Doing It On Our Own – Day 1

HUNG Live Photos From Dingbatz In Clifton, New Jersey - By Kevin Hodapp! Sam Roon, Jon Clark, Lyris Hung, Dmitry Kostitsyn, Kenny GrohowskiSam Roon here. I decided I’m going to document the trials and tribulations of booking a tour on your own. We’ve done it before but there were a ton of mistakes made and this time around I’m trying to learn from those mishaps and execute with a little more efficiency.

So we tried to get some booking agents to help us out but because we’re about as popular as a benchwarmer on the chess team in the professional world of heavy music, there’s not a whole lot these guys can do for us. It’s not about the music or anything personal.. it’s just that in the trying times of people stealing music online and an over-saturated scene, every band needs to be able to have some kind of backing and we’re just too small to guarantee what they’re looking for.

That being said, we’re a fucking live band and if we’re not playing shows then we might as well kill ourselves. To prevent the untimely death of the members of HUNG, we decided that we’re going to do this shit ourselves. As our good friend from the band IKILLYA would say, we’ve gotta “earn our stripes.” And that’s exactly what we intend to do. Continue reading

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Hung Blog 4: Metal Musings From The Throne, January 17th, 2012

“Because sometimes Metal is the only thing louder than the madness that goes on inside my head.” - Alex Cohen, drummer for Pyrrhon

I was struck by an incredibly powerful, dissonant chord within me the day that Alex told me these words.  It finally all made sense, this attraction to the music and art form that is Metal.  (Writer’s note: Just because I call metal an art form does not mean that I consider those who play or create it “artists.”  That is a very special and honorable designation that only goes to those deserving of such a title, not just to anyone.  So, that being said, NO; Emmure and Attack Attack or Attack! Attack! and Waking The Cadaver are NOT artists.  They’re assholes.  There, I said it.  I feel better). Continue reading

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Kenny Grohowski Performing “Evil Tsar” Live At The Knitting Factory In Brooklyn, New York

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Hung Blog 3: Metal Musings From The Throne, December 13th, 2011

It’s times like these where I have to defer to a line off of a recently recorded Resolution15 song entitled “Yama”:  ”You will die alone…

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Hung Blog 2: Metal Musings From The Throne, Nov 29th, 2011

It was that time of year again.  Thanksgiving, Black Friday.  The enigmatic embrace of buy buy buy, eat eat eat, good times, bad times, great oldies.  You could say it has come and gone as quickly as any day could have, however, it does lend itself to being a great time to engage in reflection.  Here is what I have pondered over the course of this holiday weekend. Continue reading

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