Refused Are Not Fucking Dead!
There are only a handful of bands that people regularly talk about never getting the chance to see live, one of them being Refused. On January 9, 2012 they announced to the world that they were indeed, in their words, not fucking dead. The reunion shows have been very well received indeed, and they’re laying waste to Australia in November with dates in Fremantle, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. Tickets are on sale Friday August 31 at 9am. They’re at the Palace on Thursday November 15.
Gig Alert: Fuck I’m Dead
Fuck I’m Dead will smash up the stage at the Bendigo hotel in Collingwood with some gore grind thrash attack on Saturday September 1. It’ll be their first show in 15 months as they welcome back Tom on low end duties and finish off their long overdue next album: Another Gory Mess. Melbourne punk black metallers Thrall, local crust metal punk mofos Debacle and and new skate-thrash crossover gnarlsters Join The Amish (featuring members of The Abandonment, Mid Youth Crisis, Embodied, A Process Of and Tricity) are the supports.
4ARM Confirmed For Hammerfest V
4ARM have been invited back to the UK for Hammerfest V 2013. They’ll perform on the second stage on Saturday, March 16, joining Napalm Death, Candlemass and Enslaved, with loads more to be announced. The festival as always will run three stages and have over 50 bands performing. Drummer Michael Vafiotis says, “We’re excited to play Hammerfest for the first time and get back to the UK once again. With the new album doing great over there it will be awesome to give our fans another chance to see us live.” Hammerfest V takes place in Phwelli, Wales from March 14-17, 2013. Tickets and information for the festival are available at hammerfest.co.uk. 4ARM’s latest album Submission For Liberty is now out worldwide through Rising Records and Riot Entertainment.
Gig Alert: BTBAM, Animals As Leaders
Between The Buried And Me have confirmed a tour spanning Japan, Australia, (They’ll be playing in Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney) and New Zealand, kicking off in Japan on November 8. And as if that wasn’t enough, they’re bringing Animals As Leaders with them! It’ll be a rare opportunity to see Animals As Leaders close-up, because if they keep going the way they are, they’ll be playing much bigger gigs soon. BTBAM and Animals As Leaders are at the Corner Hotel on Friday November 16.
Ex-Roadrunner Execs Parter With Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast owner Markus Staiger has joined forces with former Roadrunner Records A&R chief Monte Conner to form a new US partnership, Nuclear Blast Entertainment. The record label will share most major operations with the existing US branch of Nuclear Blast, and they’ll announce their first signings in the coming months. Conner recently left Roadrunner after a 25-year run that saw him sign most of the successful hard rock and metal bands on the label, including Slipknot, Sepultura, Machine Head, Trivium, Fear Factory, Stone Sour, Type O Negative, Soulfly, Coal Chamber, Life Of Agony, Biohazard, DevilDriver, Deicide, Rush and Gojira. Plans are also underway to expand Nuclear Blast’s strength in the UK market and the label has now paired with former Roadrunner UK managing director, Mark Palmer, who will open Nuclear Blast’s first UK office.
Seymour Duncan, Stricky 7 Keith Merrow Giveaway
Strictly 7 Guitars recently announced the addition of the Spectral Keith Merrow Signature Guitar to its growing line of seven and eight string guitars. This guitar features the Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader – a humbucker that has a well-earned reputation as one of the most aggressive passive pickups ever (it also has really cool fretboard inlays inspired by Predator). To celebrate the launch of this new guitar, Seymour Duncan and Strictly 7 have joined forces to launch ‘The Strictly F#%$#@% Awesome Keith Merrow Signature Guitar Giveaway’ between August 20 and September 3. Everyone in the world will have a chance to enter to win this guitar.
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Shihad Get Mean
The mighty Shihad play The Hi-Fi on Thursday September 6 with The Snowdroppers and Money For Rope. Last year they released a 38-song career retrospective double-disc set called The Meanest Hits in New Zealand. The response was huge so now it’s Australia’s turn. The Meanest Hits tour is 90-plus minutes of Shihad history, divided into two parts: a first half covering their debut EP Devolve, all the way up to the self-titled third album Shihad. The second half of the show celebrates the band’s ‘big stage’ era. The Meanest Hits is out now on Roadrunner.
New Agave Maize Album
Australian black metallers Agave Maize have just released their new album Thrones of Isolation. They kicked it off with a show at the Central Club in Richmond a few weeks ago. It was independently recorded and mixed by the band, and was mastered by Tim Turan in the UK.
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