Metal News for August 1, 2002
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12 news articles posted on this day.
Rurik Featured on Trans World Snowboard
Electro-rock band RURIK has just placed the song "Rise to Power" in the new Trans World Snowboard video game for Playstation 2 and XboX formats.
Hatebreed Signs 3 To Stillborn
Hatebreed frontman Jamie Jasta has signed three bands to his Stillborn label. They are New York hardcore bands Subzero and Full Blown Chaos, plus Virginia's The Takeover.
Next Linkin Park Album By Year's End
Linkin Park told Los Angeles radio station KROQ Thursday (Aug. 1) morning that it hopes to have a new studio album out by the end of the year. The group also said it's narrowed down the new batch of songs to about 20 to choose from for the album.
The band had been working on new songs for the past 10 months while also working on the just-released remix album, Reanimation, which came out Tuesday (July 30). The new album will be produced once again by Don Gilmore, who also manned the knobs for Linkin Park's successful 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory.
Read the full article at CDNOW Allstar News.
Biohazard Cancels UK/Euro Tour
Biohazard have cancelled their plans to tour the UK and Europe later this month. This is because guitarist Carmello Vincent Matteliano has just had major surgery and can’t travel.
Brutal Deluxe Finish Album
Brutal Deluxe have finished work on their next album. Entitled Mistah Kurtz...He Dead, the disc will be released in October through Dreamcatcher Records
Anselmo scratches eye, Down cancels gig
Down cancelled their scheduled non-Ozzfest appearance at Montreal's Parc Jean Drapeau last night after frontman Phil Anselmo scratched his cornea at the previous night's show in Clifton Park, New York (allegedly as a result of hitting the mic while headbanging), thus forcing him to wear an eye-patch until his eye has healed.
Guitarist Pepper Keenan and drummer Jimmy Bower reportedly came on stage immediately prior to Down's scheduled performance and announced their non-appearance at the gig (which also included sets by System Of A Down, Meshuggah, Pulse Ultra), promising instead to come back in November and "kick some serious ass."
At the time of this writing, it is not clear if Down's show at Hamilton, Ontario's Copps Arena on August 1st will go ahead as planned or if Anselmo will rest his eye until the group's next scheduled Ozzfest appearance, which is set to take place on Saturday, August 3rd at Columbus, Ohio's Polaris Amphitheater.
Cathedral Complete Work On New Album
Cathedral have completed work on their latest album, entitled ether Songs Of Praise (according to the band's official web site) or Seventh Coming (as reported by Terrorizer magazine), for an October release through Dreamcatcher Records.
"We've finished mixing and I think it's turned out really good," frontman Lee Dorrian told Terrorizer. "The songs are very strong and a bit more melodic than the last album. It's not as extreme. It's heavy, but in a different way." More...
Pungent Stench to Tour Australia
Reunited Austrian extreme metallers Pungent Stench are scheduled to embark on an Australian tour during January 2003, according to Metal Shop. Tentative dates are as follows: More...
Mannhai Enter Studio
Finnish "stoner rockers" Mannhai, featuring former Amorphis bassist Oppu Laine and ex-Xysma frontman Joanitor Muurinen, are have entered Gothenburg, Sweden's Studio Mega to record the follow-up to last year's The Sons Of Yesterday's Black Grouse CD, entitled Evil Under the Sun, for a November release through Spinefarm Records.
The complete track listing for the album is as follows (in no particular order): More...
Spin: GN'R Greatest Metal Album of all time
Guns N' Roses 1987 debut release, Appetite For Destruction, took top position in Spin magazine's top 40 list of greatest heavy metal albums of all time, ahead of works by pioneering bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.
The top five "greatest heavy metal albums of all time", as chosen by Spin magazine in its upcoming September issue, are as follows:
01. Guns N' Roses – Appetite For Destruction (1987)
02. Led Zeppelin – IV (1971)
03. Black Sabbath – Paranoid (1971)
04. Metallica – Master Of Puppets (1986)
05. AC/DC – Back In Black (1980) More...
Sammy Takes Shots at Diamond Dave
The following item appeared in today's edition of the New York Post:
Sammy Hagar, finished with fellow Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth, is dissing Diamond Dave's oversize ego, deteriorating singing voice and vanishing hairline.
Hagar and Roth had been co-headlining this summer's laboriously titled "Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth Tour 2002: Song for Song, the Heavyweight Champs of Rock and Roll." But after butting heads with Roth non-stop since they began touring in May, Hagar vows never to work with him again. More...
Headline News
Ozzy Returns to Ozzfest Lineup Aug 7
Ozzy Osbourne will return to his post as the headliner of Ozzfest 2002 sooner than expected, according to MTV.com. Ozzy will resume his headlining slot on August 7th in Clarkston, Michigan, an Osbournes spokesperson has told MTV.
Last week when Ozzy Osbourne first announced his departure from the trek to be with wife/manager Sharon during her first chemotherapy session in her battle with cancer, he said he planned to rejoin the tour on August 22nd in Denver. However, it now appears that watching his wife undergo the often grueling treatment was so overwhelming that he almost passed out and had to be taken to a recovery room, the family's spokesperson said. It was after that incident Sharon thought it best that he return to the road
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