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WHEN IT GETS BRUTAL 12am to 2am Tuesday through Sunday mornings
SUMMON US 
THE CHILLING TALE Metalix was born 16 years ago when an unholy spirit possessed Uncle Nasty then compelled him to play underground metal on the airwaves of Denver's KBPI radio. If he did not cooperate his soul would be damned, condemned to hearing an endless cycle of the High School Musical soundtrack periodically interrupted by Dave Matthews Band. The show thrived on Saturday nights under the sole direction of Nasty until October 2005 when he recruited B Lo from the rough-and-tumble Denver hardcore scene where everyone wears gym shorts because they just came back from a long workout at 24 hour fitness Then in March 2006 Nasty and B Lo used their dark powers to persuade KBPI's program director, Willie B, to air Metalix 6 nights a week. He had no choice but to comply. Late one night in December 2006 Uncle Nasty was awakened from restless sleep by a revelation from a sinister demon who commanded him to let B Lo host Metalix on a part-time basis: weekends and when Nasty is on vacation, sick or otherwise occupied. Presently Metalix spreads evil across the Denver metro area and wherever its minions stream it online at kbpi.com.
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Wednesday 07-02-2008 4:18pm MT
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SEVEN YEAR LONG TRAGEDY
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| SUMMON IN BREAKUP
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THE ABSENCE CANCELS TOUR, ARE NOT ROCKSTARS
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FROM AUTUMN TO INDEFINITE HIATUS
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BLEEDING THROUGH VS TRUSTKILL RECORDS
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ENDWELL SHIRT DISSES VICTORY RECORDS
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NEW AMON AMARTH FORTHCOMING
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METALIX BAND OF THE MONTH
THE FAMINE
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| “The Famine is about the now and the future, not a long ago past,” says vocalist Chris McCaddon. “We’ve long since moved on [from Embodyment] and we’re concentrating on making new music.” The Southern-tinged, bitingly metallic The Raven And The Reaping is The Famine’s debut effort for Solid State Records.
The Famine features three of the original members of the long defunct, yet fondly remembered band Embodyment, which formed over thirteen years ago. Clearly, vocalist Chris McCaddon, drummer Mark Garza, and guitarist Andy Godwin shared a musical bond unbroken by time, space, and circumstances. The members aren’t doing The Famine as a way to exhume Embodyment’s corpse. Rather, The Famine represents a new and broader territory the members want to explore. McCaddon finishes, “This is a new chapter for us, personally and musically. We’re not trying to regurgitate the past. And we don’t want to do a disservice to what The Famine is trying to do.” And what is The Famine trying to do? Easy. Make intelligent, yet insurgent metal that scorches the earth with its intensity and ferocity.
After McCaddon amicably left Embodyment due to the popular “creative differences” excuse, and after the band’s eventual dissolution, he remained friends with his former bandmates, so it’s no surprise that the members would feel that itch to play together again, and it was an itch they would be compelled to scratch. “We stayed in touch over the years, and one day, Mark and Andy finally came to me and said ‘We want to play metal again’ and there was me, wanting to do the same exact thing.” Things fell into place beautifully and naturally from that point on, with the trio recruiting bassist Nowell to complete the line up.
“This band started as us wanting to record together again,” McCaddon, who played on the first two Demon Hunter records, finishes, recalling the band’s formation. “Now it has turned into us touring and making it a full time gig if we can do it. There is that chemistry between the three of us that never died and never went away. Back in the day, we wrote everything for Embodyment together, and we can still predict each other’s next musical moves. The things we do complement each other. This band is exactly what I’ve wanted to do. It just worked out perfectly.”
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