Archive for April 29, 2015

GOATSNAKE – One-Off Pioneertown Show And “Black Age Blues” Album Listening Party In Los Angeles Approaching This Weekend

Posted in Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music with tags , , , on April 29, 2015 by Metal Odyssey

Goatsnake - promo band pic - 2015 - #042915GSMO3

[photo by Chris Lundry]

With GOATSNAKE‘s newest LP in a decade-and-a-half, Black Age Blues, nearing its unveiling in early June, this weekend the band has several special Southern California pre-release actions planned. First up, this Saturday, May 2nd the band will venture out to secluded Pioneertown for a one-off show at Pappy and Harriet’s. The next day, Sunday, May 3rd, sees the band hosting a public record listening party in Los Angeles where members of GOATSNAKE will be in attendance and fans can hear the entire album a full month before its release.

Interviews with GOATSNAKE at the listening party are welcomed, as are phone interviews with the band in advance of the upcoming release of Black Age Blues.

Following this weekend’s actions, the band also has a record release show in Los Angeles on May 20th, followed by their first performance at Maryland Deathfest just days later. That same week they head to Europe for a week-long tour kicking off with a set at Temples Festival.

Goatsnake - Black Age Blues - 2015 - promo album cover pic - GMO03

Preorders for Black Age Blues will go live at the new GOATSNAKE store this coming Monday, May 4th alongside the release of the LP’s next single and more. In addition to the physical preorders, iTunes will have the album available for preorder offering the tracks “Black Age Blues” and “Elevated Man” for instant download, and also available to purchase individually the following day.

The maiden single from Black Age Blues, “Elevated Man,” was recently premiered at Revolver Magazine RIGHT HERE.

Black Age Blues is an instant classic, with each one of the nine songs an anthem, and each of the members of GOATSNAKE in top form. Everything is magnified; the vocals of Pete Stahl (Scream) vocals have never sounded so powerful, the rhythm section comprised of Greg Rogers (The Obsessed) on drums and Scott Renner on bass is the driving force on each track, and the riffs of guitarist Greg Anderson (SunnO))), Southern Lord Recordings) are heavier than ever before. Recorded and mixed at Rock Falcon Franklin, Tennessee by Nick Raskulinecz (Queens Of The Stone Age, Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Rush) and mastered by Brian Big Bass Gardner (N.W.A., Stevie Wonder, Parliament), the production values of Black Age Blues back the top-notch musicianship, creating a seriously unstoppably entertaining album.

Black Age Blues will be released through Southern Lord Recordings in North America on June 2nd, 2015.

GOATSNAKE Live Actions:

5/02/2015 Pappy And Harriet’s – Pioneertown, CA w/ Mojave Lords

5/03/2015 Black – Los Angeles, CA *Black Age Blues listening party [info]

5/20/2015 Complex – Glendale, CA *Black Age Blues release show w/ Bl’ast, Eagle Twin [info]

5/24/2015 Maryland Deathfest – Baltimore, MD [info]

5/30/2015 Temples Festival – Bristol, UK [info]

6/01/2015 De Kreun – Kortrijk, BE

6/02/2015 Melkweg – Amsterdam, NL

6/03/2015 SO36 – Berlin, DE

6/04/2015 Freakvalley Festival – Siegen, DE [info]

6/07/2015 AN Club – Athens, GR

6/20/2015 Crucialfest – Salt Lake City, UT [info]

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Source: Earsplit PR

* For more info:

http://www.southernlord.com

http://southernlord.bandcamp.com

http://www.facebook.com/SLadmin

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LONG LIVE GOATSNAKE.

Stone.

On This Day In METAL History – April 29th… From BILL WARD To GREEN DEATH

Posted in classic rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music with tags , , , , on April 29, 2015 by Metal Odyssey

Def Leppard - Rocket - UK 45rpm version - 1982 - 45rpm label

On April 29th, 1989Def Leppard hits #12, on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart in the U.S., with their hit: Rocket.

Van Halen - Fair Warning - promo album cover pic - #3300330

On this day in 1981Van Halen released their fourth album, Fair Warning. This album went on to reach #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart and sell two million (plus) copies in the United States, alone.

Bill Ward - Accountable Beasts - promo cover pic - 2015

On April 29th, 2015 – The newly released solo album, Accountable Beasts, from the legendary drummer Bill Ward (former Black Sabbath) is ranked at #15 on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. This is Bill Ward’s first solo album in 18 years. Whoa, man!

Green Death - Manufacturing Evil - promo album cover pic - 2015

On this day in 2015 – Death Moines, Iowa’s GREEN DEATH is ranked at #1 on Amazon’s Death Metal Digital Sales Chart, with their newly released studio album: Manufacturing Evil. This killer album is also ranked at #17 on the iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart. Whoa!!

Coal Chamber - Rivals - promo cover pic - 2015

On April 29th, 2015 – The forthcoming studio album from COAL CHAMBER, Rivals, is ranked at #37 on iTunes Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums Chart.

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LONG LIVE METAL.

LONG LIVE THE ROOTS & FAMILY TREE OF METAL.

Stone.

The King Is Blind – Recording New Album

Posted in Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, rock music with tags , , on April 29, 2015 by Metal Odyssey

The King Is Blind - promo band logo - 2015 - #0429MO

A very successful 2014 saw East Anglian Monolithic Metal Titans The King Is Blind establish themselves as a band to watch out for with the release of their critically acclaimed first EP The Deficiencies of Man via Mordgrimm (“A searing statement of intent… deathly ferocity and doomy threat” KKKK – Kerrang!) and a series of impressive live shows including notable performances at prestigious festivals Bloodstock and HammerFest VII, where they were described as “scabrous, muscular and underpinned by monstrous grooves… distinct and vital” (Dom Lawson, Metal Hammer)

And so to 2015, the year that will see The King Is Blind ascend to the throne of UK metal with their potent brand of weighty riffs, powerful grooves and epic and dynamic compositions that blend all the best elements of scenes passed, and present with a wilful and distinctive contemporary feel.

Working once more with producer Tom Donovan, TKIB are currently ensconced in Tom Donovan Studios in rural Essex recording their debut full-length, an album described as “an involved and dark concept album”. With a profound and terrifying narrative arc, not only will the band’s debut album examine further the deficiencies of man, it will seek to uncover the true nature of the relationship of mankind and sin, and the origins of that connection, against a backdrop of high quality extreme metal compositions.

The King Is Blind - promo band pic - #042915MO

“The Deficiencies of Man was us in the embryonic stages of our development, both musically and conceptually. What is being realized on our debut album is a post-chrysalis explosion and a fulfilment of ideas.

“It’s a complex and complete album, one that has seen us challenge ourselves to produce something outside of and above, the norm for the heavy end of metal. It is a varied, multifaceted and aggressive concept album that, we hope, will take its place as part of the legacy of great UK metal albums” (Steve Tovey – lyrics/vocals)

The King Is Blind play Temples Festival on Sunday, May 31st.

Praise for – The Deficiencies of Man

“Raging against the dying light has never sounded more powerful” – METAL HAMMER

“The groove of old school death metal, yet appreciative of newer styles… with deliciously doomy riffs for good measure” – TERRORIZER

“How fresh The King Is Blind sounds might surprise you, but your crushing bangover won’t” – KERRANG

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Source: Dewar PR

* For more The King Is Blind:

www.facebook.com/TheKingIsBlind

www.TheKingIsBlind.Bandcamp.com

www.TheKingIsBlind.wordpress.com

@TheKingIsBlind

www.mordgrimm.eu

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LONG LIVE THE KING IS BLIND.

Stone.