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Skindred Announces Their Autumn and Ireland Headline Tour

Danielle Ediale — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 23:36:59 +0000

British reggae-metal band, Skindred have just announced their upcoming UK/Ireland tour which will commence in the autumn period this year. Purchases for pre-tickets will be available on Wednesday 29 March at 10 am. General sales will begin on Friday 31 March for the 11-date tour that will take place in October and November this year.

This announcement also follows the release of their new album, Smile, which marks their eighth long player and their first for Earache Records. In addition, this also marks 25 years since their debut album, which Skindred will acknowledge and celebrate. Pre-orders of the new album will be released on August 4.

UK + Ireland! We're bringing you a headline tour this Autumn!

Arya Goggin, the tour drummer for the band said, “There is a lot to Smile about when it comes to this TOUR! We are taking out an amazing new band called BlackGold too. They are bringing Nu Metal back and I think ‘Dred fans will love them. Go check ‘em out!”

Skindred’s recognition as one of the UK’s most exciting live bands is widely recognised and have also been nominated for ‘Best UK Live Act’ at the Heavy Music Awards 2023. Prior to their upcoming autumn show, the band are no strangers to igniting moshpits in upcoming months to come, as they will headline for both Takedown and Dominion Festivals in the UK, just before they will appear as special guests for American rock legends, KISS on their anticipated farewell tour.

The unparalleled live set will be brought alive by the band, as they are set to perform on the main stages of 2000 Trees and Maid Of Stone Festivals in the UK, with the addition of special appearances at various other key European festivals that also include a few acts, with the likes of Wacken Open Air, With Full Force Festival, NovaRock and Grasspop.

Resourceful information regarding exclusive ticket pre-sales via pre-orders will be available on the Earache Webstore site with no purchase necessary.

SKINDRED 2023 UK TOUR DATES

04/08/2023 – Takedown Festival – Portsmouth, UK

05/07 – Dominion Festival – Durham, UK

06/03 – Home Park Stadium – Plymouth, UK

06/05 – Resorts Worlds Arena – Birmingham, UK

06/06 – Utilita Arena 0 Newcastle, UK

07/05 – The O2 Arena – London

07/07 – AO Arena – Manchester, UK

07/08 – OVO Hydro – Glasgow, UK

07/09 – 2000 Trees Festival – Cheltenham, UK

07/23 – Maid Of Stone Festival – Maidstone, UK

10/06 – Roadmender – Northampton, UK

10/07 – O2 Academy – Leeds, UK

10/13 – Cambridge Junction – Cambridge UK

10/14 – Epic – Norwich, UK

10/19 – Rock City – Nottingham, UK

10/27 – Chalk – Brighton, UK

11/03 – Leadmill – Sheffield, UK

11/04 – The Engine Shed – Lincoln, UK

11/10 – Great Hall – Cardiff, Wales

11/17 – Limelight 2 – Belfast, Ireland

11/18 – Dublin Academy – Dublin, Ireland.

Motörhead Cut Concert Short Due to Lemmy’s Poor Health

Zahrah Haider — Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:40:08 +0000

The band were forced to cut short their performance at Germany’s Wacken Open Air festival last night due to Lemmy’s health. Since then, organisers of the festival have issued an official statement:

“Motörhead rocked the Black Stage for more than 30 minutes and Lemmy gave everything he´s got to play an amazing live show,” they said. He´s keeping well – but the temperatures and circumstances led to the point that continuing the show would have led to a loss of quality. We are very happy and proud that Phil, Mikkey and particularly Mr. Rock n’ Roll himself, Lemmy Kilmister, played W:O:A 2013 and that they did everything humanly possible to play this gig. Thank you so much, guys!”

Motörhead had to stop after six songs after Lemmy was unable to continue. In June it was revealed that he had a defibrilator to correct heart problems, and suffered a haematoma shortly after. The band have cancelled tour dates in November but are still planning on releasing their new album, Aftershock, in September.

Emperor Will Reunite for Wacken Next Year

Jack Gunner — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:10:28 +0000

Iconic black metal act Emperor will reunite for a headline show at next year’s Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany.

The news was announced today at this years festival, at which vocalist Vegard Sverre ‘Ihsahn’ Tveitan and guitarist Tomas ‘Samoth’ Haugen were present. Their appearance next year will mark the festivals 25 year anniversary.

After a four-album career that marked them out as one of extreme metals most influential acts, Emperor retired in 2001 with the swansong album, ‘Prometheus – The Discipline of Fire and Demise’, and have only re-united briefly in 2006 and 2007 for one-off gigs. Discussing the future of Emperor in an interview with Gun Shy Assassin, Ihsahn stated that he would ‘never say never’ to future performances, but that there would be no new music from the band:

‘Part of the reason why our albums keep on selling is probably because we were always an uncompromising band, and that is a tradition I would like to uphold. If we did a new EMPEROR album, what kind of EMPEROR album would people like? I say listen to the stuff I do, and the stuff that Samoth does, and you can more or less figure out what a new EMPEROR record would sound like, and that sounds nothing like old EMPEROR. Trying to duplicate something from the past would just turn everything into a parody.’

Since the dissolution of Emperor, the members have channelled their energy into other projects, with Ihsahn pursuing a solo career, Samoth turning to death metal with the band Zyklon, and former bassist Mortiis achieving a successful career in dark ambient music.

Emperor’s career has, like many of their contemporaries from the early 90’s Norwegian black metal scene, been marked by controversy stemming from a number of violent incidents. 1994 saw two of the bands three members incarcerated – former drummer Bard Faust was convicted of the 1992 homophobic murder of Lillehammer man Magne Andreasson, while Samoth was implicated and imprisoned for his involvement, along with contemporaries Varg Vikernes and Euronymous, in the infamous church burnings that plagued Norway throughout the early part of the decade.