Springboard Festival 2/6/12

After last year's gig we was more than jacked up for this, Springboard has always been one of our favorite shows to play and tonight was no exception!
Dan and James were otherwise engaged for the day at a friends wedding but by the time the band arrived Hallgate Tavern was heaving to the rafters watching our good friends Pastel Jack, who put on an awesome show before we took to the stage!

Tonight was our first hometown show as a 3 piece, so we felt we had a lot to prove to the hometown crowd!
We opened the set with 'Devastated by Reality' a song we haven't played in ages. Felt good to blast some vintage XIII out, we followed up with 'Reign of the Insane' was great to see the crowd singing along to both the opening songs.

'Snakebite' was up next, one of our new songs which will be on album number 2, the crowd, for this stepped it up a gear, chanting and pits were on the agenda for the second half of the song, which considering we've only played this song once or twice in Hull before was an awesome feeling. The crowd didn't hold back for the rest of the set, 'Fuckin' Scum' as always went down a storm as did 'Down 'n' out' and 'North of 'Nowhere'. We chose the songs we though would get this kind of reaction, a 40 minute onslaught of riffs which according to the feedback we got from the crowd didn't disappoint.

We closed the set with 'Longest Day' and 'Triskaidekaphobia' probably the fastest song we've ever written, just to give the crowd one last chance of going mad, which they did!
So another year at Springboard another ace gig with an even bigger crowd than last year! Gig of the year by a long shot!

Thanks to Darren Bunting and Music H.Q for organizing this monster of a day!

New Song!

A New Song 'A New Generation' is now up on our soundcloud!
The song was written to be the theme tune to NGW (New Generation Wrestling)
This is NOT going to be featured on our debut album and was written especially for NGW

Enjoy \XIII/

Band Update - 26/4/12

Ok people, as you have probably seen on Facebook the past few days, we have decided to let guitarist, Mark go. This decision was not an easy one at all and as we know people have their opinions on the situation, which everyone is entitled to, but we feel as a band we have made the correct decision and by band we mean Dan, James & Alex, as it was agreed by ALL 3 members.

This decision has no reflection on our feelings for Mark as a person, this is strictly a decision made by the band for the band. We obviously have our reasons why, but we see no reason to share them with anyone except the people involved within the band as it only leads to pointless bickering and childish, which no-one really wants to read.

We wish Mark nothing but best wishes for his future endeavors.

As for the band now, we will NOT be looking for a replacement, but will be now continuing as a 3 piece band. Thank you all for your time.

 Dan, James & Alex

NGW Recording

Haven't updated for quite a while now! Still busy cracking on with the album!

We are recording the promo video for New Generation Wrestling UK at their next show!! Our song 'A New Generation' is their official theme tune and they have offered to do us a music vid to promote both the band and their wrestling business.

This will not be an upcoming album track, but will be available exclusively at the NGW live shows in the near future!

As for the album, were so close to finishing it now! busy times for us, but we love it! Cheers y'all - \XIII/

Nightmare before Xmas - Scunthorpe, The Tavern 17/12/11

Wow! What a gig to finish the year off!

We arrived at The Tavern to a mixed crowd of Metalheads and what looked like a bunch of football hooligans, the place soon filled out before fellow Hull metallers and friends Pastel Jack took to the stage to perform a blinding set. It was clear from their set that the crowd was definitely up for it tonight, as was Mark and James with an onslaught of sandwiches and pickled onions been thrown around, particularly at band manager Paul Brady, who didn't really give a shit as he was too busy using his free beer vouchers to even care!

Next up was Hawk of fury, whom consisted of members of Scunny metalheads The Occupier whom we have played a fair few shows with. The crowd again was giving it their all.
We was next up, we opened with Reign of the insane off of our e.p following it up with Down 'n' out & North of nowhere, the crowd seemed to love it and was headbanging and dancing throughout.
Next up we debuted a brand new song, so new its going to be on our second album, the song was Snakebite, a more technical side to the band rather than songs such as North of nowhere before it. It was the first time we ever played the song live, and it went perfectly and again got a huge crowd response.

We finished off with The longest day before paving the way for Nightvision to take to the stage who also put on a sterling performance. All in all probably the most solid line up of bands we've played with all year and definitely one of the better crowds. I think the best thing about it was the amount of good feedback we had off people after the gig, someone even said our stuff is what Metallica should be writing now, talk about an ego trip for us!

No doubt we shall be returning to this Awesome venue next year with album in tow, i just wish all gigs were as exciting as this one! Well done Scunny you've done yourself's proud.

Until next year, We wish you all a very metal Xmas!

Until 2012!

\XIII/

North of Nowhere Artwork Revealed!

As promised, we have reached 500 fans on Facebook, meaning we are now revealing the artwork for our debut album 'North of Nowhere'

The album artwork fits in nicely with the theme of the songs featured on the album including Nuclear war and post apocalyptic themes.

The artwork itself was done by a combination of three people (Vilk42, Marcus J Ranum & our very own Paul Brady)

Pastel Jack vocalist to appear of 'North of Nowhere'

Pastel Jack vocalist and friend of XIII, Neil Bailey will make a guest appearance on the track 'Forever' on our debut album 'North of Nowhere'

Pastel Jack are one of the driving forces within the local metal scene in Hull, and with the release of their debut album 'Trojan Horse' coming within the next couple of weeks, we couldn't be more happy then to let Neil guest on one of our tracks.

Forever will be the only song on the album which will feature no drums and will be mainly acoustic with the addition of a piano and harmonica, we wanted to try something a little different then our usual metal style, and with more and more idea's for the song we thought it would be a good chance to include a guest on the album, and with Pastel Jack being such good friends of ours and one of, if not THE best band in Hull, there really wasn't any doubt of who to ask!