Red Fang - Wires

Red Fang is an American heavy metal band from Portland, Oregon.

Red Fang's 2009 debut for record label Sargent House collected their first two releases, which were limited release EPs. The band followed with Murder the Mountains, released on Relapse Records, in 2011. Chris Funk produced Murder the Mountains. Red Fang has appeared on the Metalliance tour with bands like Crowbar and Helmet and opened on the Jägermeister stage on this years Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival which included Megadeth, Godsmack, and Disturbed as headliners.

On September 12, 2011, Red Fang was announced to be the one of the openers (the other being The Dillinger Escape Plan) to support Mastodon on their United States and European headlining tours from October to March.

Discography

Red Fang (Sargent House, 2009)
Murder the Mountains (Relapse Records, 2011)

The band consists of a bunch of awesome cool dudes open up Mastedon at the Annex. Personally I think they made a great effort, it was heavy meandering sludge riffing and it swung like a derailed train.

Members

Bryan Giles - guitar, vocals
Aaron Beam - bass guitar, vocals
David Sullivan - guitar
John Sherman - drums

Bryan had some problems with his amp during sound check, on crackled and had his own life, think they got order on it, or hummed on behind the scenes in the background during their gig.

Here is some pictures from the gig!

Todays tune "Wires" is taken from "Murder The Mountains", released in 2011



Here is a video from the gig with Red Fang, supporting Mastodon on their 2012 European tour. This was the last song of the night, Prehistoric Dogs from Red Fang (2009).



Red Fang Tour Dates!

Jan 17 Voxhall Århus C, Denmark
Jan 18 Tower Bremen, Germany
Jan 19 Encienne Belgique Brussels, Belgium
Jan 20 Le Bataclan Paris, France
Jan 21 Mogambo San Sebastián, Spain
Jan 22 Coliseum Lisbon, Portugal
Jan 23 Joy Slava Madrid, Spain
Jan 24 Razzmatazz Barcelona, Spain
Jan 25 Les Saints des Seines Toulouse, France
Jan 26 TBA Milan, Italy
Jan 27 JuHa WEST Stuttgart, Germany
Jan 28 Xtra Zurich, Switzerland
Jan 29 Batschkapp Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Jan 30 Backstage Halle Munich, Germany
Jan 31 C-Club Berlin, Germany
Feb 01 Bastard Club Osnabrück, Germany
Feb 02 Essigfabrik Cologne, Germany
Feb 03 013 Tilburg, Netherlands
Feb 04 Le Mate L'Eau Castelnau-Sur-L'Auvignon, France
Feb 05 Academy Bristol, United Kingdom
Feb 06 Academy Manchester, United Kingdom
Feb 07 Barrowland Glasgow, United Kingdom
Feb 09 UEA Norwich, United Kingdom
Feb 10 Institute Birmingham, United Kingdom
Feb 11 Brixton Academy London, United Kingdom
Apr 12 Roadburn Festival Tilburg, Netherlands
Apr 16 Manchester Star and Garter Manchester, United Kingdom
Apr 18 Doornroosje Nijmegen, Netherlands
Apr 19 Doornroosje Nijmegen, Netherlands
Apr 20 Podium Asteriks Leeuwarden, Netherlands



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Mastodon - Iron Tusk

 

Last Saturday got Stockholm a a visit from Mastodon, this time as headliner artist and not as support act or festival gig where playing time is often too short. Last time Mastodon visited Sweden were last summer during the Sonisphere Festival here in Stockholm. Red Fang did travel with Mastodon as support, but more on them tomorrow.

This day they arrived well rested, happy and eager, which was heard during sound check as riff from bands like Metallica were played. Brent Hinds guitar tech had to jump in during the soundcheck as Brent chose to check the ice hockey game instead. But when he showed up he was in a really mischievous mood and dressed to his skelleton costume and danced around and it turned out that the suit also had a REAL poo hatch in the back!

The gig was clearly above expectations, good and simple lighting, the sound was really good to be Annexet which usually tend to get quite muddy. You could hear pretty much everything! what a delight it was, and damn what a monster set list! See below.

Here is some pictures!

Soundcheck

Nice drums, a tribute to Randy Rhoads

 

 

Todays tune "Iron Tusk" is taken from the shows set list and the concept album Leviathan, released in 2004. The album is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick, and the songs "Iron Tusk", "Blood and Thunder", "I Am Ahab" and "Seabeast" were released as singles.

TOUR DATES

Jan 16 Copenhagen, Denmark - VEGA (with Red Fang)
Jan 17 Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall (with Red Fang)
Jan 19 Brussels, Belgium - Encienne Belgique (with Red Fang)
Jan 20 Paris, France - Le Bataclan (with Red Fang)
Jan 22 Lisbon, Portugal - Coliseum (with Red Fang)
Jan 23 Madrid, Spain - Riviera (with Red Fang)
Jan 24 Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz (with Red Fang)
Jan 26 Milan, Italy - Xtra (with Red Fang)
Jan 28 Zurich, Switzerland - Xtra (with Red Fang)
Jan 29 Frankfurt, Germany - Batschkapp (with Red Fang)
Jan 30 Munich, Germany - Backstage Halle/Werk (with Red Fang)
Jan 31 Berlin, Germany - C-Club/Astra (with Red Fang)
Feb 2 Cologne, Germany - Essigfabrik/E-Werk (with Red Fang)
Feb 3 Tilburg, Holland - 013 (with Red Fang)
Feb 5 Bristol, UK - 02 Academy (with Red Fang & Dillinger Escape Plan)
Feb 6 Manchester, UK - Academy (with Red Fang & Dillinger Escape Plan)
Feb 7 Glasgow, UK - Barrowlands (with Red Fang & Dillinger Escape Plan)
Feb 9 Norwich, UK - UEA (with Red Fang & Dillinger Escape Plan)
Feb 10 Birmingham, UK - HMV Institute (with Red Fang & Dillinger Escape Plan)
Feb 11 London, UK - O2 Academy Brixton (with Red Fang & Dillinger Escape Plan)
Feb 25 Brisbane, Australia - Soundwave Festival
Feb 26 Sydney, Australia - Soundwave Festival
Feb 27 Melbourne, Australia - Billboard (with Gojira and Kvelertak)
Mar 1 Sydney, Australia - The Hi-Fi (with Gojira and Kvelertak)
Mar 2 Melbourne, Australia - Soundwave Festival
Mar 3 Adelaide, Australia - Soundwave Festival
Mar 5 Perth, Australia - Soundwave Festival

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Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

 

Today we continue with a little bit more folk rock tones from Seattle the band Fleet Foxes who last week visited Stockholm, Annexet, once again a sold out house in this genre. Fleet Foxes that are known for their uses of refined lyrics and vocal harmonies.

Lead singer and head songwriter Robin Pecknold makes an intimate and quiet performance, a little to calm for me, works for a couple songs, then I get a little restless and find it difficult to stand still. Sure this is beautiful, well played but a little sleepy. However, they will go well with the fans, after each song the band gets massive applause and if anyone happens to talk a little loud then you hear a "Sch" almost immediately.

The rig used is quite frugal and very folkish, old school if I may say :) The instruments are very old, saw an old Haglövs guitar with some extra accessories that I've never seen before.

Here are some photos:

Todays tune "Mykonos", is the third single from their 2008 EP Sun Giant. It was released in the UK on January 27, 2009 in the format of 7" vinyl.

"[The]... video imagines a fluid universe filled with triangles, castles and barbershop mustaches. It's a little playful... and a little creepy."



Setlist from the evening.

01. The Plains / Bitter Dancer
02. Mykonos
03. English House
04. Battery Kinzie
05. Bedouin Dress
06. Sim Sala Bim
07. Your Protector
08. White Winter Hymnal
09. Ragged Wood
10. Montezuma
11. He Doesn't Know Why
12. Lorelai
13. The Shrine / An Argument
14. Blue Spotted Tail
15. Grown Ocean

Encore:
16. I Let You
17. Sun It Rises
18. Blue Ridge Mountains
19. Helplessness Blues

Nov 15, 2011, MuseumsQuartier / Vienna, Austria w/ Alela Diane
Nov 17, 2011, Atlantico / Rome, Italy, w/ Alela Diane
Nov 19, 2011, Estragon / Bologna, Italy, w/ Alela Diane
Nov 20, 2011, Teatro Smeraldo / Milan, Italy, w/ Alela Diane
Nov 21, 2011, Komplex / Zurich, Switzerland, w/ Vetiver
Nov 22, 2011, Fri-Son / Fribourg, Switzerland, w/ Vetiver
Nov 24, 2011, Santana 27/ Bilbao, Spain, w/ Vetiver
Nov 25, 2011, La Riviera - Primavera Club / Madrid, Spain, w/ Vetiver
Nov 26, 2011, Auditorio de Cartagena - Cartagena Jazz Festival / Spain, w/ Vetiver
Nov 27, 2011, L’Auditori - Primavera Club / Barcelona, Spain, w/ Vetiver
Nov 29, 2011, Heineken Music Hall / Amsterdam, Holland, w/ Vetiver
Nov 30, 2011, Forest National Club / Brussels, Belgium, w/ Vetiver
Dec 01, 2011, O2 Academy / Leeds, UK, w/ Vetiver Sold Out!
Dec 29, 2011, Falls Festival / Lorne, Vic & Marion Bay, Taz, Australia
Jan 02, 2012, Sydney Opera House / Sydney, Australia
Jan 03, 2012, Sydney Opera House / Sydney, Australia
Jan 04, 2012, Sydney Opera House / Sydney, Australia
Jan 06, 2012, Palais Theatre / Melbourne, Australia Sold Out!
Jan 07, 2012, Southbound Festival / Busselton, WA, Australia
Jan 10, 2012, Tivoli / Brisbane, Australia
Jan 11, 2012, Tivoli / Brisbane, Australia Sold Out!
Jan 13, 2012, Wellington Town Hall / Wellington, New Zealand
Jan 14, 2012, Town Hall / Auckland, New Zealand
Jan 17, 2012, Big Cat / Osaka, Japan
Jan 18, 2012, Club Quatro / Nagoya, Japan
Jan 20, 2012, Studio Coast / Tokyo, Japan

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Bon Iver - Perth

Bon Iver or Justin Vernon as his real name is, has now left his cabin in Wisconsin and gone out on the road to express his music to an audience with his band. Last week he was standing on the stage in a completely sold out Annexet here in Stockholm. Justin Vernon, who earlier this year released his new album "Bon Iver" the follow up to his debut album "For Emma, ​​Forever Ago", the new album is an really great album, One might say its the best album in that category.

Seeing Bon Iver on stage and listen to the quiet bartion voice was very liberating, a great feeling, this was a perfect replacement after a few brutal days of mangling guitar riffs of the harder kind.
It really suprised me that Bon Iver was this good as a live artist. To set expectations for a gig, I stopped that long ago, i take it for what it is. Now of course this was something completely different. I felt that the eyelids closed during part of the show and discovered that I was not the only one who enjoyed it, but far more, or rather everyone around me enjoyed it. But on the other hand I felt a little lonely, long-haired rocker who I am, in the midst of more hip indie look.

The band that traveled with Bon Iver was a large gang of musicians, a huge horn section and double drummers, guitars, basses, among other instruments. These guys frequently switched instruments during the concert, not just their own but also between each other. Vernon sings incredibly beautiful and switches between falsetto a more powerful and strong voice in a fantastic way, resulting in awesome performance and it ended up with a really good concert.

Vernon is curious, it seemed well during the load out of the gear and stage after the concert, he was positioning himself at the center, it was almost like he supervised everything that happend and want to jump in and make his fair share to help, but prevents himself when he realized that it is actually is He who is the star that day.

Here is pictures from the show:

Todays tune "Perth" is taken from the second full-length album Bon Iver, released on June 17, 2011. Vernon said that each song on the new album represents a place. The song "Perth" was described as a "Civil War-sounding heavy metal song,"
This clip is from Jools Holland October 2011.



Setlist from the evening. (I was to lazy to scan)

Perth
Minnesota, WI
Holocene
Towers
Flume
Creature Fear
Hinnom, TX
Wash.
Blood Bank
Re: Stacks
Michicant
Calgary
Lisbon, OH
Beth/Rest
The Wolves (Act I and II)

Encore:
Skinny Love
For Emma


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The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings

 

Smashing Pumpins starting their European tour in Scandinavia, Stockholm, Sweden. Last Tuesday started the construction of the stage, sound, lighting and decor in Annexet here in Stockholm, a rehearsal day before it was time to play for the audience the next day. Downstairs, where the construction of Rihanna with full attention, actually she had two sold-out house (Tuesday, Wednesday), passed
spectacle briefly but did spend the most of the time upstairs where the music at least went to listen to. :-)

With a fairly simple, but spaced lighting rig with two spinning glass propellers and glimmering gold decoration hanging on the back drop, six light towers, three on each side got their light technician "Lawrence" a pretty impressive and psychedelic vision impression, a light that fits in well with the music that was played this evening. The setlist contained a lot of previous works, but occasional new song was played. The band was very tagged, had a good spirit and the music did swing on just fine, well-played with great feeling, the sound was poorly at first, before it lay down on a decent level.

Support on the tour is Ringo Deathstarr

The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman (vocals, guitar) and James Iha (guitar), the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), D'arcy Wretzky (bass), and currently includes Jeff Schroeder (guitar, backing vocals) Mike Byrne (drums), and Nicole Fiorentino (bass guitar, backing vocals) amongst its membership.

Disavowing the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries, the Pumpkins have a diverse, densely layered and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, grunge, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, shoegazer-style production and, in later recordings, electronica. Frontman Billy Corgan is the group's primary songwriter—his grand musical ambitions and cathartic lyrics have shaped the band's albums and songs, which have been described as "anguished, bruised reports from Billy Corgan's nightmare-land".

The Smashing Pumpkins broke into the musical mainstream with their second album, Siamese Dream (1993). The group built its audience with extensive touring and their follow-up, the double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995). The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, drug use, and diminishing record sales led to a 2000 break-up.

In 2006, Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin reconvened to record a new Smashing Pumpkins album, Zeitgeist. The band toured with a rotating lineup of between five and nine musicians through much of 2007 and 2008 before Chamberlin left the band in early 2009. New drummer Mike Byrne and bassist/vocalist Nicole Fiorentino solidified a new lineup with Corgan and Schroeder, toured through much of 2010 & 2011. Just released the album Teargarden by Kaleidyscope.

Here is some pictures from the show:

Cool Production Case!

Support Act - Ringo Deathstarr

Todays tune ""Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is a song that was the lead single from the band's 1995 double album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness".



Setlist:

01. Quasar
02. Panopticon
03. Starla
04. Geek U.S.A.
05. Muzzle
06. Window Paine
07. Lightning Strikes
08. Soma
09. Siva
10. Oceania
11. Frail and Bedazzled
12. Silverfuck
13. Pale Horse
14. Pinwheels
15. Thru the Eyes of Ruby (w/ "I Am One" tease)
16. Cherub Rock
17. Owata
18. My Love is Winter
19. For Martha
20. Pissant
21. Bullet With Butterfly Wings


Tour Dates:

Date, City/State, Venue
Nov 07 Brussels, Forrest National
Nov 08 Amsterdam, HMH
Nov 09 Paris, Zenith
Nov 11 Manchester, Apollo
Nov 13 Glasgow, O2 Academy
Nov 14 Newcastle, O2 Academy
Nov 15 London, Brixton
Nov 16 London, Brixton
Nov 18 Sheffield, O2 Academy
Nov 19 Birmingham, O2 Academy
Nov 21 Bremen, Pier 2
Nov 23 Berlin, Tempodrom
Nov 25 Prague, Incheba Arena
Nov 28 Milan, Forum
Nov 29 Padova, PalaFabris
Dec 01 Vienna, Gasometer
Dec 02 Zurich, Komplex
Dec 03 Luxembourg, Rockhal
Dec 06 Barcelona, Razzmatazz
Dec 07 Madrid, La Riviera
Dec 08 Lisbon, Campo Pequeno
Dec 09 Lisbon, Campo Pequeno

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