Photos of Behemoth at Knotfest Roadshow. All photos taken by Luke Spencer on August 20th, 2019 in St. Louis, MO.
Behemoth is a spectacle. A dark, sacrilegious spectacle on a foundation of death metal. This darkness came from Poland to light a fire at the start of Knotfest Roadshow at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in St. Louis, MO.
Where a band like Ghost is more “Spirit of Halloween” style of Satanism, Behemoth is the band that will take Biblical characters and sing vulgarities about them. It’s a stark difference that is not for the faint of heart or easily offended.
Behemoth started out their set heavy and the show only ramped up through “Daimonos” and “Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer” while pyro and blood flew on stage. Nergal’s deep voice echoed through the amphitheater and the heavy bass resonated with the pit attendees. It was dooming, loud, and amazing to watch.
Setlist: Wolves ov Siberia Daimonos Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer Bartzabel Conquer All Sabbath Mater Chant for Eschaton 2000
The band is currently promoting their latest album I Loved You At Your Darkest which came out last year. Scroll below to watch the music video for “Sabbath Mater”.
You can keep up to date with Behemoth through the band’s Facebook page here: Behemoth on Facebook
Photos of Volbeat at Knotfest Roadshow. All photos taken by Luke Spencer in St. Louis, MO on August 18th, 2019.
If there’s one musician that Michael Poulsen loves, it’s Johnny Cash. He addressed the massive Knotfest Roadshow crowd with his admiration toward’s Cash as Volbeat used “Ring Of Fire” to lead into their own song “Sad Man’s Tongue”.
Two weeks ago, Volbeat released their seventh studio album Rewind, Replay, Rebound. On an extremely hot August day, hearing the band perform “Last Day Under The Sun” from the new album definitely made it feel like a summer song.
Volbeat was a good breath of fresh air at the Roadshow. Between the thundering Gojira and the always crushing Slipknot, Denmark’s rockabilly band was able to add some groove and dance to the night in the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater. It was a sweaty dance party in the St. Louis heat, but a great dance party nonetheless.
Volbeat will continue on the Knotfest Roadshow this summer and then headback to Europe on a headline tour with Baroness. You can find tour dates and more info on the band’s Facebook page here: Volbeat on Facebook
Click on any photo above to open the gallery. Scroll below to hear music from the band’s latest album Rewind, Replay, Rebound as well as a link to a video review of the album.
Photos of Slipknot at Knotfest Roadshow. All photos taken by Luke Spencer in St. Louis, MO on August 18th, 2019.
News broke over the weekend that Slipknot’s latest album We Are Not Your Kind had reached #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart. In light of this news, it was a night of celebration for metal in St. Louis. A packed Hollywood Casino Amphitheater cut loose as a high production stage filled with masked men performed for over an hour.
Knotfest Roadshow was a spectacle, topped off with an amazing set of drum pounding and screaming. Corey Taylor had the ability to incite a riot if he wanted to, but instead had everyone in unison while singing hits from years ago as well as new music from We Are Not Your Kind. At his command, Taylor had a crowd of thousands singing along.
Jim Root’s appearance underneath Clown’s platform was just one amazing visual while hearing “Unsainted”. The crowds’ chant during “Custer” no doubt startled any passing traffic outside the venue (but in a good way). This was not just a concert, it was an interactive experience with plenty to see and hear.
I’ve been to many concerts and seen dozen’s of bands at festivals perform live so far in 2019. Knotfest Roadshow was by far one of the best concerts I’ve attended. The audience was packed all the way through the lawn to the back fence and a huge chunk of St. Louis got to see something special. Here’s hoping Slipknot will make a return to St. Louis soon.
The identity of Tortilla Man is still currently unknown.
Tracklist People = Shit (sic) Get This Unsainted Before I Forget Solway Firth The Heretic Anthem Psychosocial The Devil in I Prosthetics Vermilion Custer Sulfur All Out Life Duality Spit It Out Surfacing
Slipknot are continuing on the Knotfest Roadshow through this summer and will perform at Louder Than Life and Aftershock later this year. You can find upcoming tour dates and more info on the band’s Facebook page here: Slipknot of Facebook
Highly Suspect Announce Album MCID With Two New Songs “Sixteen” and “Upper Drugs”
Highly Suspect are excited to announce their third album, MCID, with two new singles, “16” and “Upper Drugs“. The project is an adventurous new chapter for Highly Suspect and spans across rock, hip hop and pop, and includes features from Young Thug, Tee Grizzley, Gojira, and Nothing But Thieves.
MCID is based on inconceivable true life
experiences (and perceptions) narrated by frontman, Johnny
Stevens. In his own words, “The themes include self loathing, substance
abuse, image issues, addressing my past and changing my future, with a sprinkle
of anti Trump, false social media worship, heartbreak, hope, depression and
suicide. There are also a few references to the pressures of fame and how I
won’t play into it.”
The lead single, “16” is about a first love and a moment of instant heartbreak. The lyrics describe the true story of Johnny Stevens falling in love at sixteen years old, fostering a relationship for seven years, and feeling elated when she told him she was pregnant with their baby. The song describes his instant devastation the moment of the birth when he found out that the baby wasn’t his, the baby was a different race. Though a wild story, the lyrics capture the gut wrenching feeling of first love lost, betrayal, and regret.
MCID. This is the slogan tattooed on bodies across the world,
four letters that hold so much meaning, a mystery to anyone who is not in the
know. Highly Suspect members Johnny Stevens and twins Rich and Ryan Meyer had
not only been playing music for eight years before topping radio charts,
garnering Grammy nominations, and selling out tours- but they also had been
gradually accruing a cast of comrades that orbited their star, friends and
chosen family that would travel the world with them, move cross country with them,
and become pet parents with them. The growing community of companions have a
name, and it is MCID.
Originally from Cape Cod, the three band members played covers
in dive bars and moved to a studio apartment in Brooklyn together. In 2015,
they gained national recognition after the release of their debut album Mister
Asylum on 300 Entertainment and their singles “Lydia” and “Bloodfeather” topped
the rock radio charts. The next year they performed at the Grammy
Ceremony, receiving two nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song. In
2017 the band traveled to Bogota, Colombia to record their second album, The
Boy Who Died Wolf. It was released in November 2016 and the success of
hits “Little One” and “My Name Is Human,” earned the band a third Grammy
nomination for Best Rock Song.
And now the band is ready to release album three, a manifesto full of lead singer Johnny Steven’s private confessions, packed to the brim with themes of self loathing, body image issues, substance abuse, addressing his complicated past and trying to change his future. There is also a sprinkle of his outspoken anti-Trump political stance, and stories of heartbreak and hope. It’s not surprising that his most vulnerable collection of songs is addressed directly to his chosen family, his followers, and his comrades- the title of the album is MCID.
MCID is packed with surprise major hip hop features, a
collaboration with the metal band Gojira, some Swahili versus, and a lead
single, “Sixteen”, that is completely guitar free. The lyrics describe the true
story of Stevens falling in love at sixteen years old, fostering a relationship
for seven years, and feeling elated when she told him she was pregnant with
their baby. The song describes his instant devastation the moment of the birth
when he found out that the baby wasn’t his, the baby was a different race.
Though a wild story, the lyrics capture the gut wrenching feeling of first love
lost, betrayal, and regret. Other standout songs are his collaboration with
Young Thug on “Tokyo Ghoul”, and “Canals” which captures his frustration with
the Trump presidency, saying that his rage feels like “someone took a crack
pipe, lit it with a torch light, and threw it on a gas line- there is fire
everywhere”.
MCID is not just the third full length project from three guys who approach the rock genre with a hip hop ethos, but it’s a family meeting and an apology from singer Johnny Stevens whose lyrics demand accountability from himself and urge him to be more honest and to conquer the demons that made him who he is.
HIGHLY SUSPECT ACCOLADES
+ 3X Grammy Nominated band for ‘Best Rock Song’ (2X) and ‘Best Rock
Album’
+ Over 1 Million Spotify Monthly Listeners
+ Over 500K cumulative US Album sales to date and over half a billion streams
across entire catalogue
+ Over 173 Million Global Youtube Streams With over 300K Subscribers
+ Headlining US / EU tour dates confirmed for Sep – Dec 2019
+ 200,000 tickets sold and festival appearances at Coachella, Reading &
Leeds, Lollapalooza, Life Is Beautiful, Bonnaroo, and many more
+ “The Boy Who Died Wolf” debuted at #1 Alternative, #2 Rock, and #15 Overall
on the Billboard Charts
+ UK Underplay Headline @ Oslo Hackney November 27th 2019
+ The Boy Who Died Wolf debuted at #1 Alternative, #2 Rock, and #15 Overall on
the Billboard Charts
+ Praised by Kerrang, NME, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, FADER,
Wonderland, Vanity Fair, and more
PREVIOUS ALBUMS FROM HIGHLY SUSPECT 2015 – Mister Asylum featuring “Lydia” – Mister Asylum nominated for Best Rock Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards -“Lydia” nominated for Best Rock Song at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards 2016 – The Boy Who Died Wolf featuring “My Name Is Human” -“My Name Is Human” nominated for Best Rock Song at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards
Starset Drop Video For “Manifest” New Album Divisions Out September 13
Visionary media collective STARSET have carved out a unique path as part cinematic rock band, part conceptual storytellers, weaving an intricate narrative through multimedia and redefining the concept of a truly immersive entertainment experience. Led by enigmatic frontman and PhD candidate Dustin Bates, the band have made a mission to take fans on a journey through music, video, AR-integrated performances, a Marvel graphic novel, and online experiences, blurring the lines of science, fact, and fiction.
The band just dropped its latest visual communication in the
form of the “MANIFEST” video. Watch it here.
Starset’s third album DIVISIONS provides the soundtrack to the next chapter of their overarching narrative — one of a dystopian future world divided by the technology that has taken over in a war for human consciousness — those obeying and implementing it, and those fighting against it. Clues have been left behind by The Starset Society through a series of transmissions of what will occur in the future. These have been seeded throughout the campaign for fans to find and for them to become part of the story itself in a search for knowledge and to reveal new music.
DIVISIONS arrives on September 13.
DIVISIONS TRACK LISTING: “A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE” “MANIFEST” “ECHO” “WHERE THE SKIES END” “PERFECT MACHINE” “TELEKINETIC” “STRATOSPHERE” “FAULTLINE” “SOLSTICE” “TRIALS” “WAKING UP” “OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE” “DIVING BELL”
STARSET ON TOUR: 9/13 — Cincinnati, OH — Bogart’s 9/15 — Reading, PA — Reverb 9/17 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore 9/18 — Norfolk, VA — The NorVA 9/20 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore 9/22 — Atlanta, GA — Buckhead Theatre 9/24 — Baton Rouge, LA — Varsity Theatre 9/25 — Houston, TX — House of Blues 9/28 — Dallas, TX — Canton Hall 9/29 — Oklahoma City, OK — Diamond Ballroom 10/1 — Phoenix, AZ — The Pressroom 10/2 — Los Angeles, CA — The Regent 10/4 — San Francisco, CA — The Regency Ballroom 10/5 — Sacramento, CA — Ace Of Spades 10/7 — San Diego, CA — House of Blues 10/8 — Ventura, CA — The Majestic Ventura Theater 10/13 — Seattle, WA — Neptune Theatre 10/14 — Boise, ID — Knitting Factory 10/16 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex 10/17 — Denver, CO — Summit 10/20 — Minneapolis, MN — Varsity Theater 10/21 — Chicago, IL — House of Blues 10/24 — Philadelphia, PA — TLA 10/25 — New York, NY — The Gramercy Theatre 10/26 — Hartford, CT — The Webster 10/27 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club
Aftershock 2019 Announces Onsite Entertainment & Unique Food For California’s Biggest Rock Festival Expanding To Three Days, October 11, 12 & 13 At Sacramento’s Discovery Park
Massive Lineup Features Tool, Slipknot, blink-182, Korn, Rob Zombie, Staind, & Many More
Tickets On Sale Now
With just two months to go until the return of Aftershock at Sacramento’s Discovery Park, festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents have announced additional onsite entertainment and unique food offerings for the eighth year of California’s biggest rock festival.
After welcoming a sold-out crowd of 60,000 people in 2018, Aftershock returns even bigger this year, expanding to three full days, October 11, 12 & 13, with performances from some of the most popular music acts, including a mix of chart-topping headliners and up-and-coming buzzworthy bands across the rock spectrum performing on three stages: Monster Energy Main Stage, Kolas Discovery Stage and the Coors Light Capital Stage.
The lineup features Tool, Slipknot, blink-182, Korn, Rob Zombie and the return of Staind after a 5-year hiatus. Additional acts include Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, Marilyn Manson, Lamb of God, Halestorm, Dropkick Murphys, BABYMETAL, Bad Religion, Stone Temple Pilots, and many more, including the recently-added Poppy.
Visit www.AftershockFestival.com for the full lineup and to secure tickets. For the first time at Aftershock, Danny Wimmer Presents is proud to feature a collaboration with Metallica’s Blackened Whiskey and Enter Night Pilsner. Blackened, a super-premium American whiskey blend, crafted by the late Master Distiller Dave Pickerell and finished in the earth shattering music of Metallica, and Enter Night Pilsner, a collaboration with the rockstars of craft brewing Stone Brewing Company, will come together under one roof to offer guests a one-of-a-kind musical festival experience. The BoilerMaker pop-up will feature a Blackened & Enter Night Boilermaker, as well as craft cocktails and ice-cold Enter Night Pilsner. This exciting collaboration marks the latest in a long line of amplified guest experiences only available through Danny Wimmer Presents music festivals.
In addition to performances from top music artists, attendees at this year’s Aftershock can enjoy a variety of local and regional food and beverage offerings provided by DWP’s affiliate concessionaire, Southern Hospitality Concessions LLC. Fan favorites like Spicy Pie Pizza, Island Noodles and Phat Daddy’s Creole will be available, as well as selections from local spots including Florez Bar and Grill, Pica Pica Arepas, Gerard’s Paella and some of the best BBQ in town from Buckhorn BBQ and Big Joe’s. Sacramento’s thriving food truck scene will also be rolling up to the festival grounds with delectable dishes from Baconmania, Dogtown, Drewski’s Hot Rod Sandwiches, La Mex Taqueria, Hefty Gyros and Cousins Maine Lobster.
Aftershock guests 21 and above can refresh with the Rockies’ coldest beer, Coors Light. Other malt beverage options include Blue Moon, Hop Valley, Henry’s Hard Sparkling Water and more. VIP patrons can enjoy upgraded cocktails and spirit options including Don Julio Tequila and can relax in the Thunder Valley Casino Resort VIP Lounge.
Aftershock sponsors include Ace of Spades/Punchline, Art is War Records, Blackcraft Cult, Bulleit Bourbon, Captain Morgan Spiced Rum, Deep Eddy Vodka, Don Julio Tequila, Fearless Records, Fxck Cancer, Heavy Grass, Henry’s Hard Sparkling Water, Kolas, Coors Light, Hop Valley, Monster Energy, Roadrunner Records, The Stash, Thunder Valley Casino Resort and Zippo.
Danny Wimmer Presents is proud to team up with Calling All Crows’ Here For The Music campaign to prevent sexual violence at live music events. Specifically, the Calling All Crows team will provide prevention training to staff and volunteers leading up to Aftershock and will educate attendees on how to promote community safety through outreach onsite and messaging from each festival. Calling All Crows, founded by musician Chadwick Stokes and tour manager Sybil Gallagher in 2008, partners with musicians and fans to create change for women through direct service and activism. Through their Here For The Music campaign, they have partnered with 60+ venues, artists, and festivals to train 1500+ music professionals and fans, educate 10,000+ fans through outreach efforts, and consult on 10+ policies. For more information, visit: www.callingallcrows.org/hereforthemusic
Discovery Park is located at 1600 Garden Highway in Sacramento. Festival doors open at 12:00 PM Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12 and 11:30 AM on Sunday, October 13.
Aftershock is again offering a Park & Ride shuttle program, as parking at Discovery Park is extremely limited. Each Park & Ride ticket includes parking at Sleep Train Arena and a non-stop shuttle directly to and from the festival site each day. Festivalgoers are encouraged to carpool to Sleep Train Arena and enjoy this convenient way to get to Aftershock. For all pricing and more details, visit www.AftershockFestival.com.
Aftershock is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America. Additional DWP events include Bourbon & Beyond, Chicago Open Air, Epicenter Festival, Hometown Rising, Louder Than Life, Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, and Welcome To Rockville.
TOOL Release Tracklist And Details For 2019’s Fear Inoculum
After what seems like an eternity, we will finally be hearing new music from TOOL at the end of this month. The band has played some of the new music live such as jam session songs like “Invincible” and “Descending”, while the title track “Fear Inoculum” has broken the Billboard Hot 100. That is quite the feat, making the title track the longest song to ever break onto Billboard’s popular chart.
TOOL – “Fear Inoculum”
The physical and digital versions of the album will vary slightly as the digital album breaks some of the tracks down. Fear Inoculum revolves around the concept of seven, with the physical version having seven tracks ending with the mammoth song “7empest”.
Digital: 1) Fear Inoculum 2) Pneuma 3) Litanie contre la Peur 4) Invincible 5) Legion Inoculant 6) Descending 7) Culling Voices 8) Chocolate Chip Trip 9) 7empest 10) Mockingbeat
You can pre-order Fear Inoculum on the band’s website by clicking here. TOOL will also be performing at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, CA this October. It’s 2019, and the universe has finally aligned to give us more from a band we’ve been waiting impatiently for.
Mr. Bungle Performs The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny In Trio Of February Shows
Scott Ian And Dave Lombardo Join Trevor Dunn,
Mike Patton & Trey Spruance For First
Mr. Bungle Performances In 20 Years
“Mr. Bungle will probably have a battle getting booked into mainstream clubs.” – Susan Nowak for The Times-Standard (Eureka, Calif.), Oct. 23, 1986
Mr. Bungle performs The Raging Wrath Of The Easter
Bunny, the Eureka-born band’s 1986 self-produced/released demo, in a trio
of February shows: Feb. 7 at the Fonda Theatre (Los Angeles), Feb. 8 at the
Warfield Theatre (San Francisco) and Feb. 10 at Brooklyn Steel (New York City).
The dates mark both the first time Mr. Bungle has performed in close to 20
years and the first time these songs have been played live in over 30 years.
Original Mr. Bungle members Trevor Dunn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance will be joined by Scott Ian (Anthrax, S.O.D.) and Dave Lombardo (Dead Cross, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies) for what is sure to be one of the most talked about musical moments of 2020.
Mr. Bungle plays The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny: February 7 Los Angeles, CA Fonda Theatre February 8 San Francisco, CA Warfield Theatre February 10 New York, NY Brooklyn Steel
Tickets are on-sale this Friday, Aug. 16 at 10 am local
time. There will be no additional cities added to this itinerary
Mr. Bungle plays The Raging Wrath Of The Easter
Bunny featuring Scott Ian and Dave Lombardo in their own words:
“Ever since Trevor hatched The Raging Wrath of the
Easter Bunny v.2 idea a few years back, Patton, Lombardo, he and I had
each been incubating some idea of that egg. Lombardo called me one day and
asked me to make some guitar demos so he could learn the songs. He had this generous
idea to surprise the other guys with being totally ready to go with the tunes.
It just so happened that I was in Eureka at the time. So, I found myself
re-visiting all of those riffs in the same goddamned town and in the
same goddamned house where I recorded all the original guitars on that
demo 33 years earlier. There was something about actually physically working
out the mania of those riffs again at DAVE LOMBARDO’S request, in that
environment — it just split my head open. It wasn’t long before the train of
destiny had picked up too much speed for any of us to jump off.” – Trey
Spruance
“When we recorded that demo, we were 16 and 17 years old and
we were absolutely serious about the music. At the time, we were living the
deluge of ’80s metal and absorbing every riff and every drum fill from every
known band from Denmark to San Francisco. The recording and playing were
amateurish (save for Trey’s video-game-solos) but the schooled composition and
spirit were solid. I always felt like this music held its own and deserved to
be presented in a clearer and more defined package even if it meant being 33
years later.” – Trevor Dunn
“I remember writing riffs for this cassette in my parent’s
garage, with no heat, so I recorded in a sleeping bag for analog warmth,
playing a one-stringed acoustic guitar that was piped into a ghetto blaster.
Thank god I had Trevor and Trey to help decipher my rotten riffs into something
intelligible!” – Mike Patton
“When Mike hit me up about this my brain thought he was
asking me if I wanted to come to a show, him knowing I am a HUGE Bungle fan.
When I realized he actually meant for me to play guitar with them it broke my
brain, I was a giggly drooling mess. Somehow I pecked out Y E S on my keyboard
and holy crap I’m playing in Mr. Bungle. Seriously, it’s an honor and a
privilege to get to play with my favorite ‘Mr.’ band of all time.” – Scott Ian
“I don’t know what was in the water in Eureka California,
but it certainly wasn’t clean. This is going to be a ridiculously, insane band
to play with and I am honored to have been asked to join the wrath.” – Dave
Lombardo
The idea that Dunn, Patton and Spruance will be joined by
their early musical heroes is not lost on the musicians:
“They are a significant percentage of ‘The Big Four’, all of
which had a major impact on us. Aside from their obvious skills and –for
crying out loud, INVENTION of this genre– there’s nothing like being in a band
with those whom which you have rapport. If we are going back to the source with
this stuff we might as well go ALL THE WAY back.” – Trevor Dunn
“To have Scott and Dave with us on this suicide mission is
more than an honor. THEY are a big part of the reason we wrote this stuff in
the first place, and to realize it 30+ years later with these maestros is an
absolute miracle… we can finally play this teenage nonsense correctly! A total
catharsis for us. “ – Mike Patton
“At our very first show, at the Bayside
Grange Hall, Nov. 30, 1985, we played Slayer’s ‘Chemical Warfare’ and a S.O.D.
cover. I mean, are you kidding?? We WORSHIPPED those guys! And now they’re
gonna PLAY in our band?” – Trey Spruance
The Podcast That Rocked episode for August 11th, 2019. Weekly podcast discussing Kid Rock’s questionable attack at Taylor Swift, Tommy Lee throwing down at the conservative side of the US, and more!
Discussion Topics: -Kid Rock goes after Taylor Swift in a questionable manner -Tommy Lee unleashes a huge rant on the conservative side of the US -Tool release first new song in 13 years -Slipknot had some of the best marketing and publicity for an album in years -Brief history about Days Of The New -Killswitch Engage return with a new album and prove past band members can still be friends
Music, videos, and links talked about on this week’s podcast:
Taylor Swift wants to be a democrat because she wants to be in movies….period. And it looks like she will suck the door knob off Hollyweird to get there. Oldest move in the book. Good luck girl.
