Yakuza Set Release Date, Post New Track Online

Chicago's Yakuza will release the band's long-awaited new album, "Samsara" on March 21, 2006 through Prosthetic Records. After releasing Way of The Dead in 2002 to critical praise, the band played alongside a list of diverse bands such Opeth, Lacuna Coil, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sonic Youth, and Melt Banana. Now, having recorded 10 new tracks with producer Matt Bayles (Isis, Botch, Pearl Jam) in 2005 with guests including pianist Jim Baker, cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sanford Parker, and Mastodon's Troy Sanders, Samsara will be the follow-up to hoards of positive press from the last record.

In the meantime, Yakuza has debuted Samsara's lead track, "Cancer of Industry" on the band's MySpace page, and has released the entire tracklist for the record:

1. Cancer of Industry
2. Plecostomus
3. Monkeytail
4. Transmission Ends...Signal Lost
5. Dishonor
6. 20 Bucks
7. Exterminator
8. Just Say Know
9. Glory Hole
10. Back to the Mountain

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Carpathian Forest Not Playing Metalmania Fest

Despite the festival organizers' announcement to the contrary, Norwegian black metallers CARPATHIAN FOREST will not perform at Poland's Metalmania 2006 festival. "The band never got any requests to play this festival, and I am scheduled to tour in the U.S. with GREEN CARNATION, starting 22nd of February and ending in early April. The touring activities with CARPATHIAN FOREST will start in the middle of April and last the rest of 2006", guitarist Tchort says.

The rest of the band's tour schedule and availability looks as follows: European campaign (April 14 - May 22), Australian campaign (end of May/early June), summer festival campaign (June-August), USA/South American/Mexican campaign (September), second European campaign, second (December).

As previously reported, Season of Mist has set a January 17, 2006 U.S. release date (one day earlier internationally) for CARPATHIAN FOREST's new album.

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Rigor Mortis To Perform With 'Godfather Of Gore'

Director Herschell Gordon Lewis, who is widely credited with inventing the slasher horror film in the early 1960s with the release of his film "Blood Feast" in 1963, will join reunited Texan thrashers RIGOR MORTIS live on stage at the Texas Frightmare Weekend in early February. "We are, of course, honored to have the chance to dedicate our song 'Wizard of Gore' to the man that made the movie with the same name that inspired our song," the band write in a statement. "But, now the 'Godfather of Gore' himself is going to get on stage and sing with RIGOR MORTIS."

The Texas Frightmare Weekend is the largest horror convention in Texas with guest celebrities, film screenings, panel discussions, and more. The event will be held at the Grapevine Convention Center in Grapevine, TX on February 4-5.

The original RIGOR MORTIS lineup of Bruce Corbitt, Mike Scaccia (MINISTRY, REVOLTING COCKS), Casey Orr (GWAR, X-COPS, THE HELLIONS, THE BURDEN BROTHERS), and Harden Harrison (PERVIS, SPEEDEALER, MITRA) will launch a 20th anniversary tour later in the month. Confirmed dates so far are as follows: More...

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Gluecifer 'Best Of' Collection, Reissues On The Wa

Defunct Norwegian rock 'n' rollers GLUECIFER have posted the following message on their official web site:

"There are future releases on the agenda, but please note that no release dates are yet to be confirmed. Captain Poon [guitar] will produce a 'best of' GLUECIFER with a bonus disc featuring obscure and unreleased material. A DVD from the farewell show at Sentum scene is in the making, looks just fantastic, and it will be released later this year. A new and updated version of the first three records will hopefully be available sometime during 2006. 'Ridin' the Tiger', 'Soaring with Eagles at Night…', 'Tender is the Savage' were all released by Swedish label White Jazz between 1997-2000. Captain Poon says, 'I am just sick and tired of watching the way these records have been treated, even being totally unavailable in so many countries. It's about time to do something about that. The label having the rights for these records today seem to be pretty co-operative though. The band is history now, and the least thing we should do is making the bloody history available for everyone to enjoy.'"

In other news, former GLUECIFER drummer Danny Young has posted the following message on the site:

"I'm back in Norway from LA after six months of going to MI [Musician's Institute]. I took drum lessons there and had a great time hanging out with a lot of fun people. Right before I went back Todd Youth of THE CHELSEA SMILES asked if I would play drums on his new side-project. Todd, who has played with many very well known bands before (DANZIG, D-GENERATION, MURPHY'S LAW and CHROME LOCUST) had 10 songs that Sami Yaffa (HANOI ROCKS and NEW YORK DOLLS) and I were asked to play on. Of course I said yes and we had a great time recording Todd's songs. We also recorded a version of NEW YORK DOLLS' 'Chatterbox'. The album (project and album title not confirmed yet) will be released sometime next year on Acetate Records, so look out for this release coming to a cool record store near you! For updates and demo recordings from this project , you can check out www.myspace.com/toddyouthsheartaches or www.acetate.com."

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Three Dates Revealed For Rob Zombie, Lacuna Coil

The first three dates of Rob Zombie's North American spring tour with Lacuna Coil have been announced:

March 18 in Miami
April 6 in Columbus, Ohio
April 7 in Detroit

More dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

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Hoods and Palehorse Plan US Tour

Hoods and Palehorse will be touring much of the U.S. in February and March. Here are the dates:

dates w/ Will To Live
2/5 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
2/6 Kansas City, MO @ El Torreon
2/7 Des Moines, IA @ Hairy Mary's
2/8 St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
2/9 Rock Falls, IL @ American Legion Post
2/10 Arlington Heights, IL @ Knights of Columbus Hall
2/11 Columbus, OH @ Bernies Distillery
2/12 London, KY @ Levi Jackson Clubhouse
2/13 Detroit, MI @ Alvin's
2/15 Troy, NY @ Hudson Duster
2/16 Brockton, MA @ Roman's
2/18 Danbury, CT @ Empress Ballroom
2/19 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
2/20 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
2/21 Harrisburg, PA @ Championship
2/22 Baltimore, MD @ The Sidebar Tavern
2/23 Richmond, VA @ Nanci Raygun
2/24 Marietta, GA @ Swayzes
2/25 Myrtle Beach, SC @ The Social
2/26 West Palm Beach, FL @ Rays Downtown
2/28 Augusta, GA @ Sector 7G

dates w/ Folsom
3/1 Tampa, FL @ Backbooth
3/2 Orlando, FL @ 688 Skatepark
3/3 Jacksonville, FL @ Thee Imperial
3/4 Tallahassee, FL @ Big Daddy's
3/6 Springfield, MT @ The Rockwell
3/7 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Conservatory
3/8 Dallas, TX @ Red Blood Club
3/10 San Antonio, TX @ Sanctuary
3/11 Houston, TX @ Walters on Washington
3/16 Tijuana, Mexico @ The Voodoo House

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100 Demons and Cast Aside Euro Tour Dates

100 Demons and Cast Aside will tour Europe together in April. Here are the tour dates:

4/1 Germany Essen @ Turock
4/2 UK Bournemouth @ The Opera House
4/3 UK London @ Underworld
4/4 UK Manchester @ Star and Garter
4/5 UK Leeds @ Fenton
4/8 Switzerland Will Remise @ Dance Of Days Fest
4/9 Germany Berchtesgarden @ Kuckucksnest
4/11 Germany Saarbrucken @ Garage
4/14 Sweden A–rebro @ Folkets Hus
4/15 Finland Helsinki @ Nosturi Holy Brutality Festival
4/21 Germany Leisnig @ AJZ
4/22 Austria Vienna @ Arena
4/23 Slovenia Ljublijana @ Orto Bar
4/24 Germany Munchen @ Backstage
4/28 Spain La Roca del Valles @ HFMN Crew & Karate Punk HC Fest
4/29 France Paris @ Batofar

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Terrorizer Signs To Century Media Records

Recently re-formed legendary grindcore pioneers TERRORIZER, have signed to Century Media Records worldwide. Released in 1989, the bands highly acclaimed and influential debut album "World Downfall" (Earache Records) took the metal scene by storm. With an as yet unheard of aggression the band became a cult institution even though they quickly disbanded. Following the break up the main founding members, drummer Pete Sandoval and guitarist Jesse Pintado, moved on to join legendary extreme bands Morbid Angel and Napalm Death respectively.

The band remained popular through the next 16 years with newer acts citing inspiration from "World Downfall." The massive amount of available bootleg recordings and band merchandise as well as rumours of a follow-up album kept TERRORIZER’s name alive. Now, after what might seem like an eternity of silence, the band have signed a worldwide deal with Robert Kampf, owner of Century Media. Sondoval and Pintado have already started working on a new studio album, to be recorded early 2006 in Florida with producer Juan “Punchy” Gonzalez (Morbid Angel, Unholy Ghost, Christian Death, Diet of Worms etc.) for a summer 2006 release.

“After long negotiations with several labels, it’s official: TERRORIZER and World Management are happy to announce the new album will be on Century Media,” commented the band.

Introducing themselves to the TERRORIZER fold are guitarist Tony Norman (MORBID ANGEL, MONSTROSITY) and vocalist Tony Militia (RESISTANT CULTURE). Many people have asked why Oscar Garcia (NAUSEA) and David Vincent (MORBID ANGEL) are not returning. Simply put, Oscar is no longer interested in TERRORIZER and wants to focus on his own band NAUSEA.

Regarding what the fans can expect from the group's long-awaited new release, Pintado said, "It will be different but in the TERRORIZER vein." There are reportedly talks of introducing classical piano parts, industrial noise parts and chants on the new record. A 13-minute-plus song is in the works as well as some of the fastest drumming ever put to tape.

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Dragonforce, Edguy Expand UK/Irish Tour Dates

Dragonforce have expanded their upcoming UK/Irish tour with supporting act Edguy. The full list of tour dates is now:

January 24 - Oxford Zodiac
January 27 - Manchester MDH
January 29 - Nottingham Rock City
January 30 - Leeds Metropolitan University
January 31 - Glasgow Academy
February 3 - London Astoria
March 18 - Dublin Ambassador
March 19 - Belfast Spring & Airbrake

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Obituary Miss London Show

TotalRock.com reports that Obituary had to pull out of their planned show at the Mean Fiddler in London on Sunday January 8. The last-minute cancellation was due to immigration problems. Support act Samael still played, however.

After completing their obligations to Roadrunner Records, Obituary has been writing new material and seeking a new record deal.

They are currently on tour in Europe and have the following tour dates remaining: More...

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Veil Of Maya Signs To Corrosive Recordings

Chicago, IL band Veil Of Maya have officially joined the Corrosive Recordings lineup. The group will be in the studio this month recording their debut full-length, which should be available in April. In the meantime, you can check out some of their demo material here.

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Humanity Records New Album With Thomas Englund

UK progressive metallers HUMANITY will be recording their second album at the Division One studio in Gothenburg, Sweden with Thomas Englund of EVERGREY undertaking the production duties.

The band are very excited to be working with someone of the stature of Thomas Englund and the recording will get under way in early February, 2006.

News on the album's release and the band’s new label will follow in due course.

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Demiricous Recruit Ex-Godbelow Drummer

Demiricous has announced Mike Rafferty as the touring drummer for the band. This will be a trial before making him the permanent band member. He has previously drummed for Godbelow and Brand New Sin. He has also recently done drum teching for Trivium. He's a killer guy and a killer drummer. The band is very happy so far. His first show with the band will be the CD release show.

After their release show, the band plan to hit the road. Demiricous will be touring with Himsa, Still Remains, and more. Tour dates are as follows:

1/24 Emerson Theater – Indianapolis, IN (CD release)

w/ Himsa, Ringworm, The Banner:
2/14 Ten Bells – Grand Rapids, MI
2/15 Alvin's – Detroit, MI
2/16 Forward Hall – Erie, PA

w/ Still Remains
3/20–5/06 dates forthcoming

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Beecher Call It Quits

UK outfit Beecher have officially disbanded. Formed in 2001, the group signed with Earache Records in 2004. Here's a statement from the band:

"After almost five long years of putting everything we have into this band, it has finally brought itself to an end. For the whole time we've put all our creative and physical energy into writing and performing music that we believed in completely, and for the most part we've been underappreciated, misunderstood and misrepresented by both the media and by the general public. We've never been 'the UK's answer' to anybody; we've never been a 'fashioncore' band or a 'noisecore' band and we've certainly never once adhered to any of your bullshit 'scene' rules. We are who we are and we played what we wanted, and in our minds we've set an example and achieved more than we ever thought possible. I'm sorry to say that it seems that right now, you either need to look stupid or sound shit (or more often than not a combination of the two) to get anywhere in this 'scene,' two things that have never applied to Beecher.

The reason for our break-up is a combination of personal reasons that no one outside of our band needs to know, but rest assured now is the time, the time for us all to get our lives back

We have made some great friends and fans along the way and to those people we give our sincere thanks. We hope our band will live on in your memories, as it's sure to in ours. We've had some fucking good times. If you ever deserved thanks, then you got it in at least one of our record sleeves."

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H.I.M. Guitarist Breaks Wrist, Reschedule UK Tour

HIM have been forced to postpone their upcoming UK/Irish tour due to guitarist Mikko Lindstrom fracturing a wristbone in his left hand. The tour dates have already been re-scheduled and are as follows:

April 18/19 - Manchester Apollo
April 20/21 - Birmingham Academy
April 23 - Glasgow Academy
April 24 - Newcastle Academy
April 25 - London Brixton Academy
April 27/28 - Dublin Ambassador Theatre

In related news, a live HIM TV special - "HIM: Live in Detroit" - will premiere on January 21st at 8pm EST. Also, HIM's Dark Light album will be available on a special (very limited edition) pressing of double-vinyl starting January 24th, but you can pre-order a copy.

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Severed Post Final Mixes of 3 Songs Off New Album

Severed post three new songs on their myspace page. Their singer posted a msg on myspace describing each song:

"The Merchant = based on the Resident Evil 4 character who sells shit!!! Ultra high notes and super euro chorus ending!!

Take Down the PLague = Enhanced guitar parts and remixed for extra stupendous fun! = its about a Plague ridden village where the doctor flown in on his good heart ends up getting infected and goes mad - he infects the rest and the world is never the same!

Seasons Shall Mend The Pain = super harmony! Not relating to zombies at all! But sometimes you think of giving things up like people and what it would be like ~ then u realize = u'd get over it!!

The cd is going out for Mastering on Jan 15

-Anthony, vocals SEVERED"

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Pig Destroyer Announce DC Show

PIG DESTROYER have lined up a show at The Warehouse Next Door in Washington, DC for February 17th. Also performing will be BATTLETORN, DRUGS OF FAITH, and PROWLER.

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Ion Dissonance Do Week Long East Coast Tour

ION DISSONANCE have recruited the likes of AUGUST BURNS RED and LIGEIA to join them on a week long tour of the east coast:

February 6 - Cleveland, OH @ The Red Parrot
February 7 - Baltimore, MD @ The Sidebar
February 8 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Syndicate
February 9 - Amityville, NY @ Village Pub South
February 10 - Endicott, NY @ Rexers Music Hall
February 11 - Hamden, CT @ Hamden Elks Lodge

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Annihilator Post New Video Online

The ANNIHILATOR video for 'Alison Hell' has been posted online at this location, but according to a post by guitarist Jeff Waters at the band's official website it is one of two versions that were made:

"The cool thing about this is that it is of the USA Only version of the video. There was a completey different version that is on the new Ten Years In Hell DVD, due out in February on SPV Records. The original version had too much of me wearing that Virgin Airlines shirt; a stupid move on my part, as I hadn't realized that it was also a label. Something that I am sure Roadrunner were not that happy about, understandably!

So the version on this site is the USA version. Cool."

Jeff W

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Dream Theater Announce Tour Dates

The following dates for Central and North America have been announced as part of DREAM THEATER's 20th Anniversary Tour. All shows are "An Evening With" (no opening act, two sets with an intermission):

February
24 - San Juan, Puerto Rico at Tito Puente Amphitheater
26 - Bogota, Columbia at Palacio De Deportes

March
1 - Guadalajara, Mexico at Diana Theater
2 - Mexico City, Mexico at National Auditorium
3 - Monterrey, Mexico at Plaza De Toros Monumental
10 - Los Angeles, CA at Pantages Theater
11 - San Francisco, CA at The Warfield
13 - Salt Lake City, UT at Kingsbury Hall
14 - Denver, CO at The Fillmore
22 - Toronto, ONT at Massey Hall
23 - Montreal, QUE at Metropolis
24 - Quebec City, QUE at Le Colisee
30 - Boston, MA at The Orpheum Sat

April
1 - New York City, NY at Radio City Music Hall

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