KILL TV AT GODDESS #7
Did you catch Kill TV‘s debut gig the other week? If not, they’re playing Goddess #7 on Saturday September 14 at The Flying Saucer Lounge in Elsternwick. Doors open at 7:30pm and the lineup also includes The Night Sky, Thrasher Jynx, Jessabella (burlesque), Fiona Lee Maynard & Her Holy Men, Suzie Stapleton Duo and Noir.
MAXX12 GO WILD
Check out Maxx12‘s video for Wild Years (a song produced by the late great Ronnie Montrose). In the words of the band: “Hello Rock n Rollers. Do U remember your Wild Years? Now here is a tune that will put You into a reflective spirit of your energized foot-loose and fancy free yester-years.”
CAPTAIN CLEANOFF/THE KILL SPLIT “7 LAUNCH
Got some frickin’ stuff coming up at The Bendigo Hotel in Collingwood this Saturday September 14, which is an alarmingly consistent habit for The Bendigo if you ask me. Kicking off at 8pm is a monster lineup of Captain Cleanoff and The Kill launching their split 7″ together, Join The Amish, Split Teeth and Acid Vain.
NEW SATYRICON
This week black metal masters Satyricon release their new self-titled album via Roadrunner. I had a chat with main-man Satyr about it and he has this to say: “It’s analogue production with an awful lot of emphasis on getting an authentic, organic sound with a great dynamic range where the performance of the musician comes across in terms of actually breathing life into the song through the lows coming down really low and quiet, and the really explosive epic parts really coming across as powerful and huge. And to me it just means to play this record repeatedly on a good stereo without colouring the sound with your own EQ. Just leave everything in neutral so you can actually hear what the record sounds like the way that it was made. I also think that due to the fact that it has so many tiny little details here and there – whether it’s the mellotron or the harmonium or the piano or the acoustic guitars or the theremin, all these little instruments that have their small features here and there that are introduced in a subtle way – to me it’s more that than where you find yourself physically. It’s how you listen to it.”
ROTTING CHRIST HEADLINE HEAVYFEST
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. With an illustrious career spanning over 25 years and hailed as one of the most forward thinking bands in extreme music, Greek metal legends Rotting Christ will anoint our shores for their first ever headlining tour of Australia in January. Renowned for their unparalleled, intense and supreme live show and for having a wealth of classic back catalogue material to perform, the opportunity to witness Rotting Christ in the flesh is not missed by any metal fan. They’re at The Hi-Fi on Saturday January 18.
NEW TRIVIUM VIDEO
Trivium releases Vengeance Falls on Friday October 11, and this week they’ve released the official video for the song Strife. The album was produced by David Draiman of Disturbed, and guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy says “Vengeance Falls is the culmination of everything we’ve gone through; the representation of struggle endured from within and experienced from the world. Every failure and every success has led us to this moment. Vengeance Falls is this moment in time”
MELVINS & HELMET
Oh holy crap, this has got to be one of the greatest tours of the year. Melvins (celebrating their 30th year) and Helmet (celebrating being awesome, probably) are joining up for a December tour that sees them playing approximately 90 billion shows across the country. They’ll be at the Meredith Music Festival on Saturday December 14, of course, and they’ll be playing plenty of shows together in places like Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Newcaste and Byron Bay. But in Melbourne they’re taking a night each to lay waste to The Hi-Fi, with Melvins on Tuesday December 17 and Helmet on Wednesday December 18.
GUS G’S FIREWIND ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER OZ TOUR
Greek guitar virtuoso Gus G – known by many as the guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and by his tenures in Dream Evil, Nightrage and as a touring player with Arch Enemy – is bringing his legendary power metal band Firewind to Australia for the first time ever this October and November, presented by Metropolis Touring and Tombowler. The Apotheosis Across Australia 2013 tour rolls into Melbourne on Sunday November 3 at the Corner Hotel. Tickets are only $59 plus booking fee and are available from metropolistouring.com.
VEARA RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM
Augusta, Georgia’s own Veara returns with a new album Growing Up Is Killing Me, out on Tursday September 24 on Epitaph Records. This is the follow-up to their 2010 debut release What We Left Behind, and it’ll give them plenty of new material to play when they hit town for the Vans Warped Tour on Saturday December 7. Inspired by bands like No Doubt and Foo Fighters who have found their own sound without being pigeonholed into one genre, Growing Up Is Killing Me was recorded with Dan Korneff (Pierce The Veil, My Chemical Romance, Paramore). Patrick Bambrick states: “When we say Growing Up Is Killing Me it relates to the fact that you don’t have the same outlook on Christmas morning when you’re 28 as you did when you were eight years old. We’re not judging those feelings but sometimes it hurts to see those types of experiences change and watch time go by so quickly as you get older.”
