Metal News for September 17, 2005
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19 news articles posted on this day.
Sunn O))), Boris, and Thrones West Coast Tour
Sunn O))), Boris, and Thrones will be hooking up for a brief West Coast tour in late-October. Here are the dates:
10/26 Vancouver, BC, Canada @ Brickyard
10/27 Seattle, WA @ Neumos (Earth replaces Thrones)
10/28 Olympia, WA @ TBA
10/29 Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan
10/31 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's (3 Days Of Darkness Festival)
11/01 Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
Scars Of Tomorrow, Hand To Hand Plan Euro Tour
Scars Of Tomorrow and Hand To Hand will be touring Europe in early-2006. Here are the tour dates:
17/02 Germany Darmstadt Öttinger Villa
18/02 Germany Lichtenstein JZ Riot
19/02 Czech Republic Prague Futurum
20/02 Austria Wien Planet Music
23/02 Germany Berchtesgarden Kuckusnest
24/02 Germany Wangen Jugendhaus
25/02 Schweiz Oberentfelden Boröm Pöm Pöm
26/02 Germany Trier Ex-Haus
27/02 UK Manchester Satans Hollow
28/02 UK Leeds The Fenton
01/03 UK London Underworld
02/03 UK Southhampton The Joiners Arms
03/03 UK Milton Keynes Pitz Club
04/03 France Paris
05/03 Netherlands Arnheim Goudvishal
06/03 Germany Bochum Matrix
07/03 Germany Hamburg TBA
08/03 Sweden Linköping Skylten
09/03 Germany Hannover Chez Heinz
10/03 Germany Berlin Magnet
11/03 Germany Leipzig Conne Island
12/03 Germany München Backstage
H.I.M. To Headline End of Year Festival
H.I.M. are to headline a three-day festival at the end of 2005 at the Tavastia/Semifinal clubs in Helsinki. This will happen from December 29-31. Also on the bill are The 69 Eyes, Negative, Charon, Bloodpit, Sunride, Deep Insight and Bleak. Tickets will be available from September 19 at this location.
Cathedral To Support Cradle of Filth on UK Tour
Cathedral are to support Cradle Of Filth on their upcoming UK tour. The tour dates are as follows:
December 1 - Southampton Guildhall
December 2 - Norwich UEA
December 3 - London Kentish Town Forum
December 5 - Cardiff University
December 6 - Birmingham Academy
December 8 - Glasgow Academy
December 9 - Newcastle Academy
December 10 - Leeds University
December 11 - Manchester Academy
December 12 - Nottingham Rock City
ex-Paradise Lost Drummer Lands In Ten
UK melodic rockers Ten have brought in ex-Paradise Lost drummer Lee Morris. He left Paradise Lost early last year, after nearly a decade with the band.
Spitfire Re-sign With Goodfellow Records
Goodfellow Records has announced the signing of Virginia metalcore quintet SPITFIRE to a new two album deal. The band, who recorded a CDEP for Goodfellow in 2001, is currently working on a new upcoming full-length album. It will be their first new release in four years.
“We couldn’t be happier to have Spitfire as an addition to our lovely family of bands,” says Goodfellow label owner Chris Logan. “2006 couldn’t come soon enough, so the world can hear the new chapter in this bands career.”
The band is spending the month of September recording at Red Planet studios in Virginia with producer Andreas Magnusson (Black Dahlia Murder, Scarlet). The album, tentatively entitled Self-Help, will be released in early 2006.
The band recently reformed, adding guitarist Scottie Henry from the metal outfit Norma Jean and Dan Tulloh from the shock rocking Scarlet. Musically, SPITFIRE plays a hybrid of metal and hardcore that is comparable to bands such as Every Time I Die, The Melvins, and even Deadguy as well as the speedy punk rock of Hot Snakes. You can check out some of their past material on MySpace.
The Mass On Tour To Support New Album
The Mass are on tour now in the US, supporting their just-released second length album, "Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness." They also have plans for another European tour and more US dates are in the planning stages.
On Sept 13, 2005 Crucial Blast released the 2nd full length album by The Mass, "Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness" in North America. The album will be released Oct 3 in Europe/UK on Monotreme Records.
Here are their confirmed tour dates: More...
Preview Disturbed's New Album On Bestbuy.com
You can preview the new Disturbed album, Ten Thousand Fists, in its entirety on BestBuy.com, where you can also pre-order the record. Also available exclusively at Best Buy is a Disturbed Fan Pack which includes a T-shirt, a 1-year membership to their official fan club (The Disturbed Ones), a sticker and laminate and a coupon for $2 off the purchase of Ten Thousand Fists. The album hits stores this Tuesday, September 20th.
Upcoming Reflux Shows
Reflux has announced a few showing for late October and early November. Here are the dates:
10/28 Lynchburg, VA - CVCC
10/29 Fredericksburg, VA - KCs
11/5 St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl
Gizmachi and Diecast Added To Ill Nino Tour
GIZMACHI and DIECAST have been added to the upcoming ILL NINO headlining tour. Confirmed dates are as follows:
Sep. 20 - Northern Lights - Clifton Park, NY
Sep. 21 - Crocodile Rock - Allentown, PA
Sep. 23 - House of Blues - Atlantic City, NJ
Sep. 24 - WQWK Block Party - State College, PA
Sep. 25 - The Norva - Norfolk, VA
Sep. 27 - Headliners - Toledo, OH
Sep. 28 - Headliners Music Hall - Lousville, KY
Sep. 29 - Newport Music Hall - Columbus, OH
Sep. 30 - The Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA
Oct. 01 - Starland Ballroom - Sayreville, NJ
Recent Unearth Setlist
UNEARTH have officially embarked upon a nine-week tour of the U.S. and Canada. Here is the set list from the Friday, September 16 show in Erie, PA at the Forward Hall, which also featured THE CLASSIC STRUGGLE, A LIFE ONCE LOST and NORA:
The Great Dividers
Endless
Failure
My Heart Bleeds No Longer
This Lying World
The Charm
One Step
[Aeries interlude, played over the PA]
Predetermined Sky
Zombie Autopilot
Black Hearts Now Reign
Tue Madsen To Mix New Kataklysm Album
Kataklysm guitarist Jean-François Dagenais has posted this message on the band's website:
"As must of you know, the recording sessions for the new Kataklysm album are done. This time around I wanna try something different and get another producer involved with the album other then myself (I have produced and mixed the last 5 Kataklysm releases). I wanna give this release 2 different perspectives, 2 different feels to it, so we decided to enlist TUE MADSEN (The Haunted, Mnemic) to mix the new album and I think the combination between both of us will be lethal!.. I think this will be the best thing to do, as I've been swamped with projects from all over Canada and been working on the Kataklysm album for 2 months. Having someone completely fresh to work the last parts of the album will be great. So I'll be shipping the record over to TUE at Antfarm studios in Denmark very soon. "In the Arms of Devastation" will be released worldwide Feb. 20th on Nuclear Blast Records and is guaranteed to blow your mind!!"
Gorefest Choose "For The Masses" For First Video
Gorefest has announced on their website that the band has decided to choose the opening track of their latest album, "La Muerte," to be the first video.
Guitarist Boudewijn Vincent Bonebakker writes: "'For the Masses' is a fast and heavy death metal pounder that gives you a Gorefest that shows it's very much alive. In the near future you can expect music samples from the 'La Muerte' album. Tue Madsen did a hell of a job in mixing the songs to their full potential. 'La Muerte' will prove to be not for the faint of heart, be sure of that!"
BLS Announce Hurricane Benefit Show
Artemis recording artist Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society will be performing a benefit show on October 11th at the recently opened City Hall venue in Nashville, TN. All profits will be donated to the American Red Cross to benefit the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Alternative rock station WBUZ/Nashville will be a partner in the event and will be offering tickets on-air. Tickets are currently on sale at all Ticketmaster locations and online at ticketmaster.com.
Wylde offered: “The bottom line is this…we have a lot of Black Label brothers and sisters in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. We know we have to do the right thing to help out the thousands of volunteers, National Guard, Armed Forces and the local police. It’s the least we can do to help out. When family is down, you pick them up. Now it’s time to kick some ass. God bless, beyond forever, stay strong.” More...
After Forever Schedule Eindhoven Signing Session
After Forever will be signing at Jake's Music Store in Eindhoven, NL on next Friday (September 23rd). This is the same day as the CD presentation sodrop by the Effenaar to support After Forever.
More details to be announced soon.
In Flames To Tour UK With Motorhead
In Flames has posted this message on their official website:
"Hello all! We want to thank each and everyone that came out to see us this summer at the Ozzfest.
We had such a great time during this tour meeting up with a lot of our good friends as well as making new ones!
Thanx to all the bands and crew for being so cool to us.
"Ahead we have the UK-tour with Motorhead that we are really looking forward to. This will be the longest UK tour we have ever done and we are really psyched for it, so hope to see you all there.
"Cheers
/ In Flames"
UK Tour dates with Motorhead: More...
Vote For Bands To Perform At Sweden Rock Fest
Sweden Rock Festival is asking fans to vote for 30 bands they want to see at the festival. To vote, visit www.swedenrock.com and click on "Vi frågar er." Click on up to 30 of the bands you want to see, then click the "Skicka" button.
Some of the bands you can vote for: More...
Maximum Overdrive Pay Tribute To 9/11
Heavy metal rockers Maximum Overdrive, whose name was derived from the Stephen King 1980's classic horror movie, have just released a new song that pays tribute to the heroes and victims of 9/11. "Let's Roll," which features fervent sound bites from President George Bush, is a blistering heartfelt battle cry of support for America's ongoing battle against terrorism.
Maximum Overdrive, a band that has been described as a cross between Black Sabbath and Metallica, have recently issued their self-titled debut album, which features the tribute "Let's Roll" and can be obtained through their website. Plans for a major U.S. tour in support of their latest release is in the works.
For more information: www.maximum-overdrive.com.
Stretch Arm Strong perform with George Clinton
Right after Stretch Arm Strong finished playing songs off their new record, Free At Last, to a packed invite-only pre CMJ party at New York's SCB, a colorful dreadlocked singer made his way up on stage as SAS drummer John Barry laid down some rather out of character beats. Stretch vocalist, Chris McLane, introduced (though really, at this point none was needed) and handed the mic to George Clinton, of Parliament Funkadelic, who immediately went in on some improvisational funk rhymes.
For almost 10 minutes, bass player Jeremy Jeffers and Barry kept up the rhythm, not too surprisingly well, considering they are one of the best combos out there, while guitarists David Sease and JC Lopez traded off on solos whenever Clinton took a break to beam out at the captivated crowd.
"It was our pleasure to be a part of something so great like that. It was the first time we've ever played a CMJ related event and to have that included with someone as influential as George Clinton is mind-boggling. We all had so much fun. It was an honor and a privilege."
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