Monster Magnet

Unfortunately due to a recent medical diagnosis that requires treatment to start immediately, I am forced to cancel this summer’s Monster Magnet tour of Europe. I am hopeful that we will return to the road in early 2020 with a tour celebrating Powertrip and more. Tonsils! Who knew they could be such a big deal? Well, my doctors do and by the way I'm feeling now I'm in agreement. I’m to undergo surgery right away or risk chronic sickness and sounding like Jaba The Hut forever. (some may say the later may be an improvement but I’m not willing to risk it) I’m so sorry to cancel on everybody. Playing live and being with my Magnet road family (of which you are the BIGGEST part) is the joy of my life and I hate to let everybody down. And that includes myself. Simply put, this SUCKS but it is what it is. Gotta take care of the voice. I hope you understand ROCK! - Dave

Monster Magnet - Lokerse Feesten - 4th August 2019! Get tickets here: https://www.lokersefeesten.be/en/

Just Announced! Monster Magnet – Lokschuppen, Bielefeld, 8th August! Get tickets here: https://bit.ly/2IGy8QZ

Just announced Monster Magnet to play Nirwana Tuinfeest 2019! Get your tickets here: https://www.ticketcrew.nl/tickets/nirwana-tuinfeest

Monster Magnet to play Brutal Assault 2019!! August 7-10. Get tickets https://brutalassault.cz/en/tickets!

Just Announced! Monster Magnet to play Trebur Open Air 2019 - July 26-28! Get tickets now! https://www.treburopenair.de/tickets/

Check out the latest episode of Gimme 5 on Gimme Radio, today at 2pm PT / 5pm ET as host Jim Santanella welcomes our very own, Dave Wyndorf!

Check it! Premier Guitar visits Nashville’s Basement East to spend some quality time with Monster Magnet guitarist Phil Caivano who shows off the Gibsons, Marshalls, and custom dirtboxes he and cofounder Dave Wyndorf use to take flight.

It's time! Time to crush Asbury Park, NJ like a helpless insect. I'm happy to say we'll get that chance when we rock the House of Independents Dec. 30. (That's the night before New Year's Eve for all you Pagans out there) And it's not just us! Get this... Blue Coupe featuring founding members of the original Alice Cooper group and Blue Oyster Cult will also bang the gong. AND... Frankenstein 3000! That aint enough for ya? How 'bout this? The one and only Ribeye Brothers!! Yeah, the Ribeye Brothers featuring founding members of the original Monster Magnet. THAT Ribeye brothers.. You'd be a stone cold idiot if you missed this show but who am I to judge? Go ahead, stay home for all I care but don't come crying to me when you find out later that you missed the rapture and you'll be rotting on this dead planet for eternity. Dec. 30th! Asbury Park, NJ! House of Independents! Love - Dave

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"A bracing return to the kind of lean, propulsive rock anthems that made Powertrip such a huge smash..." - check out the full interview!

The Mindfucker Manifesto: Monster Magnet in the Post-Truth Future: Dateline Red Bank. Also the fourth dimension. I’m out here on Planet Monster Magnet. The first thing you’re gonna want to know is why such a dumb title? Number one, I can’t go my whole life without calling one record Mindfucker. I’d be shirking my responsibility as a rocker! Plus, the way things are going these days stupid is the new smart. Yeah, things are that fucked up. The people who understand my not so subtle reasoning here will get it. How many people will that be? I don’t know. Mindfucker sure is a fun word to say. It rolls off the tongue quite nicely and it’s totally apropos of the time. Anyone who doesn’t see it is just missing history. You’re right in history now. Look between the raindrops and see how things are perceived and how we perceive ourselves. As the influence of 20th century advertising comes to its ultimate fruition in the 21st, we’ve all learned how to sell ourselves. Or at least our self-perceptions. We’ve got our social media pages. We can fabricate our own profiles. Here’s my tv show! Here’s my picture! Look! Pleeease! We’re selling our own Kool-Aid and drinking a lot of it, too. And it all comes with this nagging suspicion that we’re going to disappear if we go offline or crash and burn if we don’t get it right. Basically suffering the same life-shortening insecurities as minor league celebrities but without the paycheck. Somebody say identity crisis? It’s a bit of a, well… mindfuck. The second thing you gotta understand is that this a rock album. I had this idea in my head that this would be kind of a” good-time” record. Like one of those old UFO or KISS records, you know? But with a real Detroit edge to it. – a 10-song, rock-for-rock’s-sake album. Why not? I’d never done that before. When writing an album of songs, I always leave the lyrics till last. Well, my timing couldn’t have been worse. I wrote all this music, arranged it, put it together, and said, “Alright, we’ve got all this stuff recorded and I’ll dive in and write the lyrics beginning Jan. 9, 2017.” Well that week was Trump’s inauguration. And like anybody else in the world, I watched the information age just completely collapse on itself. Madhouse! Nobody’s at the wheel! And here I am in my kitchen trying to write my “good time” record! My rock-for-rock’s-sake album. Blehhh! So I’m like, “Fuck me. This is what I get?” It’s not just politics. It’s everything. I tried to stick with the “good time” angle as much as I could, but like they say, “once you see it, you can’t un-see it.” I wrote the songs quickly and of course reality crept in. How could it not? When I began singing them in the studio I saw the word “lie” comes up like 10 different times – “brain” comes up a lot. Ha ha! “My brain hurts!!!” The question “why” is repeated more than a few times, like some existential howling in the woods. And I’m like, this thing has totally fucked my mind, you know? This is the way you talk when you’re 14 years old. “This is a real fuckin’ mindfucker, man. You’re getting mindfucked.” But we really are getting mindfucked! We’re in it! I feel like I’m 14 years old! It’s like Bud Light nation. Fuck intellectualism. Fuck all that. Fuck it. It doesn’t even pay to think. Facts are for suckers. Just do what you want to do and fuck you. My need gives me my right to lie. They’re gonna look back at this time in history and go like, “Wow. I can’t believe you guys survived this.” The end result lyrically here is the product of a guy trying like hell to be upbeat but bending towards cynical humor, all-out rage and a touch of despair. Cynical humor is nothing new for me but rage and despair? Not my usual style. But hey, these ain’t usual times. The third (and perhaps most important to me) thing about this album is that it’s totally driven by the band. I wrote this music for these guys to play. This is the best band I’ve ever worked with. I hear it in the studio. I feel it when we’re playing live. These guys are great. And there’s no hassles. And they’re funny, and we have a good time on the road. Simply put, they ROCK. They’re like family to me. Playing live is so important because it’s the only time you really get to look people in the eye and go, “Alright, this is what we got.” The human connection is more important now than ever. The layers of internet communication we have confuse me sometimes. It’s like looking at somebody on tracing paper. Not a real picture. We make primal rock music. And primal rock music has to have a live audience. I don’t care if it’s two people, 200, 2,000 or whatever. I need to smell somebody. This album was written with that in mind. Monster Magnet’s been misunderstood from the day it came out, but that’s OK. Music is weird and cool. And being in a band is weird and cool. I’ve been in a band for a long time. I never wanted to be the band that totally sold out. Never wanted to ring the bell of every single shmuck on the planet. I never wanted to be the band that jumped the shark so fucking bad that I was stuck in a position like, “Yes, I’m the shark jumper.” and walk around high-fiving myself in spite of it. And the only way to do that is be true to myself. And if that means being misunderstood sometimes, then so be it. In the end and regardless of my banter, what I hope people will understand about this album, whether they really get the sensibility of the lyrics or not, is that MINDFUCKER is still that rock-for-rock’s-sake record I’ve been talking about. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Rock on. --- Dave Wyndorf, 2018

🤘North America!!!!🤘 Don't miss our electrified circus coming to a town near you! Have you got your tickets? Time to ROCK! 👉https://www.facebook.com/tours/1038723329623375/

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Monster Magnet announce European tour to start Jan. 2019 Frontman Dave Wyndorf has this to say - "Hey hey! I'm totally psyched to announce that we're coming to Europe in Jan. 2019 for the MINDFUCKER Tour, part 2! The action never stops, bitches! Different set list with lots of surprises! Come and start the new year off right: with BLISTERING, MINDFUCKING ROCK!"🤘🤘 Monster Magnet European Tour 2019 Dates: 12.01 Trondheim, Norway @Byscenen 13.01 Oslo, Norway @Parkteatret 14.01 Aarhus, Denmark @Voxhall 16.01 Hamburg, Germany @Grosse Freiheit 17.01 Berlin, Germany @Huxley's Neue Welt 18.01 Osnabruck, Germany @Rosenhof 19.01 Zurich, Switzerland @Dynamo 21.01 Krefeld, Germany @Kulturfabrik 22.01 Leipzig, Germany @Conne Island 23.01 Hannover, Germany @Capitol 24.01 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg @Kulturfabrik 26.01 Kortrijk, Belgium @De Kreun 27.01 Hasselt, Belgium @Mod 28.01 Sint Niklaas, Belgium @De Casino 29.01 London, England @Electric Brixton 31.01 Karlsruhe, Germany @Substage 01.02 Eindhoven, Netherlands @Effenaar 02.02 Magny Le Hongre, France @File 7 03.02 Frankfurt, Germany @Batschkapp 05.02 Dornbirn, Austria @Conrad Sohm 06.02 Budapest, Hungary @Dürer Kert 07.02 Zagreb, Croatia @Culture Factory Be sure to pick up Monster Magnet's latest release: "Mindfucker" and other killer merch here: http://smarturl.it/Mindfucker

Check out our brand new lyric video out for "When The Hammer Comes Down"! Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/cSFAjnDtKm0 All current & upcoming tour dates are available here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/monstermagnet/events

MONSTER MAGNET Drops Lyric Video For “When the Hammer Comes Down” - Kicks Off North American Tour Tonight! March of 2018 saw the release of the latest MONSTER MAGNET masterpiece “Mindfucker” (Order and Stream The Album here - http://smarturl.it/Mindfucker) on Napalm Records. Today the band has released a brand new lyric video for the track “When The Hammer Comes Down”. Tonight, MONSTER MAGNET kicks off their North American tour supporting “Mindfucker” in Toronto, ON. The tour runs through October 28th in Boston, MA. Electric Citizen and Dark Sky Choir will open the tour. A complete list of dates can be found below. Dave Wyndorf’s excitement for this upcoming run is summed up perfectly with the following statement: "And the electrified circus leaves town! Time to ROCK, bitches!" Monster Magnet: 9/28: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace 9/29: Pontiac, MI @ The Emerald Theatre 10/2: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge 10/3: Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze 10/5: Denver, CO @ The Bluebird Theater 10/6: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge 10/8: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater 10/9: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 10/10: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon 10/12: San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside 10/13: Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival* 10/15: Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory 10/16: San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick 10/17: Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge 10/19: San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger 10/20: Dallas, TX @ Canton Hall 10/21: Houston, TX @ White Oak (Upstairs) 10/23: Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade 10/24: Nashville, TN @ Basement East 10/26: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 10/27: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater 10/28: Boston, MA @ The Sinclair *Festival Appearance MONSTER MAGNET line up: Dave Wyndorf (vocals, guitar) Garrett Sweeny (guitar) Phil Caivano (guitar) Chris Kosnik (bass) Bob Pantella (drums)

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Hell yeah! "Mindfucker" has been named one of Ultimate Classic Rock's Best Albums Of 2018 (So Far)!

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MONSTER MAGNET Announces North American Tour March of 2018 saw the release of the latest MONSTER MAGNET masterpiece “Mindfucker” (Order and Stream The Album - http://smarturl.it/Mindfucker) on Napalm Records. Following three exclusive Northeastern US shows, the band headed across the pond for a European headline tour. Now they are ready to return to North America for a full headline tour this Fall. The band will hit the road in North America on September 28th in Toronto, ON. The tour will run through October 28th in Boston, MA. Support on the tour will come from Electric Citizen and Dark Sky Choir. A complete list of dates can be found below. A message from MM frontman Dave Wyndorf: “Can’t wait to hit North America with the MINDFUCKER tour! Warning: This is REAL ROCK music, made loud to be played loud! A Monster Magnet show is a face melting celebration of electric madness made all the better and fueled to peak intensity by the attendance of excitable human beings. Hope you’re part of that equation! See you soon! Monster Magnet: 9/28: Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace 9/29: Pontiac, MI @ The Emerald Theatre 9/30: Louisville, KY @ Louder Than Life Festival* 10/2: Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge 10/3: Minneapolis, MN @ Cabooze 10/5: Denver, CO @ The Bluebird Theater 10/6: Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge 10/8: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater 10/9: Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom 10/10: Seattle, WA @ El Corazon 10/12: San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside 10/13: Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival* 10/15: Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory 10/16: San Diego, CA @ Brick By Brick 10/17: Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel Lounge 10/19: San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger 10/20: Dallas, TX @ Canton Hall 10/21: Houston, TX @ White Oak (Upstairs) 10/23: Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade 10/24: Nashville, TN @ Basement East 10/26: Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage 10/27: New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater 10/28: Boston, MA @ The Sinclair *Festival Appearance MONSTER MAGNET line up: Dave Wyndorf (vocals, guitar) Garrett Sweeny (guitar) Phil Caivano (guitar) Chris Kosnik (bass) Bob Pantella (drums)

Be sure to get your Louder Than Life Festival tickets! On sale now! Monster Magnet plays Sunday, September 30! https://goo.gl/3oM48o

We are playing Louder Than Life​ Festival!!! Sunday, September 30 The World’s Largest Rock ‘N’ Roll Whiskey Festival Returns!! Massive Music Lineup Announced For Louder Than Life 2018 Nine Inch Nails, Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack, Deftones, Ice Cube, Five Finger Death Punch, Breaking Benjamin, Billy Idol, Shinedown & Many More To Perform At Fifth Annual Festival, Expanding To Three Days Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29 & Sunday, September 30 At Champions Park In Louisville, KY Tickets On Sale Friday, June 8 At Noon ET A massive music lineup led by Nine Inch Nails, Avenged Sevenfold, Godsmack and Deftones has been announced for the 5th annual Louder Than Life, as the World’s Largest Rock ‘N’ Roll Whiskey Festival expands to three days -- Friday, September 28, Saturday, September 29, and Sunday, September 30 -- at Champions Park in Louisville, KY. Louder Than Life features a selection of award-winning bourbons, whiskey, spirits, craft beer, and the best food Louisville has to offer, along with a powerful music lineup of rock legends and breaking talent performing on three stages. The festival celebrates the bourbon culture and culinary heritage of this unique American city. The general onsale for Louder Than Life General Admission tickets, VIP and Top Shelf VIP Packages, hotel and ticket packages, as well as tent and RV camping begins Friday, June 8 at 12:00 PM ET. Visit www.LouderThanLifeFestival.com for details. The daily music lineup for Louder Than Life 2018 is as follows: Friday, September 28: Avenged Sevenfold, Limp Bizkit, Breaking Benjamin, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Seether, Black Stone Cherry, Skillet, Underoath, Suicidal Tendencies, Red Sun Rising, Tremonti, Bad Wolves, Turnstile, Jelly Roll, Hyro The Hero, Badflower, Islander, True Villains Saturday, September 29: Godsmack, Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, Bush, Bullet For My Valentine, Hellyeah, Body Count, Pop Evil, Sevendust, GWAR, Dance Gavin Dance, From Ashes To New, Sick Puppies, Cane Hill, Bad Omens, Blacktop Mojo, Awake At Last, Stone Broken, The Jacks Sunday, September 30: Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Ice Cube, Primus, Billy Idol, Action Bronson, Clutch, Asking Alexandria, Yelawolf, The Sword, Glassjaw, The Fever 333, Monster Magnet, Spirit Animal, The Dose, The Breton Sound Watch the Louder Than Life announcement video here: https://youtu.be/B-dh-PcPy2I Godsmack’s Sully Erna said, “We’re honored to be headlining the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville this year! Looking forward to partying with all of you again real soon!” Benjamin Burnley of Breaking Benjamin commented, “We’re excited to come back to Louisville for Louder Than Life 2018 and play songs from our new album EMBER for the first time in Kentucky! We always have a good time there and look forward to what we know will be a kickass show.” Festival producer Danny Wimmer, founder of Danny Wimmer Presents, explained, “I couldn’t be prouder of what we have accomplished since the inception of the festival. In five years, Louder Than Life has become the largest rock ‘n’ roll whiskey festival in the world, and I see no better way to celebrate its 5th year than to close out the weekend with Nine Inch Nails and Ice Cube.” In addition to performances from top music artists, attendees at Louder Than Life will enjoy a variety of onsite food and beverage options celebrating the unique spirits and food of the Louisville region. Attendees 21+ up can choose to visit Bourbon World presented by the Louisville Courier Journal, and enjoy crafted cocktails at the exclusive Down The Rabbit Hole Speakeasy; sip fine wine at the Caduceus Wine Garden; or enjoy a local brew at the Craft Beer Bar. Other spirits can be enjoyed at the Heavy Tiki Bar presented by Jim Beam, or at the Jack Daniel’s Experience for a “taste of Tennessee.” Fans 21+ can explore the enormous Bourbon World presented by the Louisville Courier Journal. With 95% of the world’s bourbon coming from Kentucky, festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents have hand-selected expressions from the top distilleries to create a unique opportunity to enjoy bourbons and exclusive one-time specialty cocktails inside what may be the World’s Loudest–and Largest–Bourbon Tent. Site-wide, an enormous selection of bourbons will be available. Participating bourbon brands include: 1792, Angel’s Envy, Barrell Bourbon, Basil Hayden’s, Bloody Butcher’s Creed, Booker’s, Boone County Distilling, Bowman Brothers, Buffalo Trace, Bulleit, Contradiction, Cooper’s Craft, Eagle Rare, E.H. Taylor, Elijah Craig, Elmer T. Lee, Evan Williams, Four Roses, Jefferson’s, Jim Beam, Jim Beam Black, Kentucky Owl, Knob Creek, Larceny, Maker’s 46, Maker’s Mark, Michter’s, New Riff Bourbon, Old Forester, Peerless, Rabbit Hole, Rebel Yell, Rock Hill Farms, Wild Turkey, W.L. Weller, and Woodford Reserve. Additional featured spirits include: Jack Daniel’s, Uncle Nearest Whiskey, Southern Comfort and Tito’s Handmade Vodka. The Caduceus Wine Garden will highlight Caduceus Cellars and Merkin Vineyards, owned by Arizona resident Maynard James Keenan, co-founder of international recording acts Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. Having already dove headfirst into this venture, Maynard found out from a distant relative that wine making is in his blood. His Great Grandfather, “Spirito” Marzo, had vineyards and made wine in Venaus, Italy, just North of Turino in Piemonte. The Louder Than Life food and beverage options will be provided by Southern Hospitality Concessions LLC, DWP’s affiliate concessionaire. Festival attendees will be able to experience a taste of Louisville. Selections from the following local and regional restaurants will be available: Bouquet, Boss Hog BBQ, Cellar Door Chocolates, Doc Crow’s Southern Smokehouse & Raw Bar, Citizen 7, Gospel Bird, Longshot Lobsta, Mike’s Kentucky Kitchen, Midway Café, Tumbleweed, 502 Café, and Whiskey Dry. Guests can also choose from regional and national festival favorites including Island Noodles, Pie Baby Wood Fired Pizza, Chicago Dog House, Angry Bird Grill, Ben’s Cantina, Spicy Pie Pizza, Mount Olympus, Phat Daddy’s Creole, Master of Patties, Red Top Dog, and much, much more! If patrons are looking for an elevated culinary experience, they are invited to take a tour of the newly added culinary food parties where guests can enjoy signature cocktails paired with gourmet plates. The “Lock and Key Pizza Parlor” will be presented by Larceny with signature selections from Spicy Pie Pizza. The “Southern Soul BBQ” presented by Maker’s Mark will feature smoked delicacies from Boss Hog BBQ. The “Sip & Grill” presented by Southern Comfort will feature renowned Louisville chef Edward Lee of Whiskey Dry. Chef Lee will be offering a selection of his gourmet Whiskey Dry burgers paired with refreshing Southern Comfort cocktails. Louder Than Life is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, a producer of some of the biggest rock festivals in America, including Rock On The Range, Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville, Monster Energy Aftershock, Monster Energy Fort Rock, Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion, Chicago Open Air, Bourbon & Beyond, Monster Energy Rock Allegiance, Northern Invasion and more. DWP creates memorable and all-encompassing festival experiences, leaving both consumers and partners with lasting and meaningful impressions. By combining A-list music talent with local cuisine and culture, DWP has become recognized within the industry for delivering the highest-quality entertainment experiences to fans, artists, sponsors, partners and host cities. Louder Than Life 2018 partners and sponsors include: Monster Energy, f.y.e., The Music Experience, Miller-Coors, Jack Daniel's, Tito's Handmade Vodka, Robert Mondavi Private Select, Black Box Wines, Caduceus Wines, Diesel Cigars, SWFTCharge, Kentucky Lottery, Roadrunner Records, Fxck Cancer, Take Me Home, The Louisville Water Company and more. For more information on Louder Than Life, visit: Website: www.LouderThanLifeFestival.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival Twitter: https://twitter.com/ltlfest Instagram: http://instagram.com/louderthanlifefest