Ryan Combs, the lead singer of Drowning Pool, recently took some time to talk to us.  We spoke of the troops in the Middle East, and of the current state of Drowning Pool.  Please read this whole interview because these guys are doing such amazing things for the troops fighting this war and for the troops returning.  After the interview, I have included links to the various groups that Ryan spoke of during the interview, and also a video that he mentions as well. 

This interview was actually done on November 20th, 2007.  Unfortunately, due to school and the holidays, I'm just now getting this posted.  I want to apologize to Ryan, Drowning Pool and all related to them. 

So, after a deep slumber, Music Equals Life has broken from it's cocoon and we are ready to share all music that we feel you should know about if you don't already.  Or if you do, then to help you expand your knowledge of it.  As you know, we definately focus on the melodic rock aspect of music.  But we also delve into the other regions of music as well.

We at Music Equals Life would like to first acknowledge our new writer on staff.  She has been a good friend of the site for awhile but just recently joined our crew of misfits and bandits.  Her name is Amber.  She is a much welcomed addition and will be a great asset for our site!  So welcome!

For this interview, Amber sat down in at The Rave in Milwaukee for a conversation with Otep Shamaya of the metal band OTEP, about her struggles and successes with the business of music, the state of rock / metal itself and more.  This may be a bit of a lengthy read but definately interesting through and through.

Nags recently got the chance to sit down for about a half hour with a brand new band on Island Records.  Their name is Loser.  The band was formed by John5 - formerly of Marilyn Manson, and most recently with Rob Zombie.  The band is made up of John5 on guitar, Joe Grah on vocals, Charles Lee on bass, and Glendon on drums.  They talked about the music industry, downloading, five degree weather and more. 

Hey all,

I apologize for the inconvience of the site going down... once again.  I was trying to upgrade the site and during the upgrade, we had a database issue which basically corrupted all of the pages.  No fear though, I was able to retrieve the amazing content that this site has put forward in the past.  (*The modesty that we display still astounds me.*)

Over the next short amount of time, I promise that I will get it all back online and looking better than ever!  

Please accept my apology and we hope that you'll stay with me (us).

Thanks,
Nags  (Owner of Music Equals Life)

Here at Music Equals Life -- while we (Okay, I...) haven't had a chance to get out and interview a lot of bands lately, I have still been checking out new music. That's such a wonderful thing for me, and it definately keeps me going. This is the first year that I've set out to put out a top cd's of any specific year list. But I was surprised at the ones that I picked out for it. First of all -- I'm only doing seven. Fuck that "top 10" shtuff. Why ten? Why not 11 like in spinal tap? The reason, is when I went through my list of CD's, I found seven that absolutely stuck out at me and since we're going into 2007- I decided to stick w/ those seven.. I also noticed there were a lot of best of and live cds. None of which are going to be included. So, without further ado... I bring you the Music Equals Life's - Seven Best CD's of 2006.