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0 925 Rebellion – DECATUR (BAND INTERVIEW)
0 NEWS: DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST Announce Line Up Changes w/ Ninjaspy, WAKE, Dusty Tucker, Without Mercy, West of Hell and more! (Red Deer, AB) – October 27-29
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – Oct 1, 2017
DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST Announce Line Up Changes
w/ Ninjaspy, WAKE, Dusty Tucker, Without Mercy, West of Hell and more!
(Red Deer, AB) – October 27-29
Red Deer, AB’s DAYS OF THE DEAD festival taking place from Oct 26-29 announce a small line up change with one if its headliners Anciients, whom were originally scheduled to perform on the Saturday. Anciients will now be replaced by Calgary grindcore WAKE who will be co-headlining the Saturday night line up with Ninjaspy. Check out WAKE‘s brutality at https://wakegrind.bandcamp.com.
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!
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/
Partners:
Shadows Productions
Gigfly
The Soundhouse
Dark Day Studios Red Deer
Temple Entertainment
Western Canadian Metal Festival Alliance
Boombox Union
Asher Media Relations
Absolute Underground
Broken Neck Radio
Kats Metal Litter Box
Crown of Viserys
Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio
Metal Master Kingdom
PureGrainAudio
Pure Rock Radio
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0 August 2017 – Powerplay Mag #200 – Last Bullet
0 July 2017 – #199 – Powerplay Mag UK – Divinity
0 NEWS: Band Submissions Now Open For Calgary’s DECIMATE METALFEST
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – September 30, 2017
Band Submissions Now Open For Calgary’s DECIMATE METALFEST
DECIMATE METALFEST is the brainchild of Sloan Voxx of Voxx Promotions, which is destined to become an annual Canadian metal pilgrimage to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. With the many yearly festivals becoming part of the national metal heritage, Sloan wants DECIMATE METALFEST to become one of the best-known events alongside the various festivals located within Alberta, and Western Canada. With Voxx Promos booking and promotional experience, and the support of metalheads internationally, there is nothing to stop them from reaching their goal of bringing in the masses and putting on incredible metal festivals for years to come!
Voxx Promos was the head promoter for Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio’s CEMR Metalfest in 2017 (https://www.facebook.com/events/222522428193641/), which showcased a killer line up of Western Canada’s up and coming metal bands such as Terrifier, Planet Eater, Display of Decay, W.M.D, Vile Insignia, Path to Extinction, Tessitura, Anarcheon, Kelevra, Train Bigger Monkeys, Ye Goat-Herd Gods, Detherous, Juliet Ruin, Augurium, Anti-Pattern, Forsaken Rite, Graveyard Nemesis and Benevolent Like Quietus.
DECIMATE METALFEST promises to be bigger and better than the executed festival next year and its pending lineup will certainly not disappoint.
Festival organizer Sloan Voxx comments:
“We are so excited to be embarking on the adventure of starting our very own Metal Festival! We’ve been very fortunate to have worked with so many incredible people and bands in the past and we value them so much. What better way to spend a weekend than to bring them all together for 3 days of epic music and entertainment! We have a great team on board and we can’t wait to get this fest off the ground with the help of seasoned and up-an-coming metal bands of all kinds! Let’s do this! DECIMATE!”
DECIMATE METALFEST will take place June 7th, 8th and 9th, 2018 at the Nite Owl (213 10 Ave SW) in Calgary, Alberta.
DECIMATE METALFEST encourages any bands interested in performing at the fest to apply.
The submission deadline is October 31, 2017.
Applications for the festival can be sent via the website at:
https://decimatemf.wixsite.com/decimateme
or
by e-mailing your submission to: decimatemetalfest@gmail.com
Current sponsors include:
Asher Media Relations
Metal Master Kingdom
Total Metal Productions
Temple Entertainment
Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio
If you are interested in helping sponsor DECIMATE METALFEST, please contact us at:
https://www.facebook.com/decimatemetalfest/
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0 Games, Brrraaains And Headbanging Life – Arisen From Nothing – Broken (Collective Wave Records) “Broken opens with a bang. Chaos is a groove-laden slab of metal with killer riffing & a mix of guttural & clean vocals.”
“Broken opens with a bang. Chaos is a groove-laden slab of metal with killer riffing & a mix of guttural & clean vocals.”
https://gbhbl.com/ep-review-arisen-nothing-broken-collective-wave-records/
0 No Clean Singing – SAR ISATUM: “SAR ISATUM”
0 Play In Victoria – DECATUR – “Badder Than Brooklyn” at Logans Oct. 19
0 NEWS: PureGrainAudio Premiere DECATUR “Internal War”; Debut Album “Badder Than Brooklyn” Out October 6th Produced By Gojira’s Joe Duplantier + Canadian Tour Dates (ON/AB/BC/MB/QC)
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – September 29, 2017
For fans of Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, In Flames
PureGrainAudio Premiere DECATUR “Internal War”
Debut Album “Badder Than Brooklyn” Out October 6th
Produced By Gojira’s Joe Duplantier
Canadian Tour Dates (ON/AB/BC/MB/QC)
L-R: Liam Maguire (Guitars/Backing Vocals), Steve “The Animal” Mitchell (Drums/Backing Vocals), Jay “Beard” Sarrazin (Guitars/Lead Vocals), Kyle “Tiny Basstank” Clark (Bass/Backing Vocals)
Photo Credit: Brandon Allen
Toronto-based metal messiahs DECATUR will be unleashing their debut album “Badder Than Brooklyn” produced by Joe Duplantier of Gojira on October 6th, 2017. Named after their very own street of dreams in New York, where they recorded their debut album at Silvercord Studios in Brooklyn, DECATUR get their unique sound by being opened-minded, not just to each other in this band of brothers, but to different genres, not just of metal, but also the blues, rock ‘n’ roll and even pop. DECATUR’s criteria if it’s good, they can make it better! They focus on evolution not devolution. There is no fear of DECATUR repeating themselves musically; for them…the world is not enough. They see themselves as intrepid explorers, never playing it safe, always looking for new lands to conquer, and in the process drawing on creative powers they never knew they possessed.
Their debut album is all-killer, no filler! It doesn’t hide behind its production; it compliments it. These are truly songs of power and empowerment, a clarion call for strength in life’s battles…healing through headbanging. From the power shredding of “Into The Night” and the storytelling of the album’s title track “Badder Than Brooklyn” to the brutal beat down of songs like “Bottled Inside” and “Internal War”, DECATUR feel modern metal has lost its way and they’re here to provide the roadmap forward to the future!
Teaming up with PureGrainAudio, DECATUR are premiering their second single “Internal War”, a track written about fighting mental illness.
Vocalist and guitarist Jay “Beard” Sarrazin explains:
“This song represents the internal struggle that you go through to conquer mental illness. It’s an issue I have struggled with for my whole life. But I have struggled with it internally. Only recently has it become a discussion in the public eye. The more you talk about it, the more people you realize struggle with it and struggle with it alone. So this song represents that internal battle you go through daily. It’s a lonely war and that may be the hardest part about mental illness. But we are not alone. This song is to shed light on the fact that there are others that struggle.”
To listen to “Internal War”, please visit the following link: http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/thrashers-decatur-stream-internal-war-off-upcoming-joe-duplantier-produced-album-exclusive-premiere
Album pre-order available here.
First single “Into The Night” can be heard here.
In support of the debut album, DECATUR will also be embarking on a cross Canada tour kicking off in Toronto on October 6th and going West as far as Victoria, BC to then wrap up in Eastern Canada in Montreal on November 25th (dates listed below).
Track Listing:
1. Internal War (2:56)
2. Into The Night (3:45)
3. Vegas Girl (3:46)
4. Worst Enemy (3:10)
5. Badder Than Brooklyn (3:56)
6. Bottled Inside (3:13)
7. Tear You (3:10)
8. Abaddon (3:48)
9. Shatterproof (3:51)
10. Internal War Pt. 2 (4:47)
Album Length: 36:27
Album Band Lineup:
– Jay “Beard” Sarrazin – Vocals / Guitar
– Tiny Basstank – Bass
– Steve “The Animal” Mitchell – Drums
Live Band Lineup:
– Jay “Beard” Sarrazin – Vocals / Guitar
– Tiny Basstank – Bass
– Steve “The Animal” Mitchell – Drums
– Liam Maguire – Guitar
DECATUR “OUT OF THE SEWER TOUR”
Oct 6 – Toronto, ON – DC Music
Oct 7 – Hamilton, ON – Che Burrito
Oct 11 – Calgary, AB – Distortion
Oct 12 – Red Deer, AB – The Vat Pub
Oct 13 – Edmonton, AB – Rendez Vous
Oct 14 – Kelowna, BC – Muninn’s Post
Oct 16 – Nanaimo, BC – The Cambie
Oct 19 – Victoria, BC – Logan’s Pub
Oct 20 – Vancouver, BC – Pub 340
Oct 26 – Winnipeg, MB – Garrick Hotel
Oct 27 – Sault Ste. Marie, ON – Algonquin Pub
Oct 28 – Windsor, ON – The Rockstar
Nov 3 – Guelph, ON – Dstrct
Nov 4 – Cornwall, ON – Lola’s
Nov 10 – Niagara Falls, ON – The Geekery
Nov 11 – Sudbury, ON – The Asylum
Nov 25 – Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
For more info:
http://www.decaturmetal.com
http://www.facebook.com/decaturmetal
http://www.twitter.com/decaturmetal
http://www.instagram.com/decaturmetal
EPK – http://wp.me/pciNW-aE6
(bio written by Steve Earles)
About:
DECATUR is comprised of Jay “Beard” Sarrazin (Lead Vocals/Guitar), Tiny Basstank (Bass/Backup Vocals), Steve “Animal” Mitchell (Drums/ Backup Vocals), and Liam Maguire (Guitar/Backup Vocals) have sensed the hunger from metal fans for proper metal with real songs, music built on the foundations of the past to last far into the future. Make no mistake, DECATUR are a band that puts the grit into integrity, as guitarist/vocalist Jay ‘Beard’ Sarrazin says, DECATUR make “real metal for real metalheads.”
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