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1. • Brew Records
   • NMC Live in association with Kilimanjaro, Mean Fiddler, DHP, Damnation and Insangel brings you...
     
     SCUZZ presents: FRICTION TOUR
     
     Featuring the long-awaited touring return of...
     ...
     EARTHTONE9
     
     + special guests
     
     THE OCEAN
     MAYBESHEWILL
     HUMANFLY
     
     Tuesday 17th May - Birmingham, Academy 2
     Wednesday 18th May - Durham, Live Lounge
     Thursday 19th May - Glasgow, Stereo
     Friday 20th May - Manchester, Club Academy
     Saturday 21st May - Bristol, Thekla
     Sunday 22nd May - London, Relentless Garage
     
     Tickets available from www.seetickets.com from Monday 31st January.
     
     Just over 9 years after EARTHTONE9 said goodbye to a packed London Garage, they will return to round off FRICTION TOUR, their long-awaited comeback.
     
     The band made tentative steps back into the live arena in the second half of 2010 with performances at the Sonisphere and Damnation festivals; the response, however, was anything but uncertain. The old fanbase was still very much alive alongside a new set of fans, all eager to see whether the old songs stood the test of time and whether this progressive outfit could still hold such an overused title. They didn't disappoint.
     
     Where once EARTHTONE9 were the UK's torchlight battling through a tedious nu-metal fog, they now return to join a metal scene thriving with ingenuity and inventiveness, much of which had its way paved by the band's output around the turn of the millenium. The new material will only confirm why they are held in such high esteem.
     
     THE OCEAN from Germany are confirmed admirers, and are themselves simply one of the most exciting heavy acts around, blending a multitude of genres in what was once a collective's creative cauldron. UK tours with the likes of Opeth, and most recently The Dillinger Escape Plan, have only confirmed their position in the live setting, and their two albums in 2010 via Metal Blade left critics from Terrorizer to Rock Sound in raptures.
     
     MAYBESHEWILL bring their instrumental fusion of post-rock, metal and electronica, and an ethos that has seen them work tirelessly to secure a devoted group of followers. Drowned In Sound and Rock Sound are regular supporters of the band, and no doubt their new album will keep them moving positively in both regard and musical progression.
     
     HUMANFLY will open the tour with a fleet of riffs at their disposal, and a UK scene finally waking up to what their home county of Yorkshire has known for a while: this band is incredible. Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, Rock-a-Rolla and numerous other magazines loved their new album 'Darker, Later'; the band toy with layers of prog, touching on King Crimson and Pink Floyd, that groove effortlessly into ferocious hardcore and bleak slabs of metal. Make sure you get down early.
     
     www.scuzz.tv
     www.earthone9.co.uk
     www.theoceancollective.com
     www.maybeshewill.net
     www.humanfly.bandcamp.com
     www.seetickets.com
     www.brewrecords.net
     www.ilikepress.co.uk
     
     Facebook event for the tour: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107580982650568
     [Edited by Brew Records at 18:11 on 31/01/11]
   • [18:10 on 31/01/11]
2. • mike
   • Good line-up! I'll bob along to one of them!
   • [20:00 on 31/01/11]
3. • Gareth
   • Grr, no Shef date. Might have to tag along Mike, ET9 still get regular plays on my walk to work.
     
     Any news on a new record or is that asking too much?
   • [21:48 on 31/01/11]
4. • Brew Records
   • not sure on a new record. I heard this is all part of the proper comeback so you'd think they'd make a new album
   • [16:12 on 01/02/11]
5. • Gareth
   • You'd hope so. I'd lay down my guitar happy and never play again if I wrote an album as good as Arc' Tan' Gent.
   • [18:44 on 01/02/11]
6. • bosskeloid
   • At Sonisphere i spoke to Dave and he said recording first then tour, then about 2 months ago Owen put a post up saying they were putting the finishing touches to recordings and they played a new track at Damnation....
     
     So lots to get excited about!!!!!!
     
     I LOVE ET9!!
   • [15:24 on 02/02/11]
7. • basstard
   • I totally missed out on ET9 the first time round- I dismissed them as nu-metal wannabes mainly due to the Kerrang excitement.
     
     Years later (pretty recently) I realised I know one of them from Uni days (Owen) and most of the original line-up from their previous incarnation, the melodic Death Metal band Warp Spasm. Funny old world etc...
     
     I feel as though I missed out on something special by the accolades being thrown around; anyone care to offer a short review of an album (something a bit more descriptive than 'it's ace so buy it'?
     
   • [17:48 on 02/02/11]
8. • mike
   • Not a review per se, but think Tool with a more hardcore stomp going on, combination of very good screaming vocals and rich smooth singing, and loads of ideas in there with samples, electronics and unusual riffs. Also, the lyrics are very clever.
   • [18:23 on 02/02/11]
9. • slomo
   • Thats right. There isnt a Shefield date.
   • [13:42 on 04/02/11]
10. • Eggy
    • Shame there's no Nottingham date given that they are kind of from there, plus a fair number of their hardcore fans live in Nottingham but oh well I'll probably make the journey down to Brum. It's just as quick for me to get there as to get to Manchester and I'll need to book time off work for mancland.
      
      I saw et9 supporting Soulfly back in the day but didn't like them as they were too heavy ( I also only really liked bands that were already big back then for some bizarre reason). I only really got into them by listening to the quieter tracks and then eventually appreciating the heavy stuff. I used to post on the et9 forum, but this was after the band had split up and there were only a handful of proper hardcore fans still posting on there, but after Tool, et9 became my favourite band for a good couple of years, I never went a week without listening to them.
    • [01:27 on 19/02/11]
11. • Hopkins
    • ahh, the et9 board, that's how i got to know you, boulty, phil and sam
    • [10:06 on 19/02/11]
12. • mike
    • I remember that board, I used to post on the Undergroove one, that was pretty good.
    • [10:34 on 19/02/11]
13. • Eggy
    • I got into a lot of my now favourite bands from posting on those two forums (and this one of course). Shame the et9 board has completely disappeared and the UG one died of old age, I went on there the other day to look for something, it's like a ghost town now.
    • [11:30 on 19/02/11]
14. • Gareth
    • Eggy says:

      Shame there's no Nottingham date given that they are kind of from there
      
      
      That never even occurred to me. Why no Notts date? It'd be quicker to get there than to Brum. I suppose Manc is about the same distance but it's over Snake Pass which all the chavs race on at night.
    • [14:54 on 19/02/11]

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