{"id":38082,"date":"2019-07-17T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=38082"},"modified":"2019-07-17T08:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:05:05","slug":"the-mark-of-cain-battlesick-30th-anniversary-national-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2019\/07\/the-mark-of-cain-battlesick-30th-anniversary-national-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MARK OF CAIN “Battlesick” 30th Anniversary National Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Mark Of Cain\u00a0return to the stage this October performing their debut album\u00a0Battlesick\u00a0in its entirety.<\/span><\/p>\n

Originally released in 1989 via indie Adelaide label\u00a0Dominator\u00a0Battlesick sounded like no Australian album before it or since. Tracks like\u00a0Wake Up, Dead Man’s Mail, The Setback, Call in Anger<\/em>\u00a0and the title track addressed the fear of dreams, the threat of death, anger over disappointment and personal setbacks; not exactly the subject matter of an era when Kylie Minogue was queen and Ratcat were primed to become the pinnacle of the underground. It did not chart and in Australia it was barely heard out of Adelaide however, it’s resonance did find an audience even if that audience had to come from places farer rather than near.<\/p>\n

“Like I heard the song Wake Up and I was like ‘whooah’, I woke up! And then I heard the song Battlesick and it was all over for me, that’s just an amazing song. For me, just as a songwriter, that’s the song for which you wish you wrote the lyrics. Like ‘damn man, he wrote Battlesick, that fucker. Let me write that. I mean the imagery in the song is amazing and Deadman’s Mail, that’s just incredible”<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0Henry Rollins<\/p>\n

“It was the height of my fixation on Vietnam and the idea of the countless unknown heroes who walk among us”\u00a0–\u00a0John Scott (TMOC)<\/p>\n

The precision three piece which features brothers\u00a0John\u00a0&\u00a0Kim Scott\u00a0(on guitar and bass respectively) plus drummer\u00a0Eli Green\u00a0(a touring member of The Mark Of Cain since 2014) will also a perform a second set or extended ‘encore’ of classics from right across their five studio albums strong career. The 2019 tour marks the first national tour by The Mark Of Cain band since 2015.<\/p>\n

“With no frills and an attitude of absolutely zero bullshit, The Mark Of Cain mercilessly pummelled the audience into submission with a wall of sound so dense it was truly hard to believe it was emanating from a three-piece band.”<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0Scenestr 2015<\/p>\n