![]() Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 8:44 am Tagged with: Total Vomit Experience But I’m afraid there will be a noticeable drop in the volume of content on the site. There will be days here and there between now and the end of the project when I can throw something together for NCS, or edit, format, and post the scribblings of other people. Yesterday I didn’t even have time (or the right frame of mind) to listen to a single song, much less the time to scribble something for the site. ![]() Once again, I’ve been dispatched away from home on a project that keeps me ridiculously busy both day and night. Once again, it’s because my fucking day job is fucking with me - and that will continue to happen for the next two weeks. “Fucking off” isn’t in the NCS dictionary. The maniacs out there who actually visit our putrid site on a daily basis will have noticed that I didn’t post anything yesterday, which I think is only the sixth day in more than five years when that’s happened. Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 6:00 am Tagged with: Andy Synn And I can understand why, as it’s possible to get it very, very wrong when it comes to clean singing. Heck, I can honestly say that I LOVE a lot of cleanly sung metal, from the majestic melancholy of Primordial and the devastating bombast of Nevermore, through the gritty gallows-humour of Sentenced and the shameless extravagance of Devin Townsend… and that’s not even counting the umpteen bands who intermingle clean/harsh vocals with aplomb!īut when we’re talking about the more extreme styles of metal that we tend to cover here at NCS, clean singing can often be a contentious issue. Of course clean singing has been a part of the metal landscape since the genre’s very inception, and despite this site’s (tongue-in-cheek) name we definitely understand and respect it for its importance and its contribution over the years. Thinking hard enough to put together this little piece of persuasive ponderment anyway. Recently I was chatting with some friends after a show on the topic of clean singing in metal – its history, its use, its place, and its purpose… the how, the when, and the why of it…. ![]() ( Andy Synn has been thinking… and here’s what he’s been thinking about…) Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 5:30 am Tagged with: Ares Kingdom, Charles R. In addition to praising the music, I praised the album art - the kind of thing that many bands do poorly, and that’s often lost in our download culture when it’s done well. What motivated me to write about parents (besides too much tequila) was my recent piece on an awesome KC band called Ares Kingdom and their album Incendiary, and some messages we received in response to it. And if you conclude this is just too much emotional tripe, chalk it up to an excess of tequila I suppose this topic is sappy, and sappy isn’t metal. And I think there’s a decent chance that very few people who are visiting our site these days will have seen it five years ago anyway we’ve grown a bit since then. But re-reading it last night, for the first time since I wrote it, I decided it still reflects what I believe. I was a little inebriated when I wrote it I tend to get emotional when I’ve had a few shots. I wrote this almost exactly five years ago, when this site was about six months old. There’s a reason why I’m doing this, which you’ll find in a postscript at the end. I’m doing something I don’t think I’ve ever done before - re-posting on the site something we’ve previously published (with just a few word changes). Ares Kingdom in Berlin, 2011 - photo by Anan Tan
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