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		<title>Special Feature: An Interview with Fear Factory&#8217;s Dino Cazares</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mechanize [Candlelight, 2010] marks the first release in five years from Fear Factory, and the first since 2001’s Digimortal [Roadrunner] to feature Dino Cazares on guitar.
Mechanize is the band&#8217;s seventh release to date, and features original members Cazares and vocalist Burton C. Bell, and a rhythm section not to be messed with in bassist Byron Stroud and drummer Gene Hoglan, best known for their work together in Strapping Young Lad.
“Yeah, Strapping Young Lad and the many, many other projects they&#8217;ve worked on. It&#8217;s been great because these guys are real ...]]></description>
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		<title>Before the Unseen: Counting Down the Days</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/before-the-unseen</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Becca Stone</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Homegrown Hellions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Work place accidents occur every day and can have a big impact on a person’s normal daily life. A stint in hospital, perhaps, hours of physiotherapy exercises and, for some, the inability to play or practice music. For Greg Smith, drummer of central Alberta’s Before The Unseen, this scenario is all too familiar.
“I work for an oilfield cleaning facility, so I clean 400 tanks and clock tanks and anything to do with rig equipment, and was inside a tank when an 1,800 lb piece of ice came off the wall ...]]></description>
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		<title>Studio Tour With AB Records</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/ab-records</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recording can be daunting enough on its own without factoring in the task of finding a studio that not only suits your technical needs, but is comfortable to be in and fits your budget. If you&#8217;re Calgary musician Anthony Blaine, the solution is simple: just open your own.
Okay, so maybe it&#8217;s not all as simple as that.
The idea to one day open a recording studio was there, and Blaine even had his eye on a location, so when the space became available, it didn&#8217;t take long for the dream to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kelly The Bastard: &#8220;It&#8217;s Great To Give Back&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/kelly-the-bastard</link>
		<comments>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/kelly-the-bastard#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homegrown Hellions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kelly the Bastard is one of the best known figures in Calgary&#8217;s cover band circuit. First picking up the guitar at a serious level after an injury ended his professional sports career as a BMXer, he joined his first touring act in 1989.
“There was more of a cool party attitude back then,” Kelly recalls. “People were in the bars to see bands. Now it&#8217;s like musicians are sort of a hindrance, a pain in the ass for clubs. We&#8217;ve become a glorified jukebox in some ways.”
In his opinion, “the whole ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mega-Drum Tips</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/mega-drum-tips</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backstage Pass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t too long ago that we chatted with Shawn Drover, talking mostly about Megadeth&#8217;s Endgame [Roadrunner, 2008], the recording studio and, of course, his heat vision and other superpowers, as an entire thread on the band&#8217;s forums will attest. In fact, this guy could probably give Chuck Norris a challenge, especially when you add the fact that he is the backbone to one of the most popular metal acts in the world. No pressure, right?
The laid back Canadian drummer has a good laugh; he takes it all in stride. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Testament Tours &#8220;Legacy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/testament</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Backstage Pass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Testament has long secured their legacy as the unofficial fifth member of the so-called “Big Four” of thrash metal (Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax). As one of the few Bay Area thrash bands still around from the genres early years, and certainly one of the few bands that are still putting out consistent releases, Testament is about to head through Alberta with fellow thrashers Exodus and headliners Megadeth, who are celebrating 20 years since their monumental release Rust in Peace [Capitol, 1990].
While the concert’s line-up is sure to get any metal ...]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows Fall Hypnotizes Alberta Fans</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/shadows-fall</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monika Deviat</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Pit Stop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[February 24, 2010 marked the beginning of Shadows Fall’s first ever headlining tour in Canada, and The Republik in Calgary Alta. was packed most of the night for all four bands on the tour.
Baptized in Blood, of London Ont., started off the night and their metal-meets-punk sound was well received. These guys clearly have fun on stage, and with songs titles such as “Up Shirts and Down Skirts” you know you’re in for an entertaining show.
Blackened death metallers from New Orleans Goatwhore played second and were the band that got ...]]></description>
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		<title>Arch Enemy Invades MacHall</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/arch-enemy-2</link>
		<comments>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/arch-enemy-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Porosky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Pit Stop]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, a band will come along that never disappoints, releasing consistently solid albums de force, touring non-stop, and never failing to draw the audience into their performance, treating them like extended band members, and gripping them in an intense, fist-pounding tango of musical solidarity, until the final note of the evening rings out before fading into a true metal memory.
That is my definition of Arch Enemy.
The melodic death metallers ignited the North American Tyrants of Evil Tour in the U.S. in late January, before driving the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Vocal Basics</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/extreme-vocal-basics</link>
		<comments>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/extreme-vocal-basics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes DeLeeuw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inside The Musician's Studio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You hear the buzzing of drunken voices cluttering the room and you start to get excited. You can literally smell the heavy metal in the air from the 200 sweating bodies that just moshed their asses off to the band before you. You see your band mates plugging in the last of their cables and you hear the last floor tom sound check fire off like a cannon. You walk on stage and grip the mic like it&#8217;s your last bottle of water in the desert. You look out into the crowd and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Letter From The Lair</title>
		<link>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/letter-from-the-lair-12</link>
		<comments>http://pitchblack.ca/2010/03/01/letter-from-the-lair-12#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mistress Morwyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Letter From the Lair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s March in Alberta. Depending on which part of the province you&#8217;re in, that could mean warmer weather and the permeating stench of evaporating dog muck, or it could be that you&#8217;re still in for a few more weeks of winter.
Here at Pitch Black, our office is located mere blocks from a cattle pasture, and as the warms winds come in, we&#8217;re somewhat overwhelmed, but also grateful that we live somewhere that has space for all to roam. Lucky, I guess, that in less than five minutes, we could be ...]]></description>
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