Metal News for January 23, 2009
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28 news articles posted on this day.
Manegarm Signs with Regain Records
Swedish viking metal veterans MÅNEGARM have signed a new contract with Regain Records, who will release the next album from the band later this year. The band's previous album, "Vargstenen" (Black Lodge Records), entered the national charts in position 59 in May of 2007.
So far the only confirmed Månegarm show this year is an appearance at the German festival Ragnarök on April 17th-18th, where they will play alongside many other extreme folk/pagan bands such as Alestorm, Einherjer, Dornenreich, Korpiklaani, Melechesh and Thyrfing to mention a few. You can find further information on the festival here.
Saattue To Enter The Studio In April
Finnish metallers Saattue will record their second album in April 2009. Recording sessions will be hosted by Jarno Hänninen at D-Studio, Klaukkala, Finland. Musically the album will be natural follow-up to Saattue’s debut album “Jäähyvästi” and it will feature previously unreleased works of dark, slow and multidimensional saatto metal. The album will be released in the beginning of autumn 2009 by Spikefarm Records.
Saattue writes their lyrics in Finnish and labels their music as saatto metal. Saatto, as well as Saattue, means procession in Finnish. Saattue's roots are deeply in doom metal and other extreme metal genres.
You can watch a video of the band's song "Kaaosmaa" below. More...
Impending Doom Posts New Title Track Online
IMPENDING DOOM just posted a brand new song on their newly designed MySpace profile. The song is the title track from their new album, "The Serpent Servant," which will be in stores everywhere on March 31, 2009. Pre-order deals will be announced soon.
The Showdown Premiere New Video Online
The new video from The Showdown made it's world premiere on Myspace. You can check out the video for "Achilles - The Backbreaker" below. More...
Tommy Lee Plans New Methods Of Mayhem Album
Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee has revealed to Billboard.com that he's started work on his second Methods of Mayhem album, following up the group's platinum 1999 debut.
"We're just getting all the ideas together now," reports Lee. "We're gonna start tracking as soon as Motley is done (touring) at the end of March, and hopefully I'll have it ready by April/May and done by the top of June."
He describes the new material "as out of control ... pretty new and crazy-sounding. There's some ridiculously banging hard rock tunes and electro dance-rock." But, Lee adds, "There's no hip-hop anywhere around it at all."
Lee says he wouldn't mind having Methods of Mayhem on the Crue Fest II tour, which is slated to go out in July, "like Nikki (Sixx) did with Sixx AM last year. That'd be killer."
As for the rest of the Crue Fest II lineup, Lee says it's still being discussed. "There's offers going around all over the place," he says. "Rob Zombie's name came up. Godsmack. Alice Cooper. I'd like to switch it up, add a little bit more variety this year."
Read the full article at Billboard.com.
Facebreaker Plans "Northern Death Blow Tour 2009"
An 18-date crusade through Europe, dubbed the "Northern Death Blow Tour 2009," is being planned. The bill consists of FACEBREAKER alongside Finnish TORTURE KILLER and Swedish DEMONICAL. The tour will kick off in Stockholm on May 15. Exact dates will be announced soon.
Decadence Issues Recording Update
Decadence has issued the following recording update:
"This week, the vocals were recorded, and now it really feels like we're approaching the completion of our new album - we're really excited about that! I (Kitty) pushed my limits one step further, again, this time around! I really enjoyed it and playing with my vocals as always. We recorded a video clip from the session which is up on YouTube." More...
New Mono Song Streaming Online
The first song off of ambient/doom band Mono's upcomming record, "Hymn To The Immortal Wind," has been posted for streaming online. The new song is entitled "Ashes in the Snow."
Leverage Signs With Spinefarm Records
Finnish melodic metal band Leverage has announced their signing with Spinefarm Records. The band's third album is due to be released in the Fall of 2009. In the meantime, you can check out Leverage on their MySpace page.
Watch Underoath's South American Tour Video Blogs
Underoath has been producing video blogs and footage from their South American tour. You can follow them on their YouTube channel or watch the latest two video below. More...
Ihsahn's Support For Opeth Scaled Back To One Show
A previous announcement confirmed that Ihsahn would support Opeth for the majority of shows on their forthcoming Norwegian Tour in March. However, more detailed production planning has revealed technical and practical difficulties at many of the smaller venues, and it has proven near impossible to run the necessary production. This means that Ihsahn will only be performing at Rockefeller/Oslo on March 10th.
Ihsahn comments: “The situation is unfortunate as I have really been looking forward to this tour and put a lot of effort in preparations. Still, the practical difficulties at many of the venues would only compromise the conditions for both bands and audience so one needs to be realistic. The Oslo gig is still on though, and fans will no doubt get their monies worth at the remaining Opeth shows”
Final Line-Up Announced For Nightmare Metal Fest
The official Nightmare Metal Fest website has been updated with the following statement about the band line-up:
"Come join the Prog/Power Metal Revolution! Nightmare Metal Fest II, which will be held March 20-21 at the Warehouse in San Antonio, Texas, announces new bands and some changes to the line-up.
"Unfortunately Jag Panzer will not be playing at the Fest.
Futures End has had to cancel because they are in the studio finishing their debut album.
"With these changes, this is the final band line-up:
VICIOUS RUMORS
SEVEN WITCHES
KRUCIBLE
ASKA
IMAGIKA
THEOCRACY
SACRED DAWN
SIX MINUTE CENTURY
LUNARIUM
HALCYON WAY
MINDWARP CHAMBER
ONE OF SIX
AETHERIUS More...
Interview
Interview w/ Greg Anderson from Sunn O)))
One half the supreme drone duo Sunn O))) and co-founder of Southern Lord Records, Greg Anderson has been creating monolithic walls of noise for more than a decade. With no sign of relenting, Greg was kind enough to answer some questions about the chemistry behind the bands and what's happening in the realms of the Southern Lord.
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Earth Announces Northwest and European Tour Dates
Earth has announced an extensive European tour spanning March and April. Here are the latest tour dates:
European Dates:
Thu 26/3 Nl Amsterdam Paradiso
Fri 27/3 Be Leuven Stuk
Sat 28/3 Fr Nantes Olympic
Sun 29/3 Fr Poitiers Le Confort Moderne
Mon 30/3 Es Bilbao El Balcon De La Lola
Tue 31/3 Pt Porto Passos Manuel
Wed 1/4 Es Madrid Caracol
Thu 2/4 Es Barcelona La[2]
Fri 3/4 Fr Lyon (Feyzin) L’Epicerie Moderne
Sat 4/4 Fr Paris Glaz’Art
Sun 5/4 Be Kortrijk Sonic City
Mon 6/4 De Hamburg Molotow Club
Tue 7/4 Day Off
Wed 8/4 No Oslo Inferno Festival
Thu 9/4 Se Stockholm Strand
Fri 10/4 Day Off
Sat 11/4 De Berlin Prater
Sun 12/4 De Leipzig Ut Connewitz
Mon 13/4 De Munich Feierwerk
Tue 14/4 De Stuttgart Club Schocken
Wed 15/4 De Koln Gebaude 9 More...
Visions Of Atlantis Set To Announce New Vocalist
Austrian power metal band Visions of Atlantis has issued the following statement about finding a new vocalist:
"Let me tell you that the waiting-time is over soon :-)
"Within the next week we will present you the name and the face of our new Female Voice and Band member! At the moment she's at the shooting for her first Visions of Atlantis Promotional Pictures, which will be released on the homepage including her name and further information within the next week...
"From now on we won't keep you updated not only by words but also we're planning to do a Video-Blog from time to time where the guys and girl from VoA can tell you the most important news about the recording process and all other VoA-related stuff (and maybe also not just VoA-related stuff) so that all of you can get the news right from us, from face to face :-)
"We're also planning a few other things for the homepage but more on that later, at first we'll gonne have some very important updates within next week! So be sure to check out the homepage or our myspace-site more often the next days!"
Buried Inside Streaming New Song "V" Online
Ontario metal band Buried Inside are currently streaming the track "V" from their upcoming album "Spoils of Failure" on the their official MySpace page.
"Spoils of Failure" was recorded in Salem, MA with Kurt Ballou (DISFEAR, COLISEUM, GENGHIS TRON) at Ballou’s Godcity Studios. Mixing occurred at Red Room Recordings with Matt Bayles (MASTODON, MINUS THE BEAR, RUSSIAN CIRCLES). The record will see a February 2009 international release via Relapse Records.
Hellsaw Announces New Album Release Date
Austrian black metal band Hellsaw has issued the following announcement about their upcoming album:
“Cold, the third full-length album from HELLSAW, and our first on Napalm Records, is due to be released in Europe during March 2009, whilst the US and Canada releases will follow on in April. The release dates for individual countries are as follows:
25 March: Finland, Spain
27 March: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, France, Italy, Sweden
30 March: Rest of Europe
07 April: USA & Canada
“Cold contains 13 tracks of the strongest and most intense songs from HELLSAW to date, and includes “wounds”, a track not written before the band started rehearsing for the new album, but was created out of the energy and intensity that developed as the band started to play the new material.
"Also included will be a bonus DVD featuring HELLSAW appearances at the Ragnarok and Under the Black Sun Festivals, and at the Le Romandie venue in Lausanne, together with a photo gallery tracing the band’s history from the very early days to the present time."
Album track listing as follows:
1. A Suicide Journey
2. The Black Death
3. Der Harzwald
4. 1°F
5. Cold Aeon
6. Psycho Pastor
7. Sulphur Prayer
8. I Saw Hell
9. Eyes Of Ice
10. Moonrites Diabolicum
11. Ache
12. Subterranean Empire
13. Wounds
Serj Tankian To Perform w/ Auckland Philharmonia
While down under for his appearance at the Big Day Out festival (and solo shows with Fantomas), Serj Tankian will be performing a one-off show with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. The show will take place on Monday, March 16, 2009 at the Auckland Town Hall and they will be performing songs from Tankian's solo debut "Elect The Dead" and "some unreleased extras."
Serj comments further: "All the songs will be reinterpreted to fit with the orchestra, as the F.C.C. will not be playing this show with me. It’s just the orchestra and I; the arrangements for the orchestra were made by respected New Zealand composer John Psathas."
"I'm elated to have the opportunity to arrange my songs from Elect the Dead for a full orchestra with the APO. The arrangements will be quite different than those on the record including bonus tracks never played live, and John Psathas will be helping me outfit my string arrangements for the full orchestra. We'll also be taping the performance for a worldwide DVD release later in the year. Yes for real, we will be putting this out on DVD."
Leaves' Eyes in a Theater Near You
Leaves' Eyes are heading to the big screen to celebrate the release of their first DVD, "We came with the Northern Winds/En Saga I Belgia." Audiences can experience this special event at select UCI movie theaters in Germany Feb. 25, 2009. More...
Trivium Announce Exclusive Video Release
American metal act Trivium are set to release their latest music video on MySpace this Thursday for the song "Throes of Perdition." More...
Davide Tiso on Karyn Crisis and Ephel Duath
Davide of Italian metal band Ephel Duath has been working on the Karyn Crisis debut solo album and has given some hints concerning future work with Esposito Fornasari (Somma, Transgender, Ashes, Pascolare Menti, Allevare Pensieri) and more Ephel Duath albums. In reference to the Karyn Crisis album, he states that he's "super happy for what is coming out. The songs are so rich of many different moods, colors, killer mid tempos and heavy attacks," and that "There's groove. So much groove." "I had the chance to work in studio also with Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari, [an] amazing singer and talented programmer. It has been simply great. I hope there will be the chance to collaborate in [the] future." "Another important news, I'm assembling a home recording studio. This is so exciting I'm barely able to put it in words! I'm sure I'll be working day and night non-stop for at least the first year. I love so much to be in studio, I can't believe to finally have one in front of my bed. I'm already collecting ideas for another Ephel Duath album; there [are] new collaborations and projects in the air too."
Davide has provided some studio pictures with Esposito at this blog post.
Warbringer Posts Video Update From the Studio
Warbringer has issued an update from the studio where they're recording their second full-length album:
"Hey everyone. I threw a little video together from the studio so everyone could see were we are and what were doing. Just started on day 4. We finished all the drums and Adams knocking out some guitar tracks."
You can watch the video below. More...
Outcry Collective To Tour the UK w/ Blackhole
Having recently taken on Sam Burden as full-time drummer, OUTCRY COLLECTIVE will be touring the UK with Blackhole this February and March 2009. They'll be performing tracks from their debut EP "Pay Per View Love" and new material that will be on their Visible Noise debut, scheduled for release in May 2009.
Here's a full list of Outcry Collective shows:
February 16th (Mon) - Peterborough, The Park, INFEST
February 17th (Tue) - Weston Super Mare, Hobbits
February 18th (Wed) - Newport, Le Pub
February 19th (Thu) - Telford, The Haymarket
February 20th (Fri) - Luton, The Hat Factory w/ Blackhole
February 21st (Sat) - Southampton, Hamptons w/ Blackhole
February 22nd (Sun) - Bournemouth, The Gander w/ Blackhole
February 23rd (Mon) - Guilford, The Boileroom w/ Blackhole
February 24th (Tue) - Brighton, The Engine Rooms w/ Blackhole
February 25th (Wed) - Kingston, The Fighting Cocks w/ Blackhole
February 26th (Thu) - Wrexham, Central Station w/ Blackhole
February 28th (Sat) - Leeds, Josephs Well w/ Blackhole
March 1st (Sun) - Edinburgh, Studio 24
March 2nd (Mon) - Dundee, Dog House
March 3rd (Tue) - Aberdeen, Cafe Drummonds
March 4th (Wed) - Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
Megadeth Bassist James Lomenzo Checks In
Megadeth's bassist James Lomenzo has posted the following studio report online:
"Yeah, I'm NAMM 'd out too, fuck it... so on to Thursday at old Vic's. Both yesterday and today Dave's (Mustaine) been in early, laying down his rhythms and tightening up arrangements. Yesterday also saw the triumphant return of Chris 'No Riff Is Out Of My League' Broderick. Dave and Chris' (Broderick) guitars sound particularly angry together, I'm digging the way this is going down. Last night I was able to track my first bass part and I'm really pleased with the way it's sounding. I'm really impressed with Andy's (Sneap) keen sonic sense, he's really got everything cranking (I think it's spelled "Kranking" these days) I can't wait for you all to hear it... I hear my name being called... got to jam... Later."
Jon Oliva's Pain Set To Record New Album
Jon Oliva's Pain, the band led by Savatage mastermind Jon Oliva, has issued the following update about working on a new album:
"JOP's been very busy since returning from the
fall 2008 US tour with CirlceIICirlce/Manticora and thought we would spell it all out for you as 2009 kicks into high gear.
"First, we would like to announce official endorsements from our great partners at Ddrum (Christopher Kinder), Fender Bass Guitars (Kevin Rothney) and Charvel Guitars (Tom McDyne). Locking into partnerships with these high quality manufacturers helps us promote the music and the instruments that allow us to deliver the best performances possible. We sincerely appreciate their support and recognition of our desire to grow their brands and ours...thanks!
"On the music front: JOP is deep into pre-production for our 4th release due out later this year. 13 songs are on the table with another 6 still in their infancy. Expect us to deliver another 60+ minutes. We are determined to make this record heavier and more diverse than the previous3 cd's. We have done quite a bit of experimenting over the past 2 albums, but there is a real desire to push our performances and Oliva's voice harder than ever. Recording will begin at Morrisound Studio's-Tampa in late March. More...
Decrepit Birth In Pre-Production For New Album
California tech-death metallers Decrepit Birth are in pre-production mode for their third full-length album titled “Polarity”. This will be the band's first release on Nuclear Blast Records and is tentatively set for a Summer 2009 release date. “Polarity” will contain 9 songs of epic death metal. Guitarist Matt Sotelo added that the new material is “some of the heaviest guitar riffing they've ever written”.
New song titles so far include "Life Cycles", "Sea of Memories", "Symbiosis", "Beyond Eternity"and "Mirroring Dimensions" among others. Production and tracking will once again be handled by guitarist Matt Sotelo at his own Legion Studios,with mixing duties to be taken care of by Zach Ohren (ALL SHALL PERISH, ANIMOSITY), who mixed their latest release “Diminishing Between Worlds”.
Fu Manchu Working On New Material
California rock band Fu Manchu is currently writing new material for an upcoming album and planning a 20th anniversary DVD. The band issued the following statement:
"First off, we are playing a show at the detroit bar in costa mesa, ca on sat feb 21.
"We are writing the new record now. we have about 10 new songs. we hope to write another 5 or 6 before we hit the studio in april / may. the new record should be out sept / oct 2009 through century media records. so far its turning out very fuzzy and heavy!!! a few faster, tweaked songs will be in there as well. we will also be doing a few cover songs if we have the extra time in the studio. we will release a 2 song 7" on our own at the dojo records sometime before or after the full length comes out. the 7" will be a limited pressing of 900 like the last one we released with the VOID cover song.
"2010 will be fu manchu's 20th year of being a band. we have some very limited re-issues planned and selected shows where we will be playing certain records straight through. a dvd is also planned wih stuff from waaaaay back up until now. live shows and videos. we are hoping to put all the videos that weve done on there as well. some never before seen."
Dillinger Escape Plan Announces Basement Show
Dillinger Escape Plan has issued the following update about upcoming shows and a special basement performance:
"Ok so the upcoming schedule as of now with ticket links is as follows:
Feb 5th - Philly - The Barbary(SOLD OUT, MOTHERLICKERS)
Feb 6th - Baltimore - The Ottobar
Feb 7th - NYC - The Studio at Webster Hall
"Remember, these shows are NOT the biggest rooms in the world, so don't sleep on getting tickets early. Oh and Baltimore, so help me God if the Ottobar show isn't the unholy destructive force that you guys always make it, I'm gonna be majorly disappointed. It's a Friday night. Don't hold back.
"Now, for something that you deffffinitely haven't seen in a reaallllllly long time.... we are playing....on February 8th......in New Jersey.....IN A BASEMENT. That's right. We're playing a fucking BASEMENT SHOW. The location of which is going to be completely secret until a few days beforehand, when we'll announce the location. Maybe we'll announce it here, maybe we'll announce it on our messageboard, maybe it'll be spraypainted on an overpass on the NJ Turnpike, maybe Asian Steve will run naked across the field at Super Bowl halftime with a flag bearing the address, who knows. I CAN tell you that the maximum capacity of this actual house basement will probably be in the double digits. Obviously we'll cram in as many people as possible, and probably do a little barbecue too. We may start doing random intimate things like this in the middle of seemingly normal tours in the future,so be ready. If you're in Jersey and you wanna see some crazy shit go down and endanger your life, show up at your own risk. More...
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