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0 Insomnia Radio Canada – #59 – Fractal Cypher, A Devil’s Din, Projekt F
0 Midlands Metalheads – Sludgehammer – The Fallen Sun
The Fallen Sun is a really strong album and one that more people should be listening to. Vocally it’s strong in both lead and backing vocals, the riffs are huge and it’s just an all-round catchy, yet heavy, album. Well worth a few listens.
http://www.midlandsmetalheads.com/the-july-2016-album-review-roundup/
0 All About The Rock – Fractal Cypher- The Human Paradox
For a band that’s only been around since 2014 the writing & the musicianship is second to none. The Human Paradox shows the maturity of a band much older than 2 years. If you want to hear HOW to put together a heavy yet ridiculously technical & hook filled album, do yourself a favor & just pick this up as soon as it’s available.
http://allabouttherock.co.uk/fractal-cypher-the-human-paradox/
0 The Dirty Room – Medevil – Conductor of Storms
0 The Autopsy Report Metal Radio Show No 640 – 1st – 7th August 2016 w/ Medevil, Vow of Throns
The Autopsy Report Metal Radio Show No 640 – 1st – 7th August 2016
This week’s Autopsy Report features MEDEVIL and VOW OF THORNS courtesy of ASHER MEDIA RELATIONS along with a host of other skull crushing bands so tune in and prepare to be dissected!!!
This week’s playlist:
Dead Label – Throne of Bones
Rotting Obscene – Nightmares of the Forlorn
Gebrechlichkeit – Kegel der Stille
TMHM – 18oz
Athame – Five Fold Kiss
Medevil – An Empty Glass
Vow of Thorns – Great Abomination
Vicious Nature – The Silence That Kills
Grond – Steel Coffins
Beholder – Frozen Steps Of Utøya
Ignitor – No Sanctuary
Diamond Lane – Cheating Death
Skelectory – Wicked Angel
Massacres – Death Knell
Steel Aggressor – A Rival of the Fittest
Heavy Hands – Your Time Has Come
God Shaped Devil – Continuum
JWL – Worm
Psython – Blunt
Aerosmith – Love In An Elevator
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0 NEWS: HIBRIA Celebrate 20 Years With New Album ‘XX’ + North American Tour
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Brazilian Power Metal HIBRIA Post Video Teaser For Upcoming Album ‘XX’ To Celebrate 20 Years + North American Tour
Brazilian power metallers HIBRIA are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new album entitled ‘XX’ and a North American tour presented by PureGrainAudio.com and Test Your Metal Records that will kick off in Victoria, BC on August 9th and wrap up in New York City on August 28th (full details below).
‘XX’ is HIBRIA’s sixth release and features three new tracks along with four live performances from their catalog to follow their 2015’s self-titled album. ‘XX’ is set for release on August 9th via Test Your Metal Records and available for pre-order on CD here and digital here.
The band comments:
“HIBRIA’s soul is full of music. To celebrate our 20th anniversary we present to you ‘XX’. It’s heavy metal with no boundaries especially made for the fans. Can you feel it?”
HIBRIA have posted a teaser for their upcoming video ‘Leading Lady’ at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_7Y6D6aWY
Album Length: 40:40
08/10 Vancouver, BC – The Red Room
08/22 Subury, ON – The Asylum
About:
A Brazilian power metal band formed in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul in 1996. Hibria has grown in popularity in their home country plus worldwide with the successful release of five albums and a live DVD that showcases their intense concert energy (if ya never seen them in person). Their releases have reached the #1 position on sales charts for HMV stores across Japan, which has lead them to be support for such bands as Metallica, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Megadeth plus perform at Rock in Rio in Brazil and Loud Park, Japan’s most important metal festival, where they shared the main stage with some of the world’s most known bands.
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0 NEWS: LIKE ANIMALS Bassist Survives High Speed Collision; Band To Continue Eastern Canadian Tour (ON/QC/NB/NS)
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For fans of Mars Volta, Fall of Troy, Protest The Hero, Every Time I Die
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LIKE ANIMALS Bassist Survives High Speed Collision; Band To Continue Eastern Canadian Tour (ON/QC/NB/NS)
New EP ‘Feral’ Out Now!
(Photo Credit: Travis Tiernay)
Orillia, ON’s deviant melodic math metallers LIKE ANIMALS announce they will be continuing their Eastern Canadian Tour of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario after bassist Myke Caouette’s suffered injuries from a high speed collision that occurred on July 11th on highway 400 and caused his vehicule to burst into flames, forcing him to pull himself out of the wreck and out of harms way. Caouette’s injuries aren’t life threatening, but will need time to heal as he endured a fractured ankle, shattered kneecap, broken femur and sprained ribs.
“I’m happy to be alive, but sad not be on the road with my brothers in LA. I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and I’m glad to be out of hospital. Please support the band along with our touring mates (U) The Band. I will be back on the road for our Western Canadian tour in October.” says Caouette’s
Caouette’s will be replaced by bassist Rufus Cavan of (U) The Band who will be performing double duty for both bands on the Eastern Canadian tour.
The tour will kick off with a performance at the East Coast Awakening Festival in Keswick, NB on July 31st on the FNG Stage (set time – 12:40pm- 1:20pm), which includes a line-up of Silverstein, The Agonist, Cauldron, Sewn Eyes, Nervosa among many more bands from Eastern Canada.
LIKE ANIMALS‘ tour is in support of their new EP ‘Feral’ released at the beginning of January 2016 to follow their previous animal-themed EPs ‘Sweet Whispers, Plagued Ears’, ‘The Undertoad’ and ‘The Wild’.
Aug 13 – Quebec City, QC – Le Sous-Sol Du Cercle
Like Animals are breaking free of the constricting chains of modern music and are busy creating their own uninhibited style of spastic-math-metal graced with emotionally-charged vocals. Like a wild animal each member maintains a sense of chaos through their arpeggio guitar and bass sections, unorthodox drums peppered with dynamic changes, and finally tempered by the wavering vocals soaring just slightly above the instrumentals both in tone and feeling. The beasts within the band each perform vocal duties a sound akin to a coyote-esque choir featuring Jamie Haffenden on guitar and lead vocals, Will Tennant on drums, Myke Caouette on bass.
Their name is synonymous with their song-writing and attitude, where they are part of a pack, but still remain hungry and solitary, like a stray animal. Their 400-show track record over the years reveals their dedication to their craft having shared the stage with such bands as Fuck The Facts, Dog Fashion Disco, Adrenechrome, Downtown Brown, Scale The Summit, Polkadot Cadaver, Teethmarks and many more.
With four animal-themed EPs in tow (‘Sweet Whispers, Plagued Ears, The Undertoad, The Wild) and their new release called ‘Feral’ unleashed on January 22nd, 2016, the band is constantly working to create a continuously more mature and higher caliber sound. The group hunts and writes as a unit by drafting and evolving each song with each giving their own input.
Lyrics contend with themes such as: self-doubt, lack of self-worth, depression, anxiety, and the like. Like Animals continue to push the boundaries of the several genres which they base their experimental music on while committing to the best music they can produce.
EP Length: 19:45
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0 EPK – SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper (2016) (No List Records)
2. The Great Sabatini – Shortwave Radio (1:03)
3. The Great Sabatini – The Ear Collector (2:31)
4. The Great Sabatini – Dog Years (Quiet) (2:51)
5. Godstopper – It’s Alright (3:59)
Their latest full length album “Dog Years” (2014) was the result of years of accumulated experience writing, performing and recording together. It was recorded in Hamilton by Sean Pearson (Cursed, Shallow North Dakota) and self-released by the band in Canada on digital and vinyl and released by Solar Flare Records on vinyl for Europe and USA.
- First EP “Burning Wilderness” released November 17, 2007.
- Coast to coast Canadian tour February 29-April 5, 2008
- East coast Canada tour September 19-September 28, 2008
- First full-length “Sad Parade of Yesterdays” released November 28, 2009.
- Eastern Canada tour February 11-February 20, 2010
- Eastern USA tour May 13-May 22, 2010
- Full North American tour Sept 29-Oct 31, 2010
- Napoleon Sodomite 7″ released April 14, 2011 through Sludge Hummer
- North American Tour March 9-April 3rd, 2011
- Eastern Canada Tour with KEN Mode August 4-August 14, 2011
- North American Tour March 1-March 24 2012
- MATTERHORN 12″ LP released March 25, 2012 through No List Records
- The Royal We Digital EP released March 25, 2012
- Midwestern USA/Canada Tour August 2-August 13, 2012 as part of Arsonfest
- Western USA/Canada Tour September 28 -October 19, 2012
- European tour April 2-April 27, 2013
- Eastern Canada tour August 28-September 4, 2013
- Western Canada/USA tour May 22-June 13, 2014
- Third full length “Dog Years” released June 2, 2014 through Solar Flare Records
- Fall North American Tour September 17-October 6, 2014
- European tour november 2015
For fans of Melvins, Failure, YOB, Torche, Big Business
L-R – Mike Simpson- Guitar/ Vocals, Miranda Armstrong – Bass, Derek Del Vecchio – Guitar, Adam McGillivray- Drums
“There’s a lot of compositional bells and whistles on deck here, from a chugging chorus riff that feels like it’s perpetually interrupting itself to a left-turn Thin Lizzy guitar lick that King Buzzo would surely appreciate. But the part that’ll really suck you in is the sublime vocal harmonies that frontman Mike Simpson layers over the song like fishnet over a boulder.” – Stereogum
“Like the best records by Today Is the Day, Swans and Harvey Milk, all of which I hear in Godstopper’s jarring songwriting…We talk a lot about making extreme music as cathartic for the music maker, but what the listener? I feel no more relieved for having heard Empty Crawlspace. In fact it’s psychically draining. And totally addictive, too. I’m not going to be able to sleep for a week.” – Metalsucks
“Somewhere between the Thunder-Pop of sparkly heavy-hitters Torche, the aggressive sludge of fellow Floridians Cavity and the awkward stop-start dream-logic quasi-operatic noise rock of Pony Express Record-era Shudder To Think lie Toronto’s Godstopper…What Matters is a tough record to describe, in some ways, as any comparisons I care to make are merely rough approximations used in an attempt to point you, the potential listener, in a certain direction, as far as preparing you for what to expect. However, the truth of it is that Godstopper sound exactly like Godstopper, and, really, how many bands these days can truly lay claim to such a thing?” – Sleeping Shaman
Shared The Stage w/: Tombs, Oxbow, Mare, Ancient VVisdom, Disma
0 NEWS: DOUBLE EXPERIENCE Preach Their Nerd Rock w/ More Ontario & Quebec Tour Dates
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DOUBLE EXPERIENCE Preach Their Nerd Rock w/ More Ontario & Quebec Tour Dates
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Play VooDoo RockFest This Fall!
New Album ‘Unsaved Progress’ Out Now!
Album Stream – Unsaved Progress – Listen here.Music Video ‘So Fine’ – Watch here.
Music Video ‘The Glimmer Shot’ (tribute to video game ‘Destiny’) – Watch here.
Music Video – Weezer ‘Buddy Holly’ Cover Video – Watch here.
Ottawa’s DOUBLE EXPERIENCE are preaching their inner geek with more show dates this August and September in Ontario and Quebec that includes a performance at this year’s VooDoo Rockfest in Napanee, ON. The nerd rock trio is encouraging fans to come out the shows to have Pokemon-themed cocktails and Game Boy duels at their merch table. The dates are in support of their third studio album ‘Unsaved Progress’ released this past April, which the band recently returned from their fifth UK tour in promotion of.
Aug 4 – Ottawa, ON @ Cafe Deckuf – info – Set Time: 9 PM / 19+
Aug 13 – Toronto, ON @ Bovine Sex Club – info – Set Time: 11 PM / 19+
Aug 24 – Ottawa, ON @ House of Targ – All Ages
Sept 17 – Pointe-Claire, QC @ Resto Bar – info
Sept 24 – Napanee, ON @ Voodoo Rockfest – info – Set Time – 5 PM
DOUBLE EXPERIENCE’s third studio album entitled “Unsaved Progress”was released on April 8th via their label Colfax Music. Taking the next step from their previous album – initially released exclusively on collectible trading cards, the band utilizes classic video-game inspired artwork and packaging. The album was brought to life with the help of Al Jacob and Kit Walters (HE IS LEGEND) at Warrior Sound in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Prior to the creation of “Unsaved Progress”, Double Experience were busy performing across 15 countries, playing everywhere from video game museums to tattoo conventions as well as showcases at Canadian Music Week and Indie Week Canada. Their adventures have been supported by international radio, festivals and television alike, culminating with an entire nerd-rock exposé and performance on Global TV in Canada.
Album orders are now available at the band’s merch store here. A deluxe edition of the album – boasting two unreleased songs, two acoustic remixes, merch discount codes, studio footage and a brand new trading card – is also available for the fastidious Double Experience collector.
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