THE CHARIOT frontman Josh Scogin has announced that the band are halfway done recording their new album “Long Live” with producer Matt Goldman (Mychildren Mybride, Underoath). Speaking via his Twitter(@thejoshscogin), he offered the following:

“So we are about halfway done recording #longlive. Can’t wait to share these tunes.”

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There are lots of things in music that piss me off as you’ve seen already or you’ll see soon.  One of the biggest things that gets under my skin however is a band emulating another band in hopes of cashing in on the fan base of another band.  Originality never killed anyone aside from maybe Jesus Christ. But if he were still around, the long hair and beard lead me to believe he’d be a Black Sabbath or at least a Zeppelin fan.  But let’s just say that Jesus is a metalhead that loves Zeppelin for example.  When he turns the radio on in his metal chariot, odds are that he wants to hear something bitchin’ off of Led Zeppelin II and not two hundred bands that are ‘influenced by’ them yet sound like B-sides off of Coda.

Stealing the sound of another band makes an otherwise talented band not so good and a not so good band downright shitty.  If you want to sound like another band or show your devotion to a band, record a cover song or just be a flat out cover band.  It’s kind of hard to have respect for a band that comes out and plainly admits they are plagiarizing everything that a pioneer has already established for them.  When a band like Avenged Sevenfold gives themselves a label in the same sentence as Guns ‘N Roses and Pantera, I have a hard time trying to take them seriously or even give their music a chance.  I have absolutely no problem with a band being fans of another band or even citing Dimebag as the inspiration for a certain riff or Dio for a certain chorus, but it needs to stop there.  When I log onto MySpace I don’t want messages from bands telling me that if I love Sevendust or Carcass I need to check them out and I will love them.  Sure, I would love them if it hadn’t already been done and perfected fifteen years ago and not recorded in a dumpy garage.

I’m not asking every band to sound completely different or anything because it’s pretty hard to reestablish entire genres this far into the game.  In the 1960’s and 70’s, most bands that came out had no choice but to sound like themselves due to a lack of predecessors, and forty years later it’s almost all been done by now.  All that I ask is for a line to be drawn between pulling inspiration and ideas from a band and flat out copying their key to success.  Love them or hate them, bands like Type O Negative and System of a Down left permanent marks in the music industry even outside of the metal world because they created a sound that is undeniably theirs.  Nobody turns on Bloody Kisses or Toxicity, respectively, and can’t figure out which of the fifty bands it could be.  I understand how hard it is to try creating a riff that doesn’t sound like something I’ve already heard before.  The sounds of the bands we love are embedded in our brains and it’s natural for a certain amount of that to trickle into the music.  Inevitably your band is going to be compared to another band of your genre which is just a part of the game.  Just make sure your band isn’t being accused of ripping off everything that’s already been done before.  When you’re asked what your band sounds like, tell them it sounds like your band and not somebody else’s.  Remember, if metalhead Jesus wants to hear South of Heaven he doesn’t want to hear your band, he wants to hear Slayer.



Sheffield, UK metal band BRING ME THE HORIZON, is set to release their third album, There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret this October. The album was recorded at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden. The various global  release dates are as follows:

• Oct 4 — Europe (with exception of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
• Oct 5 — USA
• Oct 6  — Japan
• Oct 8 — Australia and all of Europe

There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret will feature special appearances by, Josh Franceschi (You Me At Six), Josh Scogin (The Chariot), Sonny Moore (Skrillex), and Lights.

The cover art for There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret is below.

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Sheffield, UK metal band Bring Me The Horizon, is set to release their third album, “There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret”. The album was recorded at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden. The release dates are as follows:

Oct 4- Europe (with exception of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)

Oct 5- USA

Oct 6 – Japan

Oct 8- Australia and all of Europe

“There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There is a Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret” will feature special appearances by, Josh Franceschi (You Me At Six), Josh Scogin (The Chariot), Sonny Moore (Skrillex), and Lights. The cover art is below.

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DEFTONES are still pushing forward with their fund raising campaign for hospitalized DEFTONES bassist Chi Cheng. Sacramento based DEFTONES has already done a number of benefit shows and benefit gigs for Chi Cheng, and are now coming together with P.O.D., HEAD [formerly] of KoRn., and many more for an August 14 benefit performance for their fallen comrade.

DEFTONES Chi Cheng Benefit Show Details

August 14, 2010 3PM @ Fairplex Pomona, CA — free concert

• P.O.D.
• HEAD
• Living Sacrifice
• The Chariot
• Secret and Whisper
• AllOrNothing

There will also be a Metal Mulisha Live Demo, Active Army Skate Demo, and& C1RCA Trick contest. For more details check OneLoveForChi.com.

Don’t forget about the DEFTONES 2010 US tour with Alice in Chains and Mastodon which starts this September.

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A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME, featuring Josh Scogin of THE CHARIOT/NORMA JEAN fame, just released his solo debut on May 7. Tunes up over at: http://www.myspace.com/THEJOSHSCOGIN

Scogin who has been working on this album in-between THE CHARIOT’s non-stop tour schedule started recording these songs as long as four years ago. Josh Scogin reveals:

“I have been writing songs that were very chill since late high school days and 2 of the songs were from back then. The music I create for A Rose By Any Other Name is a better representation of what I listen to on an average day. I typically love music that is either the most insane thing ever or just the most chill and nonchalant thing ever. I rarely find pleasure in much in between. So I think it is just a natural direction for me, in contrast to the intense heavy music that I have done for so long now. An interesting side note is that I find that the more I play A Rose stuff, the more extreme The Chariot becomes. One benefits the other that is for sure.”

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QUEENS CLUB have put up a new song “Dust” on their MySpace. The song is from their forthcoming album Young Giant to be released on March 23 via Tooth & Nail Records. The band was formed by Dan Eaton (vocals/guitar) and Jake Ryan (drums/vocals) both of whom are former members of hardcore/noise rock outfit THE [...]

The winners for the 2009 Taco Bell Feed The Beat program have been announced.  Registration for the program was for one month earlier this fall.  Hundreds of bands signed up, of those entrants, 100 winners were handed-picked to be included in the program. Winners will get tour support in the form of Taco Bell bucks where they can get hot meals while travelling from show to show, keeping bands happy on the road and able to get to your town.

Winners of the 2009 program include…

The Acacia Strain (Chicopee, MA), Atreyu (Yorba Linda, CA), blessthefall (Phoenix, AZ), The Bouncing Souls (New York, NY), The Chariot (Douglasville, GA), Defeater (Boston, MA), Earthless (San Diego, CA), Eyes Set To Kill (Tempe, AZ), Haste the Day (Indianapolis, IN), Iwrestledabearonce (Shreveport, LA), Municipal Waste (Fairfax, VA), Whitechapel (Knoxville, TN), Upon A Burning Body (San Antonio, TX) and more.

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PROJECT 86 who will be treated to the band’s newest full-length album Picket Fence Cartel, slated for release on July 14, 2009 via Tooth and Nail. If that’s not enough, the boys are also going to be hitting the road with Haste the Day and The Chariot on the Scream the Prayer tour.

Their seventh full length album, Picket Fence Cartel sees Project 86 returning to their aggressive roots while also taking more chances musically. The collection was produced by Ulrich Wild (Deftones, Bleeding Through) and Jason Martin (Starflyer 59, Neon Horse) have not changed the band’s sound but simply expanded on what’s been an evolving means of expression. “We like to push ourselves to reinvent and evolve musically while still retaining the P86 thumbprint or else the process gets stale,” says vocalist/guitarist Andrew Schwab. “We feel like this project embodies multiple facets of the P86 sound utilizing synths, keyboards and melody against a backdrop of our more brutal side.”

Check out all of the Scream the Prayer tour dates here.

THE CHARIOT are streaming their entire new album, Wars and Rumors of Wars, out May 5 on Solid State, on their MySpace page.