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Cool Tour 2010 Is Cool

Apr.22, 2010

Once again America, I am jealous of you.

‘Cool Tour 2010′ (is this a new tour? I don’t know) news today in the form of line-up and dates.

I’d be all over this, I kid you not. Dates as follows, you lucky buccaneers:

July 12th Orlando, FL – House Of Blues (no The Acacia Strain)
July 13th Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
July 14th N. Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues SC
July 15th Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore Charlotte
July 16th Baltimore, MD – Sonar
July 17th Toronto, ON – Sound Academy
July 18th Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
July 20th Boston, MA – House of Blues Boston
July 21st Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
July 22nd Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
July 23rd Columbus, OH – The LC Pavilion
July 24th Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Complex
July 25th St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
July 27th Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theater
July 28th Dallas, TX – The Palladium Ballroom
July 30th Mesa, AZ – Mesa Amphitheatre
July 31st Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
August 01st San Francisco, CA – The Warfield

Keep an eye on the official website for updates.

- CG

Tags: Architects, As I Lay Dying, Between The Buried and Me, Blessthefall, Cancer Bats, Cool Tour 2010, The Acacia Strain, Underoath, War of Ages

Review: The Bled – Heat Fetish

Filed Under: Reviews

Apr.12, 2010

I love me some damn catchy metalcore. Every Time I Die. Cancer Bats. Norma Jean on a good day. But we can always do with more of the good stuff to drown out the crap. I’m looking at you, Avenged Sevenfold.

Enter The Bled. Now I know what you’re thinking. “The Bled? Really? Surely, just another crappy metalcore band with nothing original and not a clue about how bored we all are with it.”

Wrong.

Now, it might sound like I’m writing about this band as if they were new, despite the fact that they’ve been around since 2001 and have released three albums prior to Heat Fetish. In fact I hear 2003′s Pass the Flask was pretty good. I’ll let you know.

The truth of the matter is that they all but are new; in fact they’re almost a tribute to themselves. Hard economic times forced founding members Ross Ott (guitar) and Mike Pedicone (drums), along with bassist Darren Simoes to quit or starve. Being the sensible chaps they clearly are, they chose their stomachs. I definitely would have done the same. View Full Article »

Tags: Avenged Sevenfold, Cancer Bats, Every Time I Die, Heat Fetish, Keith Buckley, Nick Martin, Norma Jean, The Bled, Underminded, Vagrant Records

This Week In Heavy [Week of April 13th]

Filed Under: This Week In Heavy

Apr.12, 2010

Oh hey, what a dazzling week. Awful lot of new tunes going down! Be sure to give some of these a listen!

108 – 18.61 (Deathwish Inc.)
Bison B.C. – Dark Ages (Metal Blade)
Blacklisted – No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me (Deathwish Inc.)
Bleeding Through – Bleeding Through (Rise)
Bring Me The Horizon – Suicide Season [Deluxe Edition] (Epitaph)
Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps And Bones (Good Fight)
Child Abuse – Cut And Run (Lovepump)
Foxy Shazam – Foxy Shazam (Sire)
Jon Oliva’s Pain – Festival (AFM)
Lair Of The Minotaur – Evil Power (The Grindhouse)
The Ocean – Heliocentric (Metal Blade)
Letter To The Exiles – The Shadow Line (Facedown)
Open Hand – Honey (Anodyne)
Ov Hell – The Underworld Regime (Prosthetic)
Son Of Aurelius – The Farthest Reaches (Good Fight)
Vampires Everywhere – Lost In The Shadows EP (Century Media)
War Of Ages – Eternal (Facedown)
Woe Of Tyrants – Threnody (Metal Blade)

[via The PRP and About.com]

Have yourselves a great week. Don’t really expect us to be as busy here on the site as we were last week, which turned out to be our busiest week ever in traffic numbers. I have a local festival that I’ll be attending by the end of the week, so updates will be less frequent. Still, we have a few things coming. Keep checking back!

- JR

Tags: 108, Bison B.C., Blacklisted, Bleeding Through, bring me the horizon, Cancer Bats, Child Abuse, Foxy Shazam, Jon Olivia's Pain, Lair of the Minotaur, Letter to the Exiles, Open Hand, Ov Hell, Son of Aurelius, The Ocean, Vampires Everywhere, War of Ages, Woe of Tyrants

Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones DVD Trailer

Filed Under: Upcoming releases, Video

Apr.07, 2010

Apparently Cancer Bats are releasing a DVD with their new album? Who knew.

Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones is out March 13th on Distort.

- CG

Tags: Bears Mayors Scraps and Bones, Cancer Bats, Distort

East Coast Metalcore Tour

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

Apr.07, 2010

You guys get all the good tours. Every Time I Die (if you didn’t know by now, a favourite of mine), Norma Jean and Cancer Bats. I’d watch all three, without a doubt.

5/11 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
5/12 Jermyn, PA @ Eleanor Rigby’s
5/14 Lexington, KY @ Buster’s
5/15 Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco
5/16 Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
5/17 Nashville, TN @ Rocketown
5/18 Columbia, MO @ Mojos
5/19 Springfield, MO @ Remington’s
5/21 Little Rock, AR @ The Village
5/22 New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues
5/23 Jacksonville, FL @ Freebird Live
5/24 Charleston, SC @ Music Farm
5/25 Wilmington, NC @ The Soapbox

Enjoy.

- CG

Tags: Cancer Bats, Every Time I Die, metalcore, Norma Jean

Bats Bother Beastie Boys

Filed Under: Upcoming releases, Video

Mar.04, 2010

Or at least they try to, in the promo video for their cover of ‘Sabotage’. With mildly entertaining results. Crazy Candians.

To be honest, I was completely unaware that Cancer Bats were releasing an album this year. I like them, but have never been overly into them, which is weird, because they’re exactly the kind of band I should love, a-la Every Time I Die.

This album has the potential to change that though. I really really like this song, and as a result will probably be getting Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones when it hits stores on April 13th.

Job done, promotional advertising. Job done.

- CG

Tags: Bears Mayors Scraps and Bones, Canadian, Cancer Bats, hardcore, metalcore