Norsekorea has two upcoming shows with pre-sale tickets on sale now.
November 7
Bane, Defeater, Miles Away, Dead End Path
Will's Pub
8pm Doors, All Ages
Buy Tickets Online or at PArk Ave CDs: $12 presale or $14 day of show
Bane
Founded on beliefs that are in short supply within the current underground music scene, Massachusetts' Bane has established themselves as one of the most influential and relevant bands in hardcore today. Since their inception, they've become one of the scene's hardest working bands touring the world over and releasing three full-length's: 1999's It All Comes Down To This, 2001's critically acclaimed Give Blood, and 2005's The Note.
Four years have passed since The Note was released, and the members of Bane schedules were looking busier then ever, finding the time to write a new full-length seemed unrealistic. In June 2009, the band booked studio time with Jay Maas at Getaway Studios and decided to go in and record however many new tracks they had at the time. A week later they emerged with six new songs all of them named after American soap operas, all six coming straight from their hearts.
Four years have passed since The Note was released, and the members of Bane schedules were looking busier then ever, finding the time to write a new full-length seemed unrealistic. In June 2009, the band booked studio time with Jay Maas at Getaway Studios and decided to go in and record however many new tracks they had at the time. A week later they emerged with six new songs all of them named after American soap operas, all six coming straight from their hearts.
Defeater
Formed in Massachusetts in 2004 and solidified in 2008 from a diverse background of musicians, Defeater is a forward-thinking hardcore band with more to them than just mosh part
Dead End Path
Hailing from Wilkes-Barre, PA, Dead End Path bring a heavy hardcore sound with plenty of negativity that musically brings to mind Hatebreed and Buried Alive. Their excellent 7" is out now on Triple B Records, with their debut full length LP to follow this June.
Nov 1
Touche' Amore', Circle Takes the Square, Pianos Become the Teeth, City of Ships and Capsule
Haven Lounge
7pm Doors, All Ages
Buy Tickets Online: $10 presale or $12 day of showTouche' Amore' Touché Amoré is an American post-hardcore band that was formed in 2007. The band released their debut 7" demo on No Sleep Records in September 2008. After a few west coast tours, the band went back into the studio to record their full length entitled ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse. The album was recorded at Earth Capital studios in January 2009. The LP was released in June 2009 on both 6131 and Geoff Rickly of Thursday's Collect Records. The album was met with generally positive reviews from critics including Sputnikmusic,Punknew Touché Amoré has completed tours alongside Bane, Black Breath, Coalesce, Converge, Th amongst several other tours. Circle Takes the Square For the first time in seven years, Circle Takes the Square is recording again. And, for a certain segment of post-hardcore (and screamo) kids, this is manna after a long drought. Originally based in Savannah, Ga. (home of Baroness, Black Tusk and Kylesa) Circle Takes the Square was always been more "metal" than its peers, fearlessly pitting angular and somewhat sludgy riffs against a thrashing hardcore drive. The band tempers metallic chaos with melodic respite, sometimes overlapping them like sackcloth on silk. About five minutes into "Way of Ever-Branching Paths," that familiar dynamic is in play, but it feels more mature, even hymn-like. It's a surprising development that's not just isolated to this song. Having heard the EP, it flows together dynamically as one entity, which makes me wonder if the end product will be a musically rich triptych; three outlines providing a whole. Pianos Become the Teeth Pianos Become the Teeth is a prominent band in "The Wave," a new generation of post-hardcore bands that share similar ideologies. Other figures in The Wave include La Dispute, Touché Amoré, Defeater and Make Do and Mend. The bands in this movement perform with "emotionally-centered lyrical content, dual musical emphasis on both melody and distorted intensity." Musically, Pianos Become the Teeth write songs influenced by early screamo acts such as City of Caterpillar and Funeral Diner, and alsopost-rock bands like This Will Destroy You. In an interview with Staircase Thoughts, the band described being labeled as screamo as "flattering in some respects," but ultimately didn't want to be pigeonholed as a "screamo band." Vocalist Kyle Durfey writes very personal lyrics that often discuss events in his life, or about dwelling on the future and growing up.Specifically on their album Old Pride, Durfey wrote about, "how you have this 'young fire' when you're younger and you have to have an 'old pride' to feel right about your life." The track "Cripples Can't Shiver" outlines Durfey's father, and how his struggles with multiple sclerosisimpacted his life. In an interview with Hearwax, Kyle Durfey commented on writing dark lyrics, stating "I feel like most of us and most bands we are into tend to write about darker things. It's hard to write when you're happy. This doesn't mean we aren't happy as people." |