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KHEMMIS | 'Flesh To Nothing' Guitar Playthrough

Hailing from Denver's thriving doom-metal scene, KHEMMIS captivated fans with their latest album Desolation, which was released on June 22nd of this year via 20 Buck Spin and Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Combining traditional doom with Thin Lizzy-style hard rock, the band have honed their craft to blend both extreme and old-school influences more seamlessly than ever before. Ill-omened melodies alongside chugging, galloping riffs set the tone of the album and in a special trailer being unveiled today, duelling axemen Phil Pendergast and Ben Hutcherson play through new track, 'Flesh To Nothing'. Check it out here:

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"With Desolation we wanted to make a record that celebrated our love of the metal that got us into heavy music in the first place while still adding our own spin on that sound," explains Phil. "For me, 'Flesh to Nothing' is the song that most explicitly captures that spirit. My vocals were very inspired by both Rob Halford and Nick Holmes here, and the riffing has a lot of heavy metal swagger, making it one of my favorite tracks to play. The vocal climax into the dueling guitar solos is one of my favorite moments on the new record." Ben adds: "We chose 'Flesh to Nothing' for this guitar playthrough because it covers a lot of ground -- a somber, downtempo chorus gives way to a galloping bridge early in the song, while the vocal interplay during the black metal pre-solo break alludes to the dueling guitar solos near the end. Oh, and let's not forget all of the harmonized guitar lines -- we channeled Iron Maiden quite a few times in this track! Over the years, lots of fans asked how we write and play these songs, so we felt that 'Flesh' would serve as an ideal introduction to playing our brand of doomed heavy metal.

We tune our Flying Vs to Drop D down two whole steps (low to high A# F A# D# G C) and we both use D'Addario EXL158 Light Baritone Strings (13-62). When you tune low and play hard, you've gotta beef up those strings!"

Desolation is available for order now:

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"This Denver quartet's six-track follow-up to 2016's Hunted is a thundering blend of NWOBHM riffs shot through with sternum-shuddering doom." **** - Planet Rock

"Masters of epic, melodic and elegantly intricate doom metal anthems....this album is both adventurous and disarmingly timeless." - Prog Magazine

"Desolation's six anthems of stadium-striving power is an uplifting collection of soaring vocals, lead guitar showmanship and grooving gallop...." - Metal Hammer

"On Desolation, their third album, they come on like a cross between the classic '80s metal of genre kings Candlemass and fiddly Canadian prog lords Rush - and it's a mixture that's entirely agreeable!" - Kerrang! Magazine

The bewitching cover artwork for the new album was created by Sam Turner (Black Breath, 3 Inches Of Blood, In The Company Of Serpents).

The Desolation track list reads as follows:

1. Bloodletting

2. Isolation

3. Flesh To Nothing

4. The Seer

5. Maw Of Time

6. From Ruin

Watch the official video for 'Isolation': youtu.be/xZd2liHm8P8

Watch the official visualizer for 'Bloodletting': youtu.be/P073izSb9bQ

Khemmis' passion for progressive and soulful heavy music is more evident than ever. Though undeniably influenced by doom and classic metal, to tag them with those labels doesn’t do justice to what’s accomplished on Desolation; a perfect representation of modern heavy metal in 2018 that integrates the past in a way only possible in the present. It's impossible to ignore the lengths that the four piece go to, to master their craft and produce a highly unique form of heavy sound. Their magnificently uplifting, yet sorrowful groovy riffs weave you along on an unparalleled journey. Desolation is not just the best Khemmis record to date but a testament to the quality that heavy metal is still capable of. From the stadium-sized opening notes of 'Bloodletting' it is immediately evident that Khemmis is again putting distance between themselves and their earlier influences, to inform a sound that is singularly their own. 'Isolation' - which the band recently aired live in the US on their tour with Enslaved, Wolves In The Throne Room and Myrkur - is the album’s lead single and most immediate track, with the classic metal melodies the band have become revered for shining throughout. On epic closer 'From Ruin' and throughout the entirety of the album, the lead vocals and melodies of Phil Pendergast are the clearest, most powerful and best arranged that the band has achieved. Working for the third time with Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, the band and producer now have the familiarity and mutual experience to arrive at the perfect symbiosis of songwriting, arrangement and production value. Desolation is an album that fans of Paradise Lost, Candlemass, Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Spirit Adrift, Pallbearer, Yob, Warning, Atlantean Kodex, High On Fire, Metallica and Corrosion Of Conformity should not miss.

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caredogstips · 7 years ago

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The 6 Most Ludicrous Superhero Movies We Almost Got

At first glance, it seems like we’ve run out of superhero movies to oblige. We’ve rebooted certain series so many times that you could do an Expendables made up exclusively of former Batmen. They’re making a freaking Gambit movie. It almost stimulates you wonder, “How insane does a superhero mind need to be for Hollywood not to make it? ” We’re very glad you asked. This insane TAGEND

# 6. Michael Jackson’s X-Men

We live in a macrocosm of amazements and sorcery, but it’s nothing compared to the world we nearly lived in — one in which Michael Jackson played Professor Xavier in an X-Men movie. The King of Pop actually lobbied for the area, but seemed to know he was a long shot. And we don’t symbolize the X-Man Longshot.

Though we guess he would have been a passable Morph ?

Jackson was so eager to play the character that he tried to buy Marvel. He figured if he owned the company, who could say no? As if anyone in their right mind would say no to a squealing, dancing Professor X conducting a unit of ten-year-olds and a chimpanzee, which almost certainly would have been his first and final thought. The spot is, Michael Jackson’s X-Men would have been so transcendent that every time Professor X rose from his wheelchair to curve slip, so too would each hampered party watching.

“Breaking bulletin: Doctors stupefied as millions of paraplegics worldwide have retrieved the ability to moonwalk.”

Jackson’s deal to buy Marvel undoubtedly never went through, which is a mistake time travelers will hopefully repair, because he wasn’t merely looking to tally the role of a super-persuasive male surrounded by supernatural brats. He was also hoping to play Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man.

It seems vaguely foolish( in the best acces ), but he wasn’t without his supporters. When asked about it, Stan Lee himself said that he supposed Jackson would’ve been a great Spider-Man. How superb would that have been? Do you remember that situation in Spider-Man 3 where Tobey Maguire switched evil and delivered into our world cinema’s worst dance number?

You damn well supposed to do now .

If Michael Jackson was Spider-Man, they would have invented a new category of Academy Award to present to that panorama. Or maybe it would have resulted in the martyrdom of cinema itself. We’ll never know.

# 5. We Almost Got Quentin Tarantino’s Silver Surfer ( Among Others)

The Silver Surfer has always been a bit of a weird reputation. He saved his planet by volunteering to work for Galactus as a “herald.” A herald’s enterprise is to run through cavity and find planets for Galactus to eat. After years of convicting billions, maybe trillions, of beings to extinction, he decided to quit and use the “power cosmic” to become a hero. At health risks of oversimplifying acts, the power cosmic can totally do anything. So … how do you manufacture that into a movie?

Okay , now how do you move that into a good movie ?

It’s not exactly clear, but many people have tried. They approached George Lucas in 1990 to discuss a Surfer movie, but it was decided that the silver guy engineering wasn’t quite there. One studio tried painting a soul with mineral petroleum, but it seemed less cosmic and more “buns calendar.”

After Reservoir Dogs , Quentin Tarantino showed interest in making a Silver Surfer movie, and this idea rebounded around until it got to Fox, who hired John Turman to write a write. In it, the Surfer came to Earth, met a 12 -year-old prostitute, fallen in love with a waitress, and got was transformed into an everyday , non-silver human by an evil general.

He would also inexplicably use the N-word a lot . Yes, their meaning was to make a movie about a silver-tongued seat god and alter him into a regular human for most of it. And even after all that, they decided that the cinema would be too expensive. The Silver Surfer finally presented up as a corroborating globule of CGI in 2007 ‘s Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer . Before its handout, schemes were already in the works for a solo Silver Surfer movie. There was an exclusively new script from comics writer J. Michael Straczynski, and rumors surfaced that The Rock or Vin Diesel might play him. And then the world discovered the Rise Of The Silver Surfer . It couldn’t have been worse for the Silver Surfer’s movie busines if they had announced it Fantastic Four: All Ticket Holders Are Automatically Registered As Sex Offenders . So after nearly 30 years of Hollywood’s most powerful filmmakers trying to make it happen, we are still no closer to a Silver Surfer movie.

# 4. We Almost Had Joel Schumacher’s Very Serious The Dark Knight Returns … With Nicolas Cage

Remember when Joel Schumacher realized his image of the Dark Knight in Batman& Robin ?

An unrelated photo of knockoff war representations sold in Hong Kong for the purposes of the mention “ULTRA STEELTITS AND RACCOON DOUCHE.”

The movie was a campy calamity. It was a frantic, nipply assault at a Batman movie that missed so hard that it roughly killed the dealership eternally. Nonetheless, had the movie not miscarried so miserably, there was another Schumacher Batman film scheduled. The project was to adapt/ devastate Frank Miller’s gritty The Dark Knight Returns — arguably best available Batman journal ever written, and the story on which the upcoming Batman V. Superman movie is based. Seems like a simple thought, right? Well, it altogether wasn’t.

The plot of the thankfully-never-made cinema travelled in a strange tack from different sources textile. It began with Batman being doused with Scarecrow’s fear serum and hallucinating all his past rogues — Catwoman, Two-Face, and Joker, who was to be played again by Jack Nicholson. They even had plans to introduce Joker’s daughter … Harley Quinn. Batman followers might recognize her as the woman who is absolutely not Joker’s daughter, and she was to be played by freaking Courtney Love. Joker’s girlfriend becomes his daughter becomes Courtney Love? If Schumacher was so determined to destroy children’s glee, why didn’t he just go door-to-door with a body be demonstrating he had killed Santa Claus?

Wait , no, this is scarier .

The only shining place in this waste tube of an idea was who Schumacher wanted for the Scarecrow. Fresh off the failed Superman Lives , he was looking to throw Nicolas Cage as the rascal. That’s the kind of decision that could have transformed this dogshit stockpile of nonsense into the good various kinds of crazy.

Are YOU fuckin’ scared , Batman !? HUH !?

And while we’re on the subject …

# 3. We Almost Had A Tim Burton Catwoman Spinoff

It’s hard to overestimate how immense the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie was and how beloved it remains today. The sequel … not quite as much. Chiefly because Penguin vs. Batman has gone down as not only the saddest Batman fight, but possibly the saddest movie oppose of all time. After posing no physical menace to the hero, Penguin strolled off to flop to his death and get carried away by adorable penguin pallbearers.

That everything happened .

So Danny Devito’s Penguin wasn’t precisely something that needed to be revisited. Michele Pfeiffer’s Catwoman, on the other handwriting …

She’s something we could do with more of .

If you don’t remember, her persona was a perfect mixture of hot, unnerving, and absurd. She was a mousy secretary whose assassinated person was brought back to life by the strength of felines. It was the kind of origin narrative that really leaned into its not-giving-of-fucks. Burton moved on from Batman, but not from Catwoman. Before Batman Forever came and sagged a nuke-sized deuce on the legacy of the Dark Knight, there was going to be a Catwoman movie that would’ve cleared Batman Returns seem sane.

The plan was a Catwoman film set in Oasisburg — a Vegas-like city run by superheroes. It would’ve been written by the same scribe behind Batman Returns . In other statements, a confirmed nutbag. The script involved Catwoman “losing ones” retention( again) and battling against all the superheroes who were privately crooks. Michele Pfeiffer had signed on to return, and Burton was gearing up to make it.

Pfeiffer’s fuzz also expressed serious stake .

So what happened? The dialogue was finished and changed in on the opening day of Batman Forever . It had a silly kiddie tint and shining rainbow colorings, and it constructed channel, style more coin than Returns . The film’s fiscal success persuasion WB administrations that big-hearted and stupid was the future of superhero movies , not dark and bizarre. So instead of an unhinged, seductive Catwoman opposing a city of superpowered criminals, we got, sigh, Batman& Robin . As if someone necessary another reason to dislike that damn movie.

# 2. We Almost Had Oliver Stone’s Elektra

Oliver Stone is a contentious chairman. His movies are aggressive, aesthetic, and often politically polarizing. To this day, Natural Born Killers is still the most anti-establishment course to provoke an epileptic seizure. And it was right around the time he finished NBK that Stone was set to realize his first comic book movie. It was going to be a viciou, violent modification of Frank Miller’s Elektra .

Now , non-nerds may exclusively know Elektra from Ben Affleck’s Daredevil movie — or worse, from her own movie. If so, you probably repute Elektra is nothing but a roundabout way of telling your Netflix algorithm it was able to relax because you will watch fucking anything . But you should know that the character is more dreadful and breathtaking than Jennifer Garner portrayed her. So while it’s difficult to word-painting Oliver Stone doing a superhero movie, Elektra was less a typical superhero and more a murdery ninja. And the comic looked like this TAGEND Which looks like an Oliver Stone movie posting already .

The film was going to feature Elektra battling against the endless ninjas of The Hand, and would have probably been amazing, but the rights to the character were sold to 20 th Century Fox before it was finished. Why the new studio decided to make four hours of sweaty garbage instead of Oliver Stone’s Every Goddamn Thing Is Ninjas is a whodunit we are able to never solve.

Unless �� shit, did Elektra kill JFK ?

# 1. We Almost Had A Horrid, Awful Sandman Movie

Neil Gaiman is a geek god with an eclectic body of work, but he’s better known for his Sandman succession. It’s one of the most popular non-superhero graphic novels of all time. It follows Morpheus, the King of Dreams, on his adventures across all of epoch, space, and reveries. It’s deeper and more emotional than your average comic book, but you’d never know it from the film adaptation they virtually made.

At first, the movie was in good shape. It was scripted by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio( they wrote Aladdin and the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies ), who purified 70 issues of comic story into a single two-hour movie. It seems a bit impossible, but Gaiman was apparently joyous with it.

This is Gaiman’s joyous look .

Then along arrived Jon Peters.

You might remember Jon Peters from our last article about Crazy-Ass Superhero movies. He’s the hairdresser swerved self-proclaimed street fight champ returned movie executive who wanted Superman to fight a stupendous spider. Among various interesting thing incorrect with him, he had a odd obsession with monstrous spiders. He eventually got his monstrous spider wishing in Wild Wild West , but Sandman was in product before Wild Wild West . You might witness where this is going.

“You get what anybody get. You get a shit-ton of giant spiders.”

Peters hired a screenwriter to tweak the write. Most importantly, he made sure the King of All Dreams had a fist fighting against a big-ass spider. As he placed it, possibly to anyone who listened to him talk for longer than a second, “Did you know spiders are the fiercest mortals in the animal kingdom !? “

After the latter are done spider-fucking it, Gaiman announced it is not simply an horrid Sandman write, ” but very easily the worst dialogue I’ve ever spoke . ” And, thankfully, he stopped make before it could go any further.

Giant spider historians had to settle on this . Man, clearly Hollywood has no dances, because it turns out there’s a lot of crazy shit that we almost had. Recognize which is something we aim in 3 Insane Spider-Man Movies You Won’t Believe Almost Got Made and 5 Superhero Movies You Won’t Believe Almost Got Made .