He claims to have been experiencing spiritual and paranormal events since the age of four.

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# Interview with Chris Fleming at Phenomenology 107

When asked what sort of medium he is, Chris Fleming's reply is "I'm really a large, not a medium."

Jeffrey B. Roth, a reporter and journalist and I attended Phenomenology 107, in York PA on Saturday, June 20, where we conducted our interview with Chris Fleming.

Chris, who appears much younger than his 48 years, has a quiet and contained presence and a dry wit.

Chris spent most of his childhood in the suburbs of Chicago.

As a child, he had encounters with ghosts, unexplained entities, angels and a variety of dark forces.

He has also felt the presence of the divine.

I wonder how different my life would be if I had not had these encounters as a child with entities and ghosts.

Would I now have a successful business or a family?

You become very compassionate towards others."

"As a child I alienated myself from others.

Old friends reach out to me now who remember who I was then and tell me that they believe in the supernatural now, because they have had their own paranormal experiences.

It's comforting to know that and it's a relief."

Chris holds a degree from Beloit College in fine arts, with a minor in psychology and music.

He also has a gift for technology and innovation when it comes to paranormal investigative tools.

Chris introduced his K-II meter and innovative ways of communicating with intelligent spirits on the TV show Ghost Hunters.

This innovation changed how investigating is done with EMF devices and electronic equipment.

Chris named this technique the "Direct Response Method".

On Ghost Adventures he introduced yet another device, the SB7 Spirit Box, which he co-developed with Gary Galka.

Paranormal investigators now use this device as the standard in the field of spirit communication.

Chris worked as a graphic designer for a newspaper for six years.

In 1997, he used his design experience to publish his own magazine and document his spiritual experiences in Unknown Magazine: Real Experiences of Unusual Phenomena, which he published from 1997 to 2001.

Regarding his mediumship, Chris has learned to trust his own instincts.

"You have confidence that the universe will support you.

As he receives confirmation of his abilities it gives him increased confidence as a medium.

"When (his readings) becomes true I gain confidence.

I know that feeling when I get a message.

Chris describes the feeling he gets when he is doing a reading and is receiving messages from "they".

He refers to the spirits he communicates with as "they".

"I get an overwhelming sense of awareness that this is of a higher quality and sense of knowledge different or other than what I was thinking a moment before or a moment after.

I get a sensation of a cool static electricity sensation up through my head and down my back and in the back of my neck."

In a car accident in 2009, Chris's neck was injured.

"I don't feel that (the sense of tingling in his neck when receiving messages) anymore because I have pain there.

I'm thinking that there were other forces at work.

I will hear a voice in my head to tell me to do this or not do that, a yes or no."

Chris describes his style of mediumship as often very spontaneous, reading people on flights, in hotels, on the street.

Chris is a frequent speaker at colleges, universities, and paranormal conferences, speaking about the paranormal and his experiences as a medium.

Sometimes the message Chris gets is very strong.

Sometimes he tells someone and they do not accept it and will walk away or get upset.

"There is a girl here today who is very shy.

I approached her and asked her if I could tell her something…tell her to do something.

She thanked me, and told me I was right.

" I will be in an airplane and I will get a message for someone next to me.

The messages will often come sporadically.

He doesn't always have control over when they come, but he does control the messages during a formal reading.

"At the conference during my lecture, they told me to have everyone hug each other because someone needed to feel love, so, without warning, I stopped everything and told everyone to hug the people around them because someone was in need of feeling loved, and they did that. "

"If I do readings for people, I will ask for and receive messages.

Sometimes a message will give me confidence.

By telling me someone has a black cat, for instance, and they confirm that I am right, it gives me confidence to continue and helps me to know I'm getting correct information, that I'm connected.

Now "they" are ready to give me the good stuff.

When asked if he ever receives messages that are negative, Chris admits that, yes, he does receive negative messages.

"It's part of being a medium since I have to be so open.

Yes, stuff will come into my head, negative stuff, even violent stuff, telling me to do something negative, like hit someone.

I didn't understand what was going on when I was younger.

I recognize negative messages and voices and have learned to ignore

or do the opposite, like "Step on your cat. "

"You have to pay close attention to and control your own thoughts at all times."

Chris read a book by Napoleon Hill, titled, Outwitting the Devil.

The author describes the experience of what he believed to be the Devil putting thoughts into our heads.

"It is our responsibility to control thoughts at all times, and prevent bad thoughts.

Some people are not able to tell the difference between their own thoughts and these outside thoughts telling them to do bad things.

Criminals, serial killers, will claim to hear voices telling them to do terrible things.

They get these negative thoughts and do not recognize that they are not coming from their own mind, but from an outside negative source.

That is when you get into the possibility of psychological disorders."

Chris believes that there are certainly psychological, mental and emotional disorders and illnesses, which can cause voices and negative thoughts.

However, weak or ill people who are not balanced will be attacked by negative spirits, or get attachments due to their psychological weaknesses.

"In most possessions you rarely hear of someone that is of sound mind and body getting possessed.

The Roman Catholic Church gave classes on exorcisms.

One-hundred-twenty-seven people signed up; teachers, doctors, psychiatrists, engineers, scientists.

They have decided that there are outside forces that are affecting their field that they cannot explain.

They now believe that there are evil, outside forces that they need to understand.

This is an amazing admission from the professional community.

Chris feels that we are seeing more evil forces manifesting today than ever before.

He believes it to be caused by demonic influence.

The experts deny that it is evil spirits.

"Then you tell me why they (kids with guns) are doing it?

They cannot tell the difference in the voices telling them to do things.

No one can prove how or why this happens or explain why people do these things, or where these voices come from.

These voices are coming from somewhere. "

In 2001 Chris co-hosted a popular TV show out of the UK called Dead Famous, which ran for three years.

After Dead Famous, Chris made guest appearances on Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and Zak Baggin's Paranormal Challenge.

He was also a member of the cast of the TV show Psychic Kids.

During the filming of Dead Famous, Chris was to try and talk to celebrity ghosts.

To hone his skills, he would leave and walk around the streets of New York City and talk to homeless people, go into bars (he does not smoke and rarely drinks) and read strangers.

In NYC, he read a woman who does not believe, so he read her and she hit him in the face really hard and stormed away.

"Oh my God that hurt, that really hurt."

She came back and apologized and told him he was right.

I want to see what I can do, hone my skills, not get smacked in the face.

Sometimes people need to get their feelings out. "

During a Ghost Box reading Chris talked to a woman who was told she could not let go of her boyfriend, who was killed in a drunk driving accident in which she felt responsible and suicidal.

She recognized his voice on the Ghost Box.

He told her that he is not OK and that she would not let go.

He had not crossed over because she was thinking of suicide.

He told her it was his fault, not hers and she needs to let go of him.

She broke down crying and admitted to thinking of killing herself.

Chris advised her to get into counseling immediately.

Chris will do formal follow up of his readings when there is something very dangerous going on.

Then he will email and ask how they are doing or keep in touch over social media.

"If it is a house haunting, yes, I will follow up because it is an actual place I can go visit to help.

But when I tell someone they need to do ssomething it is up to them to do it.

When asked what he thought of so many people claiming to be psychics today, he responded with a quick "It's ridiculous."

"I personally know of psychics who are amazing.

They have strengths in certain abilities."

But those who loudly claim, "I'm psychic now.

I do readings and I'm great, I'm so accurate."

I would say to them, "What are you talking about?

So, what you are saying is, I really want attention, and you are getting confirmation to make yourself special?"

" If they say they are special or always accurate, run away from them.

If anyone says they are accurate all of the time, run away from them. "

"To use myself as an example, I will ask someone if they have a brother.

I have to have three correct hits in a row.

If I am not accurate, I tell the client this is not going well.

I often have to reschedule because I am not getting anything."

"Some things people are not ready to hear, or not meant to know.

For instance, a psychic told someone they were going to get very rich publishing a book.

This person spent all of his money and was so busy doing other things and spending money that he didn't yet have, that he was not at the right place at the right time to get the money, so he went broke."

"If you expose too much to people you may prevent someone from doing something they need to do."

A woman asked Chris if her sick dad was going to die soon.

Chris received a message that her dad had about eight months to live, but he didn't tell her.

He told her to spend more time with her dad, go on a picnic.

Go do something you used to do as a child.

Talk about your wonderful memories, reminisce.

Now, because she did what was important and was living in the moment she was allowed to enjoy the moments he had left.

"I tell people you must do this, this, this, and this.

I cannot be responsible if people do not."

When asked if he could recognize psychic abilities in others, he told us he can see "untapped potential" in people.

As a young student a teacher told him to develop his writing ability.

This teacher gave him a low grade in her class and sent him to summer school.

He now realizes that 30 years ago she told him to do what he needs to do now, which is learn to write well so he can write his book.

So, sure, I am having a few problems now with my writing.

Why didn't I work on that when she told me?

Chris has a book coming out, which is planned for release sometime this fall.

The title is Caught Between Heaven And Hell.

Go to Chris's website is www.christopherfleming.com for more information.

He can also be found on Twitter and Facebook.

Interview conducted by Jeffrey B. Roth and Pam Wellington.

Biographical information from www.Christopherfleming.com.

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Son of Chicago Blackhawks hockey player Reggie Fleming and Patricia Fleming, Chris Fleming was born in Chicago, Illinois, and is the oldest of two children. He was raised Roman Catholic.


In March 2009, VentureBeat signed a partnership agreement with IDG.

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# DEMO Gets Desperate: Shipley Out, Marshall In

Things are changing at DEMO, the startup and product-launch conference owned by IDG that competes with our own TechCrunch50 conference.

After 13 years, conference organizer Chris Shipley will make way for Matt Marshall, editor of VentureBeat.

The two will co-produce DEMO as Marshall gets up to speed, then he will take over.

Marshall says he will focus on "injecting deeper themes" into DEMO.

And VentureBeat could use the extra cash that the deal will bring it.

(VentureBeat will share in the profits of the conference).

But Marshall is going to have to do a lot more than appeal to the chin-strokers in the audience.

He is going to have to reinvigorate a dying brand.

It is not so much about the themes of the conference as it is who goes to them.

And here Marshall has an uphill battle to climb because DEMO charges presenting companies nearly $20,000 to attend (in contrast, presenting companies at TechCrunch 50 are selected on merit and attend for free).

Maybe IDG is giving discounts this year, but in this economy that is a tough sell.

At least Marshall says he is willing to re-assess the model if need be:

We are going to bring fresh eyes to this and are reviewing it.

We are going to do what it takes to keep this brand's integrity

But convincing IDG to change its economic model won't be easy.

This is an organization that has been around since 1991 and has been through ups and downs, and companies have continued to come.

These are companies launching real products for a market and the model seems to work.

It is fine by us if DEMO sticks to its model of extorting startups.

The one thing Marshall does have going in his favor is his blog.

The readers of VentureBeat overlap with the type of people IDG wants to attract to DEMO, and VentureBeat keeps them engaged in conversation all year long.

If you want to build a community, blogs are the way to do it.

The only time anyone bothers to go to the DEMO Website is during the conferences themselves to watch the free videos that they didn't want to pay to see in person.

I should note that while VentureBeat competes with TechCrunch every day on the blogging front, it is also a co-host of the Crunchies Awards, another event we put on.

So this is just another area where we will have to crush them.

The VentureBeat company was founded in 2006 by Matt Marshall, an ex-correspondent for "The Mercury News".


The agreement was to produce DEMO Conference.

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# DEMO Gets Desperate: Shipley Out, Marshall In

Things are changing at DEMO, the startup and product-launch conference owned by IDG that competes with our own TechCrunch50 conference.

After 13 years, conference organizer Chris Shipley will make way for Matt Marshall, editor of VentureBeat.

The two will co-produce DEMO as Marshall gets up to speed, then he will take over.

Marshall says he will focus on "injecting deeper themes" into DEMO.

And VentureBeat could use the extra cash that the deal will bring it.

(VentureBeat will share in the profits of the conference).

But Marshall is going to have to do a lot more than appeal to the chin-strokers in the audience.

He is going to have to reinvigorate a dying brand.

It is not so much about the themes of the conference as it is who goes to them.

And here Marshall has an uphill battle to climb because DEMO charges presenting companies nearly $20,000 to attend (in contrast, presenting companies at TechCrunch 50 are selected on merit and attend for free).

Maybe IDG is giving discounts this year, but in this economy that is a tough sell.

At least Marshall says he is willing to re-assess the model if need be:

We are going to bring fresh eyes to this and are reviewing it.

We are going to do what it takes to keep this brand's integrity

But convincing IDG to change its economic model won't be easy.

This is an organization that has been around since 1991 and has been through ups and downs, and companies have continued to come.

These are companies launching real products for a market and the model seems to work.

It is fine by us if DEMO sticks to its model of extorting startups.

The one thing Marshall does have going in his favor is his blog.

The readers of VentureBeat overlap with the type of people IDG wants to attract to DEMO, and VentureBeat keeps them engaged in conversation all year long.

If you want to build a community, blogs are the way to do it.

The only time anyone bothers to go to the DEMO Website is during the conferences themselves to watch the free videos that they didn't want to pay to see in person.

I should note that while VentureBeat competes with TechCrunch every day on the blogging front, it is also a co-host of the Crunchies Awards, another event we put on.

So this is just another area where we will have to crush them.

The VentureBeat company was founded in 2006 by Matt Marshall, an ex-correspondent for "The Mercury News". In March 2009, VentureBeat signed a partnership agreement with IDG.


DEMO Conference is a conference for startups to announce their launches and raise funding from venture capitalists and angel investors.

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# DEMO Gets Desperate: Shipley Out, Marshall In

Things are changing at DEMO, the startup and product-launch conference owned by IDG that competes with our own TechCrunch50 conference.

After 13 years, conference organizer Chris Shipley will make way for Matt Marshall, editor of VentureBeat.

The two will co-produce DEMO as Marshall gets up to speed, then he will take over.

Marshall says he will focus on "injecting deeper themes" into DEMO.

And VentureBeat could use the extra cash that the deal will bring it.

(VentureBeat will share in the profits of the conference).

But Marshall is going to have to do a lot more than appeal to the chin-strokers in the audience.

He is going to have to reinvigorate a dying brand.

It is not so much about the themes of the conference as it is who goes to them.

And here Marshall has an uphill battle to climb because DEMO charges presenting companies nearly $20,000 to attend (in contrast, presenting companies at TechCrunch 50 are selected on merit and attend for free).

Maybe IDG is giving discounts this year, but in this economy that is a tough sell.

At least Marshall says he is willing to re-assess the model if need be:

We are going to bring fresh eyes to this and are reviewing it.

We are going to do what it takes to keep this brand's integrity

But convincing IDG to change its economic model won't be easy.

This is an organization that has been around since 1991 and has been through ups and downs, and companies have continued to come.

These are companies launching real products for a market and the model seems to work.

It is fine by us if DEMO sticks to its model of extorting startups.

The one thing Marshall does have going in his favor is his blog.

The readers of VentureBeat overlap with the type of people IDG wants to attract to DEMO, and VentureBeat keeps them engaged in conversation all year long.

If you want to build a community, blogs are the way to do it.

The only time anyone bothers to go to the DEMO Website is during the conferences themselves to watch the free videos that they didn't want to pay to see in person.

I should note that while VentureBeat competes with TechCrunch every day on the blogging front, it is also a co-host of the Crunchies Awards, another event we put on.

So this is just another area where we will have to crush them.

The VentureBeat company was founded in 2006 by Matt Marshall, an ex-correspondent for "The Mercury News". In March 2009, VentureBeat signed a partnership agreement with IDG. The agreement was to produce DEMO Conference.


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# Human trafficking a growing concern in Yemen: Minister

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Human trafficking activity is so widespread in Yemen that it jeopardizes the nation's security, said the nation's minister of human rights, according to The Yemen Post.

Horiya Mashhour called on lawmakers to advance legislation protecting victims and curbing trafficking activity on Sunday, reported the Yemen Post.

Yemen has become a key link for traffickers funneling victims from Africa into Saudi Arabia, according to a Sunday report from Arab News, saying the two nations struggle to maintain security and crack down on lawlessness along their shared thousand-mile border.

Some traffickers blatantly violate human rights by forcing their African victims to walk to Saudi Arabia on foot, said Arab News.

Rights groups in Yemen are demanding that the judiciary address legal measures to combat trafficking and provide legal protection to the illegal immigrants that are often victimized, reported the Yemen Post.

"There is a flourishing smuggling and trafficking business.

It is an international business," Nicoletta Giordano of Yemen's International Organization of Migration told the Yemen Post.

"Many Western countries are focused on piracy issues and attention to smuggling and trafficking has fallen by the wayside," she later said, according to the report.

"If we were to look at border management in a more holistic way, so that those that require assistance and protection are referred, and those that might pose a threat are dealt with, this would be in the interest of all countries concerned."

Edward Leposky of the United Nations Refugee Agency told Al Jazeera in January that Yemen has seen a "significant increase in smuggling and trafficking, and of reported cases of violence and abuse perpetrated against new arrivals" from 2011-2012.

The UN agency said 103,000 refugees arrived in Yemen that year, marking what Al Jazeera said was "the largest influx they have seen since they started documenting statistics six years ago."

Documented activity of highly organized trafficking rings in the region reveals the targeting of refugees, particularly female refugees, said Al Jazeera.

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# Human trafficking a growing concern in Yemen: Minister

Looking over the ancient old city within the heart of Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen, on Aug. 16, 2010.

Human trafficking activity is so widespread in Yemen that it jeopardizes the nation's security, said the nation's minister of human rights, according to The Yemen Post.

Horiya Mashhour called on lawmakers to advance legislation protecting victims and curbing trafficking activity on Sunday, reported the Yemen Post.

Yemen has become a key link for traffickers funneling victims from Africa into Saudi Arabia, according to a Sunday report from Arab News, saying the two nations struggle to maintain security and crack down on lawlessness along their shared thousand-mile border.

Some traffickers blatantly violate human rights by forcing their African victims to walk to Saudi Arabia on foot, said Arab News.

Rights groups in Yemen are demanding that the judiciary address legal measures to combat trafficking and provide legal protection to the illegal immigrants that are often victimized, reported the Yemen Post.

"There is a flourishing smuggling and trafficking business.

It is an international business," Nicoletta Giordano of Yemen's International Organization of Migration told the Yemen Post.

"Many Western countries are focused on piracy issues and attention to smuggling and trafficking has fallen by the wayside," she later said, according to the report.

"If we were to look at border management in a more holistic way, so that those that require assistance and protection are referred, and those that might pose a threat are dealt with, this would be in the interest of all countries concerned."

Edward Leposky of the United Nations Refugee Agency told Al Jazeera in January that Yemen has seen a "significant increase in smuggling and trafficking, and of reported cases of violence and abuse perpetrated against new arrivals" from 2011-2012.

The UN agency said 103,000 refugees arrived in Yemen that year, marking what Al Jazeera said was "the largest influx they have seen since they started documenting statistics six years ago."

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# Human trafficking a growing concern in Yemen: Minister

Looking over the ancient old city within the heart of Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen, on Aug. 16, 2010.

Human trafficking activity is so widespread in Yemen that it jeopardizes the nation's security, said the nation's minister of human rights, according to The Yemen Post.

Horiya Mashhour called on lawmakers to advance legislation protecting victims and curbing trafficking activity on Sunday, reported the Yemen Post.

Yemen has become a key link for traffickers funneling victims from Africa into Saudi Arabia, according to a Sunday report from Arab News, saying the two nations struggle to maintain security and crack down on lawlessness along their shared thousand-mile border.

Some traffickers blatantly violate human rights by forcing their African victims to walk to Saudi Arabia on foot, said Arab News.

Rights groups in Yemen are demanding that the judiciary address legal measures to combat trafficking and provide legal protection to the illegal immigrants that are often victimized, reported the Yemen Post.

"There is a flourishing smuggling and trafficking business.

It is an international business," Nicoletta Giordano of Yemen's International Organization of Migration told the Yemen Post.

"Many Western countries are focused on piracy issues and attention to smuggling and trafficking has fallen by the wayside," she later said, according to the report.

"If we were to look at border management in a more holistic way, so that those that require assistance and protection are referred, and those that might pose a threat are dealt with, this would be in the interest of all countries concerned."

Edward Leposky of the United Nations Refugee Agency told Al Jazeera in January that Yemen has seen a "significant increase in smuggling and trafficking, and of reported cases of violence and abuse perpetrated against new arrivals" from 2011-2012.

The UN agency said 103,000 refugees arrived in Yemen that year, marking what Al Jazeera said was "the largest influx they have seen since they started documenting statistics six years ago."

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# Human trafficking a growing concern in Yemen: Minister

Looking over the ancient old city within the heart of Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen, on Aug. 16, 2010.

Human trafficking activity is so widespread in Yemen that it jeopardizes the nation's security, said the nation's minister of human rights, according to The Yemen Post.

Horiya Mashhour called on lawmakers to advance legislation protecting victims and curbing trafficking activity on Sunday, reported the Yemen Post.

Yemen has become a key link for traffickers funneling victims from Africa into Saudi Arabia, according to a Sunday report from Arab News, saying the two nations struggle to maintain security and crack down on lawlessness along their shared thousand-mile border.

Some traffickers blatantly violate human rights by forcing their African victims to walk to Saudi Arabia on foot, said Arab News.

Rights groups in Yemen are demanding that the judiciary address legal measures to combat trafficking and provide legal protection to the illegal immigrants that are often victimized, reported the Yemen Post.

"There is a flourishing smuggling and trafficking business.

It is an international business," Nicoletta Giordano of Yemen's International Organization of Migration told the Yemen Post.

"Many Western countries are focused on piracy issues and attention to smuggling and trafficking has fallen by the wayside," she later said, according to the report.

"If we were to look at border management in a more holistic way, so that those that require assistance and protection are referred, and those that might pose a threat are dealt with, this would be in the interest of all countries concerned."

Edward Leposky of the United Nations Refugee Agency told Al Jazeera in January that Yemen has seen a "significant increase in smuggling and trafficking, and of reported cases of violence and abuse perpetrated against new arrivals" from 2011-2012.

The UN agency said 103,000 refugees arrived in Yemen that year, marking what Al Jazeera said was "the largest influx they have seen since they started documenting statistics six years ago."

Documented activity of highly organized trafficking rings in the region reveals the targeting of refugees, particularly female refugees, said Al Jazeera.

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Nihilistic wanted to show that the brutal killings are considered natural by Conan.

(meta data) TITLE: Conan Q&A: Barbarian Influences - GameSpot

(meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2007-03-02 16:58:53 UTC

## The Cimmerian barbarian is invading consoles early next year, and we prepare for the attack in our Q&A with project director Robert Huebner.

By Gamespot Staff on March 2, 2007 at 8:58AM PST

Conan (2007)FollowGet the latest news and videos for this game daily, no spam, no fuss.

Women want to be with him, and men want to be him (or, at least avoid being beheaded by him).

Since his creation in 1932 by author Robert E. Howard, Conan has built a legacy that has sustained through movies, television, comics, and countless novels.

Indeed, there are few more iconic characters in heroic fiction than the famed Cimmerian, and fewer still that seem to be tailor-made for the slash-first, ask-questions-later world of video games.

In early 2008, publisher THQ and developer Nihilistic Software are bringing the adventures of the mighty barbarian to life with the release of Conan for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

To get a feel for the game's direction, we recently spoke with Robert Huebner, president of Nihilistic and project director for the game.

Conan has experienced a resurgence in recent years--especially in comics and games.

Where does the character's long-term appeal come from and how do you leverage that in a game?

Like a lot of good movie and TV characters, Conan is all about wish fulfillment.

He doesn't take any crap from anyone, and he doesn't care what anyone else thinks he ought to do.

You can't get much more alpha male than that.

Any game where it's just fun to be that character for a few hours can potentially be a very fun experience.

There has been talk already of the game featuring a healthy dose of violence, which is definitely something fans would want to see in a Conan game.

In addition to that, what elements do you feel a Conan game must have?

Violence is part of it, but Conan's attitude toward that violence is key as well.

In Conan's world, he isn't the cause of the violence; it's all the pesky people who keep trying to tell him what to do, throw him in jail, or infringe on his Crom-given freedoms that caused the violence by putting themselves on a collision course with his sword.

We want the game to convey that Conan worldview.

Conan isn't a deep, brooding hero, but he's always in the moment.

GS: What does Nihilistic bring to the project?

We've always been big fans of character-based games and action adventure games in particular, so Conan was a great fit for us.

We were actually working on game concepts based around a third-person fighting game when we had contact with THQ and found out about the Conan license work they were doing, so it was a natural fit.

The world of Conan really fits our preferred art style--sort of dark, stylized, and hyperrealistic--and we've got a great team of experienced combat animators who really love to sink their teeth into a guy who is a master of multiple weapon styles and has a take-no-prisoners approach to combat.

Where does this game fit into the--excuse us--Conan canon?

Is this the Conan from Robert E. Howard's stories, the Conan of the films, or the Conan from the comics?

We're squarely in the Howard camp with this one, going back to the source material of Howard's original stories.

We've also drawn visual inspiration from the comics, but story- and tone-wise, it's definitely the books that have inspired us.

How much of the game's cast and settings will draw on familiar Conan lore, and how much is original content created for the game?

Someone who has read all the books would get something new and surprising, but we also use a lot of familiar locations and themes.

Howard drew some really compelling and interesting locations in Hyboria, so we can't resist visiting those places.

We tried to find a place in the official timeline where we can tell an original story that feels like it was the sort of story Howard would have told.

We also have some surprising new locations as well, so players won't always get what they expect.

GS: Yours won't be the only game on the market starring the famous barbarian when Conan is released.

How do you hope to set yourselves apart from the competition?

We think the most compelling thing about the Conan license is, well, Conan!

Approaching a game like this, we wanted the player to be Conan and not an inhabitant of Conan's world.

You can't have everyone running around being the most badass barbarian around.

But with a single-player game, it's all about making the player live in Conan's shoes for several hours.

GS: Are there any games out now that are influencing Conan's development?

Our combat team definitely enjoys the more challenging edge of this genre, so things like Ninja Gaiden and the Devil May Cry series get a lot of playtime.

In terms of visuals and style, we also consider God of War as an influence.

Lots of authors have tackled Conan over the years.

Do you have any particular favorites or perhaps examples of those that influenced the storyline for Conan in particular?

One story inspiration was the Queen of the Black Coast saga by Robert E. Howard, which was a good example of a solid Conan story with all the classic elements in place.

GS: Finally, who wins in a fight: Ralf Moeller's Conan or Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan?

RH: I guess it depends if we're talking Arnold 2007 or Arnold 1982.

Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email news@gamespot.com

Conan is the protagonist in many of Howard's stories: a franchise has been built around the character, and Frank Frazetta's paintings have further elevated the barbarian's profile in pop culture. Howard presented his barbarian hero as a strong, shrewd, barbaric, and ambitious man in a primitive world of magic. His stories are simple and portray Conan overcoming a series of obstacles to defeat the antagonists with his physical prowess.   Nihilistic originally intended to stay faithful to the literature, but the writers strayed from the canon by showing the barbarian as willing to use magic. The literary Conan abhors magic, but Nihilistic reasoned that, in order to restore his armor to its original non-magical state, he is willing to use the magic it has been cursed with.
 The developers did, however, stay true to the physical depictions of the barbarian. Reflecting how fights are described in the stories, players can kill foes in the goriest manner—dismembering and disemboweling them.


Nihilistic wanted to show that the brutal killings are not executed out of a thirst for blood.

(meta data) TITLE: Conan Q&A: Barbarian Influences - GameSpot

(meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2007-03-02 16:58:53 UTC

## The Cimmerian barbarian is invading consoles early next year, and we prepare for the attack in our Q&A with project director Robert Huebner.

By Gamespot Staff on March 2, 2007 at 8:58AM PST

Conan (2007)FollowGet the latest news and videos for this game daily, no spam, no fuss.

Women want to be with him, and men want to be him (or, at least avoid being beheaded by him).

Since his creation in 1932 by author Robert E. Howard, Conan has built a legacy that has sustained through movies, television, comics, and countless novels.

Indeed, there are few more iconic characters in heroic fiction than the famed Cimmerian, and fewer still that seem to be tailor-made for the slash-first, ask-questions-later world of video games.

In early 2008, publisher THQ and developer Nihilistic Software are bringing the adventures of the mighty barbarian to life with the release of Conan for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

To get a feel for the game's direction, we recently spoke with Robert Huebner, president of Nihilistic and project director for the game.

Conan has experienced a resurgence in recent years--especially in comics and games.

Where does the character's long-term appeal come from and how do you leverage that in a game?

Like a lot of good movie and TV characters, Conan is all about wish fulfillment.

He doesn't take any crap from anyone, and he doesn't care what anyone else thinks he ought to do.

You can't get much more alpha male than that.

Any game where it's just fun to be that character for a few hours can potentially be a very fun experience.

There has been talk already of the game featuring a healthy dose of violence, which is definitely something fans would want to see in a Conan game.

In addition to that, what elements do you feel a Conan game must have?

Violence is part of it, but Conan's attitude toward that violence is key as well.

In Conan's world, he isn't the cause of the violence; it's all the pesky people who keep trying to tell him what to do, throw him in jail, or infringe on his Crom-given freedoms that caused the violence by putting themselves on a collision course with his sword.

We want the game to convey that Conan worldview.

Conan isn't a deep, brooding hero, but he's always in the moment.

GS: What does Nihilistic bring to the project?

We've always been big fans of character-based games and action adventure games in particular, so Conan was a great fit for us.

We were actually working on game concepts based around a third-person fighting game when we had contact with THQ and found out about the Conan license work they were doing, so it was a natural fit.

The world of Conan really fits our preferred art style--sort of dark, stylized, and hyperrealistic--and we've got a great team of experienced combat animators who really love to sink their teeth into a guy who is a master of multiple weapon styles and has a take-no-prisoners approach to combat.

Where does this game fit into the--excuse us--Conan canon?

Is this the Conan from Robert E. Howard's stories, the Conan of the films, or the Conan from the comics?

We're squarely in the Howard camp with this one, going back to the source material of Howard's original stories.

We've also drawn visual inspiration from the comics, but story- and tone-wise, it's definitely the books that have inspired us.

How much of the game's cast and settings will draw on familiar Conan lore, and how much is original content created for the game?

Someone who has read all the books would get something new and surprising, but we also use a lot of familiar locations and themes.

Howard drew some really compelling and interesting locations in Hyboria, so we can't resist visiting those places.

We tried to find a place in the official timeline where we can tell an original story that feels like it was the sort of story Howard would have told.

We also have some surprising new locations as well, so players won't always get what they expect.

GS: Yours won't be the only game on the market starring the famous barbarian when Conan is released.

How do you hope to set yourselves apart from the competition?

We think the most compelling thing about the Conan license is, well, Conan!

Approaching a game like this, we wanted the player to be Conan and not an inhabitant of Conan's world.

You can't have everyone running around being the most badass barbarian around.

But with a single-player game, it's all about making the player live in Conan's shoes for several hours.

GS: Are there any games out now that are influencing Conan's development?

Our combat team definitely enjoys the more challenging edge of this genre, so things like Ninja Gaiden and the Devil May Cry series get a lot of playtime.

In terms of visuals and style, we also consider God of War as an influence.

Lots of authors have tackled Conan over the years.

Do you have any particular favorites or perhaps examples of those that influenced the storyline for Conan in particular?

One story inspiration was the Queen of the Black Coast saga by Robert E. Howard, which was a good example of a solid Conan story with all the classic elements in place.

GS: Finally, who wins in a fight: Ralf Moeller's Conan or Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan?

RH: I guess it depends if we're talking Arnold 2007 or Arnold 1982.

Got a news tip or want to contact us directly? Email news@gamespot.com

Conan is the protagonist in many of Howard's stories: a franchise has been built around the character, and Frank Frazetta's paintings have further elevated the barbarian's profile in pop culture. Howard presented his barbarian hero as a strong, shrewd, barbaric, and ambitious man in a primitive world of magic. His stories are simple and portray Conan overcoming a series of obstacles to defeat the antagonists with his physical prowess.   Nihilistic originally intended to stay faithful to the literature, but the writers strayed from the canon by showing the barbarian as willing to use magic. The literary Conan abhors magic, but Nihilistic reasoned that, in order to restore his armor to its original non-magical state, he is willing to use the magic it has been cursed with.
 The developers did, however, stay true to the physical depictions of the barbarian. Reflecting how fights are described in the stories, players can kill foes in the goriest manner—dismembering and disemboweling them. Nihilistic wanted to show that the brutal killings are considered natural by Conan.


In 2016, their first-round pick was stripped.

(meta data) TITLE: Deflategate penalty: NFL suspends Brady, fines Pats, takes draft picks | SI.com

# The NFL Drops the Hammer, and Sends a Message

The severity of the NFL's Deflategate punishment for Tom Brady and the Patriots was one of the harshest rebukes ever to an alltime great player, and a signal to the other 31 teams that it does not play favorites.

Brady and the Pats must now weigh their options

Initial reaction to the Tom Brady/Patriots deflated-footballs ruling by the NFL Monday: Stunning.

The four-game ban for Brady for not fully cooperating with the Ted Wells investigation wasn't surprising.

But after Wells absolved the organization and in particular coach Bill Belichick of any wrongdoing, the league still took first- and fourth-round draft picks from the Patriots and hit them with the biggest team fine in NFL history, $1 million.

Brady, as predicted, will appeal his sanction, according to his agent, Don Yee, who said the NFL's ban "is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis."

The appeal will be heard by commissioner Roger Goodell or his designee, and it's certainly possible that beyond that Brady could take the matter outside the league to the courts.

There, the NFL has had a poor recent record.

So there's no guarantee that Brady will have to sit four games.

There's no guarantee he'll sit any, with opening day four months away.

The ruling left a multitude of stories in its wake.

The overriding one was the severity of the punishment.

The NFL equated an apparent scheme (and I say apparent, because the Wells report did not produce proof of it) to slightly underinflate footballs to some of the worst discipline cases in league history.

That seemed to enrage New England owner Robert Kraft, who waited almost four hours Monday night before commenting on the sanction: "Today's punishment ... far exceeded any reasonable expectation.

It was based completely on circumstantial rather than hard or conclusive evidence."

Kraft also said that Brady "has our unconditional support.

But another storyline I found interesting was what, inside the letter that league executive vice president Troy Vincent wrote to the Patriots, was actually being said to the other 31 teams in the league.

The crushing harshness contained this message to the rest of the NFL that Goodell wanted to send: We do not play favorites.

Wrote Vincent to the Patriots: "The key consideration in any case like this is that the playing rules exist for a reason, and all clubs are entitled to expect that the playing rules will be followed by participating teams.

Violations that diminish the league's reputation for integrity and fair play cannot be excused simply because the precise impact on the final score cannot be determined."

A quick poll of three officials of other clubs in the hours after the ruling found a mixed reaction.

One top club official thought the penalty was excessive because there was no definitive proof in the Wells report that Brady either authorized the deflation of footballs or knew precisely that they had been deflated.

Another said he was heartened to see the league treat the Patriots with an iron fist, though Kraft has been a close confidant of Goodell.

A third said he and others in his organization were surprised by the severity of the punishment.

There was a no-joy-in-Mudville tone with these officials.

Two of them said virtually the same thing—that this was a sad day for football.

The Patriots, clearly, will be in fighting mode over the decision.

Club officials had privately maintained their innocence and were fiercely defensive regarding Brady.

Last week's statement from Kraft was one part anger, one part despondence, one part defiance.

He had said he would take whatever medicine the league dished out, but on Monday night he had to be considering his options (though they are few).

But the biggest loser in the case was not Kraft, or his Patriots.

Forever more, he'll have to live, fairly or unfairly, with having been called a cheater by the NFL office.

Think of how few all-time greats have been slammed the way the league just slammed Brady.

In 1963 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended future Hall of Famer Paul Hornung for the season for gambling.

Three years later Rozelle threatened Joe Namath with a ban if he didn't divest his interest in a New York bar with mob ties.

Lawrence Taylor got a four-game ban for substance abuse in the '80s.

But how many players in Brady's galaxy have had their integrity and honor questioned the way his was by the NFL on Monday?

That's why Yee and Brady should be expected to put the gloves on and fight this ban all the way up to opening night on Sept. 10, when New England begins defense of its Super Bowl title with a game against Pittsburgh in Foxboro.

As Vincent wrote in his letter to Brady: "Your actions as set forth in the report clearly constitute conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the game of professional football.

The integrity of the game is of paramount importance to everyone in our league and requires unshakable commitment to fairness and compliance with the playing rules.

Each player, no matter how accomplished and otherwise respected, has an obligation to comply with the rules and must be held accountable for his actions when those rules are violated and the public's confidence in the game is called into question."

As proud a man as Brady is, that's got to be the biggest slap in the face in his 38-year life.

The NFL released the Wells report last Wednesday and had five days to ponder its discipline.

It's clear from the NFL's ruling that four factors were vital in the decision:

The league based the discipline on many incriminating but not wholly indictable pieces of evidence, among them some text messages that had one of the Patriots employees call himself "the Deflator."

But as I wrote Monday, Yee and his team will clearly bring up the borderline measurement of the Patriots' footballs at halftime of the AFC Championship Game Jan. 19

On page 113 of the Wells report, after a description of the scientific Ideal Gas Law, Wells says that the Patriots footballs should have measured between 11.32 psi and 11.52 psi.

The average of all 22 readings was 11.30 psi … two-one-hundredths lower what the Ideal Gas Law would have allowed for balls that started the day at the Patriots' level of 12.5 psi.

The Brady camp will surely argue that this case never should have been brought forth because of how close the Patriots' footballs were to the minimum level.

A perceived lack of cooperation from Brady and the Patriots—and being misled by Brady.

Because Ted Wells, or the NFL's designated investigative arm, does not have subpoena power, the league will look down upon a person or organization for not cooperating fully in a probe of that team.

Clearly, that's what Goodell ruled here.

When Brady wouldn't turn over his cell phone for forensic examination, that was viewed as a lack of cooperation.

When the Patriots would not make assistant equipment manager John Jastremski available for an additional interview at Wells' request, that was viewed as a lack of cooperation.

Vincent's letter to the Patriots said Brady balked at surrendering his information "despite being offered extraordinary safeguards by the investigators to protect unrelated personal information …

It remains significant that the quarterback of the team failed to cooperate fully with the investigation."

Vincent also clearly felt that Brady misled the Wells team "by providing testimony that the report concludes was not plausible and contradicted by other evidence."

In 2007 the team and Belichick were sanctioned a total of $750,000 and docked a first-round draft choice for illegally videotaping coaching signals on the opposing sidelines.

"Under the integrity of the game policy," wrote Vincent, "this prior violation of competitive rules was properly considered in determining the discipline in this case."

Whether it mattered—and the Patriots beat the Colts 45-7 in the title game, so clearly the outcome wouldn't have been different—the NFL didn't care.

Anything that gives a team a competitive edge by cheating will be slammed, even if, apparently, the final proof isn't there.

"We will appeal," Yee said in his statement, "and if the hearing officer is completely independent and neutral, I am very confident the Wells Report will be exposed as an incredibly frail exercise in fact-finding and logic."

Brady's legacy, at least in part, depends on the success of that appeal.

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List of New England Patriots first-round draft picks

The NFL Draft, which is officially known as the "Player Selection Meeting", is held each April. The draft is used as the primary means to distribute newly available talent (primarily from college football) equitably amongst the teams. Selections are made in reverse order based on the previous season's record, i.e., the club with the worst record from the previous season selects first. Through 2009, only two exceptions were made to this order: the Super Bowl champion always selects last (32nd), and the Super Bowl loser second to last (31st). Beginning in 2010, teams making the playoffs have been seeded in reverse order depending upon how far they advance. The draft consists of seven rounds. Teams have the option of trading selections for players, cash and/or other selections (including future year selections). Thus, it is not uncommon for a team's actual draft pick to differ from their assigned draft pick, or for a team to have extra or no draft picks in any round due to these trades. The Patriots traded their first-round pick six times (1972, 1974, 2000, 2009, 2013, and 2017).


The pick was stripped as punishment for the Deflategate incident.

(meta data) TITLE: Deflategate penalty: NFL suspends Brady, fines Pats, takes draft picks | SI.com

# The NFL Drops the Hammer, and Sends a Message

The severity of the NFL's Deflategate punishment for Tom Brady and the Patriots was one of the harshest rebukes ever to an alltime great player, and a signal to the other 31 teams that it does not play favorites.

Brady and the Pats must now weigh their options

Initial reaction to the Tom Brady/Patriots deflated-footballs ruling by the NFL Monday: Stunning.

The four-game ban for Brady for not fully cooperating with the Ted Wells investigation wasn't surprising.

But after Wells absolved the organization and in particular coach Bill Belichick of any wrongdoing, the league still took first- and fourth-round draft picks from the Patriots and hit them with the biggest team fine in NFL history, $1 million.

Brady, as predicted, will appeal his sanction, according to his agent, Don Yee, who said the NFL's ban "is ridiculous and has no legitimate basis."

The appeal will be heard by commissioner Roger Goodell or his designee, and it's certainly possible that beyond that Brady could take the matter outside the league to the courts.

There, the NFL has had a poor recent record.

So there's no guarantee that Brady will have to sit four games.

There's no guarantee he'll sit any, with opening day four months away.

The ruling left a multitude of stories in its wake.

The overriding one was the severity of the punishment.

The NFL equated an apparent scheme (and I say apparent, because the Wells report did not produce proof of it) to slightly underinflate footballs to some of the worst discipline cases in league history.

That seemed to enrage New England owner Robert Kraft, who waited almost four hours Monday night before commenting on the sanction: "Today's punishment ... far exceeded any reasonable expectation.

It was based completely on circumstantial rather than hard or conclusive evidence."

Kraft also said that Brady "has our unconditional support.

But another storyline I found interesting was what, inside the letter that league executive vice president Troy Vincent wrote to the Patriots, was actually being said to the other 31 teams in the league.

The crushing harshness contained this message to the rest of the NFL that Goodell wanted to send: We do not play favorites.

Wrote Vincent to the Patriots: "The key consideration in any case like this is that the playing rules exist for a reason, and all clubs are entitled to expect that the playing rules will be followed by participating teams.

Violations that diminish the league's reputation for integrity and fair play cannot be excused simply because the precise impact on the final score cannot be determined."

A quick poll of three officials of other clubs in the hours after the ruling found a mixed reaction.

One top club official thought the penalty was excessive because there was no definitive proof in the Wells report that Brady either authorized the deflation of footballs or knew precisely that they had been deflated.

Another said he was heartened to see the league treat the Patriots with an iron fist, though Kraft has been a close confidant of Goodell.

A third said he and others in his organization were surprised by the severity of the punishment.

There was a no-joy-in-Mudville tone with these officials.

Two of them said virtually the same thing—that this was a sad day for football.

The Patriots, clearly, will be in fighting mode over the decision.

Club officials had privately maintained their innocence and were fiercely defensive regarding Brady.

Last week's statement from Kraft was one part anger, one part despondence, one part defiance.

He had said he would take whatever medicine the league dished out, but on Monday night he had to be considering his options (though they are few).

But the biggest loser in the case was not Kraft, or his Patriots.

Forever more, he'll have to live, fairly or unfairly, with having been called a cheater by the NFL office.

Think of how few all-time greats have been slammed the way the league just slammed Brady.

In 1963 NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended future Hall of Famer Paul Hornung for the season for gambling.

Three years later Rozelle threatened Joe Namath with a ban if he didn't divest his interest in a New York bar with mob ties.

Lawrence Taylor got a four-game ban for substance abuse in the '80s.

But how many players in Brady's galaxy have had their integrity and honor questioned the way his was by the NFL on Monday?

That's why Yee and Brady should be expected to put the gloves on and fight this ban all the way up to opening night on Sept. 10, when New England begins defense of its Super Bowl title with a game against Pittsburgh in Foxboro.

As Vincent wrote in his letter to Brady: "Your actions as set forth in the report clearly constitute conduct detrimental to the integrity of and public confidence in the game of professional football.

The integrity of the game is of paramount importance to everyone in our league and requires unshakable commitment to fairness and compliance with the playing rules.

Each player, no matter how accomplished and otherwise respected, has an obligation to comply with the rules and must be held accountable for his actions when those rules are violated and the public's confidence in the game is called into question."

As proud a man as Brady is, that's got to be the biggest slap in the face in his 38-year life.

The NFL released the Wells report last Wednesday and had five days to ponder its discipline.

It's clear from the NFL's ruling that four factors were vital in the decision:

The league based the discipline on many incriminating but not wholly indictable pieces of evidence, among them some text messages that had one of the Patriots employees call himself "the Deflator."

But as I wrote Monday, Yee and his team will clearly bring up the borderline measurement of the Patriots' footballs at halftime of the AFC Championship Game Jan. 19

On page 113 of the Wells report, after a description of the scientific Ideal Gas Law, Wells says that the Patriots footballs should have measured between 11.32 psi and 11.52 psi.

The average of all 22 readings was 11.30 psi … two-one-hundredths lower what the Ideal Gas Law would have allowed for balls that started the day at the Patriots' level of 12.5 psi.

The Brady camp will surely argue that this case never should have been brought forth because of how close the Patriots' footballs were to the minimum level.

A perceived lack of cooperation from Brady and the Patriots—and being misled by Brady.

Because Ted Wells, or the NFL's designated investigative arm, does not have subpoena power, the league will look down upon a person or organization for not cooperating fully in a probe of that team.

Clearly, that's what Goodell ruled here.

When Brady wouldn't turn over his cell phone for forensic examination, that was viewed as a lack of cooperation.

When the Patriots would not make assistant equipment manager John Jastremski available for an additional interview at Wells' request, that was viewed as a lack of cooperation.

Vincent's letter to the Patriots said Brady balked at surrendering his information "despite being offered extraordinary safeguards by the investigators to protect unrelated personal information …

It remains significant that the quarterback of the team failed to cooperate fully with the investigation."

Vincent also clearly felt that Brady misled the Wells team "by providing testimony that the report concludes was not plausible and contradicted by other evidence."

In 2007 the team and Belichick were sanctioned a total of $750,000 and docked a first-round draft choice for illegally videotaping coaching signals on the opposing sidelines.

"Under the integrity of the game policy," wrote Vincent, "this prior violation of competitive rules was properly considered in determining the discipline in this case."

Whether it mattered—and the Patriots beat the Colts 45-7 in the title game, so clearly the outcome wouldn't have been different—the NFL didn't care.

Anything that gives a team a competitive edge by cheating will be slammed, even if, apparently, the final proof isn't there.

"We will appeal," Yee said in his statement, "and if the hearing officer is completely independent and neutral, I am very confident the Wells Report will be exposed as an incredibly frail exercise in fact-finding and logic."

Brady's legacy, at least in part, depends on the success of that appeal.

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# PAPA ROACH's JACOBY SHADDIX Says New Album 'F.E.A.R.' Is 'Probably The Most Positive Record We've Written'

PAPA ROACH frontman Jacoby Shaddix spoke to Kerrang! magazine at this past weekend's Reading Festival in England about the band's forthcoming eighth studio album "F.E.A.R. (Face Everything And Rise)", which will come out in early 2015.

Shaddix said that the follow-up to 2012's "The Connection" is "probably the most positive record we've written.

The element is from the darkness to the light."

He continued: "I think that there's obviously been an element of hope within the despair of the music that we write, and I think that that's always key, and that's very important to what we do, is to always have that elemnent of hope, and that's laced throughout the record."

The new album was recorded in Las Vegas, unlike "The Connection", which the band did at home in Sacramento.

Shaddix explained: "[Recording Las Vegas] was, for me, very challenging, in a sense of, I was in a lot of fear going to that city, 'cause I've got struggles with drugs and alcohol.

I've been sober for a few years now, and it was just, like, 'Alright, how am I gonna go to Vegas and stay focused?'

And I just had to put my spiritual armor on and just go out there and do my best to be creative.

And it was a trip, because when we got there, it was like a floodgate just opened."

Speaking about the musical direction of the new PAPA ROACH material, Shaddix said: "I think it's at all things good PAPA ROACH — it's big, banging riffs, it's a very guitar-heavy record.

We kind of shied away from some of the synth stuff on most of the stuff, but then other songs, I bring back some of the rapping in some of the songs, which is freakin' killer.

It spans across the board, from heavy to reflective, to just in your face, out of control.

It's just everything that we believe is great about PAPA ROACH.

And we'll leave it up to the fans to be the judge of it.

Some of the working songtitles on the new album include "Just As Broken As Me", "Never Have To Say Goodbye", "Gravity" and the title track, "Face Everything And Rise".

The band's last album, "The Connection", was made as Shaddix was going through personal turmoil, including problems in his marriage and a struggle to stay sober.

He told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that the music of PAPA ROACH thrives off its members' personal dramas.

"Part of the chaos and the discontent and the madness that we have in our lives and that we bring to the table with the music is what makes, you know, who we are and the music that we make, you know," he said.

"And I think if everything was just all cool and we got along perfect and we loved each other every single moment of every single day, I don't think we'd even have the passion to make music or make the music that we do make."

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#### BLIND GUARDIANBeyond the Red Mirror

Music career.:Papa Roach (1993–present).

Luther was replaced by current guitarist Jerry Horton, and by 1996 Tobin Esperance had replaced Will James following his departure. In 2007 Dave Buckner's role was filled by Tony Palermo, leaving Jacoby the only original member in the band. The band's name Papa Roach, derives from Shaddix' step-grandfather, Howard William Roatch, who went by the nickname 'Papa Roach'. Howard committed suicide in 2006 following a diagnosis with an unspecified form of advanced stage cancer. The song 'Roses on My Grave' was written in his memory. Before releasing their major label debut album Infest, Papa Roach recorded and published an EP in 1994 entitled 'Potatoes For Christmas'. In 1997, their first full-length album, entitled Old Friends from Young Years, was released.
 Shaddix stopped using rapping as a whole in their 2004 album "Getting Away with Murder". In an interview in 2004, Shaddix said that he became disenchanted with hip hop and what it represented in the media and stated that "I just want to be a rocker", also stating in 2009 that it was safe to assume he wouldn't be rapping again.


Shaddix started rapping again in the album "The Connection".

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# PAPA ROACH's JACOBY SHADDIX Says New Album 'F.E.A.R.' Is 'Probably The Most Positive Record We've Written'

PAPA ROACH frontman Jacoby Shaddix spoke to Kerrang! magazine at this past weekend's Reading Festival in England about the band's forthcoming eighth studio album "F.E.A.R. (Face Everything And Rise)", which will come out in early 2015.

Shaddix said that the follow-up to 2012's "The Connection" is "probably the most positive record we've written.

The element is from the darkness to the light."

He continued: "I think that there's obviously been an element of hope within the despair of the music that we write, and I think that that's always key, and that's very important to what we do, is to always have that elemnent of hope, and that's laced throughout the record."

The new album was recorded in Las Vegas, unlike "The Connection", which the band did at home in Sacramento.

Shaddix explained: "[Recording Las Vegas] was, for me, very challenging, in a sense of, I was in a lot of fear going to that city, 'cause I've got struggles with drugs and alcohol.

I've been sober for a few years now, and it was just, like, 'Alright, how am I gonna go to Vegas and stay focused?'

And I just had to put my spiritual armor on and just go out there and do my best to be creative.

And it was a trip, because when we got there, it was like a floodgate just opened."

Speaking about the musical direction of the new PAPA ROACH material, Shaddix said: "I think it's at all things good PAPA ROACH — it's big, banging riffs, it's a very guitar-heavy record.

We kind of shied away from some of the synth stuff on most of the stuff, but then other songs, I bring back some of the rapping in some of the songs, which is freakin' killer.

It spans across the board, from heavy to reflective, to just in your face, out of control.

It's just everything that we believe is great about PAPA ROACH.

And we'll leave it up to the fans to be the judge of it.

Some of the working songtitles on the new album include "Just As Broken As Me", "Never Have To Say Goodbye", "Gravity" and the title track, "Face Everything And Rise".

The band's last album, "The Connection", was made as Shaddix was going through personal turmoil, including problems in his marriage and a struggle to stay sober.

He told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that the music of PAPA ROACH thrives off its members' personal dramas.

"Part of the chaos and the discontent and the madness that we have in our lives and that we bring to the table with the music is what makes, you know, who we are and the music that we make, you know," he said.

"And I think if everything was just all cool and we got along perfect and we loved each other every single moment of every single day, I don't think we'd even have the passion to make music or make the music that we do make."

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#### BLIND GUARDIANBeyond the Red Mirror

Luther was replaced by current guitarist Jerry Horton, and by 1996 Tobin Esperance had replaced Will James following his departure. In 2007 Dave Buckner's role was filled by Tony Palermo, leaving Jacoby the only original member in the band. The band's name Papa Roach, derives from Shaddix' step-grandfather, Howard William Roatch, who went by the nickname 'Papa Roach'. Howard committed suicide in 2006 following a diagnosis with an unspecified form of advanced stage cancer. The song 'Roses on My Grave' was written in his memory. Before releasing their major label debut album Infest, Papa Roach recorded and published an EP in 1994 entitled 'Potatoes For Christmas'. In 1997, their first full-length album, entitled Old Friends from Young Years, was released.
 Shaddix stopped using rapping as a whole in their 2004 album "Getting Away with Murder". In an interview in 2004, Shaddix said that he became disenchanted with hip hop and what it represented in the media and stated that "I just want to be a rocker", also stating in 2009 that it was safe to assume he wouldn't be rapping again. In 2012, Shaddix started rapping again.


She argued that Aaliyah's second album "One in a Million" was "very much ahead of its time, with the bass and electro kind of R&B sounds that they produced".

(meta data) TITLE: 13 years later, Aaliyah is still R&B's 'Princess'

# 13 years later, Aaliyah is still R&B's 'Princess'

Published 7:34 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2014 | Updated 7:45 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2014

Singer/actress Aaliyah in New York in 2001.(Photo: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY)

Thirteen years have passed since a tragic plane crash claimed Aaliyah's life at 22, but the whispers and coos of the R&B singer's influence still resound in today's music landscape.

"She really had this mystique about her and more of an aura of mystery than a lot of pop stars did," says Lindsay Zoladz, pop critic at New York magazine.

"Especially with a lot of Internet and Tumblr-based artists, there's this sense of mystery and not putting it all out there, and being more about a vibe and an atmosphere than some big, bombastic pop hook."

Although fans may tune into Lifetime's controversial biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (premiering Saturday, 8 p.m. ET/PT) to get their fix of the much-mythologized singer, all they really need to do is turn on the radio, where the breathy vocals and laid-back beats of up-and-comers Tinashe and Jhené Aiko call to mind the icon.

In the '90s, "there weren't many artists using the kind of soft vocals the ways she was using it, and now you see a lot of artists doing that and finding success," says Billboard.com associate editor Erika Ramirez.

Timbaland's and Missy Elliott's writing and production on Aaliyah's second album, 1996's One in a Million, was also "very much ahead of its time, with the bass and electro kind of R&B sounds that they produced.

Now you hear a lot of that, like Auto-Tune and electronic elements in R&B and rap, but at the time, it really stood out."

Her simple, tomboyish style has also been mimicked by singers such as Rihanna, Ciara, Kiesza and Lorde, "with the high-waisted baggy pants and black crop-top kind of look with the dark lipstick," Zoladz says, also pointing to newcomer FKA Twigs' homage to Aaliyah's Queen of the Damned film role with her spellbinding Two Weeks video.

Musically, with her "more sort of moody and experimental impulses, there's definitely a clear lineage from Aaliyah to Twigs."

But it's not just the ladies who have been influenced by Aaliyah Haughton, who died just one month after the release of her self-titled third album.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar paid tribute to her in song with Blow My High (Members Only), while Chris Brown, J. Cole and James Blake have all sampled her.

Arguably, her most vocal supporter has been Drake, who announced in August 2012 that he would co-produce a posthumous album featuring 16 unreleased tracks and "fragments," but scrapped the project following backlash from fans and her family, as well as Timbaland and Missy Elliott.

Drake, who has an image of the singer tattooed on his back, explained her significance to him in a 2011 interview with SoulCulture TV, saying, "I felt like that was the first time I could really sing a woman's lyrics and not feel like I was singing a woman's lyrics because she was speaking generally."

Ramirez says it's because the "stories she would tell (were) very relatable to both men and women, and we could see that with how many people are influenced by her."

But is there a chance that, like the details of her tumultuous personal life, her legacy and impact have also been exaggerated?

"There's always some mythology that comes around in a case like (hers), but the music really speaks for itself," Zoladz says.

"It's been a decade since you've seen the influence of her because no one was doing it like her at the time of her death.

You're seeing this kind of belated influence of people that were impacted by that, and it speaks to how singular and unique she was in the moment."

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Canadian R&B singer Keshia Chanté who was said to play as her in her pending biopic back in 2008, complimented the singer's futuristic style in music and fashion.
Chanté backed out of the biopic after speaking to Diane Haughton, but has expressed a willingness to do the project if "the right production comes along and the family's behind it". Chanté also mentioned that Aaliyah had been part of her life "since I was 6."
R&B singer and friend Brandy said about the late singer "She came out before Monica and I did, she was our inspiration. At the time, record companies did not believe in kid acts and it was just inspiring to see someone that was winning and winning being themselves. When I met her I embraced her, I was so happy to meet her." Rapper Drake said that the singer has had the biggest influence on his career. He also has a tattoo of the singer on his back. Solange Knowles remarked on the tenth anniversary of her death that she idolized Aaliyah and proclaimed that she would never be forgotten. Adam Levine, the lead vocalist of the pop rock group Maroon 5, remembers that listening to "Are You That Somebody?" convinced him to pursue a more soulful sound than that of his then-band Kara's Flowers. Erika Ramirez, an associate editor of "Billboard", said at the time of Aaliyah's career "there weren't many artists using the kind of soft vocals the ways she was using it, and now you see a lot of artists doing that and finding success," her reasoning for Aaliyah's continued influence on current artists.


She referred to collaborators Timbaland and Missy Elliott and that the sound, which "really stood out" at its time, was being replicated.

(meta data) TITLE: 13 years later, Aaliyah is still R&B's 'Princess'

# 13 years later, Aaliyah is still R&B's 'Princess'

Published 7:34 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2014 | Updated 7:45 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2014

Singer/actress Aaliyah in New York in 2001.(Photo: Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY)

Thirteen years have passed since a tragic plane crash claimed Aaliyah's life at 22, but the whispers and coos of the R&B singer's influence still resound in today's music landscape.

"She really had this mystique about her and more of an aura of mystery than a lot of pop stars did," says Lindsay Zoladz, pop critic at New York magazine.

"Especially with a lot of Internet and Tumblr-based artists, there's this sense of mystery and not putting it all out there, and being more about a vibe and an atmosphere than some big, bombastic pop hook."

Although fans may tune into Lifetime's controversial biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (premiering Saturday, 8 p.m. ET/PT) to get their fix of the much-mythologized singer, all they really need to do is turn on the radio, where the breathy vocals and laid-back beats of up-and-comers Tinashe and Jhené Aiko call to mind the icon.

In the '90s, "there weren't many artists using the kind of soft vocals the ways she was using it, and now you see a lot of artists doing that and finding success," says Billboard.com associate editor Erika Ramirez.

Timbaland's and Missy Elliott's writing and production on Aaliyah's second album, 1996's One in a Million, was also "very much ahead of its time, with the bass and electro kind of R&B sounds that they produced.

Now you hear a lot of that, like Auto-Tune and electronic elements in R&B and rap, but at the time, it really stood out."

Her simple, tomboyish style has also been mimicked by singers such as Rihanna, Ciara, Kiesza and Lorde, "with the high-waisted baggy pants and black crop-top kind of look with the dark lipstick," Zoladz says, also pointing to newcomer FKA Twigs' homage to Aaliyah's Queen of the Damned film role with her spellbinding Two Weeks video.

Musically, with her "more sort of moody and experimental impulses, there's definitely a clear lineage from Aaliyah to Twigs."

But it's not just the ladies who have been influenced by Aaliyah Haughton, who died just one month after the release of her self-titled third album.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar paid tribute to her in song with Blow My High (Members Only), while Chris Brown, J. Cole and James Blake have all sampled her.

Arguably, her most vocal supporter has been Drake, who announced in August 2012 that he would co-produce a posthumous album featuring 16 unreleased tracks and "fragments," but scrapped the project following backlash from fans and her family, as well as Timbaland and Missy Elliott.

Drake, who has an image of the singer tattooed on his back, explained her significance to him in a 2011 interview with SoulCulture TV, saying, "I felt like that was the first time I could really sing a woman's lyrics and not feel like I was singing a woman's lyrics because she was speaking generally."

Ramirez says it's because the "stories she would tell (were) very relatable to both men and women, and we could see that with how many people are influenced by her."

But is there a chance that, like the details of her tumultuous personal life, her legacy and impact have also been exaggerated?

"There's always some mythology that comes around in a case like (hers), but the music really speaks for itself," Zoladz says.

"It's been a decade since you've seen the influence of her because no one was doing it like her at the time of her death.

You're seeing this kind of belated influence of people that were impacted by that, and it speaks to how singular and unique she was in the moment."

Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1qGt7DuShare your feedback

Canadian R&B singer Keshia Chanté who was said to play as her in her pending biopic back in 2008, complimented the singer's futuristic style in music and fashion.
Chanté backed out of the biopic after speaking to Diane Haughton, but has expressed a willingness to do the project if "the right production comes along and the family's behind it". Chanté also mentioned that Aaliyah had been part of her life "since I was 6."
R&B singer and friend Brandy said about the late singer "She came out before Monica and I did, she was our inspiration. At the time, record companies did not believe in kid acts and it was just inspiring to see someone that was winning and winning being themselves. When I met her I embraced her, I was so happy to meet her." Rapper Drake said that the singer has had the biggest influence on his career. He also has a tattoo of the singer on his back. Solange Knowles remarked on the tenth anniversary of her death that she idolized Aaliyah and proclaimed that she would never be forgotten. Adam Levine, the lead vocalist of the pop rock group Maroon 5, remembers that listening to "Are You That Somebody?" convinced him to pursue a more soulful sound than that of his then-band Kara's Flowers. Erika Ramirez, an associate editor of "Billboard", said at the time of Aaliyah's career "there weren't many artists using the kind of soft vocals the ways she was using it, and now you see a lot of artists doing that and finding success," her reasoning for Aaliyah's continued influence on current artists. She argued that Aaliyah's second album "One in a Million" was "very much ahead of its time, with the bass and electro kind of R&B sounds that they produced".