It’s been a while since I’ve update this ‘blog’ but I’ve been super busy with music as well as my non-musical day job. Hadal Maw successfully completed our Australian tour in April/May without any covid related issues! We played in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, as well as a special show in my hometown of Adelaide as part of the massive New Dead Fest alongside heavyweights such as Psycroptic, Abremalin, Lagerstein and Lo! Freedom of Fear were also supposed to play this fest but had to pull out as a member had Covid at the time. Here’s some live Hadal footage from a couple of the shows this year:
Freedom of Fear also slotted in a show in Brisbane in the midst of the Hadal tour:
Both Hadal Maw and Freedom of Fear recently played the amazing Blacken Open Air Festival in the dead centre of Australia (Ross River Resort about an hour out of Alice Springs). Anyone that went will tell you that this is one of the most unique and special festivals they ever attended. It was awesome to see Revocation from the US play an absolutely killer set, as well as getting to meet their drummer Ash Pearson who is a lovely dude. Another highlight was seeing the GOAT Dave Haley slay 3 sets with Psycroptic, Ruins and Abremalin. I’ve been getting my mind blown by Dave for about 15 years now and he certainly isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.
Hadal Maw also recently released our cover of ‘Scourge of Iron’ by Cannibal Corpse which we played on our recent tour as well as at Blacken Open Air. This was kind of a challenging song to play as the kicks are at an awkward slow/mid tempo. It’s a hell of a lot of fun to play live though. We definitely put our weird spin on this, so there’s some different stuff going on compared to the original, but hopefully we still did it justice.
Dyssidia just played with one of my favourite bands Be’lakor at Lion Arts in Adelaide which was a lot of fun! We have mainly been focussing on the songwriting and demoing process for our new album which will be out by the middle of next year. Hopefully we’ll get a tour going in the next 6 months as well.
Finally, my funk rock band Cliff Racer that we started in early 2021 is back! We played two shows at the Exeter and the Crown and Anchor in the last month or so, plus we released our debut EP on the 1st of August! Stream it wherever. I do lead vocals on the 1st and last track on the EP as well as backing vocals on the other track. Here’s the other track!
Upcoming shows:
Freedom of Fear tonight at the UniBar
Hadal Maw - Ballarat on October 7, Melbourne on October 8
Tour dates are currently being finalised for James Norbert Ivanyi and Freedom of Fear (separate tours) for later in the year.
