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Photo Gallery: Arch Enemy @ The Hi-Fi Brisbane 7 November 2009 – with Suffocation


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CD Review: Suffocation – The Close of a Chapter (Live in Quebec)

‘This is … Brutal!’ yells Frank Mullen at the end of The Close of a Chapter’s opening track, “Infecting the Crypts”. This is Suffocation. Birthed from the insomniac New York Underground, Suffocation clawed their way to the top of the death metal pit in the early nineties, with shadows of their unrelenting riffs and Mike Smith’s seminal blast beats cast across lesser black drum kits ever since. Suffocation captures the energy of a single moment of explosion and sticks it on endless repeat. And the lyrics are about killing people. Yeah, it’s brutal. But this isn’t a
dissection of the value of Suffocation’s music. That blood spattered throne has already been carved.
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Hello! Here is another fun and exciting journal by the one and only Mick Bynes! I'm going to be discussing stuff that I love. So without further ado, let's get to it!



First off Benighted are a really killer band. More people should listen to 'em. Seriously! They have three awesome albums you should check out. You should definitely check out Icon, Identisick and Insane Cephalic Production. They are fucking fast and heavy albums. Get them now!



The Faceless are pretty damn good. One of today's best technical death metal bands. They have such great songs such as Prison Born and An Autopsy. These guys are really worth your precious and valuable time. Go right ahead and get both of their albums. Most definitely get Planetary Duality. I highly recommend that one.



Suffocation are a fucking great death metal band. They really really are. With great songs like Human Waste, Bind Torture Kill and Mass Obliteration, you cannot go wrong with them. I really dig them. I should get their latest album someday. I dunno when I'll get it, but I'll get it eventually!



Zyklon are a really terrific blackened death metal band. You should really listen to Core Solution and Chaos Deathcult right away if you've never listened to them before.

Master are a really solid DM band that every death metal listener should listen to. They're really really fucking great. All of their albums are great. My favorite one is On the Seventh Day God Created... Master.

That's the journal! I hope you enjoyed it. Now take care and have a wonderful day!

Suffocation’s only official live record, The Close of a Chapter: Live In Quebec City, see its North American release date today, Tuesday October 27th, via Relapse Records. The Close of a Chapter: Live In Quebec City was recorded in 2005 during the band’s Souls To Deny world tour.

Additionally, MetalInjection.net is hosting a free MP3 download of the live Suffocation track “Infecting the Crypts” at this location. “Infecting the Crypts” is the album opener for The Close of a Chapter: Live In Quebec City which can be streamed in its entirety at this location: www.SuffocationLive.info.


SUFFOCATION Tour Dates:

October 30 Auckland, NZ Transmission Room

***All dates from Nov. 1 thru 7 w/ Arch Enemy, Winds of Plague***

November 1 Perth, Australia Capitol
November 3 Adelaide, Australia Fowlers Live
November 5 Melbourne, Australia The Forum
November 6 Sydney, Australia The Roundhouse
November 7 Brisbane, Australia The HiFi
November 13 Montreal, QC Trois Rivieres Metalfest
November 14 Seattle, WA Studio Seven (w/ The Faceless, Vital Remains, more)
November 15 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre (w/ THE FACELESS, VITAL REMAINS, more)

Suffocation’s only official live record, The Close of a Chapter: Live In Quebec City, is currently streaming in its entirety at this location: www.SuffocationLive.info. The Close of a Chapter: Live In Quebec City will see its North American release next Tuesday, October 27th, via Relapse Records and is available for pre-order at this location.

The Close of a Chapter: Live In Quebec City was recorded in 2005 during the band’s Souls To Deny world tour. The complete track listing for this unedited full live set is: “Infecting The Crypts”, “Thrones Of Blood”, “Surgery Of Implalement”, “Catatonia”, “Liege Of Inveracity”, “Despise The Sun”, “Subconsciously Enslaved”, “Immortally Condemned”, “Effigy Of The Forgotten”, “Tomes Of Acrimony”, “Breeding The Spawn”, “Pierced From Within” and the encore “Funeral Inception”.


SUFFOCATION Tour Dates:

October 30 Auckland, NZ Transmission Room

***All dates from Nov. 1 thru 7 w/ Arch Enemy,Winds of Plague***

November 1 Perth, Australia Capitol
November 3 Adelaide, Australia Fowlers Live
November 5 Melbourne, Australia The Forum
November 6 Sydney, Australia The Roundhouse
November 7 Brisbane, Australia The HiFi
November 13 Montreal, QC Trois Rivieres Metalfest
November 14 Seattle, WA Studio Seven (w/ The Faceless, Vital Remains, more)
November 15 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre (w/ THE FACELESS, VITAL REMAINS, more)

AC/DC
Acid Drinkers
Alastor
Anaal Nathrakh
Astharoth
Atomkraft
Atrocity
Atheist
Benediction
Biohazard
Brujeria
Brutal Truth
Bulldozer
Cannibal Corpse
Coroner
Cynic
Dark Funeral
Death
Dismember
Dragon
Entombed
Eric Sardinas
Exumer
Faith No More
Flapjack
Fish
Genesis
Gorefest
Grave
Hammer
Hate Eternal
Head Like a Hole
Helloween
Immortal
Kat
King Diamond
Kreator
Living Death
Marduk
Massacre
Megadeth
Mercyful Fate
Metallica
Misery Index
Mithras
Morbid Angel
Myslovitz
Napalm Death
Nasty Savage
Nine Inch Nails
Novembers Doom
Oddział Zamknięty
Open Fire
Opeth
Orphaned Land
Overkill
Pain
Paradise Lost
Pestilence
Protector
Queensrÿche
Rage
Risk
Rotting Christ
Running Wild
Rush
Sadus
Samael
Satyricon
Scorn
Slayer
Sepultura
Sodom
Steve Vai
Stos
Suffocation
System of a Down
Testament
Tiamat
TSA
Turbo
Turisas
Ulver
Unleashed
Vader
Wolf Spider

Psyche


PhlebotomizedMorbid AngelDemilichAnataThe ChasmImmolationIncantationSuffocationGorgutsCryptopsyNeuraxisDefeated SanityOriginDismemberEntombedSpawn of PossessionCannibal CorpseNecrophagistGorgasmBolt ThrowerDeicideVital RemainsFunebrarumDevourmentDying FetusAutopsyDeathBehemothAmon AmarthIntestine BaalismMonstrosityDeeds of FleshOdious MortemSevered SaviorNecrophagistDecapitatedPsycropticMeshuggah


CarnifexSuicide SilenceBring Me the HorizonEmmureAnnotations of an Autopsy

First, what has been opened from the unopened stack:
Calexico and Iron & Wine's collaborative In the Reins EP
Sigur Rós' Hvarf/Heim
Aimee Mann's @#%&*! Smilers
The Black Keys' Rubber Factory
Idea

Still to open from earlier I have:
The B-52's' Wild Planet
Belle and Sebastian's The Boy With The Arab Strap
Electric Light Orchestra's On the Third Day
Nine Inch Nails' Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Supertramp's Crime of the Century
Willie Nelson's Shotgun Willie
Ted Nugent's Free-For-All
Steely Dan's Everything Must Go
Modest Mouse's The Moon & Antarctica
Jackson Browne's Running On Empty in a rather cheap remaindered deluxe edition (to replace an already-sold barebones release)
And the John Coltrane set The Impulse! Albums Volume 1 which includes Coltrane, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, Live at The Village Vanguard, Africa/Brass and Ballads.

And adding, unopened:

Weather Report's Weather Report, Black Market and Heavy Weather
Yes' The Yes Album
The Band's Rock Of Ages
The Black Keys' Chulahoma EP
Lindsey Buckingham's Go Insane
The Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man and Sweetheart of the Rodeo (though I've been told to get the boxset instead...)
The Decemberists' The Crane Wife
Devo's Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Jimi Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys
Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick
Roxy Music's Avalon
Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years
Ennio Morricone's score for The Mission


And, for the rest of June:

Goblin's Perché Si Uccidono (recorded as Il Reale Impero Britanico)
Andrew Bird's Noble Beast and Useless Creatures
Coheed and Cambria's Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV | Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow on vinyl


And July:
David Bowie's Earthling
The Doobie Brothers' The Captain & Me
Lindsey Buckingham's Out of the Cradle
Suffocation's latest, Blood Oath
Paul Simon's Paul Simon
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Dio's Holy Diver
Fast Times at Ridgmont High's soundtrack

August:
Jethro Tull's Aqualung
Jeff Beck's Truth and Blow By Blow
Blue Öyster Cult's Spectres and Agents of Fortune
fun.'s Aim & Ignite
The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out (in ultra fancy deluxe form)
Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Iron & Wine's Around the Well compilation
Boston's Boston and Don't Look Back

September:
Mark Knopfler's Get Lucky
The Allman Brothers Band's Eat a Peach (deluxe)
Cream's Disraeli Gears (deluxe)
Brother Ali's Us
They Might Be Giants' latest kids' album Here Comes Science
Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet
Billy Joel's 52nd Street and An Innocent Man
Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way To Blue
Pearl Jam's Backspacer on vinyl
and The Beatles' stereo remastered box set, meaning:
Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, Beatles for Sale, Help!,* Rubber Soul,* Revolver,* Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,* Magical Mystery Tour,* The White Album,* Yellow Submarine,* Abbey Road,* Let It Be* and The Past Masters*
*=replacing old version

October:
Mission of Burma's The Sound of the Speed of Light
Dead Man's Bones' Dead Man's Bones
The Mountain Goats' Life of the World to Come
Minus the Bear's Planet of Ice
The Avett Brothers' I And Love And You
BrakesBrakesBrakes' Touchdown
Pearl Jam's Backspacer
and on vinyl:

We Were Promised Jetpacks' These Four Walls
The Twilight Sad's Forget The Night Ahead
Todd Rundgren's Hermit of Mink Hollow
Genesis' Trespass
The Boomtown Rats' Mondo Bongo