SUFFOCATION
SUFFOCATION
25th April - Valhalla, Wellington
26th April - Loons, Christchurch
27th April - Galatos, Auckland
New York death metal legends SUFFOCATION unleash their ninth full-length album, Hymns from the Apocrypha, via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to ...of the Dark Light (2017) pushes founder Terrance Hobbs (guitars), Derek Boyer (bass), Charles Errigo (guitars), Eric Morotti (drums), and newcomer Ricky Myers (vocals) to the very edges of extremity and is arguably the group's strongest-sounding, most sonically punishing album yet. SUFFOCATION have achieved death metal perfection.
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THE OCEAN
THE OCEAN
31 May - Galatos, Auckland
01 June - San Fran, Wellington
Acclaimed post-metal band THE OCEAN return to Aotearoa this winter to wow audiences. Coalescing around a shared vision of limitless sonic exploration and heaviness, The Ocean is a group of artists that has released 10 studio albums in different constellations for over 20 years. 2023 saw the release of the band’s ninth album Holocene - the heavily conceptual collective’s most exploratory and varied release yet - and the conclusion of the paleontological era they began with 2018’s Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic and continued with 2020’s Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic. Having flirted more with extreme metal influences on these records than ever before, the arrival of Holocene saw the band - lead by guitarist and mastermind Robin Staps - forge a new path into a world of looped electronics and more subtle melodic experimentation while philosophically reflecting on humanity as always, this time on the nascent realities of a post-pandemic world.
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THE DEAR HUNTER
THE DEAR HUNTER AOTEAROA
June 3 – Meow, Wellington
June 4 – Mothership, Auckland
THE DEAR HUNTER will perform in New Zealand for the first time, playing a career spanning headline set at shows in Wellington and Auckland.
Known for charismatic frontman Casey Crescenzo’s series of concept records and forays into prog, rock, folk and everything in between, they have built an ardent following worldwide.
Anachronistic and timeless in equal measure, the narrative of The Dear Hunter existed in both the past and the present, its detailed plot standing simultaneously as an age-old and new age fable. As that tale progressed, so did Crescenzo’s art, his experimental compositions blurring the line between different genres to create a sound that was – and still is – unique to the band.
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EYEHATEGOD
EYEHATEGOD
July 30th – Wellington, Valhalla
July 31st – Auckland, Mothership
EYEHATEGOD have become the high water mark when it comes to so called sludge metal, having birthed rock's unholy bastards and inspiring multiple others with their combined sounds of southern rock, blues riffs and hardcore punk. Noting Black Flag, The Melvins and Black Sabbath as a domineering and significant influence to their sound today, they are the cornerstone for countless other sonic acolytes following in their fetid footsteps and have made themselves one of the most reputable and distinctive bands ever.
EYEHATEGOD’s latest album ‘A History of Nomadic Behavior’ and their most recent since their last Australian tour in 2019, is a blowtorch-distortion and blues-saturated combination of songs pierced with scarring pain and disconsolate fury. The album combines an unsettling, chaotic tone with a scathing, scabrous slab of cacophonous sensory overload that only EYEHATEGOD know how to convey.
ON SALE Thursday 7th March 9am
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FULL OF HELL and THOU
FULL OF HELL and THOU
Fri 23 Aug - Rolling Stone, Christchurch
Sat 24 Aug - Meow, Wellington
Sun 25 Aug - Galatos, Auckland
Ocean City, Maryland, Death grind outfit Full of Hell will make their long awaited Aotearoa debut this August along with Baton Rouge sludge / doom greats Thou.
Full of Hell have just announced an upcoming album, Coagulated Bliss due out on April 26th through Closed Casket Activities. This will be album number 6 for the band, following up from 2021’s Garden of Burning Apparitions. Since then they have released several EPs and splits collaborating with artists including Primitive Man, Gasp and Nothing.
This will be Thou’s first trip to the region showcasing their iconic sound often labelled as experimental doom, sludge metal and stoner metal. They have an extensive and varied discography including 5 full-length albums Tyrant, Peasant, Summit, Heathen and Magus. They have released several EPs, including a collection of Black Sabbath covers, Through the Empires of Eternal Void and splits/collaborations with bands such as Kowloon Walled City, Leech, Emma Ruth Rundle, The Body and Hell.
ON SALE Friday 22nd March 9am
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ORANGE GOBLIN
ORANGE GOBLIN
April 15th - Mothership, Auckland
April 16th - A Rolling Stone, Christchurch
April 17th - Valhalla, Wellington
Cut from the same beer-stained cloth as the greats, UK stoner rock metal act ORANGE GOBLIN are still riding high and leading the pack in 'balls to the wall' heavy metal thunder. Emerging amid the exhilarating melee of the mid-‘90s stoner rock and doom explosion, ORANGE GOBLIN immediately endeared themselves to a generation of metal fans by simply going for it at full, beer-swilling pelt and some twenty five plus years later, nothing has changed!
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CARCASS with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
CARCASS with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
April 10th - Wellington, Meow
April 11th - Christchurch, Loons
April 12th - Auckland, Galatos
Ferocious and uncompromising in their execution, CARCASS’s ability to intricately dissect the innards of death metal, and display them for us to sonically understand has been their point of excellence for well over three decades. Whether it was inventing gore-grind or creating the template for melodic death metal, CARCASS has always made records by which bars were set and rules were broken.
Since 2001, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER have created a musical brute that embraces all the finest qualities of melodic death metal yet does not shackle them, giving them room to constantly evolve and grow. Consistently punishing with a searing visceral intensity, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER continue to inflict a cavalcade of riffs to the table, upping the stakes in technicality, melody, and sheer blunt force trauma.
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GATECREEPER
GATECREEPER
2nd April - Whammy, Auckalnd
“Writing catchy songs has always been the goal for Gatecreeper. It’s all about the riffs.” Gatecreeper vocalist and co-songwriter Chase H. Mason doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to discussing his band’s modus operandi. For a genre in which many closed-minded zealots see catchiness as a dirty word, Gatecreeper go hard against the grain of the old school death metal revival. Mason explains. “We wanted big hooks and catchy leads while still being extreme and aggressive.”
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Angelus Apatrida
Angelus Apatrida
Thu, 29th Feb - A Rolling Stone, Chc
Fri, 1st Mar -MOON, Wellington
Sat, 2nd Mar - Whammy Bar, Auckland
Spains most highly successful thrash metal act Angelus Apatrida will grace our shores for the first time! Signed to Century Media Records with no need to regain momentum, Angelus Apatrida are more ready than most to let rip in 2024. Their new record Aftermath marks a pinnacle in this band’s determined and always fruitful career. It’s a defiant, uplifting and resolutely metal-as-fuck response to an era defined by chaos and fear. It’s the sound of Angelus Apatrida, doing what they do, but bigger, better, louder and with more passion than ever.
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RUSSIAN CIRCLES
RUSSIAN CIRCLES
Wed Jan 31 – Tuning Fork, Auckland
Thu Feb 1 – San Fran, Wellington
Fri Feb 2 – A Rolling Stone, Christchurch
Underground legends RUSSIAN CIRCLES have announced their return to New Zealand after 9 years, touring in support of their new album GNOSIS.
Known for their combination of epic walls of sound with technical dexterity and driving rhythms, their intense compositions have earned them a loyal cult following that has seen them tour extensively worldwide since forming in the windy city of Chicago in 2004.
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OBITUARY
OBITUARY
Jan 5th - Auckland, Galatos
Jan 6th - Christchurch, Loons
Jan 7th - Wellington, San Fran
OBITUARY remains to this very day as one of the most influential and groundbreaking bands in the death metal genre, one which they helped to create. Combining hyper-speed guitar riffing, complex arrangements and guttural screams, the band created a bleak and violent soundscape all of their own. After more than 35 years in the pit, OBITUARY continues to peak and dominate the genre worldwide. That’s a given and proven fact!
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QUICKSAND
QUICKSAND
Thu 14/12 - Loon, Christchurch
Fri 16/12 - Meow, Wellington
Sat 16/12 - Mothership, Auckland
Quicksand are coming to take Australasia on an aggressively thought-provoking look at the last 30 years. Their passionate performances and timeless music are sure to captivate both longtime fans and new listeners alike, reaffirming their influential position in the history of rock music.
You won’t want to miss this.
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BEHEMOTH
BEHEMOTH
24th November
Powerstation Auckland
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LITURGY
LITURGY
22nd November
Whammy, Auckland
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DANCE GAVIN DANCE
DANCE GAVIN DANCE
21st November
Powerstation - Auckland
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