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Metal News for September 11, 2003

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Burn Your Wishes

Members of Killswitch Engage (Adam Dutkiewicz), Unearth (Ken Susi), The Acacia Strain and more have joined forces in the new side project Burn Your Wishes.

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Torture Killer Artwork Refused At CD Factory

The upcoming Torture Killer album got refused to be printed at the cd-factory! Official reason was that the artwork and the lyrical content of the album "For Maggots to Devour" were too shocking.

Fortunately Karmageddon Media already found a new cd-factory, so the release will not be delayed any longer than necessary.

The complete track listing for "For Maggots To Devour" is as following:

  1. Flesh Breaks to Open Wounds
  2. Sadistic Violation
  3. Motivated to Kill
  4. Necrophag
  5. Fuck Them When They Bleed
  6. No Time to Bleed
  7. Torture of Death
  8. Gore Terror
  9. Strangulation

"For Maggots to Devour" will be unleashed upon mankind by Karmageddon Media on October 6th. The album was recorded at Popstudio in Loimaa (Finland) together with producer Mika Haapsalo.

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The Postman Syndrome Writing New Material

The Postman Syndrome are currently back at home, writing and demoing new material for their next effort which they plan to head into the studio to begin recording in late spring/early summer 2004.

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Go-Kart MP3 CD

Go-Kart Records will soon be releasing a double CD mp3 set featuring CD quality mp3's from 150 bands. Dubbed "The Go-Kart Mp300 Raceway", the effort will feature 300 songs in total, including tracks from artists such as Darkest Hour, Shai Hulud, Most Precious Blood, Freya, Sick Of It All and many more when it lands in stores on November 4th.

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Headbangers Ball MTV 2 Tour Dates - Part 1

The first full batch of Headbangers Ball MTV 2 tour dates. The upcoming LAMB OF GOD, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, SHADOWS FALL tour, will front UNEARTH on the first half, and GOD FORBID on the second half.

10/29/2003 Opera House Toronto, ON
10/30/2003 Spectrum Montreal, QC
10/31/2003 The Palladium - MA Worcester, MA
11/1/2003 Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA
11/2/2003 Metropol Pittsburgh, PA
11/3/2003 Al Rosa Villa Columbus, OH
11/4/2003 Pop's Sauget, IL
11/5/2003 The Quest Minneapolis, MN
11/6/2003 Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
11/8/2003 Agora Theatre Cleveland, OH
11/9/2003 The Rave Bar Milwaukee, WI
11/11/2003 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO
11/12/2003 Bricks Salt Lake City, UT
12/1/2003 The NorVa - Norfolk, VA

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Metallica Dress Up As Led Zeppelin

Metallica dressed up like Led Zeppelin at a photo shoot for Esquire magazine for a 70th anniversary special. The idea behind the shoot was to have current artists portray certain music icons. Metallica was asked to portray the legendary Led Zeppelin and they agreed. The pictures can be found on Metallica.com.

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Napalm Death Post Kreator Cover MP3 Online

Napalm Death have finally picked and put online a song from their upcoming covers album to put online for people to check out. The song is "Riot of Violence" by Kreator. It's a rough, unmixed version, but you can check out the mp3 here.

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Cannibal Corpse Head To The Studio

CANNIBAL CORPSE will be entering the studio on September 15th to record their next full-length album. They will be in the studio from September 15th till October 18th 2003. They will be updating their site with a full studio-report and pictures from behind the scenes soon enough.

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