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The first Melbourne show of the Alcest/Heirs ‘Le Secret’ Australian Tour has sold out. A second show at The Curtin Bandroom on Thursday 27 has been announced, and is now on sale. This October, Melbourne five-piece, Heirs, will release the first taste of its forthcoming third album in the form of a 10"/CD titled, ‘Hunter’. To celebrate the release, the band is touring Australia in October 2011 with French metal-gazing giants, Alcest. Hailed as one of the best post-metal albums of 2009, Heirs’ debut, Alchera, established the band amongst Australia’s foremost instrumental acts. 2010 saw the release of Heirs’ second album, Fowl, displaying a shift towards a broader sonic palette, taking further influence from industrial, darkwave and gothic rock. Incorporating a pugilistic rhythmic foundation with coarse, threatening guitar textures and a stronger electronic presence, Fowl marked a great leap forward for Heirs, taking them beyond genres into a realm that is almost hermetic in its v...

It's been exactly 10 years since Think Fast! Records was born. We've come a long way since handcut layouts from Kinko's and have had the honor of working with some of our favorite bands of all time. To tell us 10 years ago that we'd be working with bands like Sick of it All and Ignite, we probably wouldn't have believed you. But here we are. Despite the ever-declining music industry and despite the worst economy our generation has ever seen, we're still here weathering the storm.