Burning Human video Banned from MTV Headbangers Ball

Tormented Mind,” the controversial new music video from death metal band BURNING HUMAN has been banned by MTV2’s Headbangers Ball. After BURNING HUMAN refused to edit their new video MTV said the video was “too violent” for airing. Guitarist Mike Stack had this to say:
“The fine folks at MTV banned our video for the song TORMENTED MIND claiming it was “too violent”. As much as we love HEADBANGERS BALL, we think its way more metal to be BANNED BY MTV!!! So click here to watch the video of TORMENTED MIND that MTV didn’t want you to see, and decide for yourself.”

The Casualties “We are all we have”

The Casualties have always been one of the bands many people first get into after the traditional staples of punk rock (The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Dead Kenndys). With 6 other releases in the past years and countless tours and shows The Casualties have defined the sloppy loud punk rock sound while still being incredibly talented both lyrically and musically and more importantly their ability to super charge a crowd into a frenzy.

“We are all we have” is the 7th studio release by The Casualties over the past 17 years! It’s hard to believe these guys have been around that long but it really shows in their music. These guys have done everything and learned many of those life lessons people always talk about how you will understand when your older.

“We are all we have” has many of the traditional songs you will expect from previous releases from The Casualties. They do their anthem songs like the song “We are all we have” which is a powerful energetic throw your fist in the air and sing along that you would expect and demand from The Casualties. But these album has been changed up a bit from their previous releases. There is a Reggae/Dub song “Rockers Reggae). Yes you heard that right. It’s still a pretty good song though considering (that its Reggae) and have a good flow through the rest of the album as is the last song on the album.

These release has plenty of great stomp around and PBR splling anthems though the album. The album starts off with “Carry on the Flag” which I can see bing a total show starting song. Listening to it will make you imangian you are are a live show and the crowd just erupting into the expected chaos and anticipation.

If you are a fan of past Casualties albums then I don’t have to tell you to get this album. If you like fast back breaking punk rock with a bit of spit and snot then you will love this album.

Release Date 8/25/2009

Track Listing
1. Carry On The Flag
2. We Are All We Have
3. Hearts Bleed Black
4. Rise And Fall
5. Apocalypse Today
6. War Is Business
7. In The Tombs
8. Stand Against Them All
9. Depression - Unemployment Lines
10. Looking Thru Bloodshot Eyes
11. Lonely On The Streets - Jersey City
12. Life Clone
13. Clockwork
14. Rockers Reggae (Working Man’s Dub)

Asshole Parade

Bastions of East Coast Hardcore, Asshole Parade is the heir apparent to whatever crown is awarded to the kings of East Coast Hardcore bands. They thrash, they rock, and they roll.

Asshole Parade will be playing FEST 8 in Gainsville, Florida this upcoming Halloween.

For more on FEST 8 check out TruePunk’s Guide to FEST 8

7 Seconds

Not to be confused with comedy-ska band 7 Seconds of Love, 7 Seconds is perhaps the most influential hardcore band ever to emerge from the deserts of Nevada. Front man Kevin Seconds along with brother and bass player Steve Youth founded the band in the early 80s as part of their long love affair with punk rock. Their eclectic tastes are displayed in both their music - which regularly transcends their appointed genre of hardcore - as well as peripherally. Steve Youth’s Myspace page displays a DEVO action figure while their band name originates from a misspelling of a Dils record on the part of Kevin Seconds.

Although both founding members are nearing their fifties they truly are not showing their age. Kevin has been involved with lots of side projects including other bands, hosting a radio show, and running his own coffee shop, but 7 Seconds has never left his list of priorities. The brothers, along with band mates Troy Mowat and Bobby Adams, will be rocking FEST 8 in Gainsville, Florida this Halloween - nearly twenty years after playing their very first show.

For more on FEST 8 check out TruePunk’s Guide to FEST 8

The Casualties

One of the hardest punk bands of the late 90s, the Casualties for many came to embody the image of street punks for many. Though their popularity never hit the mainstream, their large and passionate fan base has kept the band touring and releasing extensively for over twelve years. Because of their no-compromise all-American style of punk rock, they have been seminal for a whole new generation of hardcore street punks. Since their 2006 release of “Under Attack” SideOneDummy Records the band has not stopped touring. I don’t know what the world record for touring continuously is, but I’m sure three years is a competitor. Their latest album, recorded on the road, is called “We Are All We Have”, also released on SideOneDummy and hit shelves in August 2009.

To read about the release of “We Are All We Have” check out the news article: The Casualties “We Are All We Have” out Aug. 25th

Shudder to Think

Since 1986 Shudder to Think has been making waves in rock and roll in America. They were virtually unknown after three album releases, but gained popularity as they launched on a US tour with Fugazi and the Smashing Pumpkins. When they released their first album after the tour, 1994’s “Pony Express Record”, it was an explosion of angular math rock blended with pop and hardcore punk rock. The innovation of the band and it’s willingness to push the genre to its limits gained them cult fame and widespread recognition in the music world.

When guitarist Nathan Larson left the band in 1998, it marked the end for Shudder to Think as a studio and touring band. Ten years later, though, the band had a limited reunion tour playing all their old songs for fans who had discovered the band after they had broken up. The best of this tour was recorded as a compilation album - “Live From Home” - which is due to hit shelves in September, 2009.

Raised Fist

Sweden is well known for its music. In the 70s Swedish music was represented in the American mainstream by ABBA. By the turn of the century garage rock legends the Hives had sold out arenas and store shelves from their hometown of Fagersta, Sweden to Los Angeles, California. But since the mid-nineties there has been another Swedish rock group clamoring for your attention. They’re not like the Hives, and they’re nothing like ABBA.

Raised Fist is northern Europe’s premiere hardcore punk band, making it onto Burning Heart Records - a giant in European and international music. Though their touring and recording has been limited, Raised Fist has gained notoriety for their insanely raucous shows and searing-hot tracks. Blurring the line between hardcore and metal, Raised Fist is extremely well respected.

Their first major release in three years, “Veil of Ignorance”, will be hitting stores from Burning Heart Records this September.

Olde York “False Idols” video

Olde York - False Idols Video just recently went up. The song “False Idols” is off the recently released album “Empire State”.

You can order the album from RevHQ

Bane New song “The Bold and the Beautiful

Bane has a new song up for streaming on their myspace as well as the lyrics to the new song.

Bane is just one of the bands who are attending the 10 for 10 tour that is going on now!

Worcester, MA’s Bane have posted a new song on their MySpace. As of yet it is uncertain where the track will be released. Bane are currently participating on the 10 For $10 tour along with Madball, Death Before Dishonor and more. The band released The Note on Equal Vision Records in 2005.

You can check out “The Bold And The Beautiful” along with the lyrics to the song here.

The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band

How on Earth does a three-piece family blues band from Indiana end up playing across the country with the world’s biggest punk rock acts? With a little help from Flogging Molly. Josh “The Reverend” Peyton has established himself as one of the most tenacious and distinctive blues finger-picking guitarists of our time, digging up influences from the American xenophobia between the two World Wars and weaving them into a tapestry also composed of off-kilter western slides, breakneck tempos, and a powerful sound that seems prepared to fly apart at the seams. His band, which includes wife Breezy and brother Jayme, sold all their belongings and hit the road in 2006 with no guarantee of success. And the story could have easily just ended there. Instead, the members of Flogging Molly happened to catch the Big Damn Band at a festival and enjoyed the music so much that the two began to tour together.

Josh “The Reverend” Peyton is a massive man. His stature is immense, as is his beard, all of which is framed with a straw hat, suspenders, and flannel. The Reverend’s image is quintessentially American, almost seemingly like a caricature of the western blues man. But his fingers move like lightning, with such stunning speed and grace you feel foolish for thinking a man of that size must move slowly. During his youth Peyton found finger picking to be a nearly impossible task, and after playing a show at a high school event was crippled with an inflamed hand. Nearly giving up on being a guitar player altogether, another doctor inspected the hand and convinced Peyton that he could fix the problem. A brief hand surgery later and Peyton found brand-new dexterity after a lump of scar tissue that had swelled around his tendons was removed. It was during this period of his life, when he was experiencing new horizons in his musical skills, that he met the woman who is very obviously the love of his life.

His wife, “Washboard” Breezy Peyton, is also no slender anorexic, as well as being equally difficult to judge from a distance. Her furious and ingenious washboard playing has far less elegance than her husband’s guitar playing, but she brings a level of mania to the sound that requires far more intuition and hardly any skill. Trying to imagine the Big Damn Band without Breezy Peyton is like trying to imagine the Sex Pistols without Sid Vicious. It’s not that hard, but why would you want to?

Giving the band a spine to stand on, though, is the younger Peyton brother, Jayme. The drums that Jayme slams on sound unpadded, lacking the cold crisp clarity we’ve grown accustomed to in the years since the vinyl record went out the window.

Showing true DIY spirit, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band self-released a collection of demo songs recorded in a basement called “The Pork’N'Beans Collection”. While making the trip from Indiana to California on a tour, the band managed to sell so many copies of the record that offers from record labels couldn’t match their independent success. “Pork’N'Beans” is now out of print, making copies of this CD extremely valuable as collectibles.

Fans of 1980s revivalist jazz will take note of the fact that revolutionary musicians Paul Mahern and Jimbo Mathis – most notable for their contributions to the legendary group The Squirrel Nut Zippers – produced The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band’s first studio album. Titled “Big Damn Nation”, the album was recorded without computers and is pure analog magnetic tape bliss. Even though it was pressed almost exclusively on CD, the analog approach captured the raw and retro sound of the Big Damn Band while bringing southern rock, blues, rockabilly, and pure Americana into the 21^st century.

Today Reverend Peyton, his wife, and his brother, are on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour, alongside friends Flogging Molly, and are promoting their new and chart-rocking album “The Whole Fam Damnily”. The radio single from the album, “Mama’s Fried Potatoes”, is not a punk song, but has obvious appeal to the average punk rocker. It’s fast, repetitive, manic, lighthearted, and irreverent. But it’s also very much blues. If we can learn anything from The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band it’s this: minimalism and rage are not the exclusive purview of punk rock. Blues was punk rock before there was punk rock. And some things never change.

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