Metal News for January 7, 2008
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Through The Eyes Of The Dead Drummer Quits
Lambgoat reports that Through The Eyes Of The Dead drummer Josh Kulick quit the band last week. An official announcement has yet to be made. Kulick's exit comes roughly three months after the departure of Through The Eyes Of The Dead guitarist Chris Anderson.
Life In Your Way, Oh Sleeper, Once Nothing Tour
Life In Your Way, Oh, Sleeper, Once Nothing, Our Last Night will hit the road late this month for a four-week tour. Here are the tour dates:
1/25 Bangor, ME @ The Underground
1/26 Manchester, NH @ Rocko's
1/27 Bethel, CT @ Bethel Municipal Center
1/28 Charleroi, PA @ Club Octane
1/29 Howell, MI @ Howell Opera House
1/30 Dover, OH @ The Rock Rottom
1/31 Berea, KY @ Doh Wah Diddy
2/1 Nashville, TN @ The Anchor
2/2 Auburn, AL @ 467 House
2/4 Houma, LA @ Mainstream
2/5 Pensacola, FL @ Red Door Cafe
2/7 Mobile, AL @ City Church of Mobile
2/8 McCalla, AL @ The Fish Music Hall
2/9 Cleveland, GA @ The Pivot
2/10 Augusta, GA @ Sector 7G
2/11 Melbourne, FL @ River Run Church
2/12 Ocala, FL @ The Capitol
2/13 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
2/14 Orlando, FL @ The Dungeon
2/15 Miami, FL @ Life Point Church
2/16 Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit
2/17 Wilmington, NC @ Lucky’s Pub
2/18 Kernersville, NC @ Creation Skatepark
2/19 Virginia Beach, VA @ Club Relevant
2/20 Rustburg, VA @ Room 180
2/21 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
2/22 Linthicum, MD @ St Christopher's Episcopal Church
2/23 Pompton Lakes, NJ @ Mainstage
2/24 East Stroudsburg, PA @ Penn Monster Factory
2/25 Glenville, NY @ Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Skyfire Signs with Pivotal Rockordings
Swedish progressive death metallers SKYFIRE have signed with Florida’s Pivotal Rockordings. The band has entered Powernest Studios to begin recording their highly anticipated, as-of-yet-untitled follow-up to 2004’s “Spectral.” Mixing and mastering will be handled by Jonas Kjellgren (SCAR SYMMETRY) at Black Lounge Studios (SONIC SYNDICATE, SCAR SYMMETRY, THE ABSENCE, ZONARIA).
The group’s newest member, ELOHIM vocalist Joakim Karlsson comments: “I was honored when I was asked to join SKYFIRE. This is a challenge I could never turn down in a million years, and I cannot wait to hit the studio with the band and be a part of this album as well as future albums to come! It’s also an honor to be a part of the Pivotal Rockordings
family. I'm excited to see what they can do for us and what we can do for them.”
Adds SKYFIRE bassist and founding member Martin Hanner: “It’s been almost four years since we released “Spectral” and we are overjoyed to finally say that we have signed a deal with an amazing record label and will get to work on our next album. We were talking with
a few labels over these last few years, but none of them were as helpful and hard working as the Pivotal Rockordings guys, who we have been in touch with for over a year. At this point, we couldn’t imagine signing with anyone else!
“As far as the new album goes, expect the traditional SKYFIRE sound, but also expect some new elements that we have never experimented with before. We also cannot wait to work with Jonas Kjellgren, who will be mixing and mastering the new record. He is one of the most talented up and coming producers in metal right now, and we are certain that he will take SKYFIRE’s sound to the next level!”
Adds Pivotal Rockordings co-founder Leevan Macomeau: “It’s an honor to collaborate with such a world-class band as SKYFIRE. They have had some record label problems in the past and despite everything still managed to build a loyal fanbase! That alone says a lot about the perseverance and talent of SKYFIRE. After nearly a year of helping and communicating with the band I am proud to announce their signing of a three album record deal with Pivotal Rockordings! As Pivotal Rockordings grows out of its baby years, which saw the emergence of world-class acts SONIC SYNDICATE and ZONARIA, and we head into our adult years armed with multi-album deals for deathcore newcomers STIGMA and progressive death metal veterans SKYFIRE, expect us to continue providing a barrage of metallic goodness in 2008!”
Totimoshi Announce Recording Plans, Album Details
Totimoshi have been busy finishing up the last of the writing of their upcoming album, "Milagrosa," that they will begin pre-production on in Los Angeles mid-January. Following pre-production, it’s back to the Bay Area to Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA where the band will begin recording "Milagrosa" with Page Hamilton, who will be handling production duties again. Also on board is Toshi Kasai (Melvins/Tool), who will engineer and mix the album.
Some song titles from "Milagrosa" so far include:
Milagroso
Fall and Bound
Little Bee
Forever in Bone (Los Dos)
Last Refrain
Gnat
"Milagrosa" is set for a late Spring release, with an exact date forthcoming.
Quadrivium, Darkcreed Sign To Soulseller Records
Soulseller Records has announced a number of new signings already this year:
Quadrivium (Norway) is described as an avant-garde symphonic metal band best descrbed as a mixture of the albums "Constellation" and La masquerade infernale" by fellow countrymen Arcturus. You can check out some of their material on their MySpace page and judge yourself. Quadrivium is signed to Soulseller Records for 2 albums. The debut album "Adversus" is scheduled for a February/March release.
The next signing announced is Darkcreed (Sweden/Mexico/Scotland). After having released two demos in 1996 and 1999 it is now time for this death metal beast to spew forth some serious recordings. First up is a mini CD entitled "Dark Regions". The band claims influences such as Afflicted, General Surgery, Nihilist/Entombed, Necrony, Traumatic, Nirvana 2002, Carnage, Dismember (early), Macabre End, Death Breath and nothing else. You can check out some of Darkcreed's material on their MySpace page. Darkcreed is signed to Soulseller Records for a mini CD and a full-length album. The mini album "Dark Regions" is scheduled for a February/March release.
Soulseller has also announced a number of new vinyl albums. They will be doing the following albums by mighty Norwegian black thrashers Audiopain as limited (500 each-12" format) vinyls: More...
Waking up the Dead Fest Announced
Mourningsound Records has announced the "Waking up the Dead" fest featuring co-headliners Anthelion (Symphonic black metal from Taiwan) and Bhelliom with support from Meza Virs and Truth Be Known, and introducing Meth and Metalgunz.
The show takes place on January 26, 2008 at 1800hrs at The ArtsHouse, Playden in Singapore. Tickets will be on sale on January 8.
Bhelliom and Anthelion also have the following shows listed on Mourningsound Records' MySpace:
Feb 1 2008 8:00P Taipei
Feb 2 2008 8:00P Taichung
Feb 3 2008 8:00P Kaohsiung More...
Degraded Signs To Dockyard 1
Dockyard 1 recently announces the signing of Stockholm-based DEGRADEAD.
Jesper Strömblad of IN FLAMES announces them as ”The Future of Metal” after taking notice of them with their demo album ”Death Row” and subsequently offered them to work with him.
Degradead took their chance and went down to Gothenburg and recorded their debut "Til Death Do Us Apart" in IF Studios. The album was produced by a team – calling themselves H.O.R.D.E, mixed and engineered by Björn Gelotte and co-engineered by Jesper Strömblad and Daniel Svensson. Result of the recordings is a piece of finest Melodic Death Metal – finding the perfect balance between Death, Thrash and catchy melodies, with their already very own signature.
The release of “Till Death Do Us Apart” is scheduled for January 28th. You can check out the first two tracks of that album – the Melodic Death Metal reference “Genetic Waste” and the rather thrashy “Take Control” with a dot of songwriting from Metallica to Children Of Bodom on the band's MySpace page.
A tour is planned for 2008 with Dimension Zero.
Here is Degraded's current line Up:
Mikael Sehlin – Vocals
Anders Nyström - Guitar
David Szücs – Guitar
Michel Bärzén – Bass Guitar
Kenneth Helgesson – Drums
Maroon Announce European Tour Dates
German metalcore band Maroon will kick off the new year touring Europe in the "Cold Heart of Europe" tour. The tour dates are as follows:
14.01.08 Trier - ExHaus
15.01.08 Hamburg - Knust
16.01.08 Berlin - Kato
17.01.08 Chemnitz - AJZ
18.01.08 Wien (A) - Arena
19.01.08 Cesena (I) - Vidia Club
20.01.08 Trezzo d'Adda/Milano (I) - Live Club
21.01.08 Luzern (CH) - Sedel
22.01.08 Bochum - Matrix
23.01.08 Paris (F) - Batofar
24.01.08 Martigny (CH) - Les Caves du Maoir
25.01.08 Karlsruhe - Substage
26.01.08 Hasselt (B), Musiek-o-droom
27.01.08 Tilburg (NL), 013
15.03.08 Salzburg (A) - Spring Break Festival
Tombs To Play Live Performance On Jamnow.com
Tombs will be playing a live, streaming on the internet show in just moments today, Monday Jan. 7 at 9:00 PM Eastern Standard time. Several new songs will be played as well as material from the recent self-titled record that came out late in November. You can check out the live performance here.
All That Remains Finalizes Headlining Tour Dates
Massachusetts' ALL THAT REMAINS has finalized all dates for the band's forthcoming headlining tour, which is slated to start later this month and will feature support from Chimaira, Five Finger Death Punch, Divine Heresy and Prosthetic labelmates Light This City. Divine Heresy will open the tour's first string of dates with Light This City taking over opening duties on Feb. 21.
"We are gonna be pulling out all the stops for this one," ALL THAT REMAINS frontman Phil Labonte previously said. "We're gonna have a far bigger production than we have ever had. I won't make any promises and we're probably not gonna play anything off of ‘Behind Silence.’ No time to teach old songs. We have a record to write as well as get ready for a tour. And it's gonna be a sweet tour!"
Tickets for ALL THAT REMAINS’ headlining tour are available online here. The band continues to support its latest effort, ‘The Fall of Ideals,’ which saw a July 2006 release through Prosthetic Records. Also recently released this past fall were a reissue of the band’s since out of print debut ‘Behind Silence and Solitude’ as well as the band’s first-ever DVD, ‘All That Remains Live,’ which features all the band’s music videos, footage from two live shows, behind the scenes footage, interviews with the fans and the band, and more.
Here are the latest All That Remains tour dates: More...
Epiclore Releases New Album For Free Download
Epiclore have released their fifth album entirely free for download online. Their brand new 2008 release, "Labyrinth Alpha," can be downloaded in one zip or via bittorrent from the band's official web site.
Not only is our new album available for free, but they have also released a torrent containing all of the band's previous work.
Name Adds New Guitarist and Drummer
California metal band Name has announced the addition of guitarist Mike Giannelli and drummer Jeff Faria to their line-up. Giannelli and Faria effectively replace Derek Vasconi and Evan Breese, who left the band earlier this year. Name comments:
"With this line-up we are confident in the fact we will do great things, as to the fact we have a lot of plans in store which will require a different announcement all together."
Eluveitie Uploads New Music
Swiss Pagan horde ELUVEITIE has just uploaded a new track, ‘Inis Mona’, from their upcoming disc Slania to their official MySpace page. Slania is out via Nuclear Blast Records February 15 worldwide, and February 18 in Europe.
On A Pale Horse Post New Music Online
Des Moines, Iowa’s ON A PALE HORSE, featuring guitarist Josh Brainard (ex-Slipknot) and vocalist Aaron Peltz (ex-down.the.sun), are currently streaming the new song ‘A Generation of Vipers’ on the group’s MySpace page.
“We are previewing a song off the new record every week up until the release on our MySpace,” says vocalist Aaron Peltz. “The first track up for preview that hasn’t been heard yet is the title track of our album.”
ON A PALE HORSE has set March 4 as the release date for their upcoming new album A Generation of Vipers. The album was produced by Warren Riker (Down, Crowbar) and executive-produced by SLIPKNOT’s Paul Gray.
Hypocrisy Begin Writing New Album
Swedish extreme metallers HYPOCRISY are currently remixing their album Catch 22 andhave issued the following update about it:
“As you’ve probably heard, we’re remixing and redoing the vocals on ‘Catch 22' (originally issued in 2002) and re-releasing it. Why?! Because we still think it is a great fucking album but it got slammed and misunderstood because of the vocal style and the drum sound and so on.”
“Everybody in HYPOCRISY is sitting home and writing for the next album right now and we wanna make sure it will be the best release we can do… When it will be out, we don’t know. Maybe in the beginning of 2009.”
Asesino Reveal "Cristo Satánico" Details
ASESINO, the death metal/grindcore band featuring DIVINE HERESY/ex-FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares and STATIC-X bassist Tony Campos (on bass/vocals), will release their second album, "Cristo Satánico", in Europe on February 16th through Listenable Records.
The tracking list is as follows: 'Advertensia', 'Regresando Odio', 'Maldito', 'Rituales Salvajes', 'Yo No Fui', 'Padre Pedofilo', 'Enterrado Vivo', 'Puta Con Pito?', 'Adelitas', 'Twiquiado', 'Perro Primero', 'Sadistico', 'Batalla Final', 'Cristo Satánico', 'Y Tu Mama Tambien'. Bonus Video: 'Regresandio Odio'.
Lunarmile Post Another New Song Online
LUNARMILE, the British band featuring frontwoman Toni-Marie Iommi (daughter of BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi) and bassist Alex Hill (son of JUDAS PRIEST bassist Ian Hill), has posted another new song, entitled "Belong", on the group's MySpace page. The track was produced by Chris Tsangarides, who has previously worked with JUDAS PRIEST, BLACK SABBATH and THIN LIZZY), among others.
As previously reported, LUNARMILE will embark on a UK tour of Barfly clubs in February with NEMESEA and SERENADE FOR JUNE. The dates are as follows:
Feb. 16 - Barfly/Moshulu - Aberdeen, UK
Feb. 17 - Barfly - Glasgow, UK
Feb. 18 - Barfly - Birmingham, UK
Feb. 19 - Barfly - Cardilff, UK
Feb. 20 - Barfly - London, UK
Feb. 21 - Barfly - Cambridge, UK
Feb. 22 - Barfly - Brighton, UK
Drowning Pool's Equipment Stolen Again
Jay Gormley of CBS 11 News reports: Music equipment is everything to a rock band. But one Dallas band has felt the sting of having its equipment stolen not once, but twice in one month.
"We always joke that DROWNING POOL has a black cloud that follows us," said Mike Luce, the band's drummer.
The holidays have been anything but happy for the alternative-metal band. On the day before Thanksgiving, cameras caught thieves stealing the band's amplifiers and other valuable sound equipment.
"I think someone has a target aimed right at us. We're in the crosshairs," said bassist Stevie Benton. More...
In Flames Reveal New Album Title
Swedish metallers IN FLAMES have set "A Sense of Purpose" as the title of their new album, due in Europe on April 4 via Nuclear Blast Records. "We are extremely happy with the end result and so proud of what we have achieved with the new album and can't wait for you all to hear it," the band says in a statement.
IN FLAMES' follow-up to 2006's "Come Clarity" was recorded at the band's own IF Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden. The group received assistance during the vocal-recording sessions from producer Daniel Bergstrand, who previously produced the vocals on "Reroute To Remain", "Soundtrack To Your Escape" and "Come Clarity".
A new IN FLAMES track, entitled "Abnegation", is featured on the "Viva La Bands, Vol. 2" album, which was released on September 4, 2007 via Ferret Music and Filthy Note Records. The CD features exclusive tracks, written and recorded for the CD/DVD combo from some of Bam's favorite acts like CLUTCH, CKY, CHILDREN OF BODOM, VIKING SKULL and VAINS OF JENNA. A U.S.-exclusive track from SHINY TOY GUNS and music from other faves like GWAR, THE SOUNDS, DIMMU BORGIR and KILL HANNAH also appears on the compilation.
The Agonist Announce New Tour Dates
Montreal's THE AGONIST has scheduled the following dates:
Jan. 20 - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill - New York City, New York (with TRAIL OF TEARS)
Jan. 21 - Rainbow - Ottawa, Ontario
Jan. 23 - Café L'inconditionnel - Montreal, Quebec
A THE AGONIST e-card is available, featuring video messages from vocalist Alissa White-Gluz discussing the meaning behind each track on the band's debut CD, "Once Only Imagined", along with their first music video for the track "Business Suits and Combat Boots", shot by renowned director David Brodsky (ALL THAT REMAINS, GWAR, THE RED CHORD). Click here to check it out. More...
Arckanum To Record New CD At Sweden's Sunlight
Swedish one-man black metal project ARCKANUM has inked a deal with Debemur Morti Productions. ARCKANUM will record its new album, "Antikosmos", at Sunlight Studio in Sweden. The recording dates have not yet been set, but ARCKANUM mastermind Shamaatae and Sunlight owner/producer Tomas Skogsberg are said to be "now scheduling."
Shamaatae previously stated about the new LP: "After huge delays of the full length 'Faunaz Samgang', ARCKANUM decided to re-write the album and re-title it to 'Antikosmos'. All the years which passed by I, Shamaatae, developed in a great amount personally and black magically, and by that ARCKANUM developed with me. And when I went through the material and concept of the lyrics I felt at once that this did not represent me or ARCKANUM anymore. So I took the initiative to re-write the lyrics, which ended up reflecting my worship of the anti-cosmic thursian powers of the Old Norse religion, and my workings of the dark runes. I have re-written about half of the music, because I felt I could improve it, so I did."
Eminence Sign With Locomotive Records
Brazilian extreme metallers EMINENCE have inked a deal with Locomotive Records. The band's new album, "The God of all Mistakes", will be released in May. Check out the CD artwork at this location. The follow-up to 2004's "Humanology" was recorded at Maquina Studios with producer by Tue Madsen (ROB HALFORD, MNEMIC, THE HAUNTED). The mixing sessions took place at the Antfarm studio in Århus, Denmark.
EMINENCE recently recruited bassist TC, formerly of the band UDORA (the same group that once featured in its ranks current SEPULTURA drummer Jean Dolabella). A photo of the band's new lineup can be found at this location.
Soulfly's Marc Rizzo Offers Guitar Lessons
SOULFLY guitarist Marc Rizzo is offering guitar lessons out of his hometown in New Jersey. Says Rizzo, "I'm accepting all levels of ability, from beginner to advanced. If you want to learn how to shred, flamenco finger picking or just your basic scales, contact me if you can get to New Jersey. Lessons will be available starting January 22 and go practically every day until the end of March when I go back on tour."
If interested, you can e-mail Marc at marcrizzo26@yahoo.com or visit his MySpace page.
Rizzo's latest solo album, "The Ultimate Devotion", was released on July 31, 2007 through Shrapnel Records in the U.S. and Mascot Records throughout Europe. More...
Illdisposed Reveal New Album Details
Danish extreme metallers ILLDISPOSED have set "The Prestige" as the title of their 10th album, due on March 28 via AFM Records. The CD was mixed at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden with Fredrik Nordström and features cover artwork by Mattias Norén.
"The Prestige" track listing:
01. Let Go
02. The Tension
03. Weak Is Your God
04. Working Class Zero
05. A Song Of Myself
06. Like Cancer
07. Love Is Tasted Bitter
08. She Knows
09. A Child Is Missing
10. The Key To My Salvation
11. ...Your Devoted Slave
12. Ich Bin Verloren In Berlin More...
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