Poor Upon A Burning Body. The lads probably thought that they had cooked up the best PR stunt of all time when their singer Danny Leal started tweeting about a mysterious vehicle driving past his home and how anxious it was making him. It was a fairly elaborate set up for what would turn out to be a bit of a bid for attention. The band then posted on their Faceboook page: “Breaking News: Danny Leal (singer of Upon A Burning Body has been reported missing. He was last seen in his home town of San Antonio TX on Monday June 30.” The band’s label were quick to shut down the shenanigans with Sumerian CEO posting: “I do not condone this type of publicity stunt. This was done behind my back and I am not OK with it”. Which, of course, could be more carefully planned smoke and mirrors for all we know, since the wave of scoffing and booing that has publicly followed since has granted the band a considerable amount of publicity, albeit the negative kind. But hey, you know what they say.
Atreyu have told fans that they are reforming to work on new music and will play live once more with their full lineup. They’ve been on an indefinite hiatus since 2011 but social media revealed the band will return on the main stage of Aftershock Festival on Sunday September 14. Better get rehearsing, friends.
Excellent Melbourne band Apart From This have announced a new EP to be released via local label Poison City Records. The four songs were recorded with Sam Johnson and will be a much anticipated follow-up to their popular debut In Gloom. They’re on tour nationally with Basement.
ER. Mah. Gherd. Torche are touring ya’ll! The masterful purveyors of melodic stoner doom rock fun are touring the country ahead of their fourth album (due out later this year on Relapse). Come see them at the Corner Hotel on Saturday July 18. Tickets are available now.
So Death Grips really pissed a lot of people off when they broke up via a napkin (namely those who had booked the band in the play several high profile gigs….which is fair enough), but man they did it in style. Handwriting on a photographed napkin read: “We are now at our best and so Death Grips is over”. Constantly dishing out new, shitty material in a hope that it might continue to sustain a flailing career is something that so many once-brilliant bands have been guilty of recently. Props to these guys for retaining a sense of artistic integrity.
Lostprophets members, left distraught and jobless after the incarceration of their lead singer, have formed a new band called No Devotion which features Thursday’s Geoff RIckly on vocals. They’ve released a debut single titled Stay onto the internets already so go track it down.
