UK Rockers GRIFTER Gearing Up For Bloodstock Performance
UK-based dirty rock n' roll trio GRIFTER have announced a string of live
dates leading up to their appearance at this year's Bloodstock Metal
Festival.
The Ripple Music recording artists will be performing on Sunday, August 11th,
the same day as Slayer, Anthrax, Gamma Bomb, Exodus, Devil Driver and
Amorphis. Specifically, the boys will be taking the stage to support
legendary metallers Wolfsbane, as well as Breed 77 and Gormathon!
Bloodstock Open Air (B-O-A) is the UK's biggest independent METAL
festival. Held at the picturesque location of Walton on Trent in
Derbyshire, B-O-A has won the hearts and minds of fans of heavy ROCK AND
METAL by consistently showcasing the strongest metal line up on UK
soil. You can expect some 15,000 metal heads descending on Derbyshire in
August 2013 for 4 days of unadulterated full on Heavy Metal!!!
BLOODSTOCK boasts over 100 international rock and metal acts across four
stages, as well as other attractions including a huge international
metal market, late night entertainment in the Sophie Lancaster Tent,
fairground rides, 'The Bloodstock Arms' festival bar serving real ale,
full weekend camping and one of the best atmospheres the festival scene
has to offer. Add to this a signing tent where you can meet your
favourite bands, and for those of you who need those extra creature
comforts - an extra special VIP experience in the Serpents Lair camping
and hospitality backstage bar, which offers 80+ different real ales,
this really is an unmissable date in the headbangers calendar. Metal
brethren at your marks! For more details, visit www.bloodstock.uk.com.
Meanwhile, Grifter is finishing recording the follow up to their
self-titled 2011 debut, which will appear later in the year on Ripple
Music on CD and...VINYL!!!! Guinness splatter vinyl no less!!!
The working title for the album is The Return Of The Bearded Brethren and
will feature artwork from up and coming tattoo artist Jamie Campbell.
Tracks from the album will include 'Braggard's Boast,' 'Black Gold,'
'It's Not Me It's You,' 'She Mountain,' 'Princess Leia,' 'Fire Water,'
'Paranoiac Blues,' 'The Return Of The Bearded Brethren,' 'Bow Down To
The Monkey' and a cover of Black Sabbath's 'Fairies Wear Boots' that has
become a popular fixture of the live set.
Grifter's critically-hailed debut is still available at ripplemusic.bigcartel.com.
GRIFTER Live Dates:
7/26 - Manchester @ Gulliver's w/ The Bendal Interlude, Widows and
Blastronaut
7/27 - Cheltenham @ The 2 Pigs w/ Welcome Back Delta and Smoke Pilot
8/02 - Abertillery @ The Doll's House w/ Black Light Machine and Static
Signals
8/11 - BLOODSTOCK!
8/31 - Bournemouth @ The Anvil w/ Alunah, Diesel King and more
11/29 - HARD ROCK HELL w/ Black Star Riders, Airbourne, Nazareth, Paul
Dianno, Michael Monroe and more. www.hardrockhell.com
Praise for GRIFTER:
Top 20 (#12 & #15) Album of the Year - The Soda Shop
Top 20 (#19) Album of the Year - Heavy Planet
Top 20 (#15) Album of the Year - Captain Beyond Zen
Top 10 of 2011 - The Sleeping Shaman
Top 10 (#5) Album of the Year - Chybucca Sounds
Bands That Caught My Attention (2011) - Steaming Heathen/Grips of
Delusion
Best Records of 2011 - Sonic Abuse
Top 20 (#15) Album of the Year - The Obelisk
#4 Album of the year - A Brief History of Metal: The Good, the Bad, the
Ugly of 2011
"One of the best hard rock albums from top to bottom that I have listened to this year."
- WeLoveMetal.com
"This
is an excellent album, catchy, groove rich and addictive . . . all (of
the tracks) are of the same catchy, infectious quality. Get a copy and
by the second listen I guarantee you will be singing along." [4/5] - Metal Talk.net
"Just
about the best stoner rock band in England right now. Grifter build
every one of their songs around monstrously grooving, simple riffs and
smooth southern vocals. Something akin to Clutch jamming with Kim
Thayil. Several songs, including opener Good Day For Bad News, Preacher
And The Devil and Alabama Hotpocket are simply jammed with big riffs,
and even when they go for an acoustic blues track to close with Gone
Blues they can't help but groove." - JukeBox:Metal
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