Kaine will be returning to Gallow Wood Media tomorrow to continue working on the vocals for the new album. 6 of the songs have been completed already with just 3 more to be tracked.
Later in the day Kaine will be returning to Unit One for rehearsals. This week the band will be preparing for gig on December 3rd at the B2 Norwich with Brazen Bull and Cold Harbour. Tickets for the gig can be purchased from here.
The band is working on a brand new EP, which you can see the writing and recording process for here.
Kaine will be joining Brazen Bull and Coldharbour for their first show at the B2 Norwich since November 2019 on Friday, December 3rd 2021. Tickets are available to order from £5 here.
Our first gig was on May 26th 2018. It was one of our regular shows there as I had booked a reasonably busy schedule that year to help promote A Crisis of Faith. We arrived at the venue early and were chatting outside prior to load in when Dan Mailer and Josh Birch arrived together (from Osmium Guillotine) pulling up in the carpark, I had a half empty bottle of Coca-Cola which I was able to throw through the passenger window, past Josh’s head and straight into Dan’s face as he pulled up. Dan, looking for revenge, jumped out of his car and came charging up the B2 steps towards me, having forgot to put his handbrake on, turning to see Josh and his car going for unplanned trip into the Brickmakers beer garden!
From one of the early shows in Camden
The other amusing moment from that gig was the late great Wayne MacConnachie had arrived with Peter Keliris for the gig, he looked at me, looked at the guys and said “where’s ya band” obviously having not heard the news, I said to him that this was the band, he looked at me, looked at them “your fucking joking aren’t you?” I said the others had left the band and he was gobsmacked “they left you? They all left you? They all fucking left you?!”. Wayne simply couldn’t believe the last line up had left! That was sadly the last time I saw Wayne alive and were informed of his passing on the way to the Reforge The Steel Live recording gig in November 2019. We played a tribute to Wayne alongside Osmium Guillotine and Walk in Coma in January 2020 in Braintree.
Gent aka local legend Andy Martin opened the night, and Osmium Guillotine obviously also played. Dan Mailer jumped on on stage with us for the encore and all in all it was a successful first gig with very few mistakes. I think we genuinely shocked a few people. The band was formed in a fortnight and was already playing live, and to a good level, the transition seamless from the previous line-up.
An early B2 Show
Our next gig was a charity event in Long Melford, famous for being the place the legendary Hellfire Club was founded and much of the local folklore surrounds nefarious activities by the local nobles at Melford Hall. It is also famous for Beatrix Potter having stayed there. The gig itself was for our friend Bonnie Kelly’s fathers best friends memorial – Bonnie has her own band New Pages which can be checked out here. Toby and Isaac had to perform double duty as Cannon were also on the bill. Chris MacKinnon was also doing sound that night, obviously unable to stay away from us! After that we played the Unicorn in Camden for the first time. We would play a few gigs there in 2018 which were all really good, but weirdly after that we were never invited back! Kaine actually hadn’t played the gig since 2013 when we supported Canadian Metal legends Striker there! Again the gig went well and the band started to gel on stage.
After that we played with Alter the Sky at the Blue Moon, Cambridge. This is another venue we used to play a lot back in the day when it was the Man on the Moon, we even had a residency there for a bit in 2013. Again the show went incredibly well and people struggled to believe that this was a brand new band. We also started playing songs from Reforge The Steel around this time in the set as well. We were literally rehearsing, learning the Crisis material and adding new material into the set as well which really helped progress the Reforge The Steel album quickly.
Our one and only appearance at The Rock Den!
It was in this period that I wrote the 8 tracks for Reforge The Steel at home. I decided that to prove the band wasn’t dead and this band was as good as ever, I had to get a new album out as quickly as possible. I wrote Reforge The Steel, Black and Rebirth first, Wake was a song and I and Saxon Davids started working on some years previous that we even played live in instrumental form toward the back end of 2017, and songs like Master of Mankind and In Cold Light were written later with Loudwire being the last one I think I wrote for that album. It was important to show the world that we were still going and that is why Reforge The Steel came out so soon after A Crisis of Faith. We just learned the new songs between the Crisis material, and then played them live to iron out the cracks. It was a very busy period for the band. I had also started a new job around that time, which was less all over the place then the warehouse work but infinitely more stressful!
We had another gig at the B2 in July. Anthony Murch joined us for a few songs that night and a solo trade-off on stage, which I part inspired the ending of Master of Mankind! As Ant arrived the venue I was able to sneak around his car with a traffic cone, and block his door off so he couldn’t get out of his car! Is it any wonder people leave my band….Having looked back at the dates we had a very busy 2018! We were back at the Unicorn that month and also played our first and only gig at The Rock Den in Hatfield, another venue we’d previously been a resident band at.
Adam’s old band Cardinal
At the end of July we played Swanfest at the Swan, Ipswich in what was one of the hottest gigs I have ever played. Long term band friend Adam Prowse (who had played bass in Cardinal) joined us for the encore on vocals. The Swan is famous for having Ed Sheeran play there before he was famous. Ed recently having sponsored Ipswich Town Football Club, my football team and is famous for other things, but for me that’s the most important! Much like me he’s a regular at Town games, but at least he has a successful musical career to drown out the misery! It’s good to see him plough some money into the club under the new owners, but having said that if the club dropped any lower then I could have probably afforded to buy it, let alone sponsor it!
From The Smokehouse, Ipswich
So I thought I would give a little detail on our early gigs as a band. It’s weird to think this was all three years ago now. I will cover the back end of 2018 and the start of the recording of Reforge The Steel next week.
Reforge The Steel Live is Kaine’s latest live album recorded at the B2, Norwich on Friday, November 1st, 2019. The album comprises of tracks from Reforge The Steel in its entirety with two tacks from 2018’s A Crisis of Faith.
You can order the album on CD/Digital download by clicking here. Limited to just 100 copies on CD – will only be available while stocks last and will not be reprinted. Click here to order now.
All Patreons and Bandcamp Subscribers are included in the album credits.
The album will be released in memory of Wayne MacConnachie – his passing was discovered the day of the event. Please visit Osmium Guillotine’s bandcamp (https://osmiumguillotine.com/album/waynes-world-live-in-norwich-2019) to order their tribute album to Wayne. They have so far raised over £300 in Wayne’s name for MIND. For more information click here.
The new live album features over an hours’ worth of music taken from both Reforge The Steel and A Crisis of Faith recorded in late 2019 at the B2, Norwich by Talon Payne of Gallow Wood media. There will also be footage from the night accompanying the release.
The line-up will again be Rage Sadler (guitars and vocals), Liam Etheridge (drums), Toby Woods (lead guitars) and Isaac Healy (bass).
Tracklisting:
Heaven’s Abandonment
Reforge The Steel
Black
Loudwire
Rebirth (The Dragon Reborn)
In Cold Light
I am God, The Master of Mankind
To All, My Love
Wake
Fall of Jericho
The album will be in remembrance of Wayne MacConnachie who tragically passed away that same day. Osmium Guillotine released a live album in tribute to Wayne which was recorded on the same night which can be ordered here.
[Wayne MacConnachie was a great friend and supportive follower of the band. He could regularly be seen at our gigs and was always the life and soul of the party, guaranteed to be getting drunk, having fun, showing his arse and generally making everyone in the room laugh.
On November 1st 2019 whilst travelling to play a gig at the B2 in Norwich, we were shocked and saddened to discover the terrible news that Wayne had taken his own life.
The gig we played that night was one of the hardest we’ve ever done, with having that news fresh in our minds. We’ve decided to release the full show from that evening in tribute to the memory of Wayne MacConnachie.
Osmium Guillotine – Live at the B2, Norwich – 1st November 2019 1) Terminator / Paradox 2) Through The Black Mirror 3) This Is Blitzkrieg 4) Phantom of the Opera 5) Only Famous
Wayne was also a talented musician in his own right, producing his own jungle and rave music under the moniker ‘Enjå Bergman’.
Over the years Wayne created Osmium Guillotine-influenced remixes, using a combination of our music, live clips and snippets from interviews. These have never been released publicly so we’re including them here, they’re a good representation of the talent and sense of humour that Wayne was known for!
Enjå Bergman – The Osmium Guillotine Remixes 6) I’m Lance Steele 7) Hobgoblin (Ali Abdul Shabalee Jafar Shababa Hassan remix) 8) Breathe it in Son (OG Megamix)
All proceeds from the sale of this CD go to MIND, the Mental Health Charity]
Some gig footage from the other night with ColdHarbour UK and HyperFox for Brandi’s fund at the B2 VENUE NORWICH on Friday 28th of February 2020. Included are some clips from the night and the majority of our set. This is what a typical gig for us in the U.K. is like for us, so hopefully will give you an insight into what a typical night for Kaine is like.
This is a typical Kaine gig, warts n’all, so enjoy!
Kaine will be recording Reforge The Steel Live at the B2 Norwich on Friday November 1st. They will play the album in full plus a selection of other songs from previous albums. More details such as door charges, supporters and timings will be made available in the coming weeks – so please click “interested” on this event to keep updated.
In the meantime, the band have only guitar solos to record
on Reforge The Steel before it can be mixed and then released. Rage is also
mixing the Kaine 10 live album at present which will release after the new
album on CD/DVD. In rehearsals the band is already working on its fifth album
to follow up Reforge The Steel.
As a thank you to all those who attended Kaine 10 at
Colchester Arts Centre, the tickets for that event will also be valid at this
one so long as notice is given via e-mail to bookings@kaine-metal.com. Spaces are
limited so please e-mail ASAP to hold your tickets.
Kaine’s new line-up made it’s official debut at the B2 in Norwich last Saturday, at a night that featured Gent and Osmium Guillotine. You can see the clips of the show below.
Kaine’s new line-up will make its debut this Saturday. Liam Etheridge made his debut back in April with Toby Woods debuting at last week’s show in Ipswich. This weekend the complete new line-up with Isaac Healy on bass will take to the stage at the B2 for the first time.
It’s also a new era for Osmium Guillotine as former Kaine bassist and vocalist Dan Mailer will be joining them as their stand-alone vocalist with a brand-new line-up which will also be playing at the B2 on Saturday.
You can find details about how to attend the event by clicking here.