Pseudo-Movement

Black Label Society have sent bassist Sob home from the US Ozzfest for 'irresponsible behaviour'. He will be temporarily replaced by ex-Alice In Chains man Mike Inez possibly for the remainder of the tour.

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Daily Reviews Part Deux

Today must be National Heavy Metal Review Day... Metal Rules! sure deserves to take it off after all these new reviews this month:

• Abhorrence - Evoking the Abomination
  
• Abuse of Power - s/t (demo)
  
• Aggression Core - s/t
  
• Alghazanth - Subliminal Antenora
  
• Amon Amarth - The Crusher
  
• Antithesis - Dying For Life
  
• Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999
  
• Bal-Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant
  
• Begets of Autumn - Keep
  
• Beseech - Black Emotions
  
• Danzig - Live On The Blackhand Side
  
• Diesel Machine - Torture Test
  
• Endo - Evolve
  
• Event - Human Condition
  
• Fear Absolute - The Truth
  
• Fireball Ministry - FMEP
  
• Grinister - Unleashed
  
• Gun Barrel - Power-Dive
  
• Iced Earth - Horror Show
  
• Immemoreal - Temple of Retribution
  
• Ivory Knight - Up From The Ashes
  
• Judas Priest - Demolition
  
• Kaos Rising - Wiped Away
  
• Marduk - La Grande Danse Macabre
  
• Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero
  
• Mighty Sideshow - The Intro
  
• Mimic - You First
  
• Nightwish - Wishmastour 2000
  
• No Return - Self Mutilation
  
• Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element: Part I
  
• Ratt - Out of the Cellar
  
• Scanner - Hypertrace
  
• Something Wikid - s/t
  
• Sonata Arctica - Wolf And Raven (EP)
  
• Soul Embraced - For the Incomplete
  
• Spiritual Eclipse - Amaranth
  
• Stormlord - The Curse of Medusa
  
• Stratovarius - Intermission
  
• Sweet Distortion - Missing Link
  
• Taraxacum - Spirit of Freedom
  
• The Cult - Beyond Good and Evil
  
• The Keepers of Jericho - A Tribute To Helloween
  
• The National Cemetery Orchestra - As Twilight Fades Into Night
  
• Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus - Kuilun Partaalla (MCD)
  
• To/Die/For - Epiloque
  
• Tramontane - December Dark
  
• Various Artists - Ball One Strike Two
  
• Wrath of Killenstein - s/t
  
• Wrecking Crew - Hello World

And then a few concert reviews to top it off:

• Deicide / Marduk / Gorguts / Withered Earth
  Pine Street Theater, Portland, OR, USA - May 12, 2001
  
• Monsters of the Millennium Vol II
  Alice Cooper, Dio, Ratt, Sonata Arctica: Old Icehall 7.5.2001 Helsinki, Finland
  
• Gandalf & The Haunted
  Live At Nosturi, 12.5.2001, Helsinki, Finland

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Signings

• Gravity Kills have signed to Sanctuary Records. (thanks TotalRock.com)
  
• Rollins Band has also signed with Sanctuary Records. (thanks Metal Update)
  
• Council of the Fallen has signed to Martyr Music Group. (thanks Metal Update)
• Aggressive, extreme, brutal, groovy and melodic, Soul Forsaken has now signed to London-based label Rage Of Achilles. (thanks Eternal Frost)
  
• Sweden's Dimension Zero has signed to Regain Records. (thanks Digital Metal)

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Daily Interviews

Metal Rules! interviews include:

• Lost Horizon - Sworn In The Metal Wind
  
• ANGRA - Carrying on
  
• Industry Spotlight - World War III Records Juan Garcia
  New Metal Label's Director A&R Explains The New Label (June 2001)
  
• Agent Steel - Juan Garcia and Bernie Versailles (June 200

Digital Metal has some new interviews for you:

• God Dethroned - Baptized In Blood
  
• Anata - Doomsday Celebration
  
• Zero Hour - Count Down to the Future
  
• Beyond The Sixth Seal - Stranger Aeons
  
• Fall Silent - The Sound of Dilation
  
• Darkane - Endless Renovation

And others around the 'net:

• Metal Update has an interview with Matt Jacobson of Relapse Records.

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Daily Reviews

Starting bright and early today, we have some new reviews from Embers Online Metal Magazine:

• Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa
  
• Bloodshed - Skullcrusher
  
• Hefeystos - Psycho Cafe
  
• Ulver - Perdition City

And a few more by Digital Metal:

• Forefather - "The Fighting Man"
  
• Paradise Lost - "Believe In Nothing"
  
• Eternal Elysium - "Spiritualized"
  
• Harakiri - "Virtuous Symptoms"
  
• Exmortem - "Berzerker Legions"

And even more on Metal Judgement:

• Iced Earth 'Horror Show' (Committee Review)
  
• Deride 'Scars of Time' (Committee Review)
  
• Absu 'Tara' (Summary Judgment)
  
• Napalm Death, Soilent Green, Isis, Diecast Concert (Summary Judgment)
  
• Toccata & Bulla 'Concebidos En La Tierra Bastarda (Summary Judgment)
  
• Die Toten Hosen 'Crash-Landing' (Summary Judgment)
  
• Death Angel 'Act III' (Classic Review)
  
• Raven Mad (Demo Review)

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