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SoCal legends Sleeping Giant announce final project

SLEEPING GIANT TO RELEASE FINAL ALBUM WITH FACEDOWN

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Sleeping Giant are bringing it home to Facedown Records to say goodbye with their final album “I Am,” set to release January 26.

Vocalist Tommy Green reflects on the past 12 years:

For me personally this band has been such an important and special gift in my life that I needed to know that I was actually at a point where I could let go and move on. I didn’t want to feel grief like there was something unexpressed, unsaid, or undone in me; I didn’t want to feel like I was selling myself out. This band has become the private journal made public of the story of my life. It is one of the most important things I have ever done.

It’s crazy and beautiful and hard and awesome and cathartic and creative all at the same time. I thank God for hardcore. I have been able to express my passion and my pain over the last 12 years.

At Facedown Fest 2016 we talked to JD and asked him if he would consider helping us to say goodbye. We wanted to finish where we started and show respect and honor for the label that helped us get our first exposure and created space for us to grow at home in Southern California. Stepping away from Facedown and becoming a traveling band and working with so many others, it became evident that there is something really special about Facedown; honestly this is just such a gift for the FD crew to be willing to take this on as a last project.

Our last show will be 12 years to the date of our first back home where we began. 

I couldn’t and wouldn’t have done this, risked speaking and sharing my personal story, without all of the people that have made this band: Massive Matt, Travis Boyd, Cory Johnson, Geoff Broullete, Eric Gregson, Matt Weir, Ryan Gregson, JR Bermuda, Nelson Flores, Lazarus Rios, Blake Hardman, Andrew Minervini, and Andrew Glover. Respect for your sacrifices and for your gifts and talents and efforts. You are all a part of Sleeping Giant.

LAST SHOWS

Sleeping Giant will head home to California for their farewell performance, exactly 12 years from the date of their very first show.

Jan 28 – Dallas, TX @ Trees (CD release)
Feb 17 – Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse (Farewell Show)

FIRST SINGLE “NO LOVE”

“I Am” will be released on January . The first single “No Love” features Garrett Russell of Silent Planet.

Russell: I’ve been a fan of Sleeping Giant since 2007 and one of my very favorite music memories is watching them play a midnight set at Cornerstone Fest in 2008. Fast forward to summer 2014 and SG took my band on one of our first coast-to-coast tours. 

Tommy’s kingdom mindset has been a massive inspiration on my work, and it was amazing to collaborate with him on No Love. Enjoy, Lovers. 

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(gig report)HEXIS(DK)+BEDNJA(VZ)-PROSTOR CAKOVEC-16.11.2017.

Ekipa okupljena oko The Void marljivo radi i ovog četvrtka je u Prostoru održan još jedan koncert na kojem su svirali HEXIS iz Danske, a kao support Bednja iz Varaždina.

Pošto je prema satnici početak koncerta najavljen za 21.15 došao sam pred Prostor oko 21 sat, kad tamo nije bilo tko bi u dvorištu kratio vrijeme do koncerta ispijajući piće ili časkajući. Ušao sam unutra, malo se pozdravio s nekim dragim mi ljudima, pa je koncert taman počeo s nekih 15-20 minuta zakašnjenja.

Pred kojih četrdesetak ljudi u mračnoj, intimnoj atmosferi na bini je svoj set započela BEDNJA. Ovog ljeta sam upoznao njihovog bubnjara i nisam ni znao da svira s njima, a silno sam ih želio čuti uživo, jer sam čuo samo riječi hvale od ljudi koji su ih gledali  i slušali.

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Na bini osvijetljenoj lampašima, sa projekcijama iza sebe, Bednja je odsvirala svoju verziju melankoličnog, ali agresivnog black metala. Jako mi se svidjela interakcija između gitaristovog dubljeg, pomalo crusty vokala i basistovog vrištećeg onako pravo blackerskog koji se cijelo vrijeme izmjenjuju u pjesmama. Ono što me drugo oduševilo je agresivnost iskazana kroz blast beatove i brze riffove kombinirana sa atmosferičnim skoro akustičnim dijelovima pjesama koje su duge, ali uopće nisu dosadne. Treća odlična stvar je što su, koliko sam uspio čuti, svi tekstovi na hrvatskom što je kod ovakvih bendova kod nas rijetkost. Jednostavno me naježilo koliko ovi momci odlično sviraju i kakvu atmosferu pružaju svojim setom. Vjerujem da su svi pred binom bili oduševljenji 40-minutnim nastupom. Koliko sam vidio na njihovoj web stranici, Bednja je dovršila album, pa jako silno želim slušati taj album, jer sam uvjeren da će biti odličan.

Slijedio je makeover bine koji je bio dovršen u prilično brzom tempu, pa na binu stupaju gosti iz Danske, HEXIS. Riječ je o bendu koji je od svog osnutka skoro konstantno na touru svirajući po skoro cijelom svijetu i svim poznatim hardcore i metal festivalima.

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Počeli su svoj set u atmosferi puno dima iz mašine i meni pomalo iritantnog skoro stroboskopskog svijetla. Bez puno govora između pjesama odrokali su pola sata kaotičnog hardcorea punog black metal utjecaja, kakav je danas prilično popularan među ekipom koja nisu metalci, a željeli bi biti, a opet sram ih je hehe.

Što se Hexisovog nastupa tiče, meni osobno muzički nisu baš legli. Malo mi je sve bilo prebučno i kaotično, nisam baš mogao od sve te buke čuti gitaru i pomalo me živcirao vokal sa previše reverba za moj pojam, tako da sam cijelo vrijeme mislio da koristi neki efekt.

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Neupitno je da imaju prejebeno odličan nastup, jer su svirali i imali držanje kao da sviraju pred pet stotina ljudi. Vokal je cijelo vrijeme hodao među publikom po podiju i urlao na mikrofon zajedno sa nekim ljudima iz publike, pa je sve ispalo prilično katarzično i energično za jedan četvrtak.

Sve u svemu, još jedan odličan koncert i svake pohvale Karlu i The Void za dovođenje ovakvih bendova u Prostor. Meni se osobno Bednja više svidjela, ali sve je to samo stvar osobnog ukusa.

 

(record review)SENTENCE-“Svaka riječ zakletva”

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Sentence is hardcore punk band from Zagreb, Croatia. The band members are kinda veterans of Croatian hardcore scene, being in bands, doing zines and organizing gigs on the scene for many years. This is their new e.p. consisting of five songs with lyrics written in English language. The music is aggressive hardcore punk more of a old school style, 90-s mosh parts combined with fast drumming, just made in heaven for slaming and pogo in the pit. The vocals are screamed with gang singalong backing vocals and I can say with safety that for me personally, this new e.p. is the best release by this band so far. Check it out on their Bandcamp page and also check them out live because they are awesome.

8/10

Sentence – hardcore punk band from Zagreb, Croatia

https://sentencehc.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/SentenceHC