Metal News for October 26, 2006
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Averse Sefira Signs To Candlelight Records
Texas black metal group Averse Sefira have officially signed a deal with Candlelight Records. The band has released three albums and toured in support of acts such as Cradle of Filth, Dark Funeral and Candlemass. The band is currently hard at work on their Candlelight debut and you can check them out headlining the Halloween Metal Ball on October 28th in Austin, Texas at Redrum Club.
You can check out their video for "Plagabraha" here or hear a few songs at the band's MySpace page. More...
I, Sleepwalker Signs With Harvest Earth Records
Kentucky's I, Sleepwalker have signed with Harvest Earth Records. The band will be releasing their full length debut in early to mid-2007, but in the meantime you can hear a few tracks from their self-released EP here.
SuperNova Records' Precious Metal Showcase
Steve Austin of Today Is The Day fame will be hosting a showcase for his newly founded label, SuperNova Records. The label showcase will be part of the Precious Metal series, a weekly metal event in New York City, and will take place at the Lit Lounge on October 30th. The artists scheduled to perform are:
Taipan
Defcon 4
Christine
The Orange Man Theory
Diesel Theory
Garden of Exile To Release Botch, Cave In Vinyl
Garden of Exile Records has acquired the rights from Hydrahead Records to release vinyl versions of Cave In's "Perfect Pitch Black" and Botch's "Unifying Themes Redux." Notably, the vinyl version of "Perfect Pitch Black" will feature a previously unavailable bonus track recorded during the album sessions and "Unifying Themes Redux" will be released as a gatefold 2xLP. Expect both of these releases in early 2007.
Decrepit Birth Give Update On New Album
Santa Cruz, California-based death metallers DECREPIT BIRTH have issued the following update:
The new album will be called "Diminishing Between Worlds". This album will be a step in more of a melodic and progressive direction yet still have a heavy dose of technical brutality. Very reminiscent of bands such as later Death, Cynic and Quo Vadis mixed with the brutality that Decrepit Birth is known for. We are really trying to do something new with album, and we feel that we have grown as musicians and that "Diminishing Between Worlds" will be a reflection of that.
We are very happy to get to work with Unique Leader Records again, and we are confident that they will greatly contribute to the success of Decrepit Birth from now into the future. The album will feature session/touring bassist Erlend Caspersen (Blood Red Throne, All Seeing I). Artwork will be by none other than Dan Seagrave.
DECREPIT BIRTH's debut album, "...And Time Begins", was released in October 2003 via Unique Leader Records.
A Well Thought Tragedy Tour Dates
A Well Thought Tragedy will be heading out on the road for the next 3 weeks. They will be doing a handful of dates with Imperial and With Blood Comes Cleansing, as well as dates with Lye By Mistake, Harlots, and Isadora. Here are the tour dates:
10/26 Nashua, NH @ Club Drifter's
10/27 Saratoga Springs, NY @ The SSCC
10/28 Queens, NY @ Redzone
10/29 Altoona, PA @ The Lion's Den
10/30 Hamilton, OH @ The Landing
10/31 Lexington, KY @ TBA
11/1 Decatur, AL @ Java Jaye's
11/2 Memphis, TN @ The Ralley Point
11/3 St. Louis, MO @ The Creepy Crawl
11/4 West Lafayette, IN @ Downtown Records
11/5 Roseville, MI @ Myspace Music Venue
11/6 Saginaw, MI @ Shooters
11/7 Kittering, OH @ The Attic
11/8 Cleveland, OH @ TBA
11/9 Erie, PA @ Forward Hall
11/10 Allentown, PA @ TBA
11/11 Vineland, NJ @ TBA
Vital Remains Guitarist Gives Post-Tour Update
Guitarist Tony Lazaro of VITAL REMAINS has issued the following update:
"So our tour with the Swedes... DISMEMBER and GRAVE came to an end. We had a killer time out there and want to thank all the bands we shared the stage with... DISMEMBER, GRAVE, DEMIRICOUS and WITHERED. Thanks to all the metal fans that came out in support!! It was great to go out on one more tour before we lock ourselves up in the practice space and finish witting the album.
"St. Pete's [St. Petersburg, Florida] was a great stop. Got to hang out with Trey from MORBID ANGEL. Thanks for coming out to the show and hanging out all night at the Hard Rock Cafe Casino drinking until the sun came up. And then realizing I had to drive with no sleep, aaahhh the road, you got love it! Hahaha. Also Erik Rutan [HATE ETERNAL, MORBID ANGEL] came to pick Dave and I up to visit his studio Mana Recording. This place is so nice and the board and gear they have is awesome! We can't wait to record this album down there, it's going to be sick! With Rutan, Benton, Suzuki and me locked in a studio for a month there's not enough holy water to wash away the mess we are going to make! Christ better be wearing depends..."
VITAL REMAINS this past spring re-released its "Horrors of Hell" compilation which contains the band's early demo recordings.
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Former Hurtlocker Drummer Passes Away
Former HURTLOCKER drummer Dan Ditella, who played with the group during much of 2005 and recorded drums on the band's Napalm Records debut, "Fear in a Handful of Dust", passed away on October 18 due to complications while in rehab in Elgin, IL. "The details are still sketchy so at this point we can't say too much," the band writes on its MySpace page. "Our thoughts go out to his family, especialy his brother Mike, and his mother as well as all of Dan's friends.
"During his time with HURTLOCKER, he struggled with many demons, but he was a good kid with a big heart. We only hope that Dan found the peace he couldn't find while he was here."
"Fear in a Handful of Dust" was released in January through Napalm Records.
More In Flames, Lacuna Coil, The Sword Tour Dates
More tour dates have been announced for the upcoming In Flames, Lacuna Coil, The Sword, and Seemless tour. Here's the latest set of tour dates:
12/05 Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
12/06 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
12/07 Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
12/08 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
12/09 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
12/11 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
12/12 Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
12/13 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
12/15 Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
12/16 Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
12/17 Chicago, IL @ Metro
12/18 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
12/19 Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club
If Hope Dies' "Roddy Piper's Magic Sunglasses" Vid
There is another new live video of If Hope Dies performing their track “Roddy Piper’s Magic Sunglasses” available for viewing at the Underground Video Television website. The footage was taken at The Furnace in Syracuse NY earlier this year. The band is currently on the Radio Takeover & Through The Eyes Of The Dead tours covering October & November in support of their latest release “Life In Ruin” via Ironclad/Metal Blade.
Fuck The Facts Canadian Tour Dates
Fuck The Facts have announced a month's worth of Canadian headlining tour dates in support of their recent release, "Stigmata High-Five." More dates will be announced shortly. Here are the latest tour dates:
10/28 Richmond Hill, ON @ Jonny's Pool Hall
10/31 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon (Halloween Masquerade Bash)
11/03 Trois-Rivieres, QC @ Le Maquisart
11/04 Cambridge, ON @ 69 Pick-ups
11/05 Windsor, ON @ The Coach
11/09 Guelph, ON @ Shadow
11/10 Peterborough, ON @ Underdog
11/11 Oshawa, ON @ The Dungeon
11/12 Orillia, ON @ 2nd Last Call
11/14 Thunder Bay, ON @ Kilroy's
11/15 Fort Frances, ON @ The Ukrainian Hall
11/17 Winnipeg, MB @ Royal Albert Arms
11/18 Saskatoon, SK @ Walkers Night Club
11/19 Edmonton, AB @ Avenue Skatepark
11/21 Calgary, AB @ Scarboro Community Centre
11/23 Nelson, BC @ The Nelson District Youth Centre
11/24 Vancouver, BC @ The Cobalt
11/25 Victoria, BC @ Ferwood Community Center
Fear Factory "Machines At War" Tour Dates
Fear Factory has mapped out dates for a late-year traveling thrash caravan, with fellow metalists Suffocation, Hypocrisy, and Decapitated along for the ride.
The band will kick things off Thursday (10/26) near Sacramento, CA, with 37 stops around the continent planned through mid-December for the outing, which the group has dubbed the Machines at War tour.
"I'm really excited about doing a heavy tour like this," the band's drummer, Raymond Herrera, said in a press release. "A brutal line-up full of metal pioneers has been a long time coming. I guarantee a lot of our fans will agree. Plus you'll be certain to hear some Fear Factory songs that have not been played live in quite some time."
"Transgression," the band's eighth studio effort, and second for Liquid Eight Records, was released in August 2005. "The Best of Fear Factory," hit stores this September.
Fear Factory has toured extensively the last two years supporting "Transgression" and 2004's "Archetype," and spent large parts of 2005 supporting Megadeth on its Gigantour, along with Dream Theater, Dillinger Escape Plan and Nevermore.
The band is currently collaborating with photographer Omer Cordell on a photo book documenting last year's tour and its Gigantour appearances.
Here are the "Machines At War" tour dates: More...
It Prevails Signs To Rise Records
Rise Records have signed Portland, Oregon act It Prevails. The 5 peice will begin recording their debut full-length with Kis Crummtt soon for an early 2007 release.
The label recommends the band "for fans of melodic hardcore ala Comeback Kid, Shai Hulud and Terror." You can check out some of their material on their MySpace page.
Kiss Prepares Onslaught Of Archival Material
Tjames Madison of Live Daily reports: KISS fans will have the opportunity to get up close and personal with their heavy metal heroes in movie theaters during an upcoming special screening of a classic concert from 1976.
"KISS Alive! On the Big Screen" will screen one night only, Oct. 26, in selected movie theaters around the country. The footage captures the band in its original and most familiar incarnation--Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss--performing during a 1976 concert at Detroit's Cobo Hall.
"I was blown away by this footage," Stanley said in a press release. "Watching it on the big screen is as close as anyone will ever get to traveling back to those days."
Tickets to the event will cost $10, and are available through the Big Screen Concerts website, along with a list of theaters showing the film.
The movie event represents only the tip of the latest marketing iceberg for the band. The group has set a Nov. 21 release date for a new box set containing reissues of some of its most famous live recordings. "KISS Alive!!! 1975-2000" will include newly remastered versions of 1975's "Alive I," 1977's "Alive II," and the 1993 release "Alive III," as well as the previously unreleased "Millennium Concert" from 2000, which was originally intended to be issued as "Alive IV," but later scrapped.
The group also plans a Halloween day release of its new concert/documentary DVD. The two-disc "KISSology Vol. 1 1974-1977" will include more than six hours of concert and backstage footage going back to the band's earliest days.
Aside from the slew of new KISS product, bassist/singer Gene Simmons has been busy with his latest foray into capitalism, a new line of designer fragrances for both men and women.
Simmons recently dropped in at an Army base in North Carolina to promote the products, KISS Him cologne and KISS Her perfume.
"If people decide that a KISS fragrance line makes sense," Simmons said during the promotional jaunt, "who's to argue with America?"
Evile UK Concert Dates
Thrashers EVILE, Earache's latest signings from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire have been confirmed for the following concert dates:
w/ Johnny Truant
28.10.06 UK DERBY The First Floor Club
w/ Exodus
03.11.06 UK Bradford Rio's
w/Deadfall
01.02.07 UK NOTTINGHAM Junktion 7
Eyehategod CD/EP To Be Release By Moshpit Tragedy
EYEHATEGOD have announced they will re-release their ultra-rare “99 Miles of Bad Road” seven-inch on CD through Canada’s Moshpit Tragedy Records.
The CD will feature re-mastered demo recordings of the songs “99 Miles Of Bad Road”, “Story Of The Eye” and “Jackass In The Will Of God” (originally released on Brazil’s 2+2=5 Records) as well as bonus live tracks and enhanced live video footage.
Regarded as the founders of American sludgecore, EYEHATEGOD have become one of the most important bands to emerge from the NOLA (New Orleans, Louisana) Metal Scene. EYEHATEGOD formed in 1988 and became known for their heavy, detuned and bluesy guitar riffs, combined with walls of feedback and tortured vocals to create a harsh misanthropic vibe.
Moshpit Tragedy Records (who’ve signed an exclusive N. American distribution deal with Cargo Music, Inc.) have also recently announced plans to re-issue crust legends EXTINCTION OF MANKIND “Ale To England” on CD with new cover art and bonus live tracks.
Abbath On The Possibility Of A New Immortal Album
Speaking with BW&BK about his new musical venture I, IMMORTAL frontman Abbath shed some light on the possibility of a new Immortal album that could follow the band's reunion shows.
Says Abbath, "After the shows next year, we'll see where we are at with Immortal and how the spirit in the band is. Because I already have ideas if we are gonna do a new Immortal album!
If it happens, we’re not gonna continue from Sons Of Northern Darkness, because Sons, Damned In Black, and At The Heart Of Winter were like a trio. More...
Dark Funeral, Enslaved Add More N. A. Tour Dates
Dark Funeral, Enslaved and Abigail Williams will be hitting the road together early next year on the extensive Candlelight II: Phoenix Rising Tour. Confirmed dates are as follows: More...
Six Feet Under Pull Out Of X-Mass Festival Tour
Floridian death metallers Six Feet Under have issued the following update:
"We will not be appearing on this year's X-Mass Festivals in Europe. To all our European fans, please accept our apoligies. We are currently in this studio 'till the end of the year working on our new CD - which will be released in spring of 2007.
"On a side note - thanks to Krisiun, Decapitated and Abysmal Dawn for a great tour in the States this past month, and thanks again to all of our fans in the U.S.A for all of the support and great times on the road!!"
Director's Commentary On "Through Glass" Video
Video Static recently hooked up Tony Petrossian, director of the video for Stone Sour's "Through Glass" to create a special version of the video with director's commentary and a look at how the special effects were done.
This is a rare peek inside the mind of a music video director. Petrossian gives great advice about what it takes to be one and how to deal with various aspects of the job, both on the job and off.
Watch the director's commentary version of "Through Glass" exclusively on the official Roadrunner YOUTUBE page (or embedded below). More...
Deftones "Saturday Night Wrist" Listening Party
Ahead of its October 31st release, Deftones' new album 'Saturday Night Wrist' is available for in its entirety streaming in its entirety on their MySpace page. The Deftones are currently touring the US with Deadsy.
Rather than work with longtime producer Terry Date, Deftones decided to record with Bob Ezrin. Cunningham says that while the group enjoyed working with Date, "At this point, we just needed to change things up ... And this is definitely a different style. Working with him (Ezrin) is just putting us fucking upside down. He's cracking the whip."[7] The band has since chosen not to go with Ezrin's production of their work. As of April 7, 2006 the band is finishing recording the album with former Far guitarist Shaun Lopez as producer. Confirmed collaborations on the record include Annie Hardy from Giant Drag on the song 'Pink Cell Phone' and Serj Tankian from System of a Down on the track 'Mein.'
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Dio-Era Black Sabbath Reunion Is Official
According to the official Black Sabbath website which directs readers to Ronnie James Dio and Tony Iommi's websites, the Black Sabbath reunion of the Dio era Sabbath is official. The reunion is going under the name of Heaven and Hell rather than Black Sabbath, but does include Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward. Heaven and Hell is the title of the classic 1980 album they recorded as Black Sabbath. Heaven and Hell are planning to record a new album and start touring early in 2007.
Tony Iommi previously commented on the possibility of further collaborations with Ronnie James Dio:
"We've already written one [new] song together. The reason for that is that there's a release coming out, it's called 'Black Sabbath: The Dio Years' — they've already done one, of course, 'Black Sabbath: The Ozzy Years'; that was the beginning and, really, the best part of it all — but they've decided to do one, again, 'Black Sabbath: The Dio Years', and we wanted to make it a little but more special, not just give you things you've not heard from a live perspective. These are two things you'll never hear again — two new songs. We are going to do that. It's been fun already. The one we've done — the one that I've done with Tony has been really wonderful — just great to realize how magnificent a player he was. You forget that after 10 years at a time that you don't work with someone. So we are gonna be doing that. And I hope you'll like it. I think it'll be great."
The Chariot, Becoming The Archetype Euro Tour
The Chariot, Becoming The Archetype and Shaped By Fate will be touring Europe together in early 2007. Here are the tour dates:
01/16 Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow
01/18 Berlin, Germany @ Magnet
01/22 München,Germany @ Feierwerk, Orangehouse
01/24 Bologna, Italy @ The Kindergarten
01/25 Dornbirn, Austria @ Café Schlachthaus
01/27 Esch/Belval, Luxemburg @ Rockhal
01/29 Swindon, UK @ The Furnace
01/31 Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
02/02 Milton Keynes, UK @ Pitz Club
02/03 Aberdeen, UK @ Moshulu
02/05 London, UK @ Underworld
02/08 Bochum, Germany @ Matrix
Jordi Sandalinas To Release Acoustic Solo Album
Jordi Sandalinas, guitarist for Swedish metal band SANDALINAS, is releasing his debut acoustic-rock album called "Insight" on December 2007. Influenced by The Doors, Zeppelin and Beatles, this album gathers blues and rock influences.
Norma Jean's "Redeemer" To Get UK Release
Norma Jean are to release their latest album 'Redeemer' through Century Media in the UK on January 15. It will include the bonus track 'The Longest Lasting Statement'). Norma Jean will be playing some shows with He Is Legend. Here are those tour dates:
January 16 - Birmingham Academy II
January 17 - Manchester Academy III
January 18 - Sheffield Corporation
January 20 - Leeds Cockpit
January 21 - Stoke Sugar Mill
January 22 - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
January 23 - Oxford Zodiac
January 24 - London Islington Academy
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