Circle Takes the Square (CTTS) is an American screamo band from Savannah, Georgia. Their debut release was a 7-track self-titled EP in 2001, followed later by a 7" split with Pg. 99. Circle Takes the Square has been described as being a "blend of progressive experimentation and DIY hardcore, metal, and noise...characterised by a natural fusion of grindcore and the sweeping guitar dynamics of post-punk".
CTTS did well and for a band that I did not know before I was a little amazed, The audience was nothing wrong with, the people knew the band before. The band showered on tightly, which can be seen in the pictures and video from the event. The band toured only with 3 members, dunno really what happend to the fourth.
Todays tune "Enter By The Narrow Gates" is taken from "Decompositions, Volume I, Chapter 1: Rites of Initiation" that was released on August 23, 2011 through the group's own Gatepost Recordings. The EP was also released as a limited edition of CDs, sold at Circle Takes the Square shows in late 2011 and early 2012. They have said that the new record will be titled Decompositions, Vol. 1. They have also stated that Decompositions, Vol. 1 will be part of an even larger project called Decompositions.
Enter By The Narrow Gates Live @ Studion, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, February 6th 2012
Kylesa is a sludge metal band that was formed 2001 in Savannah, Georgia. Taking their name from "kilesa mara", a Buddhist term denoting delusory mental states. Their music incorporates experimentalism with sludgy riffs, drop-tuned guitars, crust punk, and elements of psychedelic rock.
The group was established by the former members of Damad, with the addition of guitar player Laura Pleasants. The band has since the start gone thru some line up changes. The remaining original members are Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasants. The band uses two drummers to get a more massive sound, the dual drum tracks are often panned strongly to the right and left.
A little over a week ago (Yes, I know I'm late with this) did Kylesa (Along with "KEN Mode" & Circle Takes The Square) a stop here in Stockholm to gig at Studion, Kulturhuset. Sums up the concert a little quickly, thought it was good, loud, but clear. The band delivers a good and rocking show. The dual drums provides the live experience with a large and solid sound thats providing a real boost to the band.
The Pushead-designed Band Logo from these releases has been used on all the bands merchandise and releases ever since.
Here is some pictures from the show!
Todays tune "Crowded Road" is taken from Kylesa's fifth full-length "Spiral Shadow" - 2010 And yes you can find this on Vinyl!!!
Kylesa - Crowded Road (Live from Bonnaroo 2011)
They have toured with Mastodon, whose guitarist, Bill Kelliher, said that “We took Kylesa on tour because we love those guys and have been hanging out with them for years. They blew a lot of people's expectations out of the water. ”
Upcoming Tour Dates:
17 Feb - France, Reims, La Cartonnerie 18 Feb - Netherlands, Nijmegen Doornroosje 19 Feb - UK, Brighton, The Haunt 20 Feb - UK, Birmingham, HMV Institute Temple 21 Feb - UK, Leeds, The Well 22 Feb - Ireland, Dublin, Button Factory 23 Feb - UK, London, O2 Academy Islington 24 Feb - France, Evreux, L'Abordage 25 Feb - France, Quimper, Les Hivernauts 26 Feb - France, Lille, Aeronef
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
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
Deep Purple was in town! With a whole orchestra, Frankfurt's new Philharmonic Orchestra.
Last time I saw Deep Purple, Ian Gillans vocals didnt measured up with what I remembered from my youth :)
But this day....Wow he got some of it back. I loved it, danced and sang like a maniac, their tour manager looked at me and said....u really love em huh? Yeap! Indeed!!!! They playd all of the known tunes and a bit more. The sound with the big orchestra was thick and juicy and wery awesome!!!
Took some tunes before I was used to Don Airey although I saw him before... I like Jon Lord better. Don is damn good at this as well :D
We took some pics on the show, here they are:
The members of today is: Ian Paice on drums, percussion (1968–1976, 1984–present) Roger Glover on bass (1969–1973, 1984–present) Ian Gillan on lead vocals, harmonica, congas (1969–1973, 1984–1989, 1992–present) Steve Morse on guitar (1994–present) Don Airey on keyboards, organ (2001–present)
Their former members is quite known as well: Jon Lord – keyboards, organ, backing vocals (1968–1976, 1984–2002) Ritchie Blackmore – guitar (1968–1975, 1984–1993) Rod Evans – lead vocals (1968–1969) Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals (1968–1969) David Coverdale – lead vocals (1973–1976) Glenn Hughes – bass, vocals (1973–1976) Tommy Bolin – guitar, vocals (1975–1976) Joe Lynn Turner – lead vocals (1989–1991) Joe Satriani – guitar (1993–1994)
Deep Purple Tours a lot, right now they are out on a vast tour which begun in July today they play in Oslo and on the 15 December Horsens Denmark Forum Horsens
North America 2012 2 February 2012 St. John's, Newfou. and Lab. Canada Mile One Stadium 3 February Corner Brook, Newfoundland Pepsi Centre 5 February Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax Metro Centre 6 February Moncton, New Brunswick Moncton Casino 8 February Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa Civic Centre 9 February Kingston, Ontario K-Rock Centre 11 February London, Ontario John Labatt Centre 12 February Toronto, Ontario Massey Hall 13 February Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton Place Theatre 15 February Winnipeg, Manitoba MTS Centre 16 February Regina, Saskatchewan Brandt Centre 17 February Saskatoon, Saskatchewan TCU Place 19 February Calgary, Alberta Southen Alberta Jubilee Auditorium 21 February Edmonton, Alberta Rexall Place 23 February Prince George, British Columbia CN Centre 25 February Victoria, British Columbia Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre 26 February Vancouver, British Columbia Queen Elizabeth Theatre Europe 2012 8 November Esch-sur-Alzette Luxembourg Rockhal 9 November Grenoble France Palais des Sports 11 November Nantes Le Zénith 12 November Caen Le Zénith 13 November Paris Zénith de Paris 15 November Cologne Germany Lanxess Arena 16 November Bremen Halle 7 17 November Hanover AWD Hall 20 November Kiel Sparkassen-Arena 22 November Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt 23 November Oberhausen Konigspilsner Arena 24 November Hamburg O2 World 26 November Leipzig Arena Leipzig 27 November 2012 Berlin O2 World 29 November Augsburg Schwabenhalle 30 November Munich Olympiahalle 1 December Stuttgart Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle 3 December Brussels Belgium Forest National 5 December Clermont-Ferrand France Le Zénith 6 December Toulouse Le Zénith
The tune of today, was first released 1970 on a singlethen later on the album "In Rock". "Black Night" made its way into the setlist soon after release, generally as the first encore. The song was not played in full after Ian Gillan and Roger Glover left the band in 1973, but snippets were often played by Ritchie Blackmore as part of his improvisations. On the reformation of Deep Purple in 1984 "Black Night" returned as part of the main set list. There are many versions of the song available on Deep Purple live albums.
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