BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5a32ede4-5dca-4a8b-a6a7-48761350b984@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261012T002409Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261213T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261213T220000 SUMMARY:Ignite w/ Year of the Cobra DESCRIPTION:IGNITE “A War Against You” is the sound of IGNITE taking a st and and delivering a record without borders or boundaries. The much-anti cipated follow-up to the Southern California band’s 2006 watershed momen t\, “Our Darkest Days”\, “A War Against You” affirms that IGNITE is stil l rooted in the energy and melodicism of hardcore’s salad days\, while p roving themselves not merely a great punk or hardcore band\, but a great band in their own right. Formed in 1993 in the suburbs of Orange County during the height of Seattle Grunge and the Epitaph Records punk reviva l\, IGNITE have made a career defying convention with against the grain music and thought provoking\, politically charged lyricism. From prior e fforts including “Call On My Brothers” (1995)\, “Past Our Means” (1996) and “A Place Called Home” (2000)\, the band’s records have distinguished themselves with complex arrangements\, triumphant hooks and IGNITE’s ca lling card: frontman Zoli Teglas’ unmistakable\, soaring vocals. Not onl y have IGNITE become an international touring force\, headlining sold-ou t venues and festivals across the world\, but recent history also found the band members individually exploring new creative avenues that have o nly served to galvanize IGNITE itself. Most notably\, Teglas took up voc al duties for Cali punk mainstays\, Pennywise\, whom he fronted on their critically well-received 2012 album “All Or Nothing”. “From the outside \, it may have looked like we took our time between records\, but it was probably the busiest time of our lives\,” Brett Rasmussen (Bass) says. “Zoli played in Pennywise. Craig [Anderson Drums] was playing in Strife. Brian [Balchack - Guitar] was writing and recording with Into Another. I was touring with Nations Afire. But through it all\, IGNITE continued to tour and grow.” “Playing in Pennywise was amazing but playing in IGNI TE I can focus just as much on the message as well as the music\,” says Teglas\, recounting his time outside of the IGNITE fold. “For 20 years\, Pennywise had a message that their other singer [Jim Lindberg] wrote. I appreciate both bands and what they each have to say. I’m thankful for the time I had in Pennywise\, but in IGNITE I can speak my mind about so cial issues. My calling has always been to play music to make a change. I still have that calling. As clichéd as it sounds\, I still have that f ire that burns inside of me.” Cut to early 2014. IGNITE found themselves reenergized\, rededicated and back in the studio with longtime producer \, Cameron Webb (Motörhead). “This is the third record we’ve worked on w ith Cameron\,” says Zoli. “He understands us as people and as a band bet ter than almost anyone.” The sessions became a collective soul-searching for the band\; who spent the better part of a year and a half writing s ongs for “A War Against You”. “When we started writing the album\, we we re kind of trying to force the record be a certain thing\,” states Rasmu ssen. “Once we finally let go and let the songs happen like they were su pposed to happen\, the songs took their own direction.” “IGNITE is in a different place from when they made ‘Our Darkest Days’\,” says producer\ , Webb. “I think after being a band for a long time\, it was healthy for them to go off and play in other bands and then bring those experiences back to make this record. They found out that Ignite is where their pas sion really lies.” From the album’s strident opener\, “Begin Again”\, th e inspirational “Where I’m From” to the driving “Nothing Can Stop Me”\, which was written about a friend of the band’s battling cancer\, “A War Against You” not only sums up the classic IGNITE sound but expands on it \, proving the veteran band a musical force to be reckoned with. In fact \, IGNITE have long distinguished themselves beyond the punk and hardcor e sects\, playing packed acoustic performances in Europe and Southern Ca lifornia. Recent years have even found the band sharing European festiva l stages with the likes of Twisted Sister and Rise Against\, amongst cou ntless others\, and winning over the most varied of crowds every time. “ We’ve always tried to play to the most diverse crowds we can\,” says Bre tt. “We’ve gone out on the road with punk and hardcore mainstays like Ba d Religion\, Misfits and Suicidal Tendencies but we have also ventured o ut with bands like Goldfinger\, Sevendust\, and of course\, in Europe we play with tons of metal bands like Machine Head\, In Flames and Motörhe ad.” In fact\, Machine Head themselves\, recently covered IGNITE’s class ic “Our Darkest Days/Bleeding” on a recent release to critical and fan a cclaim. In true IGNITE fashion\; “A War Against You” speaks volumes from both personal and political perspectives. Teglas’ lyrics remain as posi tive and upbeat as ever\, yet tempered with age and experience. “A lot o f this album is an ode to my family\, an ode to the immigrant struggle\, ” says the frontman\, who has long written about his own Hungarian herit age in IGNITE’s lyrics\; a topic that surfaces on the track\, “Alive\,” as well as the album’s haunting closing track\, “Work.” Current events i ncluding the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe as well as man’s ruination of the environment (which comes to the fore on the track\, “The Sufferin g”) echoes throughout “A War Against You”. IGNITE has long been a band w ith a message and the new album broadcasts that news from the front in n o uncertain terms. For example. “Oh No Not Again\,” a massively anthemic track on the album\, provides a stirring snapshot of life during the ev eryday wartime. On the meaning of the album’s title\, “A War Against You ”: “It’s about humanity and the sadness that war has always brought and how hard it is to be a bystander\, a displaced person\, an immigrant\,” the frontman states. “That is ultimately all of us. The war-mongers make a ton of money and everyone else gets to pay to the price.” “One of the first songs I ever wrote said\; ‘Education without action does nothing’ \,” remarks Teglas\, who is actively involved with Sea Shepherd as well as his own Pelican Rescue Team\, which has rescued untold numbers of inj ured and endangered seabirds. For IGNITE’s frontman\, this has always be en a “more than music” proposition. “My calling has always been to play music to make a change\,” says Teglas. “If I’m not going to do that then I shouldn’t be onstage.” Two decades in\, IGNITE are still screaming fo r change and here are the postcards from the war against you. Facebook I nstagram Spotify Website YEAR OF THE COBRA Formed in 2015\, Year of the Cobra became a rapidly ascending\, radiant star in the horizon of the do om/stoner-scene for a reason: this powerhouse duo\, consisting of Amy Tu ng Barrysmith (vocals/ bass) and Jon Barrysmith (drums)\, use their limi tation in instrumentation to their advantage. Leaving space for every in strument to breathe and to shine\, they create a vast\, larger than life sound aesthetic. Their songs drift relentlessly from classic epic doom laments into oppressive heavy riff architecture\; from catchy\, almost u pbeat rock moments into transfiguring psychedelia. Bandcamp Facebook Ins tagram Spotify\n\nTickets: https://www.elcorazonseattle.com/ticketing\n\ nhttps://findlocal.community/event/5a32ede4-5dca-4a8b-a6a7-48761350b984 LOCATION:El Corazón\, Seattle\, WA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/5a32ede4-5dca-4a8b-a6a7-48761350b98 4 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR