Metal News for October 19, 2004
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18 news articles posted on this day.
Hell On Earth Comments On FL Suicide Loopholes
Hell On Earth is reporting on their website, loopholes and flaws of the new suicide law. The law was designed to deter anyone from making certain political statements in support of physician-assisted suicide. It was unanimously approved by Florida Legislature, then signed into law by Gov. Jeb Bush on May 11, 2004 under statute 782.081 "commercial exploitation of self-murder." Under this law, anyone who conducts, provides a venue for, or deliberately assists in an event that includes an actual self-murder for commercial or entertainment purposes shall be guilty of manslaughter, a felony of the third degree, punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
The band's website, www.hellonearth.net, reports on four specific loopholes and flaws within the new law that lawmakers failed to observe, one of which could actually implicate city and state officials with criminal penalties, fines and civil lawsuits.
A representative for the band asked, "Who are these lawmaking buffoons who unanimously approve ridiculous laws that create more problems then they solve?" He went on to say, "Hell On Earth is offering their consultation services to Florida legislators for their next lawmaking session."
Hell On Earth received international attention last year when Florida lawmakers banned them from playing their music in an attempt to stop a terminally ill fan from committing suicide on-stage at their show as a political statement in support of physician-assisted suicide.
New Hopesfall E-card Online
An ecard for Hopesfall's upcoming "A Types" with 2 full songs on it has been posted online. You can check it out here. On the e-card you can listen to " Icarus" and " It Happens", see some art from the new album, and pre-order the CD as well. All pre-orders from our webstore will receive the Limited Edition version (with FREE Trustkill Sampler CD) and an 11x17 color Hopesfall poster.
Blind Stare Sign To Arise Records
Blind Stare is a young talented band from Turku (Finland), their music can be described as a combination of Melodic Death Metal with Keyboards, Black/Death vocals & orchestral arrangements. The band will record their debut album on X-Mas 2004/January 2005 to be released in April/May 2005.
Biomechanical Signs To Elitist / Earache
UK's progressive epic thrash metallers BIOMECHANICAL have inked a four-album deal with Elitist/Earache Records.
BIOMECHANICAL are presently working on their sophomore album entitled 'The Empires of The World' at singer Jon K's own studio. Work is likely to be completed at the end of 2004 for an early 2005 release. An unmixed track, called "Disintegration", from this new recording is available for download here.
BIOMECHANICAL's debut album, "Eight Moons", was released last year through Revolver Records.
Acerbic Noise Development Is Born
A new label has been formed called Acerbic Noise Development. The label's first release will be Hematovore's upcoming album, featuring artwork by Aaron Turner, which will be followed by a release from Gezoleen. For more information, visit their website.
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A Perfect Murder Loses 3 Members
Three out of the five current members (their singer, a guitarist, and bassist) of A Perfect Murder are leaving the group. Consequently, APM have dropped off their upcoming tour with Bury Your Dead and Scars Of Tomorrow. According to the band, "No hard feelings. personal situations is the reason why it's happening right now." The group will continue on and plan to begin auditions for replacements in the immediate future.
Darzamat To Tour In Support Of New Album
Darzamat starts promotion of the fourth album 'Semidevilish', which will be released in October 25th via Metal Mind Productions. The new material will be presented during a tour through polish bigger cities.
Dates of the 'Dark Stars Tour':
07.11.2004 - Warszawa, Proxima
08.11.2004 - Lublin, Graffiti
09.11.2004 - Rzeszów, Plus
10.11.2004 - Kraków, Loch Ness
11.11.2004 - Kielce, Hormon
12.11.2004 - Lódz, Dekompresja
13.11.2004 - Katowice, Mega Club
You can download fragments of two new songs on the band's website.
Ozzy Confirms Covers Details
Ozzy Osbourne has announced that he's covered songs from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Mountain and Mott The Hoople for his planned box set. The songs in questions are, respectively, 'In My Life' (likely to be released as a single before the end of this year), 'Sympathy For The Devil', 'All The Young Dudes' (featuring a guest appearance from vocalist Ian Hunter', 'Mississippi Queen' (with Mountain guitarist Leslie West). Also in the can are King Crimson's '21st Century Schizoid Man' and Arthur Brown's 'Fire'. As yet untitled, the box set will feature all these covers on one CD, with three other discs devoted to rarities, demos and previously unavailable tracks from the Prince Of Darkness' solo career.
Fantomas To Release 'Suspended Animation' In April
Fantomas are expected to release a new album next April. Called 'Suspended Animation', it was actually recorded at the same time as the band's current album 'Delirium Cordia'.
Death Angel Cancel UK & European Tour Plans
Death Angel have cancelled their planned tour of the UK and Europe. No reason has been given for this decision.
Marduk Announces European Tour
Marduk is going to hit the road for a European headliner tour starting in February 2005.
Following dates have been announced:
Feb. 12 Stockholm, SWEDEN @ Klubben
Feb. 17 Linkoping, SWEDEN @ Skylten
Feb. 18 Goteborg, SWEDEN @ Musikhus
Feb. 21 London, ENGLAND @ Underworld
Feb. 23 Manchester, ENGLAND @ Satan Hallow
Feb. 24 Dublin, IRELAND @ Whelans
Feb. 27 Saint Nazaire, FRANCE @ VIP
Mar. 02 Toulouse, FRANCE @ Salles des Fetes
Mar. 03 Marseille, FRANCE @ C. Mirabeau
Mar. 11 Groningen, NEDERLAND @ Vera
Mar. 12 Weert, NEDERLAND @ Bosuil
Apr. 13 Hamburg, D @ Markthalle
Apr. 14 Bischofswerda, D @ East Club
Apr. 15 Uherske Hradiste, CZEC @ Mir Club
Megadeth's Nick Menza Replaced By Shawn Drover
The following press release has been posted on Megadeth's official website:
According to a posting on Megadeth's official website, drummer Nick Menza has been replaced in the lineup for the upcoming Megadeth tour. Replacing him will be Shawn Drover (Eidolon). "We look forward to the upcoming tour with Shawn and wish Nick best of luck in his next endeavor," reads the rest of the announcement.
The new lineup has Shawn Drover joining his brother, guitarist Glen Drover (Eidolon, ex-King Diamond), bassist James McDonough (ex-Iced Earth), and mainman Dave Mustaine.
Megadeth's "Blackmail the Universe Tour" will kick off October 23 in Reno, NV.
Enforsaken Finish Filming "Poison Me" Video
Enforsaken have just finished filming our first video for the song "Poison Me." It's being edited at this very moment, and should be available to check out sometime in November.
New Annihilator DVD Coming Early Next Year
Annihilator guitarist/mastermind Jeff Waters has posted this message on the band's official forum:
So far, asides from the mountain of old footage me and the Campbell Bros. are going through, I can tell ya one cool section that will be on the "Annihilator: Ten Years In Hell" DVD (due for release sometime in the early spring 2005):
Many former members have filmed themselves talking about their time and memories in Annihilator and what they are doing now. This includes already-done footage from Mike Mangini, Coburn Pharr, Neil Goldberg and others.
Still to come, footage from Ray Hartman, The Glove, Russ Bergquist, Aaron Randall, Rampage and others!
I am still trying to contact Randy Black and Wayne Darley, to name a few. Randy B. is not sure he wants to be included on this dvd, despite offering him a long segment where he could play you fans some Annihilator tunes, talk about his drumming, his many years with the band and what he is doing now (Primal Fear and drum clinics). I know you all would love to see him in this; me too! C'mon Randy! The world's best drummer = Mike Mangini and Annia-Drum-Legend = Ray Hartman are in; we need ya too cause you are right up there with the big-guys and kicked hard for Annihilator too!!
Gonna be a cool thing; trying to get some live footage of the Never, Neverland line-up and the Dynamo fest in Holland, from MTV Europe! That would be cool but lotsa killer stuff will be on this; almost thinking of doing 2 dvds.
Gonna make a decision on the company that will do this, this week. been waiting for one of the labels for many weeks so decision-time is here!
Crystal Eyes Singer Leaves
Swedish power metal band Crystal Eyes have posted this press release on their official website:
After twelve years as the lead singer of Crystal Eyes Mikael Dahl will now hand over the job on the new album "Confessions Of The Maker" to former Lost Horizon vocalist Daniel Heiman. Daniel and Mikael have known each other since the early 90s when they played together in a cover band. Daniel sang the lead vocals on the song "The Wizard's Apprentice" on Crystal Eyes latest album "Vengeance Descending," and he agreed already several months ago to sing on one or two songs on the new album. A few weeks ago Mikael approached Daniel about singing on the entire album, which he thought was a great idea and accepted. Daniel IS one of the best singers in the world, and Mikael have at several occasions said that if he would let someone else handle the lead vocals in Crystal Eyes it would be Daniel. Everyone is really excited, and we truly believe that this will bring Crystal Eyes to a whole new level.
Crystal Eyes drummer Stefan Svantesson began laying down the tracks for the new album last Friday, October 15 at Andy La Roqcue's (King Diamond) studio, Los Angered Recordings, in Gothenburg, Sweden. The rest of the band will start working full time in their own studio, Crystal Sounds, on Novemeber 1 and the plan is to have a first mix ready by the end of November.
Mattias Norén (Kotipelto, Jag Panzer, Evergrey, Into Eternity) has just delivered the artwork for "Confessions Of The Maker". A posting on the band's website reads "Most of you are probably quite familiar with Mattias' earlier work, so it shouldn't be a surprise that it differs a lot from Crystal Eyes' previous albums. It has a quite dark overall feeling to match the mood of some of the lyrics on the album, especially of course the title song's." Check out the album cover here.
Grave Digger Confirmed For WDR Rockpalast
Grave Digger are confirmed for the WDR Rockpalast "Bootleg" Show together with Kreator in Cologne ("Underground“) on December, the 9th! Chris Boltendahl and his band have already announced a special show. The concert will be broadcasted later on WDR.
Darkane Confirmed For Denmark's Aalborg Metal Fest
Swedish thrashers Darkane have posted the following message on their web site:
Darkane are pleased to announce they have been confirmed to play the infamous Aalborg Metal Festival in Aalborg, DK this year. The festival, which will take place on November 6, will also feature Scarve, Zyklon, Illdisposed and The Defaced among others.
In studio news, the whole band has been spending their time in the studio the past weekend, working on the bass and drum sound. The whole band, except for Klas, who is still in India on an intership. He is expected to be joining the rest of the band in the studio as soon as he returns home next week.
The actual recording process is scheduled to start Tuesday but the band have been working in the studio the last couple of days to start all the preparations. Also, Peter is being extremely careful with his wrists which also takes its time.
According to Peter himself though, the bass drum sound is already incredible (of course!) =) and his wrists are in very good condition.
Iron Maiden Singer Goes "Trainspotting"
According to a posting on the Iron Maiden fan site MaidenFans.com, Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson will be a special guest of the "Trainspotting" show on the U.K. TV channel Discovery Home and Leisure on Friday, October 22.
A brief description of the show reads as follows: "Presenter Mark Collins teams up with heavy metal legend and Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinso on a steam train driving day at the Bluebell Railway."
The channel is available on Sky Digital, cable or broadband.
As previously reported, Dickinson will be hosting a five-part documentary series about airplanes, tentatively titled "Flying Heavy Metal", that is being produced by the U.K.-based Ricochet production company.
The upcoming series is being described as follows: "Iron Maiden rock legend and professional pilot Bruce Dickinson charts the evolution of the passenger aeroplane, the documentary is made for Discovery Channel and will be a series of five 30-minute features."
The production gives a winter 2005 timeframe, but Eric Fetter — who penned an article about the series for the The Herald — kindly told Maidenfans.com that "as far as an air date in Europe, Bruce said he expects it to be on there in February. It may also show on the Discovery Channel [in the U.S.], but that's still up in the air."
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