Metal News for November 6, 2002
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18 news articles posted on this day.
Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon Tour
The Dillinger Escape Plan have lined up a run of dates for their Winter 2002 tour, with Mastodon supporting. Here's what we know: More...
ETID, Misery Signals, Remembering Never Tour
The initial tour routing has been scheduled for the upcoming Every Time I Die, Misery Signals, Remembering Never, and My Chemical Romance tour. Look for some of the gaps to be filled shortly. A few of the dates will feature Underoath in place of Misery Signals.
Here's the schedule: More...
Deathwish Inc Sign Embrace Today
Deathwish Inc. has added Massachusetts hardcore unit Embrace Today to their roster. This past year the group released a CDEP entitled FxYxIxE (a great album, by the way) on Aaron Dalbec's (Bane) Life Recording Company. Embrace Today is currently recording a new full-length for Deathwish with Kurt Ballou (who also recorded FxYxIxE) at GodCity Studios. The album will see a release in early-2003 and will be preceded by a tour from the band in December
Arch Enemy Get Intense
In Arch Enemy news, the band is currently on their Wages Of Sin tour with God Forbid in tow. But the work doesn’t stop there.
“We're writing a new record,” states guitarist Michael Amott. “We've got nine or ten songs. It's sounding really heavy. We want it to be more intense than the last record. We've seen with a lot of other bands that are considered to be our peers, I think they kind of seem to be going in a softer direction. I haven't heard much, but the odd track on a sampler or whatever, what people have told me, they've gone in that direction. So yeah, we just want to keep it intense. But it’s just going to be the same kind of progression we've had with every album. We just kind of pour all our creativity into it without really thinking about it too much. But we'll basically stay heavy and intense.”
Napalm Death Update
Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury has posted the following update via the group's official web site:
"We started rehearsing yesterday for the upcoming shows in Finland and the 1st part of the European tour, and apart from a rusty start everything is going good. Gonna be few surprises, I think, as we have been jamming some songs that we haven't played for a long time — some stuff from the 'Utopia Banished' period which is working nicely in with the new songs it almost seems to work better now than in the past for some reason."
"It's a little too early to tell the direction of the set but I think we may be concentrating on the first four albums a lot and the last two — which means we may miss out the mid nineties stuff entirely — but we will see as things always change." More...
Steve DiGiorgio Issues Update
Former Death/Control Denied and current Tesament/Sadus bassist Steve DiGiorgio has released an update on his official web site on the status of the much-anticipated Suicide Shift project (featuring DiGiorgio, Sadus guitarist Darren Travis, and Testament frontman Chuck Billy) and the possibility of a second Control Denied album ever seeing the light of day. More...
No Mercy Festival Cancelled
The No Mercy festival date scheduled for Dec. 9 at London's Electric Ballroom — featuring Marduk, Impaled Nazarene and Immolation, among others — has been cancelled. No reason was given for the cancellation.
Skinless Goes From Sacrifice to Survival
New York death metal act Skinless are presently in pre-production for their third full-length album, From Sacrifice to Survival.
The band will use the services of producer Neil Kernon (Judas Priest, Red Harvest) for From Sacrifice to Survival as well as hire on former drummer Bob Beaulac for recording purposes. The band hope to find a full-time replacement for their 2003 touring commitments in support of the new album.
Malevolent Creation Tour with Cannibal Corpse
Hot off the heels of the release of The Will To Kill, Malevolent Creation waste no time in bringing the devastating new material into the live arena. Malevolent Creation will be heading out on the second leg of the most extreme tour of the fall, joining friends and fellow Floridian's Cannibal Corpse as they trek through and crush Southern audiences. Confirmed tour dates as of today are below. Possible addition of more West Coast dates to follow.
The Will To Kill hits the streets this Tuesday, November 5.
Tour Dates:
Dec 09 San Antonio, TX - Sunset Station
Dec 10 Fort Worth, TX - Canyon Club
Dec 11 New Orleans, LA - Shim Sham Club
Dec 13 Winston-Salem, NC - Ziggy's
Dec 14 Spartanburg, SC - Ground Zero
Dec 15 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Culture Room
Dec 16 Orlando, FL - The Social
Moonsorrow Nearly Finished Writing Material
Finnish Viking metallers Moonsorrow are nearly completed with the writing process for their third album, titled Kivenkantaja (or Stonebearer in English).
Kivenkantaja is expected to be completed at Tico Tico Studios, where Moonsorrow will record from November 18th to December 6th. The band will maintain a diary of time spent at the studio and will publish it on their official website, www.moonsorrow.cjb.net.
"The epic will contain 6 tracks, which are all yet untitled, and the total duration will probably top 50 minutes," explains bassist/vocalist Ville Seponpoika Sorvali. "Most of the material is on a final pre-arrangement stage, and we now may reveal that the Moonsorrow-sound will be carried quite a little further with this release." More...
Barathrum Finish Recording Album
Finnish black metallers Barathrum have finished recording their new album, Venomous, for Spinefarm Records.
So far, Barathrum will release a limited single for the track “Black Flames And Blood” in limited numbers. Act now, says Spinefarm, if you'd like to obtain a copy. As for the release of Venomous the label can't pinpoint a specific date, but states "still very much in the dark."
CoB set New Album Title
Finland's Children of Bodom have set Hatecrew Deathrow as the tentative title of their fourth full-length album and follow-up to 2000's Follow The Reaper.
On the good side: The group's new single, You’re Better Off Dead!, has already gone Gold in the group's home country. Yet on the bad side: guitarist Alexi Laiho's "Jackson Custom Shop guitars were stolen after their blistering show in Helsinki on the 28th of September." Apparently, Spinefarm says that the guitars in question are so rare that only two of their kind exist in Finland, so selling them won't be an easy task. We hope the culprits haven't heard of Ebay.
Life Of Agony Do New York Twice
Life Of Agony have immediately gone back on their recent announcement that the show at Irving Plaza on January 4. They will now play the same venue on January 3.
Friedman Gets A Mascot
Former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman has signed a deal with Mascot. He will release an instrumental album called ‘Music For Speeding’ in February.
System Of A Down's Innervision
System Of A Down are to release the song ‘Innervision’ as the first single from the upcoming record ‘Steal This Album’, which is a collection of previously unissued tracks, dating back as far as 1995.
Ramones Tribute Back To Dec. 24
After changing release dates several times, the Ramones tribute album, We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to the Ramones, featuring several metal icons such as Metallica, Rob Zombie, and Marilyn Manson, is again due Dec. 24.
Read the full article at CDNOW.
Godsmack Release the Faceless Demons
Godsmack have scrapped plans to title their upcoming third CD Releasing the Demons and now intend to name the platter Faceless. "[The title represents] where the band sits right now," frontman Sully Erna says. "We've never quite been a part of the MTV culture . . . with the Pinks and the Kid Rocks." Faceless is expected in March.
Headline News
The Osbournes Host American Music Awards
Ozzy Osbourne -- along with his crazy clan -- will host the 2003 American Music Awards, which ABC will broadcast live Jan. 13. Meanwhile, an hourlong interview with the Osbournes will air Wednesday at 10 p.m. EST on ABC's 20/20, during which Sharon Osbourne will reveal that "this is definitely the last year" for the family's MTV reality series.
Read the full article at CDNOW.
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