“The new album is done and sounds amazing,” says Eyes Set to Kill’s Brandon Anderson. “We can’t wait for everyone to hear the new material on this upcoming tour with Gwen Stacy, so make sure to come check it out and let us know what you think. It’s time to hit some new places, play some new songs, rock hard and party harder.”

Eyes Set to Kill has also have announced a June 2nd, 2009 release through California based BreakSilence Recordings for the group’s upcoming sophomore effort “The World Outside“. Written and recorded by the band in Los Angeles, CA with producer Dave Aguilera (ex-Otep, Bleed the Dream) and mixed by Thom Flowers (The Ataris), the album showcases the band’s evolution from their screamo beginnings into powerful songwriters that resonate raw emotion.

“Our debut album was great, but I feel like we got signed so quickly that we didn’t have time to really write everything that I wanted. We were fresh out of high school and on the road playing shows every day and then we jumped straight from the road into the studio. There was no time for the songs to breathe or evolve,” says Alexia Rodriguez .”With this record I just put all the raw emotions I’ve kept to myself and let them bleed out into the music.”

EYES SET TO KILL ON TOUR WITH GWEN STACY:

4/29 Terre Haute, IN @ THMV The Venue
4/30 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Mixtape
5/01 Buffalo, NY @ Xtreme Wheelz
5/02 Charleroi, PA @ Club Octane
5/03 East Rutherford, NJ @ Bamboozle (Gwen Stacy, MIW only)
5/04 Lancaster, PA @ ADLIB Cafe
5/05 Crofton, MD @ The Macc
5/07 Charlotte, NC @ Cashbah
5/08 Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit
5/09 Orlando, FL @ Island Oasis
5/10 Tampa, FL @ Transitions Art Gallery
5/11 Conyers, GA @ The Rock Show
5/13 Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club

Drop Dead Gorgous have announced the line-up for the upcoming Original Gangstour featuring BrokeNCYDE with Eyes Set To Kill along with And Then There Were None. The tour will kick off in Reno, NV on January 23rd, 2009 and will run through February.

“We’re extremely excited to announce our upcoming tour. These are some amazing new and fresh acts and we’re proud to share the stage with them,” says Drop Dead, Gorgeous guitarist Kyle Browning. “This tour will be our first back from recording our 13 song LP entitled ‘The Hot ‘N Heavy’ with Matt Goldman. Our album is slated for release between March and April ’09, so we hope to see each and every one of you on ‘The Original Gangstour’!”

Post-hardcore outfit Drop Dead, Gorgeous have put the scene in a stranglehold since the group’s inception in the mid-2000s. Using the Internet as a portal to reach fans, the group were soon discovered by Rise Records through songs posted on their MySpace and Purevolume Web pages. From there the group recorded an EP and their debut full-length, “In Vogue” and took to the road for three years of non-stop touring with everyone from Scars of Tomorrow, Folly, and Calico System. The group’s relentless work ethic paid off with the release of their 2007 concept album “Worse Than a Fairy Tale”, a fictional account of a serial killer on the loose in a small town, as Drop Dead, Gorgeous exploded into one of the genre’s premier acts. The group’s new album is produced by legendary producer Matt Goldman (Underoath, Cartel) and is expected to land in stores in early 2009 through Suretone.

Hailing straight outta of Albuquerque, NM, BrokeNCYDE have created a highly addictive music style that blends screamo with Top 40 hip-hop that is defined as CrunkCore. Since the group’s formation they have an sesation in the online world developing an enormous fan base that craves their brand of crunk music registering 100,000+ plays a day, through the group’s MySpace page. Even before the release of their debut BrokeNCYDE fans, known as “Crunk Kids”, flooded MTV’s TRL with requests that landed them a performance on the show where they played for millions of viewers. From there the group took to the road supporting The Millionaires, Breathe Carolina and Jeffree Star, all of which instantly sold out venues across the United States.

Eyes Set To Kill have been trampling everything in their path since the release of their self-titled debut album. The band debuted at #29 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Charts and #77 on Billboard’s Independent Music charts and turned the buzz to deafening levels with tours supporting Otep, Human Abstract , I Am Ghost and as a main attraction on the One Moment tour alongside Before Their Eyes and LoveHateHero. The band’s dual vocalists deliver sparkling melodies and neck-breaking aggression that has stolen fans from Paramore, In This Moment and Escape The Fate.

Boston area natives, And Then There Were None (aka ATTWN), were once known for boasting metal riffs and killer breakdowns. After making a name for themselves within the metal world, the band took some time off from touring to write new material and came back in 2008 with a new lineup, new members, and a new sound. Introducing the world to a concept only they can claim, ATTWN mix euro-dance beats with a punk-rock backbone, fusing together an eclectic group of musical influences. Following the posting of new songs on MySpace, the guys of ATTWN quickly found themselves at the top of the MySpace charts nearly every week. With a solid fan base under their belts, ATTWN signed with powerhouse independent Tooth & Nail and will release their debut album “Who Speaks For Planet Earth?” is due to hit stores everywhere Feb. 24th, 2009.

THE ORIGINAL GANGSTOUR:

Jan 28 Santa Cruz, CA @ Vets Hall

Jan 29 Modesto, CA @ Modesto Virtual

Jan 30 Victorville, CA @ Karma

Jan 31 Phoenix, AZ @ Modified

Feb 02 Mission, TX @ Somkin Aces

Feb 03 San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit

Feb 04 Dallas, TX @ The Max

Feb 05 Cordova, TN @ New Daisy Theater

Feb 06 Evansville, IN @ Boney Junes

Feb 07 Covington, KY @ Mad Hatter

Feb 08 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater

Feb 09 Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon

Feb 10 Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock

Feb 11 Scranton, PA @ TBA

Feb 12 Hartford, CT @ Webster theater

Feb 13 Derry, NH @ Opera House

Feb 14 Poughkeepsie, NY @ Eat Ur 3 Festivals

Feb 15 Buffalo, NY @ Xtreme Wheels

Feb 16 Erie, PA @ Forward Hall

Feb 17 Lansing, MI @ Mac’s

Feb 18 DeKalb, IL @ House Café

Feb 19 Des Moines, IA @ People’s Court

Feb 20 Sioux Falls, ND @ Nutty’s

Feb 21 Omaha, NE @ Sokol

Feb 22 St. Louis, MO @ Mojo / Fubies

Feb 23 Columbia, MO @ Mojo / Fubies

Feb 24 Oklahoma City, OK @ King Of Clubs

First off, I was in Hot Topic (I know, I know) and this was on the speakers, and asked the tattooed young scenster behind the desk if it was In This Moment, and she said no, it was a band called Eyes Set To Kill. So I left the store, but I’ll be damned of the female fronted with occasional screams form of alt rock/screamo, didn’t stick in my head.

Secondly, Lo and behold, a few days later, I get the CD in the mail for review from one of my (unamed) PR folks and I’ll be damned if I’m actually really enjoying it.

Go ahead; giggle, snicker, make fun, call me girly names. I can take it. But by Grabthar, if we can review the likes of The Gathering , Nightwish, Into Eternity and such, I don’t see why I can’t come out of the musical closet and express my like for this CD.

The five piece Arizona act and myspace sensation is somewhat unique in that the band consists of sisters vocalist/guitarist Alexia Rodriguez and bassist Anissa Rodriguez (the previous lineup even had another female singer) and a couple of effeminate dudes, one of which screams in typical emo/screamo fashion. The thing is, even without Brandon Anderson’s high pitched shrieking, I would have still enjoyed this record as A) Alexia Rodriguez has a fine voice and B) The actual songs are pretty solid delivering some driving, melodic riffs flocked with the odd synth line.

Like In This Moment, Eyes Set To Kill are certainly have some to the Killswitch Engage crowd, but not so forcibly, but also will appeal to less artsy fartsy, my vagina’s crying and pretentious Evanescence fans well as fans of Thursday and such. The end result is just an enjoyable, catchy album of commercial, alt rock with a bit of an screamo/metalcore edge as the sing to scream ratio is about 65/35 and the album’s more mainstream songs have hardly, if any screaming. “Song 2”, “Young Blood Spills Tonight” (the track I heard in Hot Topic), “Where We Started” (with a stupidly catchy sing along vocal line at 3:20), “Only Holding On” and arpeggio filled closer “Behind These Eyes”, are highlights, as is radio ready ballad “Give You My All”, all show the band’s grasp for modern teenage, angst fueled, I hate the world and my parents emo dynamics, but also a knack for those ‘hum along when you don’t know it moments’ that grabbed me.

I doubt hardly anyone here would agree with me or dare to admit liking this record, so I’ll make sure my next review is something brutal or grim just for you guys. I’m off to the mall to get my nails done….