Metal News for November 6, 2003
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20 news articles posted on this day.
Anal Blast Benefit Show For Stage Diver
Anal Blast will play a benifit for the kid who almost broke his neck while we played PIGSTOCK, in Davenport Iowa.The kid jumped off the stage for the 3rd time, landing up side down, went into what appeared to be after death convulshions, the show was stopped mid song, during the ANAL BLAST song C.S.W, CUM SHITTING WHORE, as security and police took over the dance floor, with threats of arrest, and imprisonment to the band, ANAL BLAST.
Front man Don Decker has contacted the injured party, and agreed to travel the 400 + miles back to the scene of the crime, to play a free engagement to try to assist the injured party with the out ragious medical costs, that are projected to be over $4000.00 for a few minute hospital stay. This event will be held in the Illinoise border city of Moline. The Black Hawk university has agreed to allow this benefit function to go on at 6600 34th ave, moline il, building #4 in the cafateria.
The show is Sunday Nov 2nd, doors 6pm, and its a $5.00 donation. So if you are from St Louis, Chicago, Des Moines, Dabuque, La Crosse, Madison, or anywhere close, feel free to come smash the university up with us, for a good cause, HELPING ONE OF OUR OWN!!!!!!!!!!! If your just a cool metal kid, and wanna help, call Don, 612 600 3845, or e mail him at VIRTUALHEAVENS@AOL.COM !!!! And make a donation to help our stage diving friend.
Other acts on the bill are as follows, ANAL BLAST, FORK KNIFE SPOON, STOIC, THE ORIGIN. For more info, call billy at 309 269 2545
Massemord Release Their Debut Album
The Norwegians of Massemord have released their debut album through Blackmetal.com Records. This disc is entitled Skogen Kaller, and clocks in at 48 minutes of pure Norwegian Black Metal. Check out Blackmetal.com for more details.
Unheilig Working Full Speed on New Album
Unheilig are being quite industrious these days. Der Graf is workng full time on their new album Zelluloid, which they expect to drop in the Spring of 2004. An exact date to the successor of Das 2. Gebot is not certain, but it will probably come sometime in March or April.
Unheiling are also in the first stages of planning a tour for 2004.
Apokalyptischen Reiter to Play Benefit Concert
On Friday, January 23, Apokalyptischen Reiter and Heaven Shall Burn will play a benefit concert in support of the Ecuador Solidarity Fund. The proceeds from the evening will go to a Children's Care Project on "Isla Trinitaria," which is one of the poorest regions in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city. More information about the fund can be found here. The concert will be held in the Kassablanca Jena. The event will feature the DJs of Hellborn metal radio to provide the appropriate atmosphere.
The "Reiter" are slated to support Subway to Sally on their Yuletide tour. This is not yet 100% confirmed, but the tenative dates on the official website are as follows: More...
Zyklon Cancel Swedish Gigs
From Zyklon's official website:
"Due to practical and economical issues Zyklon will unfortunately not be able to do the 3 Swedish shows with Danzig."
Zyklon will still be playing the one-off Blackest of The Black UK date with Danzig, Marduk, Grimfist, Orange Goblin and Meldrum on November 22nd in London at the Forum.
Dying Fetus Invited to Play in Puerto Rico
Death metallers Dying Fetus have been invited to play a show in Puerto Rico during November. Details will hopefully come soon.
The band is also considering adding some North American dates before their European tour with Hate Eternal and Deeds of Flesh in January. One off North American date has been confirmed so far:
Dec 20 - Anti-christ(mas) Ball - Brooklyn, NY @ L'amour (w/ Obliteration)
Cattle Decapitation Issue Insight into Tour
Cattle Decapitation's Travis has also provided some insight into the bands current goings on as they continue their tour with Deicide:
"The tour has been going great. Josh is sick but he has still managed to get up on stage every night. We would like to thank all of our fans in Albuquerque, NM. The show was awesome, the fans were great. It was by far the best show of the whole tour. We will be getting our first video tonight. We are all really excited to see the finished product. Once we get home we will be posting the video on our website so you can check it out and hopefully you will see us on MTV. I know there have been some issue recently, but I want reassure everyone that the tour is still going strong, and we look forward to seeing all of our fans on the road."
Black Dahlia Murder "New and Improved"
The Black Dabila Murder's Brian Eschbach has written up a little piece about having ex-bandmates Trevor and Dave back in the band:
"We are really glad to have Trevor and Dave back in the band. It's great to be able to work out your differences and get back to doing what we love to do, jammin'. Since we are home we have been taking the opportunity to start writing material for a new album. So far we haven't worked on any lyrics, but we've gotten lots of music down. So far the style is the same as Unhallowed. We haven't made any crazy changes yet. We are ready to go out on tour with Himsa, it's going to be awesome and we are all excited to be playing the New Jersey Metal Fest next weekend."
Here's what Dave had to say... More...
Vehemence Nearly Done Recording
Recording of Vehemence's new album 'Helping The World To See' is said to be going very smoothly, and all that is left to record is the vocals.
The band will then spend about a month mixing. So far, the tentative track listing is as follows: More...
Wolf Wishing on an Evil Star
Wolf have issued an update. “Watch out guys and girls, here’s some Wolf news for you, finally. The new album is finished at last. Why has it taken so fucking long you might ask? Well, to make a long story short, it’s been rough times for the Wolf label. A lot of energy and focus that should have been on heavy metal had to be put into boring shit like finances and management issues. But all that’s sorted out now, and things are looking wicked good.
So, to the main course then. Once again the band recorded with Peter Tagtgren in the Abyss studio. The production is obviously excellent, in fact, it sounds better than ever before. The album contains 10 tracks and presents a new side to Wolf: the Eastern Europe á la -81 side. The boys have been way down in the Polish coal mines, digging for devil tunes. Now they offer us a dish so soaked with concrete dust you just have to have six-pack of lager to go with it.
The album is entitled Evil Star and will be released in Scandinavia through MNW/No Fashion on the 24th of February, 2004. More...
Disarmonia Mundi Album to Feature Bjorn Strid
Disarmonia Mundi have inked a deal with Scarlet Records and will release their sophomore album through the label in Japan in March, 2004. A European release will follow a few weeks later.
The band are currently recording the forthcoming release, entitled Fragments Of De-Generation, which will feature vocals from singer Bjorn ‘Speed’ Strid (Soilwork, Terror 2000).
Cadaveria Forced to Postpone New Album
Cadaveria have been forced to push back the release date for their new album, Far Away From Conformity, to January of 2004. The disc will be released through Scarlet Records.
As previously reported, the album features the following tracklisting: More...
Crowpath to Release Disc on Robotic Empire
Robotic Empire Records is proud to welcome it's first European band to the label lineup. Sweden's Crowpath will be gracing US soil with an 11-track collections CD overflowing with their most extreme technically-inclined metal. The collection will be available on January 27th, 2004, comprising tracks from their previous vinyl and compilation efforts, with exclusive preliminary-mastered versions of two tracks from their upcoming Red On Chrome album. More...
The Legion to Tour Europe in February
Swedish black/death metallers The Legion are planning a European tour that will kick off before the end of February. "We might also do a one-off gig in our hometown Jönköping together with Insision sometime in January," the band write on their web site. "Still, neither the tour or the gig has been confirmed yet but you have been warned... More info coming any day!"
The Legion's debut album, "Unseen To Creation", was released last month through France's Listenable Records. The CD, which was recorded at Abyss Studios with producer Tommy Tägtgren, features "ten songs of complex and eclectic black/death metal, ranging in style from Morbid Angel to Setherial." The cover art was done by Kris Verwimp, who has previously worked with Marduk, Absu, and Immortal, among others. More...
Callenish Circle Play "Longest Set Ever" on Tour
Dutch melodic death metallers Callenish Circle have posted the following message on their official web site:
"Only having a few weeks break, Callenish Circle started rehearsing again for the upcoming headline shows, scheduled late 2003 and early 2004. The band will perform an extended live-set, actually being the longest in the band history ever. Of course, lots of new stuff, but also some older songs from the early days will be included in the setlist."
Upcoming Callenish Circle shows: More...
Pain Confessor Sign with Megamania
Pain Confessor, a melodic metal band from Finland, have signed a three-record deal with the Finnish label Megamania. The co-operation begins with the release of an EP during the first quarter of 2004. Following will be the full-length debut, which is planned for release during the Fall of 2004.
Pain Confessor play "melodic metal with clean and death metal vocals mixing various metal sub-genre influences into their unique style," according to an official press release. "Lots of guitar and vocal harmonies intertwine with atmospheric keyboards and tight rhythms. This is thrashy metal but there are no limits to the band's musical expression and imagination. Members are by no means newbies in the metal scene, line-up featuring members all the way from old school thrashers A.R.G. and long-[running] aggrometallers Jane Doe 69 and Nonsliplevel." More...
Three Inches of Blood Secure US Album Deal
Canadian metallers Three Inches of Blood will release their full-length debut, "Battlecry Under a Winter Sun", in the U.S. on January 20 through Arena Rock Recording Co., distributed by ADA.
"Good times were had for the month of October," the band write on their web site. "Our first U.K. tour was an unbelievable success. Huge thanks to The Darkness, the wicked Welshmen — Paul, Ryan, and Andy, Mark and Vanessa, all our new friends and everyone who got crazy at our shows. Thanks for all the feedback on our guestbook. This was truly the most RAD tour we've had to date. However, it doesn't end there. We'll be embarking on a tour of the eastern United States in December with The Black Dablia Murder and Himsa."
Upcoming Three Inches of Blood tour dates: More...
Mnemic To Open for Machine Head in Germany
Danish "hybrid metal" act Mnemic, featuring former Invocator session drummer Brian Rasmussen and ex-Mercenary guitarist Mircea G. Eftemie, will support Machine Head on the following three dates of their European tour:
Nov. 19 - Stuttgart, GER @ LKA
Dec. 15 - Berlin, GER @ Columbia Fritz
Dec. 19 - Leipzig, GER @ Werk 2 More...
Terror 2000 To Issue Live Album
Terror 2000, the side project of Soilwork vocalist Björn "Speed" Strid and Darkane guitarist Klas Ideberg, will release their first-ever live album, titled "Slaughter In Japan-Live 2003", on December 8 through Italy's Scarlet Records.
The 10-song album was recorded during the band's first-ever Japanese tour in support of Destruction in late May. The tour, dubbed "Thrash Disaster", consisted of two shows at Shibuya Club Quattro in Tokyo on May 27-28. Terror 2000's sophomore CD, "Faster Disaster", was released in 2002 in Europe through Italy's Scarlet Records and shortly thereafter in the USA through the Nuclear Blast label. More...
Slitheryn to open for Kittie
Chicago-based metal band, Slitheryn, was recently assigned as the opening band for Kittie, 40 Below Summer, Motograter.
Slitheryn has gained more and more recognition as well as respect over the past year or so as they toured the world showing what they can do.
What makes this band so unique? Well, the oldest member of the band is 16. The band is fronted by singer, Frankie Burke, who is only 12 years old. Their 4 track E.P. was produced by none other than Slipknot/Stone Sour singer , Corey Taylor. Slitheryn has already left crowds blown away after opening for bands such as Dope, Factory 81, Dry Kill Logic, Slaves on Dope, and Union Underground.
Tour Dates with Slitheryn are as follows: More...
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