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MAGfest 8: I can’t feel my most of me
MAGfest 8 was such a tornado of awesome. You’ve never felt so much love and power for video game music in one place. There are so many different types of people with so many different interests – listening to bands from dozens of genres and subgenres.
Yet, everyone has so much in common.
MAGfest 8 raised the bar again, and we couldn’t have had more fun playing for such an intense and vocal crowd. I’m surprised the building is still standing. You guys are crazy madness, and thank you 10x over.
Media is slowly starting to pop online, so we’ll be sure to post the goodies – likely on Facebook. If anyone has any vids or pics of the antics from the show, plz share!
For those that couldn’t make it, we missed you.
For those that just didn’t come, you have no idea what you’re missing.
For those that were there, ♥
“www.magfest.org“ (bolded, underlined, and quoted for emphasis)
More show news coming soon!
** Thanks Sherv and Capt-carl for the pics! **
MAGfest 8 – The MONSTROUS band roster *or* the MONSTROSTER
Look at this list of bands. How could you NOT go to this?
- The OneUps
- Metroid Metal
- Arm Cannon (featuring danimal from Metroid Metal Live)
- Temp Sound Solutions (featuring Kirby from Metroid Metal Live)
- Select Start
- The Megas
- A_Rival
- Armadillo Tank (PIENESS)
- Rare Candy
- The Smash Brothers
- This Place is Haunted
- Entertainment System
Oh, and if all that doesn’t rock enough:
See you in a minute.
The MDB’s Make-a-Metroid Contest
The Metroid Database is having a contest to celebrate their 13th anniversary. All you have to do is make a Metroid out of WHATEVER YOU WANT, and win stuff. I can’t wait to see the entries!
All submissions are due by the end of the year, so get moving.
New MM track! Super Metroid Ending available
Here it is – the last “few” notes of the Super Metroid soundtrack. Thanks to Chunkstyle for his bass mastery, and Adam (my bro) for the drum solo snippets.
You can grab the song here. It’s a wild one – taking the shape of something more like Boss Medley in structure, as opposed to the verse/chorus/verse style of other newer tracks. It’s very “old school” in that regard.
There are 3 distinct movements with segues. I did a lot of experimentation with guitar sounds and soundstage (check it out on headphones). I also recorded one of my brother’s drum solos and turned it into ambiance – you’ll hear it. The funny thing is that all this music exists in the original track in the same order. Be sure to listen to the original to compare. It was already a mess. ;)
So yeah, welcome to my crazy huge prog epic thing – hope you like it. It hurt my most-of-me.
I have firm plans for the next track, and I want to get the foot back up on the monitor for it. So, you can expect a pretty straight forward metal track. You can’t really take it further into space than with the ending of Super Metroid.
In the meantime, COME SEE METROID METAL LIVE K!
Tickets available to see MM Live in Asheville, NC
It’s truuue!!! There’s a poster and everything! Tickets HERE.
NEW MM live show for 2009 – and new website!
You guys already know about the magical MAGfest 8 in DC just after the turn of the new year. We’re happy to announced MM Live will also be playing in Asheville, NC on November 20, 2009! Oh… and a new mm.com!
We are playing at the magnificent Stella Blue with our good friends By Morning and Nova Echo. Metroid Metal is headlining, the show is 16 and up, is only $8 a ticket, and those tickets will go on sale HERE on October 15, 2009. If you are in the western NC area, or even further away, get to Stella and bring your favorite geeky T.
More info on live shows can be found here.
Oh, and I hope you like the new MM.com. :) The songs page is more advanced with sorting functionality, there’s an about page for those confused-as-hell chaps just learning about MM (ie all the new PAX people), and everything is a lot less 2003…. the last time the site was updated. Let me know if you see anything funny!
Varia Suite For Sale!
Varia Suite is now available for digital download through bandcamp.com in pretty much every audio format ever. For CD’s and other MM swag (including a cool package deal), check out the Silent Uproar Records store. For more info on Varia Suite, click here.
Post-PAX Media Onslaught
Media from the show is already rolling in. Follow Metroid Metal on Twitter and Facebook for the best updates. Check out the new album reviews on Original Sound Version, and MetalUnderground.com. You can also read a lengthy interview with Stemage on OSV as well. I’ve also posted a thread on the messageboards with a collection of all the media so far. Feel free to check that out here.
PAX 2009 Wrap-Up
We came. We played. We are now very very tired. I think I can speak for all the members of MM Live when I say PAX marks a pretty big milestone for each of us on several levels. It was really something special, and the love flowing before, during, and after the show was enough to make a grown space pirate shed a black tear.
These pretty much say it all:
Photos by Nate Horsfall
Photos by Nate Horsfall
