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The Frontline / Re: Covers

« on: July 27, 2009, 04:36:41 PM »

Ahh fair enough OUTVOTED 

Ok, lets steer this in a different direction: Whan a band covers a song do you think

A: They should be a faithful to the original as possible

B: Re-interpret the track as if they wrote it themselves?

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WA Gigs / Re: BARIKEN (Jpn) Australian Tour Perth shows!

« on: July 26, 2009, 04:06:30 PM »

Bamodi are pretty damn great if you're into that stuff. Their drummer smashes the shit out of his kit!

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The Frontline / Covers

« on: July 26, 2009, 04:05:20 PM »

Ooh controversy 

Theres been a lot of talk about Perth metal bands doing covers/tributes and posts in the 'Musicians Wanted' section about starting cover bands etc. This is all fine, its nothing new and allows bands to play their favourite songs live. Its also a good, fun way to get some randoms into the music. For example, guy/girl who doesnt know much of the local scene rocks up to a gig, band x plays a cover and the person recognises it and in a roundabout way gets more into the band (and hopefully the original material). I think Red Descending did this at their cd launch?

Take 'Sabotage' for example. Awesome Black Sabbath tribute band, lots of fun and great musicians and stage presence. Sabotage has played about 3/4 times (?), never overshadowing MDVs main band Psychonaut. This is the ideal balance for this kind of thing. Even Sabotages BEST set is trumped by Psychonauts worst. People should remember Psychonauts original material and gigs more than Sabotage.

Mhorgl are known for throwing many covers into their sets and even did a set entirely of covers (an Xmas gig i think) yet people like them more for the original material.

Deathlahem are a great local band, around for ages (Whitesands!), that havent played much due to lineup shuffles and work/family commitments. Yet people seem to ALWAYS remember the 'Skeletons Of Society' Slayer gig more than any Deathlahem song, gig or release. This is a bit of a shame as Deathlahems original material is pretty damn awesome.

Im not saying all Perth Metal bands should stop doing them, as I said its a great/fun thing and for many people, perhaps, the only chance of seeing a particular song being played live. But the original material should always be the priority, or we may as well watch Airbag at the Newport.

Discuss: Thoughts?

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WA Gigs / BARIKEN (Jpn) Australian Tour Perth shows!

« on: July 25, 2009, 03:51:10 PM »

Japanese 2 piece grind/noise/punkers are coming to Perth!

The band are playing 3 shows in Perth (including an all ages) before heading over east to promote their split cd with Perth band Bamodi.

So if you're into stuff thats a little 'left of center' and are pissed off that Melt Banana arent coming to Perth, check out a show or two!

Heres a description from the Bamodi bassist who saw them live in Japan

" I saw Bariken at the UFO Club in July 2007. There were two skinny guys making the most beautiful racket I heard in a long time. They were unstoppable machine churning out short and sharp punkish songs, yelling and screaming, occasionaly jumping in the audience to continue their madness like there's no tomorrow.
I managed to talk to them somehow and got their demo. I played it at home, it sounded unreal"

Heres a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aguDLmC5Pl8
www.myspace.com/bariken

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WA Gigs / Re: Western Front Awards Night '08/'09 - July 17

« on: July 22, 2009, 03:40:37 PM »

Congrats to Daz for putting on a great event and all the bands involved, many hails 

I think the idea of a WF fundraiser is mandatory 

And in light of recent, um, revelations, perhaps a Castle fundaiser somewhere down the track too 

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General discussion / Re: Transformers Yay or Nay?

« on: July 15, 2009, 01:42:19 AM »

Needed more Stan Bush

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General discussion / Re: Transformers Yay or Nay?

« on: July 14, 2009, 05:26:27 PM »

I think its pretty funny how some people are comparing the 'twins' to Jar Jar Binks: Car Car Binks 

Yeah they seemed out of place/annoying and Devestator was made to look like a bitch 

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Western Australia / Re: Interviews on AM

« on: July 14, 2009, 01:23:50 AM »

Hell yeah!

We are graced by the presence of YOUR WESTERN FRONT webmaster, promoter, occasional guest vocalist for Sabotage and all round top bloke DAZ!

SO tune in to hear us have a chat and play plenty of good music! 107.3FM from 9pm tonight.

If you do listen, you could end up like this guy



If you dont, we'l send these guys to your house to fuck you up

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General discussion / Re: How to get up, eat breakfast and get dressed for work in 5m

« on: July 14, 2009, 01:18:10 AM »

Pretty good, though if I tried that in my kitchen I think id rip my pants and put a knee out of joint 

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International / Re: Testament, Kreator & Exodus in Japan! Need Travel Advice!

« on: July 08, 2009, 04:30:37 AM »

 

PM Sent~! Hope that helps.

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WA Gigs / Re: FUNDRAISING THE DEAD 2009 - June 20 & 27

« on: June 28, 2009, 04:38:47 PM »

Wow! Thanks heaps to everyone that braved the SHITHOUSE weather and came on down 

Thanks to all the bands that donated their time and al the staff at The Castle 

Consider your dead raised 

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Western Australia / Re: Angelsai EP: Free for download

« on: June 27, 2009, 02:15:14 AM »

Sounds shithot, a shame that it couldnt get a proper release. The Unkindness Of Ravens is a killer track, any chance of lyrics posted one day 

Come on down to The Castle tomorrow to see Angelsais final live show 

EDIT:What happened with the video you guys were doing for 'The Cycle Of Failure'?

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WA Gigs / Re: FUNDRAISING THE DEAD 2009 - June 20 & 27

« on: June 27, 2009, 02:13:49 AM »

THIS SATURDAY!!

Show your support for Anger Management and local METAL 

PSYCHONAUT
ANGELSAI
GALLOWS FOR GRACE
SINS OF THE FATHER

Come on down doors open at 8pm @ The Castle $10 all proceeds to Heritage FM

If you dont show up, we'l send these guys to your house to fuck you up





But seriously it will be a lot of fun, food and METAL for all y'all

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WA Gigs / Re: FUNDRAISING THE DEAD 2009 - June 20 & 27

« on: June 16, 2009, 04:05:42 PM »

THIS SATURDAY !! 

MAXIMUM PERVERSION
ENFORCE
CHAOS DIVINE
VESPERS DESCENT

$10 at Hydey Backroom! Come down and support local metal AND local METAL RADIO! Its gonna be a blast

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General discussion / Detroit Metal City

« on: June 14, 2009, 07:41:28 PM »

Detroit Metal City is a Japanese movie/anime/comic. I recently saw the movie, its pretty damn funny.

In a nutshell: Negishi moves from country Japan to Tokyo with dreams of becoming a 'pop' musician. Ultimately no-one likes his pop music and he ends up becoming the guitarist/vocalist for 'Detroit Metal City'. Under the stage name if 'Johannes Krauser II' DMC become the hottest band in the Japanese independent scene challenging (and defeating) punk bands, rappers etc.

Krauser is played up to be a demon king from hell and the fans eat it up, all the while Negishi hates the band/fans/music and still tries to forge ahead playing 'Swedish Pop Music' to impress a high school girlfriend. But hes so damn good as a guitarist/performer in DMC and no-one gives a shit about his pop music that he cant leave.

In the meantime 'black metal emperor' Jack Ill Dark (played by GENE SIMMONS) is going on a retirement tour and wants to crush DMC. His main song is 'Fuckingham Palace'  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS0033ny6q8

Its pretty silly, and has a lot of quirky Japanese style humour, but its a fun movie. If you can get over the music being called 'death metal' (which its not) in the film you might wanna check it out. There are 'plans for a hollywood remake'.

The big DMC single 'Satsugai' (translated as Murder') has fucking hilarious lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZkQFZaUKpY

Iam a terrorist from hell
I raped my mom yesterday
I will carve my dad up tomorrow
I am a terrorist straight out of hell

I don't have a mom or dad
It's because I killed them
I have neither friends or lovers
It's because I killed them

Kill kill kill your close ones
Kill kill kill everything kill

Murder it's murder
Murder it's murder
(KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!)
Paint your memories in blood
Murder it's murder
Murder it's murder
(KILL! KILL! KILL! KILL!)
Paint your future in blood

Kill kill kill your close ones
Kill kill kill everything kill

I have support from hell
This morning my brothers disappeared
I destroyed my relatives
I am a terrorist straight out of hell

I have neither brothers nor relatives
It's because I killed them
I don't worship and gods
It's because I killed them

Kill kill kill your close ones
Kill kill kill everything kill

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WA Gigs / Re: iNFeCTeD 'crawlspace: remastered' launch Sat Oct 31

« on: June 13, 2009, 06:13:55 PM »

CREAM'D   

TAKE YOUR SHIT FOR
NOT ONE SECOND MOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!

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WA Gigs / Re: DOUBLE DRAGON/ TRUTH CORRODED WA Tour June 11 - 13 (inc 2 stage fest & all a

« on: June 13, 2009, 06:10:03 PM »

Awesome! GO MHORGL 

Also 

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The Frontline / Re: Perth's shittest suburb?

« on: June 02, 2009, 05:50:16 PM »

yeah but..which suburb? 

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The Frontline / Re: Perth's shittest suburb?

« on: June 02, 2009, 05:45:41 PM »

Bakers Delight

PERTHS SHITTIEST BREAD

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The Frontline / Re: Perth's shittest suburb?

« on: June 02, 2009, 05:41:58 PM »

This may start some shit, and its not intended to be a personal attack on anyone because most of the folks here have had experiiencs 10X worse than I ever have and are great people BUT...

Maybe some of the guys in playing bands here should think carefully about saying this stuff on a public forum, it might put people off your band. I personally dont have a problem with it, but you know...just saying it may come back and haunt you (people have a way of using this shit in a childish "your band sucks because" kind of way). Either that or be prepared with solid points for when the whingers come along (which most of you have sorted out anyway)

Just food for thought...anyway...Cooloongup has weirdly dark streets despite the many streetlights and a HUGE amount of shopping trolleys on the footpaths/scrub 

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Western Australia / Re: Perth Local Metal CD?

« on: May 18, 2009, 05:32:58 PM »

In the end the artwork/packaging isn't essential to be top notch, but it helps. As long as there is some contact info for the bands, it should be suitable. There isnt a massive need for glossy photos and bios.

I go to a lot of experimental shows and the give away free compilations at the door, usually they are packaged in a cd single type case. These work, even if half the acts are rubbish, you tend to pick out the better tracks and focus on finding more info about the bands.

The recent A Blaze In The Southern Skies and Sovereign Studios sampler cds are an example of great packaging and promotion. Top class, well presented but they didn't necessarily bring a huge amount of interstate/overseas interest to the bands that Im aware of (i'm not sure how many were pressed/sent to promotion).

Unmastered/demo versions can work in a way, a few old Roadrunner compilations used to have 'unmastered' Slipknot and Machinehead tracks, but make sure its an accurate representation of the band as it is NOW. For example, dont submit a track with your old/ex vocalist.

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WA Gigs / Re: FUNDRAISING THE DEAD 2009 - June 20 & 27

« on: May 14, 2009, 04:17:22 AM »

BUMP'D for the awesome lineups and KILLER artwork   

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WA Gigs / Re: Saturday Night Thrash Attack - 9th of May @ The Castle

« on: May 14, 2009, 04:12:29 AM »

So I guess in summary:
- The Castle is a great venue, but needs a bit of work.
- The notion that The Castle is only 'a starting out' venue needs to be knocked on the head.
- If people don't go to LOCAL gigs then the venues let alone the BANDS wont get any $$$
- Joes Garage is a great album


- The fact that no band could put their hand up and help out Rowland by taking the gig (albeit with VERY short notice) is a damn shame

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WA Gigs / Re: Saturday Night Thrash Attack - 9th of May @ The Castle

« on: May 13, 2009, 12:38:10 PM »

Some of these Perth Metal bands need to learn from bands like Extortion which are much bigger than any of you will probably ever be yet they'd probably play in someones bedroom if it meant people could hear their music.

+1

Extortion fucking rule, they played in an old bank the city last week at 1-30pm on a tuesday

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WA Gigs / Re: Saturday Night Thrash Attack - 9th of May @ The Castle

« on: May 07, 2009, 10:55:18 PM »

^
I wonder if people had that attitude to a venue such as, say, CBGB back in the day, because it was a bit of a shithole   

Wayne and The Castle crew are great supporters of METAL/Rock and provide the dvd to bands (sometimes) and it STILL has a bad rep. Amps/Capitol probably couldnt care less.