Into The Darkness-EP

Looks like I forgot to write about Into The Darkness-EP. Oops
Well as a lot of you may know by now, I have it, just like any other Satan's Angels album. This is their second EP and is a prelude of what we may receive at Blood Rose Garden on the 20th. On December 10th, the day it came out, I ran out of my house, tripped over a tree root sticking out into the sidewalk, bought the EP for 16 bucks, ran back home, tripped over the same root, dropped the cd, panicked, picked it back up and continued back home, popped it in my computer, burned it onto my iTunes library and listened to it. After hearing the first song I boofed so hard I woke up the aliens sleeping on Venus. Havana In Vegas, the first song, is just a kick starter for the whole thing. It featuresStrobel singing on all tracks including this one ( but I guess you know that by now, BOOF). And the hottest band leader of them all, Francois, says " yes idiots. The first initials do make up HIV. My intended plan". It follows up with It's All 4 You. It's a love song that I presume is about a one sided relationship with a girl who doesn't value her boyfriend's sacrifices and passion. It has a weird dance break down at the bridge but then goes back to metal, and Francois gets his only singing part of the whole song: a 4 second demon bellow (hey it's something). The track after that is Mephisto...Be Damned...(it is spelled just like that). It has a very fast intro with a face melting guitar and bass lick. There is some speaking parts done by Strobel himself in the beginning and bridge, which he admits to ripping from an August Burns Red concert he went to. It has a slightly religious meaning to it as it talks about a teenager's struggle with faith. After that is the sad, haunting song The Prayer Of A Dying Man. It has many religious allusions such as answering Gods call or whatever. Francois and Strobel are still nihilists though. There is heavy string action as well as a beautiful piano solo at the end which one does not simply skip over it. The final song is Rorschach and Deadpool. Francois said that Rorschach and Deadpool is a mini series on YouTube that he is following. It is short but also very moving as you just feel the whole song course through you. It has nothing to do with YouTube so if you thought it did, youre wrong.
The EP was great. Anyone who is a fan of Strobels voice will definitely enjoy it more than a majority of fans. We are gonna see great things out of Blood Rose Garden. Dans superior drumming and the inhaled screams made me boof, so trust me, you'll boof too (yeah I say boof a lot. So what? I don't know what it means, but it's fun to say). Um, well that was awkward. It's a 5 star EP. Get it while you can. Peace out.

Bloody Harvest 2012

BLOODY HARVEST 2012!!!!! Yeah, I am so hyped for the new album by Satan's Angels. It came out earlier this month during the spring break, and of course, I got it right away. It's really just called Bloody Harvest. Taking its title from a Richard Kunzmann book with the same name, singer Francois Boumoussa delivers vicious vocal lines as he and rhythm guitarist Rob Lapiedra show off some furious fretwork and Strobel  
Schrodinger gives off some heavy bass while drummer Dan Lee adds merciless beats. The first song, "From The Outside" begins with a dark and creepy intro and then moves into a hard riff. "In that song, it sounds as if I was actually going to lose my voice" said Francois, in one of his videos. "I wasn't in the mood to record that day since it was hot, and I was slightly dehydrated." He and Rob harmonize in the chorus riff as Rob plays heavy chords and Francois plays a lead riff to match it. Then it moves into the relentlessness of "Faceless", where Strobel laid down the law with his boosted bass. "I will admit that I raised the volume a wee bit in the verse" he said in a jokingly manner. "It all really mattered what Dan was doing. He composes most of our songs to begin with anyway. Whatever his drum line sounds like, we work with. Without him, I don't exist as a bassist." He laughed a bit there, since "Without him, I don't exist" is referencing one of the lyrics in the song. Francois screams a throat searing vocal solo like he usually does. "Lie To Me(Denial)" is definitely my favorite song off the album. Rob explained how the song was meant to sound like, because he composed a brutal rhythm guitar line with Strobel. "We first thought of it to be an acoustic song, since it's about a breakup where the ex girlfriend just can't seem to get over her ex boyfriend. But we decided to leave an acoustic version for another time." Rob first had the idea of a breakup song, but turned to Francois to write the lyrics. The climatic point in the album was when they put "Fight Inside" from the 2 track No More Tears in there. It was the alternate studio version. Francois tells us "Fight Inside was a very good song, and I will say it has the potential to be a very heavy song, so we redid it with a nuclear metal tone to it. It turned out very good, especially at the Nothing and Everything part." Fight Inside's redeux was fantastic. The following track "Overtake You" was very different from the rest of their songs. It was more fast paced and the drums were just moshable. "Who We Are" was the track that followed that. The beginning was what got people into it. Francois uses a serration pedal on his guitar and Dan plays a drum beat similar to a military march. "The song title sounded to me like a military song, so I opened it up with a tone that sounded like soldiers doing a drill march." Not that I'm complaining. They still have a sense of humor, leaving the song "Already Over" as the final track. Puns still give me headaches. But this album sure didn't give me one. Go download it on ReverbNation or buy it in a store near you!

So here it is

Outnumbered came out earlier this month, and I got it right away. My opinion was it was by far their best studio album ever. A reporter from a metal magazine decided to take a rewind with them back to the very beginning. Let's start this off for you guys. It all began in 2007. Francois Boumoussa was in his 6th grade class when he heard this term, "Satan's angels". "I had a newfound skill in guitar and was inspired to form a band". he says. "I liked the metal message Satan's Angels hit me with." From that moment on he was going to look for musicians and what better way than to ask friends? Rob LaPiedra was stopped in the hall for a second, thought deeply about it, and then agreed. "I figured why not help a friend out." Rob says. "He is really good anyway." Then Dan Lee gave it a shot when he heard about this. "I didn't know how far I was going to get with this band since I'm usually accustomed to playing punk." Dan says. "Metal wasn't my favorite genre, but I grew a liking for it with Satan's Angels."

He was just about set until he found he didn't have a bassist. He however was in a music shop and saw a very tall girl that was looking at basses. He approached her and said 'excuse me miss'. The 'girl' turned around and said 'what!?'. It was actually Strobel Schrodinger from behind! "He was so embarrassed so we talked it out and he invited me to play bass for his band." He tells the reporter. Then their first real gig at Costco, the cheapest place who offered free food, was the amazement in talent. Rob was undenyingly good with the six strings and Dan pounded furiously on his drums. "They were mechanical animals at it." Francois recalls. Strobel amazed him the most though. He stunned the crowd with his 7 years of experience at play. "Cliff Burton was a huge influence on my music. And what most people don't realize is that bass isn't just 4 strings." he says. "It has a different sound and a different method to playing it." Strobel uses trichords in 'Show Me the Way', one of the songs in Outnumbered. If you listen closely, you can hear them.

He also guest sang in a couple of songs: 'Show Me the Way', 'Sickly Evil', 'Sons Of Revile'. "I can't hit the high notes like he can." Francois admits. This is a 5 star album, any fan needs to have this.

Continued.....

Hell's Gates was not a successful album. It was decietful because of the name, and the songs weren't as heavy as expected, and it also had only 3 tracks on it. "It was a let-down." admitted Krim. Satan's Angels decided to redeem itself after the tragedy and went straight to recording a new album, Shadow of The Pentagram, which they played at the Harmonix Arena in June. The difference? That new album is a screamo album. "I decided we should change our sound for this new one." says bassist Strobel Schrodinger. "We're still a nuclear metal band, but our frontman wanted to lean a little more to the death metal side."

The changed sound proved popular and successful. Shadow of The Pentagram made a dramatic increase in sales. It opens up with "We Are Everything" and ends with "Ego Sum Deus". For fun, they decided that on the album, they were going to add a live cover of the Iron Maiden song "Wrathchild". The album came out the day after Harmonix Arena. Their classics will still remain. At small gigs, you can catch them playing older songs that we all love. "It's true we won't change our sound completely since my nuclear metal tone has attached to me." says Francois.

The next album releasing later this year (and yes, that does make it the 3rd album released this year) will be called Outnumbered, another death metal screamo album. "It's actually kinda mixed if you think about it." says Dan. "Our old sound remains on some tracks like "Crawl" and "Waiting Since I Don't Know When." The album pretty much goes from heavy to light, making it distinct metal. The song starts off with the demonic tone of "Fear Thy Maker." That's all for today, see you next time!

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After a devastating break-up, young artist band Satan's Angels reformed and have made a deep comeback. They're returning to pick up from where they left off, which was being amazing. The press was lucky enough to get an interview with the band. "It really has been a long time coming. But I'm gald it was worth it in the end." says frontman Francois Boumoussa. "We really wanted our fans to be proud of us again. I swear we won't let you guys down!". He was very excited to be on the road again. As a matter of fact, they recently went on a 2 weeks summer tour in July with Discharge, a new band. They had fun, and Discharge was able to second that.

"We were all amazed to see how many people across the country loved the band." says Alan Krim, the GM of Satan's Angels' record label Spin City Records, who is also a record producer. He calims that he "did a good job by pushing them to an unknown limit." What really mattered was the faith that stayed alive in the fanbase. When the band broke up, almost everyone was buying old albums. "None of us expected to be more popular after we split." says Rob LaPiedra, the band's rhythmist. "War of the Apocalyptics reached an all time high. Good for us."

Beginning with the heartfelt rage of "Breathe" to the pulse raising aggression of "Relocated", War of the Apocalyptics became a suprisingly popular album for everyone. "It was our debut album" drummer Dan Lee added. "And it only took 2 years after we actually formed." They followed up that same year with Pillar of Fire. The album wasn't as heavy as their first, but it still got you in the right mood to bang your head. The album begins with "Take It All Away", which ha a soft tone to it. Things get heavier when it reaches "Run and Hide". You better prepare for the fury of "Death To The Oppressor", an incredibly angry song about substance abuse, which is the "oppressor". "They really have made a mark in the industry" says Nick Mateyo, President of Spin City Records and runs the band with everything, such as selling albums and recording them. "I'm very proud of them."

They released Hell's Gates, their first EP, in January. The song didn't go far,