Bring Me The Horizon

From across the big pond comes a band called Bring Me The Horizon. Forming in 2004 the band is from Sheffield, England and is made up of singer Oli Sykes, guitarists Lee Malia & Jona Weinhofen, drummer Matt Nicholls and bassist Matt Kean.



The bands first album Count Your Blessing was released in 2007, then in the fall of 2008 Suicide Season hit the shelves. This past October of 2010 the third album There Is A Hell Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is A Heaven Lets Keep It A Secret was released. Over the summer BMTH went on tour with Vans Warped Tour, where they put on an amazing show. They were the best ones there. The band also a part of the fall AP Tour with bands This Is Hell, The Polar Bear Club, Emarosa and August Burns Red on November 28th.

The band experimented a little bit more with this new album. They still have all the stuff that we love (the guitar riffs and the monster breakdowns). The album also features vocalists Josh Scogin (The Chariot) and Josh Franceschi (You & Me At Six). Sonny Moore (former From First To Last singer) contributed the electronica part of the album and additional vocals. LIGHTS also added some vocals on songs Crucify Me and Don't Go.

I think this is the band's best album. I think that by adding the electronica and the softer vocals and keeping the breakdowns and guitar riffs gave the album a little something extra that all the fans have been waiting to hear from Bring Me The Horizon.

-It Never Ends:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltbt9MaepFY

Closure In Moscow

Closure In Moscow comes right to us straight out of Melbourne, Australia. This Australian progressive rock band consists of members: singer Chris De Cinque, drummer Salvatore Aidone and guitarists Manny Zennelli and Michael Barrett. The Penance and the Patience was their first self-proclaimed 'album' in April of 2008. Then in May of 2009 Closure In Moscow released their debut studio album First Temple. In Australia the band was signed to Taperjean Records and now signed to Equal Vision Records. "high school friends, one guy stolen from another band and a dude from a hair salon," is said to be the formation of this amazing band.



I first heard this band at a show on October 29, 2009 at Peabody's. They were on tour with Fact (a band from Japan), A Skylit Drive and Senses Fail. Peabody's is a rather small concert venue, so where I was standing was right up against the stage. They really do put on a good show and when they perform live, I can definitely tell that they hardly use auto-tune. Not only do they get up there and play awesome music, Chris De Cinque puts on his own show by wearing different costumes. Not only does he wear costumes but the whole band goes without shoes while performing. I think that really adds to their uniqueness.Closure In Moscow was also a part of Vans Warped Tour 2010 and could be compared with bands such as Dance Gavin Dance, Brand New, Circa Survive and Jonny Craig.

A few months ago, former drummer Beau Kimber and basssist Brad McKee departed from the band. Brad left the band to have a future with his fiancee in the United States and Beau is now a producing engineer at Frequency Studios back in Melbourne, Australia. To replace Beau, Salvatore Aidone stepped in to do the job.

I am in love with Closure's sound and style, no doubt. If you're into the progressive rock/ alternative-rock genre, then I highly suggest that you listen to Closure In Moscow. They even did a cover of Ginuine's My Pony, and did a fantastic job of it. My song suggestions are Sweet#hart, Night At The Spleen, Breathing Underwater and Kissing Cousins.

-Night At The Spleen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1XFtLYfgr0

A Skylit Drive

Based out of Lodi, California the sextet is awaiting the release of the forth upcoming album Identity On Fire on February 15, 2011. The band consists of Michael Jagmin on vocals, guitarists Nick Miller and Joey Wilson, bassist/screamer Brian White, Kyle Simmons on Keys and drummer Cory La Quay.

While waiting for February 15th, the band hit the road on January 20th with Underoath, Thursday and Animals As Leaders. But before going on tour the band released the third song on the album Xo Skeleton. Just a few short weeks later a music video for Too Little Too Late was released on the band's Myspace and yesterday on February 1st Ex Marks The Spot was released.

A Skylit Drive went into the studio in the fall of 2010 with producer Cameron Webb. "I would definitely say that this is our sound; I think we've really found it on this one, and I'm really proud of it," Nick Miller stated in a recent interview with Fearless Records. I couldn't agree more with Miller on this one, it seems as if the band went into the studio looking for something new but not changing their style completely. ASD has been my favourite band for a long time and I think this album will give other fans another reason to love them even more.

Jordan Blake was the original singer and released She Watched The Sky EP, but Michael Jagmin stepped in when Blake left. Jagmin took over vocals and recorded the bands first full-lenght album Wires...And The Concept Of Breathing in 2007, then in the summer of '09 Adelphia was released. I think this album is the album I have been most excited for in a really long time.

Tracklist:

1. Carry The Broken

2. Too Little Too Late

3. Xo Skeleton

4. Conscience Is A Killer

5. Ex Marks The Spot

6. The Cali Buds

7. Your Mistake

8. F*** The System

9. 500 Days Of Bummer

10. Tempt Me, Temptation

11. Identity On Fire

12. If You Lived Here You'd Be Home

13. Black And Blue (iTunes Deluxe Only)

14. 400ft Robots (iTunes Deluxe Only)

-Too Little Too Late:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmUcQM0jmqQ