Karnivool

Karnivool is very happy to announce that due to unprecedented demand they have added a second Brisbane date at The Hi-Fi on Sunday July 22.

Their first show at The Tivoli sold out late last week, so instead of heading home to WA, the band will stay for an extra day and see if they can make the Hi-Fi Bar in Brisbane move off it’s foundations!

This will be the last show added to the Melodias Frescas tour, which has already completely sold out all 4 Victorian dates. With extra shows added in WA, NSW and now QLD, very limited tickets are available for all remaining shows, with folks in Perth and Adelaide in particular advised to get their skates on! Get ‘em while you can people!

If you happened to miss this last time.. check out a sneak peak at the forthcoming DVD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv0D5RzfAI4

Those fans of Karnivool who have been around for the long haul may have heard of this as-yet untitled mythical beast and, perhaps, had given up hope! The DVD, which has had footage sourced from all over the world over a 5 year period, is now well and truly in the editing stage by the band themselves so fans will be able to see the fruits of their labours in the not too distant future. This work will come to a short halt whilst the band head onto the road with Victorian rockers Redcoats and Sydney’s instrumental post-rockers sleepmakeswaves.

KARNIVOOL “Melodias Frescas”
All shows over 18s only
Tickets for all shows on sale now and available from www.karnivool.com.au
NB * Redcoats and sleepmakeswaves are not appearing in Dampier or Bunbury

The new material retains the canny songwriting chops which distinguished the first album, but brings with it a more intense, guitar-centric approach.
“There’s certainly been a bit less for me to do in terms of keyboards – thankfully I can sing as well!” says Nick Storr, lead singer and keyboard player. “We’ve tended to use textural guitars and harmony vocals to sit in the sonic space that the keyboards occupied on the first album, so the goal is for it to sound just as textured and sophisticated, if not more – but just a bit more organic.”

Released last week, The Third Ending’s third single is titled Belong to Me, and is the most musically relaxed of the songs released to date. Lyrically though, it touches on some darker, more personal themes. Drummer and primary lyricist for this track, Andrew Knott explains ”I think people will read into lyrics what they want to, and I like lyrics that can be applicable to many people’s lives regardless of what the songwriter was thinking at the time, but for me this is a song about addiction, in all it’s guises. Just how all-consumed we as humans can get into certain things, and sometimes lose sight of the effect it is having on the people we love around us. The very things we’re trying to use to feel more connected can end up driving us apart… it’s kind of an inverted love song. But, like all things T3E, the song was written with a large contribution from the other guys in the band, so I’m sure it ends up meaning different things to them as well”

“I think the fans of our earlier stuff will really enjoy this track too, it’s got a bit more of the flavours of the first album in it than the previous tracks we’ve released so far. We’re growing up, and changing, but we’re still well aware where we’ve come from and I think it’s reflected in this track especially.”
So will there be an actual CD in the future? “It’s a brave new world out there for artists, and we wanted to try something a bit different this time. But we certainly plan to have a physical CD at the end of this release process, with plenty of extra goodies” explains Nick.

As part of the promotion T3E are also inviting fans to be part of their upcoming June release by recording their own backing vocals and submitting them online.

The Third Ending’s new music and details of how you can sing back up for the next T3E single can be found at the band’s website: www.thethirdending.com

Huxwhukw and the Crooked Beak of Heaven Remixes

In November 2011, Serious Beak released their debut album Huxwhukw to critical acclaim. It received delightful reviews from the likes of Loud Mag, Music Feeds, Sea of Tranquility, Metal Sucks, Metal Obsession, Invisible Oranges, Kill Hipsters, and Metal As Fuck amongst others.

The reception by Australia’s underground musicians must have been similar, because when the band made the raw stems from Huxwhukw available online and asked people to remix, rework and transform their debut album there was no shortage of interest.

After receiving dozens of submissions from Australia and beyond, the band have pieced together their favourite ten tracks into a special digital-only release: Huxwhukw and the Crooked Beak of Heaven Remixes. The album spans genres as diverse as glitchy electronica, ambient shoegaze, classical film score, German industrial metal and an acoustic country hoedown, from artists such as Alex Wilson (sleepmakeswaves, Enkidu), Nick Soole (Slimey Things), Dylan Mitrovich (Breaking Orbit), Hinterlandt, Godswounds and many more.

The album is available on a pay-what-you-like basis from BandCamp.

Sans Vox event poster

OzProg is proud and excited to announce that we’ll be having a re-launch celebration at the Sans Vox instrumental showcase at Melbourne’s famous Esplanade Hotel.

Featuring the very best of local instrumental music (including more than a few OzProg favourites), Sans Vox will take over the Gershwin Room on Saturday, May 5th.

Presented by Welkin Entertainment, the amazing line-up for this show is:

Tangled Thoughts of Leaving (W.A.)
Mushroom Giant (single launch)
Xenograft
Anna Salen
Bear the Mammoth
Jarek (late show)

Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are $13 available directly from the bands (see below for links).

http://welkinentertainment.com/
http://www.ozprog.com/
http://www.facebook.com/TangledThoughtsOfLeaving
http://www.facebook.com/mushroomgiant
http://www.facebook.com/Xenograft
http://www.facebook.com/annasalenband
http://www.facebook.com/BearTheMammoth
http://www.facebook.com/jarekmusic

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/266651816751608.

Meniscus European tour poster

Sydney’s Meniscus have revealed the news that they will be touring Europe later in the year. The bad news is that the re-release of Absence of I has been delayed:

Hi Everyone,

We are very proud to announce our 2012 European tour dates!

We are still working on getting some of these dates filled in but we should have the full show dates very soon.

We look forward to seeing our European fans very soon!

In other news, we unfortunately have had to delay the sale of the absence of i re-release as the packaging for the cd wasn’t up to our standards.  We are currently working on getting this resolved and should have it available very soon.  We will be sending out the pre-ordered cd’s first to anyone who has purchased them.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thanks for your continued support!

Sleepwalker tour poster

Brisbane nu-proggers Dead Letter Circus have posted a free preview track called “Wake Up” from their upcoming album.

Download “Wake Up” from MusicGlue.

Dead Letter Circus’s Sleepwalker Australian tour – with guests Fair to Midland (U.S.) and Twelve Foot Ninja – is selling fast. Tickets for all shows can be bought at oztix.com.au.Local supports for the tour are as follows:

Toehider

Guitar fans take note: Toehider are proud to announce a rare opportunity to meet Paul Reed Smith of PRS Guitars.

On June 6, Toehider will be performing on stage at 8PM at the Northcote Social Club and will be joined on stage by the man himself, Mr Paul Reed Smith. This is a night for guitar playing and guitar talking.

Also performing on the night is Electric Mary. this is the first time these two powerhouse Melbourne rock bands have performed on the same bill, all with PRS Guitars around their necks and powered by PRS Amplifiers.

Tickets are $10 and the evening is already 1/3 sold out. Book now from the Northcote Social Club.

Rosetta

Metal Obsession reports that “U.S. sludge/post-metal/whatever gods Rosetta” are coming back to Australia for a national tour:

If you saw them last time then you will no doubt be at one or several of these shows. If you haven’t seem them before, do yourself a favour and change that. They’re an absolute powerhouse. Below is a track from their latest album A Determinism of Morality, and they also have a documentary on the way which will no doubt be an interesting watch.

Rosetta Australian Tour

25.07 Perth @ The Rosemount
26.07 Perth @ TBC
27.07 Brisbane @ TBC
28.07 Sydney @ The Sandringham Hotel
29.07 Wollongong @ Yours & Owls
30.07 Sydney @ Black Wire Records
01.08 Canberra @ Bar 32
02.08 Melbourne @ The Curtin Bandroom
03.08 Geelong @ The National Hotel
04.08 Melbourne @ Black Goat Warehouse
05.08 Adelaide @ Enigma Bar
06.08 Adelaide @ TBC
07.08 Melbourne @ The Bendigo
08.08 Newcastle @ The Great Northern
09.08 Brisbane @ The Zoo