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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


Website Providing Networking for Bands, Promoters, Venues and Fans debuts

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NortheastMHP.com or Northeast Metal Hardcore Punk aims to bridge the gap for bands, promoters, venues and fans in an all-in-one master resource. Founded by New England music scene fixture Rob Santos, the website hopes to serve the thriving regional heavy music scene with a thoroughness that a mere app or social networks alone cannot provide. Eventually the site will add features such as local reviews & classifieds for bands too.

From the press release:

“A few months ago I had a vision now it’s come to light The goal was to create a central location where fans, bands, & promoters alike could access information on shows happening in their area on any given night throughout New England. From here you can find what is happening on any night in your state, you can go right to the venue’s page, & eventually you will be able to contact promoters & booking agents directly from here without searching for the information.” – Rob Santos 

http://www.northeastmhp.com/

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Godflesh: Live At Sound Control, Manchester UK

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Those who have ever witnessed Godflesh performing live in the past, could not have been more delighted after the announcement of upcoming UK tour in August. The release of well-received A World Lit Only by Fire, one of the most anticipated returns in alternative music, whetted fans appetites even further.

When I entered Sound Control in Manchester, I am greeted with a pleasing view of crowd, consisting of metal heads, industrial and core fans, shoulder to shoulder gathered in great anticipation.


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Clouds of vapour embrace the equipment on stage, and here they are – two men who influenced bands like Faith No More or Korn, but have forever remained in the music underground.

And it is Godflesh at their best – G.C. Green operates his bass with industrial tool precision, and the legend himself, Justin Broadrick, shreds his guitar in uncompromising manner, filling the room with unmistakable vicious and razor-sharp riffs.

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A laptop connected to stage equipment plays ruthless beats that can only means one – a hell of a performance. Around 200 other people rhythmically headbang in approval.

First half of the gig contains purely of new material. And the performance is even better than on the album! The greatest difference make Justin’s vocals. He apologises for throat infection that cause him problems to perform clean vocal parts, but the audience does not mind at all – vocals are much more harsh and brutal than on studio recordings. A delightful and unexpected occurrence.

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After performing six songs from the latest album, fans become more animated after hearing familiar notes of ‘Christbait Rising’, ‘Streetcleaner’ or ‘Crush My Soul’.

The gig finishes with encore, long-demanded ‘Like Rats’, on which the audience responds with wild pogo dance. To wrap up Godlfesh great performance, Justin Broadrick give improvised display of guitar cacophony. Combining with creative stage lighting this turns into a spectacular finale.

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Mr. Broadrick nods and discretely exits the stage. A monster in average Joe skin.

But satisfied fans, slowly leaving the club, are left with fantastic memories of one of the most non-average performances in Manchester this year.

Godflesh are back, and they are better that ever.

 

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WORDS: ARMEN HACZMERIAN

PHOTOS: KIRSTEN HEL


Eindhoven Metal Meeting 2014:- Part II: Live at The Effenaar, Eindhoven, NL

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On Saturday we got back to Eindhoven. While on the train we were checking out what bands we were going to see. Ready for today, I had my little flask of rum. And we were ready to party again!Continue reading →


Black Tusk Bassist Jonathan Athon Passes Away At Age 32

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We are saddened to bring you some bad news at the end of this weekend. Following a motorcycle crash and a traumatic brain injury, Black Tusk bassist Jonathan Athon passed away this morning, as confirmed earlier this afternoon. As the news has come down and confirmed by the bands publicist, messages of condolences and shock are starting to appear on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. We wish Jonathan’s family, friends and bandmates our sympathy and support at this difficult time.

Black Tusk emerged from the thriving Savannah metal scene that also originally birthed Baroness and Kylesa among others. The band, in which Athon was a principle writer, was prolific with 13 releases in less than ten years. Most notable were full length’s Taste the Sin, Set The Dial and the Tend No Wounds EP, all for Relapse Records. The band was also seen in the Slow Southern Steel documentary about the Southern American Metal scene, directed by CT of Rwake.

 

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Official Press Release

“It is with deep regret and saddened hearts that we must tell you that Athon passed away this morning from injuries sustained from his motorcycle accident. Doctors told us that he suffered irreparable brain damage shortly after the accident. He has been in a coma and sustained by life support until now. As per his wishes, we removed Athon from his life support systems and his organs will be donated. His body will be cremated and a memorial is being planned for family and friends in Savannah. He was 32 years old and will be forever missed. Thank you all for your support during this devastating time for us, it would have made him proud.”

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Fund Created To Aid Redemption Guitarist Bernie Versailles

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Friends of veteran guitarist Bernie Versailles (Redemption, Agent Steel, Engine, Masters of Metal, etc) are seeking donations to help pay for costs pertaining to his recent surgery. Longtime friends Gary Wells and Juan Garcia are asking the metal community for assistance via a fundraising page at YouCaring.com.

Versailles had suffered a brain aneurysm on the morning of October 5, 2014 and was rushed to a Southern California emergency room, where he underwent a successful craniotomy to fix his aneurysm, and with physical therapy to follow.

He and his longtime partner Soma have two young children, Sevina and Apollo.

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New Mike Patton Project To See Release This December

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As posted by the Faith No More Blog on Facebook, in an interview with Diffuser.fm, avant-garde composer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Pateras revealed that he has a new duo project with Mike Patton. The pair are dubbed tētēma (stylized in lowercase) and have produced an album Geocidal (Ipecac), due on December 8th. The two artists have performed together and recorded in the past, with Pateras notably opening for Patton’s Mondo Cane project a few times. This news is on the heels of an already productive year for Patton who has been touring with his numerous bands, and releasing an new single and prepping an new album for 2015 with Faith No More. Pateras, from Australia, is of international renown for his compositions, and prolific output which has seen him put out 18 releases this decade alone.

Pateras said of the collaboration:

“Geocidal started when I locked myself in an ex-convent in rural France for 10 days to think about rhythm and sound,” explained Pateras. “I then went to Paris to record the drums and prepared piano with Will Guthrie…that was the first thing to go down, then all kinds of analogue electronics, followed by orchestrations including strings, winds, brass and orchestral percussion. This process took about a year and a half, and we started to add vocals in January of this year when I visited Mike in San Francisco. We had the craziest 48 hours together, and somewhere in between finishing each other’s thoughts, it became apparent to us that this music was going to be very, very special.”

 

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Impetuous Ritual – Unholy Congregation Of Hypocritical Ambivalence

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Even in underground terms, Ignis Fatuus is hardly a recognisable name, but as drummer for Portal, Grave Upheaval and Impetuous Ritual, the black-hooded Australian is at the cutting edge of Death Metal’s abstract progression into something closer to Noise and Dark Ambient. 2013 was the year when that style – finally picking up the baton of discordance laid down by Gorguts in the late 90’s – exploded, with Portal’s Vexovoid among its most exciting releases.

On first listen, Impetuous Ritual are by far the most “normal” of the Fatuus hat-trick, with recognisable riffs and a surging, chaotic Black/Death Metal approach that owes more than a little to bands like Blasphemy and Diocletian. After Portal’s deceptively eloquent Noise-as-Art abstractions and Grave Upheaval’s transformation of death metal into utterly monolithic, lightless ambient soundscapes, IR’s second album almost seems a let-down – generic noisy Death Metal that we’ve heard before. Perseverance, however, is rewarded, and Impetuous Ritual are revealed not merely as a half-way point between their more obvious siblings, but as a band equally worthy in their own right.

What raises Unholy Congregation… (Profound Lore) beyond the generic clatter-clatter-bang is the structure of the album, which leads the listener from relatively conventional chaotic Death Metal into tracks that combine the abstract, distorted qualities of Fatuus’ other bands with the destructive fury of Antediluvian. The first three tracks rips through a powerful but familiar swamp of riffs and blasts before Despair splits itself into a more atmospheric – even ambient – piece reminiscent of the last Grave Upheaval album, and from there the album opens into something much stranger and more diverse, yet always feels like a consistent, complete album.

People who find this style of cavernous, eldritch Death Metal too chaotic and lacking in melody are still not going to be happy with Unholy Congregation…, but this is a master-class in how to make Death Metal which embraces the more abstract side of the genre without losing sight of its riff-based roots, and prove that Transdimensional Ancient Squid Death Metal isn’t a dead trend yet.

9/10

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