KEN mode Posts Trailer For New Album, Blessed Music Video


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KEN mode will be releasing their new album titled Success on June 16, 2015 via Season Of Mist. The album was produced by Steve Albini (Nirvana, The Pixies, ZAO). A trailer for the album can be viewed below.

Success Track Listing:
01: Blessed
02: These Tight Jeans
03: The Owl
04: I Just Liked Fire
05: Management Control
06: A Passive Disaster
07: Failing At Fun Since 1981
08: A Catalog Of Small Disappointments
09: Dead Actors

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Their music video for their Christopher Mills (Rush, Interpol) directed video for “Blessed” in Toronto, ON can be viewed below.

The band has confirmed a string of upcoming tour dates:

Apr 05: Velbloud – Ceské Budejovice (CZ)
Apr 06: 007 – Praha (CZ)
Apr 08: Usine – Geneva (SW)
Apr 09: Roadburn Festival – Tilburg (NL)
Apr 10: L’Oreille Qui Traine – Rouen (FR)
Apr 11: Gaswerk – Winterthur (SW)
May 29: OTB Festival – Paris (FR)
May 31: Audio – Glasgow (UK)
Jun 01: Macbeth – London (UK)

With Fight Amp:
Jun 16: The Shop (Parts & Labour) – Toronto, ON (feat. The Great Sabatini)
Jun 17: Turbo Haus – Montreal, QC (feat. The Great Sabatini)
Jun 18: St. Vitus – Brooklyn, NY (feat. Pyrrhon, Couch Slut)
Jun 19: Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
Jun 20: Ace of Cups – Columbus, OH (feat. Lo-pan)
Jun 21: The Burlington – Chicago, IL
Jun 26: The Goodwill – Winnipeg, MB (feat. Pop Crimes (no Fight Amp)


Fight Amputation Book June Shows With KEN Mode


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Philadelphia noise rockers Fight Amputation (Fight Amp for short) will be doing a run of tour dates with KEN Mode. Tour dates are below.

FIGHT AMP Tour Dates:

*All dates with KEN Mode*

Jun 16: Parts & Labour – Toronto, ON (w/ The Great Sabatini)
Jun 17: Turbo Haus – Montreal, QC (w/ the Great Sabatini)
Jun 18: St. Vitus – Brooklyn, NY (w/ Pyrrhon & Couch Slut)
Jun 19: Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
Jun 20: Ace of Cups – Columbus, OH (w/ Lo-Pan)
Jun 21: The Burlington – Chicago, IL (w/ Jar’d Loose)

They are supporting their new album Constantly Off, their first new album in three year, out June 9, 2015 via Brutal Panda Records. Constantly Off was recorded in August 2014 at Gradwell House Studios in Haddon Heights, NJ with engineer Steve Poponi (Ladder Devils, Fight Amp). Stream the trailer below.

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Timekiller Streaming “Sick Of Myself”


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Brazilian metallers are streaming Timekiller‘s “Sick Of Myself” off Eolian Empire’s (We’ve Got) FIENDS IN LOW PLACES: Heavy Vibes Internationale compilation, out February 3, 2015, here.

Listen to UK based Meadows’ “I Am Gobshite” here, and Finland’s Throat’s “Clean Cleaner” here.

A gnarled calling card with more than fifty minutes of audio, the fifteen stark, aggressive, noise-laden tunes on FIENDS IN LOW PLACES are worked over with smarts and wicked humor on this compilation of exclusive tracks. With contributions from THROAT (Finland), ARABROT (Norway), HEALTH PROBLEMS (USA), MoE (Norway), THE GREAT SABATINI (Canada), DEAD (Australia), BASTARD OF THE SKIES (England), HOMBRE MALO (Norway), SAME-SEX DICTATOR(USA), TEEPH (USA), CYBERNE (Japan), TIMEKILLER (Brazil), ELEPHANT RIFLE (USA), BATPISS (Australia), and MEADOWS (England), the comp is a wild trip through twisted noise rock, bludgeoning sludge, psychotic metal, blackened hardcore, and damaged punk, with each act’s warped worldview in full effect.

(We’ve Got) FIENDS IN LOW PLACES is the sequel and companion compilation to the (We’ve Gotta) KEEP OUR HEADS: Heavy Vibes from Portland, Oregon, yet instead of focusing on Portland-based acts as with the label’s twenty-nine previous releases, FIENDS IN LOW PLACES marks a new low for the Eolian horde, as its contributions were culled from friends playing off-the-wall heavy music in overlapping scenes internationally.

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Eolian Empire Streaming Meadows’ “I Am Gobshite”


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Eolian Empire is streaming Meadows’ “I Am Gobshite”, from the (We’ve Got) FIENDS IN LOW PLACES: Heavy Vibes Internationale compilation, here.

FIENDS IN LOW PLACES: Heavy Vibes Internationale Track Listing:
1. MEADOWS “Gobshite”
2. SAME-SEX DICTATOR “Mass Krusader”
3. ARABROT “The Libertine”
4. THROAT “Clean Cleaner”
5. CYBERNE “Pozes”
6. HEALTH PROBLEMS “A Stuck Horse”
7. BASTARD OF THE SKIES “Brass Cattle”
8. THE GREAT SABATINI “Slow Jam”
9. BATPISS “Heavy Smoke (Stoned to Death)”
10. TEEPH “Church Vape Sesh”
11. HOMBRE MALO “The Fall”
12. TIMEKILLER “Sick of Myself”
13. MOE “Where’s the DJ”
14. ELEPHANT RIFLE “Frat Poison”
15. DEAD “Rabbits”

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