{"id":495,"date":"2008-10-09T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T19:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.themetalden.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2008-10-09T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T19:38:29","slug":"<p>Metal News Source: TMD News<\/p><p>Soulfly&#39;s upcoming run with Bleed The Sky, Devastation and Incite is confirmed:&nbsp;<\/p>","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"MUDVAYNE &#8211; Launch VIP Access Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" title=\"Elevator Death Squad\" alt=\"EDS\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/MANIFESTOcdinsertfrontcover.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD Rocks!\" title=\"TMD Rocks!\" width=\"300\" height=\"31\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The beauty of being in underground heavy music is that your band&rsquo;s studio productions don&rsquo;t always have to be well-produced to leave a menacing statement. Endicott, New York&rsquo;s <strong>Elevator Death Squad<\/strong> offers up &ldquo;Manifesto&rdquo;, a self-released thrash metal album that features ten solid attempts at accomplishing just that. Opening up with &#39;Darker Shade Of Solitude&#39; the dual guitar work and pummeling drum attack turns out to be perfectly simple enough to grab your attention. The Lamb Of God-influenced vocal work makes the whole listening experience grow even more sinister on the next set of intensely pissed off tracks, &#39;Essence Of Misery&#39; and &#39;Diluted Memories&#39;, while an Iron Maiden vibe joins us for &lsquo;Hourglass For The Dead&rsquo;, along with a Slayer meets D.R.I. format that next wonderfully creeps in for some ultra blast beat chaos in the form of title track &lsquo;Manifesto&rsquo;. &lsquo;Darkness Decaying The Unwilling&rsquo; features a wicked guitar solo from lead guitarist Neil Hendrickson and seems to find the band firing on all cylinders here, taking it all up a notch with track seven&rsquo;s immensely brutal &lsquo;Ceremonial Sins&rsquo;. Rounding it all out are the next hard hitting pummelers &#39;Single Bullet Theory&#39;, &#39;Product of Society&#39; and &#39;Shattered Realm&#39;. It&#39;s safe to say that EDS won&#39;t be invited on tour with any of today&#39;s current crop of glossy MTV bound metalcore outfits with material as downright <em>dark and ugly<\/em> as &quot;Manifesto&quot;, but then again I think you&#39;ll be hard pressed to find anyone in this band who truly gives a shit about that sort of popularity game. And to me, that&#39;s the coolest goddamn thing about this record.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"240\" width=\"250\" title=\"Rocket\" alt=\"Rocket\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/ROCKETCORE66.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROCKET REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ELEVATOR DEATH SQUAD&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Manifesto&quot; (CD\/LP)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Self Released\/2008)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.Darker Shade Of Solitude<br \/>2.Essence Of Misery<br \/>3.Diluted Memories<br \/>4.Hourglass For The Dead<br \/>5.Manifesto<br \/>6.Darkness Decaying The Unwilling<br \/>7.Ceremonial Sins<br \/>8.Single Bullet Theory<br \/>9.Product of Society<br \/>10.Shattered Realm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"  http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/elevatordeathsquad607 \">www.myspace.com\/elevatordeathsquad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The beauty of being in underground heavy music is that your band&rsquo;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}