Metal News for November 22, 2003
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Hot Topics
- Kreator To Release New Album In January
- Enthroned To Release New Album In December
- Spite Premiere New Single & Music Video
- Carcosa (AngelMaker) Premiere New Single & Video
- Agnostic Front Premiere New Single & Lyric Video
- Potato Premiere New Single & Music Video "YUGE PP"
- Omnium Gatherum Drops "Walking Ghost Phase" Video
- Messa Shares New Music Video "Reveal"
- Stellar Circuits Premiere New Single & Music Video
- Tailgunner Signs With Napalm Records
8 news articles posted on this day.
Summary/Misc
Daily Reviews
Inside Metal has a few new reviews:
- As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse
- Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn
- Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen
Site Update
My Launchcast Radio Station
Over the years of running this site (going on 3), I've seen Launch.com get bought up by Yahoo and their Launchcast service undergo changes and often times not work during those periods of change. Well I have just rediscovered my own station that has been linked on the left of this site the entire time. It's working fine and Launch.com has added loads more music to their databases. So, I'm now listening to it every time I post news or am coding on the site, and as a result, I'm rating the music I like and keeping the station "up to date" and kick-ass. The station doesn't have much real underground metal, but it can still be a good way to hear some metal you may not have heard of before. I have personally discovered a lot of good bands on online radio stations, and tend to discover what bands I've heard of but never HEARD sound like on Launch.
No doubt you'll discover I'm a huge Slayer, Testament and old-school Metallica fan in only minutes of listening. Here's a link for your convenience.
Himsa and To See You Broken tour
Himsa and To See You Broken will be touring the west coast together briefly in late-December and early-January. Here are the dates:
12/26 Sacramento CA The Boardwalk
12/27 Corona CA Showcase Theater w/ Atreyu
12/28 Hollywood CA The Whisky
12/29 Phoenix AZ The Mason Jar
12/31 Tijuana MEXICO TBA
1/1 Los Angeles CA The Cobalt Cafe
1/2 Salinas CA Jim Dandy's
1/3 Berkley CA Gilman w/ The Assailant
1/4 Portland OR Meow Meow w/ Three Inches of Blood
Kataklysm's J-F Checks In From The Studio
BW&BK recently returned from an exclusive studio journey in Quebec’s north country with Canuck extreme saviors Kataklysm. Wildsound Studio is located in Saint-Zénon, two hours north east of Montreal and is home to famed producer Pierre Rémillard. But Kataklysm guitarist and rising knob-twiddler J-F Dagenais is in charge on the band’s forthcoming album, Serenity In Fire, due out through Nuclear Blast on March 8th.
Dagenais describes his dual role: “It has a downfall and a big advantage to it,” he explains. “The advantage is I’m in the band, I know how I want it to sound before we go into the studio. Before we used to use other producers and it’s hard to describe in technical terms exactly what we want and how we want it to be done. Now being in the band I’m responsible for the budget and choosing the studios. I’m responsible for the whole project from a to z. So it’s done the way we want it done and everybody in the band is happy. In the end what people hear is what we have in mind. The downside is that sometimes I’m not as objective as I am working on another project because I’m part of the band and I always have a question in my mind.” More...
The Union Underground Guitarist Quits
The Union Underground co-founder and guitarist Patrick Kennison has left the group "due to musical differences and inactivity of the band during the past six months," according to an official press release.
Currently living in Los Angeles, Patrick is working on a new project that will make its debut in 2004. He can also be heard playing rhythm and lead guitar on Rob Zombie's new single, "Two Lane Black Top", off Rob's career retrospective, "Past, Present & Future".
More information about Kennison's current and upcoming activities will be announced soon.
New Demon Hunter Album Nearing Completion
Demon Hunter is finishing up things on their sophomore record entitled 'Summer of Darkness' at Compound Studios in Seattle. "This album will likely blow the debut out of the water" says their record label, Solid State Records.
Expect background vocals from Howard Jones(Killswitch Engage), Michael Williams(The Agony Scene), Brock Lindow(36 Crazyfists) and Trevor McNevan(Thousand Foot Krutch) along with a lot more surprises. A late spring 2004 release is set.
Kreator's 'Live Kreation' Released On Vinyl
The vinyl version of Kreator's first-ever live album, "Live Kreation - Revisioned Glory", has been made available through Germany's Cargo Records. The album comes as a 3-LP version with "all the lyrics and tons of photos," according to a post on the band's web site. For more information, visit www.cargo-records.de.
"Live Kreation - Revisioned Glory" features 24 tracks of the group's inimitable, blue-collared "extreme aggression," recorded around the world and produced by renowned knob-smith Andy Sneap (Machine Head, Arch Enemy, Fozzy, Skinlab).
Headline News
Metallica Threatened With Lawsuit
Metallian.com is reporting that the members of the defunct punk/metal fusion band Excel are considering legal action against Metallica over the latter's song "Enter Sandman" (Windows Media, Real Audio), which they claim borrows heavily from the Excel track "Tapping Into The Emotional Void" (Windows Media, Real Audio).
"Tapping Into The Emotional Void" was originally included on Excel's "The Joke's On You" LP, which surfaced in 1989 — two years prior to the release of Metallica's self-titled CD.
"Enter Sandman" currently stands as the biggest hit of Metallica's career, having peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart back in August 1991. Metallica's self-titled "black album" has sold more than 13 million copies in the U.S., according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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