Metal News for October 6, 2003
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15 news articles posted on this day.
Depswa And Grade 8 Still Have Record Deals
Their Ozzfest tour support was pulled, but both DEPSWA and GRADE 8 are, contrary to previous reports, still on their labels. Meanwhile GRADE 8 is working on a new album already due in Spring of next year.
In related news DEPSWA guitarist James Mills is rumored to have left the band for an unknown reason at this time.
New Canadian Date Added to Filth/Moonspell Tour
Another Canadian date has been added to the upcoming Cradle of Filth / Moonspell tour. Type O Negative will not be playing this show. It is for Friday, December 19th in Toronto, ONT @ Guvernment.
Here are all the confirmed dates for the upcoming Type O Negative, Cradle of Filth, Moonspell tour: More...
Harakiri News and Notes
Harakiri are currently rehearsing material and working on new songs for their upcoming, as-of-yet untitled album, which will tentatively hit streets in spring 2004. The group will also begin playing shows again late this year. In related news, Brian "Bob" Fouts, formerly of Burn It Down, Amongst The Swarm, and About The Fire, among others, has officially joined the group on drums. According to Chris of Harakiri, "Bob is a good friend and a great drummer who will fit in with us well."
Dark Funeral Issue Update on Live Album
Swedish black metallers Dark Funeral have confirmed that their forthcoming live album will include a total of 15 tracks recorded on the band's recent South American tour. More information will be made available soon.
Agathodaimon Preparing New Album
Agathodaimon will shortly begin pre-production on their fourth album, "Darkened Days", tentatively due in May 2004 through Nuclear Blast Records. The band will once again record the next album at Kohlekeller Studio with producer Kristian Kohlmannslehner.
The first edition of the album will likely include a bonus CD featuring material from the group's early demos, "Carpe Noctem" and "Near Dark", as well as rare and unreleased tracks. Style-wise, the new songs will reportedly be a continuation of 2001's "Chapter III". Sathonys: "At the moment it seems that the new album will have an even darker approach than 'Chapter III'."
Italy's Canaan inks Deal with Code 666
Code 666 has inked a deal with Italian dark metal band Canaan. The band’s forthcoming album, The Unsaid Words, will be released in 2004. The tracklisting for the record is as follows: ‘A Fragile Song’, ‘Never Again’, ‘This World Of Mine’, ‘Sterile’, ‘Nothing Left (To Share)’, ‘Il Rimpianto’, ‘The Unsaid Words’, ‘In A Never Fading Illusion’, ‘Stealing Hands’, ‘Empty’, ‘The Falling Grace’, ‘Raped (The Void Inside)’ and ‘The Everywhere Corner’.
Dark Tranquillity to Tour Italy in November
Sweden's Dark Tranquillity will embark on a mini-tour of Italy in late November.
Confirmed dates are as follows:
Nov. 26 - Rome, ITA @ Circolo Degli Artisti
Nov. 27 - Treviso, ITA @ New Age
Nov. 28 - Bergamo, ITA @ Motion
Nov. 29 – Reggio, ITA @ Emilia
Nov. 30 - Florence, ITA @ Tenax
Dark Tranquillity's live DVD, titled "Live Damage", has just been released in Europe. A U.S. release date for the DVD has yet to be announced. More...
Diabolical Masquerade Enter Studio
Sweden's Diabolical Masquerade, the side-project of Katatonia guitarist Anders Nyström (a.k.a. Blakkheim), have entered Studio Castillo in Stockholm with engineer David Castillo (live sound engineer for Katatonia) to begin recording their fifth album, tentatively due in early 2004 through Avantgarde Music. The follow-up to 2001's "Death's Design" will be a musical "cross between 'Nightwork' (1998) and 'Death's Design' — in other words lots of horror, weirdness and METAL!" according to the band's official web site. No further details are available at this time.
My Dying Bride Album Delayed
Due to problems with the artwork, the release of the new My Dying Bride album, tentatively titled "The Thirteenth Chapter", album has been delayed to the end of this year/beginning of 2004. The follow-up to 2001's "The Dreadful Hours" was recorded at Academy Studios and features material that is being described as "objective" observers as "very dark and twisted."
My Dying Bride tour dates (w/ The Prophecy):
Oct. 31 – London, UK @ Astoria
Nov. 01 – Utrecht, NETH @ Tivoli
Nov. 02 – Antwerp, BEL @ Hof Ter Lo
Early Hades Material to See Release
Hades guitarist Dan Lorenzo has sent us the following update on his current activities:
"Monster Records in San Antonio contacted me a few months ago. They plan to release some old Hades recordings from the early '80s with our original vocalist Paul Smith. There were a bunch of live 2-track plus 16 track songs we recorded before the 'Resisting Success' line-up. They've been working on getting the sound quality up to par and they plan to release it within a few months. It certainly isn't going to get us any new fans, but if you want old school metal, this is about as old as it gets. More...
Meads of Asphodel Release Second Album
British black metallers The Meads of Asphodel will issue their second album, "Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua", later this month through Supernal Music.
The group's first release since the departure of founding member Jaldaboath (guitar, synth), "Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua" is "again built around the concept of Christ's mortality and the Church of Rome having its foundations built on hearsay and fabrication," according to a post on the band's web site. "This album features the new line up of Metatron, J.D.Tait, Urakbarameel, Deorth and Max. The release includes a re-recorded version of 'The Book of Dreams' taken from the first demo. The album also contains the 10-minute 'On Graven Images I Ride…' which is a purpose-made head-fuck designed to take you away from the album's core and induce thoughts of 'What the fuck is this!!' The album also has the following guests: Huw Lloyd Langton [guitar] and Alan Davey [bass] from Hawkwind, Vincent Crowley [narration] from Acheron. Mirai [keyboards] from Sigh, and Paul Carter [Keyboards] from Thus Defiled."
The complete track listing for "Exhuming The Grave Of Yeshua" is as follows: More...
Sentenced Post "Controversial" Song Online
A short MP3 clip of Sentenced's a "controversial" song written and recorded in support of their local hockey team, Oulun Kärpät, has been posted online at this location.
As previously reported, Sentenced have been accused of being secret "Nazi" sympathizers after penning the track, titled "Routasydän", which contains lyrics that allegedly include the motto used by the Hitler Youth organization (Hitler Jugend) during the 1930s.
Zyklon Confirmed for England's K-fest
Norway's Zyklon, the band featuring Zamoth (a.k.a. Samoth) and Trym of Emperor, have lined up the following dates during the coming weeks:
Oct. 24 - 1001 Watt Festival – Skien, NOR
Oct. 25 - Rosendal – Trondheim, NOR
Nov. 30 - TBA – London, UK (K-fest)
In other news, following the "incredible" success of the band's latest effort, "Aeon" (which entered the U.K. indie chart at No. 38), Candlelight Records have decided to produce a VERY limited run of each of Zyklon's two albums packaged in a logo-embossed metal tin. The "Aeon" CD includes a CD-ROM version of the new video for the track "Psyklon Aeon". Both albums contain a free sticker. The "World ov Worms" CD will feature a bonus track.
Summary/Misc
Daily Reviews
Metal Reviews rings in with 11 new reviews this week:
- Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done
- Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper
- Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
- Death - Live In Eindhoven '98 (DVD)
- Erben der Schöpfung - Twilight
- Evening Star - Evening Star (demo)
- Falconer - The Sceptre Of Deception
- Furia - Un Lac De Larmes Et De Sang
- King Diamond - The Puppet Master
- Power of Omens - Rooms of Anguish
- Saturnus - Martyre
Headline News
The Haunted Get Old Singer Back
The Haunted, have parted ways with singer Marco Aro and have replaced him with their original singer Peter Dolving. The band is currently taking a break after touring a lot for their latest release "One Kill Wonder". They will be working on a new album that they hope to release by Summer of next year.
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