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0 Comedy Rockers Psychostick Reach Crowd Funding Goal; Post Thank You Video + News Update

  • January 9, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Psychostick

ALBUM PROMO CAN BE REQUESTED HERE

R.I.Y.L. = Dethklok, Bloodhound Gang, Tenacious D, System of a Down, Weird Al Yankovic, Primus, Stephen Lynch, Iwrestledabearonce, Mr. Bungle,  Austrian Death Machine

EPK | Press Photo

Tour Dates | Psychostick.com | Facebook | Youtube | Reverbnation | Twitter | Soundcloud

Buy Links:  Psychostick Store | Bandcamp | iTunes

Comedy Rockers Psychostick Reach Crowd Funding Goal; Post Thank You Video + News Update

L-R – Alex “Shmalex” Dontre – Drums | Josh “The J” Key – Guitar | Rob “Rawrb” Kersey – Vocals | Matty J “Moose” – Bass

     Comedy rock band Psychostick have posted a thank you video to fans that helped them reach their crowd funding goal of over $30,000. The money will be invested in to the recording of their new album to follow up the band’s 2011 release ‘Space Vampires vs. Zombie Dinosaurs’ and to complete the construction of the band’s recording studio that will produce hard hitting laugh along songs for eternity.

2013 saw these touring ninja warriors hit the road for multiple shows on the ‘Our Tour Can Beat Up Your Tour’, ‘Blow Your Fingers Off’ summer tour, their late summer dates with American Head Charge plus appearances at summer fests that included Rockapalooza, A2 Fest, Breast Fest Biker Bash, and Dirtfest.  They also released a series of music videos ‘Obey The Beard’ (www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0kSuZFOwFE), ‘Sadface Emoticon’ (http://youtu.be/ZsqZl3VqoM4), and their viral hit ‘Dogs Like Socks’ (http://youtu.be/swmuqGWgZCc).

To view the thank you video, please visit the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSeQHqMCfJI

thank you from psychostick + free album + updates

For more info on the fan funding campaign, please visit the following link: www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-psychostick-album-and-recording-studio/x/4100572.

The band also posted a video short ‘Alex is Dead, Stupid Drummer Dies’ in support of the campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtMpVdZcsHA

Outtakes from ‘Obey The Beard’, please visit the following link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNS-oW_FU0c

About:

Harnessing their crazy sense of humor and love of all things metal, vocalist Rob “Rawrb” Kersey and guitarist Josh “The J” Key joined forces with drummer Alex “Shmalex” Dontre and bassist  Matty J “Moose” to create Pyschostick, a band they’ve coined as humorcore. With hilarious lyrics, heavy riffs, notorious stage antics and high-energy performances, the band has caused millions of laughs around the world and hundreds of mosh pits across the US, often simultaneously, since its birth in Phoenix, AZ in 2000.

Almost 100 percent do-it-yourself, Psychostick never strays from its signature sound, a combination of heavy music that Chimaira, Machine Head, and Hatebreed would be proud of, and wit and humor that would make Tenacious D and Weird Al Yankovic holler with laughter.

With three full-length albums behind them – “We Couldn’t Think of a Title,” “Sandwich,” and their holiday album, “The Flesh Eating Rollerskate Holiday Joyride” – the band released their latest record, “Space Vampires vs. Zombie Dinosaurs in 3D,” in 2011, following it up with a tour with Mushroomhead to add to their total count of 21 nationwide tours that have hit 47 states.

For more info, music and tour dates, please visit the following links:

http://www.psychostick.com

http://www.facebook.com/psychostick

http://www.twitter.com/psychostick

Music Videos

Sadface – Music Video – http://youtu.be/ZsqZl3VqoM4

Dogs Like Socks – http://youtu.be/swmuqGWgZCc

Political Bum – http://youtu.be/DNZj2RrrkfI

Boobs – http://youtu.be/dcYlytyuKsc

Do You Want A Taco? – http://youtu.be/k3tcQI5EEiA

Beer – http://youtu.be/O-jOEAufDQ4 – over 4 million views

Girl Directions – http://youtu.be/U5_HhqcbF_0

0 Wacken Metal Battle Canada – Ondes Chocs Interview w/ Canadian organizer JJ Tartaglia

  • January 9, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Wacken Metal Battle Canada

Listen to Wacken METAL Battle Canada organizer JJ Tartaglia talk with Ondes Chocs on bringing the competition to Canada and the talent it exposes to an international platform. – http://ondeschocs.com/wacken-metal-battle-canada-2014-interview/

0 RockFreaks – Breached – Left Behind

  • January 9, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Breached

http://www.rockfreaks.net/albums/6535

0 PureGrainAudio – Breached – Left Behind

  • January 8, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Breached

http://puregrainaudio.com/reviews/breached-left-behind-ep

0 RockaRolla Zine – Death Toll Rising – Infection Legacy

  • January 8, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Death Toll Rising

http://rockarollazine.blogspot.com.ar/2014/01/death-toll-rising-infection-legacy-2013.html

0 Metal-Rules – Death Toll Rising – Infection Legacy

  • January 8, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Death Toll Rising

http://www.metal-rules.com/review/viewreview.php?month=January&year=2014&pos=13

0 Metal Gallows: Lucid Skies Hounds EP Review

  • January 7, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Lucid Skies

http://metalgallows.blogspot.ca/2014/01/lucid-skies-hounds-ep-review.html

0 !earshot National Top 20 Loud of 2013 – #3 Fatality, #13 Chariots of The Gods, #19 Sanktuary

  • January 6, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Chariots of The Gods · Fatality · Sanktuary

http://www.earshot-online.com/charts/2013/loud.cfm

Rank Artist Title Label
1 KEN mode * Entrench New Damage
2 Voivod * Target Earth Century Media
3 Fatality * Psychonaut Self-Released
4 Pissed Jeans Honeys Sub Pop
5 Iceage You’re Nothing Matador
6 Death Valley Driver * Graveyard Dead Diminished Fifth
7 TV Freaks * Two Schizophrenic
8 Ghost Infestissumam Loma Vista
9 Black Sabbath 13 Universal
10 Anciients * Snakebeard War On Music
11 Anciients * Heart of Oak Season Of Mist
12 Kvelertak Meir Roadrunner
13 Chariots of the Gods * Tides of War Self-Released
14 Bad Religion True North Epitaph
15 Protest The Hero * Volition Sony
16 Carcass Surgical Steel Nuclear Blast
17 Bison B.C. * Lovelessness Metal Blade
18 The Ketamines * You Can’t Serve Two Masters Mammoth Cave
19 Sanktuary * Something Fierce Spread the Metal
20 Cunter * 27 New Damage

0 Edge of Attack in 2013 Blytch’s top on Nawak Posse

  • January 6, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Edge Of Attack

http://nawakposse.com/french/top2013.html

0 EPK – Kolony – Sledge (2014)

  • January 5, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Kolony

Kolony – Sledge (2014)

R.I.Y.L. = NWOBHM, Megadeth, Metallica

Kolony ArtWork

Release Date: November 14, 2014
Label: Self Release
Distribution: Bandcamp, iTunes
ISRC Codes #:
UPC Code #:

Contacts: PR Rep – Jon Asher – ashermedia[@]gmail.com

Radio Promotions – radiotrackingashermedia[@]gmail.com

Management / Bookings – kolonymusic[@]hotmail.com – 514-594-8338

Tour Dates | KolonyMusic.com | Facebook | Reverbnation| Youtube

Buy Links: Bandcamp

Press Photo | Download Album Cover | Download Album Lyrics

“All these guys songs are equally hummable and skull crushing, kind of like they took some power ballads and scorched them to perfection.  And you have to love an album concept like the one they’ve chosen, one which calls for the dismantling of the current societal system in favor of a Metalhead’s world view.  The lyrics convey this in an excellent and evocative way that really is convincing to me.  Let me impart some of this wisdom by saying “Sledge that Shit”.” – Absolute Underground Mag

“All four band members are great musicians and more importantly, great song-writers….There’s an optimistic ‘up’ sound to their music, which is great. The concept here is about building a better society, away from materialism, in harmony with nature. Great cover art too – these things matter.” – Hellbound

“Every once in a while a CD will land on my doorstep that reminds me what the true spirit of “heavy metal” is all about. In this case that CD is Sledge by Montreal shredders Kolony. The group embodies the qualities that make up what can be considered the stereotypical, or “mass perception” style of heavy metal. Driving rhythms, shredding solos and plenty of parts sure to get the head banging.” – Hellbound

“What a monster of an album Sledge is. Kolony is a very talentful band that brings its own original mix of metal to the table, setting its own path and distancing itself from the rest of the province’s metal scene.” – Metal Made In Canada

“La beauté de l’album Sledge est surtout au niveau de la grande virtuosité des musiciens, la qualité de la production et l’immense souplesse face aux nombreux changements de registre dans toutes les chansons de l’album…Si tu sens que Trivium t’a abandonné avec leur dernière offrande, poigne-toi le nouvel album de Kolony!” – Voir

“Three things from Canada that make our lives better: hockey, the movie Strange Brew, and now the band Kolony with a nice, new album.” – National Rock Review

“Quebec’s finest release this year… ‘Sledge’ is an absolute roller-coaster of a ride that will get blood pumping and moshpits working overtime, hell this is insanity in physical form!! AIEEEEEE!!!!!” – Global Metal Apocalypse

“Metal music merits much more credit than being referred to as an outdated 80/90s whim, such is the message conveyed by the Canadian band KOLONY in their album “Sledge”, bonding old school musical features with XXIst century lyrics, tackling modern social, economic and political issues.” – Metal Temple

“The band has amazing talent! … We are not dealing with beginners here!” – MusikUniverse

“Fast, tight, powerful, original, clean, melodic, happy and mean at the same time…Wow!” – P.E. Drolet,  Power Slaves

Kolony Sledge Front Artwork

1 – I Realize (1:20)
2 – The Trial (3:36)
3 – Trust and Live (4:04)
4 – Echoes (4:06)
5 – Modern Hero (4:06)
6 – Anthem (5:42)
7 – Escape (4:47)
8 – I Don’t Care (5:23)
9 – Road (4:23)
10 – Monopoly (3:10)
11 – Sledge That Shit (4:16)
Album Length: 44:57

Album Credits:
• All songs performed by: Kolony
• All songs written by: Kolony
• Produced by: Jef Fortin and Kolony
• Mixed by: Jef Fortin
• Mastered by: Jef Fortin

Kolony-1 - Back up

L-R – Antony: Drum  | Myk: Bass, Back Vocals  |  Maxxx: Lead Guitar, Back Vocals  |  Reno: Vocals, Rythm Guitar

(Photo Credit: Mihaela Petrescu)

[Download High Res Press Photo]

BIO:

Best described as crafting melodic rock metal, Montreal outfit Kolony believes in doing things a little differently.

Boldly combining elements of old school metal, NWOBHM, modern metal and rock, the band loves fast tempos, melodic vocals and all-around high-octane music with each track coming from the heart and reflecting the way its members think about the world.

Setting out to write a full-length album at the start of 2013, Kolony arrived at its latest record, Sledge due out on November 14, 2014.

“The message of the album is one of building a new society,” explains vocalist /guitarist Reno Benoit. “It’s a call to destroy our current pyramidal system and to rebuild another world. It’s a call to go back to more human values. We want to feel that we live in a world in harmony with the earth; we don’t want to be the slaves of modernity as we feel we are right now.”

Suffice it to say, heavy metal fans along with the new generation of metalheads and mainstream rock fans will all be able to find themselves in the music of Sledge.

Discography
2014 – Sledge

Shows, Tours, Festivals plus Bands shared stage w/

2013
Dec 8th – Katacombes, Montreal with The Unconscious Mind
Nov 25th – Top Musique, Live @ Musique Plus
Nov 19th – Pub St-Maurice, Repentigny with Hey Sugar
Nov 14th – Top Musique, Live @ Musique Plus
Nov 9th – Rock le Stage, Trois-Rivières with Death Lullaby
Oct 5th – Club Soda, Montreal with Wishmaster
May 4th – L’Olympia, Montreal with MADE IN IRON
Mar. 29th – Rock Cafe Stage, Trois-Rivières with Reanimator
Mar. 9th – Le Barock, St-Jean with La Corriveau
Mar. 1st – Underworld, Montreal with 9th State
Feb. 16th – l’Agite, Quebec with Farsight
Jan. 12th – Bar le Magog, Sherbrooke with Killitorous

2012
Nov. 30th – Bar l’Élite, St-Lazare with Duo Rock On
Nov. 14th – Katacombes, Montreal – Heavy MTL launching event
Nov. 2nd – L’Attraction, Victoriaville with Openfieldz
Oct. 6th – Grimoire, Granby with Go le Hibou
Sep. 29th – Le Trash, St-Hyacinthe with Anonymus
Sep. 28th – Katacombes, Montreal with Power Slaves
Aug. 18th – Festival du Triangle Noir, St-Césaire with Grim Skunk, Mononc Serge
Jul. 27th – Festival de la Truite, St-Philémon
Jul. 21th – International de Motocross, Ste-Julie, Dance Laury Dance
Jul. 4th – Petit Campus, Montreal – Monstrous Metal Mayhem
May 19th – Le Trash, St-Hyacinthe with Wishmaster
May 12th – L’Alizé, Montreal with Opened Fist
May 5th – L’Agité, Montreal with Wishmaster
Mar. 16th – Salle la Scène, St-Hyacinthe with Alcoholica
Mar. 10th – Le Trash, St-Hyacinthe with Opened Fist & Bookakee
Feb. 25th – Salle Communautaire, Buckland with Dance Laury Dance
Feb. 11th – L’Agité, Quebec with La Corriveau
Jan. 21th – Pub de la Place, Montreal – Kolony CD release show

2011
Dec. 17th – Le Trash, St-Hyacinthe with Instanzia
Dec.10th – Hémisphère Gauche, Montreal with DOH
Nov. 25th – Café Chaos, Montreal with Ogenix
Oct. 22nd – Piranha Bar, Montreal with Alone Against Rome
Oct. 15th – Dagobert, Quebec – Omnium du Rock
Sep. 9th – Le Dôme, St-Jean sur Richelieu with Under Aspect
Aug. 19th – Le Trash, St-Hyacinthe with Virulys
Jul. 23rd – Le National, Montreal – LME Event

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