By Reymundo Salao
Grindhouse Productions Iloilo, Think Logic Studios, and Sneeze Magazine is about to unleash the Heavy Metal compilation CD album “Iloilo Extreme Music Unleashed” The first ever Iloilo Underground Music compilation, featuring songs from bands Mongrelblood, Deicrypitus, Leprocyst, Fugitive, Krematoria, Mechanix, Tyrant, and Chronus. And to celebrate this album release, there is going to be an album launching gig this Saturday June 18, 2011 7:00 PM at Lanai Bar, Tabuc Suba, Jaro, Iloilo City (in front of Caltex/Starmart, Tabuc Suba, Jaro) featuring the above-enumerated bands and will also feature Blasphemerion, Servorum, Trololo, Dominion, and Dream Come True. The album will be available on the said gig, the first 30 people at the gig will get a free CD. It is going to be definitely an important evening in Iloilo’s Heavy Metal history.
Sad thing about most people is that they usually have this negative impression of Heavy Metal. Not only heavy metal, but even in local musicians too. If anybody was to ask me; Who cares about Iloilo’s Heavy Metal scene? Probably my reply would be “Apparently, Not You…” and “…Fuck You”
If you were to underestimate Iloilo’s heavy metal scene, then what I can easily ensure are two things: you are an idiot at understanding at what music is, and you have no idea and no faith in the prowess of Ilonggo musicians.
Heavy Metal may have various definitions and interpretations, but basically, it is that subgenre of rock music that is heavier, more powerful in both emotion and intensity. Many would classify musicians such as Metallica, Megadeth, and Cannibal Corpse as heavy metal. But strictly, in an academic point of view, rock icons such as Led Zeppelin, Guns n’ Roses, AC/DC, and Black Sabbath belong to the classification of Heavy Metal. Because it is more powerful emotionally, lyrically, and in intensity, Heavy Metal can be more complex. It is louder because it has more layers, and it has more powerful emotions. If you think heavy metal is just noise, then you simply are uneducated in understanding the complexities of musical classification.
The complexities of Metal require that its musicians are more skilful, more talented, and more creative. That enough feels like they are a more special forces than the ordinary musician; but if a Metal musician or a Metal band is capable of making their own original music as well? Well that’s godlike in comparison to just your typical musician who merely copies from overexposed pop songs. Simply put out, you better recognize and better listen up, because this here come Iloilo’s Metal Scene rising up with original compositions, making history, putting Iloilo City in the World Map of Heavy Metal; Grindhouse Productions Iloilo, Think Logic Studios, and Sneeze Magazine is about to unleash the Heavy Metal compilation CD album “Iloilo Extreme Music Unleashed” The first ever Iloilo Underground Music compilation, featuring songs from bands Mongrelblood, Deicrypitus, Leprocyst, Fugitive, Krematoria, Mechanix, Tyrant, and Chronus. And to celebrate this album release, there is going to be an album launching gig this Saturday June 18, 2011 7:00 PM at Lanai Bar, Tabuc Suba, Jaro, Iloilo City (in front of Caltex/Starmart, Tabuc Suba, Jaro) featuring the above-enumerated bands and will also feature Blasphemerion, Servorum, Trololo, Dominion, and Dream Come True. The album will be available on the said gig, the first 30 people at the gig will get a free CD. It is going to be definitely an important evening in Iloilo’s Heavy Metal history.
Grindhouse Productions is Iloilo’s premiere organization that is currently extremely active in developing Iloilo City’s heavy metal scene. They have been the ones that have been keeping the fires of Iloilo’s metal scene burning for these past couple of years now. Sneeze Magazine, on the other hand, has been the underground magazine that has been helping Iloilo’s subculture community for years now. You can find copies at EddieMar shop, SM City Iloilo. Think Logic Studios at Arevalo is one of Iloilo’s most prominent recording studios and jam studios, which usually is home to many of Iloilo’s rock bands.
