Kylesa, TBYHID, Kidd Blunt, The Ghostwood Project in Galway, 05/10/06

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'Since this Savannah, Georgia quintet first formed in early 2001, worrying about genre limitations has never been a priority. Taking musical chances, however, always has been. While KYLESA are as heavy as any band out there, they are beholden to no one scene and no preconceived notions of what heavy music should be.
"Lots of people like to stick to one kind of music," guitarist/vocalist Philip Cope elaborates, "and even with the underground, lots of people segregate themselves into small little categories and place lots of imaginary rules on these scenes."

"We just like playing heavy music and we've always liked playing it regardless of what is popular or trendy," guitarist/vocalist Laura Pleasants adds. "It's most rewarding for us to try and push our own boundaries of what we can to do with our music and hopefully, in the end, offer something that is at least original."

Kylesa's third full-length, Time Will Fuse Its Worth, is the eagerly-awaited follow-up to 2005's To Walk A Middle Course, which topped many year end lists and landed the band in metal and mainstream press alike. After grabbing ink in Spin, the New York Times, and metal mainstays Revolver alike, Time Will Fuse Its Worth again showcases the band as the ultimate definition of do-it-yourself dedication. With Cope lending his ears and hands for production duties at The Jam Room, and featuring comprehensive artistic layout and packaging from Pleasants, the KYLESA of current day continues to put the band's future in their own hands by relentlessly touring Europe and North America alike.

Time Will Fuse Its Worth sees the band continuing to evolve upon KYLESA's signature sound, seamlessly flowing from track to track encompassing listeners with sounds far and wide and an utter disregard for musical boundaries. Bringing together avant-garde experimentalism with the pure fury of dirty, sludgy riffs and raw, coexisting male and female vocals, KYLESA's ambient noise interludes, grimy rock riffs and impassioned, gruff vocals portray the doom-inspired punishment they are capable of dishing out through the power of the band's music.

Now adding to KYLESA's signature sound and trademark triple vocal attack is the recent addition of drumming duo Jeff Porter and Carl McGinley. "When we first started the band, we had planned on having two drummers but it didn't work out, so now it feels like everything is coming together," Pleasants says. "There is definitely a new level of intensity to Kylesa now. Since the new lineup has gotten together we have felt the strongest creative spark yet."

The band's reluctance to attach itself to one sound or scene and to not play by conventional rules, along with that strong creative spark, has ultimately made KYLESA that much more versatile. With a constantly heavy touring schedule has found the band crossing boundaries, sharing bills with bands as diverse as High On Fire, Circle Takes the Square, Coliseum, Torche, and Darkest Hour, as well as playing to enthusiastic crowds throughout Europe. "While we are no kings of one scene," says Cope, "we have, in a sense, just developed our own thing."


The Boy You Hit Is Dead play loud and heavy punk driven metal. At times its full on crusty thrash and only seconds later its haunting melodic post rock before exploding into huge slabs of metallic riffs. They are from Galway and are Kenn, Gab, Gavin and Daniel. They released their debut EP in 2005 and are currently working on new material for release early next year.


Kidd Blunt began in 1998. They are from Kilcoole in Ireland and play an intricate style of hardcore punk. The band have toured Ireland & Europe extensively. They released a cd ep - "82"in 2002 and a split cd with Puget Sound on Rejected Records in 2004. Their first album "Grey, Black Grey" was released in May and is available in shops and by mailorder. The band will be touring Europe again in January of 2007 and are currently writing music fora new album.


Hello, we are The Ghostwood Project and we're from galway ireland. we play loud, heavy music. we formed in the summer of 2004. We played our first gig in january and its been going pretty good since then with us sharing the stage with the likes of electric eel shock, jape, rest, antiproduct, giveamanakick, the redneck manifesto and the highlight so far has been tour support for iforward Russia!.
To date we've released two 3 track demo's that we recoreded in various shed's and kitchen's. You can buy our record from Redlight records & Zhivago Records in Galway, Pluggd Records in Cork and online & instore at Road Records in Dublin.

Peanuttybear

Hope you all have a good time

Kabuto

Wow, i can actually pick out two people I know from the crowd in that kidd blunt picture.

dantbyhid

this thursday