Blast Open + Vio-lence - Sala Rebullón, Tameiga, Mos 02.05.2025

 

 

 

 

Blast Open son una banda de Heavy/Thrash de Asturies formada en 2008. Sus letras hablan sobre sentimientos, miedos y esperanza, política e historias del más allá.

En 2010, Blast Open publica sus dos primeros temas, "Lost" y "Bad to Worse" en una demo, y desde entonces han tocado con bandas nacionales como Mercyless, Clockwork, Pandemia o Morphium y con bandas extranjeras de la talla de Primal Fear, Vicious Rumors, Warbringer o Havok.

Tras grabar en los Estudios Dynamita de marzo a mayo de 2012, lanzan el album " They Destroy Our World" en julio de 2012. Tras el lanzamiento estuvieron tocando en el Luarca Metal Fest el 20 de julio, donde compartieron escenario con bandas tan prestigiosas como Evile o Vita Imana.

 

 

 

 Setlist:

*Riding on a Dead Horse
*Fallen Angel
*Invisible Lines
*Pool of Blood
*Resurrected
*Cross Hate
*Pray Without Fear
*A Light Behind the Darkness
*Traying to Escape

 

 

 Vio-lence was formed under the name Death Penalty in 1985, which they changed to Violence, and then the two-tiered logo with a hyphen forced the name change to its permanent form.

The original lineup was Jerry Birr on vocals, Phil Demmel, Troy Fua on guitars, Eddie Billy (brother of Testament's Chuck Billy) on bass, and Perry Strickland on drums. This line-up appeared on the 1986 Eastern Front: Live at Ruthie's Inn 2-LP compilation with the song "Gutterslut". Eddie Billy left soon and was replaced by Dean Dell. This lineup recorded a rehearsal tape that was released as a demo.

Jerry Birr (later to appear in Enemy Mind) was replaced by Sean Killian on vocals and the band recorded their first official demo before Troy Fua left and was replaced by Machine Head founding member Robb Flynn in early 1987.

The band re-recorded all the songs on their first demo for the second one in 1988 with minor lyrical changes and new song titles for their Mechanic Records demo in 1988. This label released their debut, Eternal Nightmare, later that year. A tour with Testament and Sanctuary followed, and then another tour with Voivod followed by a second album, Oppressing the Masses, in 1990.

The track "Torture Tactics" was deleted from the album due to its offensive lyrical content, but then was released as the title track of a 1991 EP. Another tour, this time with Defiance, followed. The third album, Nothing to Gain, was recorded in 1991, but constant record label problems delayed its release.

At this point, Robb Flynn left to form Machine Head and was replaced by Ray Vegas on guitar, and then Perry Strickland was replaced by Mark Hernandez on drums. A final demo was recorded in 1993 before the band broke up.

Vio-lence reunited for Thrash of the Titans, a benefit for Chuck Billy and Chuck Schuldiner, in August 2001. The lineup of Killian, Demmel, Vegas, Dell, and Strickland played a 64-minute gig, which led to further shows in the Bay Area. Ray Vegas was replaced by a returning Troy Fua and for one gig, Phil Demmel, who was unable to attend, was replaced by Steve Schmidt. Phil also helped out Machine Head as a second guitarist for a few gigs, with Machine Head bassist Adam Duce returning the favor for a gig at Dean Dell's wedding in 2002.

A near-reunion of Vio-Lence took place on January 20th, 2018 at The Midway in San Francisco for "Killian On Command: An Evening of Vio-lence", which was held as a benefit for Sean Killian, who was battling with stage-four liver cirrhosis.

On January 8th, 2019, Demmel announced on social media that Vio-Lence had reformed and would play at least one show in Oakland that April.

 

 

 

Baest + Blast Open ┼ 2023.03.22 Sala Master, Vigo (Esp)

 

 

 

 

 

 

BAEST is a powerhouse of old school metal. Influenced by the genres heroes, BAEST bring their own style to Extreme metal. From Death Metal to progressive epics, they bring a thunderous liveshow with no compromise. Following their latest full lenght Necro Sapiens, their new EP ‘Justitia’ is out now on Century Media. Just one year after their recent album release “Necro Sapiens” Danish Death Metal powerhouse BAEST are back by announcing their 2022 EP “Justitia”. Including five brand- new tracks the band picks up on where they left off with “Necro Sapiens” and recorded another old school Death Metal masterpiece. Justitia marks a powerful statement from BAEST. It fusions an old school melodic sound of Scandinavian heavy metal, with the crushing brutality of the early pioneers of death metal. The EP showcases the bands own unique brand of death metal, developed with an organic feel from the intense songwriting sessions, and the live recordings from Lundgaard Studios, with Andreas Linnemann behind the knobs once more. While going further into their own territory, the band chose to bring on some heavy guts to the vocal party - featuring vocalists Trevor Strnad (The Black Dahlia Murder) and Sven Caluwe. Justitia marks a new repulsive and progressive age of BAEST. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 BLAST OPEN is a heavy metal combo from Asturias formed in 2008 by seasoned musicians from the Asturian metal scene. In 2010, after they released their first two songs in demo format, “Lost” and “Bad to Worse”, recorded at Eclipse studios by Daniel Sevillano, the band began to be present at concerts, sharing the stage with bands such as Vicious Rumors, Primal Fear or Havok.

In October 2011 they began producing the songs for their debut album entitled “They Destroy Our World” (2012), whose recording was carried out at Dynamita Studios, with Dani G. in charge of the recording, mixing and mastering. They started the album’s presentation participating in Summer festivals with bands like Crisix, Evile, Mnemic, Vita Imana or Teksuo, and in November, in conjunction with the band XXX from Valladolid, they put on their shared presentation tour "Dementia Destroys Our World", performing in different Spanish cities.

In order to support the album and tour, they published the videoclip of the song "Blinded", made by the agency ThrashWay, and they took part in the W:O:A Metal Battle Spain 2013, qualifying for the final held in Molins de Rey, thanks to their powerful and intense live act. "Human Shield" was chosen to be included in the CD "Grand Sounds Promotion Vol.3", a compilation of songs from metal bands which was distributed worldwide. During 2013 they closed the album presentation tour and ended the year performing at Mutant Fest and Killed by Death II festivals, along with bands such as Darksun, Posession, Human or Avulsed.

For their new album, the band decided to go back to working at Dynamita Studios where they recorded “Beyond the Hope” in 2016, a self-published work distributed by Santo Grial Records, and supported by an extensive tour throughout Spain.

"Beyond The Hope" is a new musical blast with fast and hard songs, transmitting the energy that the band offers in their live shows. Both the cover and booklet designs were created by Belén Lobeto. In support of their new work, they published a lyric video for the song "The Roots of Evil", made by Zelia Lorences and Pablo Bermejo, and performed by Marlene Redondo Tuñón.

In addition to their live performances, they also received recognition for their album: Top 10 Best National Albums of 2016, voted by the audience of the radio show “Diario de un Metalhead”; editor Pablo Folgueira’s, from MetalCry zine, National Top 10 and nominated for “Best Rock Album” at the Amas Awards in 2017. Andrés Álvarez was also the winner in the category “Guitar” in 2018’s edition of the aforementioned Amas Awards.

 

 

 

 

 -Setlist:

 *Intro
*Riding on a Dead Horse
*Fallen Angel
*Pray Without Fear
*Pool of Blood
*Cross Hate
*A Light Behind the Darkness
*Blinded
*Trying to Escape