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Blackjazz remixed: Shining’s competition for “I Won’t Forget,” w/ spiffy button-up prize

Norway’s Shining, which gave a name to its genre with 2010 album Blackjazz, has a new record coming out May 28 on Prosthetic. Entitled One One One, the album includes the recently unveiled riff-rocker “I Won’t Forget” (see the sci-fi music video here).

Now the band has made stems available for download and is holding a remix competition of the single. The three best versions, picked by front-man Jørgen Munkeby, will be posted on the band’s social-media sites, and each winner will receive a Shining button-up, the “Blackjazz Rebel,” pictured below. So download that application, send it back to the band, and get to cutting.

Scale the Summit’s “Odyssey”: The most epic five minutes of metal you’ll hear today

Scale the Summit: The Migration (Prosthetic, 6/11/13)

Did you grow a beard in hopes that one day you’ll enter Valhalla to drink and fight forever? Or only read JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings or HP Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu after discovering that even the gods of metal worship at their altars? Have you been to more festivals with “hell” or “blood” in the title than sporting events?

Then enjoy the five minutes of glory that is “Odyssey,” the premiere track from Scale the Summit’s new record, The Migration. And after you reattach your face, go pre-order it from Prosthetic, Bandcamp, or iTunes.

Beautiful rejects: Clark offers cuts from Iradelphic as a free download

Electronic musician (Chris) Clark is releasing tracks cut from his 2012 album Iradelphic as a free download. Grab ’em to help him avoid self-described solipsism.

Raging solos, Bonham-esque beats, and white-robe canvases in Life Coach’s “Fireball” video

Life Coach: Alphawaves (Thrill Jockey, 4/16/13)

Also the title of Phil Manley’s first solo album, Life Coach is now a (mostly instrumental) rock duo comprised of the Trans Am / The Fucking Champs guitarist and former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore.

The duo’s first album, out today, features a helluva jam as its lead single, as Manley lays down a wicked groove that’s topped by a raging rock solo from Isaiah Mitchell (Howlin’ Rain, Golden Void). Meanwhile, Theodore — a distinctive drummer in his own right — calls to mind John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and John Stanier (Battles, Tomahawk, ex-Helmet) with his propulsive beats. Enjoy the live-action video as projected landscapes paint the boys’ white-robe canvases.

“I hate your fucking tattoos”: Watch Coliseum get busted in “Bad Will”

Coliseum: Sister Faith (Temporary Residence, 4/30/13)

“I need some bad will,” repeats Ryan Patterson, guitarist/singer for hardcore-punk outfit Coliseum, at the climax of his band’s new video. Filmed at an impromptu outdoor performance that gets shut down, the black-and-white video concludes with Patterson being handcuffed and put in a cop car, but not before he expresses some major disdain:

“I hate your band. I hate your voice. I hate your words. I hate your fucking tattoos.

I hate your god. I hate your greed. I’ll hate anything you’ve got, and I hate your smirking face too.”

Legendary producer Nile Rodgers on working with Daft Punk

In the third part of Daft Punk’s “The Collaborators” video series about the making of upcoming album Random Access Memories (Columbia, 5/21/13), legendary producer and disco guitarist Nile Rodgers talks about his reciprocal experience working with the French duo and plays a lick or two of new material.

Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails express regret at rise of “pay what you want” model

The “pay what you want” distribution model hasn’t panned out like many had hoped, and early adopters such as Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are changing their tune.

“Bad Blood” spills on Owen’s latest

Owen has debuted a new track. On it, Mike Kinsella ponders the old question: nature vs. nurture vs. alcoholism?

Andrew WK asks Marky Ramone the important questions (about chickpea fights)

Andrew WK is singing for Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg on an upcoming tour, so the duo sat down and discussed the life’s essential questions, like chickpea fights and flinging dung.

Fund This: Short film inspired by The Shining, Dexter, Repulsion, scored by Christina Vantzou

There are films and directors whose influence cannot be overstated. Stanley Kubrick and The Shining, subjects of a recent documentary, are two of these. Roman Polanski, criminal or not, is another. These, among others, are some of the works that influenced artists Christina Vantzou and Kristina Ianatchkova regarding their upcoming short film Going Backwards to Recover That Which Was Left Behind.

Cannibalism, butcher knives, and rock music with Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks

Q&A: Zozobra’s sludgecore for the short attention span

Zozobra: Savage Masters (Brutal Panda, 4/2/13)

“Venom Hell”

Zozobra: “Venom Hell”

There was a time when having a short attention span was seen as a character flaw. But for musicians operating in the modern world, being able to compartmentalize, to jump from one thing to the next with nary a blink of hesitation, might be an evolutionary next level.

If so, Caleb Scofield is a good candidate for king of the over-caffeinated, hyper-intense land of tomorrow. The bass player, enlisting the help of Cave In band-mates Adam McGrath and JR Conners, crammed writing for the new Zozobra record, Savage Masters, into a few warm months last year with an intense but focused plan of attack: write fast, keep it short, and don’t over-think. The result is the most blistering six songs that Zozobra has yet produced, all in the span of about 15 minutes. Scofield’s blitz went off so well he almost didn’t have time to write lyrics.