Heavy Metal is not just about music: it's a way of life, a motivating mind-set,
a positive force and an inspirational belief system. It's the most exciting, life-affirming
noise that exists on this planet of ours, and London's indestructible masters
of the furious form are Orange Goblin. Not just the UK's reigning champions
of balls-out, party-starting, booze-fuelled metal, but one of the very best live
rock bands of all time, the mighty Goblin have been a permanent and universally
admired fixture on the British metal circuit for the past 16 years. And now they're
back, with A Eulogy for the Damned, their seventh and best studio album.
A thunderous tour-de-force of gargantuan riffs, subterranean rumble and electrifying
energy, it is the album the band have been threatening to make since they first
crawled, with crumpled beer cans in hand, from the grubby Soho shadows back in
the mid-90s.
Inspired by the gods of hard rock, heavy metal, punk rock and underground extremity,
from Sabbath, Motörhead and Thin Lizzy through to Celtic Frost, Danzig and
Black Flag, Orange Goblin were initially seen as major contenders amid the mid-90s
stoner rock explosion, but it soon became apparent that this band had much more
up their collective wizard's sleeve than red-eyed boogie and flapping flares.
In fact, over the course of their roller coaster career, the band have proved
themselves to be one of the most consistent and persistent forces in modern heavy
music, amassing a catalogue of albums that rivals anything released during the
same period. From the rambunctious, heads-down exuberance of their Frequencies
From Planet Ten debut in 1997 through to the multi-genre bonfire of insanities
that was 2007's Healing Through Fire, Orange Goblin have always kicked
arse, always written songs that hit home like a stage diver's boot connecting
with your forehead, always delivered the rampaging heavy metal goods while meaning
every last riff, beat, solo and bellow.
But it is as a live band that Orange Goblin have founded their formidable reputation.
Long renowned as skilled crowd-pleasers and party masters, the band have toured
all over the world and shared stages with countless big names, including Alice
Cooper, Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, Down, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dio, Monster
Magnet and many more. They have headlined sell-out shows at New York's revered
CBGB's, Los Angeles' notorious Troubadour and the legendary Underworld in Camden,
London. They have also blown fields full of minds at such prestigious festivals
as Sonisphere, Download, Hellfest, Bloodstock Open Air, Roadburn, Dynamo, Maryland
Death Fest, and High Voltage. An Orange Goblin show is a guaranteed good time...all
you need to do is get the beers in, prepare your neck muscles for maximum punishment
and surrender to the sound of a grand heavy metal institution letting rip at
full throttle.
A lean, mean hard rocking' machine...the eight-legged tag team of frontman
Ben Ward, bassist Martyn Millard, guitarist Joe Hoare and drummer Chris Turner
have reached a new peak of creativity and one-two-fuck-you intensity on A Eulogy
For The Damned. This is the album that deftly encapsulates everything that
is exhilarating and admirable about this most dedicated and humble of British
metal wrecking crews and that deserves to propel Orange Goblin to the front of
the British metal queue. They're back and the party is starting all over again.
Whose round is it??
"It has to be said that Orange Goblin shows are very predictable, in the sense that you know they are going to be brilliant before they even hit the stage!" – Terry Beezer (Kerrang!)
"Consistently one of the greatest live bands the UK has produced in recent decades!" – Dom Lawson (Classic Rock)
"Put simply, Orange Goblin are the best metal band in Britain!" – Malcolm Dome (Metal Hammer)
Official Website: www.orange-goblin.com
Official Facebook: www.facebook.com/orangegoblinofficial
Official Twitter: www.twitter/com/orangegoblin1
Official MySpace: www.myspace.com/theorangegoblin
Official YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/orangegoblinofficial
UK/Europe Label: www.candlelightrecords.co.uk
US/ROW Label: www.candlelightrecordsusa.com
Management: www.onefifteen.com
UK Booking: ben@onefifteen.com
US Booking: erik@tonedeaftouring.com
European Booking: klaus@vibra-agency.de
Press (UK): Darren Toms – d.toms@plastichead.com
Press (US): Paula Hogan – paula@candlelightrecordsusa.com
Orange Goblin are proudly endorsed by:
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Marshall Amplification
Orange Amplification
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