Halestorm, Tenacious D, Beartooth, etc Added To Upcoming Guitar Hero Live


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More artists have come up as part of the forthcoming Guitar Hero Live video game, out this fall.

Halestorm – “Love Bites (So Do I)”
Tenacious D – “Tribute”
Beartooth – “I Have A Problem”
Pearl Jam – “Mind Your Manners”
Rise Against – “Tragedy + Time”
Soundgarden – “Been Away Too Long”
Anthrax – “Got The Time”
Architects – “Gravedigger”
Chevelle – “The Clincher”
A Day To Remember – “Right Back At It Again”

Songs already announced for the game include:
Deftones – “Diamond Eyes”
Marilyn Manson – “Disposable Teens”
The Black Keys – “Gold on the Ceiling”
Blitz Kids – “Sometimes”
Killswitch Engage – “In Due Time”
Mastodon – “High Road”
Bring Me The Horizon – “Shadow Moses”
Of Mice & Men – “Bones Exposed”
Trivium – “Strife”
System of a Down – “Chop Suey!”
Black Veil Brides – “In The End”
Rage Against the Machine – “Guerrilla Radio”
Judas Priest – “Breaking the Law”
Pantera – “Cowboys From Hell”
Royal Blood – “Little Monster”
Vista Chino – “Sweet Remain”
Marmozets – “Move Shake Hide”
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Higher Ground”
The Pretty Reckless – “Going to Hell”
Alter Bridge – “Cry of Achilles”
Ed Sheeran – “Sing”
Fall Out Boy – “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)”
Gary Clark, Jr. – “Don’t Owe You a Thang”
Green Day – “Nuclear Family”
The Killers – “When You Were Young”
The Lumineers – “Ho Hey”
My Chemical Romance – “Na Na Na”
Pierce the Veil – “King for a Day” (feat. Kellin Quinn)
The Rolling Stones – “Paint it Black”
Skrillex – “Bangarang”
The War on Drugs – “Under the Pressure”
Sleigh Bells – “Bitter Rivals”
Alt-J – “Left Hand Free”
Broken Bells – “Leave It Alone”


Palm Reader – Beside The Ones We Love


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Palm Reader are one of those bands who have been steadily bubbling under the surface in recent years. Their live shows have consistently impressed, and often outshine anything they’ve put down on record. Now whilst this is the common view with Palm Reader, wait until you hear Beside The Ones We Love (In At The Deep End). It may be considered a bit of a dark horse, but this is almost certainly looking like one of the albums of the year. Similar to the Architects release last year, this truly could be the album to explode them above surface and into the consciousness of a far larger audience.

Fundamentally the band are often tagged under the ‘Hardcore’ scene, but as soon as you throw this record on and ‘I Watched The Fire Chase My Tongue’ explodes into an absolute onslaught of noise you’ll immediately begin to draw comparisons to the Mathcore style of The Dillinger Escape Plan. That is because Palm Reader haven’t just produced stuff similar to what they’ve done before, they’ve taken their sound, expanded on it and struck absolute gold.

It doesn’t really let up either as ‘Pedant’ and ‘By The Ground We’ve Defined’ keep it rolling and pummelling into your face. Creatively on this record, Palm Reader have gone completely beyond what they’ve done in the past. You’ll listen back to this album a lot, not only because it is absolutely brilliant, but because with each listen you’ll still be surprised by each little twist and all the nuances, it constantly changes path down a road you don’t expect. Again this will easily ignite comparisons to the great Dillinger Escape Plan, but this album is that good, it truly is of that level. Because even despite all the frenzied powerful riffs throwing you all over the place there are still really anthemic chest pumping moments, most notably on ‘Sing Out, Survivor’.

When a band begins to build hype, and you’re not absolutely convinced on what they’re able to do to live up to it, there is no better feeling than hearing said band release a record which grabs that hype and throws a grenade in its mouth. Palm Reader’s stock will rise with the release of Beside The Ones We Love and it is absolutely what they deserve.

A phenomenal record from an extremely talented band.

 

9.0/10

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TOM DONNO


Tuska Music Festival Adds More Bands, Tickets On Sale Now


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Finland’s #1 metal festival of summertime, Tuska 2015, has announced a slew of new acts to join the bill. Among the additions are Stormwarrior, Architects, Alfa Hanne, Dr. Living Dead!, Mokoma, Alfa Hanne, At The Hollow, Tryer, The Cold War, Adamantra and many more to come. The show takes place June 26th to June 28th in Suvilahti, Helsinki.

 Single day tickets and passes are on sale now from the festival website, with VIP packages to be announced soon. The full bill will be announced later this spring with the line-up for each day so far

Friday June 26th
Sabaton, Lamb Of God, Architects, Exodus, Krokodil, Blues Pills, Ghost Brigade, Alfa Hanne, Enforcer, Foreseen, Death Toll 80k, Ape

Saturday, June 27th
In Flames, Amorphis, Loudness, Ne Obliviscaris, Bloodbath, The Sword, Einherjer, Bombus, Atomic Rotta, Morbid Evils, Tryer, Red Moon Architect, Adamantra, Dark Side Of The Mime

Sunday June 28th

Alice Cooper, Opeth, Stratovarius, Stormwarrior, The Sirens, Warmen, Dr. Living Dead !, At The Hollow, The Cold War

For more information:
http://www.tuska-festival.fi
http://www.fme.fi
http://www.facebook.com/TuskaOpenAir
https://twitter.com/tuskafestival
http://instagram.com/tuskafestival


Deez Nuts Streaming “What’s Good?” Music Video


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Deez Nuts is streaming their music video for “What’s Good?,” here, off their new album Word Is Bond, out April 21, 2015 in North America and April 27, 2015 in Europe via Century Media Records.

 

Word Is Bond showcases frontman JJ Peters at his most real. It’s a short, sharp shock of pure honesty delivered in inimitable old-school style, and shouts loud and proud that Peters, guitarist Matt ‘RealBad’ Rogers, bassist Sean Kennedy and drummer Alex Salinger are here to stay. The half Melbourne / half New York City based four piece has been touring the world constantly for seven years, becoming one of the most well know hardcore bands Australia has ever produced.

And sure, Deez Nuts still go harder than any other motherfucker in the room but now, with Word Is Bond – their fourth album, produced by Andrew Neufeld (Comeback Kid) and Shane Frisby (The Ghost Inside, Bury Your Dead), Peters is confronting exactly what happens when the party stops. And with a little help from his boys Drew York (Stray From The Path, who also guests on ‘Party At The Hill’) and Sam Carter (Architects), he decided to open up like never before.

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DEEZ NUTS – Word Is Bond – track listing:

1. Word
2. Yesterday [feat. Dre Faivre]
3. Pour Up
4. What’s Good?
5. Behind Bars [feat. Andrew ‘Goose’ Neufeld]
6. What I Gotta Do
7. Chess Boxin’
8. Don’t Wanna Talk About It
9. Face This On My Own
10. Wrong Things Right
11. Understand
12. Party At The Hill [feat. Andrew ‘Drew York’ Di Jorio]
13. The Message
14. Word Is Bond

Upon the release of Word is Bond, Deez Nuts will embark on an extensive European tour with Stick To Your Guns, Trash Talk and Being As An Ocean.

DEEZ NUTS TOUR:

w/STICK TO YOUR GUNS
Special Guests: Trash Talk, Being As An Ocean

Apr 24: Impericon Fest – Zuerich (CH)(without Trash Talk)
Apr 25: Impericon Fest – Oberhausen (DE)(without Trash Talk)
Apr 26: Amager Bio – Copenhagen (DK) (w/Madball)
Apr 27: Sub Scene – Oslo (NO)
Apr 28: En Arena – Stockholm (SE)
Apr 29: Arena 29 – Gothenburg (SE)
Apr 30: Übel Und Gefährlich – Hamburg (DE)
May 02: Impericon Fest – Leipzig (DE) (without Trash Talk)
May 03: Amsterdam – Impericon Fest (NL) (without Trash Talk)
May 04: Impericon Fest – Manchester (UK)( without Trash Talk)
May 05: Cat House – Glasgow (UK)
May 06: ULU – London (UK)
May 07: Glazart – Paris (FR)
May 08: Longlive Rockfest – Lyon (FR)
May 09: Vidia Club – Cesena (IT)
May 10: Live Forum – Milan (IT)
May 11: Gala Hala – Ljubljana (SLO)
May 12: Arena – Vienna (AT)
May 13: A 38 – Budapest (HU)
May 14: Explosiv – Graz (AT)
May 15: Posthalle – Wuerzburg (DE)
May 16: Astra – Berlin (DE)
May 17: Hydrozagadka – Warsaw (PL)
May 18: Lucerna Music Bar – Prague (CZ)
May 19: Weekender – Innsbruck (AT)
May 20: Rosenhof – Osnabrueck (DE)
May 21: Substage – Karlsruhe (DE)

Summer festivals:

May 29-31: Der Ring – Nuerburgring (DE)(Grüne Hölle) (without Trash Talk, Being As An Ocean)
May 29-31: Rockavaria – Munich (DE) (without Trash Talk, Being As An Ocean)
Jul 03-05: With Full Force Festival – Roitzschjora (DE)(without Trash Talk, Being As An Ocean)

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Zoax – Is Everybody Listening?


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The London-based five piece’s second EP and first to be distributed through Century Media certainly shows promise and shows that there may be more to come from the band in the future, but in fact the EP only helps demonstrate that the band are not completely ready for the big time just yet.  If being thrust into the mainstream is to be compared to going out for a night on the town, lets say, a fellow rising British band such as Marmozets would be in the taxi on the way to club, whereas Zoax would still be at home trying to get their shoes on by comparison.

Is Everybody Listening? (Century Media) does have its positive moments though, the album is a frenetic and frantic beast throwing the listener all over the place in that diet Dillinger way that a band like Architects has pretty much perfected.  Make no mistake though this is certainly a lot less heavier than Architects, there’s more a frenetic almost indie tone to it, which shares a lot in common with Marmozets.

When listening to this, the album that kept coming to mind was the recent début album from Beartooth. It’s not as heavy or as in your face as that, though it certainly has one toe in the great sea of indie rock, though with a great connection between bottled insanity and sweet yet weighty choruses.

Overall, Is Everybody Listening? is certainly not going to set the world on fire and  is far from the finished product, but has enough about it that I would be shocked if this ends up the best release put out by this band by the end of their career.

More of a brief wind than the hurricane some had forecast it to be.

 

6.0/10

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DAN O’BRIEN


Slipknot, Motorhead, In Flames, Lamb Of God Confirmed For The Greenfield Festival


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The Greenfield Festival 2015 has been confirmed for June 11-13, 2015 at Flugplatz in Interlaken, Switzerland. The lineup for this year’s edition has been confirmed and includes the following:

SLIPKNOT
MOTÖRHEAD
IN FLAMES
LAMB OF GOD
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
A DAY TO REMEMBER
AIRBOURNE
GODSMACK
ASKING ALEXANDRIA
MILLENCOLIN
DANKO JONES
EAGLES OF DEATH METAL
POWER WOLF
ALL TIME LOW
BACKYARD BABIES
LAGWAGON
YELLOWCARD
ARCHITECTS
EVERY TIME I DIE
DARKEST HOUR
TRUCK FIGHTERS
BURY TOMORROW
DEFEATER
THE SWORD
THE ANSWER
EAST CAMERON FOLK CORE
SKINNY LISTER
MANTAR
NORTHLANE

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Die Toten Hosen, Slipknot, Motley Crue Confirmed For Nova Rock Festival


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Nova Rock Festival is confirmed for June 12-14, 2015 at Pannonia Fields II in Nickelsdorf, Austria. The confirmed acts for the festival include:

Die Toten Hosen
Slipknot
Mötley Crüe
Die Fantastischen Vier
Beatsteaks
Rise Against
Nightwish
Deichkind
Farin Urlaub Racing Team
In Flames
Kraftklub
Five Finger Death Punch
The Gaslight Anthem
Lamb Of God
Godsmack
Papa Roach
Hollywood Undead
In Extremo
Eagles Of Death Metal
Life Of Agony
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls
Jennifer Rostock
Lagwagon
All Time Low
Asking Alexandria
Eluveitie
Yellowcard
Fiva
Powerwolf
Callejon
Backyard Babies
Blues Pills
Architects
Feine Sahne Fischfilet
Moop Mama
The Answer
The Sword
King 810

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I Am Heresy – Thy Will


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The term metalcore has been bastardized beyond the days when it applied to bands like Stampin’ Ground, who espoused the virtues of hardcore with a huge metal bent to now mean any band that combines shouting verses with clean choruses and/or with widdly leads (to show their love of metulz) and breakdowns (to be down wiv da kidz) as interchangeable as the slew of bands that play them. I Am Heresy, the brainchild of vocalist Nathan Gray (Boysetsfire) and featuring his son Simon Gray on guitars, belong in both camps: that which “metalcore” used to encompass, and parts of what it does now, equal parts metal, hardcore and a mix of melody and aggression and sound like what I always wanted Architects to sound like, but is the better for the fact that Architects don’t actually sound like this.

Thy Will (Century Media) kicks off with punchy and violent ‘Rahabh’, 3 minutes of what Slayer should have sounded like on Undisputed Attitude, before ‘Our Father’ punks out open chords in a Bring Me The Horizon fashion, moving into the more melodic ‘March Of Black Earth’ where Gray Sr opens up his clean vocals for the first time. ‘Destruction Anthems’ returns to the temple of Slayer, all Seasons In The Abyss being covered by Sick Of It All, ‘Thy Will II (Black Sun Omega)’ is a mix of As I Lay Dying and Killswitch Engage and tasteful mid-album break ‘Alarm’ would sit beautifully on an Ancient VVisdom release.

But at 13 tracks, they spread themselves too thinly with too many fillers for one record and their potential and sound isn’t fully realized throughout (for example ‘Blasphemy Incarnate’ is stock, ‘As We Break’ is all chorus and no song, the riffs of ‘Hinnom II’ close in on Avenged Sevenfold territory and serves as a weak closer). But make no bones, when this melodic metal/hardcore mesh works, it shows I Am Heresy are capable of creating some engaging music, at times aggressive, at others catchy and often both, with personal favourite ‘Seven Wolves And The Daughters of Apocalypse’ a nice summary of the whole.

 

7.5/10

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STEVE TOVEY