Society's Finest and GODS Tour Dates

Society's Finest and GODS will be touring together this month. Here are the tour dates:

9/4 Canton OH @ Fallen Eyes
9/5 Lakewood OH @ Chris' Warped Records
9/8 Philadelphia PA @ The Trocadero (balcony)
9/10 Feeding Hills (Springfield) MA @ The Lighthouse Center
9/12 Owego NY @ Tioga Trails Cafe
9/13 Linthicum Heights MD @ Linthicum Heights Baptist Church
9/14 Bound Brook NJ @ Hamilton Street Cafe and Stage
9/17 Myrtle Beach SC @ The Limelight w/ Through The Eyes Of The Dead, more
9/18 Birmingham AL @ The Shma w/ Under Bleeding Star, To Die With Honor
9/20 Fayetteville AR @ The Music Hall
9/21 Springfield MO @ The Rockwell
9/23 Monroe LA @ The Paraground w/ The Burning Issue
9/24 Houston TX @ Walter's on Washington
9/25 Arlington TX @ Club 412 w/ The Kirby, Infirmity
9/26 Dallas TX @ The Red Blood Club w/ Still Crossed

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Judas Priest Audio Interview Posted Online

Judas Priest made an appearance on the "Friday Night Rocks" show on New York's Q104.3 FM last month. The 55-minute interview is currently available for download in full audio: Part 1 (mp3 - 8.9 MB), Part 2 (mp3 - 10.9 MB).

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Twisted Sister "Still Hungry" Update

Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Twisted Sister's "Still Hungry" CD, a re-recorded and expanded version of the classic 1984 album "Stay Hungry," on October 5, 2004. "Still Hungry" adds seven new tracks to the original "Stay Hungry."

The re-recorded "Stay Hungry" tracks are "Stay Hungry," "We're Not Gonna Take It," "Burn In Hell," "Horror-Teria: a) Captain Howdy b) Street Justice," "I Wanna Rock," "The Price," "Don't Let Me Down," "The Beast," and "S.M.F." The biggest singles of Twisted Sister's career, "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock," were fist-pumping smashes and important, ground-breaking music videos in the early days of MTV. More...

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Napalm Death Prepare To Record New Album

Napalm Death are currently in England preparing to record their forthcoming studio album. Commenting on why the band chose to record in Wales, vocalist Barney Greenway had this to say:

The studio is called Foel Studios in the town of Foel, North Wales (Porcupine Tree, Ozric Tentacles), and is owned by the original bass player in Hawkwind. We decided to record here because it's pretty isolated out in the countryside, so there are minimal distractions. We feel that good use of studio time is pivotal and where as some bands might sit around taking things easy for periods, we really work intensively. In the studio, it's actually better to be slightly stressed and on edge for us because it's a good way to capture that kind of on the edge live vibe, which in turn gives us the extra thrust. Personally, I'm never happy with a verse of vocals if I think that I can squeeze a last drop of rawness out of my voice. Sometimes I probably attack things too much, but intensity is the key for me. I like to think we've done enough trips to the studio now to know what we're doing, yet you can never be entirely prepared for the unexpected where, say, the desk might burst into flames or something. Russ Russell will be producing, as he's a very trustworthy man at the knobs for us now as well as being a mate. We're confident he'll do a great job on the new stuff, which is sounding spectacularly savage - a good mix of the very best bits from the last two albums.

Napalm Death will be releasing their Century Media debut, "Leaders Not Followers: Part 2," on October 5. The follow-up to 1999's 5-track "Leaders Not Followers" EP, Part 2 contains 19 full-bodied tracks, covers from bands like Anit-Cimex, DiISCHARGE, Hellhammer, Kreator, and more.

For more information on the album and to preview cover art, go here.

In addition, Napalm Death recently announced dates for their fall U.S. tour with Cannibal Corpse, Vader, Kataklysm, and Goatwhore. To check out the tour dates, visit www.centurymedia.com.

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Cattle Decapitation's "Humanure" Cover Gets Banned

Cattle Decapitation have posted this message on their official website:

We've been given the option to change the album cover and we're doing it. We’ve received too many complaints that people are unable to find the album and that is something we wanted to defeat by signing with Metal Blade. We knew it had to incorporate the current original artwork somehow as well as to put across a message. We're going to go with the image that's on the back of the current layout. Its just a barren wasteland that (now in hindsight, cryptically) symbolizes the ill effect of censorship as well as the fallout left by the apocalypse known as humanity. Void of flavor and life. Exactly the way this world will be when it cures itself of this disease. The positive things to come out of this? Now nobody will be able to complain that they can't find what we think is our best record to date as well as more focus on the music and the lyrics. The original cover has been released(though it will now be limited edition) so at least it exists somewhere and the vinyl version on Deep Six Records will still have the original cover. We're really not concerned with "grossing people out," our music deserves more than that and the lyrics do a fine job of that already.

We suggest that if you don't have "Humanure" already, get it. This change will take place as soon as the printers can belt out the new copies. After that the original version will be deleted. And it's by far our best release yet.

To any possible sceptics: It's death metal. If we were all about money and album sales we wouldn't have given our lives to this kind of music. Don't try. We’re on tour constantly busting our asses so the record needs to be in stores.

Who to blame? I wish it was as simple as "The PMRC." After Janet Jackson revealed her mammary glands (complete with surrounding tissue and piercing) on national TV, the FCC has tightened the noose on the entertainment industry, forcing chain stores and countless others to pay more attention to this kind of thing. Fear. Having ultra Christian/right-wing conservatives running our country doesn't help much either. Get out there and vote, people.

The double LP vinyl version of "Humanure" is now available on Deep Six Records with gatefold cover on "Pepto-Bismol Puke" colored vinyl. There was a defect in which the copies came with the first record in root beer color. There are 182 of these defects."

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Maximum RNR: Foiling Robberies And Dodging Glass

The gang of miscreants that make up Toronto's Maximum RNR recently piled into a stinky van and headed West towards Vancouver. As usual, hijinx ensued. Guitarist Keith Carman reports on the highlights.

Cast of Characters:
Louis Durand: Singer
Keith Maurik: Guitar
Mike Sydney: Bass
Mike Childs: Drums
Keith Carman: Guitar

What’s the single most masochistic thing any rocker can do? Some might say sign with a major or maybe actually sit through the opening band. I beg to differ. Try doing a cross-Canada tour with four other smelly jerks. In under two weeks. Zing!

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Chevelle Announces Tour Dates

Upcoming Chevelle tour dates:

09/19 Louisville KY - WLRS
09/20 New York NY - The Bowery (Support: Strata)
09/22 Philadelphia PA - Northstar (Support: Strata)
09/24 Cleveland OH - R&R Hall of Fame, WXTM
09/25 Toronto ON - Mod Club
09/27 Chicago IL - CRC Studios (WZZN show)
09/29 Minneapolis MN - Ascot Room at The Quest
10/16 Washington DC - DC101 Chili Cookoff
10/21 Ft Myers FL - Centennial Park (WJBX show)
10/22 Orlando FL - Downtown Orlando (WJRR show)
10/23 Miami FL - Bayfront Park (WZTA show)
10/24 Jacksonville FL - Met Park (WPLA show)
10/30 Spring (Houston) TX - Cynthia Woods Pav. (KTBZ show)
10/31 Little Rock AR - Altiel Arena (KDJE show)

Starting on September 10th, tickets for the September 24th Chevelle show at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH can be picked up at any Cleveland area FYE location with your pre-order of Chevelle's "This Type Of Thinking (Could Do Us In)," or by listening to WXTM 92.3 for your chance to win tickets to this event.

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Headline News

Slayer Frontman Rushed to Hospital

Slayer were forced to cancel their show in Myrtle Beach, SC Wednesday night (Sep. 1) after the band's frontman, Tom Araya, was allegedly rushed to a hospital as a result of suffering a bad allergic reaction. There was been no official update with regards to Tom's condition.

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Debauchery Sign To Black Attakk

South German band DEBAUCHERY has signed to Black Attakk. The band has finished recording their new album "Rage of the Bloodbeast", which will be released at the end of October. DEBAUCHERY also will support OBITUARY for two Gigs in Germany on 17th and 22nd of October.

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Insignium Record Debut CD

Recently signed band INSIGNIUM have recorded their debut "In die Abgründe" (Into the Abysses). It'll be released at the end of November and offers a mix of black, death, heavy and thrash metal. You can download tracks of their smashing demo "Insignia Risen..." (1999) and also a video featuring one of the brand new tracks called "Moorleiche" (bog body) from the band's website.

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Ozzfest 2004: West Palm Beach Date Cancelled

According to the official BLACK LABEL SOCIETY website, the final stop on the Ozzfest 2004 tour in West Palm Beach, Florida (Sept. 4th) has been canceled due to the threat of Hurricane Frances.

The announcement means that tonight’s show (September 2nd) at the Tampa Bay Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida will be the final date on the Ozzfest 2004 tour.

An official press release regarding the cancellation is expected soon.

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Site Update

Member Signup Coming Soon

A member signup form has been on my to-do list for while, but with recent impersonations, etc going on in the comments and a giveaway looming, I decided to bump it up to a priority. There will not be any other immediate benfits of having a membership on metalunderground.com, but there are plans for a full-blown forum and personalization options in the future. Keep an eye on the site for the official announcement...soon.

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Black Sabbath: Forging a Genre

The St. Petersburg TImes' Philip Booth caught up with Geezer Butler on their Pittsburgh stop of Ozzfest and wrote an interesting article on the band's origins. Here's a snippet:

Jazz and blues, surprisingly enough, served as musical grist for the early Black Sabbath, as Ozzy Osbourne recently told Rolling Stone. The group, at one point, included a saxophonist and a bottleneck-slide guitarist.

So how did the quartet of working class teenagers from Birmingham, England, make the transition from tunes influenced by Cream, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Jethro Tull to the dark, bone-crunching likes of Iron Man and Paranoid?

In a word: jamming.

It was a matter of survival, Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler said recently from a tour stop in Pittsburgh.

Read the full article at St. Petersburg Times.

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