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Metal News.
If you haven't already (and if by some miracle they haven't sold out by the time you read this), be sure to get your tickets for Parkway Drive's final show here for what could be quite a while. Set to leave for the UK in May, the Byron Bay band will be doing a licensed all-ages show at Fowler's Live on Thurs 27 April with support from Her Nightmare, Jungle Fever and Stronghold. Tix available at dB Magazine.
The line-up for this month's installment of the War Room has at last been finalised: Melbourne band The Eternal unfortunately had to withdraw due to other touring commitments, so the event will feature an all-local line-up in the form of Raven Black Night, Chalice and Quasar. The show will be held at the Enigma Bar on Fri 28 April. In other news relating to two of the bands on the bill, Quasar have just finished recording their debut full-length album, while Raven Black Night will be playing at the Evil Invaders Festival in Melbourne (along with fellow locals Star Gazer, Darklord and Beyond Mortal Dreams) at the Green Room on Fri 2 June and Sat 3 June.
Metal fans will be spoilt for choice on Sat 29 April with four metal shows on the one night. First up, locals Los Diablos and the Guantanamo Bay City Rollers are at the Crown & Anchor. Secondly, the Underground is featuring A Red Dawn, Officer Down, Obdurate Seduction, Deafening Silence and Lotosoma (doors at 7pm). Thirdly, Murder Hill (who played at Australia's only open-air metal festival, Metalstock, in Scone, NSW, over the Easter long weekend) will be doing their first local gig for the year at the Avalon Gallery (66 Hindley St) with Sydney's Beyond Terror Beyond Grace and locals Whoregasm and Pigsteerer. Finally, Washington DC hardcore/metal crossover act Darkest Hour play a licensed all-ages show at Fowler's Live with The Rivalry and Jonestown Syndicate.
With a new guitarist now on board, local band Diatribe will be doing a show (their first since November) at the Bridgeway Hotel on Sat 6 May. The group will be playing for over an hour, and for this one night only their set will include covers of some of their favourite songs. Joining them on stage will be Enemy Of?, Deafening Silence, new band Dead Hours and Splyne. The show will be licensed all-ages.
Also on Sat 6 May, fellow locals A Thousand Nightmares will be launching their official clothing line (and hopefully an EP) at Fowlers Live. A Thousand Nightmares will be selling their clothing range through Sedate Clothing Adelaide ("supporting local punk, hardcore and metalcore").
The latest 'Underearthed' (an annual metal compilation put out by Sydney's 2ZZZ) is out now in the form of 'Underearthed IV'. Priced at only $15 and featuring over thirty bands, the compilation is a nice, inexpensive way to check out some of the abundant metal talent that this country has to offer. Bands appearing on this one include Rather Be Dead, Beyond Terror Beyond Grace, Synthetic Breed, Bludgeoner and Head Hammer, as well as locals Meat Wallet and Murder Hill. On the subjects of new releases and Murder Hill, this band will very shortly be putting out their debut album, 'Forest Of The Eternal Slaughter'.
Again on the subject of new releases, local band Virgin Black are planning to put out three albums simultaneously this year. Produced in collaboration with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and linked through recurring musical themes and artistic motifs (but with each capable of standing on its own at the same time), the three albums ('Requiem - pianissimo', 'Requiem - mezzo forte' and 'Requiem - fortissimo') have been summed up as "a grandiloquent two and a half hour Requiem Mass with three stages of evolution". More details on this ambitious project as I get them.
JAMES BRAZEL
Sling that metal news to brazel@iprimus.com.au.
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