Punk vs Metal

Moving

2009-03-10T07:01:00.000-07:00

We are moving over to PunkvsMetal.southofsanity.net Check over there for updates and anything else pvm starting in April.

Chugging

2009-01-28T09:39:00.000-08:00

We're still here. Don't forget me. We got a new art style and we will be picked up by another publication as well. Stay tooned for more as we tie up this story arch and start another! Here is a sneak peak

Punk vs Metal EpIV

2008-10-31T12:43:00.000-07:00

episode iv as seen in weird mag. Next one is in preproduction. We are looking for writers who would like to write a story arc or a one off. Hit me up at inthewomb1(AT)yahoo.com.

In the next episode we are changing up the way we color! Hopefully this will make it a little more visually impacting. Comments and suggestions are always welcomed. Just don't be a bitch.

PvM IV

2008-07-30T15:33:00.000-07:00

This one is in the can! Look for it soon! Next episode is gonna look pretty cool and will be one of our shirt designs...we are now up to 3.

You haven't seen any yet?

Well then, ill see you back here soon!

Installed Design

2008-07-21T11:28:00.000-07:00

Installed Design

If your in the local music scene and you don't know Jorge Saldivar yet
your not doing your duty. THIS GUY IS THE WEB GUY for any and all of
your needs. Jorge has a great grasp on actually creating web pages
that do things. Yeah there are other guys out there that can do the
same thing....but not at Installed Design prices, quality or customer service.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Steps

2008-07-19T10:08:00.000-07:00

these are story boards in various stages of undress. all we needs is the words!

Episode III

2008-07-15T07:22:00.000-07:00

Well, congrats again to Richard.
Credits: David Menchaca
Richard Herrera
Weird Mag
TREDgrafix

Get Paid $ 4 your Streams

2008-07-12T11:31:00.000-07:00

South of Sanity tells us how we can get paid when someone streams our
music using last.fm

check out SouthofSanity.net

For your information

2008-07-12T09:36:00.000-07:00

A note from the PvM guys:

Blogger is too small to let us spread our veined wings. The halls here muffle the screams of the tormented souls we feast upon. So were gonna move it on over to Wordpress. Soon.

Ok, weirdos...Anyway look for Ep III to be posted this week! Ep IV is under construction...we will be submitting that one for publication in Weird mag for their 51st issue check out some storyboards for Ep IV in progress while you wait for all that other stuff. Boards will be posted Next Saturday. We will plug our fav local bands in the backgrounds of the strip when ever we get a chance...look for your band soon. Just dont sue us. We're broke.

Win Stuff and Get Signed!

2008-05-25T12:23:00.000-07:00

Voting is now open for the Hot Pursuit, a new band search presented by Spin magazine, Hennessy, and Music Nation. This year's judges include songwriter Butch Walker, Peter Bjorn & John's Peter Moren, the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer, comedian Michael Showalter, and Spin editor Doug Brod. The winner of the Hot Pursuit will earn a record deal with Original Signal/Epic Records, a brand-new Gibson SG guitar and bass, national press coverage in Spin, and a slot to perform at Spin's Year in Music party.

You can head over to the Hot Pursuit site, check out some of the bands, and cast your vote for whomever rocks the most. Or, you can enter your band to win!

Punk vs Metal EpII

2008-05-25T11:57:00.001-07:00

As seen in Weird Mag April 2008. Or was it May. I don't know i'm confused!

Episode III is out! Look for Weird Mag at news stands now.

Episode I

2008-04-12T18:54:00.000-07:00

As published in "Weird Magazine" March 2008.

Punk vs Metal
written by David Menchaca
drawn by Richard Herrera

special thanks to: Lunatic Productions, the Quad Theory, Tenet Community, DogmaHollow, South of Sanity, Broken Pencil Studio, Weird Magazine, Magazine X and TREDgrafix.

Get the real bass player please...

2008-04-12T17:32:00.000-07:00

Metallica has announced their new record will be released in September.

Lars Ulrich said to the BBC: "We're just finishing up a record, we've got six weeks left and it should be out in September, that's the idea right now."

The album's style has been described as more progressive and, at times, melodic, as it features many guitar solos. It has been referred to as the "missing link" between 1988's ...And Justice for All and 1991's Metallica. The album will be Metallica's first studio album to be released since 2003's St. Anger.

I don't know who referred to it as the "missing link" but we all know he's dead.

Cliff Burton
rest in peace
1962-1986

Cliff Burton 2nd show

Metallica new song 1

Metallica new song 2

Cavalera Conspiracy

2008-03-28T13:17:00.000-07:00

http://www.cavaleraconspiracy.com/

Sanctuary

As I have Spoken, let it be done!

2008-03-28T12:45:00.000-07:00

Here's a teaser for Ep 2. Check back with us later this weekend and see last months Ep. 1

Goth Park Murder

2008-03-27T19:29:00.001-07:00

Boy convicted of Goth park murder

A 15-year-old boy has been found guilty of murder after he kicked a woman to death because she was a Goth.

Brendan Harris set upon Sophie Lancaster, 20, in a Lancashire park after he and four other youths assaulted her boyfriend Robert Maltby.

Ryan Herbert, 16, had already admitted murdering Miss Lancaster in Stubbylee Park, Bacup, last August.

Det Supt Mick Gradwell, of Lancashire Police, said it was one of the most violent murders he had seen.

He said that Herbert and Harris, who were named when the judge at Preston Crown Court lifted an order banning their identification, did not recognise how violent the attack was.

Mr Gradwell also criticised some of the parents of the boys involved, saying their attitude had been "appalling".

Miss Lancaster, a gap year student, died from serious head injuries two weeks after the incident while 21-year-old Mr Maltby survived.

I am convinced Sophie was killed simply because of the way she looked
Sylvia Lancaster, victim's mother

Prosecutor Michael Shorrock had told the court the gang, who had been drinking, had turned on the young couple simply because they were Goths and were dressed differently.

Harris admitted punching Mr Maltby once in the face, but claimed he played no further part in the attack.

Both Harris and Herbert pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to Mr Maltby, along with three other males, two aged 17 and one 16, who still cannot be named.

Judge Anthony Russell QC praised the families of both Miss Lancaster and Mr Maltby for their dignity "during what must have been a very, very harrowing ordeal".

He also thanked witnesses who had helped the victims and had given evidence in court. He ordered them to be awarded £250 each.

The judge said that he was duty bound to give Harris and Herbert life sentences but that he would set the tariffs on 28 April.

In a statement released after the verdict, Sylvia Lancaster said her daughter's death was a tragedy to both the family and wider society.

She said: "First, obviously, I have lost an adoring and adorable daughter. She was intelligent, brave, courageous and had a social conscience beyond her years.

"Her death has also ruined the lives of those responsible as well as the lives of their families.

"On a wider scale, it is a tragedy for a society which, in the past, has prided itself on its tolerance.

I do not think Herbert and Harris have recognised how violent the attack was
Det Supt Mick Gradwell

"I am convinced Sophie was killed simply because of the way she looked. She did not necessarily conform to the ideals of those who took her life."

Det Supt Gradwell said it was one of the most violent murders he had come across in his lengthy career.

He said: "It was a totally unnecessary and appalling set of circumstances.

"I do not think Herbert and Harris have recognised how violent the attack was.

"They have just done it without thinking but they have seemed to have enjoyed it and carried on remorselessly kicking at two very defenceless people who were unable to protect themselves because of the level of violence inflicted upon them.

"There was a total lack of parental control.

"I am very critical of some of the parents involved. I really don't think they have taken completely seriously how repulsive this incident was."

He said that when Harris was initially interviewed about the assaults he was "laughing and joking" with his mother.

Goths emerged as a youth subculture in the early 1980s.

Although initially used to describe a form of music, it has evolved to encompass literature, art and fashion, with its exponents typically dressing in dark clothing.
Story from BBC NEWS

WTF?

2008-03-27T19:08:00.000-07:00

Are you an Emosexual?

Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to ... defend emo kids?

A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.

The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana's emo kids to stay away from the town's fair next month.

But the so-called emos are organizing, too. Last week, they demonstrated against the violence, pictured above, and Wednesday some met with police in Mexico City.

"They're organizing to defend their right to be emo," wrote Daniel Hernandez of LA Weekly on his personal blog, which has provided stellar coverage of the whole affair.

Music-based subcultures have permeated Mexico's major cities for decades, fueled by constant migration from rural cities. But only in the past year have emos begun to make their presence felt in the streets. In response, many of the established so-called tribus urbanas like punks and metalheads are responding with violence. The emo-punk battles are reminiscent of earlier subculture fights among various factions, like the Hell's Angels fighting hippies at the Altamont Music Festival or the Mods taking on the Rockers.

But while videos of Mexican teenagers with pompadours advancing on equally baby-faced emo rockers seem like scenes from a south-of-the-border version of John Waters' Crybaby, there are ugly undercurrents to the story.

First, by some accounts, the emo subculture is identified with homosexuality in Mexico. As Mexico City youth worker Victor Mendoza told Time.com: "At the core of this is the homophobic issue. The other arguments are just window dressing for that."

Gustavo Arellano, the author of Ask a Mexican and an editor at OC Weekly, said that the sexual ambiguities cultivated by emo fashion helped set the group up for targeting by more macho groups.

"What do you do when you are confronted with a question mark about sexuality in Mexico?" Arellano said. "You beat it up."

Forum posts show similar sentiments. One person wrote on a government youth-website forum, "detesto a los emosexuales," which translates as "I hate emosexuals." Emosexual is an obvious play on homosexual, especially in Spanish, where the H is silent.

Many of the attacks have been planned, or at least fomented, on violently anti-emo websites like Movimiento Anti Emosexual, which features videos of physical violence sprinkled liberally with anti-gay sentiment. Last.fm's Anti Emo Death Squad group has almost 4,000 members.

But Arellano said he thought the riots could have a positive impact here in the US.

"It's a great clusterfuck for the American mind's idea of Mexico," Arellano said. "This teaches the rest of the world that Mexico is not just a bunch of cactuses and sombreros."

Photo: Mexican emo kids gather in response to anti-emo violence by metalheads and punk rockers.

Credit: promrguez

The next strip

2008-03-26T20:12:00.000-07:00

So part 2 of our little comic is going to be delivered for colors tomorrow! We intentionally held back online publication of the first strip. But seeing as it's almost a month old...we'll be posting it up as soon as we complete part 2. I'll have some teasers posted over the weekend!

Some one said

2008-03-23T12:55:00.000-07:00

the word...National. As in a Magazine distributed Nationaly

Ministry C U LaTouR three-minute promotional video

2008-03-22T13:07:00.000-07:00

Ministry C U LaTouR three-minute promotional video

March 25 in Spokane, Washington

special guests MESHUGGAH
opening act HEMLOCK

We need your shows!

2008-03-17T05:53:00.000-07:00

If you look over to the Right side you'll see our Spongecell calendars. 1 for Metal and 1 for Punk. They are EMPTY! This is a bad thing and we need your help with it. I would think this is a great opportunity for the Punk bands of the Valley to fire their first volley. Seems like the Metal side is kicking Punk ass all over the place these days!

So, come on Punk bands send me some show dates and we'll post'em. In addition to getting posted a webpage is made for that show date. Check it out.

Submitted

2008-03-02T09:39:00.000-08:00

We've submitted the first comic strip to Weird Magazine. When i get verification from the Editor i'll put up another post with any details! Weird staff informed us of dedicated space but i'm not sure if we will get it all. Half a page for us would be cool and we went a head and laid out the strip for that option.

Stay tuned. More to come.

By the way

2008-01-05T16:25:00.000-08:00

I was talking to "someone" who has an independent mag. They offered 1/2 a page for the comic free of charge. I guess that means im not getting paid! Im still excited. Look for more info as it comes in!

Thanks to "The Quad Theory"

2007-12-20T18:36:00.000-08:00

Metal initiates the attack! Special thanks to Alex from Lunaticpro and "The Quad Theory" for the mp3. Sounds good guys. I appreciate the help. I don't think the Punk side could do any better.

"The Quad Theory" is

robert -voice
netz-bass/voice
ted-guitar/voice
alex-drums/voice

PVSM designs READY!

2007-12-13T19:49:00.000-08:00

test one

2007-10-29T19:46:00.001-07:00

test one