It's nearly been two years since Macabre's very first Australian tour and now the band is set to return to our shores in June 2012 (including they're very first show in Western Australia).
Here's the dates…
2012 Australian Tour
Sat 23rd June - Civic Hotel, Perth 981 Beaufort Street, Perth, WA 6052
Tue 26th June - The Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne 125 Johnston St, Collingwood
Wed 27th June - The Enigma Bar Adelaide 173 Hindley St
Thur 28th June - The Tank, Brisbane 371 Queen St
Fri 29th June - The Bald Faced Stag (The Wall), Sydney 345 Parramatta Rd, Leichhart
Sat 30th June - The Corner Hotel, Melbourne 57 Swan St, Richmond | www.cornerhotel.com
Sun 1st July - The National Hotel, Geelong 191 Moorabool St
There is now a bunch of photos and videos from Macabre's first ever Australian Tour on the Media page.
It was brilliant to finally see Macabre in Australia and to finally see them play live! A big thanks has to go to Rob and the guys at High Volatage Records for bringing them out! It obviously costs a fair bit to bring a band out from the states (and a bit of risk for the first ever tour), but good on them for having the guts to do it!
So make sure you support High Volatage Records (and Macabre) by going out and buying a copy of the Australian release of Dahmer (even if you already own it). And it has bonus DVD with footage from the recording of Dahmer and also some live videos of Dahmer songs (including Konerak...I didn't even know they ever played that song live)! Buy it!
Here's most of the setlists from the Australian Tour:
Tue 27th July - Arthouse, Melbourne
Dog Guts
The Wustenfeld Man Eater
Nero's Inferno (New Song)
McMassacre
Nightstalker
Temple Of Bones
Trial
You're Dying to Be With Me
Mary Bell
Burke and Hare (New Song)
Scrub A Dub Dub
Hitchhiker
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Ed Gein
Vampire Of Dusseldorf
Fri 30th July - The Stag, Sydney
Sat 31st July
Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Zodiac
Temple Of Bones
Trial
The Iceman
Kiss Of Death (New Song)
Nightstalker
Scrub A Dub Dub
Alber Was Worse Than...
You're Dying to Be With Me
Hitchhiker
Serial Killer
Vampire Of Dusseldorf
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Countess Bathory
Sun 1st August
National Hotel, Geelong
If anyone has the setlist for Brisbane or Adelaide, please email us a photo to: inmidair@rager.com.au ...cheers!
Friday 30th July 2010 Sydney, Melbourne (High Voltage Festival) & Geelong!
Macabre are now 3 shows into their first ever Australian tour with 3 shows left, Sydney tonight, Melbourne (High Volatage Festival) on Saturday and finishing the tour in Geelong on Sunday. If you haven't seen them yet make sure you head along to one (or all) of these remaining shows...
Macabre played their first ever Australian show last night, to a small but keen crowd at The Arthouse in Melbourne. There was a was a bit of delay at the start, as Corporate Death (Lance) had no sound coming from his amp and there was also problems with his vocal setup. But after a bit of head shaking and some slightly annoyed looks from the band, they powered into the classic Dahmer opener Dog Guts. In fact the setlist of the night had a bit of a Dahmer flavour to it with more than a third of the set coming 2000 concept album and they included a few nice suprises like Temple of Bones and Trial. The rest of the setlist was a mix of old and new with songs from Gloom, Sinister Slaughter and Murder Metal including crowd favourite Nightstalker (coutless cries of "Swear to Satan").
The crowd was also given a sample of the forthcoming album "Grim Scary Tales" (due out in October) with firstly Nero's Inferno (about the Roman Emperor Nero) and later Burke and Hare (about the Irish immigrants who Murdered for profit, selling their victims corpses to a medical lecturer). Towards the end of the set Dennis seemed to be struggling (maybe a bit of travel fatique, he does work bloody hard behind the kit too), so Corporate Death announced that the next song would their last (but hinted that they would maybe do a few more). They finished the set with the brutal Hitchhiker from Dahmer and disappeared for about 10 or 15 minutes.
Tuesday 27th July 2010
The Arthouse, Melbourne Australia
When Corporate Death returned to the stage he said to the few people at the front that "our drummer isn't feeling too good". Dennis eventually returned to the stage and soldiered through two more songs with the band, Grim Reality classic Ed Gein and closing the night with the Vampire Of Dusseldorf. It was brilliant to finally see Macabre playing live in Australia, they put on a killer live show (excuse the pun). It was a great setlist, but with so many songs in their catalogue there was obviously lots of classics they didn't fit in last night like Zodiac, Serial Killer and no songs about Albert Fish (even though they were selling an Albert t-shirt at the merch desk). But apparently the band will be playing a different setlist every night, so no doubt they'll play some of these songs and others (not played last night) at the other Australian shows.
Speaking of merchandise the band had some brilliant stuff for sale, including an Australian tour shirt featuring a collage of killers and a classic Zodiac shirt amonst others (but be quick as sizes and quantities are limited). They're also selling a few of albums / eps, stickers, badges and even a $5 poster (born out of this website design)! And also, the merch desk is being manned by Rodney (Macabre's manager), so say hi to him and be kind! If you miss out on anything there are still some stuff available on the Official online store: http://www.shopbenchmark.com/macabre
The full setlist for the evening was:
Dog Guts
The Wustenfeld Man Eater
Nero's Inferno (New Song)
McMassacre
Nightstalker
Temple Of Bones
Trial
You're Dying to Be With Me
Mary Bell
Burke and Hare (New Song)
Scrub A Dub Dub
Hitchhiker
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Ed Gein
Vampire Of Dusseldorf
Ed Gein
Tuesday 27th July 2010
The Arthouse, Melbourne Australia
The artwork for Macabre's new mini LP "Human Monsters" was created by spanish artist Luis Sendón. Luis has done countless album covers and artworks in the world metal scene, including the art for Obscene Extreme Festival 2010. Check out these sketches and workings of the Human Monsters art, taken from his blog: http://sendonluis.blogspot.com
Monday 19th July 2010 New online store
You can now purchase the latest Macabre t-shirts online (without paying exorbitant eBay prices) at the Macabre's new store. The store features the latest Macabre shirts that you'll find at their shows, including The Rostov Ripper, Zodiac 25th Anniversary, Albert Fish As A Fish and the Grim Reality re-issue t-shirt.
These shirts unfortunately won't be available on the band's upcoming Australian tour NEXT WEEK (that's right)! But the band will have some shirts with Australian tour dates and a band new Dahmer t-shirt!!
You can now also pre-order the new Macabre EP "Human Monsters" at the store, as well as pick up a copy of Grim Reality re-issiue and Gloom re-issue (featuring classic live extras). Check it out now >
A limited edtion LP of new Macabre material has just been released by OBSCENE Productions entitled "Human Monsters". It is a preview of the forthcoming Macabre album "Grim Scary Tales" and features the four songs Dracula, The Big Bad Wolf, Countess Bathory and The Bloody Benders. The LP is a limited editon red vinyl pressing of only a 1,000 copies, it's the first new Macabre material released in 8 years!
Monday 19th July 2010 Acid Bath Vampire (The tale of John George Haigh)
John George Haigh was an English serial killer during the 1940s. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed a total of nine, dissolving their bodies in concentrated sulphuric acid before forging papers in order to sell their possessions and collect substantial sums of money.
During the investigation, it became apparent that Haigh was using the acid to destroy victims' bodies because he misunderstood the term corpus delicti, thinking that if victims' bodies could not be found, then a murder conviction would not be possible.
The substantial forensic evidence beyond the absence of his victims' bodies was sufficient for him to be convicted for the murders and on 10 August 1949 he was hanged by executioner Albert Pierrepoint. Read more >
Taken from Macabre's live DVD "True Tales of Slaughter and Slaying" . The original version of Acid Bath Vampire can found on Macabre's album "Murder Metal" available here >
John George Haigh was an English serial killer during the 1940s. He was convicted of the murders of six people, although he claimed to have killed a total of nine, dissolving their bodies in concentrated sulphuric acid before forging papers in order to sell their possessions and collect substantial sums of money. 
