H2O have announced a European tour in support of their forthcoming album, Use Your Voice. These will come just before the band embark on a previously announced U.S. tour with Angel Du$t and GIVE, and Florida dates with the Attack and Boys No Good. Check out their entire itinerary here, with new dates below.
Use Your Voice is due out October 9 and will be preceded by a two-song teaser EP, Skate!, due out next week, September 11. Both tracks from Skate! are currently streaming online, and you can check them out below as well. Pre-order Use Your Voice on LP, CD, and digital formats at B9Store.com, with iTunes, Amazon (LP // CD // MP3), and Bandcamp pre-orders available as well.
Modern Pain's 'Peace Delusions' streaming in full
Modern Pain's Peace Delusions is now streaming in full via Bandcamp. Check it out below and grab an early download if you like what you hear. The album is officially out this Friday, September 4th, with LP and CD pre-orders from B9Store.com shipping now.
Peace Delusions can be described as "if In Utero was a hardcore punk record," but even that might be underselling the Dallas, Texas band's first full-length. This new album resembles a golden artifact unearthed from the '80s American hardcore underground, harnessing the unbridled aggression of groundbreaking acts like SSD, Poison Idea and Infest and filtering it through the caustic, ashy atmospheres and unfettered noise rock of Texan predecessors Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard, as well as Moss Icon's murky, wordy pathos. This unpredictable, nerve-damaging, half-hour-long debut full-length remains at its core a spacey, noisy punk record.
True Love playing FYA Fest III with Turnstile, All Out War, The Rival Mob
True Love have been announced as one of the bands playing FYA Fest III early next year. The fest features headliners Turnstile, All Out War and the Rival Mob and will take place January 2nd and 3rd at The Orpheum in Tampa, Florida. Check out the full lineup announced thus far below. Follow @fyafest onTwitter and Instagram and like them on Facebook for updates. Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 4th.
FYA FEST III - January 2-3, 2016 @ The Orpheum in Tampa, Florida
Turnstile
All Out War
The Rival Mob
Blistered
Criminal Instinct
Crisis Unit
Day by Day
Detain
Forced Order
Freedom
Fury
God's Hate
Head Creeps
Hit List
Ice
Jesus Piece
Jukai
Know the Score
Lost Souls
Mizery
Naysayer
Point Blank
Pulled Under
Pure Disgust
Regulate
Renounced
xRepentancex
Society Sucker
Spine
Stand Off
Three Knee Deep
Threshold
TRUE LOVE
H2O 'Use Your Voice' pre-orders launched; title track streaming; U.S. fall tour
H2O's forthcoming album and first in eight years, Use Your Voice, is now available for pre-order on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital formats with special package deals and a new shirt at B9Store.com. The second song from the record is now online as well--stream the title track over at Noisey. Digital folks can also pre-order Use Your Voice at iTunes and the B9 Bandcamp and get an IG of the previously released "Skate!". Both of these songs also make up the Skate! EP, out on 7" and digital formats September 11 and still available for pre-order while supplies last at B9Store.com. Use Your Voice will be in stores October 9.
In addition, the band have announced a series of Use Your Voice album release shows for November and December. The November dates take place in the Midwest and northeast and will feature Angel Du$t and GIVE on all shows, while December's run involves a short trek through Florida with Boys No Good and the Attack. Check out details above and below.
H2O Use Your Voice album release shows
November support: Angel Du$t, GIVE
December support: Boys No Good, The Attack
11/12 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's
11/13 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Cafe
11/14 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
11/15 Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room
11/17 Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Loft
11/18 Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground
11/19 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East upstairs
11/20 Howell, NJ @ GameChangerWorld
11/21 Philadelphia, PA @ Voltage Lounge
12/03 Jacksonville, FL @ 1904
12/04 Ybor City, FL @ Crowbar
12/05 Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
12/06 Margate, FL @ O'Malley's
Expire returning to UK/Europe with Deez Nuts, Nasty, more
Expire will return to Europe this November as part of Deez Nuts' Word Is Bond Tour, which also features special guests Nasty, Astroid Boys (on one leg), Coldburn (on the other), and Louie Knuxx. Check out those dates above and below.
EXPIRE UK/European tour dates w/ Deez Nuts, Nasty, Louie Knuxx
Nov 20 Schweinfurt, Germany @ Stattbahnhof*
Nov 21 Uden, Netherlands @ de Pul*
Nov 22 Birmingham, UK @ Rainbow*
Nov 23 Leeds, UK @ Key Club*
Nov 24 Glasgow, UK @ Ivory Blacks*
Nov 25 Sheffield, UK @ Corporation*
Nov 26 London, UK @ Underworld*
Nov 27 Hasselt, Belgium @ Muziekodroom*
Nov 28 Lingen, Germany @ Alter Schlachthof*
Nov 29 Berlin, Germany @ Cassiopeia*
Nov 30 Hamburg, Germany @ Gruenspann*
Dec 01 Prague, Czech Republic @ Futurum
Dec 02 Wien, Austria @ Flex
Dec 03 Budapest, Hungary @ Blue Hell
Dec 04 Lindau, Germany @ Club Vaudeville
Dec 05 Milano, Italy @ Lo Fi
Dec 06 Munchen, Germany @ Backstage#
Dec 07 Zurich, Switzerland @ Dynamo#
Dec 08 Colmar, France @ Le Grillen#
Dec 09 Bordeaux, France @ Iboat#
Dec 10 Vitoria, Spain @ Sala Jimmy Jazz#
Dec 11 Vigo, Spain @ TBA#
Dec 12 Lisbon, Portugal @ RCA Club#
Dec 13 Madrid, Spain @ Sala Caracol#
Dec 14 Murcia, Spain @ Sala Garage#
Dec 15 Barcelona, Spain @ Sala Razzmatazz 3#
Dec 16 Aix-en-Provence, France @ Le Korigan#
Dec 17 Paris, France @ Backstage by the Mill#
Dec 18 Oberhausen, Germany @ Turbinenhalle 2#
Dec 19 Leipzig, Germany @ Felsenkeller#
Dec 20 Karlsruhe, Germany @ Knockdown Festival#
* - w/ Astroid Boys
# - w/ Coldburn
Defeater streaming 'Abandoned'
Defeater are now streaming their upcoming album, Abandoned, in full. Check it out at their official website. The album is out this Friday, August 28 on Epitaph.
B9Store.com still has a few LP and CD copies with online-exclusive red and blue vinyl variants available for pre-order.
War On Women plan short South Atlantic tour with Government Issue
War On Women will play a small handful of shows with Government Issue in the South Atlantic region this coming October, surrounding both bands' respective appearances at The Fest 14. Tickets go on sale this coming Friday, August 21st, with show info and ticket links available below.
War On Women are currently on the last leg of a European tour in support of their new self-titledalbum. Check those remaining dates below as well.
WAR ON WOMEN upcoming tour dates:
18.8 (D) HANNOVER - CAFE GLOCKSEE
19.8 (D) BERLIN - KOMA F
20.8 (D) WIESBADEN - KREATIVFABRIK
21.8 (D) KOLN - PALLADIUM w/BOYSETFIRE
22.8 (D) ROSTOCK - M.A.U. CLUB
23.8 (D) BERLIN - RAMONES MUSEUM - SPECIAL ACOUSTIC SHOW
U.S. South Atlantic tour with Government Issue:
10/29 Richmond, VA @ The Camel - Tickets
10/30 Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof Tavern - Tickets TBA
10/31 Gainesville, FL @ The Fest 14 - Tickets
11/01 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade at Purgatory - Tickets
11/02 Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle - Tickets
No Warning, Expire, Malfunction, Cross Me playing Heart Fest 9
Heart Fest 9, the annual all-ages non-profit hardcore fest taking place in Gatineau, Quebec, have unveiled their day-to-day lineups, and included are plenty past and present B9 acts. No Warning will play their first show in Canada in over a decade, with Expire, Cruel Hand, Malfunction, and Cross Me making appearances as well. The fest takes places from September 4th through the 6th and also features All Out War, Donnybrook, Stigmata, and Harm's Way among others. Get more info at onFacebook.
HEART FEST 9
Friday, September 4th - Centre Portuguais Les Amis Unis - Gatineau, QC:
Donnybrook
Harm's Way
Cruel Hand
Swamps
Nuke
Badlands
Exalt
CIAC
Lifespent
Six of Swords
Saturday, September 5th - Centre Portuguais Les Amis Unis - Gatineau, QC:
No Warning
EXPIRE
Stigmata
Give
Shai Hulud
Iron Golem
Clear
Wild Side
The Banner
Brick by Brick
Stone
Lions Lions
Sunday, September 6th - Legion Royale Canadienne - Gatineau, QC:
All Out War
Enforcers
MALFUNCTION
Homewrecker
Discourse
Get the Shot
CROSS ME
Eternal Sleep
Detain
Ransom
Sharp
Humanities
Modern Pain premiere
Modern Pain have premiered another new song, "4202", over at New Noise Magazine. The track comes from their forthcoming full-length debut, Peace Delusions, and follows BrooklynVegan's premiere of "Vivisepulture pt. 1".
Peace Delusions pre-orders are still available at B9Store.com (with B-side "Noose of Reality (redux)" as an exclusive bonus track) and will be out September 4. iTunes pre-orders get an instant download of another new song, "My Reality Is Slipping Away".
BoySetsFire announce self-titled album, premiere first single, launch pre-orders
BoySetsFire have announced details on their forthcoming new album, and premiered the first single.
Check out "Cutting Room Floor" on BSF fan Marcel Gimmin's Facebook. The self-titled effort BoySetsFirewill be available directly from Bridge Nine and digitally on September 25, with a wide release in NA retail stores due November 20. North Americans can pre-order it now at B9Store.com. End Hits Recordswill be handling the release for the rest of the world on September 25, and have a wide variety of pre-orders for customers in their regions available here.
There is a good reason why BoySetsFire's new album is self-titled. It is the final result of a fight for freedom that lasted years and a reawakening of all the strengths within the band, combined with the power of the close bonds between its members. The focus is on their own abilities, something that was not always easy for frontman Nathan Gray, nor the rest of the band, which includes Chad Istvan, Joshua Latshaw, Chris Rakus and Robert Ehrenbrand. The captivating euphoria that has been building around the band for years has been channeled into thirteen songs that contrast with the rage of the previous album, with rousing optimism seeping from every pore. You could say that the eponymous album is the light-hearted sister of the brooding While A Nation Sleeps... (2013, Bridge Nine).
While he was in the studio, Nathan Gray was delirious with joy and sounded more enthusiastic than in any previous interview:"This album has quickly become one of my favorites we've ever done, and I am dying to get it out there. In albums past, we've talked a lot about all the terrible things going on in this world, and this time, we've focused a lot on sort of overcoming all of that. It's a much more positive vibe. Musically, there are some incredible, huge sounds on this album. It's very much us."
The first track on BoySetsFire, "Savage Blood" opens the album with an unbelievable energy that breaks down barriers. It features the crushing sound the world has come to expect from BoySetsFire, but with a level of intensity the band has rarely achieved before. The anger that has defined many of the post-hardcore veterans' albums is combined with catchy hooks.
"One Match", the first single from the album and perhaps the most unforgettable tune since the band's smash hit "Rookie", makes it clear that it is a blazing torch that will light a thousand others in dark times. Despite the track's accessibility, its lovingly crafted details show that the band has the talent to take a huge step forward in terms of songwriting on their sixth album.
"Torches to Paradise", which is an explosive force in a philosophical band like BoySetsFire, whose members have very different beliefs, has a very special meaning for bassist Robert Ehrenbrand in particular: "To me it is about freeing myself from the burden of dogma and the imposed slavery of illusions brought upon us by society, religion and mind control...setting fire to 'paradise' (aka the illusion) we free ourselves and become what we truly can be, a self-empowered and free thinking, loving entity."
This self-produced and released album deserves even more respect when you consider the band's turbulent past: Originally formed in 1994, BoySetsFire was as good as dead about five years ago, when its members put the shards of an almost failed career back together, risking a reunion. The post-hardcore pioneers, who helped shape the genre with their albums After the Eulogy and Tomorrow Come Today, both released around the millennium, were victims of the music industry's demise and the failed attempt to work with a major label affiliated record company.
That brave comeback in early 2013 was based completely on the principle of self-determination and culminated in the release of one of their most successful albums to date, While a Nation Sleeps.... The album was hailed as "one of their most cohesive melodic hardcore albums, right up in line with 2000'sAfter the Eulogy, which many consider to be their best album" (Alternative Press) and "Comeback albums are often greeted with lofty, unrealistic expectations, but it is safe to say that BoySetsFire have surpassed even the wildest of these expectations with While A Nation Sleeps..." (Sputnik Music).
BOYSETSFIRE
s/t
Release: September 25, 2015
01. Savage Blood
02. Cutting Room Floor
03. Don't Panic
04. Ordinary Lives
05. One Match
06. The Filth Is Rising
07. Torches To Paradise
08. Coward
09. Heaven Knows
10. Fall From Grace
11. Dig Your Grave
12. Breathe In, Bleed Out
13. Bled Dry
Backtrack to support Bane's final European tour
Backtrack will act as direct support for Bane's final European tour, which is set to kick off in late November. Additional support comes from Wolf Down and Tausend Lowen unter Feinden on select dates. Check out those dates above and below.
Backtrack and Bane are currently on The Life & Death Tour here in the U.S., a stacked lineup that also includes Turnstile, Forced Order, Mizery, and on most dates, labelmates Malfunction.
BACKTRACK w/ Bane on their final EU tour
28.11.15 Rome, Italy @ Traffic Club
29.11.15 Bologna, Italy @ Freakout Club
30.11.15 Munchen, Germany @ Feierwerk #
01.12.15 Zurich, Switzerland @ Dynamo / Werk 21 #
02.12.15 Lyon, France @ Warmaudio
03.12.15 Barcelona, Spain @ Sala Rocksound
04.12.15 Madrid, Spain @ Sala Silikona
05.12.15 Lisbon, Portugal @ Republica da Musica
07.12.15 San Sebastian, Spain @ Sala Mogambo
08.12.15 Toulouse, France @ Le Saint des Seins
09.12.15 Paris, France @ Gibus Club
10.12.15 Stuttgart, Germany @ Juha West *#
11.12.15 Gottingen, Germany @ Lumiere *#
12.12.15 Leipzig, Germany @ Conne Island *# w/ No Turning Back, World Eater
13.12.15 Budapest, Hungary @ Durer Kert *# w/ World Eater
* - w/ Wolf Down
# - w/ Tausend Lowen unter Feinden
H2O announce 'Use Your Voice', reveal "Skate!" video and 7" pre-order
It's been seven years since the release of a proper full-length album from H2O (2008's critically acclaimed Nothing to Prove). The band's immensely anticipated new album, Use Your Voice, will finally see the light of day on October 9th, 2015. Bassist Adam Blake commented, "Nothing to Prove was the record we really found our niche, where we were really like, 'This is H2O. This is what H2O should be...this is the spirt of the thing.' We felt like a brand new band. We felt excited." He continued, "It's nice, seven years after Nothing to Prove, that we can capture those feelings again with this new record."
H2O, which also includes members Toby Morse, Todd Friend, and Rusty Pistachio, have spent the last seven years constantly on tour and playing live, hitting almost every nook and cranny on Planet Earth. In 2011, they released a covers album, Don't Forget Your Roots, which featured takes on songs by some of their favorite acts like 7 Seconds, Dag Nasty, and Gorilla Biscuits. With a rigorous tour schedule, as well as at-home obligations, H2O finally started demoing songs out two years later in 2013, while on tour with Terror. Suddenly, the foundation was laid for Use Your Voice.
Recorded once again by a dream team of Chad Gilbert (Producer, Nashville [who recorded vocals]) and Paul Miner (Engineer, Orange County, CA [who recorded music]), Use Your Voice is 11 songs of high-energy, high-octane melodic hardcore punk that is sure to please any fan of the band's impressive back catalog (which includes their 1996 self-titled debut, 1997's Thicker Than Water [Epitaph], 1999'sF.T.T.W. [Epitaph], 2001's GO [MCA], and landmark 2008 release Nothing to Prove [Bridge Nine]) and modern punk in all shapes and forms. On this new album, frontman and lyricist Toby Morse continues to deliver his direct and personal manifestos, with subjects spanning fatherhood ("Father Figure"), romantic relationships ("True Romance"), music fandom ("Popage"), social media philosophy ("#NotRealLife") and more.
Check out a video for the first song to surface from Use Your Voice, titled "Skate!", now on YouTube. For this video, the band reconnected with longtime friend and director Joseph Pattisall, who also directed their videos for "What Happened?" and "Nothing to Prove" which have over 2 million combined views on YouTube alone. The new video for "Skate!" utilized 30-year-old-footage of Toby skating as a teenager in St. Mary's County Maryland and was put together as a passion project just for fun and to give fans a sample of the new record. "Skate!" was filmed over the course of several days at Hurley HQ, Brooklyn Projects, and Vans Skate Park in Orange, CA, and features professional skateboarding legend Steve Caballero and Rob Mertz as well as cameos from countless other friends and family of H2O. The song appears on Use Your Voice as well as a pre-release 7inch of the same name that is up for pre-order now from B9Store.com/H2O.
More info and an official music video for a new track will come soon in conjunction with the release ofUse Your Voice. Until then, keep up with H2O on Facebook.
Use Your Voice Track Listing:
1. Black Sheep
2. Skate!
3. Thick and Thin
4. Use Your Voice
5. Father Figure
6. From the Heart
7. Popage
8. LYD
9. Still Dreaming
10. #NotRealLife
11. True Romance
Malfunction added to The Life & Death Tour
Malfunction have replaced Heavy Chains on The Life & Death Tour, which kicks off in two days. The full stacked lineup now includes Bane, Turnstile, Backtrack, Forced Order, Mizery, and on all dates between August 9 and 28 except Chicago, Malfunction. Select regional openers include Power Trip, Death Threat, Bitter End, and Crown of Thornz. Check out details below.
More info on Malfunction's upcoming full-length debut, Fear of Failure, coming soon as well.
THE LIFE & DEATH TOUR 2015 f/ Bane, Turnstile, BACKTRACK, Forced Order, Mizery, MALFUNCTION [8/9-8/25, 8/27-8/28]:
8/6 Rochester, NY @ The Harmony House
8/7 Holyoke, MA @ The Waterfront Tavern**
8/8 Howell, NJ @ Gamechanger World
8/9 Richmond, Va @ Canal Club
8/10 Greensboro, NC @ Greene St
8/11 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
8/12 Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly
8/13 Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn
8/14 Houston, TX @ Walter's****
8/15 Dallas, TX @ Sons of Herman Hall****
8/16 San Antonio, TX @ The Korova****
8/17 Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red
8/18 San Diego, CA @ Soma
8/19 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
8/20 Los Angeles, CA @ Los Globos
8/21 Oakland, CA @ The New Parish
8/22 Reno, NV @ PB&J's
8/23 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Music Garage
8/24 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater*
8/25 Merriam, KS @ Aftershock Bar and Gril*
8/26 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge*/***
8/27 Cincinnati, OH @ Legends*/***
8/28 Detroit, MI @ Magestic Cafe*/***
8/29 Toronto, ON @ The Rockpile*/***
8/30 Montreal, QC @ Les Foufounes Electriques
8/31 Amityville, NY @ Revolution
Also playing:
* - Power Trip
** - Death Threat
*** - Bitter End
**** - CROWN OF THORNZ
Defeater premiere "Unanswered" video
Crown of Thornz stream 'Nothing But Tragedy' EP at Scene Point Blank
Crown of Thornz are now streaming their upcoming EP, Nothing But Tragedy, in full at Scene Point Blank. The EP is due out August 14 and is available for pre-order now as a 7" and/or digital download atB9Store.com.
Crown of Thornz were an NYHC mainstay during the mid-1990s alongside acts like Madball, H2O, and Vision of Disorder. Street-wise and charismatic graffiti artist Lord Ezec spearheaded the band in 1994 with high school friend (and future Shelter member) Franklin Rhi, recruiting future Breakdown member Mike Dijan. They would quickly become a live favorite on the scene with energetic and tight performances that ignited crowds with their musically and emotionally heavy style that drew inspiration from Cro-Mags and crossover-era Agnostic Front while ruminating about love and hate dichotomies, senseless violence, and contemplative introspection. Their recorded output was limited: There was only 1995's Train Yard Blues EP on then-hardcore pillar Equal Vision Records, and 1996's Mentally Vexedfull-length on local cornerstone Another Planet. But both releases found attention worldwide, and the band would tour all over on them until their demise in 1998.
Now, we are excited to present Crown of Thornz's first recorded output since a 1998 split single with Aggressive Dogs. Nothing But Tragedy features two new tracks: "The Kiss of Death", a somewhat more straightforward representation of the CoT sound that nonetheless moves their thudding, mid-tempo hardcore style forward. The B-side is "No Reason Why" (not to be confused with the Gorilla Biscuits classic), an epic, darkly affecting rock song, the likes of which CoT have never quite approached, with a booming, heady chorus to boot.