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St Matthew-in-the-City , CBD, Auckland

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Valhalla , Wellington

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Meow , Wellington

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Galatos , Newton, Auckland

Sun 25 Aug 7:30pm Metal

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Spark Arena , CBD, Auckland

Mon 16 Sep 8:00pm Metal

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Churchills Tavern , Christchurch

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Monday 17 october 2022.

Steel Panther 's ' Heavy Metal Rules ' New Zealand tour has now officially been rescheduled until October 2021!

MJR Presents is bringing the metal mayhem to New Zealand later than expected, but better late than pregnant, ahem, never!

Don't think of it as being let down by a lover, think of it as your lover extending, teasing and delaying your pleasure until you can take it no more and you crave their smooth, heavy-metal riff-laden touch and beg for more!

That's the kind of considerate lovers Steel Panther are. It's not like they are out playing other shows and cheating on you, right? They Are? Oh.

October 2021 will finally (!) see the wildest, wettest, dirtiest, hardest, heaviest most rocking heavy metal tour to hit New Zealand shores ever in the history of anything - EVER.

You feel the steel! Everybody gets to feel the steel because of heavy metal rules! The ‘Heavy Metal Rules Tour’ in October 2021 will drop anchor in New Zealand at the Powerstation on Sunday, October 17.

For the uninitiated, Steel Panther was formed in 2000 and consists of Michael Starr (lead singer), Satchel (guitarist), Lexxi Foxx (bass) and Stix Zadinia (drums). Hailing from Los Angeles, the epicentre for rock n’ roll in all its debauchery and glamour, Steel Panther has established themselves as the world’s premier party band, melding hard rock virtuosity with parody and criminally good looks.

Steel Panther is a global phenomenon with four full-length albums, touring across the world, platinum-level YouTube status and a #13 debut for the new album Heavy Metal Rules on the ARIA charts.

Rolling Stone avowed, "There’s a reason Steel Panther have transcended their origins as a cover band playing the Sunset Strip," while Metal Sucks declared, " Steel Panther ’s concept is genius...their songwriting is...preposterously snappy – and relatable."

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Special Guest Scene Queen Will Join On Select Dates

Tickets available starting tuesday, june 4 with presales, general onsale begins friday, june 7 at 10am local at livenation.com.

Today, Japanese kawaii metal band BABYMETAL announced their fall headline tour across North America, with support from Scene Queen on select dates. Produced by Live Nation, the 15-date tour kicks off on Tuesday, November 5 in Orlando, FL at the Hard Rock Orlando, with additional stops in Charlotte, Madison, New York, Oklahoma City and more before wrapping up on Tuesday, December 3 in Anaheim, CA at the House of Blues.

TICKETS: Tickets will be available starting with Citi and American Express presales in select markets beginning Tuesday, June 4 at 11am ET. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, June 7 at 10am local time at livenation.com.

BABYMETAL recently collaborated with German electronicore band Electric Callboy on a new song titled, “RATATATA,” which was released May 23. The song masterfully fuses the signature styles of both bands, seamlessly blending their worlds and pushing the music to exhilarating new limits. The song was an immediate international hit, racking up over 5 million streams on Spotify in the first week. The music video amassed over 7 million views to date and was Trending on YouTube in over a dozen countries.

BABYMETAL 2024 TOUR DATES:

Tue Nov 05 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Orlando^

Wed Nov 06 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Hollywood

Tue Nov 12 – Charlotte, NC – The Fillmore^

Wed Nov 13 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz

Fri Nov 15 – Washington, D.C. – The Anthem

Mon Nov 16 – Richmond, VA – The National*

Mon Nov 18 – New York, NY – Terminal 5^*

Thu Nov 21 – Bethlehem, PA – WindStar Creek Event Center

Sat Nov 23 – Cincinnati, OH – Andrew J. Brady Music Center^

Sun Nov 24 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee

Tue Nov 26 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room

Wed Nov 27 – Des Moines, IA – Vibrant

Fri Nov 29 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion^

Sat Nov 30 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel Entertainment Center

Tue Dec 03 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues^

^ Support To Be Announced

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About BABYMETAL

In April 2016, BABYMETAL became the first Japanese artists to ever headline at the prestigious Wembley Arena in the UK. In June 2019, they performed at one of the world’s largest music festivals, Glastonbury Festival, and their appearance at this festival made headlines around the world. That same year in September, BABYMETAL embarked on their METAL GALAXY WORLD TOUR. On October 11th, 2019 BABYMETAL had a worldwide release of their 3rd album METAL GALAXY and on that same day, they had their first U.S. headlining arena show at The Forum in Los Angeles, California. METAL GALAXY ranked No. 13 on the US Billboard Top 200 (Albums Chart), largely surpassing their own record of their previous album, and ranked No.1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart for the first time ever as an Asian artist. In the UK Official Charts, the album consecutively ranked in the Official Albums Chart Top 20 from their previous album and ranked No.1 on the Rock & Metal Albums Chart for the first time in history as a Japanese artist.

In 2021, over a four month period from January to April, they accomplished a total of 10 headline performances at the Nippon Budokan called 10 BABYMETAL BUDOKAN. After a 2-year hiatus from live performances, BABYMETAL were unsealed for BABYMETAL RETURNS – THE OTHER ONE – where they performed at Makuhari Messe.

Riding the success of last year’s concept album “THE OTHER ONE”, Dance Metal sensation BABYMETAL hosted  the first edition of their very own festival FOX_FEST last month, featuring exclusive appearances by ELECTRIC CALLBOY, POLYPHIA and BILMURI. Always pushing boundaries and testing the limits of metal music, BABYMETAL are no strangers to collaborations, with recent partnerships including BRING ME THE HORIZON, TOM MORELLO and LIL UZI VERT. Before coming to the US in November, the band will be circling Europe this summer on their festival run, including a main stage appearance at the UK’s DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL.

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From the MTG: A New Zealand soldier and a ‘remarkably refined’ young woman

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A century old photograph made its way into the collection of the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust.

Dr Graham Howie is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Paramedicine Department, AUT. In October 2023, on a study tour in France, he visited the village of Lumbres and laid flowers on Germaine Lassalle’s grave.

A young woman sits in an ornate wooden chair. She is wearing a blouse and a high-waisted, ankle-length skirt, with a peep of dark stockings and polished shoes.

Four large buttons feature prominently on the sturdy material of the skirt with its broad hem. Her blouse is full, long sleeved with generous cuffs, small round drop buttons dot the front. The collar stretches wide across the shoulders trimmed with what appears to be fur, a winter touch. A fine chain hangs round her neck and a pendant; there is a practical watch on her left wrist.

She wears her hair drawn back with a small band about the forehead, from which a few locks of hair escape. The face is attractive, she has large dark eyes, and a faint smile plays on her lips. However, by far the most striking thing about this portrait is the directness of her gaze. She looks straight at us steady and unfazed, confidently, perhaps even no-nonsense. A strong personality.

This is Germaine Lassalle – a young Frenchwoman in her early 20s. Her clothing is not Parisian high fashion, it’s not silk or satin, indeed she may have made some of it herself because we know she had worked as a dressmaker.

When the First World War broke out, she returned to her parents’ home in the village of Lumbres in Pas-de-Calais, NE France, a bit behind the front lines. And it was there that she met a New Zealand soldier far from home, and a friendship grew between them.

That soldier was Leo Bestall, a stretcher-bearer with the New Zealand Medical Corps. Leo had arrived on the Western Front in July 1916 and carried stretchers through the mud and toil of the Somme battlefield. He kept a detailed diary and wrote letters home to his parents at least once a week. More than 100 of these letters survive in the Collection of Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo-Tā-ū-Rangi. Germaine’s lovely portrait sits among Leo’s papers in the collection - he labels it, ‘My friend Germaine Lassalle’. We owe the story of that friendship to his archived account.

Leo met Germaine when he was based in Lumbres in April 1917. He had been tasked with ‘water duties’ (testing water sources, then transporting water supplies to the front line). But the water cart broke down, and Leo found himself with little to do for about 10 days.

He left his assigned billet and found accommodation for himself in Lumbres, and he met Germaine and the rest of her family at a local estaminet (a working-class eating establishment usually family-owned and run, serving simple food and cheap beer - ideal for tired and thirsty soldiers).

“In the main estaminet we discovered Mlle Germaine Lassalle - a nice girl of about 19 or 20, a bit better educated than any we have come across so far. We had dinner in the estaminet [on Thursday] and a long talk to her afterwards in which we were much enlightened concerning the French people and their customs.” [Diary entry, written Sunday, April 15, 1917]

“The usual girls in these estaminets and cabarets are pretty rough and if not get roughened by the English troops a lot, but she is most remarkably refined. Speaks middling English and is always trying to learn more from us and as she says, ‘When some soldiers speak very bad, I try not to be angry because I think it to myself - they are soldiers.’ She says that the part of France where we have spent so very many weary months is well known to be the coarsest and commonest part.” [Letter written to his parents, April 16, 1917]

“Even amongst English girls it is not often one finds one that is ambitious for further knowledge, especially of a language. Two of her cousins have married English officers. If we’d spent 6 months [at Lumbres] like some lucky units, instead of several days, she might have had prospects with a private in the N.Z.M.C. – perhaps.” [Letter written to his parents, April 28, 1916]

The army was an all-male institution. Leo was exhibiting a common hankering among soldiers, the desire for female company. But Germaine was special, she was intelligent and articulate, refined. She had not allowed the English troops to ‘roughen’ her – perhaps that direct gaze had rebutted a few. Nor did she judge the soldiers. That first meeting with Leo sounds familiar, it’s what all young people do when they first meet – they check each other out, exploring what they have in common, wondering if there is a friendship, perhaps even romance?

Leo was only in Lumbres a week and a half. But he spent ‘almost every spare minute’ with the Lassalles and left “quite sentimental about it and also righteously indignant that she should be ‘pulling beer’ in such a place. At any rate she has been jolly good to us … had us in to meals, so I was glad today to be able to do her a service by making up an eyewash for her sister.” [Diary entry, April 22, 1918]

This entry shows that Leo enjoyed more than a simple friendly contact, more even than a brief romance or casual encounter – instead, he was accepted into the Lassalle family. He was welcomed into their home – think of a dining table with a tablecloth, and maybe a vase of flowers. Dishes of steaming food served on real plates. Think of boisterous children; Germaine was the oldest of six children, the youngest of whom was only 3. Think of family hospitality, domesticity, inclusion, table talk, normalcy. A haven of home life, in the midst of brutal industrialised war.

Germaine and Leo stayed in touch. He received the “jolly little photo of herself” in March 1918. Then Leo was invalided to England with trench fever in May 1918 and did not return to France. He probably never saw Germaine again. However, he had left some precious items with her – “after the war if I am not alive, she will post you my diary of last year” [Letter to his parents, August 18, 1917] – and we know that diary was returned to New Zealand.

The century-old photograph of Germaine is quite small, 7.2 x 4.5cm, small enough to be carried in Leo’s wallet (and to hold a fond place in his memories) before it made its way into the collection of the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust.

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BABYMETAL 2024 U.S. tour: Presale code, dates, venues, & all you need to know

B ABYMETAL, the Japanese heavy metal band, is heading to the United States this fall for a headlining tour. The three-member band took to social media on June 4 to reveal the dates for the upcoming outing that begins on November 5 in Florida.

The Live Nation-produced tour in the U.S. supports the girl band's latest album, THE OTHER ONE , released in March 2023. Spanning over two weeks, the fall tour covers 15 cities across North America.

Tickets for the tour are now available through an artist presale that began on Tuesday, June 4. Fans can access the limited-time presale with the code 'FOXGOD.' The promoter presale from Live Nation begins on Wednesday, June 5, at 10 am EDT. The Livenation.com presale can be accessed with the code 'CHORD.'

In addition, the member-exclusive presales from select partners such as Knotfest, Spotify, Blabbermouth, and Revolver begin at 12 am EDT on Wednesday, June 5. The general sale of the tour tickets begins later this week on Friday, June 7, at 10 am EDT, and the upgraded tickets and VIP packages will also go on sale starting June 7.

Everything to know about BABYMETAL's 2024 U.S. tour

BABYMETAL will begin the headlining tour in the United States on November 5 with a concert at Florida's Hard Rock Orlando. The first concert will be followed by performances at Hard Rock Hollywood, The Fillmore in Charlotte, and The Ritz in Raleigh.

The Su-metal, Moametal, and Momometal trio will head to Washington, DC, on November 15 for a concert at The Anthem music venue. They will also take over major stages across Richmond, New York, Bethlehem, and Cincinnati.

The last few days of BABYMETAL's tour will include concerts at The Sylvee Madison in Wisconsin, Vibrant in Des Moines, and The Criterion in Oklahoma City. The band will also perform a one-off headlining concert at the Revel Entertainment Center in Albuquerque on November 30.

Following a two-day break, BABYMETAL will take over the stage at the House of Blues in Anaheim on December 3. While the Anaheim concert was expected to be the last of the tour, it has now been extended to cover a second date due to popular demand.

As such, the girl band will wrap up the fall tour with the final concert at the House of Blues on December 4. The Scene Queen , a.k.a. Hannah Rose Collins, will be supporting BABYMETAL on select dates of the U.S. tour.

While the other supporting acts are yet to be announced, Collins is confirmed to be present in Hollywood, Raleigh, Washington, Richmond, and Madison, among other dates.

The confirmed venues and dates for BABYMETAL's U.S. tour include:

• November 5 – Hard Rock Orlando, Florida
• November 6 – Hard Rock Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida
• November 12 – The Fillmore, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Wed Nov 13 – The Ritz, Raleigh, North Carolina
• November 15 – The Anthem, Washington DC
• November 16 – The National, Richmond, Virginia
• November 18 – Terminal 5, New York
• November 21 – WindStar Creek Event Center, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• November 23 – Andrew J. Brady Music Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
• November 24 – The SylveeMadison, Wisconsin
• November 26 – Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, Indiana
• November 27 – Vibrant, Des Moines, Iowa
• November 29 – The Criterion, Oklahoma City
• November 30 – Revel Entertainment Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• December 3 & 4 – House of Blues, Anaheim, California

BABYMETAL's fourth studio album, THE OTHER ONE , was released on March 24, 2023. The concept album was the last for the band as a duo since Monometal (Momoko Okazaki) joined the band soon after its release.

The 10-track album comprised hits like Metal Kingdom, Divine Attack, Mirror Mirror, Maya, Time Wave, and Believing . Additional tracks Metalizm, Light and Darkness, The Legend, and Monochrome were also part of the 2023 album.

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Suffocation Touring New Zealand in April 2024

US death metal pioneers Suffocation have   today announced a triple date tour of Aotearoa, directly following Friday's launch of their ninth studio long player  Hymns From The Apocrypha via Nuclear Blast. Forging their own path with 1991's landmark debut album Effigy of the Forgotten , the veteran Long Island crew of Terrance Hobbs (guitars), Derek Boyer (bass), Charles Errigo (guitars), Eric Morotti (drums), and new recruit Ricky Myers (vocals) have attracted devotees across the globe for their inhumanly growling voices, turbo guitar skills and breathtaking breakdowns. Their new collection was assembled over a month at their local Hobbs and Boyers InLine Studio with production by Christian Donaldson (Beneath the Massacre, Ingested) and Dominic Grimard (Cryptopsy, Shadow of Intent). The battle-scarred pros of almost 35 years have played over 2,000 shows globally in various lineup configurations, and this record is blazing a metallic trail that zips past our ears. Smash play and experience the brutality live in Wellington ,  Christchurch  and Auckland this coming April — brought to you by Valhalla Touring ...

"Perseverance isn't easy... playing aggressive music is in our blood. Being a live band with actual recordings that are back-to-the-roots of being a real band — not a digital representation of over-edited stuff in today's overwhelmed music industry—shows who we are. SUFFOCATION, as a live band, is key to us all. I would've never thought that this would be a 35-year endeavor, but it's great that it has! We have met so many bands, fans, and friends out there. It's inspiring to see that kind of support. Hopefully, we'll keep everyone paying attention to SUFFOCATION for another 100 years!

We’re coming to mash you into the dirt and drop some serious American Death Metal for your ears – hope to see all you death metal slam-infested freaks in the pit!” — Terrance Hobbs

SUFFOCATION

Thursday 25th April - Valhalla, Wellington Friday 26th April - Loons, Christchurch Saturday 27th April - Galatos, Auckland w/ Jungle Rot*

Tickets available  HERE via UTR *Tickets via Galatos

Listen to the glorious roar of these death metal legends at their latest peak...

Thrash your heads to their underworld music video for ‘Seraphim Enslavement’ from the new record...

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