Young Turks Announce Fall Tour Dates

Portland, OR’s YOUNG TURKS have announced dates for their upcoming US tour. The band will be hitting the road beginning Oct 12 and will make their second appearance at THE FEST in Gainesville, FL on 10/26-10/28.

10/12 - Spokane, WA @ Carr’s Corner

10/13 - Missoula, MT @ Ole Beck VFW Post 209

10/14 - Fargo, ND @ New Direction

10/15 - Des Moines, IA

10/16 - Madison, WI

10/17 - Chicago, IL @ Ultra Lounge

10/18 - Toledo, OH

10/19 - New York, NY

10/20 - New Britain, CT @ Horse’s Mouth

10/21 - Philadelphia, PA @ Mount Thrashmore

10/22 - Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space

10/23 - North Carolina

10/24 - Atlanta, GA

10/26-10/28 - Gainesville, FL @ FEST 11

10/30 - Pensacola, FL

10/31 - New Orleans, LA

11/1 - Houston, TX @ Mango’s

11/2 - Austin, TX @ Annex at 1808

11/3 - Ft Worth, TX @ 1919 Hemphill

11/5 - Albuquerque, NM @ Gasworks

11/6 - Denver, CO @ 7th Circle

11/7 - Salt Lake City, UT

11/8 - Boise, ID @ B7B Studio

If you can help with shows in any of the areas without venues listed, please contact reed@animalstylerecords.com.

Madness Announce New Studio Album

UK ska and pop legends MADNESS have today announced details of their 10th studio album “Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da,” which will be released on October 30th, 2012. The band is also delighted to announce that the artwork for the album has been designed by the legendary British artist Sir Peter Blake. The first single, “My Girl 2” will be serviced to radio shortly.

“Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da” sees the band team up with a number of new producers, the first time in their illustrious career they have decided to do so, to create an album of incredible pop songs. Fans have already been given a taste of what is to come from the album with track “Death Of A Rude Boy” which was made available as a free download from their official site in August.

It has been an incredibly busy summer for the band; playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace, a number of high profile festivals and to millions of people at the London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony. It has also been confirmed that they will appear at the iTunes Festival on September 27th.

My Girl 2
Never Knew Your Name
La Luna
How Can I Tell You
Kitchen Floor
Misery
Leon
Circus Freaks
So Alive
Small World
Death of A Rude Boy

Bonus Tracks
Powder Blue
Black and Blue
My Girl 2

LEOGUN Release New Single & Video for "Let's Be Friends"

British rock trio Leogun has partnered with Yamaha Entertainment Group to release their self-titled debut EP on October 16. The 4-song EP comes in advance of a full-length album due in early 2013 and marks the first-ever release on Yamaha’s newly launched record label.

MTV has premiered the music video for the band’s first single “Let’s Be Friends,” which you can check out here: http://on.mtv.com/Q1O3T8. Similarly, MSN Music’s Reverb blog proclaims “sometimes it’s just a good, cleansing blast for the ears to hear some straight-up rock,” saying that the song “could be a Led Zeppelin outtake.”

 Feel free to stream & share “Let’s Be Friends” online:

http://soundcloud.com/leogun/lets-be-friends

 The collaboration between Leogun and Yamaha came in part through the latter’s two-decade relationship with Elton John, whose management company (Rocket Entertainment Group) also works with Leogun. In early 2012, Yamaha Entertainment Group’s founder Chris Gero heard the band and immediately signed them as the flagship act for the label. “It’s brilliant,” enthuses front-man Tommy Smith. “Everything is so fresh. The label is just as excited as we are. We’re not just another artist at the bottom of a massively long list on a giant roster. We’re their first signing, and they’ve got as much vested in us as we do in them. We’re all moving in the same direction. It’s like being part of a crew on a ship.”

Gero and Grammy Award-winning engineer Bryan Lennox brought the band to the iconic Blackbird Studios in Nashville where everyone from Kings of Leon to The White Stripes have recorded. Instead of using digital tools such as Pro Tools, they recorded straight to analog, distilling gritty rock, swaggering blues, and haunting soul into anthemic and artful songs.

Leogun is guitarist/vocalist Tommy Smith, bassist Matt Johnson and drummer Mike Lloyd.

You can grab the new Leogun single “Let’s Be Friends” right now on iTunes.

MORBID ANGEL: Kick off North American tour

The legendary MORBID ANGEL has kicked off a month long North American tour.

Support on the trek comes from Sweden’s DARK FUNERAL and GRAVE. The headlining tour, the band’s first in six and half years, runs through October 21^st in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Iconic frontman David Vincent added about the band’s set list: “We are playing many songs [on this tour] from ‘Altars of Madness’ and ‘Covenant’. We have put together a set list that highlights the diversity of the first four classic MORBID ANGEL albums in a way that celebrates the paradigm shifting creativity that has defined Extreme Music for decades.”

MORBID ANGEL-DARK FUNERAL-GRAVE-VADIM ON (SELECT DATES *)

SEPTEMBER 

21 Atlanta, GA --- The Masquerade * 22 Louisvlle, KY --- Headliners * 23 Columbus, OH --- Screaming Willies * 24 Washington D.C. --- Howard Theater * 26 NYC, NY --- BB Kings * 27 Pittsburgh, PA --- Altar Bar * 28 Philladelphia, PA --- Trocadero * 29 Worcester, MA --- Palladium * 30 Montreal, QUE CANADA --- Club Soda *

 OCTOBER 1 Toronto, ONT CANADA --- Opera House * 2 Cleveland, OH --- Peabodys 4 Chicago, IL --- Mojoes 5 Minneapolis, MN --- Station 4 6 Des Moines, IA --- Peoples Court 7 Denver, CO --- Gothic Theater 8 Salt Lake City, UT --- The Grand 10 Seattle, WA --- El Corazon 11 Portland, OR --- Hawthorne Theater 12 San Francisco, CA --- Slims 13 Sacramento, CA --- Ace of Spades 14 Anaheim, CA --- The Grove 15 Phoenix, AZ --- Marquee 17 Dallas, TX --- Trees 18 Houston, TX --- Scout Bar 19 San Antonio, TX --- Backstage Live 21 St Petersburg, FL----State Theater ** Morbid Angel only w local support

Ill Nino Expose “the Depression” Lyric Video

ILL NINO has released a lyric video for their new single “The Depression” from their forthcoming coming album EPIDEMIA, out October 22^nd.  Watch the lyric video here and spread the madness.

"Twelve years and five studio releases later, EPIDEMIA has all the harsh elements and dark Latin rhythms that make ILL NINO’s Latin metal sound different in this genre of metal”, drummer and founding member Dave Chavarri said of the upcoming release. The band’s sixth full length album is infused with contagious and aggressive lyrics along with sharp melodies that will pierce through your ears. Pre-order the album here now.

ILL NINO is currently touring alongside friends STATIC X and label-mates EMMURE on the Noise Revolution Tour. The tour goes through the end of October destroying cities and igniting audiences across the US.  Vocalist Cristian Mercado comments, “ILL NINO fans get ready to rumble! We’re back and are going to be tearing the roof off at venue near you!” See a full list of tour dates here. 

The Bunny The Bear Release Video Update, Tour Dates

Electronic infused, hardcore band THE BUNNY THE BEAR is back, bringing more action and antics to a city near you!  Starting October 19^th in Englewood, Colorado the band will be supporting BROKENCYDE and NATHAN RYAN on a four week tour throughout the Midwest and East Coast. Watch The Bunny, Matt Tybor’s September video update and prepare to hear some stimulating new music. 

THE BUNNY THE BEAR have been touring relentlessly since the release of their sophomore Victory Records’ album The Stomach For It on May 22^nd .The band has enjoyed the opportunity to tour throughout the US, Canada and Europe and have shared the stage with FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND,  OF MICE & MEN, I WRESTLED A BEAR ONCE, MODERN DAY ESCAPE, DANCE GAVIN DANCE , label-mates DR. ACULA and many more!  Watch their latest music video “Lonely” here and get a glimpse of what to expect when you see their colorful performance LIVE. Stay tuned for more dates to be announced here.

Tour Dates w/ BROKENCYDE, NATHAN RYAN:

10/19- Englewood, CO @ Moe’s

10/20 Lincoln, NE @ Knickerbocker’s

10/22- St. Paul, MN @ Station 4

10/23- Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews

10/24- Peoria, IL @ The Brass Rail

10/25- Joliet, IL @ Mojoe’s

10/26- Columbus, OH @ Screamin’ Willie’s

10/27- Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s

10/28- Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock

10/29- New York, NY @ Webster Hall

10/30- Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place

11/01- Trenton, NJ @ Championships

11/02- Richmond, VA @ Empire

11/03- Pittsburgh, PA @ The Ironworks

11/04- Towson, MD @ Recher Theater

11/05- Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall

11/06- Jacksonville, NC @ Hooligans

11/07- Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade

11/08- Louisville, KY @ The Vernon Club

11/09- St. Louis, MO @ Fubar

11/11- Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater

11/13 McAllen, TX @ Geo’s

11/14 Houston, TX @ Scout Bar

11/15 San Antonio, TX @ The Backstage Live

Classic Bands and Why We Love Them: Nothingface

This week’s “Classic Bands and Why We Love Them” contribution is from Josh Travis of Glass Cloud.

One of the most influential bands for me still to this date is a band I grew up on called Nothingface. I think I first heard these dudes back in 1998, just before they released the record: An Audio Guide To Everyday Atrocity. I remember watching them and wondering how the hell the guitarist was down stroking damn near everything he was playing…it was absurd. They played so well together, they were like a perfectly put together well oiled machine. Lyrically, sometimes it even got scary lol I seriously listen to them to this day. There’s a track on the record Pacifier called “Perfect Person”, I want to cover that song sooooo bad, but I don’t want to flip it or change it at all, and that seems to be the big thing with covers now is changing them? F that…I just want to cover this song as is…it’s so brutal to me. Then Violence???? seriously…that record is still mind blowing to me. It’s like a metal band that’s not your typical kind of metal. These dudes were killing before there were ”breakdowns”…I still take notes from their records ;)

Review: Defiler - Nematocera

Defiler - Nematocera
Record Label: Razor & Tie
Release Date: October 9th, 2012

"I wanna see you cry, bitch!" For most of us, that was the introduction to the California four-piece lifecore band, Defiler. The band (who recently signed to Razor & Tie) is led by 19 year old front man Jake Pelzl and is rounded out by Ethan Lewis (guitar), Ian Poole (drums) and Jesse Dhaliwal (bass). From the first track "Lucky 38", it’s easy to see that Jake’s vocals have vastly improved from their debut record Pangaea. The musicianship has gotten better this time around as well; less chugging and more melody. Sure, there’s a breakdown here and there but they’re not as prevalent as they were on Pangaea.The inclusion of clean vocals (mostly as backup singing) are nice touch and stand out on a few tracks such as "Movin’ On Up The Nation’s Chain", and "Nuclear Anomaly".

It’s worth noting the band self-produced the record with mixing duties handled by Chris “Zeuss” Harris (Suicide Silence, Chelsea Grin, The Acacia Strain); definitely a step up from the production on Pangaea. A few of the more prominent tracks on the record would be the crushing song, “Octobortion” (featuring Frankie Palmeri of Emmure) and “Walk In The Glow” (the single to which they’re making a video for). Jake describes the latter as “…heavy, pummeling verses with the melancholy, harmonized leads under it - the technical bridge with crazy guitar patterns - and the melodic choruses.” All in all, this is a great record for fans of the deathcore genre. If you want something heavy to listen to while throw down with your bros, this is the record for you.

8.5/10

- Jordan

Namesake Release Acoustic Video for The Movement

Namesake have just released an acoustic version of their new single, “The Movement,” the latest track from their debut album, Borders & Fences. The original version of the track serves as the follow-up to lead-off single, “Worlds Away,” and is streaming in full on SoundCloud. Their entire album was produced by James Paul Wisner (New Found Glory, Dashboard Confessional, Paramore) and is available now on iTunes.

For more of the latest on the band, head to their official pages at Facebook and Twitter.

Ghost Adventures' Zak Bagans and Lords of Acid's Praga Khan Announce New Album

Zak Bagans, host of Travel Channel’s popular paranormal series Ghost Adventures, has joined forces with Lords of Acid’s Praga Khan for one of the most intriguing music releases ever produced, NecroFusion, due out October 23, just in time for Halloween.

Each one of the eleven tracks on NecroFusion not only tells the story of a departed soul who, for whatever reason, has not crossed over, but includes an actual audio message from the spirit – “electronic voice phenomena,” or EVP. Armed with his SB7 Spirit Box, a recording device well-known by devotees of the “Ghost Adventures” series, Bagans has encountered inhabitants of the spirit world during his paranormal investigations, reached out to communicate with and question them, and then, when a spirit chose to communicate, he recorded the spirits’ EVPs.

For NecroFusion, Bagans worked closely with Praga Khan, a legendary pioneer of post-industrial-electronic dance music. The two structured every song around a specific incident when Bagans had a ghostly encounter, and worked to have the music and lyrics reflect the tone of the spirits’ voices. Bagans wrote the lyrics and provided the earthbound spoken word/vocals for the tracks, while Khan wrote and recorded the music at his Brussels studio between mid-2011 and early summer 2012. 

“For me,” said Bagans, “spirit communication is the most powerful communication I’ve ever encountered. The most powerful messages are delivered through music, and music truly influences the way you feel, it stimulates the emotional memories of your life. With NecroFusion, we’ve blended together these two powerful forms of communication – spirit and music. And the earthbound spirits have a lot to say.”

“Spirits want to be heard, that’s why they’re not at rest.” added Bagans. “They want to be heard.”

For more about Zak and NecroFusion, visit his official site at zakbagans.com.