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As previously reported, VENOM will be appearing at
next year's Maryland DeathFest (scheduled to take place the weekend of May 23-26, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland)! Now the band has announced their first Canadian appearance in 27 years as the headliners of the Noctis V Metal festival!
The even will take place over three days (September 27-29) at
the University of Calgary's MacEwan Hall Ballroom, the Distillery
Nightclub and Vern's Bar in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Support
acts will include:
Ireland's Darkest Era has partnered up with Bloody Disgusting to debut their NEW video for "An Ancient Fire Burns". The song comes from their debut album, 'The Last Caress of Light', which was highlighted in Decibel's Top 40 Extreme Albums of 2011. The video features a grim story with a surprise ending and is as melancholy and emotional as the band's music and was directed by Kieran Majury with Fastville Productions.
Comments guitarist Ade Mulgrew: "An Ancient Fire Burns is a song about primal instincts and desire; and in this video we used a narrative that we really hope will grip people. It's an old school buried-alive-in-coffin concept that compliments the themes in the song. We also shot the band's performance by torchlight in a 1000 year old monastery, once plundered by Vikings. It was a great setting and really adds to the atmosphere in the video."
DARKEST ERA Tour with Alestorm and Claim the Throne:
- 02/04 Plymouth, UK White Rabbit
- 02/05 Stoke On Trent, UK Green Star UK
- 02/06 Sheffield, UK Corporation UK
- 02/07 Bristol, UK The Fleece
- 02/08 Southampton, UK The Cellar
- 02/09 Manchester, UK Moho Live
- 02/13 Leicester, UK The O2 Academy
- 02/14 Brighton, UK The Haunt
- 02/15 Wrexham, UK Central Station
- 02/16 Leeds, UK The Well
- 02/18 London, UK Islington Academy
- 02/19 Norwich, UK Waterfront
End Tour
- 04/27 Dublin, IE The Pint w/ Mael Mordha
- 04/28 Belfast, IE The Limelight w/ Mael Mordha
'The Last Caress' of Light was recorded at Foel Studios in Wales at the end of August 2010 with producer Chris Fielding. The result are eight tracks of dark, stormy, epic Celtic Metal with which mix the melancholy and atmosphere of Irish Folk with the epic might of Heavy Metal bands such as Warlord, Iron Maiden and Thin Lizzy. The album stands out from all else as a record of intense emotional power and honesty; holding the listener within a dark Heavy Metal storm and not letting go until the last chords have rung out.
DARKEST ERA is:
Krum - Vocals
Ade Mulgrew - Guitar
Sarah Wieghell - Guitar
David Lindsay - Bass
Lisa Howe - Drums
Legendary Heavy Metal band Motörhead, have just gone up another level of awesome thanks to the launch of their very own brand of vodka. Following the launch of the Motörhead wine, the band thought it would be cool to unleash their own vodka. The name of the vodka? Motörhead Vödka, of course.
Motörhead Vödka is a premium vodka made from 100% locally grown wheat that has been distilled and bottled in the small markettown of Malmköping, Sweden. It has a rich, full bodied and complex character, with a light and fruity aftertaste. A touch of barley gives the vodka a rounded and mellow grain character.
Its distinctive taste is further enhanced by the unique locally sourced water, which has been naturally filtered for thousands of years in a ridge in Malmköping. It’s an easy-drinking vodka, that can be enjoyed both with and without ice.
Alcohol by VOLUME: 40% vol (Drink responsibly)
Maybe next year the band will unleash the Lemmy Kilmister Motörhead Whiskey? Stay tuned!
Recently, the legendary Heavy Metal band Motörhead appeared on "Die Harald Schmidt Show" on German television. During the bands appearance, the entire band was interviewed by Schmidt about life on the road and the bands legacy. The interview was followed by a live performance from the band. Check it out!
With the holidays around the corner, British Heavy Metal icons Motörhead released "The Motör-Bag"! Filled with exclusive items that are not available anywhere else, "The Motör-Bag" is the perfect holiday present for the headbanger in your life!
In addition to the carrying bag, inside are two Double Vinyl LPs of stunning Motörhead performances in their entirety recorded in New York's Best Buy Theater and the Manchester Apollo, that can only be found in "The Motör-Bag" package, PLUS a unique Crew T-Shirt and laminate pass, and no fan will want to miss out on owning a piece of “The Wörld Is Yours” 2010/2011 stage backdrop, mounted and numbered.
If that isn’t enough – the Deluxe version includes the Digipack (DVD + CD) of “The Wörld Is Ours – Vol 1 – Everywhere Further Than Everywhere Else” , and a Double Vinyl LP recorded live at the Teatro Caupolican in Santiago, Chile. "The Wörld Is Ours Vol. 1 - Everywhere Further Than Everyplace Else" came out on November 14 via Motörhead Music/UDR/EMI. The DVD was shot by Banger Films and Sam Dunn ("Iron Maiden Flight 666", "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage", "Metal Evolution").
"Gigantour" 2012 with Megadeth, Volbeat, and Lacuna Coil,
January:
26 – Susquehanna Bank Center – Camden, NJ
27 – Mohegan Sun Arena – Uncasville, CT
28 – Theater at Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
29 – Tsongas Arena – Lowell, MA
February:
1 – Glens Falls Civic Center – Glens Falls, NY
2 – Colisee Pepsi – Quebec City, QC
3 – Bell Centre – Montreal, QC
5 – K-Rock Centre – Kingston, ON
7 – General Motors Centre – Oshawa, ON
8 – Copps Coliseum – Hamilton, ON
9 – Palace of Auburn Hills – Auburn Hills, MI
10 – Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, IL
12 – Eagles Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI
14 – Myth – St. Paul, MN
16 – Prairieland – Saskatoon, SK
17 – Shaw Conference Centre – Edmonton, AB
18 – Big 4 Building – Calgary, AB
20 – Abbotsford Ent & Sports Centre – Abbotsford, BC
21 – Showare Center – Kent, WA
23 – Event Center at San Jose State University – San Jose, CA
24 – Gibson Amphitheatre – Universal City, CA
25 – Comerica Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
26 – Tingley Coliseum – Albuquerque, NM
28 – The Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO
Last night (Saturday, November 12), the legendary Heavy Metal band Motörhead returned to the stage at Hammersmith Apollo in London, U.K. following Lemmy's left wrist injury, which forced the cancellation of the band's concerts in Bristol (November 8) and Norwich (November 11).
The band performed the following songs:
1 - Bomber
2 - Damage Case
3 - I Know How To Die
4 - Stay Clean
5 - Metropolis
6 - Over The Top
7 - One Night Stand
8 - Guitar Solo
9 - The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
10 - Get Back In Line
11 - Rock Out
12 - The One To Sing The Blues
13 - Drum Solo
14 - Orgasmatron
15 - Going To Brazil
16 - Killed By Death
17 - Iron Fist
Encore:
18 - Whorehouse Blues
19 - Ace Of Spades
20 - Overkill
Remaining tour-dates for "The Wörld Is Yours" tour, which features Anti Nowhere League and UK Subs:
Nov. 14 - Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
Nov. 15 - Glasgow, UK - O2 Academy
Nov. 17 - Nottingham, UK - Royal Centre
Nov. 18 - Manchester, UK- O2 Apollo
Yesterday (Tuesday, November 8th), British Heavy Metal legends MOTÖRHEAD were forced to cancel their concert at Colston Hall in Bristol, England after front-man Lemmy Kilmister injured his left hand. A Colston Hall spokeswoman said at the time: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, this show has been canceled. We currently have no information about a rescheduled date or the returns policy. Please visit the Colston Hall website, Colstonhall.org, for more information, or call the box office on 01179 223686."
MOTÖRHEAD is in the middle of its annual autumn U.K. tour with support from the UK SUBS.
Remaining dates:
Nov. 11 - Norwich, UK - UEA
Nov. 12 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo
Nov. 14 - Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
Nov. 15 - Glasgow, UK - O2 Academy
Nov. 17 - Nottingham, UK - Royal Centre
Nov. 18 - Manchester, UK- O2 Apollo
Today (Tuesday, November 8th), British Heavy Metal legends MOTÖRHEAD were forced to cancel their concert at Colston Hall in Bristol, England due to the fact that one of the bandmembers had an injury. A Colston Hall spokeswoman said: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, this show has been canceled. We currently have no information about a rescheduled date or the returns policy. Please visit the Colston Hall website, Colstonhall.org, for more information, or call the box office on 01179 223686."
MOTÖRHEAD is in the middle of its annual autumn U.K. tour with support from the UK SUBS.
Remaining dates:
Nov. 11 - Norwich, UK - UEA
Nov. 12 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo
Nov. 14 - Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
Nov. 15 - Glasgow, UK - O2 Academy
Nov. 17 - Nottingham, UK - Royal Centre
Nov. 18 - Manchester, UK- O2 Apollo
Coventry, England hasn't been the same since the rise of the mighty Cathedral in the late 1980's. Through their unique flavor of doom Metal complimented by phenomenal musicianship, the band are considered one of the saviors of the genre. With nine studio albums under their belt, the band hast just announced that they will be releasing a 2 CD "Anniversary" live album and their final studio album entitled "The Last Spire".
The 2 CD "Anniversary" live album will be released on Monday, November 21st in North America, via Metal Blade Records in conjunction with Rise Above Records. The Anniversary captures Cathedral in all their raw and live glory and marks the first official live album to be ever released by the doom Metal legends. Recorded live in London, 2010, Disc 1 features "Forest of Equilibrium" in its entirety, delivered impeccably by the original lineup of Lee Dorrian on vocals, Garry Jennings and Adam Lehan on guitar, Mark Griffiths on bass and Mike Smail on drums. Disc 2 is a greatest hits set courtesy of the long lasting lineup featuring Leo Smee (bass) and Brian Dixon (drums) alongside Dorrian and Jennings.
Vocalist Lee Dorrian comments on the band's first ever live album and the impending final live show: "The release of Anniversary is both exciting and sad for us. Exciting, as it is the first ever official Cathedral live album, recorded at our twentieth anniversary show on Dec 3rd in London last year, where we reunited with our original line up and performed the entirety of or debut album Forest of Equilibrium for the first (and last) time ever. Sad, because December the 3rd this year will be the night we perform our last show ever, before calling it a day as a live band. So more than anything, we would like to dedicate Anniversary to everyone who has followed and supported Cathedral over the years. Your support really means and has meant the world to us! Thanks and stay heavy!
Words by Dom Lawson, August 2011
… and so it ends as it began, with the grim but compelling sound of mankind's most artful and potent response against the dying of the light: the almighty riff… sacred, remorseless, oppressive and sublime… it towers above us like a shadow cast by the collected follies of humanity itself, giving us succor and protecting us from the lure of the grave …
Whether you regard them as the saviors of doom Metal, the rightful heirs to the Sabbathian throne, the masters of the arcane, profane and avowedly eccentric or merely one of the finest British Heavy Metal bands of all time, Cathedral have made an indelible and undeniable mark on the Heavy Music scene over their two decades of sonorous, lethargic service. Led by vocalist Lee Dorrian and his perennial riff-deliverer Gaz Jennings, the band emerged at the dawn of the 90s amid the clattering clangour of an extreme Metal scene that had simply forgotten how to slow down and synchronize with the miserly grind of tectonic plates and the ticking of time. Righteously inspired by Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Trouble, Candlemass, Saint Vitus and many other purveyors of superlative snail's pace riff worship, Cathedral made it their principal aim to resurrect the very concept of doom within the Metal scene, both in terms of the musical sub-genre that bore that name but also with regard to the haunting emotional might that had steadily been drained from the heart of heavy.
After grabbing the attention of many like-minded souls with their early demo recordings, Dorrian and the original line-up of the band released their debut album, the astonishing Forest Of Equilibrium, in December 1991, single-handedly reversing Metal's runaway momentum and dragging it back to its fundamentally slow, soulful and crushing essence. From that moment on, Cathedral became revered guardians of true doom and embarked on a steadily mutating path towards total riff nirvana. Upping the pace for 1993's "The Ethereal Mirror", they embraced evolution with alacrity. By the time 1995's "The Carnival Bizarre" arrived, Dorrian and Jennings had been joined by bassist Leo Smee and drummer Brian Dixon, thus cementing a formation and focus that would serve the band well over the next 15 years. The series of albums that followed veered from the kaleidoscopic psychomania of "Caravan Beyond Redemption" (1998) through to the blistered, necrotizing funeral grind of "Endtyme" (2001) and on to the wild progressive hues of 2010's "The Guessing Game", covering all points in between.
Cathedral's live shows were always celebratory affairs, as the band traversed the globe spreading the bleak gospel and sharing grandiose riffs with generations of lost souls. By the year 2010, it became clear that Cathedral's mission had been effectively accomplished, and Dorrian began the countdown to oblivion. The band played a 20th anniversary show at London's O2 Islington Academy on December 3rd, reconvening that legendary original line-up to perform "Forest Of Equilibrium" for the very first time in its devastating entirety, followed by a bold stride through the rest of that glorious catalog courtesy of that equally classic but more enduring latter-day configuration. Fans and friends traveled from all around this wicked world to witness the event and despite the fact that many British disciples were unable to get to London due to harsh weather conditions and a dismal public transport system, "Cathedral acquitted themselves with humble grace and splendor. Urged on by the news that Cathedral will completely retire from the mortal Metal realm after one more show this coming December, the entire 20th anniversary gig is now to be unleashed as Anniversary, a double-disc extravaganza of crippling, ultra-doom that is as raw and uncompromising as these desolate days demand. Next year will see the release of "The Last Spire", the final chapter in the Cathedral story, but for now Anniversary is doom's last word. And so it ends…
Disc One - 'Back to the Forest':
01. Picture of Beauty and Innocence 0.47
02. Comiserating the Celebration (of Life) 11.13
03. Ebony Tears 8:07
04. Serpent Eve 8:38
05. Soul Sacrifice 3:18
06. Funeral Request 10:10
07. Equilibrium 6:23
08. Reaching Happiness Touching Pain 10:52
Disc Two - 'Bleak Winter':
01. Funeral of Dreams 9:17
02. Enter the Worms 6:46
03. Upon Azrael's Wings 5:13
04. Midnight Mountain 4:51
05. Cosmic Funeral 6:17
06. Carnival Bizarre 11:06
07. Night of the Seagulls 9:06
08. Corpsecycle 5:51
09. Ride 6:30
10. The Last Spire Pt.1 (Entrance) 3:44
11. Vampire Sun 4.37
12. Hopkins 7.53
"The best doom Metal band of the past two decades." Albert Mudrian - Decibel Magazine/Choosing Death
