All Shall Perish Announce N. American Headlining Tour W/ Oceano!

Hot off the heels of their successful run with IN FLAMES and DEMON HUNTER, Oakland California based extreme metal band ALL SHALL PERISH, have just announced a North American headlining tour scheduled to take place this Summer! Joining them on this campaign dubbed the “Heavy MTL South of the Border Tour” are OCEANO, WITHIN THE RUINS, REFLECTIONS, and BETRAYAL. OBEY THE BRAVE will also be a part of select dates. Tickets will go on sale this Friday through all major ticket vendors.

ALL SHALL PERISH, OCEANO, WITHIN THE RUINS, OBEY THE BRAVE (Aug 3 - 10), REFLECTIONS, BETRAYAL

7/30  Tucson, AZ – The Rock
8/01  Austin, TX – Dirty Dog
8/03  St. Louis, MO – Fubar (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/04  Chicago, IL – Reggie’s (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/05  Toledo, OH – Rocket Bar (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/06  Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theatre (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/07  Springfield, VA – Empire (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/08  Wilmington, DE – Harmony Grange (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/09  Worcester, MA – The Palladium (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/10  Montreal, QC – Heavy MTL (w/ OBEY THE BRAVE)
8/11  New York City, NY – Studio @ Webster Hall
8/12  Buffalo, NY – Waiting Room
8/13  Cleveland, OH – Peabodys  
8/14  Columbus, OH – Skully's  
8/16  Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre
8/17  Colorado Springs, CO – Black Sheep

Fans can also catch the band on METALLICA’s second annual Orion Festival on Sunday June 9^th. For more info and tickets visit www.orionmusicandmore.com.

ALL SHALL PERISH scanned 8,422 copies of their latest album This Is Where It Ends in its first week of sales in the United States according to Nielson Soundscan. The record came in at #50 on the US Billboard Top 200 Chart, making it their highest first week sales ever and their highest charting release to date! In contrast, 2008’s Awaken The Dreamers sold just under 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter The Billboard 200 chart at position No. 126.

This Is Where It Ends, ALL SHALL PERISH’s fourth full-length record and follow-up to their 2008 release Awaken the Dreamers, was recorded and mixed once again at Castle Ultimate Studios in Oakland with producer Zack Ohren (DECREPIT BIRTH, SUFFOCATION).  Album art was brought to life by Brent Elliott White (DEATH ANGEL, JOB FOR A COWBOY, WHITECHAPEL).

The new music video for “Royalty Into Exile” can be seen on the official ALL SHALL PERISH YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iELZNGAE8PU&feature=channel_video_title.

Visit ALL SHALL PERISH online at: www.allshallperish.com, www.facebook.com/allshallperish, www.myspace.com/allshallperish, and on Twitter.

Gigan: Psychedelic Extreme Metallers To Enter Studio Next Month

Psychedelic extreme metal vanguard GIGAN will begin recording their newest studio offering next month. Titled Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery And Super-Science, the band's third full-length, and second to be released through legendary, forward-thinking label imprint, Willowtip Records, will once again be recorded with long-time friend and acclaimed engineer Sanford Parker and will be unleashed sometime this Fall.

Elaborates GIGAN mastermind, Eric Hersemann, "This third GIGAN record is proving to be the most concise and deadly so far. I'm very pleased with the overall dynamics and vibe the current music is creating within our minds. This is the first GIGAN record I have written outside of Florida and my new environment here in Chicago has provided unique inspiration that resulted in some complex and bizarre results. Psychedelic brutality at its finest."

In related news, GIGAN’s first show of 2013 will come in the form of the Scion Rock Fest 2013 set to take place in Memphis, Tennessee June 1st. The band will be performing alongside an illustrious lineup that includes Testament, Melvins, Arsis, Municipal Waste, Corrosion Of Conformity, Whitechapel, Six Feet Under, Vektor and more! For further  info point your browser to THIS LOCATION.

The brainchild of left-handed lead guitarist and founding member Eric Hersemann, GIGAN has been challenging the mortal laws of extreme music and creativity since early 2006. Forged around the simple notion that the imagination should be art's only limit, GIGAN's style of creative delivery has simultaneously invoked reactions of amazement, disbelief, shock, awe and ultimately, respect.

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http://willowtip.bandcamp.com

Eolian Empire Keep Our Heads Comp Release Shows In Portland

With the sickos at Portland’s extreme/outsider D.I.Y. label Eolian Empire getting all hopped-up about their pungent KEEP OUR HEADS compilation -- with twenty-six Portland acts dropping ninety-nine minutes of scatterbrained chaos -- tonight and tomorrow they let the pack out of the cages bigtime with two back-to-back record release shows. Tonight, Friday, April 26th Slabtown will rage with sets from Acre, Ix, Norska, Hot Victory, Big Black Cloud and Gaytheist, and tomorrow the 27th with Redneck, Sioux, Palo Verde, Towers, Honduran, Rabbits.

KEEP OUR HEADS Release Shows:
4/26/2013 Slabtown - Portland, OR w/ Acre, Ix, Norska, Hot Victory, Big Black Cloud, Gaytheist
4/27/2013 Slabtown - Portland, OR w/ Redneck, Sioux, Palo Verde, Towers, Honduran, Rabbits

Eolian has been leaving pellets from KEEP YOUR HEADS around various websites and local rags, several of which are streaming on the label’s Soundcloud RIGHT HERE. Their cohorts at Skulls On Shirts have also posted an in-depth track-by-track review HERE paired with a full Bandcamp stream of the entire comp HERE.

KEEP YOUR HEADS will see release digitally and on a limited-run cassette on May 1st, the cassette run including both a digital download and a slick beer koozie. Do it all HERE.

The clan at Eolian has literally dedicated thousands of hours to arranging, collecting, compiling, mixing and preparing this massive offering of what they consider the best of their local underground, with KEEP OUR HEADS. Aligning metal, sludge, doom, prog, punk, rock, thrash, hardcore, noise and unclassifiable anti-genre acts from across the region into a herculean ninety-nine-minute soundtrack to the Portland heavy underground, KEEP OUR HEADS bears twenty-six exclusive tracks from stalwarts in the scene, like some twisted, many-headed beast raised on the soundtracks to River's Edge, Lost Highway, and Repo Man. Practically all the tracks were recorded in Portland specifically for this release, with tunes from Acre, The Ax, Big Black Cloud, Crag Dweller, Diesto, Drunk Dad, Fist Fite, Gaytheist, Gone to Croatoan, Honduran, Hot Victory, Humours, Ix, LKN, Lord Dying, Nasalrod, Norska, Order of the Gash, Palo Verde, Prizehog, Rabbits, Redneck, Sei Hexe, Sioux, Tiny Knives, and Towers.

"a bold statement on underground music coming out of Portland" - The Seattle Passive Aggressive

 

"26 of Portland’s heaviest, weirdest, and downright exciting underground bands... 99 minutes of crushing and chaotic beauty" - Seattle Rock Guy

"KEEP OUR HEADS brings together a whopping 26 bands to showcase not only the heaviness that's thriving in Portland’s underground, but the many different faces that heaviness shows." - The Obelisk

"fans of experimental heavy music everywhere have reason to be waiting on the edge of their seats for Eolian Empire to release KEEP OUR HEADS." - SSG Music

"KEEP OUR HEADS is cohesive. Not only that, every song on it is good. You may not like a particular genre or approach, but there isn't a downer in the bunch... I definitely wish I had a 26-song primer on the heavy underground scene in Portland back when I started. If you're new, I guess you already do."- Skulls on Shirts

"an excellent collection of songs that will prove (as if are any doubters!) that Portland has an incredible underground heavy music scene" - GRISL

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Thy Art Is Murder: Summer Slaughter Tour Dates Announced!

Australia’s hottest new extreme metal export, THY ART IS MURDER, were recently added to this year’s installment of the annual Summer Slaughter Tour. Complete tour dates have been announced today and VIP tickets will go on sale April 29^th at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST. General admission goes on sale May 2^nd at 10 am PST / 1 pm EST. For more information on the tour visit www.facebook.com/SummerSlaughterTour.

"The Summer Slaughter Tour 2013"
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, PERIPHERY, NORMA JEAN, CATTLE DECAPITATION, THE OCEAN, REVOCATION, AEON, RINGS OF SATURN, THY ART IS MURDER
7/19-San Francisco, CA @ The Regency 
7/20-Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
7/21-Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
7/24-Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
7/25-Austin, TX @ The Scoot Inn
7/26-Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
7/27-Houston, TX @ House of Blues
7/29-Orlando, FL @ House of Blues (w/o Cattle Decapitation)
7/30-Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
7/31-Knoxville, TN @ Old City Courtyard
8/01-Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
8/02-Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
8/03-Worcester, MA @ The Palladium (w/o Norma Jean)
8/04-Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
8/07-New York, NY @ Best Buy Theater
8/08-Toronto, ON @ The Sound Academy
8/09-Montreal, QC @ Heavy MTL
8/10-Albany, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
8/11-Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
8/12-Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
8/13-Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
8/14-Minneapolis, MN @ Station 4
8/16-Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre

THY ART IS MURDER’s second album, Hate, was recently released in their homeland where it has been smashing boundaries once thought to confine bands of their ilk. The record came in at #35 on the Top 40 Aria chart, making it the highest debut of any Aussie death metal band ever! Nuclear Blast Entertainment is proud to finally properly release Hate in the U.S. on April 2^nd and in Europe on April 5^th. The album was produced and mixed by Will Putney (SUICIDE SILENCE, BORN OF OSIRIS, FOR TODAY) with artwork created by Brent Elliot White (CARNIFEX, DEATH ANGEL).

You can now view the video clip for “Reign Of Darkness” and order Hate with or without an exclusive t-shirt design while supplies last from the following location http://goo.gl/GLdkC.



Rising from the unhallowed wastes of Western Sydney, extreme metal outfit THY ART IS MURDER have carved a trail of bloody mayhem since their inception in 2006. With an acclaimed EP and debut album in Infinite Death and The Adversary to their name, the band have traversed the highways and autobahns of Australia, the UK and Europe on a relentless crusade to destroy every venue and audience they can with like-minded peers in a who's who of heavy metal. 

Simply titled Hate, the band's second full length is the pointed result of THY ART IS MURDER 's growing dissatisfaction with all aspects of modern life - political, religious, social and environmental - everyone is to blame. Fusing the blasting technicality of metal luminaries THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER with thunderous breakdowns and the intensity born of their nascent hometown scene; the blackened grandeur of BEHEMOTH and the pit churning groove of Tampa originators MORBID ANGEL and CANNIBAL CORPSE, the furious musical arrangements provide a bloody canvas for vocalist CJ McMahon's outpourings of bile. 

No strangers to stoking controversy and criticism, the band have not toned down their art for the sake of palatability and have introduced a morose melodicism into their maelstrom - the rumination before pulling the trigger. With their best work to date ready to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world, THY ART IS MURDER will once again take to the road to unleash the Hate with one simple message - get in the pit or get out of the way.

Track-by-track video episodes:

Part I: http://youtu.be/5n18hRSwdWE

Part II: http://youtu.be/4y4QMgvNlkM

Part III: http://youtu.be/94MxLMlZPOs
Part IV: http://youtu.be/8JnbcJ29UuA

THY ART IS MURDER is:
Chris McMahon - Vocals
Tom Brown - Guitar
Andy Marsh - Guitar
Sean Delander - Bass
Lee Stanton – Drums

For more info visit: www.facebook.com/TAIMMETAL | www.twitter.com/taimofficial

Extreme Metal Band Pure Hatred Too Angry To Be From Seattle!

Famous musically for such musical things as Jimi Hendrix, Grunge, Queensryche, Kenny G and Heart, Seattle Washington is not exactly well known for its extreme heavy metal scene.

While Queensryche could be labeled as an 80’s glam-hair-metal band, the far heavier ten year veterans of the local metal circuit known as Pure Hatred stand apart with their title track off their upcoming 5 song EP “When Truth Becomes Treason”.

“These guys are from Seattle? Really?” said Josh “Grinder” Whiting, who DJ’s a heavy metal show on metalmessiahradio.com “It’s way too angry, too thrashy, crossing into the hardcore realm. I’d expect something like this from the east coast or maybe even overseas. But Seattle? I guess it doesn’t matter where you’re from if you’re this angry.”

Another DJ, Mark “Freak-show” Vander-Zanden said “Yeah, I’m in Wisconsin. I’d expect something like this to come from maybe Chicago, Pittsburgh, heck maybe even Utah, but not from Seattle. No way. Don’t they have hippies and drum circles there?”

Pure Hatred’s own guitarist known as Captain Kickass said “Yeah, we’ll get that from folks that aren’t from the Pacific Northwest. They have zero idea that there’s a bunch of metal here, bunch of Punk Rock too. But we do what we do because it’s on our minds, in our hearts and it’s what we like musically.”

The title track from their EP can be heard online at http://purehatred.bandcamp.com/

Links:

http://purehatred.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/purehatred
http://www.purehatred.com