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Meshuggah Announces Tour With Baroness And Decapitated

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12 years ago

January 31, 2012

Is this year shaping up for some awesome tours or what? There’s already the Heritage Hunter Tour and now we’ve got The Ophidian Trek Tour, which has Baroness and Decapitated supporting headlining act Meshuggah! You bet your ass I’ll be at St. Andrews Hall on May 16th. If they play Bleed or Pulling Straws At Random, I might end up in the middle of the pit with a thirst for blood. Or the more likely scenario will be me looking rather silly as I headbang far too wildly. Yup, that’s what’s going to happen.

Meshuggah has also announced a new album, Koloss. Full details for that album can be found here. Tour dates for The Ophidian Trek Tour are below.

4/29/12 House of Blues – Houston, TX

4/30/12 House of Blues – Dallas, TX

5/01/12 Emo’s – Austin, TX

5/03/12 Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ

5/04/12 House of Blues – Anaheim, CA

5/05/12 House of Blues – Hollywood, CA

5/06/12 The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA

5/08/12 Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, B.C. – CANADA

5/09/12 Showbox Sodo – Seattle, WA

5/11/12 Odgen Theatre – Denver, CO

5/13/12 First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN

5/15/12 House of Blues – Chicago, IL

5/16/12 St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI

5/17/12 Sound Academy – Toronto, ON – CANADA

5/18/12 Theatre of the Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA

5/19/12 Palladium – Worcester, MA

5/20/12 Olympia de Montreal – Montreal, QUE – CANADA

5/22/12 The Fillmore – Silver Springs, MD

5/23/12 Terminal 5 – New York, NY

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“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…