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Metal News for July 3, 2003

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8 news articles posted on this day.

Spearing Jocasta Gets A Life Sentence

Jul 3, 2003 at 7:23 PM by deathbringer (Source: Life Sentence Records).

Life Sentence Records has signed Spearing Jocasta from New Jersey. They play a unique mixture of metallic and melodic hardcore. Spearing Jocasta is in the studio now finishing up the recording for their 6 song Life Sentence Records debut CD that should be released sometime in August.

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Beatallica Recording Progress

Jul 3, 2003 at 6:57 PM by deathbringer.

Having entered the studio to record their second EP, Beatallica ("Beatles tunes, done Metallica style") reports that the new tunes are coming together nicely. Drums are done, guitars are mostly done (they'll be finished tomorrow night), and Jaymz will be adding vocals next week.

In addition to the update, they have posted a bunch more fan art and mirrored a flash "video" of "Sgt. Hetfield's" on their site.

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Daily Reviews

Jul 3, 2003 at 6:36 PM by deathbringer.

Metal-E-Zine has a bunch of new reviews posted online:

  • Acheron - "A Tribute to the Devil's Music"
  • Kreator - "Live Kreation - Revisioned Glory" (DVD/CD pack)
  • Metallica - "St. Anger"
  • The Reign of Terror - "Conquer & Divide"
  • Various Artists - "Covered in Filth"
  • Various Artists - "A Tribute to the Beast Vol. 2"
  • Various Artists - "A Tribute to the Creatures of the Night"

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Meshuggah Cancel All European Shows

Jul 3, 2003 at 6:32 PM by deathbringer (Source: Total Rock).

Swedish metal band Meshuggah have been forced to cancel all European shows due to both guitarist Marten Hagstrom and drummer Tomas Haake needing time to recover from illness.

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Onward Split After Leaving Century Media

Jul 3, 2003 at 12:09 PM by deathbringer (Source: Ytsejam.com).

Acclaimed power metallers ONWARD appear to have split up following a parting-of-the-ways with their label, Century Media Records.

The following is the official statement on the matter from ONWARD guitarist Toby Knapp (as posted on the group's official web site: More...

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Silent Force Laying Down Guitar Tracks

Jul 3, 2003 at 12:01 PM by deathbringer (Source: Ytsejam.com).

SILENT FORCE, the band featuring ex-ROYAL HUNT singer D.C. Cooper, will begin recording the guitar tracks for their third album, "Line Of Attack", today (July 1) at RAGE guitarist Victor Smolski's VPS studio in Hamm, Germany.

The follow up to 2001's "Infatuator", which is being produced by Dennis Ward (ANGRA, PINK CREAM 69), is due before the end of the year.

In other news, SILENT FORCE guitarist Alex Beyrodt will be at the Nashville Summer Namm show July 17-20 to give demonstrations at the Behringer booth. He will also be appearing at a workshop (Guitar Gear Through The Years) at the SAE (School of Audio Engineering) in Nashville on July 22.

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Dokaka Hums Metallica and Megadeth

Jul 3, 2003 at 8:22 AM by deathbringer (Source: Rockdirt.com).

This is kind of weird, but The Morning End on KNDD in Seattle interviewed Dokaka, a Japanese musican who hums each part of a song by himself. Listen to his interview here (Real Audio) and listen to his rendition of Metallica's 'Creeping Death' here (Real Audio). The end of his interview also includes a brief performance of Megadeth's 'Holy Wars'.

UPDATE: You can download this bizarre version of Creeping Death and 3 full albums worth of other, er, songs in mp3 format on his page at IUMA.

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Audioslave Video Banned From MTV

Jul 3, 2003 at 8:19 AM by deathbringer (Source: Rockdirt.com).

Add Audioslave as group's seeing their latest video getting banned by MTV. The 'How to Live' video likely got rejected because it features frontman Chris Cornell in a high speed car chase running police cars and motorcycles off the road. Watch it in hi and lo formats.

That's a pretty weak reason to ban a video, IMO.

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