Heavy Hitters: Goliathon

     What's up Southlanders?! Today we have our first band feature on the blog from Heavy Doom Metal instrumentalists Goliathon with the track "Albion" from their upcoming EP "Albion".

The tracks hits us with heavy riffing and groove right off the bat. The track's mood shifts and gives us a taste of post-rock and some atmospheric leads. According to the band every song is telling a story and with repeat listens you will discover more and more layers you might have missed. From my own perspective I can tell you I have already found lots of layers I've missed on the first listen. Well enough of my yammering listen to the track below!

https://soundcloud.com/metalassault/goliathan-albion

     

     If you've never heard of Goliathan before here's a little bio on them:

Based out of Los Angeles, California, Goliathan is an instrumental doom quartet comprised of four unique artists who found common ground in an artistic expression of catharsis, doom, and rebirth. The idea of Goliathan first came about in 2006 when Philadelphia punk veterans, childhood friends and longtime artistic co-conspirators Shawn Doster and Kevin Cogill found themselves living together in Los Angeles after their tour van broke 

down. It was then that the duo started to explore moodier and more mature frontiers, transcending the boundaries of the blackened crust music Shawn had been writing up to that point. After gestating for a full ten years, Goliathan finally found steady footing with Neal Gardner and Philip Bailey completing a perfectly 

balanced, permanent lineup. In 2016, the band released their debut EP Awakens, and began performing locally, garnering a unanimously awe-struck reaction from 

all who would bear witness. 

     Neal Gardner is an accomplished and versatile composer, producer, and educator, masterfully fluent in music theory who has found a home writing and playing bass in Goliathan. Drummer Philip Bailey was a founding member of Systematic, discovered by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, and signed to his Elektra imprint The Music Company before moving on to do session work in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Shawn and Kevin (a.k.a. "Skwerl") flank the rhythm section with dueling guitars and a telepathic chemistry refined over nearly 25 

years of playing together. 

     Each song is a cinematic journey, evolving over months (if not years), a chapter of a sprawling, ongoing story. This story begins with mankind's hubris and gluttony, and the ignorant, wanton abuse of a rich and resourceful planet. The end of human existence will not be lamented, nor celebrated. No words shall be heard, let alone remembered, and all monuments and constructions will crumble quickly to dust. The story ends with echoes of Goliathan's crushing justice, reverberating for eons across a healthy, thriving planet. The band often acknowledges its hemispheric approach to songwriting: Shawn and Skwerl are self-taught punks, "raised by wolves" as the story often goes, while Philip and Neal are seasoned, surgical professionals. All four members 

contribute to a songwriting process through which feral sketches are refined, and textbook structures are tousled by just the right amount of chaos. While the aesthetic of the music is very much centered around doom in every sense of the word, Goliathan can be stylistically described as a blend of doom metal, stoner rock and post-rock. Fans of any of these sub-genres would find a lot to love upon first listen, and would discover multiple layers upon repeat listens and deeper exploration. 

     Following up their 2016 debut, Goliathan is now ready to release a 3-track monsterpiece called Albion, recorded in Lincoln Heights by Manny Nieto (Health, Trash Talk, The Breeders), mixed by Sean Beavan (NIN, Marilyn Manson, Slayer), and mastered by Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Rob Halford).

Albion is releasing on CD, LP, and digital formats on November 16, 2018 via Metal Assault Records. 

The beast that is Goliathan has come to life as an invincible force of nature, and is ready to crush everything in its path.

Goliathan is: 

Kevin Cogill (guitar) 

Shawn Doster (guitar)

Neal Gardner (bass)

Philip Bailey (drums)

You can pre-order "Albion" here: http://metalassault.com/shop/

Work

Work

Well, where to start.  I guess I'll bust out the Carl Robinson.  Let's talk about jobs.  Fortunately, I was blessed to be working for 16companies in the past sixteen years. Damn!  Sixteen years! Where did the time go? 

Ill give you a quick list of the companies and job titles 

1. T.G.I. Friday's/Host, Food Expedite, Server

2. Mimi's Café/Host

3. Sears/Shipping and Receiving 

4. Sushi Joint/Cook

5. Buffalo Wild Wings/Server

6. Power Toyota Cerritos/Car Salesman

7. Kelly's Cookies/Carrier

8. Starbucks/Barista

9. Silliker/Data Entry

10. Solar City/Telemarketer

11. Blue Shield/Medical Insurance provider

12. Ross/Customer service, Front desk Supervisor

13. Pier 1 Imports/retail 

14. Econo Air/Installer, Service Technician 

15. Alta Resources/ Financing leasing associate

16. The ________ company/ Service Technician. Keep this one confidential.

I never really  took the time to actually list up the jobs. But, dang! No Mas! So, the lesson to be learned here is that...I can't really say much about that. Everyone has there own path to take. All I can say is that invision your-self before you attempt or about to take the opportunity for your next job. As you can see I just went with the wind on these jobs.  Don't worry about if you don't have x amount of years of experience under your belt. Remember it is who you will cross paths with that might give you the opportunity to be able to expand your resume.
Every job will train you how to perform your job title.  Shoot, I never thought I would become a Service Technician working on units and traveling throughout Southern California.

Make sure you stay clear away from the pyramid companies or Diamond companies. You know the ones that send out there scouts. You know stranger danger that approach you anywhere. Whether it could be at a Target, Mall, even the freaken shopping market. They will try to start a small conversation with you. Then give it about 5 minutes in they will say this "Hey, you really seem like a people person. My company is hiring. How would you like to make extra money? Working on your own time. The more work you put in. The more of the rewards you will get. Yada, Yada, Yada...
Don't fall for that bull Shito. Because in reality those companies will try to make you dish out your money to purchase there packages and then they will tell you to sell it. I don't want to even continue with this. Just be aware.  Tell them straight up, Not interested and have a good day.
Honestly, eight jobs out of the sixteen I applied through Indeed.com. I'm not sponsored by them but the website really does work. Just sign up, up load your resume, fill up the information, then go ahead and start looking for you next job.  If you don't know what kind of job titles there are. Search on Google list of different job titles.  Its pretty easy.  You can apply through Indeed.com. If you do want to be a little pro active, call the companies 2-3 days later and ask to speak to the manager on duty or the Human resources department.  Be polite to the gate keepers. State your Name and that you applied though Indeed.com and would like to know if the job position is still available?  And if they say yes. Great, and if they say no just move on to the next. Some will even give you a real quick over the phone interview or they might give you a call back But, of course don't anticipate for that call.
So, yah. I hope this has helped you all out some way or another. I would continue but its late or should I say way to early in the morning.
Me and the fellas have our San Diego trip in a couple of hours. We will defiantly by be posting up our reviews on the location we will be stopping by.
This is Carlos Valerio from "The View From The South" signing out.
If you have any question go ahead and leave in the comment box. I have plenty to say about all of these jobs.

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Soulfly "Ritual"

     So we've received two new offerings from Soulfly, "Ritual" and "Evil Empowered". I got to say I wasn't too impressed with the last two albums and I felt they were starting get the lines confused between being soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. Now with the teste of these two songs we see Soulfly putting the balance back in Groovey riffs and fast thrashing parts.
     One of the surprising things about this latest offering being the 11TH STUDIO album from Soulfly is the lack of rehashing of old material. Yes, they do have the same sound just about as when Soulfly 1 dropped. But it is in no way a doppelganger or a band trying to sound like itself. I really do like the flair added by guitarist Marc Rizzo and his leads mesh perfectly with Max's rhythms.
     On "Ritual" we get rhythms reminiscent of Prophecy or Back to The Primitive era songs. But the song is so much more than that. The beatdown grooves in this song and "Evil Empowered" are probably some of the heaviest I've heard from them. I really feel this album is going to be great. But we'll see soon enough.

Ritual is released on October 19, 2018.

Pre-order here: https://shop.nuclearblast.com/en/shop/item/groups/51000.1.html?article_group_sort_type_handle=rank&custom_keywords=SOULFLY

Ritual: https://youtu.be/z2LHZs7xx-w

Evil Empowered: https://youtu.be/HB7gYzoVUQw

- BIG_WAVH

Behemoth "GOD=DOG"

So Behemoth finally drops a new song and I couldn't be more excited. To me this track is an evolution of the band's sound further. To some, they think the song was a disappointment. To others it was just a mash up of Evangelion and The Satanist and rehashed material. To them I say, FUCK YOU!

There are a lot of layers to this track. One of the key points I feel is Nergal's voice. On the Satanist, there was this fire in his shouts and growls. Way more anger and a demand for him to be heard. The thing I do like about his vocal stylings is that he really does sound more evil than ever and he isn't relying on a ton of over dubs. This is deeper then that.

Next key point is Inferno. His drumming is too notch and honestly, he makes little things go a long way. His use of the snare roll to be precursor to chaos was amazing to me. A simple roll equates such a huge part. It was like I told a buddy of mine, "he's controlling chaos". One little roll and boom! Blasting at the speed of light. It's just awesome.

Seth's moody lead, albeit short and sweet it was really a great touch. I know we'll hear way more from him and Nergal when the album is released. I also really liked the way they used the boys choir. It wasn't the usual scary eerie little kids singing a song but the fact that they were shouting the Prayer and denouncing Jesus Christ was just nuts. People will be bothered and others will hate it. But seriously, who else has the balls to do that?? I'll wait...still nothing?...ok....time's up.

I loved at your Darkest is released on

oooooooo...OOOOOOO...OOOOOO...I SAID "OOOOOOO!!!!!!! DAMN" Open your ears!!!

It's me. Yah me! The one that's been scratching on the walls. Turning on your T.V.'s and Radio's. Whispering your name while nobody is home. Waking you up in the middle of the night dropping shit in your closet, while you are experiencing sleep paralysis. Ha! Passing by like a black shadow flying swiftly in your mirrors. And yah.. I left a grip of ectoplasm in your restroom everywhere. I couldn't make it to the toilet. Bad bewitched taco night and the graveyard. Some yahoo added holy water to the mix.

   Ghost's, Demon's, the supernatural world.  The world that we cannot see, but yet it is tied like white on rice. Spirits that can hurt us, take control of our fleshly bodies or just simply scare the shit out of us.  Now, don't get me wrong there are a good amount of people out there that do not believe in this mumble jumble spooky okiee stuff. That's coo. But, on the DL. THIS SHIT IS REAL!!! 

 I have experienced first hand of the supernatural world. Some of my experiences that I had was already expressed in the begging of this blog. Except the ectoplasm diarrhea. My Mom would be pissed if that really did happened. Majority of these experiences was happening in my childhood home in Whittier. A good 18 years of training with the supernatural in that house. Praise the Lord for giving me the opportunity as crazy as it sounds. Of course, I have more stories that didn't take place there at the house...

There is so much to discuss about this topic. But, I'm defiantly not going to cover it all. There are tons of evidence and real recordings out there that prove the supernatural world exists. Well, I'm going to leave you some links to venture out a bit into the supernatural. You know since it is the 21st century and people do crazy shit on YouTube. So, make sure you set the mood before watching the videos. Get some snacks, put on your headset, have a night light on and a say your prayers for what about to share with you. Well, you will be fine. Just pray to stay in the light of the Holy one. Darkness cannot comprehend the light. God Bless

Urban Ghost Urban Exploration

https://youtu.be/0RcJtY7Xiek

OmarGoshTV

https://youtu.be/2GXfpngegRs

https://youtu.be/QFaWENGEXEU

Whaley House Documentary 

https://youtu.be/-xr0MiXVQd0

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Industrial Hemp

What about Industrial Hemp? It's just another plant that grows on this Earth. No biggie. Damn PoTheaD. Meh!!!!

Well, the joke is on you! Yah, you! the one that is reading this.  Nah, I'm just playing with you.  Industrial Hemp is well...A BAD ASS PLANT!!! This is definitely a God send plant.  Industrial Hemp is known to have over 50,000 different uses.  First off Hemp contains less than 1% THC. So, yah if you were to take a sick ass bong rip.  IT AIN'T going to do shit. Well, maybe you will still cough up a lung or two. But, don't worry it's still eco friendly. 

Hemp can feed us, cloth us, shelter us, fuel our vehicles, take care of our hygiene, medicate us, feed our animals, even protect us from radiation. "HEMP IS THE SHIT"! I can't shake this feeling that this will be a part of our future to help rejuvenate the World. 

The fibers can be use to make clothes from head to toe, insulate our homes and keep it cool in the summer times and warm in the winter, make and replace almost all molded plastics and fiberglass, Canvas, ropes and more..

The Hurds of the plant can replace paper products, animal beddings and soil amendment, can also be made into to concrete (Hempcrete), even can be converted into gasoline, etc...

Seeds and oil can be made into our everyday home products from our hygiene, cleaning supplies, provides internal and external health benefits.  

There is soo much information on this miracle plant that can be discussed about.  But, it is the 21st century. I'll just leave a couple of links and YouTube videos at your disposal. 

How far will you go down the rabbit hole of Industrial Hemp?

Web Information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp

Industrial Hemp:

https://youtu.be/ZavHPQ8ZCLE

Health Benefits:

https://youtu.be/AA2DVMj33Fc



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Fantastic beasts and where to find them

Hey guys, Joe here.
I just seen Fantastic Beasts and where to find them. Fair warning this review is going to have some spoilers. I will do my best to keep them minimal.
First off this was a good movie. It wasn't great and doesn't quite live up to the past movies.
I feel like we don't get to spend enough time with Ezra Millers character. For as important as he is and becomes to the plot you don't get to know who he is and you don't feel for him at the end when he is attacked.
Colin Farrell does a alright job but it is very predictable as to what is going on with his character. Although there is a twist that i didn't see coming it felt like a bit shoe horned in.
Eddie Redmayne did a wonderful job in his roll but it was very 2 noted. There is the "awe look, magical creature." and "people, i better become introverted and hope they befriend me." I think they need to work harder on bringing out more of his character and evolve him more.
As for the side characters i hope that we get to visit them in the next 4 movies. They were the driving force for the movie sadly.
Lastly i want to talk about a character that they hinted at. if you haven't heard any of the stories around Grindelwald then don't read further. Ok, So Johnny Depp plays Grindelwald and he is only in it for a few seconds. He will of course play a huge rolls though out the rest of the movies. It will be very difficult to get a read on how well he will do just on this. But the look they went with is a bit over the top and so is the accent that he chose to go with. Only time will tell how he will be.

Over all score for this one is a 8/10. So go give this one a watch and enjoy.