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Tartarean Desire has a bunch of new reivews up:

• Ankhreg - Lands Of War (black metal, 2000)
  
• Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise (metal, 1993)
  
• Casus Belli - Kalos Kai Agathos (black metal, 2000)
  
• Dark Funeral - The Secrets Of The Black Arts (black metal, 1996)
  
• Deranged - Plainfield Cemetary (death metal, 2002)
  
• Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries Of A Sullen
• Soul (doom metal, 2002)
  
• Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (black metal, 1997)
  
• Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory (progressive metal, 1999)
  
• Embalming Theatre - Sweet Chainsaw Melodies (grindcore, 2003)
  
• Frightmare - Midnight Murder Mania (death metal, 2003)
  
• Horfixion - Instigators Of Chaos (death / thrash metal, 2002)
  
• Infliction - The Faint Smell Of Suicide (death metal, 2002)
  
• Mithras - Forever Advancing... Legions (death metal, 2002)
  
• My Ruin - The Horror Of Beauty (metalcore, 2003)
  
• Mütiilation - Majestas Leprosus (black metal, 2003)
  
• Overgarven - Promo 2003 (death metal, 2003)
  
• Perverse Souls - Corpus Christii (death metal, 2003)
  
• Stampin' Ground - A New Darkness Upon Us (metalcore, 2003)
  
• Taiga - [demo] (progressive / folk metal, 2003)
  
• Tiamat - Prey (gothic metal, 2003)
  
• V/A - Innate No VI (metal, 2003)
  
• Venom - Resurrection (heavy metal, 2000)

Blistering.com have a few more:

• Sick Of It All - Life On The Ropes
  
• Moonspell - The Antidote
  
• Various Artists - A Tribute To The Four Horsemen

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Behemoth Guitarist Retires

After 3 years of partnership, Havok of BEHEMOTH has retired from the band. The band is looking for a new session guitar player. If you feel like giving a try, send your email to nergal69@poczta.onet.pl.

Nergal commented on the matter:

"Havok decided to part his ways with Behemoth. Lately he's been struggling some personal problems. As a result he lost interest in this band, and the whole extreme metal genre, he simply burned out. We spent together absolutely killer time touring all over the world and recording 2 Behemoth's best albums. We wish him all the best. American tour and the show in Israel will be the last thing we'll do together. Later we will focus on writing the new stuff and eventually finding a replacement for him"

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Korn's Album Pushed Back To Nov 25th

In a point of clarification, KoRn's latest effort has been pushed back to November 25th not the 18th, as that was their original release date.

Here's the latest according to the bands official website:

"After Ozzfest Korn returned directly to the studio to finish off the three remaining songs from the up coming album "Take a Look in the Mirror". The release will contain between 10 to 13 tracks, which still has not been decided. The band is working in the studio everyday to make the holiday release date of November 25. Drums and Bass tracks have both been laid and finished. The Guitar tracks were being finished on the night of September 25. Jonathan is currently writing lyrics as you read this, and has been working from 8pm every night till early into the next morning."

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Headline News

Hell On Earth Suicide Broadcast Failed

The Internet broadcast of the HELL ON EARTH concert in Florida that was supposed to feature the suicide of a terminally ill person did not happen last night. Frontman Billy Tourtelot had planned to hold the concert and suicide at a local theater but the theater manager canceled the performance. Tourtelot then said the concert and suicide would be shown on the internet from separate undisclosed locations in St. Petersburg.

Thousands of internet users logged onto the Hell On Earth website for the Saturday night show in St Petersburg, Florida, overloading the web server. Some sources report this failure as being due to an “Internet attack”, but in all likelihood, the server simply could not handle the massive amount of traffic that the press frenzy had generated, as in most such cases. (Wake up, the story has been carried by hundreds of news site small and large around thye world).

There are mixed reports of whether the concert did in fact go off without a hitch. Some sources report that neither the concert nor the suicide took place and that both events had been postponed for a week.

Others claim that Tourtelot said Saturday night that his group performed at an undisclosed St. Petersburg location as scheduled and that he was unaware of the Internet problems until after the show. Tourtelot said the suicide was scheduled to take place at a separate location, which he also refused to reveal. It was not shown on the band's Web site as planned, but that did not necessarily mean it didn't happen, Tourtelot said.

“I don't know if that was done tonight,” Tourtelot told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

That’s pretty anticlimactic for all the press this story has received, showing how whether or not it was meant as a publicity stunt, that’s exactly what it’s been.

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Lo-Pro In Bus Accident

Lo-Pro were involved in an accident in which a woman driving in the same direction fell asleep, swerved into the guardrail and ricocheted into the back of the band's bus. Brakes squealed, the driver spun the wheel to counteract the blow, and the vehicle skidded to a halt, banging up and bruising the musicians.

Read the full article at MTV.com.

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Site Update

Help Wanted

Metal Underground . com is looking for additional new posters to cover news and add diversity. The first priority is additional coverage for a more constant stream of news as well as to cover the gaps when Real Life^TM takes both myself and Dark Icon away from the computer at the same time. I’m also interested in bringing onboard people with different tastes than the current staff. If you’re into any of the non mainstream metal, the Swedish Metal scene, Hardcore, or Industrial, we’re especially interested – local underground scenes are a big plus! Death, Black, Thrash is fine too, but we’re not really looking for more mainstream metal coverage.

I’d like to add someone from Europe or Australia for both of the above reasons. I’ve been amazed at times how two people from different parts of world who like the same styles of music can know and like completely different bands, and would therefore like to achieve more international coverage.

The only requirements are that you have a decent grasp of the English language, and generally computer literate and have access to the Internet and can log on to post a few news stories 3-5 times a week. There’s no pay involved, just the enjoyment of spreading the metal gospel and introducing new metal bands people might not have heard of. Contact me at deathbringer@metalunderground.com (AIM dgibson666, ICQ 354916) if you are interested in helping out.

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