Cannae Schedule More Tour Dates

Massachusetts thrash band CANNAE has booked a handful of regional and national dates to support the band's latest offering, "GOLD BECOMES SACRIFICE," released in September through Prosthetic Records. The album features guest spots from producer Jason Suecof and metal legend James Murphy along the band's intense thrash sound.

CANNAE will be supporting God Forbid on a five-day run across New England, before taking off to head out with Hell Within and I Killed The Prom Queen for nearly a month. Architect will take over for I Killed The Prom Queen in December. More dates to come.

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Divinity Destroyed EP Available Now

New Jersey prog-death metal band Divinity Destroyed issue a myspace bulletin about their new release:

"The subject line does not lie. Our new EP, "The Plague", WILL be available at the Starland Ballroom show tomorrow [October 29th] with the Misfits!

For more info on the CD and the show itself, consult our site.

BE THERE! Or be ELSEWHERE!"

The artwork for the album can be seen here

The track contains three new songs (Haven, These Waking Dreams, and Prism) and 3 acoustic versions of older songs (Void, Red Reflection, and Forsaken)

Haven and Void can be streamed off the band's myspace site

The album can be purchased in the merch section on their website

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BITGOTA Look To Replace Drummer

Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus have parted ways with drummer Dom Lizio. According to the band, "Dom wishes to seek other non-musical pursuits. We wish him the best in all of his endeavors. We're going to need a new drummer who can hold a blastbeat and thrash a bit, but not be a standard death metal drummer. BITGOTA seeks a new drummer who will either relocate to Florida or lives in Florida, moreover, the band will provide temporary housing if necessary. The group released previous material with Relapse Records and the Spew Records and asks potential drummers to learn all of the Relapse material off of their myspace account and either submit them playing the material on video or come to Florida for auditions. Email bitgotabooking@aol.com or go to myspace.com/bitgota for more details."

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36 Crazyfists Give Updates From The Studio

36 CRAZYFISTS have posted the following updates from the studio while recording their new album:

"Portland, Oregon
8:52am
Happy Halloween All! The leaves are turning, rain is here, Football is heating up midway through the season and Hockey is in full swing. Ah, what a great time of year. Today marks the official beginning of pre-production for us. Our producer Sal Villanueva flew in last night from New Jersey so we figured wed kick this thing off with a trip to the bar for a few drinks and a little shoptalk. I got to say, Sal is definitely the man for the job. We all hit it off great and Im positive that Sal is going to pull the best out of us and knows what kind of quality record were looking to do. We have been writing hard all summer and have filtered through and trashed 2 albums worth of material. Leaving only the best of the best, we have assembled our sickest set of songs by far, that are very 36, yet a large leap forward from the last album. And with Sal on board now, I have never been so stoked to record an album. This is going to destroy. We already have click tracks that Thomas has been playing to and we got these songs fairly tight, but that is what pre-production is for we have to make these songs an air tight, impenetrable wall of molten metal. This we will accomplish. Today will consist of playing through these songs all day long and letting Sal get a feel for them as we begin to dissect and reassemble these bad boys. More to come..." More...

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Devildriver Check-In From Tour

DEVILDRIVER frontman Dez Fafara has posted the following message on the band's official website:

"Hello out there! The dates on this tour have been going amazingly well - especially Monday night's Halloween show in Detroit, which was sold out! Special thanks to the Detroit police department for hanging out with us at Harpo's and showing everyone a good time. No, seriously!

Unfortunately, we woke up the next day to a broken-down bus, forcing the whole band and crew to cram into two mini-vans for the drive out to the next show in Davenport, Iowa - which we did make, by the way!

Thanks to everyone who's been coming out to see us, and hope to see many more of you as the tour moves along - it's been a hell of a ride!"

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Cathedral Cancel European Tour

England's CATHEDRAL will not be touring Europe in the fall and winter, as planned and previously reported. The trek will be postponed to February, support will come from GRAND MAGUS and ELECTRIC WIZARD.

CATHEDRAL's schedule currently only contains a few dates in UK with CRADLE OF FILTH.

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Rammstein Release New Album

Rammstein's follow up to "Reise, Riese", "Rosenrot" has been released. Tracklisting is as follows:

1.Benzin
2.Mann Gegen Mann
3.Rosenrot
4.Spring
5.Wo Bist Du
6.Stirb Nicht Vor Mir
7.Zerstören
8.Hilf Mir
9.Te Quiero Puta
10.Feuer & Wasser
11.Ein Lied

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Sharon Osbourne Talks More Trash About Dickinson

ContactMusic.com is reporting that music matriarch Sharon Osbourne is a fan of heavy rockers IRON MAIDEN despite sabotaging the band's performance at the climax of her husband Ozzy's Ozzfest tour this summer.

MAIDEN were pelted with debris by fans when Sharon allowed sound problems to wreck their set in California on August 20. The group's manager, Rod Smallwood, then lashed out at the unprofessional conduct of Sharon and her fellow Ozzfest organisers.

Despite admitting she hates Dickinson, Sharon insists she still has plenty of respect for his bandmates Steve Harris, Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, Janick Gers and Nicko McBrain.

Sharon tells British gay magazine Attitude for its November 2005 issue, "The band are actually really nice guys, but the singer has a chip on his shoulder.

"The bottom line is, it's not my fault that his solo records are shit. Don't be jealous of what Ozzy does.

"He never once thanked us for the tour. People don't behave like that.

"I tell you, though. This guy got the singer with a fucking egg right in the middle of his brow — what a star!"

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Scarlet To Make Live Return

Scarlet will make their first live appearance in over a year on November 5th. The show will take place at the Nanci Raygun in Richmond, VA with Cassius and This TIme It's War. Meanwhile, the group's new Ferret Music release will hit stores on 1/24/2005.

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Entombed Name Album "Serpent Saints"

Sweden's Entombed have set "Serpent Saints" as the title of thier new album, due on June 6, 2006 via Threeman Recordings. The upcoming CD will be the group's first without the contributions of guitarist Uffe Cederlund, who left the band in September.

Speaking to Sweden's Close-Up magazine, ENTOMBED guitarist Alex Hellid had the following to say about the upcoming album, "Over the years we've built something, a name that is much bigger than its individual parts. Living up to that name is something we take very seriously. Of course, we feel an enormous pressure, albeit in a positive way, and a great obligation to maintain [the name] as well as live up to our own and other people's high expectations that come along with putting an ENTOMBED logo on an album."

ENTOMBED have no plans on replacing Cederlund and will continue as a four-piece, with Hellid as the sole guitarist. However, there is a possibility that former ENTOMBED drummer and current THE HELLACOPTERS frontman Nicke Andersson will contribute to the next album.

"I've just talked loosely with Alex and Peter [Stjärnwind, drummer] about it," Andersson told Close-Up. "I haven't really said anything, but they've basically asked me if I would consider being involved in one way or the other. Whether or not that's because Uffe has quit, I have no idea. . . .It's really down to having the time to do it. There are another thousand ideas I want to see through. But if it's possible, it would be a blast to do something [with ENTOMBED]."

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Watch Taproot's Live Accoustic MTV.com Performance

Taproot frontman Stephen Richards and guitarist Mike DeWolf were on MTV.com Live on Tuesday (November 1) to perform acoustic versions of 'Poem', 'Calling', and 'Birthday'. You can watch the performances here.

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Masacre Drummer Passes Away

Victor Gallego (photo), drummer of the Colombian death metal band MASACRE, passed away on October 30. The cause of death has not yet been disclosed.

Gallego joined MASACRE in 1992 and recorded three full-length CDs with the group, including their most recent release, "Total Death", which came out in 2004. The follow-up to 2001's "Muerte Verdadera Muerte", "Total Death" was recorded at Sirio Studio in Bogota, Colombia in March-April 2003 and was mixed and mastered by Erik Rutan (MORBID ANGEL, HATE ETERNAL) at Mana Recording Studios in Tampa, Florida in July-August 2003. Gallego reportedly studied history before playing in MASACRE.

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Watch System of a Down's Video For "Hypnotize"

System of a Down's new video for "Hypnotize" from their upcoming same-named album is available for viewing on MTV.com. "Hypnotize" will be in stores November 22 through American/Columbia. The album art for "Hypnotize" can be viewed here.

If you have trouble with the direct video link above, try this link instead. The video should show up in a popup, which may require that you whitelist MTV.com or disable your popup blocker to view it. At the time of this posting, Hypnotize is not showing up on SOAD's band page video listings.

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The Lizards To Support King's X On Tour

THE LIZARDS, the hard rock band featuring Bobby Rondinelli (BLUE OYSTER CULT, RAINBOW, BLACK SABBATH) and Mike DiMeo (RIOT), will be supporting KING'S X on the following dates:

Oct. 28 - The Crazy Donkey - Farmingdale, NY
Oct. 29 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
Oct. 30 - Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ
Nov. 01 - Webster Theatre - Hartford, CT
Nov. 03 - Avalon Club, NYC, NY
Nov. 04 - Jaxx - West Springfield, VA

THE LIZARDS recently completed a "super session" with a rock and roll legend for the band's upcoming CD. Although it's "hush hush" in THE LIZARDS camp as far as who this rock guest star is (which will be disclosed at a future date), he was quoted as saying, "They were the best sessions I've ever done outside my own music!"

In addition to a new studio album, THE LIZARDS are putting the finishing touches on an album of cover tunes as well as a new DVD of live performances culled from their recent tour of Europe. All three releases are expected to surface in early 2006.

In November 2005, Bobby Rondinelli will be doing a drum clinic tour in Europe sponsored by Ludwig and Paiste.

Plans exist for THE LIZARDS to embark on a major world tour to coincide with the release of their new studio album in 2006.

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Watch Shadows Fall's 'Enlightened By The Cold' Vid

Shadows Fall's latest video for their new single 'Enlightened By The Cold', from the album 'The War Within' can now be viewed online at Yahoo! Music.

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Interview with Former Celtic Frost Guitarist

In a recent interview with Australia's Inside_Out666, Ron Marks, ( ex- CELTIC FROST, now in SUBSONIC) spoke about his time with the Legendary Swiss metallers. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Inside_Out666: I want to talk to you a little about your time with CELTIC FROST. What comes to mind when you look back on those experiences?

Ron Marks: "Pride! Like with any musical movement, something happens and a million bands jump on it. FROST has fared very well as time goes by. I'm really glad that the legend continues and all the rest of it, but the thing I am most proud of is that you can put a FROST CD on today and it still sounds really cool, it's still competitive and sounds fresh to me. I'm a musician to a fault and that always comes first to me. Tom [Fischer] and Martin [Ain] are geniuses when it comes to writing; I love how intelligent the lyrics are. Reed St. Mark is one of my favorite drummers on the planet. I was a lucky [son of a bitch]; I knew it was great band when I sent them my demo. I could have been in a lot of other bands that were apart of that movement that didn't fare as well as FROST. I was very fortunate that they asked me to join."

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Sadus' New Album Featuring Testament's Chuck Billy

Veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers SADUS have completed work on their new album, "Out for Blood", tentatively due early next year via Holland's Mascot Records.

Commented SADUS bassist Steve DiGiorgio: "Just wanted to say that finally, our new album is fucking done! No one knows how long I've been dying to type those exact words. So here it is, new SADUS 'Out For Blood' — eleven new songs, some bonus crap and a cool behind the scenes video are all comprising the fifth album.

"Man, I know it's so cliché to say this...but this is by far our best-sounding shit... Holy crap, we're psyched for you to get some of this shyssa (scheiße)! Hopefully the wait will be worth it when you get infected from the contagious brutal aggression found through all the varying songs. Some raging bear vocals to be found on one courtesy of crazy Chuck Billy [TESTAMENT].

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Longing For Dawn To Record Sophomore Album

Canadian death/doom band Longing for Dawn are starting the recordings for their second full length release within the next few weeks.

Their debut release, 'One Lonely Path' came out earlier this year on band leader Frederic Arbour's own Twilight Foundation, a daughter label of Cyclic Law, Arbour's highly acclaimed dark ambient label.

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Isole/ World Below Tour Cancelled

From Isole's guitarist Crister Olsson,

"I'm sorry to announce that the Isole & World Below mini tour is cancelled due to reasons beyond our control. Germany and France will have to wait for a while. I hope we will visit Europe to do gigs in the future, we are very sorry about this and of course we are very disappointed.
We (Isole) will focus on our new material and our second album instead."

World Below have parted ways with their bassist/vocalist Mikael Danielsson, following the departure of their guitarist Per Nilsson a month ago. As a result the groups previously announced tour with Isole had to be cancelled.

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