New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Toronto, ON's metalcore quartet Where Giants Once Stood announce they will be performing Ontario show dates in October in promotion of their new EP 'Live Above' produced by Jon
Howard of Threat Signal and released on
September 2nd. The four new tracks on this EP take Where Giants Once Stood's signature sound of scorching guitar work, "assaultive underbeats" and "drill-sergeant vocals" to soaring new heights to follow up the band's 2013 EP 'The Changing'.
iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/live-above-ep/id907144882
Music Video - Living In Security (an anthem for taking control of your own destiny, and deconstructs small-town complacency to showcase the band's most creatively ambitious material to date):
Soundcloud stream - Living In Security - https://soundcloud.com/where-giants-once-stood/living-in-security
Show Dates:
September 30 - Toronto, ON - Hard Luck Bar w/ Affiance, Phonehas, Last of a Dying Breed, Mirrelia, Milk Room, The 49th Parallel
October 3 - Belleville, ON - Belleville Pub - FilthFest w/ Drag The Lake, Signifier, Greta Knights, Enter Euphoria, Harbors, Of Vice And Vultures, Greylights, This Burning City, High Minded
October 10 - London, ON - Richmond Tavern w/ Last Scattering, Esoteric Doctrine, Mammoth Seed
Oct 31 - Oshawa, ON - Diezel Room w/ Enter Euphoria, Sinew Sunder, Fallen Legion, Backlash
Track Listing - Where Giants Once Stood - Live Above
1. Living in Security (4:27)
2. Illuminate (4:54)
3. The Damaged (4:08)
4. Myths Lies And Crimes (5:20)
EP Length: 18:51
For more info, please visit the following links:
https://www.facebook.com/wheregiantsoncestood
https://www.twitter.com/WGOSofficial
https://www.youtube.com/WhereGiantsOnceStood
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/live-above-ep/id907144882
EPK - https://ashermediarelations.com/epks/epk-where-giants-once-stood-live-above-2014/
About:
Great heavy metal doesn't waste time, and Where Giants Once Stood have hit the ground running. This July, the Toronto metallers return with the video for their new single 'Living in Security', filmed on location in Toronto and directed by LoganSwinkels of Logan
Lights Creative. An anthem for taking control of your own destiny, 'Living in Security' deconstructs small-town complacency and showcases the band's most creatively ambitious material to date.
'Living in Security' is the first single to be taken from the new EP Live Above, due for release
September 2, 2014. Live Above is the natural successor to 2013's The Changing EP, which tore onto the iTunes metal charts in July 2013 with a debut at no.2, earning critical praise, sponsorship from Ernie Ball and a place on SoundSHOCK's "Best of 2013" feature along the way. The four new tracks take Where Giants Once Stood's signature sound of scorching guitar work, "assaultive underbeats" and"drill-sergeant vocals" to soaring new heights, thanks to incendiary production by Jon
Howard of Threat Signal. "Since we started up last year, we've grown so much as musicians, as songwriters and as performers", reveals lead guitarist Jordan Turnbull. "We knew the sound of this new material had to be something special to reflect that, and Jon Howard's production has really taken the Giants sound to the next level!"
The release of Live Above will see W.G.O.S. hit the road this summer for their third independently-booked tour of Eastern Canada, as the band move from city to city and strength to strength to prove themselves as genuine contenders in the Canadian metal scene. For lead vocalist Reshaun Page, touring is a call-to-arms: "Now we've arrived, we're not going anywhere! Canadian audiences are some of the best in the world, and we can't wait to show metal fans the new material with our heaviest live shows yet!"
While W.G.O.S. have been winning fans on home turf with their frenetic live shows that have seen them share the stage with bands such as
Chelsea Grin and Born of Osiris, social media is equally important to the band's ethos as they use their online presence to connect with metal fans across the globe. Theirstellar YouTube channel featuring everything from interviews and lyric videos to exclusive cover songs and blistering instrumental playthroughs, while their Instagram and Twitter feeds provide to-the-minute studio and live updates. Guitarist Scott Major explains, "Whether it's keeping up with us on tour through Twitter or rocking with us on YouTube, we want you to get the full Giants experience wherever you are!" [Bio by
James Harding]
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Where Giants Once Stood - Live Above (2014)
RIYL = Avenged Sevenfold, The Human Abstract, August
Burns Red, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Miss May I
Release Date:
September 2, 2014
Distribution: Online = Tunecore, iTunes
"Where Giants Once Stood deliver fully on this energy packed EP but atop that, it is the band's musical wit that makes Live Above an EP that stands out among others in the genre. Where Giants Once Stood is definitely a band to keep your eye on." - We Love Metal
"Whether the Live Above EP is your introduction to Where Giants Once Stood or the next instalment on the journey already embraced, it thrusts the band to a new dramatic and impressive status within metal. Canada's creative sons could and should be devoured by the wide metal world thanks to the EP" - Ring Master Review
"Canada has always had talented heavy metal and extreme metal bands take to the world's stage and show off their killers talents, and Where Giants Once Stood are no exception to the rule. This quartet from Toronto, Canada plays a catchy and memorable style of heavy metal with an aggressive edge to their songs. This e.p. features four tracks that'll want to make you stage dive with their headbanging rhythms and a drumming style that only adds more fire power to this quartet's heavy metal music." - Explicitly Intense
"This is great Canadian Metal and if you're looking for something new look no further, WHERE GIANTS ONCE STOOD are new to the turf but will soon make it their own that's for sure. If you like the idea of a ton of different sections of metal coming together to form one monster then this is it." - Metal Temple
"This album is nothing but a delight to listen to, with 19 minutes of pure rowchy metalcore, once it's over it only leaves us begging for more… Brilliant melodic metalcore very well built! The guitar work on this album is simply genius, twin guitar harmonies, dropped palm muted riffs, gut bustin legatos oh my god! That rocks so much! Vocals are both guttural and clean which is the main foundation of metalcore but usually in this kind of album the clean parts somehow annoy me but not in this one! It fits, it's everything from classic melodic metal "a la"
Iron Maiden to more contemporary brutality it's just plain awesome!" - The Blood Shed
"Yeah, this EP (Live Above) is flawless in every way it deserves all the marbles it can! Great songs, great performance, great musicianship, great production… Nothing else to say… This is flawless!" - Canadian Beats
"A self-released offering with a mix of guttural growls, screams and clean vocals that are very reminiscent of early
Killswitch Engage and The Human Abstract. Their style is very much their own however incorporating a bit of the technical guitar riffs with the heavy metal chugging, all of which blends well with smooth flowing bass lines and pounding drums that are sure to get you head-banging upon first listen." - Damnation Magazine
"Live Above is a four-song EP. Where Giants Once Stood doesn't go into preliminaries: an EP has a short duration and they don't want to waste any time showing what they're capable of. "Living in Secrity" immediately catches the attention with its guitar solo à-la-Unearth and its clean vocals à-la-Avenged Sevenfold during the chorus." - Metal Made In Canada
