Metal News for May 18, 2001
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10 news articles posted on this day.
Live Insurrection
There's an article on KNAC.com that talks with Rob Halford about Live Insurrection, a double-CD which documents the last six months of tour in the wake of Resurrection. All I can say is "holy shit, Rob Halford is gonna be 50 in August!"
Read the full article at KNAC.com.
Summary/Misc
Reviews @ Metal Judgement
Your weekly batch of reviews @ Metal Judgement:
- Marduk 'La Grande Danse Macabre' (Committee Review)
- Mortician 'Domain of Death' (Committee Review)
- Tool 'Lateralus' (Summary Judgment)
- Living Colour Concert (Summary Judgment)
- Living Sacrifice 'The Hammering Process' (Summary Judgment)
- Dreams of Damnation 'Let the Violence Begin' (Summary Judgment)
- Stone Temple Pilots 'Core' (Classic Review)
- Clokseed (Demo Review)
No longer Alone
Alone Records and Custom Heavy Records have formed a partnership with Alone handling Europe and Custom Heavy covering the United States. The labels will continue to focus on groove rock, doom and metal.
A Malevolent Creation
Upon his recent release from jail, Malevolent Creation vocalist Brett Hoffmann joined the rest of the band in the studio to record three bonus tracks that will be included on a re-release of the band's recent 'Envenomed' album. The songs recorded are "Confirmed Kill" (from their debut 87 demo), "Epileptic Siezure" (from their 89 demo), and a cover of Dark Angel's "Perish In Flames".
Summary/Misc
Signings
- The stoner/doom act Goliath has signed a three-album deal with The Music Cartel and the new CD is due in September.
- Symphony X has signed to InsideOut Music America.
Movement
- Kreator guitarist Tommy Vetterli has been replaced by Sami Yli-Sirniö (Waltari).
- Despite the departure of Martin Walkyier, Skyclad will continue with the line-up of Steve Ramsey, Graeme English, George Biddle, Kevin Ridley and Jay Graham. Vocals will be handled by Kevin Ridley who has worked with Skyclad for ten years as their producer.
- Biohazard guitarist Leo Curley has left the band.
- Drummer Kenny Wagner has left Sixty Watt Shaman, forcing the cancellation of the scheduled tour with Nashville Pussy.
- God Dethroned has hired Arien van Weesenbeek as the new drummer.
- The Norwegian act Forlorn has settled on a new lineup: Hennex (Alvarin) on guitar and vocals, Dolgar (Gehenna) on guitar and vocals, S. Winter (A Winter
Within) on drums and Valpurges on bass. - The Baltimore death metal band Dwelling Madness has been reformed by former Pessimist line up Joe Roffeild, Eric Little, Gary Daniels, and Eddie Braun.
Thrash of the Titans
Long-time friend to Chuck Billy, Walter Morgan, is said to be putting together the greatest old school thrash concert in metal history as a benefit for Chuck, who as previously reported has been diagnosed with cancer. The show will be called Thrash Of The Titans and take place in the S.F. Bay Area this summer.
The following bands are expected to participate: Legacy, Heathen, Forbidden Evil, Vio-Lence, Exodus, Laaz Rocket and more. Invitations will also be extended to Slayer and Death Angel.
Headline News
Inez to Replace Newstead?
According to Encyclopedia Metallica, UK metal mag Kerrang! reports that Alice In Chains bassist Mike Inez is on his way to joining Metallica. The magazine claims that Inez is currently in a Los Angeles studio auditioning for the job. Inez, 35, joined Alice in Chains in 1993 replacing original bass player Mike Starr. Before that, he played in Ozzy Osbourne's band after beating out 50 other bass players at an open audition.
While Alice in Chains are on "open hiatus" drummer Sean Kinney and Inez have been working with ex-Queensrÿche guitarist Chris DeGarmo on demos for a potential new project.
Windows Media Player 7.1 Released
DMusic reports that Microsoft has updated Windows Media Player to version 7.1, adding the "ability to rip CD's directly to WMA files at 64Kbps, which, according to Microsoft, is CD quality as well as other features like transcoding, automated encoding and a new media format SDK."
I saw this update request pop up last night, but declined it until I hear more about it. I'm always worried they're gonna sneak in some code that wont allow me to play music I've ripped in a blanket effort to stop music piracy...
Read the full article at DMusic.
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I've got a ton of news in my mailbox, but no time to post right now... I'll make sure it gets posted later today though!
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