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0 TRIBUNE Post Tour Recap From ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ In Support of Author Inspired Concept Album ‘Tales’

  • May 20, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Tribune

 

ALBUM PROMOS FOR MEDIA COVERAGE (ex. feature, interview, album review, airplay, etc.) CAN BE REQUESTED HERE 

R.I.Y.L.  Clutch, Mastodon, Alice In Chains, Down, Lamb Of God, Superjoint Ritual, Volbeat

EPK | Press Photo

Tour Dates | TribuneMetal.com | Facebook | Reverbnation

 Twitter | Youtube |  CBC 3 | Soundcloud

 Buy Links: Bandcamp |iTunes

TRIBUNE Post Tour Recap From ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’

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L-R | Ryan O’Shea – Bass | Jason Brown – Drums | Bryan Baker – Vocals | Terry Anderson – Guitar | Shawn Culley – Guitar  (Photo Credit: Matt Neuman – Phrozen Photography)

    Wrapping up their ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ that saw TRIBUNE complete their second cross country tour from Vancouver, BC to Montreal, QC and back West in promotion of their latest album ‘Tales’, an author inspired concept album released October 2013 via their indie label Corpse Corrosion Music. Guitarist Terry Anderson has posted a blog recapping the tour and thanking fans and friends for all the support plus details on the band looking for pictures from the tour and their upcoming future plans.

“Hi Everyone, Terry here… I’m finally recovered from what has been Tribune’s funnest and most successful tour to date. It’s been about 12 days since Tribune got back from tour and we’re still adjusting back to our normal lives. So much has happened between our last blog in Saskatchewan and the end of our tour that summing up everything that happened in one blog entry just won’t do…We cannot thank you all enough for the love and support! There are so many people to be thanked that we’ll save the individual thank-you’s for later posts as we post more about the tour. This has been Tribune’s most successful tour to date and we owe it all to you! CANADA SLAYS!” -Terry Anderson

Read More at http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-5-tour-re-cap/

Album Stream: http://tribune.bandcamp.com/

Their concept album ‘Tales’ was inspired entirely by literature featuring a wide array of influences from Homer to Mary Shelley to H.P. Lovecraft, to more extreme musical influences such as Carcass, Death and At The Gates. The band’s appetite for more melodic and more brutally heavy sounds to follow-up 2011’s Elder Lore/The Dark Arts is demonstrated with their collusion of extremity and accessibility that bleeds into the melting pot and their fresh take of progressive death metal. 

Canada Slays Tour Blog #4 – Rock Bottom @Saskatoon, SK – http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-4-rock-bottom-saskatoon-sk/

Canada Slays Tour Blog #3 – Grande Prairie – http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-3-grande-prairie/

Canada Slays Tour – Blog # 2 – Calgary & Red Deer, Alberta – http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-2-calgary-red-deer-alberta/

Live Video – Red Deer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaiWebMe9qg

Canada Slays Tour – Blog # 1 – Kelowna, Fernando’s, and Friends – http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-1-kelowna-fernandos-and-friends/

Pre-tour blog: http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tribune-2014/

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‘Tales’ – Track Listing:

Chapter I – Tales
Chapter II – Insectoid [PureGrainAudio] [Lyric Video]
Chapter III – The Butterfly Effect
Chapter IV – From Funeral To Funeral [Youtube] [Soundcloud]
Chapter V – Horror
Chapter VI – King of Ithaca
Chapter VII – Vengeance
Chapter VIII – Red Crescent
Chapter IX – That Bleakest Shore

For more info on Tribune, please visit these links:

Official Website: http://www.tribunemetal.com/ 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tribune/207477622640504 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/tribunemetal 

EPK – https://ashermediarelations.com/epks/epk-tribune-tales-2013-corpse-corrosion-music-release-date-october-29-2013/

Highlight: #13 on March 2014 Top 20 Loud Charts – Canadian College Radio – (Earshot)

Highlight: #14 on February 2014 Top 20 Loud Charts – Canadian College Radio – (Earshot)

Highlight: #11 on December 2013 Top 20 Loud Charts – Canadian College Radio – (Earshot)

“Tribune first came to my attention with their free-willed debut, 2011′s Elder Lore/ The Dark Arts – and I’m happy to report they have expanded their unfettered approach even further. These talented Canadian draw influences and inspirations from all over the metal map, fusing extremity with accessibility, the traditional with the contemporary, sweet simplicity and exceptional complexity. What’s more, they have brought all the diversity together into one smooth, cultured, and satisfying whole. There is so much to enjoy on this thoughtfully presented and powerfully produced CD: well worth seeking out for those looking for some fresh, creative metal.” – Zero Tolerance Magazine

“Lyrically, this is steeped in the lore of Lovecraft and Wells, but the music on offer goes through many changes, from raging trad and thrash to technical death metal, changing Tyr into Arsis, Slough Feg into The Black Dahlia Murder. With a production that is healthy and full of fire, ‘Tales’ is a must hear for those looking for something unique and unclassifiable in the metal world. A rare treat.” – Powerplay Magazine

“Tales is one of the most distinctive records I’ve heard this year…undoubtedly delivers difference right off the bat, putting its best foot forward and defying expectations the moment it begins by spotlighting Bryan Baker’s unprecedented singing style.” – Angry Metal Guy

“This is the release that I would expect Tribune to break through with; this is very strong material that is well written, interesting and technically excellent.” – Brutalism

“Canadian band, TRIBUNE, are an eclectic mix of different sounds and genres that result in a refreshing style that can only be heard to fully understand. The progressive quintet’s second full-length album, Tales, is a concept album based on the writings of renowned authors, like Lovecraft and Wells, but the music remains intensive and enjoyable.” – Metal Observer

“very now and then, a band comes around with a defined sound unlike anything previously heard by the listener. Such is the case with Tribune, and their latest release Tales.” – Kosher Metal

 

0 TRIBUNE Post Tour Blog #3 For ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ In Support of Author Inspired Concept Album ‘Tales’

  • April 16, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Tribune

ALBUM PROMOS FOR MEDIA COVERAGE (ex. feature, interview, album review, airplay, etc.) CAN BE REQUESTED HERE 

R.I.Y.L.  Clutch, Mastodon, Alice In Chains, Down, Lamb Of God, Superjoint Ritual, Volbeat

EPK | Press Photo

Tour Dates | TribuneMetal.com | Facebook | Reverbnation

 Twitter | Youtube |  CBC 3 | Soundcloud

 Buy Links: Bandcamp |iTunes

TRIBUNE Post Tour Blog #3 For ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ In Support of Author Inspired Concept Album ‘Tales’

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L-R | Ryan O’Shea – Bass | Jason Brown – Drums | Bryan Baker – Vocals | Terry Anderson – Guitar | Shawn Culley – Guitar  (Photo Credit: Matt Neuman – Phrozen Photography)

    On the road for their ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ in promotion of their latest release ‘Tales’, heavy metal brewers TRIBUNE have posted a new tour blog from their experience in Grande Prairie, AB and Edmonton, AB at the following link below. The tour kicked off in Kelowna, BC on April 3rd and has the band trekking as far East as Montreal, QC (April 19) to return West for the wrap up the tour in Nanaimo, BC on May 3rd.

This is Tribune‘s second cross Canada Tour since 2012, when they toured across the US and Canada in support of their previous release ‘Elder Lore/ The Dark Arts’.

Their concept album ‘Tales’ was released October 2013 via their indie label Corpse Corrosion Music and was inspired entirely by literature featuring a wide array of influences from Homer to Mary Shelley to H.P. Lovecraft, to more extreme musical influences such as Carcass, Death and At The Gates. The band’s appetite for more melodic and more brutally heavy sounds to follow-up 2011’s Elder Lore/The Dark Arts is demonstrated with their collusion of extremity and accessibility that bleeds into the melting pot and their fresh take of progressive death metal.

Album Stream: http://tribune.bandcamp.com/

Canada Slays Tour Blog #3 – Grande Prairie – http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-3-grande-prairie/

Canada Slays Tour – Blog # 2 – Calgary & Red Deer, Alberta – http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-2-calgary-red-deer-alberta/

Live Video – Red Deer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaiWebMe9qg

Canada Slays Tour – Blog # 1 – Kelowna, Fernando’s, and Friends – http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tour-blog-1-kelowna-fernandos-and-friends/

Pre-tour blog: http://www.tribunemetal.com/canada-slays-tribune-2014/

Video – Insectoid Jam – Tribune rehearses Insectoid during their last jam before touring – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKbRTfFe5yw

Tour Dates:

FACEBOOK MAIN EVENT LINK: https://www.facebook.com/events/236170526506606/

April 17 – Smiling Buddha – Toronto, ON w/ Blackout (NYC), Volur, Cetacea, Ol’ Time Moonshine

April 18 – Richmond Tavern – London, ON w/ Kynesys, Drophanger, Æpoch and Bloodless Child

April 19 – Cafe Chaos – Montreal, QC w/ DISSENSION, SPELLDOWN, TRIBUNE (Vancouver), KADRAAL

April 22 – Rainbow Bistro – Ottawa, ON (Cancelled)

April 25 – North Hill Inn – Brandon, MB w/ BLOODLYNE / DISSOLUTION / COMMENCING HUMAN DESPARATION / THE VOID

April 26 – Lethbridge, AB – The Moose Hall(all-ages)
w/guests TBA

April 27 – Rendezvous – Edmonton, AB

April 30 – Byng Roadhouse – Cranbrook, BC

May 2 – Cambie Esquimalt – Victoria, BC

May 3 – The Cambie – Nanaimo, BC

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‘Tales’ – Track Listing:

Chapter I – Tales
Chapter II – Insectoid [PureGrainAudio] [Lyric Video]
Chapter III – The Butterfly Effect
Chapter IV – From Funeral To Funeral [Youtube] [Soundcloud]
Chapter V – Horror
Chapter VI – King of Ithaca
Chapter VII – Vengeance
Chapter VIII – Red Crescent
Chapter IX – That Bleakest Shore

For more info on Tribune, please visit these links:

Official Website: http://www.tribunemetal.com/ 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tribune/207477622640504 

Twitter: http://twitter.com/tribunemetal 

EPK – https://ashermediarelations.com/epks/epk-tribune-tales-2013-corpse-corrosion-music-release-date-october-29-2013/

0 Vancouver’s Ninjaspy Launch Indiegogo Campaign For Next Album; Announce ‘Jump Ya Bones Tour’ (BC to Ontario)

  • April 2, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Ninjaspy

ALBUM/EP PROMOS FOR MEDIA COVERAGE (ex. feature, interview, album review, airplay, etc.) CAN BE REQUESTED HERE  

R.I.Y.L: System of a Down, The Dillenger Escape Plan, Red Hot Chili Peppers,Gojira, The Devin Townsend Project, Rancid.

Ninjaspy.net | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube | Soundcloud

Reverbnation | CBC Radio 3 | Last.fm | Instagram | Fanbridge

Bandcamp | CD Baby | iTunes

Vancouver’s Ninjaspy Launch Indiegogo Campaign For Next Album; Announce ‘Jump Ya Bones Tour’ (BC to Ontario)

L-R – Adam Parent – Drums | Joel Parent – Vocals/Guitar | Tim Parent – Bass (Photo Credit – Cat Ashbee)

      Vancouver, BC’s high flying, super entertaining, much adored cross breed of metal and ska, NINJASPY (a band of brothers literally), are proud to launch their new Indiegogo campaign to record their next full length album since releasing their cult followed debut ‘Pi Nature’ in 2007 produced by GGGarth Richardson and Ben Kaplan.

“Today marks the first step towards the making of a new record and we couldn’t be more excited. The campaign is going to bring us closer to our fans in ways we’ve never experienced and frankly it seems appropriate.  There should never be a disconnect between artists and people who love their work”.  Comments drummer Adam Parent.

Ninjaspy‘s goal is to raise $10,000 to record, produce and market the album, fans who donate to the campaign are offered the following perks:

Indiegogo Link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ninjaspy-new-album

Option 1: Digital Album: Receive the digital download of MP3’s, wicked awesome album art and liner notes.

Option 2: Digital Album / CD: Receive the digital download of MP3’s, wicked awesome album art and liner notes, and an autographed CD.

Option 3: Digital / CD / Shirt: Receive the digital download of MP3’s, wicked awesome album art and liner notes, autographed CD, and a stylin new Ninjaspy shirt to replace the one with blood stains and holes in it.

Option 4: Digital / Vinyl: Receive the digital download of MP3’s, wicked awesome album art and liner notes, and an autographed copy of the band’s first limited edition vinyl release.

Option 5: Digital / CD / Shirt / Vinyl: The full swag spectrum. Receive the digital download of MP3’s, wicked awesome album art and liner notes, autographed CD, bad ass shirt, and an autographed copy of the band’s first limited edition vinyl release.

Option 6: Listening Party VIP: VIP admission to official album listening party. Stand side by side with the band and production team as they experience the recordings for the first time. Details TBA.

Option 7: Private Lesson: Sit down at the band’s rehearsal space with any member to learn about the approach, technique and inspiration behind how they make music. (Includes digital download)

Option 8: The Last Scarfhood: Once upon a time, the band made hand sewn “Ten Chi Jin” Scarfhoods. They only have 1 left and they will never be made again. (Includes digital download)

Option 9: Dinner With The band: Location: East Vancouver the band will treat you and a friend to an incredible evening of good food, drinks, music and conversation. Funny things WILL happen. (Includes digital download)

Option 10: Private Concert Option 1: Location: Anywhere in the Lower Mainland We will come to your living room or location of your choice and perform a selection of acoustic Ninjaspy tunes. (Includes digital download)

Option 11: Custom “Guitana”: Handmade by Ninjoelspy, the Guitana is a one stringed instrument crafted from a bokken, which is commonly used in kendo and other sword based martial arts practices. Picture yourself playing a wooden sword with a chopstick and a slide, with the knowledge that only you, Ninjoelspy, and Hatsumi Sensei, grandmaster of the 9 surviving schools of bujinkan, own this instrument. (Includes digital download)

Option 12: Private Concert Option 2: Location: East Vancouver: You and 10 friends can enjoy a private face melting courtesy of yours truly. Just show up, crush a few beers and enjoy the show.

Option 13: Private Jam/Recording Session: Location: East Vancouver: Got some songs but no band? Spend a day at our rehearsal space jamming and recording your ideas. (Includes digital download)

Ninjaspy will also be on tour across Western Canada for thei ‘Jump Ya Bones Tour’ kicking off their first date in Pitt Meadows, BC on April 4th and trekking as far as Thunder Bay, ON to wrap up the tour in Kamloops, BC on April 27th. (dates below)

Following ‘Pi Nature’, Ninjaspy has toured across Canada on multiple occasions including touring Japan in 2010 (watch video here) winning over legions of fans along the way. In 2013, they unleashed their musical graphic novel ‘No Kata’ with the single ‘Skaingkh (The Skank)’ (animated version can be viewed below).

Skaingkh (The Skank) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiiNgw12Fs

No Kata Graphic Novel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YiWk_HaB4

ninjaspy no kata - animated graphic novel

EP Stream and Digital Graphic Novel – No Kata (2013) – http://ninjaspy.bandcamp.com/album/no-kata 

Album Stream – Nature (2007) – http://ninjaspy.bandcamp.com/album/ature

Music Video – Circle Pity (2011) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKMYEkf15WY

Music Video – Evolution of Skid (2009) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAGkl4j68K8

“JUMP YA BONES” WESTERN CANADIAN TOUR 

Tour Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/650396791663721/

4/4/2014 – Pitt Meadows, BC @ Pitt Meadows Church Hall (All Ages) w/ Guts and Glory, The Nautilus

4/5/2014 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater (19+) w/ NYLITHIA, HARVEST THE INFECTION, ICOSIAN, SKULL VULTURES

4/11/2014 – Nanaimo, BC @ Cavalotti Hall (All Ages) w/ Season To Attack,  Ellice Blackout

4/12/2014 – Victoria, BC – “RUDEFEST” @ Victoria Event Centre (All Ages + 19+ BEER GARDEN) w/ Sweetleaf, Blackwood Kings, Fins Out

4/16/2014 – Kelowna, BC @ The Habitat (19+) w/ To Rise As Kings, Gomorrah

4/17/2014 – Siksika Nation, AB @ Siksika Pow Wow Arbor (All Ages)

4/18/2014 – Saskatoon, SK @ Rock Bottom (19+) w/ Thresh

4/19/2014 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Zoo (18+)

4/21/2014 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Black Pirates Pub (All Ages)

4/23/2014 – Brandon, MB @ North Hill Inn ( 19+)

4/24/2014 – Edmonton, AB @ The Studio (18+) w/ Samandriel, Grounded Star

4/25/2014 – Calgary, AB @ TBA

4/26/2014 – Red Deer, AB @ The Vat Pub (18+) w/ All Else Fails, Illusive Man, Cryptosis

4/27/2014 – Kamloops, BC @ The Dirty Jersey (19+)

For more info, please follow the band at these links:

www.ninjaspy.net

http://www.facebook.com/ninjaspy

http://www.twitter.com/ninjaspy

http://www.youtube.com/ninjaspytv

“I am so scared of this…but that’s good.”  – Bob Ezrin

“Think a 3 piece Mr. Bungle with Patton’s vocals taking a turn for the better, add some laser beams and dreads, turn it all up to eleven, stand the fuck back and enjoy.” – Ground Report , NYC

“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” -Absolute Underground Magazine

“Soaring vocal harmonies are there one minute and replaced with a throaty growl the next. “Pure Sketch” is a sure-fire modern rock radio hit, as the post-grunge frame work gets stirred up into a tasty seventies inspired soul/funk soup”. – Metal-Rules.com

“Bloody well are entertaining. All dreadlocks and fricking samurai swords, giant pants and flying limbs. Not a speck of the stage was left untouched by this band’s chaotic feet.”  – Cord Magazine

“The album itself is a blend of Hardcore, Punk, Ska, Rock & Metal, a recipe for brilliance. I urge everyone to check out this band, you may just re-evaluate your existence” – Infinitybasement

About:

Ninjaspy arose with the dawn of the year of six, embodied by the Triad in Blood: Vocalist/Guitarist Joel Parent, Drummer Adam Parent and Bassist Tim Parent. Rising above the mire of their faceless six year muse, they have focused their sights on the mission objectives now at hand: Swift, surgical amalgamation of a spectrum of styles and the subsequent eradication of narrow mindedness. Advocating total freedom of expression and infiltrating every earthen sinew in their chosen path in order to stay grounded and facilitate real connections with others; interactions that are crucial for a meaningful human existence. In correlation with a commitment to people before all else, support for Ninjaspy has grown with every show, every tour and every industry contact.

With the help of prolific producers, GGGarth Richardson and Ben Kaplan, they entered the next level of their career, releasing their debut cd πature (Pi Nature) in the fall of 2007. Ever reworking new ideas to their utmost potential, 2013 saw the release of the follow-up multi-media EP/Graphic Novella “NINJASPY NO KATA” with production by the same team of producers.

Equipped and, indeed, armed with their own musical weaponry, (a derivation of hardcore, ska, grunge, reggae, funk and more) Ninjaspy aim to engage people with radical ideas on a level plane. And above all else, to reiterate to people over and again, the importance of victory in the eternal conflict with the skank; the vicious and relentless evil that lives in every human being. The skank that is overcome each time Ninjaspy has the honour of sharing their crafts with people in a live environment, where dancing destroys the enemy. The enemy whose defeat is apparent as one witnesses the total freedom felt at every show by the people in the pit who rise up to throw the skank down.

DISCOGRAPHY:
2007 – πature (Pi Nature) – LP
2011 – Skaingkh (The Skank) – Digital Single
2013 – No Kata – EP

Shared Stage With:
Periphery, Twelve Foot Ninja, Protest the Hero, Coheed & Cambria, Thursday, Cancer Bats, Death By Stereo, 3 Inches of Blood, Today Is The Day, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Brutal Truth, Divinity, Bring Me The Horizon, Neuraxis, Pierce The Veil, Powerman 5000, Grimskunk, The Dreadnoughts.

Festivals:
Warped Tour (Vancouver BC)
Taste of Chaos (Calgary AB)
Armstrong Open Air (Armstrong BC)
NXNE (Toronto ON)
New Music West (Vancouver BC)
The Big Easy (Nanaimo BC)

Endorsements:
Heartbeat Percussion
Los Cabos Drumsticks
Kinal Instruments

0 Westman Journal – Kill Matilda heads to Brandon to rock the stage, hunt for zombies

  • March 28, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Kill Matilda

http://www.westmanjournal.com/article/20140327/BRANDON0101/140329972/-1/brandon01/kill-matilda-heads-to-brandon-to-rock-the-stage-hunt-for-zombies

0 Vancouver’s Ninjaspy Announce ‘Jump Ya Bones Tour’ Featuring New Music From Upcoming Album; Crowd Funding Campaign For New Release

  • March 17, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Ninjaspy
ALBUM/EP PROMOS FOR MEDIA COVERAGE (ex. feature, interview, album review, airplay, etc.) CAN BE REQUESTED HERE

R.I.Y.L: System of a Down, The Dillenger Escape Plan, Red Hot Chili Peppers,Gojira, The Devin Townsend Project, Rancid.

Ninjaspy.net | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube | Soundcloud

Reverbnation | CBC Radio 3 | Last.fm | Instagram | Fanbridge

Bandcamp | CD Baby | iTunes

Vancouver’s Ninjaspy Announce ‘Jump Ya Bones Tour’ Featuring New Music From Upcoming Album; Crowd Funding Campaign For New Release

L-R – Adam Parent – Drums | Joel Parent – Vocals/Guitar | Tim Parent – Bass (Photo Credit – Cat Ashbee)

      Vancouver, BC’s high flying, super entertaining, much adored cross breed of metal and ska, NINJASPY (a band of brothers literally), are proud to announce their ‘Jump Ya Bones Tour’ in support of their crowd funding efforts for their next full length album since releasing their cult followed debut ‘Pi Nature’ in 2007 produced by GGGarth Richardson and Ben Kaplan.

“It has been 7 years since we’ve put out a full length record. The long wait ends this spring 2014, as we prepare to go into the studio with brand new material this May. But before we do, we need your support to make this new album a reality, and you’ll have many opportunities to throw us a few bones during the IndieGogo Campaign beginning April 1st and at any of the Western Canadian tour dates where we will perform all of our new songs.” states the band.

Following ‘Pi Nature’, Ninjaspy has toured across Canada on multiple occasions plus touring Japan in 2010 (watch video here), winning over legions of fans along the way. In 2013, they unleashed their musical graphic novel ‘No Kata’ with the single ‘Skaingkh (The Skank)’ (animated version can be viewed below).

Skaingkh (The Skank) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHiiNgw12Fs

No Kata Graphic Novel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51YiWk_HaB4

ninjaspy no kata - animated graphic novel

EP Stream and Digital Graphic Novel – No Kata (2013) – http://ninjaspy.bandcamp.com/album/no-kata

Album Stream – Pi Nature (2007) – http://ninjaspy.bandcamp.com/album/ature

Music Video – Circle Pity (2011) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKMYEkf15WY

Music Video – Evolution of Skid (2009) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAGkl4j68K8

—

*INDIE GoGO CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES APRIL 1st – MAY 15th*

**MORE INFO ON DONATIONS + REWARDS TBA**

Ninjaspy will have lots of advanced goodies in store for those who donate to help pay for the Recording, Production and Marketing costs of this new record including the chance for the fans to have their voices heard on the album. The band also wants to hear from fans about what they would want in return for the crowd funding. Fans can email the band at headquarters@ninjaspy.net

“JUMP YA BONES” WESTERN CANADIAN TOUR 

Tour Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/650396791663721/

4/4/2014 – Pitt Meadows, BC @ Pitt Meadows Church Hall (All Ages)

4/5/2014 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater (19+) w/ NYLITHIA, HARVEST THE INFECTION, ICOSIAN, SKULL VULTURES

4/11/2014 – Nanaimo, BC @ Cavalotti Hall (All Ages)

4/12/2014 – Victoria, BC – “RUDEFEST” @ Victoria Events Center (All Ages + 19+ BEER GARDEN)

4/16/2014 – Kelowna, BC @ The Habitat (19+) w/ To Rise As Kings and Gomorrah

4/17/2014 – Siksika Nation, AB @ Siksika Pow Wow Arbor (All Ages)

4/18/2014 – Saskatoon, SK @ Rock Bottom (19+)

4/19/2014 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Zoo (18+)

4/21/2014 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Black Pirates Pub (All Ages)

4/23/2014 – Brandon, MB @ North Hill Inn ( 19+)

4/24/2014 – Edmonton, AB @ The Studio (18+)

4/25/2014 – Calgary, AB @ TBA

4/26/2014 – Red Deer, AB @ The Vat Pub (18+)

4/27/2014 – Kamloops, BC The Dirty Jersey (19+)

For more info, please follow the band at these links:

www.ninjaspy.net

http://www.facebook.com/ninjaspy

http://www.twitter.com/ninjaspy

http://www.youtube.com/ninjaspytv

“I am so scared of this…but that’s good.”  – Bob Ezrin

“Think a 3 piece Mr. Bungle with Patton’s vocals taking a turn for the better, add some laser beams and dreads, turn it all up to eleven, stand the fuck back and enjoy.” – Ground Report , NYC

“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” -Absolute Underground Magazine

“Soaring vocal harmonies are there one minute and replaced with a throaty growl the next. “Pure Sketch” is a sure-fire modern rock radio hit, as the post-grunge frame work gets stirred up into a tasty seventies inspired soul/funk soup”. – Metal-Rules.com

“Bloody well are entertaining. All dreadlocks and fricking samurai swords, giant pants and flying limbs. Not a speck of the stage was left untouched by this band’s chaotic feet.”  – Cord Magazine

“The album itself is a blend of Hardcore, Punk, Ska, Rock & Metal, a recipe for brilliance. I urge everyone to check out this band, you may just re-evaluate your existence” – Infinitybasement

About:

Ninjaspy arose with the dawn of the year of six, embodied by the Triad in Blood: Vocalist/Guitarist Joel Parent, Drummer Adam Parent and Bassist Tim Parent. Rising above the mire of their faceless six year muse, they have focused their sights on the mission objectives now at hand: Swift, surgical amalgamation of a spectrum of styles and the subsequent eradication of narrow mindedness. Advocating total freedom of expression and infiltrating every earthen sinew in their chosen path in order to stay grounded and facilitate real connections with others; interactions that are crucial for a meaningful human existence. In correlation with a commitment to people before all else, support for Ninjaspy has grown with every show, every tour and every industry contact.

With the help of prolific producers, GGGarth Richardson and Ben Kaplan, they entered the next level of their career, releasing their debut cd πature (Pi Nature) in the fall of 2007. Ever reworking new ideas to their utmost potential, 2013 saw the release of the follow-up multi-media EP/Graphic Novella “NINJASPY NO KATA” with production by the same team of producers.

Equipped and, indeed, armed with their own musical weaponry, (a derivation of hardcore, ska, grunge, reggae, funk and more) Ninjaspy aim to engage people with radical ideas on a level plane. And above all else, to reiterate to people over and again, the importance of victory in the eternal conflict with the skank; the vicious and relentless evil that lives in every human being. The skank that is overcome each time Ninjaspy has the honour of sharing their crafts with people in a live environment, where dancing destroys the enemy. The enemy whose defeat is apparent as one witnesses the total freedom felt at every show by the people in the pit who rise up to throw the skank down.

DISCOGRAPHY:
2007 – πature (Pi Nature) – LP
2011 – Skaingkh (The Skank) – Digital Single
2013 – No Kata – EP

Shared Stage With:
Periphery, Twelve Foot Ninja, Protest the Hero, Coheed & Cambria, Thursday, Cancer Bats, Death By Stereo, 3 Inches of Blood, Today Is The Day, Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Brutal Truth, Divinity, Bring Me The Horizon, Neuraxis, Pierce The Veil, Powerman 5000, Grimskunk, The Dreadnoughts.

Festivals:
Warped Tour (Vancouver BC)
Taste of Chaos (Calgary AB)
Armstrong Open Air (Armstrong BC)
NXNE (Toronto ON)
New Music West (Vancouver BC)
The Big Easy (Nanaimo BC)

Endorsements:
Heartbeat Percussion
Los Cabos Drumsticks
Kinal Instruments

0 Vancouver’s TRIBUNE Announce ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ In Support of Author Inspired Concept Album ‘Tales’

  • March 7, 2014
  • by Asher
  • · Tribune

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Vancouver’s TRIBUNE Announce ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ In Support of Author Inspired Concept Album ‘Tales’

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L-R | Ryan O’Shea – Bass | Jason Brown – Drums | Bryan Baker – Vocals | Terry Anderson – Guitar | Shawn Culley – Guitar  (Photo Credit: Matt Neuman – Phrozen Photography)

    Heavy metal brewers TRIBUNE are proud to announce their 2014 ‘CANADA SLAYS TOUR’ kicking off in Kelowna, BC on April 3rd and will see the band trek as far East as Montreal, QC and return West to wrap up the tour in Nanaimo, BC on May 3rd. This is the band’s second cross Canada Tour since 2012, when they toured the US and Canada in support of their album ‘Elder Lore/ The Dark Arts’.

“Greetings and salutations, friends of Tribune. We have news for you! After two years of musical scheming and dubious machinations, we’ve decided to serve you our eclectic brand of heavy metal in person. Tribune will be touring our newest album, ‘Tales’, across Canada. This means that we’ll be stuffing our tall, sweaty selves into a van for the sake of your personal amusement. The new CD and Skeletal Lich Shirts are available, so come prepared if you want to put some gas into the tank of our voracious bandwagon. Her thirst is unending…We’re calling this tour ‘Canada Slays Tribune 2014’. It’s all about our friends and fans, as if it never were before… Come on out and have a good time with us. Cheers! Terry Anderson (guitarist)”

The Vancouver quintet unleashed their concept album ‘Tales’ this past October via their indie label Corpse Corrosion Music. Inspired entirely by literature, ‘Tales‘ features a wide array of influences, from Homer to Mary Shelley to H.P. Lovecraft, to more extreme influences such as Carcass, Death and At The Gates. The band’s appetite for more melodic and more brutally heavy sounds to follow-up 2011’s Elder Lore/The Dark Arts is demonstrated with their collusion of extremity and accessibility that bleeds into the melting pot and their fresh take of progressive death metal.

Album Stream: http://tribune.bandcamp.com

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Tour Dates:
April 3 – Fernando’s – Kelowna, BC
April 4 – Blind Beggar – Calgary, AB
April 5 – Blarney Stone – Red Deer, AB
April 7 – Better Than Fred’s – Grande Prairie, AB
April 10 – Rock Bottom – Saskatoon, SK
April 11 – The Zoo – Winnipeg, MB
April 12 – North Hill Inn – Brandon, MB – VENUE CHANGE: NOW IN HAMIOTA, MB @ HAMIOTA HOTEL
April 17 – The Rosie – Sault Ste. Marie, ON
April 19 – Cafe Chaos – Montreal, QC
April 22 – Rainbow Bistro – Ottawa, ON
April 25 – North Hill Inn – Brandon, MB
April 27 – Rendez Vous – Edmonton, AB
April 30 – Byng Roadhouse – Cranbrook, BC
May 2 – Cambie Esquimalt – Victoria, BC
May 3 – The Cambie – Nanaimo, BC
 

Highlight: #11 on December 2013 Top 20 Loud Charts – Canadian College Radio – (Earshot)

“Tribune first came to my attention with their free-willed debut, 2011′s Elder Lore/ The Dark Arts – and I’m happy to report they have expanded their unfettered approach even further. These talented Canadian draw influences and inspirations from all over the metal map, fusing extremity with accessibility, the traditional with the contemporary, sweet simplicity and exceptional complexity. What’s more, they have brought all the diversity together into one smooth, cultured, and satisfying whole. There is so much to enjoy on this thoughtfully presented and powerfully produced CD: well worth seeking out for those looking for some fresh, creative metal.” – Zero Tolerance Magazine

“Lyrically, this is steeped in the lore of Lovecraft and Wells, but the music on offer goes through many changes, from raging trad and thrash to technical death metal, changing Tyr into Arsis, Slough Feg into The Black Dahlia Murder. With a production that is healthy and full of fire, ‘Tales’ is a must hear for those looking for something unique and unclassifiable in the metal world. A rare treat.” – Powerplay Magazine

“Tales is one of the most distinctive records I’ve heard this year…undoubtedly delivers difference right off the bat, putting its best foot forward and defying expectations the moment it begins by spotlighting Bryan Baker’s unprecedented singing style.” – Angry Metal Guy

“This is the release that I would expect Tribune to break through with; this is very strong material that is well written, interesting and technically excellent.” – Brutalism

“Canadian band, TRIBUNE, are an eclectic mix of different sounds and genres that result in a refreshing style that can only be heard to fully understand. The progressive quintet’s second full-length album, Tales, is a concept album based on the writings of renowned authors, like Lovecraft and Wells, but the music remains intensive and enjoyable.” – Metal Observer

“very now and then, a band comes around with a defined sound unlike anything previously heard by the listener. Such is the case with Tribune, and their latest release Tales.” – Kosher Metal

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‘Tales’ – Track Listing:

Chapter I – Tales
Chapter II – Insectoid [PureGrainAudio] [Lyric Video]
Chapter III – The Butterfly Effect
Chapter IV – From Funeral To Funeral [Youtube] [Soundcloud]
Chapter V – Horror
Chapter VI – King of Ithaca
Chapter VII – Vengeance
Chapter VIII – Red Crescent
Chapter IX – That Bleakest Shore

For more info on Tribune, please visit these links:

Official Website: http://www.tribunemetal.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tribune/207477622640504

Twitter: http://twitter.com/tribunemetal

EPK – https://ashermediarelations.com/epks/epk-tribune-tales-2013-corpse-corrosion-music-release-date-october-29-2013/

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