Metal News for October 20, 2006
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21 news articles posted on this day.
Botch DVD/CD Set For Release
Botch's long-awaited DVD release is finally on its way. Originally announced over three years ago, the DVD will consist of the band's final live performance, which took place at The Showbox in Seattle, WA on June 15, 2002. The DVD will also feature a video for "St. Matthew Returns to the Womb." Additionally, the package will include an audio CD of the complete live performance.
Titled "061502," the release will hit stores on December 5th through Hydra Head Records.
Soldiers Signs To Eulogy Recordings
Eulogy Recordings have signed the Long Island hardcore act Soldiers. The band, which features members of This Is Hell, had this to say about the signing:
"So it is now official...Soldiers have signed with Eulogy Recordings and we will be releasing our debut full length this summer with these radical dudes. We are so fucking siked you don't even know!!"
Severe Torture Post Tour Diary From Vader Tour
Severe Torture are currently on tour with Vader and God Dethroned and have been keeping a diary whilst out on the road.
Here's the (lengthy) SEVERE TORTURE tour report so far:
"The tour started out on the 28th of september in Berlin(DE). After hooking up with Vader, God Dethroned and crew we picked our bunks in the nightliner. This bus was going to be our home for 6 weeks and as far as our experience goes, this was the best and biggest bus we ever had! The first show was better than we expected. Turnout was good for a Thursday (200+) and people seemed to like us. It definitely was a perfect start of the tour!
The second day we went to Jena(DE). The venue was great and we spent the afternoon with some sightseeing in the center of the city. Turnout was good again and the audience was wicked as well. The beer tasted very good and both God Dethroned and Vader gave good shows as well. More...
God Forbid Announce Tour and Plans for 2007
God Forbid have announce that they will be doing a short tour with A Life Once Lost at the end of this month. The tour will include a performance at the Saints and Sinners Festival taking place in Asbury Park, NJ. God Forbid guitarist, Doc Coyle, has posted the following update from the road:
“We are very happy to be home from a great European run. Heaven Shall Burn, Maroon, Cataract, Purified in Blood, A Perfect Murder and Narziss were all great people and excellent bands. Some of my personal highlights on the tour were the last show in Essen (the biggest show and the crowd was rowdy as fuck), Denmark (where we were fortunate enough to play with the legendary Entombed) and Austria (where fuckers just lost their minds).”
“There were plans in place for a U.S. headlining tour to close out the year, but it’s been rescheduled for Jan.- Feb. We want to do at least one more U.S. run before we start working on another album. What better way to come back than to play a long set with the biggest, most elaborate show that God Forbid has ever has done! We should have a concrete announcement in the coming weeks. There hasn't been an American tour since June, so we are raring to go. Speaking of shows, in addition to the Saints and Sinners Festival we have two shows with our good friends in A Life Once Lost and Diecast that same weekend. These will probably be our last shows of the year, so be sure to make it out.”
Confirmed dates with A Life Once Lost are as follows:
October 26 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
October 27 - Orono, ME @ Ushuaia
October 29 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Convention Hall
Bang Your Head Festival Line Up Announced
The Bang Your Head festival has confirmed the following bands:
Edguy
Nazareth
Finntroll
Thunder
Brainstorm
Mercenary
Mystic Prophecy
The Bang Your Head festival is a 2 day music festival that takes place in Balingen, Germany. The festival has been in exisistance since 1996.
Mercenary Nominated for 4 Danish Metal Awards
Mercenary have been nominated for 4 awards at this years Danish Metal Awards in the following catagories:
Best Album
Best Song
Best Artwork
Best Production
Mercenary will also be performing a short set at the awards show which will take place November 18 at Amager Bio in Copenhagen with In Flames headlining. Mercenary have also been confirmed to take part in 2007’s Bang Your Head Festival.
Destruction Announce Tour Dates
Destruction have announced tour date for their upcoming headlining tour that will feature Sadus and Municipal Waste as supporting bands. The tour dates are as follows:
January 20 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox
January 21 - Santa Ana, CA @ Galaxy Theater
January 23 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
January 25 - Salt Lake City, UT @ TBA
January 26 - Denver, CO @ Hubba's House of Rock
January 27 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
January 28 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
January 29 - Chicago, IL @ TBA
January 30 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's
January 31 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
February 1 - Toronto, ONT @ The Opera House
February 2 - Quebec City, QUE @ L' Imperial
February 3 - Montreal, QUE @ Foufounes Electriques
February 4 - Boston, MA @ Middle East
February 5 - New York, NY @ Rebel
February 6 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
February 7 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
February 9 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
February 10 - Ft Lauderdale, FL @ TBA
February 11 - Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
February 13 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
February 14 - Houston, TX @ Meridian
February 15 - El Paso, TX @ Chic's
February 16 - Phoenix, AZ @ Clubhouse
February 17 - Hollywood, CA @ Key Club
More tour dates to be announced.
36 Crazyfists Announce Tour
36 Crazyfists have announced the following dates for their upcoming headlining tour:
October 24 - Little Rock, AR @ Juanita's
October 25 - Metairie, LA @ High Ground
October 26 - Memphis, TN @ Rally Point
October 27 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's
October 28 - Louisville, KY @ Fern Creek Community Center
October 29 - Toledo, OH @ Headliner's
October 31 - Wilmington, NC @ Lucky's
November 1 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Peppermint Beach Club
November 4 - Wilmington, DE @ Harmony Grange
November 5 - Montclair, NJ @ Bloomfield Avenue Cafe
November 7 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
November 11 - Rochester, NY @ Penny Arcade
November 14 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's Down Under
November 15 - Detroit, MI @ The Shelter at St. Andrews Hall
November 16 - Lansing, MI @ Temple Club
November 19 - La Crosse, WI @ The Warehouse
November 20 - Mokena, IL @ Pearl Room
November 21 - Saint Paul, MN @ Station 4
November 24 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground
November 25 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
November 28 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
November 29 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
The band has just signed to DRT Entertainment and will release their album, "Rest Inside the Flames", November 7th.
A Love Ends Suicide, Antagonist Tour Dates
A Love Ends Suicide and Antagonist will be joining forces for a brief west coast tour in November. Here are the tour dates:
11/12 Oakland, CA @ The Padded Cell w/ Embrace The End
11/13 Yuba City, CA @ TBA
11/14 Reno, NV @ TBA
11/15 Pollock Pines, CA @ TBA
11/16 Sacramento, CA @ TBA
11/17 Bakersfield, CA @ TBA
11/18 Las Vegas, NV @ TBA
11/19 Lake Havasu, AZ @ Havasu Underground
11/20 Tucson, AZ @ The Living Room w/ Apiary, The Funeral Pyre
11/21 Phoenix, AZ @ Metal Devastation 2
11/22 Brawley, CA @ The Planters Hotel
Testament Add Perth Date To Australian Tour
Veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers TESTAMENT have added a Perth date to their upcoming Australian tour. Confirmed dates are as follows:
Feb. 07 - Melbourne, Australia @ the Prince of Wales Hotel
Feb. 08 - Sydney, Australia @ the Manning bar
Feb. 09 - Brisbane, Australia @ the Waterloo Hotel
Feb. 11 - Perth, Australia @ the Capital
TESTAMENT is now tentatively planning to enter the studio in early 2007 to record the long-awaited follow-up to 1999's "The Gathering", due before the end of next year.
In a spring 2006 interview with LivingForMetal.com, TESTAMENT guitarist Eric Peterson stated that the upcoming CD will feature the band's original lineup. He said, "We're gonna get Louie [Clemente] to come back to do some songs. The drummer situation, we are probably gonna use a couple of drummers 'cause we've had people that are in our lives and a part of TESTAMENT so it wouldn't be fair to not have these people play on it. Probably Jon Allen from DRAGONLORD and SADUS will play on it, who's also been a part of TESTAMENT and toured with us. Just the way we do things now, we don't tour extensively so it's kind of hard to keep steady players. Like if something comes up and someone's not available we'll go, 'Let's see if this guy's available.' Yeah it's gonna be killer, the new material is sounding pretty old-school. . . Alex's [Skolnick, guitar] got some riffs that he's been sending me and they sound pretty TESTAMENT, just really cool stuff. Like that 'Apocalyptic City' kind of vibe. Good chord progressions with octaves over it."
Nightrage Announce New Drummer
Melodic death metal act Nightrage have finally found a new permanent drummer. Alex Svenningson will fill the spot, which has been vacant since July. Olof Mörck of Dragonland will also pull double duty as both bands' guitarist on their upcoming tour with Vader
Here's a video of Svenningson practicing for the tour. More...
Vomitory Plan To Record In December
Swedish Vomitory will enter Leon Music Studios outside Karlstad, Sweden on December 3 to begin recording their sixth album, which is scheduled for release at the end of April 2007 through Metal Blade Records.
Dark Fortress Working On New Material
German black metallers DARK FORTRESS check in with the following update:
"The band is currently working on new material for their fifth album, which will be entitled Scum.
Some song titles are 'Abhorrence vs. Scum', 'Cold', 'A Sickening World's Protagonist', 'The Anti-Life Doctrine' and 'Scumshot Orgasm'. There will be some more songs to come.
Besides this, some concerts and festival gigs for 2007 are in negotiation.
More on this at the LiveDates as soon as there's something confirmed."
Killswitch Engage Add U.S. Tour Dates
Killswitch Engage have added dates to their U.S. tour with Shadows Fall, Bury Your Dead and 2cents. The latest additions include:
November 12th in Memphis @ New Daisy
November 17th in Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
November 18th in Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
November 19th in Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
December 1st in Fargo, ND @ Playmakers Pavilion
December 2nd in Evansville, WI @ Level 8
December 4th in Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
December 6th in Green bay, WI @ Riverside Ballroom
December 7th in Ft Wayne, IN @ Pieres
December 8th in Grand Rapids, MI @ Orbit Room
December 9th in Toledo, OH @ Headliners
December 12th in Flint, IN @ The Machine Shop
December 13th in Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
December 15th in Baltimore, MD @ Ramshead: Power Plant Live
December 16th in Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock
December 18th in Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
December 19th in Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
December 20th in Providence, RI @ Lupos
Liferuiner Confirm US Tour w/ A Dying Dream
LIFERUINER just confirmed a CO-HEADLINING FULL-US tour with A DYING DREAM and Demise Of Eros. Liferuiner just came back from a two months tour with EMMURE (Victory Records) and are already hitting the road again from JANUARY 5 until FEBRUARY 18. You can check out some material from Liferuiner on their MySpace page.
Full Blown Chaos Cancels European Tour Dates
Due to financial circumstances, Full Blown Chaos has dropped off their scheduled European tour with Hatebreed and Unearth. Here's what the band had to say about the situation:
"Once again, we're here apologizing to our European fans. And, once again there's a disaster with getting overseas. It's completely out of our hands and it sucks. We wish there was a way to get over there, especially since we were announced to be on the tour. There's just no funding for us to get there. We're doing our best to make it up to guys. We're hoping to tour Europe early next year! Once again, sorry guys and girls. We love Europe and our European fans, we will be back!!!!"
The County Medical Examiners Complete Album
Underground grind/metal band THE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINERS has completed work on their Relapse debut, Olidous Operettas.
Olidous Operettas, the band's first recorded discharge in three years, was recorded and mixed at Tillinghast Workshop and is scheduled for a January 2007 release. The complete track listing is as follows: “Casper’s Dictum”, “Morgagnic Anatomics”, “Necrotic Apologues”, “Blunt Force Flight”, “The Virchow Postmortem Procedure”, “Expeditious Evisceratory Mishap”, “Maturating Decompositional Gas” and “Kaleidoscopic Malacia”. A sample of the Olidous Operettas artwork can be previewed here and a three minute audio teaser can be heard via the band’s official MySpace page.
THE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINERS (TCME) are a collection of real-life pathologists with an unhealthy adoration of and fixation on CARCASS. Formed by Dr. Morton Fairbanks M.D. (Guitar) and Dr. Jack Putnam M.D. (Drums), the band--rounded out by 63-year-old Dr. Guy Radcliffe--have always felt that the label "Carcass Clone" should be a badge of honor and distinction, and pursue that emulation with an almost religious zeal.
TCME have previously released one full-length and a split album (with Sweden's GENERAL SURGERY) via Razorback Records.
See Live Clips of Ephel Duath Online
You can see eccentric Jazz-metallers Ephel Duath on you tube in two short snippets from Tuesday night's Camden Underworld show:
Ephel Duath Live @ Camden Underworld Clip 1
Ephel Duath Live @ Camden Underworld Clip 2
Or live at these venues over the next fortnight:
Oct 19 2006 The Gasworks Bar
Oct 20 2006 No. Fifteen Bolton
Oct 21 2006 Attik Rushden
Oct 22 2006 Opera House Bournemouth
Oct 23 2006 Cavern Exeter
Oct 24 2006 Nexus Supporting Red Sparowes Southampton
Oct 26 2006 The Crown Middlesbrough
Oct 31 2006 Batofar Paris
Nov 1 2006 Magasin 4 Bruxelles More...
With Passion Reveal Tracklisting
Sacramento based technical metal-core outfit, WITH PASSION, have been fervently working to complete tracking for their sophomore Earache release “What We See When We Shut Our Eyes” at Mana Studios in Florida with Brian Elliott. WITH PASSION’S last Earache Release, “In the Midst of Bloodied Soil,” was acclaimed by musical critics as “balancing technically wowing At the Gates-style drama-shred with graceful, forlorn instrumental ruminations.” WITH PASSION possess a unique disposition and retain youthful energy while delivering mind-blowing, tightly driven musical compositions that rival those of their predecessors. WITH PASSION have revealed a tentative track listing – tracks are slated to be as follows:
“What We See When We Shut Our Eyes” - Due out March of 2007
1. Triumph Over Tragedy
2. Through The Smoke Lies A Path
3. What We See When We Shut Our Eyes
4. Pale Horses Ride
5. Tales Of Sirens
6. Encryption
7. R.J. Mac Ready
8. Forgotten Amongst Screams
9. Vengeance In Departure
10. A Road For The Worthy
You can check out some of their material at their MySpace page.
Flaw Recording New Material?
According to postings on the five.bolt.main message board from a source "close to the band" (possibly Jason Daunt's wife), Flaw is returning with the original lineup, sans Ryan Jhurs. The band are said to be currently writing new material in Jjason's basement. The line up is:
Chris Volz - vocals
Chris Ballinger - drums
Lance Arny - guitar
Jason Daunt - guitar
They are currently searching for a bassist.
Bloodsimple Completes Drum Tracks For New Album
BLOODSIMPLE, which features in its ranks former members of VISION OF DISORDER and MEDICATION, has finished laying down drums for its sophomore album with producer Machine. The group is scheduled to begin recording guitars today for a tentative early 2007 release.
To read BLOODSIMPLE vocalist Tim Williams' recap of the band's trip to Japan this past weekend to perform at the Loud Parl 06 festival, click here.
BLOODSIMPLE's debut album, "A Cruel World", was released in March 2005 on MUDVAYNE singer Chad Gray's Bullygoat label imprint (via Warner Bros.). The CD was recorded in Vancouver B.C. with producer Garth Richardson, who has previously worked with RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, MUDVAYNE, SLIPKNOT and CHEVELLE. The album was mixed by Mike Fraser (HATEBREED).
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