The Metal Alliance Tour is back for their third ferocious year of wrecking heads. Festival organizers Dan Rozenblum and Steve Seabury of High River Entertainment have announced ANTHRAX as their 2013 headliner. The band will be performing their fan favorite 1987 classic, Among The Living, in it’s entirety. The album was produced by Eddie Kramerand includes the tracks ‘Caught In A Mosh’, ‘Indians’ and ‘I Am The Law’.
“Anthrax has always been one of my favorite bands, and to have them be part of our tour is beyond expression. This is surely going to be one for the history books!”, states Rozenblum.
Sharing the stage each night and crushing heads on the Metal Alliance Tour will be San Francisco thrash legends EXODUS, MUNICIPAL WASTE, HOLY GRAIL and a couple of additional bands will be announce at a later date. You can expect the tour to stay true to their roots on the decision of the additional bands.
The Metal Alliance Tour will make the trek across the US starting in March and running through the month of April.
“Holy crap am I so excited about this year’s Metal Alliance Tour! It’s been a great year and a half for us since Worship Music came out and to cap it off with a Grammy nomination. This is such a perfect lineup. To make this tour even more special, we will be playing our Among The Living record in its entirety. I can’t wait to play Horror Of It All! Come on out and worship with us my friends. You do not want to miss this. USA on Hell one more time…”, commentes Anthrax’ Scott Ian about the bands involvement.
General Admission Tickets will be available on January 11th. For more information please visit the Metal Alliance Tour website at this location.
Video footage of EXODUS drummer Tom Hunting performing a karaoke-style cover version of the 1960s classic “Soul Man” aboard Barge To Hell — the world’s most extreme metal cruise, which sailed Monday, December 3, 2012 from Miami, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas and returned to the real world on Friday, December 7 — can be seen below.
The members of EXODUS donned tuxedos for their closing set on Barge To Hell.
EXODUS‘ latest album, “Exhibit B: The Human Condition”, was released in North America on May 18, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The CD sold around 4,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 114 on The Billboard 200 chart.
EXODUS‘ previous album, “The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A”, opened with 3,600 units back in October 2007.
Nuclear Blast has announced that in April of this year, dyed-in-the-wool thrashers EXODUS toured South America. Now fans are granted the chance to be close to the thrashing on- and off-stage action – through a two-part “Desperados Stagedive Special” on TV music channel VIVA!
The show’s host Carlos Martinez reports exclusively as part of EXODUS’ road crew. Straight through the jungle they make their way to the rock clubs of Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Chile, including trips to desert islands, ray fishing and much more.
Part 1 will be aired on Thursday, November 15, at 1:05 am CET on VIVA (rerun on Sunday, November 18, at 1:15 am CET)
After a short review of Rock in Rio 2011, part 1 starts with the band opening their Brazilian tour at the Metal Open Air in Sao Luis and the Abril Pro Rock Festival in Recife. The next destination is the megapolis Sao Paulo, where the first club show takes place and Carlos experiences the tough touring routine from a roadie’s perspective.
Part 2 will be aired on Thursday, December 6, at 1:05 am CET on VIVA (rerun on Sunday, December 9, at 1:15 am CET)
In part 2, the band enjoys a few days off to recharge the batteries for the upcoming shows – they use the time for exploring desert islands and for ray fishing. Club shows in Curitiba and Buenos Aires follow. On the road, the Californians have many a memorable experiences and share quite a few anecdotes of their touring life. As a grand finale, EXODUS rock the Metal Fest in Santiago de Chile before heading home.
On Sunday, September 9, Jo Schüftan of Horns Up Rocks! conducted an interview with EXODUS and GENERATION KILL frontman Rob Dukes at Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey. You can now watch the chat below.
Asked about EXODUS‘ plans to record a new studio album, Dukes said, “It’s gonna fast, I know that. It’s gonna be fast and short. Everybody fucking complained abut how long the last one was, we’re, like, ‘Fuck ’em! We’ll give them about a fucking 38-minute record.”
He continued, “I don’t know. I’m just talking shit. I don’t know what we’re gonna do. We’ve got no plan. We’re just going with what feels right. If we end up with another 74-minute record, so be it.”
Regarding who will end up producing the new EXODUS CD, Dukes said, “I don’t know yet. There are a couple of people on the table. I think [British producer and longtime EXODUS collaborator] Andy [Sneap] is taking some time off [from producing]; I don’t know if he’s gonna do it with us again.”
In a June 2012 interview with Peek From The Pit, EXODUS bassist Jack Gibson stated about the band’s plans for the follow-up to 2010’s “Exhibit B: The Human Condition”, “We’re way overdue to do it. We’ve just been so busy. Actually, we’ve been getting great tour offers over and over, and we just keep wanting to take them, and that, coupled with the fact that Gary [Holt], our main guitar player and songwriter, is out playing with SLAYER, he’s filling in for [SLAYER guitarist] Jeff [Hanneman] on this whole [SLAYER tour]. Nobody really knows how long that’s gonna take, how long Jeff‘s gonna take [to recover from contracting necrotizing fasciitis, likely caused by a spider bite, in January 2011]. I mean, it was pretty severe what happened to him, from what I understand. So we just haven’t had the time, to be perfectly honest. I know that Gary has songs, and Lee [Altus, guitar] has some stuff — they’ve been coming up with stuff — [but] we just really haven’t had the time to sit down and hammer it all out and then record it. That takes a few months together to make that happen, and we just haven’t had the time, basically. But there is gonna be another album, for sure. The way that our writing has been going and our albums have been going, it’s gonna be great — I know it. What I’ve heard Gary noodling with. Me, him and Tom [Hunting, drums] have kind of just fooled around with it here and there, and man, it’s gonna be good. Gary, he’s the main driver, and [the songwriting] keeps evolving. It’s one of the things I really like about the band — the music keeps getting good; it doesn’t just stay the same or we don’t rewrite the last one. We kind of throw the last one out and do something new each time. So I expect the same and more from the next album.”
“Exhibit B: The Human Condition” was released in North America on May 18, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The CD sold around 4,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 114 on The Billboard 200 chart.
EXODUS‘ previous album, “The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A”, opened with 3,600 units back in October 2007.
Multi-camera video footage of EXODUS‘s headlining performance at the third annual Slaughter By The Water festival, which took place on August 25 on the USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier in Alameda, California, can be seen below (courtesy of Capital Chaos TV).
EXODUS/GENERATION KILL frontman Rob Dukes joined PHILM on stage last night (Sunday, September 9) at Dingbatz in Clifton, New Jersey to perform a cover version of BLACK SABBATH‘s “Symptom Of The Universe”. Video footage of his appearance can be seen below.
PHILM is the Los Angeles-based experimental post-hardcore triumvirate featuring drummer Dave Lombardo (SLAYER), guitarist/vocalist Gerry Nestler (CIVIL DEFIANCE), and bassist Pancho Tomaselli (WAR).
The band’s debut album, “Harmonic”, was released on May 15 via Ipecac Recordings.
“When people hear about my involvement in PHILM, they automatically assume that it will compare to SLAYER’s sound,” explained Lombardo. “They couldn’t be more different. I have scaled down my drum set to a four-piece, reminiscent of the drummers from the late ’60s that influenced me. Each song is unique in itself, I like to refer to it as ‘rhythmic emotion.’ It’s almost like taking all the heavy songs of the ’60s and bringing that era to a modern plateau, then blending them with the modern trance and psychedelic sounds of today.”
“We decided to record ‘Harmonic’ in the intimate setting of a home, with various vintage recording equipment,” added Lombardo on the band’s debut album. “The music was written collectively in an improvisational manner, unlike the majority of recordings I’ve done before. This was very important given this is my first recording where I’m carrying the title of producer and performer. The album achieves a dense, unholy convergence of tones and discords. We also touch on haunting, desolate, ambient sounds. Our music tends to be written in a manner where we never know the outcome until we listen back to what we recorded. A harmonic journey.”
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Ads
Visionary artist KIMMO KUUSNIEMI's ANCIENT STREAMING ASSEMBLY (ASA) have released “Aurora Nuclearis”, a powerful 12-minute audiovisual experience, dedicated to the Late Keyboardist Esa Kotilainen. - Click image to watch the video