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DROPKICK MURPHY 2024 Tour

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2 months ago

February 20, 2024

Ron

Dropkick Murphys have announced the full itinerary for their 2024 U.S. St. Patrick’s Day Tour. All dates will feature punk legends Pennywise as special guests, with hotly-tipped Dublin rock band The Scratch opening the shows through March 15. Openers for the March 16 and March 17 shows at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston will be announced soon.

The annual trek kicks off February 13 in San Jose, CA and runs through the always-sold-out Boston hometown run of dates (March 14-17) culminating on St. Patrick’s Day. Dropkick Murphys and Pennywise co-headline the February 14 date in Ontario, CA, as the tour touches down in Pennywise’s Southern California stomping grounds.

Tickets for the newly announced tour dates go on sale Friday, November 17 at 10:00 AMlocal time in each market at www.DropkickMurphys.com. A ticket presale begins Wednesday, November 15 at 10:00 AM local time. Sign up for the presale ticket code at DropkickMurphys.com/presale.

The Boston St. Patrick’s Day week celebration begins Thursday, March 14 at CitizensHouse Of Blues Boston and will be followed by three nights at MGM Music Hall at Fenway: Friday, March 15, Saturday, March 16 and Sunday, March 17. In addition, Saturday, March 16 will feature an intimate daytime Dropkick Murphys VIP Mini-Concert at MGM Music Hall. Kids under 10 get in free to the VIP Mini-Concert with a paid ticketed parent or guardian. Proceeds will benefit the band’s nonprofit, The Claddagh Fund.

Dropkick Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day Tour 2024 dates are as follows:

Date	City	Venue
Tue., February 13	San Jose, CA	San Jose Civic
Wed., February 14	Ontario, CA	Toyota Arena *
Thu., February 15	Reno, NV	Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort
Sat., February 17	Portland, OR	Alaska Airlines’ Theater of the Clouds
Sun., February 18	Airway Heights, WA	Spokane Live
Mon., February 19	Bozeman, MT	The ELM
Tue., February 20	Casper, WY	Ford Wyoming Center
Wed., February 21	Idaho Falls, ID	Mountain America Center
Sat., February 24	Maplewood, MN	Myth Live
Sun., February 25	Moline, IL	The Rust Belt
Mon., February 26	Chesterfield, MO	The Factory
Tue., February 27	Evansville, IN	Ford Center
Thu., February 29	Nashville, TN	Marathon Music Works
Fri., March 1	Columbia, SC	Township Auditorium
Sat., March 2	Wheeling, WV	WesBanco Arena
Sun., March 3	Pikeville, KY	Appalachian Wireless Arena
Tue., March 5	Lancaster, PA	Freedom Hall
Wed., March 6	Warren, OH	Packard Music Hall
Thu., March 7	Norfolk, VA	Chartway Arena
Fri., March 8	State College, PA	Bryce Jordan Center Theatre
Sat., March 9	Binghamton, NY	Visions Veterans Memorial Arena
Mon., March 11	Poughkeepsie, NY	MJN Convention Center
Tue., March 12	Portland, ME	Cross Insurance Arena
Thu., March 14	Boston, MA	Citizens House Of Blues Boston
Fri., March 15	Boston, MA	MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Sat., March 16	Boston, MA	MGM Music Hall at Fenway **
Sun., March 17	Boston, MA	MGM Music Hall at Fenway **
* Dropkick Murphys & Pennywise co-headline show
** Opener(s) TBA

Dropkick Murphys recently returned to fully electric performances following a pair of critically acclaimed acoustic albums – 2022’s This Machine Still Kills Fascists and 2023’s Okemah Rising – interpreting the work of Woody Guthrie for a new generation. The albums, recorded in Tulsa with trusted collaborator and producer Ted Hutt, exposed the band to new audiences through airplay on stations like SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country, coverage in outlets such as Rolling Stone Country, Paste, CNN, Americana Highways and SPIN, and via Dropkick Murphys’ first-ever acoustic, reserved-seating theater tour in 2022.

Dropkick Murphys Okemah Rising band members are: Ken Casey (lead vocals), Tim Brennan (guitars, tin whistle, accordion, piano, vocals), Jeff DaRosa (guitars, banjo, mandolin, vocals), Matt Kelly (drums, percussion, and vocals), James Lynch (guitars and vocals), and Kevin Rheault (bass).

Formed in the South Bay of Los Angeles—a neighborhood with a rich punk-rock history—in 1988, Pennywise went on to amass an international following with their relentless touring and a melodic, high-energy sound fusing classic punk, surf punk, and blistering hardcore. Resolutely working outside the margins of the mainstream, the band–singer Jim Lindberg, guitarist Fletcher Dragge, drummer Byron McMackin, and bassist Randy Bradbury–has emerged as an enduringly vibrant staple on SoCal radio airwaves and the worldwide festival circuit.

For more on Dropkick Murphys, visit:

Website: www.DropkickMurphys.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DropkickMurphys

Instagram: www.instagram.com/dropkickmurphys

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/dropkickmurphys

Twitter: www.twitter.com/DropkickMurphys

YouTube: www.youtube.com/DropkickMurphys

For more info about Pennywise, visit:

Website: www.pennywisdom.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/_pennywise

Facebook: www.facebook.com/pennywise

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pennywise

For more info on The Scratch, visit:

Website: https://thescratch.ie

Instagram: www.instagram.com/thescratchmusic/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheScratchMusic/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thescratchmusic

About Dropkick Murphys: Dropkick Murphys proudly remain Boston’s rock ‘n’ roll underdogs turned champions. Since 1996, the boys have created the kind of music that’s meant to be chanted at last call, in packed arenas, and during the fourth quarter, third period, or ninth inning of a comeback rally. Their celebrated discography includes four consecutive Billboard top 10 album debuts (Turn Up That Dial, 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory, Signed and Sealed in Blood, Going Out In Style), along with 2005’s gold-selling The Warrior’s Code featuring the near double platinum classic “I’m Shipping Up To Boston.” Whether you caught a legendary gig at The Rathskeller (The Rat) under Kenmore Square, found the band by taking the T to Newbury Comics to cop Do Or Die in ’98, discovered them in Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award winning The Departed, or saw ‘em throw down at Coachella (or one of hundreds of other festivals), you’ve become a part of their extended family. Dropkick Murphys’ music has generated half-a-billion streams, they’ve quietly moved 8 million-plus units worldwide and the band has sold out gigs on multiple continents. In 2020, the band was one of the first to embrace streaming performances, starting with their Streaming Up From Boston St. Patrick’s Day virtual performance. It was followed by their landmark Streaming Outta Fenway livestream, which drew more than 5.9 million viewers and held the #3 spot on Pollstar’s “Top 2020 Live Streams” chart. Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day Stream 2021…Still Locked Down, was #1 on Pollstar’s Livestream chart for the week ending March 22, 2021, logging over 1 million views. Dropkick Murphys returned in 2022 with their first-ever all-acoustic album, This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Dummy Luck Music / [PIAS]), and seated theater tour. This Machine Still Kills Fascists–and their follow-up album Okemah Rising–breathe musical life into mostly unpublished lyrics by the legendary Woody Guthrie, curated for the band by Woody’s daughter Nora Guthrie.

About Pennywise: Formed in the South Bay of Los Angeles—a neighborhood with a rich punk-rock history—in 1988, Pennywise went on to amass an international following with their relentless touring and a melodic, high-energy sound fusing classic punk, surf punk, and blistering hardcore. Through the years, Pennywise have solidified their place in punk history with iconic songs like “F*ck Authority,” “Alien,” and “Bro Hymn” (their timeless ode to brotherhood and departed friends). Pennywise have released 11 albums over the last three decades, including: Pennywise (1991), Unknown Road (1993), About Time (1995), Full Circle (1997), Straight Ahead (1999), Land of the Free? (2001), From The Ashes(2003), The Fuse (2005), Reason To Believe (2008), Yesterdays (2014), and Never Gonna Die (2018). Resolutely working outside the margins of the mainstream, the band has emerged as an enduringly vibrant staple on SoCal radio airwaves and the worldwide festival circuit.

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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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M3 2024 Preview

Published

6 days ago

April 21, 2024

Ron

It’s that time again. You know what time … it’s time for Heavy Metal/Big Hair.. and all things 80s. Yes it’s time for another family reunion at M3 2024.

I love this lineup and cant wait to rock out. Saturdays lineup has some of my favorite bands like Queensryche , Stephen Pearcy of Ratt, Quiet Riot and Doro. Sundays lineup is just as amazing with bands like PBF, Faster Pussycat, Stryper and Bret Michael with DEE SNIDER.

Of Course Empire Extreme will be there to give you the hottest news and some interviews at this years M3. If you haven’t bought your ticket go to https://m3rockfest.com/tickets

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DECAPITATED & SEPTICFLESH ANNOUNCE THEIR’CANCER CULTURE OVER NORTH AMERICA 2024′ CO-BILLING TOURWITH KATAKLYSM AS DIRECT SUPPORT & ALLEGAEON

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4 weeks ago

April 2, 2024

Ron

This spring, Death Metal fans will be treated to an epic night of music on the ‘Cancel Culture Over North America 2024‘ tour. Death metal paragons DECAPITATED and Symphonic death metallers SEPTICFLESH are heading on a 30-day co-billing trek with melodic death metal syndicate and labelmates, KATAKLYSM as direct support. The tour will commence on April 16th in Santa Ana and will make stops in Atlanta, Toronto, and Minneapolis before concluding in Los Angeles on May 19th. Joining the bands as openers are technical melodic death metal band ALLEGAEON.

General admission tickets for the tour will go on sale on Monday, January, 29th at 7 AM PST | 10 AM EST.

Confirmed dates for DECAPITATED and SEPTICFLESH co-billing ‘Cancer Culture Over North America 2024‘ tour with direct support KATAKLYSM as well as ALLEGAEONare:
04/16  U.S.   Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory
04/17  U.S.   Mesa, AZ – Nile Theater
04/18  U.S.   Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
04/19  U.S.   Dallas, TX – Granada Theater
04/20  U.S.   Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
04/21  U.S.   Austin, TX – Come and Take it Live
04/23  U.S.   Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
04/24  U.S.   Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Hell)
04/25  U.S.   Greensboro, NC – Hangar 1819
04/26  U.S.   Wilmington, DE – The Queen
04/27  U.S.   Hartford, CT – The Webster
04/28  U.S.   Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
04/29  U.S.   Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall
05/01  CAN   Quebec City, QC – Imperial Bell
05/02  CAN   Montreal, QC – Beanfield Theater
05/03  CAN   Toronto, ON – The Phoenix
05/04  U.S. Pittsburgh, PA – Preserving Underground
05/05  U.S. Fort Wayne, IN – Piere’s Entertainment Center
05/06  U.S. Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
05/07  U.S. Louisville, KY – Headliners Music Hall
05/08  U.S. Joliet, IL – The Forge
05/10  U.S. Minneapolis, MN – Green Room
05/11  CAN   Winnipeg, MB – Park Theater
05/12  CAN   Saskatoon, SK – Louis (USSU)
05/13  CAN   Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room
05/14  CAN   Calgary, AB – The Back Alley
05/16  CAN   Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theater
05/17  U.S. Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
05/18  CAN   San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
05/19  U.S. Los Angeles, CA – 1720

About DECAPITATED
Across eight studio albums, DECAPITATED grew from the adolescent dream of teenagers from a small Central European town to one of the leaders of the metal genre. Each successive album further expands the band’s sound with genre-bending authenticity and integrity. As Metal Injection rightfully observed, “any self-respecting death metalhead knows the name well.” Like a rose in the devil’s garden, the DECAPITATED story builds triumph from tragedy. The gleeful grotesquery of extreme metal imagery and riff-tastic bludgeoning beckons listeners to uncover broader truths.

Their latest studio album Cancer Culture was released in 2022, with instantly recognisable devastation and deceptively sinister hooks abound. Newly minted DECAPITATED anthems like ‘Last Supper’, ‘Hello Death’, ‘Just A Cigarette’, ‘No Cure’, ‘Iconoclast’, and ‘Cancer Culture’ shimmer with sonically sharp production and unrelenting bombast. There’s also a newly increased emphasis on melody, even venturing into darkly romantic territory. Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka (guitar), Rafał “Rasta” Piotrowski (vocals), Paweł Pasek (bass), and James Stewart (drums) are at the top of their game, delivering the goods at peak performance. Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk and Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn make impressive guest appearances. Flynn contributes a hauntingly beautiful vocal to the Cancer Culture track ‘Iconoclast’, with Shmayluk, a formidable screamer, going the clean vocal route on track ‘Hello Death.

Decapitated are:
Waclaw ‘Vogg’ Kieltyka – guitars
Rafał “Rasta” Piotrowski – vocals
James Stewart – drums
Paweł Pasek – bass (live)

More information:
www.decapitatedband.net
www.facebook.com/decapitated
www.instagram.com/decapitatedband
www.twitter.com/decapitated

About SEPTICFLESH
SEPTICFLESH was formed as ‘Septic Flesh’ in Greece in the early ’90s by Spyridon Antoniou (a.k.a. Seth Siro Anton): vocals/bass, Christos Antoniou: guitar and Sotirios Vagenas (a.k.a. Sotiris Anunnaki V.): guitar/ clean vocals. A debut EP was released in 1991, entitled Temple of The Lost Race. Their first full-length album Mystic Places of Dawn was released in 1994, followed by EΣΟΠΤΡΟΝ that was released in 1995. With the release of Ophidian Wheel in 1997, a female soprano vocalist (Natalie Rassoulis) was introduced, as the band moved towards a more symphonic style. A Fallen Temple (1998) continued in the same musical direction. In 1999, Revolution DNA was released, followed by Sumerian Daemons in 2003, both albums produced by Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Opeth, In Flames). Although the band’s popularity was growing, the band members decided to disband, in order to focus on other personal projects and goals. But that was not the end of the story… After a reunion, the band returned with the album Communion in 2008, again with Fredrik Nordström at the helm of production. From that point onwards, the symphonic element (composed by Christos Antoniou, who has a Master’s Degree in Concert Music) was fully implemented in the structure of the songs, with the collaboration of Filmharmonic Orchestra of Prague. The Great Mass (2011) followed with Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy, Pain) producing, Titan (2014) with Logan Mader (ex-Machine Head) as producer and Codex Omega (2017) which started the group’s collaboration with Jens Bogren that continues to the very day. In 2020, the recording of the epic and fully orchestrated Live in Mexico entitled Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX was released on CD/LP/DVD/Blu-Ray.

SEPTICFLESH is:
Seth Siro Anton | Vocals, Bass
Christos Antoniou | Guitar, Orchestra
Sotiris Anunnaki V | Clean Vocals, Guitar, 12 String Guitar
Psychon | Guitar
Kerim ‘Krimh’ Lechner | Drums

More information:
https://www.septicflesh.com/
https://www.facebook.com/septicfleshband
https://www.instagram.com/septicflesh_band/
https://twitter.com/septicfleshband

About KATAKLYSM
For almost three decades, KATAKLYSM has delivered unapologetic waves of powerful sound across the entire globe.

The band’s fifteenth full-length studio album, Goliath, was released last August. The record was recorded at JFD Studios in Dallas, TX and Studio City, CA as well as The Cabin in Orlando, FL by J-F Dagenais, who also produced and engineered the album. For the mixing and mastering, the band returned to Chris Clancy with assistance from Colin Richardson. The cover artwork required an image that captured the iconic battle of David versus Goliath theme that is echoed throughout the album while matching the power of the music. The band enlisted renowned Berlin metal illustrator Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE) to create the artwork which took the KATAKLYSM look and gave it a macabre filter that compliments the brooding sense of uneasiness that was felt during the writing and recording of the album.KATAKLYSM is:
Maurizio Iacono | Vocals
Jean-François Dagenais | Guitar
Stephane Barbe | Bass
James Payne | Drums

More information:
www.facebook.com/kataklysm
twitter.com/kataklysmband
www.instagram.com/kataklysmband
www.youtube.com/kataklysm
www.kataklysm.ca

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ZOMBI RELEASE “BODIES IN THE FLOTSAM”

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2 months ago

February 20, 2024

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ZOMBI RELEASE “BODIES IN THE FLOTSAM” IN SECOND PREVIEW OF FORTHCOMING ALBUM: INJECT (MARCH 22, RELAPSE RECORDS)PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE

Feb. 20, 2024 – Zombi, who recently announced the March 22 release of their new album, Direct Inject (Relapse Records), have shared a second song from the album: “Bodies in the Flotsam.”
“To me, this song feels like ‘classic Zombi,’ something we’d have written back in the early ‘00s,” Steve Moore says of the 3-minute track. “Lean and mean – just drums, eight-string bass and synth. Nothing programmed or sequenced.”
The band previously released “The Post-Atomic Horror” (https://orcd.co/zombi-directinject), a song Revolver noted for having a heavier feel than some of the past work from Steve Moore and AE Paterra, saying, “The duo’s sound has always floated somewhere between space-rock, prog, doom-metal and ‘70s film score eeriness… but the new album’s first single, ‘The Post-Atomic Horror,” has a serious metal through line in it.”
Direct Inject, which was self-produced by Moore and Paterra, also features guest percussionist Jeff Gretz (Zao/From Autumn To Ashes), and guitar player Phil Manley (Trans Am).
“In 2022, after our tour with The Sword, we posted up in our friend’s studio in Clearfield, PA for a week of diner breakfasts and gas station BBQ,” Moore explained upon the album announcement. “We would record every day and improvise until we found ideas we liked. We then took these ideas back home to Albany and Chicago to give them structure. A few months later, after our tour with Om, AEP went back to Clearfield to record final drum tracks. Everything else was recorded at my home studio. The only exceptions are ‘Sessuale I’ and ‘Sessuale II,’ which were both written in the early ‘00s but never officially released.”
Album pre-orders are available now, with Direct Inject available on several limited-edition vinyl variants, CD, and digitally (https://www.relapse.com/pages/zombi-direct-inject).
Zombi tour dates:
April 4 Louisville, KY Whirling TigerApril 5 Chicago, IL Schubas TavernApril 6 Detroit, MI Sanctuary DetroitApril 7 Toronto, ON The Velvet UndergroundApril 8 Montreal, QC La SottereneaApril 9 Boston, MA The Middle East UpstairsApril 10 Brooklyn, NY Saint VitusApril 11 Philadelphia, PA Underground ArtsApril 12 Baltimore, MD Metro GalleryApril 13 Pittsburgh, PA Certain Death II
Tickets for all dates are on-sale now; Overcalc opens on all dates.

Zombi is Steve Moore (synth/bass/guitar) and AE Paterra (drums/percussion/electronics). Formed in 2001, the Pittsburgh-founded, instrumental duo have released seven full-length albums including their most recent offering, 2020’s 2020 and the 2022 covers collection, Zombi & Friends, Vol.1,which saw the pair cover songs from Neil Diamond, Dionne Warwick and the Alan Parsons Project. Known for their distinctive style, which blends prog rock, electronics and an affinity for ‘70s and ‘80s era horror films, Zombi create music that’s both retrospective and futuristic, expansive, and intimate. Each release has seen the band refine and evolve its sound, exploring different textures and moods while staying true to their core aesthetic.
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