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THE KERRANG!
Awards may be six long,
long weeks away, but to
be quite honest with you,
we can hardly contain
our excitement. And,
judging by the squillions
of votes being cast on
our MySpace profile for
the best British New-
comer award, it seems
that you lot can’t either!
But fear not, folks, we've got a respite in
the form of the K! Day Of Rock on August
10, and this year’s line-up is probably the
strongest yet! Turn to page 6 to find out
who’s playing... Now, which one of you
, lucky, lucky people will win a table at the
K! Awards for you and nine of your mates?

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A FRIEND and | went to
a Down gig recently and

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managed to meet Phil
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you print this picture of us
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DEAN, WIDNES.

JOIN GEORGE from Leicester

and support the NEW Kerrang!
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for people who are experiencing one person walk away without a huge
feelings of distress or despair. If AMSTERDAM smile on their face! | can’t wait to see
you feel you need someone to talk I'VE JUST returned from Amsterdam, them play at the CIA on July 22nd.
to, email jo@samaritans.org or call having spent my birthday weekend LAURA-AMY, VIA MYSPACE.
08457 90 90 90. there. Hailing from South Africa, | PS: Kerrang! is the best mag ever!
never got to see quality live acts so
imagine my glee when Tool AND
Deftones announced UK dates. |
CAN’T STOP, GOTTA missed Download (and therefore
DATE WITH A HAIRNET Deftones) but caught Tool on the
JUST WONDERING about the new date you reviewed (K!1114) and
Lostprophets video. Why isn’t the kid was totally mesmerized and blown
in the kitchen wearing a hair net? With away by their live power. Then,
that ‘lovely’ bush of emo-hair, I’m sure to add a wee cherry to my cake, CHOMPING GROUND
he’s a health hazard. while trawling around the streets of WHILE WORKING produce at work
STUART, VIA E-MAIL. Amsterdam looking for a restaurant the other day, | was amazed to see
that Goldfinger had gone into the fruit
business.... and their plums are really

RANT OF THE- WEEK

firm and juicy! Ha ha. YOU GUYS
ROCK! SHOE BUSINESS
MATT, ISLE OF WIGHT. WHAT THE the hell? Mention Cristina
Scabbia’s ‘huge’ heels twice in an

ENOUGH’S ENOUGH suitable for my big day, | caught sight

interview, and show no pictures?
(K!1114) It’s not on. Repent.
| LOVE the Angels And Airwaves | may not know where I’m going of Adam Jones kicking back outside GINGER T, VIA TEXT.
album (‘We Don’t Need To but at least | know I’m going to an Italian joint, waiting to go in. The
Whsiper’), | can’t stop playing it. be okay. | was reading the latest wife and | took this
There’s not one bad song on the issue of Kerrang! and | got very ign, t
inside, vesce weet — pigeon OF
album. I listen to the album after pissed off with people dissing Tom
at the same table
a shit day and it always puts a DeLonge and Angels And Airwaves.
where he was (by STRIPPING
smile on my face. Sometimes | If they've got nothing nice to say,
get depressed and after hearing don’t say anything at all. I’m fed sheer coincidence), THIS IS a request for a giant
the album |feel happier and | get up with their stupid comments. and pondered the poster of Pete Wentz’ cock.
a sense of optimism. At times | People are so ignorant. What has
way fate plays a He’s a real man!
role in important RIDA A, DARTFORD.
feel like | have no future and there Tom done wrong? He’s still making decisions - like
are times when | see there’s no great music and what's wrong with where to eat. Best
point to life ‘cos of all the shit that that? Just give the guy a break. birthday month of
gets me down. Since buying the People should buy the Angels And my life, so far. Now, if you would be so
record it’s made me realise that | Airwaves record and listen to the kind as to please e-mail me the set-list
shouldn't wallow in my pain but epic sounds and great music and of the gig, | would be the happiest Tool
try to seek happiness in the future. just shut the fuck up! Argh! Keep fan in the world...
When | hear Tom DeLonge’s voice on rocking, Tom. C BAXTER, VIA E-MAIL.
| feel optimistic about the future. HAYLEY, VIA MYSPACE.
MEET THE ROCKERS

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| MET Lostprophets at a signing in
YOU'VE WON A £35 GIFT CARD FROM THE LOVELY FOLK AT HMV! YOU CAN USE Virgin Megastore Cardiff today and
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INCLUDE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS WITH ALL YOUR FEEDBACK LETTERS, SO WE and a half wait with 500 other fans in
tap dog for music-dvd-games
CAN SEND YOUR GIFT CARD!
the hot sun. All of the band were really
nice, especially lan who made time for

KNOWING WHAT IS TRULY GOOD FOR YOU & NOT LISTENING TO ANYMORE BULLSHIT, SWAPPING SIRENS FOR SEAGULLS, NEIL DIAMOND, THE POWER OF NOW (AGAIN), A FINISHED POEM THAT HE
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RAINBOW DISCOUNTS IN VEGAS, MS PACMAN HUNTS, STOLEN BICYCLE DISGUISE AND REPAIR, MAKING NO PRETENCE ABOUT NOT DOING THE WORK YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE DONE, CONTEMPLATING A HITMAN FOR RONALDO, THE
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2 NEXT MONTH’S Kerrang! Awards festivities will kick off in

blazing rock ‘n’ roll style with the return of the annual K! Day Of Rock
on Thursday, August 10.
Swedish metal titans Arch Enemy, Welsh chart-sensations
The Automatic, post-hardcore heroes Fightstar, Watford schizoid
metallers SikTh and Sheffield-based metalcore mob Bring Me The Horizon will
all be performing and doing signing sessions at London’s Virgin Megastore on
Oxford Street.
“The Kerrang! Day Of Rock is always special but we genuinely believe this is
the strongest bill ever to shake the foundations of the Virgin Megastore,” says
Kerrang! editor Paul Brannigan. “The line-up reflects the diversity of our scene
and, for those lucky enough to get a ticket, we can promise that this will be a day
to remember.”
Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott is looking forward to returning to the UK
after their triumphant set at this year’s Download Festival and plans to transform
the K! Day Of Rock into an altogether different beast.
“After the full-on mayhem of playing to 40,000 metalheads we weren't
expecting to be back in the UK again so soon!” grins Amott. “It’s really cool that
we will be headlining the Kerrang! Day Of Rock next month. It’ll be insane getting
together with a few fans in such a small place but we are really looking forward to
it and will be dishing out some pure fucking metal, Arch Enemy style! In fact we’re
gonna turn it into the Kerrang! Day Of Metal!”
“This is a big one for us,” says The Automatic frontman Rob Hawkins. “We're
really looking forward to it. It’s been an amazing year for us so far and getting
invited to play alongside loads of great bands is a big honour. Roll on August 10!”
“We can’t wait to get to the Day of Rock,” Fightstar frontman Charlie Simpson ‘
tells Kerrang!. “Last year we came down but didn’t play and had a great time.
This year we get to play as well — it will be great. We'll see as many of you there as
they'll let in the place!”
“This will be a blast!” admits SikTh guitarist Dan Weller. “We are playing better
than ever these days, and loving what we do more than ever, too. We played the
2003 Day Of Rock with The Darkness and had a lot of fun but this time, we have
a new album to unleash tothe masses. For those who like their metal tight like a
vice grip, come down and party hard!” f
“We're all super-psyched for it,” adds Bring Me The Horizon frontman Olly
Sykes. “We've never played a store before, especially not a mega one. It will be
cool as Hell, all our friends and fans get to come and party hard, and maybe we
will win a few new fans over too. It can be nothing but good. It’s free, so it has got
to be bad-ass!”
The day of rock-filled fun and frolics starts at 1pm (with doors opening at
9am) and entry is free but if you want to stay in the store to see Arch Enemy’s
performance at 9pm, you will have to be in possession of a special wristband.
These will be given out on a first-come-first-served basis from Virgin Megastore Arch Enemy
Retnaon Oxford Street on the morning of August 10.
Arch
Photo:
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DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL ‘A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar’ touch
frontman Chris Carrabba has revealed to upon a range of subjects including the war in
Kerrang! that his absence from the spotlight Iraq (‘Slow Decay’) and forbidden love (‘The
has left him wondering if the band’s fans Secret’s In The Telling’), but Carrabba admits
still exist. that the album took so long because constant
Carrabba and his bandmates took two touring had left him struggling for things to
years writing and recording their forthcoming write about.
fourth album ‘Dusk And Summer’.with “The start of the writing was a bit clums'
producers Don Gilmore (Pearl Jam, Linkin Carrabba says. “! wasn’t sure what Iwa
Park) and Daniel Lanois (U2) in Los Angeles drawing inspiration from and | realised that
and New York. was struggling because | hadn't stopped to
“I’m curious to see if people still care,” live at all. I'd come straight out of tour life. So
Carrabba tells K!. “If we hadn’t toured during we took some time off, relaxed a bit, and we
the making of this record, I’d definitely be started to get back some kind of semblance of
wondering if there were still people out life just from being stationary.”
there who do. Are you worried that bands like Fall Out
“This was a much longer process than Boy have stolen your thunder since you’ve
anything I’ve ever done before, and it been away?
was nice to not have any pressure to “Nah, not really,” he laughs. “There’s
be done with it,” he confesses. “We probably
acrossover in audience, but! —
did a lot of ex ig. We got a bit lost don’t lump us in with them, and it’s not like if
at the beginning, but we managed someone missed us they could go and see
to find our way. But | knew that them instead and get exactly the same thing.”
this record couldn't just be a little Dashboard Confessional's album ‘Dusk And
bit better than what we’ve done Summer’ is out on July 24 via Vagrant. The
before, it had to be a /ot better.” band play The Carling Weekend: Reading and
Songs on the follow-up to 2003’s Leeds festivals in August

Dashboard Confessional’s
Chris Carrabba: musing on all
things emo at the seaside

EIGHTY LUCKY Kerrang! really friendly! | couldn’t help myself

competition winners crammed into from singing and air-drumming along to
London’s sweltering Borderline venue to the tracks which probably made me look
listen to an exclusive playback of Stone like a right prat, but |don’t care because
Sour’s latest album ‘Come What(Ever) | was really
May’ on July 4. getting into
After being treated to a play of the the music!”
full album in the presence of frontman ‘Come
Corey Taylor and guitarists Jim Root (What) Ever
and Josh Rand, the insatiable crowd May’ will be
demanded a second spin of the album released
and a live singalong from Taylor. After on July 31
some coaxing from the gang of fans, through
Taylor took to the stage and sang the Roadrunner.
opening track, ‘30/30-150’ to the
crowd’s delight.
“It’s been really cool anda
bit weird to be here with all the
Kerrang! winners when they’re
hearing the album for the first
time,” said Taylor. “It’s great to
be able to play it and see what
everyone thinks.”
“It sounded awesome!”
grinned 16-year-old Charley
Olsen from Brighton. “I hada Main: Corey Taylor enjoys an
impromptu singalong
Photos:
Harries
Paul fabulous night. The guys were
Insets: Taylor and Jim Root
meet and greet to the max

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SALVATION. CHRISTIAN O’CONNELL IS COMING TO SKYONE.
SUNDAYS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.
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WE ARE SCIENTISTS
Genre-bending geek rock hotter than a Bunsen burner
“A REMOVAL man innocently asked us if we were of In April, the three-piece held their own alongside the
the scientific persuasion,” laughs frontman Keith Murray. likes of Atreyu and Aiden at the Give It A Name festival
“He probably thought why else would three pale, skinny and walked away with a new legion of fans.
guys need a van? We decided there and then that it “We had so much fun playing those shows,” says
would be foolish not to call ourselves We Are Scientists.’ Murray. “It was great to play on a heavier bill to people
They may resemble hip secondary school supply who probably had never thought of checking us out
teachers who’ve arrived fresh from a 1985 field trip, before. The most satanic album | own is probably
but for the Brooklyn-based trio - who are completed by Slayer’s ‘Reign In Blood’, but we're too skinny to write
bassist Chris Cain and drummer Michael Tapper- that’s riffs like that. We can barely lift our own equipment.”
neither here nor there. We Are Scientists’ major label
debut ‘With Love And Squalor’ is a hook-filled blend HEAR: The new single ‘The Great Escape’ out on July
of quirky indie-rock, discordant riffs and the type of 17 via Virgin. . ie :
smouldering disco beats that would coax even the most MORE INFO AT: www.wearescientists.com Thats eS © We Are Scientists:
socially-awkward onto the dancefloor. val geek and destroy
(Keith Murray, centre)
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> ark RELIGION frontman Greg Graffin’s Sorry. We were thinking of someone else. > pep eink BACH wishes you'd
ideal dinner guest would be Charles SOURCE: www.mtv.com/news all just lay of his mate, Axl Rose.
Darwin, the father of evolutionary biology. Particularly when it comes to his rather
“He was an experimentalist with plants, > METALLICA will make their debut plastic-looking appearance. “The man has
so | guess I'd serve him some of our new, appearance on ‘The Simpsons’ in never had plastic surgery or Botox,” says
fancy varieties of sweetcorn that weren't September on US telly. The Californian Bach. “That's the way he looks. He looks
around in the Victorian era,” says Graffin. foursome recorded their voices for the young, dude!” Young isn’t the word we'd
“| think he'd be pretty blown away.” cartoon last year. pick, dude.
Especially if it was dished up on some SOURCE: www.metallica.com SOURCE: www.tvguide.com
fancy plates.
SOURCE: wwweexclaim.ca ppm rare footage of DS Sars FOUND GLORY guitarist Chad
MEGADETH's first ever show in 1984 Gilbert has a confession to make. “I
> Strange news just in. Perma-grumps has surfaced online. The video clip is of bought Huey Lewis’ ‘Greatest Hits’ the
STAIND are self-confessed comedy the band belting out ‘The Mechanix’ in other day,” he admits. “I just saw it and
experts and count ‘Animal House’, Berkeley, California, with Slayer’s Kerry found myself paying for it. It's awesome.” Ax! Rose: don't say the B
‘Caddyshack’ and ‘Big Daddy’ among their King on second guitar. With hair! We think young Chadwick has spent too word, he’s just got good
favourite films. It really comes through in SOURCE: www.youtube.com/ much time in the sun, recently... genes. Hmmm...
their songs, doesn’t it? Oh, wait, what? watch?v=aCkRGEFyc-0 SOURCE: A phone chat with Chad
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BITE-SIZE NEWS, GOSSIP AND SCANDAL...

They may have left all the public speaking

to their former Blink 182 bandmate Tom
DeLonge over the last few months but it
looks like bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus and
drummer Travis Barker are gearing up to
unleash their new band, PLUS 44. The pair
have posted the first proper band photo since
their formation in April 2005 on their website
(www.plusfortyfour.com). Although no official and Pete Wentz
details have been released, it looks like the support ‘Rock For Life’
band now includes guitarist Craig Fairbaugh BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE are working
(ex-Transplants) and guitarist Shane Gallagher hard writing songs for the follow-up to their
(The Nervous Return) in the line-up and not Carol Heller 2005 debut, ‘The Poison’. “We're on fire,” says
(ex-Get The Girl), who was in the group initially. Hoppus and frontman Matt Tuck. “We're really happy with
Barker and their bandmates are working on thei r debut album, the new songs. A lot of bands’ second albums
which is rumoured for release in October. will be a lot more commercial, but ours is the
complete reverse. It’s borderline Slayer!”
‘We have two weeks pre-production in
September, and then we go into the studio
in January,” adds drummer Michael ‘Moose’
Thomas. “Not everything’s planned out yet, but
going by the last 18 months that we've been on
the road, and the way we've been playing, its
tely going to be heavier.” The band are
y on tour with G N’R. See Volume p58
for details

METAL WORK HENRY ROLLINS is

The Brighton Institute of Modern Music getting to grips with the

a
OP
(BIMM) is opening its doors for METAL newest string to his bow -
Ow, that’s going to
SUMMER SCHOOL. This year’s course runs TV presenting. Rollins has |, smart in the morning
from August 14 to 17, and students will be his own talk show on the c ‘Hatchet’
studying and playing songs by Metallica, Independent Film Channel
Trivium, Slipknot, Funeral For A Friend,.Iron in the States, simply titled
Maiden, Fall Out Boy, Slayer, Green Day, ‘The Henry Rollins Show’, IT’S A SCREAM!
Lostprophets and more, under the guidance which sees him waxing This August Bank Holiday, fear has a new name — THE
of alist of tutors which include Adrian lyrical on the likes of ZONE HORROR FRIGHTFEST. One of the world’s
greatest
music, politics, film and horror and fantasy film festivals, this year’s event
Erlandson (Cradle Of Filth), Dan Weller takes
pop culture, as well as interviewing celebrity guests. place at the Odeon West End, Leicester Square, London,
(SikTh), Colin Doran(Hundred Reasons),
“It gives me a voice,” Rollins tells K!. “It lets me write and runs from Thursday August 24 to Monday 29. There'll
Benji (Skindred), Mark Clayden and Jason
my own material and mouth off and | get to interview be a staggering selection of exclusive sneak previews
Bowld (Pitchshifter/This is Menace) and Ace and
really interesting people, like Ozzy Osbourne, Oliver premieres, plus guest introductions by directors and
(Skunk Anasie). The summer school is open cast
members. Highlights of this year’s Proceedings include
to vocalists, guitarists, bass players and Stone and (German film auteur) Werner Herzog.”
hardcore splatterfest ‘Hatchet’, Korean creature-feature
drummers and you're advised to Rollins also revealed that he’s working on getting
‘The Host’, and savage psycho thriller ‘The Lost’. Weekend
book your place early to avoid the show aired outside of America. “I’d love to take it Passes are available now, with individual tickets going
to different countries,” he says. “I'd like to interview on
disappointment! Log onto www. *» sale on August 1. Full details of the films and tickets are
bimm.co.uk or-call 01273 626 666 Tony Blair and Jack Straw and get them to give me available at www.frightfest.co.uk and www.odeon.co.uk
some straight answers about their involvement in the or
for more info. by phoning the Odeon call centre on 0871 224 4007.
Iraq war.” Check out www.ifctv.com for clips.

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_ SHEPHERD'S BUSH
_ EMPIRE, LONDON
28.06.06

THE HANDMADE sign held by the hopeful soul,

patiently stationed by the entrance of the bustling Empire
reads: ‘NEED A TICKET, PLEASE HELP!’ Frankly, you don’t
fancy his chances. Not tonight. Not when it’s just five days
before the release of Muse's fourth album, ‘Black Holes And
Revelations’ and not when tonight is the night the band i
have decided to mark their first proper UK performance in od
nearly three years with a free show for competition winners
at this mid-sized theatre. You'd have to be insane to part
with a ticket.
Muse gigs have always carried a sense of spectacle to
match even the grandest of their musical ideas, but the
feverish excitement from tonight's crowd comes not only
from a close-up chance to see a band last seen filling Earl’s
Court twice over, but also to see where Muse could have
possibly gone after 2003’s Armageddon-inclined opus,
_. ‘Absolution’. Then again, as opener ‘Take A Bow’ unfurls cated
- from a single piano riff into a symphonic supernova m
- complete with cataclysmic big bang finale — it seems that
following up an album that began with the end of the world
is less of a concern when you have the whole solar system
at your disposal.
What's impressive about the new material isn’t just
the fact that the neo-clubland pulse of ‘Map Of The
Problematique’ or the groovalicious shakedown of single
‘Supermassive Black Hole’ showing Muse to be masters
of where-do-you-want-to-go-today? reinvention, but also
how well it already translates to a live environment. For
all their technical virtuosity and imagination, there’s an
underlying, elemental energy to all Muse performances that
can condense the most outlandish of impulses into a bullet-
point blitzkrieg of knock-out intensity and heart-bursting
song — one that needs no additional explanation.
The fact that Matt Bellamy says barely two words to
his audience all night scarcely matters when he's there,
flailing about his piano for ‘Butterflies And Hurricanes”
Rachmaninov-style breakdowns, demolishing his fretboard
for ‘Stockholm Syndrome’’s Slayer-baiting overdrive,
unleashing noisy streams of alien feedback between songs
— less still when he’s flanked on all sides by an aurora
borealis of flashing video screens and giant, transporter
room lighting tubes that compete with arena-sized sound
levels for sensory dominance.
It’s a testament to their forward thinking that they close
the evening not with the familiar chart triumphs of ‘Bliss’ or
‘New Born’ but with another new track, ‘Knights Of Cydonia’
- a call-to-arms berserk-athon of helium prog lunacy, t
spaghetti western swagger and Led Zeppelin bombast that,
more than anything tonight, offers the best indication of
where Muse are at right now. Which means that 2006 is
oe
about to get a whole lot more exciting.
CATHERINE YATES
 MARMADUKEDUKE _
BARFLY, LONDON
30.06.06

GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. MOSH.

THIS RIDICULOUSLY hot evening is
only going to get more ridiculous.
A gaggle of youths appear outside
Camden's Barfly wearing improvised
bin liner capes with plastic swords
in their clutches and healthy intent in
their eyes. They are here to worship
The Duke. And worship they will.
There is no real mystery shrouding
the identities of this band anymore
—tonight is completely sold out— but
as Marmaduke Duke descend upon
the stage to rapturous applause,
the five still insist on retaining an
inscrutable sense of bewilderment
about them. They immediately engulf
the room in the thunderous abstract
tones of ‘Fridge and Fromage’ with
yellow netting adorning their painted
faces and an assortment of dresses,
cowboy boots and hot pants so
outrageously hot the emergency
sprinklers were in danger of being
set off.
Having lost the makeshift masks
they embark upon more musical
madness, While the new songs are
ready to slay a whole new genera-
tion of disco enthusiasts, inciting an
airborne riot of crowdsurfers in this
tiny venue, existing material is still
positively majestic in it’s experimen-
tal hardcore bizarreness.
The Dragon and The Atmosphere’s
leaps the adoring crowd during
‘The Kill And The Kure’ signal the
end of the fiercest part of tonight's
musical proceedings but there is,
of course, always time for another
impromptu sword fight.

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dashing about the stage banging out
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MEAN FIDDLER, LONDON tree light-adorned microphones
over Nintendo-esque backing music
18.06.06 The Black Dahlia while roadies prepare the stage for
Murder: not as geeky Polysics — is the kind ofthing Bill
as they look Murray got paid big bucks to look at
ate
with bemusement in ‘Lost In Transla-
tion’. As it is, he’s just a precursorto
the orange boiler suited lunacy of
THE MEAN Fiddler is nowhere near capac- play; they don’t destroy the venue.
the main attraction. The four-piece
ity tonight. It is, after all, quite an ambitious The Black Dahlia Murder, on the other
launch into the spell-check tripping
leap from The Black Dahlia Murder’s last hand, are a totally different beast. Launching
‘Coelakanth is Android’ in unhinged
London date at the Camden Underworld, straight from soundcheck into ‘Thy Horror
style, their Devo-influenced bouncy
but the lack of sweaty bodies does nothing Cosmic’, a frenzy of blistering, bludgeoning
Japanese pop far punkier here than
to dampen what is an absolutely scorching blastbeats from the ‘Unhallowed’ album, on record. Despite insufferable
bill. Despite their straight-edge vegan core, they pummel the Mean Fiddler with sound temperatures, both band and crowd
Maroon unleash a nose-smashing tirade of — double bass like a hail of bullets. Geeky and put an admirable effort in, the
heavy-as-fuck metal, raw and brutal. The Ger- unassuming frontman, Trevor Strnad, (clad former rattling off songs without
man five-piece have shared stages with many in black-rimmed glasses and a Jawbreaker pause while the latter valiantly pogo
of hardcore and metal's superstars (Agnostic T-shirt) is one of metal’s most versatile vocal- as much as they can, particularly on
Front, Hatebreed, Sepultura), and after a long ists; able to twist his voice into both a deep the spiky ‘| My Me Mine’. Vocalist
slog, look set to have their ‘When Worlds Col- guttural roar and a possessed banshee growl, Hayashi is all grins and excitable
x lide’ album heard en masse. unleashing the dark, macabre and sexually- squawks between songs and there
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oO Black Dahlia Murder fans having toured with Bouncing and twisting his way across stage, and enthusiasm. However, after a
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® leaves a bitter taste. Long and repetitive, fucking asses!” he roars. “Come on you pus- relentless, Moog-flavoured clanging
= their normally ferocious sound lacks variety sies!” Fists punch the air and bodies pile up blur and in places it stings a little too
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3 - unlike their merchandise stand which has a down the front. Pure unadulterated carnage. much of style over substance. Tom Araya can play
2 startling array of different designs. Capable DAN SLESSOR Slayer’s set-list in
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UNHOLY ALLIANCE
FEATURING: SLAYER, LAMB OF GOD,
MASTODON, CHILDREN OF BODOM,
THINE EYES BLEED
HIFI BUYS AMPHITHEATRE, ATLANTA
27.06.06
KKKKK
CLASH OF THE TITANS: THE RETURN.

IT’S SO metal it hurts. It’s the kind the kind

of gig where it seems every other word of
every overheard conversation is ‘Slayer’. A
gig where a stroll through the car park to the
venue is a car stereo crash-course in Slayer’s
back catalogue. A gig where, even while tak-
ing a piss a full hour before it all kicks off, all
it takes is someone to yell ‘Slayer, mother-
fuckers!’ for everyone else in the packed loo
to respond with a spittle-spraying chant of,
you guessed it, ‘Slayarrr...!’.
It almost makes you pity Thine Eyes Bleed,
who - despite a groundswell of raucous
support from a crowd diminished by long
beer queues — don’t quite manage to fill
the venue with the sound of their guttural
heaviosity. Children of Bodom do their best
to keep their finger-splaying fretwork from
echoing tinnily, but in the sweltering breeze
itll take a metal cannon-blast from a band
like Mastodon playing their home turf to
really set this crowd alight. They set foot
onstage to a sound that can only come
from a throng of metalheads witnessing
one of their own scaling lofty heights. They
unleash the weirdly cybernetic opening riffs
of ‘Circle Of Cysquatch’ from their upcoming
‘Blood Mountain’ album on the unsuspecting
horn-throwers. It soon morphs into a kind of
high-volume, mind-bogglingly technical but
neck-snapping mule-punch that could only
be followed up by the anthemic brutality of
‘Blood And Thunder’. No-one less than Lamb
Of God could follow up such a celebratory
atmosphere. The Atlanta crowd's southern
affinity with the Richmond natives is hard
not to notice. A crippling mosh erupts as
Randy Blythe races along the stage and spits
the voice of Satan into his microphone. He
dedicates the twin-guitar blitzkrieg of ‘Red-
neck’ to the laughing locals, and the band
leave to the kind of screams for more that
make it clear that, if Slayer have any heirs
apparent, it’s Lamb Of God.
But on tonight's evidence these demigods
are in no danger of retiring soon. The lights
dim and if you didn’t know a Slayer gig was
on you'd think a riot was about to tear the
venue down. Is it possible to not teeter over
the brink of weeping with joy, headbang-
ing, or shitting yourself at the utter coolness
of ‘Mandatory Suicide’ or ‘Reign In Blood’?
Not tonight it isn’t. Plastic seat-backs get
slapped in unison at every pause to make the
sound of a military rally. The brash riffage of
‘Cult’ from their upcoming ‘Christ Illusion’
record gets the response usually afforded an
already-established classic. That’s because
these veteran thrashers have never deviated
from the evil sound, their tireless stage
presence or their almost unnatural ability to
transform the multiple generations of friend-
ly, beer-swilling metalheads into horn-throw-
ing, moshing berserkers. Tonight they've left
no doubt that they still reign supreme.
ALEXANDER MILAS
 DARKEST HOUR
PLUS: CEPHALIC CARNAGE
UNDERWORLD, LONDON
30.06.06

THERE ARE moments tonight during Cephalic Carnage’s set where

it seems almost impossible that they are hitting as many notes as
they are - flailing around like they're plugged into the mains, their
technical grindcore is mind-boggling in both complexity and ferocity.
Darkest Hour are utterly staggering too. Emerging to the forebod-
ing intro of ‘With A Thousand Words To Say But One’, they throw
themselves into their savage thrash with murder in mind. The
crowd response is totally off the hook, a heaving mass of continu-
ous movement with bodies flying from the stage constantly. ‘An
Epitaph’ is as bruising as ever and the closing epic of ‘Tranquil’ is
simply riveting, Kris Norris making the complex solo that dominates
the song seem effortless. For all their brutality, DH are a good time
party band and their intensity is perfectly offset by the great vibes
that permeate the room. The encore kicks off with the closing bars
of ‘How The Beautiful Decay’, which makes for a chill-inducing
moment before they finish the crowd off with the breathtaking one-

PR
two punch of ‘For The Soul Of The Saviour’ and a venomous ‘Sadist
Nation’. Friday night nirvana.

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THE UNDERWORLD, LO DON
01.07.06
AXISOFEVIL
PLUS: OUTFORBLOOD
HIGHBURY GARAGE, LONDON
KKKK 29.06.06
AIC’s William DuVall LOS ANGELES THRASH HEROES MAKE A
TRIUMPHANT RETURN.
KKK
and Jerry Cantrell: INDUSTRIAL GRINDINGS
IN THE CAPITAL.
Melancholy and despair IT'S EASY to forget that Armored
Saint frontman John Bush turned WITH SONG titles like ‘Piss Soaked
down an offer to sing for Metal- Wrench’ and more untamed facial hair
lica in their infancy because he than she can shake her walking stick
wanted to stick with his own at, Coventry's Out For Blood are your
band. Or that —far less trivi- nan’s favourite new band in waiting.
ally — he fronted thrash legends Switching between ferocious hard-
Anthrax throughout the ‘90s and core bursts and dense, jaw-breaking
through to last year before the grooves reminiscent of a steamroller
reunion of their ‘classic’ line-up charging in first gear, they stomp, spit
And then he opens his mouth. and snarl their waythrough a half hour
The man can sing —not some set that defines the term heavy metal.
growl or half-arsed falsetto, but Featuring ex-members of Labrat
proper metal-as-fuck belting. It and Pain Control, Axis Of Evil have
makes the fact that this is only been hailed as Britain's loudest
the second time Armored Saint band by everyone from the ‘Sunday
have ever played on these shores Sport’ to Channel 5. Within minutes
— the last time being 1991 — all it's abundantly clear as to why;
the more tragic. Blame label hitting the stage amid a tornado of
mismanagement or horrible luck, rapid-fire drum bursts and grinding
but this gloriously old-school, riffs, drenched beneath a blanket of
impeccably tight showing is synth-induced melodies to create a
undeniably bittersweet because, sound often as chilling as it is heavy.

ALICE INCHAINS simply, Armored Saint fucking

rule tonight. This isn’t the sound
There are, however, a few minor fac-
tors that currently route AOE to being

PLUS: THE HEDRONS of thrash diluted by commercial a good band rather than a great one.
concerns or misguided musical One is their cock-chokingly frustrating
reinvention. It’s in-your-face, insistence on keeping the snare pump-
THE ASTORIA, LONDON finger-shredding chorus-shouting ing thick and fast, rather than letting
04.07.06 fun as firmly planted in NWOBHM the riffs take over to add a delicious
showmanship as it is DIY punk groove-laden soundtrack for an audi-
William DuVall lays - it's proper thrash, innit. But it's ence who mirror the band’s onstage
the ghost of Layne a shame that the Camden Under- energy. Otherwise, this would have
Staley to rest much to offer a genre increasingly de-
world isn't packed out because it
! isn’t just ridiculously entertaining. pendent on old hands such as Ministry
It's a glimpse of true greatness for sustenance. Axis Of Evil are the
NO-ONE GIVES a fuck about The Hedrons. less-is-so-much-fucking-more guitar leads are that should have been. ultimate industrial prick-tease.
the very sound of despair and melancholy ALEXANDER MILAS RYAN BIRD
Tonight, one of the greatest bands to ever
emerge from Seattle is about to rise from it's as if he’s channelling Staley himself.
Suddenly all questions of whether this night

IS THIS YOU?
the grave. Alice In Chains never officially
is about nostalgia for the band gone by or
disbanded following singer Layne Staley’s
whether this is really Alice In Chains become
tragic death in 2002, and singer/guitarist Jerry absurdly irrelevant as the poetic grace of
Cantrell was always the songwriting soul of songs like ‘Man In A Box’ and ‘Rooster’ — their
the band that grabbed heavy metal by the sheer mournful gorgeousness — remind every- ALICE IN CHAINS
hand and dragged it kicking and screaming to one of what made Alice In Chains very fuck- 04.07.06
meet its ghostly blues ancestry. But whether ing great in the first place. It’s a rare lyric that
doesn’t have the whole of the sold-out venue
THE ASTORIA, LONDON
their tour is sacrilege or the best fucking
news, like, ever for people who missed them singing along, and judging by the explosive HELLO! YOU'VE won a copy of
the first time around — or just simply missed adulation punctuating every entry on the Peeping Toms self-titled album,
them — is going to fall squarely on touring set-list, it's a crowd very thankful that they're reviewed on page 48! To claim your
singer William DuVall tonight.
back. It’s the joy of hearing these master- album, send your name,
However, it takes him all of a heartbeat to
works of musical restraint and heartfelt allure address, a recent pic of
live - of witnessing this glorious resurrection yourself and the gig ticket
erase any doubt about his credentials. He
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T MAY only be midday, but the queue for New

York's Roseland Ballroom already spills off West
52nd Street up 7th Avenue and back around onto
53rd. Clad entirely in black - a stark contrast to
the smart summer wear of the thirtysomething
fashonistas passing by - this army of teenagers
are waiting to watch AFI play the second of two
sold-out nights at Roseland as part of their first US
headline tour since March 2004.
Big Joe, who works security on the stage door,
has never seen anything like it in his life. “These
kids are just insane,” he says. “When | clocked off work at 3:30
this morning they were all still hanging around. | told them that
the band had left a couple of hours ago, but they wouldn't take
my word for it. When | came back to work at 10 this morning they
were all still here —- exactly the same kids.”

T 9PM that evening AFI frontman Davey Havok struts into the
production office - a vision of glamour and flamboyance in tight
white trousers and a matching T-shirt. He wants to borrow a razor
to shave his armpits and get rid of his five o'clock shadow. Biology
is a bitch when you're the king of ardrogynous punk rock.
In the flesh, Havok is a truly striking figure, with high cheekbones
and perfectly preened jet-black hair. He looks utterly otherworldly.
We have a brief conversation about his long, immaculately painted
fingernails (yes, they are real, folks), but there’s no time to stop
and chat because there are 3,800 kids downstairs chanting his
band’s name.
These are extraordinary times for AFI. Hysteria follows them
everywhere they go. Their latest album, ‘Decemberunderground’,
debuted at Number One on the US Billboard chart. It’s already sold
over 400,000 copies. To say AFI are seriously hot property in the
States right now would be an understatement.

Davey's nail varnish AST-FORWARD 24 hours to the Electric Factory in downtown

sparked wild scenes Philadelphia where 16-year-old Valerie from New Jersey is sat at
the front of the line outside the venue sobbing her heart out. She

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was supposed to be at last night's show in New York.
“| had tickets for the Roseland Ballroom show but
everything went wrong,” she says, mascara running
down her cheeks. “I’m too young to go to the city by
myself, and there was no-one | knew who could take
me. I'm sorry if |appear hysterical, but everything
that my life has stood for in the last four years will be
stood on that stage right in front of me tonight.”
With AFI's sudden mainstream status, it would be
easy to dismiss Valerie as just another obsessed fan.
But with a 15-year career and seven albums under
their belt, AFI are far from the band du jour. They
have genuinely made a huge impact on people’s lives
— years before the likes of My Chemical Romance, Fall
Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco arrived on the scene.
“AFI mean everything to me,” says Valerie. “I was
going through a real low-point in my life. My family
broke apart, and listening to AFI helped me get
though it.”

T THE nearby Sheraton Society Hill hotel AFI

guitarist Jade Puget and bassist Hunter Burgan Jade arrived at the
are having lunch. After a good night's sleep, venue straight from
the pair are chatty and relaxed, laughing and joking cricket practice
and finishing each other's sentences — clearly not the
pouting prima donnas that their promotional photos
would lead you to believe.
“Our fans are the best,” grins Puget, both his
hair and his make-up absolutely flawless. “It’s
extraordinary the lengths some fans go to in order
to see our shows and meet us. People fly and drive
incredible distances.”
Such is the militancy of AFI's fanbase that the band
have been forced to travel under pseudonyms to
avoid the unwanted attention. While Hunter remains
tight-lipped about his monicker, Puget ‘fesses up that
he normally checks into hotels under the name Hugh
G. Rection. Clearly the mark of a man with a sense of
humour. But it’s also the mark of a man with both feet
planted firmly on the ground.
- ff
“| remember my first tour with AFI,” he recalls. “It
was the summer of ‘97 and that was the first time | The transition from cult appeal to major league
saw someone with an AFI tattoo. | didn’t think, ‘Wow! stardom seems to have been an easy one for this,
I've made it. | must be in a shit hot band because “little band from Ukiah, California.” After a decade
people have got our logo tattooed on their arms’ | and a half of ceaseless touring, they haven't forgotten
just thought, ‘Man, that guy must be nuts because who their friends are. Their road crew (a mere four
we're only a little band from Ukiah, California’. When appears to be a magnet for outsiders and misfits,
people) is made up of friends from back home with
we played the MTV Movie Awards a month before Puget gets his fair share of bizarre fan mail too. Puget’s younger brother, Smith, serving as the band’s
the new album came out some guy had already got “Dave gets a lot of the, ‘I’m gonna kill myself,’ or, ‘I
tour manager.
the rabbits from the cover of ‘Decemberunderground’ was gonna kill myself but...’ letters, | get sent a lot of
“We always try and employ people we know,”
tattooed on his wrist. Weird, huh?” drawings and presents. But there is this one girl who Puget explains. “Success usually brings out the worst
While the band’s enigmatic frontman, Davey Havok, writes to me as much as twice a day, every day. Every
in people, but we've always kept level heads on our
time | go home | get a stack of 50 hand written letters shoulders. If you think you have to act a certain way
from her, and we’re not talking one or two sentences to maintain a certain kind of rock star image then
- she writes pages and pages.” you're just retarded as far as I’m concerned.”

THE STORY
SO FAR
who feature future AFI on Wingnut Records. also leaves the band for the band, influencing —_(over 500,000 sales) a
1991 and is replaced by Jade the likes of Aiden and month later.
High school friends member Jade Puget on
_—guitar. Soon after its 1996 Puget. My Chemical Romance.
Adam Carson and Davey , 2004
Marchand form A Fire release, AFI disband to Offspring frontman
Dexter Holland signsthe 1998 2001 AFI are forced to cancel
Inside with guitarist go to college. AFI open for The a huge US headline tour
Mark Stopholese and band to his Nitro label The ‘A Fire Inside EP’
1994 for the follow-up ‘Very is released on Green Offspring on their Euro- after doctors tell Havok
bassist Vic Chalker. pean arena tour. to rest his voice. ‘Sing
Chalker “lost inter- They reunite for a one- Proud Of Ya’. Day frontman Billie Joe
Armstrong's Adeline The Sorrow’ hits the
est” in the band after off hometown show. It
prompts them to drop 1997 Records. 2003 one million sales mark.
a few months and was
out of college to pursue After the release of AFI sign to Dreamworks
replaced with Geoff records and release 2006
Kresge. the band full time. ‘Shut Your Mouth and 1999
Open Your Eyes’ Kresge AFI return to Nitro their sixth album ‘Sing After two years away
leaves the band for for their fourth album The Sorrow’ in March. AFI return with ‘Decem-
1993 1995 The album debuts at berunderground’ which
AFi release ‘Dork’, asplit AFl release their debut personal reasons and is ‘Black Sails In The Sun-
album ‘Answer That replaced by Hunter Bur- set’. The record marks Number Five in the US goes straight to Number
7” EP with fellow Ukiah and is certified gold One in the US.
punks Loose Change And Stay Fashionable’ gan. Mark Stopholese a new darker direction

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 The new bearded
band member
struggled to fit in...
MARTA, BLEEDING THROUGH
“| was a pretty weird girl when | was
_ younger, so | really liked that dark,
freaky image they had going on. My
favourite song is ‘The Great Disap-
pointment’ from ‘Sing the Sorrow’.
That really hits home for me.”
= *
JT WOODRUFF, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS
“| don’t think it’s a surprise that
they've done so well because
they've had such a big following for
so long. They've definitely been an
influence on Hawthorne Heights,
especially when ‘Sing The Sorrow’
came out.”

WIL. FRANCIS, AIDEN

Vv “They've worked their fucking asses
= off and it’s really paid off. They’re
x one of those bands who really, truly
care about their fans. They were a
big influence on Aiden — | fucking
love AFI.”

MATT DAVIES, FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND

5 “L really like ‘Decemberunder-
ground’. | like all the little synth
parts and the more haunting bits.
Although I’ve got to admit | prefer
their earlier stuff like ‘Black Sails In
The Sunset’.”

SYNYSTER GATES, AVENGED SEVENFOLD

“I've been listening to AFI forever.
They started the whole goth-pop-
punk thing and made it popular.
I'd be lying if | said they weren't an
influence to us.”

IKE | EWIS,LOSTPROPHETS |
“The new album's really good and!
think ‘Miss Murder’ is a great song.
Davey has the kind of voice that you
either love or hate, but he’s a great
frontman.”

BRENDON URIE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO

"I've always enjoyed them. I’m not
homosexual so | don’t find Davey
Havok attractive. And I'm nota
goth child so I’m not really into their
image. It’s just a really attractive
“We got into a lot of fights. It was literally war sound.”

on the streets.” SONNY MOORE, FROM FIRST TO LAST |

“ie
“| really respect AFI. | can relate to
4 Davey because of the vocal prob-
¥ lems he had in the past. It gives me
Hunter enjoys a vegan But, given their recent surge in popularity, it must = more hope for myself.”
cookie at the meet be getting difficult to maintain that all-important one
and greet in Philly on one relationship with their fans?
“We never once for a second think, ‘Oh, we've sold
this many records so now we don’t need our fans’,”
i) laughs Puget. “It is really hard sometimes, but every
show we invite our fan club into the venue after the
sound check to hang out and take pictures.”
mess with you because they don’t know who you
‘ART OF the reason why AFI are so down-to- are or whether you're packing a gun, but because we
earth and so tight as a unit is because of where lived in a small town | think that people thought that
J they grew up. Even though they may hail from they had a lot more to prove.”
California, three quarters of the band grew up in Ukiah Burgan, who grew up in neighbouring Grass Valley,
-a redneck town north west of San Francisco — where felt ostracised by his surroundings too.
the median household income is significantly below “It was the same kinda environment,” he shrugs.
the state average and petty crime is rife. Probably not “There were six or seven of us and we were
the safest place for a bunch of skinny, pasty-faced kids constantly getting shit from other kids or other people
with a penchant for eyeliner, then. in the community. Once | had a guy try to run me over
“In Ukiah there was a small group of us who liked in his car while he was yelling derogatory terms out of
punk and we got into a lot of fights because of it,” the window. But it was kinda par for the course.
says Puget. “There were about 20 of us in the punk “There were also a lot of skinheads — both racist and
and skater group and not only were we up against non-racist skinheads. At shows the racist skinheads
the jocks - the perennial foe of the outsider - but would jump anyone they didn’t like the looks of. They
there were also the metalheads who were really hospitalised one of my friends and they beat him:so
tough white-trash guys. On top of that there was this badly that he had to have reconstructive surgery on
Mexican gang called ATC and we fought them too. It his skull. | had a Mohawk at the time and it was a
was literally war on the streets. In cities, people don’t really, really scary time to be into punk rock.”
 “ Just because we've sold a few records it
doesn’ t BIVe us the oh to be assholes.”
1S e DAVEY HAVOK
B ACK AT the Electric Factory the doors have just sexually ambiguous lyrics). There is even internet fan
opened and the assembled throng are bobbing fiction about what he and Jade Puget allegedly get-
up and down to The Smiths-ish tones of Long up to on the tourbus. So, is he gay? Is he straight? Is:
Island’s Nightmare Of You. AFI frontman Davey Havok: _ oman trapped ina man’s body? It seems:that”*
is slumped on a sofa in the band’s dressing room one has an opinion on Davey Havok apart Seon
starring out the window. His oversized, diamante ae himself.» —
accented sunglasses are sat next to his pink Sidekick “Sometimes I'm a man’s man, Sometimes I’ma
mobile phone on the coffee table in front of him. “woman's man, but I'm definitely a.cat‘s man,” he says,
The band have just completed the first of today's = enigMatically. “| don’t really get too involved in what — s
meet and greets with members of their fan club (a “people say about me, but when | hear-certain things!
’ grip and grin with competition winners from a local ; . always find it intriguing. People talk about celebrity:
radio station is scheduled in after our interview).
Havok looks visibly tired - the relentless barrage of “The ‘He’ and ‘She’ in the chorus of ‘Love Like
press and promotion over the past two days has Winter’ isn’t there to confuse people, it’s just to mak :
clearly chipped away at the softly-spoken singer's the song gender non-specific and open toa broader
insouciant veneer. interpretation. | don’t talk about my lyrics because.
“It's been non-stop,” he sighs. “Lobby call yesterday
was 11:45am and from then to going on stage at
9:30pm we didn’t really have a moment to ourselves. ’s not to say that someone might be able to
MTV, Fuse TV, Sirius and XM radio, Entertainment thing from them that wasn’t my personal
Weekly... |can’t even remember who else. We do so intention.”
much press every day it’s hard to remember what
we've done, let alone track it down afterwards.” i IKE HIS bandmates, Havok is clearly unphased
l ask him how he manages to maintain that all- »by AFI's new-found fame. “It’s been such a slow
important rock star mystique with such a rigorous roc for us it hasn't affected us as people,”
timetable to adhere to. he says. “ every step of the way has been
“Apparently effortlessly,” he says with a theatrical a tremendo: ievement. Being here talking to
flourish. Kerrang! is an achievement. Having what we love
reach so'many people and to be received so well in
F OR ALL his onstage bravado, in the flesh Davey our career makesit even better.”
Havok is polite, well-mannered and genuinely But when | tell him “‘Decémberunderground’s latest
amiable. But as the singer of the most in- sales figures his eyes widen.
demand band in ica, surely he’s earned the right “That is a lot of, records,” he chuckles. “I don’t know
to throw full-o esque strops? how on Earth we managed
“Not at all,” t because we've sold a music asks a lot of someon
few records it doesn the right to be assholes. genre of music to come,o;
| was in the gym the other and this guy watched buy into what we do. :
me for 55 minutes and th for aphoto. | said, people are able to say, ‘I
‘I don’t look good at the moment and soyou can’t that they can look at mea
have your photo taken with me,’ and he seemed okay - but | like him’.” &
with that.”
Since ‘Decemberunderground’ Doped the US AFI TOUR THE UK IN OCTOBER. see AFI (/-r); Adam, Jade,
Davey, Hunter :
charts, debate about Havok’s sexuality has once again P62 FOR DETAILS.
reared its head (not least because of the album's
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out with his mum
and dad

The glamour. The

debauchery.

Tom was surprisingly

, enthusiastic about his
morning shower

“Take your dick out!” laughs frontman Tom DeLonge.

So says Tom DeLonge of the all-star The Subways too are holed up in their dressing
room. The young trio — the only Brits on the tour — are
mega-tour that is tearing up America thrilled to be on the line-up.
“It's so exciting,” smiles bassist/vocalist Charlotte
Cooper. “Playing in front of thousands of people every
this summer. Kerrang! watched the night is amazing. It’s insane to see people camping
outside venues the night before the show but that’s the
kind of love people have for Taking Back Sunday and
madness untold... Angels And Airwaves. It’s a great atmosphere.”

excitement, anticipation and last-minute organisation. THIS WILL be the biggest punk rock tour of
IT’S MIDDAY on a Thursday and While TBS get cleaned up after their work outs, Head the summer (with the exception of the gargantuan
Long Island, New York is humid as hell. Inside the Automatica head over to the MTV studios in Manhattan Warped) thanks to Taking Back Sunday’s increasingly
Nassau Coliseum, Taking Back Sunday guitarists Fred as part of their hectic promotional schedule. gigantic profile, the ongoing buzz surrounding Angels
Mascherino and Eddie Reyes are sweatily running laps “This tour is really comfortable because we already And Airwaves and the pronounced hip-ness of Head
around the giant circular building, closely watched by know a bunch of people,” notes bassist Josh ‘Jarvis’ Automatica. All three bands have released critically
fans who've been waiting outside on the hot concrete Holden on his way out. “I’ve known David [Kennedy, acclaimed albums in the last three months: TBS’s
since 6:45am. The girls are separated from their idols guitarist] from AVA for years so it’s really great to be ‘Louder Now’, released in April, has already sold over
by a pane of tinted glass but they hold up signs as Fred doing this tour together.” half a million copies.
and Ed pass: ‘We love you Fred!’ reads one, ‘Where's Meanwhile, all four members of AVA are in their Today's date in Long Island is particularly special
Adam?’ says another. comfortable dressing room trying to help bassist Ryan too, thanks to the fact that both TBS and HA grew up
The Adam in question, vocalist Adam Lazzara, Sinn get rid of the blinding headache he’s been dealing here. This is a homecoming of spectacular proportions;
is sitting inside the main arena smoking a cigarette with all morning. Ryan lies on the ground, sunglasses one that will inspire a visibly choked-up Adam Lazzara
after his own morning workout, and keeping himself on, clutching his forehead. “I’m fuckin’ dying,” he to stop an acoustic rendition of ‘Divine Intervention’
amused with his Sidekick. Behind him, multiple crew groans. “My eyes are fuckin’ killing me.” halfway through tonight, to announce to 14,000 fans
members are exerting themselves on the huge stage, His bandmates have some interesting solutions. that he, “used to deliver deli food just a few miles from
putting together the backdrops and lights for tonight's “D’'you want me to give you a lap dance?” offers here,” and that this is, “unbelievable.” It is a genuinely
show: day two of a 22-date jaunt across America with drummer Adam Willard dryly. touching moment.
Angels And Airwaves, Head Automatica and The “Rub the bottoms of your feet!” pipes in David. “I'll For AVA, being in arenas was always part of the plan.
Subways. All day, the backstage area is buzzing with take your boots off... I'll take your pants off!”

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 Tom: ‘I’m going to change the world!’
Adam: ‘Yes mate, you already said’

Tom pretended not

to hear the request
for ‘Fuck A Dog’

Adam Lazzara
screams his heart
out
5 aaa

“I'll be honest with you,” shrugs Tom DeLonge, “when

we made this band we were thinking of fuckin’ stadi-
ums. When Angels first started | felt so alien from my
career because we were back in clubs. But now we're
back here and | feel incredibly grateful to have a second
chance at music. It makes me appreciate every single
detail about being in a rock band. And the chance of
playing in front of this many people feels
epic.”
nd tonight Angels And Airwaves put
on a breathtaking show, the venue's vast
scale perfect for the scope of AVA’s music.
Delonge even pulls off a disappearing act
halfway through the set, escaping from
the stage during Box Car Racer favourite
‘There Is’ and emerging at the very back
of the arena, in the highest row.
Until he announces, “I’m looking at
you, but you’re not looking at me. Turn
around!” no one’s even aware that he’s
no longer on stage, thanks to some
elaborate lighting tricks. As he makes
his way through the crowd, back to the
stage, the response is frantic, fans charg-
ing towards him, reaching out to him,
like he’s some kind of deity. It’s nothing
short of phenomenal.
There is very real hysteria for Taking i,
Se
Back Sunday too. Minutes
before the headliners Head Automatica:
take to the forced to cancel
shows
 The Sa
impr
fooling no-one

stage in their spotless black suits, audience members in bandmates going out on stage daily to explain
the stands abandon their designated seats and rush, en why they can’t play and attempting to make up
masse, over the barriers, while a hopelessly outnum- for it by meeting fans and signing everything
bered security team watches on helplessly. It’s a scary in their sight. It is a deeply disappointing time
few moments but the fans are utterly jubilant, leaping for everyone, but the camaraderie between the
and hugging each other as they run towards the stage. bands and HA’s open communication with the
It's also a night where every band excels. The fans keeps everyone's spirits up.
Subways win over the crowd one fan at a time and Head
Automatica inspire an unexpected circle pit — muscular
men throwing hardcore dance moves to the shiny pop
SETBACKS ASIDE everything
about this tour feels incredibly fresh. Exciting.
songs; one girl falling to her knees and singing along
Unpredictable. Rewind a few years and no one
with an air microphone like it’s the most natural thing in
could've predicted that Taking Back Sunday
the world. would not only recover from the line-up chang-
Backstage at the end of the night, vocalist Daryl
es that dogged them after their debut but would
Palumbo relaxes with his proud parents; his father Jack
be headlining arenas. No one could've predicted
starting a debate about ‘80s haircuts, his mother Carol
that Tom DeLonge would emerge from Blink 182
declaring that her son’s band deserves a set longer than
with a mission to expand people’s minds. No
half an hour. Daryl is pleased with the performance but { Lazzara pickeda bad
one could've known that Daryl! Palumbo would
is quiet and clearly exhausted by the day's activities. timeto take anap
quit hardcore in favour of pop melodies. But
The following day, at Mansfield’s Tweeter Center — a
all of the above did happen, and a tour of this
huge outdoor amphitheatre — the news slowly spreads
magnitude is proof that
that the night was more taxing for Daryl than anyone
taking massive risks can
was expecting.
pay off.
“This band is different,”
DESPITE THE biblical storm that starts date states DeLonge about
three — crew members wade through the flooded park- Angels And Airwaves. “The
ing lot wearing nothing but shorts, to keep their clothes connection we have with
and shoes dry - the mood is upbeat. Adam from AVA is audiences is like nothing
fooling around, at one point sneaking up behind TBS’s I’ve ever had in my entire
Matt Rubano and tugging his jeans down until Matt is career. | really feel like we're
exposing a lot more than he should be. TBS drummer offering something — an
Mark O'Connell is on the phone to his aunt trying to idea or a movement.
organise how to get 14 of his cousins into the show that “Much like punk rock got
night, and a very chirpy Billy Lunn from The Subways saturated, so did the whole
is getting to know his tourmates, geeking out with HA emo thing,” he continues,
guitarist Craig Bonich about amps. “but Taking Back Sunday
But while Taking Back Sunday obsessively iron and are doing something differ-
de-lint their shirts for tonight's performance and Angels ent. This is all something
And Airwaves watch ‘80s cheese-fest ‘Footloose’, news new.”
is slowly spreading that Daryl is stuck in New York He pauses. “You should
having spent the previous night in hospital because of come back and see
his ongoing battle with Crohn's disease. There is much what we're all doing ina
concern — Adam Lazzara even volunteers to sing in couple of years,” he grins,
Daryl’s place for the night. Jarvis Holden is touched by “because this is just the That backstage
the offer but says they, “could never play a show with- beginning...” ant
a hilarity’ in full
out Daryl,” because he’s so, “irreplaceable.”
Daryl remains in hospital for another three days; his
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BILLY TALENT are punk rock’s hottest band. the blistering heat. A few metres away, in the backstage
enclosure, Muse - who will later be forced to cancel their
~

It’s only taken them 13 years...

headline appearance when a Biblical deluge floods the
site — are watching England labour to a World Cup victory ©
over Ecuador. There's a hazy, mid-afternoon stillness in
the air as the black-clad Canadians begin their post-show =
them a level of Spinal Tap-style excess: the Toronto-based celebrations.
TH is Is carnage. Billy Talent are onstage at foursome arrived at a recent awards ceremony ina “We're too old for debauchery,” winks the singer. “But
Germany's Hurricane Festival, 30 miles southwest of World War I] Sherman Tank. we still have our vices...”
Hamburg. Before them, a 50,000-strong crowd stretches And now, slowly but surely, their profile is growing Kowalewicz does most of the talking. As you’d expect
to the horizon, a boiling expanse of dust and tangled in the UK. In April they blitzed the second stage at Give from his motormouth stage persona, the singer is a
limbs. The midday heat is intense. Down the front, panic- It A Name, laying the ground for a sell-out UK tour. The tornado of energy and charisma, spitting out anecdotes
stricken security men are spraying the front rows with response was so spectacular they instantly announced and self-deprecating jokes (no surprise, given his
water. Meanwhile, the earth shakes beneath our feet a further set of dates, this time in bigger venues. It all background in Canadian local radio). He’s also leaner and
from the sheer weight of bouncing bodies. bodes well for their new album, ‘Billy Talent II’, which sharper-looking than when we last met, at Reading 2003.
“That was incredible,” gasps frontman Ben should see the band’s hooky, spring-loaded anthems slot You'd never guess he was approaching 31.
Kowalewicz, shirtless and sweat-streaked, as he leaves neatly into the post-Fall Out Boy pop-punk firmament. By contrast, guitarist lan D’Sa makes for an unlikely
the stage to howls of acclaim. “One of the best shows “The ducks all seem to be lining up for us,” grins rock star. Born in Ealing, West London to Indian parents
we've ever played.” Kowalewicz, reaching for a towel and a cold beer. (he relocated to Canada aged 4), his quiet, studious
Billy Talent are getting used to such devotion. Here “Things are finally going our way.” personality is at odds with the outrageous flat-top ‘do’
in Germany they are huge, their faces peering from He doesn't say it, but the implication is clear: it’s about that towers above his eyebrows. A former computer
mainstream magazine covers, their videos playlisted fucking time. animator and the band’s chief songwriter, he speaks with
on MTV alongside Pink and Franz Ferdinand. It mirrors a strong accent that twists “about” into “aboot”.
their status back home in Canada, where their self-titled AN HOUR later Billy Talent are relaxing in the air- Bassist Jon Gallant is more sure of himself, his hulking
Stevens
Nick
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Words:

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Scheesel, Germany,
June 2006

lan D’Sa: riff lord

local shows for their friends.

Unburdened by ambition, Pezz’s music was wildly
unfocused — a bit of Rage Against The Machine here, a bit
of ska-punk there — but it didn’t matter. They were having
fun.
“Those were amazing times,” reminisces D’Sa. “For
the first six years we were just renting out shitty little
clubs, putting on our own shows, having a blast. No-one
would book us to play real gigs so we would build our
own stage out of hundreds of milk cartons, held together
with duct tape.”
It couldn't last. In 1999, with the responsibilities of
adulthood beckoning, the band found themselves at a
crossroads. Gallant quit to concentrate on his economics
degree. D’Sa’s job forced him to move to Montreal,
300 miles away. More seriously, Solowoniuk had been
diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, plunging him into a
black depression. To this day, the drummer keeps a fridge
full of medicine on the tourbus, and has to inject himself
three times a week.
“| felt like my life was falling apart,” he says. “None of
my dreams had come true — and | now had an incurable
disease.”
“That was the closest we ever came to splitting up,”
admits Kowalewicz. “Things were looking pretty bleak.”
It took a musical epiphany to rescue the band from
oblivion. Isolated in Montreal, D‘Sa had been turned
on to the jagged post-hardcore of At The Drive-In and
id
Refused. The guitarist was floored. He’d never hard

¥ Things are finally

anything so raw and passionate. Determined to push his
band in a similar, hard-edged direction, he wrote a song
called ‘Try Honesty’. As soon as his bandmates heard it,
everything fell into place.

going our way’ Gallant rejoined. Kowalewicz suddenly found his voice
—a distinctive, throat-ripping squawk (“like a cat ina
blender,” he laughs). Enthused by their new sound, the

Ben Kowalewicz band changed their name to Billy Talent and recorded a
demo, word of which soon spread through the industry.
In 2002 they signed a deal with Atlantic Records,
releasing their debut album the following year — a mere
presence belying a keen intellect. A University graduate, decade after their first gig.
he once had a high-flying job on the stock market, and Don’t they ever regret the amount of time it took to
now uses that experience to negotiate Billy Talent's ‘make it’?
financial affairs. Sat opposite him is drummer Aaron “Not at all,” says D’Sa. “We've had to work so
Solowoniuk, the most enigmatic member ofthe band. unbelievably hard to get where we are. But that just
Tall and good-looking, he barely speaks, but nonetheless makes us appreciate what we've got all the more. We
exudes a calm aura born of a happy home life (he’s don’t take anything for granted.”
married with a daughter). What do you think would have happened if you'd had
As the foursome chatter amongst themselves about overnight success in your teens, like Panic! At The Disco?
the summer ahead -— they can’t wait to hang out with old “Oh man,” laughs Kowalewicz. “We would have
friends Alexisonfire on the Warped Tour — it’s obvious overdosed! | think we probably would have died. Or at
they're close friends. A tight unit. least developed some serious addictions.”
It hasn't always been this way. He pauses, suddenly lost in thought.
“Then again, we would have slept with a lot of hot
THE MEMBERS of Billy Talent met in 1993 at a girls as well...”
high-school talent show in Mississauga, a backwater
suburb of Toronto. Naming their band Pezz, they would Billy Talent finish their current UK dates on July 13. They
rehearse in D’Sa’s parents’ basement and play tiny return to the UK in September, see Volume for details.
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Meet the anti-Fall Out Boy...
ever since guitarist Paul Mahon and bassist Micky ple’s faces. In the end, a lot of people were coming up
CA STRANGE thing is happening...” Waters were told of a singer who might be the perfect to us and saying, ‘I didn’t want to admit it but | fucking
The Answer’s singer Cormac Neeson leans in con- man for the band they were forming. It was a band love this kind of music’...”
spiratorially, words emerging from behind a sheaf of based on screaming guitars, nailed down rhythms and It means that, live, they’re as tight and explosive a
long, ginger hair. “...It's getting cool to like two minute a respect for their influences that flirts with reverence unit you'll find - something that has seen them pick
guitar solos again. It’s getting cool to look out from a but settles on reinvigorating a tired genre. They wrote up support slots with the likes of Whitesnake with
stage and see people smiling, having a good time and to Neeson, then waiting tables in New York and taking ease. But theirs was never a background that could
getting the pints in at a gig. It’s an odd thing to say but odd singing spots wherever he could, and asked him allow something like that to go to their heads. “We
you're allowed to enjoy yourself at a gig again.” to fly back and try a few songs. Appropriately enough, couldn't go back to Northern Ireland with a head on
It’s a view point that stands defiantly in the face of that first song was Free’s ‘Alright Now’ and, with us,” says Neeson. “If we did, they’d soon kick us back
much of today’s rock scene, one that’s based more on drummer James Heatley on board, they still haven't down. The Northern Irish are pretty grounded. They've
fury and punk than wild soloing, howling vocals and looked back. given us a lot of support but,they’ll let you know when
life-affirming choruses. But, for Downpatrick, Northern Four years of gigging followed — a period of time that you’re out of line.”
lreland’s The Answer, fitting their classic rock into might have dented the ambition of a band not blessed And it’s that background that shines from their mu-
what's fashionable and popular right now was never with The Answer’s confidence. “Aye, but we love this sic — an honesty and lack of pretence, music that isn’t
an option. and believe in it,” says Neeson. “You've got to enjoy afraid to exist for its own sake, to just do what it says
“We've never looked to the current scene for our playing or there’s no point to it - whether that's in on the tin. “That's maybe because of where we're from
lead,” says Neeson, sitting in a West London pub with front of 10 people on a rainy Monday or in front of too - they call a spade a spade there,” says Neeson.
the other three members of his band. “It’s always been 10,000 at the London Apollo. The music we were play- “But, again, this is the only kind of music | could or
a case of playing the music we want to play. In fact, ing didn’t fit in with the latest mascara-clad scene and would play, so | have no choice in the matter!”
| don’t think we could do anything else but play this it meant we really had to scrape ourselves up from the
music.” bottom of the barrel; we had to really throw it in peo- ‘Rise’ is out now on Albert Productions. Harries
Paul
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ae es aaa

The gospel according behind us that’s cool but only if everything's kept the
way we intended. With the last record they wanted

to tast-rising screamo us to do radio edits for songs and we fought it and

fought it until eventually they gave up. | mean, | just
don’t think that compromise is necessary to survive

saviours 6 6 = re we workaholics?” ponders

as a band. There are no good radio stations out
there anyway. We're not trying to please anybody
but ourselves. The primary focus for us is our

UNDEROATH
f Underoath vocalist Spencer
Chamberlain. “Um... We're more play- personal beliefs.”
aholics | guess!” And those beliefs have also been the source of
Spencer, for the record, is exhausted. He and
controversy, thanks to their well-documented faith.
the rest of the Tampa, Florida sextet are currently “We're not your average Christian band,” explains
coping with the notoriously rigorous Warped Tour Spencer, “but a big part of our goal as a band is to
schedule. This would probably be fine had they not change the idea of what Christianity has become
spent their first day off flying to their hometown, and what people think it is. We're all honest, loving
playing a surprise show and then flying straight back and respectful people. And whatever preconceptions
people have of us are usually changed as soon as
to Warped to play another show.
“Yeah,” sighs Spencer. “I’m pretty tired. We're all they meet us. We don’t write worship songs, but it's
an integral part of who we are and why we do this.
really sleep-deprived.”
You'd think they’d be used to it by now. This is a It doesn’t matter if we don’t have the same belief
band that loathe being off tour so much that they systems as our fans because we can respect them
don’t even take time off to write music — they do it and hopefully they can respect us because they like
on the road, as they go. And all that work is starting our music.”
to pay off. Their second full length ‘They’re Only Underoath aren't afraid to shout about charitable
Chasing Safety’ sold in excess of 500,000 copies, causes too. The inlay to ‘Define The Great Line’
features URLs for websites that seek to raise money
and their recently-released third effort, the explosive
‘Define The Great Line’, is expected to take them to for women fighting breast cancer, and to highlight
the big leagues, despite the band so far shunning the plight of youth in war-torn Uganda, among
others. Fighting to defend their beliefs has left the
mainstream exposure.
six band members — who all met “through friends of
“Radio and MTV never got behind us because
we're too heavy,” Spencer explains. “If people get friends in High School and through local bands” —a

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eggsenes

Underoath (Gillespie and

Chamberlain centre): ‘OK, but
no tongues

tighter group. The thoughtful frontman talks about TY Like Atreyu, Underoath divide TiIn America ‘Define The Great Line’
his bandmates fondly. their vocals between frontman sold almost 100,000 copies in its
“All of us are very different with very different Spencer Chamberlain (who does first week oi release.
backgrounds and different responses to everything, the screaming) and drummer Aaron
but we all have the same goal,” he says. “Each Gillespie (who sings the melodic
of us brings something different and we all have choruses). The album was produced by
equal input. Tim [McTague, guitar] is really mellow, Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam
Chris [Dudley, keyboards] is the people guy, Grant Dutkiewicz. He s one of our
[Brandell, bass] is the nerd who doesn’t know he’s : Pir ts ”
Gillespie suifers from Generalised favourite people in the world,
the nerd, James [Smith, guitar] is the ultra quiet one sos rest ch
Anxiety Disorder. It 11 last for says Chamberlain. It was just like
and Aaron [Gillespie, drums] is the drama queen. But weeks sometimes. I feel like Im hanging out with one of your great
we are one unit.” having a heart attack. friends.
With Warped Tour head honcho Kevin Lyman
predicting Underoath will be the breakout band
of the summer, gushing reviews abounding for T Underoath’s earliest releases were T Underoath were offered deals
‘Define...’ and an upcoming stint on the UK ‘Taste Of recorded with a ditierent vocalist, with major labels but turned them
Chaos’ tour, alongside Taking Back Sunday, it’s fair Dallas Taylor. Personal conilicts down in order to retain creative
to say that Underoath are headed for great things. within the band forced him to quit, control. “We’re not Fall Out Boy,
Spencer remains modest. explains guitarist Tim McTague.
mid=-tour, in 2003.
“Our goal isn’t to be the biggest band in the world,” “They're great but that’s not what
he shrugs. “A lot of kids out there now are trying to we're aspiring to be at all.”
be the next MCR. That's not our goal. There are a
? During a Hallowe’en show in New
lot of radio rock-pop bands that aren't challenging
Jersey the band dressed up as
kids to try something new. But we want to open
Slipknot and opened their set with Gillespie has a side project
people’s minds. We just want people who love our
a cover of the masked legends’ hit called The Almost. Check out their
songs to come see us. It’s that simple. Whether
‘Duality’. melodic emo onlne at
that’s a thousand kids or 500,000 kids it’s all fine
www.myspace.com/thealmost.
to us...”

Underoath play Taste Of Chaos in November.

See Volume for details.

451IKERRANG!
 55" INCREDIBLE
BIS, GREAT
FAIR
“. POOR
“_ RUBBISH

DEVIN TOWNSEND RUNS OUT OF STEAM ON ALBUM NUMBER FIVE

WHEN KERRANG! spoke with of the past decade churning out

al s short of
Devin Townsend just a week after myriad quality metal albums and
Strapping Young Lad's triumphant producing landmark releases by the
likes of Lamb Of God, Darkest Hour
classic
spot at Download this year, the
frontman and creative brains behind and Soilwork, he admitted that his
desire to even pick up a guitar had
SYL ag
the Canadian metallers sounded like
he had run out of steam. Exhausted recently deserted him.
It makes sense, then, that with
capabl
from months of combining work on
the new Strapping album with his solo ‘The New Black’ Townsend wanted
and production commitments, he said to return to the sound of the band’s

‘STRAPPING YOUNG
the band’s upcoming US Ozzfest tour first album, 1995's ‘Heavy As A Really
would be their last for a while —- and Heavy Thing’; a time when metal was

LAD given that ‘The New Black’ completes still fresh and exciting to him. Accord-
their five-album contract with Century ingly, it crackles with the same sense
your girlfriend fuckin’ sucks/Hell yeah,
Media, it’s the perfect opportunity to of humour and irony of that debut

THE NEW BLACK — see the ballistic ‘You Suck’, complete

she fuckin’ sucks/Fuck you, you fuckin’
take a break and try to reconnect with fuck/Hell yeah, you fuckin’ suck!’.
with chants of 'You and your band,
(CENTURY MEDIA) what it was that inspired him to create
music in the first place. Astonishingly, you fuckin’ suck!’ and the sensation-
There is, however, a lot more to album
ally potty-mouthed couplet ‘Even number five than gags.
for a man who has spent the majority
 HARDCORE VARIOUS eck! ALOVE FOR
SUPERSTAR __ CHOP YOUR OWN HEAD ENEMIES
HARDCORE SUPERSTAR _ OFF
(ABSTRA\ (EARACHE) (FACEDOWN)

GLAM ROCK UNDERDOGS BRITAIN'S LOUDEST LABEL METALCORE, YOU'RI

DESTROY ALL-COMERS. SHOWS OFF ITS WARES. A BORE.
ROUTINELY DERIDED PERHAPS THE most enduring THERE'S NOTHING wrong
as sleaze rock also-rans, metal label in the world, with Alove For Enemies’
Hardcore Superstar's music Earache are no strangers to metal-influenced NY
has never really matched their high quality noise. From the hardcore. Their second album
heroic levels of confidence. sonic A-bombs of Carcass ‘Resistance’ is packed full of
Until now. If this album had and Napalm Death's early chugging riffs, throat ripping
come out in the ‘80s, the grindings, to Cathedral's vocals and punishing beat-
Swedes could now be as bowel-quaking doom, the downs but there is absolutely
iconic as Guns N'Roses. A technical death metal of nothing you haven't heard
barnstorming, 12-track glitter- Decapitated, and the horrific many times before. Metalcore
ball, this is a staggering work of filth of Iron Monkey, the is bursting at the seams with
party metal perfection, bulging standards of the Nottingham identikit bands who add
with immense choruses and label have been consistently nothing new and in any genre
gleaming fuck ‘n’ fight riffs. top drawer. So, whether you're of music, that usually marks
Every track, from the gloriously into immense technicality the end of the journey. Despite
dumb ‘Bag On Your Head’ (Anata), mind-bending psych a powerful production job
to the Motley Criie-with- (Cult Of Luna), or furious, filthy from Sick Of It All and Most
twitching-knobs on anthem ‘My grind (Mistress), this will sort Precious Blood man Dean
Good Reputation’, could be a you right out. And the video for Baltulonis and an admittedly
radio-mauling single. All killer, Municipal Waste's ‘Unleash ferocious performance from
no filler. Victory snatched from The Bastards’ is worth asking the band, ‘Resistance’ fails to
the jaws of defeat. Incredible. price on its own. really inspire or excite.
DOWNLOAD: ‘My Good DOWNLOAD: Mistress ‘At DOWNLOAD: ‘Wishes For
Reputation’. Arms Length’. The Cloths Of Heaven’.
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DOM LAWSON NICK RUSKELL JAMES SHERRY

SORE CROLUTY

SCARECROWN
TIL THE LAST BREATH
(CASKET)
K
FINE SINGER CANNOT SAVE
LACUNA COIL IMPERSONATORS.
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n't that bad
e, if you ever doubted
Indeed it’s impossible to deny night in Hell, sure, but where peers Lacuna Coil’s prowess, enjoy
the power of songs such as ‘Anti- such as Arch Enemy and In Flames this five-track shocker from
product’ or ‘Wrong Side’, each a harness their racket and focus it into ScareCrown, an act of similar
sonic maelstrom of Gene Hoglan’s a memorable metallic concoction, intent with absolutely none of
furious double-kick drumming, Jed SYL's unrelenting brand of chaos, the pay-off. The talented and
WHEN A band’s talent pool contains a founding member
Simon's tear-your-face-off riffing and while amazing to witness, is difficult beautiful Antonella Buosi is
who composes 30-minute sonic soundscapes with two
the sort of explosive guitar solos to remember once the last note has the innocent party, engaging
drummers and a similarly talented frontman, something large
faded. her wasted vocal skills on
DragonForce would be in awe of. inevitably looms around the corner. In Twin Zero’s case it
some abysmal songs — tunes
‘Far Beyond Metal’, meanwhile, is a It's a problem that’s plagued the was last year’s ‘Monolith’ debut. ‘The Tomb...’ is another vast,
you could have bettered in
song so bombastic and complex it’s band throughout their career, and
five minutes over a beer in the
imaginative venture that sees composer-in-chief Reuben
more like a mini metal opera with should ‘The New Black’ really prove Gotto avoid TZ becoming simply longer and louder than
garden. This is plodding Euro-
the volume set to 11; a testament to to be their last album for some time, everyone else. Karl Middleton unleashes his full vocal range,
goth, trying to mimic Lacuna
Townsend's towering songwriting it's a shame that it couldn't rectify allowing him to inject further melody and subtlety into the
Coil's every move and failing
vision. the situation. mix. The influence of Too! and Neurosis is stamped all over
drastically, Don’t wait in vain
Frustratingly, though, ‘The New DOWNLOAD: ‘You Suck’, ‘Far Beyond TZ's sound, but what allows them to impress is their desire
for a chorus — it's not coming.
to create something fresh, new and different.
Black’ falls short of being the stone Metal’, ‘The New Black’. DOWNLOAD: ‘Pathos X’
DOWNLOAD: ‘Static Reigns |’.
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powerful and noisier than a buck’'s ROD YATES STEVE BEEBEE

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VARIOUS ARTISTS — COLDSEED

FULL METAL GARAGE: COMPLETION MAKES
THE SONGS THAT DROVE THE TRAGEDY
METALLICA (NUCLEAR BLAST)
(SANCTUARY)

FRONTED BY Soilwork vocalist

IT'S SUCH an obvious idea: Bjdrn Strid, this one-off project
two discs packed with the alongside members of Blind
original versions of the songs Guardian does not deviate far
that Metallica have covered from the formula fans will be
throughout their history. familiar with. Switching from
An invaluable companion mountainous heaviness to
to ‘Garage Inc’, ‘Full Metal clean harmonising, this is one
Garage...’ is full of great music of the better metal crossover
from the likes of Motérhead, albums of the year, although
Thin Lizzy, Discharge, Lynyrd it lacks any big rock moments
Skynyrd and The Misfits. to break from the crowd. It
What it lacks, unfortunately, differs from Soilwork in its
is anything resembling copious use of keyboards and
coherence, so it sounds occasional parps of synths.
more like a compilation tape ‘Low’ delivers it fast and hard
thrown together in a drunken with Strid emoting with all
stupor than a well-balanced the subtlety of a bull mastiff,
selection of classic rock contrasting with the tranquil,
tunes. Anything that contains Opeth-style ‘Reflection’. It's a
a fistful of iron-clad anthems jarring combination of styles
by the magnificent Diamond —and one the band pull off
Head is worth every penny, with reasonable panache.
however. DOWNLOAD: ‘Democracy
DOWNLOAD: ‘Helpless’. Lesson’.
FOR FANS OF: Metallica. FOR FANS OF: Soilwork, Opeth.

a” MIKE PATTON IN ‘ALBUM FULL OF TUNES’ SHOCK

THE PSYKE
THE CONDUCTOR'S PROJECT
PEEPING TOM are backed by a host of collabora-
tors including rapper Kool Keith, DEPARTURE
(EARACHE)
DAIKINI
Bristol trip-hoppers Massive Attack
PEEPING TOM
(CPH-SOUND)
and MOR songstress Norah Jones,
(IPECAC) while the music heaves under a
~
darkly hued mix of stuttering loops FROM THE moment the
and beats with occasional guitars snarling, discordant riffs of YOU COULD be forgiven

rs
for good measure. As you might album-opener ‘Downward for thinking the worst of a
DURING THE recording of expect from one with such a famed Spiral Into Madness’ misspelled band name with
Faith No More’s 1992 opus, ‘Angel short-attention span, he’s still left fade in you know you're ‘I'm mad, me’ connotations.
Dust’, producer Matt Wallace once himself plenty of room for manoeu- getting something different. Luckily, this isn't some
vre — ‘Getaway’ shudders under Anata have always prided hideous funk metal retread,
remarked of Mike Patton that,
a distorted hip-hop base, ‘Your themselves on their technical but instead one of the
whether the frontman liked it or
and inventive song structures. bleakest records you'll hear
not, he was ‘built’ to sing. Given Neighbourhood Spaceman’ drifts
But where 2003's ‘UnderA this year. The sort of hardcore
that the majority of Patton's post- by in a blissful summer haze, ‘We're
Stone With No Inscription’ band who doff their cap
FNM career has been marked by Not Alone’ is the closest he’s come may have wandered too to avant-doom metal and
an avalanche of activity that has to acknowledging the riff-cranked far into ‘look what | can do’ Neurosis, The Psyke Project
seen its diversity matched only by a poison of FNM, while his trademark territory, ’...Departure’ is a are here to single-handedly
pathological aversion to commercial lyrical perversity is never far away. marvellously imaginative but ruin your summer. Oppressive
song, you can safely assume just On a major label with the right fierce display of just how riffs pile up until they're
which side of the statement Patton promotion muscle, this could shift downright fascinating death burying you alive. Vocals
came down on. some serious units. As it is, you can metal sounds when played by swiftly cease sounding
Which is why Peeping Tom has been only hope that this fleeting chance the right hands. Anata, simply, human, becoming another
one of his most anticipated releases. to see why Patton is still one of the are supreme masters of element in the wall of noise
Billed by its maker as, “pop songs most celebrated vocalists in rock will technical death metal, and this which is currently collapsing
for fun”, this is the most accessible attract an audience of more than is their ultimate statement. on your head. All of this is, of
and uniformly tuneful the singer has just the faithful. DOWNLOAD: ‘Downward course, a recommendation.
DOWNLOAD: ‘Mojo’, ‘Your Neighbor- Spiral Into Madness’, ‘The Enjoy, you sick fucks.
sounded in a decade. Not that his
Conductor's Departure’. DOWNLOAD: ‘Fimbul’.
version of pop has much to do with hood Spaceman’.
FOR FANS OF:Necrophagist, FOR FANS OF; Neurosis, Cult
Britney Spears. Here, the cleanly FORFANS OF: Faith No More.
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IMPEACH MY BUSH __
(xt)
KEK
THE DIRTY DIVA STRIKES AGAIN.

GIVEN 2004'S sensitively-titled ‘Fatherfucker’ LP boasted a

cover shot of its creator sporting a full beard, and a content
that matched a decidedly uninhibited take on sexual politics
to a floor-humping backbone of minimal beats and maximum
mingTheir Winds,
A MASTERCLASS IN PURE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
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attitude, you could say that Peaches knows a thing or two
about getting attention.
Sustaining it however, may prove to be the greater
challenge. While her third outing doesn’t exactly tone things
down (choice topics include guy-on-guy action and an ode
to three-fingered sexual entry), this time the music offers too
little spin on its electro-punk sleaze to maintain it much past
the halfway mark. Lucky then, it’s a first half of fabulously
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musicianship of those artists who
constantly endeavour to push the and swimming in more hard-skinned
envelope into next year, there's attitude than Dukes Of Nothing. And
always, always going to be room at that's before Nick Oliveri turns up to
the musical table for the ‘other’ kind. lend a hand on ‘Czechoslovakia’.
The ones that revel in simplicity, Yes, it’s simple, and yes, you've
heard it all before. But there's
who play with more than just their
LACRIMAS brains and fingers, whose music is
enough fiery, relentless fanaticism
PROFUNDERE __ A LIGHT IN THE DARK forged, not of flashy playing, but of coming from these two blokes to
FILTHY NOTES FOR (SPV)
pure heart, passion, and giant hairy
power five Slipknots. And if that
FROZEN HEARTS __ bollocks. There may be only two of doesn’t push your buttons, check
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WITH SEVERAL albums album, Metal Church are of exactly how thrilling such a racket Flag.
already notched up, you might still plugging valiantly away, NICK RUSKELL
can be.
expect vampiric rockers sounding much fresher than
Lacrimas Profundere to perhaps you might expect.
menace and thunder like Their eighth studio effort is
the bands they so admire. In their best album for a long
contrast, what's here is just while; a sturdy, uncomplicated
miserablism for the sake of slab of dark, melodic metal
it. ‘Filthy Notes’ wants to be that inhabits the same middle
HIM and whatever production ground between the old and
gloss has been applied to the new schools that bands like
impressive guitar work, the Judas Priest, Saxon and
dour vocals reduce everything Iced Earth have exploited
to a hazy, monotone snooze- in recent times. The only
athon. First single ‘Again It's problem is that it does go on
Over’ sounds hopeful until its a bit. ‘Temples Of The Sea’
mediocre, goth-u-like chorus is at least two minutes too
pops up to keep things flat as a long, and several other tracks
pancake. A certain something outstay their welcome. This
of the night is all they have — so is a good album, then, but an
eat Italian and ward them off opportunity missed.
with garlic breath. DOWNLOAD: ‘Beyond All
DOWNLOAD: ‘Again It's Over’. Reason’.
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(SYMPATHY FOR THE RECORD INDUSTRY, 2004) (SUB POP,1993) (RECESS, 1999) (RECESS, 1998)
A WILDLY eclectic record featuring THEIR LAST record for Sub Pop after DURING THEIR transitional WITH 34 tracks compiled from
(EPITAPH, 1997)
everything from hardcore punk to which they were elbowed for faking period between being a psychedelic all the bands early singles, this
UNQUESTIONABLY THE Dwarves’
pop and hip-hop with such guests the death of guitarist Hewhocannot- garage band and the band they are is a very different band from the
finest (half) hour, this features every-
as Dexter Holland, Josh Freese and benamed in an “anonymous bar fight today, the Dwarves showed every Dwarves we know today. Obviously
thing that makes them one of the
DJ Marz. ‘The Dwarves Must Die’ in Philadelphia”. After many touching indication that they were going to guzzling down acid and having a
greatest punk bands on the planet.
shows the true musical genius of obituaries and messages of condol- be thoroughly unpleasant. This com- pretty bad trip, they managed to
Tunes that evoke the Ramones and
the band. If it weren't for the fact ance, the band laughed their asses pilation of early singles, including sound like a psychedelic Cramps
the Damned at their best, seedy and
that they insisted on getting naked off, cheekily calling the last track ‘I such masterpieces as ‘| Wanna Kill crossed with something you'd see
obnoxious lyrics, nudity, violence,
girls to crucify a dwarf on the sleeve Wish That | Was Dead’ with a post- Your Boyfriend’ and ‘It's Your Party in a ‘60s freak-out movie. Which,
and even a letter from their former
then tracks like ‘Salt Lake City’ might script to the label, “thanks to Sub Pop (Die If You Want To)’, is a clear sign admittedly, is pretty good stuff, just
label explaining why they were
even see them get some airplay... on for drugs and money”. Another great that things were going to get out not what you'd want to check out if
dropped. As it says on the record:
the day that Satan skates to work. record overshadowed by controversy. of hand. Loud, raw and infectious. you've recently discovered them.
“Nothing but hits, bitch!”.

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THE ULTIMATE THE DWARVES MIX CD
I'll fuck that too!’. More tea, vicar? a fucking bastard!’. A simple basically tells the world how great punk steamroller, before declaring
FIND IT: ‘Thank Heaven For Little Ramones-esque blast about pimp- the Dwarves are. Laughable if he ‘don't really give a fuck about no
DOES THIS really need explaining? ing one’s ho. Delightful. wasn't absolutely right. right or wrong’. Like that needed
Girls’, 1992.
Murderdolls’ song of the same name FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Are Young FIND IT: ‘Come Clean’, 2000. pointing out.
bears some remarkable (and they And Good Looking’, 1997. FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Must Die’,
claim accidental) similarities, but this 2004.
Mh
is way more fun and er, infectious. LYRICALLY LIMITED to a couple of
FIND IT: ‘Blood, Guts And Pussy’, lines, Blag doesn't really have time A RARE radiofriendly tune from.
1990. to disgrace himself so we're left CULLED FROM an early EP entitled our heroes. Not that many stations
with a raucous punk blast that's as ‘Lucifer's Crank’ this ragged one would touch it given that the cover A GAUNTLET-THROWING tune
simple as it is effective. minute blast is pretty self-explana- features a dwarf being crucified by that disses everyone from Good
FIND IT: ‘Sugar Fix’, 1993. tory. ‘The best things in life are free! naked girls. Charlotte to Creed and QOTSA. It
/Well, if they're free why don't you FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Must Die’, was reported that this was the song
AGAIN IT doesn’t take Stephen give ‘em to mel. 2004. that caused QOTSA singer Josh
Hawking to work out what this FIND IT: ‘Free Cocaine’, 1999. Homme's altercation with Blag.
one’s about. Vocals, in the style of ON THE face ofit itasample ode to
FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Must Die’,
a complete mental, are provided by the best night of the week, but of
2004.
Nick Oliveri in full rant mode. course, the Dwarves use it as an OPENING WITH a sample of Nick
FIND IT: ‘Blood, Guts And Pussy’, excuse to wreck the place, violate A SIMPLE ditty about a singular Oliveri giving his reasons for being
1990. young ladies and ‘know that deep failure with the better sex. ‘You try, elbowed from Queens Of The Stone
down low, you're loving it. but you don't get none/And | said, Age, this also features a venting of IN WHICH Blag complains Fathel
FIND IT: ‘Sugar Fix’, 1993. ‘why? Is she a lesbian?". PC as Oliveri’s not inconsiderable spleen. vigorously about the dating process.
always then. FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Must Die’, ‘Why can’t! just fuck that bitch and
ONE CAN only imagine the horrors FIND IT: ‘Come Clean’, 2000. 2004. go’. It's inadvisable to play this to
that await in the back seat of any your girlfriend.
vehicle owned by the Dwarves. ‘I'VE GOT a bad reputation and
FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Must Die’,
Let's just say that traffic violations you don't even know me! threatens
Blag with his usual glee before 1 TAKE the cake and then! take
2004.
are not your main concern. ONE OF many songs in which
FIND IT; ‘Blood Guts And Pussy’, apparently protesting his inno- Blag blows his own trumpet and it back! brags Blag in this superb
1990. cence. Butter wouldn't melt...
FIND IT: ‘Sugar Fix’, 1993.

THANKFULLY THE tyrice are pretty.

indecipherable, but the title and a OOZING SLOW and sleazy sex
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and what sounds like someone tune. Forget Matley Cries ‘Girls,
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“THE DWARVES are super punk, that’s what
| always loved about them. Today when you call
FIND IT: ‘Blood Guts And Pussy’, FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Are Young someone punk, it might say more about the T-
1990. And Good Looking’, 1997. shirt some dude is wearing instead of their attitude. ths cen came
before that stuff; they are a seminal punk band to me. Live, their shows
descended into chaos and didn’t last more than 15 minutes, usually
WHEN THE warce played tize THE SONG'S essentially about ending up in a riot of broken chairs and tables flying across the tiny
first UK show (all four songs of it) chasing other people's girlfriends clubs they played. Onstage they were probably naked and their rad
they opened with this and started but for once it's done in a relatively album covers always verged on obscene — particularly the ‘Blood,
a bar brawl like something out of a tasteful (and radio friendly) way that Guts And Pussy’ cover; nowadays ittakes more to shock. They
spaghetti western. Nuff said. comes across more as an homage were mysterious too — you never quite knew who was in the
FIND IT: ‘Thank Heaven For Little to womankind than their usual band or even if they were alive or dead. They were a punk band
Girls’, 1992. unsubtle dick waving. back when punk was dangerous. They scared the shit out of me
FIND IT: ‘The Dwarves Are Young and | loved it. Plus they are going strong today, they redefined
And Good Looking’, 1997. their music by not sticking to a formula and recording across
ANOTHER SUBTLE dittyabout styles from hip-hop to industrial but always bringing the raw
making the beast with two backs. _ power andattitude that makes them what they are. We're
‘It seems like balling bitches is all| ‘DON'T WANNA be your pastor! all lucky they are still around. The Dwarves must not die.”
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stout. Everybody now...”

from the G N’R tour frontline!

It’s been a summer of dreams coming true
for Welsh firebrands Bullet For My Valentine:
rocking Donington in the sunshine at the
Download festival alongside Metallica, Tool
et al, opening for Guns N’Roses for their New York
dates, European and UK tour and getting invited to play
the Van's Warped Tour. Not bad going for “four Welsh
pissheads”! Drummer Michael ‘Moose’ Thomas reveals
all...
So — the Guns N’Roses tour. A dream come true?
Moose: “The rest of the guys are huge, huge fans. | must admit |
was more into the heavier stuff when my mates all got into GN’R

ie -|'m more of a Metallica, Megadeth type of guy. But the shows

were pretty amazing; the New York shows were intense. The
audiences were impatient for Guns to take the stage, which is

/
ye
understandable, so they weren't really that receptive to our set.
The European shows have been much better, the crowds aren't
so insane, they’re willing to give us a chance, and you could tell
some of the audience were really into it, so we got ourselves
some new fans. Mission accomplished.”
There must be some wild aftershow parties on the G N’R tour...
Moose: “I’m sure its nothing like it was in the ‘Appetite For
Destruction’ days, its been pretty tame. But there have been
loads of celebrities at the aftershows — | saw Matthew Perry from
‘Friends’, and [martial arts star] Jet Li! | didn’t run after them
with my autograph book or anything, though — | just sort of sat
there thinking, what are we doing here?! We're just four Welsh
pissheads!”
How are you digging the stadiums?
Moose: “We are loving it — playing support at these huge places,
we're just preparing for the shows we'll be playing in a couple of
years, getting a feel for the big stages and the huge audiences.
Don't get me wrong, we love playing smaller venues, but we’ve
been doing that for ages. We love arenas, we want to play
stadiums. When | was a kid, | listened to stadium rock, those are
the places | wanted to play.”
Did you enjoy Download?
Moose: “It was fantastic, unbelievable. | just remember sitting
at my drumstool, looking out at the crowd, and thinking, ‘| can’t
believe all these people have come to see my little band!’. When
you’re on the road, touring all the time, it's difficult to get a
handle on how big everything's getting, and how fast. It’s only
when we get a couple of weeks off and go home that it all sinks
in.”
What's your post-gig ritual?
Moose: “After we walk offstage, we’re pretty fuckin’ tired, so we
go back to the dressing room, take a breath, and then talk about
how the show could have been better, if it’s been a bad show.
(BFMV)
(Guns.
page)
Borucki
Justin
Retna
N’Roses
over We're always learning. A good show? That's if we get a good
crowd reaction, and enjoy ourselves onstage.”
What goes on in the bus between shows?
Moose: “The other guys love watching movies; they were up the
other night, watching four in a row. Personally, | prefer to listen
to my iPod. I've been listening to ‘Somewhere In Time’ by Iron
Maiden a lot recently. And our new demos for the new record.”
What do you like most about touring?
Moose: “Definitely playing the actual shows — |can’t describe
how it feels, to be playing before people who appreciate what
you're doing, who respond to it and really seem to get it. We’d
go see shows as kids, Pantera, Metallica, Machine Head, and
Words: we all really wanted to be up there - to grow as a band, to
Chick
Stevie
Photo
take our music to the arenas and stadiums. | don’t have the
planet-swallowing ego of a rock ‘n’ roll star, but | do love to play
stadiums, and it’s what | want to do for the rest of my life!”
TOUR DATES: Sheffield Hallam FM Arena July 18, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena 19,
Glasgow SECC 21, Manchester MEN Arena 23, Birmingham NEC 25, Nottingham Arena

58IKERRANG!
7 et pen | a a Meant Sas seessees ll...
 Mike Patton was never going
to get a cab going south of
the river dressed like that

Six years in the making, Mike piece band for the shows. I’m sure you can find it towards the end. | knew that it would be ready
Patton’s latest project aeing a full cast-list online.” when it was ready and the luxury of working the
Tom is ready to hit t Be The Are you hoping some more of the album's way that | do is there's no real pressure or hurry
man himself expe to get things completed before their time.”
collaborators will join you for one-off shows?
tking party”
and who are} Mike; “Eventually, yeah, but right now we're just Would you agree it’s the most accessible music
k et wet and this is more a preview you've put your name to for quite some time?
tything with three shows in Europe Mike: “It could be. Certainly to my ears it is but
e in the States. After that | hope to obviously my ears are a little skewed. I’ve played
p of it together but there’s certainly it for some friends and they've said, ‘It’s just as
ope for some of the auxilliary members to weird or odd as other stuff you've done’. But so
\ B Outside change and for other people to step in. Dan The far the reaction has been great and it seems to
of my world — people who were more involved Automator was actually supposed to be coming be getting a lot of attention right now.”
with the dance or electronic side of things; out with us for example but he had something There's a hardcore subculture of Pattonophiles
producers. Song files were sent back and forth else that he needed to do.” who'd go and see any project you're involved
and Peeping Tom was put together.” Do you know what to expect yourself from in — does that give you the freedom to do pretty
So how did you go about getting a touring these shows? much anything?
ensemble together? Mike: “Yeah, | expect it to be a fucking party. It Mike: “You create your own freedoms - I've
Mike: “It’s like anything else — you make up a should be fun to play and fun to watch | think. always believed that. Anyone has a licence,
laundry list. | knew the sounds that | wanted to I'm curious to know how it’s going to go myself.” whether they realise it or not, to create whatever
reproduce and | chose a cast of characters that Did it ever feel like a project that would never they want. You can pick any sort of crazy idea
could weave that fabric together — there are a lot come to fruition? out of the air and there are a lot of them floating
of parts to cover and it's closer to a Mr Bungle Mike: “Not really because it wasn’t like | was around. Nobody has to be trapped in any
kind of set-up than anything I've done in years. working on it for six years straight. It was situation. You can always get out of it...”
On guitar, bass and drums we've got Dub Trio, something that | worked on in what passes for Tour date: London Charing Cross Astoria July 17.
who also appear on the record. Then there’s OE
oa
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Words
Traver
Paul
my spare time and | only really concentrated on More info: www.myspace.com/peepingtomispatton
electronics, keyboards, vocalists — it’s a nine-

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HIGH ON FIRE
SUPPORTED BY: LOCAL SUPPORTS TBC
DES KENSEL (drums) says: “The UK has always been great for us.
Birmingham's always good. London's always good. It’s been one of the
best places for us. We're going to Ireland for the first time and we're
all stoked about that. The UK is definitely in our top 10 places in the
world. It gets better every time. We have no complaints!”
Tour dates: Dublin Whelans July 18, Belfast Auntie Annie's 19, Glasgow Nice

da:
N’ Sleazy 20, Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire 21, Birmingham Supersonic Festival @
Custard Factory 22.
More info: www.highonfire.net

High On Fire: on tour

Guess who's just mayhem not pictured
been goosed

FESTIVAL
GUILFEST
GUILDFORD STOKE PARK
There's plenty of rock on the menu at this eclectic festival,
including headline sets from loon-metal berserkers SikTh,
skinny rock puppies InMe, leathery veterans Therapy?
(pictured), the reliably demented Billy Idol, plus Breed 77,
Winnebago Deal, Bring Me The Horizon, Architects and
even hay-chewin’ banjo-pluckers Hayseed Dixie. A bargain!
K! friendly bands: Friday —Hayseed Dixie, SikTh, Bring Me The Horizon,
Architects, Dead!Dead!Dead!, BOB; Saturday — InMe , 65 Days Of Static,
Dead Singer, The Delilahs, The Hedrons, Radiate, Mohair, The Mutts,
» ArielX,Danni McCormack, Obscura, Preacher Joe; Sunday— Billy Idol,
= Therapy?, Breed 77, Winnebago Deal, The AG Band, Space Ritual, The
ba Roosters, Attica, Dirty Love, Eastroad, Burnt Ash, Exoterik
More info: 01483 454159 and www.guilfest.co.uk
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psyched. It's the last time we're going on From lowly snot-wads to one of the world’s The UK's premier purveyors of radio-friendly
Check out www.kerrang.com the road before we head off into the studio. biggest rock bands, the story of Billie Joe and rock team up with Charlie Simpson’s post-
now for all the latest news, gig Plus a lot of the dates are in places we have co is a heart-warming tale of triumph over hardcore battlers for this splendid one-off gig.
ticket info, exclusive podcasts, never played before, so it'll be great to show
features and competitions on the adversity and, of course, includes a lot of And the opening band will be the unsigned
the kids who haven't seen us before what to fantastic songs. winners of a recent K! Radio competition.
likes of Fall Out Boy, Angels And
Airwaves and more... expect from the album... You are going to wit- More info: www.vh1.co.uk Good luck to ‘em!
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TV SOMEWHERE
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A slice of prime redneck genius from the Super-cool surf movie from cult wave-bother-
daylights out of horror-hungry viewers as part
Check out the following on K!TV magnificent park-dwelling thickos. In this ing team Globe, includes music from prog
every day... Gam — ‘Cereal Killers’: episode, they consider making their own porn of this excellent series of one-off fright flicks.
More info: www.bravo.co.uk nuts The Mars Volta.
top rock anthems to wake up to; movie. Jesus wept. More info: www.extreme.com
10am — ‘Life Is Loud’: tracks to More info: www.paramountcomedy.co.uk

, CLUB FILM
stamp and shout to; 12noon — ‘Total
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2:30pm — ‘Rock Heroes’: rock RADIO
gods and metal legends...; 12am DEADLIER THAN THE DJ SUPERMAN
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2pm, 4pm, 6pm, 8pm and 10pm. Broadcasting live from Phoenix, Arizona, straight to your ears via the medium of elec- side of his lycra jumpsuit, Superman remains
every morning, the crown prince of schlock tronic amplification. Dance, damn you! Open one of the coolest superheroes of all. And
rock promises to bombard your ears with a from 10pm until 4am. Admission costs £1. with the distinctly buff Brandon Routh (check
mixture of all the best classic rock from the NUS members get in for free. out those thighs, sigh!) as the flying do-good-
IN! ME likes of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and ZZ Top. And More info: www.theplanet.uk.com er and Kevin Spacey as the bald evil slimeball
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Flood Of Red, Umeat6, Periscope. LONDON Arena, Earls Court Red
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Gosh! Curly-haired iiber-geek John Heder They've topped the UK album chart and From their humble origins in early 20" cen- CARDIFF POINT
puts in a heroic performance as the nerdiest conquered the mainstream. Where next for tury Milwaukee, William Harley and Arthur The former Kyuss and Fu Manchu man
man alive in this hilarious tale of small town Pontypridd’s pop metal princes? Big venues, Davidson ended up as creators of the coolest returns, with his breezy, bong-wielding
high school at its most excruciating. big crowds and killer shows, that's where. two-wheel cruising machines and one of the Californian vibes and tunes from last year's
More info: www.skymovies.com More info: www.lostprophets.com most enduring rock ‘n’ roll icons of them all. ‘Saved By Magic’ album. Spark ‘em up!
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ing Subhumans, Ignite, GBH, Bombshell If you've heard these snotty noisemongers’
Rocks and more. Mo’ hican for yo’ money. bonus of readily available booze. The noise rocking bands on the planet, compered by K!
Radio DJ Steve ‘not Iron Maiden’ Harris. debut album ‘Give Me A Wall’, you'll know
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festival of steel. Edguy and Stratovarius head- A group of young liberals, including Cameron This gritty tale of a drug deal gone horribly,
line, with support from Metal Church, Turisas, Diaz, decide to start dealing with right-wing horribly wrong may just be the second best EPICENTER
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ABERSOCH Wakestock Festival
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Swiss avant death metallers play: London Charing
Cross Mean Fiddler August 19, with Cryptopsy,
Gorerotted and She Said Destroy supporting.
‘Fro-down Academy 13, Manchester Apollo 16, Glasgow | THE CULT
Barrowland 18. The ‘80s UK rock legends return to swing out at:
AIDEN Bristol Academy September 18, Southampton
Victory Records’ 200666 tour kicks off with the | Guildhall 19, Manchester Apollo 20, London
rising goth stars headlining. Also on the menu Brixton Academy 22, Leeds Uni 23, Birmingham
are Bayside, theAudition and The Sleeping all Academy 24, Glasgow Academy 26, Newcastle
served up at: Brighton Concorde II September 2, Academy 27.
Oxford Zodiac 3, Dublin TMBC 5, Belfast Mandela | CRYPTOPSY
Hall 6, Glasgow Garage 7, Aberdeen Moshulu 8, | Insane Canadian tech-death metallers bring
Sunderland Manor Quay 9, Norwich Waterfront Gorerotted, She Said Destroys and Sylosis to:
10, Manchester MDH 13, Liverpool Academy I! Leeds Ghostfest @ Cockpit August 12, Nottingham
14, Leicester University 15, Nottingham Rock City | Rock City 13, Manchester Satans Hollow 14, Cork
16, Stoke Sugarmill 17, Cardiff Coal Exchange | An Cruisin Lan 15, Dublin TBMC 16, Glasgow
20, Bristol University 21, Exeter Lemon Grove 22, | Barfly 17, London Mean Fiddler 19 (supporting
London Charing Cross Astoria 23, Portsmouth Celtic Frost), Norwich Ferryboat 20.
Wedgewood Rooms 24.
THE DARKNESS
THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS OTT rockers will launch off: Liverpool Big Top
US pop-rockers play: Birmingham Academy | Arena July 13
September 22, Manchester Apollo 23, Leeds Uni
24, Cambridge Corn Exchange 26, Southampton DEEP PURPLE
Guildhall 27, London Brixton Academy 29. Legendary Brit-rockers come back to: Newcastle
| Metro Radio Arena April 21, 2007, Manchester
ANATHEMA | Evening News Arena 22, Nottingham Arena 24,
Scouse doom rockers take on: Glasgow Cathouse Cardiff International Arena 25, Bournemouth BIC
September 12, Manchester Academy 13, London 27, London Wembley Arena 28, Brighton Centre
King’s Cross Scala 14. | 29, Glasgow Clyde Auditorium May 1, Sheffield
ATP Hallam FM Arena 2, Birmingham NEC 3. Styx
The legendary art-noise-rock festival throws support!
a seasonal party ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ DISTURBED
with Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Sonic Youth, The ‘Mad’ Davey Draiman’s mentalists have added a
Melvins and more will rock: Minehead Butlins | new date to their re-scheduled tour: Newcastle
Holiday Camp December 8-10. Academy September 29, Glasgow Barrowland 30,
ATREYU / 36 CRAZYFISTS Manchester Academy October 2, Nottingham Rock
Californian metalcore and Alaskan metallers City 4, Birmingham Academy 6, Liverpool Academy
co-headline this crazy tour: London Brixton | 7, London Charing Cross Astoria 9 and 10.
Academy September 15, Glasgow Barrowland DON'T LOOK BACK 2006
16, Nottingham Rock City 17, Manchester ATP bring us a new set of ‘Don't Look Back’
Academy 18. dates. Isis will perform ‘Oceanic’ in its entirety
BAUHAUS | at: London Camden Koko July 23, Girls Against
Peter Murphy resurrects his classic gothic quar- Boys play ‘Venus Luxure No 1 Baby’ July 21, and
tet: London Kentish Town Forum August 7 and 8. Tortoise will present the majestic ‘Millions Now
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Living Will Never Die’ July 25,
ide and his no-nonsense mates will rock. DRAGONFORCE
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stle Academy 6, Birmingham Leas Cliff Hall November 29, Southampton
Idhall 30, Leeds Uni December 1, Nottingham
BLOODSTOCK INDOOR FESTIVAL City 2, Cardiff Coal Exchange 4, Birmingham

aye It doesn’t get much bloodier than this, with Primal 5, Sheffield Octagon 7, Manchester
Fear and My Dying Bride headlining the indoor 8, Glasgow Barrowland 9, Norwich UEA
version of this underground festival at: Derby emy 12, London Charing Cross

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London Hammersmith Palais 8,Bristol Joiners 5. Norwegian extreme-prog metallers hit: Sheffield
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Academy 9, Wolverhampton Wulfrun Ensiferum, Raunchy, Callenish Circle. n's Corporation September 8, Glasgow Garage 9,
Retro-rockers co-headline with PARAMORE Manchester Academy 10, Birmingham Academy
Roadstar at: Reading Fez October 4, Hall 13, Glasgow ABC 15, Manchester End, Ashtar, Edguy, Metal Church, Atheist, Rage.
Upbeat Tennessee emo rockers Nocturnal Rites, Pyramaze and more, the UK’s 11, London Charing Cross Mean Fiddler 12, with
Exeter Cavern 5, Bristol Academy Academy 16. Zyklon and 1349 supporting.
hit: Cardiff Barfly October 5, Oxford “biggest independent outdoor metal festival” will
116, Cardiff Uni 7, Oxford Zodiac 9, LESS THAN JAKE Zodiac 6, Newcastle Northumbria Uni ENTER SHIKARI
be held at Derbyshire Catton Park July 14 and 15.
Sheffield Leadmill 10, Milton Keynes As well as punking up the Carling 8, Glasgow Garage 9, Birmingham Popular Brit newcomers take on: Narbeth Queens
Ritz 12, Manchester Academy III 13, BOMBSHELL ROCKS
Weekend, they'll rock: Cardiff Uni Great Academy II 10, Portsmouth Wedgewood Swedish punk rockers take on: Bristol | Hall October 14, Stoke Sugarmill 15, Newcastle
Edinburgh Voltaire 14, Dundee Westport Hall August 26, Bournemouth Opera Rooms 12, Manchester Academy Ill 13, | Academy II 16, Liverpoo! Academy || 17, Aberdeen
Casablanca July 14, Sheffield Plug 15, London
Bar 15, Aberdeen Tunnels 16, Glasgow House 28. Leeds Cockpit 14, London Charing Cross Tunnels 19, Arbroath Viewfield 20, Edinburgh
Charing Cross Mean Fiddler 16.
King Tut's 17, Liverpool Academy II Mean Fiddler 15. Cabaret Voltaire 21, Glasgow King Tut's 22,
19, Carlisle Brickyard 20, Nottingham NEIL FALLON BRAND NEW Manchester Roadhouse 23, Brighton Komedia
Clutch warbler goes solo for the first WOLFMOTHER US emo kids play: London Brixton Academy | 25, Derby First Floor Club 26, Milton Keynes Pitz
Rock City 21, Newcastle Academy II
time ever at: Derry Glasgowbuty Australian rockers head back over to September 9. 27, York Fibbers 28, Birmingham Bar Academy
22, Peterborough Park 24, Birmingham
Academy I! 25, York Fibbers 27, Stoke Festival @ Draperstown Eagle's Rock party at: Glasgow Academy November BRANT BJORK AND THE BROS 29, Oxford Zodiac 30, Cardiff Barfly November
July 22. 5, Dublin Olympia 6, Leeds Uni 8, Stoner heaven as Fu Manchu guy goes solo at: 1, Exeter Cavern Club 2, Southampton Joiners 3,
Sugarmill 28, Portsmouth Wedgewood
Manchester Academy 9, Birmingham Nottingham Old Angel July 12, Bournemouth | London Charing Cross Mean Fiddler4.
Rooms 29, Brighton Engine Rooms 30, NICK OLIVERI AND HIS Academy 10, Bristol Academy 12, Opera House 13, Glasgow Barfly 14, Newcastle | ENTOMBED
London Charing Cross Mean Fiddler MONDO GENERATOR Academy 15, Dublin Whelans 16, Manchester
November 1. London Brixton Academy 15. Swedish thrashers hit: Nottingham Rock City
Crazy Nick and his Mondo friends Attic 17, Cardiff Point 18, Exeter Cavern 19. September 13, Glasgow Cathouse 14, Sheffield
BILLY TALENT headline: Sheffield Leadmill August YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE! BREED 77 | Corporation 15, Dublin Temple Bar 16, London
Toronto rockers head over to: 21, London Camden Underworld 22, Canadian disco punkers take on: Cardiff Gibraltan metallers hit: Stamford Corn Exchange | Mean Fiddler 17.
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall July Coventry Colosseum 23, York Barfly 29, Barfly August 22, London Oxford Street September 10, Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms FEEDER + FIGHTSTAR = THE VOLVIC
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Southampton Guildhall September 7, 1, Oxford Zodiac 4, Southampton Carling Weekend: Reading Festival 27. City 18, Manchester Academy III 20, Birmingham | Custard Factory July 14, with a Brit-rock-esque
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old super-glue on the BRIGADE Barrowland October 8, Newcastle Uni 9,
Brit pop-rockers take on: York Fibbers August Manchester Academy 11, Sheffield Leadmill 12,
mic trick 20, Birmingham Academy 21, Brighton Free Butt London Hammersmith Palais 13, Nottingham Rock
22, Bristol Academy 23, Leicester Charlotte 24, | City 14, Portsmouth Pyramid 16, Cardiff Solus
Aberdeen Moshulu 26, Newcastle Academy 27, | 17, Cambridge Corn Exchange 18, Birmingham
Liverpool Academy 28, Cardiff Barfly 29, London Academy 19.
Camden Barfly 30, Nottingham Rock City 31. Disco
Ensemble and The Scare support. | FLOGGING MOLLY
| American-lrish punk rockers get the party started
BRING ME THE HORIZON | at: Bristol Academy July 12, Brighton Concorde II
Rising Sheffield stars hit: Liverpool Academy July 13, London Charing Cross Mean Fiddler 25
12, London Islington Bar Academy 13, Guilford
Guildfest 14, Rotherham Arts Centre 15. | GOD FORBID
| New Jersey metallers rock: London Charing Cross
BULLDOG BASH 2006 | Mean Fiddler September 16, Bournemouth Opera
The 20th anniversary of this famed biker/music House 17, Manchester Rockworld 18, Milton
festival continues to rock: Stratford On Avon Long Keynes Pitz 20.
Marston Shakespeare County Raceway August
10-13. Catch Pitchshifter, The Almighty, Skindred, GUNS N'ROSES
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Answer, Breed 77 and loads more.
Metro Radio Arena 19, Glasgow SECC 21,
CARLING WEEKEND: READING AND Manchester MEN Arena 23, Birmingham NEC 25,
LEEDS FESTIVALS | Nottingham Arena 27, London Wembley Arena 29
Melodic maestros Muse and classic grungers and 30. With Bullet For My Valentine supporting.
Pearl Jam front the August Bank Holiday festivals
this year with My Chemical Romance, Mastodon, HIGH ON FIRE
| US stoner heaven at: Dublin Whelans July 18,
Slayer, Less Than Jake, Coheed And Cambria,
| Belfast Auntie Annie’s 19, Glasgow Nice N’ Sleazy
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Flogging Molly, Gogol Bordello, Aiden, Taking
| 20, Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire 21, jingham
Back Sunday, Feeder, Placebo, Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
The Subways, er, The Raconteurs, Fall Out Supersonic Festival @ Custard Factory 22.
Boy, Panic! At The Disco and many more to be HUNDRED REASONS
announced over the three-dayer on August 25, 26, | UK emo-rock veterans play: Newcastle Academy
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Koko 20, Cambridge Junction 23, Nottingham Punking rock at; Carling Weekend Reading
Rock City 24, Brighton Concorde II 28. 25 and Leeds 26, Bimingham Academy II
September 10, Manchester Academy Ill 11,
IRON MAIDEN Glasgow King Tut's 12, London Charing Cross
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International Arena December 11, Birmingham UK zombie-core originals play K! ‘Most Wanted!’
shows at: Glasgow Barfly July 29, Cardiff Barfly
NEC 12, Manchester MEN Arena 14, Glasgow
August 2, Birmingham Barfly 3, London Camden
Adam Lazzara:
SECC Hall 15, Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
17, Sheffield Hallam FM Arena 18, London Earls Barfly 10, York Fibbers 12. back in black
Court Arena 22 and 23. SIKTH
ISIS UK math-metallers rock: Oxford Zodiac
US instrumental rockers play at: Cardiff Point September 28, Ilfracombe Landmark Theatre
July 19, Bournemouth Opera House 20, Sheffield Pavillion 29, Wadebridge Town Hall 30,
Corporation 21, Birmingham Supersonic Fest @ Falmouth Princess Pavillion October 1, Newport
Custard Factory 22, and London Camden ‘Don't TJ's 3, Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 4,
Look Back ‘06’ at Koko 23. Brighton Concorde II 5, Wolverhampton Wulfrun
Hall 6, Leeds Cockpit 7, Newcastle Uni 9,
JULIETTE & THE LICKS Aberdeen Moshulu 10, Glasgow King Tut's 11,
Miss Juliette Lewis goes all out at: Brighton
Sheffield Corporation 12, Milton Keynes Pitz
Concorde Il September 26, London Charing Cross
13, Norwich Waterfront 15, Stoke Sugarmill 16,
Mean Fiddler 27,Manchester Academy III 28,
Manchester Academy III 17, London Charing
Sheffield Leadmill 29, Nottingham Rescue Rooms
Cross Mean Fiddler 19.
October 2, Glasgow ABC 4, Leeds Cockpit 5.
SKINDRED
LORDI Ragga-rockers rock: Wrexham Central Station
Finnish superstars go orc-shit at: Nottingham
July 15, Birmingham Academy 16, Merthyr
Rock City October 26, Birmingham Academy 27,
Tydfil Studio Bar 21, Abingdon Truck Festival
Manchester Academy 29, Glasgow Garage 30,
22, Exeter Phoenix 28, Cardiff Compass Festival
London Kentish Town Forum 31
29, London Islington Academy Uxfest August
LOSTPROPHETS 6, Warwickshire Bulldog Bash 11, Wrexham
Welsh sexpots bring their new sounds to: Central Station September 10, Camberley
Nottingham Rock City July 12, Carlisle Sand Agincourt 15, London Camden Underworld 18,
Centre 14, Blackpool Empress Ballroom 15, Southend Chinnerys 19, London Battersea Park
Liverpool Academy 16, Norwich UEA 18, Exeter October 7, Nottingham Rock City 21
Great Hall 19, Birmingham Academy 20, Cardiff
International Arena 22.
MENDEED
Scottish metallers take on: Southampton Joiners
October 3, Exeter Cavern 4, Oxford Zodiac 5,
Manchester Academy III 6, Newcastle Academy
117, Glasgow King Tuts 8, Stoke Sugarmill 9,
Pontypridd Sanctuary Music Bar 10, Norwich
Waterfront 11, London Camden Underworld
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
12, Great Yarmouth End Of Days Festival 13,
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 14, Aberdeen mR,
Drummonds 15.
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Al Jourgensen brings the industrial pounding to:
London Kentish Town Forum August 2.
THE MISFITS
Seminal goth punks on Electric Ballroom
September 21, ham Uni
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Latitude Festival July 16, Ireland County Laois
Stradbally Estate Electric Picnic Festival
September 1, London Kensington Royal Albert
Hall 22, Glasgow Barrowland 23, Manchester
Academy 24.
MORBID ANGEL
Death metal party at: L
Fiddler August 22
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
Emo-loving Minneapolitans punk up: Bristol
Uni September 18, Cardiff Uni Solus 19,
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 20, Newcastle
Uni 21, Manchester Academy 22, Glasgow ABC
24, Leeds Met Uni 25, Portsmouth Pyramid 27,
SLAYER - UNHOLY ALLIANCE TOUR
Whooaaaah! Everyone's favourite thrashers
London Charing Cross Astoria 28
Slayer bring along In Flames, Lamb Of God,
MOTORHEAD Children Of Bodom and Thine Eyes Bleed for the Sharroc
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support slot by slayin International Arena October 30, Birmingham
November 2, Glasgow NEC November 1, Glasgow SECC 2, Manchester One, Head-on, King July 12, Nottingham Rock City 13, Yeovil Ski Hardcore’s finest play City Invasion; with
Apollo 5, Bradford St Geo Evening News Arena 3, London Brixton Lodge 14, Stoke Sugarmill 15, Guildford Guilfest three other acts at: Sheffield Plug July 15,
Mumrah, NWS, S'
City Hall 8, Birmingham Aca Academy 19 and 20. London Isli n 16, Liverpool Barfly 17, Glasgow Barfly 18, | London Charing Cross Mean Fiddler 16,
University 11, Oxford New Newcastle Academy II 19, Manchester Night & then as a duo at: Peterborough Met Lounge
De Montford Hall 13, Norv SOILWORK WINNEBAGO DEAL
Scandinavian metallers rock: Norwich Day 21, Oxford Truck Festival 22. 17, Newcastle Trillians 18, Glasgow Barfly
Corn Exchange 16, Ipswic Rock-tastic duo and sometime Nick Oliveri back-
terfront September 17, Portsmouth WITH HONOR/IGNITE 19, Bristol Casablanca 21
City 19, Bristol Colston H ing men go out and headline: Derby Victoria Inn
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Hall 24, Lon Brixt London Charing Cross Mean Fiddler 20,
Nottingham Rock City 21, Glasgow Cathouse 22,
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mingham Academy II 26, Cardiff Barfly 27,
Lemon Grove 28.
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Boston's punkers reform to educate: Nottingham Arbroath Viewfield Hotel; 01241 872446 Guildford Guilfest @ Stoke Park; 01483 454159 01908 660392
MY RUIN Old Angel July 24, Manchester Star & Garter 25, Bideford Palladium Club; 01237 423241 Harlow Square; 01279 305000 Neath Gwyn Hall; 01639 645741
Outspoken and over here! Tairrie B and Leeds Josephs Well 26, London Camden Barfly Bi igham Academy; 0870 7712000 Ha: gs Carlisle; 01424 420193 Newcastle Academy 2; 0870 7712000
swing into: Southampton Joiners July 27, Norwich Marquee 28, Newport Le Pub 29, Birmingham Edwards No 8; 0121-643 5835 Hi igs Crypt ; 01424 444675 Newcastle Trillians; 0191-232 1619
Waterfront 13, Luton Students Union 14. Ashford Downtown Diner 30. Blackpool Empress Ballroom; 01253 292029 Hereford Herdsman; 01432 277330 Norwich UVEA; 01603 508050
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Massive US pop-punkers grace these shores Stoner, doom, instrumental and experimental Bournemouth Opera House; 0870 8301414 Leeds Vine; 0113 244 6677 Nottingham Old Angel; 0115 9502303
Bristol Academy November 27, Southampton ham Custard Factory July Bradford Gasworks Bar; 01274 732200 Leicester Attik; 0116 2223800 Nottingham Rock City; 0115 9412544
Guildhall 28, Norwich UEA 29, London Charing Fire, Isis, Michael Gira, Bridgwater Palace Theatre; 01278 434507 Leicester Charlotte; 0116 2553956 Nuneaton Queens Hall; 024 7664 2454
Cross Astoria December 1, Birmingham Academy ones, Zombi and more. Brighton Concorde II; 01273 772770 Leicester Sumo; 0116 2856536 Oxford Bullingdon Arms; 01865 244516
3, Glasgow Academy 5, Manchester Academy 6. Brighton Engine Room; 01273 323161 Liverpool Academy 1; 0151-256 5555 Peterborough Met Lounge; 01733 566100
TESTAMENT Liverpool Barfly; 0151-707 6171 Porth Pop Factory; 01443 688500
OPETH US thrash legends return to: London Islington
Bristol Academy; 0870 7712000
Bristol Fleece; 0117 9299008 Liverpool Big Top Arena; 0870 1514000 Rotherham Arts Centre; 01709 823 621
Scandi proggers take over: Portsmouth Pyramid Academy July 24, Bradford Rio 25, Dudley Cardiff Point; 029 2023 0130 Liverpool Drezla Lounge; 07984 823330 Rushdon Attic; 01933 312398
November 5, Glasgow ABC 6, Nottingham Rock JB's 26. London Arena, Earls Court; 0870 9039033 Sheffield Hallam FM Arena; 0114 256 5656
Carlisle Brickyard; 01228 512220
City 7, Birmingham Academy 8, London Camden Sheffield Plug; 0114 2762676
THUNDER Carlisle Sands Centre; 01228 625222 London Astoria, Charing Cross; 020 7434 9592
Roundhouse 9, Manchester Academy 10, Exeter Chatham Command House; 01634 810120 London Bar Academy, Islington; 0905 0203999 Southampton Brook; 023 8055 5366
Britis! Plymouth Pavillion
Great Hall 11 Chatham Tap 'N’ Tin; 01634 831119 London Bar Monsta, Camden Town; 020 Southampton Joiners; 023 8022 5612
Novembe les Theatre Stockport Thatched House; 0161-345 9922
PANIC! AT THE DISCO 17, Oxford Ne outh Guildhall
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Cleethorpes Winter Gardens; 01472 349222 London Barfly, Camden; 020 7691 4244 Stoke Sugarmill; 01782 214991
Panic over. They'll be back to headline London 20, Wolverha don Kentish
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Brixton Academy October 22, 23 and 24. Town Forum 22, M Stourbridge Rock Café 2000; 01384 390918
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PEEPING TOM Newcastle City Hall 26, ¢ Cowgate Subway; 0131-225 6766 7354 1312 Sussex Stringbendy Club; 07914 941266
Mike Patton goes rock-electro at: London Charing THE TWILIGHT SINGERS Deal Astor Theatre; 01304 363 646 London Mean Fiddler, Charing Cross; 020 Telford Haygate; 01952 242616
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Greg Dulli and friends bring their soulful
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Dublin Whelans; 00353 1478 2420
Californian good-time rockers play: Manchester London Camden Lock 17 August 22, Liverpool Dumfries Venue; 07842 517715 London Water Rats, King’s Cross; 020 7436 Winchester Railway Inn; 01962 867795
MEN Arena July 12, London Earls Court Arena Academy II 23, Sheffield Boardwalk 24, Carling Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire; 0131-467 2539 7211 Wolverhampton Robin 2; 01902 497860
14, 15, 17 and 18. Weekend 25 and 26. Glasgow 13th Note; 0141-553 1638 Luton Student Union; 01582 489368 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall; 01902 552121
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Glasgow Arches; 0141-565 1023
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