Hails and tortured wails. Not sure how the Australian Metal Awards turned out last weekend, be interested to know how Sadistik Exekution got along and I'll publish the winners list in the end of year edition. Let me know how it was if you went!
Lamb of God, Devil Driver and Shadows Fall have sold out their first show at the Big Top in Sydney on Saturday December 12 and have added a second licensed all ages show for Sunday December 13.
Porcupine Tree are coming back to Australia again in February with three Aussie shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. The Sydney show is at the Enmore Theatre on Saturday February 6 and at the Palace Theatre in Melbourne on Sunday February 7. Ticketek will provide their services for your tickets.
While in prog-ish territory, Les Claypool of Primus fame is doing some solo shows in December including an all ages show in Sydney on the Wednesday December 2 at the Enmore Theatre and an over 18s show at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne on Friday December 4. Check the info on his website, http://www.lesclaypool.com/tour/>
Australia's proponents of the finest Swedish death metal flavour Earth have a new album about to hit stores entitled Fear of Tomorrow. The band is embarking on a national tour to support the record and the Canberra leg of that tour takes place on Friday November 20 at the Basement. Joining them are NSW band Code of Lies, Reign of Terror and Machete. The band then hit the Hume in the morning for a Harbour Cruise show the next day with Pod People and Anno Domini. I can't wait to check the new record out as both The Bleeding Fields and Star Condemned were excellent.
Also at the Basement this weekend, Friday November 13 (cue werewolf howl) is a great bill featuring Scapegoat, Futility, Inside the Exterior and Tortured. Adding to the local good time shows at the Basement, Friday November 27 is the band formerly known as Terrorust and Insidious Torture (Matty Skitz on drums) heading up from Melbourne to headline a super strong bill that includes Mytile Vey Lorth, Kill For Satan, Hell Itself and Forgery.
Portal, Blood Duster, Destroyer 666 and Captain Cleanoff are all announced on next year's Maryland Death Fest, better known as MDF. Autopsy reforming for the show alone has me severely tossing up over that show and the amazing Roadburn lineup announced for Holland next year. Portal has a new album out entitled Swarth and is the hellacious spawn of an utterly world class extreme metal act. The band are rumoured to be doing a Sydney show in February, so I'll keep an ear out for the date. Congrats to the Aussies on what is the US' absolute best underground metal festival lineup.
Josh NP: Equilibrium - Cathedral - Forrest of Equilibrium
