Name: The Foreshadowing "Ground Zero" by Metal Blade Records
Duration: 4 min 30 s
Description: "Ground Zero" from the album "Second World".

Nice Gothenberg-esqe sound.  Nice to hear something that isn't in any mold.

awesome tracks man, listen to my beatz i know u would feel them we have did beats for vinnie paz, slaine and others

I think this band deserves some attention .

Katatonia 'Reworkings' Competition

Hanging The Star with Edgepilotz

Right Into The Bliss - Katatonia reworking feat. Alx Leeks aka Hanging The Star, prod. Alan Miller

Cusp Of Eternity

02 Cusp Of Eternity

NEW ALBUM from THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - 'MAGNOLIA' 

The follow up to 2012 acclaimed All The Wars is entitled 'Magnolia' and is due to be released on Kscope on 15th September.

The band's line up of Bruce Soord (Guitars, vocals), Jon Sykes (Bass guitars, backing vocal) and Steve Kitch (Keyboards) has been completed by the addition of Dan Osborne on drums.

Artwork for 'Magnolia' was created by French artist Patrick Gonzales

"Magnolia is a gorgeous album - immaculately produced, and assembled with real love and imagination". "Small but perfectly formed pockets of 21st century prig"
CLASSIC ROCK

“The perfect blend of brains, brawn, beauty and exquisite songwriting...a modern rock masterpiece.”  
Dom Lawson, THE GUARDIAN

The Pineapple Thief are touring Europe this winter to promote the new album 'Magnolia'. 

Calling at:
18th Nov - Puschkin / Dresden, DE
19th Nov - Das Rind / Rüsselsheim, DE
20th Nov - Zentrum Altenberg / Oberhausen, DE
21st Nov - Bluesgarage / Hannover, DE
22nd Nov - Crystal / Berlin, DE
23rd Nov - Rock café St. Pauli / Hamburg, DE 
25th Nov - Divan du Monde / Paris, FR 
26th Nov - Nieuwe Nor / Heerlen, NL
27th Nov - Romein / Leeuwarden, NL 
28th Nov - De Boerderij / Zoetermeer, NL 
29th Nov - W2 / Den Bosch, NL
3rd Dec - Islington Academy / London, UK
4th Dec - The Fleece / Bristol, UK
5th Dec - Ruby Lounge / Manchester, UK
6th Dec - The Liquid Rooms / Edinburgh, UK

TICKETS:
Germany: http://bit.ly/1pETA30 
Paris, FR : http://bit.ly/1sxHzkQ
Heerlen, NL - http://bit.ly/1koeLu7
Leeuwarden, NL - http://bit.ly/1oDxMDV
Zoetermeer, NL - http://bit.ly/1ACrspH
Den Bosch, NL - http://bit.ly/1o8rb8l
London, UK - http://bit.ly/1y6PuVU
Bristol, UK http://bit.ly/1zRgsDR
Manchester, UK - http://bit.ly/1vteESA
Edinburgh, UK http://bit.ly/1mOxhwd


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Simple As That - Single

Simple As That

The Pineapple Thief - Simple as That (from Magnolia)

Standing in this corner.
He knows he did nothing wrong.
Teacher's a snake charmer.
Class spits venom to her song.
Doesn't matter anyway.
She didn't pay attention.
He was just a shadow on the wall that day.

He asks the peeling walls questions...
One's nobody has answers for:
"What's wrong with me?"
"What did I do this time?"

If shame could bleed, he'd wear its stains.
Like war paint down his face.
All they did was teach him how to hide,
How to cower and to survive.
Shame he was born to burn.
Not to live a quiet life.
Daddy wasn't even there.
Mommy doesn't even care.


More endless taunts.
Dried-out thoughts in his skull.
Knuckles cracked like chalk,
Another black eye for the roll.
Letters written on the whiteboard.
Spell out the names they've thrown.
Like knives stuck in his back.
And bruises carved in bone.

If shame could bleed, he'd flood the floor,
Painted in truths they can't ignore.
All they did was teach him not to feel...
And numb the wounds that'll never heal.
Daddy never gave a damn.
And mommy never even tried.
In the corner is where he stands
Never gets to live a quiet life.

A Quiet Life

Movement
Subdued back then
So quiet now
Subsequence
Systematic violence
The great cold distance

The itch
The urge

Make way
Think of something
Thin out the fear
Past the tracks
Part the ways
One stand here
Medicate
Kill the itch
Check the air
And push to get there

Monochrome
Symbol on the surface
Reduced illumination
Chemical inheritance

The lies
The fever

Make way
Think of something
Thin out the fear
Past the tracks
Part the ways
One stand here
Medicate
Kill the itch
Check the air
And push to get there

The Itch

"Ground Zero" from the album "Second World".

The Foreshadowing "Ground Zero"

Incorruptible

Iced Earth - Black Flag

Open car (Porcupine Tree Cover)

Insomnium - Down with the Sun (Orchestral Cover)

Homemade cover of Iced Earth's "The Phantom Opera Ghost".

Iced Earth - The Phantom Opera Ghost (Instrumental Cover)

Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

Read more: http://www.metalblade.com/us/about-us/

The Foreshadowing "Ground Zero"

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