It was great to get an email from one of Australia’s pioneer metal gods Joel Green, ex-Armoured Angel, this week. Along with another of Canberra’s long serving axe slingers Tony Kirk (most recently of Kill For Satan infamy), the two have released their debut slab that was discussed in Metallise last year when Joel came to town to record it (he’s in Adelaide now). The project’s name is Wardom and the debut release is entitled When Darkness Reigns. If you’d like a preview of the album, check myspace.com/wardom666.
Unrelenting walls of international tours continue to cause the credit cards of heavy metal maniacs to suffer, particularly those heading over to catch the annual Maryland Death Festival at the end of the month (you lucky b%$tards know who you are). That said, those travelling eleventy thousand miles to see the likes of Autopsy, Pentagram and Entombed along with high profile slots for our own Captain Cleanoff, Blood Duster and Portal are likely to favour one of the following tour date revelations over the other.
Metallica tickets will go on sale roughly the day this ish hits the brutal frost-bitten streets of Canberra. Of course the ‘Metclub’ members have already had a feeding frenzy or two online for the band’s two part tour in October and November. The New Zealand and Australia tour starts in Auckland on Wednesday October 13, with shows in Brisbane and Perth on Monday October 18 and Friday October 22. Then a quick kangaroo patting gap until Wednesday November 10, where they play Acer Arena. If you can’t get tickets for that show, Thursday November 18 is the date for Melbourne at Rod Laver Arena. Good luck in the credit card ruck online and may eBay be kind to you if you miss out.
Really exciting news from Soundworks Touring this week on their new website, soundworkstouring.com. Napalm Death and Dying Fetus have announced a September jaunt around the traps with a five date tour starting Wednesday September 1 in Adelaide. The two closest shows for us would be either Saturday September 4 in Sydney at The Factory or Sunday September 5 at the Hifi Ballroom in Melbourne. In digging around the traps I’ve heard that Australian hardcore band extraordinaire Extortion will be the main support on the tour. May seem like a strange choice, but for those who don’t know, Extortion released their new album Loose Screws (and a fine album it is, BTW) earlier in the year which features guest vocals in the form of Mr Mark “Barney” Greenway on the final track Socially Inept. Tickets at Moshtix or the Factory and Hifi ticketing offices.
The Nile, Abigail Williams and Hate Eternal tour lands in Australia in a couple of weeks’ time and tickets are getting scarce for the Friday May 28 show in Sydney at The Factory. This much quality international brutality on one night is not to be missed, and you can try get a ticket from the Factory website. Don’t sleep on these, they will sell out.
The Coffins tour announced a couple of weeks back has a few more details on ticket purchase points. For the Sydney show at The Metro on Saturday September 25, you can get tickets from redanttouring.com, metrotheatre.com or Ticketek. Apparently there are also ‘VIP meet and greet’ packages available from the Red Ant Touring page.
Josh – np: From Their Coffined Slumber – Hooded Menace – Never Cross The Dead
