Melbourne’s heavy experimental creatives Orsome Welles release their long-awaited new EP, Rise, on Friday May 26, and will hit the road to support it in June and July. Rise has been a long time coming, with its first two singles Build A World and Maestro released towards the end of 2016. Both songs caused quite a stir among industry and fans alike with their striking videos being produced by acclaimed film-maker. See them on Saturday July 8 at The Evelyn.
Ill Nino are heading back to Australia to play their landmark album Revolution Revolucion in full. Joining them are Terror Universal, the horror-metal act featuring current and former members of Ill Nino, Machine Head and Soulfly. See them at Max Watts on Saturday August 5. Tickets on sale Wednesday April 5 and the first 300 tickets sold in each city include an exclusive two-song download of unreleased songs from Revolution Revolucion.
Melbourne’s Desecrator hit the road for a national tour in support of their debut album To The Gallows. Joining them are Adelaide’s Hidden Intent, who have just signed to Extreme Management Group. Desecrator’s sound has been compared to early Testament, Death Angel and Sacred Reich, rooted in classic thrash but branching into modern territory. They’ll play The Loft on Wednesday April 26, The Eastern on Thursday April 27, Barwon Club on Friday April 28 and Bendigo Hotel on Saturday April 29.
Between The Buried And Me will release Coma Ecliptic Live on Friday April 28. Filmed at The Observatory North Park in San Diego in October last year, it captures the band playing their Coma Ecliptic album in its entirety, and will be available on CD, DVD and Blu-ray as well as digitally. “The genesis of the Coma Ecliptic filming was based around capturing the look and feel of the show our lighting director Chris Hill produced for the full album set,” bass player Dan Briggs says. “It’s such an important record for us and our progression as a band and the visual representation captures the moods of our tragic tale so well. It’s the perfect way to wrap up the last two years we’ve been living with this album day in and day out.”
Comedian Don Jamieson is well known in metal circles through That Metal Show, and his material is heavily metal-oriented. And that’s why his comedy albums are released on the legendary Metal Blade Records. His latest is Communication Breakdown, out on Friday April 21. Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine supplies Jamieson ‘s intro music too.
