Metal News for January 9, 2004
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Hot Topics
- Trivium Parts Company With Drummer
- Kreator To Release New Album In January
- Enthroned To Release New Album In December
- Spite Premiere New Single & Music Video
- Carcosa (AngelMaker) Premiere New Single & Video
- Agnostic Front Premiere New Single & Lyric Video
- Potato Premiere New Single & Music Video "YUGE PP"
- Omnium Gatherum Drops "Walking Ghost Phase" Video
- Tailgunner Signs With Napalm Records
- Messa Shares New Music Video "Reveal"
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Summary/Misc
Daily Reviews
Vengeance Magazine has some new reviews:
- Lockweld - 8 cuts 12'' from NCC Records
- Aaron Dilloway - Corpse On Horseback Cassette from Hanson Records
- Kevin Drumm - Land Of Lurches CD from Hanson Records
- Wolf Eyes - Mugger CDR from Hanson Records
- Wolf Eyes - Early Vol.1 Cassette from Hanson Records
- Ahlzagailzehguh - Tactile Agnosia 3'' cdr from Collapsed Hole
- Habeeb - il cancello di morte 3'' cdr from Somnambulant Corpse
- Marspiter - Vigila cdr from Somnambulant Corpse
- Describing Paranoia - Compilation 4 way split from Parasomnic Records
- Final Solution - Do As You're Told 7'' from BloodLust!
Unholy Ghost's 'Torrential Reign' Album Complete
UNHOLY GHOST's debut CD "TORRENTIAL REIGN" is now complete. The band has emerged from Diet Of Worms Studios (Tampa, FL) with producer Juan "Punchy" Gonzales and we are excited to announce that the debut UNHOLY GHOST CD "Torrential Reign" is finally complete. The band is 100% stoked and fans should expect this to be a stellar release! Artwork for the CD is currently being completed and will be available soon!! UNHOLY GHOST "Torrential Reign" is scheduled for an early 2004 release on Olympic/Century Media.
UNHOLY GHOST "Torrential Reign" track listing: More...
Damageplan's 'New Found Power' Cover And Video
Damn, the Damageplan news keeps rolling out! DAMAGEPLAN's debut album entitled 'New Found Power' hits stores everywhere on February 10th and the band have just unveled the cover for that album here.
The band recently shot a video for the song 'Breathing New Life' - a song that you can also currently listen to on the band's official site and now watch the video here. This video made it's debut on HeadBanger's Ball on January 3rd.
Dope Bassist Quits
Dope have been forced to find a last-minute replacement for bassist Sloane ‘Mosey’ Jentry, as they prepare to head out for a two-month American tour. Jentry has decided to quit the band to lead a more ‘normal’ life. Dope have brought in Powerman 5000’s Adrian Ost to take over for the tour.
Damageplan Vow To Uphold Legacy of Pantera
Former PANTERA/current DAMAGEPLAN members Vinnie Paul (drums) and Dimebag Darrell (guitar) recently spoke to Metal Edge magazine about the demise of PANTERA and the upcoming release of DAMAGEPLAN's debut CD, "New Found Power". Asked what their expectations are for an album that, like most of PANTERA's recorded output, is being issued through Elektra Records, Vinnie said, "I think we've definitely got to look at it like a new band, but we feel very strongly that our fanbase that followed us in PANTERA will follow us in this — we haven't given them any reason not to. That's what we're shooting for to start with, and we also want to gain a whole new audience. Anybody out there that doesn't know anything about us, we're ready to go out there and play. We obviously want to achieve a certain level of success — none of us want to go back to playing nightclubs if we don't have to, we've already paid our dues and did all that. If that's where we've got to start, that's where we've got to start, but we're going to work like a motherfucker to get out of there as fast as we can. We like to play to a lot of people — that's what it's all about. Music is made to be heard, whether you hear it in concert, you hear it on the radio, or you hear it in your car. It's not for two people to sit in a closet and go, 'That's my band, the only band I've ever heard, and I'm the only person that's going to hear it.' What's the point?" Added Dimebag, "I have to be dead honest — all those people that like to say they like to play the small clubs because they're more intimate? Yeah, I like the intimate vibe too, but I guarantee you, they're only saying that because they're stuck there. Who wouldn't want to play to a shitload of people? Ain't that what it's about? Reaching people? I don't understand that narrow-minded mentality where you're allowed to listen to one kind of music, and if you wear this kind of t-shirt you're an asshole, and if you eat this kind of food you're gay, and if you step out of this square box I've got you in I'll never talk to you again. That's narrow-minded bullshit, if you ask me. Anybody that's into really, really heavy shit, we're not going to let them down — we can throw shit out there as heavy as anybody can throw it. At the same time, we don't play no pussy-whipped bullshit of any kind, but it's for everybody." More...
Fallen Yggdrasil Enter Studio To Mix Second CD
German death metallers FALLEN YGGDRASIL will enter Maranis Studios this weekend to mix their sophomore CD, tentatively due in March through Supreme Chaos Records. FALLEN YGGDRASIL's previous release was a mini-CD, entitled "In No Sense Innocence" (2002).
Motograter's US Tour Cancelled
According to MOTOGRATER's official newsletter, the group's previously announced U.S. tour dates have been cancelled.
The reasons for the cancellation, according to the newsletter, are as follows: More...
December Vocalist Departs
Vocalist/guitarist Mark Moots performed his last show with DECEMBER, on December 28 in Reno, Nevada. One of the band's original founders, Moots has left DECEMBER after 10 years as frontman.
Guitarist Julian Peach comments: More...
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