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0 NEWS: Doom Duo ZAUM Announce Eastern Canadian Tour “The Ritual Experience” w/ Special Live Guests
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – October 10, 2017
For fans of Om, Sleep, Lustmord, Pallbearer
Doom Duo ZAUM Announce Eastern Canadian Tour “The Ritual Experience” w/ Special Live Guests
Dec 1, 2017 – Saint John, NB @ Sanctuary Theatre **
Dec 2, 2017 – Moncton, NB @ Aberdeen Theatre **
Dec 8, 2017 – Fredericton, NB @ Maniac Mansion
Dec 9, 2017 – Halifax, NS @ The Seahorse
** denotes seated show
Performing Live on Tour w/ ZAUM
Olive Bestvater – experimental violinist of Saskatoon, SK doomgaze band BLACK TREMOR
Ricky Frenette – Classically trained woodwind artisan
Jamie McEwan – Experimental projections artist
Nawal Doucette – Award winning contemporary Middle Eastern dance artist
Photo Credit – Don Levandier
L-R – Kyle Alexander McDonald (Bass/Vocals/Synth/Textures), Christopher Lewis (Drums/Percussion)
Completing their tours in Europe and across Canada earlier this year in support of their latest release “Eidolon”, New Brunswick’s ECMA nominees and Music NB award winning mantra doom duo ZAUM announce they will be embarking a special December tour of the Canadian East coast entitled “The Ritual Experience” (dates listed below). The Maritime dates will showcase four exceptional events where the doom duo of Kyle Alexander McDonald (Bass/Vocals/Synth/Textures) plus Christopher Lewis (Drums/Percussion) will perform as one on stage with experimental violinist Olive Bestvater of Saskatoon, SK doomgaze band BLACK TREMOR and classically trained woodwind artisan Ricky Frenette (both of whom performed on ZAUM’s “Eidolon”) along with experimental projections artist Jamie McEwan and Nawal Doucette, an award winning contemporary Middle Eastern dance artist who performs finger cymbals (zils) and specializes in Salimpour belly dance.
Watch the tour promo video to see what to expect.
ZAUM – The Ritual Experience
ZAUM‘s Kyle Alexander McDonald comments:
“It will actually have actually been 1.5 years since we last played a show in the Maritimes, which is of course where we call home. Since we tour internationally as often as we do, a few years ago we made a point to not play around home as often a band typically would since we like to get in as much work and relaxation as possible while back home. People have been asking forever when we plan to play here next and jokingly criticized us for playing even regions like Eastern Europe more frequently than we do here. As such, its been a long time coming and people have been patient – so we thought it would be fitting to roll out some special shows and have a few of the guests who played additional instrumentation on our latest album Eidolon to actually perform it and some of our past material live with us.
We’re incredibly fortunate to have both violinist/vocalist Olive Bestvater of Saskatoon based doomgaze band Black Tremor and Moncton based woodwind scholar Ricky Frenette join ZAUM during this period. Additionally, a Saint John based friend of mine Nawal Doucette is a surreal award winning contemporary Middle Eastern dance artist and instructor who a couple years back had expressed a shared interest in performing with us in the future if schedules could align. She’d been a fan of the band for some time and hit me with this idea to create this ritual-esque sort of performance to accompany some Maritime shows, which beautifully fit the dream experience I had in mind. She’d worked in the past with Moncton based experimental projectionist Jamie McEwan, and introduced him as the final piece of the equation. From there we laid the foundation for “ZAUM : A Ritual Experience” to come to fruition this December for these 4 sweet 60-90 minute intimate late evening shows.”
ZAUM: A Ritual Experience
Performed as one with Nawal Doucette, Olive Bestvater, Ricky Frenette, and projections by Jamie McEwan.
Evening performance between 8pm – 11pm.
** denotes seated show
Dec 1 – Saint John, NB @ Sanctuary Theatre **
Dec 2 – Moncton, NB @ Aberdeen Theatre **
Dec 8 – Fredericton, NB @ Maniac Mansion
Dec 9 – Halifax, NS @ The Seahorse
Other Dates:
ZAUM: Enlightenment Europe Tour w/ Fire Breather
Oct 13 – Kiel, DE @ Alte Meierei
Oct 15 – Freiburg, DE @ The White Rabbit
Oct 16 – Torino, IT @ Haram’s Graveyard
Oct 18 – St. Feliu De Codines, ES @ Inciviczone
Oct 19 – Zaragoza, ES @ Arrebato
Oct 20 – Santander, ES @ Rock Beer The New
Oct 21 – Cascais, PT @ Stairway Club
Oct 22 – Carballo, ES @ Sala Dublin
Oct 23 – Laudio, ES @ Orbeko Etxea
Oct 25 – Zagreb, HR @ Vintage Industrial
Oct 26 – Brno, CZ @ Bakjazyl
Oct 27 – Szeged, HU @ Grand Cafe
Oct 28 – Carpi, IT @ EKIDNA
Oct 29 – Bistrica Ob Sotli, SI @ Klub Metulj
Oct 30 – Timisoara, RO @ Club Daos
Oct 31 – Plzen, CZ @ Andel Club
Nov 2 – Copenhagen, DK @ Lytgens Kro
Nov 3 – Gothenburg, SE @ Truckstop Alaska
About:
ZAUM’s second and latest full length musical chapter “Eidolon” was released October 24, 2016 via I HATE Records with distribution via Plastic Head/Sony Music throughout Europe and Century Media in North America to follow their 2014 debut album “Oracles”. In their three years as an active touring band ZAUM have amassed 200+ shows (mainly international) under their belts including support stints for Voivod, Pentagram, and Cauldron.
ZAUM is a passage toward the dark realizations of the old world; a monolithic doomy mantra based meditative experience forged by bass and drums interwoven with sitar, woodwind, string and synth textures. Based in New Brunswick, Canada – observers experience a tranquil resonance whereby the astral and physical planes can co-exist and be understood from a natural perspective.
ZAUM is:
Kyle Alexander McDonald (bass/vocal/synth/textures)
Christopher Lewis (drums/percussion)
Song Stream – The Enlightenment – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POe486_oUs4
Album Stream – Eidolon – https://zaum.bandcamp.com/
Track Listing:
1. Influence Of The Magi (21:00)
2. The Enlightenment (21:00)
Album Length: 42:00
For more info, please visit www.Zaum.ca.
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“ZAUM blends several moods into a really attractive, cohesive work that not only pays off, but also distances them from Om, creating for themselves a sphere of their own.” -Sputnik Music
“a new level of headphone-ready, open-consciousness expanse. Nothing matters. Give up your expectations. Quit your job and move to the forest. Build a temple by a river and spend your days naming the gods who live in the trees around you.” -The Obelisk
“Their sound encompasses the enormity of the likes of Sleep and Om, yet works in a mysticism that’s haunting and ethereal. The 40 minute span of this release is a sitar driven daydream that carries the gravitational force of tectonic plates shifting.” -Iron Fist
“Hold onto your bong, ponder those scraps of eastern philosophy you’ve picked up watching Kung Fu films from the 1970s, and prepare to escape from Samsara.” -Ave Noctum
“Consists of dread and a haunting sensation to glimmers of hope, but mostly dreadful darkness. ZAUM cast their own dark shadow, one I don’t mind being consumed by.” – Bucketlist Music Review (10/10)
“Few bands can touch the New Brunswick doom duo in terms of sheer hypnotic atmosphere. Eidolon sees them go further down their singular path into the heavy unknown. Prepare to be transported to a higher realm.” -The Sludgelord
“Simply put, ZAUM is an 11/10. To my fellow people: go home and lay down.”- Don L’Orange, -Weird Canada
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0 DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST Offer FREE Digital Sampler For 2017 Line Up “The Moshing Dead Vol.1”
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – Oct 9, 2017
DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST Offer FREE Digital Sampler “The Moshing Dead Vol.1” For 2017 Line Up
Ninjaspy, WAKE, Dusty Tucker, Without Mercy, West of Hell and more!
(Red Deer, AB) – October 27-29
Tickets On Sale Now!
Red Deer, AB’s DAYS OF THE DEAD festival taking place from Oct 26-29 is offering headbangers everywhere a FREE digital sampler entitled “The Moshing Dead Vol.1” featuring tracks from bands on this year’s line up.
To get your FREE download, please visit the following link: https://daysofthedeadreddeer.bandcamp.com/album/the-moshing-dead-vol-1
About Days of The Dead Fest:
Halloween may be about putting on a costume and trick or treating around your city block, but in Red Deer, AB it’s about so much more. The rumours in the area describe a mass pilgrimage, a collective gathering from across Alberta and beyond, a zombie mosh pit coming alive. Are the rumours true…? Well during the Days of The Dead Fest, a Heavy Metal Music Festival Costume Party Extravaganza takes over!
Founded in 2014 by local Red Deer resident and music scene contributor Justin Shadows of Shadows Productions plus vocalist of town favourites Leave The Living, DAYS OF THE DEAD Fest celebrates the heavy sounds of metal, punk and hardcore along with the ritual of transforming yourself in to another character during the Halloween weekend in October.
Now in its 4th year, Days of The Dead has grown to a three day event hosting over 30 bands from across Canada for both all ages and 18+ shows for a reunion of friends, music fans and a Halloween aficionados.
The full line up for DOTD 2017 is now ready and fully unleashed with headliners Ninjaspy, WAKE, Dusty Tucker, Without Mercy, West of Hell and more.
Tickets on sale now via https://www.myshowpass.com/days-of-the-dead/ and will be available from local Red Deer acts performing on the festival plus at the following Red Deer locations The Vat, International Beer Haus and The Soundhouse Guitar and Record Shop.
***KICKOFF PARTY***
Thursday, October 26th at THE VAT PUB
Hunted By Ravens (Red Deer, AB)
Transitions (Red Deer, AB)
Liandra (Red Deer, AB)
Decrepitation (Edmonton, AB)
TerraGanja (Red Deer, AB)
Silverthorn (Red Deer, AB)
Friday, October 27th at The Vat Pub:
West of Hell (Vancouver, BC)
Anchoress (Vancouver, BC)
Pridelands (Red Deer, AB)
Kyoktys (Calgary, AB)
Votov (Winnipeg, MB)
Earth’s Ashes (Red Deer, AB)
Grizzly Hawk (Humboldt, SK)
Follow The Sorrow (Red Deer, AB)
Spurn (Calgary, AB)
Killed By The Nine (Red Deer, AB)
Saturday October 28th at The Vat Pub:
Ninjaspy (Vancouver, BC)
WAKE (Calgary, AB)
Without Mercy (Vancouver, BC)
Tyler Dory Trio (Edmonton, AB)
Leave The Living (Red Deer, AB)
Dead 3 Days (Oshawa, ON)
The Dead Sexy (Oshawa, ON)
The Myopia Condition (Red Deer, AB)
Juliet Ruin (Edmonton, AB)
Wives Tail (Red Deer, AB)
Sunday, October 29th at The International Beer Haus:
***ALL AGES***
Dusty Tucker (Red Deer, AB)
Ninjaspy (Vancouver, BC)
Shotgunner (Edmonton, AB)
Black Friday (Edmonton, AB)
Exit Strategy (Calgary, AB)
Hammerdrone (Calgary, AB)
DropDeadFred (Kelowna, BC)
Fück Nazi (Red Deer, AB)
In Ruin (Saskatoon, SK)
Skeptal (Red Deer, AB)
For more info, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/DaysOfTheDeadRD/
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Shadows Productions
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The Soundhouse
Dark Day Studios Red Deer
Temple Entertainment
Western Canadian Metal Festival Alliance
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0 REMINDER – TOUR KICK OFF – THIS WEEK OCT 14 -31 ADRIAN PAIN & THE DEAD SEXY Canadian Tour Dates (ON/MB/SK/AB) – “The Dead Are Living Tour”; New EP ‘Mixed Messages’ Out Now!
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – October 2017
For fans of Alexisonfire, Deftones, Of Mice & Men
REMINDER – TOUR KICK OFF – THIS WEEK OCT 14 -31
ADRIAN PAIN & THE DEAD SEXY Canadian Tour Dates (ON/MB/SK/AB)
“The Dead Are Living Tour”
New EP ‘Mixed Messages’ Out Now!
Unleashing their new EP “Mixed Messages” this past February to continue their solid chemistry of an ‘Allcore’ metal sound with emotionally stirring and socially conscious lyrics. Toronto, ON’s Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy announce they will be embarking on “The Dead Are Living Canadian Tour” that will see the band performing dates in cities across the Canadian prairies, which includes the Days of The Dead Fest in Red Deer, AB on October 28th with Anciients, Ninjaspy, Dusty Tucker, Without Mercy and more. The band will also be kicking off the tour on October 5th in Toronto, ON supporting Wednesday 13 and Eyes Set To Kill at The Rockpile.
Vocalist Adrian Pain comments:
“The last tweet Mitch Lucker ever posted was on Halloween night 2012, which said “The dead are living” so when we were invited to play The Days of The Dead festival in Red Deer, AB on Oct 28th, we decided it would be a great tribute and honour to call our fall Canadian tour “The Dead Are Living Tour”. After all, we are Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy. We start October 5th in Toronto with Wednesday 13 and Eyes Set To Kill and finish up Halloween night with a free show for anyone wearing a costume or our band merch in Oshawa. Catch us live during the inaugural The Dead Are Living Tour and watch for much more to come!”
Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy – “The Dead Are Living Tour”
Oct 5 – Toronto, ON – The Rockpile w/ Wednesday 13, Eyes Set To Kill – info
Oct 6 – Windsor, ON – Back Stage – info
Oct 14 – Kingston, ON – Overtime – info
Oct 20 – Hamilton, ON – The Doors Pub – info
Oct 21 – Oshawa, ON – Gravity Lounge – info
Oct 24 – Sudbury, ON – The Asylum – info
Oct 25 – Winnipeg, MB – Garrick Hotel – info
Oct 26 – Regina, SK – Cloud 9 Live – info
Oct 28 – Red Deer – The Vat (Days of The Dead Fest) – info
The “Mixed Messages” EP is a marriage of Adrian Pain’s solo endeavours and The Dead Sexy’s band work to follow EPs “Picture Day At Night School” (2014) and their debut “The First One Is Free” (2013) along with Pain’s solo full length “Love Letters & Suicide Notes” (2012).
Pain describes “Mixed Messages”:
“This release is like the gateway drug to metal and heavier music in general! We appeal to a very wide range of musical tastes so guys can play us for their girlfriends, and girls can play us for the guys. If you identify another way, you can play us for whomever you’d like. If any negative response comes out of it, it’ll be the fans that expect every song to get heavier with each effort. What I hope they notice is the constant evolution of our sound. The music itself is getting more and more diverse and progressive, while the song structures are also evolving into bigger, more complex arrangements. I want everyone that listens to this record to feel an emotional connection. I want people to relate to, and hear the MESSAGE in each track.”
A full stream of ‘Mixed Messages’ can be heard at the following link: https://soundcloud.com/user-772494263/sets/mixed-messages
Singles:
‘Say It Like You Mean It’ featuring Rachel Gosling – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9CYFHNJeBQ
‘In Time’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlyuaxLFc5o
‘Day One’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFY8j5M_DZ8
‘Mixed Messages’ is available via All-Core Records on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and all major online retailers.
Track Listing:
In Time (4:22)
In Time (4:22)
Mixed Messages (5:59)
Say It Like You Mean It (4:13)
Day One (5:15)
Somewhere Out There (4:25)
EP Length: 24:15
For more info:
http://www.all-corerecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Pain-The-Dead-Sexy-140237086062408/
Twittter – @AdrianPain @TheDeadSexyAbout:
http://www.all-corerecords.com
https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Pain-The-Dead-Sexy-140237086062408/
Twittter – @AdrianPain @TheDeadSexyAbout:
In 2010, vocalist and songwriter Adrian Pain endured events that would have left most men shattered and broken. Unwilling to take prescribed medications for his severe depression, he found inner strength in the form of the lyrics and music that sprang from his suffering. Together with his son and drummer Ethan Clark, formed a new family in the shape of their band, Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy. Adrian describes their music as “torment and triumph, sonic seduction.” They have transcended their initial influences of Deftones, Alexisonfire, and Of Mice & Men, to a genre of metal they have given a name of its own. “We like to call what we do ‘Allcore’ … To break it down as far as metal sub-genres go, I think what best describes us would be a blend of Progressive & Nu-metal, with Post-Hardcore & Metalcore …or NuMetalcore if you’d like!”Just as they deliver shock and awe on record, Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy‘s live performance is a constant energy exchange. Their sets have a life of their own. One minute the whole room can be bouncing, the next there may be a pit, or there can be a complete hush over the crowd while they catch their breath and listen intently as the band engages them and the fans interact back with them. This showmanship has lead Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy to blow up the Toronto music scene, headlining major clubs such as Sound Academy, Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Hard Rock Café for Hard Rock Rising, Bovine Sex Club, The Rivoli, Lee’s Palace, and The Horseshoe Tavern along with locally supporting touring bands such as Mushroomhead, Wednesday 13, Eyes Set To Kill, Anvil, Killer Dwarfs, Sid Wilson / Slipknot After Party, Die Mannequin, Carol Pope, Sumo Cyco, Dance Laurie Dance, Castle and more. The band has also taken a foot hold of the Southern Ontario touring circuit, performing in cities surrounding the greater Toronto area and festivals such as the Ottawa Field Fest, Landmark Events, Canadian Music Week, Kitchener Music Festival to name a few.
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“Canada delivers another slab of musical aggression with metal hybrids Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy…awesome tunes to be found and that ‘Say It Like You Mean It’ is a world class song.” – Merchants of Air
“The songs on this, 5 track, EP are brilliantly executed and magnificently preformed. There are no mixed messages on this album -they are perfectly laid out and explained. The songs all move with a power and drive that is both spine tingling and soul expanding… and even a little frightening at times. It’s amazing on numerous levels! Overall, “Mixed Messages (EP)” is a brilliant album from an amazing band. It’s worth grabbing with both hands.” – 925 Rebellion
“I feel cleansed after listening to such powerful metal letting it wash over me in waves of sheer pleasure.‘Mixed Messages’ is a really cheeky little number with crisp vocals and of course indeed those sexy screeches and low toned pulverising growls that are like a thousand daggers jabbing up and down your spine, but the pain is sheer unadulterated pleasure!” – Ramzine
“Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy is Toronto and Canada’s very own Post-Hardcore / Nu Metal Hybrid; a band that melds every splintered off sub-genre you can imagine into one, stand alone, Rock sound. This is sonic seduction delivered with a serrated edge image. Sounds Like: Alexisonfire in dream” – The Scene Magazine
“Toronto, Ontario all-core rockers Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy were so far ahead of their own game with Night School that I have a hard time keeping the volume turned down much below blow-my-fucking-eardrums-out every and anytime I listen! For those of you who think rock n roll is dead, Adrian Pain & The Dead Sexy would like to have a talk with you!” – My Indie Music Blog – Top Indie Albums/EPs of 2014
“Just treated my ears to The Dead Sexy’s Picture Day at Night School and it was exactly that, a true treat! Get this album, you’ll be delighted you did!… It’s just out n out sexy!” – TheRockAsylum
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le mélange de férocité et de mélodies plutôt catchy (mais toujours complexes) est parfaitement maîtrisé par ces virevoltants québécois, livrant là un très solide quatrième album qui devrait faire frénétiquement secouer quelques têtes.
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