UK metal stalwarts Fury and Dakesis will be teaming up for the “Lost in the Dawn” tour this November! Following on from an explosive summer of festivals for both bands including Bloodstock Open Air, LoStock, Breaking Bands, HRH Metal and Hammerfest, this tour will be the last chance for many people to see both bands before they retreat back to the studio for work on new albums.  Dakesis recently announced that bass player Amie Chatterley is currently pregnant, and will be 8 ½ months at their imminent performance at Bloodstock Open Air, however she has no plans to sit out on the fun and says “We’re taking a break from touring in September and October, but we’re going to be roaring to hit the road come November, and we couldn’t be more excited to be doing it with our good friends Fury” Fury drummer Alasdair Davis adds “We’ve been itching to hit the road again and for the first time we’ll be doing it as a headline band, sharing the honours with our good friends in Dakesis. We’re looking forward to playing what is sure to be one of the most exciting metal tours in recent times, at some of our favourite venues across the UK” Tickets links available soon, direct from venues or from the band websites below www.Dakesis.com www.Furyofficial.com
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Australia's Flynn Effect release video for 'Fade' and announce 'Obsidian' album tour dates28/6/2017  Flynn Effect are giving their new dark and brooding film-clip to the world and releasing the details of their Obsidian album tour. Second Album 'Obsidian' will be available for purchase on August 4 and can be pre-ordered now at Bandcamp. The pyro-and-makeup-heavy filmclip is for single FADE, which Heavy Magazine described as "Simply Beautiful", sets the tone for the album and shows all and sundry just what Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne are in store for when Flynn Effect hits their town (probably minus the Pyros, though!). The short but excellent tour takes in Sydney's The Factory Floor on Friday August 11 with Gods of Eden, Mercury Sky and Reign on Mars, Melbourne's iconic The Workers Club Sunday August 13 with Caution:Thieves, Enlight and Terrestrials and hometown Brisbane on Friday August 18 at The Brightside with Mercury Sky, Seraphic and Periapsis. Lead singer Tomina Vincent said that she is proud of the effort that went into this film-clip - "We wanted the film clip to be sort of opposite to the song. It's a very hopeful and upbeat track, but we wanted to add a little bit of darkness and theatre to it - its what we love and basically what Flynn Effect is all about. It was filmed in over 12 hours in the freezing cold; lights exploded, the fire brigade almost fined us. There were unplanned explosions, bruises, we couldn't wash the fake blood off for days, I nearly fainted several times, but It was a lot of fun! We couldn't be happier with this album and we're incredibly excited to be playing these new songs for people on the road. Its our first national tour and we've got a very ambitious show this time around which we can't wait to reveal." View the video here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAcNqGepYzI&feature=youtu.be  Friday August 11 - The Factory Floor - Sydney NSW with Gods of Eden, Mercury Sky, Reign on Mars Sunday August 13 - The Workers Club - Melbourne VIC with Caution:Thieves, Enlight, Terrestrials Friday August 18 - The Brightside - Brisbane QLD with Mercury Sky, Seraphic, Periapsis TICKETS AT FLYNNEFFECTMUSIC.COM   Swedish Power Metal group Veonity continue their assault on 2017 with 4 East European dates supporting the mighty German band PowerWolf. The boys have also starting working on tracks for their 3rd album which they promise will take Veonity to even higher levels of greatness. This has been a sterling year for the band so far and they certainly haven’t finished yet! PowerWolf is a German power metal band notable for having dark themes and images and include usage of corpse paint and gothic-tinged compositions. Tour Dates: Oct 25 | Yekaterinburg, RUS | Teleclub Oct 27 | Moscow, RUS | Yotaspace Oct 28 | Minsk, BY | Re:public Oct 29 | St. Petersburg, RUS | A2 Veonity are: Anders Sköld – Vocals/Guitar Samuel Lundström – Guitar Joel Kollberg – Drums Kristoffer Lidre – Bass Official Website | Facebook | Youtube  Cradle Of Filth the UK’s most visionary and hellish outfit are pleased to announce that they will be playing a special one off festival warm-up show in Portsmouth. The show will take place at Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms on June 23rd 2017. Tickets will go on-sale this Friday 31st March @ 10.00 BST from the below link: June 23rd - Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms Tickets will also be available from the venue box office direct: Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms BO 023 9286 3911 www.wedgewood-rooms.co.uk Cradle Of Filth are currently locked away, working on the follow up to 2015’s opus ‘Hammer Of The Witches’. Cradle Of Filth links; Website  Following a long radio silence, Finnish rock giants HIM have announced a farewell tour, closing the final chapter on their 26 year career. "After quarter of a century of Love and Metal intertwined we sincerely feel HIM has run its unnatural course and adieus must be said in order to make way for sights, scents and sounds yet unexplored. We completed the pattern, solved the puzzle and turned the key. Thank you." says frontman Ville Valo Formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko “Linde” Lindström and bassist Mikko "Migé" Paananen, HIM truly stand out as one of the rock world’s most unique acts. Beautifully blending metal, goth and hard rock with deep, thoughtful and moving lyrics, HIM offered the world a new take on the metal genre, which became known as Love Metal (also the title of their fourth album). Over the course of eight studio albums, HIM captured the hearts and minds of fans across the globe, drawn by their irresistible and inimitable style. Under the banner of their Heartagram logo – a potent symbol encapsulating the juxtaposition of the light and dark, the fierce and forlorn, and the evil and love found in their music - HIM filled venues and crashed charts the world over, collecting numerous awards, gracing countless magazine covers and becoming the first Finnish act to achieve Gold status in the USA. Now, four years after the release of their last studio album ‘Tears On Tape’, HIM are saying farewell, taking in 14 countries across 35 shows for their final goodbye. "At the end of 2017 we will be released into the wild.” says bassist Mige. “Before this event of great transformation we would love to offer you one last chance to experience our live performances in His Majesty's service. It shall not be a weep-fest but a celebration of love metal in all its lovecraftian glory! See you there!" Catch HIM for the last time at one of the following shows: JUNE WED 14 SPAIN BARCELONA RAZZMATAZZ THU 15 SPAIN MADRID LA RIVIERA FRI 16 SPAIN SANTANDER SALA ESCENRIO SAT 17 PORTUGAL PORTO HARD CLUB JULY SAT 01 FINLAND HELSINKI TUSKA FESTIVAL THU 13 FINLAND TUURI MILJOONAROCK NOVEMBER FRI 24 RUSSIA ST PETERSBURG DK LENSOVETA SUN 26 RUSSIA MOSCOW CLUB STADIUM LIVE TUE 28 POLAND WARSAW STODOLA WED 29 GERMANY HAMBURG DOCKS DECEMBER FRI 01 GERMANY BERLIN COLUMBIAHALLE SAT 02 CZECH REP. PRAGUE FORUM KARLIN MON 04 GERMANY LEIPZIG HAUS AUENSEE TUE 05 GERMANY MUNCHEN TONHALLE WED 06 SWITZ. ZURICH X-TRA THU 07 ITALY MILAN ALCATRAZ FRI 08 GERMANY KOLN PALLADIUM SAT 09 LUX. ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE ROCKHAL MON 11 HOLLAND AMSTERDAM PARADISO TUE 12 HOLLAND TILBURG 013 THU 14 SCOTLAND GLASGOW BARROWLAND FRI 15 ENGLAND NOTTINGHAM ROCK CITY SAT 16 ENGLAND MANCHESTER ACADEMY SUN 17 ENGLAND LONDON ROUNDHOUSE Tickets go on general sale 9am Wednesday 8th March. U.S. and FINNISH DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED https://www.facebook.com/theheartagram/  Epica attracted a huge crowd, the streets of Tilburg left empty It's always a special occasion when a band decides to do an album launch concert, gig, party, however you wish to term it. The truth of the matter is that not only are album launch parties great for showcasing a wide variety of bands, in this case metal bands, but also the nationalities drawn it from it. With Epica's EpicMetalFest II, people from far and wide came to the 013 Poppodium in Tilburg to witness bands from Europe and as far away as Tunisia and Canada. (This was my first time at a concert abroad and first time flying alone having come from the UK) Sadly despite best efforts, due to some rather annoying maintenance works going on the Dutch railway and highway between Arnhem and Tilburg, I missed Off The Cross (BE), For I Am King (NL) and Myrath (FR / TN) and so cannot really report on either band. However, by chatting to some punters who said all three bands were on the ball, I'll take their word for it and give all three bands a 7.50/10.
Dutch Modern Metal outfit Textures certainly had their A-game in check as they carried off where Tunisian Oriental Metallers Myrath had finished. By unleashing a charismatic on-stage presence with some rather tight and malicious sounding music, there was no reason why the crowd couldn't have matched the intensity radiating from Textures performance. Underrated at times, Textures have shown during this evening why they're worthy of a Bloodstock slot next year. Ballistic at all angels, Textures were simply raising the bar for the evening, was there anyone capable of stealing the show (besides Epica)? [8/10]
Having only made their Napalm Records debut last year, Belgian Speed Metallers Evil Invaders showed exactly why the Austrian label snapped up the quartet without question. Blisteringly fast riffs crashed against all four walls of the Universe Stage, all whilst Textures were doing their own shindig next year on the Storm Stage. Evil Invaders have been knocking around for nearly 10 years and yet despite the age of the band as a unit, the members started off as teenagers, yet they're capable of proving that they've shed their teenage skins and morphed into a formidable, respectable force. By belting out songs as if they went out of fashion, Evil Invaders only had one thing in mind... total carnage and boy did they deliver. [8/10]
One of a handful of Dutch Metal bands performing at this year's EpicMetalFest, Stream Of Passion are really no newcomers to the erotic world of female-fronted Symphonic Metal, in fact all but one band member have been in previous bands thus being no strangers to the scene. Moreover here is a band who despite their best efforts at delivering sweet music that is so sumptuously good to the ears, hasn't yet managed to reach the heights of their fellow contemporaries in Within Temptation and Epica. However their set demonstrated that they're on the path to achieve that goal and despite it still being late afternoon, had no reservations about keeping the crowd on their toes. Drinking was in full flow during their set, Stream of Passion? A Stream of alcohol more like. [7.5/10]
Since the departure of Alissa White-Gluz (The Agonist kicked Alissa out of the band, thus enabling her to join Arch Enemy after Angela Gossow became band manager; thereabouts), The Agonist have been finding their way with their new vocalist Vicky Psarakis. Now, Vicky showed she is up to the task-in-hand by delivering a performance worthy of continuous applause if not for some of the other band members who seemed rather lost and at times not fully convincing; it's as if they haven't stepped out of the shadows of their former vocalist, resulting in a rather disappointing set. Not entirely sure what their plans were for the evening but it seemed to not involve band practise, despite this the whole set was of reasonable standard yet without a doubt, probably the most disinteresting performance of the night. [6/10]
Herewith is an example of grandiose perversion of the extremely meticulous kind, and now you're probably thinking what the actual f*ck am I on about? It's certainly a technical sentence no? Perfect for Italy's Fleshgod Apocalypse who once again don the theatrics and emit such musical ferocity that earth tremors could be felt. Seriously enough they did not put a foot wrong, in fact they are so rehearsed in their dramatis personae that they would do well at Eurovision next year (are you reading this RAI?). Strobe lights abound and an air of operatic grandeur circumventing the venue was certainly the case, plenty more where those came from as walls of death came to and fro by the commands of Tommaso Riccardi; it was as if he was playing the king and the punters as the fools, either way Fleshgod Apocalypse demonstrated once again why they are still underrated. [8.5/10]
Where Fleshgod Apocalypse managed to succeed in shitting the audience, Katatonia did not, instead they commenced the slitting. A once great and brutal institution has now turned for the dank and dismal worse; it was as if they weren't meant to be here because to be quite frank, the music did not fit in with the rest of the evenings line-up. That said, at least Katatonia trump Justin Bieber hands down and have the decency to sing, not lip sync live. But Katatonia just could not get the audience going, some just standing and watching bare-face, expressionless, it was as if they have been subjected to a public culling of animals, it was horrific. Despite all their might, Katatonia just did not deliver tonight... well they delivered, but the music was stale and too depressive. [5/10]
Now whilst I interviewed Anis Jouini from Myrath, The Ocean were doing their thing (and we could hear it, so let's give them a decent 7/10). Now the time had come for the star performance of the evening, well it is Epica's show of course... joking aside, Epica are another band who know how to deliver a mesmerizing yet epic live show and they did not disappoint. Using props designed to mimic their new album's artwork (The Holographic Principle), Epica used laser deflecting pyramids to divert light beams across the stage, creating a psychedelic feeling as a result. Additionally in tow was Coen Janssen and his 'keyscooter' (let's call it that because it's a keyboard on wheels) and of course the expected pyrotechnics (which culminated in the end to a firework explosion). Epica simply were sensational, by delivering a set, performance and indeed day-concert worthy of being unleashed on DVD, all in the namesake of their new album, calling it magical is simply not enough and does not describe the overarching package that is EpicMetalFest... may the 2017 edition be as breathtaking. [9/10] RHYS STEVENSON  Italian melo-death band Genus Ordinis Dei who earlier this year released their debut album "The Middle" and "EP 2016" on Mighty Music are now ready to embark on an extensive 31 days European tour supporting fellow country musicians Lacuna Coil. Genus Ordinis Dei and Lacuna Coil already know each other well as the band's "EP 2016" was produced by Marco "Maki" Coti Zelati (Lacuna Coil). www.genusordinisdei.com/epk-page www.mightymusic.dk  Denmark's Forever Still will embark on a massive European tour together with The Italian Gothfathers from Lacuna Coil. Starting in Paris, the new hope of heavy rock will haunt throughout Europe over to the UK and end the trip in Bologna. "We are beyond thrilled for this tour!", singer Maja states. "We have wanted to visit our fans all around Europe for a long time, and this line-up with Lacuna Coil is the perfect fit. Not only am I excited to tour with a band I've been listening to growing up, they're also in the top 3 of bands our fans have requested us to tour with! We really can't wait, and I can only imagine the fans are gonna be as excited for this, as we are!" European tour dates and UK ticket links. Dates are on sale now! w/ LACUNA COIL 20.10. F Paris - Le Cabaret Sauvage 21.10. B Vosselaar - Biebob 22.10. NL Tilburg - O13 24.10. D Cologne - Underground 25.10. D Berlin - White Trash Ballroom 26.10. D Hamburg - Grünspan 28.10. DK Copenhagen - Vega 30.10. N Oslo - John Dee 02.11. D Essen - Zeche Carl 03.11. D Munich - Strom 04.11. CZ Prague - Rock Café 05.11. A Vienna - Simm City 07.11. CH Pratteln - Z7 10.11. UK Bristol - Marble Factory http://www.seetickets.com/event/lacuna-coil/the-marble-factory/988629 11.11. UK London - Koko http://myticket.seetickets.com/event/lacuna-coil/koko/989541 13.11. UK Birmingham - Institute 2 http://myticket.seetickets.com/event/lacuna-coil/o2-institute2/989542 14.11. UK Newcastle - Riverside http://www.seetickets.com/event/lacuna-coil/riverside/987432 15.11. UK Glasgow - Garage http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/lacuna-coil-glasgow-15-11-2016/event/360050B497DE3B61 16.11. UK Manchester - Academy 2 http://myticket.seetickets.com/event/lacuna-coil/manchester-academy-2/989548 18.11. UK Southampton - 1865 http://www.seetickets.com/event/lacuna-coil/1865/985939 20.11. F Cognac - West Rock 22.11. E Madrid - But 23.11. E Granada - El Tren 24.11. E Barcelona - Razzmatazz 26.11. I Pordenone - Deposito 27.11. I Rome - Orion 28.11. I Milan - Live Club 29.11. I Bologna - Zona Roveri  With their untamed female lead vocals and haunting melodies, the new wildfire named Forever Still started to spread from Denmark and is ready to burn down every shore with their first studio release Tied Down out on October 21st. The band now published their second album trailer and in this clip, singer Maja Shining speaks about the writing of her lyrics and explains where the inspiration for the album came from. Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/1cYSYuvyqOE "Pieces of the lyrics will usually come randomly during my daily activities and I'll record them on my phone or I'll write them down. And sometimes it can be one little word that will put the final piece into the puzzle!", Maja explains. "I'm not sure, if I'll ever be able to talk about those things that I sing about. That's why I make music about it." If you missed the first trailer, check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxMRQUMU5Vw With a pinch of Lacuna Coil and a hint of Flyleaf and Bring Me The Horizon, the female-fronted rock inferno Forever Stil mixes heavy guitars with melancholic sounds and just recently signed to Nuclear Blast. Even though the band just recently signed to Nuclear Blast, they already released two haunting music videos. See 'Scars' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUG0c05iK-Q And 'Miss Madness' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qtheIeofZo www.foreverstill.dk www.facebook.com/foreverstill  Italian Gothic Metallers Lightless Moor are confirmed to support the Finnish Folk Metal Lords Korpiklaani and Iceland's Metallers Skalmöld on their shows in Tallinn and Riga, see the details below. October 22nd at Rockclub Tapper - Tallinn, Estonia Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/892860097485784/ October 23rd at Melna Piektdiena - Riga Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1148740015198418/  Lightless Moor's new album “Hymn for the Fallen” is out via Wormholedeath / Aural Music Group through worldwide digital market and CD. Watch “Qualcosa Vive Attraverso” official lyric video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGvULr4GaU http://www.lightlessmoor.com https://www.facebook.com/LightlessMoor http://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlphaOmegaManagement https://www.facebook.com/korpiklaani https://www.facebook.com/skalmold  Malta's Gothic / Doom Metallers Weeping Silence are confirmed to tour Italy in November, supporting doom masters Ahav. The tour will see in the line-up also The Foreshadowing, plus other bands on individual dates. Weeping SIlence supporting Ahab: 24 November at Circolo Colony, Brescia 25 November at Cycle Club, Calenzano (FI) 26 November at RomaObsura Festival, Traffic Club, Roma 27 November at Wave, Misano Adriatico (RN) The dates include the Rome festival Romaobscura, in addition also check out all the Weeping Silence dates for the second part of this year. Weeping Silence stated: "Italy has been on the cards for Weeping Silence for several years, and we are very pleased to finally announce our first shows in this beautiful country in support of the mighty Ahab. It is also great that we'll be joining our friends The Foreshadowing on these dates. See you in November Italian metalheads!"  Weeping Silence Next Upcoming Shows: Gothoom Open Air Festival (SK) 23.07.2016 Metaldays (SL) 26.07.2016 Voices of the Succubi Festival (MT) 17.09.2016 Tour dates with AHAB 24-27.11.2016 http://www.weepingsilence.com http://www.facebook.com/weepingsilence http://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlphaOmegaManagement |
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