Epica and Eluveitie tour just announced, with support from The Agonist. Gingerphiles take note.

 

Tue Sep 08 / Soundstage / Baltimore, MD

Wed Sep 09 / Paradise Rock Club / Boston, MA

Fri Sep 11 / Corona Theatre / Montreal, QC

Sat Sep 12 / Imperial Theatre / Quebec City, QC

Sun Sep 13 / Phoenix Concert Theatre / Toronto, ON

Tue Sep 15 / House Of Blues / Chicago, IL

Wed Sep 16 / Mill City Nights / Minneapolis, MN

Fri Sep 18 / O'Brians Event Centre / Saskatoon, SK

Sat Sep 19 / Union Hall / Edmonton, AB

Sun Sep 20 / MacEwan Ballroom / Calgary, AB

Tue Sep 22 / Vogue Theatre / Vancouver, BC

Wed Sep 23 / Neumos / Seattle, WA

Fri Sep 25 / Regency Ballroom / San Francisco, CA

Sat Sep 26 / Fonda Theatre / Los Angeles, CA

Mon Sep 28 / Gothic Theatre / Denver, CO

Tue Sep 29 / Sokol Auditorium / Omaha, NE

Thurs Oct 01 / Mercury Ballroom / Louisville, KY

Fri Oct 02 / Agora Ballroom / Cleveland, OH

Sat Oct 03 / Irving Plaza / New York, NY

Tickets obtained.

Well done, boys .... love the HC concert connection.  

 

Colin ... you got an extra for me, right?

Happy to if you are coming out this direction, Gene.

Which show?  It could happen.

Baltimore?  I need to get tickets...

Seattle.

Science!

Just booked a cabin on 70K 2016!

 

So good.  Thanks Iain.

Right?

Shape of Despair, Alone in the Mist -- Bandcamp streaming and purchase link

I thought their last album -- Monotony Fields -- was a nice return to form, back to the Shades of... and Angels of Distress era, but this might be even better.

Doom.  Just funereally paced, cavernous reverb-washed doom, where it takes them 5 minutes to sing one 4-line verse.

EDIT:  It's a remaster of their 1998 demo, that might explain why it literally harkens back to their early days.

You guys. I haven't bought an album in the middle of listening to it for the first time in ages. Check this out. They're from Quebec.

 

 

Oh my...

The new album by Samael is really amazing.

I've recently discovered a couple of good ones in a genre that I didn't know existed:

Myrkur - if Loreena McKennitt played black metal, it would sound like this.

Summoning - ambient black-folk metal. 

Damn, so good.

4 hours ago, acidbasement said:

I've recently discovered a couple of good ones in a genre that I didn't know existed:

Myrkur - if Loreena McKennitt played black metal, it would sound like this.

Summoning - ambient black-folk metal. 

Damn, so good.

Hey, if you find something that sounds like Taylor Swift doing atmospheric gothic metal, let me know.  Did you see my song of the year?  After listening to your birthday list, I think you might like.

 

Hey, if you find something that sounds like Taylor Swift doing atmospheric gothic metal, let me know.  Did you see my song of the year?  After listening to your birthday list, I think you might like.
 

Amaranthe ticks the Taylor Swift and gothic boxes I think, not so much the atmospheric.

Summoning, Myrkur -- yeah, these are 6oth aweʃome.  Will give Amaranthe some listens next.

 

This kinda defies categorization, but I like it. Melodic death metal meets delta blues and some other stuff along the way?

1 hour ago, acidbasement said:

This kinda defies categorization, but I like it. Melodic death metal meets delta blues and some other stuff along the way?

i liked it too, very unique.

First time listening to this album all the way through. It's really good. Can't wait to see them in 6.5 weeks.

Meanwhile ...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/07/elderly_men_escape_care_home_to_go_to_wacken_open_air/

?

 

Meanwhile ...
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/07/elderly_men_escape_care_home_to_go_to_wacken_open_air/
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I'm sure there's more to the story, but damn, they should have waited till after the festival to drag them back to the home.

Especially given the German Engineering involved ...

https://www.dw.com/en/german-metalheads-construct-beer-pipeline-for-wacken/a-38962724

Hey @Dusty Chalk, the new GRAI is really effing good! https://grai.bandcamp.com/album/ashes-2017