CORROSION OF CONFORMITY TOUR BACK ON!
After the untimely cancellation of their debut Australian tour, Corrosion Of Conformity have moved quickly to work with a new promoter and rebook a new set of dates and keep the promise to their fans. Bassist/vocalist Mike Dean, drummer/vocalist Reed Mullin and guitarist Woody Weatherman exploded onto the US heavy scene way back in the early ‘80s and the trio quickly made their mark with an unrelenting live show and signature crushing riffs. Their latest album is the recently released IX, and they’ll be showcasing material from this album and their long list of classics this month. They’re at the Reverence Hotel on Saturday July 26.
NEW PINK FLOYD ALBUM!
Well, nobody saw this coming. Pink Floyd will release a new album in October, based on sessions from 1994. Details at press time are sketchy but it appears the album, which is titled The Endless River, started life as an ambient instrumental set called The Big Spliff recorded around the same time as The Division Bell, but guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason have gone back to the recordings and finished them up. The late Rick Wright appears on the tracks. If you can’t wait until then to get your Floyd fix, a 20th anniversary version of The Division Bell is out now in multiple formats including a Deluxe Box version which includes the album on two LPs, a Blu-ray featuring 5.1 and HD audio mixes of the album and a new video for the song Marooned, three vinyl singles and a copy of the album on CD as well.
FRANK IERO RELEASES DEBUT ALBUM
Former My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero will release the debut album by his new project Frnkiero And The Cellabration on August 29 via Cooking Vinyl Records. It’s titled Stomachaches, and Iero says, “In late 2012 I started to experience an increase in my already painful digestive issues and my creative side started to wither under the weight of not ever feeling well. I turned my basement office into a makeshift studio and every time I felt the pain coming on I’d go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for. I’ve always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record. But this was different. These songs, they were all mine. They started inside me as these wretched stomachaches and I had to dig them out of me in order to survive. They were my disease and ultimately became my cure.” Iero plays every instrument on the 12-track album except for drums, which were handled by Jarrod Alexander.
TOUR ALERT: SLAVES
Former Dance Gavin Dance and Emarosa frontman Jonny Craig has added another arrow in his musical quiver with the formation of Slaves featuring Hands In Heart guitarist Alex Lyman. The band’s debut album Through Art We Are All Equals is out now via Faction/Sony Music and features the singles Starving For Friends featuring Pierce The Veils’ Vic Fuentes, and The Upgrade PT II. To coincide with the release, Slaves will hit Australia in October, including the Evelyn Hotel on Friday October 10. Tickets from oztix.com.au
SAVE THE CLOW TOWER DEBUT OUT NOW
Tasmania’s greatest Hardcore export Save The Clow Tower have released a video clip for the first single, These Diseases, which you can seek out on YouTube. It comes from the highly anticipated debut album Wasteland, which is out now via Faction/Sony. The band has just wrapped their successful Australian tour with French metal giants Betraying The Martyrs.
ACE FREHLEY TO INVADE YOUR SPACE
Legendary KISS Spaceman and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Ace Frehley will release Space Invader, his first new solo album in five years, via Entertainment One Music (eOne Music) on Tuesday August 19. The album will include at least nine brand new original songs as well as a cover of Steve Miller’s The Joker. This album is the first release under Frehley’s new universal deal on eOne Music. “Life on Earth has been very good to me, and the body of work I’ve created over the years has withstood the test of time,” Ace says. “Today I see no obstacles before me and my creativity has never been more fine tuned. Growing up in an alien world has enhanced my senses and allowed me to succeed where others would have failed. The best is yet to come!”
