Crunch! – October 10, 2012
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Crunch! – October 10, 2012

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Steel Panther Destroy Melbourne

As I write this, it’s Monday morning and I’m still recovering from the massive night that was Steel Panther. A few of us media folk were lucky enough to get bundled off in a stretch Hummer to get warmed up for the festivities with a few glasses of bubbly while the new Steel Panther DVD The British Invasionplayed at skull-crushing volume. Then we stopped off at Massive Wienerson Greville St, then to the band’s penthouse party. They were all there, and [redacted] because they were all [redacted] but then [redacted]. The drink of the evening? Pink marshmallows with champagne or vodka poured on them. And then of course, the concert, which was massive, hilarious, pornstar-laden, filthy, and everything else you’d ever want from a rock show. The response was so huge that a very strong case could be made for making Steel Panther tours a quarterly event. Please?

Gig Alert: Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Zebrahead

Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger and Zebrahead are headed this way for shows in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Reel Big Fish’s latest is Candy Coated Fury, and Zebrahead are promoting Get Nice!, an album that frontman Ali Tabatabee says “…will definitely win a Nobel Peace Prize, get you a raise, and get your girlfriend pregnant all at the same time. It’s that good.” Goldfinger will be playing their circle-pit-baiting classics. They’ll be at The Palace on Sunday December 2. Tickets are on sale Thursday October 11 at 9am from Oztix, Oztix outlets and Ticketek.

Nightwish Singer Drama: Floor Takes The Floor

One of the biggest stories in metal this past week has been the turmoil withinNightwish, with vocalist Anette Olzon out, and Floor Jansen (ReVamp, ex-After Forever) stepping in suddenly to complete the Imaginarium world tour. Jansen has revealed she was already preparing to take over for dates in November, December and January, although it’s unclear if this was to be a temporary thing, since it was pretty widely known that Olzon was having some health problems. Olzon missed a show last week due to her health, and she reacted pretty negatively (and publicly) to the band bringing in some guest singers to complete that night’s show, and after one show back with the band she was out. There’s no word yet on whether Jansen is a permanent replacement or not, but the videos all over YouTube are pretty fucking impressive, so I hope she’s given the job full-time.

At The Gates Supports Announced

Reformed Swedish death metal legends (wait, should that be ‘reactivated’? ‘Reformed’ makes it sound like they’ve had therapy sessions to stop being death metal) At The Gates are touring next month, and the supports have just been announced for each city. Here in Melbourne we get Be’Lakor andEye Of The Enemy. If you’re wondering, Brisbane gets The Fevered and In Death, Sydney has Katabasis and As Silence Breaks, and Perth has I Am Eternal and Befallen. The Melbourne show is at Billboard on Friday November 2, and tickets are on sale now from Moshtix, Moshtix outlets including Polyester Records and Fist2Face, and Ticketek.

Gig Alert: Bag O’ Nails

Check out the mighty Bag O’Nails playing some dirty filthy blues at the St Kilda RSL (Level 1, 88 Acland St) on Friday October 12 from 8pm!

Baby Animals In The Studio

Follow Baby Animals on Twitter at @TheBabyAnimals for updates on the recording of their new album! For individual band updates, Dave Leslie is @daveleslie64 and Suze DeMarchi is @chksingr.

Gig Alert: High Side Driver

High Side Driver are at the Gershwin Room at The Espy on Thursday October 11, fresh from the triumphant August launch of their new single See You Next Tuesday at The Evelyn. Also along for the ride: Royal Ace, Hotel on Mayfair, This Weather and Pigtails.

Fuck The Politics Festival

This Saturday night at The Espy is the massive Fuck The Politics festival. The lineup includes Lord, Make Them Suffer, As Silence Breaks, Boris The Blade, Electrik Dynamite, Widow The Sea, Save The Clocktower, The Rose Line, Dead City Ruins, Bury The Fallen, Caulfield, Redemption Denied and Krematorium Defiled. Tickets on sale now through Oztix.

Jake E Lee Returns

One of the biggest WTFs in metal history is the fact that Jake E Lee isn’t king of the world. It seemed like he would be, when he was guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne in the mid-‘80s, and his band Badlands were pretty badass, but after that Jake just never seemed to make that push to stay up there with his contemporaries. Well now he’s working on a new album with producer Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, Five Finger Death Punch) and he’s looking for a lead vocalist to sing one track on the album and to undertake a world tour starting in 2013. Why only one track? Because he’s already got Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Paul Di’Anno (ex-Iron Maiden) and Maria Brink(In This Moment) recorded, and there are other big names attached to the project too. The idea seems similar in spirit to Slash’s first solo album, where he had various guest vocalists and took one (Myles Kennedy) on the road.