SONG TAKEN FROM UPCOMING ALBUM LIVE IN RIO OUT JUNE 2 VIA EARMUSIC With “I Got A Line On You,” we get a glimpse into one of the most spectacular live shows of the last few years.
The new single is the prelude to the first live album by Hollywood Vampires, which will be released by earMUSIC on June 2.
With singer Alice Cooper, superstar Johnny Depp, Aerosmith legend Joe Perry, and producer + songwriter Tommy Henriksen, the band has a top-class lineup.
In 2015, the Hollywood Vampires not only released their first album, but also played one of their biggest concerts, which will now be released as their first live album. After this success and the media interest in the ultimate rock group, sold-out concerts, and tours all over the world followed, and in 2019, finally, the second album Rise. Over 50,000 physical units sold, millions of streams, and worldwide cover stories in major magazines later, fans, press and the band were ready to bring these songs to the stage. Unfortunately, part of the tour had to be postponed due to the pandemic and will finally be made up for this summer. Fittingly, the first live album will be released a few days earlier on June 2.
The new album Live in Rio will be released as CD+DVD Digipak, CD+Blu-ray Digipak, limited + numbered 2LP Gatefold Black, and can be pre-ordered here. LIVE IN RIO TRACK LISTING: “Raise The Dead” “My Generation” “I Got a Line on You” “Cold Turkey” “Five to One/Break On” “Through (To The Other Side)” “Manic Depression” “7 And 7 Is” “Whole Lotta Love” “Jeepster” “I’m A Boy” “School’s Out” “Billion Dollar Babies” “Train Kept A-Rollin’” “Brown Sugar”
Platinum-certified and twice GRAMMY-nominated Michigan rock powerhouse I PREVAIL — Brian Burkheiser (vocals), Eric Vanlerberghe (vocals), Steve Menoian (guitars/bass), Dylan Bowman (guitars), and Gabe Helguera (drums) — released their monumental new record TRUE POWER via Fearless Records last year. It was followed by a sold out, two-leg tour across the U.S. and Canada.
Today, the band has shared the video for the new single “Deep End,” directed by Jensen Noen.
“Deep End” showcases I Prevail’s deftness with dynamics, vacillating between tempos and emotions before the final fadeout. The song’s message is as powerful as its melody, and that’s precisely why the song takes hold from start to finish.
“‘Deep End’ felt special from the day we wrote it,” the band says. “Being one of the most introspective tracks on the record, it became a reflection on an attempt to stop battling certain things about yourself and instead learning to accept them as a part of who you are. There’s a peace to be found in that. Overall, this track allowed us to evolve the softer side of our band and we’re incredibly proud of it.”
I Prevail, who are currently on a headline tour of the UK, will return to the road in the U.S. this spring, supporting Godsmack. All dates are below. The band will announce further tour plans soon so stay tuned.
I PREVAIL ON TOUR: WITH GODSMACK: 5/4 — Denver, CO KBPI — Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre 5/6 — Phoenix, AZ KUPD — Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre 5/7 — Albuquerque, NM — Isleta Amphitheater 5/9 — Rogers, AR — Walmart AMP 5/10 — Bonner Springs, KS — Azura Amphitheater 5/12 — Oklahoma City, OK KATT — The Zoo Amphitheatre 5/13 — The Woodlands, TX — The Buzz at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 5/14 — Dallas, TX — Dos Equis Pavilion 5/17 — Birmingham, AL — Oak Mountain Amphitheatre 5/18 — Atlanta, GA — Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 5/20 — Daytona Beach, FL — Welcome To Rockville* 5/21 — Charlotte, NC — PNC Music Pavilion 5/23 — Franklin, TN — Firstbank Amphitheater 5/25 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival* *Festival
ABOUT I PREVAIL: Rising to an arena level and receiving two Grammy nominations — Best Rock Album for Trauma, and Best Metal Performance for crushing lead single “Bow Down,” I Prevail proved that they were built to last. To date, they’ve racked up more than 2.7 billion global streams, are approaching 600 million YouTube views, and saw their “Hurricane” single top Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in 2020: officially the top song on U.S. rock radio at the time. A number of their singles have now been certified Gold and Platinum, and they have been praised by press far and wide, including Forbes, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, and NPR. I Prevail further affirm their position among the genre’s elite with TRUE POWER. I PREVAIL ONLINE:
BAND TO APPEAR AT KEY SPRING FESTIVALS, INCLUDING SONIC TEMPLE + WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE
SELF-TITLED ALBUM OUT NOW
Bullet For My Valentine will return to U.S. stages for the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a welcome return to American venues!
The band will also make appearances at key spring festivals, including Sonic Temple and Welcome to Rockville. From Ashes to New will appear on select dates.
“We’re excited to announce that we will finally be making our way back over the the USA this May for some festival and headline show performances,” the band exclaims. “It has been far too long but we’re stoked to be coming back. See you in the pit!”
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE ON TOUR: WITH FROM ASHES TO NEW: 5/18 — Daytona Beach, FL — Welcome to Rockville* 5/19 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore Charlotte** 5/21 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz 5/22 — Baltimore, MD — Rams Head Live 5/24 — Milwaukee, WI — Eagles Ballroom** 5/25 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple Festival* 5/28 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit *Festival Date **No From Ashes to New
BMFV’s self-titled album — their seventh — is out now
ROCK DYNAMOS SKILLET + THEORY OF A DEADMAN ANNOUNCE WINTER 2023 CO-HEADLINE ROCK RESURRECTION TOUR
25-DATE TOUR KICKS OFF FEBRUARY 17 IN GARY, INDIANA AND WRAPS MARCH 26 IN LOS ANGELES
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18
Get ready for a Rock Resurrection during the winter of 2023 when two titans of the genre hit the road together.
THEORY OF A DEADMAN and SKILLET have announced the co-headlining Rock Resurrection Tour, with support from Saint Asonia, which kicks off on February 17 in Gary, Indiana and runs through March 26, wrapping in Los Angeles. The 25-date trek includes stops in Milwaukee, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, St. Louis, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, and more. Artist pre-sale begins Tuesday, November 15 with various other pre-sales available Wednesday, November 16 and Thursday, November 17, all at 10am local time. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, November 18 at 10am local time. Get tickets here and here. “We’re super stoked to be touring with our good friends in Skillet and Saint Asonia this winter,” shares Theory of a Deadman front man Tyler Connolly. “We’re also really looking forward to playing new material for our fans!!”
“We are so excited to be touring with our friends from Theory again!,” says Skillet’s John Cooper. “It’s been several years since our last tour together, and this time we are also joined by our friends in Saint Asonia. We are looking forward to kicking off 2023 the right way by joining forces for a super-charged rock show! Panheads get ready!”
SKILLET are one of the best-selling rock bands of the 21st century. The two-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated, Pandora Billionaires Club members, and multi-platinum rockers have an undying spirit that has humbly asserted and affirmed them as one of this generation’s most successful rock acts. However, as all classic underdog stories do, it happened quietly under the radar. By 2019, they not only garnered a pair of GRAMMY® Award nods and sold over 12 million albums worldwide, but they also took home a Billboard Music Award for the double-platinum Awake. Its breakout single “Monster” is 5x platinum and remains “one of the most-streamed rock songs of all-time.” 2016’s Unleashed bowed at #3 on the Billboard Top 200. Hitting #1 on Rock Radio, the lead single “Feel Invincible” cracked 643 million global audio streams and went platinum. Meanwhile, the gold-certified Unleashed became their fourth consecutive album to receive either a gold, platinum, or double-platinum status. Their 2019 release Victorious included the top ten rock radio hit “Legendary,” which lived up to its name with over 108 million streams. To date, nine original tunes earned RIAA recognition in tandem with high-profile syncs by everyone from WWE and Marvel to ESPN and NFL. Between selling out arenas in 26 countries and four continents, the group performed on CONAN and graced the pages of USA Today and The New York Times, Skillet debuted their first graphic novel, EDEN: A Skillet Graphic Novel with Z2 Comics, which became the publisher’s best-selling book of all time, followed by EDEN II: The Aftermath. Skillet’s latest project, DOMINION, is available now.
With sky-high hooks, riffs as thick as a 2×4, rumbling grooves, and a razor-sharp sense of humor, THEORY OF A DEADMAN — Tyler Connolly [lead vocals, guitar], Dave Brenner [guitar, backing vocals], Dean Back [bass], and Joey Dandeneau [drums, backing vocals] — have quietly persisted as an unapologetic, unbreakable, and undeniable hard rock force with major multi-platinum hits and countless sold out shows in each of the past two decades. The band burst out of their small Canadian hometown with the self-titled, Theory of a Deadman, during 2002. In addition to the double-platinum breakthrough album Scars & Souvenirs [2008] and gold-certified The Truth Is… [2011], Theory have notched a procession of hits, including the gold-certified “All Or Nothing,” “Bitch Came Back,” and “Lowlife,” platinum-certified “Angel,” “Hate My Life,” and “Not Meant To Be,” double-platinum “Bad Girlfriend,” and triple-platinum “RX (Medicate).” As the biggest smash of their career thus far, the latter hit, off their 2017 album Wake Up Call, marked their third #1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart and garnered a nomination for “Rock Song of the Year” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Their impressive catalogue has also logged two Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 and amassed more than 1 billion collective streams on Spotify alone and over 675 million views on their official YouTube. In 2020, the award-winning band’s seventh studio album Say Nothing, featuring the chart-topping and powerful single “History of Violence,” landed at #2 on the Billboard Alternative Albums Chart and #3 on the Rock Albums Chart. Theory of a Deadman recently returned with their anthemic and hard-hitting new single “Dinosaur” (Roadrunner Records), which is currently impacting Active Rock radio. CLICK HERE to watch a new live video of “Dinosaur” from this year’s Aftershock Festival.
SKILLET + THEORY OF A DEADMAN ON TOUR: 2/17 — Gary, IN — Hard Rock Live 2/18 — Green Bay, WI — EPIC Event Center 2/19 — East Moline, IL — The Rust Belt 2/21 — Milwaukee, WI — Eagles Ballroom Club Stage 2/22 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore 2/24 — Reading, PA — Santander Arena – Theater 2/25 — Boston, MA — Roadrunner 2/26 — Bangor, ME — Cross Insurance Center 2/28 — Sayreville, NJ — Starland Ballroom** 3/1 — Rochester, NY — Main Street Armory 3/3 — Cleveland, OH — Agora Theatre 3/4 — Mt. Pleasant, MI — Soaring Eagle Casino – Theatre 3/5 — Cincinnati, OH — AJB Music Center 3/7 — Nashville, TN — Brooklyn Bowl** 3/8 — Pikeville, KY —Appalachian Wireless Arena 3/10 — St Louis, MO — The Factory 3/11 — Springfield, MO — Shrine Mosque 3/12 — Tulsa, OK — Tulsa Theater 3/14 — Houston, TX — Bayou Music Center 3/15 — Dallas, TX — The Factory 3/17 — Kansas City, MO — Midland Theatre 3/18 — Omaha, NE — Baxter Arena 3/19 — Denver, CO — Mission Ballroom 3/21 — Las Vegas, NV — Brooklyn Bowl** 3/22 — Phoenix, AZ — First Arizona Federal Theater 3/24 — Reno, NV — Grand Sierra Resort – Grand Theatre 3/25 — Wheatland, CA — Hard Rock Live 3/26 — Los Angeles, CA — The Wiltern **NO SKILLET SKILLET ONLINE:
AUGUST BURNS RED ANNOUNCE 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR FOR 2023
NEW ALBUM DEATH BELOW OUT MARCH 24 VIA SHARPTONE RECORDS
Grammy-nominated Lancaster five-piece AUGUST BURNS RED — JB Brubaker [lead guitar], Brent Rambler [rhythm guitar], Matt Greiner [drums], Jake Luhrs [vocals], and Dustin Davidson [bass] — have a big year ahead of them in 2023.
The band will drop its new album Death Below on March 24 via SharpTone Records. Pre-order it here.
ABR have also announced its 20 Year Anniversary Tour, during which they will play material off all nine of their albums as they hit North America.
“Where does the time go?,” says Brubaker. “I can remember playing 250 shows a year and touring in our van like it was yesterday. We are so grateful to have had the support of our fans year in and year out for two decades. We thank you, and cannot wait to celebrate with you!”
The first leg of the tour kicks off on February 15 in Silver Spring, MD and runs through March 14 in Charlotte, NC. The second leg launches on April 13 in Philadelphia, PA and wraps on May 12 in Quebec in Canada. The tour marks the first time the band has played Canada since 2019.
The support acts are The Devil Wears Prada, and Scottish band Bleed From Within, who are touring the U.S. for the first time. The bands will appear on both legs of the tour.
VIP packages are on sale right now at this location and include an exclusive, 200+ page photo book that spans each year of ABR’s entire career.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, November 18 at 10am local time.
AUGUST BURNS RED ON TOUR: WITH THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA + BLEED FROM WITHIN: 2/15 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore Silver Spring 2/16 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz 2/17 — Atlanta, GA — Heaven at The Masquerade 2/18 — Orlando, FL — Heart Support Festival* 2/20 — Fort Lauderdale, FL — Revolution Live 2/21 — Pensacola, FL — Vinyl Music Hall 2/23 — Houston, TX — House of Blues 2/24 — Dallas, TX — South Side Ballroom 2/25 — San Antonio, TX — Vibes Event Center 2/27 — Tempe, AZ — The Marquee 2/28 — San Diego, CA — Soma 3/1 — Anaheim, CA — House of Blues 3/2 — Sacramento, CA — Ace Of Spades 3/4 — Portland, OR — Roseland Theater 3/5 — Seattle, WA — Showbox Sodo 3/7 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex 3/8 — Las Vegas, NV — House of Blues 3/10 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium 3/12 — Little Rock, AR — The Hall 3/13 — Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works 3/14 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore Charlotte 4/13 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore Philadelphia 4/14 — New York, NY — Palladium Times Square 4/15 — Albany, NY — Empire Live 4/16 — Worcester, MA — The Palladium 4/18 — Niagara Falls, NY — Rapids Theater 4/19 — Royal Oak, MI — Royal Oak Music Theatre 4/21 — Grand Rapids, MI — The Intersection 4/22 — St. Louis, MO — Red Flag 4/23 — Kansas City, MO — The Truman 4/25 — Oklahoma City, OK — Diamond Ballroom 4/26 — Omaha, NE — Slowdown 4/28 — Minneapolis, MN — The Fillmore Minneapolis 4/29 — Chicago, IL — Concord Music Hall 4/30 — Cincinnati, OH — Bogarts 5/2 — Cleveland, OH — House of Blues 5/3 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE 5/5 — North Myrtle Beach, SC — House of Blues 5/6 — Richmond, VA — The National 5/7 — Sayreville, NJ — Starland Ballroom 5/9 — Toronto, ON — Danforth Music Hall 5/11 — Montreal, QC — MTelus 5/12 — Quebec, QC — Theatre Capitole *Festival Date
ABOUT AUGUST BURNS RED: August Burns Red is likely the only metal act ever described as “thrillingly empathetic” (Kerrang!). It’s a testament to the ferocious band’s ability to recognize and connect with the mixture of brokenness and hope found in their audience and within themselves. A hard-working collective with a shockingly stable lineup for the vast majority of their career, August Burns Red pour every ounce of themselves into their music. Atmospheric, riff-laden, aggressive bursts of controlled chaos, filled with shifting time signatures and tempos, deliver confessional, self-reflective, and authentic emotion.
Tour stops with Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Parkway Drive, and Bring Me the Horizon; several major international hard rock festivals (Rock Am Ring, Download, and Aftershock, to name a few); and the Vans Warped Tour are among the destinations around the world to witness ABR’s live prowess. Massive headlining treks celebrating 10-year anniversaries for Constellations and Leveler demonstrated the enduring relevance of the band’s catalog, nearly 20 years into ABR’s storied career. 2020’s Guardians debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hard Music, Rock Albums, and Vinyl Albums charts.
Revolver, who put the band on their cover the same year, observed August Burns Red “embrace the pain so well.” It’s a truth never more evident than on Death Below, their stunning ninth studio album. Recorded with longtime producers Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland, Death Below encompasses all of the pissed-off strength of the band’s past without sacrificing an ounce of catchy, melodic might. Death Below boasts guest appearances from ABR allies Jesse Leach (Killswitch Engage), Spencer Chamberlain (Underoath), Jason Richardson (All That Remains), and JT Cavey (ERRA). “It’s getting difficult for the members of August Burns Red to keep one-upping themselves,” marveled Billboard shortly before Guardians arrived. With Death Below, they emerge victorious again.
If the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour brings anything to the music fans its three up and coming artist that bring energy to the stage, Zero 9:36, Fame on Fire, Garzi. If you have seen Zero 9:36 before you already know what his energy is like, a rapper, singer, and musician with an aggressive style, who has transcended as an artist on this tour, bringing a full band with him this time and finding his place as an artist who can do it all.
Zero opened his set running onto the stage as the lights came up, breaking into a rap but this time he showed his heavy side as he got into the heavier songs on his latest record If you don’t save yourself opening with “I am not,” “Leave the Light On,” and “One by One” sure gave the crowd what they wanted, with his high energy and variety of music.
Supporting the tour is another up and coming band Fame on Fire, a band that is known to the music scene as a band who pushes the boundaries of rock while teetering on the edge of hip hop, heavy music and more.
Playing songs off their debut album Levels as the crowd sang along with “Not dead yet,” “Plastic Heart,” and would not be complete without their version of Linkin Parks “Numb”.
Opening the show was an artist by the name of Garzi, who the crowd knew well and with high energy and a good story behind his journey on this current tour, songs that will be introduced and breakthrough soon “Sick of me,” “Hopeless,” and “Paranoia”.
Garzi is someone who you should not sleep on, this round of Monster Outbreak Tour will for sure have some breakthrough artist soon. For more information on where the Monster Outbreak Tour will be next visit www.monsterenergy.com or any of the artist on tour you can find or stream their music on all streaming platforms.
RIVIUM’S MATTHEW KIICHI HEAFY REVEALS LONG-AWAITED IBARAKI ALBUM RASHOMON
Trivium singer and guitarist Matthew Kiichi Heafy has shared more details about his long-awaited and much-anticipated IBARAKI project.
‘Akumu’ translates to ‘nightmare’ — and with this piece, I encourage the listener to work to find their interpretations of what they feel from the lyrics, music, and the haunting visuals of the music video,” says Kiichi. “I have always been fascinated by Sagazan’s ‘Transfiguration,’ and for years, I have wanted to pay homage to his works with a performance art piece; to finally be able to immerse myself in his style was an intense experience.”
He finishes, “Having Nergal guest in this Ihsahn co-written piece allowed me to combine many of my long-time influences; and when I presented with Nergal of the challenge of translating my lyrics into Polish, it brought the song to another level.”
Last month, Ibaraki offered fans a taste and a tease of the music by sharing the video for “Tamashii No Houkai,” featuring special guest Ihsahn of Emperor fame, who is a core contributor and partner in this project.
Ibaraki were recently selected as one of the most anticipated releases of 2022 by Revolver.
ABOUT IBARAKI: IBARAKI — the name for a terrifying Japanese demon taken from feudal legend and the new project of Trivium’s Matthew Kiichi Heafy — is more than a solo record. It’s the end-result of a journey of an artist finding his voice. Its inspirations include everything from an adoration for the extremes of black metal to the exuberant storytelling of Gerard Way to the adventuresome worldliness of tragic bon viveur Anthony Bourdain. It’s a reflection of Kiichi’s multifaceted interests as well as a profound affirmation of his Japanese-American identity, and one that led him to confront one of his family’s most tragic moments. Like the artist behind it, there is much to the story of Ibaraki and it began with a timid email to one of black metal’s most revered and influential figures.
Kiichi, a fan of black metal before he even started Trivium, reached out to label reps for Ihsahn of Emperor, and the artist personally responded. He recalls, “It was so cool to get that nod and it inspired me to start checking some of his solo stuff. He’d just released his own solo record and I’d never heard anything like it — saxophones, clean singing, jazz chords. It was incredible to me. He’s this non-stop inventor. So I started writing in a totally different way.”
The exposure to Ihsahn’s solo work that would inspire the gradual craftsmanship that would eventually become Ibaraki. It was also the beginning of a friendship and creative collaboration that would eventually compel Ihsahn to take a leap of his own into a newfound role as producer on the project. While much of the material for Ibaraki was assembled over those months and years — as much a songwriting process as an exchange of ideas between friends — it wasn’t until the pandemic that the space was created and the idea could really flourish.
“It was very loose,” says Ihsahn. “We just had rough demos for a very long time because we’re arguably pretty busy people, but suddenly, everything was cancelled and we had time on our hands for the first time, so it was like, ‘OK, let’s do this.’ We never got to work in the same room; he’d track guitars and send them to me, I’d run them through my studio and send them back. It was a new way of working, but it was like he was there on the other side of the glass. Matt is a very, very positive energetic and passionate music fan — we have similar attitudes to music and open mindedness. We hit it off, and it’s been really rewarding to me.”
The creative interactions between the pair are the result of a deep trust borne of a commonality of their experience. “We both started our respective bands when we were 13,” Ihsahn says. “We got signed when we were 16. That’s young, and in essence we both found our path in life at an early age. We’ve talked a lot about that and our different experiences with that, because it’s like we know nothing else.”
While material was primarily written by Kiichi, Ihsahn engineered and produced and contributed some song structures, plus Trivium drummer Alex Bent and bassist Paolo Gregoletto and guitarist Corey Beaulieu contributed to various tracks. Ihsahn’s wife Heidi even sampled some natural sounds from the forest near their home and his entire family. Additional guests include the aforementioned Way and Behemoth’s Nergal.
Ihsahn also encouraged Kiichi to seek out new avenues for lyrical inspiration, namely his Japanese heritage. While an array of stories have been told via the tattoos on his body, such as the specific ancient Japanese story of gods, goddesses, and monsters from the Shinto religion taught to him by his mother, he began pouring the stories into lyrics.
While the rich mythology and folklore of Japan that would give IBARAKI its unique aesthetics and influences, it also provides the artist with the catalyst to contemplate his own identity and to consider how recent tragedies stateside have highlighted the need for better representation in metal.
MEMPHIS MAY FIRE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM REMADE IN MISERY
ALBUM OUT JUNE 3 VIA LONGTIME LABEL RISE RECORDS
BAND SHARES VIDEO FOR LATEST SINGLE “MAKE BELIEVE”
Last summer, MEMPHIS MAY FIRE — Matty Mullins (vocals), Kellen McGregor (guitar), Cory Elder (bass), and Jake Garland (drums) — dropped a series of singles, which accumulated nearly 35 million streams combined as fan excitement reached fever-pitch levels. The new material was repeatedly lauded by Revolver, SiriusXM, Loudwire, WSOU, HM, and more. Additionally, each song drop had a philanthropic element and was accompanied by a piece of charity-driven merch that was available at the band’s online store.
Today, the band has announced its seventh album Remade in Misery. The album arrives on June 3 via longtime label Rise Records.
Regarding the process of crafting the new album, Mullins says, “The last nine months have been such a refreshing journey for us. We knew that releasing singles for this long, without any news of an upcoming album, would come with challenges, but we couldn’t be happier with the outcome. We’re finally at the point of announcing the entire body of work, and I can genuinely say we are just as excited now as the day the first single dropped.”
He finishes, “Remade in Misery is undoubtedly a new season for MMF. We have truly rediscovered who we are as a band through these songs, and we can’t wait to bring them to life on upcoming tours.”
Memphis May Fire have also shared the video for the new single “Make Believe,” which finds the band flexing its creative muscles with dynamic flourishes, mechanized samples, and bludgeoning breakdowns.
“Our seventh single has arrived and it’s one of my favorite MMF tunes of all time,” shares Mullins. “‘Make Believe’ feels significantly different from the rest of the singles and it offers a whole new flavor that our fans haven’t heard from us before. The song is about enduring so much pain that you feel like you are losing your grip on reality, questioning everything you’ve ever known, and starting to wonder if life is just a simulation. Having had a lot of success with therapy in my own life, I’m a huge advocate for it and I’m excited to announce that we will be donating 100% of the proceeds from the ‘Not the Same’ tee in our merch store to The Refuge Center For Counseling in Franklin, Tennessee.”
Memphis May Fire will hit the road this spring with Dance Gavin Dance, Volumes, and Moon Tooth. All dates are below.
MEMPHIS MAY FIRE ON TOUR WITH DANCE GAVIN DANCE, VOLUMES, + MOON TOOTH: 4/26 — Spokane, WA — Knitting Factory 4/27 — Garden City, ID — Revolution 4/29 — Wichita, KS — Cotillion 4/30 — Omaha, NE — The Admiral 5/1 — Des Moines, IA — Val Air 5/3 — Ft. Wayne, IN — Piere’s 5/4 — Cleveland, OH — Agora 5/6 — Grand Rapids, MI — The Intersection 5/7 — Milwaukee, WI — Eagles Ballroom 5/9 — Rochester, NY — Main Street Armory 5/10 — Albany, NY — Empire Live 5/11 — Hartford, CT — Webster Theater 5/13 — Richmond, VA — The National 5/14 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz 5/15 — Columbia, SC — The Senate 5/17 — Ponte Vedra, FL — Concert Hall 5/19 — Knoxville, TN — Knoxville Auditorium 5/20 — Birmingham, AL — Sloss Furnaces ABOUT MEMPHIS MAY FIRE: Memphis May Fire have always made anthems for the broken. The four-piece rock band channels a generation’s worth of angst, frustration, and pain, with a focused blend of gigantic melodic hooks and crushing aggression. Even after topping Billboard‘s Hard Music Albums chart and breaking into radio’s Active Rock Top 20, Memphis May Fire refuse to sacrifice who they are or the people who made them. In fact, Remade in Misery, is the heaviest Memphis May Fire record yet.
A new season unfolds for the band, filled with revitalization and renewal. Stripping things down to their core elements, hearkening back to the days when they created the music their fans most cherish, Memphis May Fire rekindled the spark within to build an inferno of riffs and inspirational words.
The band confronts anxiety, violence, and polarization all over Remade in Misery, strengthened by a foundation of hope and renewal at the heart of the lyrics, which evoke the cathartic bombast of the band’s best-known songs, a return to their roots with the seasoned polish earned through years of touring and making music together.
Memphis May Fire have toured with a vast list of important rock and metal acts that include Killswitch Engage, Sleeping With Sirens, Black Veil Brides, Sevendust, and Atreyu. They’ve co-headlined with Yellowcard and The Devil Wears Prada, regularly appeared on Warped Tour, and at major rock festivals. The band’s previous six albums’ continued relevance is a testament to the energized connectivity between the band and their audience. Their catalog accounts for over 100 million views and millions of streams on fan-favorite songs. “We want people to have songs they can sit down and listen to, or play in the gym, or driving in their car, and know the world is bigger than it seems,” Mullins says. “To know they exist in a world with other people that understand that it is okay to be imperfect. That someone else knows your hurt.”
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