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Metal News for December 23, 2001

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Daily Interviews

There are new interviews at Custom Heavy:

  • Pale Divine - Darin McCloskey talks about the awesome new album, working with Bobby Liebling and more.
  • Alchemist - The multi-talented Aussie metalians get grilled by CH's Scott Myers.
  • Nice Cat - What's it like to be sexy, talented and Canadian? Read about these amazingSludge/Pop -ers and find out!
  • Twisted Tower Dire - Guitarist Scott Waldrop talks about thier new album.
  • Custom Heavy's Chris Barnes & Scott Sanfratello - A special interview with the Custom Heavy founders.

And Agonia War'zine has two more:

  • Blood Storm
  • Fleshcrawl

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Daily Reviews

Custom Heavy has a bunch of new reviews for your reading pleasure:

  • Countershaft: Demo 2001
  • Ancient Rites: Dim Carcosa
  • Circle: Prospekt
  • Snaggletooth: S/T
  • Melt: Demo CD-R
  • Mugwart: Before You/Fallen 7"
  • Porn: Experiments in Feedback
  • Twisted Tower Dire: The Isle of Hydra
  • Hostile Apostle: Demo 2001
  • Urshurark: Architecture of Perfect Damnation
  • Penance: Alpha & Omega

And Agonia War'zine has a bunch more:

  • Astriaal (Black Talon Media)
  • Carbon (Blacktalon Media)
  • Salacious Gods (Cold Blood Industries/The Satanic Twins)
  • Saltus (Breath of Night Records)
  • Uhrilehto (Cold Blood Industries/The Satanic Twins)
  • Necrodeath (Scarlet Records)
  • Uranus (self-financed)
  • Belmez ( Christhunt Productions)
  • Bluttaufe (Christhunt Productions)
  • Godless North (Breath of Night Records)
  • Wolfswinter (Christhunt Productions)
  • Katharsis/Moonblood (Sombre Records)
  • Pungent Stench (Nuclear Blast)
  • Ortank (self-financed)
  • Waterfall (self-financed)

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Ozzy, Korn Play Benefit For Musician's Rights

A bunch of successful artists from a variety of genres have united to organize four simultaneous benefit concerts for the Recording Artists Coalition (RAC), a group that seeks to create more equitable standards for recording musicians. Billed the Concerts for Artists Rights, the four shows will take place in the greater Los Angeles and Orange County, California, areas on February 26, the night before the 44th annual Grammy Awards.

RAC members scheduled to perform so far are the Eagles, Elton John, Billy Joel, Dixie Chicks, Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow at the L.A. Forum; No Doubt, Offspring, and Weezer at the Long Beach Arena; Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie and Korn at L.A. Sports Arena; and Clint Black, Trisha Yearwood and others at a venue to be determined. Other acts are expected to be added to all of the bills.

Read the full article at SonicNet.

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