Great New Metal Authority Chris Lazarro Releases "Watch List"

April 5, 2012 - PRLog -- SAN DIEGO (GNM) -- Djent and groove metal are exploding in popularity and you’ll see some of the best up and coming bands playing these styles in Great New Metal Authority Chris Lazzaro’s “Watch List.”

As members of the Watch List, these bands will be the subject of feature stories and their fans will be encouraged to show their dedication and support by participating in our video contest. Bands on the Watch List will be first in line to become future winners of Chris’ Seal of Approval. That designation will earn them a full month of intensive daily coverage plus the ability to partner with our Signature Designers to create an exclusive licensed t-shirt that will earn them revenue.

A veteran guitar player and budding audio engineer, Chris doesn't really care if you think Djent isn't a genre. He will guide you through the best up and coming bands in the style, bands that look to acts like Periphery, Tesseract, and Chimp Spanner for their inspiration. Chris' brand will take you beyond just Djent to also embrace technical death metal, progressive metal, deathcore, sung melodic hooks and countless polyrhythms. It's all enough to make your brain explode and your ears turn to ecstatic mush. In this age when more great artists are putting together sick music using sophisticated technology in home studios, Chris has plenty of material to draw on as his Watch List evolves.


Here are the bands Chris is watching:

Friend For A Foe -- “Technical and heavy with the perfect amount of melody you can sing along to.”

The Schoenberg Automaton -- “The Bach or Mozart of tech.”

Aristeia - “Heavy with enough drifting leads to keep you hooked for the long haul.”

Red Seas Fire -- “Virtuosos to pave the way for progressive music.”

Bermuda -- “Effin heavy, get ready to bounce while you rip someone's throat out.”

Uneven Structure -- “Take a rhythmic journey to a Meshuggah-esque resonance leaving you wanting more.”

The Korea -- “I don't understand Russian, but I understand music and this is great music.”

Behold Oblivion -- “Grooves, tech, blasting... what more could you ask for?”

The Advaita Concept -- “Energy to get you pumped with the added assault of great harmony.”

Corelia -- “Talent in abundance with all members of the band, you won't want to miss these guys.”

Chris and Great New Metal invite fans of these bands to enter our video contest by making a YouTube video and posting it to the Great New Metal Facebook page.  Tell us why the whole world should know about your favorite Watch List band.  The bands with the most passionate fans will be featured in upcoming stories on Great New Metal and move up the list towards winning Seal of Approval status.

Great New Metal helps to fulfill the dreams of dozens of metal bands each year but providing them with professional content that builds a buzz around them while partnering with those bands for exclusive licensed signature design shirts that will help them make some cash to further their careers.

Paul Waggoner of Between the Buried and Me, Paul Masvidal of Cynic, and Brian Fair of Shadows Fall are among the well-known metal stars showing support for Great New Metal.

For more information visit: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisLazzaroGreatNewMetal

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