"The Gamut" - Sweet Comfort Band special tonight!!!

Listen to tonight's show for a CD giveaway - the Christian Metal Fellowship Compilation Volume II - feature lots of great black metal, dark ambient, and death metal tracks by some of today's best underground bands! This disc also has 2 tracks that are exclusive to this compilation - you can't get these tracks anywhere else!

Tonight is all about turning back the clock. Yes, tonight's theme is "Sweet Comfort Band"! One of the post-"Jesus Music" era bands that took the smooth rock sounds of powerhouse 70's bands like Chicago, Steely Dan, and Bachman Turner Overdrive and packaged them with slick production, killer vocals, and songwriting chops that rivaled many of their secular conemporaries! Tonight's show features 5 songs from each of the band's 6 albums, comprising a 30-song set that will take you through the band's entire recording career!

Tonight's playlist!!!

Mirror of Dead Faces - A Cripple Within (Melodic Death Metal/Deathcore)
Theocracy - On Eagle's Wings (Power Metal)
Monolith - A Faithful Few (Symphonic Extreme Metal) - The Gamut exclusive!!!
Erasmus - Nausea (Black Metal) - CD Giveaway!!!
Blenderhead - Cesspool (Hardcore Punk)
Bon Voyage - Why Can't You Be (Female-fronted Alternative/Indie)
I Built the Cross - Hatred From the Religious (Technical Deathcore)

Sweet Comfort Band special!!!
* From the 1977 debut "Sweet Comfort":
* It's So Fine (Soul Tune Boogie)
* Ryan's Song
* Let It Go
* Your Life
* Get Ready

From 1978's "Breakin' the Ice":
* Got To Believe
* I Need Your Love Again
* Good Feelin'
* Searchin' For Love
* The Lord Is Calling

From 1979's "Hold On Tight!":
* You're the One
* Angel
* Don't Tell Me You Love Me
* Carry Me
* Find Your Way

From 1981's "Hearts of Fire!":
* Isabel
* You Can Make It
* They Just Go On
* Now Or Never
* Contender

From 1982's "CUtting Edge":
* Runnin' To Win
* What Have You Got?
* Valerie
* What Did It Mean?
* Armed and Ready

From the band's 1984 final album "Perfect Timing":
* Perfect Timing
* Don't Bother Me Now
* Computer Age
* Lookin' For the Answer
* Prodigal's Regret (Never Should Have Left You)

Amaseffer - Slaves For Life (Progressive Metal)
Joy Electric - Marigoldeness (Synthpop)
Becoming the Archetype - Artificial Immortality (Progressive Death Metal)
Deitiphobia - The Late Pastor Harry Dean (Industrial)
Recon - Take Us Away (Classic Metal)
Recession - Masterpiece Theater (Chaotic Hardcore)


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"The Gamut" - tonight's playlist!

Listen to tonight's show for a CD giveaway - the Heaven's Force CD release "Aggressive Angel" - 2 old-school thrash demos on CD for the first time in a limited edition digipak release!

Tonight's playlist!!!

Woe of Tyrants - Breaking the Fangs of the Wicked (Melodic Death Metal - thanks to The Metal Resource!)
7days - Save Me (Progressive Metal)
Eisley - Plenty of Paper (Female-fronted Indie Rock)
Katamari Deathroll - Twin Bed Nation (Dance Punk/Electro Hardcore)
Still Breathing - Forsaken (Female-fronted Metalcore)
Love Song - Feel the Love (Jesus Music)
Vanguard - Death to a Sinful King (Progressive Deathcore)
Ganglia - Scrap (e-Grind)
Pillar - Light at My Feet (Rapcore/Modern Hard Rock)
Bon Voyage - Dressed In White (Female-fronted Indie Rock)
Hanover Saints - Headshot (Punk)
Extol - Reflections of a Broken Soul (Progressive Black Metal)
Mastedon - Holiest One (Progressive Hard Rock)
Lust Control - There Is A Fountain (Punk)
Driver Eight - Superglue (Alternative Rock)
Advent - Three Seasons (Metalcore)
Sincerely Paul - What's the Difference? (Gothic Rock)
Inked In Blood - The New Empiricism (Melodic Hardcore)
Mortification - Terminate Damnation (Brutal Death Metal)
Souljourners - Tangent Universe (Progressive Metal)
Mad At The World - Going Nowhere Again (Alternative Rock)
Narcissus - Loculus (Post-Hardcore)
Venia (FIN) - Victory By Surrender (Female-fronted Power Metal)
Skylines - Static Newsflash (Metalcore)
Blood Covenant - The Choice (Symphonic Black Metal)
Stavesacre - Keep Waiting (Modern Heavy Rock)
Aleixa - Some Things Never Go Away (Female-fronted Techno Rock)
Monolith - Golgotha (Symphonic Extreme Metal)
Heaven's Force - Deliver Us From Evil (Thrash Metal) - CD Giveaway!!!
Detritus - Subliminal Division (Thrash Metal)
Living Sacrifice - Second Death (Thrash Metal)
Novella - Story (Hard Rock)
O, Majestic Winter - Desparium (Atmospheric Black Metal)
Dead Poetic - The Corporate Enthusiast (Post-Hardcore)
Fearscape - Inheritance of Dust (Progressive Black Metal)
Static Fuse - Come Home (Female-fronted Hard Rock/Ballad)
Northern Ash - Patterns of Decay (Black/Thrash Metal)

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"The Gamut" - tonight's playlist!

Tonight's playlist!

As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us (Thrashy Metalcore)
Bride - Picture Perfect (Hard Rock/Metal)
Within the Torn Apart - Dragged Through a Nightmare (Drone)
Jetenderpaul - Texaco (Indie Rock)
Love Coma - Empty (Rock/Alternative)
Eso Charis - Dunamis (Chaotic Hardcore)
Undercover - Heal Me (Proto-Punk/New Wave)
Midiboy - Entwined (Industrial)
Outlander - Wood (Progressive Metal)
Azbuk - Reflexes of the Damned Mirror (Black Metal)
MxPx - Want Ad (Pop-Punk)
Clear Convictions - Warning (Tough Guy Hardcore)
Joy Electric - The Heritage Bough (Synthpop)
The Eastern Wave - Had My Show (Indie Rock)
Nailed - Hell To Pay (Groove Metal)
Counting the Days - What's the Point? (Hardcore) - CD Giveaway!!!
Crashdog - Progress (Punk)
Guardian - Bottle Rocket (Hard Rock/Alternative)
Crimson Moonlight - Thy Wilderness (Black Metal)
Royal - Missing (Female-fronted Alternative)
Anguish Unsaid - Send Away (Chaotic Hardcore)
Soul Embraced - Someone Just Walked Across My Grave (Metalcore)
Starflyer 59 - When You Feel the Mess (Shoegazer/Indie)
Barry McGuire - Good News Shoes (Jesus Music)
Thousand Foot Krutch - Small Town (Rap-Rock)
Divine Symphony - False Emotion (Symphonic Black Metal)
Saint - Star Pilot (Classic Metal)
Alove For Enemies - Smokescreen (Hardcore/Metalcore)
Elder - River (Indie Rock/Alternative)
One-21 - Looking Out For Me (Punk)
Opprobrium - Awakening to the Filth (Thrash Metal)
The Benjamin Gate - Light (Female-fronted Modern Rock)
Recession - Get Killed (Chaotic Hardcore)
Argyle Park - Scarred For Life (Industrial)
Randy Rose - Pain (Hard Rock/Metal)
Crux - Hunger (Punk)
POD - Satellite (Rapcore)
End of Destiny (Melodic Metalcore)
Galactic Cowboys - Ants (Progressive Metal)
Random Eyes- Invisible (Power/Melodic Metal)
Sculpture - No Respect (Thrash Metal)

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Review Format Change!

I have come to a realization over the last few reviews. That realization is such: track-by-track reviews are too long! Yes, I've finally come to that conclusion myself. In addition to their exorbitant length, they take a really long time to write, because I have to sit & listen to the album at least once all the way through & pause several times to describe what I'm hearing. As such, I've been able to write fewer reviews lately than I've liked (one that I've been working on for several weeks that I need to get complete, for example), and that bothers me. I'd rather get my major comments out there & give readers an overall impression of what the work will sound like when they listen to it, rather than trying to describe the experience in detail.

Thus, I will no longer be composing full, track-by-track reviews. My reviews will still be verbose, as that is my propensity. However, you won't have to wade through a lot of verbiage to get to the bottom line. So my reviews will begin to look a lot more like those I wrote in the beginning, when this was a much simpler blog. That will make reading them more fun, and less an exercise.

Rest assured, I will continue to do the video companion reviews. I believe it spices things up some, and gives readers a reason to keep coming back. Not that watching me at my desk blabber on about a CD is fascinating, or that people want to see my goofy face. But I do believe that in today's fast-paced world, if someone just wants the quick & easy look at something, they can watch the video, get the sound samples in there, and get the basic gist of what I'm saying, even if the video is different than the full-text review. Still, I think there's a value in having that text review to read.

So what does this mean? Hopefully more reviews! Wow, all that just to say I'm changing the way I do things...

"The Gamut" - Asher/Monolith interview & more!

Tonight is a special episode, because the middle section contains several tracks by the unforgettable Asher from Canada. In addition, You'll hear an interview I did with former Asher guitarist Colin Parish, and we'll also talk about his new band Monolith. Plus, The Gamut is the ONLY place you'll get to hear the exclusive - 5 of the new tracks from the up-coming Monolith debut, out soon on Bombworks Records! That's right, "The Gamut" is the ONLY place you can hear these Monolith tracks!

Tonight's playlist!
Impending Doom - Silence the Oppressors (Brutal Deathcore)
Men Walking As Trees - Seal Upon My Heart (Folk/Pop/Lounge)
Afterimage - Nexus (Metalcore/Melodic Death Metal) - New track!
In Grief - I Am (Progressive Death Metal)
Kinetic Element - Now and Forever (Progressive Rock)
I Built the Cross - To Deface Grace (Technical Deathcore)
Post Mortum - Drip (Progressive Nu-metal)
Ascension Theory - Perfect Plan (Progressive Metal)
Vomitorial Corpulence - Human Slaughter House (Grindcore)
Blame Lucy - Lonesome (Modern Rock)
Feast Eternal - A Hymn (Death Metal)

Asher (CA) & Monolith Interview Time!
Asher - Exhortation (Female-fronted Melodic Metal)
Asher interview part 1
Asher - The Shadow Hour
Asher - Fallen
Asher interview part 2
Asher - Paradox
Asher - Unavoidable
Monolith interview part 1
Monolith - A Faithful Few
Monolith - Call Of Wisdom
Monolith interview part 2
Monolith - Chokehold
Monolith - Break the Cycle
Monolith interview part 3
Monolith - Golgotha

Asher (CA) - This Burden
Stronghold (US) - Nobody Owes You Nothing (Hard Rock)
Veni Domine - Someone's Knocking (Progressive/Gothic Metal)
Common Children - Storm Boy (Alternative/Indie)
Kosmos Express - Emotional (Modern Rock)
Project 86 - Bottom Feeder (Modern Heavy Rock)
August Burns Red - Composure (Technical Metalcore)
Eternal Ryte - No More Lies (Classic/Commercial Metal)
Suspiria Profundis - In War Against Satan (Black Metal)
Fewleftstanding - What's the Use? (Metalcore/Chaotic Hardcore)
Resurrection Band - The Crossing (Classic Rock/Hard Rock)
Saving Grace - In Your Own Hands (Metalcore)

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New logo for The Gamut!

Major thanks to Open Grave Records/Divine Metal Distro head James Mattern & his wife for providing me with this great new logo:














Also, don't forget to tune into "The Gamut" this week! We have an exclusive interview with former Asher (CA) guitarist and current Monolith guitarist Colin Parish about the rise & fall of Asher (CA), as well as the up-coming Monolith debut, out soon on Bombworks Records! I'll be playing 6 Asher (CA) tracks, as well as featuring 5 new Monolith tracks from the album. The Gamut is the ONLY place you can hear these songs right now, so make sure to tune in for this Sunday's episode, as well as in the coming weeks to hear more Monolith!

"The Gamut" - tonight's theme is BlabberDownload.com!

Tonight's theme is Blabber Download. That's right, everything you hear in tonight's show is 100% free & legal to download via www.blabberdownload.com ! Lots of great bands & albums totally free, so don't hesitate - if you like any of what you hear in tonight's show, by all means, go download it!

Dosel - Ciudad Sangrienta (Thrash Metal)
The Eternal Chapter - Only the Lost (Gothic Rock)
The Lead - Abomination (Female-fronted Hardcore PUnk)
Falling Fadedown - The Covenant (Melodic Hardcore/Screamo)
Martiria - Reborn in Christ (Power/Melodic Metal)
Hell Bovine - Never Falling From Grace (Experimental/Electronic/Metal)
The Intolerants - Die the American Dream (Punk)
Kekal - Vox Diaboli (Experimental Extreme Metal)
Menahem - Angels and Shadows (Progressive Metal)
The Blood Reckoning - Dowards (Deathcore)
Betrayer - Partaker of Evil (Power Metal)
Worthless Without - Choreographed Comedy Acts That End With Dead Clowns (Post-Hardcore)
Nothing's Sacred - The Price Paid In Blood (eGrind)
Unveiled - Contagious (Female-fronted Modern Rock)
Desire of Pain - Destroy the Madness (Progressive Death Metal)
Job - Coram Deo (Funeral Doom)
Katamari Deathroll - Funeral Birth (Dance Punk/Hardcore)
Lamentations - Where Have You Been (Doom-Death Metal)
Our Fathers Were Blind - Banner Bedsheets (Screamo)
Confide - Artax (Metalcore)
Epta Astera - Superbia (Folk Metal/Experimental)
RED+TEST - Unforgiving Landscape (Industrial)
Rising Cross - Pentecost (Power Metal)
Integration - Breaking Myself (Ambient/Experimental)
Elgibbor - The Silent Scream (Black Metal)
The Ortistix - Red Bin (Drum & Bass Punk)
Saron Rose - Al que me cine (Nu-Metal)
I Destroyed Leviathan - GROWR! (Nintendocore/Experimental)
Bloodforge - Show You the Way (Female-fronted Melodic/Gothic Metal)
Sacred Warrior - Children of the Light (Classic Metal)
Pistis In Him Alone - Redemption (Melodic Hardcore/Metalcore)
Death List - Will It End (Death Metal)
Disaffection - Blind Mind (Thrash Metal)
Hot Pink Turtle - Hideous (Funk/Metal/Alternative)
Watchmen - Fear No Evil (Classic Metal)
Buried Yesterday - Torture Room (Deathcore)
Blood Covenant - Dedication (Symphonic Black Metal)
Anguidara - SEOS (Industrial)
Angel 7 - The Power of Belief and Love (Black/Death/Power Metal Hybrid)
Eclipsing Black - The Eclipsing Black (Dark Ambient/Black)

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