David Stagg

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By David Stagg

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

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The Used

Bert McCracken Against The World

“Honestly, human beings don’t need to do anything. Every human being on this planet is completely different. Nothing anyone else says is going to work exactly like they think it works.”

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The Devil Wears Prada

Interview with the Devil

“If people want to know me or they want to follow me or admire what I do, it’s not going to come in the form of me taking a photo of a meal or a cup of coffee and putting that on the Internet. I would much rather people read the lyrics that I write, see my performance at the Prada show, or read the stuff that I’ve been writing.”

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Chelsea Grin

The Red Badge of Alex Koehler

“When this band started I was 16. Now I’m 23. The older lyrics were just written based around bands I idolized at that age, just gory and disgusting. This album was really easy for me because I decided I wanted to write about real life.”

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Sleeping Giant

How We Are Free

“I remember just crying. I didn’t know why. I just started crying, thinking about being totally given up on. To still have maybe 30, 40, 50 years left, but according to society, you’re done. There’s no value for who you are.”

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Matt Greiner is the drummer for August Burns Red and is also known as one of the most important and technically proficient drummers in metalcore. He also happens to be a friend, and I love being able to support his incredible talent.

His band’s latest album, Guardians, was released last Friday, and the week before he appeared on Season Two’s debut episode of Zildjian Live to perform “Pteranodon,” written by Robert Sput Searight and Mark Lettieri, with Ghost-Note.

It also happens to feature one of the most seamless and moving uses of a bass solo I’ve ever heard.

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