Sky Eats Airplane released their self-titled full-length in July 2008 to rave reviews including Alternative Press (”The cynics among us may say they’ve heard it all before… but don’t give in to that thinking: They’ve never heard it done like this. 4.5 out of 5 stars”) and Outburn Magazine (”These young lads from Fort Worth, Texas could be one of the best things to happen to the tragically hip, emo, melody meets metalcore scene. 9 out of 10″).
The band – Bryan Zimmerman (vocals), Lee Duck (guitar), Zack Ordway (guitar), Elliot Coleman (bass), and Travis Orbin (drums) – will perform the new material on an upcoming co-headlining run with Drop Dead Gorgeous, kicking off March 30th in Salt Lake City:
w/Drop Dead Gorgeous
3/30 Salt Lake City, UT @ Murray Theater
3/31 Pocatello, ID @ Icon
4/1 Boise, ID @ The Venue
4/2 Reno, NV @ Se7en On West
4/3 Orangevale, CA @ The Boardwalk
4/5 Fresno, CA @ The Starline
4/6 Modesto, CA @ Modesto Virtual
4/7 Bakersfield, CA @ Jerry’s Pizza
4/8 Palmdale, CA @ The Crossing
4/9 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
4/10 Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
4/11 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
4/14 Dallas, TX @ The Door
4/15 McAllen, TX @ Incubator
4/16 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
4/17 Houston, TX @ Meridian
4/19 Columbus, GA @ Gallery 13
4/20 Orlando, FL @ The Social
4/21 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
4/22 Douglasville, GA @ The 7 Venue
4/23 Raleigh, NC @ The Brewery
4/24 Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street Club
4/26 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar
4/27 Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground
4/28 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
4/29 Providence, RI @ Club Hell
4/30 Vineland, NJ @ Hangar 84
5/1 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
5/3 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
5/4 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place
5/5 Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
5/6 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
5/7 West Dundee, IL @ Clearwater Theater
5/8 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
5/9 Des Moines, IA @ The House Of Bricks
5/10 St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
5/11 Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
5/12 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
5/13 Fort Collins, CO @ Aggie Theatre
5/14 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theatre
5/15 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep

I’ve been looking forward to this show for a long long time now seeing it has an incredible lineup. Mathcore geniuses Between The Buried And Me, christian metalcore act August Burns Red, American southern deathcore act Job For A Cowboy and thrash legends Lamb Of God on one single show. 
However, it didn’t go anywhere near my expectations.

Between The Buried And Me was first up, introducing with Fossil Genera – A Feed From Cloud Mountain. I’ve been listening to BTBAM for 5 years now, and I have to say, their performance was pretty much flawless.Tommys vocals were awesome, both the cleans and the screams. No problems whatsoever instrumentally. I was actually considering the fact that they may be doing the show playback, which I hope they didn’t…
They ended their performance playing White Walls. I have never heard that one to be honest since it is on Colors, the album I completely missed. It was as fulfilling as Fossil Genera.
And then it was over. Due to the fact they chose to play two songs, á la 12 and 14 minutes each, I was VERY disappointed since I would have wanted to hear some old songs from Alaska or The Silent Circus, my favorite albums. I like to think of this as a teaser to their (hopefully) headlining show, where they’ll get a little more time than that half-hour. All in all, a solid performance from BTBAM, but only the 2 songs was disappointing.

After a 15 minute or so break, August Burns Red entered the stage. Judging by the amount of people who wore ABR-shirts, they were the second most wanted band that evening, after Lamb Of God.
I’m glad they managed to release Constellations before this show happened because, since I’m not a fan of Messengers, I wouldn’t want a complete show with songs from that album.
ABR put on quite the performance, dispite the fact that Jakes vocals were a little weak. Then the ultimate no-go happened. During the picking intro of Mariana’s Trench, Brent fumbled with his pick almost completely ruining the beauty of it. This was featured in Corezine’s interview with him, where he said he did the exact same thing on another show. Hm…
Now to the worst part. No, absolutely NO songs from Thrill Seeker. Thrill Seeker is my complete favorite album from ABR and I was incredibly disappointed that they didn’t play even one song from it. But I guess they had to make the best of their time and play songs from their newest creation. They also didn’t play Indonesia, which is pretty darn weird seeing as they were touring with BTBAM, and Tommy does guest vocals on the song…

For the first time ever I saw the band members themselves do the sound check. I had no idea what Job For A Cowboy looked like, so I thought it was regular sound check-people doing the job, but when they said “We’re ready” and started playing, I was pretty surprised. I guess the sound check was a job for a cowboy…
JFAC are pretty well-known and they even got a cloth poster hanging behind the scene, but it saddens me to say that they are pretty much worthless live. Jonnys highs were pathetic – you could barely hear them at all due to its weakness. I liked the lows and squeals though. The first few songs were only a wall of sound, I couldn’t find the beat in it no matter how hard I tried – it was like they were trying too hard. On a side note, the old songs they played from Doom were actually very good. It was only the new songs from Ruination that ruined the show (pun intended). Brent was supposed to be doing some backup vocals, although I never heard anything coming from his mic at any time.
With not much movement in the crowd (no pits or anything) I’m guessing JFAC were a little disappointed in it and tried to anger(?) the crowd by cursing and whatnot, but it only came out stupid.
Too much flaws, too less of a performance. I don’t think I’d want to see them live again.

Seeing as I came for the first three bands and not Lamb Of God, I was going to leave when JFAC played their set but I thought, “what the hell, I can stay for a few songs”, and so I did.
After 35 minutes(!) of standing in waiting for them to enter, I finally found the answer to why there were so much people over 40 on the show. I knew the members of Lamb Of God were a little older than average, but hey, not that old. One of the guitarists could’ve been my grandfather.
The three songs I stayed for were performed well, but I’ve never liked Lamb Of God so it didn’t really appeal me. A lot of my friends listened to them when I was a kid, so I had to stay until they played a song I heard through them. The thirds song they played was Walk With Me In Hell, which is a classic.
At some time I looked down on the floor for some reason and saw a pick. I picked it up and it turned out to be a LOG Wrath pick with Marks imprinted autograph on it. Hooray!
I couldn’t stay any longer however because the extreme volume Lamb Of God generated gave me a huge headache.

The show as whole wasn’t as awesome as I expected it to be. The bands I really wanted to see didn’t play any old songs and there were too many flaws throughout the performance as a whole. I don’t know if this is because I had my hopes too high, but it didn’t live it up anyway. But when Between The Buried And Me and August Burns Red comes to Sweden again, I won’t hesitate to see them again.

NO SLEEP RECORDS (http://www.nosleeprecs.com) is proud to welcome I CALL FIVES (http://www.myspace.com/icallfives) to the family.

The New Jersey five-piece just finished recording its label debut, Bad Advice, in Baltimore, MD with Kory Gable (Strike Anywhere, The Dangerous Summer). Featuring six new tracks, the EP will be available both digitally and as a limited edition tour CD on May 25th.

Currently the band is streaming a rough version of the song “Easy To Say States Away” on its Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/icallfives

Band:

Best Song: In Snakes I Bathe
Score: 8.5/10
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After a pretty insufficient previous release, Before The Throne Of Infection, I really hoped Annotations Of An Autopsy would create something that was as good as their EP Welcome To Sludge City.

Checking their blogs on Myspace, following their progress in recording the album, my hope was kindled when I noticed they’ve gotten rid of their illegible band logo and replaced it with something… legible. Not that I didn’t like their previous logo (I do like it), but it seems as though it was one of many steps away from the “we are cool”-deathcore attitude. Reading the lyrics of one of their singles, my hope lit up in flames. They got rid of their necrophilic/murderous lyrics! Now I get the feeling that it’s about apocalypse and alien worlds, based on the song titles. Hearing the occasional “you make me sick” shows they include real emotions now, too. Hell, anything’s better than what was.

AOAA have improved a LOT since Before The Throne. Steve have developed a new vocal technique that doesn’t involve the typical deathcore elements with squeals and the usual low growls. They’ve crossed the border to Death Metal, and I really like it. I really, really dig the album artwork, too. It’s the same artist that drew the cover for BTTOI, which was pretty darn nice aswell.

Typical for Death Metal acts is that all bands have the same sound, but AOAA have their own sound, yet the same genre. Death Metal is pretty shallow with not much room for unique-ness, but AOAA managed to find a trench somewhere where they expanded their own approach. Even though they haven’t changed much musically, there must be something about Steve’s vocals that pushed them over the edge to Death Metal.

When I heard BTTOI I felt a little ashamed to wear their merch, to be honest. But now, with The Reign Of Darkness, I gladly wear them. They’ve matured and show a more serious theme in their music. I’m really impressed.

TRACKLIST:

1. And So It Begins
2. In Snakes I Bathe
3. Born Dead
4. Bone Crown
5. Emptiness
6. Catastrophic Hybridization
7. VII: The Horror, The Destruction
8. Impale The Sun
9. Portrait Of Souls
10. Cryogenica
11. Into The Black Slumber