COMING SOON (MARCH 2013)

Ok, so now a few albums have landed I'm no longer in the limbo that was waiting for them to land! Therefore, coming very soon are the following reviews:

• Sempiternal by Bring Me The Horizon
• Welcome Oblivion by How To Destroy Angels
• The Next Day by David Bowie
• Cold Chillin' EP by Your Demise

Later this month there are also albums by the likes of Kvelertak and The Strokes, so keep an eye out for those too. 

The second instalment of 'Albums that made theNOISE' is also currently half-written, so expect that one soon! Lastly, if you're looking for some new tunes to get your head around, check out the first of my (hopefully) weekly playlists, with 10 of the songs, new or old, that I've been enjoying in the last week. Later y'all! 

theNOISE PLAYLIST 25/2/13 - 3/3/13

So, every now and then I try and implement a weekly something-or-other, and my latest attempt starting this week is going to be my weekly playlist - namely, the songs that I have been listening to this week, in an attempt to share my music taste with you all. I'll link to the songs on Youtube in the song titles, and I hope you discover something new that you love/rediscover something you'd forgotten about!

Songs will be new or old, it entirely depends what I've been listening to. So here goes, Episode #1 of the Playlist.

1. Hearts Alive by Mastodon (from the 2004 album Leviathan)
2. Can You Feel My Heart by Bring Me The Horizon (Sempiternal out April 29)
3. Secular Haze by Ghost (Infestissumam out April 9)
4. Concealing Fate Part 2: Deception by TesseracT (from 2010 EP Concealing Fate)
5. Follow Me (Live from the O2 Arena) by Muse (from 2012's The 2nd Law - live version download link)
6. Great Expectations by The Gaslight Anthem (from 2008's The '59 Sound)
7. Boys Don't Cry by The Cure (from 1980's Boys Don't Cry)
8. Bruane Brenn by Kvelertak (Meir out March 25)
9. Where Are We Now? by David Bowie (The Next Day out March 11)
10. David De La Hoz by The Chariot (from 2010's Long Live)

But because I'm nice to you (too nice, probably. I don't know on what basis though), I made a Youtube playlist of all the above which you can find here. Enjoy!

BRING ME THE HORIZON STREAM NEW ALBUM

Due to "overwhelming and phenomenal demand" and probably in response to the leak the other day, you can legally listen to Bring Me The Horizon's upcoming new album Sempiternal in full below for the next week only! As well as this, they have also brought the album's release date forward a month to April 1st. Review will be on its way shortly! It's incredible btdubs.

BRING ME THE HORIZON 'SEMPITERNAL' ALBUM LEAK

A full 2 months ahead of it's slated release, Bring Me The Horizon's new album Sempiternal has been leaked. So, I urge you to let it sit on the internet, undownloaded and alone, and wait for the actual release at the end of April. Support music and the artists that produce it! 

That said, I've heard the album's opening track Can You Feel My Heart, as it was floating around Tumblr before I realised it had leaked. I'm honestly astonished by it. It's so, so far from what I ever imagined BMTH were capable of, and I cannot stop listening to it. I've genuinely had it on repeat for the last half an hour. 

Astonishing is the best word I can think of. Sempiternal is going to be a game-changer. I just know it. Is it too early to call it potential album of the year when it's not out for 2 months?

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: ANTIVIST by Bring Me The Horizon

The second track from upcoming April release Sempiternal has landed, and my my it's bleak. It's got a punk-like quality to it, being angry and loud and tackling the topic of societal decline. Except with lots of use of the word 'fuck'. Oh, and the C-bomb gets dropped in there at one point. Just a heads up.

It's great. 

It showcases the anthemic side we've seen plenty of glimpses of, but it has a lot of power behind it. I really think the album is going to be a remarkable metal record.

Initial Reaction: 8/10

Excite-O-Meter for Sempiternal (made simpler because effort): 8/10, bouncing up and down in my seat just a little. 

Listen here on Soundcloud.

WELL PLAYED, READING & LEEDS FESTIVAL

Is it just me, or is there some serious one-up-manship going on in the festival scene this year? I mean, more than usual. 

Reading/Leeds Festival yesterday made a very impressive announcement, containing the following bands;

• Biffy Clyro
• Fall Out Boy
• System Of A Down
• Bring Me The Horizon

Alongside Deftones and headliner Eminem (always quality), this is making for a very, very good bill. Getting FOB is pretty huge, BMTH should be awesome with their new album out soon, SOAD is well, SOAD and Biffy...well, this is going to be their year. 

Your move, Download. Which one of you will take my money?

BMTH; ALBUM NEWS, LINEUP CHANGE, TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

3 big bits of news from the Bring Me The Horizon camp for you today.

Jordan Fish: the guy on the right.

1. Their new album Sempiternal will be out April 29th, and if you wing it on over to bmthofficial.com you can pre-order the badger. Here, badger means album, in an unnecessary metaphor. 
2. Ladies and gentlemen, Jona Weinhofen has left the building. In a revealing statement earlier today, the band said "Bring Me The Horizon are Oliver Sykes, Lee Malia, Matthew Kean, Matthew Nicholls and Jordan Fish. Jona Weinhofen is no longer in the band." and so far, the loveable Aussie has said nothing on the matter. The only thing I've seen regarding the matter is Jona's Tumblr, in which he has taken 'Bring Me The Horizon' out of his description, leaving only 'I Killed The Prom Queen'. If I had to take an educated guess, I would say that he has switched focus to IKTPQ, but that is merely my speculation. I'll update when I know something. But new six-stringer Jordan Fish, of the band Worship, is part of BMTH as of now, and so will play in all the tour dates I'm about to tell you about.
3. Guess what? Tour dates! You'd never have known if I hadn't told you, I bet. They're playing 8 dates from April 29th through May 7th as follows;
   APRIL
   29 - MANCHESTER Academy II
   30 - NEWCASTLE University 
   MAY
   01 - INVERNESS Ironworks
   02 - GLASGOW ABC
   04 - PORTSMOUTH Pyramids
   05 - CARDIFF Solus
   06 - WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall
   07 - LONDON Koko
   (Thanks to rocksound.tv for the formatted tour dates)
   

So there's todays BMTH update. 

IMPRESSIONS: SHADOW MOSES by Bring Me The Horizon

It's now streaming officially, after the various radio rips from the first play on Radio 1 last week.

First impressions, it's pretty good. The development of their sound has clearly continued, with former Cookie Monster Oli Sykes' vocals approaching singing, whilst still being obviously him. Bookended with ethereal electronic beats, chock-full of chugging riffs and with a chorus custom-made for being chanted live, it's BMTH doing what they have shown they're able to do well. 

My criticism of it however, also comes from the above mentioned chugging riffs - it's all a bit samey. There's too much open-string that I can see turning into a scenario where everybody assumes the crab position and headbangs. I'm not denying it has its' place within this side of metal, but I hope there's a bit more variance in the riffage on the rest of the album. Because crabbing is annoying. 

Crabcore, ably demonstrated by my associate from
 Attack Attack.
Photo credit http://instagram.com/p/TuVaBpnz7t/

Despite my criticism, I can't deny I'm looking forward to Semptiernal, it's going to be huge whether we like it or not.



Leave your opinions in the comments below!

And just because I can:

IT'S NEW BRING ME THE HORIZON TIME

First up, welcome to 2013!

Ahead of the upcoming release of fourth studio album (third if we disown Count Your Blessings) Sempiternal, which comes out who knows when this year, Bring Me The Horizon's brand new single Shadow Moses will drop next week, with an exclusive radio premiere on Daniel P Carter's BBC Radio 1 show, 1-4pm, this Friday (January 4th).

Get it? Meme made by theNOISE, photo credit Simone
Joyner/Getty Images Europe

In the meantime, you could watch crackly live footage of the song on Youtube, or enjoy the official preview below. I'm really fucking excited for this, and I have a feeling Sempiternal could be one of the albums of the year (big talk on January 2nd). Say what you like about BMTH, they've only got better and previous album There Is A Hell, And It's Writing Out This Album Title In Full was really, really good, and the clip of Shadow Moses sounds incredible.

AWESOME THINGS COMING IN 2013

There will be many awesome things in 2013, the majority of which are yet to be announced, but here's a comprehensive* list of the things we do know are going to happen.

New albums from;

• Paramore; Paramore (April 9th)
• Killswitch Engage; ? (April)
• Queens Of The Stone Age; ? (shrugs)
• Biffy Clyro; Opposites (January 28th)
• Bring Me The Horizon; Sempiternal (early 2013 but unknown)
• Animals As Leaders; ? (shrugs)
• Everything Everything; Arc (January 14th)
• 30 Seconds To Mars; ? (unknown but expected by summer)

Download Festival

Muse's Summer Stadium tour

Fall Out Boy reunion**

Mastodon are set to enter the studio to record the follow-up to 2011's The Hunter, but don't expect anything soon - expect another year's tour before we see a new album.

I'll add things as I come across them, but these are the main things I'm looking forward to. Of course, there are/will be tours attached to all the above new album releases, so fingers crossed for UK dates from the foreign bands.

* I'm lying. Comment below if there are any glaring omissions and I will gladly un-omit them, which is to say, add them to the list.
** I'm lying again, although I had a strange dream where it happened but I was Pete Wentz.

WHAT DOES SEMPITERNAL EVEN MEAN

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited by this here news - Sempiternal is to be the name of Bring Me The Horizon's fourth album. BMTH have got consistently better as they've progressed, from their deathcore roots to an, in my humble opinion, one of the best metal bands out of the UK in some years. Their 3rd album is a remarkable improvement and I became addicted to it after it came out, and I still think it's superb, so fingers crossed that they keep getting better. 

And thanks be to Zeus it's a shorter name...couldn't handle There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It, There Is A Hell, Let's Keep It A Secret Vol. 2.

Here's a pic of Oli looking a bit like a girl.

AN ADDITION TO MY FAVOURITE METAL BANDS

I first heard of them after their vocalist (and currently, only original member) Josh Scogin appeared in The Fox And The Wolf, the closing track to Bring Me The Horizon's There Is A Hell..., and I was struck by the sheer abrasive brutality of their songs.


That band is The Chariot. On the basis of that absolute brutality, in the raw vocals of Scogin and the thrashy nature of the guitar work. I will say, for most people they'd be a hard band to like, but my view of metal is that it is music for a time and a place, and that time (for me) has been the last few days.


I also wanted an excuse to embed a Spotify link, as I'm just teaching myself basic HTML (call me a geek if you will).

VANS WARPED TOUR UK

BRING ME THE HORIZON are the first band on the bill for WTUK!


It's all going down at Alexandra Palace on November 10th, and tickets go on sale May 7th, when there'll be a load more bands revealed (although I'm sure there'll be more before then, to try and peak interest). www.vanswarpedtouruk.com is where you need to go for the very latest.


Although I won't be in the country for it (sad face), I hope it goes well enough to bring it back for 2013. It'd be good to see some international bands on the lineup, and in terms of UK bands, my thoughts drift toward You Me At Six, Kids In Glass Houses etc, but it'd be brilliant to see the smaller bands like my faves Marmozets, While She Sleeps, The Ocean Between Us, Release The Kraken... That ilk. Fingers crossed!