Buckethead On Tour

BUCKETHEAD set off on October 21 on the 'Disneyworld To Disneyland Tour' at The Social in Orlando, FL, wrapping up November 22 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA. The 24-city trek will stretch coast to coast with stops in all major markets including Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and more.

On the road, the masked mystery man known for the fried chicken bucket he wears on his head will be joined by Dan Monti (bass, programming) and Pinchface (drums). Together they will perform various Buckethead favorites as well as instrumental versions of tracks from the upcoming Buckethead & Friends release Enter The Chicken, due October 25 on Serjical Strike Records, the label fronted by Serj of System of a Down.

Remaining tour dates are as follows: More...

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Angel Dust Confirm New Singer

German power metallers ANGEL DUST have recruited ex-EVERFLOW vocalist Carsten Kaiser as the replacement for the band's previous singer, Dirk Thurisch. As a result of this lineup change, the recordings for the group's new album have been pushed back to March 2006. According to guitarist Bernd Aufermann (RUNNING WILD), the new material will be a return to the sound on ANGEL DUST's "Enlighten the Darkness" album (released in 2000). "I'm VERY satisfied with the way the guitar will approach in the music and the material is, in my opinion, the best we'd ever written," Bernd wrote in a recent online posting. A tentative late summer 2006 release is expected.

ANGEL DUST's most recent album, "Of Human Bondage", came out in 2002.

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Agents Of Man, Ringworm Tour Dates

Agents Of Man, Ringworm, and Danny Diablo will be touring together for a few weeks beginning late this month. Here are the tour dates:

11/25 Montclair, NJ @ Bloomfield Ave Café
11/26 New York, NY @ CBGBs
11/27 Baltimore, MD @ Otto Bar
11/29 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Downstairs) w/ Vietnom
11/30 Jacksonville, FL @ Fuel w/ Vietnom
12/1 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution w/ Vietnom
12/3 Tampa, FL @ Masquerade (Infinity Room) w/ Vietnom
12/6 St. Louis, MO @ Creepy Crawl
12/7 Arlington Heights, IL @ Knights of Columbus
12/8 Detroit, MI @ Alvin's w/ The Alliance
12/9 Cleveland, OH @ The Agora Ballroom
12/10 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place w/ Inferis, Ghost of War
12/13 Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar
12/14 Troy, NY @ Hudson Duster
12/15 Poughkeepsie, NY @ Club Crannel (Chance)
12/16 Hartford, CT @ Webster Underground
12/17 Levittown, NY @ Ritual

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The Autumn Offering Prepare To Enter Studio

Recent Victory Records signees, The Autumn Offering are currently finishing up the writing process for their new full-length. The band will enter Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, FL with producer Jason Suecof (God Forbid, Trivium) to record the effort. Currently untitled, the album will hit stores in May 2006.

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Codeseven Go On Hiatus

North Carolina's Codeseven have gone on hiatus (possibly permanent) after ten years together and four albums. The group has issued a lengthy statement:

"Codeseven is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Literally weeks after the oldest members graduated highschool in 1995 the band was formed and has never looked back. Well, not until recently anyway. Unfortunately with this milestone comes some news which we are not excited to tell you about. Codeseven has collectively decided to go on indefinite hiatus. The band is not breaking up but have no plans for touring or writing and will not be making any music for some time.

Yes, there is a possibility that the five of us may never play Codeseven songs together ever again but I am optimistic. We are all still very good friends and still hangout all the time. We are also still very passionate about music and the music we've created over the years. Some of you may be asking well why are you taking a break? The majority of all bands split due to personal or creative differances but neither is the case for us!

Well, over the past few years Codeseven has had some amazing opportunities enabling us to become a full-time band. With a fulltime schedule means the majority of your money is coming from the road. Yes he said it, money! Probably the most unfortunate of all reasons for a band to split, has crippled us. When you start a band the best advice you get is play whenever or wherever you can. Do it for free or drive 10 hours for one show, just do it for the exposure and experiance. Its great advice and it worked for us. It got us our dream which was to tour full time but by that time we had already spent many years sacrificing and putting everything on hold to achieve it. We knew if it didn't work then the future of the band would be up in the air. More...

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Impaled Nazarene Finish Writing New Album

Finland death-metal band Impaled Nazarene are finishing up writing their ninth album, Pro Patria Finlandia. Over the next few weeks the band will enter the studio with Tapio Pennanen to record the disc, which is tentatively scheduled for release on March 28, 2006. Tracks will likely include "Cancer," "KUT" "and "Contempt." The band's last studio album was All That You Fear, which came out in 2003.

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The Sword Fight To Get Album Released

When J.D. Cronise, guitarist and singer for Austin, Texas, sludge band the Sword, formed the band two years ago, he did some research on the name first. He found it hard to believe that no one else had taken the moniker yet, one he says he thought "would be badass." But that's when things started getting tricky.

"There's another band called Sword from our old stomping grounds of Richmond, Virginia, and we're cool with them," he explained, adding that there are other bands who have also chosen the name without the "the." There was also a Canadian metal band called Sword that was founded by brothers Mick and Dan Hughes during the 1980s; their last album was released in 1988 through Roadrunner Records.

Cronise admitted that "We've got a little opposition from some people" over the use of the name, "and we're trying to work it out." He said there's been no legal action filed yet, but the Sword are hoping "it doesn't come to that." And in his opinion, it shouldn't. "It's just silly, really," he explained. "There's not a band called the Sword."

But possible litigation's the least of the Sword's worries — they've got to make sure their self-titled, self-produced debut disc surfaces on February 14 as planned. The band's label, Kemado — which signed the Sword after Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton floated the four-piece's demo its way — has pushed the album back a few times, Cronise said. The LP will contain nine tracks, including "Celestial Crown," "Freya," "Iron Swan," "March of the Lor" and "Ebethron." The Sword are hoping there won't be any more setbacks, because they're anxious to hit the road; the band, whose sound's reminiscent of early Clutch crossed with Mastodon, has no definitive touring plans yet. The Sword have logged miles with ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead.

Cronise said the Sword — which also includes guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Trivett Wingo — were not inspired by Mastodon, but admits the two bands have a similar style.

"As far as the writing of the songs on this record, I hadn't really listened to them much at that point, and I think maybe even as they were getting bigger, I made a conscious effort to not listen to them for a while, because I knew what I was trying to do was kind of along the same lines as what they were trying to do," he explained. "So I didn't want to hear too many of their riffs. I didn't want them sneaking into our album. What I'm trying to do with our music is not to make it palatable or poppy, but to make it listenable. It still tries to be aggressive and heavy and huge-sounding and, like, an experience to listen to, but not something where it's like, you can only take so much before you have to turn it off because it's all screaming or all blast beats. We all of course look back to the glory days when there were awesome bands on majors."

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Hatebreed's "A Decade of Brutality" Ecard Online

Hatebreed's "A Decade of Brutality" 10 year anniversary tour ecard is now online. The tour runs from November 1-26 and features Most Precious Blood, Full Blown Chaos, Gizmachi, Manntis, If Hope Dies in addition to Hatebreed.

10 YEARS OF BRUTALITY TOUR Dates:

11/1 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
11/2 - Manchester, NH @ Bombshelter
11/3 - Buffalo, NY @ Showplace Theatre
11/4 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
11/5 - Louisville, KY @ The Gate
11/6 - Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
11/7 - Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
11/8 - Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theatre
11/9 - Birmingham, AL @ 4th & 16th Space
11/10 - Jacksonville, FL @ Fuel
11/11 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/12 - Daytona Beach, FL @ Fuel
11/13 - St. Petersburg, FL @ The State Theatre
11/14 - Charleston, SC @ The Music Farm
11/15 - Spartanburg, SC @ Groundzero
11/16 - Fayetteville, NC @ Jester's Pub
11/17 - Jacksonville, NC @ Planet Rock
11/18 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
11/19 - Pittston, PA @ The Staircase
11/20 - Atlantic City, NJ @ House of Blues
11/21 - State College, PA @ The Crowbar
11/22 - Lancaster, PA @ The Chameleon
11/23 - Orono, ME @ Ushuaia
11/25 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place Skarhead, All Out War, Neglect & One 4 One appear
11/26 New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place Converge, Crowbar, Subzero & Irate appear.

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Iron Mask Announce European Tour Dates

Iron Mask, led by guitar whiz Dushan Petrossi are set to embark on a European tour to promote their 2005 release 'Hordes Of The Brave' (Lion Music) with Anvil and Phantom X. The tour will run from 3 weeks taking in 13 countries. 1500-2000 people are expected at the first MONSTERS OF TRANSYLVANIA METAL FESTIVAL in Romania on November 26th. Iron Mask European tour dates are as follows:

06th Nov. GlAZ ART PARIS FRANCE (Iron Mask only – headlining).
08th Nov. THE VICTORIA - DERBY - ENGLAND
10th Nov. ZAAL CENTRUM, HARDENSEM-AALST- BELGIUM
11th Nov. BAROEG - ROTTERDAM - HOLLAND
12th Nov. LE FOYER RURAL - COURDIMANCHE - FRANCE
15th Nov. BILBOROCK – BILBAO – SPAIN
19th Nov. THE ROCKLAND - SWEDEN
20th Nov. ROCK'N'ROLL CLUB, MOTALA, - SWEDEN
22th Nov. HELLS BELLS - PRAHA - CZECH REPUBLIC
23th Nov. GARAGE DELUXE - MUENCHEN - GERMANY
24th Nov. BLUE HELL – BUDAPEST - HUNGARY
25th Nov. SKC, BEOGRAD - SERBIA
26th Nov. TG.MURES - TRANSYLVANIA, ROMANIA FESTIVAL
27th Nov. HRISTO BOTEV HALL, SOFIA - BULGARIA
28th Nov. THESSALONIKI - GREECE
29th Nov. UNDERWOLD – ATHENS – GREECE

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Stretch Arm Strong and With Honor UK Tour Dates

Stretch Arm Strong and With Honor will be hitting the UK in early-2006. Here are the tour dates:

1/09 Clwb Ifor Bach - Cardiff
1/10 Ferryboat - Norwich
1/11 Charlotte - Leicester
1/12 Cavern - Exeter
1/13 Furnace - Swindon
1/14 The Soundhaus - Northampton
1/15 Star and Garter - Manchester
1/16 Joseph’s Well - Leeds
1/17 King Tut’s - Glasgow
1/18 Barfly - London
1/19 Rock City - Nottingham
1/20 Pitz Club - Milton Keynes

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Freya Finish Writing Songs, Give More Updates

Freya, consisting largely of ex-Earth Crisis members, has issued an update:

It's been a busy time for Freya. Dennis Merrick, formerly of EXC, has joined us and played his first show in Ogdensburg NY. The band sounds stronger than ever. We had a great response and are looking forward to playing there again next year. We had some awesome shows with If Hope Dies, Enough is Enough, Yesterday Tomorrow, and Number 2. Look for some show dates with freya and If Hope Dies this winter/spring.

Karl just got back froma tour with A Perfect Murder where he filled in on vocals. They toured throughout Quebec and Ontario with Tears From the Sky. Karl had a great time with APM and is thankful for all the kind words from the fans he met up there. While in Canada he met with Mercedes from Kittie. Her company, Poison Black, Now sponsors Freya as well as Motive Clothing Company and Eblood from Europe.

Straight edge legends Damnation will be recording in the next couple of months, and Karl will be doing some guest vocals with Mike DC. Earth Crisis toured the States with them back in the day and we had an awesome time together. Erick has recently recorded the former members of American Nightmare's new band as well as White Out and The Unholy.

This winter PETA2 will be having a benefit festival in Boston. So far the roster is Shadows Fall, First Blood, and Freya. The Struggle to Survive video we did with them has recently reached its 100,000 mark and is going into its second print this month.

We are finishing writing songs for the new album and will tour after "Lift the Curse" is released.

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From Ashes Rise Break Up

Jade Tree has now officially confirmed the demise of Portland's From Ashes Rise (rumors about this have been floating around since August). Originally formed in Nashville in the mid-'90s, the group went on to release material with Feral Ward, Havoc Records, and Jade Tree among others.

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New Dark Funeral Album Enters Swedish Charts

Dark Funeral has entered the Swedish top 40 at #35 and the Swedish Heavy Metal chart at #3.

Dark Funeral are currently planning a tour throughout Europe that will be handled by Dragon Productions. And this coming Saturday, Nov 5, they will meet their fans and sign their new album in Gothenburg at CD-Specialisten (Kungsgatan).

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As I Lay Dying Announce More Headlining Dates

As I Lay Dying have announced some more dates for their upcoming headlining tour with Norma Jean, Madball and A Life Once Lost. Tour dates so far:

Nov. 26 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
Nov. 27 Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall
Nov. 28 Norfolk, VA - The Norva
Nov. 29 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
Dec. 01 Latham, NY - Saratoga Winners
Dec. 02 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero (with Sworn Enemy)
Dec. 03 Buffalo, NY - Sphere
Dec. 05 New York, NY - Irving Plaza
Dec. 06 Cleveland, OH - Odeon
Dec. 07 Detroit, MI - Clutch Cargo's
Dec. 08 Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts
Dec. 09 Sauget, IL - Pops
Dec. 10 Chicago, IL - House of Blues
Dec. 11 TBA
Dec. 13 Denver, CO - Odgen Theatre
Dec. 14 Magna, UT - The Great Salt Air
Dec. 16 Seattle, WA - El Corazon (guest band TBA)
Dec. 17 Portland, OR - Loveland (guest band TBA)
Dec. 18 San Francisco, CA 2 Slims
Dec. 19 Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
Dec. 21 Hollywood, CA - The Avalon

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Arch Enemy Guitarist Recap Japanese Tour

Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott has posted this message on the band's website:

"We arrived yesterday in sunny Brisbane, Australia…been catching up on sleep and going for walks around the area. Breath taking scenery…

"I guess it’s time for a recap on the Japanese tour we’ve just completed?

"We played 6 shows on our Japan tour and it really was a case of yet another Japanese Arch Enemy extravaganza! We had a blast!

"This was my 16th visit to Japan since 1997 (that’s counting promotional trips and 3 Spiritual Beggars tours) – I am a lucky bastard…I love Japan and I love my life! Ha!

"We enjoyed all the shows – although the extra show that was added at the end of the tour in Tokyo was probably the most intense, the crowd was close to us and the energy in the room was strong! We added “Hybrids Of Steel” to the setlist towards the end of the Japan tour and I am expecting it to stay in for the rest of the year, as it is so much fun to play!

"So many people to thank for the very smooth and highly enjoyable tour…
Firstly, I would like to thank all our wonderful Japanese fans for coming out to the shows in such large numbers (more fans this time in Tokyo and Osaka than last year!) and supporting us so LOUDLY and with such BIG hearts! Very cool… You guys make it worth the long trip and jet lag fatigue - every time! Domo Arigato!!!

"It was great to see that our new guitarist Fredrik Akesson was so warmly received by the Japanese Arch Enemy fans… More...

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Nikki Sixx Auctions Personal Items For Charity

Mötley Crüe founder and bassist Nikki Sixx knows first-hand what it’s like to have to fend for yourself on the streets, which is why he has launched “Running Wild in the Night,” a fundraising initiative for Covenant House.

Covenant House provides services in 21 cities, 15 in the U.S., to homeless and runaway youth, including advocacy, health care, education, vocational preparation, drug abuse treatment and prevention programs, legal services, recreation, transitional living programs, street and community outreach and aftercare. “I chose to work with Covenant House after a lot of research - I saw what they were doing and it was exactly what I had invisioned for helping at- risk kids – I visited the Los Angeles location and was impressed by the whole operation.”

To help raise even more money for this great cause Nikki has donated items of stage & personal clothing to be auctioned off with proceeds going to Running Wild in the Night.

For more information and a list of auction items, visit Nikki's "Running Wild In The Night" page.

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Motorhead's Lemmy: Just Say No To Drugs

Motorhead front man Lemmy Kilminster is joining forces with a conservative British politician to preach the dangers of drugs.

The heavy-metal wild man is working with William Graham of the conservative Tory party to tell head-bangers to just say no. The collaboration comes after Graham heard Lemmy preach his hatred of heroin in a documentary about his band.

Graham, knowing the power of a rock icon, hopes the anti-drug message carries more weight when delivered from a rock icon

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