Even though it’s not officially announced, a date for Bleeding Through’s US farewell tour has leaked out. The tour features Winds of Plague, Oceano, and Gideon. The leaked date/venue can be seen below
Day: Friday, November 1, 2013
Door Time: 6:00 PM
Location: The Summit Music Hall - 1902 Blake St., Denver, CO.
Age: All Ages
Advance Ticket Price: $15
Day Of Show Price: $18
Tickets On Sale Starting: Aug 30, 10:00 AM
Metal juggernauts DEMON HUNTER are excited to announce their summer tour plans just a few short weeks after the impressive debut of their mammoth new album, True Defiance.
European Tour with DEADLOCK, NIGHTRAGE and INSENSE:
April 30 Kouvola, Finland @ Vappugospel *
May 1 Stuttgart, Germany @ Universum
May 2 Luzern, Switzerland @ Schüür
May 3 Bochum, Germany @ Matrix
May 4 Brussels, Belgium @ Magasin 4
May 5 London, UK @ O2 Islington Academy2
* Just DEMON HUNTER
SCREAM THE PRAYER (Headlining Following Dates):
June 22 - Nashville PA @ Rockettown
June 23 - Douglasville, GA @ The 7 Venue
June 24 - Jacksonville FL @ Murray Hill Tavern
June 26 - Charlotte NC @ Amos Southend
June 27 - Richmond VA @ Kingdom
June 28 - Baltimore MD @ Sonar
June 29 - Shirleysburg PA @ Creationfest Northeast
June 30 - Dayton OH @ The Attic Club
July 1 - Joliet IL @ Mojoe’s
THE TRUE DEFIANCE TOUR:
July 26 - Portland OR @ Hawthorne Theater
July 27 - Sacramento CA @ Ace of Spades
July 28 - SoCal @ TBD
July 29 - Phoenix AZ @ Marquee
July 30 - Albequerque NM @ Sunshine Theater
July 31 - Dallas TX @ The Door
Aug 1 - Houston TX @ Warehouse
Aug 2 - Midland TX @ Rock The Desert
Aug 3 - Denver CA @ Summit
Aug 4 - Salt Lake City UT @ Complex
Aug 5 - Boise ID @ Knitting Factory
Bleeding Through put out a new record in January and proved they still have what it takes to create a great metal album. I emailed vocalist Brandan and discussed his gym, Rise Above Fitness, his long career in the band, and his side project, I Am War.
State your name and role in the band please.
Brandan Schieppati. I sing…. well kinda
Tell us how Rise Above Fitness got started
I’ve always taking fitness very serious. As I started to age I started not being in the dame shape that I was in before ever with working out. Basically I was just going through the motions cause I wasn’t educated on how to break through plateaus. So I starting seeing a trainer and eventually became his intern and I realized that I had a place in the fitness world and that was to educate and train people seeking all fitness goals. So I became a trainer in 2009 and quickly built up my clientele and now I opened my own gym and things couldn’t be better!
How is your style of training different from a conventional gym or aerobics class?
I use the basis of Metabolic Circuit training. It’s basically a high intensity workout incorporating functional movements. Olympic lifts as well as Strength and Conditioning all wrapped into one. In the end, you have an hour long work out that gets everything you need without wasting away at the gym. If you are in the gym longer than an hour and a half, you are just there to make friends.
Have you ever thought about making fitness DVDs in your free time?
One is indeed in the works. I start production this week.
Is it hard to find time to work out on the road in between shows?
Hell no. Just takes the will power to execute. In my DVD, I will show people that you don’t even need weights or a big space to spike your metabolism and get a workout in.
What do you feel has contributed to your long career as a band? Bands like Thrice and Thursday have recently broken up, bands that had been at it for a while.
I feel we transitioned at the right time from a full time touring band to what we are now which is a very active band but have other things in our life that are the focus. Like my gym. Bleeding Through is fun. Started as fun and will end as fun!
You’ve been in this band for 13 years — there have definitely been some hard times along the way; have you ever considered quitting the band, and if so, what things encouraged you to stick with it?
I have thought about it when it became a business. We made a good living of the business of music for a while and still do ok but we just had to switch that focus to what was important and that was to play and write this music cause we love it and not worry about the industry or what people say and think. We are a family and BT breaking up would be like a family breaking up and we don’t have a reason to. Plus people still for some reason care about this band a lot. I think it is because we are consistent and not trendy!
When appealing to different sets of fan bases, new and old, young and old, what is the thought process when trying to write something that has an appeal to both, but also embodies what Bleeding Through is?
We just write that way we feel. I know that is may be bad to say that we don’t care about opinion and we do care to an extent but we really just write to the emotional level that us as individuals are feeling and that translates onto the record.
There’s a instrumental track on Declaration that’s been my favorite for a while; Finis Fatalis Spei. Could you give us the background on the making of this track? I know you sampled a quote from 300 on it.
That is all Marta on that one!
How has it been with the label for you guys? A lot of bands have been saying very positive things about the label, but some bands have also spoken negatively of it. Craig himself is very outspoken. How has it been working with Rise for you guys?
I love Rise. Craig is a good guy and a fan of music; straight forward and honest. They let us be ourselves which is good for a 13 year band that isn’t going to change for anyone. hahaha
Do you have complete creative control since you’ve been around longer than most bands on the label?
See above. Ha yeah they let us do as we wish!
Can you give us an update on I Am War? (side project with Alex from Atreyu)
Music is done. Finishing up vocals and mixing soon. I fucking love the sound so far and I think it is going to take people by surprise.
Last question: what are one book and one band you’d recommend to anyone that listens to Bleeding Through?
Book= Never Die Easy. It’s about Walter Payton, my childhood idol. Band= Entombed! Enough said!
BLEEDING THROUGH is back with their 6th full length entitled “THE GREAT FIRE” which hits stores January 31st. Already at legacy status years ago, BT continues where they’ve always been: fast and heavy. Their no bullsh*t approach has always been appreciated by fans and critics. Never succumbing to trends or gimmicks, Bleeding Through will always be true to the underground metal scene. Listen to “Faith in Fire” here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LoxCwXMqqE .
Track list:
1. The March
2. Faith In Fire
3. Goodbye To Death
4. Final Hours
5. Starving Vultures
6. Everything You love Is Gone
7. Walking Dead
8. The Devil And Self Doubt
9. Step Back In Line
10. Trail of Seclusion
11. Deaf Ears
12. One By One
13. Entrenched
14. Back To Life
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Thomas, the guitarist of Stray From The Path (one of the best hardcore bands on the scene) talked with Kill The Music to discuss their new music video, his view on the current music scene, and his thoughts on Warped Tour.
You guys just filmed a music video; any hints as to what song it is? Is it one of the three songs with guest vocalists?
Tom: It is one of the 3 songs on the record that has a guest appearance, and yes they will be in the video. That’s all I’ll say!
What is your opinion on the current state of the music scene?
That’s a difficult question. I usually judge it by “am I mad all the time or stoked?” lately I’m stoked. This week alone lots of great records coming out, lots of great tour packages together and I didn’t re-new my alternative press subscription, so I’m not as angry. A lot of people have bought our new record, more than we expected, so I’m stoked on music and the people.
Growing up, how was the scene back home in Long Island?
Growing Up? Phenomenal. Local bands would sell out shows, and the bands were so good. Any tours that came into town were in small clubs….I saw Norma Jean, Bleeding Through and Every Time I Die in a fucking garage. I saw American Nightmare and Poison the Well in a cafe! Shit ruled…but it is coming back, for awhile long island was AWFUL, but now it’s really great.
Would you guys play Warped Tour if you got offered a spot even though you’d be out of your element surrounded by bands like the ones in iMember?
We are trying very hard to get Warped Tour. The kids that like these bands, like them because the scene that they know are the Warped Tour bands. We want to infiltrate and show kids that there is more out there than characters, gimmicks and Black Veil Brides. Our element is where the people are, we want to tour with everything, from underoath to terror, we have no restrictions, just as long as we feel we have a purpose on the stage.
Who are a few bands that you feel everyone should be listening and/or not listening to right now? Like say, the bands you call out in iMember…
Should be? Structures new record is amazing, Counterparts new record is amazing, Backtrack, Close your Eyes, Sights and Sounds, The Contortionist.
Shouldn’t? Do I have enough space? Haha..no there is a fine line between calling out and shit talking…and shit talking is juvenile….so I’ll leave it at that. You know the bands that suck, fake, weak, full of gimmicks, characters…it’s endless. But one thing we want to avoid is judging the people that actually enjoy that music. We aren’t elitists, and it would make us dick suckers to make fun of someone because of what they listen too. We just want to open their eyes and ears and show them our opinion that they are being deceived, lied to, and in a sense…stolen from. A lot of our fans listen to Asking Alexandria or Attack Attack just as much as Deftones or terror….last thing we want is to make them feel like we are making fun of them.
Is iMember aimed at any bands on your record label? (Sumerian)
The song was not aimed at anybody specific…not even Attack Attack. We used that clip because it is evidence that these people in these bands don’t have a single clue of what this scene is about. The bands are everywhere .
