US power metallers ICED EARTH have added another summer headline show to their North American schedule. They will now play the Phoenix Hill Tavern in Louisville, KY on July 21st.
The band, who are out supporting VOLBEAT with HELLYEAH, recently announced headline shows for July 20th at House of Blues in Cleveland, OH and July 23rd show at The Norva in Norfolk, VA. Iced Earth’s complete tour schedule can be found at this location.
Iced Earth are touring in support of their 10th studio album, Dystopia. To commemorate the tour, the band are releasing a limited tour edition of Dystopia. Currently available only at the merchandise stands on the tour, the 2-disc Dystopia Tour Edition contains the original full-length album, as well as b-side covers of IRON MAIDEN ‘The Trooper’ and BLACK SABBATH ‘Mob Rules’, as well as the classic 17-minute Iced Earth track, ‘Dante’s Inferno’, re-recorded with vocalist Stu Block. The bonus disc also contains both music videos from Dystopia – the title track and ‘Anthem’ – as well as a ‘Making of Dystopia’ studio interview with the band, and exclusive cell phone skins and desktop backgrounds.
OVER YOUR THRESHOLD have posted the first single taken off their debut albumFacticity! Check out the landing at www.metalblade.com/overyourthreshold and stream the sixth song off the album, Antic! Make also sure to check out the pre-order links!
Facticity will be released August 24th/27th via Metal Blade Records in Europe and on August 28th in North America!
OVER YOUR THRESHOLD comments on Facticity and the first single Antic: “The writing and recording process of ‘Facticity’ has extended over a longer period. Thus, each song imparts different elements and impressions caused by our different musical influences in the course of time. Above all ‘Antic’ is a blasting track with a straight structure ending in a powerful and groovy chorus. The instrumental interlude contrasts the heavy parts with a neoclassical flow within the second half of the song.”
Facticity track listing:
1. Cortical Blindness
2. Contextual Fluctuating
3. Obscure Mind Stasis
4. Self Exhibition
5. Desolation Row
6. Antic
7. Abdicated
8. Body Part Illusion
9. Facticity
OVER YOUR THRESHOLD’s actual sound is enriched with a great diversity of musical elements. Influenced by different Death Metal bands (reaching from the 80’s up to now) OVER YOUR THRESHOLD’s music combines progressive Death Metal with a bit of Thrash and some fusion components.
In 2011, OVER YOUR THRESHOLD entered the Woodshed Studio in Landshut, Germany to record their first full-length album, entitled Facticity. The sound of Facticity is not only more blasting but also more technical, interspersed with energetic Death Metal riffing as well as melodic acoustic guitars. It’s enriched by brute-force blast beats, Thrash Metal, jazzy harmonics and the distinct tones of smooth, fretless bass. Furthermore, the band recruited guest musicians Steffen Kummerer (Obscura, Thulcandra) and Jonas Fischer (Hokum, Ex-Obscura) to jazz up their debut album. Facticity was mixed and mastered by V. Santura (Triptykon, Dark Fortress).
OVER YOUR THRESHOLD have also posted a first album trailer where they present the album front art and a first excerpt from Facticity! Check it out below.
Catch OVER YOUR THRESHOLD live at the following events:
22/06/12 – DE – München – Atmoshfear Festival
01/09/12 – DE – Laberweinting – Fistful Of Metal 2012
19/10/12 – DE – Landshut – Poschinger Villa
02/11/12 – DE – Ingolstadt – Ohrakel
Everyone with a braincell in their noggin knows that Bloodstock 2012 is going to rule, but just in case you’re being a wally and are a bit unsure, we got Tom Dare to give us ten reasons why…
1. Legends
One thing you can always guarantee with Bloodstock is a selection of absolutely legendary bands in their fields. Black metal’s your thing? No problem, here’s Mayhem, the band that made the greatest BM record of the lot. Like thrash? Here’s Testament, the Bay Area giants. Oh, and Sepultura to go with them. Devotee of death metal? Here’s Deicide with Glen fucking Benton back in the band, along with technical wizards Nile and the filth of Benediction. Goth metal fan? Paradise Lost will bring the Northern misery better than any. Sludge nut? How about Kirk Windstein’s riffgods Crowbar. Still not happy? Then how about…
2. Alice Fucking Cooper
Bloodstock’s trick of getting a band to close the Sunday night with at least one song the entire bloody planet knows backwards continues with the shock rock superstar headlining day three. If you don’t think the best way to close three days of drinking, debauchery and metal is by standing in a field with your mates and singing along to School’s Out and Poison, your sense of fun is overdue for its 10,000 chuckle service. He can leave the Lady Gaga cover at home, though.
3. Atmosphere
The more intimate set up at Catton Hall not only makes it easier to get around than the massive festivals, it gives it a friendly, welcoming feel unique to the event. Where else will you see complete strangers hugging and making friends while watching a Scandinavian man with his face painted like a panda shrieking about Satan? Only at Bloodstock.
4. The Return Of Behemoth
We’ve had our share of shit news in metal over the last few years, but Nergal‘s recovery from leukaemia was the best news imaginable. The bible-destroying frontman and his band are finally back by overwhelming demand, and with the ear-ruining songs to justify their headline status. Demigod and Evangelion are two of the finest extreme metal albums of our time, and hearing those monstrous tunes again is sure to be a massive highlight. Slaves. Shall. Fucking. Serve.
Behemoth: Featuring Nergie Nerg
5. Brutality… In A Field
For those of us into the heaviest shit, 362 days of the year are spent in dingy dives, the downstairs of a pub or somewhere else sweaty and tightly enclosed. Then once a year we decide we need to get at least a little sunshine, and gather together in a grassy field under August sunshine to watch abominable destruction meted out arbitrarily, because watching evil metal in the outdoors is a little bit special. Even if it does make corpse paint look a bit gash.
6. Watain
The best black metal band in the world, one of the best live bands of any genre in the world, Watain’s rise and rise reaches a new peak at Bloodstock this year. After following up 2010′s perfect masterpiece Lawless Darkness with jaw-dropping UK tours with Destroyer 666 and depressive Swedes Shining, Uppsala’s finest blew the roof off the tent at Sonisphere with a sinister display of brilliant music and fuckloads of fire, before decimating this year’s Golden Gods. Every time they play, they raise the bar. This could be a show to say “I was there” about in years to come.
7. Best Sophie Tent Ever
The main stage’s greatness is predictable by now, but quite how fantastic the Sophie Lancaster stage cast is in 2012 is pretty mind-boggling. Stoner rifflords Orange Goblin, dreamy French magicians Alcest, English black metallers Winterfylleth, new wave of thrash kings Evile, loveable scamps Dripback, exceptional newcomers Ancient Ascendant, Slovenian industrialists Noctiferia, and the utterly ferocious Anaal Nathrakh are likely to flatten the place when they close it on Sunday. Special stuff.
Orange Goblin Rocking The Shades
8. Revelations
You can always rely on something fresh you haven’t seen before catching your ears at Bloodstock, whether it’s a new band on the New Blood stage – Pure Negative, Talanas and Saturnian made shitloads of friends last year, probably why the latter have been invited back for 2012 – or something simply a bit different to what you’re used to. Put money on Hatebreed to win over any remaining doubters, The Black Dahlia Murder to go toe-to-toe with the legends without remotely being put in the shade and a band making their UK debut’s to find themselves very welcome. A band called…
9. Demonic Resurrection
The epic Indian extremists were supposed to make their bow at Sonisphere last year, only for visa issues to royally fuck off all of us looking forward to seeing them, and to leave the band badly out of pocket. Bloodstock got them back though, and this time there will be no stopping them. Guitarist, vocalist and famous heavy metal chef Demonstealer and his cohorts are coming, and we can’t fucking wait.
10. Machine. Fucking. Head.
Headline set. Five songs from Burn My Eyes. Fire in their belly and a point to prove. An August evening. A field. Lots of beer. If this doesn’t sound like one of the best ways to spend a Saturday night in the world, there’s something funny in your drinking water. Machine Head will kick your arse all the way into next year’s Bloodstock. Bang your heads, motherfuckers!
Bloodstock 2012 takes place from August 10-12 at Catton Hall, Derby! Get your tickets from the Bloodstock website.
Walkerton, ON melodic metallers ODIUM premiere their new music ‘No Way Out’ on Blank TV. Directed by Chad Archiblad of Black Fawn Films (HED p.e., Kottonmouth Kings, Arise and Ruin, Farewell to Freeway), the video is in support of the band’s first single from their latest album ‘Burning The Bridges To Nowhere’ released earlier this year on Year of The Sun Records.
ODIUM will also be performing the following show dates in Ontario.
June 29, 2012 – The Underground – Hamilton, ON w/ Deathpoint, Misguided Aggression, A Sin For A Prayer
July 5, 2012 – Richmond Tavern – London, ON w/ Myley Cyrus Got Fisted, Mutual Execution
July 6, 2012 – Club 344 – Guelph, ON w/ Saigon Hookers, Darlings of Chelsea
July 7, 2012 – The Coach and Horses – Windsor, ON w/ guests
July 14, 2012 – Cafe Dekcuf – Ottawa , ON w/ Joe Thrasher, The Red Blood Truth
Founded in 2006 by drummer Joe Mullen and vocalist Tom Emmans, ODIUM was born in order to create a focused project centered on the themes of growth and attrition. After being joined by bassist Dale Burrows and guitarists Bo Louther and Andrew Fullerton, it was clear the band was quickly becoming a cohesive group of musicians that had found their strengths in each other’s abilities to contribute to the writing process.
Most convincing is ODIUM’s arsenal of musical weapons that contribute to their overall sound, which was properly harnessed by Canadian producer Greg Dawson (The End, Moneen, Choke) on both of ODIUM‘s metal opus’ underlining the quintet’s penchant for writing metal songs that are as heartfelt as they are heavy with ODIUM’s emotional hybrid of epic crescendos and fiery heaviness.
Over the years, ODIUM has opened for such well known bands as Alexisonfire, The Agonist, Beneath the Massacre, Divinity, Moneen, Fuck the Facts, Fairwell to Freeway and Arise and Ruin.
Jorge Fretes of Spain’s GoetiaMetal.com recently conducted an interview with singerJoey Tempest of Swedish hard rockers EUROPE. An audio snippet of the chat can be streamed in the YouTube clip below.
EUROPE‘s ninth studio album, “Bag Of Bones”, entered the official chart in Sweden at position No. 2.
“Bag Of Bones” was released in Europe on April 27 via earMusic/Edel. The CD, which features a guest appearance by blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa (BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION), was produced by Kevin Shirley, who has previously worked with IRON MAIDEN, JOE BONAMASSA, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, BLACK STONE CHERRY and JOURNEY, among others.
According to Billboard.com, with Clockwork Angels, its first new album in five years, just out, RUSH is planning a tour that will surprise many of the Canadian trio’s fans.
“Our intention is to take strings out on the road,” guitarist Alex Lifeson tells Billboard.com. Orchestrations, arranged by David Campbell, feature on several of “Clockwork Angels’ ” tracks, and Lifeson says Rush will employ a small string ensemble, likely eight to 10 pieces, to recreate those pieces and to be added to some of Rush’s older material. “It’s just something different for us, and I can’t wait to hear what it sounds like.”
Lifeson says Campbell will be writing arrangements for the tour, which kicks off Sept. 7 in Manchester, N.H., and will likely appear at some of the shows as well. “Certainly in the beginning he’ll be out for a bit,” the guitarist says. “I think his intention is to use these musicians he’s been working with for a long time, who he trusts, and once they’re settled in he doesn’t have to be around all the time and he can come out whenever he feels like it.”
Lifeson says the production is “still in a planning stage” but promises that “it’s a while new show. It’s new staging, new lighting, everything is new and fresh about it. I would say that it’s an evolutionary extension of what the (2010-11) Time Machine Tour was, but we are definitely freshening it up and bringing and there’ll be a lot of new video stuff going on.”
Clockwork Angels is out now as a regular CD, digital download and deluxe double-vinyl version.
Source: Bravewords.com
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