As far as blatant Black Sabbath worshiping goes, Windhand are one of the bands that do it absolutely right. The occult rock thing is getting a bit homogenous, but it helps when you’re able to be as catchy as Windhand. The band have just wrapped up their full-length Relapse solo debut (they had a split album with Cough earlier this year through the label) and are hitting the road this June.
Deafheaven‘s upcoming album Sunbather is on my most anticipated list. From the samples I’ve heard, and the first single, it’s going to be better than the already great Roads To Judah. Anyways, today I’m happy to announce that the band will be doing a tour in support of the album, which comes out June 11th on Deathwish Inc. Of course they only make one Florida stop, on the same day of the Intronaut show. However, I’ve seen Intronaut headline before, so I’m going to be seeing this one. Anyways, check out the dates (with Marriages as support) after the jump, and listen to their single ‘Dream House’ here!
Baroness‘ Yellow & Green was an astounding record. It ended up in my top 5 on last year’s list, and I’ve kept listening to it ever since. I was super stoked to see the band tour, however, with the bus accident that left them with multiple serious injuries and even caused two members to leave the band, it didn’t look like it would happen anytime soon, save for the occasional local gig. However, the band are back!
Death To All is without a doubt one of the more buzzworthy and substantial “comebacks” of the last few years. Many fans have long given up on the possibility of seeing a Death show since the band’s founder Chuck Schuldiner passed away after battling cancer in 2001. Fortunately, surviving members of the group’s revolving door of musicians have stepped up to unite under the Death To All name to celebrate Chuck and give back to the fans and charity, with proceeds from the DTA tours going to Sweet Relief, a non-profit organization that provides financial aid to touring musicians in need of health care.
Resident photographer Maclyn Bean attended the April 25th show at Theater of Living Arts in Philadelphia, PA. His photos of the event can be viewed below.
One of the coolest tours I’ve been to in a while has got to be the pairing of The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Faceless, two of the more important names in progressive extreme music active in the last decade. Resident photographer Maclyn Bean hit up his local stop on April 27th at Music Hall of Williamsburg to capture the show, and you can see the photos after the jump.
Given our love of avant-garde metal and all things weird in general, we’re beyond stoked to announced our sponsorship of the upcoming Polkadot Cadaver headlining tour with special guests Exotic Animal Petting Zoo and One-Eyed Doll on select dates. Cosponsored by Digital Tour Bus, this trek will be in support of Polkadot Cadaver’s upcoming full length, Last Call In Jonestown, which comes out this May 14 via Razor To Wrist Records.
Check out the dates for the tour below, and be sure to hit up your local tour stop!
The surprisingly so-so All Stars Tour now has tour dates! The trek — featuring Every Time I Die, Veil of Maya, iwrestledabearonce, and more — will run through July and August. Special guests Volumes will be performing July 26th-August 11th and Structures will appear July 19th-25th and August 12th-17th. Here are the dates:
This year’s iteration of The Summer Slaughter Tour — which features headliners The Dillinger Escape Plan and support from Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Norma Jean, Cattle Decapitation, The Ocean, Revocation, Aeon, Rings of Saturn, and Thy Art Is Murder — is likely the most exciting tour I’ll have a shot at seeing in 2013. Sure, the death metal elitists and deathcore fanboys aren’t all too stoked on this year’s iteration of the annual trek, but I find it impossible to NOT get excited over a bulk of this lineup.
What makes this tour so excellent from my perspective is that they always seem to hit the appropriate secondary markets for me. Knoxville, Louisville, Cincinnati, or Columbus tend to be hit by Summer Slaughter. Sure enough, while not incredibly extensive yet (dates are still waiting to be announced) the tour at least manages to pass through the midwest/southeast. Dates are as follows:
This is pretty strange news. ThePRP — who, keep in mind, is usually right about tour rumors — is reporting rumors that Avenged Sevenfold will embark on a headlining run later this year, and will bring in tow Deftones and Ghost. What?!
This year’s Road To New England Metal and Hardcore Festival features a top-notch selection of bands from this year’s NEMHF. Headlined by After the Burial with support from The Contortionist, Within the Ruins, Glass Cloud, and City in the Sea, the tour takes the aforementioned bands to and from the annual fest across the Eastern US for those of us who aren’t lucky enough to make it to the big event.
Thanks to Live Nation, we have two pairs of tickets for the tour’s New York City stop at April 21st at Santos Party House! To enter, send us an email with the subject ROAD TO NEMHF to mail[at]heavyblogisheavy[dot]com with your full name and cell phone number. You have until next Friday, April 19th at 5 PM EST to enter! Good luck!
- JR
