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Carcass, Deafheaven, and Inter Arma – A Matrimony Made … In Sickness and Hell Tour

It was a chilly evening as people lined up outside the Rex Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to see legendary death metal band Carcass.

Published

8 years ago

November 27, 2016

George Archibald

A review of A Matrimony Made … In Sickness and Hell Tour

Carcass, Deafheaven, and Inter Arma

The Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, Pa 11/22/2016

By George Archibald
Photos by Josh Drespling

It was a chilly evening as people lined up outside the Rex Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to see legendary death metal band Carcass. Carcass who has been around since the 1990s, are known for being one of the forefathers of using medical terminology in their lyrics. This also sparked a movement of gore metal which is heavily faceted on medical procedures and torture; where its victims are brutally torn apart, along with other visceral descriptions of death. The band’s line up has changed drastically since its inception, so for myself it was going to be interesting seeing these new members preform the old songs.

The night started off with Richmond, Virginia’s Inter Arma setting the mood for the night. The band played heavy riff riffs with a sonic assault of feedback and resonance throughout their set. The drummer would constantly continue the beat right into the next song, as well as dropping the hammer on the downbeats. Inter Arma’s vocalist, sang in a black metal style while cutting through the mix with a commanding power to his voice. This band came to make a statement this night.

Up next was Deafheaven, which turned out to be a crowd favorite this night. The music at times would go from dissonant noise with droning sounds, to these crescendos of swelling guitars that were almost whimsical at times. DeafHeaven’s drummer sounded huge with his playing style filling those riffs with powerful beats. DeafHeaven’s vocalist tended to saunter around the stage and do sporadic arm movements throughout the set as if he was a conductor to the band’s chaotic symphony. This band kind of left me wanting more however, as the drone music would play on with very little crowd interaction between songs.

To close off the night, the much-anticipated Carcass took the stage, with a video monitor set up above each member’s amplifiers. Clips of surgical tools and classic artwork from the band flashed across the screens, as the band ripped through their thunderous set. I felt a bit of nostalgia watching them play through some of the older songs from the band’s history. The band saw the liveliness of a pit open as they ripped through ‘Incarnate Solvent Abuse’, and ‘Corporal Jigsore Quandary’. Vocalist Jeff Walker, sounded like he has never aged in the bands 20 plus years. Carcass was what this crowd wanted, and the band delivered in solid glory.

I was surprised to see such a diverse crowd in attendance at the old converted Rex Theater on a weekday night. Yes, there were a lot of the classic metal heads there to pay tribute to one of the icons of the genre. Guys (and girls) that I’m sure had cut their teeth on the early works of bands such as Venom, Death, and even Slayer, but there was also an element of a new generation of metal-heads. I was confident that some of these new fans were not even of legal drinking age, clad in Avenge Sevenfold and Issues t-shirts. However this was a unified group, here to enjoy the music and mayhem that only a band as well aged as Carcass could deliver

Carcass line up was rounded out by original guitarist Bill Steer who has also been part of Napalm Death and Angel Witch. Sharing guitar duties was Ben Ash who joined Carcass in 2013 along with drummer Daniel Wilding (Heaven Shall Burn, Trigger the Bloodshed, The Order of Apollyon , Aborted).

The “A Matrimony Made … In Sickness and Hell Tour” will continue in the States until the end of November and then Carcass has a few sporadic dates in Europe during the new year.

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W.A.S.P. Album One Alive 2024 US Tour

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4 months ago

August 21, 2024

Josh Drespling

Hollywood, CA (August 20, 2024) — It is 2024, and W.A.S.P. is celebrating 1984! 40 years ago, the landmark debut album from W.A.S.P. was released on August 17, 1984, and the metal world was knocked on their ass!

The W.A.S.P. “Album ONE Alive” Tour celebrates the debut album by playing the album in its entirety, from start to finish.

To give the fans something every week to celebrate W.A.S.P. is giving away…

• 10 pairs of tickets a week for the length of the US tour.

• Silver Award – Blackie is also giving away each week of the tour two personal meet and greets in his dressing room. In HIS dressing room!

• Gold Award – One lucky fan will win Blackie’s personal certified RIAA award for the debut album.

• Platinum Award – And the Grand Prize, one fan and a guest will be provided airfare and a luxury Hollywood hotel to the final show in Los Angeles, meet the band and stay for the after show, end of tour party.

W.A.S.P. can only celebrate 1984 once and they want to do it big!

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It was recently announced that Armored Saint will be replacing Death Angel on the tour. W.A.S.P. issued the following statement: “W.A.S.P. is pleased to announce that Armored Saint will now be joining the “Album One Alive” Fall 2024 U.S. Tour. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Death Angel will no longer be able to be a part of this tour. We all wish them the best going forward.”

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THE ALBUM ONE ALIVE WORLD TOUR 2024 DATES:

10/26/24 San Luis Obispo, CA @ Fremont Theater*

10/28/24 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

10/29/24 Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre

10/30/24 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre

11/01/24 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre

11/02/24 Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory

11/03/24 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory

11/04/24 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot

11/05/24 Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre

11/07/24 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore

11/08/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/09/24 St Charles, IL @ The Arcada Theatre

11/10/24 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre

11/11/24 Toronto, ON @ History

11/13/24 Montreal, QC @ MTELUS

11/14/24 Quebec City, QC @ Theatre Capitole

11/15/24 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre

11/16/24 New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom At Manhattan Center

11/17/24 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall

11/19/24 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Theater

11/20/24 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE

11/21/24 Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater

11/22/24 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore

11/23/24 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore

11/24/24 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live

11/26/24 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

11/27/24 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern

11/29/24 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues

11/30/24 San Antonio, TX @ Aztec Theatre

12/01/24 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum

12/03/24 Little Rock, AR @ The Hall

12/04/24 Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion

12/06/24 Albuquerque, NM @ REVEL

12/07/24 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee Theatre

12/09/24 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre

12/10/24 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues

12/11/24 Reno, NV @ Grand Sierra Resort and Casino

12/12/24 Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl

12/13/24 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

12/14/24 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium

* No support acts.

About W.A.S.P.

Few bands in the history of rock n roll have ever incited the love, the hate, and the raw emotional effect this band has had on the world. From the very beginning, in the small venues of Los Angeles, California, and later to the numerous countries worldwide that banned these Winged Assassins from performing live, the band’s unique style of shock and rock caused religious organizations, local city councils, parliaments, and the Washington D.C. Senate to hold hearings in an effort to bar this group from selling records and trashing stages everywhere they played.

The band’s founding member, frontman Blackie Lawless, has led the group as its lead vocalist and primary songwriter since its beginning. His unique brand of visual, social, and political comment took the group to worldwide heights and sold millions of records alongside a legacy of sold-out shows across the globe for 4 decades.

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Josh Drespling

Josh is the Publisher and creator of Empire Extreme and it’s sister publication Kingdom Extreme Magazine. He is an accomplished writer, photographer and graphic designer. He is always conjuring up new ideas and has a amazing passion for the music industry and all the things that surround it.

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CD Reviews

Them Damn Kings “Shown With A Fist”

Published

7 months ago

May 20, 2024

Ron

Them Damn Kings from NJ just released a new single “Shown With a Fist”.
If you like your music in your face with a touch of old school rock and roll this is the band for you. It’s got gritty vocals and pounding drums adding in some killer guitar shreds.
It’s a song that you listen to when you want to get into a bar fight or want to drive your car really fast down the highway.
It’s worth a listen, check out the lyric video below with a little bonus guitar mortal kombat shred off.

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Ron

Ron has keen eye for new talent, a love for the underground, and a tremendous passion for music of any genera. You’ll probably bump into him at a horror convention or some seedy club checking out the next need-to-know band.

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Ashes to Omens “Feed Me More”

Published

8 months ago

May 8, 2024

Ron

Ashes To Omens are a band from Georgia who’s latest single “Feed Me More” has a great sound to it. It reminds me of bands around the mid to late 2000s. They have a good mixture of sound. The song is a perfect blend of hard rock and metal with the vocals very crisp and delivered with passion.

The song “Feed Me More” has a great melody and works well with the bands style and genre of music. It also is a great title to a song because after listening to it I wanted more of the band.

Some will say that it’s very radio rock/metal and sometimes I do have issues with that but I felt that this song even though it does have that feel to it, isn’t just a radio rock song for the sake of being a radio rock song. I think this single is worth a listen to and could possibly be a track that might make your playlist.

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