Protest The Hero added to High On Fire sidewaves

2 February 2011 | 12:37 am | Staff Writer
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Protest The Hero are making their mark on the hard rock, hardcore, heavy metal and post-whatever scenes, thanks to the progressive, metallic, and so-far-left-of-center-that-it-hangs-out-at-dangerously-close-to-the-warning-track music on their latest album, ‘Fortress’. Inflicting a permanent scar on your brain through the subtle melodies and the turbocharged riffery, Protest The Hero aren’t all flash, but substance. Underground thrash-sludge messiahs High On Fire have set a new standard in doom metal. Boasting apocalyptic riffage and gravel-gargling vocals, their latest opus ‘Snakes for the Devil’ solidifies High On Fire as one of the most important bands in metal today, Absolute Punk affirming, “…the band has burned the metal rulebook and forged a new archetype.” Equal parts molten metal and earthquake panic, High On Fire’s outrageously loud and absolutely punishing live show is descending upon Brisbane and Melbourne this March. With stage displays firmly rooted in chaos, an arse...

Protest The Hero are making their mark on the hard rock, hardcore, heavy metal and post-whatever scenes, thanks to the progressive, metallic, and so-far-left-of-center-that-it-hangs-out-at-dangerously-close-to-the-warning-track music on their latest album, ‘Fortress’. Inflicting a permanent scar on your brain through the subtle melodies and the turbocharged riffery, Protest The Hero aren’t all flash, but substance.


Underground thrash-sludge messiahs High On Fire have set a new standard in doom metal.


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Boasting apocalyptic riffage and gravel-gargling vocals, their latest opus ‘Snakes for the Devil’ solidifies High On Fire as one of the most important bands in metal today, Absolute Punk affirming, “…the band has burned the metal rulebook and forged a new archetype.” Equal parts molten metal and earthquake panic, High On Fire’s outrageously loud and absolutely punishing live show is descending upon Brisbane and Melbourne this March.


With stage displays firmly rooted in chaos, an arsenal of releases to back it up, and fervent touring, Trash Talk has continually astonished loyal fans and newcomers alike. Pushing onward and upward since inception, Trash Talk has defined, refined, and re-defined themselves as a punk/hardcore juggernaut.


Intelligent and complicated songwriting structures drawing from an array of dizzying musical sources have set Kylesa apart from their sludge-metal peers. Rounded off with an onslaught of psychedelic undercurrents; and jarring, triple-team vocal interaction, Kylesa has truly earned a well-deserved place as the “dark psych-metal titans” (Spin) of the stoner metal community.


High On Fire, Trash Talk, Protest The Hero and Kylesa will unleash the doom on their Sidewaves this March.


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