ACE OF SPADES AT WHO CLUB
Motorhead tribute band Ace of Spades are playing at the Who Club in Warburton on Saturday July 2 with Alice In Chains tribute Alice Remains, their first with new guitarist Matto Carroll. The band has plenty more gigs on the horizon, including their first birthday in October where they’ll be playing the classic No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith album in full.
STEVEN WILSON RETURNS
Grammy nominated gosh-darned musical genius Steven Wilson returns to Australia in October for a run of shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. His last visit in 2013 was an elaborate production and audio visual experience which received rave reviews. Early 2015 saw the release of the concept album Hand. Cannot. Erase. – a mesmerising, labyrinthine tale hewn from a vivid blend of fact and fiction. Catch him at 170 Russell on Friday October 28. Tickets available at tombowler.com.au
RE-LIVE WACKEN
‘Louder than hell’ and ‘rain or shine’ are both Wacken Open Air festival slogans. It is a great festival that will return to enlighten 75,000 metalheads having the time of their summer. Live At Wacken 2015 – 26 Years Louder Than Hell will be released on August 5 – just in time for this year’s festival. The CD and DVD include Judas Priest, In Flames, Annihilator, Danko Jones, Uli Jon Roth, Death Angel, Sabaton, Europe, Armored Saint, Cannibal Corpse, My Dying Bride, Europe, Cradle Of Filth plus newcomers like Beyond The Black. It’s available in 2 DVD/2 CD DVD Digipack, 2 Blu-Ray / 2CD BR-Digipack, Standard Digital Audio (35 tracks) and Longform Video.
NEW PERIPHERY TRACK
Periphery have just released Flatline, another track from their forthcoming album Periphery III: Select Difficulty, which is released on July 22. “Periphery III: Select Difficulty is finally complete and we’re extremely excited to show everyone,” guitarist Jake Bowen says. “For the past couple of years we’ve been refining our collaborative process as a band and we feel that it’s only getting better with the completion of this album. We spent two months writing songs that are not only representative of the Periphery sound but also reflect where all of us are as musicians, working together has helped us tread new ground musically and creatively.”
NE Obliviscaris DRUM PLAYTHROUGH VIDEO
Ne Obliviscaris drummer Dan Presland has released a killer drum play through video of the band’s track Painters of the Tempest. Taken from the Australian dark progressive legend’s latest full-length, Citadel, the clip is streaming at Dan’s official YouTube channel.
NEW WHITECHAPEL VIDEO
Whitechapel has released their sixth full-length, Mark of the Blade, via Metal Blade/Rocket Distribution, accompanied by a video for the track Elitist Ones directed by Jim Foster. “As fans of Whitechapel, my entire team and I were stoked when Mike Faley [Metal Blade Records] asked me to write a treatment and direct for the band,” says Foster. “As a director, my job is always easier when the band is rippin’…and holy shit are these guys rippin’!”
DENNER/SHERMANN RELEASE ‘SON OF SATAN’ VIDEO
Denner/Shermann – yes, that’s Michael Denner and Hank Shermann of Mercyful Fate – are back with Masters of Evil, a crushing new album that continues right where the 2015 EP Satan’s Tomb left off. They’ve also unleashed a video for the track Son Of Satan. Based loosely on the movie The Omen, the song and video deliver an ominous dose of heavy metal music and imagery. “We chose this song to be the first video because musically, it is a song that really captures the entire essence of what this band is becoming,” Denner says. “The lyrics are also very vivid, and it fills your imagination with dark, sinister images and visions that [the] director captured perfectly.”
