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Reign of Vengeance Frontman Marshall Beck on Joe Arpaio, Mormons and Misogyny

By Mike Meyer
Jun 8, 2011

Reign of Vengeance vocalist Mashall "Fucking" Beck has never shied away from controversy, but his band's latest album, Disemboweling Swine, takes things to a whole new level. The album cover, as seen above, depicts Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio being gutted alive by rioting inmates. Lyrical topics range from killing...
Job for a Cowboy's Jonny Davy Talks New EP, Gloom, Touring and the Timeframe for a New Full-Length

By Mike Meyer
Jun 7, 2011

Glendale death metal band Job for a Cowboy released their new EP, Gloom, today, but don't bother looking for it at Zia or Best Buy. The four-song EP is available for download through most online digital outlets, but a mere 2,500 physical copies are being sold exclusively via mail order...
Authority Zero Tackles the Economic Crisis in New Video for "Big Bad World"

By Mike Meyer
Jun 2, 2011

Veteran Mesa punk band Authority Zero recently released a new video for the track "Big Bad World" from their 2010 album, Stories of Survival. The reggae-tinged song and accompanying video were inspired by the ongoing economic crisis. In a recent blog post on Buzznet.com, lead vocalist Jason DeVore described the...
The Love Me Nots' Nicole Laurenne on New Album, New/Old Drummer and Beating Breast Cancer

By Mike Meyer
May 13, 2011

If you're looking for an example of the old platitude that "attitude is everything," you could do a lot worse than Love Me Nots vocalist/organist Nicole Laurenne. Less than a year removed from a breast cancer scare that forced the band into a five-month hiatus, Laurenne is back onstage and...
Rising Pain's "The Price We Pay," Explained by the Band

By Mike Meyer
May 12, 2011

Local metal band Rising Pain recently released a new EP, War of Souls, at a raucous show late last month at Chaser's in south Scottsdale. Frequent Up on the Sun readers might recall that the band was involved in an unfortunate incident last summer when band members and several concertgoers...

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