Not even a month ago, one of my favorites, Aura Noir, announced they will reign on NYC for a two day event with their original line up, for the first time ever! With such an amazing response behind the reunited classic line up of Aggressor, Blasphemer and Apollyon, our buds at Stardust NYC have worked their magic to bring the greatest black thrash band to your city this October!
If you've never seen Aura Noir live, you're in for a night of classic thrashing you'll never forget. If that's not enough, they're also bringing out Mutilation Rites on the East Coast, and Weregoat on the west coast for some killer support!
Stardust NYC comments on the two night event in NYC to kick off the tour
"AURA NOIR will perform a different set each night, covering their entire twenty-four year long career. Better get ready to be obliterated by all that righteously both vintage and putrid. Diehards are strongly encouraged to take it all in like real men and women by witnessing both onslaughts."
Check the AURA NOIR U.S. tour dates below, and grab your tickets now!
10.16 Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
AURA NOIR, Mutilation Rites, Meek Is Murder, Skullshitter
Facebook Event Page10.17 Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory
AURA NOIR, Trenchgrinder, Couch Slut, Funeral Leech
Facebook Event Page10.18 | Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter
AURA NOIR, Mutilation Rites, Battlemaster & Bewitcher
Facebook Event Page10.19 | Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
AURA NOIR, Mutilation Rites, Shadow Of The Destroyer, Black Mountain Hunger
Facebook Event Page10.20 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
AURA NOIR, Mutilation Rites, Loss, Vile Desecration
Facebook Event Page10.21 Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen
AURA NOIR, Merciless, Usurper, Ares Kingdom, Mutilation Rites, Nefarious
Facebook Event Page10.23 Vancouver, BC @ Red Room Ultra Bar
AURA NOIR, Weregoat, Reversed
Facebook Event Page10.24 Seattle, IL @ Highline Bar
AURA NOIR, Weregoat + TBA
Facebook Event Page10.25 Portland, OR @ Tonic Lounge
AURA NOIR, Weregoat, Iron Scepter
Facebook Event Page10.26 San Francisco, CA @ Elbo Room
AURA NOIR, Weregoat, Dispirit, Black Fucking Cancer
Facebook Event Page10.27 Los Angeles, CA @ Los Globos
AURA NOIR, Weregoat, Black Fucking Cancer, Gravehill, Unholy Lust, Disannulleth
Facebook Event Page10.28 Oakland, CA @ Eli’s Mile Hile Club
AURA NOIR, Weregoat, Pale Chalice, Void Omnia
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Aura Noir Bio:
AURA NOIR formed in Oslo in 1995 as a result of Aggressor and Apollyons’ frustration with the metal underground’s trends and fads – the increasing overuse of keyboards and polished production etc. Black metal bands were turning into symphonic trite and thrash metal as such had been left for death (sic) in the late eighties.They saw a gap that needed to be filled with something real, something metal. They intended to create a band that combined influences of 80s luminaries such as SODOM, CELTIC FROST, VENOM, VOIVOD, DARK ANGEL etc. Thus, black thrash metal was born. Alongside contemporary acts such as GEHENNAH, INFERNO and NOCTURNAL BREED, AURA NOIR found themselves at the forefront of a new wave of underground metal, returning to, and celebrating the eighties’ school of evil, dirty thrash metal.
‘Dreams Like Deserts’ was released later that same year and this mini-album featured Aggressor and Apollyon switching drums and guitar/bass/vocal duties between them on every other track. This was to become a tradition for the band, both live and on record. The black and white sleeve depicting Apollyon and Aggressor at a local graveyard, wielding beer bottles and sporting the middle finger completed the oldschool feel.
‘Black Thrash Attack’, their debut full-length, followed a year later, and a more apt title has hardly graced an album. Blasphemer (ex-MAYHEM) rounded out the line-up on guitars, and the trio seamlessly combined their obvious eighties’ inspirations with their undeniable songwriting knack. ‘Black Thrash Attack’ is still revered by many fans as the ultimate AURA NOIR album.
On the 1998 follow-up ‘Deep Tracts of Hell’, the band broadened their horizons, adding new filthy elements to their sound and going for a rawer approach, resulting in one of the ugliest and most volatile albums ever. It was also written and recorded solely by Apollyon and Aggressor, with Blasphemer concentrating on MAYHEM at the time.
It would take six years until ‘The Merciless’ arrived and with a dry, in-your-face production , and clocking in at less than 26 minutes it was AURA NOIR distilled and refined to the bone. The album was hailed by fans and press alike, and half of the songs on that album is with them on their live-set today.
In 2008 AURA NOIR released their fourth effort, ‘Hades Rise’, with Blasphemer, and Danny Coralles of AUTOPSY contributing on lead guitars. Following Aggressor’s 2005 accident, rendering him unable to play drums it was the first album to feature Apollyon drumming on all songs. With their most diverse material yet and a dirty, organic sound – not to mention the most absurd endorsement list ever – it was an immediate underground hit and a critics’ favorite that year.
2012 sees the release of the fifth AURA NOIR album, ‘Out to Die’, their first album with Indie Recordings, with Blasphemer permanently back in the fold and several tours in Europe, North- and South America under their belt since 2008’s ‘Hades Rise’. It was bound to cement the band’s reputation as a black thrash attack more ugly, brutal and merciless than ever.
2017 will mark the release of AURA NOIR’s seventh album. Already completed, with this monster the hellish trio will once again step up and deliver the ultimate and unexpected. A sordid mass of crazed inspiration and dedication, a true return to form.
