HM News Update Week Ending 8-17
Inhale/Exhale's new Video on Headbangers Ball
Inhale/Exhale, Canton, Ohio based metal/rock outfit on Solid State Records has announced that they will debut their video for “It’s Myself vs. Being a Man” on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball. The video will debut August 14th as an exclusive on the Headbanger’s Blog and will air for the first time on MTV2’s Headbanger’s Ball on August 16th. “The whole theme is about betrayal and broken promises, same as the album. Artistically, the way the video was shot it looks grainy and contains a lot of angular shots. As a whole the video is dark, but beautifully dark.” Guitarist John LaRussa said about the video. They shot the video with Endeavor Media (The Devil Wears Prada, August Burns Red). Inhale/Exhale has also announced two separate tours that will keep them busy until the start of October. First they will tour with label mates The Showdown on their record release tour. This tour will run from August 16th to the 26th. Starting September 5th, Inhale/Exhale will embark on the Chainsaw the East tour, sponsored by Electric Zombie Clothing. They will be on tour with Oceana (Rise Records), Dead and Divine (Rise Records), and My Hero is Me (Tragic Hero). Holding true to the name of the tour, they will cover most of the east coast and a few Midwestern dates. The band has been touring steadily in support of their album, I Swear… which was released earlier this year on Solid State Records. Pastepunk.com said of the album, “This heavy/melodic dynamic is ultimately what INHALE/EXHALE is all about… they've been able to add more character to their songs.” Absolutepunk.net agreed, saying, “I Swear... is a rejuvenation in a genre that sorely needs one.
For album updates, additional tour dates and venue updates, and more, check out:
myspace.com/inhaleexhale
Here I Come Falling Announce Disbanding
Here I Come Falling have broken up. The band has released the following statement: “We love all our fans and everyone that’s ever supported us. But after much prayer and thought, we feel it is our time to be finished. We want to thank Craig and Rise Records for all their hard work and dedication to this band." There are no plans for a farewell show and the band will not be taking part in the upcoming tour with The Hottness and The Fight Between Frames scheduled for this month. Here I Come Falling have a full-length album "Oh Grave Where Is Thy Victory" which was released earlier this year on Rise Records. The band existed from 2006 to 2008.
Brainstorm Is Born!
A new festival is born: Brainstorm Festival. It will take place from November 21-23 in club Gigant in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. Besides concerts, the festival will have seminars, exposition and dvd-recordings. Here is the list of bands playing the festival:
Seventh Angel
Rebellion
Eluveitie
Thy Majestie
Seventh Avenue
Mehida
Morphia
Miseration
Whispering Gallery
Mena Brinno
A New Dawn
World To Ashes
Picture Of The Moon
All information can be found here:
brainstormfestival.com
Underoath Announce Album Release Show
UNDEROATH have announced they’ll perform a one-night-only record release show for their new album LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION--on the day of its Tuesday, September 2 release--at Irving Plaza in New York City. This show marks the first time the FL sextet--lead vocalist SPENCER CHAMBERLAIN, guitarist TIM MCTAGUE, bassist GRANT BRANDELL, drummer AARON GILLESPIE, keyboardist CHRIS DUDLEY and guitarist JAMES SMITH--will debut their fourth studio album LOST IN THE SOUND OF SEPARATION live. Special guests for the event include The Red Chord and #12 Looks Like You. Only a limited number of tickets for the Irving Plaza show are now available and they are going fast, fans can purchase tickets directly at:
livenation.com/event/getEvent/eventId/334158/
Maylene Has Been Nominated For a VMA
Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster have been nominated as “Best New Artist” for VMA Awards Show on MTV. This is an interactive vote by fans who went to the website and voted. The highest voted artists will be chosen as a final nominee for the category. Winners will be announced on an upcoming episode of FNMTV. The VMA’s will take place this September. Maylene is nominated for the video “Darkest Of Kin” directed by Soren. Maylene have recently announced a headlining tour for this September presented by Hurley and also featuring A Static Lullaby, Showbread, Confide and Attack Attack.
RYFO Needs Your Help
RYFO is needing your help to continue helping musicians: As things with RYFO are moving forward at drastic speeds (this is a good thing!) we are realizing that our current website cannot provide the services and care that we need to be able to offer touring musicians… The amazing dudes at Difted.com have offered to take our needed project on for a discounted price of $5,000 (give or take a few bucks for add-ons)! What we have proposed to them is easily a $15,000 website (crazy huh!). With a new site, band members will be able to book nights through the site at free host homes across the country, receive counseling from music industry counselors, request on-the-road tour chaplains, order free books from our publishing partners, manage their own prayer networks, receive and interact with daily devotional content, find RYFO partners offering discounted services such as mechanics, restaurants, and stores, and much more! There is nothing else out there like this… Bottom line, I am asking you to consider helping make this happen. Friends, please. For the sake of our musicians… It will not happen without you. If 50 of us give at least $100 each we will have a new site up within 2-3 months! We are looking to raise the money within the next 4 weeks so that the Difted team can get started on the project. I have been so humbled by what God is doing through RYFO and your support of this vision. Please help us. I can't stress enough how important this is. Thank you friends.
Serving The Voices,
Nick Greenwood
To make a donation or for more info, please visit:
RYFO.ORG
Underneath The Gun Signs To Ferret Music
Ferret Music has just announced that they have signed Corona, California’s Underneath the Gun! Guitarist Trevor spoke on signing with Ferret Music, “Ferret was the best choice for us because we felt that the label had enough resources to fulfill all of our needs as a band, while still being an indie label which would give us the opportunity to have a personal relationship with everyone we work with. We felt this balance was really important to the future and growth of our band.” Alongside Trevor in Underneath the Gun is Harrison (vocals), Isaac (drums), Kyle (bass), and Danny (guitar). The band which started when members were twelve years old have previously released two independent albums and built a strong west coast fan-base. Speaking on their music Trevor said, “Our goal for the music we write is to bring a pretty aggressive metal approach, but giving our own feel to it without limiting ourselves to one particular genre of metal. We also strive to write lyrics with a meaningful message about what we believe in a way that we feel everyone can relate to.” Underneath the Gun is currently on the road with My Children My Bride and while on the road with them they will hit the Taking Back the Streets Festival, a Christian music festival based in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. After they wrap up their month long stint with My Children My Bride, they will hit the road with Don the Reader from August 26th to September 11th.
For more information:
myspace.com/utg
ferretstyle.com
Saving Grace Posts Tour Diary
Saving Grace has launched a Youtube Diary in support of their current tour. They are using this to keep their fans up to date on how their current tour is going and giving them a chance to see what life on the road overseas is like. You can check out their tour diary here.
Go here to order your copy of their album, "Behind Enemy Lines":
harvestearth.com
Shaohannah's Hope Announces New Special Needs Home
Shaohannah's Hope, the adoption and orphan care ministry founded by Steven and Mary Beth Chapman, have announced the official name of their special needs healing home as Maria's Big House of Hope, named in loving memory of their five-year old daughter, Maria Sue Chapman. Located in Luoyang, China, Maria's Big House of Hope will care for orphans with medical impairments, such as cleft palate, clubbed feet, urological disorders, blindness, and neurological disorders. Maria's Big House of Hope is currently in the building stages and is set to tentatively open their doors this October. Funded by Shaohannah's Hope and managed by New Hope Foundation, upon completion this healing home will stand to be a six-floor, 60,000 sq. ft. facility and equipped with everything required to care for orphans with special needs. This will be the biggest of its kind, able to provide for over 100 children at a time. Luoyang, which has a population of around six million people, is located within the Henan province of China and is one of the poorest provinces in the country. The state-run Luoyang orphanage currently takes care of nearly 700 children and tends to most of the special needs orphans from all around Henan. To care for the specific medical needs of these orphans, Maria's Big House of Hope will provide the much-needed surgeries and medical attention, as well as be a bridge to give them hope and the love they deserve. In turn, there is hope these children will then be adopted into forever families. The Chapman family chose to build the healing home in Luoyang, China because of the area's desperate need for special needs orphan care as well as wanting to give back to the country that has given so much to them - three loving daughters: Shaohannah Hope, Stevey Joy, and Maria Sue. "We are not in the business of building orphanages, but rather building hope in the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in a way that honors God," states Scott Hasebalg, Executive Director, Shaohannah's Hope. Shaohannah's Hope also announces that to date, over $635,000 had been given to the Shaohannah's Hope's Maria's Miracle Fund in loving memory of Maria Sue. The ministry continues to be overwhelmed and thankful with the prayers and generosity from people all over the world, and there are still not enough words to be able to express the deepest gratitude for these donations. Due to the munificence of these offerings, this ministry continues to give hope and support to orphans around the world to find forever families. Though outpouring of generosity has been incredible, there is still tremendous need. Shaohannah's Hope looks forward to further partnering with donors to change the lives of orphans.
For more information:
ShowHope.org
The Showdown Posts Third Song Off New Album
Southern metal outfit, THE SHOWDOWN, has posted a third track off their upcoming Solid State Records debut, Back Breaker, on their official MySpace and Purevolume pages. “Ares - I Am Vengeance”, a standout track off the highly anticipated August 19th release. Back Breaker is THE SHOWDOWN’s third full length studio album. The band will be supporting the upcoming release this fall on the Solid State Tour alongside label mates, Norma Jean, following a string of headlining and support dates. Tour dates are below.
The Showdown w/ Inhale/Exhale:
8/19 Johnson City, TN
8/21 Little Rock, AR
8/22 Birmingham, AL
8/23 Baton Rouge, LA
8/24 Tallahassee, FL
8/26 Cincinnati, OH
8/27 London, KY
The Showdown w/ Chiodos:
8/29 Lexington, KY
8/30 Toledo, OH
8/31 Memphis, TN
For all upcoming tour dates and more info on Backbreaker, visit:
theshowdownmetal.com
Official 2008 Olympics Album w/Krystal Meyers & Fireflight
The official 2008 Olympics soundtrack album will contain music from pop artist Krystal Meyers (Essential Records / Provident Label Group) and rock band Fireflight (Flicker Records / Provident Label Group). Each act has had one of its songs selected for the album, Olympics 2008: One World, One Dream. Meyers’ song “Make Some Noise” and Fireflight’s “Unbreakable” are the songs that have been selected to be on the album, which will release on August 8, 2008 worldwide, except the U.S., Canada and Japan (BMG Asia Pacific). The project was approved by the International Olympics Committee. Krystal Meyers and Fireflight’s songs will appear alongside music from artists such as Pink, Avril Lavigne, John Mayer, Natasha Bedingfield, Boys Like Girls, among others. In addition, Krystal Meyers’ “Make Some Noise” will be the theme song used throughout all television broadcasts of the 2008 Olympics, by Korean State TV.
You can check out either artists here:
krystalmeyers.com
fireflightrock.com
Watch David Crowder Band In Theaters
David Crowder* Band’s best-selling “REMEDY Club Tour” will be featured on the silver screen in 80 cities for one night only, Monday, Aug. 18, courtesy of The Bigger Picture, the alternative content distribution unit of Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (“AccessIT”) (NASDAQ:AIXD). The screening will serve as an exclusive preview of David Crowder Band’s first ever full-length DVD release on Aug. 19. With 19 sold-out dates in distinguished club and theater venues nationwide, the fall 2007 “REMEDY Club Tour” captured the essence of what makes David Crowder Band among the most-talked-about live bands in music. Upon release of the REMEDY Club Tour DVD/CD combo on Aug. 19, fans will finally be able to bring this live experience home. In anticipation of this long-awaited event, the DVD will be debuted nationally for live audiences in theatres across the country one night only on Aug. 18. Premieres are scheduled in select cities including New York City, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Nashville, Columbus, Ohio, Cincinnati and Tampa, Fla. “David Crowder*Band consistently delivers one of the best live shows in music,” says Leisa Byars, EMI CMG VP, Marketing & Artist Development. “The Remedy Club Tour Edition was created for the many people who love the live Crowder show experience. Partnering with AEG at a national level and radio in local markets, enables us to place this compelling show on the big screen across the country and allows the band's music to continue to impact lives and communities.” “We are proud to present The David Crowder Band “REMEDY Club Tour” with this special one-night only presentation in theatres,” says President of AEG Network LIVE, John Rubey. “Fans will be delighted with the high quality digital cinema picture and the incredible surround sound.” The 85-minute concert was recorded at both the New York City and Atlanta tour stops. Shot with nine cameras, the DVD features 5.1 surround sound and includes tracks from REMEDY along with favorites from the band’s previous releases including, “I’m Trying to Make You Sing,” “The Glory Of It All,” “Can You Feel It?,” “Everything Glorious,” “…neverending…,” “Here is Our King,” “You Are My Joy,” “We Won’t Be Quiet,” “Foreverandever Etc..,” “A Beautiful Collision,” “Never Let Go,” “Remedy,” “I Saw the Light,” “No One Like You,” “O Praise Him,” and “Surely We Can Change.” Those who purchase the REMEDY Club Tour DVD/CD will also receive a 15-minute exclusive tour documentary “On The Road With David Crowder Band” as well as “Learning the Songs,” a section hosted by each band member showing fans their setup and gear used in each song along with a how-to lesson on playing the songs exactly like the David Crowder*Band. Taking it even further, the DVD features the ability to display chord/lyric subtitles so that fans can test their skills and play along with the tour night. After the David Crowder Band was voted MSN’s Artist of the Year 2006, MSN noted, “They’ve single-handedly redefined what contemporary Christian music should sound like…” The group’s last record, A Collision, was widely regarded as one of the best albums of 2005, receiving five-star reviews and comparisons to groundbreaking albums of the past and artists such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Hank Williams. The album further garnered an iTunes No. 1, debuted at No. 39 on the Billboard Top 200 and received GMA Music Dove Award honors for Best Rock/Contemporary Album and Best Rock/Contemporary Song (“Here is Our King”). Featured at the enormously popular collegiate Passion gatherings, the band also makes it a point to get back to the church they helped found, University Baptist Church, on most Sundays. Crowder is further an acclaimed author, having penned two books, including his acclaimed, highly personal, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven, But Nobody Wants to Die: Or (The Eschatology of Bluegrass).
Check out the band and the list of theatres:
DavidCrowderBand.com
thebiggerpicture.us/davidcrowderband
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Comments
Love the blog.
Gosh... I can't believe HICF is disbanding... That's so sad... Their album is one of my greatest influences as a Christian musician... So sad...
Yeah!!! for the new Showdown album - Back Breaker.
Will Rock,that's for sure.
Bring on the Heavy Metal guys,love your music.
Nathan
Papua New Guinea
