Mouthful Of Kittie

Kittie are currently mixing their forthcoming new album "Oracle" with Randy Staub (Metallica, U2) in Vancouver, BC at the Warehouse. The group recently held a private listening session for it, during which they debuted 8 new tracks from the effort for select press, songs played include:

• "Mouthful Of Poison"
  
• "Pain"
  
• "Oracle"
  
• "Safe"
  
• "In Winter"
  
• "Run Like Hell" (Pink Floyd Cover)
  
• "What I've Always Wanted"
  
• "No Name"

A detailed run down of the each track played is available here. In the meantime, it looks as though the track "What I've Always Wanted" is tentatively being eyed as the first single from the release, which is due out through Artemis on October 30th. Meanwhile, the only other known tentative track title for the effort so far is "Wolves".

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Movement

Norway's DERIDE have recruited Tarjei Heggernes as their full-time bassist. Meanwhile, vocalist Frediablo and guitarist Ole Walaunet are said to be working on an as-yet-unnamed side project that Ole describes as “brutal as hell. We’re gonna tear the f.cking world apart with this one!" More info as it becomes available.

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Nausea L.A. Reunite

NAUSEA L.A., the acclaimed underground “deathcore” act that featured in its ranks TERRORIZER vocalist Oscar Garcia (having released the memorable Crime Against Humanity LP in 1991), have reportedly reunited for the first time since 1993 and are in the process of writing new material for an upcoming release. Here is an update on the group’s progress, as posted by drummer Eric C. at NAUSEA L.A.’s unofficial fan web page: “We are currently working on new NAUSEA songs. We got three new songs, It’s going to be like the old stuff—European/punkish. We rehearse about two times a week in the studio with Oscar [Garcia] on vocals/guitar, our old friend Richard on bass, and we are trying out a few lead guitarists around. The [upcoming] recording might only have about 6 songs EP/CD. I think we are gonna release [it] ourselves, so start spreading the news. Should be done end of this year.”

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Anthrax Speaks Out

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has posted the following update on the progress of the songwriting sessions for the group’s upcoming, as-yet-untitled studio album—the band’s first for Beyond/BMG Records—and the preparation for the recording of a live album, which is scheduled to take place in Chicago on October 3rd: “Work on the record has been intense and easy at the same time. Band morale has been great and that tends to keep everyone sane. Even in our 115 degree room with the dead rat behind the wall and the Amityville Horror-like plague of flies, things have been fast and furious. It's been the most collaborative effort we've undertaken in maybe, well in maybe ever. The music is hard. Riffs. Not just one finger tuned down chords. Riffs. We write riffs. I guess we'll never get on the radio now help me Jeebus! No fake programmed ‘disco-metal’. No ‘pseudo-heavy we wanna be metal but would never call ourselves that’ gayness. No ‘rap-metal’. What a concept. We stay different by staying the same.

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Daily Reviews

Metal Judgement has a bunch of new reviews:

• Six Feet Under 'True Carnage' (Committee Review)
  
• WSOU Riverfront Rampage Concert (Committee Review)
  
• 'Twisted Forever: A Tribute to the Legendary Twisted Sister'
  
• Lost Horizon 'Awakening the World'
  
• Dust to Dust
  
• Ananda 'Profane'
  
• Ceremonium 'No Longer Silent'
  
• Black Sabbath (Classic Album Grudge Match)
  
• The Dying Light (Demo Review)

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