Bison B.C.


	• James Farwell: Guitar/Vocals • Dan And: Guitar/Vocals • Masa Anzai: Bass • Brad Mackinnon: Drums

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	BISON b.c. "Dark Ages" 12/04/10


	BISON B.C. Euro tour with Coliseum and Kvelertak starting this week! Canadian Sludge Rockers BISON B.C. will be heading over to Europe this week to start their much anticipated tour supporting American noise merchants Coliseum. Support comes from Norwegian powerhouse Kvelertak! Please repost the dates and come by for a great evening of booze and sound! Coliseum + BISON B.C. + Kvelertak 07/11/10 – CZ – Prague – 007 08/11/10 – DE – München – Feierwerk 09/11/10 – DE – Berlin – Cassiopeia 10/11/10 – DK – Copenhagen – Beta 12/11/10 – NO – Oslo – Garage 13/11/10 – SE – Stockholm – Cafe 44 14/11/10 – DE – Hamburg – Hafenklang 15/11/10 – DE – Giessen – MuK 16/11/10 – NL – Venlo – Perron 55 17/11/10 – UK – London – Underworld 18/11/10 – UK - Stoke on Trent – Sugarmill 19/11/10 – UK – Glasgow – Ivory Black 20/11/10 – UK – Leeds – The Well 21/11/10 – UK – Norwich – The Marquee 22/11/10 – NL – Tilburg – 013 23/11/10 – BE – Antwerp – Trix 25/11/10 – DE – Karlsruhe – Jubez w/Shrinebuilder 26/11/10 – FR – Paris – Glazart 27/11/10 – BE – Brugges – Thope 28/11/10 – DE – Saarbrücken – Garage 29/11/10 – CH – Zürich – Dynamo 30/11/10 – IT – Milano – Magnolia 01/12/10 – IT – Bologna – Locomotiv 02/12/10 – AT – Vienna – Shelter 03/12/10 – DE – Rosswein – Juha 04/12/10 – DE – Essen – Julius-Leber-Haus http://www.myspace.com/bisoneastvan BISON B.C. announce more Euro dates with Coliseum and Kvelertak! Canadian Sludge Rockers BISON B.C. have announced mainland European dates in support of their magnificent third album (second for Metal Blade) *Dark Ages! BISON B.C.* will be playing a full Euro tour together with COLISEUM and KVELERTAK. Two more dates have been added. See below (new dates in bold). Coliseum + BISON B.C. + Kvelertak 07/11/10 – CZ – Prague – 007 08/11/10 – DE – München – Feierwerk 09/11/10 – DE – Berlin – Cassiopeia 10/11/10 – DK – Copenhagen – Beta 12/11/10 – NO – Oslo – Garage 13/11/10 – SE – Stockholm – Cafe 44 14/11/10 – DE – Hamburg – Hafenklang 15/11/10 – DE – Giessen – MuK 16/11/10 – NL – Venlo – Perron 55 17/11/10 – UK – London – Underworld 18/11/10 – UK - Stoke on Trent – Sugarmill 19/11/10 – UK – Glasgow – Ivory Black 20/11/10 – UK – Leeds – The Well 21/11/10 – UK – Norwich – The Marquee 22/11/10 – NL – Tilburg – 013 23/11/10 – BE – Antwerp – Trix 25/11/10 – DE – Karlsruhe – Jubez w/Shrinebuilder 26/11/10 – FR – Paris – Glazart 27/11/10 – BE – Brugges – Thope 28/11/10 – DE – Saarbrücken – Garage 29/11/10 – CH – Zürich – Dynamo 30/11/10 – IT – Milano – Magnolia 01/12/10 – IT – Bologna – Locomotiv 02/12/10 – AT – Vienna – Shelter 03/12/10 – DE – Rosswein – Juha 04/12/10 – DE – Essen – Julius-Leber-Haus http://www.myspace.com/bisoneastvan BISON B.C. announce Euro dates with Coliseum and Kvelertak! Canadian Sludge Rockers BISON B.C. have announced mainland European dates in support of their magnificent third album (second for Metal Blade) *Dark Ages! BISON B.C.* will be playing a full Euro tour together with COLISEUM and KVELERTAK. Coliseum + BISON B.C. + Kvelertak 07/11/10 – CZ – Prague – 007 08/11/10 – DE – München – Feierwerk 09/11/10 – DE – Berlin – Cassiopeia 10/11/10 – DK – Copenhagen – Beta 12/11/10 – NO – Oslo – Garage 13/11/10 – SE – Stockholm – Cafe 44 14/11/10 – DE – Hamburg – Hafenklang 15/11/10 – DE – Giessen – MuK 16/11/10 – NL – Venlo – Perron 55 17/11/10 – UK – London – Underworld 18/11/10 – UK - Stoke on Trent – Sugarmill 19/11/10 – UK – Glasgow – Ivory Black 20/11/10 – UK – Leeds – The Well 21/11/10 – UK – Norwich – The Marquee 22/11/10 – NL – Tilburg – 013 23/11/10 – BE – Antwerp – Trix 25/11/10 – DE – Karlsruhe – Jubez w/Shrinebuilder 26/11/10 – FR – Paris – tba 27/11/10 – CH – Martigny – tba 28/11/10 – DE – Saarbrücken – Garage 29/11/10 – CH – Zürich – Dynamo 30/11/10 – IT – Milano – Magnolia 01/12/10 – IT – Bologna – Locomotiv 02/12/10 – AT – Vienna – Shelter 03/12/10 – DE – Rosswein – Juha 04/12/10 – DE – Essen – Julius-Leber-Haus http://www.myspace.com/bisoneastvan BISON B.C. announce UK dates with Coliseum and Kvelertak! Canadian Sludge Rockers BISON B.C. have announced the first European dates in support of their magnificent third album (second for Metal Blade) *Dark Ages! BISON B.C.* will be playing five UK shows together with COLISEUM and KVELERTAK. Mainland Europe dates will be announced shortly! Coliseum + BISON B.C. + Kvelertak 17/11/10 – UK – London – Underworld 18/11/10 – UK - Stoke on Trent – Sugarmill 19/11/10 – UK – Glasgow – Ivory Black 20/11/10 – UK – Leeds – The Well 21/11/10 – UK – Norwich – The Marquee http://www.myspace.com/bisoneastvan BISON B.C.'s new album "Dark Ages" out now! Excellent press results! Audiostreams available! Vancouver's BISON B.C. have released their 3rd album, and 2nd with Metal Blade Records, titled Dark Ages all over Europe! Dark Ages was recorded by Jesse Gander, who also recorded Quiet Earth, at The Hive Creative Labs in Burnaby, British Columbia and was mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. Track listing for BISON B.C.'s Dark Ages: 1. Stressed Elephant 2. Fear Cave 3. Melody, This is for You 4. Two-Day Booze 5. Die of Devotion 6. Take the Next Exit 7. Wendigo Pt. 3 (Let Him Burn) The track Stressed Elephant is now streaming on Metal Blade Europe's MySpace site. Click HERE to check it out! Stereogum.com, in addition to sponsoring their current tour with High On Fire, will also be exclusively premiering the new BISON B.C. track, Two-Day Booze. You can hear the track NOW on Stereogum.com HERE. A bison is "a big, hairy, strong animal," says James Farwell, who plays guitar and sings for BISON B.C. That could as just as well describe the band, which rose from the ass-end of the continent in Vancouver, Canada, to utter its doomed, plaintive call, and tramples through the constellations on its four shaggy limbs (James, Dan And, Masa Anzai, and Brad Mackinnon). Ghostly, windswept prairies, the mythical haunts of native lore: it is all there. Self-described "Canadian dirtbags" and veterans of Vancouver's deep thrash and indie scenes, they are hitting their stride and offering up a new soundtrack for our last party before certain extinction. There is illness, abuse, apocalypse, and French horn. The press loves Dark Ages! METAL HAMMER Germany - # 2 in monthly soundcheck! "Bow down, pay homage and worship!" (Thorsten Zahn, 6 out of 7, Metal Hammer) VISIONS Germany - # 4 in monthly soundcheck - beauty of the issue! "Plunder, murder, burning down: Just like Baroness in a permanent cloven-hoofed trap, Bison B.C. trample through their third album and through Metal history!" (Daniel Gerhardt, Visions Magazine) "Compared to it's accessible predecessor "Dark Ages" requests a few more spins. But then it grabs you straight by the balls and unfolds with it's elemental riffs an extremely addictive potential!" (Ronny Bittner, 8 out of 10, Rock Hard Magazine Germany) "The album sounds like if BISON B.C. would like to finish a bottle of Scotch and a sixpack of beer at first before they destroy a stage in some backyard shed in the middle of nowhere. Just to make sure that no other band could come up with the idea to outrank this huge force of metal!" (Martin Schmidt, Fuze Magazine, Germany) http://www.myspace.com/bisoneastvan xxx ExploreMusic.com debuts new BISON B.C. song! "Dark Ages" streets April 9/12! Their first Metal Blade release, Quiet Earth, showed what that earth's last sound might be like. It was heavy, sick, and crazy; stomping and banging, elegiac with cello. Just beneath the rock they described a bad trip through a devastated world where resigned dignity and camaraderie with the friends that remain are the only consolations. This mixture of rowdiness and gentleness is very much of their hard-living, hard-loving hometown: f***d-up modernity's last outpost on the rim of a vast, menacing wilderness. In their new release, James sings, "Vancouver's an empty bottle, our dying thirst causing problems. Stand at dawn, the beginning of something heartfelt and replaceable." No matter where we are, this is what it has come to in this age. So let's listen to these gentlemen and rock out together. Click HERE to check out Stressed Elephant* from *Dark Ages! "…intense, guitar heavy thrash that would make even Municipal Waste step back in awe." Alternative Press* "…they dare to approach the maniacal majesty of present-day High on Fire." Decibel Magazine "…unpretentious, mountainous rock…frequently sound like Mastodon at their most straightforward, coming impressively close to that band's mastery of the riff." Terrorizer Magazine About ExploreMusic: Explore Music is a Canadian multimedia rock music recommendation project run By Corus Interactive and Integrated Solutions, the online arm of Corus Radio. It consists of a website, a syndicated radio show, and a weekly TV show that offers exposure to songs and artists with the vision of providing "context, perspective, recommendation and discovery of music that's new (or new to you). ExploreMusic achieves this through artist interviews, exclusive performances, music news, album reviews, and lists of recommended songs that are presented on a daily and weekly basis. The radio program was first broadcast on 6 October 2008 on 102.1 The Edge in Toronto, Y108 in Hamilton, FM96 in London, Power 97 in Winnipeg, and The Fox in Vancouver. The show has since been included on Live 88.5 in Ottawa, Rock 101.9 in Cornwall, X92.9 in Calgary, SONiC 102.9 in Edmonton, and The Wolf 101.5 in Peterborough, Ontario, with plans to branch out to more affiliates in the future. The program began syndication in the United States after ExploreMusic partnered with FMQB. BISON B.C.'s new album *Dark Ages* will be released April 9/12 in Europe via Metal Blade Records! http://www.myspace.com/bisoneastvan Artwork and track list for BISON B.C.'s upcoming album 'Dark Ages' released! Vancouver's BISON B.C. is set to release their 3rd album, and 2nd with Metal Blade Records, titled *Dark Ages* on April 9/12, 2010 in Europe! *Dark Ages* was recorded by Jesse Gander, who also recorded *Quiet Earth, at The Hive Creative Labs in Burnaby, British Columbia and was mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. Track listing for BISON B.C.'s Dark Ages: 1. Stressed Elephant 2. Fear Cave 3. Melody, This is for You 4. Two-Day Booze 5. Die of Devotion 6. Take the Next Exit 7. Wendigo Pt. 3 (Let Him Burn) The track Stressed Elephant will be available on Canada's EXPLORE MUSIC starting March 12th and the track Two-Day Booze will be premiered exclusively on StereoGum starting on April 2nd (check out their metal column Haunting the Chapel HERE). "The name is Bison b.c. and they are heavy as fuck…" Thrasher Magazine* "everything you could ask for in a metal band." NewOrleans.com "…unpretentious, mountainous rock…frequently sound like Mastodon at their most straightforward, coming impressively close to that band's mastery of the riff." Terrorizer Magazine "Heavy, man. Real heavy. Jean-jacket heavy…If Mastodon had spent more time listening to Anthrax, they might sound like Vancouver's Bison b.c." Rollingstone.com http://www.myspace.com/bisoneastvan BISON B.C. live clips and interview on bunch.tv! [20/05/09] Canadian beer metallers BISON B.C. toured Europe alongside THE OCEAN in February/March 2009. At their Cologne show on March 10th German online TV bunch.tv did a feature containing live songs and an interview with the guys. Please head over to http://www.bunch.tv to check it out. It will feature the following songs: 'Slow Hand Of Death' 'Primal Emptiness Of Outer Space' 'Wendige Pt. 1' BISON B.C.’s latest album 'Quiet Earth' was released on Metal Blade Records in October 2008! Check out the band’s MySpace page to listen to their crushing riffs! THE OCEAN to embark on headlining tour with Burst, BISON B.C. and Medeia as support in February! [19/12/08] Berlin's very own THE OCEAN will embark on a headlining tour through Europe in February and March of next year. The hand-picked touring package is high-class and includes Sweden's Burst, Metal Blade recording artists BISON B.C. from Canada and Finnish newcomers Medeia. The routing is not completed yet, stay tuned for updates... THE OCEAN Burst BISON B.C. Medeia 26.02.09 Germany Dortmund FZW 27.02.09 Germany Leipzig Conne Island 28.02.09 Poland Warsaw Progresja 01.03.09 Czech Republic Prague Exit Chmelnice 02.03.09 Austria Wien Arena 03.03.09 Hungary Budapest Dürer Kert 04.03.09 Germany München Feierwerk - Hansa 39 05.03.09 Switzerland Zürich Dynamo 21 06.03.09 Italy Brescia Latte + Club 07.03.09 Italy Pinarella di Cervia Rock Planet 08.03.09 Germany Karlsruhe Die Stadtmitte 13.03.09 Netherlands Nijmegen Dornrosje 14.03.09 Netherlands Sneek The Legend 15.03.09 Belgium Bruxelles VK 16.03.09 Germany Hamburg Logo 17.03.09 Germany Darmstadt - Mühltal Steinruch Theater 18.03.09 Lux Esch Kulturfabrik 20.03.09 Germany Zedtwitz Fernverkehr 21.03.09 Germany Berlin Lido BISON B.C. get a custom beer! [05/12/08] Great news for BISON B.C. since they are getting what every band dreams of. A custom beer! “We wanna say a huge thanks to our bros over at Phillips Brewery on Vancouver Island for making a dream come true. We think this is pretty fucking rad, and apparently so does the Georgia Straight, check it out....” By Adrian Mack Publish Date: December 4, 2008 Since it’s still not strictly legal to hand out chunks of Red Lebanese to the public, organizers came up with the next best thing to promote local metal maniacs BISON B.C.’s appearance at this week’s Transmission Conference. For one night only, Bison Beer will be served when the band joins the bill at the former Storyeum building (151 Cordova Street) on Friday (December 5). According to Matt Phillips, CEO of Victoria’s Phillips Brewing Company, it was producer Tyl van Toorn’s idea. “I don’t know how serious it was,” Phillips told the Straight, “but I guess there were some negotiations going on to get them to play, and Tyl said, ‘We’ll get a beer done for you.’ ” The price was right for the band, and Phillips Brewing got the job of relabelling its popular Phoenix Gold lager with amended cover artwork from BISON B.C.’s Quiet Earth album. Not that any such precautions are needed, but the label also reads “Please Don’t Throw Me At the Stage.” Phillips said that the company is producing “about 30 dozen cases” of Bison Beer, but wouldn’t say how many were going straight to singer-guitarist James Farwell and his cohorts. “There’s some stuff that I just don’t know if I can disclose,” he said.
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