Hello again fellow headbanging maniacs!  It has truly been a long time since we have been in touch with the metal world again.  It has actually been our longest off time we have had since our junior year of high school.  We hope all of our friends/ bands have been thrashing the shit out of California and elsewhere.  We had a very interesting summer as well as a very long tour as you may well know.  Unfortunately a week into the tour drummer Derek Bean went through some rough shit and ended up in the hospital and is still in the process of recovering.  So then we had to figure out how to continue the tour and find a replacement.  Luckily our good friend Gio of Merciless Death/ Dismantle was cool enough and supportive enough to leave his family to join the onslaught so we could continue thrashing America.  After flying Gio into the city of Boston we were able to then start thrashing the remainder of the dates.  As a whole America has got one hell of a heavy metal/ thrash scene quaking in the underground at the moment and we were fortunate enough to meet a lot of cool people and see a lot of cool things. 

Besides our obvious touring companions Rattlehead from LA (all 8 of us crammed in a van), some of the cool bands we were fortunate to play with were Mantic Ritual, Ravage, Razor Wire, Diamond Plate, HMP, Conniption(beer and brauts), Amoricide, Satans Sidekick, and all the others we played with but could not recall at the moment due to touring inebriation.  Cool cities that have sick scenes brewing were Dallas, Albuquerque, Boston, Pittsburg, Worchester, Philadelphia(hammered), Aurora, LA(given), Lincoln, Jewett City, KCMO, Salt Lake(hella hot chicks) Seattle, Olympia (thanks Metal Church tattoo dude), Portland, and Palo Alto(van trailer shitted out on Oakland freeway make up gig soon).  Special thanks to Patrick’s dad(Pensacola FL), ultra special thanks to all the people who housed/fed/boozed/smoked us out across this land of plenty, getting hammered/ stoned with singer of Bloodfeast and Guitarworld writer at Sals in Brooklyn.  Marco our Publisher in Vegas because it is always cool talking and learning (sensei!), AAA for saving our assess abroad multiple times, extra special thanks again to Rattlehead because we were able to share such an unique and dynamic experience that this first big tour was, and last but certainly not least the promoters who gave a shit enough in some cities to go out of their way for us and Rattlehead and really promoted the gigs in their home cities.  We hope to thrash your city soon maniacs!

Wreck your necks and keep moshing!!!

Two of California’s most promising young metal acts, thrashers RATTLEHEAD (from LA) and DEVASTATOR (from Sacramento), will be teaming up to tour the country this summer bringing their own brand of metallic mayhem to over 40 cities. The tour, appropriately called Slaughtering The Masses, will be both bands’ first cross-country trek, although each has done successful west coast and regional touring.

Southern California’s Rattlehead have long been a hard-working cornerstone of the LA metal scene. The group have a committed DIY attitude, as witnessed by previous regional touring and the release last year of their own disc, Step Inside For The Slaughter, which they are still promoting.

Northern California’s Devastator have been having a great year. With the release of the group’s latest demo/EP, Burn The Beast, the group have received major accolades from metal press, radio and fans who recognize the band’s commitment to true metal and their continued progression as players and songwriters. The trio will embark on the tour in support of the EP and plan to finalize a label partner this fall upon completion of the dates so they can begin recording their debut before year’s end.

Visit each bands’ MySpace profile to purchase copies of the CDs and to get more information about them and the tour: Rattlehead, Devastator.

Tour dates include:

July
10 - Los Angeles, CA - Sabor Lounge
11 - Las Vegas, NV - The Farm
12 - Phoenix, AZ - The Sets
13 - Albuquerque, NM - TBA
14 - Wichita Falls, TX - TBA
15 - Dallas, TX - The Alamo
16 - San Antonio, TX - TBA
17 - New Orleans, LA - TBA
18 - Jacksonville, FL - Jackrabbits
19 - Tampa, FL - TBA
20 - Charleston, SC - TBA
21 - Raleigh, NC - Volume 11
22 - Richmond, VA - TBA
23 - Philadelphia, PA - TBA
24 - Clifton, NJ - Dingbatz
25 - Brooklyn, NY - Old Gallery
26 - Boston, MA - The Metal Hall
27 - Meredith, NH - Tba
28 - Rochester, NY - TBA
29 - Albany, NY - TBA
30 - Worcester, MA - Ralph's
31 - Baltimore, MD - Nowarehouse

August
1 - Pittsburgh, PA - 31st Street Pub
2 - Cleveland, OH - Now That’s Class
3 - Detroit, MI - The Temple
4 - Columbus, OH - TBA
5 - Indianapolis, IN - TBA
6 - Chicago, IL - Dougs Rock House
7 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
8 - St. Louis, MO - TBA
9 - Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews
10 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
11 - Lincoln, NB - Knickerbockers
12 - Denver, CO - TBA
14 - Salt Lake City, UT - TBA
15 - Boise, ID - Gusto's
16 - Tacoma, WA - Station 56
17 - Olympia, WA - Charlie's
18 - Potland, OR - TBA
19 - Medford, OR - Musichead
20 - Santa Cruz, CA - TBA
21 - San Francisco, CA - Annie's
22 - Oakland, CA - Gilman
23 - Fresno, CA - TBA

Have you ever wondered what people in the music industry consider to be their favorite metal albums?  More specifically people who are in the metal industry.  How about some of your favorite musicians from possibly one of your favorite bands?  What about people who signed, discovered, or even helped make that album or group you think is the best ever?  
It is pretty interesting when very recently, a survey is conducted where just those same type of people gave their own lists of the top 5 favorite metal albums.  We were just one of the many that contributed to the metal poll on www.teethofthedevine.com for our favorite metal albums.  Click the link below to find out what other bands and music industry heavyweights had to contribute.  You may be suprised by what people said.  Feel free to contribute your own top 5 list as well.

P.S If you look hard enough you can spot my list in there somewhere!  

 

http://teethofthedivine.com/site/featured/5-favorite-albums-of-all-time-according-to-people-that-actually-matter/

 
-Derek

Devastator - Burn the Beast

Devastator - Burn the Beast

Self Released

(2008)

Sacramento, California thrashers Devastator have unleashed a new demo called “Burn The Beast”. The new demo was recorded at Trident Studio’s in Martinez CA with former Vile vocalist and producer Juan Urteaga. One song here has been re-recorded from their 1st demo ‘Crush and Kill’ which is the song “March of the Wicked”. All the rest are new songs that push Devastator to a new level. The vocals fit a lot better as they are harsher and angrier than before, and the production on this is outstanding! From the opening of the CD, to the end, you are definitely in for a beating! Every song on here is killer, so be sure to pick this one up or be deemed a poser forever!

Added: May 4th 2009
Reviewer: Reaper
Score:
Related Link: Devastator
Hits: 3
Language: english

We here in Devastator would like to say thanks to everyone that showed up to last Saturdays Baloff gig it was sick seeing everyone there, if the fucking pigs didn’t show up we would have raged with Hatchet!  Happy late birthday Jeff, although we didn’t get to celebrate on stage, we have to make up for it dubbly hard next time!  To those who still want to check out our show and bang your brains out of your skulls, we are working on some gigs in the next while down in the Bay Area/Sacramento, so watch out for those, and of course there’s not going to be a fucking rave with the cat people going on in the same venue this time! 

***An extra special thanks to Joe and his 2 buds from Nebraska that attented, that was seriously amazing you guys drove all the way out to check out the thrash scene here in Cali.  We are really bummed we couldn’t give you what you wanted because of straight up bullshit going down at the gig but we hope the merch made up for it at least a little and hopefully things didn’t turn out the same down in L.A. 

Major thanks to all the metal heads that showed up Friday Feb. 15th at the Redhouse in Walnut Creek, you guys thrashed your assess off!  There was so much headbanging; it really felt great seeing rabid frenzied metal heads at the gig, we had a blast and hope you did as well.  We can't wait to head down the San Jose area again, the shows are insane down there!  Bay Area thrash is back!

-Devastator