Metal News for December 16, 2002
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9 news articles posted on this day.
Steel City Metalfest in Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama will play host to the Steel City Metal Fest on January 16th. The event will take place at the Alabama State Fairground Building and bands scheduled to perform include: Dying Fetus, Dead To Fall, Undying, Kid Gorgeous, Bury Your Dead, Welcome To Your Life, Misery Signals, Suffocate Faster, Rifles At Recess, The Judas Cradle, A Jealousy Issue, A Corpse Named Abel, Traitor, Tell Her I Said Goodbye, and This Runs Through
Curl Up and Die News
As we reported weeks ago, Curl Up And Die plans to release two albums next year, one for Status Recordings, and the other for Revelation Records. Well, the first of the recordings will apparently go to Status, and it will be entitled You Can Be Through With The Past. If everything stays on schedule, it should be available in March, while the ...But The Past Isn't Through With You release should be available via Revelation around July, with Kurt Ballou recording both efforts. In related news, bassist Gavan Nelson, who joined the group about a year ago, decided to leave CUAD following their recent tour with Thrice, Hot Water Music, and Coheed & Cambria. Luckily, the band has already lined up a replacement named Gustavo, AKA Gus. Look for him at CUAD's upcoming shows: More...
Double Dose of Black
Samael are releasing a double DVD called Black Trip on January 27. The DVD features live footage from the Summer Breeze festival 2002, Krakow / Poland 1996 during their Passage world tour, three promo video clips, a full bonus bootleg concert shot in Illinois during the Ceremony Of Opposites tour, plus interviews and footage shot in the studio during the Passage/Exodus sessions. The band are also going on road with Cathedral in the new year.
Pain to do Album of Covers, Updates Sound
Sweden's Pain, the band led by acclaimed metal producer and Hypocrisy frontman Peter Tägtgren, are currently in the studio recording a full-length album of covers, due in the spring through Stockholm Records. Among the tracks that are set to be included on the effort are the band's (presumably) metallized versions of such mainstream selections as The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus", Ultravox's "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes", and Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire".
"My A&R representative at Stockholm Records, David Mortimer-Hawkins, is always saying to me, 'This song you've gotta do a cover of' when we're out drinking at bars," Tägtgren told Sweden's Close-Up magazine. "You think certain songs are so incredible when you are intoxicated. When we were out separately, we started sending text messages over the cell phone suggesting different songs. David has compiled all of these and put them in a computer in a big file labeled 'drunken covers.'"
Pain have thus far completed nine songs for the group's next studio album, to be recorded before the summer. More...
Skyclad's Semblance of Normality
Skyclad have set A Semblance of Normality as the title for their forthcoming CD, which is currently being recorded for an early 2003 release.
Guitarist/vocalist Kevin Ridley has the following to say with regards to the album's songwriting process: "As usual, [guitarist] Steve [Ramsey] wrote the majority of the music although [bassist] Graeme (Bean) [English] and I have contributed with some. I have written all the lyrics (except 'Roman Wall Blues', which was written by W. H. Auden and is a poem I studied when at school for an 'A' level).
"The album has turned into a bit of a strange beast and probably something quite different to what we intended (but that's the way with the creative recording process). It is definitely 'heavy' and also definitely 'folksy' (which is, I believe, the correct term) but more interestingly than any of that, to me, the main thing is that it seems quite eccentric in its own little way - which is 'refreshingly different'." More...
Roy Z to Handle Guitar Duties for Halford
Halford producer/co-writer Roy Z (Tribe of Gypsies, Bruce Dickinson) will fill in on second guitar for the band's upcoming 2003 world tour as the replacement for Patrick Lachman, who announced his split from the group last week. Roy is not expected to become a permanent member of Halford, who will resume the auditioning process for a full-time replacement once the upcoming touring commitments have been fulfilled.
"Everyone in Halford are excited all the pieces are now in place to hit the road," frontman Rob Halford stated. "We've got a very versatile set prepared, so come and get it."
Nail Within Sign with Listenable Records
Israeli thrashers Nail Within (formerly Emblaze) have inked a two-album deal with France's Listenable Records. The group's self-titled debut, which was produced by Harris Johns (Sodom, Kreator, Destruction) at Spiderhouse Studio in Lutte, Germany, is set to surface in February 2003. An 11-track effort, the album features guest appearances by Kreator frontman Mille Petrozza, ex-At the Gates/The Crown singer Tomas Lindberg and Assassin vocalist Robert Gonnela.
The complete track listing for the CD is as follows: More...
Iron Maiden and Metallica Team Up
Iron Maiden and Metallica will team up for a "Monsters of Rock" concert in the Netherlands sometime in June/July 2003, according to the Dutch Aardschok magazine. Iron Maiden's new CD is not expected to arrive until later in the year, at which point Steve Harris and co. will embark on a proper European tour in support of the upcoming effort. Both groups have also been confirmed for next year's Roskilde Festival, scheduled to take place Jun. 26-29, 2003 in Roskilde, Denmark.
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Daily Reviews
Metal Reviews has 8 new reivews this week:
- Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
- Blitzkrieg - Absolute Power
- Entombed - Clandestine
- Harem Scarem - Live at the Gods
- Pretty Boy Floyd (Canada) - Bullets And Lipstik
- Rondinelli - Our Cross Our Sins
- The Kovenant - Nexus Polaris
- Throes of Dawn - Binding of the Spirit
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