Metal From The Grave
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Your Mate Bookings and Blast Abyss – in conjunction with Pearl Drums and Zildjian Cymbals – bring you the “Metal from the Grave Tour” of Eastern Australia – spearheaded by Australia’s premier pioneer of extreme metal drumming, Matt “Skitz” Sanders!
For the first time in his 33 years of blasting – the indomitable “Skitz” will step up with a hand-picked crew of players and perform music originally recorded by a selection of peer-influencing bands in Australia’s metal scene – including Damaged, Manticore, Misery, Terrorust, and Hobbs Angel of Death.
Skitz will also be recounting war stories of his years of relentless touring with many of the infamous groups he has been a part of in Australia’s savage metal history and will also have a range of merchandise available – featuring his own art – including T-shirts, hoodies, caps and prints.
“It is amazing,’’ he said. “It was pretty surreal because I have grown up playing gigs. I have always been a musician since I was 13 or 14. “We have played a lot of gigs and travelled long distances to play to three people. And then sometimes we have had amazing, packed-out gigs.” He discovered they had been signed in an email and quickly called his bandmates, guitarist Sam Kubiak, bassist Doug Stewart, and drummer Kurt Fleming.
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