Between The Buried and Me (BTBAM) has announced that it will team up with like-minded musical heavyweights Mastodon for a spring U.S. tour in support of its critically acclaimed new album The Great Misdirect. The massive, five week trek will kick off on April 16 in Charleston, SC.
Between The Buried and Me just completed a full scale North American headlining tour which featured support from Cynic, Devin Townsend Project and Scale the Summit. BTBAM will launch a European tour alongside Lamb of God tomorrow evening in Birmingham, England. Straight off the tour with Lamb of God, Between The Buried and Me will embark upon a tour of Japan, bringing along The Red Chord as support. At the conclusion of the Japan dates, BTBAM will perform live in Singapore and Bangkok and then head to Australia for a string of major market live performances. A special one off show in Hawaii on April 1 will conclude the massive globe trot before the band returns to hit the road alongside Mastodon.
UK Tour 2010 - February 6th, Leeds UK
By: Matt Holland of Man Must Die
We arrive in Leeds technically a day early for the show. The Reading date has been cancelled so we head straight up North. We park up outside the venue behind another tour bus being used by Marduk and Anaal Nathrakh who are playing Friday night. Myself and David from MMD get a cheap hotel room for the night, as we need a wash and a rest and as there’s no show for us, we can’t use the clubs ameneties.
There’s the option of going to see the show tonight, so we head through for a while and see a bit of Marduk’s set. I wanted to see Anaal Nathrakh but missed them! I met Steve their drummer and chatted for a while, which was cool. Marduk were ok, nice fast drumming but Black Metal really isn’t my thing. I lost interest quickly and headed to the hotel for a good sleep. Most of the Polish guys stay out, as they are friends with Marduk’s crew.
Veteran Israeli extreme metallers Salem, back with a stunning seventh full-length album entitled Playing God And Other Short Stories, recently issued a new album trailer, which includes a few audio excerpts from the upcoming offering.
Playing God And Other Short Stories includes a guest vocal appearance by At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg, (on “The Mark Of The Beast" Parts 1 and 2) as well as a cover of Bob Marley’s “Exodus.” Look for an interview with drummer Nir Nakav coming soon to SD Magazine!
In other news, Noisecreep.com recently caught up with the band and asked a few questions about Salem’s long-enduring history, Internet promotion and why they think everyone has “become an Israeli since 9/11;" Check it out here: http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/01/22/salem-israeli-9-11/
“Of Night and Silence,” the new music video from Los Angeles-based black metallers Sothis, can be viewed here. The video was shot in Los Angeles with Csaba Fikker as Director of Photography and was directed and edited by the band’s vocalist Drogoth, who also handled all of the visual effects.
“Of Night & Silence” is the opening track of Sothis’ debut album “De Oppresso Liber” which was tracked in Los Angeles and mixed by King Diamond guitarist Andy LaRocque at his Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden.
Sothis is currently completing writing for their sophomore release and is scheduled to hit the studio this Spring for a release in late 2010.
For more information, visit the band’s myspace page www.myspace.com/sothis. You can also check out the newly designed MySpace page for Black Static Recording Studio, owned by Dross, the drummer of Sothis and technical writer for Sick Drummer Magazine.
UK Tour 2010 - February 4th, Bristol UK
By: Matt Holland of Man Must Die
We arrive in Bristol early and everyone except me, Joe from Man Must Die, Julia the merch girl and Adam the sound guy are dying from a hangover. We go and find some breakfast and wait for load in. It’s like a scene from Dawn Of The Dead when we all start loading in and it’s good entertainment (in a sick way) to see all the guys who partied too hard the night before suffering...
