Prog djent technicians Periphery have announced a tour with Animals As Leaders plus Car Bomb and Astronoid on select dates. Any date is sure to be a night of unique music you won’t forget.
The Convergence Tour with Animals As Leaders is happening this fall! Car Bomb and Astronoid will also be on select dates! Tickets go on sale Friday at 10am local time.
Keep up on tickets/RSVPs HERE.
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New York City’s Webster Hall welcomed Animals As Leaders, The Devin Townsend Project and Monuments last weekend. Earlier in the day, Devin treated me to a fantastic face to face interview, which you can read here. Prog reigned supreme throughout the night and due to some lengthy photo ops, so did the photographers. I’ve seen some awesome shots from this night already, due to the fact we were able to shoot for the whole show.
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Washington, DC progressive metal outfit Animals as Leaders have announced that they are set for release in the Spring of this year. The album will be a follow-up to the bands 2011 album Weightless and is, as of yet, untitled.
You can read comments by guitarist Javier Reyes here.
Weightless is the band’s second album and was released via Prosthetic Records. Upon its release the album charted at #92 on the Billboards Top 200 Chart.
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A black stampede raged through Times Square, as hundreds of metalheads poured into the Best Buy Theater for New York City’s stop on The Summer Slaughter Tour. Eleven bands performed nine hours of chest-rattling metal for the most extreme night of the year. I was front and center for the brunt of it and let me tell you cretins: this show was every bit as intense as it was billed. Armed with my camera, press pass, iPhone, cigarettes, and scores of power backups, I was ready for journalistic war. And I fucking conquered. Click here for the full spread of pictures and commentary.
The line up for the annual Summer Slaughter Tour was announced today and it is fierce. The Dillinger Escape Plan headlines the show, with direct support from Animals As Leaders, Periphery, and Norma Jean. There’s also four more bands, making this tour even more insanely aggressive. Cattle Decapitation, The Ocean, Revocation, and Aeon will round out the roster.
There’s still another being added, by way of a fan voting process. So we now have a nine band touring tornado on the precipice of destroying every city it touches down in. Sumer Slaughter indeed. No dates have been announced yet and we will surely have more on that later.
Go vote for the opening band here, maybe vote for Abiotic. or Vektor. Tough call.
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This past Sunday started off as a rather busy day at my job with what seemed like an endless ten hour shift and ended on a high note after experiencing several bands I’ve been looking forward to seeing live for a long time. Meshuggah, Animals As Leaders, and Intronaut are currently on The Ophidian Trek 2013 and they just happened to be in my backyard. Fortunately Meshuggah’s lead singer Jens Kidman had just kicked the flu’s ass and wouldn’t have to be replaced by a cardboard cutout of himself. Unfortunately however, my ten hour shift forced me to arrive just as Intronaut was finishing, but I’ve been told they were excellent from my friends that arrived on time.
Click right here to read my full review of the show.
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California progressive metallers Intronaut have revealed the artwork for “Milk Leg,” the first single off their highly anticipated new album Habitual Levitations. The single’s cover was designed by Randy Ortiz (Damn The Design) and it will be available on all digital platforms on February 5, 2013.
Leading up to the release of Habitual Levitations on March 19th, the band will be on tour with Meshuggah and Animals As Leaders following a small run of headlining dates.
Click right here to see a bigger picture of the single’s artwork, a complete list of tour dates and a rehearsal video where the band is practicing a new song that will be on the new album.
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If you’ve never had the chance to see Thrice live before– you have one more chance. Although the band does state that they are “Not breaking up” but rather are “taking a break for a while”, the band has announced the dates for their Farewell Tour which is set to kick off on May 4th at the House of Blues in San Diego, California. Thrice will be joined by the band Animals as Leaders on all dates.
Tickets are now on sale.
See dates, venues, and cities here.
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Progressive instrumentalists, Animals As Leaders, have launched the first studio video documenting the recording of their upcoming album, “Weightless.” Check out the video here now, exclusively at MetalInjection.net. “Weightless” is the act’s second release and will be released by Prosthetic Records in North America on Nov. 8, in mainland Europe on Nov. 4 and in the UK on Nov. 7. The endeavor was produced by drummer Navene Koperweis and Animals As Leaders and mixed by guitarist Javier Reyes. The album marks the recording debuts of Koperweis and Reyes with Animals As Leaders. The track, “Isolated Incidents” can be streamed now over here at Prosthetic Records’ webstore, where the official pre-order has launched.
Following the release of The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues, the grand masters of complexity, Between the Buried and Me, are ready to hit the road. Bringing along Tesseract and Animals as Leaders should entertain fans of BTBAM because, as guitarist Paul Waggoner puts it, the line-up “is loaded with some of the most forward-thinking, virtuosic musicians in the genre.”
The tour takes them north, south, east, and west, including a stop in Los Angeles and New Jersey for the “Saints and Sinners” festival. In select markets the band is offering a limited number of bundles for fans which include a ticket to the show, a limited edition tour poster and a meet ‘n’ greet before the show.
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California progressive metallers Intronaut has revealed a few of the dates for the upcoming U.S tour with Animals As Leaders. Support on the tour will come from Dead Letter Circus, Last Chance To Reason and a solo set from The Faceless bassist Evan Brewer. You can view the few confirmed dates below, and stay tuned for more updates.
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Washington, D.C. progressive instrumental act Animals As Leaders are writing and preparing to enter the studio to record their second album. The album is slated to be released later in the year via Prosthetic Records.
In the meantime, their acclaimed self-titled debut album, which was originally released in 2009, will be available for the first time in vinyl in June.
The band will appear at the Bamboozle Fest in New Jersey later this month and will be supporting Between The Buried And Me in Europe this fall.
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OMNIUM GATHERUM have just released their brand new single “Blade Reflections”. It is now available on all streaming and download platforms and will also be featured on a limited Edition Omnium Gatherum / Skalmöld split 7-inch, which will be available on the upcoming "Arctic Circle Alliance” European Tour (see below for all dates).
You can watch the lyric video for “Blade Reflections” streaming here: https://youtu.be/j5glljbcJPw
Singer Jukka Pelkonen comments, "In the light of recent events we wanted to voice our opinion about the tragedy of suicide. This is a subject that may concern anyone at some point. ʻBlade Reflectionsʼ is a statement against suicide and an encouragement to all of those who dwell in the depths of self-annihilation. Having been there myself too, I know how devastating it can be. There is nothing more precious than this life itself and it is worth seeing through. Though, we do not condemn those who choose to go, rather we want to stand by with all the rest, all of us, who are staying."
