Louisiana metal crew Becoming the Archetype(big favourites on my radio show, the Rock Block, Fridays from 9-11pm on CHRI 99.1 FM here in Ottawa - what a plug!) have made the big step to Europe, where they'll be on tour with Purified In Blood in July. The tour touches down in the UK and Germany; if you're over there, go to a show. Metal all the way. Whoooo. [theprp]
Cursed, one of the baddest bands from Toronto these days, have a lot of shows lined up in the next couple months, including a stop in Montreal June 2nd at Club Soda with Misery Index(I may go!). This is all to promote their latest effort III as well as a seven-inch EP they've done.
A DVD will hopefully be out in August from the mighty Isis(or, as someone here in Ottawa once called them, "Is-is"), as well as a live album and a couple collaborative efforts. They're busy guys. For all the dirt hit this up.
Between The Buried And Me have a covers album coming out soon, featuring their takes on songs by Metallica, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Queen, Pink Floyd and more. I bet some of the songs will be featured when the band hits Ottawa May 28th at Babylon, with openers August Burns Red and others. C'mon out! Word. I didn't even know about this til just now.
Tom Cowell, this one's for you: Tool are going on tour for two months to pump 10,000 Days, their new album. As well, the band is negotiating to have their material featured in the new Guitar Hero 2 video game. The first edition of Guitar Hero conquered the world, apparently. I wanna play it.
New songs from Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and Motorhead can be sampled over here.
Ontario has produced an absolute landslide of bands in the last five years or so, and one of the best, Boys Night Out, have a DVD coming out entitled Dude, You Gotta Stop Dancing(awesome!). The beast comes out June 27th, and the cover art and stuff you can see over here.
III: In The Eyes of Fire is the very metal-sounding name of Unearth's new album, recently completed. The band will headline a mainly-Canadian tour with the likes of All That Remains, Walls of Jericho, A Life Once Lost and more that touches down in Ottawa June 17th. As IF I'll be in TORONTO that day! Here are the rest of the shows:
June 16th Quebec City, QC - Theatre Imperial
June 17th Ottawa, ON - Babylon
June 18th Sudbury, ON - Frasier Auditorium
June 20th Winnipeg, MB - Ramada
June 22nd Regina, SK - The Distrikt
June 23rd Edmonton, AB - Reds
June 24th Calgary, AB - The Ballroom
June 26th Boise, ID - Big Easy
Smoking Popes are indeed back from a long dormancy, with a new album and tour, but Josh Caterer's in-between band Duvall are still alive technically - and two killer unreleased songs that the band played at last year's Cornerstone Festival, 'Brand New' and 'Light of Christ', are up on their myspace. For those who don't know - and I'm a recently-made Popes fan here - Duvall are very much still a Caterer project, meaning all of what made the Popes awesome is carried over. Don't sleep. And the rock-your-face-off version of 'Go Tell It On The Mountain' is pure heat.
pastepunk has been given a facelift. Looks raaaaad. And the quality of writing, reviews and opinion remain topflight, as they have for years. Far better than this trashy rag you're reading.
I've heard two of the new songs, but after reading this here, I really need to own the new Sick Of It All album Death To Tyrants.
Posted by mike at May 12, 2006 05:53 PM