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The latest issue of TWISTED features killer posters of:
Linkin Park
The Acacia Strain
Hatebreed
Live Machine Head
Bring Me The Horizon
System Of A Down
Brand new Murderolls
Papa Roach
The Faceless
And heaps more!
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In this issue:
- Birds of Tokyo jump on the 3D bandwagon.
- Parkway Drive and Bring Me The Horizon check in from the Vans Warped Tour.
- Norma Jean try and forget about ‘that’ album.
- The Murderdolls are ready to fuck your shit up.
- Soilwork get their demonic groove back.
- Children Collide trundle across the globe in the name of rock.
- Jamey Jasta adds a Blunt interview to his credentials.
- And stacks more!
Official Soundwave 2011 first announcement!
Check it out motherlickers – more bands than you can poke a stick! As is now the norm, the Soundwave announcement contains something for everyone, some blasts from the past and some head scatchers. Seriously… Iron Maiden, Queens and Slayer on the one day, Blunt will be throwing the horns from now until late February.
Iron Maiden
Queens Of The Stone Age
Slayer
Primus
Slash
Social Distortion
The Gaslight Anthem
Rob Zombie
Pennywise
Avenged Sevenfold
Thirty Seconds To Mars
Stone Sour
Gang Of Four
New Found Glory
Sum 41
Anberlin
Third Eye Blind
Devildriver
Sevendust
Less Than Jake
The Bronx
Monster Magnet
Terror
MXPX
Protest The Hero
Melvins
36 Crazyfists,
Ill Nino
The Ataris
The Starting Line
Bayside
Mad Caddies
The Maine
Trash Talk
Mayday Parade
Foxy Shazam
Never Shout Never
The Blackout
Alesana
Asking Alexandria
All That Remains
High On Fire
Dommin
The Sword
Kylesa
A Skylit Drive
There For Tomorrow
Breathe Carolina
Taking Dawn
I See Stars
Rise To Remain
Nonpoint
Veara
Every Avenue
Soundwave 2011 takes shape
With band announcements coming thick ‘n’ fast through Twitter, loose lipped interviewee’s and radio sponsors Short.Fast.Loud and The Racket, we currently have 16 confirmed names out in the open before the official announcement on August 6.
- The Blackout
- Protest The Hero
- The Ataris
- Trash Talk
- All That Remains
- Less Than Jake
- Veara
- There For Tomorrow
- A Skylit Drive
- Mad Caddies
- The Sword
- Asking Alexandria
- Bayside
- Kylesa
- Alesana
- 30 Seconds to Mars
Dates for the fest are:
Brisbane – Saturday February 26
Sydney – Sunday February 27
Melbourne – Friday March 4
Adelaide – Saturday March 5
Perth – Monday March 7
Happy moshing!
Hardcore 2010: A selection of photos
Our man was in the pit at the 18+ installment of the Hardcore 2010 festival at Manning Bar, Sydney on July 2nd 2010.
Ill Brigade
Relentless
Blkout
Mindsnare
Mindsnare
Extortion
Toe To Toe
Mindsnare
Mindsnare
Mindsnare
Extortion
Toe To Toe
Relentless
Toe To Toe
Ill Brigade
Blkout
Blkout
Extortion
Toe To Toe
Blunt 91 is On Sale Today.
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In this issue:
* We get the scoop on Parkway Drive’s new album, Deep Blue.
* Korn tells us why life ain’t peachy.
* Gaslight Anthem ditch the influences and find their own voice.
* Attack Attack! still can’t settle on a genre.
* Hellyeah just wanna party, man.
* And stacks more!
Blunt Posters 18 ON SALE NOW!
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With killer mega posters of Parkway Drive, Korn, Slipknot and The Amity Affliction in New York, plus brand new posters of Architects, A Day To Remember, Deez Nuts, Whitechapel and Against Me!
And to spread the love there’s a special Parkway Drive T-shirt giveaway thanks to Resist Records!
Paramore Australian Tour
The stratospheric rise of PARAMORE has been swift and shows no signs of abating.
Announcing themselves in 2007 to an ever growing legion of fans with the brilliant, ‘Riot’, PARAMORE have registered one conquest after the next: selling out shows across the globe, gracing almost every Alternative/Rock magazine, “Artist of the Year” list and even earned themselves a Grammy nomination for ‘Best New Artist’.
Hot from selling out stadiums across the globe and a No.1 album in Australia, we are thrilled to announce that PARAMORE will be bringing a spectacular arena show to Australian fans in October.
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 2 JULY, 9AM
SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER PERTH, CHALLENGE STADIUM - Lic A/A
www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100
TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER ADELAIDE, ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE – Lic A/A
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WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER MELBOURNE, MYER MUSIC BOWL – Lic A/A
www.theartscentre.com.au 1300 182 183, www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100
FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER SYDNEY, ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE - Lic A/A
www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100
SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER BRISBANE, THE RIVERSTAGE - Lic A/A
www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100, Rockinghorse and Kill The Music
Presented by Nova, Channel [V], Blunt Magazine,
Faster Louder and Soundwave Touring
Alexisonfire Australian Tour!
With the release of the brilliant album ‘Crisis’ in 2006 and 2004’s ‘Watch Out!’, who would have thought ALEXISONFIRE would not only match the success of their previous efforts but ultimately smash all pre conceptions and tear them to shreds! “This is one of the best bands currently making music, and if you’re late in finding out, there’s plenty of room left on that train” – Punk News
To truly appreciate the raw intensity and passion of ALEXISONFIRE, they need to be seen to be believed; “They put on a passionate, crowd-destroying show still unrivalled by anyone” – Caught In The Crossfire
In news that will have their legions of fans salivating, ALEXISONFIRE have announced a full Australian tour throughout October.
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 18 JUNE, 9AM
THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER BRISBANE, THE TIVOLI – 18+
www.ticketek.com.au 132 849, Rockinghorse and Kill The Music
FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER SYDNEY, UNSW ROUNDHOUSE – Lic A/A
www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER MELBOURNE, PALACE THEATRE – 18+
www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
MONDAY 11 OCTOBER ADELAIDE, HQ – Lic A/A
www.ticketek.com.au 132 849
WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER PERTH, METROPOLIS FREMANTLE – 18+
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For all tour enquiries please contact Chris O’Brien: chris@soundwavefestival.com
Supported by triple j’s Short.Fast.Loud, Blunt Magazine,
Bombshellzine and Soundwave Touring.
The Black Dahlia Murder
Whether you like your metal to have the ubiquitous ‘core’ suffix or to have the slightly classier ‘death’ prefix, Michigan based headbangers, The Black Dahlia Murder have just what you need. Currently trekking around the traps touting their latest record, Deflorate (with like minded heavy fusion band Unearth along for the ride), Blunt caught up with vocalist Trevor Strnad – in his pajama bottoms, no less.
“We’ve been home for the first time in ever, or maybe since 2003, this is the longest vacation we’ve ever had from touring,” says the frontman. “It’s been equal parts boring and relaxing.”
Now, some may think that metal dudes on vacation would keep up the touring lifestyle or at least go and burn some churches, not so, explains Strnad.
“It’s a lot of pajama pants and video games,” he laughs. “The old ones, anything on the original NES!”
Aside from hanging out and reacquainting himself with the golden age of console gaming, Strnad has had time to contemplate the band’s last release, Deflorate.
“I’m still in love with it and I can only really say that about the last two albums, Nocturnal and Deflorate. It comes down to having the recording quality up to par and also the material, it seems like we entered adulthood at that point.”
The vocalist goes on to explain that a big reason that the band are so happy with how the record turned out was due to the contributions of new guitarist, Ryan Knight (formerly of tech death metal act, Arsis).
“Ryan wasn’t in the band for a very long time before we recorded but he was brave enough to offer up some really great songs, so it was like the beginning of a new era for us, with everyone contributing – we had Ryan and then Bart (Ryan ‘Bart’ Williams, bassist) co-wrote two songs and Brian (Eschbach, guitarist) of course.”
“We used to get together and jam on the fly and sometimes that was like forcing it, pulling teeth,” says Strnad. “Now, everybody knows Protools and that changes, makes it more of a private affair, where the guys go home to their secret laboratory. In respect to the lyrics, I guess that is what I do too, I get the songs and play them a thousand times at home and go to work by myself.”
Lyrically, explains the singer, Deflorate contains a lot of Satanic material, taking metal back to its roots.
“Stuff like early Deicide and Sinister, you know, the shock value of that whole thing was something that really resonated with me when I was a kid, scared the hell out of me. You know that album by Sinister, Hate? It scared the crap out of me, with all of its incantation lyrics with magic words, like six, six, six! I think about all of that kind of stuff, what attracted me to metal when I was young.”
Aside from the old school influences on Strnad’s lyrics, he says that science fiction played a big part in his writing process, with songs like “I Will Return” featuring cryogenic rebirth and “Selection Unatural”, about a ‘weird deformity’.
Strnad says that he has always been into sci-fi and horror and that the crossover to using this in combination with the more traditional Satanic lyrics in death metal is quite natural. It may even help give evil its shock value back.
“I still have people that are Christian that have some kind of moral conflict when they listen to our band and they Myspace me and ask about why we have these kind of lyrics, I think that is pretty humourous. We’ll always be shocking somebody out there, I guess,” laughs the frontman.
“I look at songs as a little piece of fiction, but some have my opinions on humanity, like Necropolis is about my disgust with the way that religion has us enslaved by ancient and archaic traditions. That kind of stuff will be the downfall of mankind.”
Much as Strnad has turned to a new page in heavy metal’s Big Book Of Lyrics, the singer says that heavy music has recently forged a new path, running in all directions at once, exploding into mainstream popularity. This, he says, won’t last, but for now, he is happy to enjoy the fruits of his labours, even as he changes along with the scene.
“Its weird, because when we started touring, I was one of the kids and now, with these kids that look up to me, I’m an old man at twenty nine.”
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