Music

Rumor Confirmed: MEGADETH, SLAYER, and TESTAMENT on ‘American Carnage’ Tour!

Published

14 years ago

November 17, 2009

Rumors have been swirling around for a while now about SLAYER and MEGADETH teaming up for a 2010 tour, and today it was made official. They’ll kick things off January 18 in Seattle. Remember the ‘Clash of the Titans’ tour in 1991 when SLAYER and MEGADETH last toured together? Me either, but the bands decided to pretend it’s still 1991 and put our wallets at ease by selling a chunk of tickets at $10 a pop.

Here’s the official announcement posted on youtube,

Read on for all the tour dates and how to buy tickets. Jan. 18 – WaMu Theatre, Seattle, WA*
Jan. 19 – Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR
Jan. 21 – Cow Palace, San Francisco, CA*
Jan. 22 – Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA*
Jan. 23 – Dodge Theatre, Phoenix, AZ**
Jan. 25 – Magness Arena, Denver, CO*
Jan. 26 – Tingley Coliseum, Albuquerque, NM*
Jan. 27 – El Paso Coliseum, El Paso, TX*
Jan. 29 – Verizon Wireless, Houston, TX**
Jan. 31 – Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN*
Feb. 01 – Gwinnett Arena, Duluth, GA*
Feb. 02 – Broadbent Arena, Louisville, KY*
Feb. 04 – Roy Wilkins Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN*
Feb. 05 – UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL*
Feb. 06 – Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI*
Feb. 09 – Chevrolet Theatre, Wallingford, CT**
Feb. 11 – Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ*
Feb. 13 – Susquehanna Center, Camden, NJ*
Feb. 14 – Tsongas Arena, Lowell, MA*
Feb. 16 – Pavillon de La Jeunesse, Quebec City, QC
Feb. 18 – John Labatt Centre, London, ON
Feb. 19 – Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON
Feb. 20 – Bell Centre, Montreal, QC
Feb. 22 – Moncton Coliseum, Moncton, NB
Feb. 23 – Metro Centre, Halifax, NS

* Tickets sold through Ticketmaster
** Tickets sold through LiveNation.com

Tom Owen

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Music

“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

Published

2 weeks ago

April 9, 2024

John Squires

It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…