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NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL XV: Tickets On Sale NOW

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Tickets for this year’s NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL are officially on sale NOW. Set to commence with a pre-party on April 18th, the official three-day ritual will take place the weekend of April 19th, 20th and 21st at the historic Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts and mark the annual event’s 15th anniversary.

Presented by MassConcerts, this year’s edition of the festival features nearly fifty acts from all walks of the extreme music spectrum, including headlining sets from Hatebreed, Opeth and Suicidal Tendencies, as well as legendary thrash behemoths Anthrax, who will be performing their classic Among The Living full-length in its entirety as part of their headlining spot on the Metal Alliance Tour. Celebrating its third year of sonic demolition, this year’s Metal Alliance Tour finds Anthrax sharing the stage with Bay Area thrash legends Exodus, Richmond speed metal assailants Municipal Waste, and retro metal conjurors Holy Grail, each of whom will be systematically leveling the two stages of the Palladium at NEMHF XV.

Latest additions to the fest include: Agitator, Battlecross, Disgrace, Foundation, Glass Cloud, King 810, Miss May I, Mouth Of The South, Mutilation Rites, Texas In July, The Greenery, Thick As Blood and To The Wind and VYGR with more acts to be announced in the coming weeks. See day-to-day breakdown below.

Friday: Anthrax performing Among The Living in its entirety, Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, Exodus, Municipal Waste, Black Breath, Holy Grail, VYGR, Dead By Wednesday, Multilation Rites, Trap Them, Death Before Dishonor, Xibalba, The Mongoloids, Power Trip, Expire, Twitching Tongues, Suburban Scum, Rude Awakening, The Greenery, Disgrace, Antagonist AD, The Greenery, Battlecross.

Saturday: Opeth, Katatonia, Trollfest, Tyr, Hellsot, Heidevolk, Ensiferum, Born of Osiris, After The Burial, The Contortionist, I Declare War, Legion, Erra, Fit For An Autopsy, Sworn In, Reflections, Mouth of the South, Ark of the Covenant, Those Who Fear, Saving Grace, Years Since The Storm, Mouth of the South, King 810.

Sunday: Suicidal Tendencies, Miss May I, Texas In July, Glass Cloud, Your Memorial, No Mercy, Foundation, Remembering Never, Bracewar, Mother of Mercy, Agitator, Incendiary, Thick As Blood, To The Wind.

New England Metal & Hardcore Festival 2013 Ticket Prices/Packages:
Weekend Pass For All Three Days – $90 [BUY HERE]
Thursday, April 18th – Kick Off Party – $12 In Advance/$15 Day-Of [BUY HERE]
Friday, April 19th: $35 In Advance/$40 Day-Of [BUY HERE]
Saturday, April 20th: $40 In Advance/$45 Day-Of [BUY HERE]
Sunday, April 21st: $35 In Advance/$40 Day-Of [BUY HERE]

VIP Three-Day Package – $165: Includes one three-day NEMHHF Pass, entry to Thursday’s pre-party, an NEMHF T-shirt, 18 x 24 NEMHF poster, NEMHF sampler CD, exclusive meet and greets with artists all weekend, early entry each day, NEHMF guitar picks, NEHMF button pack, raffles for exclusive gear, NEMHF beer koozie, NEMHF + Shock Clothing key chain, free Monster energy drink at the signing tent. [BUY HERE]

VIP One-Day Pass – $80: Includes one NEMHHF day pass for Friday, Saturday or Sunday, an NEMHF T-shirt, 18 x 24 NEMHF poster, NEMHF sampler CD, exclusive meet and greets with artists all weekend, NEHMF guitar picks, NEMHF beer koozie, NEMHF + Shock Clothing key chain, free Monster energy drink at the signing tent. [BUY HERE]

Since 1999, the NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL has showcased a vast array of metal and hardcore acts, while also providing merchandising and promotional areas for record labels and other vendors, at Worcester, Massachusetts’ massive venue The Palladium.

Stay tuned for a torrent of continuous updates and coverage opportunities for the NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL are made available via Earsplit PR, an official sponsor of this year’s event.

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http://www.massconcerts.com



ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT and RADiUS-TWC  GO ALL-IN WITH LAY THE FAVORITE ON BLU-RAY™ AND DVD

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“Lay the Favorite is...pleasing and exceptionally well made.”

-Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle 

The Star-Powered Comedy Heads To Retail On March 5, 2013!

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – Anchor Bay Entertainment and RADiUS-TWC announced today the Blu-ray™ and DVD release of LAY THE FAVORITE from two time Academy Award®-nominated director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity). The films all-star cast includes Bruce Willis (The Die Hard Franchise), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Joshua Jackson (“Dawson’s Creek”).  LAY THE FAVORITE heads to retail on March 5, 2013 with an SRP of $29.99 for the Blu-ray™ and $24.98 for the DVD.

Get ready to get lucky! Professional odds-maker Dink (Bruce Willis) is running a small-time sports gambling enterprise when a former stripper named Beth (Rebecca Hall) promises to help him score big — and turns his world upside down. With his connections and her knack for numbers, the lucrative business of sports betting will never be the same. Catherine Zeta-Jones and Joshua Jackson round out the talented cast of misfits who are willing to risk everything for their dreams. Sly and sexy, heart-warming and hilarious, LAY THE FAVORITE, directed by Stephen Frears, delivers laughs and thrills in this vivid exposé of the world of gambling based on the Beth Raymer’s best-selling memoir, “Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling.”

The LAY THE FAVORITE Blu-ray™ and DVD special feature includes deleted scenes.  LAY THE FAVORITE BLU-RAY™




Danish Dynamite Rockers PRETTY MAIDS to release their new Album « MOTHERLAND « on Frontiers in March !

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Frontiers Records is excited to announce the release of PRETTY MAIDS anticipated new album entitled « Motherland » on March 22nd in Europe and March 26th in North America.

After their successful and highly acclaimed 2010 album “Pandemonium”, Danish melodic Hard Rockers, Pretty Maids celebrated their 30th anniversary with their debut visual release “It Comes Alive (Maid in Switzerland)” in 2012. “Pandemonium” showed the world that Pretty Maids were in a creative spring again, with the band in their finest moment. The melodic approach brought a return to the “Future World / Red Hot and Heavy” era of the eighties, but with an updated sound and freshness that consolidated Pretty Maids as strong as ever.

In late spring 2012, the band gathered to finally write the follow up album. Singer Ronnie Atkins tells: “We knew it was going to be a tough one to follow ! I remember back in the day when we had to follow up albums like “Future World”, we tried more or less to copy the songs from the previous album to keep the same kind of balance. But this time we just wrote what came natural to us and that’s what became “Motherland”.

The band teamed up again with producer Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Amaranthe) for the new album. Ronnie says: “Jacob was a natural choice since we had a great experience with him producing the “Pandemonium” album. The recordings went smooth to begin with, but then we had to start touring again during the weekends and this created some stress. Though I really feel strongly about “Motherland”. In my view it has all the ingredients of a good Pretty Maids album, maybe even more melodic than “Pandemonium” and absolutely, as far as I’m concerned a worthy follow up”.

Founded in early 1982 by guitarist Ken Hammer and singer Ronnie Atkins, Pretty Maids soon established themselves as a band to be taken seriously in the early eighties, having their breakthrough with the release - in April 1987 - of the album “Future World”. This record soon gathered a universal recognition as a “Classic”, which endures to date, and allowed the band to perform in from of large audiences thanks to their tour with Deep Purple and their appearances in the “Monsters of Rock” festival. The following album “Jump The Gun” kept the momentum for the band, particularly in Europe and Japan.

Throughout the nineties Pretty Maids continued to release albums, usually followed by European and Japanese tours with the band still maintaining a very high songwriting and production standards. The release of “Wake up to the Real World” in 2006 started the band’s relationship with Frontiers Records.

            “Motherland”  will include the following tracks:

Mother Of All Lies; To Fool A Nation; Confession; The Iceman; Sad To See You Suffer; Hooligan; Infinity; Why So Serious; Motherland; I See Ghosts; Bullet For You; Who What Where When Why; Wasted.

The release of the new album will be preceded by the release of the single / video “Mother of All Lies” which will hit the streets on January 22nd 2013.  A sample of the single can be heard following this link:

http://youtu.be/KuqCwrdojho

Pretty Maids will play numerous festivals this summer such as Wacken Open Air and Bang Your Head !!!, followed by an extensive world tour in support of “ Motherland”.

Pretty Maids are stronger than ever – don’t miss them on tour !!!

PRETTY MAIDS

    Ronnie Atkins - vocals 
    Ken Hammer - guitars
    Morten Sandager - keyboards
    Allan Tschicaja - drums
    Rene Shades - bass




UPON WINGS Unveil Artwork and Tracklisting for Afterlife EP.  Single Available Now on iTunes and Amazon 

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UPON WINGS will be releasing their new EP Afterlife, March 5th on Sword of the Spirit Records LLC. The EP features guest vocals and production from Brett Hestla (Ex-Creed, Dark New Day). Today, the band has revealed the artwork and tracklisting for the EP.

The EP's debut single and title track hit rock radio on Jan. 15, and since then, "Afterlife" has been featured on the likes of KTCL (Denver), KXXR (Minneapolis), KGRR (Dubuque), KRDJ (Lafayette), WRAT (Monmouth) and WKRL (Syracuse). The single is now available for purchase on iTunes and Amazon.

Afterlife the EP can be pre-ordered now on iTunes.

Rock and metal fans will recognize plenty of names on Afterlife. Kid Rock recording engineer and Grammy-nominated mixing engineer Glenn Brown mastered the single, while Brett Hestla (ex-Creed, Dark New Day) provided guest vocals and production talents. More metal assistance for the upcoming EP came from producer and guitarist Kevin Jardine, best known as the guitarist of Canadian nu metal giants Slaves on Dope, formerly on Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's Divine Recordings label. Drummer Peter Tzaferis also contributed to the EP.

UPON WINGS combines operatic, female-fronted goth-pop with rousing rock and metal in a unique, ethereal fashion. Frontwoman Anne Autumn Erickson is a classically-trained dramatic mezzo-soprano, and her lyrics take listeners down a path of heartfelt introspection, pain, joy and faith.

Afterlife Tracklisting:

1. Afterlife
2. You Are My Weapon
3. Take Away
4. The Dream (I'm Only Happy When I'm Sleeping)



SENSES FAIL ANNOUNCE SPRING 2013 HEADLINE US TOUR

PureVolume Presents Senses Fail with Such Gold, Real Friends, and Major League Limited Edition Covers EP With Ticket Pre-order NEW ALBUM RENACER OUT MARCH 26, 2013

(January 16, 2013) - SENSES FAIL today announce an extensive US headline spring tour in support of their upcoming album, RENACER (ray-nah-serr) which will be released on March 26, 2013 on Staple Records.  The tour is presented by PureVolume.com and includes support from Such Gold, Real Friends, and Major League. The tour kicks off April 3, 2013 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently wraps on May 11 with a special New Jersey-area show that will be announced in the coming weeks. .

The band is offering their fans pre-sale tickets for the tour beginning TODAY at Noon local time at: http://tixx1.artistarena.com/SensesFail/. 

The first 500 fans who purchase their tickets during the pre-sale will receive a three song digital EP of cover songs recorded exclusively for the pre-sale and not available elsewhere.

COVERS EP:

1. “Mouth For War” (Pantera)
2. “Suffer” (Bad Religion)
3. “AM/PM” (American Nightmare)

Additionally, every fan that purchases a pre-sale a ticket will receive a $5 coupon redeemable for any full-priced apparel item sold at the band's merch booth along the tour.

Renacer is Senses Fail’s fifth full-length studio album and was recorded in Los Angeles, California at both The Airport Studio and Red Bull Studio with producer Shaun Lopez (Far, Deftones) at the helm.

SENSES FAIL US TOUR:

04/03 – Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon
04/04 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
04/05 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
04/06 – Norfolk, VA @ Norva
04/07 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
04/09 – St. Petersburg, FL @ The State Theatre
04/10 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
04/12 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live – Studio
04/13 – Dallas, TX @ The Door
04/14 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
04/16 – El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
04/17 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
04/18 – Scottsdale, AZ @ Martini Ranch
04/19 – San Diego, CA @ Soma
04/20 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
04/21 – Bakersfield, CA @ Jerry’s Pizza Pub
04/23 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
04/24 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
04/25 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
04/27 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
04/28 – Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
04/30 – Iowa City, IA @ Blue Moose
05/01 – Newport, KY @ Thompson House
05/02 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
05/03 – Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge
05/04 – Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
05/05 – Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
05/07 – Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
05/08 – Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon
05/09 – New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom
05/10 – Cambridge, MA @ Middle East
05/11 – New Jersey @ TBD

UK TOUR:

05/18 Kingston – The Peel
05/19 Southampton – Talking Heads
05/20 Bristol – Thekla
05/21 Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach
05/22 Nottingham – Rescue Room
05/23 Glasgow – King Tuts
05/24 Newcastle – Academy 2
05/28 Manchester – NQ Live
05/29 Norwich – Waterfront Studio
05/30 London – Underworld
05/31 Exeter – Cavern
06/01 Oxford – 02 Academy 2


LACUNA COIL to Join COAL CHAMBER and SEVENDUST on North American Tour

January 16, 2013 (Los Angeles, CA) - Italy's LACUNA COIL recently announced they would return to the states in February for a US tour with Sevendust.  The band is pleased to announce that they will continue touring in the US throughout March and April when they join the COAL CHAMBER and SEVENDUST tour kicking off on March 28th.  A full list of dates is below.

LACUNA COIL has spent the past year touring the world in support of their new album, DARK ADRENALINE.  Released earlier this year via Century Media Records, the album debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, selling nearly 20,000 units in its first week, and spawned the crushing first single "Trip The Darkness."  The band has sold upwards of 800,000 units in the US alone and with six full-length albums, two EPs, various singles and a DVD under their belt; LACUNA COIL maintains their prominent role in the modern rock scene.

Tour Dates w/ Sevendust:

02/02/13 - Winston-Salem, NC @ Ziggy's
02/03/13 - Jacksonville, NC @ Hooligans
02/05/13 - Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club
02/06/13 - Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
02/07/13 - Portland, ME @ The Asylum
02/08/13 - Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock
02/09/13 - Lynchburg, VA @ Phase 2
02/10/13 - Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
02/12/13 - Fayetteville, AR @ George's Majestic Lounge
02/14/13 - Biloxi, MS @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
02/15/13 - Broussard, LA @ The Station
02/16/13 - Beaumont, TX @ Dixie Dance Hall
02/17/13 - Little Rock, AR @ Revolution! Music Room
02/19/13 - Springfield, IL @ Boondocks
02/21/13 - Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theatre
02/22/13 - South Bend, IN @ Club Fever
02/23/13 - Cedar Falls, IA @ Pepsi Pavilion

Tour Dates w/ Coal Chamber, Sevendust:

03/28/13 - Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
03/29/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia LA Live
03/30/13 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
03/31/13 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
04/02/13 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
04/03/13 - Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion
04/04/13 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
04/05/13 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's
04/06/13 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II
04/08/13 - Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
04/09/13 - Joliet, IL @ Mojoes
04/11/13 - Ft. Wayne, IN @ Piere's
04/12/13 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
04/13/13 - Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy (*No Sevendust)
04/14/13 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
04/16/13 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
04/17/13 - New York, NY @ Best Buy Theatre
04/18/13 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
04/19/13 - Hampton Beach, NH @ Hampton Beach Casino
04/20/13 - Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
04/22/13 - Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live!
04/23/13 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fimore Charlotte
04/24/13 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
04/26/13 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
04/27/13 - Corpus Christi, TX @ Concrete Street Amphitheatre
04/28/13 - Dallas, TX @ The Palladium Ballroom