(new video)BROADSIDE DEBUT NEW VIDEO “SUMMER STAINED” European Tour Starts Tonight, US Warped Tour Dates Follow

BROADSIDE have released a new video for “Summer Stained,” taken from the bands highly-acclaimed sophomore album Paradise. The heart-tugging clip takes an internal look at the bands relationships as seen through the eyes of their fans. The video also commemorates their life on tour, which starts tonight across Europe before creating more memories on this summer’s Vans Warped Tour.

Watch the music video “Summer Stained.”

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Asking fans to submit photos of their BROADSIDE memories, vocalist Ollie Baxxter explains, “With the progression of social media and everybody having a camera in their pocket, a lot of moments are captured but unseen. We always meet so many people on tour and being able to relive those encounters again without the fear of ‘I hope I’m more than just a photograph’ was really inspirational. The fact that thousands of photos poured in shows that people really care about us (as we do them). The love is more than appreciated.”

“After any tour, we get back home and the train stops,” Baxxter expands on the rollercoaster of life on the road. “All that validation and purpose of waking up every day to perform music just stops. I would lie in bed feeling so lonely because I felt like I didn’t have a purpose and no one knew who I was in this big city. Validation went to my head but also the purpose of being an entertainer had vanished. We would look to those photos that we were tagged in and just reminisce on the interactions we were given and feel human again. “Summer Stained” is a reflection on the loneliness of giving all of yourself away in your music in hopes that you will fill the hole that is in your heart.”

BROADSIDE return to the stage as their European tour kicks off today in Germany with several dates of the Galaxy Camp Festival, followed by shows with Trash Boat and the Slam Dunk Festival across the UK. The band wrap up the tour with a trio of headlining shows which have been sold out for weeks, then return to the US to prepare for their appearance on the final Vans Warped Tour.

Baxxter adds, “We are over the moon excited for Slam Dunk! Some of the greatest bands of all time will be playing and it’s a blessing just to be in their presence. As far as the sold-out show in London, we cannot wait to make that the best damn show of our career! The moment when found out it was sold out, we felt alive and the fire in our minds and hearts burned any doubt away. I’ve always said on stage ‘We are here today because you told somebody about us and cared enough to buy a ticket or a T-shirt – so thank you,’ and I mean that. We cannot wait to see you!”

BROADSIDE ON TOUR 2018

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Galaxy Camp w/State Champs, Real Friends and more

5/17 Zurich, CH @ Dynamo

5/18 Karlsruhe, DE @ NCO-Club

5/19 Koln, DE @ Essigfabrik

5/20 Leipzig, DE @ Parkbuehne

With Trash Boat

5/22 Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg

5/23 Eindhoven, NL @ Dynamo

5/24 Paris, FR @ Backstage by the Mill

Slam Dunk Festival

5/26 Leeds, UK @ Leeds City Centre North

5/27 Hatfield, UK @ Hatfield House South

5/28 Birmingham, UK @ The National Exhibition Centre Midlands

Headline w/Milestones, Homebound

5/29 London, UK @ Thousand Island (SOLD OUT)

5/30 Manchester, UK @ Night People

5/31 Glasgow, UK @ The Garage Attic

(record review)Circenses-“Tightrope Walk on the Ground”(Inverse Records)

Circenses from Finland started as one man band project by mastermind Severi Osala in 2016.  The band is hailing from Seinäjoki, Ostrobothnia. This is the album released on Inverse Records and I listened and reviewed it for this webzine.

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The album contains 9 songs of melodic death metal combined with some prog elements. The whole thing sounds to me like more aggressive version of Edge of Sanity and I love this album because of that. I think that metal flows in people´s veins when they are born in Finland and this is no exception. I loved the melodies combined with blastbeats and keyboard background in “Lunacy” or tender and prog death metal parts in the title song. The vocals are harsh but understandable so this is one more plus for this album. As always, I am fascinated by the feeling of melancholy that Finnish bands create when doing their music and how their art sounds sad but also really majestic in my heart when I listen to it. This is great record, so go get it!

8/10

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(news)SIFTING reveal new video for epic power ballad ‘Gloom’, on tour w/ Sons of Apollo & Felix Martin

Los Angeles, CA’s progressive rock/metal rising stars Sifting have just released a new music video for their epic power-ballad track “Gloom” which is the fifth music video from their latest full-length album Not From Here. The video was directed by Alejandro Fumero Gil, and filmed in beautiful Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu, CA and Santa Clarita, CA. Watch it right now at this location.

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“This is probably the most personal song I have ever written” says frontman Eduardo Gil. “In this song I describe what I felt the day of the plane crash that took my mother’s life, which I suppressed in my mind for so many years. I just didn’t want to feel what I felt that day ever again… but acceptance is part of the healing and the evolution of every human being. I struggled with myself for many days bringing myself to sit down and write about it. Then one day I finally got the courage to do it. Once I started writing, it was like it was a song I was remembering, like it was already written. It just came out.” Guitarist Richard Garcia continues, “Bringing Gloom to life, just felt right, even if it isn’t most people would expect a progressive metal band to release as a single. But honestly, we just love to be showing the “sensitive” side of the band with Gloom, because, just like humans, we are dual, we need both sides of the coin.”

Sifting’s latest full-length album Not from Here, was released in 2017 via Eclipse Records. The album was produced by Ryan Williams (Deftones, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine) and Steve Evetts (Sense’s Fail, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Suicide Silence). The band has previously released four music videos promoting the album for the songs ‘Blowing Fire’, ‘Nothing but Us’, ‘Not from Here’, and the progressive metal masterpiece ‘Epsilon’. The band recently wrapped up North American tours supporting Prong, Powerflo, Dayshell, and Eyes Set to Kill, and they are currently on tour with Sons of Apollo and Felix Martin.

SIFTING Discography
Not from Here (LP) – 2017
Pledge of our Generation (single) – 2015
All the Hated (LP) – 2013

SIFTING Lineup
Eduardo O Gil (guitar & vocals)
Richard Garcia (lead guitar)
Wins Jarquin (bass)
Joey Aguirre (drums)

For more information about SIFTING, please visit them on Facebook, Eclipse Records, or Twitter, and follow them on Spotify.