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Fear Factory Cancel Shockwave 2012 Tour TWO DAYS BEFORE IT KICKS OFF
Fear Factory announced yesterday that the 2012 Shockwave Festival, which saw support from such acts as Voivod, Cattle Decapitation, Misery Index, Revocation, and more, was fully and entirely cancelled. The reason? A combination of poor advance ticket sales and the fact that Voivod dropped off the tour was enough for promoters to pull the plug on the entire festival a mere two days before the start.
Fear Factory commented, “We are truly disappointed not to be part of the Shockwave tour. We send our sincerest apologies to all our North American fans planning to come out this Summer, but we will be back. Please look for Fear Factory headline dates in August.”
The website for the Shockwave Festival shows only a single page with an explanation, apology, and refund information.
Below are some thoughts on why this tour didn’t make it.
Honestly, did the promoters expect this to sell well? Summer is a time for big outdoor concerts, not indoor festivals in small, cramped venues. This tour would’ve probably been much more successful had it set dates during late fall or early winter.
And as for Voivod leaving being the straw that broke the camel’s back, what does that say about the drawing power of Fear Factory? It’s actually quite simple: For a band that has had some great albums, they’ve also had some really terrible ones. As a result, it’s a gamble when you see them that they’ll perform only their good tracks.
Needless to say, I feel terrible for all the bands as I’m 100% sure that many of them spent a great deal of time and money preparing for this. For example, I know that Cattle Decapitation purchased a ton of merch that is now almost sure to be seen as wasted. Who’s going to want to buy tour shirts for a tour that never happened? And this is probably every band on the tour. These bands need every penny they have so as to prepare for every tour they are on. Any wasted money screws them over royally, making it that much harder for them to hit the road again.
Hopefully each band recovers from this setback and are able to hop onto another tour.
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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…
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