unDEADground

Linkin Park is a band from California formed in 1996 by Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, Rob Bourdon, Mr. Hahn. In 1999 they recruited Chester Bennington to make vocals with his extremelly particular voice so they mixed un metal and rap rock genres to make their own style and made the amazing álbum Hybrid Theory. Then the band started to grow and have many fans all over the world. Many albums followed this first one but for me this is the best one. Here you have a video I hope you enjoy

With You Live in Texas

This amazing song created by New Order in 1982 have played for many different  bands and there are so many special covers and all of them are amazing, why? Cause the song is remarkable. I just can’t stop hearing the different versions of this marvelous single. Several bands had their version of this song whic is still in our head 27 years after it was released.
Here you have the original version by New Order and a new version made by Jonathan Davis on his Alone I Play Tour.

Hope you enjoy this as much as I do…

Nothing to say about it, just watch it, it’s completelly amazing….

Korn -- Blind (Live Rock Am Ring 2007)

As always they are using their mind and creating great things, this time is no different. The video Warrior’s Dance of The Prodigy won the annual Rushes Soho Shorts for best music video 2009 which was directed by Corin Hardy, Academy Films. It is a great video as you will see, I don’t have much more to say, images speaks by themselves

Here you have the awarded video.

Warrior’s Dance

In addition to this amazing video I leave you the last Prodigy video

Take me to the hospital

Killing in the name

That’s one of my favorite Rage Against The Machine’s scream…. It says it clearly: Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me, and they didn’t.  As everybody knows RATM was always in opposition to globalization and capitalism, they were always making shows to help people, to complain about something or to collect money for a good cause.
With their first performance in somebody’s living room in the OC of California and with their self produced first cassette they started their career in 1991, becoming a great band heard all around the world. They disbanded in 2000 and announced their return on April of 2007 playing at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival and after that they kept playing in some concerts and maybe we are lucky and they record a new album.
This unique band from USA was founded by Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha together with Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk wth a particular style and a fantastic fusion of funk, rap, punk, hip hop and hard rock.

They are so unique that after 9/11 attacks, Clear Channel creates a list of “songs with questionable lyrics.” RATM has the distinction of being the only band to have all its songs on the list.

I leave you my two favorite songs for you…

Enjoy

XOXO

Settle for nothing live 1993

Prodigy Voodoo People

Just because I like it….

Just because I wanted to hear it…

Just beacuse I’m not inspired…

Just because they blowed up my mind with this song when I saw them alive…

Just because I have a voodoo doll of myself…

Just because I want to…

Just to write something different today…

Just because it’s me…

Enjoy Voodoo people…

Today I woke up with this thing in my head, what could it be my last wish. I started to think my most precious desire but I couldn’t figure it out.  So it came to my mind this song Justin (by Korn). Justin was a little boy who was diagnosed with intestinal cancer, a terminal illness and his last wish when he knew ha was going to die was to meet the members of his favorite band Korn. This wish reached Jonathan Davis and this is what he thought about it:

“Justin’s dying wish was to meet us and it really freaked me out. It threw a whole new kind of pressures on my head. That’s really intense. Someone’s going to die and the last thing he wants to do is come hang out with us. So I truly just freaked out. It’s like why would you want to meet me? What makes me so special? And in turn I talk about how I admire his courage and his life. I couldn’t stare at him because he was so content with the fact that he was dying. None of us could look him in the eyes. And I totally admire his strength. I wish I had it.”

This made me think how humble they was to admire Justin and how Justin admired them so much. Life is a crazy thing we must enjoy.

Korn made a song called Justin on their Follow the Leadear album, here are the lyrics look carefully at it, it al make sense.

~*~ Justin ~*~
Fuck all that bullshit!

You watch me play.
I look away.
Your lights turn bright.
You found the light.

Take, off in space. You and I.
Time, off in space. You and I.

You’re gonna die!
Wanna meet me, why?
I wish I had your strength
Inside your soul escapes.

Take, off in space. You and I.
Time, off in space. You and I.

Cry, into me.
Help me…
Something…
For all!
The kids that die listening to me.

You are alive!

Time, off in space. You and I stay….

Indestructible

As everybody knows Disturbed is an alternative metal band that has its origins in Chicago Illinois in 1996 when Dan Donegan, Steve “Fuzz” Kmaky and Mike Wendren made an announcement that they were looking for a vocalist and here is when David Draiman appeared. Disturbed was already formed with strong influences of the 90´s heavy metal adding solos and technical riffs of guitar.
The first years were really hard, recording two EP which were sent to different discographers. The band achieve the success in 2000 when they released the single “Stupify” followed by their album The Sickness, this finally launched them to success. In 2002 their second album “Believe” made its debut with a great success reaching the number one on the hit lists.
In 2005 and 2006 they had to postpone their Europe tour due to David vocal problems.
During the 2008 they release their new album Indestructible produced by themselves which go back to their origins that made them famous.

Here I leave you two of the Indestructible album videos, I hope you enjoy.

inside the fire

JONATHAN DAVIS: Vocals
JAMES “MUNKY” SHAFFER: Guitars
FIELDY: BASS

Like many other bands of the 90’s korn started in a garage, young dreamers with much hate, pain and things to scream to the world. With their particular personality their first scream to the world was: Are you ready???, and were we ready? Were they ready to what was coming? I think they were, but we couldn’t imagine how far this garage band would achieve all the things they did.

I’ve been listening to them for too much time now and they still keep surprising me. What makes them different from others? The Evolution like they said in their last Untitled album. They were always capable to evolve even though they have their problems, their addictions, their fights, their feelings; they were always trying to evolve. You can see this evolution during the past of the years since the Korn album in 1994 that was full of anger, claims, and feelings but in some way they could touch your fucking mind with their songs. At that moment nobody knew them, just was a little band but, with a big scream of Jonathan Davis voice left us ready to what was about to come. Life is peachy still young starting with an amazing intro (which is like a signature now) and followed with great songs like ADIDAS, who cares what people think, All day I dream about sex and they were telling it to everybody. And they keep on going, then Follow the leader was seen in all stores and everybody knew it. Then came Issues I think it is their best album, is perfect, I love each song of this fucking album. At that moment everyone knew who Korn was and could distinguish John Davis incredible Chameleonic voice that can go from sweet singing to angry screaming and creepy sounds. They were a Pandora box opened at that moment. Then recorded the Untouchables I don’t have anything to say about this album I felt disappointed with it but I think it is good to have the ability of being impartial when you like something so much. After this unpleasing album they went back to origins with Take a Look in the Mirror, evolving like always but with the classical Korn sounds and critics to short-minded people like their video You All Want a Single. Then came the See you on the other side album which completely blown my mind. At this time I was convinced that they couldn’t surprised me anymore but they did, The Unplugged reflects peace, includes all kind of new instruments, great versions of old songs, Amy lee making an angelical voice in freak on a leash, a fantastic mix of  make me bad and a The Cure song completely fusion. And they kept going and going, the Family Values Tour, the See You on the Other Side Tour and then finally came the Untitled their last album until now which shows us that they still can make great music even though they don’t have Brian “Head” Welch who left the band in 2005, and drummer David Silveria who has been on a break from Korn since 2006.

It’s been too many years and as JD says “When we started, most of our fans were 14, 15, and now they’re lawyers and doctors who are bringing their kids. We’re transcending generations. It’s cool.”

Today they are three and Jonathan David Said: yes we’re down three members, but we’re still very creative and still love making music.’ We’re so happy to be doing this 14 years later. This is our eighth studio album, but eleventh release overall. [And eight of those releases sold platinum or platinum-plus]

So what’s coming??? Let’s wait and see.

www.korn.com

Freak on a leash

I’m So Sick Live Family Values Korn Tour 2006

A band which deserves to be known…

Flyleaf is an alternative rock band from Texas which has a particular way to say things to the world. Although most rock bands complain about their adversities from the past like dysfunctional homes, abuse, anger or broken hearts, this band decided to deal with the old scars and prove themselves that it is better to talk about hope than remove misery. They are trying to show people that it is possible to get out of really bad situations.

This quintet is integrated by Lacey Mosley, Sameer Bhattacharya, Jared Hartmann, Pat Seals and James Culpepper. They have the perfect mix of Lacey’s voice which gives you peace and makes you take out the anger at the same time.

Making this kind of music made Lacey survive from her problems, “I had to lose everything to look up and see that there is a truly constant hope of a happy ending and that’s what we make music for.” she says “If my music helps one person, then it’s worth having been through what I’ve experienced.”

At first they tried to call the band Passerby but that name was already trademarked by other artist so they had to think in other name, here is where they came with Flyleaf which made them feel much more comfortable with the message they were trying to pass. A flyleaf is the blank page at the beginning of a book, the place where the writer put the dedications or the message his trying to pass, that’s what they want to show, a little bit of what is coming.

This is a new alternative metal band but has achieved really important things since their beginning in 2000 like being part of the Korn Family Values Tour 2006

If you still don’t know them here you have a video, hope you enjoy.

http://www.flyleafmusic.com/