Absu, 1 NZ show; Jan 18 2012, K.A

American black metallers, Absu, a band that would've been right up the alley of former hfhshow host, Random Guy, are playing one New Zealand Show.

Check out www.chaosnz.com for the website of the corwd bringing them to NZ, and the gigs facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=285656731469195

Exordium Mors
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/exordiummors
website: http://www.exordiummors.com/

Heresiarch
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/heresiarchcult

BDO 2nd announcement

Cavalera Consiracy, Parkway Drive are the new draw cards for metal fans in the 2nd announcement.

This is added to Beastwars and Soundgarden to the BDO 2012 metal lineup, for the full lineup go check out: http://www.95bfm.com/default,201953,95bfm-presents-big-day-out-2012.sm

Death and Damnation tour- AKL show

November 26th at the Kings Arms.
www.chaosnz.com

Dying of the Light
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/dyingofthelight
facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Dying-Of-The-Light
 

Bullet belt:
myspace: www.myspace.com/bulletbeltnz
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/bulletbeltnz
twitter: http://twitter.com/Bulletbeltnz
last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/Bulletbelt

Jammin for Jethro

This is a charity gig for a good cause. More/all the info is on the Jammin for Jethro fb event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=285515568135115

Black frog events
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Frog-Event-and-Artist-Management/268610389724

Sinate
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sinate/266998407037
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinate

Heathen Eyes
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Heatheneyes
 
Roache
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roache/119199154819242
 
Team Kill (Hamilton)
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/team.kill.metal
 
Space Between
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SpaceBetweenNZ
 
Black Science
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blackskyence
 
Bleeding View
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BleedingView

new podcast up

The Podcast for the show on the 7th November is up on: http://www.95bfm.com/default,18,bcasts.sm?cast=202634

Ulcerate signs to Relapse Records!

In awesome news that was posted on blabbermouth mere moments after I'd gone to sleep (after doing the hardfastheavy show and mucking around etc), NZ band Ulcerate have signed a deal of some kind with Relapse Records.
Here's the news from the Relapse site: http://www.relapse.com/label/news/ulcerate-sign-to-relapse-records.html

On an unprofessional note: It's good to see a NZ band making it big overseas, and have over-seas people want to see 'em live etc, and the venue for the gig the poster below is promotes, is a 15minute bus ride (and a bit of a walk..) away from my place. For once, on occasions like this, metal fans in New York, the UK etc kinda go, Uuuuhhh, where as all I'm all like, "Where'd I put my bus card?" I take this opportunity now, 'cos I know any given week/month/year has more wicked metal acts rolling through their towns than we get in a decade..

Ulcerate:
Catch the band live in NZ ;p Dec 2nd http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125695770869437
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ulcerate
website: http://www.ulcerate-official.com/

Playlist for 7th Nov 2011

*New* STICKY FILTH- Happy Birthday
*New* COBRA KHAN- Borderlands
*New* ISOLE- When all is Black
BRUCE DICKENSON- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
MEGADETH- Guns, Drugs and Money
SAXON-Hellcat
LAMB OF GOD- 11th Hour
*New* DEATHSTARS- Metal
STEEL PANTHER- Tomorrow Night
GWAR- The Ultimate Bohab
GWAR- Zombies, March
DECAPITATED- United
PERDITIONIST- For I am Death
CRIMINAL- Order from Chaos
IN DREAD RESPONSE- Multiplex
*New* KRISIUN- The Extremist
SKELETONWITCH- This Horrifying Force (The Desire to Kill)
JIM FLORENTINE- Opening for Slayer
*New* THE ROTTED- Surrounded by Skulls
AT THE GATES- Slaughter of the Soul
ANTERIOR- Blood in the Throne Room
DEVIN TOWNSEND- New York, New York

Free sampler from Seige of Amida Records

Like their facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/siegeofamidarecords go to http://www.siegeofamida.net/sampler for the download, it'll need to check that you've liked their page
Tracklist:
1. Boris The Blade - Like Wolves
2. Diskreet - Graves
3. Molotov Solution - Injustice For All
4. Ancient Ascendant - Titan
5. Ingested - Manifesting Obscenity
6. Dyscarnate - A Drone In The Hive
7. As They Burn - City Ov Pyramids
8. TRC - Blame It On Vegas
9. Eradication - Fascination In Torture
10. Against The Flood - Idle Hands
11. Awaken Demons - Phoenix
12. The Breathing Process - Metamorphosis
13. Heart In Hand - Tunnels
14. Cult Cinema - A Distant And Disconsolate Heart
15. Shaped By Fate - Give Me Hope
16. DripBack - Under The Floor
17. Martyr Defiled - Isolate
18. Annotations Of An Autopsy - Reznov
19. Ichor - The Gorgon
20. The Bridal Procession - Atypical Pestilence
21. Ageless Oblivion - Time Of The Empty Throne
22. Betraeus - Towards The Sun (Radio Edit)
23. Demoraliser - Bitter Springs
24. Armed For Apocalypse - The Demon Who Makes Trophies Of Men
25. Waking The Cadaver - Snapped In Half
26. Terakai - Fractured Skies

Free Music #canadian

Free Download – Canuck Metal Vol. 1 Presented by Loudtrax.com & Heavy Metal Music Association of Canada (H.M.M.A.C.)

The Heavy Metal Music Association of Canada (H.M.M.A.C.) and LoudTrax.com have teamed up to present Volume 1 of Canuck Metal, a free download compilation part of series to showcase Canada’s up and coming head banging talent.

Canuck Metal – Volume 1. features the following bands and tracks:
3 Mile Scream – Everything Slips Away
22Hertz – Detonate
All Else Fails – This World In Flames
Avery’s Descent – Rock n Roll Bitch
Bolero – Pints Held High
Dissension – Set To Kill
Endast – Black Cloud
Fallstaf – The Cost
Fatality – Thrash Fuck Eat Sleep
Kill Matilda – Geisha With A Switch Blade
Ninjaspy – Skaingkh (The Skank)
Scythia – For The King
Slaves On Dope – No One To Blame
Tantrumn – Coward
Titans Eve – Becoming The Demon

To download the free compilation please visit Loudtrax.com at the following link here and type in promo code: HMMAC

RIP Flattus

http://www.gwar.net/news/the-passing-of-guitarist-cory-smoot-aka-flattus-maximus

GWAR Guitarist since 2002 and 5th enhabitor of the character Flattus Maximus, Cory Smoot mysteriously passed away recently 2 weeks into a 6week US/Canada tour.
GWAR has decided to continue with their tour, as what I understand to be as much about their own mourning as well as respect for Smoot.
Speaking of 'out of respect for' the Flattus Maximus character will be retired, in GWAR lore he returned to his home planet, "Planet Home" 'and will never return to this mudball planet again. And this is a sadder place for that.' (http://www.gwar.net/)


The band and as much of the live show as they could bring (props etc but not Gor-gor their pet dinosaur) were in Auckland last December for the No Sleep Til fest, with Megadeth and 3 Inches of Blood, and as apart of the lead up I got to interview front man Oderus Urungus.

RIP Cory Smoot/ Flattius Maximus

Saving Grace Auckland Album release party

Saving Grace "the King is coming" Official cd release party with :In Dread Response, Depths, Edge of Fury. Saturday 19th November at the Basement Bar in Auckland.

If you're not into the christian element but dig their sound and general hardcore vibe, then go check 'em out.

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Saving Grace:
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/savingxgrace
website: http://www.savingxgrace.com/

In Dread Response:
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/indreadresponse
Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/indreadresponse
Merch: http://dreadstorm.printmighty.co.nz/

Depths:
facebook:http://www.facebook.com/depthsnz
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/depthsnz
Merch: http://depths.printmighty.co.nz/

Edge of Fury:
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Edge-of-Fury/150803141608736
big cartel: http://killtherecords.bigcartel.com/artist/edge-of-fury
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/edgeoffury
Merch: http://edgeoffury.printmighty.co.nz/

More info on new Lamb of god album

It's a few days old now (I caught the news on the show last monday, 31st Oct) that the name of the new Lamb of God album is "Resolution". Once some professional journos sorted this story out, they brought up some album cover art too

And something about a 30second 'preview' that you can view here: http://player.vimeo.com/video/31344231

The album is out January 24th so there's several weeks we NZ fans have to listen to 'Resolution' before their show here at the Studio, with The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth and Cripple Mr Onion.

Tracklist:

1. Straight For The Sun
2. Desolation
3. Ghost Walking
4. Guilty
5. The Undertow
6. The Number Six
7. Barbarosa
8. Invictus
9. Cheated
10. Insurrection
11. Terminally Unique
12. To The End
13. Visitation
14. King Me

It seems to me to be a bit early to get Lamb of God fans raging with even more anticipation in their computer chairs with a track-by-track, given theres 2/3months wait for its release, but I guess MH know you gotta get in early if they want this article and their name printed/linked to on the album global press release in Jan 2012. 

ADDED: From http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/top-posts/lamb-of-god-our-track-by-track-guide-to-resolution/

Resolution Track-By-Track

Straight For The Sun
By the sounds of the Iommi-friendly monster of a riff that opens this album up, Willie Adler has been listening to a lot of Black Sabbath recently. Slow, doomy and fucking massive. Unexpected, but not unwelcome. Here we go…

Desolation
Two tracks in and we already have a potential single on our hands. Kicking off with a riff that isn’t a million miles away from ‘Redneck’, this is classic Lamb Of God – big riffs, big grooves and a big chorus begging for big crowds. So basically, big.

Ghost Walking
This starts off with a bit of a curveball thanks to a spoken-word count-in and a cheeky bit of Southern-fried acoustic strumming, before exploding into a monstrous, swaying riff and some more of those untouchable Lamb of God grooves.

Guilty
Oh hey there fifth gear! This is the fastest song on the album so far, with a real face-ripper of an intro and some great hooks, with Randy Blythe in snarlingly vicious form. LOG are definitely back. We’ve missed you, boys.

Undertow
Not only does this keep the pace flying, but the catchiness of the chorus has “festival crowd” written all over it. Randy’s “I am the one who’s left to take the falllllll!” line is epic and could be one of the singalong moments of the year. You heard it here first!

The Number Six
…which is the sixth track, handily. Another big, big chorus, this one’s a swaying, chug-laden juggernaut with some nifty hardcore-style backing vocals thrown into the mix. Interesting…

Barbarosa
We can’t be sure if this handy musical interlude is named after the 1982 cowboy flick starring Willie Nelson, but given the acoustic melodies and eerie sound effects wah-wahed in, we wouldn’t be surprised. Still; it neatly cuts the album in half and gives us a breather…

Invictus
…aaaand we’re back. More shout-along backing vocals mixed in with some seriously thrashy moments and a monolithically big breakdown or two. One for the circle pits if ever there was one.

Cheated
Was that a “One-two-onetwoFUCKYOU!” we just heard? Either way, this is the fastest and most brutal track on the album by a mile, glancing back at the band’s Burn The Priest days while still bristling with the hooks we’ve come to know and love them for.

Insurrection
Slowing the tempo down a touch works nicely here, with Randy switching to cleaner (by his standards) vocals over an epic, sprawling wall of menacing riffs.

Terminally Unique
This is straightforward, groove-chundering, riff-spitting Lamb Of God at their best, with an almost galloping midsection giving it some real pace. “Your life is passing…..BYYYYYYYYYYYYY!” screams Randy, who is sounding more and more possessed and wretched as this album goes on.

To The End
There’s some real Pantera-isms to this bad boy, which is probably the most out-and-out groove metal track on the whole album. Another possible live favourite? We think so.

Visitation
If not ‘Desolation’, then this could make another great leading single. Crushing riffs and great hooks, and still catchy as fuck? Suits us.

King Me
Now this is how you finish an album. A slow, brooding intro with Randy’s Southern drawl giving spoken-word lyrics a real tinge of wretchedness, before a full-on orchestra kicks in to take things stratospheric. But ‘S&M’ this ain’t; this is dark, epic, heavy fucking metal, and when the strings do pop up again for the chorus, they only add to the thunderous grandeur of the whole thing. It’s different, but it’s definitely still Lamb Of God. Now, we reckon we might just have to start again…

Cripple Mr Onion (who're supporting Lamb of God on their show in NZ, March 7th 2012)

Website: http://www.cripple.co.nz/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cripple-Mr-Onion/107632759264381

I got deets for a free double pass to the Beastwars auckland show this wkend

Flick us an email : dale@hardfastheavy.com so we can get ya to get hold of a free double pass to the Beastwars, Arc of Ascent, Mountaineater gig at 4:20 on Krd this Saturday.

**UPDATED: http://www.hardfastheavy.com/2011/10/beastwars-mountaineater-and-arc-of.html **

Beastwars:
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/beastwars666
Bandcamp: http://beastwars.bandcamp.com/
Lake of Fire music vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Btg5TcsYUc
Arc of Ascent:
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/arcofascent
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/arcofascent

Mountaineater:
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mountaineater
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mountaineaterband

We're now podcasting, officially.

Thanks to Max, Manu and the Bfm team for officially putting this weeks hard fast and heavy show onto the internet for the listening pleasure of you all.

I'll keep an updated link under the "Podcast" page so you can go directly to the hardfastheavy show podcast on the 95bfm website, alternatively just go to 95bfm.com and hunt down this show under 'bcasts'


http://www.95bfm.com/default,18,bcasts.sm?cast=202634

Given that it was Halloween, I had a wee friend in the studio with me, watching the levels etc.

Playlist for October 31st 2011

Playlist for October 31st.
ROB ZOMBIE- Call of the Zombie/ Super beast
TYPE O NEGATIVE- Black No. 1
*New* KORN- Narcissistic Cannibal
HELLOWEEN- Are you Metal?
GWAR- Metal Metal Land
DEVIN TOWNSEND- Ziltiodia Attaxx!!!
*New* STEEL PANTHER- Supersonic Sex Machine
*New* MEGADETH- Sudden Death
CRADLE OF FILTH- Tonight in Flames
DETHKLOK- Awaken
*NZ* BEASTWARS- Call out the Dead
RAMMSTEIN- Rammlied (Rammin' the Steins remix)
*New* ABORTED- Global Flatline
ZOMBIE DESTRUKTION- Gunslingin' Son of a Gun
TRIVIUM- Built to Fall
CHIMAIRA- Losing my Mind
ANTERIOR- Venemous
MACHINEHEAD- Locust*NZ* INDICATOR DOGS- Hell Money