Battlefields Album Release Show at Entry

From Minnesota

First Twin Cities show since since June 25, 2011 • First Entry show since July 16, 2009 • First headlining show since July 7, 2010 • Ninth Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar since July 6, 2007

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From last.fm:

After the release of their 2009 full-length, "Thresholds Of Imbalance", BATTLEFIELDS lost founding guitarist Andrew Wallin, and went on a brief hiatus from playing shows. "Agassiz" is the band's return to the trenches with two new members and a more sonically assaulting blackened blend of metal and hardcore. Agassiz blasts through six songs in under a half-hour, presenting a concept EP of the glacial lake Agassiz, whose dried up geographic location is where the band's base of operations lies. Read more about Battlefields on Last.fm.

From Chicago, Illinois

First Twin Cities show since since March 11, 2011 • First Entry show

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Hailing from Chicago, The Atlas Moth take their bluesy hometown roots and combine that with New Orleans style sludge & 60s psychedelic. Gritty and raw, yet thought out and insightful. If you grew up living in a swamp wearing a Black Sabbath T-Shirt and ate nothing but fried chicken, this is your band. "Hails to The Atlas Moth! This is slap your mama up against the wall and eat your biscuits and red-eye gravy swampin' sludge! A band to look out for, and for sure lock up your daughters!" - The Sludge Swamp Read more about The Atlas Moth on Last.fm.

From Brooklyn, New York

Only Twin Cities show on MN Live's calendar

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With songs that range from relentless mid-tempo churns to subterranean crawls, Batillus (buh-TILL-us) cohere the extremes of heavy music into a surge of massive riffing, rolling over and descending on the listener with the force and intensity of a sudden storm. The band recently finished recording 'Concrete Sustain,' their second full-length and followup to 2011's acclaimed 'Furnace.' The new record... Read more about Batillus on Last.fm.

From Minneapolis

First show since since June 23, 2011 • First Entry show • 18th show on MN Live's calendar since September 7, 2007

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Blue Ox is a Minneapolis, MN based sludge/doom metal/hardcore band. Their debut album Wet Dreams & Nightmares was released in January 2008 on Lost Archives Records. The band's current lineup features current and former members of Dead To Fall, Enabler, DevilInside, Reptile Christ, Much Worse, Nehemiah, With Dead Hands Rising, Enola Grey, and Coma Eternal. Reviews: "Who? A new quintet straight outta Minneapolis with their nine-song debut. Sounds Like? Very Dirty, Very Grimy and very southern-influenced metallic hardcore. Our fingernails turned black just listening. Read more about Blue Ox on Last.fm.

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