Metal Blade Records Essays

  • the deathmetal bands of today

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    monster called "Cannibal Corpse". The group recorded a demo in Niagara Falls, NY entitled "Cannibal Corpse", not "Suffocation" like many of you think. The demo caught the eye of Metal Blade Records and the band was signed right away. The birth of "Eaten' Back To Life" was the first step to being the GODS of death metal. Check out the discography section for a complete listing of albums and song titles. There have been several changes in the line-up throughout the bands's history, First the departure

  • Japanese Katana

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    prominent weapon, the Katana. An ancient blade made through a complicated forging process, the Katana is truly a work of art. Also known as the Japanese long sword or the samurai sword, the Katana is a curved, single-edged blade with ridges along its exterior. It is primarily used as a weapon to cut down or slash its foes (Robinson 28). The ridges along the blade, called the hamon, divides the soft metal components, the shingane, from the hadagane of the hard metal components used to forge the sword to

  • Drill Dbq

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    field to “help”. The drill was very dangerous, with a sharp blade wound around a metal pole and the whole thing spun super fast, when it was hooked to the PTO of the tractor. Dorothy and I knew to stay well away when it was spinning, but Ruth did not. She must have seen dad adjusting the drill when it was stopped and wanted to do it as well. It all went by in a flash. Ruth stepped a little closer to the drill.

  • Contoured Body

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    It doesn't take a genius to realize that having a baby is time-consuming. Aside from the obvious sleep issues, babies also require frequent diaper changes, dirty laundry, and feedings. With so much attention, this leaves little time for anything else in life. Even work becomes secondary to baby care. With so many demands for your attention, what are possible ways to save time when it comes to baby care? One of the most obvious ways is to find ways to speed meal preparations for your baby. It takes

  • musical influences

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    royalty, “classical” music was played to keep a happy atmosphere about the ballroom. In the next few paragraphs, we’ll look at how today’s society blames Metal Music for many behavioral disorders amongst the youth. Musical preferences are as diverse as the people who listen to them. Different types of music have different reputations; heavy metal music is often labeled as "negative," yet others find it a harmless form of music. It is my belief that music may have some sort of effect on the listener

  • Optical Lens Processing

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    Inroduction When a patient orders a pair of glasses they first choose a set of frames that suits them. The patient must have a prescription must be written by an optometrist which states the needed lens power and pupil distance (PD). Lenses in the needed power are either ordered or taken from stock. These lenses come from the factory as uncut round blanks approximately four inches across. Edging is the process of cutting these optical lens blanks to fit frames, producing a pair of glasses.

  • Personal Narrative: The Girls Throwing Team

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    The air was thick and moist and the sun was occulted by the overcast of the black clouds. The blades of grass were still moist from the morning dew and the dirt turned into miniature mud puddles. I was one of the three girls competing from my high school and the pressure I felt was immense since it was our second track meet and the running coach expected all of us to beat our personal records. The catch was that our school did not have enough funding to hire a coach for the Girls Throwing

  • Metallica and Their Place in Rock and Roll History

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    is a heavy metal music band formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, California after James Hetfield responded to an ad in June 1981 placed by Lars Ulrich in “The Recycler” a Los Angeles, classified only newspaper. A drummer named Lars Ulrich placed the ad “Drummer looking for other metal musicians to jam with Tygers of Pan Tang, Diamond Head and Iron Maiden.", James Hetfield, answered the advertisement. Before the band had even formed Ulrich asked Metal Blade Records founder if he could record a song for

  • On Thin Ice: A History of Ice Skating

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    gravity, that allows the participant to look as graceful as a swan, yet has the potential to bring about some of the worst pain imaginable should be entered into with a fighting spirit. Ice skating is a make it or break it sport. Only a sharp thin blade separates this person from direct contact with the ice. The edges are there to guide, the toe pick there for balance, and the hollow there for when a person feels brave enough to test their luck in the hopes of accomplishing a spin or a jump. Figure

  • The History of Metallica

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    extinction others went through a sort of evolutionary process. The bands that were at the top of the heavy metal ladder during this time were such acts as Motorhead, Iron Maiden, and Tygers of Pan Tang. These groups would be just some of what the new crop of heavy metal bands would consider inspirational. This style, which is typically referred to as "The New Wave of British Heavy Metal," would fuel and empower many acts to stardom. (Marshall 3) At around this time, almost halfway across the

  • Concorde Research Paper

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    commercial success from the engineers who designed and developed this supersonic airplane. Designed to break the sound barrier and decrease travel speed immensely, the Concorde achieved its goals early on. For many years the Concorde had a stellar record of no incidents, crashes or fatalities. While the Concorde never amounted to the commercial success that designers had originally hoped, it was considered to be a safe and reliable airplane. That was until the crash in Paris on July 25, 2000, a

  • Overview of Metalcore and Deathcore

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    an excellent way for everyone to connect and get along, Music is also an important part in everyone’s life. There are many different genres in music, including country, rap, reggae, metal, rock, and many more. This essay will focus on a certain genre, metalcore. Metalcore is a blend of hardcore punk and extreme metal, and has a distinguished use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages that are conducive to moshing. Pioneering bands in metalcore such as Hogan’s Heroes, Earth Crisis, and Integrity

  • Trace Evidence

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    murder weapon. While these are great way to solve a case there's another kind of evidence; trace evidence. Trace evidence are small pieces of evidence that are laying around a crime scene. There are many types of trace evidence some of them include metal filings, plastic fragments, gunshot residue, glass fragments, feathers, food stains, building materials, lubricants, fingernail scrapings, pollens and spores, cosmetics, chemicals, paper fibers and sawdust, human and animal hairs, plant and vegetable

  • Ninjas: The Assassinated Samurai

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    abilities, training, and stealth. Over the ages, these amazing soldiers have become the make of legend. History has little to say about ninjas. It is difficult to decide the precise origin of the silent assassins, because historians did not record as much about them. This is due to the fact that ninjas were recruited from the lower class. They were created to counteract the upper-class samurai of feudal Japan. The art of ninjutsu began around 600-900 AD. Ninja clan training done by Japanese

  • Shipwrecks, Corrosion and Conservation

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    ridges (often containing fissures or cracks in the rock) exist near the Earth's crust. Seawater is able to percolate down these fissures and come close to ... ... middle of paper ... ...Results: Different metals and their corrosion rate Metal Observation at start Observation of metal after 3 days Aluminium Silver and shiny No change Tin Silver and shiny No change Zinc Silver and shiny No change Iron Silver and shiny A coating of rust formed on the nail Brass Gold and shiny A

  • Processing and Preparation of Leg of Lamb

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    Accessed on 29 April 2009 http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_down#column.one Accessed 30 April 2009 http://www.freepatentsonline.com/searh.html Accessed 1 May 2009 http://members.shaw.ca/masterbutcher/ Simon Holdaway and Nicola Stern (2004), A Record in Stone: The Study of Australia’s Flaked Stone Artifacts, Museum Victoria and Aboriginal Studies Press, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

  • Impact of Music Technology on the Film Industry

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    This essay deals with the relationship of technology in developing new forms of musical expression in films. It focuses on how film music evolved from orchestras to the use of technology and how music technology has opened new horizons for film industry. There is an important historical relationship between films and music. Starting with the early film sound or “The Golden Age” (1933-1949) was served in special by orchestras, who did whatever was asked of them by the executives assigned to particular

  • Short Story: Hush Hush

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    Hello, lovelies. I'm Alice. Alice Corlette; or so, that's what I was once called. Now? Oh, dear. I'm afraid you'll have to read my story to find out. But beware; as cliche as it sounds...curiousity killed the cat. And so, let the story begin. The night that started this whole damn thing. In the dark of my room, around ten at night, the doorknob rattles ferociously, waking me with fear clouding my thoughts. Dad. Was he here for another...round? I can't do this for much longer! Seventeen years

  • Egyptian and Hittites Warfare

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    Personal security of soldiers in armed combat involved developing methods of protecting the body from mortal wounds, thus increasing the survivability rate of one’s forces. The solution for Hittites was body amour and shields. The Hittites body amour was composed of overlapping bronze scales that deflected or trapped arrows. In addition, the Hittites wore bronze helmets as well to protect the head against arrows and blows from axes. For additional protection in close combat, especially from edged

  • Between A Rock And A Hard Place By Aron Ralston

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    Book Reaction to Between a Rock and a Hard Place In Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston notifies the reader of a mountaineering trip gone horribly askew. As Aron is dragged through this journey, he also tells us of other trips of when he was put in dire situations. Starting his trip through Canyonlands National Park on April twenty-sixth of two thousand three, Ralston finds company with two female hikers. Together they navigate the canyon until dusk, when the two women split apart from