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13 апр 2022 : |
VIO-LENCE Singer Explains PHIL DEMMEL's Fill-In Gig With LAMB OF GOD: 'A Couple Of The Guys In The Band Are Not Down With Doing The Vaxx' |
17 мар 2022 : |
PHIL DEMMEL Says He Will Miss Some VIO-LENCE Shows Due To Other Touring Commitments: 'I Need To Be A Little Selfish' |
25 фев 2022 : |
VIO-LENCE Hopes To Record Another EP By The Fall |
14 фев 2022 : |
VIO-LENCE Releases Official Music Video For 'Let The World Burn' |
12 фев 2022 : |
VIO-LENCE Shares Title Track Of Upcoming EP, 'Let The World Burn' |
10 янв 2022 : |
VIO-LENCE Releases First Original Song In 29 Years, 'Flesh From Bone' |
9 дек 2021 : |
PHIL DEMMEL On Upcoming VIO-LENCE EP: 'It's Definitely My Best Playing That's Ever Been Recorded' |
14 ноя 2021 : |
Watch VIO-LENCE Perform At MASS DESTRUCTION IV Festival |
7 сен 2021 : |
PHIL DEMMEL Says VIO-LENCE's Recent Concert 'Turned Out To Be' A COVID-19 'Superspreader Event': 'We All Got Sick' |
6 сен 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE's SEAN KILLIAN, Who Was Hospitalized With COVID-19, Defends His Decision To Not Take Vaccine: 'It's About Freedom' |
25 авг 2021 : |
Ex-D.R.I. Bassist HARALD OIMOEN Apologizes To VIO-LENCE Singer SEAN KILLIAN For 'No Sympathy' Comment |
23 авг 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE Singer SEAN KILLIAN Hospitalized With COVID-19: 'My Lung Capacity Is Diminished' |
9 авг 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE Debuts New Song At Fresno Concert (Video) |
22 июл 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE Frontman On Upcoming EP: 'Everything Felt Really Natural From Start To Finish' |
17 июн 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE To Release 'Let The World Burn' EP In Early 2022 |
27 апр 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE Completes Recording First New Music In Over 30 Years |
9 фев 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE's PHIL DEMMEL And TYKETTO's DANNY VAUGHN Team Up For Quarantine Cover Of SCORPIONS' 'Blackout' (Video) |
23 янв 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE Begins Recording First New Music In Over 30 Years |
2 янв 2021 : |
VIO-LENCE To Begin Recording Comeback EP In January |
29 ноя 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Has 'Four Songs Done' For Upcoming EP |
17 окт 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Has Finished Writing Four Songs For Upcoming EP |
20 авг 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Covers DEAD KENNEDYS' 'California Über Alles' (Video) |
21 июл 2020 : |
TESLA, VIO-LENCE And JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE Members Team Up For Cover Of PAT TRAVERS's 'Snortin' Whiskey' (Video) |
15 июл 2020 : |
LAST IN LINE, Ex-MACHINE HEAD, Ex-MEGADETH Members Team Up For Cover Of GAMMA's 'Razor King' (Video) |
14 июл 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Records Cover Song, Films Music Video |
28 май 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Singer SEAN KILLIAN Says New EP Will Be 'Bridge' Between First Two Albums And 1993 Demo |
21 май 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Has 'Two Songs Done' For Comeback EP |
9 май 2020 : |
Former MACHINE HEAD Guitarist PHIL DEMMEL On Impact Of Coronavirus On Music Industry: 'It's Really Tough' |
2 апр 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Signs With METAL BLADE RECORDS |
24 фев 2020 : |
Reunited VIO-LENCE To Record New EP |
27 янв 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Recruits Former OVERKILL Guitarist BOBBY GUSTAFSON |
8 янв 2020 : |
VIO-LENCE Guitarist PHIL DEMMEL Releases Official Lyric Video For Rejected MACHINE HEAD Song "The Permanent Decay" |
27 авг 2019 : |
Watch VIO-LENCE Perform At PSYCHO LAS VEGAS |
22 апр 2019 : |
VIO-LENCE Perform EXODUS Classic "A Lesson In Violence" With Guitarist GARY HOLT In Oakland; Three-Camera Footage Available |
14 апр 2019 : |
Reunited VIO-LENCE Plays First Comeback Concert In Oakland: Video, Photos |
17 янв 2019 : |
VIO-LENCE To Reunite For Oakland Show; Debut Album To Be Performed In Its Entirety |
4 май 2018 : |
VIO-LENCE Singer SEAN KILLIAN Receiving Treatment For Post-Surgical Complications Following Liver Transplant |
30 мар 2018 : |
VIO-LENCE Singer SEAN KILLIAN Undergoes Successful Liver Transplant |
23 янв 2018 : |
Reunited VIO-LENCE Plus Members Of TESTAMENT, EXODUS, DEATH ANGEL, FORBIDDEN Perform At 'Killian On Command' Benefit Concert (Video) |
13 янв 2018 : |
Benefit Concert For VIO-LENCE's SEAN KILLIAN Moves To Larger Venue |
21 июн 2017 : |
VIO-LENCE Singer SEAN KILLIAN Diagnosed With Stage 4 Liver Cirrhosis |
22 окт 2015 : |
VIO-LENCE – Eternal Nightmare To Be Reissued On Vinyl With Bonus Tracks |
24 сен 2002 : |
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10 фев 2024
PHIL DEMMEL Says He Will Play His Final Concert With VIO-LENCE This Coming Weekend
The 56-year-old guitarist, who co-founded the acclaimed San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal outfit in 1985, addressed his future with the resurrected group in a video message he shared to his social media earlier today (Monday, February 5).
Just hours after it was revealed that Demmel is one of the musicians in Kerry King's (SLAYER) solo project, Phil told his 55,000 Instagram followers (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I am announcing that this Sunday will be my last show with VIO-LENCE.
"The timing is weird, I know, and it doesn't really coincide with the Kerry thing," he clarified. "It's not that, 'Oh, that got announced, so now I'm quitting this, stopping this,' whatever you wanna [call it], retiring from, whatever. It's been, I guess, in the works for a bit. My status has been undefined for a while. I'm kind of doing things that I felt comfortable or fell into my schedule or whatever. But given just the latest state of the band and where I feel I belong with it or feel tied to it, I just think that my time is at an end."
Demmel continued: "I'll always identify with the band. Me and [drummer] Perry [Strickland] started this band in high school. It's cool to be going to places that we haven't been.
"I'm feeling that [VIO-LENCE singer] Sean [Killian] is… We've gone far on different pages. I guess we've always been on different pages. But I don't feel like I fit in with what the objective of this is anymore. And in light of some current events [laughs], I felt compelled to make the break."
Phil went on to say that he "thought about maybe doing a home show" with VIO-LENCE as a way of "saying goodbye," but ultimately concluded that "I don't feel like I need that. I feel like playing those [comeback shows in Oakland in April 2019] with Perry and Deen [Dell, bass] and Ray [Vegas, guitar] and having those two magical days and doing some other stuff that we've done, writing the five songs, doing the EP, I feel fulfilled," he said. "And anything further kind of feels forced. Actually, before this [Latin American] tour [kicked off], I honestly didn't wanna come. [But] I was committed to it. I wasn't gonna back out. I'm committed to the dudes. But I think I'm done. I think that I've done what I wanted to do with this band."
Demmel added: "June 1st, 1985 to February, what will be 11th, 2024. 39, almost 40 years. So, never say never again. Try not to say that. Sometimes you do. It's been life defining, it's been a pleasure, it's been an honor being Phil from VIO-LENCE."
This past December, it was announced that VIO-LENCE will return to the stage in April 2024 for a special eight-date headlining tour during which they will perform their classic 1988 debut album, "Eternal Nightmare", in its entirety. The trek runs from April 5 in Cambridge, Massachusetts through April 13 in Chicago, Illinois. Support at the dates will come from EXHORDER, DECEASED and MORTAL WOUND.
At some of VIO-LENCE's recent shows, the band's touring lineup consisted of classic-era vocalist Killian alongside more recent additions, drummer Adrian Aguilar (EXMORTUS),guitarist Miles Dimitri Baker (VOIDBRINGER, INTERLOPER, ex-RINGS OF SATURN),bassist Christian Olde Wolbers and guitarist Ira Black (VICIOUS RUMORS, HEATHEN, METAL CHURCH). Notably, those dates featured only Killian from the VIO-LENCE lineup that played its first comeback gig in April 2019 at the Oakland Metro in Oakland, California.
VIO-LENCE played its first show with Aguilar in February 2023 at the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California. Aguilar joined VIO-LENCE following the departure of Strickland.
A year ago, Demmel addressed VIO-LENCE's future in an Instagram Live video, saying it was "kind of weird playing these shows" with "a bunch of fill-ins and me and Sean." He added that while Adrian is "awesome" and the Whisky gig "was packed", he is "just kind of really torn right now in the sense of what VIO-LENCE is and what it's gonna be and what my role is gonna be in that and how I feel about that." Demmel went on to say that he told Killian he "wanted to shut [VIO-LENCE] down," but then he realized "that to ask that of those dudes to not do it anymore is selfish on my part."
In March 2022, VIO-LENCE released a new EP, "Let The World Burn", via Metal Blade Records. The five-song collection, VIO-LENCE's first original release since 1993's "Nothing To Gain", was tracked at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California by Juan Urteaga (MACHINE HEAD, EXODUS),mixed by Tue Madsen (DARK TRANQUILLITY, HEAVEN SHALL BURN) and mastered by Ted Jensen (ALICE IN CHAINS, DEATH ANGEL).
Formed in 1985, VIO-LENCE helped define and refine what came to be known as the Bay Area sound, dropping three seminal albums before splitting in 1993. Leaving behind a heady legacy, they reformed briefly a couple of times in the intervening years before becoming a full-time going concern once more in 2019. After playing a string of successful shows, the quintet started to think about new music and delivered "Let The World Burn", showcasing their first new material in 29 years.
VIO-LENCE's recording lineup on "Let The World Burn" consisted of Demmel, Killian and Strickland along with Olde Wolbers and guitarist Bobby Gustafson (ex-OVERKILL).
VIO-LENCE reunited soon after Demmel left MACHINE HEAD in late 2018.
Demmel was in MACHINE HEAD for nearly 16 years, during which time he played on five of the group's studio albums: "Through The Ashes Of Empires" (2003),"The Blackening" (2007),"Unto The Locust" (2011),"Bloodstone & Diamonds" (2014) and "Catharsis" (2018).
VIO-LENCE played its first show with Black in August 2022 at the Brutal Assault festival in Jaromer, Czech Republic.
Black, who grew up in the Bay Area and previously played with VICIOUS RUMORS, HEATHEN and METAL CHURCH, filled in for Demmel, who was on the road at the time with LAMB OF GOD as the temporary replacement for Willie Adler.
Although MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn was part of VIO-LENCE's classic incarnation and played on "Eternal Nightmare", he wasn't approached about taking part in the band's reunion.
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