Metal News for November 4, 2008
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31 news articles posted on this day.
Tribulation Reveals New Album Info
Swedish dark death thrashers TRIBULATION unveiled the new album artwork for their upcoming full-length "The Horror," which you can view here.
The tracklisting for "The Horror" is as follows:
1. Into The Jaws Of Hell
2. Crypt Of Thanatophilia
3. Curse Of Resurrection
4. Beyond The Horror
5. The Vampyre
6. Sacrilegious Darkness
7. Spawn Of The Jackal
8. Seduced By The Smell Of Rotten Flesh
9. Graveyard Ghouls
The album release date will be announced soon. In the meantime, you can check out some of the band's material on their Myspace page.
Adastra Posts New Track Online For Streaming
Finnish metallers ADASTRA will release their sophomore album, "Death Or Domination", on December 10 in Finland and January 19 in the UK via Violent Journey Records. The CD was mastered on October 9 at Chartmakers in Helsinki, Finland by Svante Forsbäck.
"Death Or Domination" final track listing:
01. Locked On To You
02. One Chance
03. Death Or Domination
04. Who Threw The First Stone
05. Man Mk. II
06. Lost
07. Helsinki 1939
08. Wasted Life
09. Devil Knows You're Dead
10. The Longing
The song "Locked On To You" is available for streaming at the band's MySpace page.
Full Blown Chaos, Reign Supreme Tour Dates
Full Blown Chaos, Reign Supreme, Trapped Under Ice, Dirty Money will touring the U.S. this winter. The following tour dates have been announced so far:
1/2 Milford, CT @ Grease Pit
1/3 Brockton, MA @ Tigers Den
1/4 Philadelphia, PA @ The Barbary
1/5 Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
1/6 Atlanta, GA @ MJQ / Drunken Unicorn
1/7 Tampa, FL @ Transitions
1/8 Birmingham, AL @ New Cave 9
1/9 Tulsa, OK @ Pinkeye
1/10 San Antonio, TX @ Rock Bottom
1/11 Las Cruces, NM @ Dream Center
1/12 Tijuana, MX @ Salon Fiesta
1/13 Salinas, CA @ Carlitos
1/14 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
1/18 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Saloon
1/20 Mt Clemens, MI @ Hayloft
1/21 Toronto, ON @ Siesta Nouveaux
1/22 Montreal, QC @ Underworld
1/23 Quebec City, QC @ L' Anti
1/24 Albany, NY @ Valentines
Queensryche To Perform At Hendrix Tribute Shows
Queensryche will help celebrate the music and legacy of Jimi Hendrix by performing on two select dates of this year's Experience Hendrix 2008 Tribute Tour to take place on Wednesday, November 5th at the INB Performing Arts Center in Spokane, Washington and Thursday, November 6th at The Paramount Theatre in the band's hometown of Seattle, Washington which, of course, was also the hometown of Jimi Hendrix.
Both of these particular performances -- part of a nationwide 19 city tour that began on October 15th in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire -- will feature such other artists as Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Doyle Bramhall II, Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Robby Krieger, Jonny Lang, Chris Layton, Mato Nanji and Hubert Sumlin among others.
Geoff Tate is certainly excited to take part in it all commenting, "Jimi Hendrix is not only a Seattle legend but a world legend. I feel it's such a privilege to be included on this tour and to have a chance to play his music with such a talented group of musicians." More...
Light This City Posts Another New Song Online
Bay Area death thrashers LIGHT THIS CITY have posted another new song from their swansong album, "Stormchaser," on the band’s MySpace page. "Beginning With Release" joins the previously-posted track "Sand And Snow" as two online previews from the 12-song album which will see a November 11 release through longtime home Prosthetic Records.
"Stormchaser" features artwork from Kristian Wåhlin (At The Gates, Emperor, Dissection) and guest vocal performances from Testament’s Chuck Billy and The Funeral Pyre’s John Strachan. Longtime collaborator Zach Ohren (All Shall Perish, Odious Mortem) again handled production duties for "Stormchaser," which comes out on November 11 and is available with a limited edition t-shirt online here. Three in-studio updates from LIGHT THIS CITY’s time recording "Stormchaser" are available below, as well as the music video for "The Unwelcome Savior" from "Facing The Thousand." More...
Nightrage To Enter The Studio In February
Swedish/Greek melodic death metal outfit NIGHTRAGE check in with the following update:
"As you know we are currently writing songs for our forthcoming album. It has now been confirmed that these songs will be recorded, produced, and mixed by our old friend Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman.
"We are more than happy to work with Fredrik again, the man that helped us so much on the first two albums Sweet Vengeance and Descent into chaos. We feel that his help will be the return to form we've been searching for. We are coming back to the guy with the magical sound, and we can´t wait to start recording and later share this music with you our fans. More...
Headline News
Deftones Bassist Chi Cheng In Coma After Car Crash
The Sacremento Bee reports: Deftones bassist Chi Cheng is in a coma in a San Jose hospital following a car accident in Santa Clara on Monday.
The band's singer, Chino Moreno, reached by phone, confirmed the news but declined to give specifics.
"I don't know everything that's going on -- I just know it's very serious," Moreno said. "I'm on my way to be with his family, I'm pretty freaked out about it." More...
Stone Temple Pilots Announces More Shows
Reunited grungers Stone Temple Pilots has announced two more shows for this winter.
The dates are as follows:
Dec 31st - Club Nokia - Los Angeles, California
Jan 2nd - Pearl Concert Theatre - Las Vegas, Nevada
Frontman Scott Weiland has stated that he is unsure of the bands future once the touring is complete and the band are currently involved in a lawsuit with their record label, Atlantic, who claims that the band owes them three more albums.
Cream Bassist Insults Led Zeppelin
The Classic Rock Awards last night played host to a number of honours bestowed upon legendary bands and Cream was no exception. The legendary blues rockers picked up the award for Classic Album with "Disraeli Gears" but bassist Jack Bruce had a few choice words for Led Zeppelin. An excerpt from a quick-fire interview reads as follows:
Classic Rock: The Million Dollar Question, Are Cream going to do anything again?
Bruce: Oh yeah, I’m sure we will. But we’ll have Todd Rundgren [who’s just walked by] in the band by then.
Classic Rock: It’s good news that there might be more from Cream.
Bruce: Well, the trouble is that I’m doing so many amazing things on my own. Cream is just a band from many, many years ago, and we did do something [referring to the reunion shows in 2005]… Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fucking gig – one fucking lame gig – while Cream did weeks of gigs; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Becoming animated]: Fuck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they’re sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.
Classic Rock: That’s a bold opinion.
Bruce: What? You’re gonna compare Eric Clapton with that fucking Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that?
Classic Rock: To be fair, they’re different kinds of player, aren’t they?
Bruce: No! Eric’s good and Jimmy’s crap. And with that I rest my case.
Read the full article at Classic Rock Magazine.
Shadowgate Welcomes New Vocalist Lewis Landy
NY progressive thrashers, Shadowgate, welcome their new frontman Lewis Landy to the band with the following message:
"After months of auditions, lots of patience (on your end also), lots of practice, and lots of dissapointments, Shadowgate has completed it's line-up."
"We would like you to all welcome new frontman Lewis Landy to the Shadowgate Nation!!! With an unstoppable vocal power ranging from gut wrenching mind blowing screams, melodic vocals, and powerful harmonies that will push you to the edge, we are extremly excited to welcome the newest, and final, member of the band!!!" More...
Crystal Tears Posts Recording Update
Greek power metallers Crystal Tears has posted the following studio update online:
"Having reached November 2008 and yes, vocal recordings plus some extra tracks are finally over!
"Germany's Music Factory studio and R. D. Liapakis (producer) along with C. Schmid (sound engineer) are ready to begin the editing, mixing and mastering procedures of the album.
"At the other part of Europe, IAN PARRY (ELEGY, CONSORTIUM) paid a visit to Thessaloniki, Greece to meet Crystal Tears. During this 7-day meeting the guys did two different photo sessions, shot their debut video clip, rehearsed, recorded some BVs (backing vocals, choirs and shouts) and partied their nuts off!
"Crystal Tears' job is done here. The band's music and all production details are left in the hands of people we trust."
Satyricon Signs With Koch Records?
Rumours are beginning to spread that Norwegian black metal legends Satyricon has signed a deal with Koch Records to distribute their new studio album, "The Age Of Nero" in the United States. The album was released in Europe yesterday and the band hope to have it out on the other side of the Atlantic in time for the bands tour with Cradle Of Filth in January.
Sinamore Enters The Studio
Finnish goth metallers Sinamore has posted the following update online:
"We've been in the studio recording some demo material for our forthcoming album with Juho Räihä (known from the bands BEFORE THE DAWN and GLORIA MORTI).
"Drums have now recorded, also rhythm guitars, and today we're gonna concentrate on lead/ clean guitar and bass tracks. Really hard stuff coming out so you should be prepared ;))
"Stuck on you later!!!"
Onslaught To Record Live Album
Nige Rockett, guitarist with legendary British thrash metallers Onslaught has posted the following message online:
"Onslaught will record their performance at this years Damnation Festival on Saturday, November 22nd, (Leeds, UK) for a future live album release through Candlelight Records in early 2009. (Onslaught will be appearing on the main stage - showtime tbc).
"We're really looking forward to playing at this year's Damnation Festival, its gonna be a real crazy day... what a way to wind up our European promotion for the Killing Peace release and now we've got the added bonus of recording what will be our first official live album. This will keep things ticking over nicely while we complete the writing of the new opus... and dont forget to make some fucking noise for the boys."
Onslaught will finish up the touring with a small U.K. tour, after which they will concentrate on writing and recording their fifth studio album. The tour dates are as follows:
November
14 - Birmingham, UK - Asylum
15 - Nuneaton, UK - Queens Hall
21 - Swansea, UK - Sin City
22 - Leeds, UK - Damnation Festival
28 - Kingston, UK - The Peel
Coliseum's SXSW Performance Footage Posted Online
COLISEUM’s performance from this year’s South By Southwest music festival has recently been posted online courtesy of MetalKult.com. This five-song set from the Relapse Records SXSW showcase can be viewed now at this location.
COLISEUM is currently on tour along the west coast with TORCHE and CLOUDS. The Louisville, KY three-piece will perform a special election night show in Los Angeles, CA this evening before flying to Japan with TORCHE for a brief tour together.
Upon returning home, COLISEUM will immediately join label-mates BARONESS and MINSK for a two-week tour in the northeastern US. A complete listing of confirmed COLISEUM tour dates can be found below with more to be announced soon.
For more information on COLISEUM, please contact Betsey Cichoracki, Relapse Records Media Relations, at (610)734-1000 x106 or Betsey@Relapse.com.
Here are the latest COLISEUM tour dates: More...
Watch Ghenghis Tron Performance Footage Online
Progressive metal shredders GENGHIS TRON have posted more concert footage from a show filmed last year at Club Infinity in Williamsville NY. The live videos are for their tracks "Things Don’t Look Good" and "White Walls" and can be viewed on UVTV's site.
GENGHIS TRON is currently doing its second headlining tour overseas this year. This European trek will kicked off on October 28 in Berlin, Germany and will include support from BEHOLD… THE ARCTOPUS for the duration.
Manowar To Headline B'estfest Aftershock
On July 5th, 2009 MANOWAR will headline the B'estfest Aftershock set to take place at the Romexpo in Bucharest along with special guests HolyHell. Tickets are for sale online at www.myticket.ro. For more information and directions, visit bestfest.ro.
More Manowar tour dates for 2009 will be announced shortly, including the third edition of the Magic Circle Festival.
Sepultura Pushes New Album Back To January
Brazilian metal legends Sepultura has announced that their new studio album "A-Lex" will be released on January 26th via SPV Records. The album was previously expected to drop this month but no date was ever confirmed. The album will be another concept record and is based on the infamous novel "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. The title of the album takes its name from the main character in the story but also translates as "no law" in Russian.
The Crimson Armada Enters The Studio
Columbus, Ohio's The Crimson Armada entered the Foundation Studios on November 1st to record their Metal Blade debut album "Guardians." At the recording helm is Joey Sturgis (Woe of Tyrants, Devil Wears Prada, Brother Von Doom), who will also be handling mixing and mastering duties.
You can check out some material from The Crimson Armada on their Myspace page.
Led Zeppelin Among Winners At Classic Rock Awards
Led Zeppelin, Whitesnake, Paul Stanley, Ozzy Osbourne and Foo Fighters amongst others were all honoured at the Classic Rock awards last night. Led Zeppelin were presented the award of "Event Of The Year" for their reunion concert at London's 02 Arena which attracted over a million people applying for tickets.
Ozzy Osbourne also received braging rights as he was crowned with the Living Legend Award by ex- Guns N Roses/Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash.
AC/DC picked up the award for DVD Of The Year with their latest home video release "Plug Me In"
Whitesnake were able to pick the award for Best Album with their latest album, "Good To Be Bad" and KISS frontman Paul Stanley was presented Showman Of The Year award.
A short video about Ozzy Osbourne receiving the Living Legend award can be viewed below. More...
Read the full article at GigWise.
Six Feet Under Posts Another New Song Online
Tampa, FL death-groove act SIX FEET UNDER has posted the new song, "Involuntary Movement of Dead Flesh," off their upcoming release, "Death Rituals," via the band's MySpace page. There you can check out this latest track as well as two more tracks off "Death Ritual" -"Shot in the Head" and "Seed of Filth."
"Death Rituals," SIX FEET UNDER's eighth full-length studio album, will be available everywhere Tuesday, November 11th.
"Death Rituals" features 13 tracks of pure American death metal. "Death Rituals" saw the band returning to Morrisound Studios in Tampa, FL with Chris Carroll at the helm with mixing duties being handled by Toby Wright and the return of Six Feet Under's old friend Bill Metoyer, who recorded the band's CD "Warpath," helping out with recording of the drums.
Six Feet Under's "Death Rituals" track listing is as follows: More...
Saliva Announces New Album Release Date
Saliva has announced that their forthcoming fifth studio album, "Cinco Diablo" will be hitting the shelves on December 16th this year. The band are currently riding high with their new single, "Family Reunion" acheiving number one status on various radio stations. The band are currently on the road with Drowning Pool.
Disturbed Announces More Tour Dates
Chicago based rockers Disturbed has added tour dates in the States to their growing schedule.
The tour dates are as follows:
November 23 - Rochester, MN @ Mayo Civic Auditorium
November 25 - Brookings, SD @ Swiftel Center
November 26 - Bismark, SD @ Bismark Civic Center
November 28 - Great Falls, MT @ Four Seasons Arena
November 29 - Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
December 8 - Grand Forks, ND @ The Club at Alerus Center
December 10 - Keamey, NE @ FirsTier Event Center
December 16 - St. Louis, MO @ KPNT/St. Louis Disturbed Radio Show
AC/DC Remains Number One In U.S.A.
Undercover.com.au is reporting:
AC/DC will maintain their lead with the biggest selling album in the USA this week with Black Ice, blocking out Funhouse by PINK by almost 2 to 1.
With just over 50% of the week’s sales counted AC/DC is registering 190,000 sales compared to Pink’s 88,000, according to Hitsdailydouble.com
AC/DC kicked off the Black Ice world tour last week in Wilkes-Barre, PA and have since played Chicago and Indianapolis.
Warrant Drummer Steven Sweet Checks In
Warrant drummer Steven Sweet has checked in with the following update:
"I am beginning to run out of fresh and exciting ways to make the travel experience seem interesting, enticing, and extraordinary to those of you who may not travel so much (and to those of you who do), but I will do my best... here goes.
"Joey and I embarked upon our journey to Tyler, Texas, located near the North Eastern border of the state as you approach Louisiana heading Eastward, a few days early to soak in a bit of the local culture, shake a few hands, and eat some Mexican, Italian and Cajun (food, not the people). Here are a few 'fun facts' about Tyler: Tyler is a city and in the county seat of Smith County, Texas in the United States. The city is named for President John Tyler in recognition of his support for Texas's admission to the United States. The 2000 census recorded the city's population to be 83,650, while in 2008 it was estimated to have reached 108,772 (at least half were in attendance the night of the show). Tyler has been nicknamed the 'Rose Capital of America' because of its large role in the rose-growing industry; about 20% of commercial rose bushes (he said 'bushes' heh, heh!) produced in the U.S. are grown in Tyler and Smith County and more than half of the bushes are packaged and shipped from the area. It boasts the nation's largest municipal rose garden and hosts the Texas Rose Festival each October, which draws more than 100,000 spectators.
"Important note: remember, Every Rose Has Its Thorn... thanks Bret! More...
Brutal Truth Posts New Video Online
Reunited extreme metallers Brutal Truth has posted a new music video online for the song, "Blind Leading The Blind." You can check it out below. Brutal Truth are currently in the studio working on a brand new album which is expected to have an early 2009 release and have already written 24 songs for the record. More...
Set Your Goals Rejoined By Ex-Guitarist
Set Your Goals has announced the return of former guitar player Dan Coddaire, who originally left the group in 2006. Here's a statement from the band:
"The time has also officially come to announce the return of 'papa' Daniel Levi Coddaire, now on full-time lead guitar for Set Your Goals in 2008 and beyond! For those unfamiliar, Dan performed with SYG our first two years as a band (2004 - 2006) and we can't say how stoked we are to have him back in action. We want to also extend a huge thank you to our close friend John Strader for all his work filling in with Set Your Goals on this year's Gallows UK tour, the Warped Tour '08, and the upcoming Set Your Goals - Four Year Strong 'Holiday Shows.'"
Cannibal Corpse Reveals New Album Title
Death metal legends Cannibal Corpse has announced that their new studio album will be entitled, "Evisceration Plague" and that it will be released on February 3rd.
Bassist Alex Webster states: "In Cannibal Corpse, our goal has always been to try and make each new album we record our heaviest. That goal was a bit morechallenging this time since we were extremely satisfied with our last album, "Kill," but we knew that by working with producer Erik Rutan at Mana Recording Studios again, we would be able to start at the same level of heaviness and take it even further. Now that we can hear the finished product, I would say we've been able to achieve this goal and I think our fans will agree. "Evisceration Plague" has the best guitar sound we've ever recorded and the entire band has never played with more precision and power. We can't wait until you all get a chance to hear the album in early 2009, because we think you'll be as happy with it as we are."
The tracklisting for "Evisceration Plague" is as follows:
1. Priests Of Sodom
2. Scalding Hail
3. To Decompose
4. A Cauldron Of Hate
5. Beheading And Burning
6. Evidence In The Furnace
7. Carnivorous Swarm
8. Evisceration Plague
9. Shatter Their Bones
10. Carrion Sculpted Entity
11. Unnatural
12. Skewered From Ear To Eye
Mustasch Posts Two More Tour Reports
Mustasch has posted two more installments of their video tour report from the road with Die Apokalyptischen Reiter. Mustasch and Die Apokalyptichen Reiter is currently on a massive tour around Germany, Switzerland and Austria. You can watch the videos below. More...
The Binary Code Parts with Record Label
The Binary Code has apparently been dropped by Midgets With Machetes, with whom they signed in June. Though an official announcement has yet to be made, the band says, "We are free agents right now, looking at new prospective labels, and also accepting suggestions."
Regardless, The Binary Code will be in the studio this month recording their debut full-length.
The band previously announced the tentative tracklisting as follows: More...
Guns N' Roses Premieres New Commercial
Guns N' Roses premiered a new commercial teaser for "Chinese Democracy" during Saturday Night Live over the weekend. The 30 second spot features the recently released title track and information about the album pre-sale. You can watch the commercial below.
Chinese Democracy will be out November 23rd through Black Frog/Geffen Records, and exclusively through Best Buy stores in the USA. More...
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