Archive for April 12, 2023

US/Finnish Thrashers OSIRIS REX Unleash Second Single ‘The Meek Shall Inherit’!

Posted in Heavy Metal, Metal, metal bands, metal music, Music, music news, music videos, news with tags , , , , , , , , , , on April 12, 2023 by Metal Odyssey

Tampere, Finland -based thrash metal act OSIRIS REX – led by US thrasher Superstar Joey Severance have unleashed the second single ‘The Meek Shall Inherit’ taken from their forthcoming debut EP “Arrival of the New Dawn”!

Stream ‘The Meek Shall Inherit’, here: https://youtu.be/X_KDbH54DGs

Also check out the first single ‘Lone Wolf Terror’, feat. on solo: Michael “Big Maaaan” Rutten, at https://youtu.be/IL-BAxGFLl0

“Arrival of the New Dawn” recording lineup:
Superstar Joey Severance – Vocals
Ben Varon – All Guitars (except where noted) and Bass (Session Musician)
Oskari Niemi – Drums (Session Musician)

Music and Lyrics: Superstar Joey Severance
Produced, Mixed and Engineered by: Ben Varon
Mastered by: Ben Varon and Oskari Niemi

Tracklisting:

  1. The Meek Shall Inherit
  2. Arrival of the New Dawn
  3. Lone Wolf Terror (Solo: Michael “Big Maaaan” Rutten)
  4. Hot Stuff (Donna Summer Cover)

More on OSIRIS REX:

Rising from the ashes of TORNADO comes OSIRIS REX. With Tornado, vocalist Superstar Joey Severance recorded three albums (Amsterdamn, Hellsinki – Black President – Commitment to Excellence) with the debut being produced by Peter Tagtgren and their last album featuring such metal heavyweights as Karl Sanders (Nile) Glen Drover (ex-Megadeth) and Ross Dolan (Immolation). All three albums received positive reviews worldwide and the band did a European tour supporting Six Feet Under.

Soon after the tour ended, and right before the start of the pandemic, SJS decided to disband Tornado for personal reasons and move forward with a new lineup which will become Osiris Rex.

The four-song debut EP, “Arrival of the New Dawn” showcases the musical direction the band is taking which is not too far removed from Tornado. Stay tuned!

With a focus on writing great, catchy songs, Osiris Rex are looking to advance the thrash genre for a new generation!

More information at https://www.facebook.com/OsirisRex666

Source: Tarja Virmakari PR

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MR. BUNGLE – Announce First Eastern North American Tour Since 2000

Posted in avant garde music, avant-garde metal, Hard Rock, Metal, Music, music news, news with tags , , , , , on April 12, 2023 by Metal Odyssey

April 11, 2023, Eureka, Calif. – Mr. Bungle, who venture out on their first post-pandemic tour dates this May as part of the Ipecac Recordings’ Geek Show, have added an eastern swing to their slate of 2023 outings, with new performances added for several cities including New York, Boston, and Toronto.

The dates, which mark the band’s first shows on the East Coast (with the exception of New York City) in 23 years, find Mr. Bungle once again featuring their The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo line-up (Mike Patton, Trevor Dunn, Trey Spruance, Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo).

Tickets for the newly announced performances are on-sale this Friday at 10 am est. Joining Mr. Bungle for the September outings is Battles, reuniting Patton and Dunn with their Tomahawk bandmate, John Stanier.

Ipecac Geek Show featuring Mr. Bungle, Melvins and Spotlights:

May 10 Pomona, CA Fox Theater
May 11 Los Angeles, CA Palladium
May 13 Las Vegas, NV Sick New World Festival
May 14 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
May 16 Denver, CO Mission Ballroom
May 17 Salt Lake City, UT Union Event Center
May 19 Seattle, WA Showbox
May 20 Seattle, WA Showbox
May 21 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
May 23 Oakland, CA Fox Theater
May 24 Oakland, CA Fox Theater

Mr. Bungle with special guests, Battles:

September 5 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
September 6 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore
September 8 New York, NY Terminal 5
September 11 Boston, MA Roadrunner
September 12 Montreal, QC MTelus
September 13 Toronto, ON History
September 15 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit

Photo credit: Buzz Osborne

Mr. Bungle was formed in an impoverished lumber and fishing town by a trio of curious, volatile teenagers. Trey Spruance, Mike Patton and Trevor Dunn beget the amorphous “band” in 1985 up in Humboldt County, Calif., sifting through a variety of members until 1988 when drummer Danny Heifetz and saxophonist Bär McKinnon joined the group. In 1989, Mr. Bungle signed to Warner Bros. Records. No one really knows how this happened and it remains a complete mystery that even the algorithms of the internet can’t decode. Up until 2000 they released three albums (Mr. Bungle in 1991, Disco Volante in 1995 and California in 1999), toured a good portion of the Western hemisphere and avoided any sort of critical acclaim.

Some argue that the band subsequently broke up but there is also no proof of this. What is true is that they took 20 years off from performing under said moniker while they pursued various other musics that, in contrast, paid the rent. In 2020, a different iteration of Mr. Bungle emerged, pairing the original trio of Dunn, Patton and Spruance with Anthrax’s Scott Ian and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo for a proper release of the Eureka-bred band’s unreleased demo, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny.

Ipecac.com / Instagram.com/mrbungleofficial

Source: Speakeasy PR

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