Metal News for August 6, 2006
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Slayer Interview Posted Online
SLAYER's entire appearance on "The Henry Rollins Show" — including live performances of the songs "Cult" and "Disciple" (which didn't air on the original program), and an interview with all four members of the group — has been made available for viewing online at this location.
Soil's "Forever Dead" To Be On Video Game Prey
A new SOiL track, ‘Forever Dead’, taken from their latest effort “True Self”, is set to be featured on the new hit videogame PREY. ‘Forever Dead’ features BURTON C. BELL from FEAR FACTORY. More information about PREY can be found at Prey: Official Site. SOiL kicks off a full US tour with STAIND today, August 6.
News On Two New Ra Albums
RA will be releasing their 3rd album entitled "Raw", a live recording that took place at the Machine Shop in Flint, MI in March, on October 24 through Cement Shoes Records.
The record was mixed at Spiral Recording Studios by Andy Johns in Los Angeles and contains songs from both “Duality” and “From One”, as well as a brand new studio track entitled ‘Don't Turn Away’ which was recorded by Sahaj and Jason Cosaro at Sun God Rock Studios and at The Barber Shop Studios in New Jersey.
RA will hit the studio later this year to record a new album, tentatively titled “Black Sun”, which will be released early next year.
Avenged Sevenfold To Tour Japan and Austrailia
Avenged Sevenfold will be touring both Japan and Australia this month, here's the dates:
August 12th Tokyo, JAP - Summersonic
August 13th Osaka, JAP - Summersonic
August 17th Brisbane, AUS - The Tivoli
August 19th Sydney, AUS - UNSW Roundhouse
August 20th Melbourne, AUS - The Palace
Rob Zombie To Do New Single On Late Show
Rob Zombie will be performing his latest single "American Witch" on "The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson" this coming Friday, August 11th.
Betrayed Add Tracks To Website
Betrayed have added some more tracks from their recently released new effort "Substance", you can check them out here.
New Swarm of the Lotus Tour Dates
Swarm Of The Lotus, ASG and Sourvein have booked the following shows together:
October 06th Wilmington, NC - Soapbox Laundro-Lounge
October 07th Charlotte, NC - The Milestone
October 08th Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
October 09th Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbits
October 10th Orlando, FL - Back Booth
October 11th Savannah, GA - The Jinx
October 14th Little Rock, AR - Downtown Music
October 17th Milwaukee, WI - Vnuks
October 18th Chicago, IL - Big Horse Lounge
October 19th Detroit, MI - The Belmont
October 21st New York, NY - Lit Lounge
Mushroomhead Make Video For Track Simple Survival
Mushroomhead have a video for their track "Simple Survival" in the works with director Chad Calek (Bleeding Through, Taking Back Sunday). The song is taken from the groups new album "Savior Sorrow", which is set to land in stores on September 19th.
New Evanescence Video Available Online
EVANESCENCE's video for its new single, "Call Me When You're Sober", is available for viewing at YouTube.com. According to MTV.com, the clip features singer Amy Lee wearing a red satin cape and sitting at an antiquated vanity. A young man — with crystal blue eyes and scruffy, overgrown facial hair and sideburns — approaches her from behind, caressing her shoulders and softly kissing her neck as she tries to rebuff his advances.
"The song is so literal, the lyrics and everything — I mean, obviously, just by the title — that we felt like the video would have the freedom to go in a less literal direction," she explained. "So it's [a modern re-imagining of] Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf and sort of a more cool, superhero, rock and roll Little Red Riding Hood."
The song's subject matter, Lee said, involves "something that everyone's been through" — the frustration of "dealing with someone with an addiction, which is really hard, especially when you love someone."
EVANESCENCE's new album, "The Open Door", is scheduled for release on October 3 via Wind-Up Records.
Christian Hard Rockers Stryper To Open For Slayer
Reunited Christian hard rockers STRYPER and the legendary Spain-based heavy metal metal band WARCRY have been confirmed to perform on the main stage of the third edition of the Monterrey Metal Fest, set to take place Saturday, September 23, 2006 at the Coca Cola Auditorium in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. SLAYER will headline the event, which promises to be the "biggest and baddest version yet," featuring "6-7 of the biggest names in heavy metal music from all over the world on the main stage and 6-7 up and coming bands on the second stage," according to a press release.
The official festival pre-party will be held on Friday, September 22, 2006 at the Cafe Iguana with mini-sets from bands that will be performing on the festival's main stage and second stage.
For more information, visit www.mmf.com.mx.
Anthrax Doesn't Want To Force New Record
Roger Lotring of Metal Edge magazine (MetalEdgeMag.com) recently conducted an interview with ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
Metal Edge: Do you foresee a point where you will actually bring more recent ANTHRAX songs [from the John Bush era of the band] into the set?
Charlie: "No, I, personally, do not want to do that… See, with John [Bush], he had to sing those old songs, whereas Joey [Belladonna] doesn't need to sing any of these new songs. He has a catalog of stuff. And me, personally, I don't want to hear Joey singing those songs that John did."
Metal Edge: Does it run through your mind that some of that music might get lost?
Charlie: "it's going to get lost, I know that. It's something that I have to deal with, but I don't… [pauses and exhales] Someone mentioned to me, why don't we put 'Only' in the set. I'm like, 'No, I don't want to do that.' I would feel wrong doing that."
Metal Edge: From the hesitance in your voice, even though you don't want to put that material in the set, it sounds like you have a hard time accepting the fact that it will get lost.
Charlie: "I have a hard time accepting it, because that's the period of ANTHRAX that, for me personally… Look, I wrote every one of those songs that Joey sings. Musically, I wrote pretty much every song that John sang. For me, I get a better feeling inside about those songs with John than I do about those older songs. That was a [time] in my life when I was young and…"
Metal Edge: Inexperienced.
Charlie: "[Agrees] Inexperienced. And I just had a certain way, that this is the way I want it to be — you know, punk, thrash, that was my whole thing. I matured a bit as a songwriter, and those albums with John show a total progression. The last album that we did, which was 'We've Come for You All', was by far, for me, the best ANTHRAX record that I've ever done. It's bittersweet for me… [Pauses] Now I'm in this reunion tour mode, and it's successful. There's a bit of me that kind of wonders why it is so successful, and the last chapter of ANTHRAX wasn't as successful."
Metal Edge: How do you juggle the differences, what the band is right now and what it recently was? As a songwriter, do you progress in the direction in which you were going?
Charlie: "A few days ago, I was just writing, playing, and I had a breakthrough of material that would totally fit the older ANTHRAX. But it's not something that I am purposely making myself do. It's got to be natural. I have a feeling that after playing all these shows, I'm starting to get more of a feel for it. If I started to write music as soon as we started this [reunion tour], it would absolutely have been the continuation of the John Bush stuff. But I'm starting to concentrate more on this, and how this is going to sound. I don't want to come out there and make a record that is forced. I don't want to sit there and have to write a thrash metal riff twelve times, 'cause that's bullshit, man."
Metal Edge: [Do you have any] regrets about how [the reunion tour] has gone to this point?
Charlie: "I don't have any regrets about doing this. Everything I've done I've felt a hundred percent about it. I miss John a lot, you know — a hell of a lot. There's days when I feel like, you know… [Pauses] It totally affected our friendship, doing this. You always hear about people saying you've got to do what's best for you. I tried to do what was best, I thought, for the band — not to put any personalities in it, just the band as a whole. That, to me, is bigger than anybody in the band. The band will live on, even when we're long gone; our records will still be heard. So I was hoping that maybe this wouldn't become a personal thing, and we could still be cool. I mean, yeah, I'm cool with John, but there's a little bit of weirdness there."
Metal Edge: Do the other members of the band realize how much you try to figure out how it's all supposed to work?
Charlie: "I don't know. I think everybody thinks it's all going to fall into place, but I don't think it's all going to fall into place. There has to be some thought, because… [pauses and exhales] Look, Joey Belladonna, I swear, the guy hasn't changed at all, okay? For him, I swear, he's the type of person that the day he was fired from the band, and the day we all met up to do this reunion, it was like yesterday for him. He has not really progressed as some of us did, and… [pauses] It was a little bit of weirdness for me. [Chuckles]"
Metal Edge: What plans are there to record a new studio album with Joey and Danny [Spitz]?
Charlie: "The five of us right now, we're all on the same page. The natural thing to do would be to make a reunion record with this lineup, and all we can do is try. [Laughs] It's going to be a hard task, because we haven't worked in the studio with these guys in years. John is the type of singer that you can push him to get the best performance out of him. That's the way we're used to working, so I don't know if Joey knows what's up ahead of him. We haven't even approached Joey about doing this. The next step is going to be to try and get together and collectively talk about things. For the most part — and I don't want this to cocky or anything like that — it usually starts with Scott [Ian] and I talking about things and building from there. And then everybody talks about it, and then it becomes something. I don't want people to think that, you know, 'You two dictate what the other guys do.' It's not like that. But there's a vision, and everybody has a role in it. It [just] needs a starting point."
Metal Edge's entire interview with Charlie Benante appears in the magazine's October 2006 issue, available on the newsstands now. More information can be found at http://MetalEdgeMag.com.
Hammerfall Debuts New Song At Gates of Metal
HAMMERFALL debuted its new single "The Fire Burns Forever" — the track the band recorded with some of the Swedish participants in the European Athletics Championships — on Saturday (August 5) at their exclusive headlining show at the Gates Of Metal festival in Hultsfred, Sweden. They will perform the song at the official opening of the 19th European Athlethics Championship in Gothenburg tonight. Swedish viewers can watch the performance live on Eurosport at 9:07 p.m. CET.
Photos From Hatebreed's New Video Shoot
HATEBREED shot a video for the song "Defeatist" on Monday, July 31 in Naugatuck, Connecticut in an abandoned factory which was also used by Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise for the end sequence of the film "War of the Worlds". The clip was helmed by acclaimed director Dale "Rage" Resteghini (TRIVIUM, MUDVAYNE, SHADOWS FALL, MADBALL), who stated before the shot, "What Spielberg and Cruise didn't get right, we will!!!"
Commented the band: "Our video shoot was incredible. Thanks so much to everyone who came out to show their support! It was 105 degrees, people waited for hours and there were a few mishaps but the finished product is going to look amazing!"
Check out pictures from the shoot at this location.
Disturbed And SOAD Ozzfest Clips Online
Several clips from the Ozzfest 2006 stop at the Tweeter Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts on Tuesday (August 1) have been posted online. Check out performances from DISTURBED and SYSTEM OF A DOWN at YouTube.com.
Sanctuary Records Improve Distro For New Maiden
According to Hits Daily Double, Sanctuary Records, under the newly installed leadership of Bob Cahill, is moving over to RED Distribution in the U.S. Sanctuary has been under the BMG, then Sony BMG, banner for over six years.
Sanctuary will release the new IRON MAIDEN album, "A Matter of Life and Death", on September 5. The CD will also be available as a limited-edition special deluxe format which contains a bonus DVD. The DVD contains nearly an hour of documentary footage plus videos and photos all shot while the band were making the album. The documentary, titled "The Making of A Matter Of Life and Death", directed by Matthew Amos ("Early Days", "Death on the Road" DVD documentaries) features candid video footage shot largely by producer Kevin Shirley himself during the recording of the album giving a real behind-the-scenes look at life in the studio. The bonus DVD also features the full 7:21 minute video promo for "The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg", and a special intimate filming of the band recording "Different World" in the studio. "A Matter of Life and Death" will also be available as a limited-edition double picture disc vinyl in gatefold sleeve, and as a digital download, available through the newly launched official IRON MAIDEN digital store, where you can buy single tracks, a bundle, or an album for your PC, or your MP3 player.
Darkside To Support Morbid Angel
Austrian death metal band DARKSIDE will support MORBID ANGEL at Planet Music in Vienna, Austria on Monday, August 14, 2006.
DARKSIDE recently completed work on its fifth album, "Amber - Skeletal Journeys Through the Void", and is now looking for a label to release it. A track from the CD, "Suite in Pain Major", can currently be heard on the band's MySpace page. Other tracks expected to appear on the album include "Gods Of Death", "Pillars Of 'Err", "The Myth Of Reason", "dEVILerY", "Amber", "Architects Of Modern Atheism", "Solitary Confinement", and "The Burning".
Blind Guardian And Stratovarius To Lead Wacken 07
BLIND GUARDIAN, SAXON, STRATOVARIUS, GRAVE DIGGER, THERION, SAMAEL and SCHANDMAUL have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany. Also scheduled to perform at the festival is the reunited Norwegian black metal band IMMORTAL, who will make its only German appearance at Wacken.
Skinless Announce More Tour Plans
SKINLESS has announced more international tour plans in support of their latest release Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead.
The quartet will begin with a handful of Canadian dates in early August before heading off for a three week headlining tour of Europe. While in Europe, the band will be making appearances at the Brutal Assualt Festival, Mountains of Death Festival, Parkhof Festival, CaosEmergente Fest, and more. Upon their return, SKINLESS will return to Canada for a more expansive 17-city tour of the country. A listing of SKINLESS tour dates can be found in the tour section.
Their follow-up to 2002’s From Sacrifice To Survival, Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead saw a June release and is the band’s first recorded works with new vocalist Jason Keyser. An e-card previewing Trample The Weak, Hurdle The Dead can viewed at this location: http://www.relapse.com/ecards/skinless/
Breed 77 Puts New Video Online
Come check out the new Breed 77 e-card right here.
The microsite looks great and offers a free MP3 download, two free video podcasts and all the dates for the band's upcoming tour.
Also, check out this video for 'Lost La Ultima Hora' right here.
More Troubles Within Candlemass
Bassist/songwriter Leif Edling of the legendary Swedish doomsters CANDLEMASS has posted the following message on the band's official web site:
"It is hotter than hell right now (in Sweden anyway) and most of you doom-lovers are on vacation. So are we. And we do get worried questions though about what is going on in the band regarding Messiah [Marcolin, vocals] and the new album.
"I can't really say if Messiah will sing on the upcoming album or not, but the last thing I heard was a little bit positive. Let us hope that it becomes 100% certain it will happen. It's all between Messiah and the label [Nuclear Blast Records] now, you see. It is summer holiday time, don't forget.
"I hope this issue can be solved soon, as we need to carry on the work on the new album.
"The past [few] months haven't exactly been the best time for CANDLEMASS. Myself, Lars, Mappe and Jan are pretty frustrated over the current singer situation, but we will solve it. Somehow. We got a great C-MASS album in the pipeline, we will not waste that! If Messiah sings or not is really up to the man himself now."
Tower Records In Trouble ?
Charles Duhigg and Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times report that at least three major music companies cut off CD shipments to Tower Records on Thursday after record executives said that the iconic music retailer had stopped paying its bills.
Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp. and EMI Group sources confirmed to the Los Angeles Times privately that each of the companies had stopped sending albums to the Sacramento-based chain, which has struggled with declining sales as digital technologies have changed the way consumers buy music.
Industry insiders and analysts said it was unclear whether Tower Records had run out of money or was attempting to pressure the record companies to extend better terms.
If the music companies suspend shipments for long, Tower Records could be forced to shutter its 89 locations, including the famous store on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, analysts said.
Music fans bemoaned the potential loss of a retailer that catered to fanatical tastes.
"Led Zeppelin changed my life, AC/DC changed my guitar playing, and Black Sabbath changed my approach to songwriting — and I found all of them because of Tower Records," said Dave Mustaine, lead singer of the veteran heavy-metal band Megadeth. "What could they possibly put in the place of that Sunset store? Another Starbucks?"
Imperanon Put Demo Samples Online
Finnish melodic thrash/death metallers IMPERANON have uploaded several audio samples from their recently completed five-song demo at their official web site. The track listing for the effort is as follows:
01. Corroded
02. Dead in the Water
03. Wound
04. Trendhold
05. Set It Off
IMPERANON recently parted ways with bassist Eki Nurmikari and replaced him with Aki Hopeasaari. The group's current lineup is as follows:
Aleksi Sihvonen - Guitar, Vocals
Teemu Mäntysaari - Guitar
Jaakko Nylund - Drums
Aki Hopeasaari - Bass
Aleksi Virta - Keyboards
IMPERANON's debut album, "Stained", was released in May 2004 through Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Sonic Pump Studios with engineer Nino Laurenne and producer Titus Hjelm and was mixed at Finnvox studios with Mikko Karmila.
More Dragonforce, All That Remains Dates
More dates have been released for DRAGONFORCE's headlining North American tour with ALL THAT REMAINS and HORSE THE BAND:
September 8 - Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre
September 9 - San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
September 11 - Portalnd, OR @ Roseland Theatre
September 12 - Vancouver, BC @ Croatian Cultural Centre
September 13 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox
September 15 - Boise, ID @ Big Easy
September 16 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon
September 17 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
September 20 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre
September 22 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
September 23 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
September 24 - Toronto, ON @ Docks Nightclub
September 25 - Montreal, QC @ The Medley
September 27 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
September 28 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
September 29 - New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre
October 3 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
October 5 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
October 6 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
More Dark Funeral, Enslaved Dates
Another date has been released for the Candlelight II: Phoenix Rising tour featuring DARK FUNERAL, ENSLAVED, and ABIGAIL WILLIAMS:
January 9 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
January 13 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House
January 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ Key Club
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