Pulp Summer Slam XV kicks off

MANILA, Philippines - Red Horse Beer and Pulp Live World announced the international band line-up of Pulp Summer Slam XV: Angels Descend, the 15th installment of Southeast Asia’s biggest and longest-running metal festival on April 25 at the Amoranto Stadium, Quezon City. They are Killswitch Engage, Cradle of Filth, Escape the Fate, The Word Alive, Carcass, Chthonic and Suffocation.

Pulp continues its tradition of bringing the most prominent and versatile mix of international metal bands to the Philippine shores. Killswitch Engage is widely considered as a forerunner of metal-core and one of the most prominent names in the New Wave of American Metal. The band is returning to Manila after its successful first solo show held last July 13, 2013 at the SM Skydome.

Cradle of Filth is an extreme metal band from England whose musical style has evolved from black metal to a cleaner anagram of gothic and symphonic metal lyrically influenced by gothic literature, classic poetry, mythology and horror films.

Sure to pique the interest of kids who are slowly leaning towards heavy rock music are Escape The Fate and The Word Alive. The former is an American post-hardcore band Escape The Fate, which topped the Billboard Hard Rock charts in 2010 and has sold over a million records worldwide. Phoenix, Arizona-based metal-core band The Word Alive has constantly penetrated the Billboard charts with every release they have made.

Carcass is one of the pioneers of brutal and extreme death metal, having formed in 1985. The group disbanded in 1996, reunited in 2007 as a touring band and surprised the metal world in 2013 with its last album Surgical Steel, which was selected as Album of the Year by several of the world’s most credible metal magazines and websites. Chthonic is a Taiwanese metal band that incorporates traditional Taiwanese instruments in its music. The band’s mission is to bring its ancient history and mythology into the modern era to address national issues the band feels strongly about. Suffocation is a New York-based death metal band credited as one of the bands that created the blueprint for death metal in the ’90s.

Pulp Summer Slam XV: Angels Descend at QC Amoranto Stadium is co-presented by Red Horse Beer and Pulp Live World in cooperation with Pepsi, Smart, Tribal and 28 Black, with official media sponsors The Philippine STAR, Monster Radio RX 93.1, MYX and Pulp Magazine. Tickets are available nationwide through SM Tickets at P555. For meet-and-greet extra privileges, you can make inquiries for Pulp Royalty at 727-4957 (Pulp HQ) or e-mail at [email protected].