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Four Year Strong part ways with Josh Lyford
Four Year Strong have announced that they have parted ways with keyboard player Josh Lyford. Lyford will continue to work on his new band, Foxfires. The band posted the following message on their website: "Someone once told me, as you get older life gets more complicated, and while I always knew that to be true, I don’t think I ever really got the full brunt of that statement. There are the obvious things like love, money, taking on the duties of your parents to make sure you don’t stink or look like a pile of trash before you leave the house, but those are just more responsibilities. The true nature of that statement never rang with me until right now. Having gone through one of the hardest things we’ve ever had to. The emotional rollercoaster FYS has gone through in this past week will have a lasting effect on us. Having to even write this to you now, finding the right words, it feels impossible. It is with a heavy heart that we announce, that our keyboard player, Josh Lyford...
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Unearth vocalist discusses upcoming album
Trevor Phipps, vocalist for Massachusetts metalcore leaders, Unearth recently caught up with SkullsNBones.com to discuss the band's forthcoming fifth studio album.Speaking to the music site, Phipps notes that the new album will contain strong guitar riffs, with the group adopting a slight old-school feel."Ken and Buz really stepped it up on this album, just like they have with the previous releases. It does sound like Unearth of course, but there are definitely more solos and we are taking more chances on the new record. It's more of a classic metal album compared to our previous releases. At the same time, I think it's by far our most crushing record. It's really fucking heavy man," Phipps said.The musician mused about Unearth's general rules for writing music when Killyourstereo caught up with Phipps in the middle of last year."The worst thing a band can do is try to change their sound to fit a trend…Of course, we like to challenge ourselves with different time signatures, scales ...