Cover art for the "Just Stop" CD single. Image via. Reprise Records. "No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. What is to give light must endure burning." -Viktor Frankl "Just Stop" was the third single released from Disturbed's Ten … Continue reading Just Stop
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Testify
Cover art for Testify. Image via Atlantic Records. "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself." -Seneca What do people tend to think of when they think of nu-metal? Aggressive, down-tuned riffs, combined with hip-hop beats and an industrial edge, with a guy rapping … Continue reading Testify
See You on the Other Side
Korn at the MTV Asia Awards in Bangkok, Thailand 2006. Image from Wikipedia. "Getting into action generates inspiration. Don't cop out waiting for inspiration to get you back into action. It won't! … I leave you with one thought: It's not a compliment when someone tells you you're a survivor. It's bullshit. We're all survivors … Continue reading See You on the Other Side
Goodbye for Now
Katy Perry performing with P.O.D. onstage. Image from YouTube. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." -Seneca "Goodbye for Now" was the lead single off P.O.D.'s underrated gem of an album, Testify. Released in late 2005, it received some decent airplay, and was the band's most successful single since "Youth of the Nation." … Continue reading Goodbye for Now
On Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst
Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland. Image from Nielson Barnard, Getty Images. I'm not sure where to start on this, so I'm just going to make it up as I go along. The image of Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst in their heyday didn't really do the band or the man justice, that Durst was just … Continue reading On Limp Bizkit and Fred Durst
On the Deftones
Deftones, from left to right: Abe Cunningham, Fred Sablan, Chino Moreno, Frank Delgado, and Stephen Carpenter. Image from LiveNation. I was probably twelve years old and discovering music on my own when I found the Deftones in 1999. They were featured on the Matrix soundtrack, which I was listening to on CD. The track was … Continue reading On the Deftones
Remember the Name
Fort Minor logo, image from Machine Shop Recordings. "There are some people who are so focused on becoming famous or becoming rich. And of course a very small percentage succeed at accomplishing that, and if that's the motivation it would seem to me at least that they wouldn't actually enjoy the process of creating the … Continue reading Remember the Name
Twisted Transistor
Korn's Jonathan Davis and rapper Snoop Dogg on the set of "Twisted Transistor." Photo by John Shearer. "I give my mind the liberty to follow the first wise or foolish idea that presents itself." -Robert Greene "Twisted Transistor" was the lead single from Korn's seventh studio album, See You on the Other Side. Produced by … Continue reading Twisted Transistor
Ten Thousand Fists
The cover of Ten Thousand Fists, by Greg Capullo. "Judgements, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgements are stupidities." -Nietzsche Ten Thousand Fists is the third studio album by … Continue reading Ten Thousand Fists
Helix
Photo by Line 6. I got a Line 6 Helix recently, something I swore I would never do. It's lighter, cheaper and far less maintenance than a tube amp, so of course I would. If I were a touring musician, I'd probably get the Rack version. The generations of musicians that are just finding their … Continue reading Helix
Lawrence Deveney 