Not impressed.
Takut-takut keluar full album rupa-rupanya St Anger Pt 2 (dengan sound yang sedap sikit dari St Anger).
Among Americans' periodic periods of panic over the corrosiveness of pop culture, the 1980s campaign to vilify heavy metal music stands out for the decibel level of both the music and the protests.With dramatic testimony in courtrooms and at Congressional hearings, concerned parents and even government officials warned that groups like Iron Maiden and Metallica were enticing our teenagers into moral and spiritual darkness—up to and including devil worship.
So now that three decades have passed since this alleged attempt by Satan to infiltrate young brains via eardrum-shattering sounds, how are those headbangers doing? Did their punishingly loud and intense music send them spiraling into lives of despair?Not so, according to a newly published study. In fact, researchers find that former metal fans "were significantly happier in their youth, and better adjusted currently" compared to their peers who preferred other musical genres, and to a parallel group of current college students."Social support is a crucial protective factor for troubled youth. Fans and musicians alike felt a kinship in the metal community, and a way to experience heightened emotions with like-minded people."
"Metal enthusiasts did often experience traumatic and risky 'sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll' lives," reports a research team led by Humboldt State University psychologist Tasha Howe. "However, the metalhead identity also served as a protective factor against negative outcomes."
The study, published in the journal Self and Identity, featured 377 adults: 154 who were heavy metal fans growing up in the 1980s (including musicians and "groupies"); 80 who typically listened to other types of music during their teen years; and 153 current students at a California university. Members of the latter group were recruited from a psychological department participant pool; the others were recruited online.
All participants answered detailed questions about their youthful experiences and current levels of success and happiness. The results will surprise the scolds.
"Despite the challenges of adverse childhood events, and other stressful and risky events in their youth," the researchers write, former metal aficionados "reported higher levels of youthful happiness" than peers with other musical tastes as well as today's college students. "They were also less likely to have any regrets about things they had done in their youth."
In fact, those who focused on types of music outside of heavy metal "sought psychological counseling for emotional problems more than any other group, indicating a less happy and fulfilling perspective on their 1980s adolescence." Perhaps, then, Tipper Gore and company were focusing their concern on the wrong kids. MORE
In January, Petrucci said of Mangini's work: "When people hear the drumming on this album, they're gonna be pretty freaked out. On the last album, he did a great job, but he wasn't there for the writing process and he was interpreting drum parts that I had programmed. Even though he used his creativity, of course, to change them up and do his thing, I feel like now he's just Mike Mangini unleashed. It's all him. It's all his creativity, all his decisions and ideas and man, the guy's an animal."
"Dream Theater" track listing:
01. False Awakening Suite I. Sleep Paralysis II. Night Terrors III. Lucid Dream
02. The Enemy Inside
03. The Looking Glass
04. Enigma Machine
05. The Bigger Picture
06. Behind The Veil
07. Surrender To Reason
08. Along For The Ride 09. Illumination Theory I. Paradoxe de la Lumière Noire II. Live, Die, Kill III. The Embracing Circle IV. The Pursuit of Truth V. Surrender, Trust & Passion
"Dream Theater" will be available in a wide range of distinctive versions, including standard and special edition CDs, 180-gram double LP, and a limited-edition boxed set. Pre-orders are scheduled to launch in July at the Roadrunner Records webstore.
DREAM THEATER will be on tour in Europe in January and February 2014, and in North America in March 2014.
"Live At Luna Park", DREAM THEATER's live concert, which was previously scheduled for release in May via Eagle Rock Entertainment, will now drop in North America on November 5 as a Blu-ray, 2DVD, 2DVD + 3CD, Blu-ray + 3CD, deluxe edition with 40-page book, Blu-ray + 2DVD + 3CD, and digital video via iTunes.
"Live At Luna Park" was filmed over two nights in South America — home to one of DREAM THEATER's most ardent fanbases. The DVD was filmed August 19 and August 20, 2012 at Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina after a 15-month world tour, hitting 35 countries.
Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/dream-theater-new-song-along-for-the-ride-available-for-streaming/#3w1Ihmzy2uvFTlyE.99
Why don't you release music from outside Washington, DC?Scene yang maju sustainable dengan local acts saja. Tetapi bukanlah kerja yang mudah. Komitmen dari label dan band kena seiring. Jika label sanggup korbankan RM5000 untuk hasilkan CD/vinyl, adakah band sanggup korbankan RM5000 juga untuk rekoding/promo tour?
We only release music from the DC's music scene because this is the city where we live, work and have the most understanding. To expand would be to dilute our focus. We encourage creative people to take control of their local scenes and to look within themselves to create opportunities as others encouraged us to do when we started out.