Metal News for June 6, 2001
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3 news articles posted on this day.
Earache Teams with Black Tears
Earache Records' webstore has widened the scope of its catalogue to include albums distributed by Black Tears. Black Tears is widely known for distributing cult traditional doom and classic heavy metal.
Summary/Misc
Daily Reviews
Doom-metal.com has 13 new reviews:
- Kari Rueslåtten 'Mesmerized'
- Kari Rueslåtten 'Spindelsinn'
- Kari Rueslåtten 'Demo Recordings'
- Katatonia 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down'
- Sunwheel 'Street Fighter'
- Theatre of Tragedy 'Theatre of Tragedy'
- The Gathering 'If_then_else'
- The Gathering 'Almost a Dance'
- October Tide 'Rain without end'
- October Tide 'Grey Dawn'
- Estatic Fear 'Somnium obmutum'
- Sunn O))) '00 void'
- Tristitia 'One with darkness'
Summary/Misc
Site Watch
- RockDaily.com is profiling Ozzfest this week. It's a good feature with a run-down of all the bands. They are also offering a five-CD grand-prize of the latest releases from five of the Ozzfest bands listed above to the person with the best and most informative review of the show. Three runners-up will receive one CD of their choosing.
- Mp3machine.com has an article entitled Grunge is dead, but the bands play on, which summarizes some of the site's best grunge bands, in case you're still into grunge and craving more.
- MP3Machine.com also sends word of a new band added to their metal section, Satan Claus.
- Dead the E-zine, has added 18 reviews, 3 interviews (which they don't list specificly) and the installment of 'The Extreme Christian Music Debate' by NecRoSarX.
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