Alice Nine to announce a new album with all the singles they've got. I'm also highly interested in hearing new Bloodtaind Child material. Sophia left, but they've got a new female singer who I'm dying to hear.

Rings Of Saturn - Utopia

Rings Of Saturn - Galactic Cleansing

This might only be a single, but it's a really good one, even if it is a cover. Eskimo Callboy - Cinema Download: HERE Rings of Saturn - Dingir album stream Download: HERE These guys are my new favorite metal band I've recently come across. They're technical deathmetal/deathcore with topics dealing all about aliens. They released they're album for free and upload guitar tabs for all their songs which is awesome. As for the album itself, it's a mash of brutality, technicality and a few melodic passages. It's sick. There are a ton of alien sounding guitar sweeps and the double bass drumming and blast beats are the fastest I have ever heard from any drummer.

Robin Hood The remake with Russel Crow. It was good. Nothing spectacular, but not bad or average but any means.

^ I only know Unlimits who are great. Asking Alexandria - A Candlelit Dinner With Inamorta Atreyu - Wait For You Miki Furukawa - Chain Reaction Moving Mountains - Where Two Bodies Lie Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Life The Killers - Everything Will Be Alright Metallica - The struggle within どん - Asthma The Raconteurs - Intimate Secretary Textures - Consonant Hemispheres

In terms of Japanese releases strictly for 2013 there haven’t been that many I’ve been interested in so I have a shortlist. Alter - When Something New Begins Artema - Artema Boom Boom Satellites - Embrace Lemon Chair/Tokyo Shoegazer - Japan Shoegazer As Only One EP Yousei Teikoku - PAX VESANIA Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Furisodeshon/ Ninjayari Ban Ban singles Ami Suzuki - Snow Ring Babymetal - Ijime DameZettai Alicenine - Daybreak Most of the Japanese albums I’m looking forward are in the summer. As far as everything else goes. Bullet For My Valentine - Temper Temper Black Veil Brides - The Wretched And Divine Soilwork - The Living Infinite EskimoCallboy - Cenima Got Killswitch Engage and Bring Me the Horizon releasing material next week and I’m sure that won’t disappoint either. Again, more of the awesome releases are later in the year.

Lee Mckinny, the guitarist from Born Of Osiris just put out a free EP of his electronic side project Mechanize and it's awesome. Proves he's just not sick at guitar shredding, but also great at making addictive dubstep beats. Mechanize - Fanatsy Download: HERE Butter The Children - Lupus A indie rock band with nice guitar work and pop melodies. There EP was a fun listen. Download: HERE

Awesome guest musicians. Can't wait for this.

I was (still am) planning to buy their new album. I was super impressed by the material they released, but I had no idea it had leaked 2 months prior to the release date. That's a major blow for any band. Misha has stated on his facebook that he is working with Tosin on new ASL material. His exact words were, "Tosin Abasi and I have been hard at work on the new Animals As Leaders material. Six songs down so far!" And Volumes (another awesome tech progessive djent band I recently got into) released a photo of themselves working with Tosin and Javier. I'm guessing they're doing some sort of collaboration between the two for a single or ep or something. Either way I'm excited about that. And as much I love Periphery's work and self-titled album, I think I'm more psyched for the new Born Of Osiris album than Juggernaut. The Discovery was a brilliant album in so many aspects, so I'm excited to see how will they top it. If you like Periphery and ASL check out Born of Osiris's The Discovery or even Volumes Via. They each have their own take on the progressive metal djent thing with awesome production. And here's the band working on Juggernaut. I'm really hoping it's a double disc release.

^ Everyone looks great and they've done overseas tour before, but it's been mostly Europe. Maybe they'll add more dates later on to cover other countries.

It's time for this topic again. I already have a bunch of confirmed band releases piling up. Post yours. Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here Asking Alexandria - The irony Of Your Perfection Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent Orithani - Heavin In This Hell Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal Periphery - Juggernaut The National - Trouble Will Find Me Dir en Grey - Unraveling Black Sabbath - 13 Dark Tranquillity - Construct HIM - Tears On Tape Kerli - Utopia Ep + album The faceless - EP Other bands releasing new albums with as of yet untitled material. The Gazette Blink 182 Crossfaith Born Of Osiris After The Burial Animals As Leaders Tool U2 Arcade Fire Revocation Dead Letter Circus Cynic Devildriver Dream Theater Amon Amarth Raunchy Possibly?? Nine inch Nails Mastodon The Birthday Massacre

Bring Me The Horizon - Sleepwalking

^ I can't wait for their new album. High violet is also one of my fav's. And it's out May 20, 2013 in Europe and May 21 in North America. One of the albums I most looking forward to in 2013. And I'm seeing these guys live in June for the first time so I'm also excited about that.

Great I can't wait. I recently got into these guys. I thought they were some medicore vk band that was being overhyped, but I was totally wrong. I want more of their electronic tinged metalcore.

New album and tracklist have been announced. It's out June 4 The Sun Comes Out Tonight 1. We Hate It When You Get What You Want 2. What Do You Say 3. Surprise 4. Watch The Sun Come Out Tonight 5. It’s Got To Be Right Now 6. This Finger’s For You 7. Self Inflicted 8. First You Break It 9. Burn It 10. Take That Knife Out Of My Back 11. It’s My Time 12. It’s Just You They put up the first track from the album for free on their website. http://www.officialfilter.com/ it's pretty good. It gets better as it progresses, but I'm hoping the rest of the tracks are heavier.