Brit metal bunkers go about their business: Johnny Truant tour
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Brighton-based metal types Johnny Truant head out on a headline UK tour this week in support of their recently released, and rather chuffing good, second album In The Library Of Horrific Events (pictured, just there, for easy in-shop recognition, and because I have no picture of the band).
The band have only just returned from a continental jaunt alongside post-hardcore outfit Alexisonfire, and play the following venues:
November
25 YORK Fibbers/Barfly
26 GLASGOW Barfly
27 BIRMINGHAM Barfly
28 CARDIFF Barfly
29 SOUTHAMPTON Joiners
30 LONDON Barfly
The press folk behind the band reckon that they're "easily the UK's most promising metal act in aeons", which is quite some claim, so why not head out and check for yourself? No? Okay, go see Les Savy Fav on the 30th instead (I'll see you there).
Tour support comes from Beyond All Reason and Blood Roses by the way. We've not heard either, but they're probably loud and like black t-shirts. Probably.
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- Johnny Truant, Alexisonfire at Astoria 2 formerly Mean Fiddler, London, Thu 27 Oct
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- Johnny Truant - In The Library Of Horrific Events
- Johnny Truant - In The Library Of Horrific Events
Johnny Truant fucking own!!
The support isn't good though.
Beyond All Reason sound like Funeral For a Friend.
Blood Roses are worse because they sound like Funeral For A Friend.
Best
metal album of the year.
Blood Roses....
...fucking rule.
serious?
c'mon...
theres a lot worse stuff out there than Blood Roses. Like, um, Beyond All Reason for example!
Nevermind, JT are gonna be amazing...
Yeah but...
Blood Roses live are about as good as Gonorrhea.
hmmm...
...thats a little melodramatic. Unless there is a new band called Gonorrhea that I have just never heard of. ANYWAYS the important bit is that Johnny Truant are touring, and we should all run out and buy tickets cause they are amazing live. Like, really amazing. And worth suffering through some, um, less impressive support bands to see.
BLOOD ROSES
Blood Roses are a fantastic band with alot of potential. Just because they have a frontman who wears glasses and has dark hair and can actually sing doesn't means its a f4af rip off.
Johnny Truant were immense on this tour, well done guys.
Kepp an eye on Blood Roses, their video to be released is a fucking cracker i tell you, you'll all be singing it weather you hate it or love it ;)
Kim X


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