Metal News for September 18, 2004
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19 news articles posted on this day.
Quo Vadis Finalize New Album Title & Tracklisting
Canadian technical metallers Quo Vadis have set "Defiant Imagination" (view cover) as the title of their third album, due in early November via Fusion3/Skyscraper. The complete track listing for the album is as follows:
01. Silence Calls the Storm (mp3)
02. In Contempt
03. Break the Cycle (mp3)
04. Tunnel Effect (Element of the Ensemble IV)
05. To the Bitter End
06. In Articulo Mortis
07. Fate's Descent
08. Dead Man's Diary
09. Ego Intuo et Servo Te
Quo Vadis started shooting a video for "In Contempt" the morning of Saturday, September 18 before the group's performance in Greenfield Park, QC. "We will then rush to the show, and continue shooting on Sunday morning!" the band writes on their web site. "The video should be available in conjunction with the album release."
Elvenking Singer Rejoins Band
Italian "pagan metal" band Elvenking have been rejoined by singer Damnagoras. Damnagoras left the band in August 2002 due to "health reasons" and was replaced by Kleid.
Unreleased Iommi/Hughes Material To Be Released
A 8-tracked album of previously unreleased Iommi material with singer Glen Hughes will be released through Sanctuary Records on September 28, entitled "The 1996 DEP Sessions" (view cover).
The track list is as follows:
Gone
From Another World
Don’t You Tell Me
Don’t Drag The River
Fine
Time Is The Healer
I’m Not The Same Man
It Falls Through Me
Necronomicon Announce Album Tracklisting
Founded back in 1983, oldschool thrash metal band Necronomicon has released an album after 9 years that will take you right back to the 80's. The album called "Construction of Evil" is nothing real innovative, but who cares, it's thrash. The old-school thrash fanatics will be very well pleased with this release.
Tracklist:
1. Stormbringer
2. Fiction
3. Hard pain
4. From hell
5. Alight
6. Paralizer
7. Bone daddy
8. Hills of dead
9. Fireball
10. Terrorist attack
11. Insanity
12. Possessed again
13. Hard pain (livetrack)
14. Insanity (livetrack)
15. Terrorist attack (videotrack)
Line-up:
Freddy - guitars,vocals
Axel - drums
Mac - bass, backing vocals
Jogi - guitars, backing vocals
Tierra Santa To Release New Album
Spanish heavy metallers Tierra Santa have set the September 27 2004 as the release date of their new album "Apocalipsis."
The album will include 11 tracks and also a DVD with 6 live songs and an interview. Immediately after the release of the album the band will start a tour through Latin America and they will be performing in Spain during January 2005.
Megadeth Announce US Tour & Line-up
With their new CD "The System has Failed" hitting stores this week (Sanctuary Records) and its first single and video “Die Dead Enough” impacting airwaves, Meagdeth has announced dates for a U.S. tour. The 22-date trek by the iconic hard rock group kicks off October 23 in Reno, NV and wraps November 20 in Minneapolis, MN. Joining group founder and frontman Dave Mustaine will be Glen Drover (King Diamond/Eidolon) on guitar, James MacDonough (of Iced Earth) on bass and Nick Menza returns to the group on drums. The video for “Die Dead Enough” made its debut on MTV’s “Headbangers Ball” this past weekend and the song is spinning on Active Rock and Rock radio stations nationwide.
Of his touring partners for the “Blackmail The Universe Tour,” Mustaine says, “James is a guy with long hair and a lot of tattoos and is an animal on bass. We like that kind of danger on that side of the stage.” As for Drover, Mustaine calls him the “perfect fit,” and welcomes back Menza, who was in the group from 1990 through 1997.
After re-releasing eight Megadeth albums earlier this past summer, Mustaine returns with "The System has Failed," which Revolver described in a four-star review (October ’04) as “Megadeth’s most vengeful, poignant and musically complex offering since 1992’s Countdown To Extinction…Throw in political themes, apocalyptic lyrics…it’s clear that Megadeth are not just back, they’re paranoid, pissed, and motivated to destroy.”
Tour dates are as follows. More...
Lacuna Coil Become Breakout Artist Of Ozzfest 2004
Lacuna Coil has had an extremely successful 2004 as they emerged as this year’s Ozzfest breakthrough artist and watched their latest album, "Comalies," break the 150,000 SoundScan mark in the U.S. The group consistently outsold every Ozzfest band (minus Slipknot) each week with the oldest release of any second stage act. Even mainstage acts Black Label Society, Superjoint Ritual and Dimmu Borgir weekly album sales combined were surpassed by Lacuna Coil's weekly sales alone. All of this coupled with the commercial radio support of their latest single “Swamped” helped the album even crack the coveted Billboard Top 200 chart at #178. Comalies continues to SoundScan a steady 5,000 units per week.
Lacuna Coil was just hailed as one of the “Ten Bands To Watch” by Rolling Stone magazine in their next issue, which hits newsstands on Sept. 23rd. Cristina Scabbia (vocals) also caught the attention of Stuff magazine who dedicated a two-page feature to her in their September issue. The group’s hit single, “Swamped,” is currently featured on the "Resident Evil: Apocalypse Soundtrack" and the Vampire: Bloodlines videogame.
New W.A.S.P. Album Tracklisting Revealed
Sanctuary Records has released the complete track listing for the new W.A.S.P. album, "The Neon God Part 2: The Demise" (view cover), due on September 28 via its Metal-Is imprint. It is as follows:
01. Never Say Die
02. Resurrector
03. The Demise
04. Clockwork Mary
05. Tear Down The Walls
06. Come Back To Black
07. All My Life
08. Destiny's To Come
09. The Last Redemption
W.A.S.P. mainman Blackie Lawless was ardent in his mission to make "The Neon God Part 2: The Demise" as potent and intense as its story dictates, so much so, that he was flying back & forth between venues and his Fort Apache studios in Burbank, CA during the first two weeks of the band's summer tour. "The Neon God" addresses a tale of deep emotional quandary and revelation, the intoxication of power and the consequences of corruption. It is a story that everyone has experienced at one time or another — the need to belong, the quest for love, the desire for control, and the futility of vanity. Lawless, forthright and ever evolving as a musician and a human being, drew influence for the album's concept through extensive observation of the world and numerous soul-searching journeys through the deserts of America's Southwest. A second leg of "The Neon God World Tour" is anticipated to commence in early October.
In Flames Fan Tribute CD Available For Download
French In Flames fan site www.everdying.com has posted a two-disc tribute album to In Flames consisting solely of contributions from the group's fans. The decidedly low-budget affair can be downloaded in its entirety here. The complete track listing for the collection, dubbed "The Everdyers' Tribute CD," is as follows:
Disc One: More...
Motley Crue Complete New Demos
Here's an update from Nikki Sixx:
Well, Stevo Bruno at Klown Records and I have finished up the production on the Motley demos. I feel real strong about the songs. They're on their way to Bob Rock to get his input. I look forward to re-recording the songs now that everybody will have a clear understanding of the direction of the music.
Next up is finishing the writing for the Brides. Me and Tracii have so much music, now we just need to finish what weve started.
My book deal for "The Heroin Diaries" is done. I changed publishers half way thru the deal and am now with Simon & Schuster. There will be a DVD attached to the release of it which will feature original music. So to say I have a busy next few months is a understatment.
I have hired the top litigator who I am using to sue Vans to dropkick Dragonfly Clothing as well. Can you believe I have to do this shit to get paid? I seem to attract people who believe they can take advantage of me, but like Elektra Records found out.. I have the devil runnin' thru my veins and I will not allow people to rip me off.
You must stand up for yourself if you wanna have any self-respect in business. But to be honest, it really sucks and isnt my idea of being an artist. But artists must stand up for themselves...or these companies will continue to rip off artists.
Fall of Empyrean Luneup Changes
Fall of Empyrean have issued the following statement:
Guitarist and founder Justin Burning has decided to leave Fall of Empyrean. The split was amicable, with Justin citing a lack of interest and enthusiasm as the reason for the departure. The band's debut full length album, 'A Darkness Remembered' will still be released and promoted, in cooperation with Oak Knoll Productions.
Nightwish Vocalist To Launch New Website
The official website of Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen will open Monday 20th September. The address is http://www.tarjaturunen.com.
Dark Tranquillity To Release EP In November
Dark Tranquillity will be releasing the “Lost to Apathy" EP on November 15 via Century media. For the mere price of a regular single, you get the following tracks:
- Lost to apathy
- Derivation TNB
- The endless feed (chaos seed remix)
- Undo control (live)
- Lost to apathy (video clip)
- D.T. screensaver
This single serves to wet your appetites for the upcoming 7th full length offering, set for worldwide release in the near future.
New Mournful Congregation Album Delayed
The release of Mournful Congregation's new album 'The Monad of Creation' on Painiac Records is delayed at least until the beginning of 2005.
Confusion had arisen on several online mailorders about the release, which was originally scheduled for a May 2004 release and had appeared on some mailorder lists.
Hammerfall Finish 1st Week of Recording Sessions
Hammerfall guitarist Oscar has posted the following message on the official Hammerfall website:
The first week of recording have gone extremely smoothly! Anders played very well - as usual - and Charlie has managed to make the drum sound even better than on "Crimson Thunder"! Magnus has recorded all the bass guitar now, as well, so things are progressing really nicely; the ground work is laid, and in a most promosing way, indeed. We still have a long way to go - more than two months remain until the mixing and mastering is all done - but I have a great feeling about this!
I have started writing a diary of all the important and unimportant stuff that I deem appropriate for web publishing is included, and it will come with fresh pictures, like you are used to.Hopefully, Fredrik can put it up over the weekend, so you can read all about the happenings during these first two weeks. Stay tuned!
Exodus Postpone South American Tour
There are two reports circulating regarding Exodus' postponement of their South American tour. The first is diplomatic and comes from Nuclear Blast Records:
As recently released Exodus have had quite a major line-up change with the firing of lead singer, Steve “Zetro” Souza and due to complications with replacement singers Exodus have had no choice but to postpone the current dates until they can return to South America in late October with touring singer, Steve Esquivel, of Skinlab.
Top Link Productions did a phenomenal job creating a successful tour for Exodus fulfilling all of their obligations and providing the band with a great run of dates. Therefore Exodus would like to extend their deepest apologies to Top Link Productions, local promoters, booking agents and all Exodus fans planning to attend.
Please keep checking Exodus' website www.ExodusAttack.com for the rescheduled dates. Below are the dates that are currently postponed.
09/17 - Buenos Aires / Argentina - Replica Cromañon
09/18 - São Paulo / Brazil - Via Funchal (Bonded By Blood Thrash Fest)
09/19 - Recife / Brazil - Clube Internacional do Recife
09/24 - Ribeirão Preto / Brazil – Apoteose
09/25 - Belo Horizonte / Brazil - Lapa Multishow
The second statement comes from the band itself and is as follows:
The tour has ben postponed until October due to the fact that John Miller is an insane idiot and had one of his mental breakdowns the day before we were to leave. We knew he has a history of this kind of shit but we never knew it would happen this quickly. It usually takes him longer to shoot himself in the foot. It had nothing to do with Zetro not going. All shows were on until John self-destructed. I will be updating everyone soon on the details of the South American tour. But please don't blame the promoters, there were just too many changes to make to try to pull this off and we had no intention of going down there and embarassing ourselves with John Miller, so my apologies to our fans in South America. We will return soon.
New Cradle Of Filth Video Posted Online
Roadrunner Records has posted the new video from Cradle Of Filth, "Nymphetamine," online here.
Cradle Of Filth's new album, "Nymphetamine," in stores 9/28.
Ataraxie Finish Recording New Album
French doomdeath band Ataraxie finished the recordings of their debut album, that will see the light of day under the moniker 'Slow Transcending Agony'. The album was recorded at the CCR Studio's in Zulte, Belgium, contains 5 songs and will last about 51 minutes. At the moment, the band is looking for a label to release the album. Artwork for the CD can be seen at here.
In October, Ataraxie will also be promoting the new songs in live situations in France. More details on the Ataraxie website.
Also plans are being made for a tour in April 2005.
Unearth Update From Trevor
Unearth arrived home from Ozzfest but the band has not stopped working. Unearth are gearing up to practice for their first headline tour.
To say the least, guitarist Ken Susi is very enthusiastic about the tour. "It is invigorating to finally have our first headline tour; we are so excited to play our first full set."
Unearth just came off of the biggest tour, this summer's Ozzfest 2004 - "I must admit that we learned a lot watching the other headline bands this summer, Ozzfest felt like the proving ground for us and I am confident that we are a better band from the Ozzfest experience and are now a more professional career band. Expect to see Unearth at its best we will play our hardest every night."
Vocalist Trevor Phipps is psyched by the lineup and the fact that the band are headlining a club tour, " I am stoked about this tour package, I will get to watch three amazing bands every night; I am also thrilled to play small clubs again - this is where we come from."
Unearth update from Trevor:
Our show at Brew Ha-Ha’s in Winston-Salem, North Carolina has been changed to Ziggy’s. Our tour will now be playing with Shadows Fall, The Haunted, Candiria and All That Remains on that date only. Tickets should be on sale for all the shows on our upcoming US headlining run. Make sure to pick up your tickets before they are gone. Tour starts in two weeks! See you all soon.
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