Cape Town 5-piece Death Thrash Metal powerhouse DevilSpeak are excited to announce their venture North for two shows
Date change alert!!
Cape Town 5-piece Death Thrash Metal powerhouse DevilSpeak are excited to announce they are venturing North for two shows outside of their home base at the end of March 2020 taking aim at some good intentioned Northern Devastation!
This is the first time DevilSpeak will be playing these venues and they look forward to bringing their full live show experience & energy with them to both dates and get the rage on proper with the great support acts that have joined them.
DATES
Friday 27 March 2020 has them detonating Bloemfontein at Warriors Pub & Grill with specials guests Dreams Of Nightmares, Anarcholist, Eye of Heresy and Shigionoth
Entrance is R50
Saturday 28 March 2020 finds them slaying Pretoria at Aandklas Hatfield with special guests Deadline and Riddlebreak
Entrance is R40
EXCLUSIVE MERCH
Pre-orders are open for Limited Edition Tour Shirts to both South African and international fans
South African Fans
Version A is the DEATH MASK I tour art by Sepulchral Visions as a front print and then a back print of the tour dates, venues and bands playing for R200
Version B is the DEATH MASK I tour art art by Sepulchral Visions as a front print on the shirt only for R180
To pre-order your limited edition tour shirt please email DevilSpeak at devilspeakofficial@gmail.com with the subject line “Tour Shirt Pre-Order” and include your name, shirt size and A or B for which version of the shirt you want to get.
International Fans
Pre-orders are now open on our bandcamp for Version B of the DEATH MASK I tour art shirt by Sepulchral Visions at $13 for the shirt and $13 for shipping it overseas, and this includes a digital download of the “See Evil Hear Evil Speak Evil” EP along with it.
QUOTES
“We’re excited to finally be able to head up North for some shows, something we’ve been wanting to do more often for some time now. We’ve only played at Emalyth Gauteng side in 2017 so heading back there on our own steam and playing Pretoria this way feels great.
We have also only ever heard good things about the shows in Bloemfontein and are looking forward to finally experiencing the crowd there. So come rage with us at a show and experience what we love to do – entertaining and giving it horns on stage as best we can alongside other great local underground acts. May the Northern Devastation be mighty!”
Derrick, DevilSpeak Bassist
“The Northern Devastation tour has inspired us to once again change up our stage props, (incorporating some African themes into it as we are an African Metal band) as well as build a set that is one big musical flow. It’s a lot of time and work and we’re still busy finessing things, but we can’t wait to execute this all and see what the reaction is.
The limited edition tour shirt is also something we’re excited to be offering, we will just do a single run of these and then no more. The DEATH MASK I tour art done for us by Sepulchral Visions has a tiny evolutionary theme built into it which will be revealed in time over subsequent tours.”
Derrick, DevilSpeak Bassist
“The Northern Devastation Tour has been some time in the making and is going to be an exceptional experience! I cannot wait to see the powerhouse that is DevilSpeak bring their blistering brand of blackened death to Pretoria and Bloem. So, prepare yourselves to see evil, hear evil and speak evil this March \m/”
David Devo Oosthuizen, Devographic Music Media & PR
FULL BIO
DevilSpeak is a 5 piece Death/Thrash Metal band based in Cape Town, South Africa. DevilSpeak members are Azaliyah Bester on Ryhthm Guitar, De Wet Loots on Lead Guitar, Jarred Williams on Vocals, Francois Meyer on Drums and Derrick Leppan on Bass Guitar.
DevilSpeak was formed in August 2014 when Francois auditioned on drums at a practice session with the other four members and everyone immediately recognised that the musical chemistry between them all was very real and special. The next day the name of DevilSpeak was chosen and so the band began. The name DevilSpeak is a play on words of the Devil’s Peak Mountain in Cape Town. It’s a way to say that they are from Cape Town and they are a metal band.
DevilSpeak had their live debut on 20 Mar 2015, having spent 7 months honing a 6 song set into as formidable a shape as possible. DevilSpeak recorded their debut single, “Violently Leading The Blind”, on 18 and 19 April 2015 at Milestone Studios with Jethro Harris engineering. All instruments were miced up for the recording as the aim here was to capture the live feeling of the band, as well as their actual sound.
“Violently Leading The Blind” was released on 1 September 2015 and very soon started getting radio play worldwide, initially in the UK and soon spreading to the USA, Panama, France, and other parts of the world. In 2016 DevilSpeak was nominated for and won the award for Best Newcomer at the South African Metal Music Awards.
Notable shows that DevilSpeak have played include being invited to play at Metal4Africa’s Winterfest’15 in Aug 2015, opening for Nervo Chaos from Brazil on their South African tour they did with Boargazm in Feb 2016, supporting Vulvodynia on their tour of Cape Town in Apr 2016, taking part in the Wacken Metal Battle South Africa in Apr 2016, opening for Rotting Christ in Cape Town in Jul 2016, hosting the Local Aid: South Africa show in Oct 2016 with all proceeds going to the Animal Welfare Society Stellenbosch, touring to the Eastern Cape in Dec 2016, supporting Pulvis Et Umbra from Italy in Dec 2016, playing Emalyth Arts Expo: Nine Lives in Pretoria in Jan 2017, closing the night at Metal4Africa’s Summerfest’17 in Feb 2017, supporting Belgium’s Ashes on their South African tour in Mar 2017, opening the Witchfest 2017 Cape Town event in Apr 2017 which had Mantar and DevilDriver as headliners, supporting South Africa’s Terminatryx at their 15 Year Anniversary show in Aug 2017 and supporting Prescriptiondeath from Sweden at a Cape Town date on their South African tour in late 2017.
In 2017 DevilSpeak was nominated for and won the award for Best Thrash Metal Band at the South African Metal Music Awards. DevilSpeak recorded a 3 track EP in Sep 2016, with preproduction commencing on this in March 2016. The EP was again recorded at Milestone Studios with Jethro Harris engineering.
The mastering was done by Kelsey Mastering. Unearth Hell” was released as a single off this EP on 12 Sep 2017 and garnered much consistent radio play world wide as well as news articles on various blogs and websites around the world, including places like Indonesia, Australia, Italy, USA, UK, South Africa, Nigeria and Greece to name a few.
The 3 track EP, entitled “See Evil Hear Evil Speak Evil”, released on 10 Feb 2018, with the launch celebration taking the form of a global live stream LIVE event on their YouTube channel.
Notable shows in 2019 saw DevilSpeak playing a charity show in aid of the Animal Welfare Society Stellenbosch in May 2019, co-headlining Metal4Africa’s Winterfest’19 and supporting Brazil’s Nervo Chaos on their 2019 tour of South Africa. They also joined MMD Records Black for digital distribution.
2020 will see DevilSpeak hitting the studio to record a new single or two as well as finally venturing out of their home base of Cape Town more often to play live shows to the people up in the North of South Africa, starting with the Northern Devastation Tour which has them hit Pretoria on 27 March and Bloemfontein on 28 March.
Watch DevilSpeak – Embrace Decay below (Live at Milestone Studios)
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Submitted for DevilSpeak by David Devo Oosthuizen – Devographic Music Media, PR, Events and Artists Management
