METALISE Our Last Enemy and Witchgrinder will be teaming up with the Tease and Tearaways crew to bring their album launch tours to Canberra this June. Engineering the Enemy is a remix and rarities album, showcasing Our Last Enemy’s killer industrial tracks like you’ve never heard them before. Sporting collaborations with some of the best local and international names in the scene, Engineering the Enemy is set to be another impressive release from Sydney’s industrial metal powerhouse. Melbourne band Witchgrinder has made plenty of visits to the ACT in recent times and for their next visit they’ve brought their debut album with them. The Demon Calling is the title of the full length. Catch the dual album launch on Saturday June 22 at The Basement, alongside The Devilzwork and The Velvet Vixens. Fear Factory toured their landmark second album Demanufacture with locals Alchemist back in the day – I guess it would have been ‘95 or ‘96 – and following several lost years with line-up changes and a bunch of studio albums, they’re returning to their landmark record and performing it in full in a five-date Australian tour in July. If you’re a young Fear Factory fan, the good news is that the show is a licensed all ages show at The Roundhouse and you can get your tickets for the Friday July 5 show at Ticketek. Fattura Della Morte are one of the Sydney underground’s most precious gems and their hiatus has been broken with the welcome news of a return to shows and a new album that will be released this winter. Details still emerging on the title etc., but they’ve booked a launch show at The Basement in Belconnen on Friday August 2. Another lauded Sydney metal act The Amenta has recently released their third album Flesh Is Heir and are doing a short four-date national tour with Tasmanics Ruins. The tour is at the Bald Faced Stag in Sydney on Friday July 12. Only a couple of weeks now ‘til the big Thy Art Is Murder show at The Basement on Wednesday June 12. Cattle Decapitation, King Parrot, Aversions Crown and our own grind lords Wretch will warm your winter. I Exist are on a quick pre-European jaunt kicking off at The Magpies in the city on Saturday June 8. Your Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend entertainment includes the delights of Hygine, Machina Genova and Throat of Dirt. The band’s third full-length has completed tracking and is now being mixed by Kylessa’s Phillip Cope for a late 2013 release. The doom tour of the year has to be the St Vitus and Monarch tilt bought to us by Heathen Skulls and hits The Hi Fi in Sydney on Friday July 19 with our own guitar lords Looking Glass. Make sure you have a ticket, which you can purchase through tickets. thehifi.com.au. Indian metal band Albatross have announced a four-date Australian tour for October with the Bald Faced Stag in Sydney hosting on Saturday October 26. You can check out their EP The Kissing Flies or their tunes on SoundCloud at /albatrosshorror. JOSH NIXON doomtildeath@hotmail.com
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