Tag Archive: The Chariot

Holy Crap Does Hevy Fest (UK) Look Shit Hot This Year

Jan.27, 2012

Hevy Music Festival is one of the UK’s newer heavy music festivals – this year’s will be the 4th iteration – but it’s growing ever stronger by the day. With the relative elder statesman Download catering towards the ‘bigger’ bands these days, it now falls to the likes of Hevy to give smaller or less-known acts their time on the summer stage.

Today saw the first announcement of this year’s lineup, with no fewer than fifteen bands being released – and good lord does it look like it’s going to be fantastic. We have Converge, Will Haven, Protest The Hero, Deaf Havana, A Wilhelm Scream, Verse, The Chariot, Deez Nuts, Set Your Goals, Trapped Under Ice, Pianos Become The Teeth, Balance and Composure, Sharks, Last Witness, and Crocus. I mean holy fuck, right? I’ve heard maybe two thirds of these, and I’d happily watch them, if not actively go just for them. Converge put on an amazing show, The Chariot are so entertaining to watch, and the likes of Crocus will represent home-grown talent.

You can definitely expect one of us to be there. Tickets are £96 for the weekend, including access to the attached animal park (!!!) and you can check out all the relevant information at the website. Expect more as announcements are made!

- CG

Tags: A Wilhelm Scream, Balance and Composure, Converge, Crocus, Deaf Havana, Deez Nuts, Hevy Music Festival, Last Witness, Pianos Become The Teeth, Protest the Hero, Set Your Goals, Sharks, The Chariot, Trapped Under Ice, Verse, Will Haven

The Chariot “David De La Hoz” Live Music Video

Filed Under: Listen To This!, Video

Nov.15, 2011

I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough of The Chariot. After the release of Long Live, which graced my Top 10 Albums of 2010, The Chariot have since then, already released a music video for the chaotic yet quirky, “David De La Hoz”. This time however, the music video is now a live performance of the song, and regardless of whether or not you’ve seen the first video, this song is top notch and you would be unwise not to watch it… again. Enjoy!

The Chariot – David De La Hoz from Lukas W. Hodge on Vimeo.

- DA

Tags: David de la Hoz, The Chariot

Norma Jean Announce Final US Tour Dates Until Next Summer

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

Oct.27, 2011

You’ve had a fairly good run of chances to see Norma Jean this year America, but they’re giving you another it seems – but this will be the last chance until summer 2012!

Amusingly titled ‘PIZZA RIOT 2011‘ (I’m sure there’s an in-joke there somewhere), they’ll be hitting the road for seven dates towards the beginning of December with Oh, Sleeper, Stray From The Path and Lower Than Atlantis, before they head to Europe in February with The Chariot, Stray From The Path again, and Admiral’s Arms for the Evil Tiger Vulture Tour.

Dates for the U.S. run are after the jump

- CG

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Tags: Admiral's Arms, Evil Tiger Vulture Tour, Lower than Atlantis, Norma Jean, oh sleeper, PIZZA RIOT 2011, Stray From The Path, The Chariot

The Chariot Setting Wheels To The Road In November With Vanna, The Crimson Armada, Former Thieves and Listener

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

Sep.28, 2011

I mentioned rumour of this in my massive tour post on Friday, but The Chariot‘s upcoming tour with guilty pleasure of mine Vanna, The Crimson Armada, Former Thieves and Listener, whose frontman Dan Smith provided guest vocals on Scogin and co.’s last album Long Live, on the track “David De La Hoz“. There was an awesome video for that you might have missed, which turned a year old three weeks ago today. Can’t believe it’s been that long – how quickly they grow up, eh?!

Dates announced are after the jump. I highly recommend catching this if you can, if nothing else for The Chariot, and the live rendition of the aforementioned track – it’s going to be a rare experience, and the bands are insane live besides.

- CG

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Tags: David de la Hoz, Former Thieves, Listener, The Chariot, The Crimson Armada, Vanna

Circle Tours The Square This Fall; The Chariot/Vanna/Listener In The Works

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

Sep.23, 2011

Aaaaaaaand yet another awesome tour for you North American types this autumn, this time with seminal screamo outfit Circle Takes The Square.

CTTS have been quiet for quite some time now, but they’re set to release their new album Decompositions: Volume I sometime this November, and I’m pretty stoked on that shit.

There’s no set support, but most of the dates will feature several of City of Ships, Touché Amoré and Pianos Become The Teeth. A couple also feature Thou, who are rather excellent.

Here’s what we have at the moment:

10/22 Harrisonburg, VA – Secret show
10/23 Baltimore, MD – The Ottobar (feat. City Of Ships, Pala)
10/24 Philadelphia, PA – Pi Lam (feat. Gholas, Gods and Queens, Full of Hell)
10/25 Blacksburg, VA – 130 Jackson (feat. Pygmylush, Regents)
10/26 Greensboro, NC – Legitimate Business (feat. Pygmylush, Systems
10/27 Savannah, GA – TBA (feat. Howler, Indian Giver)
10/28 Gainesville, FL – The Fest 10
10/29 St. Petersburg, FL – Fubar (feat. Capsule, City of Ships)
10/31 Pembroke Pines, FL – The Talent Farm (feat. Touche Amore, Pianos Become The Teeth,City Of Ships)
11/01 Winter Park, FL – The Haven (feat. Touche Amore, Pianos Become The Teeth, City Of Ships)
11/02 Birmingham, AL – The Firehouse (feat. Touche Amore, Pianos Become The Teeth, City Of Ships)
11/03 New Orleans, LA – Dragons Den (feat. Touche Amore, Pianos Become The Teeth, Thou)
11/05 Baton Rouge, LA – Manship Theatre (feat. True Widow, Thou, Leaving)
11/06 TBA – TBA
11/07 Atlanta, GA – TBA
11/08 Athens, GA – TBA

More details to come on those last few shows, and we’ll try and get those to you when they come our way.

There’s are also tentative details coming through about shows from The Chariot with Vanna, The Crimson Armada, Former Thieves and Listener (whose frontman Dan Smith is the guy who does the intense spoken-word section on “David De La Hoz“). More details on that too when they are announced.

So fall’s looking pretty good for you guys as far as tours go. I’m not sure what the national coverage is like, but between the Between the Buried and Me/Animals As Leaders/TesseracT, Devin Townsend Project/The Ocean, Mastodon/Dillinger, Decapitated/Decrepit Birth/Fleshgod Apocalypse, Enslaved/Alcest, Kvelertak/Skeletonwitch, The Black Dahlia Murder/All Shall Perish, Ana Kefr and The Bled runs, you’re bound to be able to see something cool (unless you live in the arse-end of nowhere, eh JR?). Just look at that list. Phew!

- CG

Five Reasons Why Metalcore Isn’t Total Shit #5: The Chariot – Long Live

Filed Under: Editorials, Lists!

Aug.22, 2011

Due to the overwhelming success of Jimmy’s ‘Five Reasons Why Deathcore Isn’t Total Shit‘ series last summer, Heavy Blog Is Heavy will be backing further up the ladder of ‘core’ for the next two weeks, and counting down the five reasons why metalcore isn’t totally full of shit. It gets a bad rap sometimes, and being the underdog(?) champions that we are, we’re making a stand for the fat kid and suplexing the skinny elitist bully right on his stupid face.

Make sure to throw your $0.02 at me and tell me why I’m completely wrong in the comments section, if you wish. I shall use it to buy soap to wash the spittle from my forehead, safe in the knowledge that I’ll be your boss at the plant some day.

We start this week off with a relatively new entry for the genre: Long Live, the most recent album from Georgian five-piece The Chariot. Released last year, it blew me away by being the first Chariot album I listened to that I didn’t have an immediate distaste for. Now I know this doesn’t sound like the intro for a band that deserves a spot on a list about great metalcore, but stick with me.

Barring the Unsung EP, every album these guys have released has left me a little cold at first. Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding was a bit too chaotic for me at the time, and both The Fiancée and Wars And Rumors Of Wars were a bit lacking in hooks – or so I thought.

I’ll admit that they’re a hard band to swallow, but persistence has always paid off — but it wasn’t needed with Long Live. I mean sure, the lo-fi into “Evan Perks” left me a bit confused at first, but it immediately made sense in the context of the rest of the album. In short, Long Live is an album that both epitomises everything metalcore should be — loud, riffy and chaotic — whilst at the same time doing something that no other band, to my knowledge, does.

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Tags: David de la Hoz, Five Reasons Why Metalcore Isn't Total Shit, Josh Scogin, Long Live, metalcore, The Chariot

With Words – Cagebound

Filed Under: Reviews

Aug.11, 2011

With Words

Cagebound

01. Consumer Plague
02. Red Bathers
03. World Of Waste
04. Luna
05. Fiend
06. Feeder

[06/17/11]
[Self-released]

Lately it seems that many a band are springing forth from all corners of this big blue marble to share their sound with all of us in order to achieve both acknowledgement and a chance to win our ears over. Well one band in particular not only got my attention, but they completely blew me away in the process. Hailing from Chicopee, Massachusetts, this five piece outfit has breathed life into the post-hardcore genre, and not by re-inventing it, but by sticking to the tried and true formula and releasing one of the most aggressive and passionate EPs of this year.

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Tags: Cagebound, Converge, The Chariot, With Words

Norma Jean Perform With Original Vocalist

Filed Under: Video

Jul.22, 2011

Just an interesting snippet that popped up on The PRP today – that being Norma Jean performing the third track “Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste” from their 2002 debut Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child with original vocalist Josh Scogin (now of The Chariot).

I love Norma Jean, but I love them more with Scogin. Of course, I wouldn’t want him to go back, because The Chariot are even better in my opinion, but I’m glad they’re still friends and meet up to do awesome stuff like this for each other.

Norma Jean are currently on their headlining Scream the Prayer Tour, and Scogin has been doing this pretty regularly. Catch them if you still can!

- CG

Tags: Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child, Josh Scogin, Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste, Norma Jean, The Chariot

“Evan Perks” Up Your Day With The Chariot

Filed Under: Video

Jun.23, 2011

The Chariot‘s last video, for the track “David de la Hoz,” was so fantastically original and well executed that any follow up was going to be hard to top. Unfortunately, they went their usual route of live footage with the studio recording over the top, for Long Live‘s first track, “Evan Perks” – not to say that this is bad in any way, but it’s old hat now. They are indeed awesome live, but even this doesn’t quite capture it I don’t think.

The footage is from shows on their most recent Australian run. From this alone it looks fairly fun, but when you place it next to the video where they got shut down for knocking over some fucking pears, and subsequently played the rest of the show at some dude’s house, partially on his roof, well, you’re in a different league really aren’t you?

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Tags: David de la Hoz, Evan Perks, Long Live, The Chariot

Scream The Prayer 2011 Finally Gets Some Dates

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours

May.13, 2011

It took them long enough, but the Scream The Prayer Tour 2011 dates have finally been announced. The tour features Norma Jean, Sleeping Giant, The Chariot, War Of Ages, Close Your Eyes, Texas In July, I The Breather, The Great Commission, As Hell Retreats, and Sovereign Strength. This package is a mixed bag for sure; you can check out what I think of the lineup in detail if you haven’t already. The tour is intersecting with Cornerstone Festival soon after it begins, and later on with The All Stars Tour. All I have to say is that you’ll steer clear of the dates with The All Star Tour if you know what’s good for you. Tour dates after the jump:

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