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Armored Saint announces Bay Area show for Saturday, October 16th!
Armored Saint will be playing at The Avalon in Santa Clara, CA on Saturday, October 16th! The guys had planned on only playing one show this year but wanted to bring the Saint up to the bay area before the year was through.
Joey Vera adds; "We know we said that our Los Angeles show in May was going to be our only show this year, but some things changed with John Bush’s availability so we decided to play a show for our Bay Area brothers and sisters. Come on out!"
ARMORED SAINT
October 16th, 2010
The Avalon Nightclub
777 Lawrence Expy
Santa Clara, CA 95050
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Armored Saint recently shot a video in their hometown on July 1st for the track Left Hook From Right Field off their current release La Raza with director Jeremy Schott of Mental Suplex. Check out the video now on MetalBlade.tv.
La Raza debuted on Billboard at #49 on the Hard Music Albums Chart, #18 on the Heatseekers chart, #52 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and #2 on the Hard Music Core Stores chart. ARMORED SAINT's La Raza also entered the official German album Charts coming in at #96.
"The Saint sound exuberant and fully bonded…a contemporary classic rock feel accessible enough to take on Audioslave or Velvet Revolver on their own terms, and win hard." Terrorizer Magazine
"La Raza is balls out and brick heavy." Outburn Magazine
"Simply put, this is the finest record of their career and almost a reaffirmation of the reasons why John and Joey turned down Metallica all those years ago." Metal Hammer Magazine
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ARMORED SAINT video for 'Left Hook From Right Field' off "La Raza" now live!
Legendary LA based metal band ARMORED SAINT recently shot a video in their hometown on July 1st for the track Left Hook From Right Field off their current release La Raza with director Jeremy Schott of Mental Suplex. To check out the video head over to SMNnews.com where the video will be premiered and housed exclusively throughout the weekend. Be sure to check out MetalBlade.tv for production videos, interviews, behind the scenes footage, and classic videos from the Metal Blade vaults.
Vocalist John Bush gives us his description of the video for 'Left Hook From Right Field': "BAD ASS!!! That's how I would describe this video. The photography is absolutely beautiful. Rene, the boxer, did a nobleman's job and is convincing as hell. Jeremy's team was awesome to work with and super efficient. Armored Saint was captured raw and with full power. Sometimes making a video, actually the majority of the time, making a video blows. Not this time!" Bassist Joey Vera adds; "the video came out great and does justice to the song. We were going for a 'Raging Bull' look and I think we captured the vibe for sure. Most videos are pretty boring to make but this one was actually fun. We spent some time shooting scenes 'on the fly' and tried things out that were not in the story line, meaning we had a chance to improvise. The story line is a pretty good representation on the allegories that the lyrics paint. Good fun once again."
La Raza debuted at #49 on the Hard Music Albums Chart, #18 on the Heatseekers chart, #52 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and #2 on the Hard Music Core Stores chart. ARMORED SAINT's La Raza also entered the official German album Charts coming in at #96.
In conjunction with the new video, Metal Blade TV has launched one of ARMORED SAINT's classic videos, Reign Of Fire, HERE. Check it out to get your retro video fix and keep checking back for more classic videos coming soon to Metal Blade TV!
Check out what critics have been saying about La Raza, the band's first full-length studio album since 2001's Revelation:
"The Saint sound exuberant and fully bonded… a contemporary classic rock feel accessible enough to take on Audioslave or Velvet Revolver on their own terms, and win hard." Terrorizer Magazine
"La Raza is balls out and brick heavy." Outburn Magazine
"Simply put, this is the finest record of their career and almost a reaffirmation of the reasons why John and Joey turned down Metallica all those years ago." Metal Hammer Magazine
"The 10 tracks are undeniably Armored Saint and melodic, but that doesn't mean La Raza can't be chalk full of solid songwriting and stellar performances. Quite the opposite, in fact: It is." Bravewords.com
"They reconvened as a creative outlet without any expectations and produced a damn solid collection of songs, all with strong choruses." 8/10, Decibel Magazine
"It's not only the best album yet from the underrated Los Angeles metalheads, but one of the best metal records that we'll hear in 2010. It has huge riffs, massive melodies, oceans of energy and passion, and a battalion of truly anthemic songs. Forged in fire, raised in flame, this is a stunning celebration of a band really finding their range and purpose." Classic Rock Magazine
"[John Bush] one of metal's mightiest voices" The Orange County Register
"Armored Saint, in my opinion is one of the most important bands in American Metal. At its core, LA RAZA is Armored Saint all grown up. Joey's songs are remarkably unpredictable, moving directions unseen." Metal-Rules.com
"La Raza proves to be ARMORED SAINT's most mature album… The spikes and leather are long gone and they've gotten older and bolder, but thankfully the SAINT is still marching on. Recommended." MetalEater.com
"songs like 'Loose Cannon' and 'Left Hook From Right Field' have that timeless essence- you can feel the heart and soul that the band bleeds metal through and through. Early contender for my album of the year." Blistering.com
"Bush spits the lyrics with passion, then delivers a huge chorus that sticks with you… The band is tight and the songs are solid. In short, it's Armored Saint. All that's really left to say is viva La Raza." TheNewsStar.com
"John Bush, Joey Vera, Jeff Duncan, Phil Sandoval and Gonzo Sandoval have truly captured the essence of their sound on this one, unveiling ten tracks of metal bliss, recorded in the tradition of Symbol of Salvation." KNAC.com
"Tracks like 'Left Hook From Right Field,' 'Loose Cannon,' and 'Little Monkey' carry all the attitude and grit you'd expect from this band… driving tempos, intensity and heart… It's raw, real and ultimately a very satisfying listen. In a time when other bands their age either seem to lose their way or try to be something they're not, Armored Saint do neither. They prove that veteran acts can deliver the goods time after time." TeethOfTheDivine.com
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Full Metal Jackie presents Armored Saint Meet and Greet contest!
LA metal fans - win tickets to see Armored Saint! Listen to Full Metal Jackie and head to the show's facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/fullmetaljackie666) to find out how you can win a personal meet and greet with the guys of Armored Saint after their show in LA on May 28th at the House Of Blues. Five (5) lucky winners and their guests (one each) will win tickets and meet the band that night!
To find out how to win, LA fans can tune in at Indie1031.com on Sundays from 8pm-10pm, OR, you can head to facebook.com/fullmetaljackie666 and click "like". The winners will be chosen on May 24th.
This is the only scheduled North American Armored Saint show for 2010!
ARMORED SAINT
05/28 Hollywood, CA House of Blues w/ Holy Grail
Buy tickets for the show HERE.
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ARMORED SAINT hits charts with La Raza!
La Raza hits the charts in the US, Canada, and Germany!
AGOURA HILLS, Calif. - March 24, 2010 - Los Angeles California's ARMORED SAINT has entered the Billboard charts with La Raza, the band's latest and first release since 2001's Revelation. La Raza debuted at #49 on the Hard Music Albums Chart, #18 on the Heatseekers chart, #52 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and #2 on the Hard Music Core Stores chart. ARMORED SAINT´s La Raza also entered the official German album Charts coming in at #96! Congrats to the boys and the first German Chart entry in their career! In addition to hitting charts in both the US and Germany, the band also entered the Canadian charts coming in at #85 on the Independent chart!
La Raza is the band's first album since Revelation in 2000 and their sixth in total. The album's foundation was laid back in 2008 when Joey Vera and John Bush began writing new material for what would become La Raza and the album was completed in December at Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA. The album was produced by bassist Joey Vera, and engineered by Bryan Carlstrom and his assistant John Nuss. Recording was mostly done with analog equipment and the final album mix was delivered on 1 inch tape. This gives La Raza the most organic sound as possible.
Joey Vera comments on the packaging and creative aspect of La Raza: "Metal Blade is doing a really cool digi-pack package for us. We felt like the city of Los Angeles is such a big part of our fabric that we wanted to use that in the design of the artwork. So with the help of our good friend and photographer Stephanie Cabral and Brian Ames from the Metal Blade art department, we came up with a really cool package that represents our band and the music on this record. We also wanted to incorporate a green action by leaving out the plastic CD tray and using recycled paper. The result is a classy and poignant package."
La Raza track listing:
1. Loose Cannon
2. Head On
3. Left Hook from Right Field
4. Get Off the Fence
5. Chilled
6. La Raza
7. Black Feet
8. Little Monkey
9. Blues
10. Bandit Country
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Armored Saint posts first single and artwork for new album, “La Raza”!
Armored Saint has unveiled the cover art and the first single from their first new album since 2001, La Raza! The album’s foundation was laid back in 2008 when Joey Vera and John Bush began writing new material for what would become La Raza and the album was completed in December at Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA. The album was produced by bassist Joey Vera, and engineered by Bryan Carlstrom and his assistant John Nuss. Recording was mostly done with analog equipment and the final album mix was delivered on 1 inch tape. This gives La Raza the most organic sound as possible. Fans can finally hear the first single, Left Hook From Right Field, on http://www.myspace.com/armoredsaint1.
To complete the package, the band employed photographer Stephanie Cabral and Metal Blade’s own Brian Ames. Joey Vera comments further, “Metal Blade is doing a really cool digi pack package for us. We felt like the city of Los Angeles is such a big part of our fabric that we wanted to use that in the design of the artwork. So with the help of our good friend and photographer Stephanie Cabral and Brian Ames from the Metal Blade art department, we came up with a really cool package that represents our band and the music on this record. We also wanted to incorporate a “green” action by leaving out the plastic CD tray and using recycled paper. The result is a classy and poignant package.”
La Raza will be available everywhere on March 16th, 2010.
La Raza track listing:
1. Loose Cannon
2. Head On
3. Left Hook from Right Field
4. Get Off the Fence
5. Chilled
6. La Raza
7. Black Feet
8. Little Monkey
9. Blues
10. Bandit Country
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Armored Saint Announces Tracklisting For New Album “La Raza”!
Los Angeles metal legends Armored Saint are pleased to announce the tracklisting for the band’s recently completed album La Raza, the band’s first new album since 2001’s Nod to the Old School. La Raza was recorded at Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA, was produced by bassist Joey Vera, and engineered by Bryan Carlstrom and his assistant John Nuss.
La Raza tracklisting
1. Loose Cannon
2. Head On
3. Left Hook from Right Field
4. Get Off the Fence
5. Chilled
6. La Raza
7. Black Feet
8. Little Monkey
9. Blues
10. Bandit Country
Bassist, producer, and founding member Joey Vera comments on the unique recording process for La Raza:
“We used nothing but analog gear, most of which was custom built by Rupert Neve for Bryan Carlstrom. We hit every signal (drum mics, guitars, vocals) with custom or vintage analog gear before recording into Pro Tools. We even used rare vintage amps for most of the guitar overdubs. At mix time, we mixed on an SSL 4000E console and went to a 1 inch tape reel (one of only 2 on the west coast) for our final masters. Uh…you DO know what tape is, don't you?
What does this all mean? It means we spit in the ear of the age of the mp3, teenie, tiny ear bud listening culture that has turned its back on what it means to experience music. This record is FAT. We mean, obese! Full on cardiovascular failure stuff! Old School, Baby!”
La Raza will be available everywhere March 16th 2010!
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Armored Saint completes work on new record, “La Raza”!
Los Angeles metal legends, Armored Saint, have completed work on their first new album since 2001’a Nod To The Old School. Joey, John, Gonzo, Phil and Jeff finished up La Raza at Tranzformer Studios in Burbank
“After 6 weeks, the new Armored Saint record is done. Well, not entirely…we still have to have it mastered which should be done in the next 2 weeks. So technically, there’s plenty of time for more arbitrary bouts of stress. But all of the tunes have been recorded and mixed. And I have the dark circles under my eyes to prove it!
As the producer of the record, I did in fact work very long and hard on this. But I didn’t work alone. Everyone involved worked their asses off. Gonzo, John, Phil and Jeff all came in and gave it everything. Engineer Bryan Carlstrom and his assistant John Nuss were the work horses who kept up the pace in this session which for the most part meant putting in 12 – 14 hour days. I can’t say enough about Bryan, Nuss and Annette Cisneros from Tranzformer Studios in Burbank. This is a first class operation and to boot, they all gave heart and soul into the project which these days you just cannot even pay for. We are in much debt with them. Truly wonderful people.
The result is just amazing, and I may be hasty when I say that this may be our best record ever. But all dopes in bands say that right? Well this time I think it’s true and although my reasons may be purely personal, I still deem it truth. The songs are great and it sounds great. The title of our new record is “La Raza” which means, “The Race”.
For all of you tech nerds out there, a few quick bits on how we made this one: We used nothing but analog gear, most of which was custom built by Rupert Neve for Bryan Carlstrom. We hit every signal (drum mics, guitars, vocals) with custom or vintage analog gear before recording into Pro Tools. We even used rare vintage amps for most of the guitar overdubs. At mix time, we mixed on an SSL 4000E console and went to a 1 inch tape reel (one of only 2 on the west coast) for our final masters. Uh… you DO know what tape is, don’t you?
What does this all mean? It means we spit in the ear of the age of the mp3, teenie, tiny ear bud listening culture that has turned its back on what it means to experience music. This record is FAT. We mean, obese! Full on cardiovascular failure stuff! Old School, Baby!
We are finishing up the other crap that goes with making records. Photo shoots, CD artwork (you DO know what a CD is still, right?), mastering, the running order of the tunes. After that, we wait until it is released. I’m told it’s coming out in March 2010 on Metal Blade Records.
More news coming soon…”
Joey Vera, Armored Saint
La Raza will be available everywhere early 2010!
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ARMORED SAINT begins recording new full-length studio album!
Legendary metalers Armored Saint enters Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA to record first studio album since 2000’s ‘Revelation’
Los Angeles, CA, October 2, 2009 – Los Angeles’ sons of metal, ARMORED SAINT, are set to enter Tranzformer Studios in Burbank, CA to begin recording the band’s 6th full-length studio album. Tranzformer Studios is owned by Dave Jerdan (Alice in Chains, Jane’s Addiction, etc) who produced ARMORED SAINT’s 1991 classic Symbol of Salvation and Bryan Carlstrom who handled engineering on the same album. The SAINT will be working with Bryan Carlstrom who will once again handle engineering duties with the bands very own Joey Vera producing, and both Joey and Bryan mixing the record. A partial song list for the upcoming album, which is expected to hit streets in the spring 2010 is: Black Feet, Chilled, Loose Cannon, Blues, La Raza, Head On, Get off the Fence, Left Hook From Right Field.
Here’s what ARMORED SAINT vocalist John Bush had to say about how the new album came together:
“About a year and a half or so ago Joey asked me if I'd be interested in writing some songs. I was in the right mind finally, so I said send me something. To be quite honest, I wasn't thinking in terms of ARMORED SAINT but more like just writing rock music. I felt pretty free with that mentality and the ideas felt very organic. With every passing song things improved and next thing we knew we had about eight songs demoed. Although the idea of sparking something completely new was appealing it became clear that if it was Joey and I the reality was, let's not kid ourselves; this is ARMORED SAINT.
So here it comes. Embracing my inner R&B singer and coupling that with our influence of the great seventy's hard rock band's we grew up on.”
ARMORED SAINT bassist Joey Vera comments:
“John and I began writing over 14 months ago and in the beginning we had only a general musical direction in which we were going. Once we decided to keep writing and with more of an intention of turning it into an ARMORED SAINT project, we were faced with a few questions. One was, how does this new music we're writing fit into the current musical styles of today? And should we care? We quickly answered the latter. We realized we should do what we always did and that is to write good songs. And for ourselves first. We are not unaware of our parameters in which we have created over the past 25 years, but we are also not afraid to take chances and simply do what we do best. The idea of trying to continue where we left off over 10 years ago since our last release is not very appealing to me. I have to let go of what I did in 1991 and in 2000. Nothing at all against what we've recorded in the past but my head is in a different place now. Trust me; I still want to kill your senses with music, but just in a different way.”
To get a taste of what the new ARMORED SAINT album will sound like, head over to the band’s MySpace page HERE where ARMORED SAINT is streaming the demo version of Loose Cannon (performed with a drum program). Loose Cannon gives fans a glimpse into ARMORED SAINT’s writing process and is also a nice taste of what’s to come on the band’s forthcoming full-length studio release.
Expect the new album from ARMORED SAINT to be released in the spring of 2010. Plenty of studio blogs, photos, and video will be posted to the band’s MySpace page and fans can also keep up with the band in the studio through Twitter HERE.
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Armored Saint Releases FREE Demo Download
Armored Saint is releasing a FREE demo version of a new song titled Loose Cannon. This demo (performed with a drum program) gives you all a glimpse into Armored Saint’s writing process and is also a nice taste of what’s to come on the band’s forthcoming full-length studio release.
The demo for Loose Cannon is available right now only at the bands MySpace page www.myspace.com/armoredsaint1 and at the Metal Blade Records website www.metalblade.com – FREE download HERE!
And for those of you who will be attending the Rock Gone Wild Festival in Algona, Iowa on August 23rd, the Saint will be performing this new song Loose Cannon in their set.
Armored Saint has finished up writing and will begin recording in early fall for a spring 2010 release on Metal Blade Records.
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