News : Metal United Down Under Full Line-Ups Announced
Spread the joyous heavy news of this gargantuan metal festival. Metal United Down Under aka MUDU is returning on October 15th, a triumphant celebration of Australia’s finest heavy metal bands. Spread across 12 cities, all on the same day, MUDU will feature 92 bands in total on the festival bill, each one playing in one of the 12 cities. So wherever you are in Australia, make sure you’re free on the 15th because shit’s about to get real.
Once again, the promoters in all involved cities have done an amazing job getting local and interstate bands on their line-ups. More and more bands include their tour in the MUDU shows, like Truth Corroded playing the Perth show as part of their “Worship The Warlords Slain Australia and Asia Tour 2016”. Decryptus is ending “The Necrotic Design East Coast Tour 2016” at the Sydney show and Wounded Pig’s second date on their massive 29 dates tour “A Permanent Mark Tour 2016” will be the Adelaide show. Frankenbok, Headbore, Espionage, Deadspace, The Black Swamp, Flaming Wreckage and The Weight of Silence are all including MUDU in their tour.
Let’s have a look what’ll be happening at the shows: Hobart announced classic metallers Pegazus as headliner and the Melbourne band will play Hobart for the first time – as will Spitting Rhino with their live debut show. Fantasy/folk metal band Sarallisse are the main act in Wollongong where another first live show will come from Hails From Infinity. Darwin added hard rockers Under Duress to the bill and Gladstone heavy groove metallers Massic and progressive metal/hardcore band Adriatic. Progressive metal trio Sedulous Rouse joined the Adelaide line-up sharing the stage with WA band Facegrinder who release their new EP Cosmic Background and I,Icarus debuting that night. Perth, Bendigo and Canberra announced the full line-ups: Truth Corroded, Silent Knight (last show with original drummer Paul Wrigley), Envenomed, Depravity, Bayview Suspect, Dethlahem, Icarus Lives form a line-up in Perth to look forward to. Bendigo announced Stone Djoser, Kuntsquad, Armata, Prophetess, Incrypt, Vulture Culture and in Canberra From Hell’s Heart, Flaming Wrekage, Fatigue, Lord Ragnar and Mytile Vey Lorth. In Bundaberg Wisdom’s Realm, Troy Has Fallen and Consider Me Heartless were added to the bill while there have been a few changes happening in Brisbane with thrashers Kaustic Attack and Wartooth, death/thrash metallers Amicable Treason, synth metal band End Us, alternative/power metallers Devonian and melodic death/groove metal band Holistic. The Sydney show will be headlined by melodic death metallers Daemon Pyre who will be joined by Adelaide’s Headbore and thrashers Murder-World. If you lost track, here is the complete overview:
City |
Venue |
Bands |
Adelaide |
Enigma Bar |
Facegrinder, Sickness, Nemesium, Deadspace, Sedulous Rouse, Wounded Pig, I Protagonist, I Icarus |
Bendigo |
MusicMan Megastore |
Stone Djoser, Kuntsquad, Armata, Prophetess, Incrypt, Vulture Culture |
Brisbane |
The Back Room |
Kaustic Attack, Amicable Treason, The Black Swamp, Behold The Defiant, Kaerulean, Pallative Care, Dirty Brew, Fragments, Holistic, Devonian, Wartooth, End Us |
Bundaberg |
Railway Hotel |
Lavidius, Weightless In Orbit, Therein, Odysseus Reborn, Into the Badlands, Psychosphere, Morgue, Iron Wizard, Wisdom’s Realm, Consider Me Heartless, Troy Has Fallen |
Canberra |
The Basement |
From Hell’s Heart, Flaming Wrekage, Fatigue, Lord Ragnar, Mytile Vey Lorth |
Darwin |
Happy Yess |
Under Duress, Shapeshifta, Clever Monkey |
Gladstone |
Rocky Glen Hotel |
Evil Eye, Beyond Vendetta, Killer Creed, Weight of Silence, Mergatroyd, Only Machines Remain, Symbolic Weapon, Kold Creature, A.M.P., Massic, Adriatic |
Hobart |
The Brisbane Hotel |
Pegazus, Hells Grace, Spitting, Sludko, Infected, Kingfall |
Melbourne |
The Bendigo Hotel |
Frankenbok, Elm Street, Harlott, Metreya, Malakyte, Toxicon, Damnations Day, Asylum, Espionage, Requiem, Elkenwood, Feast of Crows |
Perth |
The Civic Hotel |
Truth Corroded, Silent Knight, Envenomed, Depravity, Bayview Suspect, Dethlahem, Icarus Lives |
Sydney |
The Bald Faced Stag |
Daemon Pyre, Decryptus, Grill, The Plague, Headbore, Murder-World |
Wollongong |
UOW UniBar |
Saralisse, Harbour, The Winter Effect, Thrash Bandicoot, Hails From Infinity |
What makes this event UNITED is the support the event gets from everywhere. These are the promoters, sponsors, media partners and supporters who stand behind MUDU:
Our promoters:
Sedulous Rouse, MusicMan Megastore, Crowned Ruckus Presents, Lord Ragnar, Evel-E Productions, Bent Metal Media, Tyrantula Productions, Megaton Music, Stormrider Touring, Metal-Roos, Deaf To All But Metal and Carbon Black
Our sponsors:
DRW Entertainment (previously Tombowler)
Noisebleed Records
National media partners:
Metal Obsession, The Rock Pit, The Metal Zone, Killawatts Radio Show, The Drum, Kountdown Klassic Entertainment, Brisbane Metal Legion, Rabid Noise Radio and DJ Devilpope’s Aussie Metal Show
International media partners:
Bravewords, East Jakarta Media, Metal Temple, Metal Nation Radio and Transcending Obscurity
Supporters:
ARMI – Australian Rock & Metal Institute, Battlegod Production, Brisso Metal, Metal Glass Promotion, Mick G Photography and TMS – Tasmanian Metal Syndicate
For more details, head to www.metal-united-down-under.com.au
About Prarthana
Prarthana is a vegan, Indo-Aussie, heavy music addict, fluent in sarcasm and metal. Traveling is an obsession as she enjoys taking in the history of various countries and following her favorite bands. She's either eating, teaching grammar or learning an instrument, when not occupied with windmilling in the faces of other humans.Latest News
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