What is your favourite sport?
My favourite sport would have to be hockey, I have played hockey for 13 years
Why is hockey your favourite?
I've just always found hockey to be the most interesting. I began watching it and playing when I was five
Who is your favourite player?
I don't have one favourite player to be specific, I really like the Toronto Maple Leafs and they were always the team I watched when growing up. I have a lot of admiration for Curtis Joesph, and did somewhat idolize him growing up as he was the Leaf's lead goaltender.
What position do you play?
I am a goaltender and have played hockey as a goal tender for the past 12 years
Did you play Triple A?
Yes I did, i played for 5 years and they were all key years in my development and enjoyment of the game.
Where are you playing now?
Currently I play for the Goderich Junior C Sailors, I have also been asked to be the goaltender of the Wingham Ironmen, but my commitment this year has been to the Sailors. I hope next year I can accept the position for the Ironmen and begin making money as their allowance is 100 dollars a week.
How far do you plan on taking you hockey career?
As far as I can go, I will be hoping to play for the Ironmen next year or whatever school I decide to go to team. Whether it be school teams or organized league I will continue to play until I have to make the decision to quit.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The Black Dahlia Murder: 'Majesty' Review
Outside of a few exceptions, it used to that metal band's DVDs were nothing more than a hastily filmed show and some weak interview footage tacked on for justification sake. The Black Dahlia Murder's DVD 'Majesty' is nothing short of amazing. The DVD is proof that upcoming metal bands need to up their game in order to be successful the metal scene in this day in age.
From the beginning of the first disk the bands care free and down-to-earth attitude becomes obviously apparent. The members give their various outlooks on the touring lifestyle, the band’s hectic history, and their dedication to the extreme metal lifestyle. All of the hallmarks you would expect are here. You get drunken antics, tour footage, and the comedic genius of the band as a whole. The live footage is breathtaking as it is not just footage from one show, it is a compilation of their entire 'Nocturnal' (album) tour.
The production quality of the DVD sets the bar high for future metal band DVDs. Metal Blade Records spared no expense with 'Majesty'. The footage, while collected from various performances, is sharp and the band’s technical death metal pyrotechnics come jabbing out of the speakers with blistering yet crystal clear quality. The guitars sound especially great with every intricate flourish cutting through the final mix.
‘Majesty’ doesn’t do an exhaustive job of laying out the blueprint of BDM’s career but this is a different type of band. Their music and lyrics are brutal, fiercely intense, and unflinchingly violent but their personalities are anything but. Robbie Tassaro does a brilliant job showcasing the band how they truly are beneath the brutality. The death metal world is serious enough as it is and watching The Black Dahlia Murder members shows a prime example of the reality of being in a successful metal band along with the humour.
From the beginning of the first disk the bands care free and down-to-earth attitude becomes obviously apparent. The members give their various outlooks on the touring lifestyle, the band’s hectic history, and their dedication to the extreme metal lifestyle. All of the hallmarks you would expect are here. You get drunken antics, tour footage, and the comedic genius of the band as a whole. The live footage is breathtaking as it is not just footage from one show, it is a compilation of their entire 'Nocturnal' (album) tour.
The production quality of the DVD sets the bar high for future metal band DVDs. Metal Blade Records spared no expense with 'Majesty'. The footage, while collected from various performances, is sharp and the band’s technical death metal pyrotechnics come jabbing out of the speakers with blistering yet crystal clear quality. The guitars sound especially great with every intricate flourish cutting through the final mix.
‘Majesty’ doesn’t do an exhaustive job of laying out the blueprint of BDM’s career but this is a different type of band. Their music and lyrics are brutal, fiercely intense, and unflinchingly violent but their personalities are anything but. Robbie Tassaro does a brilliant job showcasing the band how they truly are beneath the brutality. The death metal world is serious enough as it is and watching The Black Dahlia Murder members shows a prime example of the reality of being in a successful metal band along with the humour.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Song Reveiw Project
"CAFO" by Animals as Leaders is one of the most beautiful, inspirational and talented songs I have ever heard in my life. Animals as Leaders is a solo project started by Tosin Abasi (an 8-string guitar prodigy). After disbanding with his last band, his record label did not want his talent to go to waste, so they offered him the opportunity to do a solo project. The result, Animals as Leaders, a 3-piece instrumental band with all tracks (Drums, two 8-string guitars) written by Abasi except for "CAFO". "CAFO" is a collaboration song done by Animals as Leaders with the help of Misha Monsoor a.k.a. Bulb (another progressive metal prodigy).
The song title "CAFO" stands for "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations", it is titled as so to reflect on Abasi's idea that Animals Should be equal to humans.
The song begins with a barrage of guitar sweeps (so fast they sound computerized) accompanied by an off-beat guitar to exaggerate the sweeps and an abnormal drum beat with an excessive amount of cymbal use. The rhythm riffs change during the duration of the sweeps to build to a section where Abasi taps a bass line and a lead rhythm at the same time. This section of the song has a dramatic mood change from the sweeps to the tapping, it is accented with some choir effect give it a nice background effect to go along with the melody. The section overall sounds melodic and fast fast but also has a distressful feel. To flow out of that rhythm Bulb uses more offbeat guitar patterns to draw your attention away from the tapping and then transition you towards Abasi's first solo.
Tosin's solo begins with slow effected chords that break with him speeding up and doing a fast melodic solo that he plays twice. the solo consists of a 7- string shred that leads to an ascending triplet feeling four bars. The rhythm on the solo is just generic chords but could not fit more perfectly. The song then breaks with Bulb's first lead riff, which is a slower couple riffs he plays on the high strings and lets the notes ring. Accompanying the lead is "djenting" done by Abasi. "Djenting" is palm muting and quick string release done on the "beefier strings" with extremely high gain tone. It is a unique sound when included with reverb, yet Tosin and Bulb are one of only a few bands who use it .
Abasi then plays a melodic clean lead that leads into the next progressive styled solo. Bulb uses the Djenting technique as he rhythm for the solo.
The song then progresses to a heavy off beat lead provided by bulb, the riff has a nice strong metal feel but is extremely chaotic, making it perfect to head-bang to. The song fades back to the original sweep barrage intro, where it climaxes with the second repetition of the intro, then fades out.
The amount of time put in to writing Cafo must have been a millennium. Cafo is my favourite song by Animals as Leaders, it demonstrates most of my favourite styles of music. It is truly a prime example of amazing music. You don't have to like it, you just have to appreciate it.
The song title "CAFO" stands for "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations", it is titled as so to reflect on Abasi's idea that Animals Should be equal to humans.
The song begins with a barrage of guitar sweeps (so fast they sound computerized) accompanied by an off-beat guitar to exaggerate the sweeps and an abnormal drum beat with an excessive amount of cymbal use. The rhythm riffs change during the duration of the sweeps to build to a section where Abasi taps a bass line and a lead rhythm at the same time. This section of the song has a dramatic mood change from the sweeps to the tapping, it is accented with some choir effect give it a nice background effect to go along with the melody. The section overall sounds melodic and fast fast but also has a distressful feel. To flow out of that rhythm Bulb uses more offbeat guitar patterns to draw your attention away from the tapping and then transition you towards Abasi's first solo.
Tosin's solo begins with slow effected chords that break with him speeding up and doing a fast melodic solo that he plays twice. the solo consists of a 7- string shred that leads to an ascending triplet feeling four bars. The rhythm on the solo is just generic chords but could not fit more perfectly. The song then breaks with Bulb's first lead riff, which is a slower couple riffs he plays on the high strings and lets the notes ring. Accompanying the lead is "djenting" done by Abasi. "Djenting" is palm muting and quick string release done on the "beefier strings" with extremely high gain tone. It is a unique sound when included with reverb, yet Tosin and Bulb are one of only a few bands who use it .
Abasi then plays a melodic clean lead that leads into the next progressive styled solo. Bulb uses the Djenting technique as he rhythm for the solo.
The song then progresses to a heavy off beat lead provided by bulb, the riff has a nice strong metal feel but is extremely chaotic, making it perfect to head-bang to. The song fades back to the original sweep barrage intro, where it climaxes with the second repetition of the intro, then fades out.
The amount of time put in to writing Cafo must have been a millennium. Cafo is my favourite song by Animals as Leaders, it demonstrates most of my favourite styles of music. It is truly a prime example of amazing music. You don't have to like it, you just have to appreciate it.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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