Caliban
Formed: 1997
From:
Essen,
Germany
Last Known Status: Active
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Caliban and The Acacia Strain Fall Tour Dates
Caliban and The Acacia Strain will tour the U.S. together in September and early-October. Here's the latest schedule:
dates w/ The Burning Season, Across Five Aprils
9/8 Asbury Park, NJ @ Club Deep
9/9 Fredericksburg, VA @ KC's
9/10 Virginia Beach, VA @ Peppermint Beach Club
9/11 Wilmington, NC @ Marrz Theater
9/12 Augusta, GA @ Sector 7G
9/13 Nashville, TN @ The Muse w/ Too Pure To Die More...
The Acacia Strain To Tour With Caliban
Massachusetts’ purveyors of all things heavy, THE ACACIA STRAIN, will head back out on the road this fall with Germany’s CALIBAN. The two will tour throughout the United States in September and into October with various other support acts along the way, including label mates LIGHT THIS CITY.
THE ACACIA STRAIN previously entered the Billboard Heatseekers chart at #40 behind strong first-week numbers for the band’s new record, The Dead Walk. Moving over 2,600 units first week upon the record’s June 13 release, the band recently completed a string of dates alongside SOILENT GREEN.
The video for “Angry Mob Justice,” directed by Dave Brodsky (ALL THAT REMAINS, BURY YOUR DEAD) earlier in May, is nearing completion and will be online and on video outlets shortly. Sure to showcase THE ACACIA STRAIN’s earth-shaking sound alongside its quirky sense of humor, the “Angry Mob Justice” video is sure not to disappoint longtime and new fans alike.
Queensryche, Poison, Lacuna Coil Chart In Top 30
QUEENSRŸCHE's "Operation: Mindcrime II" has sold 44,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 14 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. This is more than half of the total sales tally registered by the band's last studio album, 2003's "Tribe", which sold 20,000 copies in the first week and has shifted less than 75,000 units so far, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Meanwhile, the band's 1999 effort, "Q2K", opened with sales of 28,000 and has sold 150,000 copies to date.
QUEENSRŸCHE's top-selling album by far is 1990's "Empire", which was certified triple-platinum in October 1994 for sales in excess of three million copies in the United States. The original "Operation: Mindcrime" release (1988) attained platinum status in August 1991, while 1994's "Promised Land" reached the same plateau in December 1994.
In other chart news, LACUNA COIL's "Karmacode" shifted just under 34,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at No. 28 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart. The band's 2002 album "Comalies" has sold more than 230,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. A representative for the group's record label, Century Media, recently told Billboard magazine that the album has sold 500,000 units worldwide.
LACUNA COIL will be on the cover of at least a half-dozen metal magazines this spring. In addition, an April appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and a segment of "The Mix" on ABC News are slated, according to Billboard.
Another notable debut on this week's chart is POISON's 18-track collection, "The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock", which commemorates POISON's 20th anniversary and the band's career tally of more than 25 million albums and DVDs sold around the world. The album, which packs the group's biggest hits and fan favorites, opens with nearly 40,000 copies to debut at No. 17 on next week's chart.
POISON's "Greatest Hits 1986-1996" collection, which was originally released in November 1996, was officially certified double-platinum in November 2005 by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) for shipments in excess of two million copies in the United States.
The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending April 9, 2006, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all figures are rounded to the nearest thousand, except numbers under 2,000, which are rounded to the nearest hundred; The Billboard 200 chart position included, where applicable):
QUEENSRŸCHE – "Operation: Mindcrime II": 44,000 (#14)
POISON – "The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock": 40,000 (#17)
LACUNA COIL – "Karmacode": 34,000 (#28)
DEAD TO FALL - "The Phoenix Throne": 4,000
PANTERA – "3 Vulgar Videos From Hell" DVD: 1,700
BLACKMORE'S NIGHT – "The Village Lanterne": 1,500
CALIBAN – "Undying Darkness": 1,700
EVERGREY - "Monday Morning Apocalypse": 1,400
KATATONIA - "The Great Cold Distance": 1,100
VENOM – Metal Black": 1,100
ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET – "21st Century Killing Machine": 100
TERROR 2000 - "Terror For Sale": 100
Abacus Records Tour Dates and Lineup Revealed
Dates have been finalized for the upcoming Abacus Recordings Tour, featuring Caliban, Sworn Enemy, Ion Dissonance, and Embrace The End. Bleeding Kansas will also appear on a week's worth of dates. Here's the schedule
4/28 Long Island, NY @ Club Ritual
4/29 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium New England Metalfest
4/30 Baltimore, MD @ Sonar Maryland Metalfest
5/1 Virginia Beach, VA @ Peppermint Beach Club
5/2 Raleigh, NC @ The Brewery
5/3 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
5/4 Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub
5/5 West Palm Beach, FL @ Ray's Downtown Blues
5/6 Jacksonville, FL @ Thee Imperial
5/7 Tallahassee, FL @ The Beta Bar
5/8 Baton Rouge, LA @ The Darkroom
5/9 Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
5/10 San Antonio, TX @ The White Rabbit
5/11 El Paso, TX @ Chic's
5/12 Phoenix, AZ @ Decibles
5/13 Whittier, CA @ Club Rome (California Metalfest)
5/14 Hollywood, CA @ Whisky a GoGo
5/15 Sacramento, CA @ The Boardwalk
5/16 Boise, ID @ The Venue
5/17 Ogden, UT @ Club Boom Va
5/18 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre
5/19 Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
5/20 Freeport, IL @ Freeport Convention Center
5/21 Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium
5/22 Detroit, MI @ Alvin's
5/23 Cleveland (Kent), OH @ Screwy Louie's
5/24 New York, NY @ B.B. King's
5/25 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
5/26 Danbury, CT @ Empress Ballroom
Complete Lineup Confirmed For NEMHF 2006
The full lineup for the 8th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, which is sponsored this year by ESP Guitars and Krank Amps, has been confirmed.
The three-day festival at The Palladium in Worcester, MA, will feature headliners Lacuna Coil, Black Dahlia Murder, and Between the Buried and Me on Friday, April 28. Arch Enemy, Chimaira, and Exodus will headline Saturday, April 29. Headliners for Sunday, April 30 are Gamma Ray and DragonForce.
UK-based DragonForce will be making its first-ever American appearance at the festival. Italy's Lacuna Coil and Sweden's Arch Enemy will be making return appearances at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, after stellar performances at the 2003 and 2002 editions of the festival.
"It's fantastic to be a part of what is quite possibly the best U.S. metal fest around!" said Arch Enemy guitarist Mike Amott. "This is our third time playing the New England Metal and Hardcore fest and it's always a pleasure. It's held in a great venue with great fans."
"It is an honor for us to be one of this year's headliners at the New England Metal and Hardcore festival," said vocalist Andrea Ferro. "We are more than ready for it. We can't wait."
Bands confirmed for Friday (listed alphabetically) are: A Life Once Lost, A Perfect Murder, Alarum, Arsis, Between The Buried And Me, Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage, Dead To Fall, Demiricous, Ed Gein, From A Second Story Window, Haste The Day, If Hope Dies, Lacuna Coil, Ligeia, Necrophagist, Neuraxis, Nodes Of Ranvier, Ringworm, Scarlet, Still Remains, Suicide Silence, The Absence, Thine Eyes Bleed and Through The Eyes Of The Dead.
Saturday's bands include 100 Demons, Arch Enemy, At All Cost, Caliban, Chimaira, Colin Of Arabia, Cryptopsy, Damnation AD, Death Threat, Embrace The End, Exodus, First Blood, Full Blown Chaos, God Forbid, Hate Eternal, Immolation, Into The Moat, Ion Dissonance, Overcast, Ramallah, Remembering Never, Righteous Jams, Scars Of Tomorrow, Shoot To Kill, Since The Flood, Skinless, Spitfire, Suffocation, Sworn Enemy, Terror, The Acacia Strain, The Classic Struggle, The JonBenet, and Turmoil.
Sunday's lineup is: A Love End Suicide, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Born Victim, Bronx Casket Company, Burn In Silence, Byzantine, Cannae, Cellador, Doom Raider, DragonForce, Folly, Gamma Ray, Goat Horn, Hypersolid, Inked In Blood, Into Eternity, Light This City, Losa, Mercury Switch, On Broken Wings, Phoenix Morning, Protest The Hero, Sanctity, The Miles Between, Torn Asunder, Trouble, Twelve Tribes, Who Killed The Prom Queen, Wolf, xdeathstarx, and xlooking forwardx.
Talent is subject to change.
The 8th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival is also sponsored by Prosthetic Records, 2nd Stage sponsor; Revolver Magazine, exclusive magazine partner and creator of the official event program; Facedown Records, sponsor of street marketing efforts; FUSE TV; Mazur PR; The Syndicate; and many others.
Vendors this year include Century Media/Nuclear Blast, Deepsend Records, ESP Guitars/Krank Amps, Eulogy Recordings/Hand Of Hope Records, Facedown Records, Fuse TV/Uranium, Lifeforce Records, Metal Blade Records, Oak Knoll Productions, Prosthetic Records, Red Rocket Records, Relapse Records, Revolver Magazine, Stillborn Records/Hatewear Inc., Trustkill Records, Victory Records, and others.
Friday tickets are $35.00; Saturday and Sunday individual day tickets are $40.00. Three-day passes are $109.50. Tickets are available now at all Strawberries Record Stores, online at tickets.com, or by calling tickets.com at (800) 477-6849. There is re-entry at this all-day event until 6 p.m. each day.
The Palladium is located at 261 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Visit the festival website at metalandhardcorefestival.com or myspace.com/metalandhardcorefestival.
New England Metal & Hardcore Festival 2006 Details
MassConcerts has announced that the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival will return once again to the Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Friday April 28, Saturday April 29 and Sunday April 30. Friday tickets are $35.00; Saturday and Sunday individual day tickets are $40.00. Three-day passes are $109.50. Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 24 at 10:00am at all Strawberries Record Stores, online at tickets.com, or by calling tickets.com at (800) 477-6849.
Proclaimed in past years as one of the best American festivals focusing on heavy music, the three-day show will host numerous metal, hardcore, and metalcore bands along with a jam-packed vendor area where fans can purchase hard-to-find CDs, t-shirts, and other music merchandise. ESP Guitars will be giving away guitars and Krank Amps will be giving away amps and even a half stack. These two great companies will also be bringing you up close and personal with some of the bands they endorse - so as we get closer to fest we will have schedule of artist signings and other surprises.
The show will once again take place on two stages at The Palladium. Bands that have already been confirmed for the festival are: Lacuna Coil, Gamma Ray, DragonForce (first time EVER in America!), Arch Enemy, Chimaira, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bullet For My Valentine, Exodus, Cryptopsy, 100 Demons, A Perfect Murder, Alarum, Arsis, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Bronx Casket Company, Byzantine, Caliban, Cattle Decapitation, Colin Of Arabia, Damnation AD, Dead To Fall, Death Threat, Demiricous, Dying Eyes Bleed, Ed Gein, Embrace The End, Folly, Full Blown Chaos, Goat Horn, God Forbid, Hate Eternal, Horse The Band, Hypersolid, If Hope Dies, Immolation, Inked In Blood, Into Eternity, Ion Dissonance, Ligeia, Losa, Mercury Switch, Necrophagist, Neuraxis, Nodes Of Ranvier, On Broken Wings, Protest The Hero, Ramallah, Righteous Jams, Ringworm, Sanctity, Scars Of Tomorrow, From A Second Story Window, Shoot To Kill, Since The Flood, Skinless, Still Remains, Suffocation, Sworn Enemy, The Acacia Strain, The Absence, The Classic Struggle, The Miles Between, Torn Assunder, Trouble, Twelve Tribes, I Killed The Prom Queen, Wolf, xDEATHSTARx, and xLOOKINGFORWARDx. More bands will be announced in the coming weeks. Talent is subject to change.
"We’ve been extremely happy with how this festival has grown over the years," said MassConcerts Booking Agent and festival co-founder Scott Lee, "and this year the lineup is one of the most varied yet - a great mixture of different styles of bands."
The 8th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival is brought to you by ESP Guitars and Krank Amps, teaming up to present the festival this year; Prosthetic Records, which is sponsoring the 2nd Stage upstairs, Revolver Magazine our exclusive magazine partner and creator of the official event program, Facedown Records which is sponsoring our street marketing efforts, FUSE TV, Mazur PR and The Syndicate. Vendors this year include Century Media, Trustkill, Eulogy/Hand of Hope, Metal Blade, Red Rocket Records, and many others.
Testament Confirmed For MetalMania 2006 Festival
Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT are the latest confirmed band for the MetalMania 2006 festival, set to take place March 4, 2006 at Spodek in Katowice, Poland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):
ACID DRINKERS
ANATHEMA
CALIBAN
CARPATHIAN FOREST
HIERONYMUS BOSH
HUNTER
MOONSPELL
NEVERMORE
PAINMUSEUM
SOILWORK
TESTAMENT
U.D.O.
UNLEASHED
Caliban Mixing New Album
German metalcore band CALIBAN recently entered Principal Studios near Münster, Germany to record their fifth full-length album, entitled "The Undying Darkness". The follow-up to 2004's "The Opposite from Within" was once again produced by Anders Fridén (IN FLAMES frontman), with Andy Sneap (MACHINE HEAD, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, ARCH ENEMY) handling the mixing duties.
"Everything is recorded. The harddrives are already in the U.K. and Mr. Sneap started mixing," the band write in a press statement. "Marc [Görtz, guitar] will fly over to the U.K. for the final mixing in about a week. We've got a rough mix from a couple of songs and we are really exited about how everything is turning out! We cant wait till the record will be released and everyone of you guys can hear it!!! Publishing date will be the 24th February 2006!!!!! But we will upload 1 or 2 songs before that..."
Caliban Recording New Album
Caliban have begun recording their next album for Abacus Recordings (Roadrunner Records in Europe). Earlier this week the band entered Principal Studios outside of Münster, Germany. Producing the effort will be Anders Friden (In Flames), while mixing will be handled by Andy Sneap (Killswitch Engage, Machine Head). The album will be entitled "The Undying Darkness" and will be available in early-2006.
Listen To New Heaven Shall Burn Track
There will be a presale of the Split CD at this weekends With Full Force Festival, check the Lifeforce-tent to get your copy almost one month before official streetdate, there will also be bradnew HSB merch available. See you in the pit! F***ing IRON MAIDEN is playing!!!!!!!
For all Myspace.com losers, oops - sorry I ment Myspace users: listen to the brandnew HSB track "Unleash Enlightment" on our official site there : www.myspace.com/heavenshallburn
Roadrage DVD Tracklisting Revealed
Roadrunner Records has announced this year's Roadrage DVD tracklisting:
1. Slipknot – Before I Forget
2. Slipknot – Vermilion
3. Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache (Band Version)
4. Machine Head – Days Turn Blue To Gray
5. Trivium – Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr
6. 36 Crazyfists – Bloodwork
7. Chimaira – 'Cleansation (Live)'
8. Fear Factory – Archetype
9. Fear Factory – Bite The Hand That Bleeds
10. Cradle Of Filth – Nymphetamine
11. Wednesday 13 – I Walked With A Zombie
12. Devildriver – Hold Back The Day
13. Devildriver – Nothing's Wrong
14. Soulfly – Roots Bloody Roots (Live)
15. Hatebreed – Live For This
16. Caliban – The Beloved & The Hatred
17. Still Remains – The Worst Is Yet To Come
18. The Agony Scene – Prey
19. 3 Inches Of Blood – Deadly Sinners
20. Obituary – Insane
21. Betzefer – Down Low
22. Illdisposed – Still Sane
23. Blood Has Been Shed – She Speaks To Me
24. Zao – The Rising End
25. A Life Once Lost – Vulture
26.Terror – Overcome
27. Open Hand – Tough Girl
28. Walls Of Jericho – There's No I in F**k You
29. Hopesfall – Icarus
30. Throwdown – Burn
31. Madball – Heavenhell
The DVD will be available in September.
Lifeforce Records Uploads New Tracks Online
Lifeforce Records has just uploaded two full new tracks from the upcoming Caliban / Heaven Shall Burn split CD and "Sweetest Hell" from the upcoming Fear My Thoughts album "Hell Sweet Hell" on their Myspace page. Check them out here.
Heaven Shall Burn, Caliban Split To Be Released
Details have been released for Caliban's upcoming "The Split Program II" split release with Heaven Shall Burn, here's how it shapes up:
01 - Heaven Shall Burn - "Unleash Enlightenment"
02 - Heaven Shall Burn - "No One Will Shed A Tear"
03 - Heaven Shall Burn - "Nyfaedd Von"
04 - Heaven Shall Burn - "If This Is A Man"
05 - Heaven Shall Burn - "Downfall Of Christ"
06 - Heaven Shall Burn - "Destroy Fascism"
07 - Caliban - "The Revenge"
08 - Caliban - "Arena Of Concealment"
09 - Caliban - "One Day"
10 - Caliban - "A Summer Dream"
11 - Caliban - "One More Lie"
The effort won't arrive in stores until July 26th via Lifeforce, but in the meantime an ecard for it can be found online here.
Unearth European Festival and Tour Dates
Unearth return to Europe to play some summer festival dates as well as selected club shows. The dates are listed:
Festivals
6 03 Germany Rock Am Ring Open Air
6 04 Germany Rock Im Park Open Air
6 11 England Download
Club shows with Lamb of God, Every Time I Die and Caliban
6 05 Austria Vienna Arena
6 06 Italy, Bologna Tendra Estragon
6 07 Switzerland, Vavey The Rocking Star
6 08 Germany, Munich New Backstage
6 09 Holland, Tilburg 013
6 10 France, Paris Bataclan
God Forbid Announce Headlining Tour Dates
Early next month God Forbid will begin their final round of touring in support of their critically acclaimed and highly successful "Gone Forever" album. This will be the group’s first national headlining U.S. tour supporting their latest offering and it will feature Caliban, It Dies Today and Full Blown Chaos in the support slots. This trek marks their first U.S. tour since last years Ozzfest. The upcoming four-week run, which kicks off on April 1st, also includes a stop at the esteemed New England Metal And Hardcore Fest.
Doc Coyle (guitars) further conveys his excitement over their upcoming tour:
The headlining tour this April is going to be amazing. This is a sick line-up with our good friends Full Blown Chaos, German metalcore giants Caliban (who we just toured Europe with and are doing their first US tour in almost a year) and Trustkill records breakout band of 2005, It Dies Today. We’re so excited to play a long set that covers both the old and new material that everyone's been asking for. So bring your dancing shoes and get your tickets before these shows start selling out! Peace.
Straight on the heels of a highly successful east-coast run with Soulfly, the group proceeded to enter the studio to begin pre-production on their highly anticipated new album, IV:Constitution Of Treason, with Jason Suecof (Trivium) at Audiohammer Studios. In May, God Forbid will join back up with Suecof and Eric Rachel (Atreyu, Dillinger Escape Plan) at Trax East to begin tracking the new effort. The album is tentatively set for an October release.
God Forbid w/ Caliban, It Dies Today, Full Blown Chaos tour dates: More...
More Download Fest Confirmations Announced
More acts have been confirmed for Download Festival, which takes place on 10th, 11th & 12th June, at Donington Park, Leicestershire.
New for the Main Stage on Saturday are Anthrax, Alter Bridge, and Bowling for Soup, while new for Sunday are Nightwish, and Killswitch Engage.
There's also new bands for the Snickers Stage, with the Bled added for Friday. Saturday has added Meshuggah, Unearth, and Every Time I Die, and Sunday has added DKT/MC5, Lacuna Coil, Caliban, and As I Lay Dying.
These join bands previously announced, including Feeder, Garbage, Black Sabbath, Velvet Revolver, System of a Down, Slipknot, Mortorhead, and more. Click here for the full day and stage listings (so far) - more bands will be added in the coming weeks.
Three-day tickets are on sale, priced at £105, with camping costing an extra £22.50 (and with parking thrown in). Those not camping will (if required) need to buy an extra ticket to park their car, costing £5 if bought at the same time as festival tickets, or costing £10 on the day. Click here to buy tickets.
Caliban and Heaven Shall Burn To Do Split CD
Roughly five years after first releasing a split together, Caliban and Heaven Shall Burn will once again be joining forces to release a split CD. Caliban are currently in the studio recording their portion of the split, whil Heaven Shall Burn will enter the studio in March. The material will be mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studios in Denmark and the release, entitled "The Split Program II," will hit stores on July 26th through Lifeforce Records.
Hatebreed, Crowbar, Caliban UK Tour Dates
The schedule has been confirmed for Hatebreed's upcoming UK tour with Crowbar and Caliban. Here are the tour dates:
3/05 Leeds @ Cockpit
3/06 Sheffield @ Corporation
3/07 Glasgow @ Garage
3/08 Newcastle @ Northumbria Uni
3/09 Manchester @ University MDH
3/10 Dublin @ Wheelan's
3/11 Cork @ Nancy Spain's
3/13 London @ Mean Fiddler
3/14 Oxford @ Zodiac
3/15 Portsmouth @ Wedgewood Rooms
God Forbid Tour With Soulfly, Writing New Songs
This March, God Forbid will begin their final round of touring in support of their critically acclaimed and highly successful "Gone Forever" album. The band will first serve as direct support to Soulfly for a string of East Coast dates, followed by a headlining stint in the U.K. This will lead immediately into their first U.S. headlining tour, which also features Caliban, It Dies Today and Full Blown Chaos. The four-week trek, which runs through April, includes a stop at the esteemed New England Metal And Hardcore Fest.
The group will proceed to enter the studio in May to begin recording their highly anticipated new album, "IV:Constitution Of Treason," with Jason Suecof (Trivium) at Audiohammer Studios and Eric Rachel (Atreyu, Dillinger Escape Plan) at Trax East. The album is tentatively set for a fall 2005 release.
Doc Coyle (guitars, vocals) checks in with the following report: More...
Machine Head and Lamb of God To Join Forces
According to a posting on MACHINE HEAD's web site, LAMB OF GOD have asked MACHINE HEAD to be a part of their U.S. Midwest tour beginning in May. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon. MACHINE HEAD then plan to embark on a headlining stint immediately afterward in support of their upcoming live DVD, "Through the Ashes of England".
As previously reported, "Through the Ashes of England" was filmed at MACHINE HEAD's Dec. 5 headlining performance at the Brixton Academy in London, U.K. The show marked the first time MACHINE HEAD ever used pyrotechnics live. In addition, the band finished off the night playing encores of SEPULTURA, PANTERA and METALLICA tracks.
MACHINE HEAD recently completed their mammoth "World Turns Blue To Gray" European headlining tour with GOD FORBID and CALIBAN