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Check This Band Out: Slug Comparison
Doug Harrison, vocalist for Canadian progressive rock band Fen, has launched a new side project called Slug Comparison and sweetened the announcement by releasing a video for the band’s first single “Bringer Of Doom”. I wanted to bring it to you because the song has a dark edge to it and reminds me of more recent work from Katatonia. So if you’re a fan of melancholic, dark rock, this is right up your alley.
The video was directed by Peter Wilholm and tells the story of a woman who attempts suicide only to be pulled into her dream-like subconsciousness where she keeps running into a mysterious man.
Harrison states, “The story wasn’t what I had in mind when I wrote the song. But when Peter came up with the idea, I was impressed by how well it matched the lyrics, so we went ahead with making it.”
Head below to watch the video and make sure to buy a copy of “Bringer Of Doom” for only $1 through Bandcamp.
Slug Comparison online:
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Official Website
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AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.