Kataklysm Tour Announced... Retaliate Against the Dancers!

Starting early next year, Kataklysm will be embarking across North America on their Spread the Venom Tour. I could never really get into Kataklysm, but I've seen All Shall Perish and Decrepit Birth multiple times and can vouch for their live performances.

I'm a bit worried though. Kataklysm and Decrepit Birth are more traditional Death Metal, but All Shall Perish and Conducting the Grave (whom my fellow writers think kick ass live) are undoubtably going to attract a bunch of douchebags to the crowd. Hardcore kids go fucking nuts for ASP so they're going to come in legions, ultimately ruining the pits for everyone.

Which is why if you go to this show, which combines true death metal and the best of deathcore, YOU MUST GET REAL PITS GOING.

If people are hardcore dancing during Kataklysm, knock them the fuck out of the pit. Same goes for Decrepit Birth and Abysmal Dawn. Let the kids have their playground antics during All Shall Perish (which fucking pains me) and Conducting from the Grave, unless they start crowd punching, in which case you should retaliate. 

As I said before, this show is going to heave great death and deathcore bands, which means both types of crowds will be there. This is when we show them we won't take their shit anymore. Take advantage of this tour, and feel free to tell me how it goes.

Dates:

2/24 Peabody's – Cleveland, OH

2/25 Reggie's Rock Club – Chicago, IL

2/26 Harpo's – Detroit, MI

2/27 Station 4 – St. Paul, MN

2/28 Park Theatre – Winnipeg, MB – Canada

3/02 Starlite – Edmonton, AB – Canada

3/03 Lake City Bowl – Kelowna, BC – Canada

3/04 Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC – Canada

3/05 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA

3/06 Branx – Portland, OR

3/07 Slim's – San Francisco, CA (No ABYSMAL DAWN)

3/08 The Whisky – Hollywood, CA

3/09 Soma – San Diego, CA

3/10 Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM

3/11 El Cien – Amarillo, TX

3/12 Ridglea Theatre – Ft. Worth, TX

3/13 White Rabbit – San Antonio, TX

3/15 State Theater – St Petersburg, FL

3/16 Volume 11 – Raleigh, NC

3/17 Jaxx – Springfield, VA

3/18 Alrosa Villa – Columbus, OH

3/19 Evening Star Music Hall – Niagara Falls, NY

3/20 Club Soda – Montreal, QC – Canada

Check Out Samples from the New After the Burial Album!

If you're anything like me, you absolutely love After the Burial. Yes, they play a plethora of breakdowns and appeal to the whole stoner, flat brimmed hat crowd, but their music is actually very intricate. The band makes use of complicated time measures and constantly changes their sound around (they have a song in the beat of pi for crying out loud). I saw these guys play with Born of Osiris and All Shall Perish (AKA the greatest deathcore bands around) around a year ago, and they absolutely blew me away, despite the majority of the crowd being total asshats. It's amazing to hear them play such complicated shit live. And they're a buncha young guns as well... these guys have a great future ahead of them.

Anyways, you can hear samples of every track on their new album over at Amazon. My personal favorite is "My Frailty," which I've heard in its entirety already (only through shitty live footage which leaked a few months ago), and I'm excited to see how the track holds up on the actual record. Overall it sounds like it's gonna be a fantastic album. November 23 can't come soon enough, listen to this great shit here.

End of the Week: What are You Guys Listening to?

It's been a big week for us here at Mosh Rebellion. The website just started, and thanks to the awesome dudes at Metalsucks we have a lot of new writers! You all heard Dingus', The Baby Killer's, and Choops' take on hardcore dancing, some of which were more strongly worded than others. We told you about awesome Lamb of God breakdowns (which you probably already knew about), and introduced you to the most brutal Englishman ever, Kev.

So I think at the end of the week we should all share what we're listening to. Here are some of my favorite songs as of lately.

All Shall Perish - Gagged, Bound, Shelved and Forgotten 
When Awaken the Dreamers first came out I could never get into this song, but for some reason I can't stop listening to it now. The intro pumps me up so fucking much, and I love the lyrics. Here's an excerpt.

"Don't let them take our nation
Take
Our nation, leaving us drifting through falsehood
Redemption is gone
They tell us that were fine, that we choose our rights
Our choice, a fight
What fucking lies
They slay our minds
This is for penance
We all are taking the fall
And if they think they've won, they better think...
They fucking better think twice"


It can kinda be contorted to represented my hatred towards hardcore dancers. They might think they've won the pit, but they don't know what's comin to 'em. We can't let them take our nation (of metal). I guess. Or something. Whatever, listen to it below.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naAbTq2TbrY


Cynic - Adam's Murmur
Oh god. The melodic part that starts at 0:40 gets me every time. Such a goddamn fantastic bands from one of the best bands around. Listen to this shit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQivkZJaoq0


N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Honesty time I here. I don't just listen to metal. In fact, I fucking love gangsta rap, especially stuff from the 90's, and this shit is some of the most ghetto stuff you'll find. This song makes me want to fuck shit up, it's so good, almost as gangsta as Dr. Dre's The Chronic (arguably the best rap album ever). Also, it's funny to think that the guy who spits the rhyme, "When I'm called off, I got a sawed off, Squeeze the trigger, and bodies are hauled off" went on to star in such prestigious films as Are We There Yet? No matter, download this shit and blast it in you're car. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33jyoyJNa2c&feature=related


So, that's what I've been listening to, what about you guys? Post in the comments below, give us some good music for the weekend!