Album Review: Queens of the Stone Age – Villains
An album review on Villains, the seventh full album from Queens of the Stone Age.
Trivium Announce New Album “The Sin And The Sentence”
TRIVIUM ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE
PRE-ORDERS FOR THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE AVAILABLE TODAY
AT ALL DSPS & WWW.TRIVIUM.ORG
NEW TRACK “THE HEART FROM YOUR HATE”
STREAMING NOW WITH OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE ARRIVES WORLDWIDE OCTOBER 20TH
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR GETS UNDERWAY OCTOBER 27TH
Trivium has unveiled details of their new album, THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE (see album art / tracklisting attached). Set for release on October 20th, THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE is available for pre-order today at all DSPs and www.trivium.org , with all pre-orders receiving instant grat downloads of the album’s title track and the newly released single, “The Heart From Your Hate” which is streaming now accompanied by an official music video on Trivium’s YouTube Channel.
Recorded with producer Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Gojira) at Santa Ana, California’s Hybrid Studios, THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE finds Trivium – Matt Heafy (lead vocals, lead guitar), Corey Beaulieu (guitar, vocals), Paolo Gregoletto (bass) and Alex Bent (drums) – returning with their first new music since their celebrated 2015 LP, SILENCE IN THE SNOW. The new LP also features the band’s first recordings with new drummer Bent who joined the band last year. Earlier this summer Trivium debuted the album’s incendiary title track, “The Sin And The Sentence,” the official music video for which has amassed over 1.5 Million views in just three weeks. “Trivium have come roaring back,” declared Loudwire adding, “’The Sin And The Sentence’ combines a truckload of classic Trivium dynamics to create something fresh.”
Currently wrapping up a summer of European headline dates and appearances at festivals such as Germany’s Wacken Open Air and Poland’s Woodstock Festival, Trivium will make their return to North America this fall on a co-headline tour with Arch Enemy featuring support from While She Sleeps and Fit For An Autopsy. The tour will kick off on October 27th in Orlando, FL and make its way across the U.S. and Canada before finishing on December 6th in Houston, TX (see attached itinerary). Tickets for all dates are on sale now. For complete tour information and tickets, please visit www.trivium.org.
Just two years ago, Trivium made a stunning impact with SILENCE IN THE SNOW, arriving at #3 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Albums” chart and #19 on the overall Billboard 200 marking Trivium’s third consecutive Top 20 debut. Hailed by Alternative Press as the “the purest metal of the year,” SILENCE IN THE SNOW featured the Top 10 Rock Radio hit “Until The World Goes Cold” and stands as a long gestating creative milestone for the acclaimed band.
Trivium catapulted into the first ranks of modern metal with 2004’s Roadrunner debut, ASCENDANCY, which was named “Album of the Year” by Kerrang! 2006’s THE CRUSADE incorporated new melodic colors into the band’s sound, resulting in widespread critical applause and a top 25 Billboard 200 debut. SHOGUN followed two years later and received even greater acclaim and chart success, including a #1 debut on the UK’s Rock Albums Chart. In 2011, IN WAVES hit #1 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Albums,” not to mention a stunning top 15 debut on the overall Billboard 200. Two years later, VENGEANCE FALLS arrived at #2 on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Albums” chart. VENGEANCE FALLS went on to make the Top 10 charts in Australia and Germany, representing some of band’s highest international chart debuts to date.
For more, please see www.trivium.org, www.facebook.com/Trivium, twitter.com/TriviumOfficial, www.youtube.com/trivium, and www.roadrunnerrecords.com.
The Sin And The Sentence
Beyond Oblivion
Other Worlds
The Heart From Your Hate
Betrayer
The Wretchedness Inside
Endless Night
Sever The Hand
Beauty In The Sorrow
The Revanchist
Thrown Into The Fire
TRIVIUM
ON TOUR 2017
* Festival Date
10/27 – 12/6 with Arch Enemy, While She Sleeps & Fit For An Autopsy
8/25 Giessen, Germany Giessner Kultursommer *
8/26 Sulingen, Germany Reload Festival*
10/27 Orlando, FL House of Blues
10/28 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
10/29 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore
10/31 Baltimore, MD Soundstage
11/1 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero Theater
11/3 New York, NY Playstation Theater
11/4 Worcester, MA The Palladium
11/5 Montreal, QC Metropolis
11/7 Toronto, ON The Danforth Music Hall
11/8 Detroit, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/10 Sioux City, IA Anthem At Hard Rock
11/11 Kansas City, MO The Truman
11/12 Chicago, IL Concord Music Hall
11/14 Minneapolis, MN Skyway Theater
11/15 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
11/17 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
11/18 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
11/20 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre
11/21 Edmonton, AB Union Hall
11/23 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theater
11/24 Seattle, WA Showbox Sodo
11/25 Portland, OR Roseland Theater
11/27 Sacramento, CA Ace of Spades
11/28 San Francisco, CA The Regency Ballroom
11/29 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
12/1 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theater
12/2 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
12/4 Dallas, TX Gas Monkey Live
12/5 San Antonio, TX Alamo City Music Hall
12/6 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
I Prevail Unveils Music Video for “Lifelines”
I PREVAIL
Unveils Music Video For “Lifelines”
Debut Album Lifelines Now $7.99 On iTunes
Tickets For Rage On The Stage Tour On Sale Now
Detroit, Michigan’s I PREVAIL continue their meteoric rise in the rock world with the music video for “Lifelines”, the title track off of their hit record released last October. The release comes on the heels of their Rage On The Stage tour announcement, featuring metalcore scene favorites We Came As Romans, The Word Alive, and Escape The Fate providing support. The North American tour kicks off on September 20th in Oklahoma City, OK and concludes in Des Moines, IA on December 2nd. The full routing can be viewed below.
Tickets can be purchased here: http://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=160e1689a3&e=222450d7d1
In addition to the new video, I Prevail has also dropped the price for the debut album Lifelines to $7.99 on iTunes in honor of the new music video and their upcoming tour. You can purchase the album here.
“Lifelines” shows I Prevail’s dynamic brand of rock, combining the grit of attack-oriented guitarwork and breakdowns, electronic key instrumentation, and the complementary dual vocalist performances provided by clean vocalist Brian Burkheiser and harsh vocalist Eric Vanlerberghe. “Lifelines” is a song about resilience and endurance through tough times, so it’s fitting that the video was shot in Detroit at the Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program, an organization which helps at-risk youth with educational tutoring and discipline through boxing.
In the words of singer Brian Burkheiser, “Lifelines” is no doubt our proudest video to date. We set out to create something that embodied what “Lifelines” as a song and as an album really meant to us. It centers around the harsh reality that life doesn’t care about what you have planned. The biggest moments, whether ones of amazing opportunity or painful loss, are coming no matter what. How you choose to respond makes you who you are. That’s what we wanted to express. This video became even more special to us when we had the chance to turn our creative process into a way to bring awareness to an amazing cause. The video was filmed at a magical oasis of hope called the Downtown Boxing Gym in Detroit. With great inspiration and support from the owner Coach Khali Sweeney. Coach Khali and his team are straight up HEROES, changing the lives of young people in Detroit, a place where it is greatly needed. They bring kids in from the Public School system and provide a safe environment with a focus on education first, using the self discipline of reading books together with the camaraderie that a sport like boxing. They build bodies and minds with an eye to the making of future leaders. There is no such thing as a “bad kid” to this organization. To see the positive impact this is having first hand was truly inspiring and something we couldn’t be happier to support. They are truly making positive lifelines and we are honored to have worked with them in their home base.”
The “Lifelines” video release builds on the excitement that has followed I Prevail, seemingly since the Detroit rockers formed in 2013 and has become impossible to ignore over the past year. Last week’s announcement of Rage On The Stage follows their massive run on this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, during which the band played the Journey’s Left Foot Main Stage. Propelled by the rise of their power ballad single “Alone,” which has invaded the Top 5 of the Top Rock Songs Chart, Lifelines has been able to move over 170,000 units since its release last October, continuing to remain in the Top 20 of the iTunes Rock Albums Chart.
The Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program meanwhile currently serves more than 130 students between the ages of 7 and 18, with an ever growing waiting list. More than 75% of the enrolled students live within a 3-mile radius of the gym. Many are residents of the nearby public housing units. Their families benefit by witnessing and participating in our hands-on coaching methodology. Through education, athletics, mentorship and intervention, the Downtown Boxing Gym empowers Detroit students to be positive and productive members of society.
I PREVAIL is Brian Burkheiser (clean vocals), Eric Vanlerberghe (harsh vocals), Steve Menoian (lead guitar), and Dylan Bowman (rhythm guitar).
Alter Bridge Release Another Track from Forthcoming Live Album
Alter Bridge Leave Another Track
from Forthcoming Live Album
With three more weeks to go until ALTER BRIDGE‘s long awaited album Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities (out on September 8th worldwide via Napalm Records) will finally be released, the band has released another live track from the upcoming 3-disc collection. The live version of one of the band’s most popular tracks, “Metalingus,” is available online here: https://youtu.be/8njyQjRfB1E. Fans who pre-order the digital version of the album will receive an instant download of the track as well. The digital version is available here: http://smarturl.it/LiveAtTheO2.
The studio version of the song “Metalingus” was originally recorded for ALTER BRIDGE‘s debut album One Day Remains. The song reached a whole new audience when it was selected as the official entrance theme of WWE superstar Edge back in 2004! Those years following, would have the song played weekly on television right up until the day he retired in 2011 and is still used every time he returns even until today.
Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities is available for pre-order worldwide NOW! The new release is being offered in different formats from a regular 3 CD digipak up to an incredible DELUXE Cardboard BOX limited to 1000 units incl. 3 CD Digipack, DVD in Slipcase, O2 Laminate + Lanyard, Guitar Strings from Mark and Myles, guitar picks, a patch and buttons. Any of these configurations can be ordered HERE.
All That Remains Release Music Video for Cover of Garth Brooks’ “Thunder Rolls”
ALL THAT REMAINS GIVE GARTH BROOKS’ “THUNDER ROLLS”
AN EPIC ROCK TRANSFORMATION
With eight studio albums under their belt, Massachusetts-based hard rock juggernauts All That Remains show no signs of slowing down. Their album Madness dropped on April 28th via Razor & Tie Records to an overwhelmingly positive response hitting #1 US Top Hard Rock Albums and #9 US Top Rock Albums charts. The band has already toured heavily in support of the project, hitting major summer festivals like Carolina Rebellion and Montebello Rockfest, among others. They also hit the road on a headlining run, catching up with a few friends including Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, and Motionless in White. The band still has a few announced performance dates left and will continue touring throughout the remainder of 2017, look for new tour info coming soon.
In the meantime they’re keeping things moving, today All That Remains has given new life to an unexpected cover of Garth Brooks hit single “Thunder Rolls.” Their take on the Country star’s award-winning tune, (one of singer Phil Labonte‘s favorites) is compelling, reworking the song in an epic way and making it their own. In an interview with Billboard, Labonte discussed the unexpected cover choice, sharing, “We’re continuing to push what people’s notion of what All That Remains is and what we’re allowed to do and what we’re willing to do, in what ways we’re willing to go and experiment… That’s always our point — How can we reach out to new people?”
All That Remains Tour Dates:
8/19 – Illinois State Fair – Springfield, IL
8/20 – Moonstock Festival – Carterville, IL
9/1 – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Sioux City, IA*
9/22 – High Elevation Fest – Englewood, CO*
9/30 – Sonic Boom – Janesville, WI*
* – w/Five Finger Death Punch
All That Remains online:
http://allthatremainsonline.com
Ozzfest Meets Knotfest Offers Single Day $99 Four-Pack Ticket Bundle
OZZFEST MEETS KNOTFEST
OFFERS SINGLE DAY $99 FOUR-PACK TICKET BUNDLE
AS OF TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 FOR
OZZFEST: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4
OR KNOTFEST: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5
AT GLEN HELEN AMPHITHEATER AND FESTIVAL GROUNDS
IN SAN BERNARDINO, CA
You +3 for $99.
That’s a possibility for this year’s OZZFEST MEETS KNOTFEST. For just $99, you and three friends can attend either OZZFEST (Saturday, November 4) or KNOTFEST (Sunday, November 5) at Glen Helen Amphitheater and Festival Groundsin San Bernardino, CA. A limited number of the single day $99 four-pack GA ticket bundles will be available from Tuesday, August 15 at 10:00 AM (PT) through Saturday, August 19 at 12:59 PM (PT).
The two-day festival’s power packed line-up is led by performances from Ozzy Osbourne and Prophets of Rage on Saturday at OZZFEST plus Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson at KNOTFEST on Sunday. The multi-stage, three-day camping event will include sets from more than 40 acts. The weekend-long OZZFEST MEETS KNOTFEST will kick off with an exclusive free Friday, November 3 camping kick-off concert that will give campers early access to the campsite, allowing them time to prepare for a night of performances from Monster Magnet, Brant Bjork, Sasquatch, and Lo-Pan. VIP camping lines open at 4:00 PM, general camping load in begins at 5:00 PM. Doors to the Friday night camping kick-off party open at 7:00 PM with live music set to kick off at 8:00 PM.
The OZZFEST MEETS KNOTFEST line-up (as of August 14) is as follows:
OZZFEST
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4
MAIN STAGE
Ozzy Osbourne
Prophets of Rage
Deftones
Children of Bodom
Orange Goblin
SECOND STAGES
Kreator
Baroness
High on Fire
Iron Reagan
1349
Havok
Kyng
Tombs
Night Demon
Thrown Into Exile
NUCLEAR BLAST EXTREME STAGE
Possessed
Suffocation
Fallujah
Rings of Saturn
KNOTFEST
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5
MAIN STAGE
Rob Zombie
Marilyn Manson
Stone Sour
Eighteen Visions
Prayers
SECOND STAGES
Testament
Life of Agony
Black Dahlia Murder
Upon a Burning Body
Goatwhore
Death Angel
Code Orange
ONI
Stitched Up Heart
DED
NUCLEAR BLAST EXTREME STAGE
Repulsion
Exhumed
Warbringer
Ghoul
Anti-Flag Release New Song “Racists” In Wake of Charlottesville Violence
Anti-Flag have released the new song “Racists”
in wake of the violence that occurred
this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Below is the band’s statement.
“We stand in solidarity with those fighting racism and fascism in the streets of Charlottesville and beyond. We believe it is time for the removal of all monuments to the confederacy and the racism for which they stand. We must put these symbols of white supremacy into places where the proper context can be provided for what they actually are; outdated, backwards, and antithetical to what we believe the values of humanity should be. It is past time to have real conversations on systemic racism and America’s history of it. There are museums memorializing the Holocaust all across Europe, while America continues to try to hide from its racist and murderous past and present.” – Anti-Flag
“Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.” – Mother Jones
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Starset Break 1 Billion Views on YouTube
VISIONARY BAND STARSET BREAK 1 BILLION ON YOUTUBE
“Monster” Second Most Played Mainstream Rock Song Of The Year
Marvel Comics To Release Starset Original Graphic Novel, The PROX Transmissions, on October 4th
Multi-media, modern rock band Starset recently passed the 1 billion milestone total views on YouTube with their official videos and User Generated Content (UGC) videos combined. The band’s cinematic sound and rabid fan-base have driven huge numbers at the video streaming service with fans uploading an unprecedented amount of their own videos using the band’s music, giving the band led by singer Dustin Bates an unparalleled digital foothold. Starset’s stronghold at radio has added to this ascension with the band’s first single from new album Vessels, “Monster”, currently the number 2 most played song of the year at mainstream rock.
Starset tapped into powerful YouTube communities including anime and gaming which are much larger than that of music on the platform. Many fan-uploaded Starset videos have hit multi-million views and YouTube data shows Starset videos gaining nearly two million new views per day. With only two albums released to date, Starset has exceeded the total view counts of most other contemporary rock bands and have views in the same league as the Foo Fighters, Muse, Bring Me the Horizon and AWOLNATION.
Last year Billboard reported on the band’s streaming phenomenon, “Starset has had success with their own uploads to the platform: the band’s two YouTube accounts, which host official music and lyric videos, cryptic Starset Society-related teasers and audio-only streams . . . take into account fan-uploaded videos and the number of views explodes . . . six times larger and global.”
The Columbus Ohio Starset continues their breakout with their new album ‘Vessels’ debuting at #11 on Billboard’s Top 200, making it one of the highest charting albums from a rock band in the past year. The first single, “Monster” peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and new single “Satellite” has just begun its chart ascent. All Music calls the album “genre-juggling…expands on the nervy, synthed-out atmosphere and huge melodic hooks of its predecessor, as evidenced by the compelling singles.” Vessels is the follow-up to Starset’s 2014 debut album, Transmissions, a landmark album that sold in excess of a quarter million combined albums, streams and downloads in the U.S., propelled by the hit single “My Demons,” which had the longest ascent to the top 5 in the history of the rock radio charts.
Setting the band apart from their contemporaries is the unique vision and goal of founder and front man Dustin Bates, who is also a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and has done research for the U.S. Air Force and taught at the International Space University in France. Inspired by the likes of Nikola Tesla and Carl Sagan, Starset’s albums, along with videos, websites, novels and one-of-a-kind live performances, were created as part of the over-arching concept, The Starset Society. Where science and fiction collide, The Starset Society is dedicated to publicizing emerging, near-future technologies and investigating their inevitable social, economic, political, and philosophical impact on society. Bates and crews’ dedication to promoting science to a wider audience is also evidenced in the band’s unique live concerts and fully immersive planetariums shows.
Razor & Tie Co-Owner Cliff Chenfeld adds, “Starset is creating a new template on how to succeed as a rock band, tapping into a huge viral and streaming audience and launching some of the biggest rock radio singles of the last few years. There will be billions and billions served.”
The Marvel Comics unique collaboration with Bates and Marvel fan-favorite writer, Peter David (Ben Reilly: Scarlett Spider, Spider-Verse) for an all-new original 88-page graphic novel, “The PROX Tranmissions” will be released on October 4th.
Starset is Front-man Dustin Bates, bassist Ron DeChant, guitarist Brock Richards and drummer Adam Gilbert.
Starset Tour Dates
| 9/3/17 | Port Washington | WI | Paramount Music Festival – Headline |
| 9/9/17 | New London | CT | Revolution Rock Fest |
| 9/16/17 | Shakopee | MN | Canterbury Park |
Tour with Halestorm
| 9/22/17 | Englewood | CO | Fiddler’s Green Aphitheatre |
| 9/23/17 | Wichita | KS | Orpheum Theater |
| 9/24/17 | Lincoln | NE | Bourbon Theater |
| 9/26/17 | Rochester | MN | Mayo Civic Auditorium |
| 9/27/17 | Clive | IA | 7 Flags Event Center |
| 9/30/17 | Louisville | KY | Champions Park |
| 10/3/17 | Akron | OH | Goodyear Theater |
| 10/4/17 | South Bend | IN | Morris Performing Arts Center |
| 10/7/17 | Camden | NJ | Rock Allegiance |
| 10/8/17 | Westbury | NY | The Space at Westbury |
| 10/10/17 | Knoxville | TN | Civic Auditorium |
| 10/14/17 | The Woodlands | TX | The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion |
| 10/17/17 | Oklahoma City | OK | Diamond Ballroom |
| 10/18/17 | Albuquerque | NM | Historic El Rey Theater |
| 10/20/17 | Anaheim | CA | House of Blues |
| 10/21/17 | San Luis Obispo | CA | The Fremont Theater |
| 10/22/17 | Sacramento | CA | Discovery Park |
