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Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
STARRING JANET LEIGH To Hit The Road In August
Canadian metal outfit STARRING JANET LEIGH has will be hitting the road again next month, playing with UNEARTH, IT DIES TODAY and more.
[For the entire interview, visit Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles]
Rockstar Weekly
Matthew from Starring Janet Leigh
Formed in 2003, Canadian metal act Starring Janet Leigh began with creating music the band found both interesting and challenging with no compromise to musical integrity.
[For the entire interview, visit Rockstar Weekly]
Bring Back The Boom Box
Album Review: - Starring Janet Leigh - Spectrum
"You Will Suffer For This Truth." ...and every ear will suffer at the hands of Starring Janet Leigh’s Spectrum. Spectrum has been a tech metal work of art in the making, as it’s taken SJL a fair bit of time to get the album off the ground. The hard work has paid off tenfold with one of the best albums of the year, and the best ’09 metal release to come out of Canada.
[For the entire review, visit Bring Back The Boom Box]
Mirovia Magazine
Interview with Starring Janet Leigh
[For the entire interview, visit Mirovia Magazine]
Blogcritics Music
Concert Review: Unearth w/ For the Fallen Dreams, Woe of Tyrants, Starring Janet Leigh (Poughkeepsie, NY 7/17/09)
Almost like they were cued, no sooner had I taken up residence in the best spot I could find, the Canadian metal outfit tore into their set. I mean "tore" quite literally. For about 25-minutes, Starring Janet Leigh were a metallic force to be reckoned with.
[For the entire review, visit Blogcritics Music]
Hellbound
Metal Blade CMW Showcase @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON, March 12, 2010
Starring Janet Leigh plays a brand of Jazz infused tech metal that can be heavy and beautiful all in the same song.
[For the entire review, visit Hellbound]
Exclaim!
CMW – Starring Janet Leigh - Toronto, ON March 12
Set to soon release their latest record, hyperactive progressive death/hardcore brigade Starring Janet Leigh have been endlessly traipsing across North America in preliminary support.
[For the entire article, visit Exclaim!]
Blabbermouth.net
STARRING JANET LEIGH: New Interview, Performance Footage Available - Mar. 15, 2010
BrooklynRocks conducted an interview with the Canadian metal outfit STARRING JANET LEIGH when the band played Fontana's in New York City on March 4, 2010. The 10-minute clip, which includes performance footage, can be viewed below.
[For the entire article, visit Blabbermouth.net or Blogspot.com]
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
BISON B.C., BARNBURNER, STARRING JANET LEIGH, AETERNAM And More To Perform At Metal Blade Records' Canadian Music Week Showcase
Metal Blade Records and Exclaim! Magazine present the ultimate Canadian Music Week showcase not to miss!
[For the entire article, visit Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles]
MetalUnderground.com
Metal As Art Second Leg Hits Chicago: Great Bands, Small Crowd
They have a crushing, yet subtle technical jazz-death arrangement...
[For the entire review, visit MetalUnderground.com]
Sputnik Music
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Surprising debut album that proves that, indeed, ultra-heavy music can still be refreshing.
[For the entire review, visit Sputnik Music]
hardtimes.ca
Starring Janet Leigh "Life experience still has value at the end of the day"
To view the interview, visit hardtimes.ca or visit the media section.
hardtimes.ca
2009 Top 10
...extremely technical but still manages to get a great basic groove out of it.
[For the entire list, visit hardtimes.ca]
Aux TV
The Top Ten Hardcore & Metal Albums of 2009
SJL's Spectrum made the "Top Ten Hardcore & Metal Albums of 2009" list as seen in the eyes of Aux TV, reaching spot number 6!
[For the entire list, visit Aux TV]
PROJECTRFS E-Zine
Starring Janet Leigh Interview
From my experience, technical metal stylistically seems to lean in one or two direction: chaotic angular structure, or groovy syncopated structure. Our debut album tends to lean more towards the chaotic side. It’s definitely an acquired taste, but we know that going into it. As of late, our newer writing has been leaning towards the side of the groovier syncopated feel, but in general there will always be an aspect of angular structure.
[For the entire interview, visit PROJECTRFS E-Zine]
Thrash Magazine
Starring Janet Leigh Interview
Can you briefly summarize how the band formed and what you do in Starring Janet Leigh?
I'm Matt Zadkovich and I play guitar in Starring Janet Leigh. SJL formed in 2003 from the remains of various other southern Ontario metal bands. Over the years there has been a fair amount of lineup changes. Most of the current members of SJL all met through various local online forums, dudes looking to play brutal music and seriously commit to it.
[For the entire interview, visit Thrash Magazine]
Fazer
An Interview with Matt “Zaddy” Zadkovich from Starring Janet Leigh
Rabideau - Talking to one of my favourite local bands here. Are you all from Mississauga?
Zaddy - We’re based out of Toronto, we’re all kinda GTA. At one point we had a guys in Hamilton, Brampton, Mississauga, Toronto we’ve all kinda centrally located here now, so we’re a Toronto band, I guess.
[For the entire interview, visit Fazer]
Metal Rules
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Chaotic. Frenzied. Disjointed. Noisy. Unsettling.
These five words could sum up SPECTRUM, the debut from London, Ontario’s Starring Janet Leigh, quite nicely. With more than a passing resemblance to early Dillinger Escape Plan, Candiria and fellow Canadians, The End, Starring Janet Leigh bridge the gap between hardcore, metal and jazz by infusing odd time signatures and start/stop syncopated rhythms to jar listeners into a confusing (and to some—irritating) ride through the sensory pathways.
[For the entire review, visit Metal Rules]
The Metal Observer
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
To my surprise this is good. Scratch that, this is awesome! I know, a melting pot that consists of Metal, Funk, Hardcore, Jazz, Experimental and Punk sounds like a recipe for disaster, mainly by turning into a pointless clusterfuck of noise, but SJL take this bastard of a sound and are able to forge tunes that are, on the whole, satisfactory.
[For the entire review, visit The Metal Observer]
Braingell Radio
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Hyperactive technicality, schizophrenic speed, and a whole lot of extreme make up Canada’s STARRING JANET LEIGH and their latest album, Spectrum. You better chug a few Monster Energy Drinks before you listen to this one, because Spectrum is one hell of a thrill ride from start to finish.
[For the entire review, visit Braingell Radio]
Exclaim
10 for $10 Tour Featuring Poison the Well, Terror, War of Ages, the Ghost Inside and Starring Janet Leigh
Toronto's Starring Janet Leigh were easily the first notable band to grace the stage, and grace was the key to their technical metal savagery.
[For the entire review, visit Exclaim]
Blistering
Starring Janet Leigh
Recently signed to Unearth frontman Trevor Phipps' label Ironclad Recordings, Toronto-based Staring Janet Leigh have been tearing up the underground with an electrifying blend of death metal, hardcore and jazz elements since 2003. The band has toured relentlessly across Canada over the past few years to become one of the best progressive death metal band in the Great White North.
[For the entire interview, visit Blistering]
UltimateGuitar.tv
Starring Janet Leigh: 'Noire'
Watch guitarists Matt Zadkovich and Chris Sokoloski of Starring Janet Leigh perform the song "Noire" from their debut full length 'Spectrum'. Get an inside look at their technique, their gear, and the style and shreddery that is SJL.
[To view the video, visit UltimateGuitar.tv]
This Music is Without Borders
The Starring Janet Leigh Interview
The latest in a series of interviews with cutting edge, influential, and compelling artists involves our hometown heroes: Starring Janet Leigh. Fresh off their U.S. tour with Unearth, Matt “Zaddy” Zadkovich took the time to answer some of Hearwax’s questions. For the uninitiated, SJL play an aggressive mix of technical death metal, fusion, and grindcore (a mix that effectively breaks the damn blender, it is that chaotic.)
[For the entire interview, visit This Music is Without Borders]
All About The Music
Starring Janet Leigh - Matt (Guitar) & Justin (Bass)
TEAM ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC got a chance to catch up with our homies in STARRING JANET LEIGH at their show with Unearth, For The Fallen Dreams, and Woe Of Tyrants @ The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY. And boy oh boy did that donkey get crazy!
[For the entire interview, visit All About The Music]
Thrash Magazine
Starring Janet Leigh - Spectrum
After spending the last week or so getting over a seriously hellacious cold, it was nice to finally sit back and check out the next record on my review list, which happened to be "Spectrum" by Toronto's experimental powerhouse Starring Janet Leigh. I've heard these guys a few times before, and I was excited to give their new record a listen.
[For the entire review, visit Thrash Magazine]
SMNnews.com
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Hyperactive technicality, schizophrenic speed, and a whole lot of extreme make up Canada’s STARRING JANET LEIGH and their latest album, Spectrum. You better chug a few Monster Energy Drinks before you listen to this one, because Spectrum is one hell of a thrill ride from start to finish.
[For the entire review, visit SMNnews.com]
Aux
Show Review - Starring Janet Leigh CD Release
This band has been pressing on for years—they’ve survived numerous lineup changes and the uphill battles that come with playing their complex brand of techmetal. Their new album Spectrum (released on Ironclad Recordings) is a testament to the band’s perseverance.
[For the entire review, visit Aux]
Beholder Media
Starring Janet Leigh interview with Matt Zadkovich
How’s the weather up in Canada?
Weather is great today. It’s sunny and humid actually, it’s over 30, so it’s gorgeous.
That’s good. Well do you want to get this underway then?
Yeah, let’s get ‘er man, sounds good.
[For the entire interview, visit Beholder Media]
hearwax
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Technicality, like most buzzwords in the metal world, has undergone it’s fair share of paradigm shifts. As evolving movements in heavy music have always used the technical aspects of their genre to warp, experiment and reinvent their overall sound, it is safe to say that this term goes hand in hand with the unconventional.
[For the entire review, visit hearwax]
Metal Underground
Tales From The Pit: Guitarist for Starring Janet Leigh Tells About Getting a Finger in His Eye Socket
We've been talking to bands to get their best pit stories. This week's is from Matthew Zadkovich, guitarist for Starring Janet Leigh.
[For the entire interview, visit Metal Underground]
SMN News
Starring Janet Leigh – Matt Zadkovich (guitar)
Recently, SMN News had the chance to catch up with our friend Matt Zadkovich of Ironclad Recordings latest signees, STARRING JANET LEIGH. Come join the fun as Matt gives us insight on some future tour plans, the band’s recently finished music video for “Ex You”, and get lost with us as he takes us through Canada to some of its hot spot venues, music stores, and great bites to eat.
[For the entire interview, visit SMN News]
Exclaim
Starring Janet Leigh / The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza / Titan - Concert Review
Their progressive mix of death metal, hardcore, and modern jazz made for a vibrant yet severely powerful performance. The album's title track and "Ex You" transition especially well live, as the band's synchronized musicianship is displayed through an organized chaos of sound.
[For the entire review, visit Exclaim]
Fangoria
Starring Janet Leigh - SPECTRUM (Musick Review)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 By James Zahn
Aside from a horse's head in my bed or a body in the trunk that I didn't put there, I generally like surprises.
With that, I can honestly say that Canadian band Starring Janet Leigh has crafted an album called SPECTRUM (out now on Ironclad) that was a more than welcome surprise...
[For the entire review, visit Fangoria]
PureGrainAudio
Reviews >> Spectrum (7.9/10)
May 9, 2009 By Bruce Moore
I found the latest release from Starring Janet Leigh to be quite interesting. For while Spectrum is a full on Death Metal album it has quite a lot of unexpected tempo changes and instrumentation that, for me at least, made me want to listen to more.
[For the entire review, visit PureGrainAudio]
HMTV Canada
HMTV Canada Interviews Starring Janet Leigh
Hey guys Congratulations’ on becoming signed to Ironclad Recordings.
Q. I was amazed to see the action packed energy in your live videos Ex You and Spectrum how does the singer and the drummer keep up to all the mean guitar players?
[For the entire interview, visit HMTV Canada]
Exclaim
Starring Janet Leigh Are Patient
May 2009 By Denise Falzon
"Spectrum has been a ready-to-go package since 2007," says Matt Zadkovich, guitarist for Toronto technical metal band Starring Janet Leigh. Zadkovich describes the debut full-length as "a spectrum of sound"; the band's progressive style is a mix of death metal, hardcore and modern jazz. "The album is all over the map, but also very cohesive."
[For more, visit Exclaim]
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
Starring Janet Leigh & The Agonist
April 28, 2009 at 2:49pm by The Governor
First The Governor sits down with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz of Montreal’s The Agonist to talk about their mix of styles and how they gain fans by killing everyone but a small portion of the audience. Then The Governor meets with guitarist Matt Zadkovich of Toronto’s Starring Janet Leigh for a chat about avant-garde violence, nerdy math metal, and their upcoming album Spectrum.
[For more, visit Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles or Pure Grain Audio]
Exclaim
Starring Janet Leigh Plan Life On the Road
4/22/2009 By Denise Falzon
As we previously reported, Toronto-based technical metal band Starring Janet Leigh are planning to release their debut full-length Spectrum, via Metal Blade’s sub-label Ironclad Recordings on May 12. Like most bands in their situation, they plan to hit the road ad nauseam as soon as they can to spread the word.
[For more, visit Exclaim]
Way Too Loud
Starring Janet Leigh - Matt “Zaddy” Zadkovich & Justin “Jube” Brown
April 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm by Selvin
When someone brings up the words technical death metal and Canada, Montreal and Quebec are usually the first places to come to mind. After all, the Francophone region has birthed such genre staples like Cryptopsy, Gorguts, Martyr, and Neuraxis. Even in today’s ever changing metal climate, they’ve kept up with the likes of Beneath The Massacre, Despised Icon, and Ion Dissonance. Toronto, Ontario is often over looked when it comes to the genre, but hometown heroes in Starring Janet Leigh have definitely been standing their own ground over the years and with their debut scheduled to drop this spring in May via Ironclad Recordings, things are finally starting to pay off and in a big way. After witnessing Buried Inside fuck us all with a knife, we went to a local sushi bar and here’s what the boys had to say.
[For more, visit Way Too Loud]
Fangoria
Lists of Doom V: STARRING JANET LEIGH
Friday, March 27, 2009 08:11 PM | FANGORIA MUSICK
Welcome to the fifth installment of FANGORIA MUSICK's LISTS OF DOOM, our new column where we'll be catching up with some of our favorite bands and giving them a place to talk horror. While we could talk all day about "the new album" or "the latest tour", this is FANGORIA, so we're gonna pick these musician's brains to find out what scares them.
For part 5, we caught up with Matthew Zadkovich of the Canadian band, Starring Janet Leigh. Matt filled us in on the top 10 films that scare him.
[For more, visit Fangoria]
Exclaim
Closed Casket Funeral / Starring Janet Leigh
Split
By Jill Mikkelson
Exclaim
Closed Casket Funeral begins this four-song split of madness with a very deathcore approach not unlike that of Despised Icon, incorporating a greater ratio of pronounced breakdowns and not as much southern groove. They avoid the annoying genericisms often associated with your typical “core” breakdown by adding elements of surprise and using them as short but sweet hooks amongst all sorts of random technicalities. The sound could use a little work, especially when it comes to the overwhelming drum levels, but their two tracks still appeal. SJL bring what seems like a million riffs to the table, twisting in and out of tumultuous, breakneck guitar attacks; they are clever moments of invention in a technical approach that’s akin to Psyopus. The drums are particularly intriguing, especially all of the creative cymbal work, which adds a colourful dimension to the skilful and vibrant battering. While there is a faint semblance of structure, it’s the kind of thing that may require a few listens before it can be completely absorbed. They’ll keep you guessing, adding a single laidback moment, as well as an amusing Green Day reference, while the rare breakdown makes an appearance amidst all these bizarre quirks. Though a couple more tracks wouldn’t have hurt, this split serves its purpose and leaves the listener wanting more. (Crucial Blast)
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
STARRING JANET LEIGH To Hit The Road In August
Canadian metal outfit STARRING JANET LEIGH has will be hitting the road again next month, playing with UNEARTH, IT DIES TODAY and more.
[For the entire interview, visit Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles]
Rockstar Weekly
Matthew from Starring Janet Leigh
Formed in 2003, Canadian metal act Starring Janet Leigh began with creating music the band found both interesting and challenging with no compromise to musical integrity.
[For the entire interview, visit Rockstar Weekly]
Bring Back The Boom Box
Album Review: - Starring Janet Leigh - Spectrum
"You Will Suffer For This Truth." ...and every ear will suffer at the hands of Starring Janet Leigh’s Spectrum. Spectrum has been a tech metal work of art in the making, as it’s taken SJL a fair bit of time to get the album off the ground. The hard work has paid off tenfold with one of the best albums of the year, and the best ’09 metal release to come out of Canada.
[For the entire review, visit Bring Back The Boom Box]
Mirovia Magazine
Interview with Starring Janet Leigh
[For the entire interview, visit Mirovia Magazine]
Blogcritics Music
Concert Review: Unearth w/ For the Fallen Dreams, Woe of Tyrants, Starring Janet Leigh (Poughkeepsie, NY 7/17/09)
Almost like they were cued, no sooner had I taken up residence in the best spot I could find, the Canadian metal outfit tore into their set. I mean "tore" quite literally. For about 25-minutes, Starring Janet Leigh were a metallic force to be reckoned with.
[For the entire review, visit Blogcritics Music]
Hellbound
Metal Blade CMW Showcase @ Bovine Sex Club, Toronto ON, March 12, 2010
Starring Janet Leigh plays a brand of Jazz infused tech metal that can be heavy and beautiful all in the same song.
[For the entire review, visit Hellbound]
Exclaim!
CMW – Starring Janet Leigh - Toronto, ON March 12
Set to soon release their latest record, hyperactive progressive death/hardcore brigade Starring Janet Leigh have been endlessly traipsing across North America in preliminary support.
[For the entire article, visit Exclaim!]
Blabbermouth.net
STARRING JANET LEIGH: New Interview, Performance Footage Available - Mar. 15, 2010
BrooklynRocks conducted an interview with the Canadian metal outfit STARRING JANET LEIGH when the band played Fontana's in New York City on March 4, 2010. The 10-minute clip, which includes performance footage, can be viewed below.
[For the entire article, visit Blabbermouth.net or Blogspot.com]
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
BISON B.C., BARNBURNER, STARRING JANET LEIGH, AETERNAM And More To Perform At Metal Blade Records' Canadian Music Week Showcase
Metal Blade Records and Exclaim! Magazine present the ultimate Canadian Music Week showcase not to miss!
[For the entire article, visit Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles]
MetalUnderground.com
Metal As Art Second Leg Hits Chicago: Great Bands, Small Crowd
They have a crushing, yet subtle technical jazz-death arrangement...
[For the entire review, visit MetalUnderground.com]
Sputnik Music
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Surprising debut album that proves that, indeed, ultra-heavy music can still be refreshing.
[For the entire review, visit Sputnik Music]
hardtimes.ca
Starring Janet Leigh "Life experience still has value at the end of the day"
To view the interview, visit hardtimes.ca or visit the media section.
hardtimes.ca
2009 Top 10
...extremely technical but still manages to get a great basic groove out of it.
[For the entire list, visit hardtimes.ca]
Aux TV
The Top Ten Hardcore & Metal Albums of 2009
SJL's Spectrum made the "Top Ten Hardcore & Metal Albums of 2009" list as seen in the eyes of Aux TV, reaching spot number 6!
[For the entire list, visit Aux TV]
PROJECTRFS E-Zine
Starring Janet Leigh Interview
From my experience, technical metal stylistically seems to lean in one or two direction: chaotic angular structure, or groovy syncopated structure. Our debut album tends to lean more towards the chaotic side. It’s definitely an acquired taste, but we know that going into it. As of late, our newer writing has been leaning towards the side of the groovier syncopated feel, but in general there will always be an aspect of angular structure.
[For the entire interview, visit PROJECTRFS E-Zine]
Thrash Magazine
Starring Janet Leigh Interview
Can you briefly summarize how the band formed and what you do in Starring Janet Leigh?
I'm Matt Zadkovich and I play guitar in Starring Janet Leigh. SJL formed in 2003 from the remains of various other southern Ontario metal bands. Over the years there has been a fair amount of lineup changes. Most of the current members of SJL all met through various local online forums, dudes looking to play brutal music and seriously commit to it.
[For the entire interview, visit Thrash Magazine]
Fazer
An Interview with Matt “Zaddy” Zadkovich from Starring Janet Leigh
Rabideau - Talking to one of my favourite local bands here. Are you all from Mississauga?
Zaddy - We’re based out of Toronto, we’re all kinda GTA. At one point we had a guys in Hamilton, Brampton, Mississauga, Toronto we’ve all kinda centrally located here now, so we’re a Toronto band, I guess.
[For the entire interview, visit Fazer]
Metal Rules
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Chaotic. Frenzied. Disjointed. Noisy. Unsettling.
These five words could sum up SPECTRUM, the debut from London, Ontario’s Starring Janet Leigh, quite nicely. With more than a passing resemblance to early Dillinger Escape Plan, Candiria and fellow Canadians, The End, Starring Janet Leigh bridge the gap between hardcore, metal and jazz by infusing odd time signatures and start/stop syncopated rhythms to jar listeners into a confusing (and to some—irritating) ride through the sensory pathways.
[For the entire review, visit Metal Rules]
The Metal Observer
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
To my surprise this is good. Scratch that, this is awesome! I know, a melting pot that consists of Metal, Funk, Hardcore, Jazz, Experimental and Punk sounds like a recipe for disaster, mainly by turning into a pointless clusterfuck of noise, but SJL take this bastard of a sound and are able to forge tunes that are, on the whole, satisfactory.
[For the entire review, visit The Metal Observer]
Braingell Radio
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Hyperactive technicality, schizophrenic speed, and a whole lot of extreme make up Canada’s STARRING JANET LEIGH and their latest album, Spectrum. You better chug a few Monster Energy Drinks before you listen to this one, because Spectrum is one hell of a thrill ride from start to finish.
[For the entire review, visit Braingell Radio]
Exclaim
10 for $10 Tour Featuring Poison the Well, Terror, War of Ages, the Ghost Inside and Starring Janet Leigh
Toronto's Starring Janet Leigh were easily the first notable band to grace the stage, and grace was the key to their technical metal savagery.
[For the entire review, visit Exclaim]
Blistering
Starring Janet Leigh
Recently signed to Unearth frontman Trevor Phipps' label Ironclad Recordings, Toronto-based Staring Janet Leigh have been tearing up the underground with an electrifying blend of death metal, hardcore and jazz elements since 2003. The band has toured relentlessly across Canada over the past few years to become one of the best progressive death metal band in the Great White North.
[For the entire interview, visit Blistering]
UltimateGuitar.tv
Starring Janet Leigh: 'Noire'
Watch guitarists Matt Zadkovich and Chris Sokoloski of Starring Janet Leigh perform the song "Noire" from their debut full length 'Spectrum'. Get an inside look at their technique, their gear, and the style and shreddery that is SJL.
[To view the video, visit UltimateGuitar.tv]
This Music is Without Borders
The Starring Janet Leigh Interview
The latest in a series of interviews with cutting edge, influential, and compelling artists involves our hometown heroes: Starring Janet Leigh. Fresh off their U.S. tour with Unearth, Matt “Zaddy” Zadkovich took the time to answer some of Hearwax’s questions. For the uninitiated, SJL play an aggressive mix of technical death metal, fusion, and grindcore (a mix that effectively breaks the damn blender, it is that chaotic.)
[For the entire interview, visit This Music is Without Borders]
All About The Music
Starring Janet Leigh - Matt (Guitar) & Justin (Bass)
TEAM ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC got a chance to catch up with our homies in STARRING JANET LEIGH at their show with Unearth, For The Fallen Dreams, and Woe Of Tyrants @ The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY. And boy oh boy did that donkey get crazy!
[For the entire interview, visit All About The Music]
Thrash Magazine
Starring Janet Leigh - Spectrum
After spending the last week or so getting over a seriously hellacious cold, it was nice to finally sit back and check out the next record on my review list, which happened to be "Spectrum" by Toronto's experimental powerhouse Starring Janet Leigh. I've heard these guys a few times before, and I was excited to give their new record a listen.
[For the entire review, visit Thrash Magazine]
SMNnews.com
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Hyperactive technicality, schizophrenic speed, and a whole lot of extreme make up Canada’s STARRING JANET LEIGH and their latest album, Spectrum. You better chug a few Monster Energy Drinks before you listen to this one, because Spectrum is one hell of a thrill ride from start to finish.
[For the entire review, visit SMNnews.com]
Aux
Show Review - Starring Janet Leigh CD Release
This band has been pressing on for years—they’ve survived numerous lineup changes and the uphill battles that come with playing their complex brand of techmetal. Their new album Spectrum (released on Ironclad Recordings) is a testament to the band’s perseverance.
[For the entire review, visit Aux]
Beholder Media
Starring Janet Leigh interview with Matt Zadkovich
How’s the weather up in Canada?
Weather is great today. It’s sunny and humid actually, it’s over 30, so it’s gorgeous.
That’s good. Well do you want to get this underway then?
Yeah, let’s get ‘er man, sounds good.
[For the entire interview, visit Beholder Media]
hearwax
Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum
Technicality, like most buzzwords in the metal world, has undergone it’s fair share of paradigm shifts. As evolving movements in heavy music have always used the technical aspects of their genre to warp, experiment and reinvent their overall sound, it is safe to say that this term goes hand in hand with the unconventional.
[For the entire review, visit hearwax]
Metal Underground
Tales From The Pit: Guitarist for Starring Janet Leigh Tells About Getting a Finger in His Eye Socket
We've been talking to bands to get their best pit stories. This week's is from Matthew Zadkovich, guitarist for Starring Janet Leigh.
[For the entire interview, visit Metal Underground]
SMN News
Starring Janet Leigh – Matt Zadkovich (guitar)
Recently, SMN News had the chance to catch up with our friend Matt Zadkovich of Ironclad Recordings latest signees, STARRING JANET LEIGH. Come join the fun as Matt gives us insight on some future tour plans, the band’s recently finished music video for “Ex You”, and get lost with us as he takes us through Canada to some of its hot spot venues, music stores, and great bites to eat.
[For the entire interview, visit SMN News]
Exclaim
Starring Janet Leigh / The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza / Titan - Concert Review
Their progressive mix of death metal, hardcore, and modern jazz made for a vibrant yet severely powerful performance. The album's title track and "Ex You" transition especially well live, as the band's synchronized musicianship is displayed through an organized chaos of sound.
[For the entire review, visit Exclaim]
Fangoria
Starring Janet Leigh - SPECTRUM (Musick Review)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 By James Zahn
Aside from a horse's head in my bed or a body in the trunk that I didn't put there, I generally like surprises.
With that, I can honestly say that Canadian band Starring Janet Leigh has crafted an album called SPECTRUM (out now on Ironclad) that was a more than welcome surprise...
[For the entire review, visit Fangoria]
PureGrainAudio
Reviews >> Spectrum (7.9/10)
May 9, 2009 By Bruce Moore
I found the latest release from Starring Janet Leigh to be quite interesting. For while Spectrum is a full on Death Metal album it has quite a lot of unexpected tempo changes and instrumentation that, for me at least, made me want to listen to more.
[For the entire review, visit PureGrainAudio]
HMTV Canada
HMTV Canada Interviews Starring Janet Leigh
Hey guys Congratulations’ on becoming signed to Ironclad Recordings.
Q. I was amazed to see the action packed energy in your live videos Ex You and Spectrum how does the singer and the drummer keep up to all the mean guitar players?
[For the entire interview, visit HMTV Canada]
Exclaim
Starring Janet Leigh Are Patient
May 2009 By Denise Falzon
"Spectrum has been a ready-to-go package since 2007," says Matt Zadkovich, guitarist for Toronto technical metal band Starring Janet Leigh. Zadkovich describes the debut full-length as "a spectrum of sound"; the band's progressive style is a mix of death metal, hardcore and modern jazz. "The album is all over the map, but also very cohesive."
[For more, visit Exclaim]
Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles
Starring Janet Leigh & The Agonist
April 28, 2009 at 2:49pm by The Governor
First The Governor sits down with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz of Montreal’s The Agonist to talk about their mix of styles and how they gain fans by killing everyone but a small portion of the audience. Then The Governor meets with guitarist Matt Zadkovich of Toronto’s Starring Janet Leigh for a chat about avant-garde violence, nerdy math metal, and their upcoming album Spectrum.
[For more, visit Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles or Pure Grain Audio]
Exclaim
Starring Janet Leigh Plan Life On the Road
4/22/2009 By Denise Falzon
As we previously reported, Toronto-based technical metal band Starring Janet Leigh are planning to release their debut full-length Spectrum, via Metal Blade’s sub-label Ironclad Recordings on May 12. Like most bands in their situation, they plan to hit the road ad nauseam as soon as they can to spread the word.
[For more, visit Exclaim]
Way Too Loud
Starring Janet Leigh - Matt “Zaddy” Zadkovich & Justin “Jube” Brown
April 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm by Selvin
When someone brings up the words technical death metal and Canada, Montreal and Quebec are usually the first places to come to mind. After all, the Francophone region has birthed such genre staples like Cryptopsy, Gorguts, Martyr, and Neuraxis. Even in today’s ever changing metal climate, they’ve kept up with the likes of Beneath The Massacre, Despised Icon, and Ion Dissonance. Toronto, Ontario is often over looked when it comes to the genre, but hometown heroes in Starring Janet Leigh have definitely been standing their own ground over the years and with their debut scheduled to drop this spring in May via Ironclad Recordings, things are finally starting to pay off and in a big way. After witnessing Buried Inside fuck us all with a knife, we went to a local sushi bar and here’s what the boys had to say.
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Fangoria
Lists of Doom V: STARRING JANET LEIGH
Friday, March 27, 2009 08:11 PM | FANGORIA MUSICK
Welcome to the fifth installment of FANGORIA MUSICK's LISTS OF DOOM, our new column where we'll be catching up with some of our favorite bands and giving them a place to talk horror. While we could talk all day about "the new album" or "the latest tour", this is FANGORIA, so we're gonna pick these musician's brains to find out what scares them.
For part 5, we caught up with Matthew Zadkovich of the Canadian band, Starring Janet Leigh. Matt filled us in on the top 10 films that scare him.
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Exclaim
Closed Casket Funeral / Starring Janet Leigh
Split
By Jill Mikkelson
Exclaim
Closed Casket Funeral begins this four-song split of madness with a very deathcore approach not unlike that of Despised Icon, incorporating a greater ratio of pronounced breakdowns and not as much southern groove. They avoid the annoying genericisms often associated with your typical “core” breakdown by adding elements of surprise and using them as short but sweet hooks amongst all sorts of random technicalities. The sound could use a little work, especially when it comes to the overwhelming drum levels, but their two tracks still appeal. SJL bring what seems like a million riffs to the table, twisting in and out of tumultuous, breakneck guitar attacks; they are clever moments of invention in a technical approach that’s akin to Psyopus. The drums are particularly intriguing, especially all of the creative cymbal work, which adds a colourful dimension to the skilful and vibrant battering. While there is a faint semblance of structure, it’s the kind of thing that may require a few listens before it can be completely absorbed. They’ll keep you guessing, adding a single laidback moment, as well as an amusing Green Day reference, while the rare breakdown makes an appearance amidst all these bizarre quirks. Though a couple more tracks wouldn’t have hurt, this split serves its purpose and leaves the listener wanting more. (Crucial Blast)
