17 tracks over a long recording process from Italy’s Eurovision heroes. This is the group’s attempt at going truly worldwide with mostly singing in English and the music along with the lyrics are…fine. There is a good rhythm section on Rush! and that’s prevalent throughout however many of the 17 tracks sound similar. Some of the song content recycles itself. Drugs, partying, wild lifestyle,…and that’s about it. There’s really not much else to talk about in a 17-track album. Måneskin sings songs about the party, and make their live shows a party,…but this album does not sound like a party. It’s not a rush either. It just exists. 5/10.
Måneskin Rush! Album Review
Måneskin are an Italian rock band formed in Rome in 2016. The band are composed of vocalist Damiano David, bassist Victoria De Angelis, guitarist Thomas Raggi, and drummer Ethan Torchio. Performing in the streets in their early days, they rose to prominence after finishing second in the eleventh season of the Italian talent show X Factor in 2017. Their international breakthrough ensued when the foursome won the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 for Italy with the song “Zitti e buoni”.
Rush! is the third studio album by Italian rock band Måneskin, released on 20 January 2023 through Epic Records. It was preceded by the singles “Mammamia”, “Supermodel”, “The Loneliest” and “Gossip”.
Shinedown Releases Music Video For New Rock Single “Dead Don’t Die” PRESS HERE To Watch
Hit Album Planet Zero Out Now On Atlantic Records
Multi-platinum, chart-topping band Shinedown are kicking off 2023 with the release of their new music video for next rock single “Dead Don’t Die” from their hit album Planet Zero. The defiant track, featuring pummeling drums and searing off-the-rails guitar solos, is a rousing declaration of survival and an anthem about the resilience of the human spirit after trying times. The cinematic video, filmed in London, was directed by Lewis Cater.
“‘Dead Don’t Die’ is the first song I think any of us had ever brought in completed that really didn’t go through some sort of major change. (Truly one of the greatest feelings I’ve had in this band.) I’m never a fan of talking about what songs mean because I feel like you put them in a box…but the song is about Brent, and the people like him…the strong-willed, refuse to give up, bend but never break human spirit. I’ve seen this man be at the bottom before, and pick himself up, and never stop trying to be better. I hope everyone feels something when they listen to it. I hope it makes you feel like you can run through a brick wall,” says guitarist Zach Myers.
Shinedown recently received an iHeartRadio Music Awards nomination for Rock Artist of the Year as well as for Rock Song of the Year for #1 rock hit single “Planet Zero.” The band also announced that they will play the Blue Ridge Rock Festival at The Virginia International Raceway in Alton, VA this September. Stay tuned for more touring news coming soon.
Shinedown’s acclaimed seventh studio album Planet Zero, produced by the band’s bassist Eric Bass, is out now via Atlantic Records and debuted in the Top 5 on the Billboard 200 Chart and the Official UK Albums Chart, and at #1 on six other Billboard charts including Top Album Sales, Rock, Hard Rock, and Alternative Albums Charts. With songs like #1 rock hits “Planet Zero” and “Daylight,” Planet Zero boldly confronts the societal forces that perpetuate divisiveness while offering a restorative path forward through empathy and open conversation – ultimately serving as a reminder that it is our human connections that matter the most.
Shinedown brought Planet Zero to life across the globe last year, with the Planet Zero World Tour culminating in a sold-out UK run at the end of 2022. The video for “Daylight,” set to the Amazon Original version of the song, is a love letter to the band’s fans from the tour and the impact of the song’s message – that you are never alone – can be seen in the moving video.
Planet Zero is the latest addition to Shinedown’s record-breaking catalog that has earned the band recognition for their timely and relevant messages behind their chart-topping hits that resonate with not only their global audience and the rock community, but the greater public and our culture at large. With more than 6.5 billion global streams, 19 #1 Active Rock Hits, a Billboard record for the most mainstream rock #1 hits ever (18), 15 platinum and gold singles, platinum or gold certification for all their albums, 10 million albums sold, countless sold-out arena tours, and major media praise, Shinedown – Brent Smith [vocals], Zach Myers [guitar], Eric Bass [bass, production], and Barry Kerch [drums] – has cemented their status as one of the most vital and forward-thinking powerhouses in music.
With 2023 less than three weeks old, acclaimed rockers ALTER BRIDGE are back with a new single and music video to launch the new year! The song “Holiday” has been a fan favorite since it was made public with the release of Pawns & Kingslast October, and is currently one of the most added songs at Active Rock radio.
The “Holiday” video marks the return of longtime video collaborator Dan Sturgess of Sturge Media – known for capturing the band’s iconic performance with the Parallax Orchestra on Alter Bridge: Live At The Royal Albert Hall. The song is currently impacting US radio and the video for “Holiday” can be seen below!
Pawns & Kings – the band’s seventh studio album – was released worldwide on October 14 via Napalm Records. From the opening riffs of “This Is War” to the title track album closer “Pawns & Kings,”ALTER BRIDGE returns with an album of intense tracks that were born after the cycle for their last album was cut short by the global pandemic. Songs like “Dead Among The Living,” “Holiday” and “Last Man Standing” showcase the signature songwriting the band is known for. The album offers numerous epic adventures, with three songs clocking in over six minutes each. The opus “Fable Of The Silent Son” clocks in at 8:29 and is the longest recorded song in the band’s catalog – a distinction held by “Blackbird” until now. Mark Tremonti steps out of his backing vocal role to take the lead on “Stay,” an introspective ballad that is sure to become a fan favorite live. The band have released lyric videos for the title track “Pawns & Kings”, the now fan-favorite “Sin After Sin” and album opener “This Is War”. These songs all found their way into the band’s set list during their European tour.
Known for its signature dual-guitar attack backed by a driving rhythm section, the album’s debut single “Silver Tongue” shot up the charts around the globe and is currently still in the Top 25 in Canada. Its animated music video was created and directed by Ollie Jones of Better Feeling Films (Myles Kennedy, Prodigy, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets) and has garnered over 1.4 million views and counting. Pawns & Kingsfound its way on numerous 2022 year-end lists around the world, and was produced by longtime collaborator Michael “Elvis” Baskette.
The track listing for Pawns & Kings is: 1) This Is War 2) Dead Among The Living 3) Silver Tongue 4) Sin After Sin 5) Stay 6) Holiday 7) Fable Of The Silent Son 8) Season Of Promise 9) Last Man Standing 10) Pawns & Kings
ALTER BRIDGE’sPawns & Kings is now available for streaming via all digital service providers and for order in various physical configurations HERE.
ALTER BRIDGE will continue to tour extensively in support of Pawns & Kings. The band wrapped a tour of Europe last month that had the band making 25 stops over the course of six weeks. The tour will continue throughout North America this year – their first in the market in almost three years. The 30-city tour – split into two legs – kicks off on January 25 in Tampa, FL and wraps up April 1 in Highland, CA, making stops in Nashville, TN (January 30); Toronto, ON (February 11); Kansas City, MO (March 11) and Seattle, WA (March 23).
Mammoth WVH will join them as direct support on the entire tour, with rockers Red playing on the first leg of the tour and newcomers Pistols At Dawn playing on the second leg. Tickets for all shows are now available and more information on tickets and VIP experiences can be found at https://alterbridge.com/pages/tour.
ALTER BRIDGE North American Tour Dates: Jan 25 – TAMPA, FL – Seminole Hard Rock * (Low Ticket Alert) Jan 27 – ORLANDO, FL – Hard Rock Live * (Low Ticket Alert) Jan 28 – ATLANTA, GA – Coca Cola Roxy * Jan 30 – NASHVILLE, TN – Ryman Auditorium * (Sold Out) Feb 1 – MONTCLAIR, NJ – The Wellmont Theater * (Sold Out) Feb 2 – HUNTINGTON, NY – The Paramount * (Low Ticket Alert) Feb 4 – SILVER SPRING, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring * (Sold Out) Feb 5 – PHILADELPHIA, PA – Franklin Music Hall * Feb 7 – WALLINGFORD, CT – The Dome at Toyota Oakdale Theatre * Feb 8 – BOSTON, MA – Roadrunner * Feb 10 – WATERLOO, NY – Del Lago Casino Resort (On sale soon) ^ Feb 11 – TORONTO, ON – HISTORY ^ (Sold Out) Feb 14 – DETROIT, MI – The Fillmore * Feb 15 – INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Murat Theatre at Old National Centre * Feb 17 – PRIOR LAKE, MN – Mystic Lake Casino Showroom * (Sold Out) Feb 18 – CHICAGO, IL – The Riviera Theatre * (Low Ticket Alert) Mar 10 – QUAPAW, OK – Downstream Casino Resort # Mar 11 – KANSAS CITY, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland # Mar 14 – CHESTERFIELD, MO – The Factory # Mar 15 – OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Criterion # Mar 17 – HOUSTON, TX – 713 Music Hall # Mar 18 – DALLAS, TX – South Side Ballroom # Mar 20 – DENVER, CO – Mission Ballroom # Mar 21 – SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Union Event Center # Mar 23 – SEATTLE, WA – The Paramount Theatre # Mar 25 – AIRWAY HEIGHTS, WA – Northern Quest Resort & Casino ^ (Sold Out) Mar 26 – AIRWAY HEIGHTS, WA – Northern Quest Resort & Casino ^ Mar 28 – ANAHEIM, CA – House Of Blues # Mar 29 – TEMPE, AZ – Marquee Theatre # Mar 31 – RENO, NV – Silver Legacy’s Grande Expo Hall # Apr 1 – HIGHLAND, CA – Yaamava Theater at Yaamava Casino Resort ^
^ Alter Bridge – Mammoth WVH * Alter Bridge – Mammoth WVH – Red # Alter Bridge – Mammoth WVH – Pistols At Dawn
Florida hard rock quintet WAGE WAR — Briton Bond [lead vocals], Cody Quistad [rhythm guitar, clean vocals], Seth Blake [lead guitar], Chris Gaylord [bass], and Stephen Kluesener [drums] — have announced their Spring 2023 tour plans. The band will embark on The Manic 2023 headline tour, with support from nothing,nowhere. and Spite. The tour kicks off on April 11 in the band’s native Florida and runs through May 20 in Atlanta. All dates are below. Tickets are available here.
Last year, Wage War delivered The Stripped Sessions, an acoustic release that showed off their songwriting chops. Get it here. Meanwhile, 2021’s Manic continues to have legs. Wage War have steadily become a force in the hard rock world. The Florida band has amassed over 580M million streams and received widespread acclaim from Billboard, Loudwire, Alternative Press, American Songwriter, Modern Drummer, Kerrang!, Guitar World, and more, They’ve appeared at major festivals and hit the road with Slipknot, A Day To Remember, I Prevail, Parkway Drive, and beyond and were chosen as one of SiriusXM’s “Future 5 of 2022.” The single “Circle The Drain” hit #1 on Octane BIG UNS Countdown
WAGE WAR ON TOUR: WITH NOTHING,NOWHERE. + SPITE: 4/11 — Ft. Lauderdale — Revolution Live 4/12 — St. Petersburg, FL — Jannus Live 4/14 — Houston, TX — House of Blues 4/15 — Dallas, TX — Echo Lounge & Music Hall 4/16 — Oklahoma City, OK — Diamond Ballroom 4/18 — Tempe, AZ — The Marquee 4/20 — Anaheim, CA — House of Blues 4/21 — San Diego, CA — The Observatory 4/22 — Los Angeles, CA — The Belasco 4/23 — Sacramento, CA — Ace of Spades 4/25 — Portland, OR — Roseland Theater 4/26 — Seattle, WA — The Showbox Sodo 4/28 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex 4/29 — Denver, CO — Summit 4/30 — Kansas City, MO — The Truman 5/2 — Green Bay, WI — Epic Event Center 5/3 — Minneapolis, MN — The Fillmore 5/5 — Chicago, IL — Concord Music Hall 5/6 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore 5/7 — Toronto, ON — The Danforth Music Hall 5/9 — Cincinnati, OH — Bogart’s 5/10 — Pittsburgh, PA — Roxian Theatre 5/12 — Worcester. MA — The Palladium 5/13 — Sayreville, NJ — Starland Ballroom 5/14 — Huntington, NY — The Paramount 5/16 — Silver Springs, MD — The Fillmore 5/17 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore 5/19 — Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works 5/20 — Atlanta, GA — The Masquerade Heaven
Swedish electropop-metal quartet Solence has released a lyric video for their latest release, “Antidote“. Speaking to the theme of seeking meaningful connection, the track is taken from their forthcoming new album ‘_hope is a cult_’ out Friday, February 17 via Hopeless Records. Speaking on today’s release, the band shares:
“‘Antidote’ is a song about wanting to feel more alive. We interact with more people on a daily basis than ever before, yet we’re still unable to create real connections and end up feeling alone. The perspective of “Antidote” is that we desperately seek a cure, or something, to make us feel better. The song starts slow and mysterious then breaks out into a big sing-along chorus. Raise your hands, ready your voices, and lets goooo!!!!“
Prior to “Antidote“, Solence dropped visual accompaniments for “Rain Down”, “Demons”, “Blood Sweat Tears”, and most recently “nuBlood” featuring Fame On Fire vocalist Bryan Kuznitz. Altogether, the visuals have amassed over half a million views on YouTube and counting. Watch the lyric video for “Antidote“here, pre-save ‘_hope is a cult_’here, and pre-order the album at the link here.
_hope is a cult_ Track Listing: 1. Rain Down 2. Best For You 3. Demons 4. Waves 5. Antidote 6. Claustrophobia 7. _hope is a cult_ 8. Better This Way 9. nuBlood 10. Life Goes On 11. Endless 12. _a new hope_ 13. Blood Sweat Tears
No matter where we come from, music draws us together and bonds us. For as much as SOLENCE sonically conjoin elements of metal, electronic, alternative, and pop, the Swedish group also appeal to an expansive swath of personalities with a universal message. Equally suitable for the mosh pit or Coachella, the band—Markus Videsäter [vocals], David “Viking” Vikingsson [drums], David Strääf [guitar], and Johan Swärd [keys]—rally around a familial energy meant to be shared as loudly as possible. After quietly generating north of 200 million streams and counting, they welcome everyone closer on their third full-length offering and Hopeless Records debut, _hope is a cult_, and more to come.
“We want to build up this family around positivity, hope, and the belief you can change things,” notes Markus. “We want you to forget everything that bothers you when you listen to this album. If we’re doing our job, audiences feel like they’re a part of it. When you go to a SOLENCE show, you have a good time, so hope is a cult for us.”
On February 10, Swedish modern metal visionaries IN FLAMES will release their 14th studio album Foregone — a new masterpiece from a band whose artistry and influence on modern metal is undeniable. Pre-order it here.
“Meet Your Maker” is a pulsating track with hypnotizing power and furious anger. Like a raw nerve exposed, the song speaks of the desperation and frustration brought on by the chaotic dystopia of post-pandemic society.
Frontman Anders Fridén states, “When we started to write for Foregone, ‘Meet Your Maker’ became the song that set the tone in terms of what we were aiming for sonically as well as thematically. You’ll see it’s everything you’ve come to expect from In Flames and some. Enjoy and see you on the road in 2023!”
The band also appears on the cover of the Winter issue of Revolver. See it below!
FOREGONE TRACK LISTING: “The Beginning of All Things That Will End” “State of Slow Decay“ “Meet Your Maker” “Bleeding Out” “Foregone Pt. 1“ “Foregone Pt. 2“ “Pure Light Of Mind” “The Great Deceiver” “In The Dark” “A Dialogue in b Flat Minor” “Cynosure” “End The Transmission”
For all the long-time HIM fans wishing the band was still around, I assure you this album will satiate that need. Neon Noir is the poppier parts of The Cure while still being reminiscent of HIM. “Loveletting” and “Echolocate Your Love” are perfect examples. The guitar and piano inclusions are simple but prominent and everything comes clear. Neon Noir is a creative and well-mixed album with track layering. Neon Noir is an album for the lovesick, the broken-hearted, and those head over heels in love. And all dressed in black. Neon Noir or Bright Growing Black is a perfect title. It sets a great mood and has you coming back. 8/10.
Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the gothic rock band HIM.
HIM (sometimes stylized as H.I.M.) was a Finnish gothic rock band from Helsinki. First formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo and bassist Mikko “Mige” Paananen under the name His Infernal Majesty, the band broke up after only a few years, only to be reformed in 1995 by Valo and guitarist Mikko “Linde” Lindström. After being rejoined by Mige, as well as keyboardist Antto Melasniemi and drummer Juhana “Pätkä” Rantala, the band, now called HIM, released its debut album Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 in 1997. In 2000, now with drummer Mika “Gas Lipstick” Karppinen and keyboardist Juska Salminen, the band released Razorblade Romance, which reached the number-one spot in Finland, Austria and Germany. The first single “Join Me in Death” also charted at number one in Finland and Germany, eventually going platinum and gold, respectively. Following the addition of Janne “Burton” Puurtinen on keyboards, HIM released Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights (2001) and Love Metal (2003). Both cracked the top ten in several countries and allowed the band to tour in the United Kingdom and the United States for the first time.
There is something about a live performance that exemplifies a song, especially when that song is remembered more than the original. This video looks at 10 songs better live than in studio.
Veteran indie-pop singer-songwriter-pianist Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness has released his sprawling new single “Lying On The Hood Of Your Car” and has announced his new studio album, Tilt At The Wind No More, will be released on March 31st via Nettwerk.PRESS HEREto listen to “Lying On The HoodOf Your Car” and PRESS HERE to watch the official music video, directed and edited by Jax Anderson (Tegan & Sara, Jagwar Twin), which first premiered as an Origins feature on Consequence – PRESS HEREto read.
“For me, this song is pure nostalgia,” shares McMahon. “I made a conscious decision when I was writing it to imagine a whole world of important figures in my life lying next to me on the hood of that imagined vehicle. In one breath it’s a song about young love and in another it’s about those nights out with friends. Nights that ended in parking lot conversations about lives you might lead one day and places you might escape to if you could. I rarely build imagined worlds when I write songs but something about this one feels very much like a memory to me.”
Tilt At The Wind No More will mark the fourth full-length studio album for McMahon under his Wilderness moniker, the follow-up to 2018’s Upside Down Flowers, and his first collection for Nettwerk. The forthcoming album, produced by Tommy English (Kacey Musgraves, K.Flay, Børns) and Jeremy Hatcher (Harry Styles, Maggie Rogers, Lizzo), features his jubilant radio hit “Stars,” which peaked at #34 on the Alternative Radio chart, and recent singles “Skywriting,” co-written with K.Flay, the synth-pop “VHS,” and romantic ballad “Built To Last.” McMahon’s new songs have been featured across various DSP playlists including Spotify’s New Music Friday, The New Alt, Grade A, and Alt NOW, Apple Music’s Breaking Alternative, and Amazon Music’s Alternative Hits and Brand New Music and have received critical support from BrooklynVegan, FLOOD Magazine, Alternative Press, E! News, Entertainment Tonight, idobi Radio and more.
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness – featuring McMahon (lead vocals, piano), Bobby Anderson (guitar), Jay McMillan (drums), Mikey Wagner (bass) and Zac Clark (keys) – will celebrate the release of Tilt At The Wind No More with intimate shows at The Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California on March30th and 31st and Rockwood Music Hall in New York City on April 4th. The band has also announced a run of May headlining tour dates that will stop in Albany, Montreal, Toronto, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and Norfolk, among others, and is set to make their debut at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 17th. See below for full list of upcoming tour dates. Presale tickets for all newly announced headlining shows will be available January 12th at 10am local time with fan club presales available for the May dates starting at 2pm ET/11am PT today (January 11th). Public on sale commences Friday, January 13th at 10am local time. Visit https://andrewmcmahon.com/pages/tour for all ticketing details and to purchase.
Over the last two decades, Andrew McMahon has successfully experienced musical rebirth many times and has consistently arrived on the other side stronger than ever. The East Coast-born, SoCal-based artist first co-founded the pop-punk outfit Something Corporate in 1998, serving as the group’s singer, pianist, and songwriter and leading the band to major chart success in the early 2000s via the albums Leaving Through The Window (2002) and North (2003). Soon after, McMahon resurfaced with the more personal solo project Jack’s Mannequin, finding success through three studio albums, with the second (The Glass Passenger, 2008) and third (People and Things, 2011) entering the top 10 on the Billboard 200 chart and their debut, Everything In Transit (2005), reaching Gold status. In 2014, McMahon released his debut album under his own name and new moniker, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, featuring the breakout top 5 alternative radio singles “Cecilia and the Satellite” and “Fire Escape.” Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness has since released the hook-packed albums Zombies On Broadway (2017) and Upside Down Flowers (2018), amassing over275 million total streams to date, performing at such marquee festivals as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, Riot Fest, and Firefly, and touring alongside the likes of Weezer, Panic! at the Disco, Gavin DeGraw, Allen Stone, and Dashboard Confessional as well as one of McMahon’s idols, Billy Joel, who he opened for on select dates this past summer. McMahon has also sold nearly 2.5 million albums across all of his musical projects, received an Emmy nomination for his work on the NBC show “Smash,” and released his memoir Three Pianosin October 2021, which is also available an audiobook read by Andrew with special musical sections that he exclusively scored for this. Additionally, in 2006, McMahon founded the Dear Jack Foundation after surviving his own battle with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL). The nonprofit charity provides impactful programming that directly benefits adolescent and young adults diagnosed with cancer in order to improve quality of life and create positive health outcomes from treatment to survivorship for patients and their families. For more information or to donate, visit: www.dearjackfoundation.org.
ANDREW MCMAHON TOUR DATES
*New dates in bold
Australia:
February 8 – Brisbane City @ The Triffid
February 9 – Melbourne @ 170 Russell
February 10 – Sydney @ The Factory Theatre
North America:
March 30 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction +
March 31 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction +
April 4 – New York, NY @ Rockwood Music Hall +
February 25-26 – Tempe, AZ @ Innings Festival ^
May 12 – Wilmington, DE @ The Main Hall at The Queen
May 13 – Syracuse, NY @ TBA
May 14 – Portland, ME @ Aura
May 16 – Albany, NY @ Empire Live
May 17 – Montreal, QC @ Corona Theatre
May 19 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
May 20 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
May 21 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
May 23 – Fort Wayne, IN @ The Clyde Theatre
May 24 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom
May 26 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
May 27-28 – Atlantic City, NJ @ Adjacent Festival ^
June 17 – Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival ^
October 21 – Las Vegas, NV @ When We Were Young (with Something Corporate) ^
Puscifer continue their series of album-by-album remix collections, releasing Existential Reckoning: Re-Wiredon March 31 via Puscifer Entertainment/Alchemy Recordings/BMG.
A video for “A Singularity (Re-Imagined by Carina Round),” shot and edited by Maynard James Keenan, was released this morning. The clip echoes the song’s sentiment, with the heart-wrenching track offered as a memoriam to Keenan’s beloved, and well known dog, MiHo. He says: “On Oct. 7, 2021, I lost my Muse. Deadly Little MiHo lost her 2 year battle with pancreatitis and kidney disease. We thought we lost her in late 2019, so I panicked and wrote her this song. We were certain she was done for. But we were blessed with a second chance and a bit more time. I rarely share things like this. Too painful. But this one can’t be kept bottled up. As I have mentioned before, she has been hiding in most of my vocal tracks since 2005. She was either in or near the vocal booth every time I tracked. Her sigh, her bark, sniffle, sneeze. Her jingling collar. Her squeaky toys. Usually poorly timed. Performance Credits- @PUSCIFER – V is for V*****, Don’t Shoot the Messenger EP, V is for V***** remixes, C is for…EP, Conditions of My Parole, All Re-Mixed Up, Donkey Punch the Night EP, Money $hot, Money $hot Your Re-Load, Existential Reckoning, Existential Reckoning Re-Wired. @APERFECTCIRCLE – “By & Down” single, Eat the Elephant. @TOOLMUSIC – 10,000 Days, Fear Inoculum.”
Round explains her approach to re-working the song: “Maynard’s vocal for this song is synonymously a sorrowful hymn and a siren of celebration. I wanted the main vocal and the bass and drums to be anchors in a sea of jubilant chaos. A kind of controlled cacophony of celebratory joy. Familiar, but a bit unnerving. The horns and saxes at the end are all moving together but somehow so loose, dispersing off into foam and then coming back together into one harmonious wave and then breaking off again, cascading. I feel excited when it’s over and like I want to get back on the ride. Birds, a charm of finches bookend the song. You can feel their energy. And within, there’s Maynard’s lone whistle, mimicking them. The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force. The synergy of composure and chaos in a dance reverence.”
The band has simultaneously announced their first European tour in seven years, with performances slated for Hellfest, Nos Alive and Mad Cool festivals, as well as a round of headlining performances. A brief U.S. trek precedes the European outing. Tickets for all headlining shows (Europe and U.S.) are on on-sale Friday, Jan. 20 at 10 am local time. Night Club opens on all headlining dates. Ticketing links can be found via Puscifer.com.
Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired offers a track-for-track re-imagining of the 12 songs from Existential Reckoning. Puscifer band members Mitchell and Round, along with current touring musicians Greg Edwards (Failure, Autolux) and Gunnar Olsen reinterpret tracks from the prophetic, electro-laced record. The Academy Award-winning team of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross tackle “Apocalyptical” (Reznor has a co-writing credit with Maynard James Keenan and Mitchell on Puscifer’s 2009 song, “Potions”), Phantogram revamp “Postulous,” Drummer Sarah Jones and Bring Me The Horizon’s Jordan Fish tackle “”Theorem,” Queens of The Stone Age (and sometimes A Perfect Circle/Failure) guitar player Troy Van Leeuwen partners with his Gone is Gone bandmate, Tony Hajjar for “Grey Area,” while Tool’s Justin Chancellor and The Crystal Method’s Scott Kirkland join forces for “UPGrade.” Additional contributors include Juliette Commagere, who first appeared on Puscifer’s 2011 album Conditions of My Parole, keyboard player Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails), and BBC 1’s Daniel P. Carter.
Existential Reckoning: Re-Wired tracklist:
1. Bread and Circus (Re-imagined by Mat Mitchell) 2. Apocalyptical (Re-imagined by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) 3. The Underwhelming (Re-imagined by Juliette Commagere) 4. Grey Area (Re-imagined by Troy Van Leeuwen & Tony Hajjar) 5. Theorem (Re-imagined by Sarah Jones & Jordan Fish) 6. UPGrade (Re-imagined by Justin Chancellor & Scott Kirkland) 7. Bullet Train To Iowa (Re-imagined by Alessandro Cortini) 8. Personal Prometheus (Re-imagined by Greg Edwards) 9. A Singularity (Re-imagined by Carina Round) 10. Postulous (Re-imagined by Phantogram) 11. Fake Affront (Re-imagined by Gunnar Olsen) 12. Bedlamite (Re-imagined by Daniel P. Carter)
Puscifer tour dates:
May 18 Daytona Beach, FL Welcome to Rockville May 23 Asheville, NC Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium May 27 Columbus, OH Sonic Temple Festival May 28 Northfield, OH MGM Northfield Park – Center Stage May 30 Rochester, NY Kodak Center Main Theater June 1 Baltimore, MD The Lyric Baltimore June 2 Atlantic City, NJ Hard Rock Casino June 3 Bethlehem, PA Wind Creek Event Center June 10 Dublin, Ireland 3Olympia Theatre June 12 Glasgow, UK O2 Academy Glasgow June 13 Manchester UK Manchester Academy June 15 London, UK TBA June 17 Clisson, France Hellfest June 20 Copenhagen, Denmark Vega June 21 Stockholm, Sweden Fryshuset June 26 Hamburg, Germany Docks June 27 Berlin, Germany Huxleys June 28 Berlin, Germany Huxleys June 30 Belfort, France Eurockeennes Festival July 1 Tilburg, Netherlands 013 Poppodium Tilburg July 2 Werchter, Belgium Rock Werchter July 4 Barcelona, Spain Club Razzmatazz July 6 Lisbon, Portugal Nos Alive Festival July 7 Madrid, Spain Mad Cool Festival
