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1000mods Announce UK & Ireland Tour

Posted in Whathaveyou on February 14th, 2024 by JJ Koczan

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You know what was pretty awesome? Last year in Summer and Fall when Greek heavy rockers 1000mods partnered with Heavy Psych Sounds to do full-catalog reissues for their four full-lengths to-date (see here and here for full streams) and the band toured in the US for like a month and I got to see them at Desertfest New York (review here), that’s what.

I hadn’t seen the band in a decade, and in that interim they became arguably the most crucial Greek heavy rock act of their generation — a sonic spearhead for desert-heavy and those who’d branch elsewhere alike — and one of the staples of the broader European underground tour circuit. To wit, in addition to these April UK dates, they’ve got a show in Germany on May 30 and they’re set to play Hellfest in France on June 30. I would not be the least bit surprised if they did the entirety of the span between those two shows on the road.

The UK/Ireland dates were first announced almost a month ago but the band added to the tour the other day, so here they are now in all their currently-relevant glory as per social media:

1000mods uk tour poster

***1000mods – UK & Ireland Tour 2024***

UK calling!

We ‘re so stoked to announce our first UK tour ever!

See you in April

Tickets on sale now: https://www.1000mods.com/tour

Poster by BeWild Brother

Upcoming Shows
04 Apr Bear Cave, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
05 Apr Rebellion, Manchester, United Kingdom
06 Apr Slay, Glasgow, United Kingdom
07 Apr Corporation, Sheffield, United Kingdom
09 Apr Voodoo, Belfast, United Kingdom
10 Apr The Grand Social, Dublin, Ireland
11 Apr The Bunkhouse Bar and Music Venue, Swansea, United Kingdom
12 Apr Garage, London, United Kingdom
13 Apr Thekla, Bristol, United Kingdom

Also:
30 May Colos-Saal Aschaffenburg, Germany
28 Jun Hellfest 2024, Clisson, France

1000mods is:
Dani G.
Giannis S.
Giorgos T.
Labros G.

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1000mods Retrospective Pt. 2: Repeated Exposure To… & Youth of Dissent

Posted in audiObelisk, Features on June 28th, 2023 by JJ Koczan

1000mods

Following on from last week’s reissue of their first two albums and the first installment of this retrospective, 1000mods this Friday will re-present 2016’s Repeated Exposure To… and 2020’s Youth of Dissent, specifically for US distribution through Heavy Psych Sounds. In between the one batch of reissues and another, the Chiliomodi-based generational forerunners of Greek heavy rock also announced a full round of American tour dates with their prior-confirmed appearance at Desertfest NYC as its centerpiece. It’s been, as the saying goes, quite a week.

The September trip will not be the first time 1000mods have come to the US. They visited in Feb. 2018, playing shows coast-to-coast and making stops in Mexico and Canada. The following Spring, they’d make their first voyage to Australia, and if the story of this era of the band is one of their reach expanding beyond Europe — which they covered first in this cycle as one would expect; Fall 2016 and again in early 2017 — that came very much with a mirroring expansion in scope with Repeated Exposure To…, which was released Sept. 26, 2016.

1000mods were beginning to show the band they would become, in sound and presence. Their first record, 2011’s Super Van Vacation (discussed herereview here), had portrayed them as a bunch of upstart groovers with an affection for Kyuss, perfect (yes, perfect) pacing and an ability to convey largesse in their songs through more than just tone. Vultures (review here) had followed in 2014 and charted the course for this growth. Already by then, 1000mods were a working band, touring vigorously, making videos, engaging in the kind of social networking that, at the time, was much newer and not always done. They’d even gone so far as to wrap the Vultures touring cycle with a video for “Claws” filmed at various shows. Everything they had went into pushing themselves forward.

These records are the manifestations of that. Let’s go:

Repeated Exposure To… (2016)

1000mods-repeated-exposure-to

(review here)

Maybe a case of a band having their collective cake while also eating it? The full title as it appears on the cover: Repeated Exposure to High Sound Levels (More Than 80 Decibels) May Cause Permanent Impairing of Hearing. This warning was well issued as 1000mods returned to engineer George Leodis to co-produce their third album, drawing together aspects of the first two into a cohesive and obviously maturing 51-minute outing. Seven songs, massive hooks. The sound of 1000mods growing could be heard in the finer details — the right-channel guitar mutes after and before the Monster Magnet garage jangle of “A.W.,” or even the way the siren call of feedback at the start of opener “Above179” howls into a fade as the first rolling nod kicks in loud — as well as in the overarching atmosphere of the recording. As much as Vultures had attempted to capture their live sound, Repeated Exposure To… answered back by doing the same, but in a bigger venue.

If Vultures was the club show, the tracks on Repeated Exposure To… like the energetic shover “Loose,” the short and explosive “Electric Carve,” which follows, and the later build into the sing-along-with-us chorus of “On a Stone” seemed to emanate from a festival stage. From the gang-shout hook of “Above179” and the sweep and chug and precision of its finish onward, 1000mods made it clear they were reaching out to a broader audience. It wasn’t about changing their core style — they were still very much a heavy rock and roll band, and the fuzz of “Loose” reinforced the notion well — but as their take came into its own after two previous LPs and more shows than some do in a band’s lifetime, the sense of professionalization was audible in it. Repeated Exposure To… was higher stakes.

The band played back and forth between shorter and longer cuts on side A and dug in shortest-to-longest in side B, with the closing pair of “Groundhog Day” (7:18) and “Into the Spell” (7:50) contrasting the earlier trades between the eight-plus-minute “Loose” and “Above179” before it or the three-minute “Electric Carve” ahead of rhythmic first-half capper “The Son,” which its layered highlight soloing, uptempo-but-not-too-uptempo swing and, absolutely, another ultra-engaging chorus. That’s the heart of the whole record. It feels written with the live audience in mind, all the way through to the build happening in “Into the Spell,” with its early meandering and guitar creep under the watery verse, turning to massive stoner nod and more urgent thrust as it moves to the big finish of its final third, wrapping the album as much as itself with a long fade.

This was the sound of 1000mods going all-in. They stepped up to the challenge of being a pro-shop act and wrote an accordingly pro-shop bunch of songs to mark the occasion. Still touring constantly — and in new territories, as noted above — 1000mods began to reap the fruits of their significant labors and became one of Europe’s most crucial heavy rock bands. It wouldn’t have worked if these songs weren’t there to carry them.

Youth of Dissent (2020)

1000mods Youth of Dissent

(review here)

The story of Youth of Dissent — album number four and the latest 1000mods full-length — should have been that the band traveled to Seattle, Washington, to record and mix with producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Sandrider, Isis, etc.), outdoing their own professionalism, directly waving at the American market, and offering an even tighter collection comprised of 11 songs that, in cuts like “Warped” and “Blister” leaned into a grunge influence, while in “Dear Herculine,” “Less is More” (some grunge in there too, for sure) and the interlude “21st Space Century,” the band were also atmospheric in a way they’d never yet been and their doing most melodically complex work on record. If you missed the word ‘should’ in that far-too-long sentence, it’s there because Youth of Dissent came out on April 24, 2020.

Greece’s first case of covid-19 was discovered that fateful February, and by the time Youth of Dissent was released, the entire country had been locked down for a month, and after another few weeks of in-place sheltering would gradually begin to reopen later in a terrifying, traumatic Spring when live music and so much else evaporated. Youth of Dissent was defined in part by the resistance mindset inherent in its title and album cover, and while tracks like “So Many Days,” “Blister,” “Less is More” and the concluding “Mirrors” were resonant in speaking to the experience of depression and “Young” and “Dissent” — split between sides C and D of the 55-minute 2LP — seemed to use the platform of 1000mods‘ audience-building to speak directly to that audience and encourage them to stand up, be involved in making their world, to dissent from the various systems holding them back, the moment in which the album arrived completely undercut that statement.

Certainly the covid pandemic did not just happen to 1000mods. It happened to everybody’s everything and the heavy underground is only a teeny-tiny sliver of a microculture. Acknowledged. But to see an act who’d put in by-then eight years of road work while also building a catalog of landmarks, earning Greece a respect it maybe didn’t have before them as a hotbed of heavy in Europe, changing the geopolitics of the underground, and begun to expand their reach even beyond that have that momentum obliterated by circumstances genuinely out of their control was painful. Covid happened to every band, but not every band was 1000mods in late 2019/early 2020 making and releasing their fourth record. Of course the European tour that was to start in May 2020 didn’t happen, and it wouldn’t be until Spring 2022 that they could hit the road in earnest to support it.

Which they did and are continuing to do. Removed from the moment of its release, at three years’ distance, Youth of Dissent answers the greater reach of the record before it with even more refined and cognizant approach, and a bevvy of new ideas and directions taken. Mature as songwriters, 1000mods proved able to conjure epics regardless of a track’s runtime, communicating ideas in new ways that signaled ongoing development and a refusal to stagnate, greeting an unknowable future with hope and progressivism even as it offered some of the band’s darkest lyrical themes.

As they’ve gotten back to live performance, that the material on Youth of Dissent has held up to the years-long split between its arrival should convey its urgency. This Fall, 1000mods return to the States all the more as a veteran act. That they’ll have these reissues along with them lends this tour — especially as a Winter 2023 Australia/New Zealand tour was canceled — an edge of celebrating the entire catalog as well as giving Youth of Dissent its overdue due, but 1000mods have only looked in one direction over the 15-plus years of their tenure, and whatever else one might expect from them, expect them to keep their eye on the future.

Thanks for reading. Again, if you missed the first part of this retrospective, it’s right here.

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1000mods Announce Coast-to-Coast North American Tour Dates

Posted in Whathaveyou on June 22nd, 2023 by JJ Koczan

There’s an 11-day gap in the list of tour dates, but 1000mods say there are more shows to be added, so I’ll stop wondering where they were otherwise going to be recording while in the States. Even as-is, their run covers both coasts and gives Canada more of a look than most tours claiming to be North American, and they’ve got an extra day to make the trip from Portland to Queens, so hell yeah, 1000mods coming back to the US. Desertfest NYC is the occasion but not the start, and it was pretty clear the Chiliomodi, Greece-based four-piece were going to tour around it — otherwise, catalogue reissues are a long way to go to not ship yourself a box of LPs — so confirmation of that is certainly welcome.

You might recall the post yesterday streaming their first two albums which are part of the above-mentioned reissue cycle — there’s another post coming next week — and this hit a couple hours after, but I don’t mind posting about a band twice in a span of about 24 hours. Sometimes someone has a lot going on, as 1000mods do right now.  I’ll be interested to see where they go in the off-dates around Desertfest, and cool as hell they’re heading out with The Well. That’s a pair you wouldn’t necessarily think of together but who’ll work well one into the next on stage.

From social media:

1000mods Tour

1000MODS ***North America Tour 2023​​​***

As promised, we are really happy to return to North America for a massive tour around our performance at Desertfest NYC .

At the moment we can announce only the dates below, but be sure a lot more dates are coming really soon!

Days splits for Desertfest NYC are on, and we couldn’t be happier to share the stage with such legends!

Dates:
9/6 – Philadelphia PA – Kung Fu Necktie
9/7 – Brattleboro VT – The Stone Church
9/8 – Ottawa ON – Dominion Tavern
9/9 – Toronto ON – Lee’s Palace
9/10 – Montreal QC – Piranha Bar
9/12 – Québec QC – La Source De La Martiniere
9/13 – Portland ME – Geno’s Rock Club
9/15 – Queens NY – Desertfest
9/26 – Kansas City MO – recordBar
9/27 – Denver CO – HQ*
9/28 – Salt Lake City – Aces High Saloon*
9/29 – Boise ID – Neurolux*
9/30 – Seattle WA – Funhouse*
10/1 – Vancouver BC – The Wise Hall*

*w/The Well

Tour is powered by Atomic Music Group and Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug

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Giannis S.
Giorgos T.
Labros G.

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1000mods, Super Van Vacation (2011)

1000mods, Vultures (2014)

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1000mods Retrospective Pt. 1: Super Van Vacation & Vultures

Posted in audiObelisk, Features on June 21st, 2023 by JJ Koczan

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This Friday, Greek heavy rock forerunners 1000mods will reissue their first and second albums on Heavy Psych Sounds in the US as preface to the band returning to American shores in September to play among the featured international acts at Desertfest New York.

For more than the last decade, 1000mods have been at the head of a generational wave of underground heavy rock acts from Greece. The Chiliomodi outfit have four full-lengths to their credit, and starting with 2011’s Super Van Vacation — preceded by 2007’s Blank Reality and 2009’s Liquid Sleep (review here) EPs — 1000mods very soon became the international face of Greek heavy. Supported by a vehement local scene that showed up on European radar as ‘the party you’ve all been missing, already in progress,’ 1000mods photos and videos from Athens and in other spots throughout Greece showed packed venues, passionate fans, and largely in the wake of 1000mods, an entire league of bands has come up in the years since, varied in sound but only benefitting from the trailblazing work the four-piece of Dani G., Giannis S., Giorgos T. and Labros G. have already put in. Greek heavy, European heavy, would not be what it is without them.

2011’s Super Van Vacation and 2014’s Vultures — also 2016’s Repeated Exposure To… and 2020’s Youth of Dissent, which we’ll get to next week — are landmarks in the development of one of the most essential rock bands ever from Greece. 1000mods not only put out these albums, but specifically set themselves to the task of hand-delivering them throughout Europe on persistent, lengthy tours. As the band looks ahead to coming back to the US, these catalog reissues — out this and next week — we’ll be revisiting their discography to take a look at the evolution of 1000mods‘ sound as well as some of the influence they’ve had and continue to have on others in and outside of Greece.

Best place to start is the start, so let’s get started:

Super Van Vacation (2011)

1000mods super van vacation

(discussed here; review here)

Let’s not mince words, the only thing stopping these songs from being classics is not enough time has passed. Comprised of 10 tracks and running 65 minutes of Billy Anderson-produced — also George Leodis, who would become the band’s go-to engineer — and deeply enviable, casually sauntering desert rock tonality, Super Van Vacation is a love letter to its own riffs, to groove and the particular spirit of freedom that comes with losing oneself in a heavy song.

Tracks like “El Rollito,” the lumbering “Track Me,” opener/longest cut (immediate points) “Road to Burn,” the lead-guitar-peppered open space of “Vidage,” and the propulsive fuzz shuffle of the closing “Super Van Vacation” show breadth between them, but 1000mods aren’t coy in terms of style. They’re playing desert rock down to its very roots, a warm-toned riff at the foundation of gutted-out, grown-up punk and metal together, able to be mellow or a party or a purposeful comedown into the next build-up all in the span of a few measures, but holding to an ethic of superficial simplicity, of primeval riff communion, their grooves speaking to some buried part of genetic memory that once danced around fires in an open savannah, the galaxy a blazing bar across the sky overhead.

Like Dozer‘s In the Tail of a Comet in Sweden and (Los) Natas‘ Delmar in Argentina, Super Van Vacation is an album that firmly declared to the world outside Greece that not only could desert rock exist there, but that work could be produced that would add to the genre and move it forward. They were the vanguard for what has flourished as one of Europe’s most vital hotbeds, with Athens as an epicenter. And not only that, putting aside all the ‘it’s an important album’ blah blah blah — all of which is true, mind you; crucial album and if you don’t own it, you should, regardless of where you live — but it’s also a great listen.

Not too many bands come out of the gate with a double-LP and manage to pull it off, but the deeper you go into “Johny’s” or the wah swagger of “Abell 1835,” the more 1000mods have to offer. Yes, the Kyuss influence is all over the record from guitar and bass tones to the clenched-gut behind the vocals of accompanying the wall-push of “Set You Free” or the wonderfully hooky “7 Flies,” but already in the material, 1000mods were beginning to sculpt their own take that their subsequent years of touring would refine and expand. So not only is Super Van Vacation one of the most fundamental European heavy rock releases of the 2010s, but it’s one that holds up, and if you haven’t heard it before, it still stands ready to be the soundtrack of the best summer of your life.

First released through Kozmik Artifactz and CTS Productions in 2011, reissues and new pressings would follow through CTS and the band’s own Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Recordings around 2016 and 2021. The Heavy Psych Sounds version is the first specifically pressed for North American distribution. And yes, I’m aware both albums are already streaming in their entirety. These are new versions, and if there’s a chance they might catch the ears of someone who hasn’t heard them before and make their day better or easier somehow, it’s worth it to me to host them. Whatever your experience, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.

Vultures (2014)

1000mods vultures

(review here)

The sophomore full-length from 1000mods did not have an easy task before it, but Vultures learned valuable lessons from its predecessor. In terms of confidence in their approach, the eight-song/38-minute long-player took the appropriated aspects of Super Van Vacation and further internalized their influences, making their sound that much more their own. Co-produced by the band with George Leodis, who also mixed (Tolis Economou mastered), Vultures is comfortable engaging the heavy blues of “Horses’ Green,” and almost immediately on “Claws,” it is specifically an album about movement, and very much the work of a touring band.

From the shouts driving the chorus of leadoff “Claws” through the build into its side B counterpart “Low” and even the outbound cosmic thrust and spoken repetitions of the title in the jamming back half of closer “Reverb of the New World” — which, god damn I hope they play at Desertfest — the songs on <emVultures feel written for the stage, for a live audience. They are a little shorter, accordingly, perhaps more structurally direct, and tighter in their rhythm. While Super Van Vacation had the element of surprise on its side and a ‘check out what these crazy kids are up to’ energy, Vultures codified that and made it sustainable for 1000mods, giving them a model of their sound to reshape as they took the songs out on the road.

And they did most certainly do that. A listen through and you could snag any number of examples, but I’m not sure any single track is as much a summary of the argument as “Big Beatiful” (sic) with its Queen lyrical reference and the kind of groove that, an album earlier, 1000mods might have dwelt in longer, but that on Vultures trades that hypnotic chill effect for a live-style urgency. Sure, these things are relative and one could just as easily look at the patient start of “Reverb of the New World” for counterargument — and I wish someone would, frankly; I’m getting tired of talking to myself about this stuff — but even that last song is shorter than it might’ve been two or three years before, and the energy it hones carries into the aforementioned blues of “She” and the build-up of “Horses’ Green,” which doesn’t even have time for its own payoff.

Instead, it cleverly lets the vibe-heavy fade-in of “Low” reset, go back to ground, and start all over. And it works, because 1000mods are songwriters at heart, and Vultures not only confirms that, but finds them already pushing themselves to progress, to do the thing they do in the way they want to do it. The record has plenty of space, plenty of atmosphere — I’m not telling you otherwise — but in its ebbs and flows, in the vitality of the performances contained on it, it’s always been the band-on-tour record to my ears, and it’s just fortunate they stopped doing shows long enough to make it. Either way, it was clear the beast they were becoming was alive, with eyes open. Hungry.

The LP of Vultures was released through The Lab Records, with the CD through Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug, which also handled reissues in 2015 and 2022 in Greece. Once again, the Heavy Psych Sounds version is the first not to be an ‘import,’ which if you’ve bought a record from Europe and paid shipping — or if you’re in Europe and you’ve paid shipping from the US — you already know matters again after not really mattering for a while there while the world was flatter and less fascist.

And we could go on about social issues in Greece, greater Europe, the US, etc., but that’s part of the story for next time. Stay tuned next week for the second part of this retrospective, featuring the albums Repeated Exposure To… and Youth of Dissent. Thanks for reading.

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1000mods Discography USA Reissues Due in June; European Tour Starts This Week

Posted in Whathaveyou on April 4th, 2023 by JJ Koczan

There’s a lot of information below, and that’s before you get to the four album embeds at the bottom of the post, but so it goes. Greece’s foremost heavy rock export 1000mods are reissuing their full-length catalog through Heavy Psych Sounds specifically for US distribution. One doesn’t really need a reason to re-press good records and spread them far and wide, but in the case of 1000mods, putting their four-to-date LPs out again in the American market makes even more sense considering the Chiliomodi foursome are set to play Desertfest New York in September (info here), so yeah, assuring the albums are in stores and in hands a couple months ahead of time, well, it’s a solid way to do business.

1000mods aren’t strangers to Heavy Psych Sounds, having played the label’s fests last year in Germany, and as they head to the US for only the second time, the only question I’m left with is just how long they’ll be over, whether Desertfest is an exclusive or if they’ll do a full tour. Reissuing four albums released between 2011-2020 seems like an awfully long way to go for a one-off — though it’s not impossible — but if they’re going to tour and we’re crazy-speculating anyway, wouldn’t a new album also make sense three years after their latest, Youth of Dissent (review here), landed smack in the midst of a surging global pandemic?

As I’m fond of saying and have probably already typed somewhere else today, we live in a universe of infinite possibilities. A full tour and new record are among them. I have no confirmation on either, so don’t go being disappointed if they don’t happen. Or if you are disappointed, at least don’t blame me. The band had to push back their Australian run that was slated for February, and while one waits to see when they’ll head back that way, they’re on tour again in Europe starting this week, with Frenzee and Godsleep switching out in support.

So like I said, much info. A glut, even. But it’s all here, the preorder link for those reissues, the Euro dates, the album streams, etc. And before I turn you over to it, I’ll emphasize that with a band who’ve accomplished so much in their time — 1000mods weren’t the only heavy band to put the current generation of Greece’s underground on the map, but they’re forerunners for sure — you don’t really need a reason to dig into these records again. But it sure would be cool to see them really tackle the road in the US.

From the PR wire:

1000mods usa reissues

Heavy Psych Sounds to announce 1000MODS – USA REISSUES – presale starts TODAY!!!

Today we are stoked to start the presale of the 1000mods FULL DISCOGRAPHY for the USA market !!!

ALBUMs PRESALE: https://www.heavypsychsounds.com/shop-usa.htm

HPS267 *** 1000mods – Super Van Vacation ***

RELEASED IN DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL
15 TEST PRESS VINYL
100 ULTRA LTD SIDE A – SIDE B YELLOW/RED/BLACK VINYL
300 LTD ORANGE TRANSPARENT VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGIPAK

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 23rd

TRACKLIST
Road to Burn 08:49
7 Flies 04:49
El Rollito 03:54
Set You Free 03:53
Vidage 08:48
Navy in Alice 05:32
Track me 08:31
Johny’s 05:07
Abell 1835 07:14
Super Van Vacation 08:42

ALBUM DESCRIPTION

Reissue of the 1000mods debut album in double gatefold coloured vinyls. Released September 29, 2011. Produced by Billy Anderson and 1000mods. Engineered by George Leodis and Billy Anderson. Mixed by George Leodis and 1000mods. Mastered at Unreal Studios (GR). Artwork by Malleus Rock Art Lab.

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HPS268 *** 1000mods – Vultures ***

RELEASED IN
15 TEST PRESS VINYL
100 ULTRA LTD 3 COLORED STRIPED BLACK/WHITE/RED VINYL
300 LTD MUSTARD VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGIPAK

RELEASE DATE:JUNE 23rd

TRACKLIST
Claws 05:28
Big Beatiful 03:47
She 06:21
Horses’ Green 03:24
Low 04:19
Vultures 05:03
Modesty 02:55
Reverb of the New World 06:43

ALBUM DESCRIPTION

Reissue of the 1000mods sophomore album in brand new coloured vinyls.

All music and lyrics written by 1000mods.
Produced and mixed by 1000mods and George Leodis.
Engineered by George Leodis at Shakti Sound Studio during March 2014.
Mastered at Sweet Spot Studios by Tolis Economou.
Artwork by Indyvisuals.
Hammond on “Modesty” by Greg Chour.
Wise words on “Reverb of the New World” by Carl Sagan, performed by Simon Bloom.

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HPS269 *** 1000mods – Repeated Exposure to… ***

RELEASED IN
15 TEST PRESS VINYL
100 ULTRA LTD TRANSPARENT BACK. SPLATTER RED/BLUE VINYL
300 LTD GREEN TRANSPARENT VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGIPAK

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 30th

TRACKLIST
Above179 05:41
Loose 08:41
Electric Carve 03:37
The Son 08:41
A.W. 04:16
On a Stone 05:25
Groundhog Day 07:18
Into the Spell 07:49

ALBUM DESCRIPTION

Reissue of 1000mods third album in brand new coloured vinyls. Released on September 26, 2016. Artwork by Fuzz ink. Photo by Aris Panagopoulos

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HPS270 *** 1000mods – Youth of Dissent ***

RELEASED IN DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL
15 TEST PRESS VINYL
100 ULTRA LTD QUAD ORANGE/PURPLE VINYL
300 LTD MAGENTA VINYL
BLACK VINYL
DIGIPAK

RELEASE DATE: JUNE 30th

TRACKLIST
Lucid 03:44
So many days 05:10
Warped 04:15
Dear Herculine 07:06
Less is More 06:15
21st Space Century 01:57
Pearl 03:31
Blister 04:12
Young 07:24
Dissent 04:25
Mirrors 07:16

ALBUM DESCRIPTION

Reissue of the latest 1000mods album in double gatefold new coloured vinyls.

Produced by Matt Bayles & 1000mods.
Mixed by Matt Bayles.
Engineered by Matt Bayles.
Recorded at London Bridge Studio and Studio Litho, Seattle, WA.
Mixed at Red Room, Seattle, WA.
Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, Seattle, WA.
Artwork by Tind.

BIOGRAPHY:

Having risen from smoky basements to packed arenas, 1000mods is the most successful Greek rock band of the past decades. Known for their relentless tours and legendary festival appearances, consistently followed by an ever-growing fanbase and armed with dedication and constant commitment, 1000mods are considered today one of the most iconic stoner rock bands in the world.

***Road to Burn Tour Spring 2023***

For more infos and tickets visit: 1000mods.com/tour

Dates:
06.04 Kiff, Aarau CH*
07.04 Sunset Bar, Martigny CH*
08.04 L’Usine, Geneva CH*
09.04 Molotov, Marseille FR*
11.04 Le Rockstore, Montpellier FR*
12.04 Upload, Barcelona ES*
13.04 Nazca, Madrid ES*
14.04 Hard Club, Porto PT*
15.04 Helldorado, Vitoria ES*
16.04 L’Ile Du Malt, Hossegor FR
19.04 Connexion Live, Toulouse FR^
21.04 Des Lendemains Qui Chantent, Tulle FR^
22.04 Black Shelter, Nantes FR^
23.04 Grand Paris Sludge, Sanigny FR
24.04 Musikbunker, Aachen DE^
25.04 Alte Mälzerei, Regensburg DE^
26.04 Stadtwerkstatt, Linz AT^
27.04 Feiraum, Ubersee DE^
28.04 Sudhaus, Tubingen DE^
29.04 Knust, Hamburg DE^
30.04 Zoom, Frankfurt DE^
01.05 Backstage, München DE^
* w/ Frenzee
^w/ Godsleep

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Dani G.
Giannis S.
Giorgos T.
Labros G.

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1000mods, Super Van Vacation (2011)

1000mods, Vultures (2014)

1000mods, Repeated Exposure To… (2016)

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1000mods Announce Australia and New Zealand Touring

Posted in Whathaveyou on November 21st, 2022 by JJ Koczan

[PLEASE NOTE: This tour is canceled as of Feb. 13, 2023]

Greek heavy rock forerunners 1000mods are fresh off a run of European tour dates that took them as far north as Helsinki, and they’ve just announced that early next year they’ll travel to Australia and New Zealand for further touring. I find myself wondering if they might go to herald a new album release; it’s been two years and will be going on three since they issued 2020’s Youth of Dissent (review here), and that’s an awfully long way to go for a record that’s not new. But of course, the time since Youth of Dissent‘s Spring 2020 release hasn’t exactly been accommodating to album cycles, so if they’re looking to give that record its due before moving onto the next, one could hardly hold it against them. It was a better collection of songs than perhaps its clean production led listeners to believe, and I don’t have to imagine those tracks going over well live because there’s a Rockpalast video streaming below from this year that demonstrates it plainly. So there.

Whether or not they’ve got a studio release in the works — and if they do, great, and if not, it’s still 1000mods — they’ll hit Wollongong on Feb. 15 and wrap in Auckland on Feb. 27. There are a couple long drives here — Sunshine Coast to Adelaide is 23 hours by car, reportedly — but hell’s bells that’s a cool tour.

Here are the dates as posted on social media:

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1000MODS – ***AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND TOUR 2023***

Dear friends,

we are extremely happy to be able to visit again Australia and for the first time ever New Zealand! Tour is presented by HEAVY Magazine and Foundry Touring

See you Down Under!

DATES:
15.02.23: Wollongong – La La La’s
16.02.23: Sydney – Lansdowne
17.02.23: Gold Coast – Vinnies Dive
18.02.23: Brisbane – The Zoo
19.02.23: Sunshine Coast – Kings Beach Tavern
22.02.23: Adelaide – Lion Arts Factory
23.02.23: Hobart – Altar
24.02.23: Melbourne – Corner Hotel
25.02.23: Wellington, NZ – Valhalla
26.02.23: Christchurch, NZ – 12 Bar
27.02.23: Auckland, NZ – Whammy!

Tickets on-sale now & available via
https://www.foundrytouring.com/1000modsaunz

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1000mods, Live on Rockpalast 2022

1000mods, Youth of Dissent (2020)

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1000mods Post Acoustic Single “Lucid Dream”

Posted in Whathaveyou on May 23rd, 2022 by JJ Koczan

For being ‘unplugged’ in the acoustic sense, with the inclusion of solo cellist Nikos Veliotis, as well as Akis Zois of fellow forward-thinking Greek rockers Villagers of Ioannina City, one would hardly call 1000mods‘ acoustic take on “Lucid Dream,” based on “Lucid” from their most recent LP, 2020’s Youth of Dissent (review here) stripped down, sounding full in its melody and crisply produced as it does. It’s still a different vibe though from the album version and one wonders if they might bring that out live as well, but far be it from me to speculate.

In either case, anything that positions 1000mods as a more dynamic act at this point is gravy, since their sound has continually progressed from one record to the other, and as they’ve moved into veteran status and maintained their hold as one of the vibrant Greece underground’s most crucial exports, an experiment like this can only lead to further exploration of cool ideas. That is to say, from what I can tell without having an Apple Music or a Deezer account, “Lucid Dream” sounds pretty right on.

This coming week, 1000mods and undervalued Austin, Texas, trio The Well will begin an extensive tour together at Desertfest Berlin 2022 that will last them through the Sound of Liberation anniversary shinding in the German spa town of Wiesbaden. Certainly an occasion for breaking out a new track and catching eyes and ears of your listenership, as if you needed an excuse.

Also, I like how in their post they say, “it has always been challenging for us to turn off the amps.” Fair enough, guys.

From social media:

1000mods Lucid dream

***And Now For Something Completely Different***

It has been in our minds, for the last couple of years, to perform an acoustic version of our song Lucid from YOD, although it has been always challenging for us to turn off the amps.

So we teamed up with our good friends -and amazing musicians- Nikos Veliotis and Akis Zois (Villagers of Ioannina City) and created Lucid Dream.

Stream it here: http://hyperurl.co/og42he

1000MODS & THE WELL on tour:
28.05.22 – Berlin | Desertfest Berlin
30.05.22 – Hamburg | Gruenspan
31.05.22 – Copenhagen | VEGA
01.06.22 – Malmö | Plan B – malmö
03.06.22 – Hannover | MusikZentrum Hannover
04.06.22 – Dresden | Beatpol
06.06.22 – Warsaw | Hybrydy
07.06.22 – Krakow | Klub Zaścianek
08.06.22 – Vienna | ARENA WIEN
09.06.22 – Prague | Rock Café Prague
10.06.22 – Leipzig | WERK2-Kulturfabrik
11.06.22 – Munich | 17 years Sound of Liberation • Backstage Munich
12.06.22 – Graz | p.p.c.
13.06.22 – Zagreb | Klub Močvara
14.06.22 – Budapest | A38 Hajó
15.06.22 – Salzburg | Rockhouse Salzburg
16.06.22 – Winterthur | Gaswerk
17.06.22 – Mezzago | Bloom
18.06.22 – Monthey | Pont Rouge Monthey
20.06.22 – Nuremberg | Musikzentrale Nürnberg
21.06.22 – Cologne | Club Volta
22.06.22 – Bielefeld | Forum Bielefeld
23.06.22 – Amsterdam | Melkweg Amsterdam
24.06.22 – Luxemburg | Kulturfabrik Esch-sur-Alzette
25.06.22 – Wiesbaden | 17 years Sound of Liberation • Wiesbaden
13.08.22 – Moledo | SonicBlast Fest*
10.09.22 – Athens | Τεχνόπολη Δήμου Αθηναίων – Technopolis City of Athens*
*1000mods only

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1000mods, “Lucid Dream” official video

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Days of Rona: Labros G. from 1000mods

Posted in Features on April 21st, 2020 by JJ Koczan

The statistics of COVID-19 change with every news cycle, and with growing numbers, stay-at-home isolation and a near-universal disruption to society on a global scale, it is ever more important to consider the human aspect of this coronavirus. Amid the sad surrealism of living through social distancing, quarantines and bans on gatherings of groups of any size, creative professionals — artists, musicians, promoters, club owners, techs, producers, and more — are seeing an effect like nothing witnessed in the last century, and as humanity as a whole deals with this calamity, some perspective on who, what, where, when and how we’re all getting through is a needed reminder of why we’re doing so in the first place.

Thus, Days of Rona, in some attempt to help document the state of things as they are now, both so help can be asked for and given where needed, and so that when this is over it can be remembered.

Thanks to all who participate. To read all the Days of Rona coverage, click here. — JJ Koczan

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Days of Rona: Labros G. from 1000mods (Chiliomodi, Greece)

How are you dealing with this crisis as a band? Have you had to rework plans at all? How is everyone’s health so far?

First of all, thanks for doing this and thanks a lot for caring! The band is healthy and everyone is safe at home! The plan was to release our new album on the 24th of April and on the 1st of May embark on our headline European tour in order to promote the new album. The spring tour has been postponed and we are still waiting for the rest of summer dates, as we have already booked a lot of festivals and club shows for the whole summer.

The album release date was not affected.

What are the quarantine/isolation rules where you are?

We are in lockdown. The majority of business have been shut down and most of employees either work from home or have been seriously affected by losing their job or are unsure about their future when this is over.

People are only allowed to get outside for getting supplies, exercise (max two persons) or to walk their dogs and they have to send an SMS to the government in order to declare personal information, time and reason of transfer.

How have you seen the virus affecting the community around you and in music?

Since mid-March, all the gigs in Greece have been canceled, all the venues, bars, studios, merch printing companies etc. have been closed. A lot of bands from our scene are being forced to cancel/postpone their European and Greek tours. The music community is united and there have already been some online live sessions, or cover/jam challenges on social media. People try to deal with the quarantine with artistic expression, online socializing and humor.

What is the one thing you want people to know about your situation, either as a band, or personally, or anything?

? think the whole Covid-19 crisis is a chance to reconsider the structure of our society, the economical system and our future as a human species in general. It’s time for people to prioritize our needs and wants and realize that we are guided by irrational leaders, who reacted really slow on taking the situation seriously, chose to mislead the public with wrong information and prefer thousands of people dying — although we have the science and the technology to prevent this — just in order to continue supporting the rotten capitalistic system and favor the chosen few.

In every crisis there is opportunity for bigger gains and this is exactly what’s happening right now. The only positive outcome is that humanity finally gave nature some time to recover from an unstoppable destroy that takes place the last century. It’s real odd to see in real-time how much, our way of living affects the planet and how nature recovers with just a little bit of human absence. Of course this is not going to bring the solution to big nature problems, like climate change and planet’s overheating, but it clearly shows that if we want to change our planet’s future, we still can.

It’s 2020, we have moved a lot forward with scientific breakthroughs, amazing technology and we have reached a point where knowledge is shared instantly across the world. So I think there are no excuses. It’s in peoples’ hands to decide if we are going to continue the same way, or gonna change our perspective to a more humanistic society powered by solidarity and respect for each other, using all our knowledge and wisdom in order to make people’s lives better.

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