Woods Of Ypres Videos & Updates From Their Current Tour!!

Its time to update you Woods of Ypres fans with another post all about our local blackened doom quartet! As their North American "Pain & Piss" continues, I thought it was fitting to devote this post to updates from said tour, including their latest tour vlogs & blogs, a new concert video, and come concert reviews & photos! With that said, let's begin today's post!

Woods of Ypres' two most recent tour vlogs are now online at frontman David Gold's YouTube channel, so here's what you should know! Part 2 details their run through the American midwest, including their pre-drive rehearsal in Philadelphia (the Madden brothers' hometown), the "convenient" site of their dinner/band meeting, some nice highway drive footage, the trials of filling their flat tire on the way to Detroit, the interesting basement of their Chicago venue, an opening band from the under-attended Des Moines, Iowa concert playing an "unexpected" instrument, and the wait to actually see it in action! This second part of the vlog has NO Woods of Ypres concert footage though, so keep that in mind, but it's entertaining (especially the end!) If you want new videos of Woods of Ypres on stage, that's what Part 3 starts with, so hopefully that works! This part also includes some highway footage, the incredible rain in Illinois, an opening band from the Des Moines show playing a song with "odd" lyrics, and some insight into the turnout for that show. Part 2 has more entertaining tour happenings, but Part 3 has more concert footage, so make note of what each one has, but both are worth your time! Check the above links for more, and Part 3, but here's Part 2 of the tour vlog!



Also for new videos is a new clip of the band performing a song, but not all from one show! This is of Woods of Ypres playing their "Woods I" original "The Sea Of Immeasurable Loss", which was absent from their setlists in the "Woods IV" release tour, but is back where it belongs now! The catch here is that they cull the footage from multiple sources, including their concerts in Delaware, New York, and Massachusetts, and the piano performance of the song that Joel Violette played from the first part of this tour vlog! I find the piano clips slow everything down a bit, especially when they're not live on stage, but it's still a quality video that has the band in top form on all three of the included concerts! Check the video out below for some classic Woods of Ypres!



Now onto the print and photo side of things from the tour, and first, remember when bassist Shane Madden had a tour diary on Decibel Magazine's website for their summer tour last year? He's back at it with what's now termed a "tour blog" for this tour, only now on the amusing metal news site Metal Sucks! In what he terms as "The Manifesto", part 1 of his tour blog details the first chunk of the "Pain & Piss" tour, including the long drives, assorted tour happenings and quotes, and more! It's oddly written compared to his diary on Decibel Magazine's site, but it's thoughtfully written at the same time, so give it a look at this location! Also, a review of the band's concert in Worcester, Massachusetts is now online on the metal website Metal Storm, so click here to check it out! Their set only gets brief comments, but it's called "solid" with "discordant yet pleasing" combos, and the reviewer seemed to enjoy them! Also check the review out for remarks on the other bands, including headliners November's Doom!

We'll close with new photos from their shows, and actually, there's 7 photos of Woods of Ypres (well, 3/4s of them) at the Metal Storm review linked above, so check them out! Nice quality, though they are all black and white, and drummer Evan Madden's not included in the photos. Good shots though! If you're craving colour photos, or pictures with Evan visible, I have you covered, as 130 PHOTOS from the Worcester show are now visible at this location! Taken for the metal website Return To The Pit, these photos are great as well, and there's plenty of each band member at many angles, so check them out! That's about all for today, but stay tuned for my review of TONIGHT'S Roosevelt Hotel metal night, and I will see you guys there very soon! Thanks everyone!

Woods Of Ypres Videos, Interviews, And Tour Dates!!

Finally, here's that Woods of Ypres-centric post I've been hyping! I'll probably have another like this soon too, but this has some of the best of the recent news, including a new live concert video, some new band interviews, upcoming tour dates, and first, their latest tour vlog, so here's what you need to know!

Yes, we're starting with the local blackened doom quartet's latest tour vlog, which was so long, it's in four pieces! Frontman David Gold uploaded the band's tour vlog from their Toronto concert on March 13th onto his YouTube channel last week, and here's what you need to know! Part 1 shows the process of making coffee, the band's "merch bag ritual", their pursuit of pancakes for breakfast, whether they lost a piece of their van or not, lots of (partly sped-up) driving footage, their arrival at The Mod Club in Toronto, before starting with concert footage 7:12 into the video, and that's how Part 1 ends. Part 2 & Part 3 continue with more concert footage straight through, so if you want 20 minutes of great video footage of Woods of Ypres on stage, from multiple camera angles, give them both a look! The footage from Woods of Ypres' set ends 1:18 into Part 4, but afterwards, you'll get to see the band's merch table in Toronto, moonshine tasting in Koreatown, Joel Violette's banjo skills (on Woods songs, no less), what David's alarm clock sounds like, and the band's trip to the bank. Not bad at all, nice to see a longer vlog this time around, ensuring much more video footage of Woods in action! Check all of the above links for more, stay tuned for the next vlogs from the United States, and here's part 1 of the Toronto vlog. The links above will send you in the right direction for the rest!



As well, here's a new concert video (coincidentally, also from Woods of Ypres' Toronto concert! YouTube user balsor12 uploaded this video on Thursday onto his YouTube channel, and it's of Woods of Ypres playing "Everything I Touch Turns To Gold (Then To Coal)"! Now, yes, you can see high quality footage of this song in Part 2 of Woods' tour vlog linked above, but unlike on there, this is the full song! Video quality is predictably not as good, notably being very dark & with a mysterious purple line on the right side of the video, but the audio's not bad! A bit muffled, but everything worth hearing comes through! Check out the new video below, and of course, I'll have more as they become available!



Thirdly, here's some new Woods of Ypres interviews! I have one audio interview with David Gold from Vision On The Net, but it's not loading for me, so I'm gonna feature it in a later post. One audio interview I can load and tell you about is this one conducted by Mind Over Metal writer Matt Longo with David Gold, which clocks in at over 24 minutes long! The interview features David discussing his roles in Woods of Ypres, the transition from black to doom metal, the status of what is now "Woods 4.5", David's love for Crowbar, his Kuwait employment last year (including some fake breakup talk) and the metal environment in the Middle East, The Northern Ontario Black Metal Preservation Society, Woods of Ypres' future plans, and more! Good interview, with lots of well detailed answers, though David's audio is very low and there is some choppiness with the reception later in the interview. If you wanna check it out, click here! Here's another interview too, a written interview with David Gold by the metal website Xplosive Metal, so click here to check it out! Though covering many of the topics from the above audio interview, this one features David mentioning more about the Earache Records signing, the "Woods IV" writing process, notable concerts and memories from the last 9 years, the future of black metal, and much more! Well worth a read too, so check the above links for more, and stay tuned for more Woods of Ypres interviews very soon!

Finally, the band has announced a pile of new tour dates for their "Pain & Piss" tour! Though I won't go through them all due to the amount, and the fact that many of you might not be as interested in shows you can't easily attend, there are some notable shows here to mention! The new dates range from May 5th in Philadelphia during their next American tour leg, through June 8th in Charlotte, North Carolina following their Western Canada tour leg, which swings through the Southern United States back to the East. The closest of the newly announced shows is on May 11th, when Woods of Ypres play in Detroit for the first time ever at The Magic Stick! It's been a long time for that to happen, and I know some of you drive to the Detroit area for concerts, so hey, keep it in mind! Two days later, Woods of Ypres will hit Des Moines, Iowa for a concert on the night of the Hallows Die concert at Foggy Notions that Woods of Ypres were originally scheduled to headline. Given that we now know the tour routing for early May, I think it's a safe assumption that they dropped out of the local show due to it making more sense route-wise to play a show between Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota (itself replacing a cancelled Thunder Bay gig) rather than backtrack to the Soo for one night. For all the current Woods of Ypres tour gigs, click here, or check out our out of town concert listings on your right!

That's all for now, but stay tuned for a big news post later today! Thanks everyone!