STARKILL RELEASES CHRISTMAS COVER SONG "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU"
Starkill have released a cover song in time of the holiday season, for a holiday song titled "All I Want For Christmas Is You". Check it right HERE.
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MOONSPELL to Return to North America This Winter
MOONSPELL is pleased to announce that they will be returning to North America sharing the stage with Symphonic Metal legends Epica. The tour starts January 21st in New York, NY and wraps up with an appearance on the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise. A list of all dates can be found below.
MOONSPELL frontman Fernando Ribeiro commented on the upcoming tour:
"We are thrilled to return the US, alongside our friends in Epica. This will be our first tour of the year so we will for sure celebrate with our American and Canadian fans. It is a real honor to share the stage with Epica. We will be sure to haunt this tour with our absolute Portuguese darkness. Under the spell!"
TOUR DATES:
1/21: New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
1/22: Toronto, ON @ Opera House
1/23: Quebec City, QC @ Imperial Theater
1/25: Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
1/26: Louisville, KY @ Diamond Pub Music Hall
1/28: Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
1/29: Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall
1/30: St. Louis, MO @ Ready Room
2/1: Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theater
2/2: Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
2/3: Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
2/4 - 2/8: 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise
Sepultura Announces 30th Anniversary Tour
Sepultura will be hitting the road on a 30th Anniversary tour presented by Metal Injection. Joining them will be Destruction, Arsis, Boris the Blade, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Starkill, and MICAWBER. Check out where from the list of dates below.
TOUR DATES:
5/10 - Phoenix, AZ - Joe's Grotto
5/11 - West Hollywood, CA - The Whisky
5/12 - Sacramento, CA - Ace of Spades
5/13 - Portland, OR - Bossonova Ballroom
5/14 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
5/15 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theater
5/16 - Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
5/17 - Billings, MT - Pub Station
5/19 - Winnipeg, MB - Zoo Cabaret
5/20 - Minneapolis, MN - The Amsterdam
5/21 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
5/22 - Chicago, IL - Reggie’s
5/23 - Louisville, KY - Expo Five
5/24 - Kokomo, IN - Centerstage Bar & Grill
5/26 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme
5/28 - Toronto, ON - Opera House
5/29 - Montreal, QC - Club Soda
5/30 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
5/31 - Manchester, NH - Jewel Nightclub
6/01 - Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
6/02 - Norfolk, VA - The NorVa
6/03 - Jacksonville, NC - Hooligans Music Hall
6/04 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
6/05 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
6/06 - New Orleans, LA - Publiq House
6/07 - Houston, TX - BFE Rock Club
6/08 - Fort Worth, TX - The Rail Club
6/10 - Austin, TX - Empire Garage
6/11 - McAllen, TX - Cine El Rey
6/12 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
6/13 - Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall
6/14 - Grand Junction, CO - Mesa Theater
ARCH ENEMY Announces New Tour
ARCH ENEMY will also make their much-anticipated return to North American soil this October/November! Featuring KREATOR, HUNTRESS, and STARKILL as support, this headlining trek will be the band's first tour in the States since 2011-- and the first US tour to feature new members Alissa White-Gluz (vocals) and Nick Cordle (guitar)!
ARCH ENEMY's Michael Amott (guitar) comments: "It's been three long years since ARCH ENEMY last played North America, but now the wait is over! We're riding a veritable metal tsunami in Europe with our new album 'War Eternal' and look forward to spreading the chaos on this N.A. run! ARCH ENEMY is very proud and excited to be teaming up with Teutonic thrash titans KREATOR as well as HUNTRESS and STARKILL! Miss this show at your own peril!"
KREATOR's Mille Petrozza (vocals, guitar) adds: "Both bands have been talking about touring together for many years, now it becomes reality: KREATOR and ARCH ENEMY on one bill in the USA and Canada! We are looking forward to another killer run in support of our album 'Phantom Antichrist' before we will start writing new stuff in 2015! With ARCH ENEMY's new album 'War Eternal' being a monster, this will be THE metal tour of the fall. Don`t miss it!"
See below for all upcoming dates. VIP tickets for the North American tour are now available HERE.
TOUR DATES:
23.10.2104 - Baltimore Soundstage - Baltimore, MD
24.10.2104 - Best Buy Theater - New York, NY *
25.10.2104 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
26.10.2104 - Upstate Concert Hall - Clifton Park, NY
27.10.2104 - Metropolis - Montreal, QC
28.10.2104 - Imperial Theater - Quebec City, QC
29.10.2014 - The Opera House - Toronto, ON
1.11.2014 - The Garrick Centre - Winnipeg, MB *
2.11.2014 - Riddell Centre - Regina, SK *
3.11.2014 - Macewan Hall Ballroom - Calgary, AB *
4.11.2014 - Union Hall - Edmonton, AB *
6.11.2014 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC *
7.11.2014 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA *
8.11.2014 - Hawthorne Theater - Portland, OR *
10.11.2014 - Regency Center - San Francisco, CA
11.11.2014 - House of Blues - West Hollywood, CA
12.11.2014 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA
14.11.2014 - The Marquee - Tempe, AZ
15.11.2014 - Sunshine Theater - Albuquerque, NM *
16.11.2014 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
18.11.2014 - Mill City Nights - Minneapolis, MN *
19.11.2014 - Mojoes - Joliet, IL
20.11.2014 - The Intersection - Grand Rapids, MI
21.11.2014 - Majestic Theatre - Detroit, MI
22.11.2014 - Bogarts - Cincinnati, OH
23.11.2014 - House of Blues - Cleveland, OH
*=without STARKILL
StarKill Releases "Sword, Spear, Blood, Fire" Video
Starkill have released a new video for "Sword, Spear, Blood Fire". Singer/Guitarist Parker Jameson comments:
"Check our new video for Sword, Spear, Blood, Fire. We thought it'd be cool to release this video now, in April of 2014, to commemorate the one year anniversary of Fires of Life being released.
Additionally, we are excited to announce that we will be entering Electrowerks Studio with producer, Chuck Macak (Oceano, letlive) this May to begin recording the next Starkill album. With most of the pre-production already done, we can say that this new material is our darkest and strongest to date. We've really found and nailed our signature style on this album. We can't wait to share it with the world. In the meantime, enjoy the new video, and keep an eye out for new updates!"
Check out the video HERE.
STARKILL ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
Chicago based Starkill (formerly Massakren) will be hitting the road next month in support of new album "Fires of Life," released earlier this year on Century Media Records (check out our review here).
Founding member Parker Jameson had this to say about the upcoming tour: "We're incredibly honored and excited to be touring North America with Wintersun, Fleshgod Apocalypse, and Arsis. As fans of--and having been inspired by--all of these bands, we're glad to be part of the lineup and can't wait to share the stage with these guys."
TOUR DATES:
8/6/2013 The Fillmore Silver Spring MD
8/7/2013 Theater of Living Arts Philadelphia PA
8/8/2013 Irving Plaza New York NY
8/9/2013 The Sinclair Boston MA
8/11/2013 The Opera House Toronto ON
8/13/2013 Bogart's Cincinnati OH
8/14/2013 House of Blues Cleveland OH
8/15/2013 House of Blues Chicago IL
8/16/2016 St. Andrews Hall Detroit MI
8/17/2013 Station 4 Saint Paul MN
8/18/2013 Park Theatre Winnipeg MB
8/19/2013 Riddell Center Regina SK
8/20/2013 The Starlite Room Edmonton AB
8/21/2013 Rickshaw Theater Vancover BC
8/23/2013 Studio Seven Seattle WA
8/24/2013 Hawthorne Theatrer Portland OR
8/25/2013 DNA Lounge San Francisco CA
8/26/2013 House of Blues West Hollywood CA
8/27/2013 House of Blues Anaheim CA
8/28/2013 House of Blues San Diego CA
8/29/2013 Joe's Grotto Tempe AZ
8/31/2013 House of Blues Dallas TX
9/1/2013 House of Blues Houston TX
9/3/2013 Revolution Fort Lauderdale FL
9/4/2013 House of Blues Orlando FL
9/5/2013 The Masquerade Atlanta GA
9/6/2013 The Fillmore Charlotte NC
Starkill's Fiery Blood Talk with Parker Jameson
STARKILL was formed at the tail end of 2008 by Parker
Jameson, Spencer Weidner and Charlie Federici. The band makes no qualms about
wearing their influences on their sleeves. They combine what they love —
melodic death metal, shredding guitars, blasting drum beats and the epic sounds
of modern film scores — and make some of the most promising metal music heard
this side of the Atlantic in years. The main ringer leader of these guys,
Parker Jameson, lead guitarist, vocals, keyboards, orchestral programmer, took some
time to talk about the debut as well as other plans these guys have gotten
lined-up!
1. Introduce yourself, tell me what you do in Starkill, and
how long the band has been together.
Parker: My name is Parker Jameson I am the lead guitar
player and singer for Starkill, I write a majority of the songs and I also do a
lot of the instrumental keyboarding stuff. Me and the drummer and the other
guitar player have been playing music together for 4 and a half years now,
while being in other projects as of December 2012 before getting signed onto
Century Media Records.
2. How did you guys come up with your band name?
Parker: After going through about 8 million of them having 3
people who don't sync 100% we want something different we didn't want the
aspects of a typical black metal or death metal band, we do use a lot of black,
death, and power metal aspects, but what we wanted to do was, we wanted to mix
it up and settled on something pretty good.
3. You guys are signed with Century Media Records, how did
you get signed with them and are you happy with the results?
Parker: We had been touring on our past name having had an
EP out, we just had a growing online presents, two music videos, and other
interviews, and they had picked up on that and then in late 2011 we received a
phone call and emails then put it altogether with them come December 2012. They
are one of our dream labels and we're definitely happy with them, some of our
biggest influences have been on their label so it's been pretty cool.
4. What bands have influenced your band and its sound?
Parker: For the earlier stages of these songs a lot of them are
a couple of years old, the earlier Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Nightwish,
Amon Amarth one of their live DVDs really amazed us so a lot of that stuff really.
5. What lyrical theme do you guys use in your music? What
message do you want to send?
Parker: Most of our songs are stories within themselves,
it's not a concept album, and I really don't like those self boosting lyrics
it's all about battles and killing people, it's like mixing The Lord of the
Rings, or epic movies like that to a musical element. When listening to the
lyrics we wanted it to be that cinema effect, so the lyrics themselves, there's
mythology, satanic, whatever the song calls for really.
6. What inspired the Fires Of Life title?
Parker: When we
entered the studio we had 9 out of the 10 songs written and all of the lyrics
were done except for Fires Of Life which didn't have a title of the lyrics for
it. So most of the songs has that epic peek of power, courage, perfection, so
the title has to have that climax force, we thought that would work. We're not
serious about the meanings of the lyrics, we do take some of them seriously but
there are means to happen behind the vocals on a record.
7. Who produced Fires Of Life and what was it like working
with them?
Parker: I was the main producer and Spencer and Charlie were
there on the bulk of it. Not to sound self absorbed but we knew what we wanted
on the record, I know a lot of bands say this, but we had these songs for a
while and sat back and wanted it to be us, we didn't want the sound to be
different, we wanted to do it all ourselves and from what people have said the feedback
has been great.
8. Who did the cover art for Fires Of Life and how much
input did you have on it?
Parker: Joshua Belanger he's an artist whose' done tees and
poster art and checked out his style, he had a comic book flare going on, so we
had a few email exchanges, explaining what we wanted, and we wanted a guy with
long hair, on top of a mountain with a sword sucking in all of the power of the
universe so he got it immediately. Also look at every Amon Amarth album it has
some epic graphic on it, so that's what we wanted to do because our styles and
lyrics are so similar.
9. What are your expectations for the CD?
Parker: Mainly to propel us as a band, just go out and tour,
we don't know what to expect. Our first appearance and since we're a younger
band we just wanted to get out there and see what happens, just go out there
and tour that's really all we want to do right now.
10. What can the fans expect to see from you in the future?
Parker: Touring, touring, touring, working on our second
album, writing new material, release another music video, just wanting to get
out on the road and tour, if we could play 365 days in the year we would so do
it. So just tour, tour, tour!
11. Anything else you'd like to say to your fans?
Parker: Just catch us on tour, we're pretty chill we like to
talk with everyone after the shows and keep frequent updates on the social
networks and stuff so come check us out!