Dry Kill Logic Send Out Pre-Gigantour Update

Dry Kill Logic has sent out an update in anticipation of Gigantour and adding a few more tour dates. Here it is:

"Cliff here, counting down the days until we hit road for GIGANTOUR! I can't begin to explain how incredibly psyched we are to be a part of this tour - there are going to be a lot of firsts for us this summer. First tour with real food, first tour we don't have to drive, first tour with showers...well, you get the idea."

"We're working on routing our dates out to Gigantour now and booking the off dates (rumor has it they may be with LOA) - we'll keep you posted as soon as someone decides to keep us posted."

"We've got some cool video interview footage from one of our headline shows earlier this year in this email, as well as info on how to enter our sweepstakes to win a VESTAL watch, Platinum Passes to Gigantour, and more to come! I swear, if I could figure out a way to wear 4 Vestal watches on a clip I would..."

"Anyway, that's all for now. Rock on, and remember...a wino ain't afraid of nuthin', except runnin' out of wine."

"See you soon!"

"-Cliff P.S. Don't forget that we just added 3 shows before Gigantour in NE, OH, and IA so make sure you get"your peeps and come out!

Here are the three new shows added:

7/15 - Toledo, OH @ Headliners
7/16 - Davenport, IA @ Quad City Live
7/17 - Omaha, NE @ The Ranch Bowl(tentative)

And here are the Gigantour tour dates, once again: More...

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Skapegoat Auditioning Bass Players

The Denver based band Skapegoat is auditioning bass players throughout the month of July. Current bassplayer Damon Roberts is leaving the band to pursue other career opportunities in Germany. Formed in 2003, Skapegoat enjoyed a very successful debut album and sold-out shows in Colorado and New Mexico. Recording for the second album is planned for early October. More information on the band and current scheduled events can be found at skapegoat.org.

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Summer's End, Every New Day, and DKLIMB Tour Dates

Summer's End, Every New Day, and DKLIMB will be touring together this month. Here are the tour dates:

7/12 Lawrence, KS @ Groundwork Coffeehouse
7/13 Bentonville, AR @ The Wazoo
7/14 Oklahoma City, OK @ The Purgatory
7/15 El Paso, TX @ House of Rock N Roll
7/16 Phoenix, AZ @ Phix Gallery
7/17 Lancaster, CA @ El Dorado
7/18 Corona, CA @ Showcase Theatre
7/19 Las Vegas, NV @ TBA
7/20 Los Angeles, CA @ Studio S
7/21 Ventura, CA @ Selah Cafe
7/22 Orangevale, CA @ Club Retro
7/23 Sparks, NV @ Blue Angel Coffeehouse
7/25 Seattle, WA @ TBA

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Early Brazen Abbot Albums To Be Reissued

SPV Records has set an Augut 22, 2005 release date for the reissues of the first three BRAZEN ABBOT albums: "Live and Learn" (1995), "Eye of the Storm" (1996) and "Bad Religion" (1997). The albums have been out of print since USG Records went out of business in 1999. No bonus tracks are planned for these re-releases, but they will feature new cover art. You can check out the new artwork at this location.

BRAZEN ABBOT's latest album, "My Resurrection", was released in June via Frontiers Records. The CD features guest appearances by the folliowing singers: Joe Lynn Turner (ex-RAINBOW, DEEP PURPLE, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), Göran Edman (ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, GLORY), Tony Harnell (TNT, WESTWORLD, STARBREAKER) and Erik Mårtensson.

BRAZEN ABBOT released a live CD/DVD package, entitled "A Decade of Brazen Abbot", last November via Frontiers. The set includes footage from the band's shows in Bulgaria in support of the group's last studio release, "Guilty as Sin".

The lineup featured on the album and the DVD is as follows: Nikolo Kotzev on guitars; Joe Lynn Turner on vocals; Wayne Banks on bass; Lars Pollack on keyboards and Thomas Broman on drums.

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Stormhammer Announce New Vocalist

German power metallers STORMHAMMER have announced the addition of former NEVERLAND/DREAMSCAPE frontman Mike Zotter to the group's ranks. Zotter fills the slot left vacant by the departure of Tommy Lion (ex-DRIFTER) earlier in the year.

STORMHAMMER released their third album, "Lord of Darkness", in May 2004 via Mausoleum Records.

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Nehemiah Plan Break Up After Touring

Minneapolis metal/hardcore band Nehemiah are reportedly calling it quits later this year. The band intends to still play their upcoming summer tour, prior to disbanding. There will be a final show in October or November in Minneapolis. According to the band, "It is time for all of us to move on, there are bigger and better things that await all of us in the band." Formed roughly five years ago, the band has release material with Uprising Records.

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Laskas Family Benefit Shows Announced

Corrosion of Conformity band has posted this message on their website regarding the benefit shows for the Laskas family following the stabbing at one of their shows last month:

The name of the man killed at the COC show in Ybor on June 23 is Tommy Laskas. As time goes on, we're getting more and more emails from Tommy's friends. It's an honor to have a guy like this come to our show. Tommy leaves behind a daughter and wife.

Many people are pitching in to help the family through this hard time.

JULY 9: A concert featuring 8 bands and DJs will be held to benefit the Laskas family. It will be at New World Brewery, 1313 8th Ave, Ybor City FL. Click here to see the flyer.

JULY 12: A wresting show will be put on to benefit the Laskas family. It will take place at the Full Moon Saloon, 1613 E 7th Ave, Ybor City FL. Phone: 813-248-3309.

JULY 17: A Silent Auction Art Show will be held to benefit the Laskas family. It will take place 1510 E 8th Ave (the corner of 8th Ave and 15th St.) at 5PM. Call ahead at 813-241-2435 to donate art, or come by for the show to pick some up. Click here for the flyer.

A savings account has also been set up for Tommy's wife and daughter if you would like to help directly. It is Wachovia savings account #3000078182834

Thanks everyone. Rest in peace Tommy.

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Opeth Set Album Release Date

Opeth's new album, "Ghost Reveries," is 66 minutes of staggering new material. "Ghost Reveries" will be in stores on August 30. Frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt puts it this way: "There's no other band on the planet like us."

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Tiamat Festival & DVD Updates, Dispels Rumours

Tiamat has posted this message on their website regarding Sweden's Metaltown Festival, rumours of the band breaking up and their upcoming DVD:

We're extremely happy to inform our Swedish fans that we have just been confirmed to perform at this years Metaltown festival in Gothenburg on the 30th of July!!! Other bands on that festival are Beseech, Nine, Apocalyptica, our bloodbrothers Dark Tranquillity, and the great Rammstein!

Recently we have received many emails asking about a rumour saying that Tiamat is about to split up. The answer to you bunch is: What planet are you from?

The DVD "Church of Tiamat" has been delayed and is now set for a release in the end of October. We're just finishing up packaging and deciding what to put in the bonus section. Siggi Bemm did a great job mixing the audio, both in stereo and 5.1!!!

And a final word, London we're with you!!! God bless you!

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Nasum Commentaries, Videos, Photos Posted

Nasum guitarist, Anders Jakobson, posted the following update on the band's website:

I've been writing a lot lately. For those of you who read the blog you know that I've been working on track by track commentaries to the albums. That's not the only stuff I've been writing lately. I've spent a few hours writing down some memories from each album concerning the recording, the title, the cover and the vinyl/Japanese editions. I figured that it was time to write down the memories before they escape me. And besides that I love reading this kind of stuff about the bands I like, so I guess some of you will enjoy it a lot.

So go to the discography page and then to the albums and click the "Detailed information" link for the stories and some other goodies and click the "Track by track" link for the song commentaries. With this update the two longer texts from the making of "Helvete" along with the "making of 'Preview of Hell'" mp3 returns to the page.

In other updates I've launched the press page again with some high res photos, and I have also uploaded some of our old video clips to the Audio/Video page including a never before seen video for "Scoop" shot by Napalm Death's Mitch Harris! Yes, you read right - we still have a lot of stuff left in our bag of tricks. There are more to come, just wait.

I asked for server space in a newspost that I have now deleted. Well, I got some space - from my webhotel. They apparently just increased my account with 1,5 GB so I will have no problem uploading the heavy video clips anymore! Great!

With this quite massive update nasum.com has grown yet a bit. Next on the list is to update the photo galleries and maybe make some more "detailed information" pages about the other records. We'll see.

Until next time - enjoy!

Anders Jakobson

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Nevermore Reveals Confirmed Tour Dates

Nevermore has added more dates to their tour:

Sep. 16 (NL) Tilburg 013
Sep. 17 (B) Antwerpen Hof Ter Loo
Sep. 18 (NL) Haarlem Patronaat
Sep. 20 (UK) Dudley JB´s
Sep. 21 (UK) Glasgow Cathouse
Sep. 22 (UK) Dublin Wheelans
Sep. 23 (UK) Bradford Rio
Sep. 24 (UK) Nottingham Rock City
Sep. 25 (UK) London Scala
Sep. 27 (D) Bochum Zeche
Sep. 29 (I) Milan Rolling Stone
Oct. 01 (A) Salzburg Rockhaus
Oct. 02 (SLO) Ljubljana VPK Mediapark
Oct. 03 (HUN) Budapest Petofi Hall
Oct. 05 (D) Frankfurt Batschkapp
Oct. 06 (D) Hamburg Markthalle

Prior to that tour, Nevermore will be on Gigantour with Megadeth, Dream Theater, Life Of Agony, the Dillinger Escape Plan and more.

In other news, Nevermore's new album, “This Godless Endeavor,” which was produced at Backstage Studios in England with Andy Sneap, will be released on July 25th as a limited edition deluxe Digipak, CD as well as on LP format.

“This Godless Endeavor” tracklisting: More...

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Soilwork Explains "Stabbing The Drama" Video

The following message was posted on the official Soilwork website:

Hi!

Just want to post some more small updates before we leave for Ozzfest on monday...

Just came home from a party with our dear bassplayer Mr. Flink, had a blast watching Iron Maiden live on swedish national tv (prime time) from the biggest stadium in Sweden, that was fucking great!!

Anyways, if you didn't know aleady, the video of the song "Nerve" will soon reach your tv:s. We recorded the video in Hollyood at a filmsite rental during our headline tour in april. And the big question: Is the whole band in the video this time? Hell yess! Don't worry, my ugly face is not alone this time... Unfortunately some people got the Stabbing the drama video totally wrong and thought that i'd been converted to some pathetic Fred Durst guy and there's been a lot of talk on the forums if it was my decision and will to be alone in the video.. i tell you, you don't know me.. All we did was to make everything as flexible as possible since Peter moved to the states when we where recording the video, so it was the directors idea to build a story around one person, sure it didn't work out very good since the director didn't kept what he promised with my movements with my arms in the video that was supposed to be turned into "matrix effects".. bummer.. i still believe i did what i could in that video (i tell you, it's goddamn hard being totally alone in a video when you're used to be with a six piece band, you should try it sometime!) . I still like the colours in the video but just as you guys i wish the whole band was in that video but this was impossible at that time... So to you guys who believe i'm trying go solo with this band and adapting some kind of rapper attitude , fuck off and watch the next video of Nerve instead , it's great!! I'll see you very soon my friends!

Best regards, Speed

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No Portugal Festival Appearances For Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir guitarist Erkekjetter Silenoz posted this message on their official website:

Please note that Dimmu Borgir will not be performing in Portugal this summer, no show was ever confirmed for this period. We were approached and an offer was received which was not accepted due to other various commitments but unfortunately due to an internal miscomunication within the promotors office, posters were made with our name on it. The promotor has taken steps to rectify this.

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