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 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?”
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:
“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
“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.
I PREVAIL Announces Rage On The Stage! Tour Pre-Sale Begins Friday, August 11th
Detroit, Michigan rockers I PREVAIL announce dates for their Fall headline tour Rage On The Stage. Featuring metalcore scene favorites We Came As Romans, The Word Alive, and Escape The Fate providing support for the trek, the North American tour kicks off on September 20th in Oklahoma City, OK and concludes in Des Moines, IA on December 2nd.
When asked about picking support for the run, lead guitarist Steve Menoian explains, “We designed this tour based on the great shows that we saw when we were kids. We wanted it to have as many of the great moments as we could and hope the fans will have as much fun as we’re going to have on stage.” The band promises staging and special effects for this run that will amaze.
I Prevail’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.
Tickets for Rage On The Stage go on sale this Friday, August 11th. The full routing can be found below. I PREVAIL is Brian Burkheiser (clean vocals), Eric Vanlerberghe (harsh vocals), Steve Menoian (lead guitar), and Dylan Bowman (rhythm guitar).
RAGE ON THE STAGE! Tour
SEPT 20 – Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK
SEPT 21 – Sokol Auditorium – Omaha, NE
SEPT 22 – High Elevation Fest – Denver, CO
SEPT 25 – Roseland Theatre – Portland, OR
SEPT 26 – Knitting Factory – Spokane, WA
SEPT 27 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID
SEPT 29 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
OCT 1 – MacEwan Hall – Calgary, AB
OCT 2 – Shaw Conference Center – Edmonton, AB
OCT 3 – O’Briens – Saskatoon, SK
OCT 6 – Sandlot Entertainment Complex – Green Bay, WI
Gemini Syndrome Joins Fozzy On “Judas Rising” Tour
Gemini Syndrome has announced that they will be joining Fozzy and The Stir on select dates of “The Judas Rising Tour“. The band will be touring in support of their latest album Memento Mori (Century Media) and current radio single “Sorry Not Sorry”. The band will first hit the road for a handful of headline shows beginning on September 19th, before meeting up with Fozzy in Fort Wayne, Indiana on September 27th.
“We are excited to announce the first few dates of this fall run including the dates supporting Fozzy. This will be the last conversion of the year before we start working on a new record. Come see us on the road and get prepared for the next chapter.” – Aaron Nordstrom
Gemini Syndrome Tour Dates:
09/19 @ Winchester Music Tavern – Lakewood, OH (Headline)
09/21 @ Green Bay Distillery – Ashwaubenon, WI (Headline)
09/22 @ Every Buddy’s Bar – Eau Claire, WI (Headline)
09/23 @ The Music Factory – Battle Creek, MI (Black Stone Cherry)
09/24 @ Diesel Concert Lounge – Chesterfield, MI (Headline)
09/27 @ Piere’s – Fort Wayne, IN (Fozzy)
09/28 @ A&R Music Bar – Columbus, OH (Fozzy)
09/30 @ Austin’s Fuel Room – Libertyville, IL (Fozzy)
10/01 @ Zoo Amphitheatre – Oklahoma City, OK (KATTfest)
10/03 @ Rapids Theatre – Niagara Falls, NY (Fozzy)
10/04 @ Wilkes-Barre, PA – Chandelier Lobby (Fozzy)
10/05 @ Worcester, MA – The Palladium-Upstairs (Fozzy)
10/07 @ Wilmington, NC – The Muse (Fozzy)
10/08 @ Winston-Salem, NC – Johnny and June’s (Fozzy)
About Gemini Syndrome:
Formed in 2010, the Los Angeles-based, GEMINI SYNDROME spent their formative days opening for bands on the Sunset Strip. As their reputation within the L.A. hard rock scene grew, so did their audience. their 2013 full-length debut Lux, which landed at #3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart and yielded the singles “Pleasure & Pain” and “Stardust.” The record’s release saw the Los Angeles heavy alternative band tour alongside everybody from Five Finger Death Punch to Device and perform at festivals such as Rock on the Range, Welcome to Rockville, and more. After coming off the road in late 2014, Gemini Syndrome underwent member changes, while confronting and exorcising internal and external demons. However, its creative core vocalist Aaron Nordstrom, drummer Brian Steele Medina, and bass player Alessandro “AP” Paveri continue to move forward after the release of their 2016 second full-length, Memento Mori; which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart, and spawned the hit single “Remember We Die” – which hit #1 on SiriusXM Octane. The band spent the majority of 2016 and 2017 on the road with bands such as In This Moment, Motionless In White, Avatar, Sevendust, Starset, and Drowning Pool.
SPECIAL ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE AT BROOKLYN STEEL
WITH CONVERGE SET FOR SEPTEMBER 28TH
Gojira have announced details of a U.S. headline tour with special guests Torche and Code Orange which is set to get underway October 2nd at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH (see attached itinerary). Artist presale tickets for the new headline dates will be available today at 2:00 PM local time, followed by a Spotify presale on Wednesday, August 9th at 10:00 AM eastern time and finally a venue / promoter presale which begins Thursday, August 10th at 10:00 AM local time. Tickets for all dates will go on Friday August 11th at 10:00 AM local time. For tickets and more information on the upcoming tour, please visit www.Gojira-Music.com.
Gojira are currently out on the road wrapping up a run of North American dates on Metallica’s WorldWired Tour which will continue through August 16th (see attached itinerary). The west coast trek also includes a string of Gojira headline dates with Pallbearer that run through August 12th. This fall, Gojira will make an array of U.S. festival appearances with performances set for Louder Than Life (9/30), Rock Allegiance (10/7), Houston Open Air (10/14), Aftershock (10/21) and more. The upcoming fall dates will also include a very special one night only performance with Converge at Brooklyn, NY’s recently opened Brooklyn Steel on September 28th.
Last year Gojira’s MAGMA staked its claim amongst the best albums of 2016, earning Metal Hammer’s coveted “Album of the Year” title while also landing on Rolling Stone’s “Top 20 Metal Albums of 2016,” Consequence of Sound’s “Top 50 Albums of 2016” / “Top 10 Metal Albums of 2016” lists, and Pop Matters’ “Best Metal of 2016” recap. Additionally “Stranded,” the lead single off of MAGMA, was named one of Stereogum’s “100 Favorite Songs Of 2016.” MAGMA also earned Gojira their first ever Grammy nominations for ‘Best Metal Performance’ and ‘Best Rock Album.’ Gojira’s crushing track “Silvera” received a nomination for ‘Best Metal Performance,’ while their MAGMA was nominated for ‘Best Rock Album’ at the awards.
Gojira’s MAGMA took the #1 spot on Billboard’s ‘Hard Rock Albums’ chart upon debut, making Gojira the first French band to hold the #1 spot on the chart in its nine year existence. The release of MAGMA marked the highest chart debuts of Gojira’s career landing them at #4 on Billboard’s ‘Top Rock Albums’ chart, #6 on Billboard’s ‘Tastemaker Albums’ chart and Top 25 on the ‘Billboard 200.’ Furthermore, Gojira earned career high chart positions around the globe including Top 10’s in France, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, and Norway with Top 15 debuts in Australia and Germany. MAGMA is available at all DSPs and at www.Gojira-Music.com in a variety of exclusive bundles.
