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Dissed By DIST 2001

Sweden's DIST 2001 Festival, which was scheduled to take place July 20-21 and was set to feature live appearances by In Flames, Dark Tranquility, The Crown and Evergrey (among others), has been cancelled. According to the festival's organizers, the cancellation is due to several reasons, including a "lack of interest from visitors at similar events during the spring, organizational problems within the festival management, and that it should be fun to organize an event especially if it is on voluntary basis, which it apparently was not.

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Slipknot To Help Chuck S.

Slipknot is the latest band to have offered their assistance in raising money to help Death/Control Denied mainman Chuck Schuldiner battle a malignant brain tumor that he was diagnosed with two years ago. Slipknot will contribute an as-yet-unspecified item to an ongoing auction that is being held via Allbeat.com for the specific purpose of helping Schuldiner's family pay his medical bills.

"I'm gonna try to find something from my personal collection that maybe nobody can find," Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor said. "When I found out Chuck had cancer I was freaking. Chuck's music was really important to me growing up. It was really intricate and interesting. So I wanna auction something that's really cool that can hopefully bring in top dollar."

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Chuck Billy Status Update

Straight from Testament's official site, Testament Legions:

Chuck Billy says "Hello!" and wanted me to let you know he is doing well and adapting to the treatment for cancer. Though he's lost some of his hair, he has yet to feel the most common side-effects of the chemo (HE'S TOUGH!). Chuck said that all your prayers and well wishes have helped considerably, and he believes it had a lot to do with the good prognosis.

Also, Chuck wants everyone to know how touched he and his family are by the kindness and generosity of some of the greatest musicians coming together for a good cause. "THRASH OF THE TITANS" will surely be a once in a lifetime event, so DON'T MISS IT! Besides being a "metalhead's dream", this benefit is to raise people's awareness of this terrible disease. As you've heard, a portion of the proceeds will go to help another brother, Chuck Schuldiner. United we can fight this disease!

As always, best wishes to both Chucks.

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Anthrax Return To The Studio

According to guitarist Scott Ian, ANTHRAX plan on getting together June 13th to begin working on material for the group's next studio opus, which us tentatively scheduled for release in early 2002 through Nuclear Blast Records in Europe and Beyond/BMG Records in the US.

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Movement

• According to Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles, Deceased have announced that drummer/vocalist King Fowley is stepping up to the position of vocalist in the veteran outfit. Ex-Hatred drummer Dave Castillo will now be behind the kit. Deceased will debut their new line-up at the Wacken Open Air Festival on August 3rd.

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Signings

• Engorged is now signed to Necropolis/Deathvomit Records and will release a new album in 2001. (thanks Eternal Frost)
  
• Mastodon have signed to Relapse. The band's debut MCD, Lifesblood, will be available in late August.
  
• According to Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles, rumor has it that Sweden's Dimension Zero have inked a deal Regain Records.
  
• Blabbermouth.net reports that Perfect Nothing, a progressive metal band based in Indianapolis, has signed a recording contract with a subsidiary of Roadrunner Records.

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More Metallica Rumors

Here are some juicy bits from InterSandman.com about the latest Metallica issues:

John Brandon, author of the Alice In Chains book 'Unchained' stated on the WKRK Radio in Detroit that according to his sources, Mike Inez has not been approached to play bass for Metallica, and that he doubts this will happen.

And the followup on Jason Newsted:

According to Hardradio.com Newsted's side project Echobrain may release there debut album in August.

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Site Watch

• Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles reports that Chicago's Soil, featuring in their ranks former Broken Hope/Sindrome bassist Shaun Glass on guitar, will release their new album, Scars, in September. Sound clips of new material can be found at the band's official
  web site: www.soilmusic.com.
  
• Tartarean Desire has a ton of new band features this week including Anathema (Great Britain), Brats (Denmark), Candlemass (Sweden), Cannibal Corpse (USA), Children Of Bodom (Finland), Deicide (USA), Forbidden (USA), Gardenian (Sweden), Impaled Nazarene (Finland), Iron Maiden (Great Britain), Judas Priest (Great Britain), King Diamond (Denmark), Marduk (Sweden), Mercyful Fate (Denmark), Morbid Angel (USA), Pantera (USA), Paradise Lost (Great Britain), Running Wild (Germany), Sepultura (Brazil), Slayer (USA), Solitude Aeternus (USA), Testament (USA).
  
• Wired has an informative follow-up article on the array of lawsuits from teh RIAA and webcasters.

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Daily Interviews

• Tartarean Desire has an interview with Maria Abaza of the Russian death metal band Merlin, who has recently released a new album.

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Daily Reviews

Embers online metal magazine has a few new review this week:

• Diabolicum - The Dark Blood Rising (The Hatecrowned Retaliation)
  
• Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
  
• Finntroll - Jaktens Tid
  
• Rakoth - Jabberworks

MetalReviews.com has seven new ones for ya this morning:

• Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin
  
• Jaded Heart - Diary 1990-2000
  
• Judas Priest - Defender Of The Faith
  
• Judas Priest - Machine Man
  
• Seventh Key - Seventh Key
  
• Soul Doctor - Soul Doctor
  
• X-Japan - The Last Live

And Tartarean Desire has another seven as well:

• Tvangeste - Damnation Of Regiomontum (black metal, 2001)
  
• My Dark Sin - Cogitationes (black metal, 2001)
  
• Thorns Of The Carrion - Eve Songs (doom metal, 2000)
  
• Slayer - Reign In Blood (thrash metal, 1986)
  
• Megadeth - The World Needs A Hero (metal/hardrock, 2001)
  
• Blood Of Roses - Sangue (electronic/gothic, 1997)
  
• F.O.B. - Blame? (death metal, 2000)

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