Vegastar, a French alternative rock band is back for the 10th anniversary of the « Un Nouvel Orage » album.
The show will be Friday 23rd October at O’Sullivans Backstage by the Mill, 92 Boulevard de Clichy, 75018 Paris (Moulin Rouge street).
The tickets will be on sale Wednesday 22th July at 10:00AM.
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Cet album est le moins aimé des fans qui ont été déçus lors de sa sortie tout comme les critiques qui l’ont descendu. À l’occasion de la sortie du nouvel album du groupe prévu pour août 2015, revenons sur l’un des bouc émissaires du metal.
Les principaux arguments cités par ses détracteurs sont les suivants :
– Les singles tentant de faire quelque chose de nouveau (Temper Temper, Riot) ne fonctionnent pas.
– Les compositions sont trop basiques.
– Le tout manque de pêche et notamment de screams…
Je vais maintenant vous donner mon avis personnel et expliquer pourquoi je suis d’accord ou non avec ses différents arguments. Pour ma part, je ne soutiens aucun des trois. Du moins presque…
Contrairement à une grande majorité, je trouve les singles plaisants et innovants : le titre éponyme exprime la colère d’une manière autre que le scream, enfin ! Riot propose un genre de mélodie que le groupe n’a jamais tenter sur ses autres productions. Donc le véritable problème de cet album vient justement selon moi, du fait que les singles qui annoncent de la nouveauté ne sont pas représentatifs de l’album. Les compositions ne sont pas basiques mais beaucoup sont des clones de leurs anciennes : « Truth Hurts » s’inspire du rift de « Your Betrayal », « Dead To The World » de la structure de « Say Goodnight » et « Tears Don’t Fall Part 2 » est quasiment identique à son aîné (Et ne me dîtes pas que c’est normal car il s’agit d’une suite, car on peut tout à fait faire une suite cohérente avec son prédécesseur sans le recopier pour autant), « Temper Temper » contient donc trop de réchauffé là ou il aurait justement du se permettre des expérimentations.
Cependant, c’est ce qu’il fait aussi avec quelques morceaux qui valent le détour comme « P.O.W » par exemple et son intro savoureuse. Certaines restent classiques mais n’en demeurent pas pour autant moins efficaces, « Saint and Sinners » en est sans doute le meilleur exemple. Malgré son défaut majeur, « Temper Temper » est un bon album rien que pour les quelques bonnes idées qu’il instaure et l’efficacité qu’il préserve. Je ne comprend donc pas tout le rejet qu’il suscite et particulièrement le reproche lié à celui du manque de pêche : Bullet For My Valentine ne fait pas que du metalcore et c’est tant mieux, il prône avant tout le heavy metal et c’est important de ne pas tout miser sur les screams car ils peuvent devenir affreusement répétitifs.
Ma note : 6,5/10
Mon Top des chansons de l’album :
Breaking Point
Temper Temper
P.O.W
Riot
Saints And Sinners
La liste des pistes :
01. Breaking Point
02. Thruth Hurts
03. Temper Temper
04. P.O.W
05. Dirty Little Secret
06. Leech
07. Dead To The World
08. Riot
09. Saints And Sinners
10. Tears Don’t Fall Part 2
11. Livin’ Life ( On The Edge Of A Knife )
We’ve talked about the band recently since a fight started between them and Sumerian records concerning a song featuring Asking Alexandria‘s Denis Stoff. The band defied them and released the track whatever Sumerian had to say (read this or this).
We’ve had the chance to speak with guitar player Myungjae Lee while he was waiting for a flight in Korea.
Ride The Sky : How are you & where are you right now ?
Myungjae Lee : I’m doing good. I’m in Korea right now.
Are still living in Dubai or have you moved somewhere closer to Germany/the rest of the band?
M: Well, I’m going back to Dubai today but I currently live in the Netherlands. I’ve just travelling since I have holidays now. I’ve just been travelling.
That’s cool. You’ve recently released a new song featuring Denis Stoff, and it has made a lot of people talking about you. Before speaking of this drama with Sumerian, I’ve heard that the song was supposed to come out last year, right ?
M : Well, we didn’t have any specific plans other than including the song on the EP but that was not possible due to factors out of our hands. (The 6 – tracks EP Miles Apart was released in February 2014)
Back in 2013/early 2014 when the song was being recorded, Denis wasn’t as popular as he may be now. Why did you choose him?
M : We knew him since he was doing his covers and there is no doubt that he is a great vocalist, if not one of the best. That was the main reason we chose him. Also, the price was reasonable and we had expected Down & Dirty to be a success.
How did you get in touch with him or his manager?
M : We expressed it to our manager that we would be interested in having him feature in one of our songs and he actually made it happen. After that, we started exchanging emails with Denis.
Did he accept immediately?
M : Our manager told us one day that Denis is interested as well so we shot him an email. Things were actually moving pretty fast when we first went it on this.
I’ve read the different emails [read here] you send him. Seems like he « forgot you » after you sent the money, although it’s true he was working hard with D&D
M : Yes. I can definitely understand him putting his effort in his band but I think deadlines and promises should be respected, especially when we paid him considerable amount of money for him to take part in this.
Despite he had a 4 months delay, are you satisfied with his parts in the song?
M: I personally am satisfied with it.
I’ve seen on Facebook, before you published the emails, some people saying stuff like « he wasn’t famous enough but now he’s with AA so we might use his fame and also make him a douche in the comments », how did you react to that?
M : I’m not going to deny that we took advantage of this situation. But I see nothing wrong with that as we paid him to take part in this. Also, this could have been avoided had he did his part in time or had given us that refund back in last February instead of ignoring it. As for the part that people are accusing us of making him look like a « douche », we are only explaining our side of the story so people would be aware of this whole situation. I think that we will have a great resistance if people knew the story. Regardless, our main intention is to release and have the rights to the song, not make him look bad. If you see our posts or statements, we are not calling him names nor are we labelling him. I think some people are just implying that because a member of their favourite member is in this drama and they feel offended by that, I don’t know.
Seems logic to release it, as he is actually known now. When did you decide to release the song?
M: Obviously after Denis has been announced as Asking Alexandria’s new vocalist haha. We really had no clear plans for it ever since it didn’t manage to make it on the EP as Denis failed to get it done by then.
And when did Sumerian ordered you not to release the song? Was it when you announced the release or previously?
M : We received an email from Denis few days before the release asking us to understand his situation and not to release the video. We did find it understandable but we obviously wanted a refund. However, he said he wouldn’t refund as he did his parts already. We found that very odd so our management reached out to Sumerian and they were supporting Denis. That made no sense.
Are you not afraid of what Sumerian could do as you dared to say « fuck it, we have the right to release it »? Are they still talking with you or have they stopped after you defied their order?
M : Personally, I don’t really think they can do anything. Sure they can take it to court but I think we did nothing wrong so I don’t think they would get anything out of us. Our management has been handling the communication with Sumerian but I don’t think it is still ongoing.
I wouldn’t necessarily call it an order either. They are in no place to control us. I’d rather call it a request.
Do you have any ideas of why Denis asked you to keep the song for yourselves? Quite strange to sing in a song, and then refuse to have it released.
M : He said since he is in Asking Alexandria, he is not allowed to do any features and that us releasing it would put him in trouble. I find that a good reason enough but what I don’t understand was despite all that, he still didn’t want to give us a refund. I mean, it was his choice to join the band and I just don’t find it fair that we have to pay for his decisions. Also, since he’s joined Asking Alexandria, he has been featured in a song of another band.
It’s hard not to mention Asking Alexandria, but did they contacted you? Or was it only Denis and Sumerian?
M : No, we have had no contact with anyone else but Denis from Asking Alexandria. I think this is between us and Denis/Sumerian, not with the whole band.
Well despite this problem, it seems you gained quite a lot of popularity. Seen Metalhammer and AltPress talked about you. How do you feel with that?
M : Well, I think it’s pretty great because more people are becoming aware of our music and band. After all, any publicity is good haha.
I’ve seen you posted a picture recently, do you have a music video coming?
M : Won’t say anything about that so I guess it depends on how you interpret that picture. But we have new music coming and are working on more stuff!
This is really cool, I’m looking forward to this new music.
Thank you for time Myungjae and have a good flight
M : Thanks for your time too, have a good day!
Forever In Combat’s latest music video for their hit single « Break Of Dawn »
Slaves (with Jonny Craig) are back with the powerful « Burning Our Morals Away » track. Their sophomore record Routine Breathing will come out soon.
Tracklist:
1. Drowning in My Addiction
2. As the Light Cracks the Foundation
3. The Hearts of Our Broken (feat. Garrett Rapp)
4. Burning Our Morales Away
5. Who Saves the Savior (feat. Spencer Chamberlin)
6. Share the Sunshine Young Blood, Pt. 2 (feat. Kyle Lucas)
7. Death Never Lets Us Say Goodbye
8. Running Through the 6 With My Soul
9. Winter Everywhere (feat. Tilian Pearson)
10. Why Fit in When You Can Stand Out?
11. Shoutout to all My Toasters
12. Is Robbing Your Friends Supposed to be Tight?
13. One God
14. We are So Michelle Branch
15. If Only We Could Change
Forever In Combat revealed a few days ago that their upcoming song « Lucid Dreams » featuring Denis Stoff (now in Asking Alexandria) was blocked by Sumerian Records who refused them to release it (label problems, you know).
The band told on Facebook they were on working on it, but it seems that the guys decided not to care about it. « Lucid Dreams » is now out, who knows if it’s for keep? Sumerian is surely angry about that decision but who cares? I’m glad they did it. I’m glad a band had the balls to say « fuck it » to a major label. Read their statement below and listen to this sick new track.
« Fuck it, whatever anyone says we have the right to release this song and we will. We are not letting higher powers manipulate and push us around. We are fighting for what is right and just.
The transaction was made in October 2013, when Denis was in Down & Dirty. Back then, he had told us that they had not been signed yet. They were announced as a Sumerian band in December 2014, months after the deal was sealed.
We have no idea as to why they requested us to not release the song. It would have been surely understandable if they would issue a refund of the amount we have paid Denis back then, but they have no intention of doing that. Even though we collaborated with Denis prior to him being signed to Sumerian (or at least has claimed so to us). Our manager have contacted Sumerian for this matter but their representatives have not been co-operative and now, we have had enough and we are not the ones to accept injustice.
Regardless, we hope you enjoy the song and we also hope that it was worth the delay!
Spread awareness of good music and also this downright absurd story, I think we deserve an extra support for what we are doing, don’t you think? »
The guys from Bring Me The Horizon are back! After a week posting mysterious puzzles on Instagram the band released on sunday their new track « Happy Song ». The song is surprising, once more the band has gone in a different direction (remember their hit single ‘Drown’ that came out a few months ago).
A new album is supposed to come out by the end of the summer. Feel free to tell us what you think of this new song.
Poppunk legends Sum 41 have been quite silent for the past years, since 2011’s Screaming Bloody Murder. Stevo since left the band and Deryck Whibley almost died one year ago due to his abusive drinking. After learning to live sober, Deryck came back to the studio as he, apparently, did not have anything else to do.
He came back on stage this month with ex-My Chemical Romance member Mikey May as « Deryck and the Happiness Machines » to perform old school Sum 41 songs.
Yesterday the band announced the upcoming release of a new album that you can pre-order here stating « Sum 41 is back and stronger and more excited than we have been in a long time. It’s time to make a fucking great record! »
The new song off their upcoming record To Those Left Behind (to be released on september 18th) is now out.
Beau Bokan has said about this record « As a band we are constantly trying to outdo ourselves and take a step forward with each record. With this new album we’ve taken a giant fucking leap forward and are at our absolute best as musicians and song writers. We’re looking forward to seeing where this album will take us. »
Forever in Combat has announced on their Facebook page that their upcoming song « Lucid Dreams » featuring Asking Alexandria‘s Denis Stoff won’t come out because of Sumerian Records. The band hasn’t given much details, but precise that « they are still fighting » to release it.
You can read their statement below:
Bad News:
We’re all extremely bummed about this, however due to circumstances and the powers that be (Supposedly), we have been forced to pull the up and coming single « Lucid Dreams » Feat. Denis Stoff of Asking Alexandria
We are extremely frustrated by this and promise to make it up to you guys here in the near future. We have TONS of new music in the works and plenty of other surprises we’ll reveal in the coming days.
Note that we are still fighting to release « Lucid Dreams, » however Sumerian Records (Denis Stoff’s Label) has blocked us from this release for the time being.
Much Love, ~ Forever In Combat xoxo
