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Kylesa, Circle Takes The Square And Ken Mode To Tour Europe In The New Year

Dec.06, 2011

Southern sludge metal band Kylesa have announced that they will be heading over to Europe in January with what is a fairly eclectic lineup – to compliment the span of the countries they will be visiting.

Joining the Savannah, GA group will be Circle Takes The Square, their dissonant post-hardcore neighbours, and KEN Mode, the noise-rock band from Canada.

I guess there are some similarities between the three, but they aren’t huge, and I for one am hugely excited by the prospect of catching these guys. I will admit that I didn’t get Kylesa’s dual drummer thing when I saw them last with Converge, but they were still pretty tidy all the same.

Dates are as follows:

01/13 Oberhausen, GER – Kraftwerk in der Turbinenhalle
01/14 Brussels, BEL – Magasin 4
01/15 Paris, FRA – Glazart
01/16 Montpellier, FRA – Secret Place
01/17 Madrid, SPA – Ritmo y Compás
01/18 Porto, POR – Hard Club
01/19 Lisboa, POR – Santiago Alquimista
01/20 Bilbao, SPA – Sala Azkena
01/21 Barcelona, SPA – Salamandra 1
01/22 La Rochelle, FRA – La Sirene
01/24 Zürich, SWI – Abart
01/25 München, GER – Feierwerk
01/26 Wien, AUT – Arena
01/27 Milano, ITA – Lo-Fi
01/28 Schweinfurt, GER – Alter Stattbahnhof
01/29 Poznan, POL – Blue Note
01/30 Berlinm, GER – Magnet
01/31 Hamburg, GER – Logo
02/02 Tampere, FIN- Klubi
02/03 Helsinki, FIN – Nosturi
02/04 Jyväskylä, FIN – Lutakko
02/06 Stockholm, SWE – Lava
02/08 Trondheim, NOR – Klubben
02/09 Oslo, NOR – Blå
02/10 Bergen, NOR – Garage
02/11 Stavanger, NOR – Folken
02/13 Aarhus, DEN – Train
02/14 Copenhagen, DEN – Beta
02/15 Leipzig, GER – Conne Island
02/16 Karlsruhe, GER – Jubez
02/17 Reims, FRA – La Cartonnerie
02/18 Nijmegen, NET – Doornroosje
02/19 Brighton, UK – The Haunt
02/20 Birmingham, UK – HMV Institute Temple
02/21 Leeds, UK – The Well
02/22 Dublin, IRE – Button Factory
02/23 London, UK – O2 Academy Islington
02/24 Evreux, FRA – L’Abordage
02/25 Quimper, FRA – Les Hivernauts
02/26 Lille, FRA – Aeronef

Kylesa will also be rounding off the year with a quartet of shows around their home state:

12/28 Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
12/29 Miami, FL – Churchill’s Pub
12/30 Savannah, GA – The Jinx
12/31 East Atlanta, GA – The Earl

The new year is shaping up rather well I think!

- CG

Tags: Circle Takes The Square, KEN mode, Kylesa

Circle Takes The Stream!

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases

Aug.24, 2011

Did you know that Circle Takes The Square has made their return?! You should, as we only just mentioned them the other day! The influential hardcore outfit’s new EP Rites Of Initiation serves as a taste of things to come in their highly anticipated new album Decompositions Vol 1, which is due out in November. Get your fill of some new CTTS below!

Sweet mother of God, that’s tasty. The price of the EP seems a little steep (8 bucks for 4 songs?!), but you can stream it to your heart’s content until Decompositions Vol. 1 finally comes out this Fall.

- JR

Tags: Circle Takes The Square

Circle Takes The Square Take The “Way Of Ever-Branching Paths“

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases

Aug.19, 2011

Hooooly crap; I thought this day would never come!

The mighty Savannah underground post-hardcore/screamo quartet Circle Takes The Square released a few studio videos waaaaaaay back in January, and to be honest I’d completely forgotten that they’d made a peep – so low was my expectation for anything new soon – that is until NPR Music started streaming this yur new track…

THAT’S RIGHT, I SAID NEW CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE MO’FUCKA!

It’s been seven long years, but it’s finally here, and by Jesus is it awesome. I loved the entire damn thing. Thoughts?

If that weren’t enough, CTTS will be playing for the first time in about three years with pg.99 on August 27th at the Black Cat in Washington DC. G’damn I hate you sometimes America.

Decompositions Vol. 1 isn’t out until November, but they’re releasing the Rites of Initiation EP as an album teaser via Bandcamp on Tuesday. And you know what else? As the Roots Undo, their seminal album, is available to stream right here!

- CG

Tags: As The Roots Undo, Circle Takes The Square, Way Of Ever-Branching Paths

TNOTB’s Crack Hitler Has Made My Day: New Circle Takes The Square IS COMING! Probably…

Filed Under: General News, Upcoming releases

Jan.11, 2011

HUGE thanks to The Number of the Blog‘s Crack Hitler for picking up on this one, and being awesome enough to care. I didn’t think anybody else did.

That’s right, you read correctly: Circle Takes The Square are back recording material for the ever-elusive Ritual of Names, which was supposedly in the works as far back as 2006. Considering their last effort As the Roots Undo came out over six years ago, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was never going to see the light of day; Crack Hitler called it the metal equivalent of Chinese Democracy – and another apt comparison would be Duke Nukem (taking fucking) Forever.

But lo; studio diaries have appeared over the last week on CTTS’s youtube channel. I ent even lying tho mate; check it out!

But wait; there’s more!

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Tags: Circle Takes The Square, Ritual of Names

For Whom The Bell Tolls: Mare

Filed Under: For Whom The Bell Tolls

Sep.17, 2010

Not pictured: the sea

So. Bands break up. It sucks, but that’s the way of things. For most of them, the reason is pure and simple; on some level, they suck. Whether it’s only a little, or harder than a $20 hooker, it doesn’t matter; the world doesn’t lose a whole bunch. The members go on with their lives, and probably go on to make a greater impact in other areas of society. Like pumping my gas.

Then there are bands that are forced into submission for other reasons: money, conflict – both personal and artistic – or sometimes the fanbase only comes after they’re long gone.

This is a chronicle of those bands. Most you will not have heard of, for the very reason that they’re not even around to promote themselves any more. But trust me, they are bands that you really really should have heard of.

So we’re half-way through September, and it’s about that time of year when the high-street shops start putting up their decorations, so in that spirit: jingle bells – it’s Mare!

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Tags: Circle Takes The Square, Converge, Mare, Terror, the end, Transfer Trachea Reverberations From Point: False Omniscient, Tyler Semrick-Palmateer

One Night (with) Mare

Filed Under: Live, Video

Feb.08, 2010

Ha. Ha. Ha. I’m hilarious…

Yet another one of those bands I came to way too late (i.e. after they broke up), Mare played a unique mix of uber-sludgy doom with part haunting falsetto, part ball-achingly screechtastic vocals from Tyler Semrick-Palmateer (vocalist for The End on Transfer Trachea Reverberations From Point: False Omniscient). Caleb Collins of Circle Takes the Square handled drums, and there was…urm…some dude on bass.

They only put out one EP before going to the great gig in the sky (re: Crydebris, Push Me Under, a load of more obvious bands I’m probably forgetting) but it got them signed to Hydrahead. They announced the split three years ago this month, but I just got wind of a one-off reunion show they played in Mississauga, Ontario last summer. Some thoughtful guy thought to film it and whack that shit on YouTube: +10 internets for him. The audio quality is pretty damn good, too, and there are some flashy song titles if you didn’t already know them.

Check the related videos for the rest of the set. It’s good.