Metal News for July 30, 2001
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8 news articles posted on this day.
Summary/Misc
Movement
Chicago's Usurper have parted ways with Necropolis Records after five years and four releases. According to a press release issued by the band, the relationship with the Fremont, California based label disintegrated after Usurper returned from their recent European tour.
Read the full article at Digital Metal.
EchoBrain's New Track Listing
Here is the full track listing for the debut self-titled CD from ECHOBRAIN, the new project headed by former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted:
- Colder World (3:20)
- The Feeling Is Over (3:37)
- Spoonfed (4:45)
- Adrift (3:15)
- Keep Me Alive (3:49)
- We Are Ghosts (3:50)
- SuckerPunch (5:36) (feat. Kirk Hammett)
- HWY 44 (4:16)
- I Drank You (3:08)
- Cryin' Shame (12:06)
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Daily Interviews
Deathscourge.com has some new interviews:
- Ad inferna
- Paul Booth
- Gurkkhas
- Adumus
- Fuck the Facts!
Summary/Misc
Daily Reviews, Part Deux
Tuefel's Tomb sends word of a bunch of new reviews this month:
- Absu "Tara"
- Cadaver Inc "Discipline"
- Cradle Of Filth "Midian"
- Cronic Disorder "Torture Test"
- Dimmu Borgir "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia" (2 reviews)
- Disgorge (mex) "Forensick"
- Emerichthejewkiller "Jewbutcher Vivisectorium"
- Enter My Silence "Remotecontrolled Scythe"
- God Dethroned "Ravenous"
- Hate Eternal "Conquering The Throne"
- Impaled "Choice Cuts"
- Intense Hammer Rage "Avagoyamugs'
- Krieg "The Church"
- Last Days Of Humanity "Hymns Of Indigestible Suppuration"
- Mortician "Domain Of Death"
- No Return "Self Mutilation"
- Total War "We Are Total War"
- Upheaval "Testimony To The Atrocities"
Metal View has some new ones as well:
- Iced Earth - Horror Show
- Virgin Steele - The House of Atreus Act II
- Purgation - Realm of the Dead
- Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
- Dark Moor - The Hall of Olden Dreams
Milwaukee Metalfest Pre-Show Benefit
Those planning to attend the Milwaukee Metalfest might want to go a day early, as a pre-fest showcase featuring such bands as Morta Skuld, Meat Rocket, Chaos Theory, Mimic, and Psychotogen will be held on August 8 at the Globe East as a benefit for cancer-stricken Chuck Schuldiner. Tickets to the 8 PM 21+ show are $10. For more on the Milwaukee Metalfest, go to metalfest.com.
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Signings
- World War III Records, a new metal label from Los Angeles, California, has signed the San Diego heavy metal band Cage to a licensing deal for the United States and Canada. They will release Cage's latest album, the newly re-mastered Astrology on August 28, 2001 (thanks Electric Basement)
Summary/Misc
Daily Reviews
MetalReviews.com has more of what they do best:
- Chaostar - Threnody
- Fi5th Reason - Within Or Without
- Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache
- Krisiun - Ageless Venomous
- Michael Kiske - Readiness To Sacrifice
- Seventh Gate - A Reign Of Shadows
- Stormlord - The Curse Of Medusa
Gardenian Split Rumors Denied
Apparently the rumors about Gardenian breaking up were false:
"All rumors about the GARDENIAN split is a totally wrong and false information, we are still kicking it and are working our asses of to make the new killer songs, find a new label and come out on tour to kick some ass."
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