Metal News for August 15, 2005
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21 news articles posted on this day.
Saturnus Signs To Firebox Records
Firebox Records has announced the signing of celebrated Danish doomsters SATURNUS. The band and label have negotiated a contract for two albums. The much-awaited third full-length Saturnus studio album will be recorded later this year and is currently slated for an early 2006 release.
Saturnus has previously released three records on Euphonious Records including:
Paradise Belongs To You (CD, 1997)
For The Loveless Lonely Nights (MCD, 1998)
Martyre (CD, 2000)
Stretch Arm Strong Record Release Shows
Stretch Arm Strong have announced a series of record release shows for their upcoming We Put Out Records release, "Free At Last." Here are the dates:
9/14 Montclair, NJ @ Bloomfield Café
9/15 Raleigh, NC @ The Brewery
9/16 Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
9/17 Columbia, SC @ Headliners
9/18 Charleston, SC @ Music Farm
More Meshuggah, God Forbid, The Haunted Tour Dates
More tour dates have been added to the Fury of the Fall tour, which features Meshuggah, God Forbid, the Haunted and Mnemic. Tour dates that have been announced so far are as follows:
Oct. 03 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero
Oct. 04 Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock
Oct. 05 Toronto, ON - Guvernment
Oct. 06 Montreal, QC - Medley
Oct. 07 Poughkeepsie, NY - Chance Theater
Oct. 08 Springfield, VA - Jaxx
Oct. 09 Worcester, MA - Palladium
Oct. 10 Hatrford, CT - Webster Theatre
Oct. 11 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
Oct. 12 Cleveland, OH - Peabody's
Oct. 13 Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater
Oct. 14 Detroit, MI - Harpo's
Oct. 15 - Columbus, OH - Alrosa Villa
Oct. 16 Mokena, IL - Pearl Room
Oct. 21 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
Oct. 23 Seatle, WA - El Corazon
Oct. 27 Sparks, NV - New Oasis
Oct. 28 Orangevale, CA - Boardwalk
Oct. 29 San Francisco, CA - Pound SF
Oct. 30 Los Angeles, CA - Key Club
Oct. 31 Santa Ana, CA - Galaxy Theater
Exmortem Guitarist Joins Illdisposed
Exmortem guitarist Martin Thim is the newest recruit to Illdisposed.
"Martin is known for his longtime work with the Danish death metallers Exmortem, and he has been a friend of Illdisposed for many years," the band's site offers.
"Martin begins in the band immediately, both playing live and participating in creating the next album. Therefore we are aiming to give some of the new songs a more hard and brutal twist."
Primal Fear Back From Spain
Primal Fear checks in with the following update:
We're back from a fantastic weekend in Bilbao/Spain. We played a great show at the Metalway Open Air in Gernika and we meet a bunch of cool friends from Kreator, CoB, Sodom, Accept, Saxon and a lot of more .... fantastic audience - thanks Spain! The gallery is updated with some shots!
Primal Fear will be announcing details regarding an upcoming European Tour 2005/2006 later on this week.
Porcupine Tree Announce Seattle, San Fran Gigs
Porcupine Tree has just announced two more tour dates:
Oct 18 Seattle, WA - The Moore Theater
Oct 21 San Francisco, CA - The Grand/Regency Center
Here are the rest of the confirmed tour dates so far:
Sep 23 Tampa, FL - The Masquerade
Sep 24 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
Sep 26 Washington DC - 9:30 Club
Sep 27 Philadelphia, PA - Keswick Theater
Sep 28 Providence, RI - Lupo's
Sep 30 Boston, MA - Berklee Performance Center
Oct 01 New York City, NY - Town Hall
Oct 03 Montreal, QUE - Club Soda
Oct 04 Ottawa, QUE - Barrymore's
Oct 06 Toronto, ONT - Phoenix Concert Theatre
Oct 08 Detroit, MI - The Majestic
Oct 09 Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
Oct 10 Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
Oct 11 Chicago, IL - Park West
Oct 13 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave
Oct 15 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
Oct 17 Portland, OR - The Aladdin
Oct 22 Los Angeles, CA - House of Blues
Oct 23 Anaheim, CA - The Grove
More American and European tour dates will be announced soon.
Gorefest Guitarist Issues Update
Gorefest guitarist, Frank, has issued the following update on their official website:
Mr. Madsen's Magical Mixes are dropping in, and they're everything we hoped they would be. Maybe even more! Some of these songs are so heavy, it's almost frightening.
Anyway, let's do a small recap of what we did after we left Excess Studios. We had one day off, then traveled by nightliner to Wacken. Our fabulous crew took care of the backline at the site, so we could take care of a very busy schedule. We'd taken with us some rough mixes of 6 songs off the new album, and the plan was to let the press at the fest hear what we've been up to the last couple of months.
Strangely, the soundequipment in the tent had been hijacked by a man who shall remain nameless (but he seems to be an Uncle to a lot of people). While waiting for that stuff to be returned, it became clear we had to drop some things off the schedule, if we were to seize the opportunity to have this much press from all over the world present at the listening session. So, the Signing Session was cancelled. Our sincere apologies to everyone who has been waiting in the rain for us, only to have us not show up. Hopefully we can make up for it next time we're in Germany, and by giving you a REALLY FUCKING HEAVY, TOWERING MONOLITH of an album!
Oh yeah, in the end, the soundequipment remained MIA, everything backfired on us, and we were left looking like jerks. Oh well, that's rock 'n roll, I guess.
The show was awesome though. I hadn't expected so many people showing up for us, that really amazed me. We had a great time, and I hope you did too! Oh yeah, to the fucker who threw the fucking can: Fuck you, you sad sack of shit.
After that, we had some good ole' beer drinking time with some of the Within Temptation guys. Well, excluding me, that is. I opted for an early night, as I wanted to be fresh for the flight to Istanbul next morning. I'm not too keen on flying, and it's even worse with a hangover.
At Hamburg Airport, we had a pretty good laugh when JC's effectsboard got checked. The look on that securitywomans face when she saw all that stuff wired up, she must have thought we were about to nuke the whole scene there. The only thing missing was a little running clock. 'eehm, ja, I vill hav to check zis!'
It was a pretty bumpy flight, nearly reminding me of that hilarious scene in Almost Famous. Arriving in Istanbul we got picked up by Agop, our guide for the weekend. Quick shower at the hotel, then off to the site, which was nothing short of gorgeous. Check it out!
Despite our soundman Pieter not being able to use the whole soundboard (thanks to a certain band who seemed to think it was their show, as opposed to a festival - afraid we'd be too heavy, were you?) we had a fantastic show. Lights, crowd, band, and Pieter assured me even the sound eventually came along nicely, all was excellent. We had such a good time, and we'd like to thank everyone who attended the day for that! We met the nicest people in Istanbul, and I urge every band to try and do some shows overthere. The Turkish like their Metal, and they want a lot of it! The food's really good too. Beautiful women as well, which is never a bad thing.
Anyway, I guess you can tell we had an awesome weekend. I won't bore you with details of our adventures the next day - overbooked and missed flights, a fantastic hellride on a little cart through Frankfurt Airport - thank you, Steffi Graf lookalike, that was so cool! Suffice to say, we all came home in one piece, and a loads of wonderful experiences richer.
Lest we forget: mark october 31 on your calendars as the day Gorefest will release a very heavy album indeed!
signing off,
Frank
Diecast To Play In Brooklyn This Saturday
Diecast will be playing at the Brooklyn Music Terminal (previously L'amours) this Saturday August 20th with Timeless, Ismada, Gravesend, Eruptio and A Dozen Dying Roses. Tickets are $10 and can be purchesed through ticketweb.com. The show starts at 7:30PM and is an al ages show. Go to the shows section for more details.
BTBAM Finish Filming Of "Alaska" Music Video
Between the Buried and Me has just finished the filming of the music video for "Alaska" with director Shane Drake (Hate Eternal, the Agony Scene) in Los Angeles. More information will be announced soon.
Dark Tranquillity & Trivium To Support Arch Enemy
Dark Tranquillity and Trivium have been confirmed as the support acts for Arch Enemy on the 1st leg of the European headlining tour for "Doomsday Machine." Tour dates are as follows:
Sep. 26 Manchester, UK @ Academy II*
Sep. 27 Cardiff, UK @ Coal Exchange*
Sep. 28 Wolverhampton, UK @ Wolfrun Hall*
Sep. 29 Glasgow, UK @ QMU*
Sep. 30 London, UK @ Forum*
Oct. 02 Paris, FRA @ Bataclan
Oct. 03 Haarlem, NETH @ Patronat
Oct. 04 Köln, GER @ Live Music Hall
Oct. 05 Eindhoven, NETH Effenaar
Oct. 06 Stuttgart, GER Longhorn
Oct. 08 Ternat, BEL @ Ternat Rock Festival (w/ DIO)
Oct. 10 Hamburg, GER @ Markthalle
Oct. 11 Berlin, GER @ Columbia Club
Oct. 13 Oslo, NOR @ Rockefeller
Oct. 14 Gothenburg, SWE @ Kåren
Oct. 15 Stockholm, SWE @ Klubben
Oct. 16 Copenhagen, DEN @ Pumpehuset
*No Trivium on the U.K. dates, another support act will be announced shortly.
Anthrax Drummer Checks In From Ozzfest
Anthrax drummer, Charlie Benante, has posted this update on the band's official website:
PRIEST BABY! We are heading out to the Highway! Check the dates and see when we come to your town.
I'm excited to play with JP, well I'm not playing with them... But I would LOVE TO!!!! HINT HINT. This is the metal tour I've been waiting for and I hope you have wanted this as well. I must give a BIG BIG "THANK YOU" to Judas Priest.
We will see you for 5 shows in September on the GIGANTOUR. We haven't played those cities in a long time - Get Ready!
I went to the Ozzfest last week and had a ball. Iron maiden were ON FIRE, whew! I felt like a young metal head again. The Muds, the Shads, the Mastodons were killer. The one thing that wasn't killer was that shitty hot dog I ate. What is wrong with me, I never eat hot dogs and here I was eating one, what the hell was I thinking? The "dog" did not sit well with my metal. Thanks to Mr. Bitner for supplying me with beer to wash the "dog" OUT!!!
I just watched the Pam Anderson ROAST, Jeff Ross is a god. The shit he was saying... I almost pissed myself Okay, I gotta go and do something productive.
See your faces soon,
Charles in Charge
Children Of Bodom Resigns To Spinefarm Records
Children of Bodom have signed a three album extension to their deal with Spinefarm Records. CoB's next album "Are You Dead Yet?" will be an international priority release for Universal Music, who will release the album worldwide before the end of October 2005. In Finland "Are You Dead Yet?", which is the band's fifth full-length album, will be released on the 14th of September.
This Fall Children of Bodom will first tour in Australia and Japan, in November-December they will continue their tour in the States, and head to Europe after Christmas.
As Theo Roos, the head of Universal Music Scandinavia and Benelux, said after hearing about the extended deal: "We are very excited and happy that Children of Bodom have decided to (re)sign for a longer time with our Spinefarm label for the world!"
Rammstein Announce S. American Tour Dates
Rammstein have just announced Central and South American tour dates in October. Confirmed dates are as follows:
Oct 06 Mexico City, Mexico - Sports Palace
Oct 07 Guadalajara, Mexico - La Concha Acustica
Oct 09 Monterrey, Mexico - Auditorio Coca Cola
Oct 13 Santiago, Chile - Velodromo
Oct 15 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Credicard Hall
Oct 17 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Obras
Oct 20 Caracas, Venezuala - Poliedero de Caracas
Oct 22 Bogotá, Colombia - Estadio El Campin
Marduk Posts Wacken Open Air Photos Online
Marduk has posted photos of their performance at Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany. Check them out at their website. More photos of Marduk at Wacken Open Air are found at
www.sheol-magazine.com.
Zeke and Nashville Pussy Fall Tour Dates
Zeke and Nashville Pussy will be touring together this fall. Here are the latest tour dates:
9/16 New York, NY @ CBGB
9/17 Long Island, NY @ Voltage
9/20 Harrisburg, PA @ The Dragonfly
9/21 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
9/22 Ithaca, NY @ Castaway's
9/23 Hartford, CT @ Webster Theater
9/24 Providence, RI @ Living Room
9/25 Boston, MA @ Middle East
9/27 Portland, ME @ Asylum Club
10/8 Ferndale, MI @ Magic Bag
10/9 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
10/11 Indianapolis, IN @ The Patio
10/12 Chicago, IL @ Double Door
10/13 Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
Into The Moat Scrambling To Replace Guitarist
Into The Moat have been forced to temporarily drop off their current tour with Soilent Green due to the sudden departure of guitarist Robert Shaffer. According to the band, "Shaffer thought it was best to quit the band right in the middle of a tour and would not agree to finishing his responsibilities within this band." Consequently, the band has misssed several shows but hopes to get back on the road as soon as possible. If you live in South Florida, play guitar well, and can commit to some immediate touring, contact the band immediately at into_the_moat@hotmail.com.
Watch Cephalic Carnage's New Video Online
Cephalic Carnage are out with the video to their new single 'Dying Will Be The Death Of Me', from the album 'Anomalies'. You can watch it online at Yahoo! Music.
Watch The Haunted's Video For 'No Compromise'
The Haunted are out with the video to their new single 'No Compromise', from the album 'Revolver'. You can watch it online at Yahoo! Music.
Green Carnation Announce 3 Gigs In Finland
Green Carnation have announced that they will be playing Finland for the first time in late November. The dates are as follows:
Nov 25 Turku
Nov 26 Jyväskylä
Nov 27 Helsinki
The Norwegians will join up with Finland's own hotshots Battlelore for the gigs, and fellow Finns Deathlike Silence will be the support act on all three concerts.
"I think we will all be up for a blast. We have noticed a big interest in the band from Finland, and we have been planning this for a while now. All the members are happy it's been confirmed now, so we can start looking forward to this," singer Kjetil Nordhus says. "And for me, it's going to be great to meet my friends in Battlelore again. I've lived in the same bus as them for three weeks on a previous tour with Trail of Tears, and we all got along extremely well. So that's going to be a big bonus for me personally!"
Green Carnation are also hopeful to add another gig on the mini-tour, on Monday 28. November, in Tallinn, Estonia. This is not confirmed, though, but check www.greencarnation.no for more news as it happens.
Dream Theater Announce S. American Tour Dates
Dream Theater have announced dates for their upcoming South American tour. There will be no opening act and 2 sets with an intermission unless noted otherwise. Tour dates:
Dec 03 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Obras Sanitarias
Dec 04 Buenos Aires, Argentina - Obras Sanitarias
Dec 06 Santiago, Chile - Velodrome
Dec 09 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Claro Hall
Dec 10 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Credicard Hall
Dec 11 Sao Paulo, Brazil - Credicard Hall
Dec 13 Caracas, Venezuela - El Poliedro
Overlorde Guitarist Hold Meet & Greet At Progpower
Overlorde has announced that guitarist Mark "M.E." Edwards will represent Overlorde for an official meet and greet session with fans during Progpower USA VI metalfest in Atlanta, Georgia. M.E. will be the guest of the End Records on Saturday, September 17th. Fans can get full sized Overlorde promo posters signed by M.E. and can also pick up the bands highly praised Sonic Age Records debut CD titled "Return of the Snow Giant," including the new vinyl gatefold edition.
Signs will be posted at the festival starting Friday, Sept 16th, announcing the exact time of the meet and greet.
M.E. will also have copies of his solo release "G.W.A." (Guitar with Attitude) for sale. To learn more about this Joe Satriani style release, visit www.meflyingv.com.
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