PRONG TOUR
US metal favourites Prong will tour Australia for the first time ever this coming November for Nightmare Music. Founded by singer/guitarist Tommy Victor in 1986, the band has never made it to Australia at any point in their 28-year career, but all that is about to change. “I personally haven’t been there with any other band or on a trip,” Victor says. “I’ve only heard great things about the place. So it’s wonderful to have the opportunity to get down there. Finally.” Prong has cast a long shadow; bands like Korn, Slipknot and Nine Inch Nails openly acknowledge their influence. New album Ruining Lives is the follow-up to the acclaimed 2012 release Carved Into Stone and continues to show the band on an upward trajectory, proving that despite having a long, illustrious career Prong can still make records that matter and re-invent themselves without negating their roots. They’ll be at The Hi-Fi on Friday November 21.
KING PARROT DOMINATION OF THE WORLD CONTINUES UNABATED
Congratulations to the mighty King Parrot: after recently being added to the Punk Rock But Kinda Not tour in December across the North American West Coast with Down, Orange Goblin and Bl’ast, King Parrot will hit the US East Coast in October to make sure their growing fan base on this side of the continent don’t miss out, starting with Canadian dates and including the Metal Sucks CMJ showcase in New York and Housecore Horrorfest in Austin, Texas.
Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Rufus Thomas Jnr., Howlin’ Wolf and many more all launched their careers at the famous Sun Studios in Memphis. Sun Rising pays homage to these artists and Sun owner/producer Sam Phillips with a critically acclaimed show that has been selling out across the country. Catch them at the Thornbury Theatre on Saturday October 4.
SLAVES AT THE EVELYN
Former Dance Gavin Dance and Emarosa front man 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 and SLAVES will be hitting Australia in October. Catch them at The Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy on Friday October 10. Tickets from oztix.com.au.
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME
Between The Buried and Me will launch their first ever Blu-ray release on Friday October 3 via Metal Blade/Rocket. The video features interviews with each band member and a live recording of The Parallax II: Future Sequence performed in its entirety. Additionally, both the DVD and Blu-ray versions include an audio CD of the performance. To whet the appetite of fans who may be wondering just how the in-studio performance with guest musicians looks, Extremophile Elite has been released in its entirety at metalblade.com/btbam.
SEPULTURA THIS WEEK!
Final warning! Catch Sepultura at 170 Russell (ex-Billboard) on Friday October 3. The band is touring on the back of their incredible album The Mediator Between The Head And Hands Must Be The Heart. Tickets are only $59 plus booking fee from metropolistouring.com.
NEW PINK FLOYD GETS RELEASE DATE
Pink Floyd has announced the release date for new album The Endless River. Originally slated for October, it’s now been confirmed for Monday November 10. The album is based on sessions from 1994 around the time of the recording of The Division Bell, and the album originally started life as an ambient instrumental set called The Big Spliff. Guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason have gone back to the recordings and finished them up, and the late Rick Wright appears on the tracks
NEW CANNIBAL CORPSE VIDEO
Cannibal Corpse has unveiled the official new video for Kill Or Become from their monstrous new album A Skeletal Domain. Shot at Kelly’s Hideaway in Seffner, Florida and directed by critically-lauded videographer David Brodsky of MyGoodEye (Goatwhore, Hell Yeah, Whitechapel, Municipal Waste), the zombie-strewn, nightmarishly awesome clip fluctuates from colour and black and white and offers up a delicious visual inundation of blood, guts and gastric fluids.
SLASH IN TOWN
The mighty Slash will be at the Workers Club in Fitzroy on Wednesday October 1 for one-off hour-long Q and A session at the Live Lodge. Good luck finding tickets though ‘cos it sold out pretty much instantly. He won’t be performing any music but he’ll be answering all your questions with his trademark honesty.
