Saturday, November 30, 2013

EXUMER: ANNOUNCE WINTER 2014 RUSSIAN/ EUROPEAN TOUR

German/American thrash warriors EXUMER are set for a mid winter 2014 RUSSIAN/ EUROPEAN tour with support TBA.

 EXUMER unleashed "Fire and Damnation" 4/6/2012 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.







FROM EXUMER:
EUROPEAN FROST & FIRE TOUR 2014!
Feb. 18, Club Volta, Moscow/RU
Feb. 19, Academy Islington, London/UK
Feb. 20, Academy 2, Birmingham/UK
Feb. 21, Blastfest, Bergen/NOR

Additional dates TBA ...\m/


Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR 2014 8/14-16th, 2014 Dinkelsbühl, Germany CONFIRM: MACHINE HEAD





Promoters for SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR 2014, set to take place
8/14-16th, 2014  Dinkelsbühl, Germany have confirmed Bay Area, California thrash warriors MACHINE HEAD.











Promoters for SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR 2014  have also confirmed HEAVEN SHALL BURN, CHILDREN OF BODOM, BEHEMOTH, HYPOCRISY, WINTERSUN, ARCH ENEMY, CALIBAN,  J.B.O, DECAPITATED, ENFORCER, GRAND MAGUS, ORCHID, LOST SOCIETY via NUCLEAR BLAST LABEL NIGHT.

More extreme metal bands TBA.




FROM SUMMER BREEZE OPEN AIR 2014 PROMOTERS:
Thrash as thrash can! Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome for the first time at SUMMER BREEZE Open Air: MACHINE HEAD!!!
Yes, you read it right, MACHINE F**KING HEAD will come to Dinkelsbühl next summer to teach you a lesson in thrash metal. And if we're lucky, Robb Flynn, Dave McClain, Phil Demmel and new addition Jared MacEachern will not only play their old classics, but play some new songs already as well. But no matter what the setlist looks like, if the last MACHINE HEAD tours are anything to go by, the band can actually do no wrong in Dinkelsbühl. How could they, with material from such landmark albums as 'Burn My Eyes', 'Through The Ashes Of Empires', 'The Blackening' and 'Under The Locust'? So total destruction is guaranteed, 'cause the Ten Ton Hammer will show all its might!
Tickets: http://www.summer-breeze.de/de/tickets/info.html



Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

KATAKLYSM: UNLEASH LYRIC VIDEO FOR "FIRE"

Canadian extreme metal warriors KATAKLYSM have unleashed a new lyric video for the track "Fire", a new tune from the bands latest release "Waiting for The End To Come" unleashed 10/25/2013 (EU), 10/28/2013 (UK), 10/29/2013 (NORTH AMERICA) via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.








FROM NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS:
Kataklysm release LYRIC VIDEO for the track "Fire" athttp://youtu.be/ayVOskyUYyk.

"Fire, a song that represents the will and determination we all have in our souls to achieve success or overcome life's brutal lessons and its starts with the FIRE inside..." - Maurizio Iacono

KATAKLYSM leaves tomorrow for Australia & Japan. Catch them on their WORLD TOUR at http://on.fb.me/katour.





FROM MAURIZIO IACONO: ( KATAKLYSM):
new lyric video for the song "FIRE" one of my faces on the record .. will we play it live on our upcoming tours..hmm, maybe 


VIDEO BELOW: KATAKLYSM: "FIRE" (LYRIC VIDEO COURTESY OF NUCLEAR BLAST):


Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

MASTODON: RESPONDS TO THANKSGIVING T-SHIRT CONTROVERSY



Georgia, USA based sludge/hard rockers MASTODON have responded to accusations of racism, sexism, and insensitivity to the Native American community over controversial Holiday merch, perhaps set to be in a line for all time controversial band t-shirts (CRADLE OF FILTH: "Jesus is a Gilded Cunt", MARDUK: "Jesus Christ Sodomized").                                                                                                                                                                                           MASTODON's new limited edition THANKSGIVING holiday t-shirt, depicts a white male Pilgrim with a gun to the head of a Native American woman, on her knees, holding a plate of food.

MASTODON's holiday t-shirt (perhaps lifted conceptually from politically provocative satire merch BOUNTY HUNTER T-SHIRTS FOR THE MORALLY IMPAIRED : http://www.bountyhunterinc.com/mens-shirts.asp ) and designed by "Phil The Guy", engaged  fans in a lively debate on the shameful history of America, Genocide of Native Americans, racism, and sexism.
http://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2013/11/mastodon-racist-holiday-merch.html
Earlier this fall, Richmond, Virginia intergalactic metal warriors front man DAVE BROCKIE called out NFL football franchise THE WASHINGTON REDSKINS (via his METAL SUCKS editorial)  for the teams racist name engaging a name change debate.
 
FROM GWAR (VIA METAL SUCKS):
Brockie makes a passionate argument in favor of the Redskins changing their offensive name.
www.metalsucks.net
Necessary Roughness, Week 6: Change the Name and Maybe Your Fate
It was 521 years ago since Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. Are you participating in any anti-Columbus Day protests? If so, tell us about it. 

In headlines today, learn what the Mapuche, Chile’s largest indigenous group, are calling for.

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/110669/christopher_columbus_day_is_a

Dave Brockie of Gwar makes a passionate plea to the Washington Redskins to change their offensive name in the latest installment of his weekly NFL column.



MASTODON are set to unleash a digital only live release "Live At Brixton" 12/10/2013 and via WARNER BROTHERS RECORDS (CD FORMAT).
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/live-at-brixton/id733064867?wmgref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F

MASTODON unleashed "The Hunter" 9/27/2011 via REPRISE RECORDS.


ITP V.013 EDITORS NOTE: Me likes this t-shirt better, thanks Matthew K. Tafoya: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/fighting_terrorism_since_1492/

FROM MASTODON FANS (FACEBOOK): 












Drew Wesely I honestly don't think that Mastodon are overt racists, they're just like Spinal Tap when in the movie they're defending their Smell The Glove album as satire. They're more clueless about what sexism is (Christopher Guest: "What's wrong with being sexy?"). Mastodon is just like Spinal Tap in that way, they're clueless about what makes the shirt racist, in that it eroticizes genocide, rather than being themselves racist.
Will Klatte Yeah, geez, I'm sorry I told so many people to fuck off earlier. I didn't understand the ironic humor in this depiction of genocide and sexual violence, and I still don't, but that's on me. It's not "white" society's fault I don't have a sense of humor. I mean, I'm pretty sure I can say that "white" society is responsible for the ongoing colonization and genocide faced by Indigenous people, along with all the forced relocations, child apprehensions, residential schools, illegal human experimentation, rape, murder, subjugation, impoverishment, and all those other things, but you're right. It's my responsibility to have a sense of humor. Fuck me.
Ya know... Mastodon I just want to say that whatever my opinions of the shirt are don't matter. Be the execution flawed, if your intentions were true, that's Metal 





Eric William Stehmer No, seriously, this is a very poorly designed shirt. I fully understand the underlying sentiment, but using a "sexy Indian maiden" caricature is not the way to make the point. It turns a shirt that's supposed to be condemning racism into something that's both racist and sexist.


Nicodemus Rexx Ya know... Mastodon I just want to say that whatever my opinions of the shirt are don't matter. Be the execution flawed, if your intentions were true, that's Metal enough for me. 
That's what Metal is about after all... doing what you believe in! Even if it comes out all wrong and you unintentionally tick off a bunch of people in the process...

Let's face it though... Dethklok probably would have gotten away with it. 


Dylan McClure As a white person it is really easy to not see the ways we participate in racism/white supremacy and I am really disappointed in mastodon ignoring the native voices in this thread telling them exactly why the shirt is fuct up. I have been listening to/buying your albums for 10 years, and y'all really missed the mark with this one. Please stop selling it!



Pete Couchi OH Ya your white, so you guys know whats best for us First Nations. Your idealism doesn't fly with this guy. At least your IQ comes shining through with the excuses for making a T in such bad taste. Totally disgusting, your mothers must be proud!!!!







Kelly Wa Are you gonna wear a shirt that has artwork with a white guy whipping a black slave? A Nazi killing a Jew? Your asses will be roasted before you take the time to explain it's "satire".

Then why is it any different with a Native American? And with all the comments that came in the past hour, I'm fucking annoyed with how self-entitled you guys are. Also, what's even more hilarious are how people saying and doing racists things are calling the ones who actually see what's wrong this as "racist".

This is proof that you don't need to be into NSBM to be racist, the metal scene in general is full of white guys that are "DUR I'M NOT RAAWCIST111" yet in the back of their minds continue to think like this.














http://www.chartattack.com/news/2013/11/28/on-the-tongue-in-cheek-genocide-of-mastodons-thanksgiving-themed-shirt/
http://exclaim.ca/News/mastodon_accused_of_racism_over_controversial_thanksgiving_t-shirt

http://idolatrine.tumblr.com/post/68456722454/an-open-letter-to-mastodon-regarding-your-thanksgiving
http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/83789767.html?page=6#comments
http://lastrealindians.com/native-appropriation-month-by-ruth-hopkins/
FROM MASTODON:
Happy Thanksgiving from Mastodon! The limited edition Thanksgiving tee is now available for Ladies & Gents.

http://shop.mastodonrocks.com/index.php/holiday-apparel.html



FROM LAST REAL INDIANS (FACEBOOK):

LOOK AT THIS B.S. 
When we assert that the control of native imagery in mainstream, including the Washington Redskins, hollywood et. al. is extremely important to the way we see ourselves & the way the world sees us & all the anti-social evolution-lets just be happy with what we have type natives tell us that "natives have more important things to worry about", we say maybe just shut the pie hole & let the change agents alter the course of our destiny because we are doing it all, help us. 




FROM MASTODON:
Regarding our thanks giving shirt, whether you choose to believe or not, the American Indians were massacred by the white settlers who became the Americans we are today. 
this shirt represents this atrocity and celebrating in the face of this atrocity is chilling. 

we may have a sick sense of humor, but we are far from being "Racist" as some of you who might not get it are calling us.



Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

Friday, November 29, 2013

DEVILDRIVER: ANNOUNCE WINTER 2014 JAPANESE TOUR WITH TESTAMENT (HEADLINING)

California, USA extreme metal warriors TESTAMENT and DEVILDRIVER have announced a winter 2014 JAPANESE TOUR.









TESTAMENT unleashed "DARK ROOTS OF THRASH" (LIVE- DVD 2 CD release) 10/18/2013 (EUROPEAN UNION), 10/21/2013 (UK) and 10/29/2013 (NORTH AMERICA) via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.

TESTAMENT unleashed "DARK ROOTS OF EARTH" 7/27/2012 via
NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.

DEVILDRIVER unleashed "Winter Kills"  8/27/2013 via NAPALM RECORDS.





FROM DEVILDRIVER:
Japan here we come! DevilDriver will be appearing in Japan with our friends Testament. 

March 5 Osaka(Akaso), March 6 Tokyo(O-East), March 7 Nagoya(Club Quattro)

Get tix here: http://www.Smash-jpn.Com/new/detail.Asp?Id=1912&status=0

This is our first trip toJapan. Get your tickets now and see you in the pit!       



VIDEO BELOW: CHUCK BILLY (TESTAMENT) END OF LAMB OF GOD, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, TESTAMENT, HUNTRESS FALL 2013 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR CLOSURE: 


Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

KAMPFAR: UNLEASH LYRIC VIDEO FOR "MYLDER"



Norwegian Pagan/folk lore black metal warriors KAMPFAR have unleashed a lyric video for the track "MYLDER" from the bands anticipated new release  "DJEVELMAKT", due to be unleashed  1/27/2014 via INDIE RECORDINGS.







KAMPFAR unleashed "Mare" 3/25/2011 via NAPALM RECORDS.


FROM INDIE RECORDINGS:
We are proud to announce the signing of legendary Norwegian Black Metallers KAMPFAR official and the release of their sixth studio album entitled “Djevelmakt”!


FROM KAMPFAR:

IT IS TIME! Let us present to you the first track of Djevelmakt: MYLDER! (Pre-orders for the album are now open - indierecordings.no)




KAMPFAR, in collaboration with Indie Recordings, are proud to announce the release of DJEVELMAKT!

The album will be released worldwide on January 27, 2014.

Track list:

1. Mylder
2. Kujon
3. Blod, Eder og Galle
4. Swarm Norvegicus
5. Fortapelse
6. De Dødes Fane
7. Svarte Sjelers Salme
8. Our Hounds, Our Legion


VIDEO BELOW: KAMPFAR:  "MYLDER": (COURTESY OF INDIE RECORDINGS):   



Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

NILE: ANNOUNCE SPRING 2014 NORTH AMERICA TOUR

South Carolina death metal warriors NILE are set to annihilate NORTH AMERICA spring of 2014 as the bands VERY FIRST EVER Canadian date has leaked via INERTIA ENTERTAINMENT: 4/24/2014 OPERA HOUSE, TORONTO, CANADA (with local support).

All  tour dates have been leaked for NILE's spring 2014 NORTH AMERICAN tour.




NILE are ALSO set to annihilate the 2014 NEW ENGLAND METAL and HARDCORE FESTIVAL, set to take place  4/17, 18th and 19th, 2014 Worcester, Massachusetts @ THE PALLADIUM.
South Carolina death metal warriors NILE have also announced a winter (DECEMBER) 2013 SOUTH/LATIN AMERICAN tour.




NILE unleashed "At The Gate Of Sethu" 6/29/2012 on NUCLEAR BLAST.

ITP V.012 REVIEW: NILE: "AT THE GATE OF SETHU": 
http://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2012/12/itp-v012-review-nile-at-gate-of-sethu.html

FROM INERTIA ENTERTAINMENT:
NILE - April 24 at Opera House - On Sale Dec, 14

We have been told all their papers are in order to Canada. Trust me there was hesitance and disbelief on our end as well.


FROM NILE: 
Can you spot the special announcement in this photo? Post your thoughts in the comments! / We are looking forward to touring North America once again this April and May with 27 shows supported by three of the best local bands in every market. On this tour we will play a massive set with music spanning our entire career, including several Never-Before–Heard –Live Nile Songs! 
Exclusive pre-sale tickets are available now at EnterTheVault.com <http://www.enterthevault.com/>


04/14/14 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
04/15/14 Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
04/16/14 Bogie’s – Albany, NY
04/18/14 Montage Music Hall – Rochester, NY 
04/20/14 Stage 48 – New York, NY
04/21/14 FouFounes – Montreal, QUE (CANADA)
04/22/14 Imperial de Quebec – Quebec City, QUE (CANADA)
04/23/14 Mavericks – Ottawa, ON (CANADA)
04/24/14 Opera House – Toronto, ON (CANADA)
04/25/14 Agora Ballroom – Cleveland, OH
04/26/14 Rave – Milwaukee, WI
04/27/14 Mojoes – Joliet, IL
04/29/14 Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO
05/01/14 Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, BC (CANADA)
05/02/14 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
05/03/14 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
05/06/14 House of Blues – West Hollywood, CA
05/07/14 Club Red – Tempe, AZ
05/08/14 LVCS – Las Vegas, NV
05/10/14 The Chameleon Room – Oklahoma City, OK
05/11/14 Trees – Dallas, TX
05/12/14 Green Room – San Antonio, TX
05/13/14 Scout Bar – Houston, TX
05/14/14 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
05/15/14 Orpheum – Tampa, FL

Support TBA


Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

OBSCENE EXTREME ASIA 2014 2/28-3/1/2014 TOKYO ASAKUSA, KURAWOOD JAPAN CONFIRM: BUTCHER ABC and FLAGITIOUS IDIOSYNCRASY IN THE DILAPIDATION



Promoters for OBSCENE EXTREME (WORLD TOUR 2014) ASIA set to take place 2/28-3/1/2014 TOKYO ASAKUSA, KURAWOOD JAPAN have confirmed BUTCHER ABC and FLAGITIOUS IDIOSYNCRASY IN THE DILAPIDATION.

More death and grind bands for OBSCENE EXTREME ASIA 2014 TBA.

Promoters for OBSCENE EXTREME ASIA have also confirmed CRIPPLE BASTARDS, BRAIN CORROSION, GO ZEN, JIG AI, SETE STAR SEPT, ABIGAIL, FRAMTID,ORGASM GRIND DISRUPTION and UNHOLY GRAVE.


Promoters for OBSCENE EXTREME 2014, have announced the SECOND annual WORLD TOUR of the death/grind festival taking place in JAPAN (2-28-3/1- 2/2014), AUSTRALIA (3/7-9, 2014)  CZECH REPUBLIC ( 7/16-19, 2014) and the U.S.A (L.A., CALIFORNIA 8/29-31, 2014) .

FROM OBSCENE EXTREME ASIA 2014 :
Introducing the OBSCENE EXTREME World Tour

Since its birth in 1999, over 500 bands have played OBSCENE EXTREME festival from almost every corner of the world, bringing with them a horde of diehard extreme music fans from across Europe and beyond to its home base in the Czech Republic.

What brings fans to OBSCENE EXTREME is more than the cross selection of new and old underground grindcore, crust, punk, death metal, thrash metal, hardcore and everything in between, but the incredible atmosphere, the real DIY ethic and the true spirit of community. It doesn't matter where you're from or who you are, everyone is the same when they're in the pit!

For over a decade people have travelled the globe, driven across continents and slept in airports and railway stations to make it to OBSCENE EXTREME, and now Obscene Extreme is coming to you – rolling into Mexico, Indonesia and Australia like the United Nations of Grind.

5 reasons the OBSCENE EXTREME World Tour is going to blow your mind:

1. Truly underground
OBSCENE EXTREME is one of the only truly underground festivals to unite big, genre-defining bands, and small, cult bands.

2. Vegan-friendly
Whatever you do or don't do, believe or practice, you're welcome at OBSCENE EXTREME.

3. Low ticket price
No massive booking agent or energy drink mega-festival bullshit, OBSCENE EXTREME is affordable for everyone.

4. No shitty rules, no shitty security
Stage diving, stage invasions and more, all welcome. OBSCENE EXTREME treats you like people and doesn't stop you having fun.

5. Grindcore carnival
Wear a gasmask, dress as a goregrind banana, OBSCENE EXTREME is more than a festival – it's a party!

Welcome to the OBSCENE EXTREME family!


DEATH-GRINDING EXPERTS IN HUMAN DISMEMBERMENT!!! BUTCHER ABC!!!

BUTCHER ABC has been active since 1994, though their current form of sonic bludgeoning came together more recently in 2002. Focusing thematically on a hyper-gory, post-apocalyptic nether-earth, they dismember their audiences with songs of human butchery delivered via a punishing mix of old school death metal and brutal goregrind, and heavily down-tuned for your listening displeasure.

Very active members of both Japan’s and the international metal underground community, people world-over know what to expect from BUTCHER ABC’s shows: murderously heavy death-grind, gore-stained aprons, and gasmasks to keep out the stench of the world rotting around them.

http://www.obsceneextreme.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2601:butcher-abc&catid=192:bands-2014&Itemid=529&lang=en

ALL FEMALE AMAZING GRINDCORE FROM JAPAN - FLAGITIOUS IDIOSYNCRASY IN THE DILAPIDATION!!!

Japanese quartet FLAGITIOUS IDIOSYNCRASY IN THE DILAPIDATION are no strangers to OBSCENE EXTREME, having played the European festival in the Czech Republic back in 2008, as well as toured heavily round the world since forming in 2001 in Tokyo.

All female (not that it matters), they've silenced the meatheads who think this is a gimmick time and time again with the sort of intense live show and crazy-ass technical grindcore that can only come from the the Japanese scene. FLAGITIOUS just released brand new album "Wallow" thru american cult label Six Weeks records that brings brutal grindcore from those fericious ladies!!!

Most importantly though, F.I.D know more than most just what it takes to play one of the best extreme festivals on the planet, so expect a display of true OEF chaos and energy at the Asian edition of OBSCENE EXTREME 2014!!!

http://www.obsceneextreme.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2593:flagitious-idiosyncrasy-in-the-dilapidation&catid=192:bands-2014&Itemid=529&lang=en



Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 

KALL: POST SECOND TRAILER FOR ELEMENTAL NIGHTMARES II COMPILATION








Swedish DSBM warriors KALL have posted the trailer for the ELEMENTAL NIGHTMARES II COMPILATION, out NOW via ELEMENTAL NIGHTMARES.                                                                KALL unleashed one song  "Då, nu - Jag och Du" for a split release for the ELEMENTAL NIGHTMARES compilation.
 KALL have also unleashed  "DA, NU-JAG OCH DU" from the bands anticipated debut via BANDCAMP.


Former members of disbanded Swedish depressive black metal warriors LIFELOVER have activated a new band KALL.


LIFELOVER  mainman "B" (NATTDAL-Jonas Bergqvis also of WOUNDISM) passed away 9/9/2011 as LIFELOVER disbanded shortly after Bergqvis's passing.






FROM KALL:
Second promotional video for Elemental Nightmares is now up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0r56qnQnLE

It features Porta NigraObitusSatyros and Will of the Ancients! Check it out below and spread it around!



VIDEO BELOW: ELEMENTAL NIGHTMARES II TRAILER (COURTESY OF ELEMENTAL NIGHTMARES):   


Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-

BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2014 8/7-10, 2014 at Walton on Trent in Derbyshire,UK CONFIRM: CARCASS, LACUNA COIL and PRIMORDIAL


Promoters for BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2014, set to take 8/7-10, 2014 at Walton on Trent in Derbyshire,UK have confirmed CARCASS, LACUNA COIL and PRIMORDIAL










Promoters for BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2014 have also confirmed DOWN, EMPEROR, SAXON, FLOTSAM & JETSAM, DECAPITATED, MEGADETH, CHILDREN OF BODOM, AMON AMARTH, HATEBREED, PRONG and more TBA.





FROM BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2014 PROMOTERS:
CARCASS confirmed as Saturday Special Guests !! LACUNA COIL and PRIMORDIAL also added to the main stage !!! Early bird tickets selling fast £ 115 for 4 days camping , 100 + bands, 4 stages !! Happy Thursday 😬

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-