Greetings... it's Gus,
It takes a lot to get me excited these days - but - to let the following news go unheralded would be absolutely dastardly of me.
After an extensive search and tragically graphic headhunt I can safely say that we've found some awesome musicians to bring this album to the stage.
Steve would have no doubt filled you in on this I'm sure but I thought some photos would liven the party up a bit.
I slipped in a few shots of the guys at work in our jam space deep in the southern industrial wastelands of Calgary. The commutes have been hellish, but as they say "No pain, no gain"
I don't want to reveal too much but the overall sound and vibes of the jams too me are somewhat different from the album. I get a very aggressive, industrial vibe from the heavier tracks. Which works for me - It's our natural evolution towards finding our voice as a band.
In certain songs I can almost picture a massive juggernaut chugging away like a black hell machine bent on chaos. It's a very empowering energy to say the least. Trust me, I know my outlook may be a bit dramatic at times but I'll let you be the final judges of our efforts. May our paths cross soon,

Gus

Co: of Grit PR (Feb 1, 2010):

Fire Breather” Tibetan video goes viral with the anticipation of The Unravelling’s debut album release in the spring.

Worldwide—With over 30,000 views and rising, the “Fire Breather” video’s presence on YouTube has certainly made an impact. Coming across as a band with a philosophy, The Unravelling has created a cult-like following that continues to grow as fast as the hits on You Tube.

This is music with a real message; heart pounding music for the masses that forces the listener to think. Just as the “Fire Breather” Tibetan video is a raw depiction of a wicked truth, and thus being a powerful musical piece, their new album “13 Arcane Hymns” is sure to be a worldwide hit filled with music with a message.

""Fire Breather" was written as a stream of consciousness, states The Unravelling’s Steve Moore. There was no particular theme in mind besides the very personal lyrics. After recording the song and reading the news in 2009 of the intensive struggle of the Tibetan people, and how on some occasions the Tibetan monks would even set themselves on fire as a means of protest - self sacrifice, I was amazed at the parallels between their struggle and the lyrics in the song, and I'm happy it has this kind of double meaning now."

There is no doubt that The Unravelling makes one think, listen and open their minds to a wider world view and awareness. Hailing from Calgary, Canada, the members are inspired by a very diverse range of artists, such as Dead Can Dance, Tool, Opeth, Nine Inch Nails, Arcana, Jeff Buckley and Dillinger Escape Plan. At first listen an audience can without a doubt hear those influences. Especially in “Fire Breather,” a strong Opeth and Nine Inch Nails vibe is felt. Pure Grain Audio describes their sound as “tactfully diverse music that’s overflowing with a bloodthirsty passion.” Here's the video - but be fore warned - it's very graphic and disturbing:

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You can also watch a preview of "13 Arcane Hymns" here:

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Recently I had the immense pleasure of witnessing the great Skinny Puppy's return to Vancouver at the Rickshaw Theatre on Nov 3. Watching the show with my Post Death Soundtrack bandmates, we got exactly what we were looking for: inspiration from one of our favorite artists. If you're unfamiliar with Skinny Puppy, I'd suggest you take a listen to Too Dark Park, Last Rights, Cleanse, Fold & Manipulate, VivisectVII, The Process, and Mythmaker especially. I suppose that's a lot of homework. You may as well listen to their full discography and start studying.

Chris from the popular music blog Off the Dial was kind enough to publish my full review, which you can check out here. Much of it is general info, but alas, the main purpose was to put a new article about Skinny Puppy online when I could not find barely any recent press on them myself. They're a noteworthy band and deserve all the new listeners they can get.

Listen to Skinny Puppy!

Steve Moore

NEWS AND THANK YOU'S

Portuguese music website Hell on Fire (http://hellonfireportugal.blogspot.com/) recently posted an exclusive interview with The Unravelling. We ended up chatting about everything from the making of the album and the meaning of the band name to Behemoth, Opeth, Michael Jackson, the occult, and martial arts. Ok, so maybe we ranted. So sue us.

The Unravelling will appear on the upcoming Canadian metal compilation CD/mp3 CD "Storm Canada 9.2". Check out Storm Canada for more information at http://www.myspace.com/stormcanada666.

Look out for The Unravelling Wednesday, July 21 on the metal program "Prelude to Metal Radio"(www.myspace.com/preludetometal) . Check them out and add them here.

The band will also be spun July 29 on "The Metal Revolution", a radio show on Netwavz Radio (http://www.netwavzradio.com) hosted by DJ McBratty (http://www.myspace.com/mcbratty). She has great taste and spins a wide range of heavy metal, symphonic, black, goth, doom and industrial metal. Big thanks goes out to her! Check out The Metal Revolution and get acquainted.

Pure Rock Radio (http://www.purerockradio.com) played "Fire Breather" recently so we thank them for that. Fans can request The Unravelling at the Pure Rock Radio website.

Another special thanks goes to Holland Mich Music Scene for playing The Unravelling as well. Metal show "Interferences" (http://www.interferences.radio666.com/) played The Unravelling's "Victory Song" alongside The Haunted, Voivod, Loudblast and Therapy?.

The Unravelling is now one of the front page featured artists on the NMX Radio Network (http://nmxradio.com) thanks to our new friend and fan of the band Ryan D, who has signed a 5 year contract to broadcast for NMX. Also, My Resignation, Becoming Chaos, In The Safe House & Move Forward Until You Are Dead will be played during the "Extended Prog Set" of the August 15 edition of The A'swepe Hour (from Texas) heard exclusively at http://www.fatcatradio.com. We'd like to thank David, the host of the show for having us. Support these networks!


Zaldor's World (one of our favorite podcasts, period. I'm sure we'll be doing an interview with our good friend and host of the show Les shortly to promote the master copy of the album. You'll be hearing a lot more about this show from us!) recently played "Fire Breather" on their popular podcast. Artists played were:


The Unravelling
Bank Heist
Nine Inch Nails
Blind With Rain
Puppetbox

Check out this great program at http://www.zaldor.com.


British metal show Ragnarok Radio (http://www.ragnarokradio.co.uk/2009/07/episode-39-mark-cross) also spun The Unravelling on their new episode #39 with artists like Pain, Ensiferum and Firewind. Check the show out here. Here is the Ragnarok playlist for episode 39:

Firewind - Head Up High
Pain - Zombie Slam
Thurs - Raise Your Sword
Ensiferum - Blood Is The Price Of Glory
The Unravelling - Where Will It End
Seven Thorns - Artificial Night
Sorcerer’s Spell - Lead Us To Anthror
Mystical Fullmoon - May Wisdom Bless My Path
WolfP.A.C.K - War
Raintime - Beat It



Local Vertical featured The Unravelling's "Becoming Chaos" on their recent Indie Blips playlist alongside Isis and Black Math Horseman. Click here to listen.

The Unravelling's vocalist Steve Moore recently chatted with Aaron, host of the Sunday evening metal show on KUTE Radio (http://www.kuteradio.com). Big thanks to Aaron for that - it was a good chat and we'll be sure to chat again in the future as well as hook up KUTE with some CD's for giveaway.

Our link of the day is: http://www.offthedial.ca

Folks, this is one of the best music news sites around and it's independently operated by the very hardworking Chris Andrade. Please go to his page and sign up for updates, comment a story you like. This has become one of the top ways we have been keeping up on new releases and happenings. We'll also be talking to Chris on his podcast and blog once the album is ready.

Another show you can count on hearing more about from us is Ken McGuire's Playlist Mix podcast, an excellent show from Ireland that has supported us in the past. Check them out at http://www.playlistmix.com.

"The Best Radio You Have Never Heard" has been posting some great shows as of late. Host Perry plays an eclectic mix of styles ranging from classic to modern, focusing on good songwriting and musicianship. Check out the show at http://bestradioyouhaveneverheard.com.

And a link for the bands and Canadian metal fans - check out Canadian metal support at: http://www.myspace.com/canadian_metal_support
They have been kind enough to add us to their upcoming newsletter. Make sure you sign up.

Other important links:
http://slowdivemusic.blogspot.com/ - Excellent music blog
http://www.myspace.com/autopsyreport - Top notch metal show
http://progressiverockpodcast.com/ - Rogue's Gallery progressive rock podcast
http://www.myspace.com/andrew_t_harris - Dirty Drew's Rock Revolution (our comrade)
http://www.thedividingline.com - Progressive rock at it's best
http://www.blazingminds.co.uk - Karen Woodham (of the electronic music project 'Remergence') runs this excellent independent music blog. Check it out and get involved! Infact, take a close listen to Remergence too and support this artist.)
http://www.themetaldeli.com - A healthy serving of metal

We'd like to show our respect and gratitude to all of you who have helped us trudge along in advance of the album release. We do our news postings, links and blog updates to support your endeavors as well as ours, and if there's any way The Unravelling can help you, let us know.

Special personal thanks to all our close friends and family (you know who you are) who have given us great feedback and helped us in the completion of this album.

PEACE!
Steve & Gustavo
www.theunravellingmusic.com

We'd like to thank Ryan D, one of indie music's most respected broadcasters and host of "In Music We Trust" on www.1radio.org, for playing The Unravelling on his show (July 4). To listen to the show go to www.1radio.org and to find out more about Ryan D and his programs, go to www.radioryan.net/.

Also, our friends at Evolution Rock Metal, possibly our personal favorite podcast on the net, have played "Becoming Chaos" on their brand new episode alongside a diverse international group of bands - Scatha, Death Hammer, Red Queen Theory, Tenggorokan, Tiberius Project and others. Respect and best wishes to everyone involved and to everyone supporting us. And all you folks who have been signing up at www.theunravellingmusic.com lately - THANK YOU! There's lots of free music for you and much more coming. The album is near completion folks.

So says Local Vertical Music Blog, who recently gave The Unravelling's "13 Arcane Hymns" one of it's best reviews thus far, saying "Their debut album due out later this summer, 13 Arcane Hymns, is one of the most highly addictive albums I've heard and has reinforced my faith in that there is still great prog rock out there. If you are going to buy 5 albums this year, make sure this is one of them. Highly recommended."

Red the full review here.

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Click the link above to watch a compilation with footage of Tibetan monks, some setting themselves on fire, protesting the Chinese government. "Fire Breather" was used for the music.

I know. Susan Boyle has replaced your heart, or what was left of it. When the name "Susan Boyle" is mentioned, your defenses are probably up. Perhaps the hair is standing up on the back of your neck like some cornered animal ready to muster up maximum strength. When the name comes up in a negative light, you are ready to say things like "But her voice is amazing!" and "She proves to us that anything is possible!" and other similar rebuttals. Perhaps Susan Boyle gave you some inspiration - and what are you doing with it? 

That's probably a good question so I'll leave you to it.

You see, I have no problem with Susan Boyle. I thought her singing was very good. She also seemed like a nice woman. What I mean by the headline is - that's it. We have now proven that we as a collective look to karaoke for inspiration. Permanently. There may be no fix. It's been a long time watching this Hydra-headed Idol/Talent beast invade public perception, much like Starbuck's entry into North America. A long time indeed. No more options now and no looking back.

Game over. No more John Lennon. No more The Clash. No more Rage Against the Machine (albums). And it's not limited to music. Do you think you're getting another Bill Hicks? Another "The Battle of Algiers" coming to your local theatre? Not likely. You'll be lucky to have an intelligent conversation that doesn't involve Michelle Obama's dress or Miley Cyrus's recent photographs. Can you see something wrong with our culture? Can you taste it?

Not only is there a lack of thought. Bringing it up causes anger and resentment.

"Leave politics to the politicians" is a common one I hear. Sounds like a good plan, doesn't it? I'm sure they are worthy of our trust, without checks and balances, and they will look after our needs just fine. Maybe that's how we got into this situation that the late, great Hunter Thompson would call "the new dumb". The U.S, for example, has systematically dumbed down it's education system over the past 40 plus years. Hunter's horrid vision has now been implemented in society - full throttle across the board.

And where was I? Oh yes, the Hydra beast. Idol and talent shows. When did this become something to defend? People say all the time "They are so talented" and "They are artists".

Take a deep breath. It's karaoke. All of it is karaoke.

Ok? Ok.

And most don't write their own material. So let's turn off the steamroller, shall we?

It's been sad to watch the decline. The art and the people in our society that really have something to say are either completely unknown and have worked religiously to achieve a cult status. Zach Braff's new movie goes to every theatre while the new epic based on Che Guevara's life pretty much goes straight to video. Notice something wrong?

It seems like the only things we talk about anymore are people like Susan Boyle, who we saw on our favorite television program. Not anything we created ourselves, because no one is interested in that. Not our own new ideas, plans, or hopes.

We live vicariously through people who are singing karaoke.

I'm sorry I had to put it so bluntly. Maybe you can hold back your defensiveness and turn it into something productive. That could be our only hope.

Steve
www.theunravellingmusic.com

GOOD NEWS SEARCH ON GOOGLE - SLIM PICKINGS & FEAR FOR OUR FUTURE -

GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG AND THE END OF GOOD NEWS?

As you are all well aware, the sheer volume of ''bad news'' from all areas of the world can tend to disturb some people. Sometimes we may ask ourselves "Isn't someone saving a cat from a tree somewhere? Perhaps nursing a wounded bat back to health after a ceiling fan accident? Maybe a stranger decided to help an old woman carry her numerous bags of Campbells soup across a busy street while onlookers gasped in disbelief?"

"Why didn't he just trip the old bag, take the soup and run?" they may have asked themselves.

Well, the good news is these things are happening. In fact, I can prove it if we are to trust the headlines. http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ is a website that only reports good news. This site initially warmed my heart so much that I decided to click on an article entitled "2 share Nobel prize for work on AIDS and Cancer". Sounds progressive and highly useful. Maybe there is indeed hope for the collective to move forward, I thought at the time. Let's check this out.

When I clicked on the article, the article did not display, but instead the website demanded a subscription to view the 'good news'. Not even a fucking sample? You can't show me one story? Quite a diatribe and somewhat convincing, the website listed reasons for reading positive news:

5 More Reasons to Join

Saves Time - Geri is your personal shopper for good news, gathering it all to your fingertips so you don't have to spend hours searching CNN, ABC and around the globe.

Access to Vast Archives - More than 10 years of archived, searchable positive news stories and inspiration, like the 1998 favorite, "A Brain Tumor - The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me"

Finding Birthday Good News - "On This Day in History" is a unique daily column that lists all the good things that have happened historically on any calendar day. GNN-i is the only place to find "On this day" historical info with a positive twist.

Motivates You - Read motivational articles from our panel of experts, like 7 Steps to Contentment and How to Be Happier, and new weekly columns like, Workplace Wednesday and Friday's Word Fast

Improve your Health - Studies show OPTIMISM cuts heart and lung ailments

Wow. There are a variety of payment plans, the recommended one being $97 per year.

SUMMARY:
Let's finish this thing off. The question is - is this similar to 'The Secret's principle; paying $23.95 for 'abundance conciousness'? Good luck with that and keep a diary. This seems to be what it comes down to. After all this. It's a market. Our modern gatekeepers are Oprah and anyone with a book who appears on her show. Big business to a shocking extent - especially for content that can be summarized with "Be here now" type ideas, which can be helpful of course. Why is everything an infomercial of some sort? It's difficult to get those credit card numbers from you and it takes a certain tone to achieve it. You can have good news, but you will have to pay dearly. Save up.

My suggestion to stay positive. Check all trees (the ones that are left) for cats and various wounded animals.

(And to the owners of this website, don't get too upset. This is meant to be a humorous blog)

Steve Moore

The track "My Resignation" has been posted as a free download to the members of www.theunravellingmusic.com. Members will also get free b-sides and remixes as they get posted. This track is quite experimental and features some hypnotic elements. We're happy to have it set for inclusion on the upcoming album TBA. Spread the song around as you wish and post your thoughts. Cheers,

Steve & Gus

I happen to have a deep respect for Bill Hicks and people of his ilk - they are rare and they usually do not advance very far in the physical world due to their distaste for soulessness, lies and corruption. They are the water that will not mix with the oil, so to speak. However, when one of these people such as Bill gets out there enough to say his piece, it's a gift to anyone who relates to it, to the splinters within the masses, the outnumbered seekers. Part of the beauty of life, I think. So here are some quotes from the man. His website is at www.billhicks.com.


"We gotta come to some new ideas about life folks ok? I'm not being blase about abortion, it might be a real issue, it might not, doesn't matter to me. What matters is that if you believe in the sanctity of life then you believe it for life of all ages. That's what I hate about this child-worship syndrome going on. "Save the children! They're killing children! How many children were at Waco? They're killing children!" What does that mean? They reach a certain age and they're off your fucking love-list? Fuck your children, if that's the way you think then fuck you too. You either love all people of all ages or you shut the fuck up."

"It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one."

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people."

"Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your goverment is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what well tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"

"I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you. And you feel it. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead -- just play with this -- if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world -- and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded -- we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace. Thank you very much. You've been great, I hope you enjoyed it."

"Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children."

“I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. That's faith in action folks! You know he's got God on his side.”