Metal News for January 16, 2010
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23 news articles posted on this day.
Impaled Announces Mexican Tour Dates
California death metal band Impaled has announced the following Mexican tour dates:
Mar 5 2010 - Guadalajara, Jalisco - TBA
Mar 6 2010 - San Luis Potosí, SLP - Skyros Concert Music Hall
Mar 7 2010 - Mexico City, DF - Circo Volador
Hateform Begins Work On New Album
Hateform issues the following update:
"A couple of years of playing gigs, little line-up changes and other shit hitting the fan, and again it's time for a new Hateform album to emerge. The recordings for the upcoming album just started at the Ansa studio and the release date is set for spring 2010."
"The new guy behind the drums, Tuomo Latvala already took charge and blasted in some amazing drum work. This far the album consists of such working titles as 'Flight Attendants Biological Clock' and 'RailCripple.' The ten tracks will be laid down on an open schedule this time, as the extra stress set by a tight deadline doesn't seem to help in getting the best result. Altough the idea is to get the album done before the summer." More...
"Lemmy" Documentary to Premiere at SxSW
“Lemmy,” the documentary about Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister that's been nearly three years in the making, will debut in March at the SxSW Film Festival. The film, directed and produced by Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski, digs into the heavy metal legend, and includes interviews with Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Slash and members of Metallica and more.
Although the filmmakers are still looking for a distributor, “Lemmy” makes its formal premiere during the SxSW Film Festival (March 12-16) and will also screen during the SxSW Music Festival (March 17-20). Check out the trailer below.
Dark Funeral Announces Support For European Tour
Swedish metal band Dark Funeral has issued the following update:
"We’re proud to announce two (of the three) support acts for our up-coming tour throughout Europe; ZONARIA and CARACH ANGREN. On the UK leg of the tour AKERCOCKE will be joining us too. One more band, a third band that will participate on the whole tour, will be announced shortly, so stay tuned!"
Lord Ahriman comments, "I can’t wait to hit the road throughout Europe again. It feels like ages ago since we last toured here (2005/2006). And to make up for this rather long absence from our European fans, to support and celebrate the release of our latest masterpiece 'Angelus Exuro pro Eternus,' we are going to bring out and offer you our biggest and most professional production yet! And as you perhaps can tell, I’m really excited about this. This will be insane! I’m also glad we have managed to put together a truly strong and musically interesting bill for this tour. And I am totally convinced that this will be a killer tour in all aspects. So raise those Metal Horns high. And we will see you in March/April!" More...
Site Update
Attention Old-School Metal Underground Members
I know there are a lot of you who have been members here on Metalunderground.com for a long time. Many of you tire of signing in for whatever reason. As we enter our ninth year, I have some new things in store and want to recognize those of you who have been active on Metalunderground.com the longest. So I encourage everyone with a user account to log in at least once in by the end of February 2010 so that we can see that you are still active. There might be something in it for you if you've been a registered member long enough and are still active on Metalunderground.com.
To encourage you a little more and show our appreciation of your dedication, I'm going to give the longest standing member who has logged in to Metalunderground.com in 2010 (before the end of February) a free limited edition Metalunderground.com t-shirt and sticker pack. The next 5 runner ups will also get a sticker pack.
Even if you don't win one of those prizes, I've got some ideas for acknowledging our long-time readers and participants. So don't delay - get logged in now and show us you're still around and active!
Windfaerer Posts Demo Online For Free Download
New Jersey folk metal band Windfaerer has posted their first demo online for free download at this location.
The demo's tracklisting is as follows:
01. In the Wake of War
02. The Great Fire
The band is currently working on recording a full length album entitled "Tribus."
Tardive Dyskinesia Posts Live Footage
Greek metallers Tardive Dyskinesia have posted footage online of their performance of the songs "Ask E Sea" and "Triggering The Fear Reactor" in Nea Makri on January 9th, 2010. The video clip can be viewed below.
Suicidal Tendencies To Release Two CDs
Mike Muir, the frontman of crossover thrash metal legends Suicidal Tendencies, recently revealed in an interview with Abort Magazine that the band is planning to release a new album at the end of this year, as well as a live album in the meantime. An excerpt from the interview reads as follows:
"We haven’t done a record in ten years, but we have done a lot in that time. We have people coming up to us saying ‘You know, you guys are doing shows, why don’t you put a record out and tour off that?’ That’s not what Suicidal is about. It's not doing it just because you don’t think you will get another chance, I want to get out there and prove we are better than we ever were. So going out there the last two years, we have kind of re-baptized the converted, reminding people why they love Suicidal, get them on the phone after the show calling up their friends. If you don’t have that excitement, there is something wrong. We’re getting that excitement out there, where people are really excited about a new record. We’re kind of putting out the old stuff, clearing the deck, like with the DVD, we’ve got a live CD straight from the board from 1995 when Infectious grew, Robert Trujillo on bass and stuff, something straight off the board that you can say, wow, that was 15 years ago.
"With Suicidal, we have two CDs coming out, the one, I call it the Mike Clark record, and I call it that because we got Mike (ST rhythm guitarist) into Suicidal after working with him and the band No Mercy he came in on How Will I Laugh Tomorrow after 1987’s Join The Army. Half of ‘How Will I Laugh’ was actually songs for No Mercy. That was another no brainer, like with Eric, why weren’t we using this for Suicidal? More...
Read the full article at AbortMag.com.
Undernoise and Slowly Suffering Plan Split CD
The split between UNDERNOISE / SLOWLY SUFFERING will be released under the "Morgue Zombies" title via Pest Records. The bands have decided on the tracks to be featured, which are as follows:
UNDERNOISE
1. Intro (Autopsia craneal)
2. Historiasde la morgue
3. El canibal de rothenburg
4. El noble arte de la tortura
5. El hogar de la demencia
6. Belleza deformada
7. Enterrado vivo
8. Practicando la necrofilia
9. 13 puñaladas
10. El buen cristiano
11. Jesse
12. Suplicando la eutanasia
SLOWLY SUFFERING
1. Abyss of Salvation
2. Facilis Descensus Averni
3. The Day Man Lost (Carnage cover)
4. Insane
5. Chained in the Abyss (bonus track)
Bloodstream Parade Announces In-Store Session
Chicago's Bloodstream Parade have announced they will be hosting an in-store meet and greet at the Schaumburg, Illinois Hot Topic in the Woodfield Mall. The session will take place on January 27th, 2010 from 6:00 PM to close. Bloodstream Parade also have the following upcoming tour dates:
2/6 2010 The Rave Milwaukee, Wisconsin
3/6 2010 Penny Road Pub South Barrington, Illinois
4/30 2010 THE HOUSE CAFE (All Ages) Dekalb, Illinois
5/8 2010 THE FREQUENCY Madison, Wisconsin
7/16 2010 Michigan Death Fest (Detroit, Michigan) Detroit, Michigan
7/17 2010 Michigan Death Fest (Detroit, Michigan) Detroit, Michigan
Amalgama Issues New Year Update
New York metallers Amalgama have issued the following new year update:
"Friend, firstly, I want to wish you a very Happy New Year and hope you have a lively 2010 (and for those curious: I pronounce it 'twenty-ten'). 2009 was an interesting year for us in Amalgama: we had our ups with great shows all across the northeastern US as well as our downs, which included landing a spot on the final compilation CD going out with Metal Edge Magazine only for the publication to fold and the issue never going to press. Despite all these peaks and valleys we here in Amalgama are looking ahead and are getting pumped about recording another EP in February. The plan is to head down to ‘Dirty Jersey’ during the month of February and hammer out 5 brand-spankin’ new Amalgama tunes in the studio following a brutal rehearsal schedule this month to get everything as tight as possible.
"Another massive thank-you to everyone who came out last month for the ‘Hard Times’ show and braved the bitter and biting cold weather that has continued to pummel what seems like the whole damn world. Huge thanks to Dryheave, Downcast and Scrap Metal for joining us that evening and helping make it a successful night. We gathered a sizable amount of food donations that went to the Food Pantries for the Capital District which I dropped off personally a few days later. Over the course of the night we played 2 new songs - Amethyst and Forgotten Soldiers - which will be included on the still-untitled new EP. More...
Viking Skull Recruits Former Guitarist
Viking Skull has issued the following update about their former guitarist Frank Regan returning to the band:
"Original viking skull guitarist Frank Regan is now back on guitar, the band are hard at work writing the next album at the mo due to be released later in the year(2010) and its shaping up to be the best yet, going back to the roots on this record, balls out meat and potatoes riffs (as always) but having the humor of Chapter One & Born in Hell.
"Line up for new record: Roddy - vocals, Jess - drums, Waldie -bass, Dom - guitar, Frank guitar."
Descend Announces New Tour Dates
Sweden's Descend has issued the following statement about their upcoming live shows:
"Hey there! Long time no see.. so here's a little something to fresh you up. Well, due to the winter break there has been a lack of rehearsing so we have a pretty rough time ahead. But it involves us spending time together in joy and happiness which is great, hah. No, but seriously.. it'll be great being back on track. The 29th we will take on The Garage in Märsta and have a hell of a good time on stage. And the day after, yes the 30th, we're gonna rule the stage on Brother Tuck! We're psyched and happy about these two gigs since they're ones before our first shows outside Sweden! Playing in Finland with our friends in Preach and Soulfallen will be legendary! I guess that's it for now."
Descend has the following upcoming tour dates:
1/29 2010 The Garage Märsta, Stockholms län
2/11 2010 Henry’s Pub Kuopio
2/12 2010 Lutakko Jyväskylä
2/13 2010 Dante’s Highlight Helsinki
Kongh Updates Tour Schedule
Sweden's Kongh have updated their tour schedule with the following upcoming dates and festival appearances:
2/24 2010 Scharinska (with Moloken) UMEÅ (S)
2/25 2010 Lillan (with Moloken) LULEÅ (S)
2/26 2010 Nocks (with Moloken) SKELLEFTEÅ (S)
2/27 2010 Kungen (with Moloken) SANDVIKEN (S)
6/4 2010 Muskelrock på Tyrolen BLÄDINGE (S)
7/9 2010 Stoned From The Underground festival (10th anniversary) ERFURT (D)
Secrets Of The Moon Announces Full-Time Guitarist
Secrets of the Moon vocalist sG has issued the following update about their live guitarist Ar becoming a full member of the band:
"After nearly 60 shows with this guy we can assure that he's the right person for this job. We always wanted the band to be complete again but we were careful. He went through a lot of highs and lows, through darkness and light with us. He succeeded and became a grand fellow. The time has come to offer him a permanent position within our circle. welcome!
"I started working on on the follow-up of 'Privilegivm' (working title: seven bells). We are going to enter the studio in summer 2010. I feel it will become a very special album for the band. Much is going to change, much is getting even deeper and disruptive. We are alive. Moreover I worked on some special releases with Stefan Belda (Prophecy Productions). People might not believe in the releases of 'Antithesis' and 'The Ambience of a dead star' on our all-beloved format any longer but it's going to happen soon. And there's even one more oddity to be released. Everything occurs at the right time..."
Scorpions Drummer Signs with Dark Star Records
Dark Star Records has signed a deal with multi platinum selling artist and Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell. With 78 Gold Records and 30 Platinum Records under his belt, Herman has aquired a huge fan base. Look for the new album "Take It As It Comes" available soon on Dark Star Records.
You can check out more of Herman's work on his MySpace page.
Dead Shape Figure Completes New Album
Dead Shape Figure has announced the completion of the recording of their new album, "The Disease Of St. Vitus." The band also provides the following update:
"We're very happy to announce that DEAD SHAPE FIGURE has now completed the recording process of 'The Disease Of St. Vitus,' finally! The mixing process has already begun and the mastering takes place early next month@Virtalähde Analog Audio Studios located in Helsinki, Finland. We don't have the exact album release date yet, but if everything goes as planned the album will be out in late April 2010." More...
Shock Troopers Readies Second Album
PUNISHMENT 18 RECORDS has announced the upcoming release of the second full length from the Sicilian thrashcore band Shock Troopers. The album, entitled "Blades And Rods," is planned for the first months of 2010. The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Intro (Metal Slug)
2. Competition
3. Take Your Eyes Off Me
4. Blades And Rods
5. Vice
6. Road Thrash
7. Toilet Show
8. Protection Money
9. Jail World
10. Waterboarding
11. The Rape
In the meantime, check out some of their music on the band's MySpace player.
Detente Announces European Tour
California thrashers Détente have announced they will be embarking on a Spring European tour. The currently confirmed dates are as follows:
4/29 Tilburg (Netherlands) The Little Devil
4/30 Antwerp (Belgium) De Rots
5/1 Frankfurt (Germany) Die Halle
5/2 Eindhoven (Netherlands) The Rambler
5/6 Hamburg (Germany) Hafenklang
5/7 Ludwigsfelde (Germany) N.V.A Club
5/8 Berlin (Germany) Amnesie
Samples of Détente's music can be found at the band's MySpace page.
Metallica Changes Porto Alegre Show Venue
Metallica has issued the following update about changing the venue of their January 28th show in Porto Alegre:
"Change of Venue for Porto Alegre. The show on January 28th will be at Parque Condor. We recently became aware that the Fire Department has expressed some concerns about the safety of Estadio Zequinha in Porto Alegre, so as a precautionary measure our show scheduled there for January 28, 2010 has been moved to Parque Condor. All tickets purchased for the show originally scheduled at Estadio Zequinha will be valid at Parque Condor. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Ticketmaster Brazil at this location. Thanks . . . and hope to see you there!!"
Necrodeath To Release 25th Anniversary Album
Italian metallers Necrodeath have issued the following update about releasing a 25th anniversary album:
"New Necrodeath release coming out soon. Covering extreme metal bands that influenced an entire musical generation. Including special guest appearances by ex-Necrodeath, ex-Schizo, and Bulldozer members! Necrodeath - 'Old Skull' *twentyfive-year anniversary album* Paying tribute to the most influential extreme metal bands of all time. A global feast full of classic tunes for the gruesome masses, burning brightly on the altar of the kings. 25 years of insanity & macabre and still thrashing black. Rise up from the flames and celebrate the horror with us."
Bloodbourne Posts Live Footage
Bloodbourne has posted footage online of their performance at Krug's Place in Frederick, MD on January 9th, 2010. The video clip can be viewed below.
Entrapment Issues Demo Update
Dutch death metallers Entrapment have announced that their upcoming demo "Infernal Blasphemies" will be released via Detest Records later this year. Information on the exact release date and track listing will be announced as it is made available. The title track from the demo is also currently available for streaming via the band's MySpace page.
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