Metal News for October 16, 2003
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15 news articles posted on this day.
Thunderstorm Sign with Dragonheart
The Italian Doomsters supreme in Thunderstorm have signed a record deal with Dragonheart Recordings (label of among others Doomsword). A new album will be recorded in the spring of 2004 and released near the end of the summer of that same year.
Amorphis Turn to Temporary Drummer
Jan Rechberger will not be able to play drums on Amorphis's upcoming dates of the Far From The Sun tour due to an accident in his family. Atte Sarkima (Verenpisara) will replace Jan for the time needed.
Second LA Date Added to Dimmu, Nevermore Tour
The highly anticipated Dimmu Borgir, Nevermore, Children of Bodom, Hypocrisy tour has added a second date in Los Angeles, CA at the House of Blues. It will be November 27th, the night directly after the 26th show.
As previously reported, the tour has also added another date in Montreal for December 15th.
8 New TON/CoF/Moonspell Dates Announced
Here are eight new shows for the Type O Negative/Cradle of Filth/Moonspell tour, with one date change:
11/12 - Syracuse, NY - Bridge Street Music Hall
11/13 - Poughkeepsie, NY - The Chance
11/16 - Columbus, OH - Newport Music Hall (Date change)
11/25 - Sauget, IL - Pop's
11/26 - Oklahoma City, OK - Bricktown Events Center
11/28 - Ft. Worth, TX - Ridglea Theatre
11/29 - SaTAntonio, TX - Sunset Station
12/1 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
12/3 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint
Nile Speaks out Against Hex Custom Guitars
The following was a posting on Nile's official website:
"Public Notice Warning Concerning Tommie Hex aka Thomas Bradley of Hex Custom Guitars
The following is the tragic story of Tommie Hex, his guitar company, and the shameless ripoff of scores of Metal guitarists . For those who do not know , Tommie Hex ( aka Thomas Bradley) runs a 'company' called Hex Custom Guitars.
There are , at this moment , a large number of Tommies customers who paid upfront to have custom guitars built, have never received them , any refund, or even any real news about Tommies actual and truthful whereabouts. ( vague emails claiming " The guitars are built , I am shipping them tommorrow" DO NOT COUNT) People with first hand knoledge of Tommies exploits in Austin Texas have come forward IN LARGE numbers , with reports of Tommies drug abuse, the fraudulent business practices he used to rip off clients , and the pawning of many of their guitars which had been used for trade-ins. Apparantly, Tommie purposefully targeted younger Metal guitarists , who were seeking to have custom guitars built - his basic M.O. was to quote them an attractively low price , ( usually in
the $850 to $2000 range ) with the stipulation that 50 % of the quoted price would be required to begin an order on a Custom Hex Guitar. More...
Casketgarden Release Debut CD
Casketgarden, a Hungarian death metal band, have just released their debut album, entitled "This Corroded Soul Of Mine." The album was recorded at Denever Studio in Hungary and was released through Metal Age Productions.
Without End to Enter Studio
Without End, the new band featuring former Blood Feast guitarist Adam Tranquilli, will be entering Big Blue Meanie Studios in Hoboken, New Jersey to record a full-length album, tentatively slated for release in the spring 2004.
Hatesphere Complete New EP
Hatesphere have finished the recording and mixing of the songs for their new mini-CD and it is now on the way to the print factory. The material was recorded at Antfarm Studio. Pictures from the sessions are available at the bands website.
Entitled Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed And Something Black, the mini-CD will be released via Scarlet Records in December (an official date will be announced soon).
The tracklisting: More...
Destroyer 666 Announce Australian Dates
Australia's Destroyer 666, who are currently based in Holland, will be returning to Australian shores in December/January for their first national tour in three years.
The band's "The Wolves Return" tour will see the band appearing at the Metal For The Brain Festival in December before performing in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth for the first time. More...
Swallow the Sun Set Date for Debut Album
Finnish melodic death/doom metallers Swallow the Sun will release their debut album, "The Morning Never Came", on November 15 through Firebox Records. "The Morning Never Came" was recorded at Sam's Workshop with producer Sami Kokko. Download the track "Under The Waves" in MP3 format at this location.
The complete track listing for "The Morning Never Came" is as follows: More...
Sevendust Enter Billboard At #14
This week SEVENDUST will enter the Billboard Top 200 at #14 on sales of 67,049 units of their fourth album Seasons. This marks the band¹s biggest debut week in units scanned as well as chart position. Seasons will also enter the Hard Music Albums chart at #1 and the Independent Albums chart at #1. Sevendust¹s last disc Animosity, released on November 11, 2001 debuted at #28 with 61,394 units. All of the band¹s previous three albums have been certified Gold by the R.I.A.A.
"This is a great artist development story," said Paul Burgess, Senior Vice President of Marketing at TVT Records. "Even with major trend shifts in rock music over the past two years, Sevendust returns bigger than ever."
Seasons is being fueled by the hit rock single "Enemy" which the band will perform on NBC¹s Last Call with Carson Daly on November 7. Hard rock bible Metal Edge Magazine in early praise of the album said: "Seasons is a mandatory record of 2003. The perfect junction of mosh pit madness and radio friendly opuses." Sevendust will be featured on the cover of the next issue of the Metal Edge, hitting newsstands in early November.
Sevendust is currently on a national tour with Staind that will run though November and will begin headlining in December and all through 2004.
Headline News
Bruce Kulick Recuperating From Random Shooting
BRUCE KULICK (Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad) is at home and recovering from two gunshots after a show at the Rainbow in Hollywood Wednesday night.
He had been to a Vince Neil event at the Rainbow, and left with a friend at 1:30 a.m. As he walked down the strip, he heard gunshots. He looked down to see a hole through his leather pants, right above the knee. Next thing he noticed blood was coming down his leg. He heard a second bullet whiz past his ear and realized he’d been grazed in his head by it. Immediately the EMS crews arrived, took him to the hospital.
This was a random shooting, and the assailant was wrestled to the ground by the crowd.
“I’m very grateful for the immediate response of both the crowd and the doctors, and --obviously-- the EMS crews,” says Bruce Kulick. “I’m fine and very thankful to be alive, and I’m back on the road with Grand Funk.”
This past weekend Bruce and his band Grand Funk played two shows in California. On November 8th they’ll be performing at a benefit for Safe Harbor Animal Rescue and Hospital-- a no kill facility in Grand Funk drummer Don Brewer’s hometown of Jupiter.
Bruce has plenty of time to recuperate, as the band is taking time off for the holidays. And they’ll be back on the road to do 40 or 50 shows in the new year.
Music As A Weapon II Track Listings
"Music as a Weapon II", a live CD recorded on the spring tour of that same name, will be released on November 18 through Intoxication/Reprise Records, according to Billboard.com. The set, which will feature contributions from DISTURBED, TAPROOT, CHEVELLE and UNLOCO, will be available in two versions, a CD and a CD/DVD combo set.
The material on "Weapon" was recorded at the May 3 tour finale at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom. The disc features six songs by DISTURBED, three by TAPROOT and two each by CHEVELLE and UNLOCO. DISTURBED's performance of "Stupify" features CHEVELLE vocalist/guitarist Pete Loeffler and UNLOCO vocalist Joey Duenas.
The DVD version will include the same track list as the CD, plus the video clip for DISTURBED's "Liberate".
"Music as a Weapon II" track listing:
01. DISTURBED – "Bound"
02. DISTURBED – "Dehumanized"
03. CHEVELLE - "Forfeit"
04. DISTURBED - "Fade to Black" (METALLICA cover)
05. UNLOCO - "Empty"
06. TAPROOT - "Sumtimes"
07. DISTURBED - "Darkness"
08. UNLOCO - "Bruises"
09. DISTURBED - "Prayer"
10. CHEVELLE - "The Red"
11. TAPROOT - "Poem"
12. DISTURBED - "Stupify"
Serj Tankian On Charlie Parker Remix/Tribute
System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian has contributed a track to the release of “Bird Up—The Charlie Parker Remix Project”, a tribute to the genius of Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. Much more than just a conventional remix project, modern day musical iconoclasts from every genre have assembled to lay down their highly original interpretations of Parker’s classic Savoy repertoire--circa 1944-1948.
Serj reworks Parkers classic Bird of Paradise and "molds it into something both hauntingly dark and beautiful." Serj recorded the track in his own Serjical Strike Studios in Calabasas, CA. System of a Down is currently in the studio recording the follow-up to themulti-platinum Toxicity.
Documentary On Creation of Metallica's St. Anger
MTV News caught up with 'Some Kind of Monster' director Joe Berlinger to talk about the movie profiling the hardships, struggles and frustrations Metallica experienced while creating 'St. Anger'. "Our mantra in the editing room was, 'Our film ends where most concert films begin," Berlinger said. "The last scene of the movie is Metallica taking the stage in Europe for the first time in three years. Before that, you see all the stuff that happened after the band started to work on 'St. Anger', and a lot of it is heavy stuff that would have sunk many other bands."
Read the full article at MTV.com.
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