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The Birthday Massacre Co-Headline Tour With Black Veil Brides

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Hollywood’s standout theatrical rockers, Black Veil Brides and Toronto’s most visually stunning and musically exciting band, The Birthday Massacre (review HERE), will team up to melt faces across the United States on a twenty city co-headlining tour this fall. They’ll be making stops in Atlanta, Houston, Anaheim and Seattle. Currently headlining shows throughout the US on their “Entertainment or Death” tour, the Black Veil Brides are riding high on the success of their chart topping debut album, We Stitch These Wounds, which came in at #36 on the Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Billboard Independent at the time of album’s release. Currently headlining a UK tour as well as a coming off a successful East Coast sweep, The Birthday Massacre have been reaping heaps of critical praise for their recently released fourth album Pins and Needles on Metropolis Records which debuted at #5 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart. Supporting acts on the tour will be Dommin and Aural Vampire.
Black Veil Brides was formed in 2006 when 15-year-old vocalist, Andy Six, began seeking players to create a vision of a modern day heavy metal band, combining the theatrics and passion of Misfits, Motley Crue, and Kiss, with lyrical content that pertains to the downtrodden outcasts of society. With a goal of bringing back the community and passion that was once so prevalent in rock and roll, he moved to LA in 2009 recruiting Ashley Purdy (bass), Jinxx (guitar), Jake Pitts (lead guitar), and Christian Coma (drums). With passionate hook-laden instrumentals and lyrics of hope and strength, Black Veil Brides quickly gained a dedicated following of fans averaging over 10,000 plays a day on the band’s MySpace and 13 million views of their first video for their single, “Knives and Pens”.

On the new album Pins And Needles which was mixed by David Ogilvie (producer of Skinny Puppy, Marilyn Manson, Killing Joke), The Birthday Massacre further refine their captivating hybrid of 80’s electronica and aggressive guitars, curiously fused with cinematically dark melodic progressions, explored on the band’s highly acclaimed previous albums. Revenant Media summed it up best: “The Birthday Massacre has crafted an astonishing release… [Pins and Needles is] an album that will be hard to top and one that many will try to imitate.” The epically arresting video for the first single “In the Dark” enjoyed a special theatrical premiere at Rue Morgue’s Festival of Fear in Toronto, ON last month. With over 330,000 fans as measured by nextbigsound.com, The Birthday Massacre continues to be discovered by new waves of believers.
BLACK VEIL BRIDES / THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE 
TOUR DATES:
11/3 Orlando, FL The Club at Firestone
11/4 St. Petersburg, FL The State Theatre
11/5 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
11/6 Metairie, LA The High Ground
11/7 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit
11/8 Houston, TX Warehouse Live
11/9 Corpus Christi, TX House of Rock
11/13 Mesa, AZ Nile Theatre
11/14 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
11/15 San Diego, CA Soma Sidestage
11/17 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
11/18 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater
11/20 Seattle, WA Studio Seven
11/21 Boise, ID The Big Easy
11/22 Salt Lake City, UT Club Sound
11/23 Denver, CO The Summit Music Hall
11/24 Des Moines, IA People’s Court
11/26 Detroit, MI Harpo’s Concert Theatre
11/27 Louisville, KY Expo Five
11/28 Cleveland, OH Peabody’s Down Under
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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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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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