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Full List Of Dates For Between The Buried And Me, The Faceless, The Contortionist, and The Safety Fire Tour Announced

Filed Under: General News, Tours and Rumors of Tours
Jun.14, 2013

BTBAM headlining tour 2013

Last night we broke the news that Between the Buried and Me were planning a headlining North American tour in which they played the entirety of their opus The Parallax II: Future Sequence, bringing in support from The Faceless, The Contortionist, and The Safety Fire. Now, the full run of dates has been announced, and these four progressive metal acts will snake across the United States in plenty of secondary markets, so fans have ample opportunity to catch this excellent tour. Since signing to Metal Blade, I don’t think Between the Buried in Me have been on a single bad tour! Dates below.

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Between the Buried and Me to Tour North America with The Faceless, The Contortionist, and The Safety Fire

Filed Under: Tours and Rumors of Tours
Jun.13, 2013

btbam headlining tour

There are very few tours this year we’ve been looking forward to more than Between the Buried and Me‘s headlining North American tour. It’s been promised that the group will play their latest opus The Parallax II: Future Sequence in its entirety, which was released late last year to much acclaim, ending up on a number of year-end best-of lists. As if that idea wasn’t enough to make for a killer tour, the seminal prog group are bringing in tow supporting acts The Faceless, The Contortionist, and The Safety Fire.

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Evan Brewer Details New Album; Unveils Whacky New Album Teaser

Filed Under: General News, Upcoming releases
May.23, 2013

evan brewer your itinerary

The longstanding stereotype of metal bassists is unfortunate. They’re often depicted as failed guitarists and we’re all pretty quick to make jokes about how the bass tracks don’t matter since they’re going to be mixed out anyway. This genre of music is largely for guitarists, though there are a handful of bassists who rock their instruments with pride and prowess. One of the most influential big names in metal when it comes to bass has got to be Evan Brewer (The Faceless, ex-Animosity). Brewer wowed tech metal nerds in 2011 with his solo bass record Alone, and will continue to do so with broader appeal with his sophomore record Your Itinerary.

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PHOTOS: The Dillinger Escape Plan & The Faceless — April 27th at Music Hall of Williamsburg, New York

Filed Under: Photos, Tours and Rumors of Tours
May.07, 2013

Dillinger Spring Tour 2013

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.

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Extol Unveil First New Song Since 2005 With The Appropriately Titled ‘Open The Gates’

Filed Under: Audio, New music, Upcoming releases
Apr.24, 2013

Extol

You all likely know the story by now; Extol are an influential progressive metal band out of Norway that disbanded in 2007 and reformed to much praise in 2012 with the promise of a new studio album. We even interviewed frontman Peter Espevoll while the band were wrapping up work on their new album. Their comeback couldn’t have come at a better time! Extreme prog is more popular than ever, and their influence has grown even more obvious, with The Faceless‘ Authotheism pulling pretty heavily from the Extol playbook.

After the long wait for details and new music, the band have finally delivered. Extol announced this week that their new self-titled album will be out this summer, and have given us their first new song since 2005 with ‘Open the Gates.’ Listen after the jump.

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Fallujah – Nomadic

Filed Under: Reviews
Mar.29, 2013

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Nomadic

01. The Dead Sea
02. Silent
03. Venom Upon The Blade

[04/02/13]
[Unique Leader Records]

Californian death metallers Fallujah had a sleeper hit on their hands in 2011 with their debut album The Harvest Wombs, which was met with a rapidly growing fanbase and high-profile supporting gigs, both local and international. Initially compared to the likes of The Faceless and the legion of bands that followed in their wake, Fallujah’s depth of sound and wide array of influences set them apart and established the band as stand-out up-and-comers in the emerging trend of prog-influenced death metal. The band has done quite a bit of maturing over the past two years, and now their potential is already starting to become fully realized with their new three-track EP, Nomadic.

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Mike Semesky (ex-The HAARP Machine) Joins Raunchy

Filed Under: General News
Mar.15, 2013

 

An interesting turn of events this one. As you’ll probably know, The HAARP Machine recently underwent huge line-up changes leaving three particularly great musicians without a proper place to call home. Drummer Alex Rudinger was quickly snapped up into The Faceless and bassist Ollie Rooney decided to go it alone, just leaving vocalist Mike Semesky left as a free agent.

However, with the recent announcement that long-time vocalist Kasper Thomsen has left the band, Raunchy have quickly announced Semesky as his replacement. You can read the statement from the band after the jump.

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Hey! Listen To Cognizance!

Filed Under: Audio, Listen To This!, New music
Mar.15, 2013

I’ll be honest with you guys, I’ve been holding on to this one for a long time, with all thanks going to fellow contributor DeusExMachina. I was waiting on my pre-order package to turn up (a t-shirt, EP and a poster for only a fiver/~$8, complete bargain) so I could give you the full run down rather than just going by what’s on Youtube, but there’s no point depriving you guys of this amazing band any longer.

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Evan Brewer Updates On New Album; Teases New Material

Filed Under: Upcoming releases, Video
Feb.27, 2013

Evan Brewer

Evan Brewer is one of those bassist that is actually a bassist, not a failed guitarist that thinks he settled in on an easy gig. Brewer is a master of his craft, and where metal bassists often hide in the depths of a mix in the guitarist’s shadow, he’s one of the few that embody the true spirit of the instrument. Yes, the bass is a rhythm instrument that largely plays support, but that doesn’t mean you have to stick to plugging along, hitting root notes though the course of the song. Brewer proved as much with his solo album Alone in 2011, a record comprised entirely of bass playing and nothing else. His second record promises to continue the bass-as-spotlight approach, but take it into new territory as well.

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The Dillinger Escape Plan To Tour US With The Faceless And Royal Thunder

Filed Under: General News, Tours and Rumors of Tours
Feb.26, 2013

 Dillinger Spring Tour 2013

I don’t know about you, but I love it when bands set up tours where the bands all have widely disparate styles. Unsurprisingly, The Dillinger Escape Plan seem to have a knack for doing just that. Last time I saw the band over here in England, they were nestled comfortably between the prog worship of Mastodon and the rough-neck rock of Red Fang and it was, by far, one of the best nights I’ve ever had. Three great bands, all with completely different approaches, all absolutely killing it. So thankfully, for you guys across the pond in the US, Dillinger have set up their own tour in the same vein this coming April and May, but with themselves holding the headline spot over the Nietzsche-loving prog-metallers and label mates The Faceless and the bluesy rock of Royal Thunder. So, if you love heavy music in any way, there’s easily something on offer for you here.

Tour dates in full after the jump!

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