As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying — This Is Who We Are

Love them or hate them, metalcore purveyors As I Lay Dying are here to stay. Their hardcore-influenced heavy metal has become one of the most popular sub-genres, and the band's ability to render it with equal parts precision and spirit is impressive. Moreover, their attention to detail is stunning, especially in regards to this latest DVD. The...
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As I Lay Dying's This Is Who We Are

Austrian Death Machine — Total Brutal

As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis is obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger. So obsessed that he wrote an entire album based on lines from Schwarzenegger's movies. Lambesis recorded the album, which features guest appearances from the likes of Killswitch Engage's Adam Dutkiewicz, as a tribute to one of his favourite actors. The result is an album...
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Sounds Of The Underground A Logistical Nightmare

The inaugural Sounds Of The Underground stop in the Toronto area was held at Arrow Hall last summer. While the airplane hanger isn't the best place to see a show, it catered well to the tour's unique festival-like demands. The venue had enough space for merchandise booths for the 20-or-so bands and the unpredictably large crowd, that started out...
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Gwar

It's Out With The Old, In With The New At Taste Of Chaos

Screamo fans had a great way to kick off the long weekend last Thursday when the second annual Taste Of Chaos tour made its way to Arrow Hall for one of the last dates on the trek. Though co-headliners Thursday announced earlier in the week that they were not going to perform, the venue was still packed with sweaty teenagers whose T-shirts gave...
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Deftones

As I Lay Dying — "Parallels"

As I Lay Dying's video for "Parallels" features men with bald eagle heads walking through a bunch of cogs in a machine. Midway through, they arrive at some kind of kill device, in which they're hung upside down, shocked with electricity or have something that looks like blood poured into their mouths. Metaphor for America...
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As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Cancer Bats For The Cool Tour

Attention metalheads: This tour is cool. No, that's its actual name: The Cool Tour. As I Lay Dying will headline the jaunt, which heads across North America this summer, with support from Underoath, technical metallers Between The Buried And Me, Phoenix metalcore band Blessthefall, Massachusetts deathcore band The Acacia Strain, British metalcore...
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As I Lay Dying Take PTH

San Diego's As I Lay Dying will team up with Whitby, Ont. band Protest The Hero, The Human Abstract and My Children My Bride on a hard-rocking, 19-date American tour starting in January. Protest The Hero are wrapping up a European tour and As I Lay Dying are performing in southeast Asia. The two bands previously toured together in 2006. Here'...
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As I Lay Dying Aren't Bored With New Album

Leave your earplugs at home, sissies. As I Lay Dying are preparing to thrash their way across the great white north this spring in support of An Ocean Between Us. It's been more than two years since San Diego's heaviest metalcore band traveled coast-to-coast across Canada, and this time they're doing it as a headlining act. How are the troops...
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