Metal News for January 13, 2004
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11 news articles posted on this day.
Skyfire Sign With Arise Records
The Swedish Death Metal band SKYFIRE signed with Arise Records, after 2 albums released through Hammerheart Records ("Timeless Departure" (2001) and "Mind Revolutions" (2003)), the band will record their third album in February/March 2004 at Los Angered Studios & Underground Studios to be released in May 2004.
Anthrax Plan To Shoot Video For 'What Doesn't Die'
ANTHRAX are looking for all the Southern California metal maniacs to come be a part of the zombie-filled mayhem as the band shoots the video for the song "What Doesn't Die" (the first track off their latest CD, "We've Come For You All") this Monday, January 19 at 6:00 p.m.
The location of the shoot is the infamous Ambassador Hotel, which is located at 3400 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, CA 90010.
As reported earlier, the video was written and conceived by comic/writer Brian Posehn, know best for his work on "Mr. Show", "Just Shoot Me" and his own stand up routine. Posehn will co-direct the clip with Michael Sarna who has previously worked on videos for 50 CENT, SMASHMOUTH, and COUNTING CROWS.
A management spokesperson describes the concept of the video as "the most kick- ass, zombie-filled video of all time."
Apartment 26 Plan Tour, Stream Entire Album
APARTMENT 26 have begun to line up tour dates in support of their forthcoming new album. The band will release their new album 'Music For The Massive' on February 24th through Atlantic Records. The first single, "Give Me More" can currently be heard in its entirety here.
Here are the first batch of confirmed dates: More...
Cursed And Breather Resist To Tour Together
Labelmates Cursed and Breather Resist will be touring together in March and April. Here's what we know: More...
Hammerfall Vocalist Signs With Santuary For Solo
Hammerfall's vocalist Joacim Cans signed with Sanctuary Records. His first album called 'Beyond The Gates' was recorded with a very strong line-up including Matt Sinner (Sinner, Primal Fear), Metal Mike Chlasciak (Halford), Stefan Elmgren (Hammerfall), and Mark Zonder (Fates Warning) and is due to be released on Noise Records on April 26, 2004.
Tim Owens is 'Pissed Off' By Jon Schaffer
Former JUDAS PRIEST/current ICED EARTH singer Tim Owens has revealed to Revolver magazine that he was worried that joining forces with ICED EARTH mainman Jon Schaffer was a bad idea shortly after the band started a press tour of Europe in October. No sooner had he and Schaffer arrived in Spain than the guitarist hit the bar and began pounding drinks. "I went to bed at 11 o'clock, and at two in the morning I hear Jon yelling in the hallway," recalled Owens. "He was still drunk when he got up in the morning to fly to Germany, and he pissed me off so bad. He was screaming obscenities in the airport, and on the plane he kept yelling, 'Tim will have prune juice! Tim will have prune juice!' I said to the publicist, 'If he's not sober by the time we do the interviews, I'm not doing them.' If we had been on a boat, I would have pushed him off. I thought, 'Man, I'll never make it through a tour with this asshole.'
Read the full article at Blabbermouth.
Decapitated Post A Sample MP3
Polish Death Metal four piece DECAPITATED have posted a sample mp3 from their forthcoming album 'The Negation'. It will be released by Earache and is due in stores on Feb 9. 'The Fury' is available at http://www.earache.com.
Grinding vocals and thunderous drums that twist and turn, 'The Negation' is expected to be another masterpiece to follow the 2002 'Nihility' and is highly anticipated by the Death Metal fans worldwide. The new album includes 8 tracks and a bonus cover of DEICIDE's 'Lunatic Of God's Creation'.
On a bad note, DECAPITATED have cancelled their US tour with CANNIBAL CORPSE, HYPOCRISY and EXHUMED. No official statement from the band has been issued.
Insision Release Their First Ever Video
After almost two years of silence, INSISION crawled out from the dark with their first ever video 'My Fever', taken from their 2002 album 'Beneath The Folds Of Flesh' . According to leader Carl Birath: "This video is dark, damp and full of aggression, definitely not a video with girls, fake fangs and fancy capes. This is DEATH METAL brutality and once you take your seat, this ride won't fucking stop..."
INSISION are also said to start working on a new album in March. The follower of the highly- acclaimed demo 'Revelation Of The SadoGod' ( 2001) and the MCD 'Beneath The Folds Of The Flesh' ( 2002) is to be recorder in Soundlab Studios ( EXHUMED, PROJECT HATE).
Interplay Seeks Metal Bands For Video Game Music
Interplay has enlisted the services of a number of metal bands to provide some tunes for the upcoming 'Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel' videogame.
SLIPKNOT
MESHUGGAH
CHIMAIRA
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
DEVIN TOWNSEND
SKINLAB
SOCIETY 1
CULT OF LUNA
...will all feature on the video game.
More on the bands and featured songs can be found at http://www.interplay.com/fbos/music.html.
Here's the official press release that was sent out by Interplay: More...
Entwine Name New Album 'DiEversity'
Finnish goth-metallers ENTWINE have set "DiEversity" as the title of their new album, due in Finland on March 1 through Spinefarm Records (Century Media in the rest of Europe and the U.S.)..
The follow-up to 2002's "Time Of Despair" was recorded at Astia Studios in Lappeenranta, Finland with producer Anssi Kippo (CHILDREN OF BODOM, SINERGY, NORTHER) and was mixed at Finnvox studios in Helsinki with Mikko Karmila (NIGHTWISH, STRATOVARIUS).
ENTWINE will celebrate the release of their new album with a March 5 performance at Sibelius house's Finlandia club in Lahti, Finland.
"Time Of Despair" entered the Finnish album charts at No. 24 upon its release in June 2002. The album's first single, "The Pit", debuted at No. 6 on the Finnish singles chart.
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