Metal News for January 11, 2004
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Impaled Nazarene Video For Download
Finnish black metallers IMPALED NAZARENE have posted a live video clip of "Nyrkillä Tapettava Huora" from the January 9th gig at Nosturi, Helsinki. You can download the video here.
IMPALED NAZARENE's album, "All That You Fear", will be released on January 27th in North America through The End Records.
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Hot Deals
I noticed some good metal deals in the latest Best Buy ad for this week (starting January 11):
- H.I.M. - Razorblade Romance: $6.99
- Skrape - Up The Dose: $6.99
- Puddle of Mudd - Life on Display: $9.99
- Rammstein - Lichtspielhaus (DVD): $14.99
These deals are usually online too, but I did not check myself.
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Daily Interviews
Oh, I forgot to mention the other day that Tartarean Desire also had new interviews with:
- American heavy metal band Twisted Tower Dire
- Italian thrash metal band Cadaveria, featuring the former Opera IX vocalist
Deceiver To Enter Studio To Record M-CD
Swedish Heavy Metal Rock band DECEIVER , featuring members from Maze of Torment and Serpent Obscene, will enter The Abyss studio with Tommy Tägtgren in May 2004 for the recording of their debut M-CD. Will be released through Singapore label KONQUEROR RECORDS in August 2004. Fans of Judas Priest, Motörhead and Venom should look out for this Metal release.
Logan Mader Gets Heavy Again In New Black
NEW BLACK, the new Los Angeles-based band led by former MACHINE HEAD/SOULFLY guitarist Logan Mader, have a total of 13 tracks under their belt, according to a posting on Logan's official web site.
NEW BLACK — whose lineup is completed by Lucas Banker (guitar), Clyde Shorey (guitar), Jason Evigan (bass, backing vocals) and Christopher Antonopoulis (drums) — reportedly sees Logan returning to his heavier roots, and at the same time, incorporating what he has learned from his early days as a guitarist to present. The group recently finished mixing a demo in Amsterdam with beatmaster extraordinaire JUNKIE XL and will soon begin shopping around for a record deal.
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Evanescence May Collaborate With Wes Borland
EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee has confirmed that the band are contemplating the possibility of working with former LIMP BIZKIT guitarist Wes Borland on the follow-up to the triple-platinum "Fallen", tentatively due in 2005 through Wind-Up Records. "Wes is a friend and we're talking about writing together on the next record," Lee told Australia's The Age. "But we'll see."
2003 ended on a sour note for EVANESCENCE when founding member and Lee's co-writer Ben Moody abruptly left the band in October, mid-way through a European tour. More...
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Former Hypnosia Drummer Passes Away At 27
Former HYPNOSIA drummer Mikael Sjöstrand passed away on Thursday, January 8 after a battle with skin cancer. He was 27 years old.
A highly acclaimed Swedish thrash/death metal act, HYPNOSIA split up in June 2002 after a seven-year existence that produced a seven-song EP (1999's "Violent Intensity", Iron Fist Productions) and one full-length album (2000's "Extreme Hatred", Hammerheart Records). No reason was given for the band's break-up.
At the time of their split, HYPNOSIA were hard at work on the material for their second full-length album, which carried the working title of "World Sacrifice".
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