Beastmaker
Formed: 2014
From:
Fresno,
CA,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
Latest Beastmaker News
Below is our complete Beastmaker news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Beastmaker Streams Full New Album
Beastmaker's new album "Inside The Skull" will be release tomorrow via Rise Above Records. Recorded and produced at the band's self-built studio, it's an album with great depths and a macabre heart.
Today a full stream comes online - check it out below. While the band may be reveling in Hitchcockian disquiet, Beastmaker will not be lurking anonymously in the shadows for long.
Beginning tonight, the group is hitting the road in the U.S. with Zakk Wylde's Black Sabbath tribute act, Zakk Sabbath. The tour kicks off in New York, NY and runs through June 17th in Los Angeles. Select headline dates will are scheduled as well. More...
Beastmaker Releases "Evil One"
Beastmaker's upcoming album "Inside The Skull" is set for release next Friday, May 19th, via Rise Above Records. Today the band releases a new video for "Evil One" - check it out below.
"Inside The Skull" is not just a muscular hymn to the glory days of heavy metal's genesis and early prosperity: this is a vital, virile and venomous slab of creative but spiritually pure doom devastation. You can catch Beastmaker live with Zakk Sabbath on these dates:
5/17: Morgantown, WV @ 123 Pleasant St*
5/18: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
5/19: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
5/20: Philadelphia, PA @ Voltage Theatre*
5/21: Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter*
5/22: Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall*
5/23: Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel
5/24: New Orleans, LA @ Siberia Nola*
5/25: Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
5/26: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar N' Grill
5/28: St. Louis, MO @ Fubar
5/30: Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
5/31: Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
6/2: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
6/3: Indianapolis, IN @ Black Circle Brewing*
6/4: Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
6/6: Spokane, WA @ The Pin
6/7: Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
6/8: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
6/10: San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
6/17: Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theater
* Headline Show More...
Beastmaker Posts New Video
Beastmaker will release new album "Inside The Skull" this coming May 19th via Rise Above Records. Today a first video from the album, for the track "Nature of the Damned," has come online and can be seen below. You can now pre-order the album on iTunes and check out the band's upcoming North American tour dates with Zakk Sabbath at this location.
Beastmaker Reveals New Album
The glittering technological future we were all promised has turned into a dystopian nightmare. If music must reflect the times, the hour has plainly come to reject the mainstream status quo and get down to the roots and rhythms of life's elemental heaviness. And that's where Beastmaker comes in.
Purveyors of some of the most ecstatically thunderous and raw doom metal to emerge in decades, this three-man riffing machine from Fresno, California, is manifestly the real deal. New album "Inside The Skull" is set for release May 19th via Rise Above Records, and today the artwork and track listing have been revealed.
Once "Inside The Skull" is released, the band will be hitting the road in the U.S. with Zakk Wylde's Black Sabbath tribute act, Zakk Sabbath. Dates are below, and the new album's track listing is as follows: More...
Beastmaker Announces U.S. Tour
Sweating profusely in a parched no man's land about three and a half hours northeast of Los Angeles, Beastmaker's city of Fresno isn't exactly a cultural mecca - and yet it's the birthplace of Hollywood outsiders and weirdos like Sid Haig, Slim Pickens and director Sam Peckinpah. Still, it suffers from a dearth of musicians interested in heavy rock.
As the band prepares for the release of sophomore album "Inside the Skull" this summer, Beastmaker is also ready to hit the road again. The first run of dates with Mothership and Slow Season begins March 10th in Costa Mesa, CA and runs through March 18th in Seattle, WA.
Following a quick break, the band will return to the road supporting Zakk Sabbath (Zakk Wylde's Black Sabbath Cover Band). These dates begin May 19th in New York, NY and run through June 10th in San Francisco, CA. A complete list of all dates can be found below.
Drummer Andrew Alejandro Saldate IV cannot wait to hit the road and comments: "We are pumped to go out a support our new record Inside The Skull with the rockin folk of Mothership & All star trio of Zakk Sabbath!! It's gonna be a hell on wheels!!! Look out!!!" More...
Beastmaker Announces North American Tour
California outfit Beastmaker released debut "Lusus Naturae" earlier this year via Rise Above Records. In support of their new album, Beastmaker will be returning to the road in North America this summer.
The band will be providing direct support to Monolord and Sweat Lodge will open The tour begins August 5th in Seattle, WA and runs through September 10th in Vancouver, BC. A complete list of dates can be found below.
Says front man Trevor Church regarding the upcoming run with Monolord: "We are bringing sin to the lower 48 and Canada. Limited clear green vinyl and exclusive tour design t-shirts. Everyone will go home with the mask of Satan!" More...
Beastmaker Posts "The Mask Of Satan" Video
Beastmaker has a new music video online today for "The Mask Of Satan," which can be seen below and comes off the "Lusus Naturae" album.
"Lusus Naturae" was released March 25th via Rise Above Records and can be streamed in full at this location. The track listing is:
1. Clouds in the Sky
2. Eyes are Watching
3. Arachne
4. Skin Crawler
5. Find the Stranger
6. You Must Sin
7. Burnt Offering
8. Mask of Satan
9. It
10. Astral Corpse
11. Lusus Naturae
12. The Strain More...
Beastmaker Streaming Full New Album
"In a world of pop music we are freaks. We do everything completely opposite of what the current formula of doing things is. We recorded and produced everything ourselves with no outside influences. We play a style of music that is underground. We are all freaks of nature." So proclaims Beastmaker singer, guitarist and mastermind Trevor William Church. Hence the title of Beastmaker's debut: "Lusus Naturae," or "Freak Of Nature."
"When you think differently and do things unconventionally, you are an outsider," he ventures. "We wanted to bring a natural essence back into music the best way we could in a digital world."
New album "Lusus Naturae" is set for a March 25th release via Rise Above Records, but today you can hear the release in full via the player below. The track listing is as follows:
1. Clouds in the Sky
2. Eyes are Watching
3. Arachne
4. Skin Crawler
5. Find the Stranger
6. You Must Sin
7. Burnt Offering
8. Mask of Satan
9. It
10. Astral Corpse
11. Lusus Naturae
12. The Strain More...
Beastmaker Reveals Debut Full Length LP Details
"In a world of pop music we are freaks. We do everything completely opposite of what the current formula of doing things is. We recorded and produced everything ourselves with no outside influences. We play a style of music that is underground. We are all freaks of nature." So proclaims Beastmaker singer, guitarist and mastermind Trevor William Church. Hence the title of Beastmaker's debut full length release: "Lusus Naturae," or "Freak Of Nature." "When you think differently and do things unconventionally, you are an outsider," he ventures. "We wanted to bring a natural essence back into music the best way we could in a digital world." "Lusus Naturae" is set for a March 26th release via Rise Above Records.
Beastmaker hails from the unlikely locale of Fresno, California. Sweating profusely in a parched no man's land about three and a half hours northeast of Los Angeles, the city isn't exactly a cultural mecca-and yet it's the birthplace of Hollywood outsiders and weirdos like Sid Haig, Slim Pickens and director Sam Peckinpah. Still, it suffers from an unsurprising dearth of musicians interested in heavy rock. Though Church had the concept for Beastmaker as far back as 2006, it wasn't until he and drummer Andres Alejandro Saldate, a.k.a. Juan Bonham, hooked up with bassist John Tucker in 2014 that the band was fully realized. "I was really inspired by old bands and metal," Church explains. "From the Zombies to Slayer, from Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons to Black Sabbath. I was really into NWOBHM and what bands like Witchcraft are doing now. After many failed attempts and at least five bands in between, we found John and finally had a solid lineup." More...