Yeah, I know it's been awhile since the blog's last update regarding gigs and live shows. Here's what's cooking at the moment:
Closing up October, here's a gig that has a little of everything. On Saturday the 26th of October, at
KYTTARO Live Club one shall enjoy the sweet & heavy tunes of:
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Karma Violens: created in September 2002 and kicking serious ass ever since. Their music is an
amalgam of Extreme Metal (death, thrash, black) combined with Hardcore.
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Kin Beneath Chorus: formed in 2007 in Thessaloniki, they have already their debut death metal/metalcore album
Futuristic.Composed released by the almight
Spreading Dysphoria Industries. It's always good to have Northeners in a gig line-up!
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All Vows Collapse: and all words fail to describe the impatience I have while waiting on their upcoming debut release. -Core to the bone! Wait, check out an interview they gave to yours truly over
here!
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Deeds not Words: Progressive with a touch of the metal core and the experimental.
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Royalty: the youngsters will open up the show, looking forward to some fresh hardcore!
Doors open at 20:00, show starts at 21:00, have 5 euros to get past the doors, and some extra for merch and beer.
Off to November, thrash is the way to go!
I always like to include some
Faithreat to my list of tunes. The thrashers from Volos have won my attention & affection since their last EP
Thrashing With The Stars. On Saturday the 2nd of November, at
Zero, we all gather to
party hard and celebrate
Faithreat's latest self-titled release! Supporting Faithreat that night, are hardcore old timers
Censored Sound and groovy-thrashcore Athenians
Never-Trust. Sadly,
Progress Of Inhumanity cancelled due to personal reasons...
Since there is no official entrance fee, be there at 21:00 and have a little something to contribute financially, as well as some doe for Faithreat's freshly cut vinyl. I justcame in my pants.
6 days later, doom is in the air!
Smoke The Fuzz has started this season with a bang! On Friday the 8th of November at
Six D.O.G.S. we'll despair under the tunes of
Suma,
Sadhus (The Smokin Community) &
Gomgoma. The press release is priceless, therefore I shall re-post it in full:
- SUMA: Hailing from Malmö, Sweden and formed in 2001 : SUMA has been spreading
the plague of their sonic weight, noise-ridden hallucinatory doom metal
on the world for the past decade and have lured hordes of humans into
the lair with their devastatingly heavy, one way trip into the vortex
live performances and crushing delivery on their recorded matter.
The past year has seen some changes to the entity that is SUMA. After
more than a year's hiatus and decimated to a four-piece with the
departure of DR.J's vocals in the winter of 2011/12 there was no
hesitation in figuring out how to move forward. Vocals kept within the
reborn entity and an additional depth to the maelstorm added by the
introduction of the taurus. Regenerated to enable unexplored structures
of their sphere... there is vast darkness on the horizon.
They are
currently working on material for their fourth album - THE ORDER OF
THINGS - to be recorded in the winter of 2013. This brings on the third
occasion with legendary engine-ear BILLY ANDERSON (Melvins, Neurosis,
Sleep, Eyehategod) at the helm of the recording. This is the imminent
evolution from the past's behemoths of albums, LET THE CHURCHES BURN and
ASHES.
Ending the year and a half long hiatus from performing
live, they returned with some festival shows and a tour with Acid King
in 2012 and are playing shows and touring till the end of 2013 and
onward...
With a strong DIY mind, SUMA has been releasing most
of it's music through their own label and hitting the roads across
Europe over the years through their own booking and with kindred spirits
across the plains.
In 2010 SUMA was invited by Tom G. Warrior to
take part in his "Only Death Is Real" curated day at ROADBURN and saw
their first appearance on U.S. soil - an east-coast tour with Unearthly
Trance. As well as distribution and marketing help for ASHES through
swedish death/black metal label REGAIN RECORDS.
- Sadhus (The Smokin Community): In the year of our lord 1980, a green massive comet falls down to
earth. Inside it a huge hairball, rotten, matted all together begins to
inhale music, different from the usual, just perfect to its ears. In its
quest, three mushrooms forced it in the psychedelic form of music and a
Baba helped it in his gnosis. So, all five after a lot of intergalactic
wanderings, decided to stay in earth as the embodiment of five earthly
figures, keeping their genuine un-earthly characters. Life in earth was
not what they expected so decided to communicate through music. Magic
herbs, intermixtures of smoke, a lot of alcohol mixes, hallucinatory
quests led them to express themselves through their music their personal
experiences on this fastidious planet. Using their own colours, their
fury for everything and looking back to the beautifully trips, they
tried through their pervert minds to express themselves. So different
and yet so similar. Careless laughs, endless hangovers, trips to the
unknown, general wanderings in hostile galaxies. All of that as the
fellow-travellers at their rehearsals. And above all that, a powerful
green stuff, leftover from the comet, taking care of them. Roll
fast...play slow...!!!
RegularPaul wrote in Spinalonga Records... A
bunch of weedians with all the right influence, Sadhus the Smoking
Community live by one rule. Roll fast, play slow. Their (10€) bag of
sludge contains ultraslow riffage, agonizing vokills, repetitive tempos
and endless sessions. Sessions that are sometimes shared at gigs but
mostly occur amongst friends at their own meaty rehearsal space. Dr.
Doom's Lair wrote... Take Iron Monkey, throw them in the desert and bury
them in smoke. They put the grove back into sludge!!!
- Gomgoma:
The abbrevation was our will's order for the preparation and
administration of a drug or device for us, as patient, to construct slow
short diseases. Doom ad libitum. Whatever its sub-genre. Crust or
anything else pro re nata, we suppose. Due to the fact that we're
carrying a chromosome translocation, the abortion shall be multiple,
even though we're hardly pregnant of paeans expressed as acid reflux (=a
common condition and an abnormal one in which acid in the stomach rises
up into the esophagus). But damn sure, it's only the very start of all
this addiction. The four men, mentally hosted in psychiatric chambers,
intend to create such tunes which shall cause a permanent, impaired body
movement, aka Akinesia. A congenital absence of an opening at the
bottom end of our intestinal tracts has allowed us to shit only two
tracks of utter disgust yet. The flexible plastic tube, aka catheter,
inserted into the bladder to provide continuous urinary drainage is
where we keep all ideas unexposed. Of course, until we piss the whole
illness some day. 'Til then, stay formicated and fornicated.The presale of the tickets has already started, 12euros for those that are quick, 15 euros for those that will go straight to the doors that night. Keep your eyes and ears open, during one of the next radio shows we'll give away one ticket while hosting a radio session with either Elina, the girl behind
Smoke The Fuzz and/or
Gomgoma...
The very next day, some heavy shit is hitting the fan over at
Second Skin Club:
Bowel Of Noise Records is the mastermind of this gig and the line-up looks fucking sick:
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Year Of The Goat: Hailing from Sweden, this band knows their psychedelic occult rock. Having just released their latest work Angel's Necropolis, they are headlining this sweet gig.
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Aherusia:
Greek fucking black metal! I pity the fool that hasn't checked them
out, this guys rock the cock since 1997! Ever-evolving and always with
something in the making, Aherusia are a safe and solid bet for some
satanic entertainment.
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Mahakala:
Speak of the devil, these guys know just how to destroy everything (and
live forever). Words fail me, go check out their latest release
Devil's Music (one of the best 2013 Greek releases) as well as an
interview they gave a while back to yours truly.
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Speedblow: Having just
resurrected
from their ashes, Speedblow are opening up that night. Brace yourselves
for some serious doomy heavy metal, and be on the lookout for upcoming
releases and live shows. Almost forgot, crack a beer open and listen to
the Heavy & Unhealthy radio session featuring Speedblow
over here.
Doors open at 20:00, presale is at 20 euros, tickets at the door will be 25 euros. METAAAAL \m/
Speaking of upcoming releases...
Trailblazer Records is hosting the release party of Black Soul Horde's debut release on Thursday the 21st of November,over at
AN Club and here's the line-up:
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Black Soul Horde: this is what you get when you put together members from bands such as
Speedblow, Mahakala, Sun of Nothing, Engine-V and Nordor into a studio and on stage. Black Soul Horde have just been born (or should I write 'gathered') and they have released their debut album entitled Tales Of The Ancient Ones under the wings of No Remorse Records. This will be their second time on stage and I really look forward to catch them live. Give the album a listen, it reeks of old school heavy metal and while you're at it, check out the Heavy & Unhealthy radio interview they gave a while back.
- Steamroller Assault: To make a long story short, if
you dig your Heavy / Thrash Metal, Rock 'n' Roll and Blues Leads to be
filthier than shit, then this is for you. These guys have been absent
for about a year or so from the scene, so attendance is a must!
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Convixion: Eat & drink metal, play hard, party harder! 2 releases, a fuckload of live shows and beer. That will be all, carry on.
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Gauntlet:
The night will start with this newly-found traditional heavy metal band
from Athens. Rumors say that fans of Maiden, Priest & Omen will get
a boner.
Be at the venue at 20:00, have 6 euros plus extras for beer and merch and get ready to mosh.
This endless post would not be complete, without the addition of some bacon.
Be sure to have your inflated life-rafts, plastic tits and pitta-gyro at hand on Saturday the 23rd of November over at
7 Sins Club, for that night,
Hangover Era presents:
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Mortal Torment: New band line-up, new songs, upcoming sophomore release. Gyros. Stupidity guaranteed. More stupidity
here.
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Murder Made God:
New release, balanced violence, razor-sharp riffs & heavy-as-fuck vocals. Dismemberment guaranteed.
- Abnormal Inhumane: New stuff freshly out of the morgue, beastly brutal death metal. Pulverization guranteed.
- Grasroll: Auntie Anna has the recipe for some violent, sharp, head-slapping material. Mosh pits guaranteed.
Doors open at 20:00, killing spree starts at 20:30. Sell your family for 3 euros and be there.
That 's it (or is it?) for late October and November, regarding gigs in Athens, if I forgot like 10 or 20 more live shows, well it sucks to be you reading this here post. Get off your ass and start digging, a good gig is always near by.
'Til the next gig mayhem post, stay true, stay heavy.\m/
