Metal News for July 30, 2002
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13 news articles posted on this day.
Apartment 26 Get New Drummer
Former Stir drummer Brad Booker is the new man in Apartment 26. The new line-up, which recently made their live debut at The Whisky in Los Angeles supporting Stone Sour, are currently working on material for their second album.
Fading into Grey
Las Vegas hardcore act Faded Grey has announced that they're breaking up. The band was formed in 1998 and released a full-length on Indecision Records in addition to an EP on Element Records. The tentative recording of their upcoming album has been cancelled and a final show is being planned. Here's the band's statement: More...
Capital Punishment Set for September 24th
Napalm Death's Punishment In Capitals DVD will be released in the UK on September 24th through Snapper Music. The 75-minute concert, recorded at ULU London, also contains a 45-minute documentary, plus exclusive interviews with the band along with never-before-seen live footage from around the world. Punishment In Capitals was filmed in one take to capture the urgency that has become the band's signature. "We're at our best in live situations," says bassist Shane Embury. "The rapport between ourselves and the audience really does fire us up. The more feedback we get from the crowd the better," adds vocalist Barney Greenway. The show also benefited S.H.A.C. Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, an organization rallying for the termination of the Huntingdon Life Science Laboratories experimentation on animals. "I'm so pleased we got the chance to raise a decent amount of money for this organization because the cause is one very close to my heart," says Greenway.
Middle Aged Sabbath Tribute
An Estonian record company has released an album of Black Sabbath songs played by a quintet specializing in music from the Middle Ages and singing in the main literary language of that era, Latin, according to the Associated Press. ``If you take away the massive wall of sound from many Sabbath songs, what you have is pure 14th century music,'' producer Mihkel Raud said. The 12-track album—called Sabbatum, Latin for sabbath—includes such tunes as ‘Wheels Of Confusion’ (`’Rotae Confusionis’) and ‘War Pigs’ (‘Verres Militares’), among others.
The Haunted Complete Nine Songs
Swedish high-energy thrashers The Haunted have completed "about nine songs" their forthcoming third full-length CD, due in early 2003 through Earache Records, according to a posting from bassist Jonas Björler on the group's official web site. "The process of writing songs usually starts off with one good riff or a good rhythm idea, and then the song basically writes itself. Everybody has input to every song, and that gives the songs the diversity that is hard to achieve when you write a song totally on your own."
As previously reported, The Haunted have booked five weeks at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden beginning on August 26th for the recording of the follow-up to the quintet's acclaimed Made Me Do It CD (2000).
To view several brand new pictures taken Sunday, July 28th at The Haunted's rehearsal room during the pre-production process for the upcoming album, click here
Usurper in Preproduction
Chicago death/thrash lords Usurper have commenced pre-production for their sixth, as-yet-untitled CD with producer Neil Kernon (i.e. Cannibal Corpse) for a late 2002/early 2003 release through Earache Records. More...
Earache To Release Classics on Vinyl
Earache Records will be releasing several classic albums on vinyl, all limited to 1,000 copies each. The following are the U.S. release dates for the LPs in question:
Aug. 20: Napalm Death- Scum
Aug. 20: Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Sept. 03: Terrorizer - World Downfall
Sept. 17: Morbid Angel- Altars Of Madness
Sept. 17: Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Oct. 01: Entombed - Left Hand Path
Oct. 01: Napalm Death - From Enslavement to Obliteration
Oct. 01: Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain
Oct. 15: Carcass - Heartwork
Oct. 15: At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Headline News
Last Godflesh Recording Posted Online
The last-ever studio recording by Godflesh, a song entitled "If I Could Only Be What You Want", can be downloaded in MP3 format from this location. According to the group's official web site, the song "was recorded during the Hymns session but didn't make it to the record," and has previously appeared on the Music for Nations Records compilation Loud Music for Loud People alongside tracks from such artists as Opeth, Anathema, and Entombed.
Cryptopsy Confirmed for Xtreme Benefest
Canadian death metallers Cryptopsy will be headlining the Xtreme Benefest at the Royal Oak Theater in Royal Oak, Michigan, near Detroit, on Saturday November 16th, 2002. This two-day event (November 15-16) will serve as a benefit concert for former Testament/Death guitarist James Murphy (who was diagnosed with a brain tumor last August), and will feature "some of the sickest and most brutal death metal, grindcore, and gore metal bands" in the world. Other artists scheduled to perform include Internal Bleeding, Internal Suffering, Gorgasm, Devourment, Waco Jesus, Summon, Regurtitation, Exploding Zombies, Spinecast and many others. For more details, visit the festival's official web site
No Vocalist, but plenty of New Songs for The Crown
Swedish thrashers The Crown are not letting the fact that they have yet to secure a permanent replacement for frontman Tomas Lindberg get in the way of the songwriting process for the group's next studio album, guitarist Marko Tervonen has revealed via the group's official web site.
"[Bassist] Magnus [Olsfelt] has probably around 10 new songs ready and we have actually started rehearsing 2-3 of them," Tervonen wrote. "It really doesn't matter who will do the vocals in the future, The Crown sound will remain as long as the four of us take care of the music. I mean, we pretty much wrote and rehearsed the whole Crowned In Terror album without a vocalist. We know how to take care of business!!" More...
Opeth Sets Release Dates
Opeth's as-yet-untitled new album, which is currently being recorded at Nacksving/Maestro Music studios with producer Fredrik Nordström, is scheduled for a worldwide release on October 28th, with an extensive tour to follow.
As previously reported, Opeth are planning on issuing two separate CDs several months apart—one heavy, one mellow. The heavy CD will be typical Opeth with all its ingredients, including mellow parts, while the "mellow" CD will have more laid-back material. Opeth are tentatively planning on issuing the second of the new CDs on March 15th, 2003.
In other news, the limited-edition, deluxe two-CD version of Opeth's Blackwater Park CD (containing additional music and video footage not available on the original version) is now officially out of print following its release last week.
Reverend Bizarre Confirmed for Doom Shall Rise
Finland's Reverend Bizarre are the latest act to have been confirmed for the first-ever European two-day doom metal festival, dubbed Doom Shall Rise, to be held in Crailsheim, Germany on February 7th and 8th, 2003. So far, the following artists are scheduled to appear at the event: More...
Solefald Start Mixing New Album
Norwegian avant-metallers Solefald are in the final stages of preparation for their fourth full-length album, In Harmonia Universali (previously titled The Liberation of Destiny), the follow-up to last year's acclaimed Pills Against the Ageless Ills.
"Having recently received the rough mix of our new album, In Harmonia Universali," says Solefald visionary Cornelius Jakhelln, "I can only say it sounds like Solefald! Positively, it does! The dingbats who always thought of us as a crazy band, will think so still; the people who on the contrary care about the music, will discover a bosom/bum/butt-kicking, progressive Heavy Metal record." More...
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