Firewind have released a video for Embrace the Sun, from last year’s Days of Defiance album.
And here’s the making of:
This is so wrong. Annihilator‘s Jeff Waters wrote a song for his kids. And now there is a video for it.
Red Fang have released a new song, titled Dirt Wizard, off their forthcoming album Murder The Mountains. Listen to it streaming here:
The only song of theirs I had heard before was Prehistoric Dog, mostly due to its wonderful video…
Murder The Mountains will get an April 12 US release and is available for pre-order from Relapse Records.
Either High on Fire are one of the unluckiest bands on the planet, or they’re more metal than anything we’ve ever encountered before on this earth.
In sixteen days, they’ve survived two devastating earthquakes across the globe. The first was in Christchurch (NZ), and the other yesterday (followed by a tsunami) while they were in Tokyo.
Sucks to be them.
Like the previous Monster Magnet album 4 Way Diablo, the new one didn’t exactly blow me away on the first listen or two. Although it did seem that there is more variety in the songs this time around, sometimes invoking more of a feel of their older more stoner type of approach.
After a few listens it still hadn’t really clicked with me and when I played a track recently (one of the bonus tracks on the version I have) on the Anger Management show I commented that when I select a bonus track as the first track to play, then that might be a telling sign that the album isn’t all that special.
But some more listens later and I’m backtracking on that a bit. It is a very good album, and as mentioned previously nicely diverse compared to recent efforts. On the downside, only two songs stick in my head – Dig That Hole and Gods And Punks. Also the delivery of the main line from the track Perish In Fire, “I’ve got three words for you now / Perish in fire”.
It still doesn’t rate up with what I think was their last great album, Monolithic Baby! That one is definitely buy or die in my book, and the best of the four albums since Powertrip.
Sad pants all around. According to Blabbermouth, Saxon have pulled out of Soundwave due to issues with recording their new album, Call To Arms.
Thus spake the band: “We are, unfortunately, forced to cancel our Australia trip due scheduling problems with the new album recordings.
“We apologize for cancelling but due to the bad weather conditions we had in the U.K. during the recording sessions we have suffered various delays and we can’t just drop the production and leave — we have producers booked and mix engineers waiting to finish the album, which is titled ‘Call To Arms’.
“We have looked at this from all sides, but too many people are involved so we have made the choice to finish the album and we apologize again.
“We hope you can understand that we have not made this decision lightly.“
According to Blabbermouth, High on Fire are touring Australia and NZ with The Melvins.
Tour dates are:
- Feb. 20 – Dunedin, NZ @ ReFuel (w/ THE MELVINS)
- Feb. 21 – Christchurch, NZ @ Al’s Bar (w/ THE MELVINS)
- Feb. 22 – Wellington, NZ @ Bodega (w/ THE MELVINS)
- Feb. 23 – Auckland, NZ @ Whammy Bar
- Feb. 24 – Auckland, NZ @ Whammy Bar
- Feb. 26 – Brisbane, AUS @ RNA Showgrounds (*Soundwave)
- Feb. 27 – Sydney, AUS @ Sydney Showgrounds (*Soundwave)
- Mar. 01 – Brisbane, AUS @ HiFi (Trash Talk & Kylesa support)
- Mar. 02 – St. Kilda, AUS @ Gershwin Room @ Esplanade Hotel (TRASH TALK, KYLESA support)
- Mar. 04 – Melbourne, AUS @ Melbourne Showgrounds (*Soundwave)
- Mar. 05 – Adelaide, AUS @ Bonython Park Oval (*Soundwave)
- Mar. 07 – Perth, AUS @ Claremont Showgrounds (*Soundwave)
- Mar. 09 – Osaka, Japan @ Club Quattro (w/ THE MELVINS)
- Mar. 10 – Nagoya, Japan @ Club Quattro (w/ THE MELVINS)
- Mar. 11 – Tokyo, Japan @ O-East (w/ THE MELVINS)
They’re in Australia for the Soundwave festival, so have decided to hop over here (and Japan) for a bunch of gigs. Quite frankly, 5 gigs amazes me. I can’t really say I’m a fan, but I like their music enough to check them out live.
Tickets can be got from Under the Radar.
edit: According to Under the Radar, tour dates in New Zealand are:
- Feb 19 – Kings Arms, Auckland (with Melvins)
- Feb 20 – Re Fuel, Dunedin (with Melvins)
- Feb 21 – Al’s Bar, Christchurch (with Melvins)
- Feb 22 – Bodega, Wellington (with Melvins)
- Feb 23 – Whammy Bar, Auckland (with Melvins and Kylesa)
Just caught up on this news today.
From the same fine people bring Motorhead and Uriah Heep to Australia in March/April, Nevermore is now playing across Aussie in June.
http://www.redanttouring.com/current_tours_and_events_nevermore.html
For some reason (probably for the purposes of marketing spin) their writeup say Nevermore hasn’t been down under since 1999, but I saw them in Melbourne on the This Godless Endeavour tour which was much more recent than that.
Tickets on sale this Friday (11th Feb) and they will be available via the e-ticket option which is good news as OxTix don’t post tickets overseas.
Here’s a couple of videos posted to Facebook of Nevermore playing recently on the 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise…
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1885391974158&oid=72664247480
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1885452215664&oid=72664247480
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