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TOXIC HOLOCAUST To Release Benefit Split 7” With Midnight

Posted in All Metal, News with tags , , , on September 21, 2011 by Randy

Portland, Oregon’s metal-punk warriors TOXIC HOLOCAUST have teamed up with Cleveland, Ohio’s Midnight for a split 7” to benefit the victims of the Japanese tsunami disaster.

The 7” is limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies on Japanese-flag colored heavy-weight vinyl, and features tracks from both bands (“A.T.O.M.I.C.” by TOXIC HOLOCAUST, “Destroy Tsunami’s Power” by Midnight) exclusive to this release. The split also features exclusive artwork by Daniel “Sawblade” Shaw (TOXIC HOLOCAUST, Insect Warfare, Coffins). All proceeds will go to the Red Cross relief efforts for victims of the tsunami disaster. The 7” can be ordered HERE.

TOXIC HOLOCAUST recently released the first video from their brand new album, Conjure And Command. The video, for the track “Judgment Awaits You,” can be viewed at THIS LOCATION.


Additionally, TOXIC HOLOCAUST heads to Europe for a five-week winter tour alongside Kvelertak, Trap Them and Wolves Like Us. A listing of confirmed tour dates can be found below.

TOXIC HOLOCAUST
w/ Kvelertak, Trap Them, Wolves Like Us:
11/08/2011 Ole Bull Scene – Bergen, Norway
11/09/2011 Stavanger – Folken, Norway
11/10/2011 Rockefeller – Oslo, Norway
11/11/2011 Samfundet – Trondheim, Norway
11/12/2011 Strand – Stockholm, Sweden
11/14/2011 Tavastia – Helsinki, Finland
11/15/2011 Pakkahuone – Tampere, Finland
11/17/2011 Sticky Fingers – Gothenburg, Sweden
11/18/2011 Logo – Hamburg, Germany
11/19/2011 Underground – Koln, Germany
11/20/2011 Doornroosje – Nijmegen, Holland
11/21/2011 02 Academy 2 – Oxford, UK
11/22/2011 02 Academy 3 – Birmingham, UK
11/23/2011 The Speakeasy at Queens – Belfast, Ireland
11/24/2011 ABC – Glasgow, UK
11/25/2011 Roadhouse – Manchester, UK

11/26/2011 Underworld – London, UK
11/27/2011 Muziekodroom – Hasselt, Belgium
11/28/2011 Le Ferraileur – Nantes, France
11/29/2011 Le Nouveau Casino – Paris, France
11/30/2011 Substage – Karlsruhe, Germany
12/01/2011 Abart – Zurich, Switzerland
12/02/2011 New Age Club – Roncade, Italy
12/03/2011 Szene – Wien, Austria
12/04/2011 Conne Island – Leipzig, Germany
12/05/2011 Exit Chmelnice – Prague, Czech Rep.
12/06/2011 Festsaal Xberg – Berlin, Germany
12/07/2011 Colos Saal – Aschaffenburg, Germany
12/08/2011 Backstage – Munchen, Germany
12/09/2011 Hirsch – Nurnberg, Germany
12/10/2011 Sputnikhalle – Munster, Germany
12/11/2011 Voxhall – Aarhus, Denmark
12/12/2011 Vega – Copenhagen, Denmark
12/13/2011 Kulturbolaget – Malmo, Sweden
 
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KAURA Releases New Full-Length CD/DVD, ‘That Which Defines Us’

Posted in Artist Watch, News, Releases with tags , , , , on September 21, 2011 by Randy

California natives KAURA are pleased to announce today’s release of their new album, That Which Defines Us.  Fans can purchase the record now digitally at iTunes and physically at IndieMerchStore.com. Produced by singer Malcolm Guess, That Which Defines Us is a testament of dedication, taking over two years to record with the assistance of rock luminaries such as Sylvia Massey (Tool, System of a Down, Danzig), Ken Andrews (Failure, A Perfect Circle) and Michael Romanowski (Dredg).  Central to the album’s sound were instruments that the band collected on their travels to India, Thailand, Bali, Cambodia, Laos, and Nepal.

The DVD portion of the set includes two music videos directed by drummer Benjamin Jones for the songs ‘Ephemeral Fall’ and ‘Silence Speaks Louder’.  It also features an hour long ‘Making of the Album’, and footage of the band’s adventures collecting instruments during their travels.

Tracklisting:

1. Inovocation

2. Sera Phi

3. One Becomes Two

4. Ephemeral Fall

5. Solace

6. Silence Speaks Louder

7. Apathy

8. Alarmico Saturn

9. 2C&B

10. If This Were to End

11. Tether’s End

12. A Lament for Change

Comprised of Malcolm Guess (vocals, guitar, and production), Benjamin Jones (drums, hammered dulcimer), Ben Rojas (guitar), and Josh Albright (bass), KAURA have already racked up an impressive list of accomplishments, including invitations from Live Nation to open for national touring acts like Godsmack and Rob Zombie and garnering the praise of Paz Lenchantin (A Perfect Circle, Zwan, Entrance Band) who appeared on their self-titled EP and airplay on Los Angeles’s World Famous KROQ  and Bay Area radio stations such as Live 105 and The Bone.  A recent national tour, culminating in a fiery performance at SXSW, earned their song ‘Now or Never’ a spot in a national advertising campaign for Ford Motors.

For more information about KAURA, please visit these sites:

www.kaura.com

www.twitter.com/kauraband

www.facebook.com/pages/KAURA/34203763931

Rat Pak Records set to release sophomore album “Lords Of The Edge” from Metal Church singer Ronny Munroe

Posted in All Metal, Artist Watch with tags , , , on September 20, 2011 by Randy

New York, NY – September 20, 2011 – Classic power metal is still alive and well! Ronny Munroe’s (voice of Metal Church) new CD Lords Of The Edge is hands down his finest work to date. Featuring the guitar mastery of Stu Marshall (Empires of Eden), Chris Caffery (TSO/Savatage), and Michael Wilton (Queensryche), Lords Of The Edge is a true metal offering that delivers an onslaught of fist-pumping, guitar-driven heavy metal.

Lords Of The Edge gives us 12 new solid tracks of melodic metal that can only be described as one of those rare albums that captures the magic of the classic metal era. “We wanted to create something that was totally new, but at the same time, true metal fans could hear everything that we were influenced by growing up in the classic metal era,” says Ronny on the recording of the new CD. “Lords Of The Edge sounds a little bit like what would happen if you put Metal Church’s Light in the Dark CD into a blender with Queensryche’s first EP and Judas Priest’s Painkiller, then mixed it with some present day themes and a shot of pure adrenaline.”

The opening tracks, “Just Breathe” and “Full Circle” offer fast and furious guitar assaults with high energy vocals, while tracks like “The Vision” and “Touched By A Demon” take on a more haunting melodic approach that set up the listener for the gritty, power-metal influenced tracks like “Let Them Feed” and “Rock And A Hard Place.”

With 12 strong tracks on this CD, it is a fantastic offering that deserves to be in every metal fan’s music collection!

Track listing:
1  Just Breathe
2  Full Circle
3  Pierced By The Maiden
4  The Vision
5  The Fear Of What’s To Come
6  Let Them Feed
7  Rock And A Hard Place
8  Blood Red Skies
9  Lords Of The Edge
10  Touched By A Demon
11  Still Alive
12  Goodbye To The Black
*Mixed and mastered at Frontier Studios – Sydney Australia
For pre-order info and FREE download please visit: www.ratpakrecords.com/ronnymunroe
Pre-Order start date: Tuesday September 20, 2011
Official release date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011

TEXTURES Stream Full Upcoming Album, ‘Dualism’, at GuitarWorld.com Today

Posted in Artist Watch, News, Releases with tags , , , , on September 19, 2011 by Randy

Dualism Hits Stores on September 27th, 2011 in North America

Catch TEXTURES on Tour NOW with Periphery, The Human Abstract, and The Contortionist

Progressive technical metallers TEXTURES and GuitarWorld.com are teaming up today to bring you an exclusive full album stream of the band’s upcoming full-length album, Dualism, out on Nuclear Blast in the US on September 27th, 2011. The exclusive also features a special video introduction recently filmed at the Guitar World studios in New York City. Head to GuitarWorld.com now to listen to the full album an entire week before release!

Dualism will also be released on September 23rd in Europe, South America, Australia, and Asia. The album was recorded at Split Second Sound Studios in Amsterdam with TEXTURES guitarist & producer Jochem Jacobs.

The band is currently giving away their new single ‘Reaching Home’ for free through the smartphone app Repudo! In this embedded videoTEXTURES guitarist Jochem Jacobs explains how the Repudo app works. To download the app please visit www.repudo.com.

Last week, the band released the music video for ‘Reaching Home’, the first single from Dualism, via the band’s YouTube page. ‘Reaching Home’ was shot on the island of Lanzarote (part of The Canary Islands) off the coast of Morocco and was directed by TEXTURES bass player Remko Tielemans together with the help ofKunststoff Media.

The Dualism CD can be pre-ordered from Nuclear Blast USA’s webshop for $10.00.  An album art t-shirt + CD bundle is available here.  Pre-order bundles with a variety of t-shirt designs to choose from can be purchased from IndieMerch.com.  All Indie Merch pre-order bundles will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a TEXTURES Mayones guitar.

TEXTURES are currently on their inaugural North American tour with PeripheryThe Human Abstract and The Contortionist.  Remaining “Frak The Gods” tour dates are:

09-20-2011         The New Parish                                Oakland, CA
09-21-2011         Branx                                               Portland, OR
09-22-2011         Studio Seven                                    Seattle, WA
09-23-2011         The Venue                                        Boise, ID
09-24-2011         The Complex                                    Salt Lake City, UT
09-25-2011         The Marquis Theatre                        Denver, CO
09-27-2011         Fubar                                               St. Louis, MO
09-28-2011         The Bluestone                                   Columbus, OH
09-29-2011         Mojoe’s                                           Joliet, IL
09-30-2011         Rave Bar                                          Milwaukee, WI
10-01-2011         MXTP                                             Grand Rapids, MI
10-02-2011         Wreck Room                                   Toronto, ON – CANADA
10-03-2011         La Tulipe                                          Montreal, QC – CANADA
10-05-2011         The Palladium                                   Worcester, MA
10-06-2011         Gramercy Theatre                             New York, NY
10-07-2011         First Unitarian Church                       Philadelphia, PA
10-08-2011         Kingdom                                          Richmond, VA

Pre-sale tickets can be purchased via the online links on the band’s Facebook page.

Visit the TEXTURES landing page here.
Follow TEXTURES online at:

www.TEXTURESBAND.com

www.facebook.com/TEXTURES

www.youtube.com/TEXTURESTV

Twitter.com/TEXTURESBAND

www.myspace.com/TEXTURES