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0 NEWS: Metal-Reggae Fusion NINJASPY To Co-Headline ARMSTRONG METAL FEST + New Album Out “Spüken'”

  • June 12, 2017
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Ninjaspy

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – June 12, 2017

 

For Fans of Twelve Foot Ninja, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mike Patton, RHCP, Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, Skindred

Metal-Reggae Fusion NINJASPY To Co-Headline Armstrong Metal Fest 2017

New Album Out Now! “Spüken”

‘Spüken’ produced by Garth Richardson (Kittie, RATM, Mudvayne, The Melvins)


L-R – Tim Parent – Bass, Joel Parent – Vocals, Guitar – Adam Parent – Drums
Photo Credit: Taya Fraser
Vancouver’s NINJASPY, a trio of blood brothers that have created a metal fusion of hard, heavy, hook-laden music that runs the gamut of reggae, surf and more will be one of the headlining bands at this year’s ARMSTRONG METAL FEST alongside Boston tech death / thrash titans REVOCATION, Canadian 80’s thrash legends AGGRESSION and Vancouver Whammy Award Best Local Metal Artist winner GOLERS among many more from across Western Canada. The two day metal festival is being held on July 14th and 15th in Armstrong, BC at the Hassen Arena. Full fest details can be found at http://armstrongmetalfest.ca.

NINJASPY comments:“It has been way too long since we had the honour of playing AMF. So long, but I will never forget that weekend. We have been telling and re-telling the stories ever since. Can’t wait to get back and get a few more battle scars partying with some of the best metal bands in the west.”


ARMSTRONG METALFEST 2017 Line-Up & Set Times:

Friday, July 14
SET TIMES – BAND
11:00am – 11:25am – DAHLMERS REALM (Edmonton, AB) (Broken Neck Radio People’s Choice Winner)
11:35am – 12:00pm – SPORE (Nelson, BC)
12:10pm – 12:35pm – THE AVULSION (Lethbridge, AB)
12:45pm – 1:10pm – SERAPHIC NIHILIST (Prince George, BC)
1:20pm – 1:45pm – ARKENFIRE (Kelowna, BC)
1:55pm – 2:20pm – ATROUS LEVIATHIAN (Victoria, BC)
2:30pm – 2:55pm – OSSIFIC (Winnipeg, MB)
3:05pm – 3:30pm – NOMAD (Enderby, BC)
3:40pm – 4:05pm – ZUCKUSS (Vancouver, BC)
4:15pm – 4:40pm – APOLLYON (Kelowna, BC)
4:50pm – 5:15pm – EXPAIN (Vancouver, BC)
5:25pm – 5:50pm – DROP DEAD FRED (Kelowna, BC)
6:00pm – 6:30pm – WMD (Calgary, AB)
6:40pm – 7:10pm – ANGELMAKER (Vancouver, BC)
7:20pm – 7:50pm – EXIT STRATEGY (Calgary, AB)
8:00pm                     100 MAN SHOTGUN (Beer Event)
8:15pm – 8:50pm – ODINFIST (Armstrong, BC)
9:10pm – 9:55pm – XUL (Vernon, BC)
10:15pm – 11:00pm – NINJASPY (Vancouver, BC)
11:20pm – 12:20am – GOLERS (Vancouver, BC) (Vancouver Whammy Award Best Local Metal Artist winner)
Saturday, July 15
SET TIMES – BAND
11:00am – 11:25am – TRAIN BIGGER MONKEYS (Calgary, AB)
11:35am – 12:00pm – THE DRAGSTRIP DEVILS (Kelowna, BC)
12:10pm – 12:35pm – GATEKEEPER (Vancouver, BC)
12:45pm – 1:10pm – GARDENER (Vernon, BC)
1:20pm – 1:45pm – TALES OF THE TOMB (Edmonton, AB)
1:55pm – 2:20pm – CELL (Winnipeg, MB)
2:30pm – 3:00pm – CITIZEN RAGE (Calgary, AB)
3:10pm – 3:40pm – GLADIUS SKY (Vernon, BC)
3:50pm – 4:20pm – SLAGDUSTER (Grand Forks, BC)
4:30pm – 5:00pm – GALACTIC PEGASUS (Vancouver, BC)
5:10pm – 5:40pm – EYE OF HORUS (Edmonton, AB)
5:50pm – 6:25pm – DEAD QUIET (Vancouver, BC)
6:25pm – 6:50pm – TRASH WRESTLING EVENT
6:50pm – 7:30pm – TERRIFIER (Vancouver, BC)
7:30pm – 7:55pm – TRASH WRESTLING EVENT
7:55pm – 8:35pm – COCAINE MOUSTACHE (Vancouver, BC)
8:35pm – 9:00pm – TRASH WRESTLING EVENT
9:00pm – 9:45pm – PLANET EATER (Regina, SK)
10:10pm – 10:55pm – AGGRESSION (Vancouver, BC)
11:15pm – 12:15am – REVOCATION (Boston, MA)

 

NINJASPY‘s performance at the festival will be in support of their newly released full length “Spüken” produced by GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mudvayne, Gallows) and Ben Kaplan (Biffy Clyro, Atreyu, Haste The Day). “Spüken” features a culmination of nearly a decade of songs that have been narrowed down to an epic 10 track experience to demonstrate all their downbeats to breakdowns to their weaving of reggae, hardcore, metal and much more to follow their 2013 EP / graphic novel “No Kata” and 2007 debut “Pi Nature”.

Vocalist / guitarist Joel Parent comments:

“Spüken is the musical equivalent of a magician removing his own entrails. The guts just keep coming, like handkerchiefs from a sleeve, and its painful, colourful and cathartic all at once, in the same way that vomiting after hours of nausea is such a relief. The musical ideas that came together in this project span many years and come from many influences. Hearing them all together is a trip. There were a lot of hard times in the years while this record was being written and most, if not all of these songs are tied together by the search for something greater than oneself. Empowerment by going through ones pain, all this is woven into an album that is another spastic stylistic roller coaster not unlike our previous albums, but with smoother blending. From song to song there is a lot of variance, but within songs we have managed to take contrasting genres and combine them in more nuanced ways, with less hard cuts. This album is colourful, and the palette is dark.”

‘Spüken’ is available on the band’s online store, iTunes, CD Baby and Bandcamp.

Album Stream – https://ninjaspy.bandcamp.com/album/sp-ken-2


Music Video – Speak –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32B6xJBNHYs

1. Speak (4:43)
2. Shuriken Dance (4:02)
3. Brother Man (4:54)
4. Dead Duck Dock (4:45)
5. Become Nothing (3:18)
6. What! (3:08)
7. Jump Ya Bones! (3:55)
8. Grip The Cage (4:10)
9. Azaria (4:02)
10. Slave Vehemence (5:44)
Album Length: 42:44

Show Dates:
June 24 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre
July 15 – Armstrong, BC – Armstrong Metal Fest w/ Revocation, Aggression, Golers and more – info

For More Info:
http://www.ninjaspy.net/
EPK – http://wp.me/pciNW-9jR

 

– 30 –

“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” – Absolute Underground Magazine
 
“Ninjaspy has a unique sound mixing rock, hardcore and ska together.” – Pure Grain Audio
 
 “They harmoniously blend metal, ska, grunge, hardcore, reggae, funk, surf and jazz for a unique mashup sound” – Monday Magazine (Vancouver) 
 

“The group’s reggae-tinged hardcore is anything but generic, and the group’s unique swagger had fans creating a skank-mosh hybrid that quickly turned into a circle pit.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

“The Vancouver-based trio Ninjaspy have made a name for themselves over the past few years, and it’s easy to see why: they’re really good. ” – Metal Sucks

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0 NEWS: Idioteq Album Premiere Metal-Reggae Fusion NINJASPY ‘Spüken’; Album Out April 14th + Canadian Tour Dates

  • April 12, 2017
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Ninjaspy

(contact info below)

NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – April 12, 2017

For Fans of Twelve Foot Ninja, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mike Patton, RHCP, Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, Skindred

Idioteq Album Premiere Metal-Reggae Fusion NINJASPY ‘Spüken’

‘Spüken’ produced by Garth Richardson (Kittie, RATM, Mudvayne, The Melvins)

Cross Canada Tour Dates

New Video ‘Speak’

L-R – Tim Parent – Bass, Joel Parent – Vocals, Guitar – Adam Parent – Drums
Photo Credit: Taya Fraser

Vancouver’s NINJASPY, a trio of blood brothers that have created a metal fusion of hard, heavy, hook-laden music that runs the gamut of reggae, surf and more will be releasing their next full length ‘Spüken’ due out April 14, 2017. The album is once again produced by GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mudvayne, Gallows) and Ben Kaplan (Biffy Clyro, Atreyu, Haste the Day) to follow their 2013 EP / graphic novel ‘No Kata’ and 2007 debut ‘Pi Nature’. The album was crowd funded and helped the band raise $15,000 to record the new full length, which features a culmination of nearly a decade of songs that have been narrowed down to an epic 10 track experience to demonstrate all their downbeats to breakdowns to their weaving of reggae, hardcore, metal and much more.

Before its official release, NINJASPY have teamed up with Idioteq.com for exclusive full stream premiere of the album at the following link: http://www.idioteq.com/ninjaspy-spuken-record-premiere/

Vocalist / guitarist Joel Parent comments:

“Spüken is the musical equivalent of a magician removing his own entrails. The guts just keep coming, like handkerchiefs from a sleeve, and its painful, colourful and cathartic all at once, in the same way that vomiting after hours of nausea is such a relief. The musical ideas that came together in this project span many years and come from many influences. Hearing them all together is a trip. There were a lot of hard times in the years while this record was being written and most, if not all of these songs are tied together by the search for something greater than oneself. Empowerment by going through ones pain, all this is woven into an album that is another spastic stylistic roller coaster not unlike our previous albums, but with smoother blending. From song to song there is a lot of variance, but within songs we have managed to take contrasting genres and combine them in more nuanced ways, with less hard cuts. This album is colourful, and the palette is dark.”

‘Spüken’
will be available as of April 14th on the band’s online store, iTunes, CD Baby and Bandcamp.

Music Video – Speak – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32B6xJBNHYs

1. Speak (4:43)
2. Shuriken Dance (4:02)
3. Brother Man (4:54)
4. Dead Duck Dock (4:45)
5. Become Nothing (3:18)
6. What! (3:08)
7. Jump Ya Bones! (3:55)
8. Grip The Cage (4:10)
9. Azaria (4:02)
10. Slave Vehemence (5:44)
Album Length: 42:44In addition to releasing ‘Spüken’, NINJASPY will be taking their explosive and powerfully unhinged live show on the road for their sixth tour across Canada, which also marks their first cross country tour in six years since promoting their debut album in 2011.

SpukenTour_asofmarch27web

SPÜKEN ALBUM RELEASE CANADA TOUR DATES
April 21 – Nanaimo, BC – Studio 420
April 22 – Victoria, BC – V-Lounge (moved from Logan’s Pub)
April 28 – Maple Ridge, BC – The Wolf Bar
April 29 – Kamloops, BC – Dirty Jersey
April 30 – Vernon, BC – The Green (All Ages)
May 10 – Drumheller, AB – Neighbour’s Corner Pub
May 11 – Calgary, AB – Dickens
May 12 – Regina, SK – The Exchange
May 13 – Winnipeg, MB – Pyramid
May 14 – Thunder Bay, ON – Black Pirates Pub
May 16 – Ottawa, ON – The House of Targ
May 17 – Ajax, ON – Rotilicious
May 18 – St. Catharines, ON – Warehouse
May 19 – Guelph, ON – DSTRCT
May 20 – Orillia, ON – The Geneva
May 21 – Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
May 22 – Toronto, ON – Sneaky Dees
May 24 – Sudbury, ON – The Asylum
May 26 – Saskatoon, SK – Vangelis
May 27 – Edmonton, AB – The Forge
May 28 – Kelowna, BC – Fernando’s
June 24 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre
July 15 – Armstrong, BC – Armstrong Metal Fest w/ Revocation, Aggression, Golers and more – info
For More Info:
http://www.ninjaspy.net/
EPK – http://wp.me/pciNW-9jR

– 30 –

“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” – Absolute Underground Magazine
 
“Ninjaspy has a unique sound mixing rock, hardcore and ska together.” – Pure Grain Audio
 
 “They harmoniously blend metal, ska, grunge, hardcore, reggae, funk, surf and jazz for a unique mashup sound” – Monday Magazine (Vancouver) 
 

“The group’s reggae-tinged hardcore is anything but generic, and the group’s unique swagger had fans creating a skank-mosh hybrid that quickly turned into a circle pit.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

“The Vancouver-based trio Ninjaspy have made a name for themselves over the past few years, and it’s easy to see why: they’re really good. ” – Metal Sucks

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0 NEWS: PureGrainAudio Premiere Metal-Reggae Fusion NINJASPY ‘Become Nothing’ + Tour Dates + New Album

  • April 3, 2017
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Ninjaspy

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – April 3, 2017

 

For Fans of Twelve Foot Ninja, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mike Patton, RHCP, Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, Skindred

PureGrainAudio Premiere NINJASPY ‘Become Nothing’

New Album ‘Spüken’ Out April 14th

‘Spüken’ produced by Garth Richardson (Kittie, RATM, Mudvayne, The Melvins)

Cross Canada Tour Dates

New Video ‘Speak’

L-R – Tim Parent – Bass, Joel Parent – Vocals, Guitar – Adam Parent – Drums
Photo Credit: Taya Fraser
Vancouver’s NINJASPY, a trio of blood brothers that have created a metal fusion of hard, heavy, hook-laden music that runs the gamut of reggae, surf and more will be releasing their next full length ‘Spüken’ due out April 14, 2017. The album is once again produced by GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mudvayne, Gallows) and Ben Kaplan (Biffy Clyro, Atreyu, Haste the Day) to follow NINJASPY‘s 2013 EP / graphic novel ‘No Kata’ and their 2007 debut ‘Pi Nature’. The crowd funded album that raised $15,000 for the band to record the new full length features a culmination of nearly a decade of songs that have been narrowed down to an epic 10 track experience to demonstrate all their downbeats to breakdowns to their weaving of reggae, hardcore, metal and much more.

Before ‘Spüken’ hits stereos and iPods around the world, NINJASPY has teamed up with PureGrainAudio.com for the premiere of their second single ‘Become Nothing’ at the following link: http://puregrainaudio.com/audio/ninjaspy-debut-new-track-become-nothing-from-spueken-out-april-14th-exclusive-premiereThe band’s first full single / music video ‘Speak’ off ‘Spüken’ can be watched at the following link below and can be downloaded from their online store, iTunes, CD Baby and Bandcamp.

Music Video – Speak 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32B6xJBNHYs%20

1. Speak (4:43)
2. Shuriken Dance (4:02)
3. Brother Man (4:54)
4. Dead Duck Dock (4:45)
5. Become Nothing (3:18)
6. What! (3:08)
7. Jump Ya Bones! (3:55)
8. Grip The Cage (4:10)
9. Azaria (4:02)
10. Slave Vehemence (5:44)
Album Length: 42:44In addition to releasing ‘Spüken’, NINJASPY will be taking their explosive and powerfully unhinged live show on the road for their sixth tour across Canada, which also marks their first cross country tour in six years since promoting their debut album in 2011.

SPÜKEN ALBUM RELEASE CANADA TOUR DATES
April 21 – Nanaimo, BC – Studio 420
April 22 – Victoria, BC – Logan’s Pub
April 29 – Kamloops, BC – Dirty Jersey
April 30 – Vernon, BC – The Green (All Ages)
May 10 – Drumheller, AB – Neighbour’s Corner Pub
May 11 – Calgary, AB – Dickens
May 12 – Regina, SK – The Exchange
May 13 – Winnipeg, MB – Pyramid
May 14 – Thunder Bay, ON – Black Pirates Pub
May 17 – Ajax, ON – Rotilicious
May 18 – St. Catharines, ON – Warehouse
May 19 – Guelph, ON – DSTRCT
May 20 – Orillia, ON – The Geneva
May 21 – Montreal, QC – Piranha Bar
May 22 – Toronto, ON – Sneaky Dees
May 24 – Sudbury, ON – The Asylum
May 26 – Saskatoon, SK – Vangelis
May 27 – Edmonton, AB – The Forge
May 28 – Kelowna, BC – Fernando’s
June 24 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre
July 15 – Armstrong, BC – Armstrong Metal Fest w/ Revocation, Aggression, Golers and more – info
For More Info:
http://www.ninjaspy.net/
EPK – http://wp.me/pciNW-9jR

– 30 –

“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” – Absolute Underground Magazine
 
“Ninjaspy has a unique sound mixing rock, hardcore and ska together.” – Pure Grain Audio
 
 “They harmoniously blend metal, ska, grunge, hardcore, reggae, funk, surf and jazz for a unique mashup sound” – Monday Magazine (Vancouver) 
 

“The group’s reggae-tinged hardcore is anything but generic, and the group’s unique swagger had fans creating a skank-mosh hybrid that quickly turned into a circle pit.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

“The Vancouver-based trio Ninjaspy have made a name for themselves over the past few years, and it’s easy to see why: they’re really good. ” – Metal Sucks

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0 Tour Dates Updated: Reggae Metal Fusion NINJASPY Cross Canada Tour + New Album ‘Spüken’ + New Video ‘Speak’

  • March 22, 2017
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Ninjaspy

(contact info below)

NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – March 22, 2017

 

For Fans of Twelve Foot Ninja, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mike Patton, RHCP, Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, Skindred

Tour Dates Updated: Reggae Metal Fusion NINJASPY Cross Canada Tour

New Album ‘Spüken’ Out April 14th + New Video ‘Speak’


‘Spüken’ produced by Garth Richardson (Kittie, RATM, Mudvayne, The Melvins)


L-R – Tim Parent – Bass, Joel Parent – Vocals, Guitar – Adam Parent – Drums
Photo Credit: Taya Fraser

Vancouver’s NINJASPY, a trio of blood brothers that have created a metal fusion of hard, heavy, hook-laden music that runs the gamut of reggae, surf, metal and more will be performing their explosive and powerfully unhinged live show across Canada in support of their next full length ‘Spüken’ due out April 14, 2017. Their album is once again produced by GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mudvayne, Gallows) and Ben Kaplan (Biffy Clyro, Atreyu, Haste the Day) to follow NINJASPY‘s 2013 EP / graphic novel ‘No Kata’ and their 2007 debut ‘Pi Nature’. The album release tour will be the band’s sixth tour across the country and also marks six years since 2011 that they have trekked from West to East, the last time being in support of their debut album.

The band’s first full single / music video ‘Speak’ off ‘Spüken’ can be watched at the following link below and can be downloaded from their online store, iTunes, CD Baby and Bandcamp.

Music Video – Speak – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32B6xJBNHYs

About ‘Spüken’:Years in the making since spring 2014 when NINJASPY launched the “Jump Ya Bones” and crowd funding Campaign, the band was able to raise $15,000 to fund the new full length. They began recording in November 2014, taking their culmination of nearly a decade of songs and narrowing them down to an epic 10 track experience to demonstrate all their downbeats to breakdowns to their weaving of reggae, hardcore, metal and much more.

“These 10 songs span a decade, so there are a lot of different feels happening from song to song that represent what we got into over the years. It’s like we spent 10 years swallowing everything life threw at us, then we threw it all back up again, and are now able to listen to the blended, half-digested version of it.” says vocalist / guitarist Joel Parent.

‘Spüken’ was recorded and mixed sporadically over the next two years in Vancouver, BC and in the spring of 2016 between recording sessions, the band teased fans with a filmed and recorded live acoustic performance of their track ‘Azaria’, a song that is included with full metal instrumentation on the new genre-bending album. It showed the true diversity of the band and their ability to take manic and intense music and make it tender and raw.

1. Speak (4:43)
2. Shuriken Dance (4:02)
3. Brother Man (4:54)
4. Dead Duck Dock (4:45)
5. Become Nothing (3:18)
6. What! (3:08)
7. Jump Ya Bones! (3:55)
8. Grip The Cage (4:10)
9. Azaria (4:02)
10. Slave Vehemence (5:44)
Album Length: 42:44

SPÜKEN ALBUM RELEASE CANADA TOUR DATES
* = New Date added – + = Venue updated
April 21 – Nanaimo, BC @ Studio 420
April 22 – Victoria, BC @ V-Lounge +
April 28 – Maple Ridge, BC @ The Wolf Bar +
April 29 – Kamloops, BC @ Dirty Jersey
April 30 – Vernon, BC @ The Green (All Ages)
May 10 – Drumheller, AB @ Neighbours Corner Pub *
May 11 – Calgary, AB @ Dickens
May 12 – Regina, SK @ The Exchange
May 13 – Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid
May 14 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Black Pirates Pub
May 16 – Ottawa, ON @ House of Targ *
May 17 – Ajax, ON @ Rotilicious *
May 18 – St. Catherines, ON – Warehouse
May 19 – Guelph, ON @ DSTRCT
May 20 – Orillia, ON @ The Geneva
May 21 – Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar
May 22 – Toronto, ON @ Sneeky Dees *
May 24 – Sudbury, ON @ The Asylum
May 26 – Saskatoon, SK @ Vangellis
May 27 – Edmonton, AB @ The Forge
May 28 – Kelowna, BC @ Fernandos
June 24 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater
July 15 – Armstrong, BC @ Armstrong Metal Fest w/ Revocation, Aggression, Golers and more – info
For More Info:
http://www.ninjaspy.net/
EPK – http://wp.me/pciNW-9jR

– 30 –

“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” – Absolute Underground Magazine
 
“Ninjaspy has a unique sound mixing rock, hardcore and ska together.” – Pure Grain Audio
 
 “They harmoniously blend metal, ska, grunge, hardcore, reggae, funk, surf and jazz for a unique mashup sound” – Monday Magazine (Vancouver) 
 

“The group’s reggae-tinged hardcore is anything but generic, and the group’s unique swagger had fans creating a skank-mosh hybrid that quickly turned into a circle pit.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

“The Vancouver-based trio Ninjaspy have made a name for themselves over the past few years, and it’s easy to see why: they’re really good. ” – Metal Sucks

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0 Tour Dates: Reggae Metal Fusion NINJASPY Cross Canada Tour + New Album ‘Spüken’ + New Video ‘Speak’

  • March 10, 2017
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Ninjaspy

(contact info below)

NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – March 10, 2017

 

For Fans of Twelve Foot Ninja, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mike Patton, RHCP, Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, Skindred

Reggae Metal Fusion NINJASPY Announce Cross Canada Tour + New Album ‘Spüken’ + New Video ‘Speak’

‘Spüken’ produced by Garth Richardson (Kittie, RATM, Mudvayne, The Melvins)

L-R – Tim Parent – Bass, Joel Parent – Vocals, Guitar – Adam Parent – Drums
Photo Credit: Taya Fraser
Vancouver’s NINJASPY, a trio of blood brothers that have created a metal fusion of hard, heavy, hook-laden music that runs the gamut of reggae, surf, metal and more will be performing their explosive and powerfully unhinged live show across Canada in support of their next full length ‘Spüken’ due out April 14, 2017. Their album is once again produced by GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mudvayne, Gallows) and Ben Kaplan (Biffy Clyro, Atreyu, Haste the Day) to follow NINJASPY‘s 2013 EP / graphic novel ‘No Kata’ and their 2007 debut ‘Pi Nature’. The album release tour will be the band’s sixth tour across the country and also marks six years since 2011 that they have trekked from West to East, the last time being in support of their debut album.

The band’s first full single / music video ‘Speak’ off ‘Spüken’ can be watched at the following link below and can be downloaded from their online store, iTunes, CD Baby and Bandcamp.

Music Video – Speak – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32B6xJBNHYs

About ‘Spüken’:

Years in the making since spring 2014 when NINJASPY launched the “Jump Ya Bones” and crowd funding Campaign, the band was able to raise $15,000 to fund the new full length. They began recording in November 2014, taking their culmination of nearly a decade of songs and narrowing them down to an epic 10 track experience to demonstrate all their downbeats to breakdowns to their weaving of reggae, hardcore, metal and much more.

“These 10 songs span a decade, so there are a lot of different feels happening from song to song that represent what we got into over the years. It’s like we spent 10 years swallowing everything life threw at us, then we threw it all back up again, and are now able to listen to the blended, half-digested version of it.” says vocalist / guitarist Joel Parent.

‘Spüken’ was recorded and mixed sporadically over the next two years in Vancouver, BC and in the spring of 2016 between recording sessions, the band teased fans with a filmed and recorded live acoustic performance of their track ‘Azaria’, a song that is included with full metal instrumentation on the new genre-bending album. It showed the true diversity of the band and their ability to take manic and intense music and make it tender and raw.

1. Speak (4:43)
2. Shuriken Dance (4:02)
3. Brother Man (4:54)
4. Dead Duck Dock (4:45)
5. Become Nothing (3:18)
6. What! (3:08)
7. Jump Ya Bones! (3:55)
8. Grip The Cage (4:10)
9. Azaria (4:02)
10. Slave Vehemence (5:44)
Album Length: 42:44

SPÜKEN ALBUM RELEASE CANADA TOUR DATES
April 21 – Nanaimo, BC @ Studio 420
April 22 – Victoria, BC @ TBA
April 29 – Kamloops, BC @ Dirty Jersey
April 30 – Vernon, BC @ The Green (All Ages)
May 11 – Calgary, AB @ Dickens
May 12 – Regina, SK @ The Exchange
May 13 – Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid
May 14 – Thunder Bay, ON @ Black PIrate Pub
May 18 – St. Catherines, ON @ Warehouse
May 19 – Guelph, ON @ DSTRCT
May 20 – Orillia, ON @ The Geneva
May 21 – Montreal, QC @ Piranha Bar
May 24 – Sudbury, ON @ Asylum
May 26 – Saskatoon, SK @ Vangellis
May 27 – Edmonton, AB @ The Forge
May 28 – Kelowna, BC @ Fernandos
June 24 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater
July 14/15 – Armstrong, BC @ Armstrong Metal Fest w/ Revocation, Aggression, Golers and more – info
For More Info:
http://www.ninjaspy.net/
EPK – http://wp.me/pciNW-9jR

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“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” – Absolute Underground Magazine
 
“Ninjaspy has a unique sound mixing rock, hardcore and ska together.” – Pure Grain Audio
 
 “They harmoniously blend metal, ska, grunge, hardcore, reggae, funk, surf and jazz for a unique mashup sound” – Monday Magazine (Vancouver) 
 
“The group’s reggae-tinged hardcore is anything but generic, and the group’s unique swagger had fans creating a skank-mosh hybrid that quickly turned into a circle pit.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

“The Vancouver-based trio Ninjaspy have made a name for themselves over the past few years, and it’s easy to see why: they’re really good. ” – Metal Sucks

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0 NEWS: Reggae Metal Fusion NINJASPY Announce New Album ‘Spüken’ + New Video ‘Speak’

  • March 3, 2017
  • by Asher
  • · Music News · Ninjaspy

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – March 3, 2017

 

For Fans of Twelve Foot Ninja, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mike Patton, RHCP, Gojira, Devin Townsend Project, Skindred

Reggae Metal Fusion NINJASPY Announce New Album ‘Spüken’ + New Video ‘Speak’

‘Spüken’ produced by Garth Richardson (Kittie, RATM, Mudvayne, The Melvins)

L-R – Tim Parent – Bass, Joel Parent – Vocals, Guitar – Adam Parent – Drums
Photo Credit: Taya Fraser

NINJASPY, a trio of blood brothers have been experimenting with metal fusion since 2006. Hard, heavy, hook-laden music that runs the gamut of reggae, surf, metal and more make up the band’s rule-breaking formula for notoriety. All this combined with an explosive and powerfully unhinged live show got NINJASPY off the ground in a hurry. Releasing their 2007 debut ‘Pi Nature’ and their 2013 EP ‘No Kata’ with a graphic novel, the band of brothers have teamed up once again with prolific producers GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mudvayne, Gallows) and Ben Kaplan (Biffy Clyro, Atreyu, Haste the Day) for their next full length ‘Spüken’ due out April 14, 2017.

Years in the making since spring 2014 when NINJASPY launched the “Jump Ya Bones” and crowd funding Campaign, the band was able to raise $15,000 to fund the new full length. They began recording in November 2014, taking their culmination of nearly a decade of songs and narrowing them down to an epic 10 track experience to demonstrate all their downbeats to breakdowns to their weaving of reggae, hardcore, metal and much more.

“These 10 songs span a decade, so there are a lot of different feels happening from song to song that represent what we got into over the years. It’s like we spent 10 years swallowing everything life threw at us, then we threw it all back up again, and are now able to listen to the blended, half-digested version of it.” says vocalist / guitarist Joel Parent.

‘Spüken’ was recorded and mixed sporadically over the next two years at in Vancouver BC and in the spring of 2016 between recording sessions, the band teased fans with a filmed and recorded live acoustic performance of their track ‘Azaria’, a song that is included with full metal instrumentation on the new genre-bending album. It showed the true diversity of the band and their ability to take manic and intense music and make it tender and raw.

The band’s first full single / music video ‘Speak’ can be watched at the following link below and can be downloaded from their online store, iTunes, CD Baby and Bandcamp.

Music Video – Speak – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32B6xJBNHYs

Show Dates:
March 18 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre – info (The Dreadnoughts 10 Year Double-Show PunkSTRAVAGANZA)
July 14/15 – Armstrong, BC @ Armstrong Metal Fest w/ Revocation, Aggression, Golers and more – info
 

1. Speak (4:43)
2. Shuriken Dance (4:02)
3. Brother Man (4:54)
4. Dead Duck Dock (4:45)
5. Become Nothing (3:18)
6. What! (3:08)
7. Jump Ya Bones! (3:55)
8. Grip The Cage (4:10)
9. Azaria (4:02)
10. Slave Vehemence (5:44)
Album Length: 42:44
For More Info:
http://www.ninjaspy.net/
EPK – http://wp.me/pciNW-9jR

– 30 –

“Pay attention Canadian recording industry, Ninjaspy is on the rise and the people’s salvation is at hand.” – Absolute Underground Magazine
 
“Ninjaspy has a unique sound mixing rock, hardcore and ska together.” – Pure Grain Audio
 
 “They harmoniously blend metal, ska, grunge, hardcore, reggae, funk, surf and jazz for a unique mashup sound” – Monday Magazine (Vancouver) 
 

“The group’s reggae-tinged hardcore is anything but generic, and the group’s unique swagger had fans creating a skank-mosh hybrid that quickly turned into a circle pit.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver)

“The Vancouver-based trio Ninjaspy have made a name for themselves over the past few years, and it’s easy to see why: they’re really good. ” – Metal Sucks

—

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#.514.581.5780 | ashermedia@gmail.com
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