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Prong Interview: Quality Control

Prong (from left to right: drummer Aaron Rossi, vocalist/guitarist Tommy Victor, bassist/backing vocalist Jason Christopher); Photo by Tim Tronckoe

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Prong’s not a one-hit wonder--not because they have more than one hit, but because despite its appearance on a Beavis and Butthead episode, you can’t really call “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck” a hit. It doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia page. And as much as the band’s sole consistent member is concerned with their lack of hits, he--and they--are better than that. 

Save for a five year period of inactivity, the Tommy Victor-helmed metal band has been making music for over thirty years, with some of its most inspired material coming in the 2010′s. The inspired Carved Into Stone and Zero Days were career highlights, seeing the band combine the heavy hooks and progressive riffs they’ve always been known for. (Before the release of those records, Victor was devoting time to Ministry, with whom he likely had a falling out, based on his words about frontman Al Jourgensen, and he’s also still the guitarist of Danzig) And now, the band has offered a five-song EP, released on the label that’s represented them the better part of the past decade, Steamhammer, to whet the appetite of fans for their next release, whenever it may come. Age of Defiance contains two new songs and three live recordings with the current lineup of drummer Aaron Rossi and bassist/backing vocalist Jason Christopher. Its three live recordings are not from Zero Days, let alone from this past decade. Instead, they included “Another Worldly Device” and “Cut-Rate” from their 25-year-old breakout Cleansing as well as the title track to its follow-up, Rude Awakening.

Speaking to Victor over the phone late last year, it’s clear he’s constantly reflecting on his entire career, where both Prong and the metal and music world were then and are now. On paper, his general observations may come across as “ok boomer” dismissiveness, but I can tell you from his tone that he legitimately ponders and is curious about his place. The conversation eventually turned into me expressing generalized, likely unearned pearls of wisdom about the state of things, and him playing the weary cynic. The whole time, it was enjoyable and illuminating.

Read the Q+A, edited for length and clarity, below.

Since I Left You: You released the Age of Defiance to tide fans over. What’s the history of the two studio recordings on it?

Tommy Victor: That’s a good question. [In 2018], in January, I came off a tour and wrote a whole bunch of songs. I think 11 I fully demoed in crappy home recordings. That was gonna be for a full-length record. We were trying to expand the life of Zero Days, so we put out the “Blood Out Of Stone” video and single. We had that in the works and thought we shouldn’t put out another album for a while. People tend to just listen to a couple songs anyhow. I thought a lot of songs off of Zero Days got ignored or overlooked. And we had put out a series of long players over a good period of time, so an EP sounded like a good idea. I just picked one song [from the demos, “Age of Defiance”], and thought the quality control has really been upped, because out of the 11 songs that were demoed, I was only picking one song out of this to really focus on. I liked that idea, so we recorded that one. Then I wrote a brand spanking new song specifically for the EP once it was decided just to do two songs, and that was “End of Sanity”. Completely new for this. I think the other songs are gonna go in the trash pile.

SILY: So that’s why you chose “Age of Defiance” to represent this release?

TV: Right.

SILY: “The End Of Sanity” you describe as a crossover track. It’s pretty catchy but still really heavy.

TV: Good. I always worry about that.

SILY: You still worry about how your music is gonna be received?

TV: Oh, absolutely. I’m an artist, but I’m not that much of an artist. I’m still insecure about a lot of the stuff. I do the best I can. That song, too, to go into the depths of how I come up with something like that. Apart from the demos, I recorded a bunch of riffs on my phone, whether on the road or hanging around. I spent the day going through all of them. I was like, “This one’s pretty cool.” I downloaded it off my phone and put it on the computer. Apparently, it was recorded during a Danzig tour. I rearranged it and came up with something completely different. There’s a lot of work that goes behind this. Then I added the other riffs on the spot. But I try to have a lot of quality control and effort put into this. And the lyrics are a whole other thing. I like to have the opportunity to do two songs. I don’t have this huge chore or task of doing 14 songs. This is great! I’d love this to continue, to put out a couple songs here and there. It’s been a lot of work but a lot less of a headache.

SILY: It’s the same work, but put into less songs.

TV: Yeah!

SILY: What would prevent you from doing that? The label release cycles?

TV: I’m confused about their whole release cycle. I don’t really know what their strategies are. Because I don’t know that, I think they’ve gotten the wrong idea that I’ve criticized them about it. I’m not; they’ve done a fantastic job with Prong. It’s just that I’m confused about how they decide what has to be done. I don’t really know. I know he told me this is gonna carry through this year, but we’ll see what happens.

SILY: From an artistic standpoint, coming out with a whole album as opposed to releasing one-off songs is different, but from the perspective of keeping people interested, people are used to these short bursts.

TV: I guess they are. Our label is an old-fashioned heavy metal label, which may sound wrong, but they have the metal integrity of full-length albums and vinyl. They don’t really care too much about what the pop world is doing. But I know R&B artists team up with other people for a constant barrage of singles. I don’t listen to those pop playlists, but I know billions of people do. It’s what people listen to these days, when you go to the gym. Whoever with whoever. These singles that come out.

You can make money from Spotify if you generate the type of digital-only releases these artists are doing. It’s a mythos to say nobody’s making money from Spotify. Yeah, metal bands are not, because nobody listens to metal. But in the wide scope of things, 15 million plays in a day, you’re making a good chunk of change. And that’s just on Spotify.

SILY: It’s also being counted towards the charts.

TV: Yeah, it’s Gold now. It’s ridiculous. Nobody sells 500,000 copies of a record anymore. There’s no place to buy records!

SILY: No big places.

TV: Yeah.

SILY: When I heard that this release was going to be two never-heard-before studio recordings and three live cuts, I expected the live cuts to be three recently released Prong songs. But there’s one from 10 years ago and two from the early 90′s. Why these songs?

TV: Well, it’s the 25th anniversary of Cleansing. As far as why “Another Worldly Device” and “Cut-Rate”, I don’t know. We could have done “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck”. And I think “Rude Awakening” is one of those Prong songs that’s been overlooked a little bit, and it shows a side of Prong where people are like, “That’s a really good song!” but they don’t really get it. We rolled the dice with that one, sort of.

SILY: Do you play that one a touch slower live?

TV: Probably. Alexei [Rodriguez] would play fast, and Ted [Parsons] would play it fast. We’re probably a little slower now. It moves up and down. Sometimes, we’re trying to get the hell out of there at night.

SILY: When were these recorded?

TV: Several years ago. 2014 at the earliest, maybe 2015. I should know that.

SILY: Were they from different shows?

TV: No. The whole session was different shows, but I think those were all from Berlin.

SILY: What’s the story behind the album art?

TV: I’ve been dabbling with painting. I sent a bunch of my art to the art director, and this is what he came up with. I was like, “Wow, this is awesome!” I had done one piece which was my idea for the cover, which was nothing really that great, just a black canvas and sort of distorted Prong logo in red and that kind of lettering. He just went full force with [the image I gave him] and came up with the rest of it. I really like the color scheme--it was something really different. He really got it, he really nailed it. Nicolas Fritz is this guy’s name. He’s from Steamhammer. Normally, we haven’t gone with the guy from the label, but I thought, “I’m gonna give it a shot. I’m gonna start with something and send it to him and see if he can manipulate it.” He went in a totally different direction, and I really liked what he was doing.

SILY: What else is upcoming for Prong?

TV: More touring. There’s the European tour. We’re trying to get down to South America. If the Foo Fighters want us to go out with them in America, I’ll take that tour. Other than that, I don’t know what we’re gonna do. Three tours [this year] would be good.

SILY: Have you played the two new songs live yet?

TV: Good question. We have not! We were planning to. We just got off a tour; we were just out with Agnostic Front. Based on the shortness of our set time, we decided it wouldn’t be a good idea to be interfering with the show by playing new songs.

SILY: Have you practiced them a bunch?

TV: No. We need to start. We’re gonna do them on the next tour.

SILY: How was your show at Reggie’s?

TV: I think we were competing with someone of major significance playing elsewhere that night. I’ve never been to that venue before. We played a lot of places that normally we wouldn’t have played or never heard of.

SILY: In terms of metal, Queensryche was playing that night, but I don’t know who else. You never know why people don’t come out.

TV: It wasn’t a disaster, but somebody else of significance definitely played that night. I think it was just right after a festival.

SILY: Riot Fest. 

TV: Riot Fest was that weekend.

SILY: Do you tend to play festivals at all?

TV: We try to. We try to get on ‘em. In Europe, we do. In America, for some reason, we’re bypassed. I do know the reasons, but I’m not gonna share that with you. In Europe, we do a lot of festivals.

SILY: I imagine Riot Fest would be receptive to a band like you. They’re not a metal festival and call themselves a punk festival, but they have metal. Slayer just headlined it.

TV: I don’t know what dictates these things. When we’re asked, we’ll do it. But right now, to beat down doors to get on these things, fly in, and make no money isn’t really that interesting to me.

SILY: You’d rather go on a tour where people are gonna come to your shows, even if small.

TV: I gotta keep an eye on finances. We’re not a bunch of kids excited to do things for nothing. I’m not gonna wind up broke.

SILY: Is there anything you’ve been listening to, reading, or watching lately that’s caught your attention?

TV: I’m always watching stuff these days. Right now, I’m watching Rebellion. It’s about the Easter Uprising. Good show. I watched El Camino. It was good; I wasn’t blown away by it. 

Now, you’re really gonna get another side of me. We were dying to see this movie, and it did not disappoint, because the TV show was unbelievable: Downton Abbey. That was amazing.

As far as listening, I go back and forth. I listen to anything from Interpol to Death From Above 1979 to old Jeff Beck Group stuff. I went through a whole big jazz period, Ornette Coleman and Miles Davis. I’m really into musical theater, too. I was listening to the Rent soundtrack on the road. [laughs] Like, a lot!

SILY: Do your other band mates share your tastes?

TV: No one listens to anything publicly anymore. It’s just headphones. Everyone’s so isolated. Years ago, we’d jointly listen to stuff, complain, throw CDs out the window of the van. There’s no camaraderie anymore. Everyone’s on their own little agenda in their own heads.

SILY: I imagine that’s both good and bad.

TV: Uh...I don’t know. People are more intolerant of one another these days.

SILY: So they keep to themselves.

TV: They keep to themselves. I’m better off that way because I listen to podcasts that other people will definitely not listen to. There’s a lot of stupid shit out there, so that’s really what goes down. As far as music, though, it goes all over the place. Doom metal, some of it’s good, but I don’t pay that much attention to it.

SILY: There are so many different sub-genres of it.

TV: I was just talking about that to someone the other day. It’s disgusting. I don’t like that. Their audiences are too divided. It’s really a sad shame that it’s like that. It’s just the way it is. Doom metal people. People who only listen to hatecore bands or deathcore. Even industrial has a million different sub-genres.

SILY: It’s cool to take things in different directions but bad to be insular about it.

TV: Digital technology did this. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry can make his own record and put it up on Spotify. There are 30,000 releases a week or something now.

SILY: The good music’s out there, it’s just harder to find.

TV: Everything’s algorithmically done. The new Prong single, “End Of Sanity” is out, and automatically, unless you’ve somehow gotten in touch with the programmers, after the first week, it’s gonna get bumped down on some of the playlists. It just starts dwindling down, and your plays after a week have already gone down. It’s disappeared. Prong has the luxury of being a luxury band with a song that gets played on some of the other playlists, so we stay up there, but if it wasn’t for that, we’d be in the doldrums, that’s for sure.

SILY: I guess you gotta be thankful for that.

TV: I’m thankful for that. There could be more songs of that nature, but they seem to be concentrating on the one hit and that’s it. There’s Metallica, Godsmack, and a bunch of other bands. Rob Zombie, Tool, and everyone else suffers.

SILY: Or it becomes a token. You get these execs going, “Let’s make a diverse playlist, let’s put one metal song in there.” Who’s it gonna be? The most popular band.

TV: Oh, yeah.

SILY: Who do you consider your peers?

TV: That’s a really good question. I don’t really consider anybody. I think about that all the time. Not in a pompous fashion, but we just stand alone. A lot of people don’t get it or don’t like it; it is what it is. We’re not part of genre groups. It doesn’t fit into anything. The band we thought we were closest to--and we’re not--was Helmet, because we just toured with them a couple years ago. It was a great tour, and there’s a huge difference between both bands.

SILY: It’s funny you say that--in preparation for this interview, I was listening to an old song of yours on YouTube, and it auto-played into Helmet.

TV: Yeah. It’s the closest thing, but there’s a huge difference between the bands. There’s nobody that’s in the Prong realm. It’s completely on its own.

SILY: Do you like that?

TV: No, I do not like that. It’s out of my own choosing, that’s for sure.

SILY: You’d rather have a frame of reference or grouped contextually with other bands?

TV: It would help marketing-wise and popularity-wise, getting on tours, package deals, festivals, etc. It would have helped tremendously. But being this weird anomaly that stands outside the pack, it’s not helpful when you’re trying to get packages to tour with, and being on playlists, the way things are now, with everything so filed and separated. A band like Yes, years ago--I guess Genesis was somewhat similar--but they were popular. They didn’t fit in with anybody. Neither did Jethro Tull. To me, that’s progressive rock. Now, forget it. Especially in metal. It’s just ridiculous. It’s really bad.

SILY: At least you have the artistic integrity.

TV: I don’t even have that. I try the best I can. I don’t put out any old garbage. I try to have quality control. I’ve always been like that. When I was a kid, I had to study extra for tests. I can’t slam-dunk stuff. It doesn’t happen.

SILY: Sometimes it��s a blessing, sometimes, it’s a curse.

TV: It’s having a legacy of a career that’s what’s important at this stage. There are some bands with a huge legacy, but the last four records have just been, “What the hell is this garbage?” Like really bad. At least I can say with Prong--and maybe it’s because the early records weren’t that good--but the recent records aren’t that bad. A lot of people haven’t heard them, but I can’t be ashamed of them. I haven’t been mailing in any records lately.

SILY: I like Carved Into Stone quite a bit.

TV: We put a lot of time into that. It was a big project, major project. It took a year to put that whole thing together. I was out of Ministry, like “Fuck Al Jorgensen.” “Rio Grande Blood”, “Relapse”, and “The Last Sucker”’s riffs could have been Prong songs but went to Ministry. I just never made a fucking penny off of those songs, and they could have been put into Prong stuff. I shot my load on those, but I put a stop to it and went in and did Carved Into Stone and somehow salvaged that period of my life. [laughs]

Tour dates:

2/14 - Dynamo - Eindhoven, Netherlands

2/15 - Student Central (ULU) - London, United Kingdom

2/16 - Muziekodroom - Hasselt, Belgium

2/17 - Z-Bau - House of Contemporary Culture - Nuremberg, Germany

2/18 - Backstage Halle - Munich, Germany

2/19 - A38 Hajó - Budapest, Hungary

2/20 - Barrak music club - Ostrava, Czech Republic

2/21 - Arena Wien - Wien, Austria

2/22 - Legend Club - Milano, Italy

2/23 - Kiff - Aarau, Switzerland

2/24 - Garage - Saabrucken, Germany

2/25 - KufA e.V. - Braunschweig, Germany

2/26 - Kulttempel - Oberhausen, Germany

2/27 - Bahnhof Pauli - Hamburg, Germany

2/28 - SO36 - Berlin, Germany

2/29 - AJZTalschock - Chemnitz, Germany

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Trash Boat - Muziekodroom (16/11/16) Photo taken by Nathan Dobbelaere on Flickr. Please don't remove credit.

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CASEY "Mourning" (Live at Muziekodroom, Hasselt/Belgium, 13/11/16)

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After the immense success of their 2019 release “Deamon” and the tour that followed, Black Metal pioneers MAYHEM will demolish Europe starting in September. They will be joined by Norwegian cult project MORTIIS.

MAYHEM comments: “We are proud to announce leg 2 of the very successful Daemon European tour! For this leg we bring Norwegian cult act Mortiis, who should be no stranger to you all.”

MORTIIS added: “The time has come for The Old One to join forces with The Ancient Ones – on my next Era I run I will join The True Mayhem on their Northern Ritual tour this autumn! I hope you are ready?!”

Find the excat dates below: 09/19 Bergen USF Verftet Norway* 09/21 Trondheim Verkstedhallen Norway* 09/22 Drammen Union Scene Norway* 09/23 Stavanger Folken Norway* 09/24 Horten Artilleriverkstedet Norway* 09/25 Oslo Rockefeller Norway* 09/26 Hamar Gregers Norway* 09/29 Mannheim MS Connexion Complex Germany 09/30 Salzburg Rockhouse Austria 10/01 Budapest Barba Negra Hungary 10/02 Kosice Collosseum Slovakia 10/04 Skopje MKC North Macedonia 10/06 Thessaloniki Principal Club Theater Greece 10/07 Athens Fuzz Live Music Club Greece 10/09 Bari Demode Club Italy 10/10 Rome Orion Club Italy 10/11 Parma Campus Industry Italy 10/12 Audincourt Moloco France 10/13 Paris La Machine Du Moulin Rouge France France 10/14 Manchester Academy 2 England 10/15 Dublin Academy Ireland 10/16 Belfast Limelight Ireland 10/17 Glasgow Garage Scotland 10/18 London Islington Academy England 10/19 Bristol The Fleece England 10/21 Hasselt Muziekodroom Belgium 10/22 Oberhausen Turbinenhalle Germany 10/23 Tilburg O13 Netherlands 10/25 Aarhus Voxhall Denmark

*without Mortiis

Tickets will be available for pre-sale from April 24th and can be purchased here: https://www.thetruemayhem.com/live/

and here: http://smarturl.it/MortiisTickets

MAYHEM released their sixth full – length studio album “Deamon” in October 2019. The album entered the European charts on high ranks (Finland #4, Germany #18) and received great praise from the music press. “Deamon” can be ordered here: https://mayhemband.lnk.to/DaemonID

MAYHEM Announce Northern Ritual 2020 European Tour With MORTIIS After the immense success of their 2019 release "Deamon" and the tour that followed, Black Metal pioneers…

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LIONHEART | SIGN WITH ARISING EMPIRE, RELEASE NEW SINGLE 'VALLEY OF DEATH' AND PREMIERE VIDEO VIA IMPERICON, START PRE-ORDERS FOR UPCOMING ALBUM

Arising Empire are proud to present California's hardcore legends LIONHEART! Welcome to the AE family!

In cooperation with Arising Empire, LIONHEART released their first single 'Valley Of Death' off their upcoming full-length record 'Valley Of Death' and also launched pre-orders today! 'Valley Of Death' will be released on the 15th of November 2019! Watch the brand new music video for 'Valley Of Death' exclusively on Impericon NOW: http://smarturl.it/lionheart-impericon

Get the song here: https://LionheartCA.lnk.to/ValleyOfDeathSingle

Pre-order the upcoming album 'Valley Of Death' as CD or exclusive limited vinyl via Impericon here: https://LionheartCA.lnk.to/ValleyOfDeath 'Valley Of Death' tracklist: 01. Valley of Death 02. Burn 03. For The Record 04. Rock Bottom (feat. Jesse Barnett) 05. When I Get Out 06. Born Feet First 07. Stories From The Gutter 08. Before I Wake (feat. Mr. Jet Black) 09. In My Skin 10. Dragging Heaven LIONHEART will be embarking on their big European headline tour with DEEZ NUTS, KUBLAI KAHN, OBEY THE BRAVE and FALLBRAWL in November! LIONHEART 'Valley Of Death European Tour 2019' /w special guests: DEEZ NUTS, KUBLAI KAHN, OBEY THE BRAVE, FALLBRAWL 07.11. NL Haarlem, Patronaat 08.11. DE Hamburg, Gruenspan 09.11. BE Hasselt, Muziekodroom 10.11. FR Lyon, CCO 11.11. FR Paris, Gibus 12.11. CH Zürich, Dynamo 13.11. DE Karlsruhe, Substage 14.11. DE Berlin, SO36 15.11. DE München, Backstage 16.11. DE Köln, Palladium* 17.11. DE Hannover, Faust 18.11. CZ Prag, Meet Factory 19.11. HU Budapest, Dürer Kert 20.11. AT Wien, Flex 21.11. DE Nürnberg, Z-Bau 22.11. DE Wiesbaden, Schlachthof 23.11. DE Leipzig, Haus Auensee* (* LIONHEART only, w/ STICK TO YOUR GUNS) Tickets: www.LionheartCA.com

Bay Area, California’s reigning kings of heavy hardcore first stormed onto the scene in 2007 with their debut album: 'The Will To Survive'. Taking influence from bands like BLOOD FOR BLOOD, HATEBREED, and MADBALL; LIONHEART came out swinging with a full-blown assault of blistering metallic hardcore. They quickly followed it up with 2010’s 'Built On Struggle', 2012’s 'Undisputed' and years of nonstop touring.   Following a short break after the release of 'Undisputed', the band came back stronger than ever with 2014’s 'Welcome To The Westcoast'. The album debuted at #1 on both iTunes Metal and GooglePlay metal charts. LIONHEART stormed onto the scene again in January 2016 with 'Love Don’t Live here'. The album title, a nod to a classic R&B/ Motown song by the same name, shows the bands unwillingness to conform to the typical 'hardcore mold', as well as the bitter and unforgiving lyrical content the band is known for. November 2017 saw LIONHEART unleash 'Welcome To The Westcoast II'. A sequel to 'Welcome To The Westcoast' (2014), the album brought forth a new era in California Hardcore, and saw them again debut at #1across the iTunes Metal charts and Google Play metal charts.   Now, after two years of relentless touring around the globe, LIONHEART returns with their most punishing album to date: 'Valley Of Death'. Backed by a combination of blistering metallic hardcore and heavy west coast groove, front-man Rob Watson offers a window into a life of torment, violence, and an unrelenting will to overcome. LIONHEART are: Rob Watson | Vocals Nick Warner | Guitar Walle Etzel | Guitar Richard Mathews | Bass Jay Scott | Drums

More info: https://www.facebook.com/lionheartca https://www.instagram.com/lionheartca https://www.LionheartCA.com

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Iemand van België die mee wilt naar SC? 😩

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first Monday I didn't hate @nailstyranny @muziekodroom #nails #muziekodroom #unsilentdeath (at Muziekodroom)

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Belgium! TRIXIE WHITLEY's show at De Casino is SOLD OUT! 🙌 But you can still catch her at one of these other shows this fall.

Nov 2 | La Maroquinerie, Paris (FR)

Nov 3 | LantarenVenster, Rotterdam (NL)

Nov 4 | Colours Hoxton, London (UK)

Nov 6 | Mezz, Breda (NL)

Nov 7 | Jaki (Studio 672), Cologne (DE)

Nov 8 | Musik und Frieden, Berlin (DE)

Nov 10 | Vega, Copenhagen (DK)

Nov 12 | Spot (De Oosterpoort), Groningen (NL)

Dec 1 | Cactus Club (Magdalenazaal), Brugge (BE)

Dec 2 | Muziekodroom, Hasselt (BE)

Dec 3 | De Casino, Sint-Niklaas (BE) - SOLD OUT!

Dec 4 | Democrazy (Vooruit), Gent (BE)

Info & tickets: www.trixiewhitley.com

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Joel Birch by Muziekodroom

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Brutus Announce EU/UK Tour

Brutus have announced EU/UK tour dates for 2019.. Tickets and more news at wearebrutus.com // sargenthouse.com/brutus APR 28 Munster, DE @ Sputnik Cafe APR 29 Paris, FR @ Point Ephémère MAY 01 Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso MAY 02 Brussel, BE @ Les Nuits de Botanique –­ Rotonde MAY 04 Bristol, UK @ Exchange MAY 05 Leeds, UK @ Hyde Park Book Club MAY 06 Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast MAY 08 London, UK @ Boston Music Room MAY 13 Koln, DE @ MTC MAY 14 Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang MAY 15 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega MAY 16 Berlin, DE @ Maze MAY 18 Dresden, DE @ Scheune MAY 20 Munich, DE @ Storm MAY 22 Frankfurt, DE @ Nachtleben MAY 24 Arlon, BE @ L’Entrepot MAY 25 Charleroi, BE @ Eden MAY 26 Hasselt, BE @ Muziekodroom MAY 29 Gent, BE @ Handelsbeurs MAY 30 Antwerpen, BE @ Trix JUN 23 Clisson, FR @ HELLFEST

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Compact Disk Dummies, Muziekodroom // November 2021

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7, 9, 12, 14, 17, 23, 25, 37, 43, 55, 62, cheers ✌ (I hope it's not too much XD)

7. Which artists/bands would you love to see live?I loved seeing Arch Enemy and Dragonforce live and I would love to see them again. But if I have to pick a band I haven’t seen yet, it would be Battle Beast.

9. Best opening act you’ve seen?Well, I’ve seen Delain open for Within Temptation, and Arch Enemy for Nightwish, but I more consider those like double concerts. However, I’d never listened to AE before and I definitely became a fan afterwards.Oh and also, Alestorm opening for Sabaton.

12. What’s one thing you have to bring to a concert?I always bring my camera and earplugs.

14. Best concert you’ve been to?Wow, that’s a hard one, since I’ve been to so many...I love small venues, so I think I’m going to go with Delain in Biebob, Vosselaar.

17. Funniest concert memory?Already answered

23. Favorite concert venue?As I said, I love small venues such as Trix, Biebob, Muziekodroom, Effenaar, Dynamo... but somehow we very often end up in 013 in Tilburg.

25. Which do you prefer: indoor or outdoor concerts?Indoor

37. Did you start listening to an opening act after you saw them in concert?Yes!I started listening to Arch Enemy and Alestorm after seeing them live.

43. What’s the best part of a concert in your opinion?When the favorite song of the audience is played and everyone sings along. And the excitement seconds before the show starts.

55. What’s the craziest thing a fan has done at a concert you’ve been to?I went to see Imagine Dragons, and there was a guy on the balcony that started stripping to kill the time between the opening act and ID.

62. Have you ever seen a security guard dance to a song at a concert?Unfortunatly not

Thanks bro!

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.. Rumours::MegaMix::Releaseshow..

Toen ik Rumours ongeveer een anderhalf jaar geleden in het trefpunt ontdekte was het voor mij liefde op het eerste gezicht/gehoor. De donkere electro van Hannah Vandenbussche, Stefanie Mannaerts, Jonas Boermans en Pieter-Jan Cools vulde voor mij een leegte aan muzikale verlangens waarvan ik niet een wist dat die er waren. Rauwe Shaman Hop (wat een term ook) die tot op de rand gevuld is met emoties. Rumours, dacht ik. Ja, dacht ik.

En toch ging ik gisteren met gemengde gevoelens richting de Kolonie/Sint-Jacobs voor de releaseshow van hun eerste echte plaat MegaMix. Want oké, het is nog steeds Rumours, maar toch was ik niet overtuigd door wat ik al gehoord had van MegaMix. Het leek mij te pop en te weinig bass. Ik wou een album vol met Phoef, maar in de plaats kreeg ik Ibiza. Ik had schrik dat Rumours de rauwheid, het donkere waar ik voor gevallen was, kwijt was. BOY, WAS I WRONG.

Misschien moet ik vlug eerst even hypen over hun pre-act; Universe. Ofwel Jan Berckmans. Hij was in 2015 winnaar van Limbomania, in 2016 artist-in-residence in de Muziekodroom en holy shit, wat een ervaring! Electro-ambient (of chillwave, ugh labels) die zo natuurlijk voelt als een hartslag, gebracht in een setting die voornamelijk door de belichting aanvoelde als een droom. Vanwaar ik stond (ja, ik ben verschrikkelijk klein) kon ik voornamelijk het gigantische kruis zien dat in het midden van de Sint-Jacobskerk hangt en door de combinatie muziek en sfeer nu en dan eerder iets onheilspellend had dan iets deugdzaam. Als mijn ogen camera’s waren, dan had ik een heel coole muziekclip kunnen opnemen. De jongen heeft een bandcamp en ik ben daar heel blij om.

Maar dus… Rumours. Ten eerste heeft Hannah het unieke talent om al haar emoties, iedere microvezel ervan, in het publiek te pompen en elke persoon met haar te laten meevoelen. Maar haar stem is slechts 1 instrument in de gelaagdheid die Rumours bezit. De beats, de bass, de ‘subtiele’ samples dompelen je onder in zwart water en trekken je mee naar herinneringen waarvan je misschien nog niet klaar was om de confrontatie mee aan te gaan.

Persoonlijk vind ik niet heel de set even sterk. Maar dat is vooral omdat ze de lat voor zichzelf verschrikkelijk hoog leggen. Tracks als Pew Pew, Soft Stones en Surface blazen mij gewoon omver. Laten we het vooral eens over die laatste hebben. Surface is niet alleen muzikaal een sterk nummer. Het durft traag te zijn en blijft toch een geweldige ‘dancebeat’ behouden. De tekst is ook zo fucking herkenbaar. Iedereen die ooit al eens een gebroken hart heeft gehad weet EXACT waarover ze het heeft. En dat vat ook mijn ervaring van gisteren een beetje samen. Ik wist plots wat ze met MegaMix wilden bereiken.

Ik ben vandaag even teruggegaan naar de effectieve plaat om hem helemaal op zich te beluisteren en ik moet eerlijk zijn dat ik het live een veel volledigere ervaring vind. Maar eens je erbij neergelegd hebt dat een hele plaat met Phoef ook maar saai zou zijn, is het echt een erg mooie en deftige release.

‘Ze hebben wel hun sound gevonden,’ hoorde ik nadien iemand zeggen. Welja, dacht ik. Rumours, dacht ik.

Ik ben benieuwd naar wat er nog komt.

[joelbirch]

Hello Europe / UK. I am going to offer the same shoots I have been doing on this US tour while I am there. They’re £200 or €220 if you are in Europe. The shoots have been going for around an hour - sometimes shorter sometimes longer. It’s all shot on film and once they’re developed you receive all the hi-res scans, provided by the wonderful people over at @indiefilmlab in the US. I am only doing ONE per date, and won’t be changing that. You can reach me over at WWW.JOELFCBIRCH.COM/CONTACT _____________________ Here are some examples of the shoots so far, and below are available dates. _____________________ NOVEMBER 26 Graz (A) PPC 27 Linz - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 28 Leipzig - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 29 Hamburg - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 30 Wiesbaden - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING _____________________ DECEMBER 01 Munich - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 02 Köln - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 03 Hasselt (B) Muziekodroom *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 05 Birmingham - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 06 Leeds, University Stylus 07 Glasgow - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 08 Manchester - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 09 Newcastle, University 11 Dublin - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING 12 Cardiff, University Y Plas 13 London - BOOKED *TAKING SECOND BOOKING _____________________ #joelbirch #theamityaffliction #kerrangtour

[theheadbangers]

MAYHEM – Announce Northern Ritual 2020 European Tour

After the immense success of their 2019 release “Deamon” and the tour that followed, Black Metal pioneers MAYHEM will demolish Europe starting in September. They will be joined by Norwegian cult project MORTIIS. The band comments: "We are proud to announce leg 2 of the very successful Daemon European tour! For this leg we bring Norwegian cult act Mortiis, who should be no stranger to you all. "

    Find the excat dates below: 09/19   Bergen             USF Verftet                                               Norway* 09/21   Trondheim       Verkstedhallen                                           Norway* 09/22   Drammen        Union Scene                                              Norway* 09/23   Stavanger        Folken                                                       Norway* 09/24   Horten              Artilleriverkstedet                                      Norway* 09/25   Oslo                 Rockefeller                                                Norway* 09/26   Hamar              Gregers                                                     Norway* 09/29   Mannheim        MS Connexion Complex                          Germany 09/30   Salzburg           Rockhouse                                                Austria 10/01   Budapest          Barba Negra                                              Hungary 10/02   Kosice               Collosseum                                               Slovakia 10/04   Skopje               MKC                                                         North Macedonia 10/06   Thessaloniki      Principal Club Theater                              Greece 10/07   Athens               Fuzz Live Music Club                               Greece 10/09   Bari                    Demode Club                                            Italy 10/10   Rome                 Orion Club                                                 Italy 10/11   Parma                Campus Industry                                       Italy 10/12   Audincourt         Moloco                                                       France 10/13   Paris                  La Machine Du Moulin Rouge France       France 10/14   Manchester        Academy 2                                                England 10/15   Dublin                 Academy                                                   Ireland 10/16   Belfast               Limelight                                                     Ireland 10/17   Glasgow            Garage                                                       Scotland 10/18   London              Islington Academy                                     England 10/19   Bristol                The Fleece                                                 England 10/21   Hasselt              Muziekodroom                                          Belgium 10/22   Oberhausen      Turbinenhalle                                            Germany 10/23   Tilburg               O13                                                          Netherlands 10/25   Aarhus              Voxhall                                                      Denmark *without Mortiis Tickets will be available for pre-sale from April 24th and can be purchased here: https://www.thetruemayhem.com/live/             MAYHEM released their sixth full – length studio album “Deamon” in October 2019. The album entered the European charts on high ranks (Finland #4, Germany #18) and received great praise from the music press. “Deamon” can be ordered here: https://mayhemband.lnk.to/DaemonID

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