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Punk Rock

Friday, November 13 2009

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Punk Rock

As I Lay Dying enter the studio

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As I Lay Dying recently entered the studio with producer Adam Dutkiewicz and vocalist Tim Lambesis had this to say about the progress:

There are only drums for eight songs tracked so far. One of them we’re undecided about, but maybe it’ll feel different when the vocals are done. Either way, we need write more than eith songs (since they aren’t as long as the eight songs on ‘Master of Puppets’). Therefore we’re working on writing MORE new songs as soon as we finish recording what’s been started. The only break in working on the new album will be our short trip to Mexico and Sri Lanka to play two of the best shows of our career. All of us can’t stress enough how grateful we are to be writing music that we love while still receiving a paycheck. This can only be credited to OUR LOYAL FANS! Sometimes bands need to rush out a crappy record so they can start touring again to pay their bills. In our case, we plan to make a record worth listening to (hopefully), and start touring again when we’re done.

They last released An Ocean Between Us in 2007.
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Get Free Wallpaper, Turn Yourself into a Zombie, and Win an Xbox

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During the production of a game, a lot of concept art gets drawn up, redrawn, thrown away, cursed at, and, occasionally, even used. There’s a mountain of this stuff fluttering around the Valve offices, and while the non-artists among us might not know much (anything) about art, we hope we’re not embarrassing our artists by saying it looks pretty kickass. So we grabbed some of it off the nearest pile and made it into desktop wallpaper:







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And we lest we forget our hard-working animators and modelers, Here’s some high-res screengrab wallpaper from the game’s intro, too:



If you’re looking at all these wallpapers and thinking, “These are okay, but they’re not as good as the desktop wallpaper I have up now of my own face,” have we got news for you. You can plug that picture into GameStop’s “Leave Yourself 4 Dead” Online Zombifier and see what you’d look like as a ravenous, kill-crazy zombie. (Admit it, you’re curious.)

Lastly, if you haven’t already entered our “Dude, Where’s My Thumb?” contest, remember that it closes Monday, so get creative this weekend and win a copy of the game or even a new Xbox!
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John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats)

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For almost 20 years, The Mountain Goats have been turning out literate, evocative folk-rock. Their latest album, The Life of the World to Come, is among their best yet, coupling religious images with stories both personal and fictional. It’s their, I believe, 434th full-length release, and the group shows no signs of artistic fatigue. I was able to secure some talking time with frontman John Darnielle during a break from touring, via e-mail. He was awfully coy in places – especially when I asked him some questions about his appearance on The Colbert Report – but pretty open on others. Here now are his thoughts on touring, Barbara Streisand, anniversary shows, and the Bible.

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