WIN! MINISTRY DVD!
Fix: The Ministry Movie shoves your arse way, way backstage with the industrial pioneers Ministry, and it ain’t pretty. Featuring Ministry’s Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker as well as Trent Reznor (NIN), Maynard Keenan (Tool), Jonathan Davis (Korn), Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers), Ogre Nivek (Skinny Puppy), Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), David Yow (Jesus Lizard), Lemmy (Motorhead), Buzzo (The Melvins) and Timothy Leary, the film is a warts-and-all – okay, mostly warts – exposure of the backstage and onstage shenanigans, particularly during the 1997 Sphinctour. It also comes with a bonus CD copy of Barker’s album FIX THIS!! which includes collaborations with Skinny Puppy, Puscifer, Revolting Cocks and more. I’ve got three copies to give away. To win, answer this question: which Black Sabbath song did Jourgensen’s 1000 Homo DJs side project perform on the 1994 Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity In Black? Email [email protected] with your answer for your chance to win. Winners will be announced in this column on Wednesday December 11.
METAL GENESIS CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY. LOUDLY.
PBS 106.7 FM’s Metal Genesis is celebrating five glorious years on air with a birthday bash to rival all others. Showcasing the best of our city’s metal crew, Mason, Demonhead, Seppuku, Party Vibez and Atomic Death Squad, plus special guests all the way from NSW, Disintergrator, your eardrums will be pleasantly blasted for one night at The Reverence on Saturday December 7. If you’re a PBS member, don’t forget to flash your card at the door for a special member’s price of $10. Doors from 6pm til late. Metal Genesis gives exposure to the pioneers of metal in the traditional sense, playing lots of the old school metal sounds from the AOR, glam and NWOBHM era, as well as playing local Aussie talent.
PAUL LAINE (EX-DANGER DANGER) AT CHERRY
Canadian solo performer Paul Laine (solo, ex-Danger Danger, Shugaazer) is performing at Cherry Bar on Tuesday December 3. This is Paul’s first ever show in Australia and a one-off Melbourne gig. Definitely a one for all fans of melodic/heavy/glam rock, as he’ll be playing songs from his career thus far. Support band The Radio Sun will also make their Australian debut after playing two showcase shows at the recent Melodicrock Fest that took place in Chicago a few months back. Paul Laine recently completed work on producing The Radio Sun’s debut album which is due out in 2014. Doors open at 7pm. Entry is $20.
TOUR REMINDER: ROTTING CHRIST
Rotting Christ will headline HEAVY Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary show HEAVYFEST in Sydney and Melbourne, with the addition of a headlining show in Brisbane. Touring nationally with Rotting Christ are Sydney’s extreme music terrorists The Amenta and Melbourne’s blackened horde Terra Australis. It’s Rotting Christ’s first ever Australian headline tour and it’ll see them playing material from many of their cult albums including their latest, Kata ton Daimona Eaytoy, which fittingly translates roughly to True To Your Own Spirit. They’ll be at The Hi-Fi on Friday January 17.
THE RETURN OF ABSU
Cult mythological metal warriors Absu will return to conquer Australia once again in March 2014. Joining them on the crusade will be none other than legends from the abyss Portal and blackened death metal overlords Denouncement Pyre. They’ll be at The Hi-Fi on Friday March 21, tix from the venue.
MELBOURNE-FILMED SABBATH DVD OUT NOW
The new Black Sabbath DVD Live… Gathered in Their Masses is out now, and it’s a must-have. Filmed at the band’s two Melbourne shows earlier this year, it features four new tracks from the album 13 as well as all the expected Sabbath classics (even instrumental teasers of Symptom Of The Universe and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, songs that are now out of Ozzy Osbourne’s vocal range but which are still very welcome in instrumental form). There are some lovely shots of our fair city too. By the way, I recently dug out 13 again after not listening to it for about three or four months and it’s great to hear that it really holds up once the ‘whoa, new album, fricken sweet’ buzz wears off.
LAST ACOUSTIC ROCKSHOW FOR THE YEAR
The lineup for the fortnightly Acoustic Rockshow at Edwards Place (48-50 Edwardes St Reservoir) this Saturday night is Jason McNear, Drop That Rabbit, The Mightly Kings and Slingshot. Starts at 8pm and entry is free. This will be the last Acoustic Rockshow show for the year and they hope to be back early February next year support live, local and Aussie music.
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