Dragonlord To Benefit Murphy

Dragonlord, featuring Testament guitarist Eric Petersen, will play a special show in San Francisco on November 17. All proceeds will go to former Death/Testament guitarist James Murphy, who was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor.

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Tidfall Change Labels

Norwegian black metallers Tidfall have signed over to Nuclear Blast Records after a one-album deal with Norway's Nocturnal Art Productions.

Tidfall have already recorded the follow-up to Circular Supremacy at Akkerhaugen Lydstudio (Emperor, Myrkskog). The album is titled Instinct Gate, which Nuclear Blast is claiming as "another Norwegian milestone in black metal." Those interested in hearing samples of the upcoming album can do so here: Tidfall Advance Listening

No other information was given, but the release date for Instinct Gate is November 19.

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The Charon Trio

Finnish gothic metallers Charon are presently at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki mixing their third, as-yet-untitled album for Spinefarm Records.
Fans of the band's previous two records can expect a more "developed" sound and more "mature" Charon.

The track listing: "Bitter Joy," "Erase Me," "Craving," "Little Angel," "Fall," "At The End Of Our Day," "Desire You," "Come Tonight," "All I Care Is Dying," "Sister Misery" and "Sorrowsong."

Look for Charon's third record sometime in late winter, early fall of 2002.

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Ozzy Watches Destruction

According to the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Ozzy Osbourne sought solace in a Manhattan church after witnessing the September 11th attacks. Osbourne and his wife, Sharon, tearfully watched the carnage unfold from the roof of their midtown New York City hotel, and then went to a church across the road to collect their thoughts.

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Marduk Cancels Shows

Swedish black metallers MARDUK have been forced to cancel their scheduled North American tour “due to various reasons at the US embassy, like the super-touchy situation the United States is in right now, plus the fact that several of the members has got a criminal record added up to the fact that they couldn't get any visas in time for the tour."

Here is a statement from the official website: More...

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Soulfly Loses Drummer

Drummer Joe Nunez is strongly rumored to have left SOULFLY after a disagreement with band manager Gloria Cavalera over the financial terms of his most recent arrangement with the group.

Here is the rest of the story: More...

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Fred Durst Apologizes

In a recent interview with MTV, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst vowed to drop all of his long-standing grudges, including those with Creed frontman Scott Stapp, Slipknot, Eminem, Trent Reznor of nine inch nails, Christina Aguileria and more. His decision to do so comes as a result of the recent events in America, which have changed his outlook on life.

Here are Fred's comments: More...

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Slayer / Hatebreed Dates

Four dates for Slayer's upcoming North American headlining trek with Hatebreed have been announced and are as follows:

October 29th New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
November 04th Norfolk, VA - The Norva
November 07th Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
November 21st Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom

More acts are set to be added to the bill shortly, with Chimaira and No One being the top contenders.

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Gravity Takes Control

Mad At Gravity, a new group which features former Pressure 4-5 drummer Jake Fowler, will make their debut live show tomorrow, Tuesday, October 02nd at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa, CA. For those not in the area, the group have posted mp3's of some rough acoustic material at their official mp3.com website, www.mp3.com/MadAtGravity.

In the meantime, the band plan to enter the studio this weekend to begin recording their first demo, which they expect to release later this fall through their official website, www.MadAtGravity.com.

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Summary/Misc

Daily Interviews

Agonia War'zine has two new interviews this week:

• Thornspawn (Black Metal)
  
• Fabio of Nephasth (Satanic Death Metal)

More from Around the 'net:

• The PRP interviews Primer55 guitarist Bobby Burns

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Summary/Misc

Daily Reviews

The PRP has some new reviews this week:

• Chimaira - Pass Out Of Existence
  
• Pressure 4-5 - Burning The Process
  
• Machine Head - Supercharger
  
• God Forbid - Out Of Misery
  
• SOiL - Scars
  
• Amazing Device - The Demo

Agonia War'zine has posted new reviews of the following: Brightness (self-financed), Cephalic Carnage (Relapse), Deathgate Arkanum (self-financed), Front Beast (Deathstrike Records), Necroplasma (Neodawn Productions), Necro (Deathstrike Records), Fleshgrind ( Season of Mist ), Gloomy Grim (Holy Records), Grand Belial's Key (Drakkar Productions), Intense Hammer Rage (Razorback), Libido Airbag (self-financed), Mudslinger (Lord Slog Records), My Dying Bride (Peaceville), Necrophagia (Season of Mist), Non Opus Dei (adv. CD 2001), Unpure (Drakkar Productions), Unseen Terror (Earche Records), Urn (Damnation Records), Viking Crown (Season of Mist).

And finally, Electric Basement has new reviews of Pier 6 Brawl, Scott Mosher and Lucubro.

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Site Update

Site Redesign Deployed

If you notice something different around here, it's that I've deployed the new site design. It's very similar to the previous design, but makes better use of space and is more expandable for future functionality. The rollout went without a hitch for the most part, except that NightStalker couldn't login for a little while!

There are more "coming soon" sections that I'd like on the site and I've made it a personal goal to get them all working as quickly as possible and will add at least one piece of functionality a week.

As always, if you have any comments or bugs to report, feel free to email me!

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