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Susperia was started by Tjodalv ( Dimmu Borgir, Old Mans Child ), who everybody should be familiar with by now, and Cyrus (Session: Satyricon, Old Mans Child ) in October 1998. After Tjodalv left Dimmu Borgir in the middle of march 1999 he started to concentrate fully on Susperia together with Cyrus, which are old time friends. But before that, sometime in 1998 Tjodalv and Cyrus started to write and work on the music that we know today. This was the start on the band we today know as Susperia. It all started to happen at the Wacken Open Air Festival in august 1999 when Athera meet Tjodalv when they where both traveling with Mayhem to help them out with their show. Tjodalv had brought with him some pre-production stuff of some music, and he told Athera he was looking for some musicians to get this band up and running. Athera had a band on a nonprofessional basis and he told Tjodalv that he was interested in listening to his stuff, so he borrowed the CD when he got home to Norway. The music immediately caught Athera's attention as it was totally free of synthesizer's and was almost like pure extreme metal to the bone, and there was a special originality to it that made him listen to the CD`s 7 songs over and over again. Finally he called Tjodalv and told him he liked the music very much and was interested in trying something out. Tjodalv and Cyrus in addition to Athera as a vocalist, they also needed a bass player and a second guitar player, so Athera brought with him his long time bass playing friend (Memnock), and another friend to play the guitar (Elvorn), both of them was at that time playing in Atheras band. Susperia met up for a rehearsal in September 99 and after the session they agreed that this could work out great! And they decided to aim for a demo within the end of the year, the demo was recorded in December 99 at Pitfire Studio outside Oslo, the demo was mixed and mastered by L.Argedick. Synth and piano on this recording was done by Mustis (Dimmu Borgir). The demo which contains 5 songs is called "Illusions of evil". The demo was sent out to different record companies and the response was fucking enormous! Susperia received about 10 solid offers from mainly major companies and after reviewing it all, they decided to start working on the deal with Nuclear Blast. In early 2000 Susperia signed a 4 record deal with Nuclear Blast. Susperia was first named Seven Sins, and the inspiration to that name came from the original seven death sins, greed, lust and so on. But due to copyright reasons they changed the band name to Susperia. The music style of susperia is highly original and can be described as brutal metal together with some melodic twists, Susperia feel that originality is the essence of surviving the music industry today. So they have united elements from what they feel is essential music. On the "Illusions of evil" demo they where using synt and piano wich is common in this style of music (BM) but on their debut album there will be no synt or piano, this to give a more aggressive sound and to differ from other bands in the same category. Susperia played their first live gig at John Dee in Oslo, They headlined after their country men in RAGNAROK and ALSVARTR had heated the crowd up. And just a few months later they again entered the stage at the Scream 10 year party and did a energic concert that showed the people there that Susperia have a big future in front of them. Susperia is put together of 5 different personalities and highly skilled individual musicians, that have a strong foundation in the Norwegian Black Metal scene. The guys in the band are true best friends, and they have a great time together and they spend most of their time together both in music and in private. Susperia are not a Satanic band but through their lyrics they tend to criticize and question the views and moral of Christianity. They do not believe in God, but they don`t believe in Satan either. They highly believe in their music and in their individual selves. All the guys in Susperia are very serious about their commitment in the band and it would not be any major understatement in saying that Susperia is a project, their commitment and goals for the future makes them nothing but a genuine band! The debut album, Predominance, was recorded in Abyss Studios in October 2000 and supervised by Peter T?gtgren. Upon its release March 26th, 2001, Susperia was invited to support Dimmu Borgir on the entire European part of their world tour. Susperia toured Western Europe with Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Nevermore and Lacuna Coil in April, and Eastern and Southern Europe with Dimmu Borgir and Destruction in May. They were also flown over to headline the Extremo Open Air Festival in Portugal of June that same year. Susperia sold over 10,000 albums in the first 3 months and inked a deal with Ponycanyon Records for distribution in Korea. Susperia got a 2-page article in Terrorizer, which garnered the band massive coverage in England, and they were also featured with articles and interviews in the majority of German music magazines in addition to many other countries. The reviews praised the coming of this group and the fresh breath of extreme metal they brought with them. The media was astonished by the powerful debut album and can hardly anticipate what will come next. What you have been waiting for is here. On May 6th, 2002 Susperia released their second full-length album entitled Vindication. Again recorded in Abyss Studios, Sweden, Vindication serves as possibly the last piece of work Peter T?gtgren agreed to do before closing down his studio, maybe for good. Peter believed so strongly in the material for the new album that he decided to co-produce and assist totally free of charge! So the music was recorded in Abyss in November and December 2001 whilst Athera hooked up with vocal producer Bj?rn Boge (Da Vinci) and recorded all the vocals in BBM studio in Oslo, Norway at the same time. Susperia are not black, not death, just pure energetic, aggressive METAL. They make a strong team together and you will never know what hit you when they start playing.
When Josey Aimes (Academy Award winner Charlize Theron) returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota after a failed marriage, she needs a good job. A single mother with two children to support, she turns to the predominant source of employment in the region -- the iron mines. It's an industry long dominated by men, in a place unaccustomed to change. Encouraged by her old friend Glory (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand), one of the few female miners in town, Josey joins the ranks of those laboring to blast ore from rock in the gaping quarries. She is prepared for the back-breaking and often dangerous work, but coping with the harassment she and the other female miners encounter from their male coworkers proves far more challenging. When Josey speaks out against the treatment she and her fellow workers face she is met with resistance -- not only from those in power but from a community that doesn?t want to hear the truth, her disapproving parents and many of her own colleagues who fear she is only making things worse. In time, even her friendship with Glory will be tested, her already difficult connection with her father, a lifelong miner, will be pushed to its limit and elements of her personal life exposed to scrutiny. The fallout from Josey's battle to make a better future for herself and her children will affect every aspect of her life, including her relationship with her young daughter and her sensitive teenage son, who must first cope with the embarrassment of his mother's sudden notoriety and then face harsh details of her past she was hoping he would never have to know. Through these struggles Josey will find the courage to stand up for what she believes in -- even if that means standing alone. Inspired by a true story, North Country follows Josey's journey on a road that will take her farther than she ever imagined, ultimately inspiring countless others, and leading to the nation's first-ever class action lawsuit for sexual harassment. Directed by Niki Caro. Also starring Sissy Spacek and Woody Harrelson.
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Google wants to control both ends of Internet delivery, Google + traffic may be dropping already, and British police may or may not have arrested a LulzSec leader, depending on whether you believe LulzSec tricked British police or not. Also, Spotify is sued for patent infringement, we dish out Computer Love advice, and the craziest singing medley you ever did see.
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A fiddle player since the age of 5, Ryan Shupe first worked as part of a group at 10 years old when his dad brought together a bunch of talented kids to play in a band. He joined various types of musical groups in his teens and in college, only to be disappointed to see them break up just as they seemed to be in a groove. He decided to start his own band that would not break up and called it the RubberBand, because it was meant to be elastic. He brought in the players he needed but only when he needed them. (There might be just one other musician sharing the stage with him or there might be four others.) The lineup changed constantly until, without even trying to make it happen, the membership jelled. As of 2005, the members included Roger Archibald (guitar, vocals), Colin Botts (bass, vocals), Craig Miner (banjo, bouzouki, guitar, mandolin and vocals), Bart Olson (drums) and Shupe (lead vocals, fiddle, mandolin and guitar). The band's influences include such diverse performers as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Bob Marley, the Police, AC/DC and Bela Fleck. Most have dabbled with a number of different instruments, and all have been playing since they were kids. Shupe is the group's principal songwriter.
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Ep. 1327: Have a little Gap-bone
On today's show, all the ways Google is going to take over the world (even though some of them might be good), and Amazon is bringing back the short story, the essay, and the self-published manifesto. I'm working on mine as we speak. Plus, lawyers get rich, and why on earth would people get excited about a Gap logo, and even worse, why would Gap cave? --Molly
