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Issue 16 - March 2011 1 Magazine Staf Credits Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 16 - March 2011 1 Magazine Staf Credits Interviews JROCK Houston - [email protected] Editor/Graphics: Leith Taylor - [email protected] Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 16 - March 2011 2 Talkback ………. 4 Circle of Dead Squirrels ………. 6 Degravation ………. 11 Greg Prato ………. 17 Razorwyre………. 20 Bangalore Choir ………. 22 Markus Allen Christopher's TOP 10 ……… 31 Adam Hamilton The Shatner Album ……… 32 That Metal Show Host Don Jamieson ………. 34 Rotten Sound ………. 37 Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 16 - March 2011 3 As most Hard Rock/Metal fans know by now So while it's great that Iron Maiden finally was Legendary Band: IRON MAIDEN won the recognized by the Grammys and awarded a Grammy this year for Best Metal Performance Grammy this year I ask why did they even for their song "Eldorado" off of their 2010 bother? What the Grammy people and a lot release: The Final Frontier. Now while I myself of people in the Entertainment Industry still am a huge Iron Maiden fan and while I think fail to realize is just how passionate metal that it's great that the band finally were fans are! I'm sure there are just as many Iron recognized and awarded for their music, and all maiden fans out there as there are Britney their hard work after all these years I am also Spears fan, maybe even more when you reminded of the fact that The Grammy's still consider that Iron Maiden has been around a don't have a Clue when it comes to METAL. lot longer! Again it's great that they even bother to acknowledge and recognize that Metal is an art I also must ask if they're going to bother form and that there are people who love hard giving out an award for Best Metal rock/metal bands I must tell you that as a Metal Performance then why not even have at least fan I was upset by the fact that while Iron one metal band perform live during the Maiden was awarded a Grammy that the awards Ceremony. Remember when Jethro Grammy committee chose not to present the Tull beat out Metallica the very first year a award to the band during the televised portion Grammy was ever handed out in the Metal of the show. Why bother to even recognize category? Boy does that just go to show you Iron Maiden if you're not going to give them the that The Grammy's just don't have a clue same acknowledgement and respect of giving when it comes to Metal! That's why all us them their award during the televised METALHEADS don't need The GRAMMYS community. I am forced to point out that is now we have The Golden Gods Awards something The Grammy Committee would presented by REVOLVER magazine and never do to someone like Lady Gaga or Britney we'll be talking more about that in the next Spears and that is simply because T.V. issue of Chaotic Riffs Magazine! stations, the Entertainment Industry as a whole Until then BANG YOUR HEAD all you believes that they can get more viewers and METALHEADS! sell more advertising time by having more mainstream artist on the televised portion of the JROCK HOUSTON Grammys. Send Us your Feedback At: [email protected] Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 16 - March 2011 4 Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 16 - March 2011 5 Matt Foran JROCK: Has the band toured outside of your JROCK: Matt you are of course the Lead Singer from home state yet or have any plans to do so in the band Circus of Dead Squirrels. First of all what the near future? year was the band formed and could you please share with our readers how you and the other members of MATT: Right now our live act is in limbo, we the band first met and came to form Circus Of Dead are currently working to build a new line-up to Squirrels? take back out on the road. We were broken up for a period of time and it was difficult to get MATT: Circus of Dead Squirrels officially began in this latest album finished. We wanted to solely 2004 but Dan Raphael, John Beeler and I had all been concentrate on releasing another great album in a band together for years before. The band which first and then take it from there. Prior to the would eventually evolve into Circus of Dead Squirrels split we were mostly playing in Connecticut, was formed while we were all in high school together. Massachusetts, and New York but we are We were a seven-piece ska-metal band originally definitely planning on expanding our horizons called Toilet Duck. We lost several band members and once the new live line-up is formed. replaced them with keyboards and programming and went through several name changes such as The JROCK: Being that you are from Tucson, Dead Duck Flush, Baby Jesus Abortion, and Arizona where that tragic shooting of a Squirrelbait before finally settling with Circus of Dead Congress Woman took place I have to ask you Squirrels. what's it like to know that the place you're from fell victim to such a horrible tragedy. JROCK: Circus of Dead Squirrels is a great/ interesting/an yet really original name for a band? MATT: I really don’t understand what is going What's the story behind the band's name? on here. A few months before that there was a shooting in my hometown in Connecticut at a MATT: Thanks. It’s funny because even as we were Budweiser distribution center as well. It’s really gearing up to record our first album Indoor Recess we sad to think that you can’t even go to a grocery had chosen the name Circle of Dead Squirrels. We store or your job without wondering if some then learned that there was a band called Circle of lunatic is going to throw a fit. I’ll tell you this Dead Children and thought it was way too similar. We much, that guy who did the shooting was were already hung up on it so we decided to replace definitely in the right state. Arizona’s gun laws circle with circus and thought it worked better to are a fucking joke. I’m not an advocate for describe our sound anyways. I’ve always been guns but I do understand their purpose as fascinated by squirrels and really wanted them protection. However, there just needs to be incorporated in our title. They are spastic and stricter regulations and longer wait periods to unpredictable creatures. We really wanted a name that ensure would give people an idea of what we sounded like without even hearing us. It’s humorous in a dark way. JROCK: Now Matt I know that the band is from that mentally Tucson, Arizona so I have to ask you what's the music unstable scene like there these days? people cannot own a MATT: The band is actually from Hartford, Connecticut gun. It was and is still based in that area. I am currently living in pretty obvious Tucson for the time being but travel to the East Coast before this for the band and will be returning permanently soon. tragedy that I’m not too familiar with the scene here quite honestly. this kid wasn’t playing with a Chaotic Riffs Magazine - Issue 16 - March 2011 6 full deck. Why the hell would you ever need a 30 JROCK: What do you remember most about the bullet clip… unless of course you plan on doing recording sessions for Operation Satan? something like this? It amazes me how so many people are hung up on the most destructive and MATT: Man, I remember so many awesome things. meaningless things in life. I wish that kid had It really was an incredible experience, even more opened fire at a gun show instead, maybe that than the other two, because we had to work harder would wake a few of those people up. I totally than ever before. Once we actually got in the studio understand being frustrated with the human race to record vocals and bass and to mix the album it but killing innocent people is just fucking pathetic. was only Mark Miller, Matt Nodland and I through the entire process. Dan is currently living in Los JROCK: How many albums has the band Angeles and couldn’t make it (he had programmed released to date? the album and recorded his own guitar parts) and we had parted ways with Craig. John Sustar had MATT: Officially, we have released five albums. recorded his guitar parts with Rick Thomas in Indoor Recess (2004), Outdoor Recess (remixes, Cleveland. I remember at first thinking how strange 2005), The Pop Culture Massacre and the End of it was to look around and realize how much things the World Sing-A-Long Songbook! (2007), TPCM2: had changed since the last album but it quickly Judgment Day Remixing the Massacre (remixes, became an amazing feeling because the three of us 2008, short-lived due to an extremely shitty label), gave everything we had to make the album the best and Operation Satan (2010). it could be. Mark approached this album like it was his own (he is an active musician himself as can be JROCK: Is everyone in the band involved with the heard in his band Out Out) and was really excited to songwriting process? be involved. He really believed in what we were doing and appreciated the message we were trying MATT: Everyone who is listed in each album’s to relay.
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