THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO MELBOURNE
Desert Highways and Brewtality Festival have announced the return of Perth’s demons from across the desert, The Devil Rides Out. The WAMI award winning West Coast riff lords recently celebrated their 10th Anniversary in their hometown and now they’re taking that party on the road with a national tour to celebrate a decade of spilled beers and damaged ears. It marks their first Melbourne shows since 2011, with an appearance at Brewtality Festival on Saturday August 6 preceded by their own sideshow at The Old Bar on Friday August 5. The Devil will perform a career-spanning set, from the stoner rock’n’roll of the early Volume EPs right through to the crushing doom blues of their most recent release Ugly Creatures. Special guests will be the mighty Mammoth Mammoth, fellow West Coast doom dealers OHM RUNE and openers Two Headed Dog.
THE CONTINUATION OF THE RETURN OF SKANKCHASER
Reunited Melbourne nu-metal/rapcore band Skankchaser are back with new song Today Is My Day and an accompanying raw in-the-studio video. You can hear it – and Beat Em’ On The Scoreboard, released back in May – on their triple j Unearthed page.
APOCALYPTICA SUPPORTS ANNOUNCED
After blowing away crowds with their dynamic and heart stopping shows on Soundwave 2015, Finnish classical-metal maestros Apocalyptica will be returning for a headline tour this September, and tour supports are now confirmed. Sydney progressive post-rock proponents We Lost The Sea are special guests for all shows nationwide, while Melbourne also gets the mighty Sydonia. See them at the Prince of Wales on Friday September 23. Tickets on sale through Destroy All Lines.
NEW FFDP VIDEO
Five Finger Death Punch has unveiled the video for their next single I Apologize. From their sixth studio album, Got Your Six, the chilling clip follows Ivan Moody through a cemetery housing our era’s most notable deceased rock icons, from Elvis Presley to Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse to Jimi Hendrix.
BREWTALITY: A CELEBRATION OF METAL, ROCK & BEER
Brewtality is a massive event featuring 33 bands across three stages in two of Melbourne’s most iconic venues, The Tote and The Bendigo Hotel. And it’s back on Saturday August 6. The event has sold out each year so take advantage of the presale discount and grab a ticket now so you don’t miss out. Get a load of this line-up: Fireballs, Dreadnaught (Launch Tour), Orpheus Omega, Heaven The Axe, Southeast Desert Metal (NT), Darker Half (NSW), Frankenbok, Colossvs, The Levitation Hex (ACT), Black Like Vengeance, Decimatus, Suiciety, Seedy Jeezus, Join The Amish, Odiusembowel, The Charge, The Devil Rides Out (WA), Coffin Wolf, The Hidden Venture, Hostile Objects (NSW), Sumeru (NSW), The Archaic Revival (NSW), Levitating Churches, Ohm Rune (Launch) (WA), Kyzer Soze (QLD), Daemon Pyre, Annihilist, The FckUps, Little Lamb & The Rosemarys, Hailgun, The Sleepless, Stay Sharp, Rathead.
KAT O RESIDENCY
Kat O is starting a residency every Thursday from August 4 at Mr BoogieMan Bar during Happy Hour (5.30-7.30) Free entry, cheap drinks, cool tunes.
PRAY TV ARE BACK
After 20 years in suspended animation, Melbourne cult indie band Pray TV have woken, dusted off their old guitars, and recorded a new album entitled Horizontal Life. Individually, lives have changed. Collectively, everything is the same. Musically, they’ve threaded their shoegaze meets Husker Du strands of melancholic regret rock into the best album from 1996 but recorded in 2015, and it’s due to be released this year. The band will be launching the album on Saturday September 10 at Grace Darling Hotel with a special reformation support from Australian indie band TheGlorybox. $10 Entry, doors at 8.30pm.
MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW
You can read about the Melbourne Guitar Show (at Caulfield Racecourse, Saturday August 6 and Sunday August 7) elsewhere in this issue but here’s a reminder that if you’d like to drop by and talk metal, guitar, whatever, I’ll be there, performing a Professor Guitar clinic 4pm Saturday at Cafe Corner on the Ground Level. I’ll be playing some of my proggy shreddy metal stuff and stomping on some Seymour Duncan pedals.
