PURSON – Another Brit Bites The Dust

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Rumors have been spreading since the end of last year and the first public post, that Purson, the fancy five-piece from Britain called it quits has been posted in December 2016 by the Great Southern Brain Fart. The band has always been as vibrant as troublesome, single shows and entire tours would be cancelled, they left Lee Dorrians prestigious Rise Above Records for Finish label Spinefarm after just one full-length album and also Facebook featured some revealing posts on the members private profiles recently.

Now the band‘s leading lady, guitarist and vocalist Rosalie Cunningham announced the following statement: “The past five years have been an unforgettable whirlwind, for which I have to thank our wonderful fans around the world, the band and all the people who have contributed to Purson’s success over the years. Their support has been overwhelming, but the Purson framework has gone as far as it could go, and now it’s simply time to move on. I feel strongly drawn to a more DIY approach to my career in music, and look forward to the freedom to explore many avenues as a solo artist.”

To mark the end of the band, Purson have released one final track titled Chocolate Money featuring Comus’ Jon Seagroatt on saxophone and Vodun singer Chantelle Brown on backing vocals.

Cunningham adds: “Chocolate Money is a snapshot of the ostentatious decadence of the 70s. The mythical rock star character with his double-entendre and self-centred hedonism. The industry has become a very different world since then, which is something I will expand on lyrically with my next album. It has inspired my desire to go back to basics and remember what music is supposed to be about.”

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COVEN – To Headline Roadburn Festival 2017

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The Netherlands-based festival comes out of the gate with its first announcements for Roadburn 2017 and immediately proves why it’s like nothing else happening on this poor pitiful planet we happen to occupy. To bring Coven back to the stage for the first time in untold decades and for their first European show ever? Come on. I don’t care where you live, that’s worth getting on a plane for.

Coven will play their first show in decades, and for the first time ever on European soil. Devil Horns, the Left Hand Path, Satanic Rituals, Black Magick, Sexuality, and a seminal debut-album that has had a lasting appeal since 1969.  Coven’s Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls was not only ahead of its time, the iconoclastic troupe – helmed by high priestess, and the original wicked woman, Jinx Dawson – heavily influenced future generations of musicians, from Ghost to The Devil’s Blood, from Witchcraft to In Solitude, from Blood Ceremony to Lucifer, and even our festival.

We are equal measures excited, proud and overwhelmed to be able to announce that Coven will thrill Roadburn Festival to it’s darkened core on Thursday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Jinx Dawson, and her unholy union will take their cult-ritual to the stage for the first time in decades – and for the first time ever on European soil.

Jinx Dawson commented: “Roadburn Festival’s intrepid ring master, Walter, hath stirred us from our Coven lair. We shall be performing a musickal ritual for the first time in many ages. We are wickedly delighted to travel to the Netherlands for this very special festival concert, and to bring our musickal form of Witchcraft once again to the live stage.”

Known by many classic rock fans for Jinx Dawson’s early seventies hit, ‘One Tin Soldier’, from the counter culture flick Billy Jack, the song was an anthem for hypocrisy and added more mystery to Coven’s occult imagery and aesthetics that laid the groundwork for hard rock and heavy metal.

The band’s diabolical mix of proto-metal paired with dark psychedelica and prog was dabbed in deeply occult lyrics, and has always been a celebration of all things Left Hand Path. Whether it’s the much sought after and talked about Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls, or the band’s third album Blood on the Snow, Coven’s output has terrified peers and audiences, as well as the moral-elite since their incarnation. Their extreme dark and shocking rites, thriving on a strong woman’s sexuality, was unheard of at the time.

Though Coven went clandestine not long after the release of Blood on the Snow, Jinx Dawson, and the band always remained a landmark within the metal community, and hailed as one of the 10 greatest heavy metal front women. Having battled with record companies, management, opposing religious organisations and law officials has only added to Jinx’s legacy to stay genuinely true to her own firm beliefs, based upon a very long lineage of Occult Adepts and Practitioners of the Ancient Arts.

With the release of 2003’s Goth Queen: Out of the Vault, and 2013’s album, Jinx, Dawson rightfully regained her throne as ‘the originator’ of the burgeoning occult rock scene – a movement that we have wholeheartedly embraced at Roadburn over the years, while offering a platform to her children of the damned.

Having the mysterious Jinx Dawson / Coven at Roadburn isn’t only a thrilling once in a lifetime event, it is also our way of paying a humble tribute to a woman that has been such an integral influence on the festival since its incarnation in 1999, and an inspirational heroine to many bands that graced our stages over the years. We couldn’t think of a more fitting ceremony, and welcome all of you to Jinx’s lair on Thursday, April 20 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands  – don’t break the circle, and join us.

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PURSON – Premiere New Song & To Release “Desire’s Magic Theatre”

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After the cancellation of their European tour, Purson recently announced the postponement of their upcoming new record “Desire’s Magic Theatre“. Originally set for a release on March 25h, their second full-length attempt will be out April 29th via Spinefarm Records. “Desire’s Magic Theatre has turned out to be everything I’d imagined and more,” said singer, guitarist, and songwriter Rosalie Cunningham. “My world has been so consumed by it that I’ve barely been able to reflect on what it has become: a technicolour variety show, a playful display of the musical whims only briefly hinted at in our previous work; a psychedelic rock opera dedicated to our good friends Sarge Pepper and Zig Stardust.”

Additonally, Purson have debuted the new song “The Window Cleaner,” via Brooklyn Vegan/Invisible Oranges. You can listen to it here and here.

Miss Cunningham has quite the beguiling voice. The song (and album) is super trippy, slightly doomy, a little psychedelic, and totally atmospheric, with the requisite ’70s vibe…. just as Purson fans have come to expect and love from the British band. Purson just wrapped a U.S. tour with Ghost. They will next hit the road with The Sword. Check out below for all confirmed dates.

Apr 15 Chinnerys Southend On Sea, UK
Apr 30 Rudyard’s Pub Houston, TX
May 03 Marathon Music Works Nashville, TN^
May 04 Tennessee Theatre Knoxville, TN^
May 06 The International Knoxville, TN*
May 08 The SideBar Theatre Tallahassee, FL*
May 09 JACK RABBITS LIVE Jacksonville, FL
May 10 Culture Room Fort Lauderdale, FL*
May 11 The Social Orlando, FL *
May 12 Vinyl Pensacola, FL*
May 14 Center Stage Theater Atlanta, GA*
May 15 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC
May 16 Ottobar Baltimore, MD*
May 17 Brooklyn Bowl New York, NY*
May 18 The Lost Horizon Syracuse, NY*
May 19 Fete Music Hall Providence, RI*
May 20 Union Transfer Philadelphia, PA*
May 22 Ace of Cups Columbus, OH
May 23 Subterranean Chicago, IL
May 24 Blue Note Columbia, MO*
May 25 Bourbon Theater Lincoln, NE *
May 26 Granada Lawrence, KS*
May 28 Gas Monkey Live Dallas, TX*

^ – w/ Ghost
* – w/ The Sword

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PURSON – Announce UK Tour & Album Release Date

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PURSON welcomes you to Desire’s Magic Theatre… a technicolour trip through the mind’s eye of songstress / vocalist / guitarist Rosalie Cunningham, whose signature approach to her craft stands boldly centre- stage, blending progressive dexterity and cabaret romp into a compelling, multi-faceted rock ‘n’ roll show.

Photo by Peter Brenchley

Desire’s Magic Theatre draws inspiration from the rock operas of the late sixties and early seventies; musically, visually and lyrically, it touches on a variety of realms, including folk, prog, psychedelic, gothic & classic rock, making telling use of classical instruments and complex arrangements, and fully exploring the outer limits of reel to reel tape.

Says Cunningham: “Desire’s Magic Theatre has turned out to be everything I’d imagined and more! My world has been so consumed by it that I’ve barely been able to reflect on what it has become: a technicolour variety show, a playful display of the musical whims only briefly hinted at in our previous work; a psychedelic rock opera dedicated to our good friends Sarge Pepper and Zig Stardust.”

PURSON – Cunningham, George Hudson (guitars), Samuel Robinson (keyboards), Justin Smith (bass), Raphael Mura (drums) – have recently returned from a six-week tour of North America Special Guesting with GHOST, following on from a stint on the Kiss Kruise IV plus a sold-out Los Angeles debut at the notorious Viper Room.

Desire’s Magic Theatre is set for release on March 25^th 2016 under the Spinefarm / Machine Elf banner, supported by a headline UK tour plus selected European shows; summer festivals and visits to Australia and Japan will follow.

UK HEADLINE TOUR DATES
March 09 Bristol, THE LOUISIANA
March 10 Nottingham, ROCK CITY
March 11 Norwich, WATERFRONT STUDIO
March 12 Milton Keynes, THE CRAUFURD ARMS
March 16 London, 100 CLUB
March 24 Exeter, THE CAVERN CLUB
March 25 Plymouth, THE JUNCTION
March 26 Southampton, JOINERS
March 27 Brighton, THE HOPE & RUIN
March 30 Birmingham, THE SUNFLOWER LOUNGE
March 31 Manchester, NIGHT & DAY
April 01 Glasgow, AUDIO
April 02 Leeds, THE BRUDENELL

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BLOOD CEREMONY – Doom Couture

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COVEN – Wicked Witch of the Web

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BLOOD CEREMONY – Tinned Tunes & Road Rites

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Since the release of “Living With The Ancient”, BLOOD CEREMONY have performed at the prestigious Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland. In the fall of 2011, they completed their first headline tour of Europe culminating in a performance at the Hammer of Doom VI Festival in Würzburg, Germany. In 2012 they supported Sweden’s GHOST on the highly successful “13 Dates of Doom” North American tour. After performing at the celebrated NOCTIS V Festival in Calgary, the band enclosed themselves within a dank, tomb-like chamber to begin preparations for a third BLOOD CEREMONY album.

BC (left to right): Lucas Gadke – Bass, Michael Carrillo – Drums, Alia O’Brien – Vocals, Flute, Organ, Sean Kennedy – Guitars

After a short spell in the analogue womb of Toronto’s ProGold Studios, they are now ready to unveil their newest, and most accomplished, musical offering under the name of “The Eldritch Dark”.

Recorded and mixed by producer extraordinaire Ian Blurton (CAULDRON, CURSED) and mastered by Canadian recording legend Nick Blagona (DEEP PURPLE, RAINBOW, CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN), “The Eldritch Dark” is a full-length paean to the darker corners of folklore and legend. Containing eight tracks of black magic rock ‘n’ roll, the album crackles with the excitement of a nocturnal ritual.

Tales of witch-cult gatherings in wooded glens, pacts made in torch-lit abbeys and Victorian magic are accompanied by vintage-style hard rock riffs, snaking bass lines and killer flute melodies. “The Eldritch Dark” also sees the band exploring a folksier side of their sound; most evident in the hymn-like “Lord Summerisle” and the murderous folk-rock epic, “Ballad Of The Weird Sisters”. Nineteenth-century sorcerer Oliver Haddo makes a return appearance in the riff-hypnotic album closer “The Magician”.

“The Eldritch Dark” will be released via Rise Above Records in the UK/Europe on May 27 and by Metal Blade in North America on May 28, 2013.

BLOOD CEREMONY are currently on the road alongside KYLESA descending on North America throughout May and June.

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 – May –

20 Albuquerque NM @ Blackwater
21 Denver CO @ Marquis Theater
22 Salt Lake City UT @ Urban Lounge
24 Santa Cruz CA @ Catalyst
25 San Francisco CA @ Slim’s
27 Portland OR @ Star Theater
28 Seattle WA @ Chop Suey
29 Vancouver BC @ Electric Owl
31 Calgary AB @ Dickens

– JUNE –

01 Regina SK @ The Exchange
02 Winnipeg MB @ The Pyramid
03 Minneapolis MN @ Triple Rock
04 Iowa City IA @ Gabe’s Oasis
05 Chicago IL @ Bottom Lounge
06 Grand Rapids MI @ Pyramid Scheme
07 St Louis MO @ Firebird
08 Columbus OH @ Ace of Cups
09 Lexington KY @ Cosmic Charlies
11 Toronto ON @ Lee’s Palace
12 Ottawa ON @ Mavericks
13 Montreal QC @ Il Motore
14 Brooklyn NY @ Northside Fest / Music Hall of Williamsburg
15 Albany NY @ Bogie’s
16 Boston MA @ Middle East Downstairs
18 Philadelphia PA @ Underground Arts
19 Washington DC @ Rock & Roll Hotel
20 Asheville NC @ Asheville Music Hall
21 Atlanta @ The Earl
22 Savannah GA @ Jinx

GHOST – Announces North American Headlining Tour

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Mysterious Swedish buzz band GHOST has announced that it will embark on its first ever North American headlining tour in January, 2012. GHOST cult leader “Papa Emeritus” (who takes the stage in the form of “a satanic pope”) and his anonymous ghouls will team up with Canadian doom rockers BLOOD CEREMONY and ANCIENT VVISDOM from Austin, Texas. The two week trek dubbed the “13 Dates of Doom” tour will launch on January 18 in New York City. GHOST continues to tour in support of its debut album “Opus Eponymous”, which has been called “amazing” by Stereogum and “a primer on the creation of melodic hard rock” by The Big Takeover.

GHOST allready shared stages with BLOOD CEREMONY earlier this year, taking over the headline position by storm.

The itinerary for the GHOST / BLOOD CEREMONY / ANCIENT VVISDOM winter North American tour is as follows:

January 18: New York, NY@Bowery Ballroom
January 19: Washington, DC@Rock N Roll Hotel
January 20: Boston, MA@Middle East (downstairs)
January 21: Montreal, QC@Corona Theatre
January 22: Toronto, ON@The Mod Club
January 24: Chicago, IL@Bottom Lounge
January 25: Saint Paul, MN@Station 4
January 27: Denver, CO@Marquis Theatre
January 28: Salt Lake City, UT@The Vertigo (The Complex)
January 30: Seattle, WA@El Corazon
January 31: Portland, OR@Hawthorne Theater
February 1: San Francisco, CA@Bottom of the Hill
February 2: Los Angeles, CA@The Roxy     

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