The Burning Season Plan Fall Tour

The Burning Season, Hand To Hand, and Abeyance will be touring together during the first half of October. Here's the schedule:

10/1 Fredericksburg, VA @ KCs
10/2 Virginia Beach, VA @ Club Live
10/4 N Myrtle Beach, SC @ The Social w/ Reflux
10/5 Brunswick, GA @ Rockbottom Skatepark
10/6 Marietta, GA @ Swayze's
10/7 Augusta, GA @ Sector 7G
10/8 Orlando, FL @ Backbooth
10/10 Clearwater, FL @ 688 Skatepark
10/11 Jacksonville, FL @ Thee Imperial
10/12 Tallahassee, FL @ Big Daddy's
10/14 Baton Rouge, LA @ The Darkroom

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Bhelliom Ready Debut Album, Post Sample Online

Bhelliom, Singapore death metal band is releasing their debut album, "Within Nowhere" on September 1st. A preview track from the album is available for download here (Windows Media format).

Bhelliom is a four piece band, influence range from Childrem of Bodom, In Flames, Soilwork, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple. "Within Nowhere" is their first album and it is the most aggressive sound the band created since the lost of their late vocalist.

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Lunar Hypnosis Post Full MP3 Compliation Online

Lunar Hypnosis' first MP3 compilation is now online, ready for you to download, eager to fill your house with impressive sounds of various genres, looking forward to being burnt to a CDR, and finally hopes you'll spread the word on it and this zine.

Head over to Lunar Hypnosis and download a free compilation titled 'Dreams of Winter Under the Scorched Summer Sun'. This absolutely free compilation features bands from various countries and offers various musical styles including: black metal, death metal, ambient, medieval, dark folk, and more. This compilation is a standard 80 minutes in length. So after downloading the tracks you can feel free to burn them to a CDR and print out the artwork provided. The bands featured are: A Crown of Amaranth, Aardia, Adhur, Elffor, Emancer, Ganzmord, Jportit, Massemord, Novalis, Susurrus Inanis, Sykdom, Uvall, V.B.G., V:28, Velonnic Sin, Vinterriket, and VLE.

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Nikki Sixx Plans Book 'The Heroin Diaries'

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx is planning to make his book 'The Heroin Diaries' a wide-ranging experience. Accompanying the book will be a soundtrack album, with each track having a mini movie shot for it.

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Voivod Guitarist Passes Away

According to VOIVOD vocalist Denis "Snake" Belanger:

"Yesterday, Friday 26th at 23:45, Piggy passed away.

I would like to thank all of you for all the good words and encouragments you gave Denis during his battle. I will keep you posted for funeral details."

Former Voivod bassist Jean-Yves (Blacky) Theriault has issued the following statement:

"Life does not always turn out the way you expect. Mine and the lives of many of my friends from Jonquiere were certainly influenced by one specific person, Denis D'Amour. He was a mentor and a hero for many of us. He was my best friend.

I have dreaded the arrival of this day for a while now. My old bandmate is gone. He passed away last night at peace with himself and without pain. Until the very end he was both a sweetheart and a real rocker, without compromise.

I am so grateful that I had the chance to let him know how much he meant to me and how much I loved him. Denis did not live to see his last artistic effort released but the rest of us will appreciate it all the more.

Long live Denis D'Amour. Long live Piggy."

As previously reported, Voivod guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour had been battling advanced colon cancer which spread to his liver. Denis was 45 years old.

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Stratovarius Explain Meet And Greet In Chile

Stratovarius has posted the following message on their website to clarify fake VIP tickets that have been sold to their fans in Chile:

We would like to clear up any confusion regarding "fan meetings" before and at the show this past weekend in Santiago, Chile.

Apparently there was a) VIP tickets sold for the show with a higher price and with some vague promise for a chance to meet the band; and b) tickets sold for some "welcome party" at a club called the Rockola.

We just want to make clear that the band NEVER authorized any sort of fan meeting in exchange for money. In fact, we feel it's a huge rip-off to charge our fans for anything other than either a musical performance or for merchandise.

After finding this out the same day we arrived, some of us went to the Rockola at least, so as to not totally disappoint fans who had already paid money to "meet the band".

Due to extremely poor security, the situation at the Rockola was chaotic to the point of being dangerous. If we seemed like we were a bit uncomfortable there, it was because of that issue.

In the future, if someone makes a promise that the band will appear to sign autographs/ take pictures/ etc in exchange for money you can be damned sure that a) they didn't tell us about it; and b) that we most likely will not show up. So that's that, please don't waste your money.

But other than that, the shows are going amazingly great and Chile was definitely just a spectacular experience for us! See you soon!

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Porcupine Tree Announce Last 3 US Tour Dates

Porcupine Tree have announced the final three US tour dates, including the band's first ever show in Texas:

Oct 24 San Diego, CA - House of Blues
Oct 25 Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Beach Club
Oct 27 Houston, TX The Engine Room

Other upcoming US tour dates: More...

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More Behemoth Canadian Tour Dates Announced

On their official website, Behemoth have announced a few more dates for their first ever headlining tour in Canada. US/Canadian leg will end on December 7th on Century Media X-mass party at Key Club, Hollywood. Shortly after Polish road warriors from will take a flight to Turkey to play two exclusive shows in Istanbul and Izmir. Due to high demand Behemoth will most possible do another round of dates in Europe, Poland and Russia in spring 2006 before entering the studio to record the follow up to “Demigod”.

Confirmed Canadian dates:

Nov. 02 Vancouver, BC
Nov. 03 Prince-George, BC
Nov. 05 Regina, SK
Nov. 10 Toronto, ON
Nov. 11 Kingston, ON
Nov. 12 Trois-Rivieres, QC
Nov. 18 Saint John, NB
Nov. 19 Halifax, NS
Nov. 21 Fredericton, NB
Nov. 22 Quebec City, QC
Nov. 23 Ottawa, ON
Nov. 24 Hamilton, ON
Nov. 25 Oshawa, ON
Nov. 26 Rouyn, QC
Nov. 27 Sudbury, ON
Nov. 30 Winnipeg, MB
Dec. 01 Saskatoon, SK
Dec. 05 Kamloops, BC
Dec. 06 Victoria, BC

Other tour dates:
Dec. 17 Istanbul, Bronx Club
Dec. 18 Izmir, Ooze Club or Dungeon

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Arch Enemy's Angela Checks In w/ Ozzfest Update

Angela Gossow, frontwoman for Arch Enemy, has checked in with the following Ozzfest update:

"Dear friends,

"It’s about time for an update, quite a few things have happened over the last few days.

"Let’s start with the show in Phoenix, AZ 18th of August. With 110 Degrees out there this was easily the hottest day on the tour so far. By noon, people were dropping like flies. Nevertheless, we had a great show with a very energetic audience. Unfortunately, I got a slight case of food poisoning that day and had quite a rough ride thru the mountains to San Diego, where we played an off-show with Killswitch Engage the next day, Friday August the 19th.

"The show went surprisingly well though, I didn’t have any ‘accidents’ during our set - the wonderful crowd really carried me through. I am sorry I didn’t hang out after the show, but I was back to being full-on nauseas. We had some hardcore fans out there that evening; I even got to sign a very rare Asmodina CD!

"So we travelled on to L.A, to play the Ozzfest show that went down in history for the very wrong reasons… Anyway, we had a blast during our show in front of the largest crowd on the whole tour so far, extremely energetic and enthusiastic, stirring up a dust cloud from hell in the moshpit. It felt like eating large spoons full of sand whilst being on stage.

"L.A is famous for having all kinds of ‘important’ people hanging around backstage, whom we decided to escape around 5pm that afternoon – so we left the site. We didn’t witness any of the absurd events that went down during the Iron Maiden set later on that night.

"We played another off-show the next day, supporting Slipknot in Las Vegas. The Slipknot fans (or ‘maggots’) gave us a warm reception – THANK YOU! Last time we were in ‘sin city’ was two years ago with Slayer. We all enjoyed ourselves in one way or the other – I chose the other way and spent a relaxing day in the Spa. The gambling doesn’t do it for me. Neither do the hookers. I am sure the guys made up for my boring behaviour though, he-he…

"On August the 23rd, we played a small but raging Ozzfest show in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Today, we played the Dallas Ozzfest – another very intense and SHORT performance!

"Listening to the new Obituary album, love the old-school vibe and John Tardy’s vocals, sick as always.

"So long,

Angela"

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Rammstein Cancel Central & South American Tour

In a posting on their website, Rammstein announced that they had to cancel their tour in Middle and South America due to a band member's sickness for the time being.

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Meshuggah Announce More Tour Dates

Meshuggah has added more tour dates to their upcoming Fury of the Fall headlining tour with The Haunted, God Forbid and Mnemic. Here are the full list of tour dates confirmed so far:

Oct. 01 Pinellas Park. FL - Town Square Plaza Park
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. 18 Ft. Worth, TX - Ridgies Theatre
Oct. 19 San Antonio, TX - Sanctuary
Oct. 20 Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theatre
Oct. 21 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
Oct. 23 Seatle, WA - El Corazon
Oct. 24 Vancouver, BC - Croatian Culture Center
Oct. 25 Portland, OR - Berbati's Pan
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
Nov. 01 Santa Ana, CA - Soma
Nov. 02 Tempe, AX - Marquee Theatre
Nov. 05 Oklahoma City, OK - Bricktown Live
Nov. 06 Sauget, IL - Pop's

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2005 Kerrang! Award Winners Announced

The 2005 Kerrang! Awards winners have been announced at The Brewery in London on Thursday August 25. Here are the winners, as voted by the readers:

Classic Songwriter Award: Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor
Best British Newcomer: Bullet For My Valentine
Best International Newcomer: Trivium
Best Single: Foo Fighters for "Best of You"
Best Video: My Chemical Romance for "Helena"
Best Album: My Chemical Romance for "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge"
Best Live Band: Green Day
Best British Band: Funeral for a Friend
Best Band On The Planet: Green Day
Lifetime Achievement: Killing Joke
Icon Award: Marilyn Manson

Iron Maiden have been inducted into the Kerrang! Hall of Fame. Also, Kerrang! thought that a few people should be given recognition for other reasons so they awarded Iron Maiden frontman, Bruce Dickinson, with the Homer Simpson "Conducting Oneself with Quiet Dignity" Award for not using his acceptance speech as a cheap shot against the Osbournes, but merely thanking his band and fans.

For more on the award winners, visit qglastoblog.typepad.com/kerrangawards.

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Corrosion Of Conformity To Open For Disturbed

Corrosion of Conformity will be opening for Disturbed on the first leg of the Jägermeister Tour. Tour dates will be announced very shortly. For more information, visit www.jagermeistermusictour.com.

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Kamelot Announce More Tour Dates

Kamelot have announced a few more east coast tour dates. Confirmed shows:

Nov. 17 West Springfield, VA - Jaxx
Nov. 19 Toronto, ONT - Lee's Palace
Nov. 20 Quebec City, QC - International Metal Fest
Nov. 21 New York, NY - B.B. King's
Dec. 03 São Paulo, BRA - Via Funchal (w/ Epica)
Dec. 04 Rio de Janeirom Brazil - Circo Voador (w/ Epica)

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