NEW ELECTRIC MARY TRACK
Melbourne’s Electric Mary are globally renowned for their explosive brain-bending live performances; holding their own with typical ‘stick it up ’em’ Aussie attitude. While sharing the world’s stages with the likes of Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Judas Priest, Alice Cooper and Glenn Hughes, the band continue to impress rock fans & media across the planet. The band’s 2008 album Down to the Bone was named ahead of Metallica and Queen as the Rock Album of the Year by the UK’s Birmingham Mail. They’re embarking on a 16-date international tour in November taking in shows across the UK, Spain and France before returning home to rock Australian audiences in December. In the meantime check out their awesome new EP, The Last Great Hope. The track Sweet Mary C – released to radio this week – was written by vocalist Rusty Brown about his first meeting with the legendary studio manager Mary Campbell who worked out of the Jimi Hendrix-founded Electric Lady Studios in New York – the band’s namesake. Check it out!
LIVING DEATH FEST RETURNS!
After the success of Living Death Fest last year, it returns bigger and better on Saturday August 30 at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood. Last year’s headliners Disentomb return to launch their second album Misery. Joining them on the night are Carnal (NZ), Internal Nightmare, Whoretopsy, Earth Rot (WA), The Seaford Monster, Black Jesus, Chaotic Reference Point, Wounded Pig (SA), Involuntary Convulsion and Amelus. This is sure to be a night of absolute brutality and mayhem not to be missed by any fan of extreme music.
METAL DOWN UNDER OUT NOW
Since the late 1970s a thriving underground scene of extreme music has continued to evolve in Australia. From grind-core, thrash, death metal, black metal, hardcore, doom, melodic metal, sludge, power metal and the many more sub genres that exist, the documentary Metal Down Under captures the past, present and future of the Australian metal scene and condenses it into three hours of riveting, essential viewing. And it’s out now! You can grab it online, at Leading Edge Music Colac, or at JB HiFi in Ballarat, Bayside, Bendigo, Bourke St, Chadstone, Frankston, Geelong, Knox, MelbourneCity, Prahran, Ringwood and Traralgon.
NEWIE FROM NE OBLIVISCARIS
Melbourne’s mighty progressive wizards Ne Obliviscaris have just announced the release of their forthcoming album Citadel via Season Of Mist/Rocket on Friday November 7. The album was produced by Troy McCosker and violinist/clean vocalist Tim Charles at Pony Music here in Melbourne (world-class studio, by the way) and mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (Devin Townsend, Opeth, Katatonia, DragonForce). Featuring stunning artwork by vocalist Xen, Citadel sees the band expand even further on a sound already renowned for being eclectic and unique amongst the worldwide metal scene. “Citadel is everything we ever envisioned this band could one day become,” the band says. “We can’t wait to share it with you all very soon!”
Don’t forget: Dream Theater play at The Palais in St Kilda on Wednesday October 29 and tickets are on sale now. Keyboard player Jordan Rudess says: “I don’t think we’ve ever had this kind of show. The energy of the band is just wonderful and it’s in a very great place. We feel that we’re offering the best show we’ve ever had, really, production-wise. It’s the biggest, grandest show. It’s ‘An Evening With…’ and we’re playing music from a lot of different albums. There’s a little bit of focus on the new album but also a tribute to different anniversaries that we have with other albums. There’s a lot of video, a lot of really cool lighting… it should be a fantastic time for Dream Theater fans and also people who haven’t checked out Dream Theater before to come and see what we’re all about.”
