Next up: San Francisco at DNA Lounge on Oct 15. Only 1 month away! Tix are available now.
This will be our only SF show for a while as it is NOT one of the stops on our *unannounced* tour so please make sure to get a ticket.
Awaken your inner middle school goth with Night Club, a dark disco duo from sunny Los Angeles that was made to be seen (and also heard, obviously). Night Club has a strong visual side – their videos are quality you wouldn’t expect from such a DIY outfit. These club kids (singer Emily Kavanaugh and film producer/director and electronic music auteur Mark Brooks) have been grinding for nearly a decade, releasing catchy, synth laden songs for kids who like to wear black but also dance and discuss mental health. They even had the honor of opening for A Perfect Circle. Not only does the band have two full length album and a handful of EPs, but they’ve also been featured on soundtracks and composed scores for tv and movies – it pays to live in LA. And hey, when you’re living in the apocalypse this is the perfect soundtrack: enough bops to keep you going paired with the right amount of goth sensibility to remind you: don’t get your hopes up too high – as demonstrated by tracks with names like “Candy Coated Suicide.” Electronic dance music with a serious industrial side. Live, Brooks mans the electronics while Kavanaugh works the crowd like Danzig’s daughter. All the energy that she’s pent up for the last year and a half – that’s about to explode.
One True God produces a shadowy, dynamic style of midtempo bass, house music, and industrial influenced dance music. The name derives from Satanic religious notions of enlightenment: “We are our own God”. The project’s dark, ominous, and energetic tracks have broke through from the underground, getting recognition for a unique and signature sound. One True God’s visuals inject metaphoric and subliminal messaging for those with eyes to see.
Turbo Drive: the biggest, and longest running synthwave party in the world! Music for fans of: Stranger Things, Kung Fury, Drive, Turbo Kid, and neo-80s nostalgia. Neon, Lasers, Chrome, Synths, Legwarmers, Fast Cars. This is the soundtrack for Carefree drives along the beach, Day-go legwarmer aerobics, Sunsets over laser grids, Outrunning the cops in a cyberpunk dystopia, Falling in love with your first robot crush, and occasionally Summoning the unholy forces from the depths with a keytar.
Spinning music by artists like: Kavinsky, Carpenter Brut, Perturbator, Dance with the Dead, Com Truise, Gost, Robert Parker, Cut Copy, Barretso, Lazerhawk, Chromeo, College, Anoraak, Electric Youth, Miami Nights 1984, 80’s Stallone, Tesla Boy, Dvas, Futurecop!, The Outrunners, FM Attack, Flashworx, Mitch Murder, Noir Deco, Garth Knight, Power Glove, Protector 101 and much more!
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Because antivaxxers have ruined it for everybody, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination before entering DNA Lounge: either your original CDC Vaccination Card (not a copy or photo); or the CA DPH Vaccination QR Code, downloadable from myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov. A valid, government-issued photo ID is also required for entry.
DNA Lounge has been one of San Francisco’s most popular nightclubs for over thirty years, hosting an always-eclectic variety of events, including all-ages live music, 18+ dance parties, burlesque shows, lecture series and private parties. Two stages, four dance floors, seven bars and a full-service late-night restaurant and cafe!
Most recently declared both “Best Dance Club” and “Best Live Music Venue” in the 2017 SF Weekly Readers’ Poll, DNA Lounge has won over 60 “best of” awards from local publications like The Guardian, SF Weekly and 7×7 Magazine, and has been voted “Best Dance Club” every year since 2008.
At all of our events in the main room, we offer VIP table service.
To order a VIP package:
Go to the CALENDAR and click the date of the event you’re interested in;
Click the button in the top center for the VIP package you want, e.g., “VIP Double”;
And then click “Checkout”. It’s that simple!
Space is limited, so order early!
One of our booths seating 6.
One of our booths seating 12+.
The packages include:
admission to the club for either six or twelve people;
front-of-line privileges;
a reserved table, seating six, nine or twelve;
one (or two) bottles of premium liquor;
a selection of mixers;
and table-side cocktail service.
We have four styles of booths:
Two 6-person booths on the ground floor, next to the dance floor;
One 9-person booth, on the balcony level;
Two 12-person corner booths, on the balcony level;
For seated events, we sometimes offer a 5-person “Front Row VIP” table.
Single booths include admission for six or nine, and one bottle; double booths include admission for twelve, and two bottles; Front Row VIP tables include admission for five (not six!) and one bottle.
Note: The two downstairs booths have a great view of the stage, but the booths on the balcony level do not have an unimpeded view of the stage. Please keep that in mind if you are reserving a VIP table on a live show night. (However, the two double-sized corner booths do have TVs in them showing a video feed of the stage.)
The Front Row VIP tables, when available, are the best seat in the house.
For bottle service, all members of your party must be 21 or older, with valid ID (even if the event itself is all ages).
After you place your order, we will contact you by email to confirm, and to work out the details of any special requests you may have.
Our bottle selections include:
Grey Goose
Titos
Patron Silver
Don Julio: Blanco or Anejo
Jameson
Bulleit
Bulleit Rye
Bombay Sapphire
Hendricks
And our DNA Lounge house brand of hand crafted, small batch Vodka, Rum, Gin, Whiskey and Bourbon.
Our full DNA Pizza menu is also available at your table.
If you have any questions, please contact us at 912-604-5825, or email orders@dnalounge.com.
Night Club’s 3 lengths albums are ranked/ rated as the top 18th, 19th, & 20th greatest albums of all-time and we rank/ rated Night Club as the second most important band in music of all-time, in the history of music, the music that is the specialized press that we cover
The Top 150 Heavy Metal Albums & Albums albums of all-time
Abnormality “Contaminating The Hive Mind”
Abnormality “Mechanizations of Omniscience”
Abnormality “Sociopathic Constructs”
Attacker “Battle At Helm’s Deep”
Attacker “The Second Coming”
Attacker “Giants of Canaan”
Black Death “Black Death”
Cradle of Filth “The Princip;le of Evil Made Flesh”
I started listening to Coven in 1969 and Black Sabbath in 1970,
And of course Led Zepplin was a important artist for me then
I have the Coven “Witchcraft Destroys Minds &Reaps Souls” in the 1st spot because it was a childhood favorite albums when i was a infant & toddler. By the time in entered kindergarten the wear my favorite band, and my 1st experience with evocation.
Crest of Darkness “The Ogress” is the greatest heavy metal album of all-time. Since May 12th, 1999. I listen to this album everyday since it’s release.
KICK ASS METAL is a Gothic Metal-age/ Avant-Garde Metal-age/ Death Metal-age publication.
Our selection for the greatest Gothic Metal band of all-time is Walk In Darkness
KICK ASS METAL is a Gothic Metal-age/ Avant-Garde Metal-age/ Death Metal-age publication.
Our selection for the greatest avant-garde metal band of all-time is
Ram-Zet
KICK ASS METAL is a Gothic Metal-age/ Avant-Garde Metal-age/ Death Metal-age publication.
The Greatest Death Metal band of all-time is Abnormality
The Gothic and Avant-Garde-age started July 27th, 1987. The album Celtic Frost “Into the Pandemonium” was released June 1st, 1987. But the age was cemented on July 27th, 1987. Lost of slow-down syndrome for thrash metal artist. The slow-down syndrome is when Thrash Metal bands were making Thrash Metal for Heavy Metal fans. Nothing But Rock.
I saw the Celtic Frost/ Anthrax/ Exodus concert for the tour cycle for “Into the Pandemonium”. Exodus is my favorite thrash metal band of-all time, then the honor went to Occult then Nervosa became the greatest thrash metal band of all-time with “2012” / “Victim of Yourself. And Celtic Frost was objectively superior. Anthrax was pure cringe with strange and bizarre stage attire.
Celtic Frost are progenitors to the 2 most important genres to the Gothic Metal-age & the Avant-Garde-age.
This age was covered extensively, by 1st Ill-literature who were around 1988- to – 2008. This is the start of the internet, when publication could easily earn $750, 000 a issues. Full page advertisement were $800. To play a song on the radio. That runs $3,000 for a quarter.
The successor to Ill-literature was Avant-Garde Metal webZine they have 3 print editions.
The Death Metal-age started on July 27th, 1990. Deicide “Deicide” was released on June 24th, 1990. The Game Changer. The Thrash Metal-age was from August 1st, 1983 to July 27th, 1990. Pantera metal saviors and the band that saved mainstream / lame stream heavy metal released the game changer albums “Power Metal” on May 20th, & “Cowboys from Hell” on July 24th, 1990 to spearhead the death metal age with Deicide. Pantera
The Death Metal age was spearhead by David Horn who wrote the Death Metal bible “Sounds of Death”. When thrash metal leaders became nothing but rock. I stopped booking thrash metal bands. And booked more glam metal bands, and got everyone in my network to change from Thrash Metal to Groove Metal.
Pantera like Celtic Frost are progenitors of more than one genre of metal. And saved heavy metal from the slow down syndrome.
Without David Horn and “Sounds of Death” there is no Voices from the Darkside. Sounds of Death predates the Voices from the Darkside webZine. Sure they had print editions,. No one pre-dates “Sounds of Death”. “Sounds of Death” was the trail-blazer, If your write about heavy metal after 1990.
Sounds of Death gave you 5 years of stuff to write about in each quarterly issues.
The Gothic Metal-age started on July 27th, 1987 so what were Gothic Metal fans listening to from June 1969 with Coven and Black Sabbath “Black Sabbath” on Friday, the 13th. February 13th. 1970 to July 27th, 1987.
Glam Metal and Thrash Metal has the same golden age from August 1st, 1986 to October 31st, 1986.
Glam Metal had MTV.
Power Metal/ Thrash Metal/ Death Metal/ Black Metal has its 1st publication the same time frame.
Glam Metal is heavy metal and started with Van Halen. I seen Van Halen live before the 1st Motley Crue album, and they were the 1st band i notice to have a audience, that was mostly female. And the world’s most beautiful women were in attendance. Seeing this i am sure alot of astute men bought guitars, and made music for a audience that was already there, and MTV was the main distribution network for that kind of music
What did i think of the true metal movement, by the bands 1st wave trying to make this a thing. Just poser utilizing projection.
Projection is someone showing who they really are. You just have to believe them.
Heavy Metal is Classical music virtuosity, mixed with horror sound tracks with a delivery inspired by proto-metal. Ignoring the hard rock aspect is a lack of awareness.
The 1st band to shake off the hard rock influence was Black Sabbath. But got the radio AOR bug.
Because likes to talk about how much rock radio and AM pop music was a part of America in since. The 1st hard rock band shook off the country influence of the 1st wave of those artist.
When Bob Muldowney was a live he had all the glam metal albums, and this was discovered upon his death. I respected what he did, but his philosophy was incongruent.
Sure it was cool when only 1,500. 30,000 metallers knew of Metallica/ Exodus/ Slayer and it was a elite experience.
I did get a kick out of watching Metallica becoming the very same thing that hey bitched about in 1982/1983/1984/1986 just 5 years later.
Metallica is a interesting case in projection they slandered Motley Crue non-stop.
Who they sound like on the “No Life ‘Til Leather” and of course these disrespectful males. Got there 1st big break from Motley Crue themselves. The Saxon concert because Motley Crue were obviously higher in the metallic hierarchy by then. Metallica founded their band because they were pissed all there NWOBHM hero’s all sold-out in incongruent ways.
Metallica were talking about making albums like “Load” & “Reload” between the “Ride The Lighting” & “Master of Puppets”-era. They told us who they were and I believed them. I noticed their incongruity, as early as July 1982.
Listen to “No Life ‘Til Leather” I hear Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue & Diamond Head. When they use misma in the vocal delivery.
It was great to watch Metallica get into a good spot in the metal hierarchy and achieve great fame from the very sound of the band they mocked the most. After i play Motley Crue “Dr. Feelgood” i reach for the Metallica “Metallica” album. I have no opinions of “Load”.
The previous album is get out your fire lighter songs. AOR/ Glam Metal ran through a NWOBHM and thrash filter. “Load” is marketed as a lullaby album. Metallica never lied in any press release. Just you have to know think, and read with reading comprehension.
I just went in the opposite direction of the grunge and southern rock they were influenced by. In the realm of world-class heavy metal Metallica were on my radar the top 4,900 band on our want-list.
By 1996 there no where to be found on our hierarchy boards in our 30,000 square foot office, in the year 1996 they fell off. Which a heavy metal hall of fame. 3 years before the rock and roll hall of fame.
It would of been better if they just said we want to play heavier heavy metal, and left the glam metal armada alone.
I became was a early Motley Crue fan. As a independent heavy metal artist connoisseur. It was just Motley Crue, Diamond Head & Neat Records artist. For along-time.
Glam Metal predates Thrash Metal by a decade and a half.
The most successful “AOR/”Heavy Metal/”Glam Metal” hybrid album in sales, not in artistry obviously of all-time is a “Hair Metal” album Metallica “Metallica” from a former “Thrash Metal” band.
I have 30 copies of this album Metallica “Metallica” anything on the billboard top 100 & 200 albums are for a dollar.
Pop fans change their taste every two weeks. Metal fans change there taste every 2 years.
Every 2 years a new top 10% in heavy metal’s upper echelon is developed.
Same with so-called. Top 100 Heavy Metal albums by frozen in time webZines such as “Metal Rules” all those albums i can buy for a $1. They confuse influence for the lowest common denominator.
When Metallica did this they killed everyone below them.
Causing all the bay area thrash metal clubs to close.
Keep in mind when people see your record in the record store. Everyone remembers what was the last thing they did. A band can go 7 years with out releasing a album because your memory still has nostalgia for that artist. Where are we going to be in the next 5 years.
Got Riffs?
I joined the gothic metal movement as it’s 1st true fan. Because of what is now called “crowd killing” which made it debut in 1985 at the ultimate revenge concert footage.
Which was started of by Combat Records President & Scott Rosenfield.
Also i was impressed we have artist that are some of the world’s most radio friendly and the heaviest of all-time and the concept of “selling out” & “industry plant” don’t exist.
Heavy Metal started with 7 traditional styles. 8 if you count glam. These 7 main styles have 7 spin-offs. Making my metal want list 49 genres/ sub-genres strong.
Before there was nothing but rock, which is the thrash metal reality of the slow down syndrome When Nu Metal bands utilize the slow down syndrome of thrash metal and applying that to Nu Metal. The slow down syndrome is when thrash metal albums were made for heavy metal/ NWOBHM metal fans, who hates this stuff in the 1st place. And nothing but rock is making Nu Metal albums for people who never liked Nu Metal in the 1st place.
I have no problems addressing the white elephants in the rooms of the 1,300 genres i am aware of. Do I a album from each genre.
No i have refined my taste across the gothic/ classical/ heavy metal aesthetic. As you go out every night of the week for 38 years and you try out different styles of music.
Your just have to analyze the top 700 albums you own, and develop a sense of direction based on the melodies of your favorite artist.
For me it is Edge of Paradise/ Motley Crue/ Deep Switch/ Dismal Euphony King Diamond/ Mercyful Fate/ Night Club/ The Sweetest Condition/ Carl Orff/ Maurice Ravel/ Crest of Darkness/ Cradle of Filth/ Dimmu Borgir. The back catalogues of Razorback Records, Metal on Metal Records & the era of Shrapnel Records when Mike Varney had a good ear for heavy metal, and was a pretty awesome world-class guitarist himself.
My fans stateside only want to know about thrash metal. So i have to find the best thrash metal albums during the death metal-age.
KICK ASS METAL readership in Europe are mostly interest in bands like Night Club/ The Birthday Massacre and the legendary albums that can be found on the Electro Zombies webZine. Electro Zombies went hand in hand with the godly Vampire Freaks webZine who started in 1999.
1999 was one of the greatest years in heavy metal. Giving our genre its greatest heavy metal album of all-time, which has been the Crest of Darkness “The Ogress” for the last 22 years.
Even if this albums is topped which it won’t, no one tries really anymore. You may earn that top spot, but the greatest heavy metal all-time band status for Crest of Darkness is just historic fact.
I have been offered book deals, i just turn them down, because the genres we cover have been growing at a mind-blowing pace.
And books on heavy metal get out date every 3 months. Every 3 months there is a gold standard heavy metal album released. Which is always on the Gothic Metal/ Avant-Garde Metal/ Death Metal side of the spectrum.
Because honestly there is nothing wrong with selling out, a concept this genre does not have anyways.
But dam on this side of the policing line there is no where too pivot too. But in thrash metal there are tons of styles to pivot too.
NWOBHM only could pivot to Hair Metal, because of the lack of awareness. Glam existed 10 years before NWOBHM and 15 years before the thrash metal movement.
If your wondering why you enjoy Nirvana “Nevermind” so much. It is because their favorite bands were Coven “Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls” and Celtic Frost “Into the Pandemonium” / “Cold Lake”. Alongside there most obvious influences.
If you get out every night and get are use too meeting 40 to 50 million people, in your life-time.
Trust me everyone want to know what you know. I had to do this webZine. Because of Gothic Metal’s & Death Metal’s exponential growth since 1990.
Because i am always on the go. To the people i mentored before Pantera & my interest in Celtic Frost/ Deicide. And you want to know more about metal. On that path.
There is only Snakepit Heavy Metal France. And get everything released by Metal on Metal Records. There are this era’s Megaforce/ Important records.
Always keep in mind the rear view mirror is smaller than the windshield. So if a band i used to like in 1982/1983/1984//1985/1986…drops off my top 4,900 artist want-list.
It is just I am raising my standard’s. While those artist got glass lit the fuck up by there inner circle. I avoid these people like the plague.
There are only 150 people that can be in this inner circle. There are only 168 hours in a work week. Your are the average of the 5 World-Class people you allow in your life.
I am the 1st gothic metal fan, in 1987, then my 5 closest friends, are gothic metal fans. And the 6th person to hang-out with us is the next gothic metal fan.
From 150 true friends in the inner circle. You need 1,000 believers to get 1,000 believers. That is how you get to a billion albums sales.
When the next Ill-Literature/ Vampire Freaks Social Network/ Avant-Garde Metal print editions happens i will quite writing. But as the biggest benefactor from those magazines and webZines. I will just pay it forward.
I mentored 30,000 to 40,000 thousand people from 1980 to 2000. I go out every night. I enjoyed these talks. I am out more living in the moment, and to be honest. When new styles emerge.
There is always a leader in those life styles. I hope you seek them out, and learn something and help out as many people as possible.
I do want to tell bands to get a public relations firm. Because magazines can not make $750,000 a issue or that much a quarterly issues. So that opportunity for a instant 100,000 people fanbase is lost.
Only a PR firm in 2021 can help you get the reach of what a fanzine could in 1981 or 1991.
For those i meet on the streets in America all I got to say is Wraith “Unto the Chains”.
The best album after Darkness, Infernal Majesty, & Chemicaust.
If your reading this overseas. Most of my readership is from ElectroZombies & Vampire Freaks Social Media network.
Night Club Hails from Los Angeles, California/ United States of America and plays a Darkwave/ Synthpop with a sound that is all their one a true one-of-a-kind. There 3 full length albums are ranked at KICK ASS METAL a Death Metal-age/ Gothic Metal-age/ Avant-Garde Metal-age publication. In the top 20 albums of all-time.
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The Top 150 Heavy Metal albums of all-time
Abnormality “Contaminating The Hive Mind”
Abnormality “Mechanizations of Omniscience”
Abnormality “Sociopathic Constructs”
Attacker “Battle At Helm’s Deep”
Attacker “The Second Coming”
Attacker “Giants of Canaan”
Black Death “Black Death”
Cradle of Filth “The Princip;le of Evil Made Flesh”
As promised, here’s Zoe answering 10 of your submitted questions from last week.
And yes- that is 20 seconds of the upcoming album you’re hearing in the intro! If we didn’t get to your question, fear not- next month we’ll have a joint Q&A with keyboardist Jonah Weingarten!
For our non-English speaking fans we are also happy to provide a transcript for translation below- Enjoy.Hi guys! Zoë here from Catalyst Crime, and I’m in the beautiful southern Arizona town of Tubac, which is actually the place where I spent the first part of my early childhood. It’s about 45 minutes south of Tucson, Arizona, and about 20 minutes north of the border with Mexico.
I’m here today to enjoy one of my favorite drinks, a margarita, and answer some of your questions that you’ve sent to me. I’m so excited, so let’s go!We have a saying here in southern Arizona that we salt margaritas, not sidewalks. It’s very hot weather here most of the time. It’s been hovering between 48 and 50 degrees Celsius for most of the summer, so as you can imagine it’s nice to get inside, nice to have a cool icy drink, especially if you’re like me and you’re pretty much always wearing a black leather jacket. You know, gotta stay cool.Q: Why did you and Gerit from Xandria decide to work together?A: The answer to that is that Gerit and I met several years ago when Xandria was touring with Sonata Arctica. My former band, Insatia, opened for them, and I got along really, really well with all of the Xandria guys, but especially Gerit. He is so good-natured, he’s so dependable, just such a steady kind of personality.
We hit it off, we’ve stayed good friends ever since. And then a few years ago, of course Xandria was going through some really massive lineup changes- the amazing Dianne van Giersbergen left Xandria. And at the same time, my band Insatia was also breaking up for other reasons. So Gerit and I were talking, we decided, you know, maybe it would be cool to start a project together, and initially it just started as a project. But we began to add some really stellar musicians, and put together just some really fun songs that all of us were really vibing with, and eventually it became a full blown band.
Q: Do you feel like it’s hard to make symphonic metal as a non-European? How do you get into this music as an American?
A: Most of the primary bands in the genre are European. I fully admit to that. These are the bands that have always inspired me. As an American, I first got into heavy metal because of my father. My father is a huge metalhead. In fact, he played bass on this most recent album, he’s a musician himself. And my dad initially got me into Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, et cetera. And from there, I began to expand and get into all the other little subgenres of metal as I got older. And eventually I discovered symphonic metal, and I just completely fell in love. And from there I’ve branched off into, like, you know, symphonic metal, symphonic death metal… But it was really, really nice to have the opportunity to get exposed to those kinds of European bands through the internet.So is it hard to make that kind of music here? Well, there really is an epic kind of landscape to living in southern Arizona. We are so close to Mexico, and the culture in Mexico is so colorful, and so vibrant, and so dramatic that it really lends itself well to the kind of mindset that you need to create heavy metal. And you can see, there’s a lot of color around me here, just in this restaurant, you know. We have a big celebration in the culture here centered around vitality, vibrancy, color. It’s a very joyous kind of culture. So that kind of epicness, like I said, this is amazing if you want to write and perform heavy metal.Note from Zoe: I was also lucky enough to grow up in a multi cultural household with a Mexican grandmother.
Q: What influences you when you write songs? What bands?A: You can really only write what you know. So life in general just kind of inspired me to write music. Of course, I get a lot of influence from the great staple bands of the genre: Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica, Kamelot, etc. Bands that have really been influencing me lately include Amorphis, Wintersun, I’ve been listening very heavily to those for the past couple of years. So a lot of different elements go into what I write. It’s a combination of getting inspired by what other people are doing, and getting inspired by the life that I get to live here.Q: Do you listen to anything besides metal?
A: Yes, yes I do. Some of my favorite non-metal acts include Black Audio – I think Davey Havok has a ridiculously amazing understanding of vocal dynamics. I also love Poets of the Fall. I think Marko is a brilliant lyricist. Beyond that, I really like Blutengel from Germany. I think they’re really spooky and gothic, and I have a really strong gothic streak, so it’s a lot of fun to listen to them. But yeah, I listen to tons of different kinds of music, because if you only listen to one kind, you’re denying yourself the opportunity to learn from what other genres can do.For this next question, I actually got it from a couple different people, and originally I wasn’t sure I was going to answer it, because I understand it’s a little bit controversial. But since so many of you have been asking about this, I think it’s only fair to provide a response finally. So this person wrote:
Q: I recently saw your post that Alexander Krull from Leaves’ Eyes produced your new album. Doesn’t what happened to Liv Kristine bother you, and what about Dianne van Giersbergen from Xandria? Do you have any insight to offer now that you work with Gerit Lamm?A: First of all, story about Liv Kristine: Liv Kristine was so influential to me as a teenager. When I was in high school a lot of the alternative, gothic, and metal kids dyed their hair black. Because it was what a lot of the alternative artists did. Tarja from Nightwish had black hair, Amy Lee from Evanescence, Davey Havok… But I wanted to keep my hair blonde. And the reason I wanted to keep my hair blonde is because I also got into Leaves’ Eyes. And I was so happy because their singer, Liv Kristine, beyond having this amazing, angelic voice, also kept her hair blonde. So it’s because of Liv that I kept my blonde hair. Fifteen years later, I’m still really, really glad that I kept my hair blonde. So thank you so much, Liv.As for her relationship with Alexander and Leaves’ Eyes, I’m really not the person to comment on what happened. It’s really not my business to say my opinion on any of that stuff. I can only tell you that in the time I’ve known the guys in Leaves’ Eyes, especially Alexander, they’ve been nothing but professional. They’ve been lovely people to work with, they’ve been wonderful friends, I have nothing but good things to say about them and their singer Elina [Siirala]. I think she also just has an amazing, unique voice, and she’s brought a lot to Leaves’ Eyes. So it’s okay to like both artists when a split happens. You can still support Leave’s Eyes. Their new album is coming out soon, “The Last Viking,” and you’re gonna love it. And you can support Liv Kristine with her solo career because again, she’s still amazing as well.As for Xandria, Gerit is a really good friend of mine. Gerit is one of the most trustworthy people I have in my life. He’s extremely honest, extremely loyal, extremely dependable. So again, I really am not the person to comment on what happened between his band, Xandria, and their split with Dianne. Dianne is an incredible vocalist. If you love her voice as much as I do, follow her band, Ex Libris. Ex Libris is doing amazing stuff. You can still hear her powerhouse of a voice still going to town there. But again, it’s possible to understand that splits happen, just like breakups in a relationship, and it’s okay to support both sides as they move forward with their art.Q: Greetings, Zoë Marie, from Argentina! Please tell me what made you want to sing in a metal band, and will you tour South America after the pandemic?A: Greetings back from Arizona! I’ve been singing since I was basically a baby, from my understanding. I’ve always wanted to make music, I’ve always been in love with performance and singing. And my dad being a metalhead, and me getting so drawn into heavy metal at an early age made the choice to sing in a metal band very natural for me. As for coming to South America after the pandemic, of course we want to tour South America after the pandemic! South America is amazing, and we’ll be there as soon as we can. I promise.Q: What is your favorite place to visit?Okay, that one’s easy for me. I love visiting Finland. A lot of my heritage is Finnish. I love salty liquorice, salmiakki is one of my favorite things in the whole wide world, and I love the cold weather. I think growing up in Arizona, where it’s super hot all the time, made me realize that it’s also a lot of fun to have snow and ice and a White Christmas and all of that. So yes, I love visiting Finland. I would go there every month if I could. Beyond that, I also really like visiting Germany. I think the wine and the bread is just amazing. I also had a really good time in Sweden last time I was there, so all of Europe is a lot of fun to visit as an American.Q: You’ve said a few times that you are tall. Are you as tall as Floor Jansen?A: No. I’m not as tall as Floor. Fun fact though, I did take some voice lessons with Floor when I was younger. She’s amazing and her height actually really inspired me to be more confident of myself as a tall girl. I’m 180cm tall, which is about 5’11 for the Americans. So I’m actually a really tall girl, and I used to really slouch my shoulders and kind of diminish myself to make myself feel more normal around my peers. And working with Floor and seeing just how confidently she carries herself as a tall woman was so inspiring for me. So I’m tall, I’m not as tall as Floor, but Floor had a huge impact on the fact that I’m comfortable with my height.Q: Dear Zoë, I noticed on your facebook page and on Encyclopedia Metallum that you’ve helped write lyrics for several other bands. What are your tips for good lyrics writing?A: Read. You know, reading classic works of literature, poetry, great epic fictions, these are the stories and the poems that have stood the test of time. Things that we’re still reading hundreds of years or decades later ilke Walt Whitman or Ernest Hemingway, etc. The more you read great writing, the better a writer you are. So- if you want to become a better writer, my best advice is to read more.Q: Hello Zoë, a hug for you! I see you guested on the last Atrocity album. How did that come about, and do you prefer singing or screaming?A: Hugs back! Like I’ve mentioned, I met Alexander Krull from Leaves’ Eyes and Atrocity several years ago on the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise. Alex is a great friend of mine and he asked me to contribute some vocals to the last album that Atrocity did. It was a lot of fun. I also got to model and be the “phantom ghost “ for the booklet. It was a great experience, I had a great time in Germany, both recording and shooting the photos.The hospitality was unreal. It was a really, really fantastic time. So yeah, I’m glad you enjoyed me on the Atrocity album.As for preferring screaming on signing, I really like both, because I think there are certain emotions that lend themselves well to one vocal style or the other. Some emotions can only be expressed with screaming, and some emotions can only be expressed with singing. So the answer is always both.So I’m going to get to finishing my margarita now. I really hope you guys got the answers to some of your questions today. If we didn’t get to your question today, don’t worry – we’ll be doing this again in the future, so stay tuned!____________Editor’s note: Big thanks to Elvira’s in Tubac, Arizona for letting us film in their beautiful location.
“The Unknown” is Edge Of Paradise’s fourth studio album, coming on the heels of their well-received third album, and Frontiers Music Srl debut, “Universe”. The band teamed up with renowned producer Howard Benson (Halestorm, Seether, Black Stone Cherry, etc.) who, together with Mike Plotnikoff (Halestorm, Three Days Grace) and Neil Sanderson (Three Days Grace) helped the band craft their biggest sounding album yet. Add in mixing and mastering by Jacob Hansen (Amaranthe, Volbeat, Pretty Maids) and you have a fool proof recipe for a sonically stunning album.
“The Unknown” builds upon where “Universe” left off, developing Edge Of Paradise’s overall symphonic and metallic sound while bringing it to the next level. Gigantic hooks paired with monolithic guitar riffs in a spacious sea of symphonic sounds will immediately grab listeners and whisk them away on the band’s sonic, and lyrical, journey.
Edge of Paradise’s founding members, singer Margarita Monet and guitarist Dave Bates, have found their perfect partners in crime with the addition of drummer Jamie Moreno and bassist Ricky Bonazza. The band, tighter than ever, is ready to blow everyone away once they are back on the road with this stunning new music in tow. Current plans are for the band to tour extensively through 2022 in support of “The Unknown” as well, with touring announcements coming up soon.
After the band’s debut album “Mask”, released independently in 2012, the band released their sophomore album “Immortal Waltz” in 2015, produced by the legendary Michael Wagener (Dokken, Accept, Skid Row). In March 2017, Edge Of Paradise released a five song EP, “Alive”, which was produced by Chuck Johnson (Korn, Slipknot) and mixed by Jay Ruston, Mike Plotnikoff, and Michael Wagener. The band then signed with Frontiers Music Srl for the release of their third album, “Universe” (November 2019) which saw them achieve well over one million streams on Spotify for the album’s lead single, the title track. The band also enjoyed a successful European tour with Sonata Arctica at the end of 2019. While home preparing for multiple tours to support the album in 2020, the global pandemic hit and the band’s touring plans were sidelined. When it became evident that touring likely wouldn’t be in the cards, the band set themselves to writing music for what would ultimately become their fourth album, “The Unknown”.
TRACKLIST
1. Digital Paradise 2. My Method Your Madness 3. Tidal Wave 4. The Unknown 5. Believe 6. False Idols 7. You Touch You Die 8. One Last Time 9. Leaving Earth 10. Bound To The Rhythm 11. My Method Your Madness (Industrial Remix) Bonus Track
LINEUP
Margarita Monet – Vocals, keys Dave Bates – Guitars Jamie Moreno – Drums Ricky Bonazza – Bass
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Sunbomb “Evil & Divine” Heavy Metal
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On October 22, thrash metal icons SLAYER will release CD, cassette and vinyl reissues of their classic records “Show No Mercy” (1983), “Haunting The Chapel” (1984), “Live Undead” (1984) and “Hell Awaits” (1985) via Metal Blade Records.
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Formed in 1981, SLAYER assaulted the world with a new hybrid of metal and punk — heavier, faster and darker than the rest — and set a new standard, defining not only a genre, but an attitude. Throughout SLAYER’s history, the band never faltered in unleashing their extreme and focused aural assault, and repudiating temptations, SLAYER always chose to remain crushing and brutal, steadfastly refusing to cater to the mainstream.
“Show No Mercy” reissue versions- jewelcase CD- cassette (featuring a fold-out J-card and a smokey tint cassette shell)- 180g black vinyl- transparent red / black split vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- orange marbled vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- transparent red / black splatter vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- orange / red melt vinyl (EU exclusive)- red / white splatter vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 1000 copies)
“Haunting The Chapel” reissue versions- jewelcase CD- cassette (featuring a fold-out J-card and a smokey tint cassette shell)- 180g black vinyl- opaque red / black split vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- red / white marbled vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- black / white splatter vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- red / white melt vinyl (EU exclusive)- red / black splatter vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 1000 copies)”Live Undead” reissue versions- jewelcase CD- cassette (featuring a fold-out J-card and a smokey tint cassette shell)- 180g black vinyl- midnight blue / black split vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- grey / black marbled vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- clear / blood red splatter vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- blue / white / black splatter vinyl (EU exclusive)- blue / black splatter vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 1000 copies)
“Hell Awaits” reissue versions- jewelcase CD- cassette (featuring a fold-out J-card and a smokey tint cassette shell)- 180g black vinyl- transparent orange / black split vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- red marbled vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- transparent orange / black splatter vinyl (U.S. exclusive)- orange / red splatter vinyl (EU exclusive)- red / yellow / black circle splatter vinyl (EU exclusive – limited to 1000 copies)SLAYER played its final concert on November 30, 2019 at the Forum in Los Angeles. One day later, Ayesha King, wife of SLAYER guitarist Kerry King, said that there is “not a chance in hell” that the thrash metal icons will reunite for more shows following the completion of their farewell tour.Back in April 2018, Tom Araya’s wife said that he had not questioned his decision to embark on one final SLAYER tour before the band called it quits.Sandra Araya, who has been married to the SLAYER frontman for more than 20 years, told the Metal Pulp And Paper web site that the announcement that the band was pulling the plug on its nearly four-decade-long career didn’t come as a surprise to her. “Not to me,” she said. “I can’t comfortably go into too much detail. I’ll just leave it with a no.”Asked if the decision to end SLAYER was a difficult one for Tom and Kerry to make, Sandra said: “Tom never second-guesses any decision he makes. I have no idea about Kerry.”When SLAYER first announced that it was embarking on its final tour back in January 2018, Ayesha assured fans that they would “always get music” from her husband.King has said in previous interviews that his post-SLAYER musical efforts would not be much different from the sound fans have grown accustomed to hearing from him.
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ABATTOIR • Vicious Attack
ACCEPT • Restless and Wild
ACID • Acid
ACID • Maniac
ACID • Live in Belgium
AGENT STEEL • Skeptics Apocalypse
AGENT STEEL • Mad Locust Rising
ANACRUSIS • Screams and Whispers
ANNIHILATOR • Alice In Hell
ANTHRAX • Fistful of Metal • Megaforce Records • MRI 069
ANVIL • Metal on Metal
ANVIL • Forged in Fire
ANVIL • Live in Concert
ANVIL CHORUS • Thought Crimes
ANVIL CHORUS • The Killing Sun
ARDOUS • Last Place On Earth
ARTILLERY • Fear of Tomorrow
ARTILLERY • Terror Squad
ARTILLERY • By Inheritance
ATHEIST • Piece of Time
ATHEIST • Unquestionable Presence
ATTACKER • Battle At Helms Deep
ATTACKER • The Second Coming
ATTACKER • Standing The Test of Time
ATTACKER • Giants of Canaan
ATTACKER • Sins of the World
BITCH • Be My Slave
BLACK FLAG • Damaged
BLACK FLAG • My War
BLACK FLAG • Slip It In
BLACK FLAG • Live ’84
BLACK FLAG • Loose Nut
BLACK FLAG • In My Head
BLACK SABBATH • Mob Rules
BLIND ILLUSION • The Sane Asylum
BLOODLUST • Guilty As Sin
BLESSED DEATH • KILL OR BE KILLED • Megaforce Records • MRI 1369
CAGE • Astrology
CANDLEMASS • Nightfall
CANDLEMASS • Ancient Dreams
CANDLEMASS • Tales of Creation
CATHERDRAL • Supernatural Birth Machine
CELTIC FROST • Morbid Tales
CELTIC FROST • Emperor’s Return
CELTIC FROST • To Mega Therion
CHASTAIN • Mystery of Illusion
CHASTAIN • Ruler of the Wasteland
CHASTAIN • The 7th of Never
CHASTAIN • The Voice of Cult
CHASTAIN • For those Who Dare
CHASTAIN • In A Out Rage
CHASTAIN • Surrender to No One
CHASTAIN • We Bleed Metal
CHASTAIN • We Bleed Metal17
COVEN • Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls
COVEN • Jinx
COVEN13 • Worship New Gods
COVEN13 • Destiny of the Gods
CIRITH UNGOL • Frost and Fire
CIRITH UNGOL • King of the Dead
CULPRIT • Guilty As Charged
CYNIC • Focus
DARK ANGEL • Darkness Descends
DARK ANGEL • Leave Scars
DARK ANGEL • Time Does Not Heal
DEAF DEALER • Keeper of The Flame
DEF DEALER • Journey Into Fear
DARKNESS • Death Squad
DARKNESS • Defenders of Justice
DARKNESS • The Gasoline Solution
DARKNESS • First Class Violence
DEATH • Scream Bloody Gore
DEATH • Leprosy
DEATH • Spiritual Healing
DEATH • Human
DEATH • Individual Thought Patterns
DEATH • Symbolic
DEATH ANGEL • The Ultra-Violence
DEATH ANGEL • Frolic From The Park
DEATH ANGEL • Act III
DEATH STRIKE • Fuckin’ Death
DEATH PENALTY • Death Penalty
DEEP SWITCH • Nine Inches of God
DESTRUCTION • Infernal Overkill
DESTRUCTION • Under Attack
DESTUCTOR • Maximum Destruction
Détente • Regonize No Authority
Détente • Decline
DOCTOR BUTCHER • Doctor Butcher
DREAM DEATH • Journey Into Fear
DOCTOR BUTCHER • Doctor Butcher
EDGE OF PARADISE • Mask
EDGE OF PARADISE • Perfect Shade of Grey
EDGE OF PARADISE • Immortal Waltz
EDGE OF PARADISE • Alive
EDGE OF PARADISE • Universe
EXCITER • Heavy Metal Maniac
EXCITER • Violence & Force • Megaforce Records
EXCITER • Exciter • Double Play Classic • Heavy Metal Maniac • Violence & Force • 1989 CD —Caroline/Megaforce Records
EXHORDER • Slaughter In the Vatican
EXODUS • A Lesson in Violence • October 30th, 1984 Advance Cassette
EXODUS •Bonded By Blood
EXODUS • Pleasure of the Flesh
EXODUS • A Lesson In Violence (Live @ Studio 54 + March 1986 Paul Baloff Demos)
EXODUS • Another Lesson In Violence LIVE
EXODUS • Bonded By Baloff (A.L.I.V Remastered + Bonus Tracks)
EXUMER • Possessed By Fire
EXUMER • Rising By The Sea
EXUMER • Possessed By Fire/ Rising By The Sea
FATES WARNING • Night on Bröcken
FORBIDDEN • Forbidden Evil
FORBIDDEN • Twisted Into Form
The GATHERING • Mandylion
The GATHERING • Nightime Birds
The GATHERING • How To Measure A Planet
The GATHERING • In Motion DVD
GRAVE DIGGER • Heavy Metal Breakdown • Megaforce Records
Sirenia “Riddles, Ruins & Revelations” Heavy Metal/ Gothic Metal
Sisters of Suffocation “Eradtication” Death FUCKING Metal
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Sumo Cyco “Initiation” Punk Metal/ Alternative Metal
Sunbomb “Evil & Divine” Heavy Metal
Temtris “Ritual Warfare” Heavy Metal
Vomit Bag Squd “TBA” Tentative October
Vulture “Dealing Death” Heavy Metal/ Speed Metal
Witch Cross “Angel of Death” Heavy Metal
August 2021 Heavy Metal album of the month
Jinjer “Wallflowers”
August 2021 Album of the month
Kat Von D “Love Made Me Do It”
July 2021 Heavy Metal album of the month
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter “The Divine Horsemen”
June 2021 Heavy Metal album of the month
Crypta “Echoes of the Soul”
May 2021
Artillery “X”
April 2021
Canniable Corpse “Unimagined Violence”
March 2021
Issa “Queen of Brokene Hearts”
February 2021
Kalidia “Lie’s Devices”
January 2021
Nervosa ” Perpetual Chaos”
KICK ASS METAL is a Death Metal-age/ Gothic Metal-age & Avant-Garde Metal-age publication. Since July 1st, 1987 & July 27th, 1990. With Celtic Frost “Into The Pandemonium” & Deicide “Deicide”
The Top 150 Heavy Metal albums of all-time
Abnormality “Contaminating The Hive Mind”
Abnormality “Mechanizations of Omniscience”
Abnormality “Sociopathic Constructs”
Attacker “Battle At Helm’s Deep”
Attacker “The Second Coming”
Attacker “Giants of Canaan”
Black Death “Black Death”
Cradle of Filth “The Princip;le of Evil Made Flesh”
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BUTCHER BABIES have released a new single, “It’s Killin’ Time, Baby”, featuring guest vocalist Craig Mabbitt (ESCAPE THE FATE).
“From beginning to end, ‘Killin’ Time’ is a relentless groove-infused face melter that is guaranteed to give you bang-over,” says BUTCHER BABIES guitarist Henry Flury. The single, out today, was inspired by the DC Comics character Lobo, a heavy metal bounty hunter. It was recorded by Matt Good (FROM FIRST TO LAST) and will be featured on BUTCHER BABIES‘ upcoming independently released EP alongside recently released singles “Last Dance”, “Yorktown”, “Sleeping With The Enemy” and “Bottom Of A Bottle” (feauturing Andy James).
“I can’t think of a better song to release the day before we hit the road on our first tour in over two years,” exclaims BUTCHER BABIES co-vocalist Carla Harvey. “It’s killin time, baby…in more ways than one!! As a lifelong comic book aficionado, it was so much fun to write a song based on one of my favorite characters, the bounty huntin’ space cowboy himself, Lobo. When Heidi [Shepherd, co-vocalist] and I were penning the lyrics we thought, are we really writing a song about a Bastitch on a Spaz Frag? Hell yes, because just like Lobo, we like a good time. It was also a cool new experience for us to throw another singer in the mix for this one! Craig Mabbitt‘s screams add another level to this banger…enjoy!”
“HOLY FRAGG, SPACE HOG!,” shouts Shepherd. “We are fraggin’ stoked to bring to you our latest banger, ‘It’s Killin’ Time, Baby!’ inspired by the main man himself, Lobo! This bounty hunter, biker has a way of stealing even the blackest of hearts. Between breaking legs and breaking hearts, Lobo embodies the heavy metal attitude we all need in 2021!
“We were so lucky to have our buddy, the very talented Craig Mabbitt from ESCAPE THE FATE and DEAD RABBITS, join us in this jam! Our incredible producer, Matt Good, brought this comic-themed dream to life and we CANNOT wait for you to hear it and then rock it LIVE in the pit!!”
Mabbitt commented, “Thank you to the BUTCHER BABIES for including me in this awesome track, and for introducing me to Lobo!!”
BUTCHER BABIES will embark on their first tour since the pandemic with a headlining run starting tomorrow, Saturday, August 28 in West Virginia at Metal In The Mountains festival and lasting until October 8, including stops at Rocklahoma, Louder Than Life and Aftershock festival. The “Butcher Babies Vs. Goliath” tour will see the band perform their 2013 debut album “Goliath” (Century Media) in its entirety along with fan-favorites and new previously unheard music. The fully female-fronted lineup will include support from INFECTED RAIN and STITCHED UP HEART, with KALEIDO also appearing on select dates.
For over a decade, BUTCHER BABIES have been crushing stages worldwide with their vicious live performance and explosive energy. Their stage presence is a hypnotic spectacle that leaves audiences hungry for more as they’ve displayed on tours among the likes of MEGADETH, ROB ZOMBIE, MARILYN MANSON, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, DANZIG, IN THIS MOMENT, HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD, CRADLE OF FILTH, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY and many more.
Hailing from the City of Angels, BUTCHER BABIES have released two EPs and three albums to date, with their latest 2017 LP, “Lilith”, debuting at #1 on iTunes Metal chart and #7 on iTunes Rock chart.
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