Up-coming Tours

 

Blue Murder, Channel [V], triple j and Rockstar Energy Drink present

 

 

SLIPKNOT

plus special guests MACHINE HEAD

 

All Hope Is Gone World Tour 2008

 

Tickets on sale 9am Friday 8th August

 

Friday 24th Oct Riverstage Brisbane

Tickets from www.ticketmaster.com.au 136 100

 

Sunday 26th Oct Acer Arena Sydney

Tickets from www.ticketek.com.au 132 849 and Utopia Records

 

Monday 27th Oct Rod Laver Arena Melbourne

Tickets from www.ticketek.com.au 132 849

 

Tuesday 28th Oct Jubilee Pavilion Adelaide Showground

Tickets from www.ticketek.com.au 132 849

 

Thursday 30th Oct Robinson Pavilion Perth

Tickets from www.bocsticketing.com.au 08 9484 1133 & 78's www.78records.com.au 08 9322 6384

 

This October Slipknot guide their unholy army through the nine circles of hell on the All Hope is Gone 2008 world tour, their first tour of Australia since they stormed the main stages at the 2005 Big Day Out.

 

At the turn of the millennium, Slipknot erupted onto the heavy music scene and their first three albums reset the course of the Metal genre. Multi million selling, three albums have been released, all platinum. Their massive popularity was acknowledged when, after being nominated for the sixth time in The Grammys for Best Metal Performance, Slipknot won the coveted award in 2006 for the track “Before I Forget”.

 

Now the metal masses unite in anticipation of Slipknots fourth album 'All Hope Is Gone', due out though iconic label Roadrunner Records in August. Early leaks have garnered rave reviews and Slipknot rightly proclaim that 'All Hope Is Gone' will be their most malevolent effort yet.

 

At their left hand will be the mighty Machine Head, pioneers of a brutal new sound Machine Head’s influential and ferocious debut Burn My Eyes was released in 1994. Several albums later Machine Head returned to the highest echelons of the metal world with the 2007 album The Blackening. For many critics it was the metal album of 2007: “one of the purest, finest, most powerful expressions of modern heavy metal released” and comparisons with the Metallica’s seminal Master Of Puppets were made. Now they bring their merciless metal to Slipknot's stages the world over.

 

 

Disturbed

 

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

P.O.D.

ALTER BRIDGE

BEHIND CRIMSON EYES

 

“People never lose their desire for aggressive music. And we’re happy to keep giving it to them.”

– David Draiman, Disturbed

 

Music fans rejoice – The Frontier Touring Company is thrilled to announce the return of Disturbed to Australia and New Zealand in September. Support for this tour will come from P.O.D. (excluding Perth and Adelaide), Alter Bridge, Behind Crimson Eyes (
Over their 12 year lifespan in the music industry Disturbed have reached the highs most bands only dream of. Selling in excess of ten million albums worldwide, Disturbed’s renaissance has truly begun following the release of their fourth albumIndestructible (out now through Warner Music).

 

Front man, David Draiman announced of Indestructible: “I don’t want to sound arrogant but I think we’ve made the kind of record the industry needs right now.” And the fans have agreed. Defying current trends, the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard, ARIA and RIANZ charts. Indestructible is the group’s darkest and angriest output to date; a result of experimentation in the studio and the band taking control of production duties.

 

Renowned for their fierce live performances, Disturbed are sure to set the stage alight when they hit major cities acrossAustralia and New Zealand this August / September.

 

P.O.D. will return to Australia and New Zealand in support of their latest release When Angels & Serpents Dance. With an impressive seven studio albums and over seven million album sales under their belt, not to mention hits like ‘Youth of theNation’, ‘Alive’ and ‘Addicted’, P.O.D. (aka Payable On Death) will stun you with their sheer ferocity this September!

 

Alter Bridge rose from the ashes of the multiplatinum selling Creed when they disbanded in 2004. They found success following the release of debut album One Day Remains with ‘Metalingus’ chosen as the theme song for the Rated R Superstar, Edge. Release of their sophomore record Blackbird is a heavier affair and has drawn the band further success debuting at #4 on the Billboard Rock Album chart. Get ready to rock with Alter Bridge this year!

 

Australian fans will be treated to stylings of Behind Crimson Eyes. Building a reputation through solid touring around the country, Behind Crimson Eyes quickly established themselves as one of Australia’s premier metal acts. Having supported the likes of Iron Maiden, Bullet For My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold, you can be sure Behind Crimson Eyes will match it with the world’s best this year.

 

Tickets will sell out fast – ensure you secure yours when they go on sale this Thursday 10 July.

Frontier Members pre-sale tickets will be available via frontiertouring.com from Tuesday 8 July.

Tickets on sale Thursday 10 July


Friday 29 August

Metro City, Perth 18+
Moshtix 1300 GET TIX (438 849) or www.moshtix.com.au; Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

Sunday 31 August

Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide All Ages
Venuetix (08) 8225 8888 or www.venuetix.com.au

Tuesday 2 September

Brisbane Entertainment Centre All Ages
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

Wednesday 3 September

Hordern Pavilion, Sydney All Ages
Utopia Records 02 9571 6662 or www.utopia.com.au

Thursday 4 September

Newcastle Entertainment Centre All Ages
Ticketek 132 849 or www.ticketek.com.au

Saturday 6 September

Festival Hall, Melbourne All Ages
Ticketmaster 136 100 or www.ticketmaster.com.au

 

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Underoath

 

Renowned for their cathartic and frenzied live performances, Underoath have developed a fanatical worldwide fan base. The Florida-based sextet's inexplicably brilliant amalgam of mayhem and melody has propelled them to the forefront of the metal core scene. And it’s that spirit that sets Underoath’s fierce, foot-stomping metallic drive apart from its peers.

Their latest studio offering, Define the Great Line, cements Underoath’s reputation “as one of the most punishing metal-core powerhouses around" - Revolver. The album is a mind-blowing song-cycle that is considered by fans and critics alike to be the band’s masterpiece…so far.

On 12 June, 2008, Underoath will be delivering their highly anticipated new live CD/DVD ‘Survive, Kaleidoscope’. The CD features eleven songs from both ‘Define The Great Line’ and ‘They're Only Chasing Safety’ with the DVD showcasing those songs in a full live set from the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA presented in 16:9 widescreen. The band are currently wrapping up their 4th studio album in New Jersey which is slated for a September release to co-incide with the tour. MTV were allowed a sneak peek at some of the tracks on the new album and were left raving… “Chamberlain's vocals are intense, passionate and sounding better than ever over the shredding guitars"

To reward the fanaticism of their rabid Australian following, Underoath will be performing 3 shows only. With such a limited run in intimate venues the cult following the band brings about with their energetic belligerence is anything but unstoppable; and tickets will be at a premium

THURSDAY 12 JUNE

TUESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
Sydney, UNSW Roundhouse - All Ages

WEDNESDAY 1 OCTOBER
Melbourne, Billboard The Venue - 18+

THURSDAY 2 OCTOBER
Brisbane, The Arena - All Ages

 

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Down

 

Philip Anselmo (Pantera)

Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity)
Rex Brown (Pantera)

Kirk Windstein (Crowbar)

Jimmy Bower (EyeHateGod)

 

If there ever were a metal super group to end all metal super groups, it would have to be Louisiana’s Down. They first hit the scene 17 years ago, featuring members from some of metal’s premiere bands (Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar and EyeHateGod). This is chemistry. This is the solution. This is the band people will lie about and say that they were into from the beginning.

 

Down is a band, moulded and twisted by their environment. Passionate, focused, hanging on to their NOLA pride and upbringing, much like Louisiana's Spanish moss drifting and swaying from hurricane and termite damaged Magnolia trees. Shedding the skins of their former bands, Down now has room to breathe and a great chance of becoming one of the most profound doom-rock-blues-metal hybrids in musical history.

 

Only releasing new albums every 4-5 years and then fading into the shadows, Down have become renowned for letting the anticipation of their re-emergence grow within their devoted fan base. This sequence of events has happened between each of their releases, the brilliant debut ‘Nola’ (1995), ‘Down II- A Bustle in Your Hedgerow’ (2002), and now the six year wait is over with their third studio album ‘Down III-Over the Under’. Inspired by tragedy - Hurricane Katrina and the death of Dimebag Darrell - it delivers an hour worth of bone crunching, doomy, blues, swamp soaked epic metal.…"I doubt we'll hear another release this year that is as hauntingly powerful and poignant as this one" - Sea Of Tranquility.

 

Down has risen a certain flag high for every piss poor jealous fool to see. There is no label for what they do, as are there no labels for the bands that shared members with them. In what will be their first ever headline tour of Australia and coming fresh off a European tour with Metallica, Down are looking to make up for lost time…

 

TICKETS ON SALE 9 AM, Friday 11 July

 

FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER
Brisbane, The Arena (18+)

 

SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER
Sydney, UNSW Roundhouse (All Ages)
Tickets available at Utopia

 

SUNDAY 12 OCTOBER
Melbourne, Palace Theatre (18+)

 

TUESDAY 14 OCTOBER
Perth, Metropolis Fremantle (18+)

FRIDAY 10 OCTOBER
Brisbane, The Arena (18+)