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Antagonist A.D announce album launch tour
From three separate nations comes the mosh bill of the year. The Nothing From No One Australian Tour this August will see Auckland's Antagonist A.D, easily one of the most respected bands in the international hardcore community, cross the ditch for their first national run for the year. Cali metalcore outfit and Mediaskare Records label-mates Lionheart join them, making their Australian live debut. As one of the most promising Australian heavy bands on the scene, Sydney's Shinto Katana provide a solid local grounding to the stellar three band bill. Antagonist A.D are no strangers to our shores and can rightfully claim status as a favourite amongst Australian audiences. With an unrelenting and unadulterated live show, we welcome them back for the Nothing From No One Australian Tour. Formed in 2006 the outfit have also toured Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and more, and shared the stage with bands such as Have Heart, Parkway Drive and Earth Crisis. Earlier this year they signed to Medias...
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Apocalyptica announce Australian tour
Apocalyptica are coming. Twenty years from inception, one of the biggest names in European metal is finally touring Australia. Combining classical nuance with brutal breakdowns, this fantastic Finnish four-piece are quintessential Eurock with a difference. They are metal, with cellists. Their most recent album, 7th Symphony was produced by Joe Baressi (Queens Of The Stone Age, Tool) and features guests vocalists including Gavin Rossdale (Bush), Brent Smith (Shinedown), Joe Duplantier (Gojira) and Diane Warren (Award winning songwriter for artists like Aerosmith, Toni Braxton, Celine Dion). 7th Symphony has been touted as the band’s most inspired release to date, with equal emphasis on beautiful melodies and heavy, bombastic rhythms. Their track Beautiful is particularly bare and vulnerable, but it may have something to do with its unique recording process. “We decided to play it naked,” songwriter Eicca Toppinen says. “It was a moment where there were four guys naked in the room j...