Huntress - Sorrow/ Zenith/ Eight of Swords + album deets

Fronted by the frankly staggering Jill Janus, this lot keep knocking the ball out of the park with their vids. This new one's a perfect retro-horror concoction

Well done Phil Mucci.

Esoterica; melody; occult science and bong-rips...mix in a cauldron and you get this amazingness

Anyway the new album is out now on Napalm Records

See my post about The Shrine for live dates (what a tour that's gonna be!). Now let's go back to their debut for a reminder of a) why walking around hell in a leotard can be a great idea and b) what an incredible voice Miss Janus has (if you don't know this - wait for the "Let the witches in" bit when she will freeze your blood)

The Shrine - Death To Invaders + album/ tour deets

Well The Shrine can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. I stumbled across them way back when Sir Chuck Dukowski had taken a shine to them and produced that incredible first single. The following demo was incredible - there was a period long ago when punk met hardcore met metal and it was a golden era when the great punk lie was thrown out of the window (together with all the dumb-arse journalists) and folk just ROCKED. We now know that it was the return of Proto. The Shrine mainline that era, that feeling, and they can fuckin' JAM. Finally we have a vid that does them justice...

I would just add that their beast of a drummer was a very talented singer-songwriter as well! I hope he's still doing that. Anyway the new album is 'Rare Breed' and is out 30th October in Europe but 15th January in N America! Apparently the American version will have additional tracks...here are all 3 of their albums so far

They tour relentlessly so...

Some of those are with Clutch and Corrosion of Conformity, and yes that is a 5 day stint on Motorhead's motorboat!

Then it's over to Europe for this

and then back to the USA for this incredible package

Unfortunately Coolrunnings nabbed it first but if ever there was a band deserving of this album sleeve - it's The Shrine-

The Shrine - European tour support for Red Fang w Lord Dying

They are back!

and here's an amusing new vid from the headliners



EUROPEAN TOUR PT. 1
18.01.14 Switzerland Geneve PTR, Usine
19.01.14 France Orleans Astrolabe
20.01.14 France Nantes Ferraileur
21.01.14 France Bordeaux Krakatoa
22.01.14 Spain Bilbao Kafé Antzoki
23.01.14 Portugal Oporto Hard Club
24.01.14 Portugal Lisbon Music Box
25.01.14 Spain Madrid Sala Arena
26.01.14 Spain Barcelona Bikini
28.01.14 France Toulouse Connexion
29.01.14 France Clermont-Ferrand Wild Festival
30.01.14 Italy Mezzago (MB) Bloom
31.01.14 Italy Livorno The Cage Club Theatre
01.02.14 Italy Bologna Locomotiv Club
02.02.14 Slovenia Ljubljana Channel Zero
04.02.14 Croatia Rijeka Palach
05.02.14 Hungary Budapest Dürer Kert
06.02.14 Czech Republic Prague Futurum
07.02.14 Greece Athens Gagarin 205
08.02.14 Greece Thessaloniki Eightball
09.02.14 Turkey Istanbul Jolly Joker *Red Fang only

EUROPEAN TOUR PT. 2
14.03.14 Germany Köln Essigfabrik
15.03.14 Belgium Hasselt Muziekodroom
16.03.14 France Paris Divan Du Monde
17.03.14 UK Sheffield Corporation
18.03.14 UK Manchester Sound Control
19.03.14 UK Glasgow Classic Grand
20.03.14 UK Birmingham Institute Temple
21.03.14 UK London Islington Academy
22.03.14 Netherlands Eindhoven Effenaar
23.03.14 Netherlands Nijmegen Doornroosje
25.03.14 Germany Hamburg Knust
26.03.14 Sweden Gothenburg Truckstop Alaska
27.03.14 Norway Oslo John Dee
28.03.14 Sweden Stockholm Debaser Strand
29.03.14 Denmark Copenhagen Pumpehuset
30.03.14 Germany Berlin Lido
31.03.14 Poland Warsaw Basen
01.04.14 Austria Wien Arena
03.04.14 Germany München Backstage
04.04.14 Germany Leipzig Taeubchenthal
05.04.14 Germany Stuttgart LKA
06.04.14 Germany Wiesbaden Schlachthof