Following the success of our TesseracT forum Q&A session earlier this year, we are now hosting a Q&A session with Vildhjarta on our forums for two weeks! The band are about to release their debut album 'Måsstaden' on Century Media records next week. The wait has been long and agonising, but it's finally coming! In the meantime, they are ready to answer any questions you may have.
If you have a question for Vildhjarta, you can post a topic in the 'Vildhjarta Q&A' forum. The band will then answer you personally! You will need a got-djent.com user account to be able to post in the forum. You can make one in a couple of minutes by clicking here.
Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah has posted new in-studio footage of Dirk Verbeuren, one of the session drummers for Fredrik's side project Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects. Watch below. The new Special Defects album will be released after Meshuggah's upcoming untitled release.
SkullsNBones has posted a video interview with Dutch band Textures in which they talk about the fans' reaction to the new vocalist, the American tour, and the interviewees' musical tastes, among other topics. Watch the video below. A Q&A session on Heavy Blog Is Heavy has recently started, where the band will answer the fans' questions.
Their upcoming album Dualism is scheduled for release on 23rd September in Europe, Australia, Japan and South America and 27th September in the United States and Canada.
Joseph DiRusso, founder and main administrator of the Djent-lemen's club Facebook page, has announced that he will be doing a weekly feature with Maz Star on TotalRock.com Radio. Maz's show 'The Danger Zone' airs every Tuesday from 18:00 to 21:00 GMT (19:00 to 22:00 CET, 1PM to 4PM EST, 10AM to 1PM PST). The feature is called the 'Djentlemen Bull Session' and will be aired at 19:00 GMT (20:00 CET, 2PM EST, 11AM PST). He writes: "Starting this coming Tuesday at 2pm eastern standard time on TotalRock Radio with Maz Star I will be doing a short segment called The Djentlemen Bull Session... We will gab it up about the latest and greatest in the world of metal... Stay tuned!"
Cyclamen's guitarist Olly Steele has published some video footage of a jam session with Monuments' drummer Mike Malyan on his Youtube page. Watch it below. He comments: "Recently had a jam with Mike from Monuments. Just for fun. Check out how much we suck at each others instruments....". Probably this is the sign of some kind of collaboration between the two bands, as can be speculated reading a recent Twitter message by Cyclamen.
Alex of Audio Collapse has posted a new instrumental track titled 'Sense | part one' to his SoundCloud page. He also indicates that he is looking for a session vocalist to record vocals for this song. Interested parties should contact him by email. The address can be found on SoundCloud.
Travis 'the Orbinator' Orbin (ex-Periphery, Sky Eats Airplane) has published the last video from the third session for Cyclamen's upcoming album 'Senjyu'. Watch it below. The song featured in the video is called 'Comfort'. More information, including a full drum set transcription, is available in the video description on YouTube.
Travis Orbin (Sky Eats Airplane, ex-Periphery) has uploaded two new drum videos to his YouTube channel. Watch them both below. One features the track 'Devoid', to be featured on Cyclamen's upcoming full-length album 'Senjyu'. The other is a playalong video for a Periphery track titled 'Sinus'. More information and drum set transcriptions are available in the video descriptions on YouTube.
Travis Orbin (Sky Eats Airplane, ex-Periphery) has posted some more footage of his drum recording sessions for Cyclamen's upcoming full-length album 'Senjyu'. This video is from the third session. More information and a drum set transcription is available in the video description. Footage from the first and second sessions is also available. Watch the video from the third session below.
Chimp Spanner has published some video footage of a jam session with Monuments. Watch it below. In the video, they are playing the song 'The Mirror', which appeared on his 2009 album At The Dream's Edge. Monuments will function as Chimp Spanner's 'backing band' for his shows at Basick's Birthday party on September 25th, and at Euroblast Festival on October 23rd. Chimp Spanner will be touring with Monuments as their stand in guitarist in November.
UPDATE: another video, featuring the songs 'Bad Code' and 'Harvey Wallbanger', has just been uploaded. Watch it below.
