Metal News for December 10, 2008
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19 news articles posted on this day.
The Red Baron Posts Studio Video Updates Online
While recording their first proper full length for Blood & Ink Records, hardcore band THE RED BARON documented the process with humorous videos. The first two installments of the three part series have been posted, with the third coming soon. You can watch the first two videos below. More...
Interview
An Interview With Joe Cocchi of Within The Ruins
Massachusetts based metal band Within the Ruins just recently signed with Victory Records after years of playing together and putting out two EPs on their own. The band is currently recording their first full length album which is due out in February. Their guitar player Joe Cocchi shared with us some insight into the band's beginnings and their upcoming album. More...
Destroy The Runner Posts Christmas Song Online
Destroy The Runner has posted a Christmas song entitled "Destroy The Jingle" on their MySpace page. Coming from a metalcore band, this song is more rap-rock, but may be worth checking out if you are a fan of Christmas spoofs nonetheless.
Adversary Announces Tour w/ Brother Von Doom
ADVERSARY announce their first tour on their debut album "Singularity" to kick off January 22. KillerTours Presents Adversary, Brother Von Doom, Woe Of Tyrants, and Destroy Destroy Destroy. Some dates have been announced here while the rest of the tour will be announced in the coming week. Adversary drummer Justin Green commented, "We are beyond excited to finally get out there and melt some faces on the first tour for our new album!"
Here are the latest Adversary tour dates: More...
Artillery Breath Finishes Recording New Album
Ohio's death metal group Artillery Breath has just finished recording their upcoming full length CD, "Inhuman," with legendary engineer Kurt Ballou at God City Studios. Capeside Records will be releasing "Inhuman" and are hoping for a February 2009 release date. According to the label, this CD will be for fans of Skeletonwitch, Between the Buried and Me and The Black Dahlia Murder.
You can check out some of Artillery Breath's material on their MySpace page.
Doomriders Wins Boston Music Award
Doomriders recently won the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Local Metal/Hardcore Act.
The band recently released a split 7" with Disfear and is currently writing songs for a release in 2009. You can check out some of their material on their MySpace page.
Headline News
Adrian "The Energizer" Bromley Passes Away
Adrian "The Energizer" Bromley passed away in his sleep on December 7th, 2008 at the young age of 37 from complications due to pneumonia. He had just celebrated his birthday on November 30th.
Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles reports: To say that Adrian was active in the metal scene is an understatement. Early in his journalism career he worked at Canada's M.E.A.T Magazine (along with BW&BK's Carl Begai and "Metal" Tim Henderson). Soon-after, Adrian, along with Gino Filicetti formed one of the world's first extreme metal webzines called Chronicles Of Chaos. Adrian went on to create Unrestrained! Magazine which gained worldwide popularity in the extreme underground realm. More recently he worked press and publicity at The End Records and moved on to form Ixmati Media, a company that represented the likes of Listenable Records, Blistering Records, Northern Storm Records, Ibex Moon Records, Shadow Kingdom Records among others. He had also started his new label called Absurdist Records.
BW&BK President/CEO "Metal" Tim Henderson had this to say about his passing: "We are in total shock. We used to joke that BW&BK and Unrestrained! were vicious rivals, but that was totally inaccurate. I'd known Adrian since the M.E.A.T. days in Toronto in the late '80s as we all were trying to cut it as potential journalists! Hell, he lived on our BraveBoard! You won't meet anybody in this biz that worked as hard as Adrian, fighting for "the cause" at every waking moment. And the key was that his heart was in the right place. He'd give you his left arm if you needed it. Always a friendly hand-shake or a heavy metal hug. Every band and label that Adrian represented felt his presence. His head was filled with a sea of metal knowledge - underground and above ground. Virtually every conversation we had was about music - it was his life. Adrian had incredible vision, always thinking of ideas on how to push the scene to greater heights. Those of us based in Toronto - take a look around at your next metal show/gathering. Adrian touched every one of those souls as he helped the scene grow larger than ever.
"Damn, it as just over a year ago we lost Ray "Black Metal" Wallace. Life just ain't fair.
"He will be terribly missed..." More...
Watch Into Eternity's "Time Immemorial" Video
Canadian extreme progressive metal band, INTO ETERNITY, presents their new video for "Time Immemorial" on MySpace. The track appears on the group's concept album, "The Incurable Tragedy," which debuted at #17 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart upon its September release.
The video, which features vocalist Stu Block in a prominent role, was filmed in Montreal in August, just before the group embarked on the Summer Slaughter Canada tour. That trek was followed by a run alongside the legendary Iced Earth, which capped off a year that also saw the band tour with Symphony X, At The Gates and The Dillinger Escape Plan, among others. More...
Fairytale Abuse Announces Tour Dates
FAIRYTALE ABUSE have announced the following tour dates:
12/20 - Sonderborghus, Sonderborg, DK
01/08 - The Rock, Copenhagen, DK
01/31 - Midwinter Meltdown Festival 2009, Randers, DK
Early Man Begin Recording New Album
EARLY MAN is back in the studio, currently working on their sophomore full-length with Jack Endino (High On Fire, Zeke, Valient Thorr, Nirvana). The still-untitled album, the follow-up to the band's 2005 debut, "Closing In (Matador)," will be released by THE END RECORDS in early 2009. EARLY MAN, featuring guitarist/vocalist Mike Conte, drummer Adam Bennati, guitarist Pete Macy, and bassist Tim Ramage, are keeping fans updated on their progress in the studio at this location. More...
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow Parts Ways With Drummer
Finland's Eternal Tears Of Sorrow have issued the following announcement regarding line up changes:
"Petri Sankala (drums) has left the band. The reason for this mutual decision is Petri’s back pain that hasn’t allowed him to play drums 100% during the past two years. None of us has bad feelings whatsoever and we wish Petri all the best!" More...
Meshuggah Announces North American Tour Dates
Meshuggah have announced a North American tour with Cynic and The Faceless. Tour dates are as follows:
02/01/09 - House of Blues – Anaheim, CA
02/02/09 - House of Blues – San Diego, CA
02/03/09 - House of Blues – Hollywood, CA
02/04/09 - Slim’s – San Francisco, CA
02/06/09 - El Corazón – Seattle, WA
02/07/09 - Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
02/08/09 - Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, BC – CANADA
02/09/09 - Knitting Factory – Spokane, WA
02/11/09 - Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
02/13/09 - Station 4 – St. Paul, MN
02/15/09 - House Of Blues – Chicago, IL
02/17/09 - Phoenix Concert Theatre – Toronto, ON – CANADA
02/18/09 - Club Soda – Montreal, QC – CANADA
02/19/09 - TBA – New York, NY
02/20/09 - Recher Theatre – Towson, MD More...
Dead Head Issues Studio Update
Dutch metallers, Dead Head, have issued the following album update on their MySpace page.:
"Our new album 'Depression Tank' is finally done.
Feel free to check out the first song 'Less Than Zero'. It's in our player NOW!"
"Over the next few weeks, we will disclose at least one more new song.The album will be released by Displeased Records in February."
"Depression Tank facts:
-recorded at Hooiland Studios, Zwolle
-mixed and mastered by Robert Slump
-artwork by Wicliff Wolda, who also did the 'Haatland'-artwork." More...
Northern Ash Posts New Song Online
NORTHERN ASH have announced that a new 5-song EP will be released in February 2009. The EP is a follow up to 2008's debut full length album, "The Age of Irrationality."
NORTHERN ASH consists of members Phil Diez also of SORROWSTORM, REHUMANIZE, and ENCRYPTOR and Todd Brandt also of TRANSFIGURAL FORM.
A new song from the upcoming EP titled, "The Terror that Waits," can be streamed from the bands MySpace page.
Cemetery Of Scream Revels New Album Details
Polish atmospheric dark metal band, Cemetery Of Scream, returns with a new album, entitled "Frozen Images," which features the new vocalist, Olaf Rózanski. The album artwork can be seen here. Metal Mind Productions set the release day for 26th January 2009 in Europe and 10th March 2009 in USA (via MVD).
Devian Posts 6 New Songs Online
Swedish blackened death/thrash metal band, DEVIAN, has posted 6 songs from their soon to be released second album, "God To The Illfated," at their website.
Featuring former Marduk members Legion (vocals) and Emil Dragutinovic (drums), DEVIAN’s "God To The Illfated" will be available as limited edition CD including a special O-Card packaging, two exclusive audio bonus tracks, and a free band-logo sticker. The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Mask Of Virtue (3:17)
2. Assailant (3:41)
3. The Unspoken (3:45)
4. Saintbleeder (4:41)
5. I'm The Pariah (3:34)
6. God To The Illfated (4:18)
7. Summerdeath (4:31)
8. South Of Halo (5:36)
9. Awaiting Doom (3:55)
10. When The Vultures Have Left (7:02)
11. Reap The Storm (4:01)*
12. Raison D'etre (4:19)*
* bonus tracks only available on the Limited Edition More...
Terror Posts Muisc Video for "Betrayer" Online
Right in the midst of the extremely successful Persistence Tour 2008 together with label mates Sick Of It All and Heaven Shall Burn, hardcore outfit TERROR has posted a brand-new video clip for the song "Betrayer," check it out at this location. The song comes off TERROR’s "The Damned, The Shamed."
Remaining PERSISTENCE TOUR 2008, featuring SICK OF IT ALL, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, TERROR, BORN FROM PAIN, DISCIPLINE, H2O, WAR OF AGES, dates are as follows:
12/09 - Paris - Elysee Montmarte (France) + APOCALYPSE NOW
12/10 - Tilburg - O13 (Netherlands) + THE SETUP
12/11 - London - Forum (Great Britain)
12/12 - Saarbrücken - Garage (Germany)
12/13 - Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle (Germany) + SLAPSHOT + ENERGY + ALL FOR NOTHING
12/14 - Hamburg - Docks (Germany) + A TRAITOR LIKE JUDAS
Izegrim To Record New 3-Song MCD
Izegrim will start recording a new mini-CD with three brand-new songs to present their new line-up. The release date will be February 10, 2009. This mini-CD will also contain 2 live videos from their gig with Textures at the Luxor club Arnhem.
You can watch two videos, which were shot during Izegrim's gig at the Metal Female Voices Fest in Belgium, featuring the band's new lineup below. More...
Download Blues' "Heavy Sci-Fi" EP Online
Progressive rock/metal band BLUES will be releasing their heavily scientific and brutally melodic contribution to the music world, otherwise known as "Heavy Sci-Fi" with 1912 RECORDS.
The tracks are now up for free download on their myspace (and here). In the spring of 2009, they are going to ackage it in a vinyl/cd package.
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