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Cardboard Jens Kidman or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Instrumental

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February 28, 2013
Editorials
Guest contributor Chris Catharsis of Soul Cycle opines on instrumental music following a run-in with a cardboard Jens Kidman at a Meshuggah show.
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Farewell, 2012: Orbsonb’s Top 10 Albums of 2012

Heavy Blog
December 19, 2012
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I have sinned: I waited until the last minute to do a lot of my music-listening this year. This is partly because I spent the months of July through October trying to smash together my own full-length album, ... Read More...
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Luke Jaeger, Vishal J Singh, and Mark Hawkins Bring The Funk With LVM Trio

Jimmy Rowe
November 28, 2012
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Three prolific technical metal guitarists have come together to form an instrumental funk supergroup of sorts. Luke Jaeger (Sleep Terror, ex-Hunab Ku), Vishal J. Singh (Amogh Symphony, Robots Pulling Levers),... Read More...
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Chris Catharsis Of Soul Cycle: “It’s Time To Leave The Pit Behind.”

Jimmy Rowe
July 11, 2012
Editorials
Whenever my wife and I go to a metal show, we do whatever we can to avoid standing, sitting, drinking, or even so much as loitering near "the pit." We'll even shell out a few extra dollars for second floo... Read More...
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Soul Cycle’s Sophomore Album Available Now!

Jimmy Rowe
April 27, 2012
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Soul Cycle's shredtastic riffstravaganza Soul Cycle II is now available, and if my painful puns didn't clue you in to how awesome it is, well... let me just tell you that it is indeed awesome. The record is P... Read More...
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Soul Cycle II Due Out Next Week! Hear Samples Of The Album Now

Jimmy Rowe
April 18, 2012
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If you followed us back in 2010, you've probably heard of Soul Cycle. It featured two friends of the site Mark Hawkins and Chris Catharsis sharing guitar duties to create some of the cooler instrumental metal... Read More...
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Mark Hawkins Plays Grandpa’s Guitars

Jimmy Rowe
April 21, 2011
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Our good friend Mark Hawkins (Of Soul Cycle, Assimilated Mind Phase, and Robots Pulling Levers) has recently released a solo album---appropriately titled Grandpa's Guitars---that consists of mostly acoustic mat... Read More...
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Mark Hawkins and Vishal J. Singh are Robots Pulling Levers

Jimmy Rowe
December 20, 2010
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Mark Hawkins (Soul Cycle, Assimilated Mind Phase) and Vishal J. Singh (Amogh Symphony) are no strangers to collaboration. Mark Hawkins gets around like a guitar whore (he's one of the classy brothel types, not ... Read More...
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Happy Halloween from Mark Hawkins and Chris Catharsis! Download “Tales From The Crypt” for Free!

Jimmy Rowe
October 31, 2010
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In the holiday spirit, Chris Catharsis and Mark Hawkins (the dudes of Soul Cycle) recorded a cover of the theme song from the classic television show, Tales From The Crypt. It's relatively short, but it's got a... Read More...
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Mark Hawkins and A.J. Lewandowski Throw Down Some Prog Tech Death

Jimmy Rowe
October 1, 2010
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There's three guitarists that seem to get constant exposure on HBIH, and that's Tre Watson, Drewsif Stalin, and Mark Hawkins. Seems like each one is doing something new each week, which I'm obligated to post. N... Read More...
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