News : Lord, Ne Obliviscaris, The Amenta, Alchemist plus more to play ATG5

TRUTH INC RECORDS PRESENTS:
ATG5 – AGAINST THE GRAIN

From its humble beginnings four years ago as an idea between friends, Against The Grain Festival has always prided itself on the idea of growth, with festival organisers Lee Gardiner and Jason North working tirelessly throughout the year to ensure that each year, Australia’s premier all ages all Australian metal festival gets bigger and badder year in year out. After four years of bringing the crème de le crème of Australian acts to Adelaide on one day, the question Truth Inc Records was faced with, how can we make ATG5, bigger than all before it?? And the obvious answer, move the venue, double the bands and this time around, bring all the metal genres together, and bring the finest Australian acts the country has to offer. Previous Against The Grain festivals have showcased the countries metal / thrash bands, but with metal culture flourishing worldwide, and its audiences tastes expanding, ATG 5 will feature not only the Australia’s best metal acts, but it will showcase the best and up and coming Grind metal, Death Metal, Thrash Metal, Black Metal, Folk Metal and more, over two stages, September 19th 2009 at Live on Light Square – Adelaide. Always using the legendary ‘Metal For The Brain’ fest as a benchmark, this year the Truth Inc Records team can boast THE metal line up it has been working to achieve over the last five years.

Against The Grain 5, this year will undoubtedly herald Adelaide as Australian metals new home as the finest bands under the ‘metal’ umbrella display their own variants of the many sub genres they represent, not only showcasing metal as a whole, but demonstrating outstanding song writing and musicianship, making Against The Grain a true exhibition of metal as an artistic medium.

With great excitement and pride, here is the first announcement of bands:

After having to cancel last year’s performance at ATG4 we are proud to announce that Alchemist (ACT) will close ATG5 this year, A unique metal hybrid unlike anything that you’ve ever heard before Alchemist will showcase why they are in a league of their own. On the back of their acclaimed new album ‘nOn’ Noise Terrorists The Amenta (NSW) will make their first appearance at ATG5 and bring with it a barrage of sonic noise and devastation. Prepare to witness the future of extreme metal! When it comes to 100% pure Aussie Heavy Metal look no further than Lord (NSW), armed with a new album ‘Set in Stone’ and a shredfest of a live show, LORD will set the ATG stage on fire. Double Dragon (SA) and Truth Corroded (SA) ATG main stayers and organisers will again be back on the home stage, following another great year for both bands which saw Truth Corroded tour China for the first time and Double Dragon supporting international heavyweights The Haunted and Soilwork, and appearing at Soundwave 09. With widespread critical acclaim of their live performances and their demo ‘The Aurora Veil’ Ne Obliviscaris (Vic) create a wall of progressive, symphonic metal that transcends genres from black metal to jazz. Separatist (Tas) wield their own impressive versatile style of playing, they’ve been described as Technical Death metal, Blackened-Death and everything in between and there is nothing that will stand in the way of their metal onslaught. Black metallers Empyrean (Qld) combine dark, melodic soundscapes with black and death metal to forge a unique brand of symphonic extreme metal that will both captivate and brutalise, Empyrean are set for dominance. Adelaide prepare for battle as Folk metal warriors Claim The Throne (WA) pack up the battle ships and set sail to Adelaide for the first time with their unique brand of folk metal destruction. Universum (SA) have been turning heads Australia wide with their debut release “Leto Destinatus” Receiving Triple J airplay and a national touring spot with Dragonforce. And finally the hard working Octanic (SA) who fuse elements of European melodic death metal, heavy industrial grooves, contemporary hard rock and classical sensibilities to create music that has often been described as ‘Epic’.

So there you have it the first run of bands, more bands will be announced soon so for more info please visit www.myspace.com/atgfest.

Spread the word and make ATG5 the complete metal experience.

ATG5 – AGAINST THE GRAIN….

SATURDAY SEPT 19th 2009
63 LIVE ON LIGHT SQUARE.
ADELAIDE. SA

LICENSED ALL AGES
ID REQUIRED TO DRINK ALCOHOL

ALCHEMIST
THE AMENTA
LORD
DOUBLE DRAGON
TRUTH CORRODED
NE OBLIVISCARIS
SEPARATIST
EMPYREAN
CLAIM THE THRONE
UNIVERSUM
OCTANIC

MORE BAND TBA SOON

COST TBA

Tickets will be made available soon via venuetix: www.venuetix.com.au or phone 8225 8888…