News : 'Unleashing The Extreme' tour announced

Unleashing The Extreme Tour – Three of Australia’s highest calibre metal bands on one devastating bill – Psycroptic, The Amenta and Ruins. The tour will kick off in Newcastle, before winding its way through NSW, Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria.

PSYCROPTIC: Fresh from the annihilating success of their latest US tours in support of Carcass and Suffocation, Pyscroptic return to Australia to headline this formidable tour. With their career continually spiralling higher and higher and with the ‘Observant’ album ticking over great album sales through Nuclear Blast, there is no doubt this band is carving themselves a more than credible name amongst the legion of metal fans worldwide. Psycroptic have now become a universal force.

THE AMENTA: Rather than relying on the clichéd shit in which other bands are content to wallow, The Amenta have constructed a sound built on new ideas, new concepts, new sounds and new techniques. Their latest album “n0n” is the fusion of whitenoise, shards of dissonant guitars and dense layers of radio chatter. The Amenta’s new album pushes technology to its absolute limits. Fusing the ugliest parts of Extreme
Metal, Electronic Noise and Dub with a ferocious and scathing world view, “n0n” is the future of extreme music.

RUINS: Hailing from Hobart, Tasmania, RUINS blend an ominous dark-death metal dynamic amidst their powerful, menacing and melancholic, yet eerily seductive black metal style; with a venomous, and summoning vocal presence. March 2008 saw a career highlight when Ruins toured nationally with Norway’s Black Metal Pioneers – IMMORTAL. Having just finished working on their next album, “Front the Final Foes”
featuring 8 new songs with an expected June 2009 release, RUINS aim to prove to Australian metal fans they are the masters of home grown Black metal.

UNLEASHING THE EXTREME TOUR: May – June 2009
May 28th – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
May 29th – The Manning Bar, Sydney (Lic/AA)
May 30th – TBC, Wollongong
June 4th – Players Bar, Mandurah
June 5th – YMCA HQ, Leederville (AA)
June 6th – The Rosemount Hotel, Perth
June 11th – Brannigan’s, Gold Coast
June 12th – Rosie’s, Brisbane
June 13th – Sands Tavern, Maroochydoore
June 26th – The National Hotel, Geelong
June 27th – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
June 28th – TBC Melbourne (U18)

For more information, please visit the following links:

www.myspace.com/psycroptic
www.myspace.com/theamenta
www.myspace.com/ruinsblackmetal
www.stomp.com.au