Hails and Hello to The Metal Republic, my hope is that our continuing series opening finds you all well. Now that we are at Chapter Eleven, I have to admit that I never expected the responses to be this awesome but of course I am very glad for them when it all comes down to it. Okay, enough from me, let’s get back into the “New Year’s Music Resolutions for 2013″ as contributed by some great talents.

1. Tyler Burrow (Publicist): “It is such a great feeling to be embraced by the music scene in NYC. Such an amazing community of people with brilliant minds and beautiful souls. I look forward to being part of discovering and nurturing new talents in the New Year and help others speak the language that the entire world understands, and that’s music.”

2. Kevin Quirion (Deicide, Order of Ennead, Shadow Society): For 2013, I want to finish up some songs that have been just sitting around for awhile. Also I would like to find one new band that I really enjoy. Its been awhile. Oh yeah, try and see Ghost this year too.

3. Benny Rose (Ghosts Of Eden): “To have 2013 be the year of the Ghosts! To make my late father proud of being able to push all these years and struggle to be a part of something so special. To be the pioneers of bringing Velvet Grunge out as a genre.”
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Historically speaking, Deicide is perhaps one of the most brutal and blasphemous entities that the Metal scene has ever given us and for over twenty five years have been bringing their dark message to the masses with insidious resolve. Tonight the band would return to the B.B. King Blues Club along with two opening acts and remind their fans about their fearful musical prophecies and you can learn more in the full review by clicking the logo below. Then keep on scrolling in the blog post to see some of the images that are only presented here for your indulgence.

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There are few bands that bring the intensity and aggression of Death Metal like the mighty Deicide and if you’ve ever seen them in concert before you will surely agree with me on this. Now their fans can rejoice to whatever dark powers they uphold as the band makes a triumphant return to New York City for a gig at the famous B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in Times Square. You can be sure that Deicide will be playing songs from across their deep catalog as well as continuing to support their latest Century Media Records release “To Hell With God” and this NYC show will be supported by Eyes Of The Dead and our own Mahavatar and thanks to the fine folks at B.B. King Blues Club, some PiercingMetal Fans are going to get to see this show for free. There is nothing quite like a free Metal show in my humble opinion.
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The bringers of evil in Deicide were continuing their “To Hell With God” tour that was begun early last year when they released the album by the same name. It was almost a year to the day that we last caught the as this very same venue and for this tour they would bring along Jungle Rot, Abigail Williams and Lecherous Nocturne as their supporting acts. For this show I wanted to see everyone involved and made sure to get to the venue just in time for the lead off act and you can read the full on concert report by clicking the logo below. Then keep on scrolling in the blog posting to enjoy the usual gamut of additional photos that we only present in this particular space.

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If your ear is listening to the Underground Metal scene then you might be aware of the side project band that Steve Asheim of Deicide is involved in.  If not, let me call your attention to the one and only Order Of Ennead.  The band is vastly different from that of Deicide and focuses more on Melodic yet very Technical Death Metal than just intense brutal Death and tonight would be their first headlining show in NYC.  The gig was originally supposed to feature Wormrot who had to pull out thanks to Visa issues but we would still get Mobile Deathcamp and the whole thing would go down at Santo’s Party House.  Having never seen either band before in the live sense I got to the club early enough to catch as much of the show as possible.  Click the logo below to read the full concert report over on the main PiercingMetal.com site and then scroll down to enjoy some side moments and images from the gig that are only presented here in the blog header posting.

There was no real venue marquee to shoot with the bands name on it this time around and I didn’t see any flyers so I apologize if I just happened to miss seeing them somewhere.  I did try to make up for it with some other random inclusions.  Please enjoy.   Here we see the full Order Of Ennead band membership with Earache Records own Al Dawson.  We’ve known Al since becoming a Metal scribe/photographer and always enjoy his company at gigs.

Order Of Ennead & Al Dawson

Next we caught up with drummer Steve Asheim who was enjoying an ice cold brew after a killer set.  Don’t worry, he had plenty of company with this activity and was not on his own at all.

Order Of Ennead's Steve Asheim

I then took the time to get all of the folks from the Earache Records NYC office in a photo with the band.  I felt that was a nice shot waiting to happen and as luck would have it, I was correct.   Sometimes I am with that stuff.  LOL

Order Of Ennead & Earache Records NYC Staff Members

Folks who have talked to me at shows know that I am a bit of a maven for collecting certain things when it comes to my concert adventures and one of these is the guitar picks.  As luck would have it, Mr. John Li had these cool signature guitar picks in his possession and he gave me a couple to add to my collection.  I love how he had the panda on them.  It was different.  One of these designs is the most used, but you will need to see a show to find out that detail.  Sorry.

Guitar Picks of Order Of Ennead's John Li

Sadly I did not manage to get any from vocalist/guitarist Kevin Quirion, so that will be a side mission the next time the band returns to this part of the East Coast.  To close up this grouping of side observations, I did enjoy the sign that was hanging behind the drums area on the club’s wall.  So I included it for you as well.

Before I forget, here are a couple of examples of the guitar technical implements that help Order Of Ennead get the crushing sound that they deliver again and again.  I forget which one is John Li’s and which is Kevin Quirion’s but I think each does a lot of the same thing for them.