Anyone watch the Big 4 show at the movies? Reading our local “Let’s Mosh” 2XX metal radio show host’s drunken accounts were more interesting to me. Don’t forget to tune into 98.3FM Thursday nights from 11!
Before another report on international bands coming to our fair shores, here’s a diary planner on some shows coming up at The Basement over the coming months.
Friday July 30 is Progfest with performances by Melbourne eleventy-piece band Ne Obliviscaris, Taliesin, Sleepmakeswaves, Nemesphyxia and more for a mere 12 bucks from 8pm. If that’s not enough prog for you, the following evening in Sydney at the Annandale Hotel, you can see the Sydney lineup that includes Ne Obliviscaris, Sleepmakeswaves, Shanghai, Pirate, A State of Flux, Anubis, Arcane, Paradigm, Space Project, Slimey Things, Godswounds and Mish.
Friday August 6 is the Dio tribute night to celebrate the life, music and passing of the elfin icon by tribute act Live Evil.
Saturday August 7 features a celebration of extreme with Demonic Tempest, Reign of Terror and Dark Nemesis.
Saturday August 21 is the CD launch for Our Last Enemy and features a huge bill including Inside The Exterior, 1 Shot Kill, Friend or Enemy, Na Maza, Sacred Truth and Boonhorse.
There are a lot of shows coming up, but also mark down Saturday September 25 for DJ Pea’s ‘Birthday of Filth’ that features Looking Glass, Dead Letter Opener, Leichotica, Leadlight Rose, Red Bee, ZZG, Paul The Water Tiger (!), Vertical Smirk (!!) and Jizz Mist (!!!).
Soilwork are back for their third Australian tour in October to push their eighth studio album The Panic Broadcast. The tour kicks off in Brisvegas on Thursday October 21 with the nearest visitation for ACT Soilwork fans the following evening, Friday October 22, at the Manning Bar in Sydney. The supports for the show are Buried In Verona and Paradigm and you can purchase your tickets from Ticketek, Red Ant Touring or Oztix.com.au.
Lord are embarking on an extensive Australian tour before heading to Japan for the second time to tour with Doro and Jaded Heart. The tour is to launch their new EP Return of the Tyrant and it’s a doozy. The Tyrants Return tour is 22 shows including some jaunts out to Lord Tim’s hometown Broken Hill which will be pretty huge for the ‘silver city.’ Canberra is not missing out and the band will be hitting the Maram for an 18+ show on Saturday August 28.
Don’t forget Friday July 30 at the Bald Faced Stag (aka ‘The Wall’) is the first visit to Australian shores by my all time favourite murder metal act Macabre! The Chicago three-piece have been at it since 1985 and I still remember the first time I heard the pioneering double kick skills of their drummer Dennis the Menace causing my jaw to hit the floor. They’ve got a new album coming out later this year on Aussie label High Voltage with the working title Grim Tales. Playing with Pod People, Roadside Burial and Chaotic Impurity, don’t miss this show!
Josh Nixon – Serial Killer – Gloom/Grim Reality – Macabre
