The Latest Crave: 3 Quarters Dead

3 Quarters Dead (or alternatively 3QD) is not new to the music scene.Through the years, they have played with some of my personal favorites Mushroomhead and Chimaira and also some of the biggest names in the hard rock and heavy metal industry including Soilwork and Shadows Fall. After previously releasing two albums; Blueprint of a Strange Mind and Between Angels and Demons, 3QD is back and currently kicking ass across the country, splitting eardrums with their latest LP "Once Upon This Broken Glass," by now available on Amazon.


Of all songs I played over and over, and over; I found that 3QD truly comes into their own skin in The Coming of Death. Lead vocalist, Jason Sain is best on tracks like this where he tears off your head with cantankerous roars from the gutters of his soul. A thundering mix of soft and heavy, old and newer metal influences can be heard throughout the album but on this track, 3QD truly reveals their inner demon to be an early Coal Chamber and more melodic Mudvayne fusion.


A cold and tortured emotional tempest of intricate musicianship; each instrument adds a unique layer to their overall sound. My one wish is that they explore the more murky depths of metal because although the softer stuff is good, the heaviness is where the mesmerizing comes in.


Once Upon This Broken Glass also features Peter Witchers of Soilwork courtesy of Nuclear Blast Records. Get your copy today at Amazon.


http://www.myspace.com/3qd



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The Latest Crave: Charlie Drown

Charlie Drown’s Pretty Pieces conjures up iconic images of death, sex, gore and glamour in an  electro-clash of metallic trash-core, kill-girl-kill punk.

Music can be about darkness, extreme emotion, magick and faith. – Charlie Drown
From the best of two previously released projects,  Pieces And Parts and Pretty Machine Gun comes Pretty Pieces, the first album released on Dyskfunctional Records. In a sentence; Pretty Pieces professes metaphors of self loathing, destruction, lust, death and passion in a poetically poisoned concoction of dark and melodic lyrical expression.

A cohesive chain of beautiful chaos; each track harnesses what fans enjoy most about Charlie – that addictive bitchiness she infuses into every lyric, her relentless power pipes that can go from a growling bass to a head ripping high pitch to compliment edgy guitar riffs with ear piercing energy.

From Pretty Machine Gun to Justine to See Monsters, Charlie pulls us deeper into the raw mutations of heavy metal, extracting elements of punk, metal-core, and electronica to awaken audiences to a new sound incomparable to anything previously heard from the aforementioned genres. Get a pretty little piece of this album, now available at the Charlie Drown store and now available on ITunes.

Crazy X, a sexy and violent single already creating quite a buzz from the forthcoming project Theta Rhythm is now on Rock Band.

Charlie also supports the survival of Elephants. A portion of all sales go directly to the elephant sanctuary. www.elephantsanctuary.org

http://charliedrown.com
http://myspace.com/charliedrown

The Latest Crave: Deadwater Rising

With soul shredding energy, complex riffing, and deep, rough vocals Dead Water Rising delivers technical brutality with no regard to the trending label obsession in heavy metal music.  Deadwater Rising creates an interesting atmosphere of authenticity and it is clear to see (and hear)  that this band was came together out of an intense desire to make music they love, not  just to make "hits." Not every song will be liked by mainstream listeners but every song has that metal to the core - primal yet complex texture to it making Deadwater Rising worth a good long listen for tried and true metal heads in search of something new. Scene kids, sorry but this band is not for you.

Dead Water Rising will headline an interesting selection of noise on October 17 at CKay's Bar & Grill in New Lexington Ohio.

www.myspace.com/deadwaterrising