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Fresh Blood! Born & Raised
BORN & RAISED is a 5-piece hard rock/metal band from Dallas , TX that started back in 2008 in Denton. Influenced by metal bands of the era such as TOOL , Pantera , System of a Down , Slipknot , Dream Theater , etc..., they created a unique metal sound referred to by many as a refreshing blend of thrash , progressive , rock , metal , and alternative music.
The band members have worked incredibly hard to be where they are today, but even though they've gone through a number of lineup changes, they've managed to maintain their integrity and focus. Since they were asked to open up for King Diamond back in 2012, Born & Raised has gone on to open for such national acts as Flotsam & Jetsam , Texas Hippie Coalition , Cowboy Mouth , Cowboys From Hell Paso , The Heroine , Saturate , Philm , Hemlock , Warbringer , Final Drive , Chris Poland (Megadeth) , the late Nick Menza ( Megadeth ), and Ohm .
After the release of their third album ' Intermezzo ' and with a fresh lineup of talented musicians, the band is looking to overcome the Coronavirus pandemic and get back on the road. The foundation on a new album has already begun and the search for new venues, shows, festivals, and tours is in the works.
Links:
Website
www.bnrband.com
Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/bornandraised
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/bornraisedband/
Reverbnation
https://www.reverbnation.com/bornraised
Bandcamp
https://bornandraised.bandcamp.com/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/bornandraisedband/
YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/user/bornandraisedband
Available also on other platforms. Search Born & Raised on iTunes, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, Rhapsody, etc.
This week's ROX TV is out tomorrow!
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
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INCOMING! Damn fine new metal song from Goblins Blade
You can now watch the lyric video for the new single "Utopia" on https://youtu.be/ZpP-C_84O2Y
"Of Angels And Snakes" will be available as CD Digipak, limited edition Gatefold Vinyl LP in various colors, download and stream. You can already pre-order it here » https://lnk.to/ofangelsandsnakes
Get ready for a driving rhythm section, fast riffs, powerful vocals and catchy lyrics galore!
GOBLINS BLADE are vocalist Florian Reimann (ex-Destillery), lead guitarist Jörg M. Knittel (ex-Sacred Steel), guitarist Claudio Enzler (Thy Bleeding Skies, Sacrificium), bassist Roberto Palacios (ex-Chinchilla) and drummer Claudio Sisto (ex-Mystic Prophecy).
FRESH BLOOD! Them Evils new song
Fresh Blood: Chasing Ghosts
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
INCOMING! Hot new release from No Angels
Monday, May 25, 2020
INCOMING! Angel's second album out July
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Album Review: American Terror : Influencer
ROX Interview: Minatox69
Italian metal band Minatox69 are a five piece from Vicenza. Their sound is aggressive, loud and fast. They've been around for a while now perfecting their audio assault and we though it was high time we pinned these guys down for an interview.
So, Tell us a bit about your latest project Minatox69?
We formed in 2010 but reached the final line-up in 2018, giving birth to our current and typical sound.
The core of the project is to propose an aggressive style of metal music, shaped by different influences (death-black, thrash, hardcore, rock), with mathematical approach to the rythm and many changes in melodies. All this is related to psycho-social issues in our lyrics.
And you’ve done a new track “Nothing new under the sun”. Tell us About that, Who’s involved and what’s the music all about?
We chose this song as first single and video to promote our upcoming album Collapse because we wanted to start with a strong sound impact and straight fast beats, as well as for the social meaning in lyrics. The theme is about the human ineptitude to changes, blinded by the utopia of a fairer society, we're destroying each other due to our greed. "Nothing new under the sun" means that we shouldn't be surprised by this drift, because the moral and social corruption has remained unchanged for centuries, if not millennia, and so it will be forever, it is in our human nature...there will always be victims!
Have you done any full album?
In the last years, we produced some demo cds in 2010 (La foca nel deserto), 2012 (Hot Line) and 2019 (Zero) , but we can say that Collapse, recorded in January 2020 and coming out next month, is our first full concept album!
We tried to create a massive heavy sound that could embrace different melodies for different kinds of emotions, depending by the themes in the lyrics, from social criticism to psychological investigation.
The title Collapse represents the physical and moral collapse of This humanity,
still harnessed between hatred, greed, economic interests and social alienation…but, only by collapsing, everyone of us can learn to get up and change, overcoming difficulties ...
this album spread a message of distrust but also of hope: the coolest illusion of any living being!
Are you all Metal-heads at hearth?
We grew up togheter playing music, having fun, becoming friends since we were kids, thousands of party and concerts, also strong and bad times, always listening and playing Metal, venting ourselves through music... surely we are not normal people... just if you see us together a few minutes and it seems a madhouse of idiocy, jokes and pranks (the Italian melodrama)! Hahaha
We don’t need to be Metal-heads, we live Metal-lifes!
Any live shows planned?
Unfortunately it seems that the Corona Virus has screwed us all, both artists and fans, at least for this year 2020.
However, we're working hard to get back on stage hopefully by autumn-winter…we'll see, we're ready!
what's next then for the band?
we are confident for the future, both for Minatox69 both for the situation about Corona Virus.
In June we will release our new album, promoted on many different channels
(webzine, radio, tv, streaming). We are also working on new videos that will be released in this
summer, waiting to return on stage when we will get the opportunity...some of us have already
started working on new riffs for a probable next album.
You’re stuff has some obvious influences but who would you say was your biggest inspiration?
Let’s say we don’t have a favorite band for inspiration. We try to draw from all our musical
background, we always tried to create sounds and melodies that are a mix of
many sub-genres, death, trash, newmetal, groove, hardcore, sometimes punk or rock...the aim is to
mash the different styles and tastes that characterize everyone of us Minatox69.
If we really have to make some names, let’s say pillars like Sepultura, Pantera, Slayer, Slipknot,
Meshuggah, Tool & Faith No More.
Favourite album?
It’s hard to name one, certainly an important album for us is Vulgar Display of Power: outspoken, powerful, without compromises.
Who would you love to work with on another project given the chance?
It’s a very difficult question... we hope to work with artists and producers who can inspire the best of us…maybe it could be cool to work with Mike Patton for his fool-minded research of melodies and sonic atmosphere.
Any advice for a musician or band just starting out?
We can just say that you have to put a lot of passion and willingness to make things work ... it takes tenacity, long time to devote, patience and trials. You have to manage the band like a family team, in which if everyone does their best, satisfaction and maybe success will come.
By the other side, It is very important to work with Professionals both in management and promotion, both in sound-technicals.
Never forget to thank the fans and involve them in every possible activity, in the social media or during the live performances.
https://www.facebook.com/Minatox69/
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Music in Lockdown! Secrets of Mariana
with Secrets of Mariana
We don’t think the lockdown has come at a good time for anyone really, especially those who work and earn a living from the live music industry. We really feel for the venues, sound engineers, light techs, bands and crew who are struggling right now as so many tours have had to be cancelled/rescheduled.
We’ve have gigs cancelled through May that we were excited to be performing at. Luckily, most of them have been rescheduled for next year but some have been cancelled all together. We’ve also got gigs booked from June to the end of the year that at this point we don’t know if they’re going to happen or not so it’s a scary time for venues and a situation that could potentially change the future of how we experience live events.
For us personally, we’re in the middle of writing EP number 3. We were hoping to be in the studio recording around now and planning to release new music towards the end of this year so it’s really knocked those plans back. We’re still writing individually at home but we’re dying to get back to our lock up room to keep writing together as that’s how we feel we work best.
It’s also challenging us to think outside of the box in terms of our social media. It’s a catch 22 situation between wanting to stay in touch with our followers and keeping the content relevant. When we have no new music to release and potentially no gigs for the rest of the year that becomes really hard as essentially that’s our core content. We also can’t live stream any gigs from home until the restrictions get lifted as we’re all under different roofs.
Although our social media content isn’t as busy as it was before lockdown we’re still busy behind the scenes. We’re video calling each other for catch ups and writing sessions every week or so and we’re thinking ahead by booking gigs and posting about events we’ve got planned for 2021. We’re also planning on doing a facebook live stream, which will be a Q and A / updates session on Sunday 31st May at 6:30pm.
All of us are taking this time to listen to new music and up skill in terms of our own instruments, learning new instruments, learning music theory (or brushing up on it) so there are definitely positives to the lockdown. We’re definitely going to be doing some long practise sessions when all this is over as we’re all missing playing music together! Plus with all these new ideas and influences we have, the new EP will probably have some new songs we never thought we’d write. Every cloud aye!
Sunday, May 24, 2020
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Saturday, May 23, 2020
Check out what's on this week's ROX TV!
Friday, May 22, 2020
Hot new song from American Terror. Highly controversial and so fuckin great!
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Hook, Line & Sinker - The Lockumentary (2020)
A great video showing how one band is dealing with music under lockdown
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
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Sunday, May 17, 2020
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Blues cruise is all at sea
AUGUST 2021 NOW SAILING THE GREEK ISLES
Guitar legend Joe Bonamassa, in conjunction with partners Keeping The Blues Alive Foundation and Sixthman have postponed Keeping The Blues Alive at Sea Mediterranean II into next year. The second voyage is now scheduled to sail aboard Norwegian Pearl out of Athens, Greece taking blues fans to Mykonos, Greece and Kusadasi, Turkey on August 17-22, 2021. A full line-up of talented artists will be joining Joe Bonamassa onboard the blues rock festival including Ian Anderson presents Jethro Tull, Walter Trout, Marc Broussard, Ana Popovic, King King, Jimmy Vivino, Terry Reid, The James Hunter Six, The Suffers, Kris Barras Band, Selwyn Birchwood, The Cold Stares, Daddy Long Legs, Jade MacRae, Elles Bailey, Ben Levin, Lakota John and Toby Lee. The original sailing was planned for August 14-19, 2020, from Barcelona, Spain to Genoa, Italy and Cannes, France.
Fans can book their spot on the 2021 sailing now at bluesaliveatseaeurope.com
“We know how much our guests were looking forward to this special sailing but also know the time right now just isn’t right. With the enhanced health and safety measures being put in place by Norwegian Cruise Line and our new programs giving guests the extra value and flexibility they need right now, fans can be assured when we all come together in the Greek Isles next year, it will be an event that creates memories that last a lifetime”. – Anthony Diaz | CEO Sixthman
Looking After Our Communities with Extra Value and Flexible “Vacation with Confidence” Booking Options
Guests who currently are booked on the original 2020 Mediterranean voyage will have several options to maintain flexibility with their vacation.
Guests can choose to:
- transfer their reservation to the rescheduled dates in 2021, all guests who do can receive a free beverage package*
- cancel their reservation and receive a future credit on a Sixthman festival event on land or sea good through December 31, 2022
- cancel their reservation and receive a future credit on a Norwegian Cruise Line sailing good through December 31, 2022
- cancel their reservation and be provided a full refund of monies paid.
In order to provide maximum flexibility to our booked guests, those that transfer their reservation will be able to change their selection and opt for a full refund through August 31, 2020 by contacting Sixthman prior to the August 31, 2020 cut-off date. For more information on this and updates to Norwegian Cruise Line’s safety measures, visit Sixthman.net/assurance
Keeping The Blues Alive At Sea VII
In addition to the second Mediterranean voyage, Joe Bonamassa, Keeping the Blues Alive Foundation and Sixthman will set sail March 8-12, 2021 on the seventh annual Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea VII, on the beautiful Norwegian Pearl from Miami, Florida to Ocho Rios, Jamaica. Aboard the Blues Rock Festival will be an incredible lineup including George Thorogood & The Destroyers, Charlie Musselwhite, Eric Gales, Shemekia Copeland, Jimmy Vivino, Sue Foley, Popa Chubby, Jontavious Willis, Vanessa Collier, Joe Robinson with more to be announced. Fans are encouraged to join the presale now. -- bluesaliveatsea.com.
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BOOKING & INFO: For the 2021, Mediterranean voyage, Double occupancy staterooms on Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea Mediterranean II begin at $1650 per person (subject to availability), plus taxes and fees, with low deposit amounts and flexible payment plans available.
For the 2021, Caribbean sailing, Double occupancy staterooms on Keeping the Blues Alive at Sea VII begin at $1245 per person (subject to availability), plus taxes and fees, with low deposit amounts and flexible payment plans available.
A destination of her own, Norwegian Pearl offers guests Norwegian Cruise Line’s signature freedom and flexibility to enjoy 11 onboard bars and lounges, 15 dining experiences, a casino, one outdoor pool, hot tubs, and a full menu of spa treatments.
For more information about booking your vacation, visit bluesaliveatseaeurope.com or bluesaliveatsea.com or call Sixthman directly at 877-379-9180 between the hours of 10AM EST and 6PM EST.
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