” Altier, Dean talk about what’s ahead”
Posted by Mark Bialczak January 10, 2008 3:21PM on www.syracuse.com

I talked with lead singer Joe Altier and drummer Kevin Dean this afternoon.

I’ll have a story about Altier parting ways with the other four guys in Syracuse hard rock band Brand New Sin in Friday’s Post-Standard.

Both musicians were polite about the decision, refusing to point to any sort of ugliness or incident that led to the BNS-Altier partnership ending after 6 1/2 years.

Altier said the five musicians decided there would be no one-last-goodbye show.

“The last show was the one in December,” he said. “We decided playing a farewell show was a cliche. Everybody in the band would feel awkward. And if we’re playing awkward it would come out and everybody else would feel awkward. Everybody has their memories of seeing us before. We’d rather have that than a teary goodbye.”

Altier will play solo as Brand New Joe and with members of Under the Gun and Dead Rose as Aylist for right now and is considering his future.

“I’m definitely not giving up on music,” he said. “I want to take everything in for a minute. This is not the end.”

Dean said he, guitarists Kris Wiechmann and Kenny Dunham and bassist Chuck Kahl will play on, as cover band The Undesireables and as an original music band.

“The four of us are tight,” he said. He added that they’re undecided whether or not to continue using the name Brand New Sin.

Israel’s brutal grindcore act WhoreXcore has changed its name to something that seems a little more marketable, but why they need to be marketable is only slightly beyond me… they’re so nasty they could call themselves the Pink Bunnies and it wouldn’t make a difference.

New name: They:Swarm.

All the links are the same – for example, their Myspace.

Just letting you all know that pictures of all the shows I go to or whatever Metal Israel related mischief will be put on the almost brand-spanking new Metal Israel fan page found by clicking here.

Also, if you’d like to join the Metal Israel Facebook group, click here.

yep, big big news is afoot in the Holy Land, unfortunately its harbinger has asked me to keep it on the hush-hush for now…

ah, well… too late hehehe Blabbermouth got it :D.

The much-lauded Machine Head will be storming Tel-Aviv-Yafo shores March 10, 2007, where they will play the Theatre Club on Sderot Yerushalayim 10. Label mates, Israel’s own Betzefer will open.

This is gonna be a frikkin’ AMAZING show, put on by Anthem Productions, the same production company that brought Hatebreed, And the Machine Head show is only one of many big shows planned by Anthem Productions for 2008.

Yeeh, what a nice flyer.

Seek Irony will be playing a special show in honor of their new contract with Aksel Records and the release of their new single “Everything We Are.” Call the number you see on the flyer for more info – 50 shek a ticket and low bar prices heeee.

The new Buzzer album is out, swamped with sludgy psychedelic groove dirge and ready to filthy up your CD drive…. I expect a copy :D.

The release party is Saturday night, December 15 at the Green Raccoon. Doors open 2100.

This from the press release:

“We’re glad to announce that SEEK IRONY is signing Management and Record contracts with new and emerging American record label – AKSEL Management Group/AKSEL Records based in Las Vegas, Nevada,USA.

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Myspace.

A soundscape isn’t exactly a song, it’s more of a painting with sound.

All Type O albums are graced with said accents – it’s what makes Type O Negative what it is.

Peter Steele should thank the corpse he worships that Josh deigns to work with him.

Basically, how I interpret, is that Josh is sonically purveying the old Kahane adage of “Every Jew a .22”.

I think it’s beautiful.

Listen here. Click on Jewdayica.