Metal News for January 13, 2005
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19 news articles posted on this day.
Updated Danzig, Kataklysm, Trivium Tour Dates
Dates continue to be released for the upcoming Danzig tour, which will feature support by Kataklysm, Trivium, and Eyes Of Fire. Here's the latest:
2/18 Sauget IL @ Pop's
2/19 Detroit MI @ Harpo's
2/21 Chicago IL @ House Of Blues
2/22 Minneapolis MN @ First Avenue
2/24 Toronto ONT @ Guvernment
2/25 Cleveland OH @ Agora Ballroom
2/26 Covington KY @ Madison Theatre
2/28 Boston MA @ The Roxy
3/1 New York NY @ Spirit Performance Center
3/2 Philadelphia PA @ Electric Factory
3/4 Norfolk VA @ Norva Theatre
3/5 Atlanta GA @ Roxy Theatre
SOAD's Malakian: We're Not A Political Band
System of a Down guitarist and chief songwriter Daron Malakian is uncomfortable with the band being tagged a "political" band. "We just sing about what the world, about what's around us," he tells the Sydney Morning Herald. "We have political songs and we have songs about, y'know, psycho-groupie-cocaine crazy. Somebody asked me, 'Are you guys about sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, politics, having a good time?' I said, 'Yes!' We're not about a history lesson, like, 'You gotta learn all about the Armenian genocide' or all about politics. We're not only about that and we're not only about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, we're like a fu**ed-up mutation of all that sh**."
Read the full article at Sydney Morning Herald.
Listen To New Open Hand Material On Their E-Card
Two years after the release of "The Dream", a CD comprised of older EPs, Los Angeles' OPEN HAND has finally recorded a true full length album, their debut entitled "You And Me." You can check out the E-Card here.
">The E-Card features the songs "Pure Concentrated Evil" and "Tough Girl" in their entirety, as well as samples of 6 other tracks off the album. The album hits stores February 22, 2005 and you can pre-order the LIMITED EDITION version on the Trustkill Webstore now.
Catch OPEN HAND on the "City Of Champions" full US tour this winter with The Juliana Theory, Zao, and The Black Maria. Tour dates will be released soon.
Velvet Revolver Announce Spring Tour Dates
Velvet Revolver are planning to head out on a full Spring US arena tour, and here are the dates.
Mar. 24 Bakersfield, CA @ Centennial Garden
Mar. 25 San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Center
Mar. 26 Los Angeles, CA @ Forum
Mar. 28 San Diego, CA @ Cox Arena
Mar. 29 Phoenix, AZ @ America West
Mar. 31 Las Cruces, NM @ TBA
Apr. 1 Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Arena
Apr. 2 Houston, TX @ Reliant Arena
Apr. 4 New Orleans, LA @ UNO Arena
Apr. 7 Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena
Apr. 8 Tampa, FL @ TD Waterhouse
Apr. 9 Jacksonville, FL @ Jacksonville Veterans Mem Arena
Apr. 11 Atlanta, GA @ Gwinett Center
Apr. 12 Charlotte, NC @ Cricket Arena
Apr. 14 Norfolk, VA @ Constant Convocation Center
Apr. 15 Washington, DC @ Patriot Center
Apr. 16 New York City, NY @ TBA
Apr. 18 Rochester, NY @ Blue Cross Arena
Apr. 19 Detroit, MI @ Cobo/Palace Of Auburn Hills
Apr. 21 St. Louis, MO @ Savvis Center
Apr. 22 Milwaukee, WI @ US Cellular
Apr. 23 Minneapolis, MN @ Target
Apr. 25 Denver, CO @ Magness/Pepsi Center
Apr. 26 Salt Lake City, UT @ E Center
Apr. 29 Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum
Apr. 30 Seattle, WA @ Key Arena
Lex Icon And Shagrath Form New Band
Lex Icon (ex-Dimmu Borgir, The Kovenant, Troll) has teamed up with Shagrath (Dimmu Borgir), Luna (Ashes to Ashes) and Jarle (Span) to form Chrome Division. Chrome Division is a new rock/metal project similar in style to bands like Monster Magnet, Spiritual Beggars etc. They will release a MCD this spring along with a video.
Black Label Society "Mafia" Tracklisting Revealed
The complete track listing for the new Black Label Society album, "Mafia", has been revealed.
"Mafia", due on March 8 via Artemis Records, was engineered by "1919 Eternal"/"The Blessed Hellride" knob-twister Eddie Mapp, and features Craig Nunenmacher on drums and James Lomenzo handling the bass duties, according to SDMFworldwide.com. The album's first single, "Suicide Messiah", is scheduled to go for radio adds on January 24.
"Mafia" track listing:
01. Fire It Up
02. What's In You
03. Suicide Messiah
04. Forever Down
05. In This River
06. You Must Be Blind
07. Death March
08. Dr. Octavia
09. Say What You Will
10. Too Tough To Die
11. Electric Hellfire
12. Spread Your Wings
13. Been A Long Time
14. Dirt On The Grave
Running Wild Hold Album Release Party
Running Wild's new album, "Rogues en Vogue," will be released on February 21, 2005. To celebrate this event, the band would like to invite everybody to join the release party and pre-listen to the whole album together with Rolf and probably his band-mates as well on February 18, 2005 at Headbangers Ballroom, Hamburg. Tickets are available for 5,00 Euro. You can pre-order the album at Amazon.de (delivers outside of Germany as well).
"Rogues en Vogue" tracklisting: More...
Headline News
Stratovarius Reunites
The following message has been posted on Stratovarius' official website:
After all the turmoil of 2004, we are happy to announce that Stratovarius has reunited with the classic line-up: Timo Tolkki, Timo Kotipelto, Jörg Michael, Jari Kainulainen and Jens Johansson.
Since his breakdown in April, we have patiently been waiting for Timo Tolkki's health to improve. It has been, and since about 6 weeks he has been strong enough to go back to work.
Also during the past months, after much talk, soul-searching and reflection most of the damage within the band has been repaired. The rest of us now understand Timo's condition, and have slowly come to terms with it. There has been forgiveness, and everyone has a good relationship again.
Many of the immense problems we were facing have now found concrete solutions.
Lastly, we can announce that work is already in progress on completely new material.
Destruction To Sign With AFM Records
Destruction frontman "Schmier" gave us the following statement:
We would like to bring the speculations and rumours about a label chance of Destruction to an end!
After four terrific and successful years with Nuclear Blast, the decision to work with a new label wasn´t easy at all
We would like to thank Markus Staiger and his Team for the great friendship and the fantastic work! They had a big participation of the positive progress of our reunion!
AFM Records is the new partner of our trust! The contracts will get signed within the next days! The new album will be released via AFM/ Soulfood here in Centre Europe and thru other distribution partners of the label worldwide, a little later this summer!
The pre-production is running at full blast. Because of the intense worldwide touring, it feels that the band never sounded tighter and more motivated than at this present moment!
Killswitch Engage: "Canada Loves Their Metal"
Killswitch Engage have posted this message on their official website:
Canada sure loves their metal and is slowly becoming our home away from home. The Slipknot guys have been treating us great so far, Unearth continues to be the coolest dudes around, and the shows have been awesome. Big thanks to the Toronto fans for being so supportive to us when we needed them the most. We love you all...and we'll see you all in HELL!!
Grave Sends Video Greeting
Swedish death metal kings Grave have sent a video greeting to all death metal "maniacs" here.
The band are currently touring Europe in support of their latest release, "Fiendish Regression".
Disbelief Post Video Clip Online
After producing a video for the track "Rewind it all (Death or Glory)" off their upcoming album “66 Sick”, german Death metallers Disbelief have uploaded footage from the shoot and the clip at this location in the mpg-format (9.12 MB).
The new album will be released March 14th via Nuclear Blast. It was produced by Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Mnemic) at Antfarm Studios in Aarhus, Denmark. The 11 tracks include "Crawl," "For God?," "Edges," and "Lost in time."
Disbelief recently amicably parted ways with guitarist Jan-Dirk Löffler. They will take part in the No Mercy Festivals all over Europe, together with Six Feet Under, Nile, Dark Funeral, Dying Fetus and Cataract. Touring starts March 13th.
Communic Finish "Conspiracy In Mind" Video
Communic have just finished shooting a video for "Conspiracy in mind," the title track of their upcoming debut album, in stores February 21st in Europe. The Norwegian progressive/power metallers used the Dutch production company Lowlife, who have previously worked with Exodus and Primal Fear, among others.
New Meshuggah Album Nearing Completion
Swedish extreme experimental metallers Meshuggah published a status report on their website regarding their upcoming album “Catch 33”, due April 11th:
Hi all and sorry for this e x t r e m e l y long time of no updates about "Catch 33"!
Nah.. we´re not sorry actually, you should know us by now... and we got more important things to do than write useless information on the news..hehe, we´ve been doing the same fucking thing all this time - workingwithcatchthirtythree - so we don´t wanna repeat ourselfs right?!
Anyway, we just wanna tell you guys that we are on the l.a.s.t. couple of weeks work, "just" some pieces in the puzzle that needs to be forced to fit with some help from the crowbar of love... some mixing and then we should be done. We said "should" didn´t we..??
The song is of course a smashing radio hit and should be in the top 3 most aired songs ever within 2 weeks time.
Raunchy Working On New Album
Raunchy, modern metallers from Denmark, started working on new material. So far, the basic structure of eight songs is finished; vocals, electronics, keyboards etc. will be added over the next few months. As far as the general musical direction, the band states: “All we can say is that it sounds like … Raunchy! Expect some new things and a lot of melody. In other words, it's going to be: brutal, melodic, fresh, and a fucking heavy monster.”
The album is still untitled, producing will be Jacob Hansen, mixing will be Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Mnemic)
Regarding the lyrics, new singer Kasper Thomsen says:
As I read a lot of poetry, I have an interest in writing lyrics that deal with other things than pussy and whiskey. The lyrics on the next album are going to be more dark, existentialistic and related to classic themes such as life/death/love/hate. Some will be pure fiction, some will be related to my own life.
Upcoming Raunchy tour dates:
Jan. 22 Copenhagen, DK - The Rock
Jan. 28 Helsinki, FI - Finnish Metal Expo
Jan. 29 Tallin, EE - Club Hollywood
Mar. 13 Allborg, DK - Studenterhuset
Mar. 18 Odense, DK - Rytmeposten
Mar. 19 Lyngby, DK - Templet
May 07 Copenhagen, DK - Stengade 30
Therion To Embark On US Tour
Sweden’s bombast masters Therion will embark on a US tour in the fall of 2005. Only two dates are confirmed so far:
Sept. 14 New York, NY - BB King Blues Club
Sept. 16 West Springfield, VA - Jaxx
Therion are still touring in support of their two albums “Sirius B” and “Lemuria”, released in May through Nuclear Blast.
Chimaira Nominated For Free Times Music Awards
Currently back in Cleveland writing and readying to record a new release, Chimaira has been nominated in year's 6th Annual Free Times Music Awards. This marks the 4th time the band has been nominated, having won each of the three times they've been nominated previously.
The awards ceremony for this Cleveland based honor will be held on Thursday, February 24 at the Odeon.
Napalm Death, The Haunted Tsunami Benefit CD
All of us have followed the horrible catastrophe that happened December 26th across the Indian ocean when the tsunami hit countries like Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar and even Bangladesh, the Maldive Islands, Somalia and Tanzania. We assume that no further words are needed to explain why Napalm Death had the idea to release a charity single to raise money to help the victims of the tsunami. For this very special occasion Napalm Death donated the brandnew track “The Great And The Good” feat. Jello Biafra on guest-vocals from their upcoming album “The Code Is Red… Long Live The Code”. The Haunted picked the song “Smut King” from the digipak-pressing of their acclaimed album “rEVOLVEr” and Heaven Shall Burn added “Strassenkampf” (originally by Die Skeptiker and feat. guitarist Patrick Schleitzer on vocals), the exclusive bonus-track of the Korean pressing of “Antigone”. All bands and Jello Biafra wrote liner-notes for the single.
To collect as much money as possible Napalm Death, The Haunted, Heaven Shall Burn and Century Media decided not to make this a retail-single. The single will be strictly limited to 1.000 hand-numbered copies and sold only on the two shows in January, some copies might be sold directly by the bands.
Napalm Death shows:
Jan. 22 (D) Bochum – Matrix w/ Heaven Shall Burn, Maroon, Do or Die and End of Days
Jan. 24 (UK) London – Underworld w/ Mistress, Cephalic Carnage
Number 1-10 will be signed by all three bands and auctioned on Ebay. All proceeds of the single (approximately EUR 5,00 with a sales-price of EUR 6,00) will be collected and donated to the Red Cross after the single is sold out.
(hed)p.e. Wants Fans To Pick Song For First Video
(hed)p.e. is looking for YOUR help. The band has decided to enlist the help of its fans in choosing the song they'd best like to see as the first video from their forthcoming album, "Only In Amerika."
By logging onto the 411 section on www.hedrocks.com now, fans can listen to streams of 4 songs hand-picked by the band and immediately vote on their favorite. The songs will remain posted throughout the week of 1/20/05. The winning song will officially become the band's first video from the forthcoming new disc. The video will be shot in Los Angeles later this month. More...
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