With heavy metal and its web of sub-genres as fashionable and as
scenester-y as ever, the whole scene is rife with poseurs, musical
forgers, frauds, imitators, amateurs, and more style-over-substance
hams than I know what to do with. It’s like, yo, owning a guitar and
having zeal for heavy metal doesn’t necessarily mean you and your
buddies have to start a band, ya know? It muddies the pool. Then
again, sometimes you come across a band that not only
understands a specific metal genre on an expert level but also
actually has the chops to back it up; a band like, say, prodigal
thrash rejuvinators Power Trip. Power Trip quickly and single-
handedly restored my faith in a 35 year old genre that has been
floundering for years. They have that unmistakable heviosity and
style of ’80s thrash godfathers like Exodus, Metallica, Slayer,
Testament, Kreator, and Sodom and execute it with
striking earnestness while avoiding sounding like tribute or
caricature. If you haven’t jumped on the Power Trip bandwagon,
2016 will be a good year for you to make the leap.
According to their Facebook , it looks like Power Trip are finally
making some serious headway in buttoning up the follow-up
release to their peerless 2013 crusher Manifest Decimation. Titled
Nightmare Logic , it’s going to be put out by Southern Lord sometime
later this year. Lads, do hurry up!
Power Trip are also priming themselves for world domination with
some pretty extensive touring that even includes a vast European
jaunt, their first ever. As far as NYC gigs go, we have a few
chances to catch them. Japanese hardcore legends Death Side
have two shows booked at Le Poisson Rouge on April 16 and April
17 , both of which are sold out. Power Trip are one of the openers
on the April 17 show, so if you have a ticket do everything you can
to get there for their set, even if that means cutting your pregame
drinkin’ n’ doobies sesh short! While Death Side are laying waste to
Le Poisson Rouge, Power Trip will be across the river decimating
The Acheron in Brooklyn on April 16 . Tickets for this Acheron show
are still available. The day before that, Power Trip drummer Chris
Ulsh’s other band Impalers play the same venue ( tickets ).
And if you’re heading out to SXSW, don’t forget that Power Trip are
headlining the outdoor stage at our FREE Thursday (3/17) day
party at Cheer Up Charlies . That show is also with Citizen,
Turnover, Radioactivity, Mean Jeans and more ( RSVP ).
All Power Trip dates are listed, with streams of two tracks off their
last album, below.
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POWER TRIP – NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
03/17/2016 – Austin, TX / BrooklynVegan SXSW day party – Cheer
Up Charlies
03/20/2016 – Dallas, TX / Spillover Music Fest – Club Dada
04/06/2016 – Portland, OR / Star Theater with Gag, Lower Species
04/07/2016 – Vancouver, BC / Modified Ghost Festival
04/08/2016 – Seattle, WA / Highline with Gag, Lower Species
04/08/2016 – Vancouver, BC / Modified Ghost Festival
04/09/2016 – Vancouver, BC / Modified Ghost Festival
04/10/2016 – Vancouver, BC / Modified Ghost Festival
04/16/2016 – Brooklyn, NY / The Acheron with Razorheads, Vanity,
Aggression Pact
04/17/2016 – New York, NY / Le Poisson Rouge with Death Side,
Tetsu Arrey, Butcher, Aspects of War, Red Death
04/22/2016 – Norman, OK / Norman Music Festival
10/20/2016 – Tucson, AZ / 191 Toole
10/21/2016 – Tucson, AZ / 191 Toole
10/22/2016 – Tucson, AZ / 191 Toole
10/23/2016 – Tucson, AZ / 191 Toole
POWER TRIP – EUROPEAN TOUR 2016
24 May – PARIS – GIBUS (FRANCE)
25 May – ANTWERP – KAVKA (BELGIUM)
26 May – CARDIFF – THE BUNKER (UK)
27 May – BIRMINGHAM – CONCRETE FEST (UK)
28 May – DUBLIN – FIBBER MAGEES (IRELAND)
29 May – BELFAST – THE WARZONE CENTRE (IRELAND)
30 May – GLASGOW – AUDIO (UK)
31 May – LEEDS – TEMPLE OF BOOM (UK)
1June – LONDON – BOSTON MUSIC ROOM (UK)
2 June – AMSTERDAM – WINSTON KINGDOM (NETHERLANDS)
3 June – ESSEN – CAFE NOVA (GERMANY)
4 June – QUERFURT – RETURN TO STRENGTH FEST (GERMANY)
5 June – BERLIN – CASSIOPEIA (GERMANY)
6 June – PRAG – KLUB 007 (CZECH)
7 June – KOSICE – COLLOSSEUM CLUB 777 (SLOVAKIA)
8 June – BUDAPEST – KVLT (HUNGARY)
9 June – WIEN – VENSTER (AUSTRIA)
10 June – BERCHTESGADEN – KUCKUCKSNEST (GERMANY)
11 June – GÖTEBORG – TBA (SWEDEN)
12 June – KARLSRUHE – ALTE HACKEREI (GERMANY)
13 June – ZÜRICH – WERK21 (SWITZERLAND)
14 June – MILANO – LO FI (ITALY)
15 June – BOLOGNA – FREAKOUT CLUB (ITALY)
16 June – MARSEILLE – LE MOLOTOV (FRANCE)
17 June – BARCELONA – ROCKSOUND (SPAIN)
18 June – TOULOUSE – LE ST DE SEINS (FRANCE)
19 June – CLISSON – HELLFEST (FRANCE)
(Source : Brooklyn Vegan)