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Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) October 21, 2006 Oct. 21–Seperation From All started out partly as a spelling error on a concert flier at the Cain’s Ballroom. “The name stuck,” said Trent Murphree, the Broken Arrow metal band’s bass player. Since then, it has opened for some of the biggest bands in the genre, from Six Feet Under to Hatebreed, all without recording a single album.

The group, formed about two years ago, has recorded a couple of demos, one of which it sent to the label Metal Blade, which rejected it about six months ago. Seperation From All returns to the Cain’s Ballroom on Saturday night, along with approximately 11 of its metal brothers for the Infinite Records Showcase. The show, set up by DCF Concerts and Infinite Records, is a smorgasbord of hardcore bands, said its host since 1999, Amber Fiedler, a DJ with 104.5FM, KMYZ.

9mm Solution headlines the show, but the focus is clearly on local acts, including Sixes, Wither, Fighting Tomorrow, Black Sails, Downcast, Aviyn and Blue Eyed Boy Death Machine. It’s more metal than you can shake a stick at. Despite its background in country music and classic rock, Tulsa has always had a deep-running metal scene, Fiedler said. see here online spell check

When asked why, Fiedler laughed. “They’re mad at their parents,” she said. “Seriously. What do you think, Jay?” “I just think it’s something that they’ve grown up with and, you know, it’s one of those things where they’ve figured out … what style of music and what bands they like, and they’ve made up their own mind on it, and that’s kind of what they play,” said DJ Jay Pitts. On Sundays, Pitts hosts the local music show HomeGroan at 11 p.m. Fiedler hosts the hardcore show Unauthorized Airplay at 9 p.m. Seperation from All relies on opening spots with national acts for exposure. Similarly, No One’s Slave, also playing Saturday, opened for Polish metal gods Vader and has played in numerous clubs in the area. The band’s new album, “Becoming Phineas Gage,” is due out in the next month. Rounding out Saturday’s lineup are Spot Music Awards nominees Trip-C, a rapper, and AfterEight, the lone Christian rock band on the bill. Listening to Seperation from All’s latest, an upcoming six-song EP titled “Amongst the Ruins,” it’s hard to understand why Metal Blade, the label that first signed Metallica, turned down the quintet. The band’s blistering sound holds its own with its national contemporaries. The guitar-based songs, led by twins Keith and Kevin Parker, show the bands’ musical talent while avoiding self-indulgence and repetition. PJ Baker varies his vocals from the lows to highs, keeping the music from becoming stale. go to web site online spell check

Baker can’t sing, he said, but he has the metal thing down. Most of Baker’s contemporaries have to contort their entire mid-section to force out their gut-wrenching vocals. Some are hoarse by the end of a three-minute song. Baker does it effortlessly. All he needs is a soft drink. “I drink a lot of Sprite and I smoke a lot, way too much,” Baker said. “I try not to try to warm up because sometimes that’ll make it worse by the time I get here. That’s about it.” Drummer Ira Wilton is at least one of the best hardcore drummers in the area. He and Murphree bring the band’s speedy rhythm section to lightless and air-tight depths, propelling the band through off-kilter starts and stops. Co-performers Blue Eyed Boy Death Machine play tenacious hardcore with melodious breaks while dressing like extras from an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog. Their demented performances — watch for flying band members and broken glass — take their toll on the band but make for a great show. “I usually end up hurting myself every show,” said bassist Jesse Eakin. Vocalist Casey Ross writes the band’s lyrics, culled from his experiences in love and life, subjects eschewed by other bands in the genre, Eakin said. Somehow, that transfers into a screaming, thrashing sound that keeps the listener on his toes. The band released its self-titled debut album last year.

“Since (its first album) our music has undergone some changes,” said Eakin, a student at Oklahoma State University. “We listened to all of the album, and we just wanted to have a more diverse sound.” That sound will be evident on the band’s upcoming EP, “2121,” which Eakin said is due out before winter.

Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News.

• http://www.nostate.com/ Mike Gogulski

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• http://twitter.com/mopowell Michael Orion Powell

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