Extreme metallers THE AGONIST finished a US tour with Danzig, Corrosion Of Conformity as well as selected headlining dates and waste no time in announcing the dates for their upcoming European tour in support of their recently released album “Prisoners”.
Danny Marino (guitars) comments: “We are so thrilled to be coming back to Europe! It has been way too long and we are very excited to release Prisoners upon our European fans. This time we’ll be rocking a full headline set that spans all 3 albums. It is also amazing to be touring with our old friends in Arsis and Threat Signal for the first time in 5 years! Can’t wait to see you all there this October!”
According to an update from THE AGONIST, who will be out supporting CRADLE OF FILTH alongside THE FACELESS and DECAPITATED, shows in Lawrence, KS and Milwaukee, WI on March 17th and 19th respectively have been added to the tour schedule. The complete itinerary is available below:
February
22 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
23 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
24 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater Of Living Arts
27 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
28 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House Of Blues
March
1 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
3 – Houston, TX – House Of Blues
4 – Dallas, TX – House Of Blues
6 – W. Hollywood, CA – House Of Blues
7 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
8 – Anaheim, CA – House Of Blues
9 – San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
10 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
12 – Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
13 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
14 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
16 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
17 – Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre:
19 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave:
20 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
21 – Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
22 – Cleveland, OH – House Of Blues
23 – Detroit, MI – St Andrews Hall
25 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre
26 – Guelph, ON – Guelph Concert Theatre
UK black metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have announced dates on their North American Tour 2013 with special guests THE FACELESS, DECAPITATED and THE AGONIST. The tour kicks off at the end of February in New York and runs until late March in Canada.
Dates include:
February
22 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
23 – Worcester, MA – Palladium
24 – Philadelphia, PA – Theater Of Living Arts
27 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore
28 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House Of Blues
March
1 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
3 – Houston, TX – House Of Blues
4 – Dallas, TX – House Of Blues
6 – W. Hollywood, CA – House Of Blues
7 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
8 – Anaheim, CA – House Of Blues
9 – San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
10 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
12 – Seattle, WA – Studio Seven
13 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom
14 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
16 – Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
20 – Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
21 – Chicago, IL – House Of Blues
22 – Cleveland, OH – House Of Blues
23 – Detroit, MI – St Andrews Hall
25 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre
26 – Guelph, ON – Guelph Concert Theatre
Extreme metallers THE AGONIST have launched a new video for the track “Panophobia” online. Featuring behind-the-scenes and live footage from THE AGONIST’s performance at Heavy MTL 2012, the video for “Panophobia” was directed by Ben McKinnon of Five Knights Productions (www.fiveknightsproductions.com). To watch the video, click here:
THE AGONIST will play a few shows in Asia this November in support of their recent release, Prisoners. If you still haven’t heard Prisoners, check it out below.
Extreme metallers THE AGONIST have posted a teaser trailer for their new video, “Panophobia.” Featuring behind-the-scenes and live footage from THE AGONIST’s performance at Heavy MTL 2012, the video for “Panophobia” was directed by Five Knights Productions.
See the teaser clip below:
THE AGONIST will play a few shows in Asia this November in support of their recent release, Prisoners.
A three-and-a-half-minute video clip in which vocalist Alissa White-Gluz of Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based melodic death metallers THE AGONIST talks about the band’s just-released third studio album, “Prisoners”, can be seen below.
Alissa has also posted the following message on Facebook:
“Here’s a little insider info just to clarify, since a lot of people don’t understand how the industry now works. We would feel bad divulging this kind of info and shattering the dream, but a lot of metal musicians seem to be doing it nowadays so I think we’re ok to do so as well.
“Why are we asking you to buy the album? We don’t see money from album sales. We have never seen a single royalty penny. But, if your band is known to sell a lot of albums, especially in the first week of release, you get more offers for tours, therefore making it more possible to play to more fans.
“Ticket money: As an opener, we do not see any money from ticket sales or have any control over ticket price. As a headliner we rarely see any money from ticket sales as well.
“YouTube: If you think we are making money off of YouTube plays, check out whose channel our videos are on (Hint: It ain’t our channel!) Again, we’ve never seen a penny from YouTube plays.
“Merch/CD sales: To get our albums shipped out to us, we need to pay about $10. We sell them for $15. Venue takes about 15% usually, manager takes 10%. Therefore, we are left with about $1.25 profit per CD. T-shirts, they cost about $10 to create and ship, we sell them for $20; again, you can do the math. So we have a few dollars profit per item sold, but about $200-$300 in gas per show, plus the expense of work visas (about $4000 for the USA), vehicle and trailer leasing, and all the other expenses that go into touring.
“We sleep in the van, don’t eat, don’t get to bathe. We hire no crew. We get maybe $20 or $30 a day to get food or save up to pay rent. We invested years of our lives into this and some had to take time off work to record this album. And this is not just our band. We can safely say that this applies to every opening metal act we have ever toured with.
“Sorry to shatter the rock-star fantasy, but the truth is we all work 9-5 as soon as we get home from tour, if our jobs are gracious enough to allow us to leave and return. Otherwise we scramble to find even the most menial jobs just to cover our bills in between tours.
“So — taking our project without paying for it is STEALING. But if you repay us by spreading the word about the band, getting your friends to come out to our shows, buying our merch, giving us a place to stay or some other form of support, you’ve paid us back. Nobody wants to go to work and not get their salary, but bands do it ALL THE TIME. So, have some respect for the work they do and support in whatever way you can.
“Hope that clarified everything! Enjoy ‘Prisoners’!”
“Prisoners”, was released on June 4 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Century Media Records. The CD was produced by Christian Donaldson (CRYPTOPSY) and mixed by Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, DARK TRANQUILLITY, SUICIDE SILENCE) and it “picks right up where 2009’s ‘Lullabies For The Dormant Mind’ left off, with soaring melodies over complex metal passages that fans of thinking-man’s metal can appreciate,” according to a press release.
In regards to the album artwork, Alissa White-Gluz states: “We wanted to really include a chaotic visual to reflect the chaotic sound of the band, but we also wanted to show that the lyrics on this album are a lot more introverted…The human face was left non-descript on purpose — it doesn’t belong to any particular person, but we could call him the Lonely Solipsist.”
“Prisoners” track listing:
01. You’re Coming With Me
02. The Escape
03. Predator & Prayer
04. Anxious Darwinians
05. Panophobia
06. Ideomotor
07. Lonely Solipsist
08. Dead Ocean
09. The Mass Of The Earth
10. Everybody Wants You (Dead)
11. Revenge Of The Dadaists
In a recent interview with MetalConcerts.net, Alissa White-Gluz stated about the musical direction of the follow-up to 2009’s “Lullabies For A Dormant Mind”, “I wouldn’t say it’s heavier or more melodic. I think it sounds more mature. It has the same sort of schizophrenic side that ‘Lullabies’ has, but it also has some other I guess what you would call classic influences. Like, there’s some PANTERA influence, there’s some RADIOHEAD influence. I mean, there’s a lot of influences that we didn’t really have before.
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