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Metal Reviews has 11 new ones this week:

• Aurora - Dead Electric Nightmares
  
• Byrd - Anthem
  
• Gamma Ray - Ultimate Collection
  
• Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music
  
• Mactätus - Suicide
  
• Myriads - Introspection
  
• Nevermore - Nevermore
  
• Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
  
• Stormwarrior - Stormwarrior
  
• Testament - Demonic
  
• Whitesnake - Restless Heart

And Tartarean Desire has many more:

• Underlord - Rise Of The Ancient Kings (black metal, 2002)
  
• Lividity - ...Til Only The Sick Remain (death metal, 2002)
  
• V/A - The World Domination IV (extreme metal, 2002)
  
• Dusk - Mourning...Resurrect (doom metal, 2002; 2nd review)
  
• Khold - Phantom (black metal, 2002; 2nd review)
  
• Grief Of Emerald - Christian Termination (black / death metal, 2002; 2nd review)
  
• Harvist - A Gleam In The Night (black metal, 2002)
  
• Howling Syn - Forebearers Of Dusk (medieval heavy metal, 2002)
  
• Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness (doom metal, 2002; 2nd review)
  
• Star One - Space Metal (symphonic metal, 2002; 3rd review)
  
• Watchmaker - Kill.Crush.Destroy (extreme metal, 2002)
  
• Dawn Of Glory - Images Of Destruction (EP) (power metal, 2002)
  
• Lacuna Coil - Comalies (gothic metal, 2002)
  
• Zonata - Buried Alive (power metal, 2002)
  
• Marble Arch - Another Sunday Bright (gothic rock, 2002)
  
• Darkstone - La Matanza (EP) (dark metal, 2001)
  
• Infernal - Ritual Humiliation (death metal, 2001)
  
• Impaled - Mondo Medicale (death metal, 2002)
  
• Testify - Triviality Beyond Acceptance (industrial metal, 2002)
  
• Mykorrhiza - Mykorrhiza (EP) (death metal, 2002)

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Sepultura Taps Fan Art For EP

Sepultura have launched a contest to get a fan to design the artwork for their upcoming covers EP. To enter, visit www.myselpultribe.com.

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Static-X Comic Released

Static-X have just launched their comic, ‘Static-X: Machine’ at the Fangoria Weekend Of Horrors in Pasadena, California. This is to be published by Chaos! Comics with artwork by Jay Fotos.

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Symphony X go Heavier

Symphony X are putting the finishing touches to their new album in Michael Romeo's studio. The album is titled Odyssey and is scheduled for an October release through Inside Out Records. Romeo commented: "The new CD is much more focused and quite a bit heavier than a lot of our past work."

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Scars of Tomorrow Update

California's Scars Of Tomorrow have now added a new guitarist to their lineup. His name is Martin Stewart, and he's from Los Angeles. According to the band, "We couldn't be happier with our decision and our new material is coming along amazingly." In related news, the band has decided to release another album on Thorp Records, who released the band's previous full-length. The new album is tentatively titled The Revolution and should be out in February 2003. At this point, the band has finished five new songs and will take time off from playing shows until November to continue writing material. The new album will most likely feature twelve tracks, three of which the band has already begun playing live. Look for the band to hit the road for a brief tour in December.

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The Promise Believes

Syracuse's The Promise have completed the recording and mastering process for their new album. The record was recorded in late-June and early-July with Dean Baltulonis and layout duties are currently being handled by Guav. The record has been entitled Believer and will most likely hit stores in November via Indecision Records. The band has tentative plans to do some September touring, possibly with Terror, A Death For Every Sin, and No Warning. Additionally, they expect to hit the road in November to promote their new album.

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Kingdom Come Complete New Album

Kingdom Come's Marco has issued the following band update,

“IT'S DONE! Hello girls, boys and inbetweens! After several months of writing, recording, screaming, throwing things, fighting, laughing, worrying and cruising, we finally came to an end. Now it's up to the BIG GUY and of course to ALL OF YOU, where the next chapter will take us to. The CD is called Independent. It was recorded and mixed at the IMPULS-Studio in Hamburg, Germany. We'd like to thank Jan & Manne from the IMPULS-Studio, who spent a lot of late hours dealing with my remote controlled brother Lenny! (Gotta check out the red carpet! Very nice!) Kingdom Come signed to a new label, based in Germany's capital city Berlin, by the name of UlfTone Music. The chief himself, Ulf Zick, is also taking care of all business related matters regarding Kingdom Come and/or Lenny Wolf. I decided not to bubble & bla about the new CD, simply because it does do the talking all by it’s fucking self! Yippeh! That's it for now. Greetings to all of you, as always write me for further questions! Marko.”

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Henry Rollins Book Update

Henry Rollins gives this update in his latest newsletter, “Hello all. Here’s what’s happening from our end. Several weeks ago I told you about the book of mine coming out in September called Unwelcomed Songs: Collected Lyrics 1980-1992. Well, it’s back from the printer and it looks good.” Unwelcomed Songs will be available at www.21361.com in early September in both softcover and hardcover versions. The hardcover version is a 1,000 copy limited edition that is only available on www.21361.com. Henry will be personally signing the hardcover version to you, your friend’s or anyone else’s name you indicate. Info on how to have this done will be available when you order the book.

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Headline News

Lawsuit Against Ozzy Thrown Out

The following article appears in today's edition of The New York Times:

Here is a scene viewers won't see on the MTV show The Osbournes: Ozzy Osbourne handing over millions in royalties to his onetime bass player and drummer.

The bass player, Bob Daisley, and the drummer, Lee Kerslake, sued Mr. Osbourne in federal court in Los Angeles in 2000. They said he owed them about $20 million for writing the songs on two heavy-metal albums from his pre-reality-television, pre-household-name days.

Judge Christina A. Snyder dismissed the case last week, saying that the statute of limitations had long since expired. She also said that the two men had failed to explain why they believed they had been improperly credited on record labels. More...

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Halford Explains Bang Your Head festival

In the September 2002 issue of Germany's Rock Hard magazine, Rob Halford commented on his reportedly "lackluster" June 29th appearance at the Bang Your Head festival in Balingen, Germany, where the group apparently played a 50-minute co-headlining set that included a "truly horrible" vocal performance from Rob and virtually no interaction between the band and the audience. More...

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Opeth to Begin Mixing in September

The two full-length albums currently being recorded by Sweden's Opeth at Nacksving/Maestro Music studios with producer Fredrik Nordström are scheduled to be mixed during September — the "heavy" one under the watchful eye of Andy Sneap and the "mellow" one by Porcupine Tree frontman Steve Wilson.

As previously reported, the heavy CD — due worldwide on October 28th — will be typical Opeth with all its ingredients, including mellow parts, while the "mellow" CD — set for release in March 2003 — will contain more laid-back material.

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Gorgoroth Recording New Songs

Norwegian black metallers Gorgoroth are reportedly working on the recordings of their as-yet-untitled new opus in Bergen.
A total of eight songs have been finished, with Infernus, King and Kvitrafn penning most of the material. However, frontman Ghaal, who you will recall was imprisoned for fighting, is still scheduled to be part of the recordings. He'll require permission from the prison authorities before doing so. Word is that Ghaal is looking for a December release, so that he and Gorgoroth can tour in support of the upcoming album

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