Happy Tuesday, fiends, take a fistfull of allergy meds and open your holes! We’ve got punk/metal, avant-garde punk, doom metal, metal metal, fuzz doom, and riot grrrl!
SUZISUZI
Japan’s punk/metal band SUZISUZI is releasing their sophomore album, Microphone’s Counter Attack, on May 18. The band debuted in 2016 made of members from metal band Yellow Submachine and punk band The Abnormals. SUZISUZI is pretty wild: they have lots of energy, and are totally fun. Check out the video for “Customers Rush!!” below.
Descartes a Kant
Avant-garde punk band from Guadalajara, Mexico, Descartes a Kant, have announced they will be playing this year’s Iceland Airwaves Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland. The festival takes place November 7-10. Descartes a Kant was a cool discovery my editor hipped me to last week. Their album Victims of Love Propaganda is out now on Cleopatra Records. Check out the mind bending video for “Apricot Dreams.”
Pallbearer
To coincide with their new single, “Dropout,” and their tour with Obituary, doom metallers Pallbearer have released a mini documentary on YouTube. You can watch it here.
Tour Dates:
05/02 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
05/03 – Greensboro, NC @ The Blind Tiger
05/04 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre Of Living Arts
05/05 – New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
05/06 – Boston, MA @ Sinclair
05/08 – Toronto, ON @ Opera House
05/09 – Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
05/10 – Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory
05/11 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
05/12 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic
05/13 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
05/15 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s
05/16 – Omaha, NE @ Waiting Room
05/18 – Denver CO @ Gothic Theatre
05/19 – Salt Lake City. UT @ Metro Music Hall
05/21 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
05/22 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
05/23 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
05/25 – San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
05/26 – Pomona, CA @ Glass House
05/27 – Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red
05/29 – Austin, TX @ Barracuda
05/30 – Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
05/31 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
06/01 – Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall
06/02 – Orlando, FL @ The Haven Lounge
06/03 – Miami, FL @ The Ground
06/17 – Little Rock, AR @ Mutants of the Monster Festival
06/22 – Tulsa, OK @ Guthrie Green
07/13 – Hamburg DE @ Molotow
07/14 – Dour BE @ Dour Festival
07/15 – Nijmegan NL @ Valkhof Festival
07/16 – London UK @ Islington Assembly Hall
07/17 – Glasgow UK @ Stereo
07/18 – Leeds UK @ Brudenell Social Club
07/19 – Bristol UK @ The Fleece
07/21 – Crispendorf DE @ Chaos Descends Festival
07/23 – Milan IT @ Circolo Magnolia
07/24 – Tolmin SL @ Metaldays Festival
07/26 – Hamden CT @ The Space
07/27 – Syracuse NY @ Lost Horizon
07/28 – Montreal QC @ Heavy Montreal Festival
07/29 – Bangor, ME @ Impact Music Festival
07/30 – Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
07/31 – Amityville NY @ Amityville Music Hall
8/03 – Copenhagen DK @ Vega
08/04 – Beelen DE @ Krach am Bach Festival
08/05 – Cottbus DE @ Zum Faulen August
08/07 – Primosten AT @ SuperUho Festival
08/08 – Budapest HU @ A38
08/09 – Josefoz CZ @ Brutal Assault
08/10 – Bad Koltzing DE @ Void Festival
08/12 – Derbyshire UK @ Bloodstock Festival
08/14 – Wiesbaden DE @ Schlachthof
08/15 – Winterthur CH @ Gaswerk
08/16 – Dinkelsbuhl DE @ Summer Breeze
08/18 – Las Vegas NV @ Psycho Las Vegas
10/13 – San Bernardino CA @ Glen Helen Ampitheater (w/System of A Down, Incubus etc.)
Mutoid Man
Mutoid Man kicks off a tour to support last year’s War Moans with a series of covers, the first of which has dropped, and it’s an awesome cover of Tom Jones’ classic “She’s A Lady,” retitled “She’s A Mutoid Lady,” because of course.
Tour Dates:
May 6 Concord, NC @ Carolina Rebellion
May 7 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Hell)
May 8 New Orleans, LA @ Santos
May 9 Austin, TX @ Barracuda
May 10 Houston, TX @ Satellite
May 11 Oklahoma City, OK @ 89th Street
May 12 Kansas City, MO @ Riot Room
May 13 Somerset, WI @ Northern Invasion
May 14 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
May 15 Saint Louis, MO @ Fubar
May 16 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
May 17 Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar
May 18 Columbus, OH @ Rock On The Range
May 19 Toronto, CA @ Hard Luck
May 20 Montreal, CA @ Pouzza Fest
June 6 Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus
August 19 Las Vegas, NV @ Psycho Las Vegas
R.I.P.
R.I.P.’s new album Street Reaper opens with the best Saint Vitus song Saint Vitus never recorded, called “Unmarked Grave.” The album is out on Riding Easy Records and it is a fantastic, fuzzed out, throwback to the hey day of SST Records and bands like Vitus and Pentagram. You can see R.I.P. on tour this year with Electric Wizard and you can listen to whole album here.
War On Women
Baltimore’s co-ed feminist punk group War On Women dropped their album Capture The Flag last month and I’ll be damned if it isn’t one of the best punk albums I’ve heard in a while. It took me back to some of my favorite albums from the early 1990s, like 7 Year Bitch, Team Dresch, and Bikini Kill. Capture The Flag is available from Bridge Nine Records.
