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• Queen + Adam Lambert Will Rock You - The Rhapsody Tour Live in New Zealand

  Posted: May 03 2019

  

  Hot off the heels of the worldwide box office blockbuster and award-winning movie “Bohemian Rhapsody”,  Queen has taken this opportune timing to set their live touring wheels in motion. Dubbed as the ‘The Rhapsody Tour’, Queen’s original members Brian May and Roger Taylor enlisted flamboyant powerhouse singer Adam Lambert to take on lead vocal duties. Queen + Adam Lambert will rock you as they return to New Zealand in February 2020 for 3 giant stadium shows. Slated to run from February 5 to February 10, 2020, this epic 3-day tour will be their first ever concerts in Wellington and Dunedin and their auspicious return to Auckland. The tour dates are as follows:

   

  Wednesday 5 February         Wellington Westpac Stadium

  Friday 7 February                   Auckland Mt Smart Stadium

  Monday 10 February             Dunedin Forsyth Barr Stadium

   

  Queen drummer Roger Taylor has sent over waves of excitement to Kiwi fans as he exclaims: "We are ready for New Zealand and raring to get back with our new show.”  Lead guitarist Brian May further adds: “This is a great opportunity. Our last tour featured our most ambitious production ever and got us our best notices ever. So we decided to rip it apart and get even more ambitious!  Watch out, New Zealand! "

   

  The Rhapsody Tour boasts of a ‘brand-new larger-than-life production’.  Adam Lambert says: “We have been designing a brand new visual spectacle that will reframe these iconic songs and we are excited to unveil it! We are excited to reveal the show to New Zealand fans!”

  

  Ever since the biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” hit the silver screens,  it brought a revival of interest on the life, times, and the music of Freddie Mercury and Queen. Queen was back on the charts, hitting the No. 1 spot again on Billboard’s Artist 100 Chart.  Music chart authorities and the press has declared ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ as officially the world’s most-streamed song from the 20th Century, and in New Zealand, the band scored its highest-charting album in 24 years with the Platinum-selling Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack.

   

  The movie also brought in a surge of new generation of fans who saw from the film that Queen’s unique kind of magic is best experienced live, and the crowd will definitely get jolts of energy to get on their feet, pump their fists, clap their hands, and perhaps also do some vocal calisthenics as they join in the giant sing-along of  anthemic hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You", "Radio Gaga", "Another One Bites The Dust", "We Are the Champions", "Killer Queen", "Fat Bottomed Girls", and a whole lot more!

   

  Since 2012, American Idol finalist Adam Lambert has stepped-in for an honorary assignment, as the lead vocalist of Queen while on tour.  Lambert is well aware that he has big shoes to fill in, but his awesome talent and exuberant showmanship holds up his uniqueness as a performer and still manages to evoke nostalgic and exhilarating emotions that pay homage to the illustrious brilliance and artistry of the late Freddie Mercury.  

   

  As Freddie Mercury once sang and prophesied with the lines of ‘The Show Must Go On’, Queen was never one to rest on their laurels and sit on their thrones.  They’re killer Queen! They have never stopped commanding and slayin’ the live stage with their greatest hits.

   

  Queen + Adam Lambert Ticket Info

  
  Ticket Price:  $299 to $689
  

  Tickets available from Ticketmaster

   

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• Metallica’s WorldWired Tour with Slipknot All Set For New Zealand

  Posted: Mar 15 2019

  

   Finally!  The highly-anticipated “WorldWired Tour” from Metallica is bound for New Zealand, and are set to play at Auckland's Mount Smart Stadium on October 31, 2019. Amplifying to the intensity of excitement is special guests Slipknot.

  Metallica will first begin in Australia to play five shows prior to closing out their ‘down under’ tour here in New Zealand.  This will be the first time in six years since Metallica played in Australia, and the first time in nine years since their last show in New Zealand held in Christchurch at the CBS Canterbury Arena on September 21, 2010.

  The nine-year drought  was shaken up recently with a number of clues dropped by drummer Lars Ulrich, raising hopes that indeed Metallica will be making it to New Zealand. Thankfully our sources proved  to be true.

  

  And nothing else matters for Metallica’s biggest and most devoted fans who engaged in relentless pursuits, hoping to get the band’s and concert promoters’ attention.  

  A young 13 year old fan championed ‘operation: bring-Metallica-back-to-New-Zealand’ a 13-year-old super fan named William Bush who launched a campaign calling Metallica fans to sign a petition via change.org.  The young lad collected over 7,000 signatures, and his efforts were definitely not in vain. As Metallica confirmed the New Zealand tour date, the country’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern herself,  surprised Bush with two free tickets to the concert as a gesture of thanks for helping pave the way in making this much-awaited dream concert become a reality.

  Metallica are still reeling from the success of their massive U.S. tour, and impending European, Asian and South American tour dates. Metallica has expressed that they are thrilled to set foot and shake the ground down under.

   

  “This trip represents another new adventure for us during the WorldWired tour,” stated Metallica. “It will be the first time we have ever headlined stadiums in Australia and New Zealand. To help us celebrate, our friends in Slipknot will be joining us for the journey.” - Consequenceofsound.net

   

  Rolling Stone magazine has ranked Metallica at no. 61 on its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list.  Their illustrious career spans over three decades and are recognized as one of the pillars and stalwarts of the thrash metal movement.   Their formidable body of work became the blueprint for the evolution in sound of the next generation of metal bands

  Metallica’s discography encompasses fifteen albums to date, ten of which are studio recordings, along with four live albums, and one cover album; plus five EPs, 37 singles and 39 music videos. With sales of over 125 million albums worldwide, these releases have spawned mammoth chart-toppers such as “Enter Sandman,” One,” “Master of Puppets,” “Seek and Destroy,” and a whole lot more.   The band has collected 9 Grammys out of 23 nominations, and scooped-up three MTV VMA awards.

   

  Metallica New Zealand Ticket Info

  Metallica’s WorldWired tour had a special fan club pre-selling since March 12. 

  Live Nation pre-sale went live on the 15th March, but is currently sold out.

   

  General sale tickets will be available at 2 pm on March 18, 2019 from Ticketmaster

   

  Ticket Prices

  Seated: $184 - $254

  Standing: $129 - $254

   

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• Alice In Chains’ Concert Tour Headed For Auckland

  Posted: Mar 05 2019

  

  Brace yourselves, Alice In Chains is headed towards Auckland, New Zealand for their much-awaited concert tour.  They’re all set to unleash the dark forces of grunge and metal rock at The Trusts Arena stage on Thursday, 7th March 2019, 7:30 pm.   

  Still reeling in from the release of their sixth studio album in a career spanning 29 years, and their first album release in over five years, “Rainier Fog” puts Alice in Chain back in the map.  Fans have given the album a double thumbs-up. Music critics and the press gave it glowing reviews, and proceeded by a Grammy nomination for Best Rock album, to boot.

  With the fans’ excruciating wait after a five-year album release drought, “Rainier Fog” truly did not disappoint.

  Kerrang! writes: “it’s prime Alice In Chains and the work of a band still managing to hit new peaks of their powers.”

  (The album) “boasts undeniable energy and rhythm,” says Uproxx.  

  Loudwire and Q Magazine were all praises the band for “still making music that holds up to their legacy”; and “juggling power and poignancy like masters.”, respectively.

  The new album harks back to Alice in Chains’ gloomy roots with the speed of metal,  that in a way, sets them apart from other bands from the grunge movement. The album shot up the Billboard charts, hitting the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Rock, Alternative and Hard Music Charts, as well as No. 1 on the iTunes Rock Album Chart.

  

  
  

  With their astonishing career run with over 30 million albums sold, multiplatinum certifications, multiple award nominations and citations, and a multitude of diehard fans all over the world,  Alice In Chains has gone full circle. Founder and lead guitarist Jerry Cantrell explains:

  “We’ve been doing this a long time and this band exists in two different eras...To continue on and still be relevant; to operate the same way we always did before and for the same reasons, which are to make the best music and the best records we can possibly make; and to make ourselves happy, well … it’s nice.”

  This will be the first time and the first show Alice In Chains will be playing in Auckland, calling it as their "New Zealand debut". Hence, Auckland fans have all the valid reasons to go louder than loud.  Don’t miss it!

  
  

  Alice In Chains Ticket Info

  General Admission - standing: $97.70

  General Admission - seating: $97.70

  Restrictions:  All Ages

  Tickets available from Livenation

  
  

  Quick Fire Answers

  Date:  Thu 7 Mar 2019, 7:30 pm

  Venue:  The Trusts Arena, 65-67 Central Park Dr, Henderson, Auckland

  
  

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• Slayer’s Final Tour All Set In New Zealand

  Posted: Feb 13 2019

  

  Slayer announced early 2018 that they’re finally hanging up their guitars and calling it a day.  But these rock titans are not the types who would fade out quietly into the night. True to form, they’re going to slay it one last time with a tour dubbed as ‘The Final World Tour’.  They started their multi-city and global tour de force in May until the end of 2018. However, there was still so much ground to cover and still a great number of fans yearning to see them live for the last time.

  As a result,  Slayer announced the extension of the tour into the year 2019.

   

  “We’ve heard about fans who have driven five, six hours, or flown in from other cities or countries to see us, so we want to assure our fans that we’ll be on the road through 2019 and will get to as many places around the world as possible to make it easier for everyone to come and see us one last time,” says Slayer guitarist Kerry King.

   

  With that said,  it has been recently confirmed that Slayer’s world tour shall include shows in Auckland at the Eventfinda Stadium (formerly North Shore Event Centre) on March 15, 2019, and at the Christchurch, Horncastle Arena on March 17, 2019.  For these shows, in particular, they’re making this show doubly loud as they’re bringing in thrash metal kings Anthrax along for the ride.

  

  Slayer rocked and ruled for over four decades as they thrashed the rock scene game-changing brand of punk, death metal.  MTV has positioned them in rank six as one of the  "greatest metal band of all time". Slayer guitarists Hanneman and King ranked number 10 in Guitar World's "100 greatest metal guitarists of all time" in 2004.  Their 40-year reign spawned 12 studio albums, with a whopping sales of five million albums sold in the United States alone. They have scooped up Grammy Award nominations, with two wins - one for ‘best song’ in 2007 with ‘Eyes of the Insane’ and for ‘Final Six’ in 2008.

   

  Bowing out and making their swan song while at the top of their game is indeed the opportune time for New Zealanders to bid farewell and salute their insanely amazing rock heroes.

   

  Slayer New Zealand Ticket Info
  

  Ticket Price

  • VIP: $212.48 ($199.00 + $13.48 fees)
  • General Admission - Seated: $120.23 ($109.00 + $11.23 fees)
  • Final release - Standing: $130.48 ($119.00 + $11.48 fees)
  • Final release - Seated: $130.48 ($119.00 + $11.48 fees)
  • Slayer Tickets Auckland
  • Slayer Tickets Christchurch

  
  

  Concert Quick Fire Answers

  • Auckland Date:  Fri 15 Mar 2019, 7:00pm–10:30pm
  • Auckland Venue: Eventfinda Stadium, Wairau Valley
  • Christchurch Date:  Sun 17 Mar 2019, 8:00pm–11:00pm
  • Christchurch Venue: Horncastle Arena, Jack Hinton Dve, Addington
  • All Gigs Restrictions:  R-18

   

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• Will the much-awaited Tool album be released this 2019?

  Posted: Jan 08 2019

  Tool band members, specifically lead vocalist Maynard James Keenan, have been dropping off clues since early 2018 that the new Tool album is in the works, and may finally see the light of day this 2019. 

  The L.A. based rock band’s last album “10,000 Days” was released way back in 2006. Fans are dying with anticipation for this long-overdue follow-up; thus, a tweet coming from the frontman himself has brought their hopes up.  

  
  “Scratch Vox tracked awhile ago,” he wrote. “[Adam Jones] deep in Guitars now. Final Vox after. Step back. Adjust. Mix. Adjust. Re-Adjust. Master. Adjust. Re-Adjust. Long Way 2 Go But Much Closer.”  

  

  This update was posted Kennan’s Twitter account last September 2018, which more or less, sealed the deal that the band is seriously pushing for a 2019 release.
  
  Prior to this back in February 2018 Keenan said he started getting “...music files from the boys with the word FINAL in the title a few months ago after 11 years of begging...Words and melodies for the new record were “100% DONE on all but 1 [song],” he said.
  
  In June 2017,  Keenan teased with quotes from interviews saying, “a lot of work's being done, a lot of work's been done. I'll go on record now saying you're gonna see some new music next year."  He also pinned the blame for the delay on his bandmates. “I like to release records and write things a little more quickly than those guys like to write. Their process is very analytical,” he adds.
  
  Other clues and updates also surfaced from some of Tool’s peers and inner circle, serving as credible ‘eyewitness’ accounts that have surfaced earlier in the year.
  
  It started with Tom Morello posting on Instagram a photo of himself and the Tool, with the caption:  “Had the honour of being the first outsider to hear new #TOOL music today!!” … Further describing the instrumentals that he heard as  “...epic, majestic, symphonic, brutal, beautiful, tribal, mysterious, deep, sexy and VERY Tool.”
  
  Blair MacKenzie Blair, Tool’s web content manager, also revealed in Tool’s November 2018 official newsletter that the wheels are indeed in motion for the new album to fly off the shelves in 2019.
   
  “While walking to his car (parked on yet another deficient alley), Danny emerged from the studio and insisted that we hear a couple of new Tool songs before we left. (Not the final mix.)  Yes! … While reclined in the passenger seat (with both Sturgeon guitarists comfortably in the back), Danny put the CD into the tray and selected track 3… “
  

  

  Tool emerged in 1990 and became a dominant force in the alternative rock scene.  The band has managed to gain critical acclaim and commercial success and has won three Grammy Awards.  
  

  As we welcome the new year 2019, will Tool finally deliver the goods and drop that new album with a bang?   So the countdown begins. While you wait check out our Tool T-shirts from our Online Store.
  

  
  

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