[The Dillinger Escape Plan]
Today you, lucky viewer, get not just one, but two new videos! The Dillinger Escape Plan have just unveiled the latest from Ire Works, "Black Bubblegum." As much as we love to calculate infinity, writing pop songs this good isn't easy either (not to mention the balls this must have taken).
The Dillinger Escape Plan - "Black Bubblegum":
Blacklisted, who recently released Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier Than God on Deathwish, have released the video for "I Am Weighing Me Down," and in widescreen no less!
Blacklisted - "I Am Weighing Me Down":
DEP will be hitting the European roads next month, while Blacklisted finish a US tour before going to Canada and Australia. Dates after the jump.
The Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah, Between the Buried and Me - 2008 European Dates:June 17 Stuttgart, Germany Rohre
Blacklisted - 2008 Dates:
June 18 Aschaffenburg, Germany Roxy
June 20 Brussels, Belgium VK
June 21 Tilburg, Holland 13
June 22 Clisson, France Hellfest
June 24 Winterthur, Switzerland Salzhau
June 25 Prague, Czech Republic Roxy
June 27 Lindau, Germany Club Vaudeville
June 30 Bolzano, Italy Palasport May 29 Franklinville Skate Center Franklinville, New Jersey
May 30 Fuel Jacksonville, Florida
May 31 Klein Dance Center Lake Worth, Florida
Jun 1 Transitions at Skate Park of Tampa Tampa, Florida
Jun 5 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jun 8 Knitting Factory New York, New York
Jun 13 Club Polski Syracuse, New York
Jun 14 tba Amherst, Massachusetts
Jun 15 Club Lambi Montreal, Quebec
Jun 16 L’Anti Quebec City, Quebec
Jun 17 tba Ottawa, Ontario
Jun 18 tba Hamilton, Ontario
Jun 19 Reverb Toronto, Ontario
Jun 20 tba Windsor, Ontario
Jun 21 The Embassy London, Ontario
Jun 22 Forward Hall Erie, Pennsylvania
Jul 2 HQ Perth, Western Australia
Jul 3 Amplifier Perth, Western Australia
Jul 4 The Underground, Adelaide
Jul 5 Arthouse, Melbourne
Jul 6 The Castle, Melbourne
Jul 9 Princess Theatre, Brisbane
Jul 10 Byron High, School Byron Bay
Jul 11 *Hardcore 2008 @ Manning Bar Sydney
Jul 12 *Hardcore 2008 @ Roundhouse Sydney
May 22, 2008
New Videos - The Dillinger Escape Plan, Blacklisted
May 15, 2008
Crustcake Picks - NYC Shows 5/15 - 5/21
by crustcake gerf (NYC)
It's being reported that Saturday's Torche/Sword show is already sold out. A bummer if you didn't get tickets in advance, but a boon for the bands, especially Torche who deserve all the recognition and support in the world after the masterstroke that was Meanderthal. The show will be opened by Priestbird (read our interview) spin-off Lapdog of Satan.
One show (or rather, two) that you can still grab tickets for is the Progressive Nation double-header at Terminal 5 next week. In addition to headliners and creators Dream Theater, the tour features Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, and 3.
And now, a special announcement from crustcake hip-hop dilettante Scott Roc:
Come Saturday I'll be knocking back tacos and beers with friends out in the desert, but if I was in New York I'd go see Yo Majesty at South Paw. The Miami booty bass group has been blogged about pretty extensively, so I won't go into it much here other than to say you don't have many opportunities to see a group of lesbians rock a show topless ("Your boy 50 Cent does his show with his shirt off. Why can't I?" - JWL B of Yo Majesty), rapping about kryptonite pussy over the kind of beats the famously misogynistic 2 Live Crew used.Download: Yo Majesty "Club Action" [MP3]
Download: Yo Majesty "Kryptonite Pussy" [MP3]
Upcoming show details and ticket info after the jump.
NYC show picks 5/15 - 5/21:
Saturday 5/17 - The Sword, Torche, Stinking Lizaveta, Lapdog of Satan @ Music Hall of Williamsburg [sold out]Continue Reading...
Saturday 5/17 - Yo Majesty, Does It Offend You, Yeah? @ South Paw [tix]
Wednesday 5/21 - Dream Theater, Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, 3 @ Terminal 5 [tix]
Thursday 5/22 - Dream Theater, Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, 3 @ Terminal 5 [tix]
May 9, 2008
Live in NYC? Want to see Opeth for free?
Wake up New Yahkahs-- right now, Brooklyn Vegan is giving away a pair of tickets to see Opeth, Between the Buried and Me, 3, and Dream Theater at Terminal 5 later this month. Head over and enter to win before they get snatched up!
If you don't win, not to worry; tickets are still on sale.
Opeth - "Porcelain Heart":
May 1, 2008
Crustcake Picks - LA Shows 5/1 - 5/7
by beatmasterspeech (LA)
This happens every year, at least according to my not-so-good short term memory. Coachella comes around, and with it all metal shows disappear or go into hiding for like a week. It's as if the influx of hipsters into the so-cal area freaks the metal promoters out so much that they've become accustomed to laying low during the late April / early May concert season. That or it's just too damn expensive to be on the road right now with the cost of gas and shit.
BUT, there is one cool show to keep us sane during these turbulent times. The Progressive Nation 2008 Tour!!! YeePee. Sweep arpeggios, odd time signatures, concept albums, music for musicians, shredders!!! Yay! Alright, let me lay off the sarcasm a bit.
Us crustcake guys pretty much met over a conversation discussing Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory, so I'm a closet fan. I haven't followed the band since then, but the line up for this tour should seal the deal even for the non Dream Theater believers. 3, Between The Buried And Me, and, wait for it... wait for it... OPETH!
Fuck yeah, the highlight. I’ve have always been an Opeth fan and I will wave that flag proudly. I'm so excited for the new record, everything I've heard so far has been beyond my expectations. So fucking Friday, be there at the Gibson Amphitheater in dreaded Universal City for epic long songs with epic story lines and epic chord progressions and epic beer prices. And OPETH.
Bye.
LA show picks 5/1 - 5/7:
Friday 5/2 - Dream Theater, Opeth, Between The Buried And Me, 3 @ Gibson Amphitheater [tix]Opeth - "Porcelain Heart":
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April 4, 2008
Flick Friday - Between the Buried and Me, Lair of the Minotaur, Keep of Kalessin
by crustcake gerf (NYC)
The folks at MetalInjection just posted some interview and performance footage from last November's Saints and Sinners festival, including this great feature on Between the Buried and Me.
Between the Buried and Me - Interview and Live Footage:
Buy: Between the Buried and Me - Colors [Amazon]
Lair of the Minotaur have really upped the ante with their very NSFW new video for "War Metal Battle Master." MetalSucks' Vince Neilstein sums it up:
I mean for fuck’s sake, the video features men in armor pulverizing each other with enormous swords and other assorted medieval weaponry, blood spewing from decapitated torsos, and naked chicks eating flesh off of severed legs and dead bodies.Lair of the Minotaur - "War Metal Battle Master" (NSFW):
Download: Lair of the Minotaur - "Horde of Undead Vengeance" [MP3]
Buy: Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master [Amazon]
We love Black Metal (the fake commercial kind, anyway-- we leave the legit stuff to Black Metal Jim) and in our opinion corpse paint really adds to the, um, 'evilness' of the whole live experience. But the intro sequence to this video for Keep of Kalessin's "Crown of the Kings" ruins the magick (see what we did there?) a bit. It's like watching a warrior suit up for battle; suddenly he starts to put on eyeliner? Maybe that should be done off camera? We'd rather just assume the band was so evil that they actually wake up with black eye sockets. But hey, Keep of Kalessin recently got added to the Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir tour, so they must be doing something right in the makeup department.
Keep of Kalessin - "Crown of the Kings":
Buy: Keep of Kalessin - Armada [Amazon]
This clip has been floating around for a bit, but it's amusing enough to post here for those of you who may have missed it. It's just too bad it's air, and not actually death metal that gets this little pup all riled up. Thanks to NiNjASLiCE for this one!
Death Metal Puppy:
Any of you metalheads know what song that is? First person to email crustcakecontests@gmail.com with the correct answer gets a copy of The Sword's brand new hunk o' metal, Gods of the Earth.
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December 6, 2007
Crustcake Picks - LA Shows 12/6 - 12/12
Typically this time a year it seems most bands head towards home for the holidays. Luckily, it looks like we have some dedicated road dogs stickin’ to it for ole St. Nick!
Thursday 12/6 - Cut Chemist @ Silent Movie Theatre, Hollywood
Saturday 12/8 - Between the Buried & Me, Behold... the Arctopus @ The Knitting Factory, Hollywood
Sunday 12/9 - KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas feat. Muse, Feist, Silversun Pickups, Spoon, The Shins, Modest Mouse @ The Gibson Amphitheatre
Sunday 12/9 - Prefuse 73 @ The Troubadour
Monday 12/10 - Tool @ The Nokia Theater
Wednesday 12/12 - Despised Icon, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza @ The Knitting Factory, Hollywood
[MP3] Tool - Live In Denver 7/21/2002 Continue Reading...
November 7, 2007
Between the Buried & Me - Live @ Blender Theater w/ HORSE the Band, Animosity, Giant [10/31/07]
Halloween in New York City is quite an experience, and a show on Halloween is no exception.
The first band up was Giant from North Carolina. Giant is serious business; no costumes here, just a powerful, epic, crushing wall of sound in the vein of Isis or Pelican. I was enjoying it, but after a few songs, the crowd began to get antsy (maybe their costumes were already getting itchy?).
They started shouting, "Next!" and "You suck!" Giant certainly didn't suck nor did they hog the stage. I think the two tough guys in the crowd dressed like gigantic boobs were getting impatient and started the heckling (you can't please that kind of guy unless you're a girl with huge boobs). 
Next, Animosity "Bobble Head Edition 2008" almost tore the room in half. Intense and pummeling, there were no complaints from the crowd here. They started chanting "one more set" at the end, and that's pretty impressive for an opening band. 
[HORSE the Band]
Whatever your feelings are on HORSE the Band (that keyboard can really get up my ass), they should be commended for showmanship. Dressing like Disney characters and decorating the stage with a giant inflatable turkey and horse and carriage, the singer-- in a revealing "Little Mermaid" outfit-- danced the Hukilau to their songs. And more amusing than the keyboardist's typically violent head-banging was his violent head-banging while tripping over the flowing evening gown he was wearing. 
[Between the Buried & Me]
Then the headliners. I've seen Between the Buried & Me a number of times now and I have never been disappointed. I wasn't 
the least bit surprised to see them headlining a tour since they're impressively skilled musicians. I was looking forward to them having the freedom of a headlining slot where they could play what they felt like (or hopefully what I felt like: a half hour version of "Selkies: The Endless Obsession" from their 2005 release Alaska.
They played their entire new album Colors and I got my "Selkies" as an encore. Honestly I probably could have sat there for another hour just listening. Fantastic! Those hillbillies sure can rock.
- Jesse Angelo[MP3] Animosity "You Can't Win"[MP3] HORSE the Band "Sex Raptor"
[MP3]* Between the Buried & Me "Song"
* No BTBAM MP3's were available, quite possibly because Tony Brummel is an asshole (or so we've heard).
