Metal News for December 5, 2008
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28 news articles posted on this day.
The Banner Singer Forms Wolve
The Banner frontman Joey Southside has announced the launch of a new band called Wolve. Here's what he had to say about it:
"So as some of you obviously know already, I have started a new band. Well it's been 'started' for awhile now but I've just recently started recording demos. The band is called Wolve and the first record/demo is being written by me and Will Putney (same dudes who wrote Frailty).
"No, The Banner isn't breaking up, we're probably not going to be touring anymore, but we're not breaking up (we'll have a new EP out middle of next year). Basically on Frailty there was a lot of more melodic and more out there stuff than the previous records, and though I think it's perfect for the record Frailty, it's definitely not something I want to do on another TB record. So The Banner will be going back to basics and Wolve will be where all the melody and more progressive shit goes."
A demo track from the group (sans vocals) can be heard here.
A Hope For Home Signs To Strike First Records
Newly relaunched Strike First Records has announced the signing of Portland, Oregon's A Hope For Home. A Hope For Home has been touring consistently throughout the northwest and has self released their own material before signing with Strike Force Records for their newest album, "The Everlasting Man." This 11 track album will be available January. You can check out some music from the upcoming album at the band's MySpace page.
In Memorium Completes New Album
Six years since recording the critically hailed "From Misery...Comes Darkness" debut full-length, Seattles' own dark death-metal machine In Memorium entered Two Sticks Audio on September 11th, 2008 to begin recording their newest full-length opus, "Lost to Antiquity," with producer Don Gunn at the helm. As of November 22nd, 2008, all tracks have been completed, with the mixing process to begin this month.
"Lost to Antiquity" will feature seven songs of deadly, razor-sharp blackened death metal, covering a wide spectrum of styles within the boundaries of extreme metal whilst retaining the signature In Memorium sound that was established on 1999's "An Ancient Word" MCD/EP and expanded upon on 2003's "From Misery...Comes Darkness" CD. Song titles include "One Above All," "Beneath the Endless Ocean," "O' Hail Glorious Death," "Discipline," "The Awakening," "Erosion," and "In Memorium." The artwork and layout is completed and was realised by local underground artist Rouman Kirinkov.
"The early mixes have been very promising," says vocalist Nihilist, "and we look forward to completing this eternally damned and delayed release, for a tentative April 2009 release on Moribund Cult."
Malefice Reveals New Album Title And Release Dates
British metal act Malefice has announced that they will entitle their new album, "Dawn Of Reprisal." A message from Metal Blade Records reads as follows: "Packed full of face-melting riffs, fret-shredding guitars and a sense of groove that will stand up against any name you care to mention, ?Dawn Of Reprisal? arrives in stores on February 27th (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy), March 2nd (rest of Europe). This is the date that the rest of the World shall follow Britain's lead in worshipping at the alter of Malefice! Consider this your warning!"
The album contains the following tracklisting:
"The Midas Effect"
"Abandon Hope"
"An Architect Of Your Demise"
"End Of Days"
"Human Portrait"
"As I Bleed"
"When Embers Ignite"
"Retribution"
"Hatred Justified"
"Sickened"
Centaurus A Signs To Listenable Records
German technical death metal maestros CENTAURUS A will be releasing their debut album, "Side Effects Expected" on Listenable in March 2009. The band got their name from a galaxy: "It is one of the most interesting and peculiar galaxies in the sky, and is a strong source of radio radiation (therefore the designation Centaurus A); it is actually the nearest radio galaxy. Centaurus A galaxy has swallowed another galaxy similar to ours about 2 billion years ago."
The band was formed in 2000 and released three demos: "Last Step Line" [2000], "Nimbus" [2001] and "Narcotic" [2003]. CENTAURUS A is: Johannes Henke [vocals], Hernan Martinez, Maik Matanovic [guitars],
Michael Ahlgrimm [bass], Patrick Schroeder [drums].
Centaurus A is defining their musical goal as follows : "We're constantly working on developing an unique style of metal, always trying to push our technical limits as musicians to new levels."
"Side Effects Expected" is a collection of melodic death metal and was recorded with Jacob Hansen at his own studio in Denmark.
You can check out some of the band's material on their MySpace page.
Serj Tankian Writing Songs For A New Musical
Former System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian has revealed that he is currently composing songs for a musical entitled, "Prometheus Bound" which is based on the ancient Greek tale of a mortal who stole fire from the gods. The shows book and lyrics were written by Steven Sater, who has achieved success on Broadway with "Spring Awakening"
Tankian says: "It's, I mean, I've worked with Daron (Malakian, System Of A Down guitarist), who's written some lyrics, but mostly I've wrote my own lyrics. So working with a playwright who's giving you everything that should be done and you could just provide the music as a composer is really interesting. It's exciting. It's a whole new thing for me, you know. I've never done this before, so I'm in."
Arkona Announces Winter Tour Dates In Germany
The German label Det Germanske Folket has organized a midwinter tour for Arkona in Germany, the FUCKING CHRISTMAS TOUR. The tour will include Arkona, Menhir, and Vardlokkur (1 Gig CZ, rest in Germany). The tour take place from 22.12.2008-30.12.2008.
Here are the dates, support acts and venues:
22.12. Dresden / Skullcrusher: http://www.skullcrusher-dresden.de/ (tickets bitte bei enni65@freenet.de reservieren)
24.12. Annaberg-Buchholz / Asgard Pub
25.12. Berlin / Knaack Club, Support: Fjäll http://www.knaack-berlin.de/
(tickets: http://www.koka36.de/search.php?suche=knaack)
26.12. Bad Salzungen / KW70, Support: Helritt http://www.kw70.de/Events.htm
(tickets: http://ticket69.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=261)
27.12. München / Metropolis, Support: Helfahrt:
http://www.metropolis-munich.de/
28.12. Großerlach / VFRR Vereinshaus (ohne Menhir), Support: 2 lokale Bands
29.12. Hamburg / Fundbureau (ohne Menhir) Support: Ctulu und Nidhögg
(http://www.fundbureau.de/) (Vorbestellung: nur Abendkasse)
God Forbid Guitarist Hopes For Poor Reviews?
God Forbid guitarist Doc Coyle has posted a new blog on MetalSucks.net. An excerpt from the blog can be viewed below:
"Seriously, I'm talking about haterade because I think bands that get hated on generally become more successful. Right now, I'm hoping, pleading and wishing for this album to be panned by critics, internet trolls and whoever wants to shit on it. You may ask me, "Why Dallas? Why dost thou-eth needest us to protesteth soeth mucheth?" Because we need some boiling water in our career. We need people to hate. We need people to defend. We need to fight a fucking war for this record to push us to another place. We are a successful band. I want to be more successful. I want anyone out there who hates God Forbid to say they hate us. I don't want reasons. I don't want debates. I want hate!!!
"I have a theory about why people don't drink God Forbid Haterade. Let's look at the careers of the most recent hated bands: TRIVIUM, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE are just a couple of examples. These bands have great careers, but they have strong Haterade Brands. I'm sure their myspace messages are divided up into fan mail and hate mail. We've received hate mail and it's pretty fucking great. But not as widespread as I really want and need it to be. These bands catch hate for a vast amount of reasons, but mostly I think it's because they have images not because of their music. I think it's because people can't stand that people like them. I also think it's because they are white! It's very normal and OK in our society to hate white people. I don't hate white people but it's real easy to hate a successful white person.
"It's a Catch 22 to hate on God Forbid. It's like the debates we had with Barack Obama. If you're white and hate us, people think you're racist. If you're black and hate us, you're a sell out. If you're Hispanic and hate us, just go do some cocaine. More...
Read the full article at MetalSucks.
Vreid Posts New Song Online
Vreid has posted the first song from their upcoming new album, "Milorg" on their MySpace page. Here is an update from the band:
"It is with great proud we reveal the first track of the upcoming VREID album 'MILORG' out on Jan 5th in Norway and Jan 19th in the rest of Europe. The new track 'Speak Goddamnit' perfectly displays the great progression of the band, incorporating both the classic black'n roll expression and the newfound progressive melodic aspect. The first reviews have already come in with a 13/15 in German magazine LEGACY and a 4th place in soundcheck in the same magazine. Norwegian magazine SCREAM also gave the album an impressive 5/6 and Terrorizer Magazine says:
"'Without straying too far from their Windir template of scathing pagan black metal, warmongers Vreid surge forth with yet more blistering blackened fury. Metal with military precision, Vreid are the true battle metallers.'"
The album will be avaliable on both CD and vinyl.
Antigama Announces European Tour Dates
Poland's ANTIGAMA has announced a number of European tour dates. ANTIGAMA will begin this run of tour dates in Germany. From there they hook up with label mates FUCK THE FACTS from Canada and the Dutch Grind-core band Dr. Doom. A listing of confirmed ANTIGAMA tour dates can be found below with more to be announced soon.
ANTIGAMA's upcoming album "Warning" is set for an early March 2009 international release via Relapse Records. ANTIGAMA's "Resonance" follow-up was recorded in their hometown Warsaw at Progresja Sound Studio, with producer Szymon Czech (Third Degree, Nyia, Vesania, Unsun).
Guitarist Sebastian comments to the tour: "...we are happy to go on the road across Europe with Fuck the Facts and dr.Doom. They're great bands and nice people too so there should be a lot of fun. We've got a setlist with some old stuff but we'll play mostly the new material from our upcoming album..."
Here are the newly announced Antigama tour dates: More...
Missing Viking Skull Guitarist Turns Up In Jail
Last month, VIKING SKULL announced that, "due to Rich Vose being missing and not being able to be contacted etc, original Viking Skull guitarist Darren Smith will be back on axe duties on the upcoming UK tour in December."
An update from the band reads: "Hey everybody, we found the Brandywine Eel (Rich Vose)! He's in Jail! So he won't be on the CLUTCH tour, he won't be doing any more shows with us until further notice. Original Viking Skull guitar player Darren Smith will be doing the Clutch tour with us.
"Then on January 4th we will be performing an all ages show at the Note in West Chester, Pennsylvania and also be filming a video for 'Hair Of The Dog' with Joe Frantz and Bam Margera. It's going to be kick-fucking-ass. If you want to partake in that debauchery buy a ticket at www.thenotewc.com."
Murder Therapy Signs with Deity Down Records
Italian outfit MURDER THERAPY has signed to Holland's DEITY DOWN RECORDS for the release of the band's debut full-length, which is planned around the summertime of 2009.
The foursome comprised of FRANCESCO D'ADAMO (guitars, also in Cryptic Theory), vocalist RICCARDO MESCHIARI, bassist SIMONE ESPERTI and ANDREA CAVALIERI (drums), describing their style as serial death metal, blends sounds and atmospheres of American death with twisted, irregular and modern patterns.
MURDER THERAPY'S self financed 4-track EP "The Therapy" (2008) received good and enthusiastic reviews all over the metal community and was also awarded the status of Top Demo at METALITALIA.COM (Italy's biggest and most known metal portal) and at XNOIZEMAG.COM. Tracks from this EP can be heard on MURDER THERAPY'S MySpace page and on Last.fm.
Alice In Chains Posts New Studio Video Online
Reunited grunge legends Alice In Chains has posted their fifth studio video online, which documents the recording of their as-yet untitled forthcoming new album. You can check it out below. The band are currently recording the album in Los Angeles with producer Nick Raskulinecz. More...
New Narrows Audio Player Online
Narrows has a new audio player on Deathwish Inc.'s site for their new album, "New Distances." You can listen to the new song "Chambered", taken from the forthcoming Narrows "New Distances" CD/LP, out soon on Deathwish.
Here are the latest Narrows tour dates with Trap Them and These Arms Are Snakes:
12/11: Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
12/12: Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
12/13: Santa Rosa, CA @ The Casbar
12/14: San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill
12/15: Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
12/16: Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory
12/17: San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe
Admiral Browning Posts New Update, New Song Online
Maryland instrumental metal band Admiral Browning has posted an update and rough mix of a new song online. Here's the update:
"Hey muthas... We're still working hard to finish this thing out. To quench your thirst we've posted a rough master of one of the new jams we've recorded, Ol' Martini Man. The final product may differ slightly. Hope you dig it!"
Disturbed Adds More Shows And Skindred To The Bill
Disturbed has announced more headlining tour dates starting in January and has also revealed that in addition to Sevendust, Skindred will also be on the touring bill.
The updated tour schedule is as follows:
1/16 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Ballroom
1/17 - Springfield, MO - Shrine Mosque
1/19 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre
1/21 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Great Salt Air
1/23 - Seattle, WA - Everett Arena
1/24 - Kennwick, WA - Toyota Center
1/26 - Sacramento, CA - Arco Arena
1/27 - San Jose, CA - San Jose Event Center
1/29 - Los Angeles, CA - Palladium
1/30 - Las Vegas, NV - Pearl
2/2 - El Paso, TX - County Coliseum
2/3 - Belton, TX - Bell County Expo
2/5 - Midland, TX - Midland Horseshoe Arena
2/6 - Corpus Christi, TX - The Pavilion
2/10 - Tupelo, MS - Bancorp South Arena
2/11 - Augusta, GA - James Brown Arena
2/13 - Jacksonville, FL - Morrocco Shrine Auditorium
2/14 - Ft.
Lauderdale, FL - Pompano Beach Amphitheater
2/16 - Ft.
Meyers, FL - Germain Arena
2/18 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues
2/19 - Johnson City, TN - Freedom Hall Civic Center
2/21 - Rochester, NY - Armory
2/22 - Atlantic City, NJ - House of Blues
2/24 - Dayton, OH - Hara Arena
2/25 - Huntington, WV - Big Sandy Arena
2/27 - Utica, NY - Utica Auditorium
2/28 - Scranton, PA - Scranton Cultural Center
Testament Posts "More Than Meets The Eye" Video
Thrash metal legends Testament has debuted their brand new video for the song, "More Than Meets The Eye." You can check it out below. The song comes from the bands highly successful "comeback" album, "The Formation Of Damnation" which was released earlier this year via Nuclear Blast Records. More...
Amon Amarth Confirmed For Bloodstock Open Air
Swedish viking metal act Amon Amarth are the latest band to be confirmed for the Bloodstock Open Air festival which is set to be held from August 14th-16th in Derbyshire, England. The festival will also feature performances from Saxon, Satyricon, Sabaton, Crandlemass, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, The Haunted, Turisas, Wintersun and Katatonia.
Adastra's New Album Available For Streaming Online
Adastra's forthcoming album can now be heard in its entirety on the band's MySpace page. "Death Or Domination" features ten tracks and will be released on December 10th in Finland, January 19th in UK.
The tracklisting for "Death Or Domintion" is as follows:
1. Locked On To You
2. One Chance
3. Death Or Domination
4. Who Threw The First Stone
5. Man Mk. II
6. Lost
7. Helsinki 1939
8. Wasted Life
9. Devil Knows You're Dead
10. The Longing
"The Longing" is currently split into two parts online due to MySpace song length restrictions.
Periphery Announces New Singer and Posts New Song
DC area's progressive metallers, Periphery, have issued the following update on their MySpace page regarding the addition of a singer:
"We finally found a singer! His name is Chris Barretto and he also fronts the awesome NJ based metal band Lamps Burning. We would like to take this time to extend our deepest heartfelt thanks to Lamps for allowing him to take this awesome journey with us! And his vocal chord talents make us all strangely moist and happy where the pampers is!" More...
Lacryma Sanguine Begins Recording New Album
Brazilian doom metal act Lacryma Sanguine has begun recording their debut album. The band previously released the EP, "As The Autumn Ends" which was released via Killzone Records. The band has switched drummers since the EP and now have Gladson Rodrigues behind the kit.
The Sorrow Announces New Album Title, Release Date
Austrian heavy metal band The Sorrow has posted the following message online:
"Hello Dudes and Dudettes!
"Finally, we're proud to announce the title and release date of our newest baby: It will be called Origin Of The Storm and will hit the shelves on February 27th, 2009 (Drakkar Records)!
"Expect to hear some new tunes on our MySpace profile around Christmas... be prepared and pedal to the metal!"
Ex Deo Signs To Nuclear Blast Records
Ex Deo, the band formed by Kataklysm mastermind Maurizio Iacono has signed a record deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The band is predominantly based on the history of the Roman Empire. Maurizio Iacono states:
"It is in my blood, I've been contemplating this new band for years and the time has come. Ex Deo - a full band inspired by the Roman Empire - has finally arrived and it’s gonna be monumental! I am proud today to announce the signing with Nuclear Blast. Prepare for the Rise of Rome in 2009!"
Tankard Posts "Stay Thirsty" Video Online
German thrash metal band Tankard has uploaded their new music video for the song, "Stay Thirsty." You can check it out below. The song comes from the bands forthcoming new album, "Thirst" which will be released on December 19th via AFM. The album will be released in regular jewel case form or as a digipak which includes a bonus DVD. More...
Stillwell Reveals New Drummer And Studio Video
Stillwell, the side project of Korn bassist Fieldy and rapper Q Unique, has revealed to the world their new drummer, P.O.D.'s Wuv. They have also posted a video of them working on their first album in the studio online. You can check it out below. Their album, "Surrounded By Liars" should be released in the first half of next year. More...
Skindred To Premiere New Video On XBox Live
On December 9th, Welsh ragga metal act Skindred will be premiering the video for their single, "Trouble" via the XBox Live system. The song is the second single from the bands second album, "Roots Rock Riot" and was filmed at Greenford Studios in London. It was helmed by Visual Abuse who has previously done special effects for movies such as Saving Private Ryan, the first four Harry Potter films and many more.
Ministry Frontman Comments On Grammy Nomination
Ministry has been nominated in the Grammy Awards and are in the category for Best Metal Performance for their cover of the Rolling Stones classic, "Under My Thumb." Ministry frontman Al Jourgenson laughs, "I'm becoming the Susan Lucci or Martin Scorsese of metal. I'm starting to feel like Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,'" he mused. "Every time I try and get out...they keep pulling me back in!" The song featured the vocal contributions of Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell who says: "Of all the mind-bending albums I have been a part of, it took a version of a Rolling Stones song to get noticed. Who would have thought?"
Paindivision Signs Japanese Deal w/ Soundholic
PAINDIVISION has announced that they've signed a deal with Soundholic Records in Japan. Alongside label mates such as Hatesphere and Soilwork, Soundholic have built a reputation as one of the most respected metal labels in Japan.
The band comments on the deal: “We are very happy to be releasing through such a well respected company like Soundholic. The Japanese metal fans have shown strong support for the band on our 2007 tour and the current plan is to head back to Japan in support of the new album in 2009.”
Soundholic will release the Japanese version of the album with a special bonus track. The featured track will be "Like Hell" a cover of Japanese metal legends Loudness.
Stu (guitarist) comments “I have always been a big fan of the guitarist from Loudness, Akira Takasashi, he’s one of the most underrated guitar players and has influenced and entire generation of players. In Japan he’s a god, so this was a test from a players perspective for me and we had a great time recording it. We performed the song live on our final show at Takamatsu in 2007 and it seemed the perfect choice for the new record.”
“One Path” was recently released in Australia by Riot Entertainment in October this year. “One Path” signals a return to high powered shred metal while remaining true to the classic metal roots of WASP, Motorhead and Black Sabbath.
The release is scheduled in Japan for February 2009. Check paindivision.com for all new song samples and news.
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