Light This City From: San Francisco, USA
  Discography:  “The Hero Cycle” (2003), “Remains of the Gods” (2005), “Facing the Thousand” (2006), “Stormchaser “(2008)   Light This City was a melodic, death metal band with thrash elements. The band was signed to Prosthetic Records and when they broke up in early 2008 they had the following members:   Laura Nichol- vocals Brian Forbes- guitar Ryan Hansen- guitar John Frost- bass Ben Murray- drums.   Light This City, may they rest in piece, was one of my favorite bands back in the day. They had a simplistic and straightforward approach to metal- something we don’t see often enough. Light This City always knew how to pack a punch with guest musicians on their albums from Trevor Strnad (The Black Dahlia Murder) to Chuck Billy (Testament). Most of the members of LTC have since gone on to do other musical projects so keep your eyes peeled for that.

Links: www.myspace.com/lightthiscity 

 Without giving a lot away, I am going to say that Metal Call-Out has a little something in the works that will rock some worlds.  Piqued your curiosity?  Well, you're just going to have to wait. 
On another note, if full album streams and downloads are your thing, then we were your website today (tell a friend).  If you are a fan ov Ov Hell and/or Skiltron you ought to be more than satisfied, but if not, spend some time on the new interactive Hail The Villain site--you wont regret it, but don't ask for those hours of you life back, no refunds.  If you're still left unsatisfied, I may just surprise you yet.  How does a streaming track from Summoning’s 2006 album ‘Oath Bound’ tickle your fancy?  Click play above to hear the shining epic ‘Land ov the Dead’ and enjoy the rest of your Tuesday. 

This will probably be my last post today.  My motivation level is around a two and I think it’s best if I spare you anymore canned articles.

With some careful thought, the meager staff of Metal Call-Out discussed and agreed that we’d like to let you readers into our world a little more, so each of us will pick a week and tell you about whatever band we’ve been listening to the most.  Luck of the draw, my week is the first and the band getting the most love from me lately is Depressor, aka Vanja Gvozdanović. 

I first found Depressor on a random MySpace search (for another Depressor) about three months back and was instantly impressed by the first track ‘A Fork in the Road’.  Much to my surprise and delight, all of his albums are available for free download with links right there on his page. 
I assume to avoid confusion with the other Depressor band, this Depressor now goes by his full name, Vanja Gvozdanović.  With song titles like ‘My Playstation Passed Away’ and ‘Homework Aint Going To Write Itself You Know’, one might think this is another incarnation of silly, crappy auto-tuned deathcore/crunk/Nintendo/whatever, but this isn’t the case.  Vanja Gvozdanović is a composer, really and truly.  With music ranging from electronic, symphonic, (black) metal and generally dark ambient sounds, Depressor paints eclectic soundscapes intended for escapism.  (Escapism from the aforementioned ‘core’ genres as well as escapism from traditional black, thrash, doom, death metals or whatever you have.)  Thus far I’ve only heard one track that has vocals on it, the rest are instrumental, spanning anywhere from a few minuets to half-hour epics. 

Vanja Gvozdanović is a welcomed break from the monotony of my day-in-day-out sampling of metal all the time and for that, he receives my nod (and appreciation) for Staff Pick of the week.  Don’t take my word for it though, you can hear the track ‘It Can't Go On Like This Anymore’ by pressing play above, or you can visit his page here. 

What can I say? Today kind of sucked with the exception of me having an excuse to listen to ‘Holy Diver’ on repeat (as though I really need an excuse) in the office as loud as the speakers could muster. Otherwise and besides the death of Mr. Ronnie James Dio, we got word of another death in the metal community and I had to pause my Dio marathon for Sonic Syndicate (the fu-k??). Enjoy the Dio track above by pressing play and try enjoying what is left of your Monday.