Death Audio Wins Bmusic Grant
Congratulations to Death Audio, who have won the Bmusic Hard Rock/Metal Grant. Bmusic is a music store from Gawler, South Australia, who cater to everyone but seem especially tapped into the rock and metal scenes. They’ve offered a non-repayable grant of $1,500 to an Australian band, as well as a DR Strings endorsement, Seymour Duncan guitar pickups, a TASCAM DR-680 8-track portable digital recorder and MXR pedals. Death Audio’s self-titled album is out now, as is their video for the song Fallen Souls.
The Caning Cane The Prince
The Caning bring their proto-metal clutch of riffs to the Prince Of Wales Public Bar this Saturday, a stage which is so new it still has the swing tags on it. That’s right, the Prince Public Bar is hosting live music again after a long, long hiatus. Joining them is the pop-rock-with-attitude of Berlin Postmark and science fiction grunge merchants The Pass Outs. Free entry.
King Parrot Bite Your Head Off
King Parrot are winding the year up by launching their new album Bite Your Head Off on vinyl at The Tote on Saturday December 1. This version of Bite Your Head Off is made up of the 11 tracks on the CD version and all of the tracks from the 2011 EP The Stench of Hardcore Pub Trash as well as a bonus track and download card. The Tote will explode in a sea of sweat, beer and bodily fluid as this heavyweight lineup swaggers onto the stage consisting of Extortion, The Day Everything Became Nothing and Internal Nightmare in support.
Otep Hits Town
LA alternative metal activists Otep hit Australia in 2013. Led by artist, activist and intellectual loudmouth Otep Shamaya, Otep have been producing their own brand of uncompromising alternative metal since 2000. Tickets are on sale on April 29 at 9am, and the show is on April 26 at The Hi-Fi with special guests Darkc3ll.
Sun Records Tribute Rocks Cherry
Sun Records tribute show Sun Rising will celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Sun Records on Saturday December 15 at Cherry Bar. Designed to inform and educate the audience as well rocking them senseless, Sun Rising takes the infamous tales and hilarious anecdotes from the Sun artists (such as Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King, Howlin’ Wolf, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash) and its creator, Sam Phillips, and walks the audience through a chronological tour of Memphis’ famed Sun Records. Aside from the Cherry gig, they’re also at the Palais, Hepburn Springs on Friday December 14 and at the Ballarat Beat Rockabilly Festival on February 15, 16 and 17.
This Week’s Geoff Tate News
I dunno if you’re all tired of this Geoff Tate stuff or not, but seriously, it’s like a soap opera or something. Metal hasn’t had a saga like this since… wait, metal’s never had a saga like this. The latest is that guitarist Glen Drover (Megadeth, King Diamond, Testament, Eidolon) has just quit Tate’s version of Queensryche before playing a single gig. “I am really sorry to say that I have decided to bow out of Geoff Tate’s Queensryche,” Drover says. “I was very excited about doing this gig initially, but learned in the past week or so that it’s in my best interest not to do this right now. I feel really bad for those who were excited about the idea, and to Geoff himself, who, I have to say, was very nice to me on my past trip to Seattle. I, of course, am very disappointed for arriving at this point, and making this decision, to say the least. I sincerely wish the Geoff and the band all the luck on what they do in the future.”
