Metal News for May 23, 2001
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6 news articles posted on this day.
Coal Chamber Chooses Producer
Coal Chamber have elected to work with producer Ross Hogarth on their third album, 'Dark Days'. Hogarth has previously worked with both Motley Crue and John Mellencamp, which makes one wonder what sort of album we can expect from Dez and company.
Site Update
Daily Reviews
Taratean Desire has a bunch of new reviews posted this week:
- Coven XIII - Live cd (gothic rock, 2000)
- Hades - DamNation (thrash metal, 2001)
- Night In Gales - Necrodynamic (death/thrash metal, 2001)
- Disbelief - Worst Enemy (death metal, 2001)
- Lilitu - The Earth Gods (gothic/doom metal, 2000)
- Coven XIII - Book Of Shadows (gothic/medieval love ballads, 1998)
- Flotsam And Jetsam - My God (thrash metal, 2001)
- Stratovarius - Intermission (power/heavy metal, 2001)
- The Haunted - The Haunted (thrash/death metal, 1998)
- Anphisbenah - Initiates The Horrendous (death metal, 1999)
- Narcotic Creed - Twicet Of Fate (thrash metal, 2001)
Headline News
MP3.com Unveils Pay-to-Play
MP3.com, after have recently been bought by Vivendi Universal, unveiled it's plans to offer a pay-to-play service.
Seven pricing plans are available, ranging from $4.95 a month for 50 megabytes (MBs) of storage to 500 MBs of bandwidth to $999.99 a month for 10 GBs of storage and 200 GBs of bandwidth, but larger packages can easily be negotiated, according to the company.
It really can't get much simpler than piggybacking on a company's flagship technology and that is essentially what MP3.com is allowing enterprising people to do -- become a mini-MP3.com. Some simple math reveals that it isn't as altruistic as it seems. If MP3 gets a hundred of those customers who want 10 gigs of storage/200 gigs of bandwidth, that's a cool $100,000.
Read the full article at InternetNews.com.
Summary/Misc
Daily Interviews
- Tartarean Desire interviews vocalist Rick Mythiasin of Steel Prophet.
- CDNow has a recent interview with Tool.
Summary/Misc
RockDaily Features
RockDaily.com features Tool as the CD of the week and profiles Cold. Here's a little bit to get you started:
Cold actually began life as an Atlanta metal quartet named Grundig, featuring singer-guitarist Scooter Ward, guitarist Kelley Hayes, bassist Jeremy Marshall and drummer Sam McCandless. After a few years kicking around Georgia's state capital, Grundig moved back to their native Jacksonville in 1996 and began writing a new batch of songs that caught the ear of Fred Durst.
Ozzy for MTV Movie Award?
That's right, MOVIE, not music. Ozzy's appearance in Little Nicky earned him a nomination in the Best Cameo in a Movie category of the 2001 MTV Movie Awards. You can cast your vote for your favorite nominees online here until June 2. The ceremony airs June 7 at 9 p.m. EDT on MTV.
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