I, Sleepwalker US Tour Dates

I, Sleepwalker (Harvest Earth Records) will be touring in January 2007. Here are the planned tour dates:

1/19 Knoxville TN @ Time Warp Tea Room
1/20 Douglasville GA @ The 7 Venue
1/21 TBA
1/22 Jacksonville FL @ The Pit
1/23 Gainesville FL @ TBA
1/24 St. Petersburg FL @ The Garage
1/25 Fairhope AL - Living Waters Church
1/26 Johnson City TN @ The Hideaway
1/27 La Vergne TN @ The Barn
1/28 London KY @ Levi Jackson Club House

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xNever Againx signs w/ 1981 Records

Dayton, OH hardcore outfit xNever Againx has joined the 1981 Records roster. The band's debut full-length will hit streets in mid-2007. For now, you can check out some of their material here.

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Throne Of Katarsis Signs To Candlelight Records

Throne Of Katarsis has officially joined the Candlelight Records roster. The band's full-length debut will see release in early 2007.

Throne Of Katarsis was spawned in 2003 in Norway by the demonic visions of Grimnisse and Vardalv. Their prophecy was and still is to craft purified and atmospheric occult Black Metal in the true vein of early 90-ties Norwegian Black Metal, and focused on spreading the unholy message through their blasphemous lyrics. Their line-up is simple, yet effective: Vardalv plays the drums and Grimnisse takes care of the rest of the instruments.

March 2004 the now infamous demo recording entitled Unholy Holocaustwinds was unleashed upon the world. There were initially only released 40 copies of the demo, but after massive unforeseen response and requests the demo has been re-released on pro-printed MC and 10" LP by German Warfront Production and on Mini CD by UK based Paradigms Recordings. Unholy Holocaustwinds was recorded on a four-track cassette recorder, partly in the Liarlund Forest.

There was also a second demo recorded in mid-2004, entitled Blodslakt, but this demo was only handed out to a few selected. Blodslakt was never officially released, bearing in mind a future full-length album would contain the same material.

Late 2004, accompanied by two talented session-musicians on bass and guitar, Throne Of Katarsis did their first live performance at John Dee, Oslo, Norway.

Apart from a live gig at the Karmøygeddon metal festival, Throne Of Katarsis spent 2005 focusing on recording their debut full-length. The recording process took place at Black Dimension Studio, owned and operated by Stein Sund of Thundra.

After being offered a couple of record-proposals from different labels in 2006, Throne Of Katarsis finally decided to settle on Candlelight.

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IAmTheThorn Signs To Goodfellow Records

Seattle quartet IAMTHETHORN is the newest addition of the Goodfellow Records roster. The new band features an amalgamation of names that will be familiar to those that have followed the Northwest heavy music scene of the past ten years. Featuring Johnny Pettibone (Himsa, Nine Iron Spitfire, Genuine, Undertow) on vocals, Aaron Edge (Grievous, Hauler, Genuine, Harkonen, Himsa, Christ, Hellephant) on guitar and screams, Joe Axler (Skarp, Book of Black Earth, Splatterhouse) drumming and Jerad Shealey (Receder) on bass, the band plays a "frantic, pissed off, down-tuned style of metal that is influenced by bands such as Eyehategod, Crowbar, Integrity and new label-mates Cursed."

On February 20th, Goodfellow will release the debut CD by IAMTHETHORN, titled "You Are The Lamb." A five-song EP, song titles include "The Hunt And Beyond," "Becoming Death," "Cutman," "As The Night Rises" and "Crawling Over Them." A video for the track "The Hunt And Beyond" was recently shot by King of Hearts Productions. It can be viewed online now here.

Prior to the official release of "You Are The Lamb," the band will be doing a short tour in the Northwest during January with Behold. Here are the dates:

1/18 Seattle, WA @ West Seattle Legion Hall w/ Sinking Ships, more
1/19 Portland, OR @ Berbatis Pan
1/20 Bremerton, WA @ Sons Of Norway Hall
1/21 Olympia, WA @ TBA

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Interview

Interview With Steve Junkins From Scars Of Hatred

Pennsylvania's SCARS OF HATRED cites Slayer, Slayer, Slayer as its primary influence. And with one listen of what these guys are doing musically, it's easy to understand. With a heavy as hell guitar sound, deadly low end, crushing drums and all-out brutalizing vocals, they seem to have the extreme metal approach firmly in grasp. They are working on thier debut full-length and have been playing their local club scene with other respected names like NINETAIL and FROM DISSENSION. They have a two guitar approach, and I was lucky enough to get some Q&A in with their tried and true axe slinger, Steve Junkins. More...

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Interview

Making No Sense With Al-Ce-Mi's Ned Barrett

Alchemy—(Al-Ce-Mi): the transmutation of base metal to heavy metal such as platinum and gold. Like the alchemist that fuses together elements to make potions this band combines the sounds based in the Los Angeles streets. Whittier, California's AL-CE-MI is a band that doesn't pull its punch when it comes to expressing itself across all dividing lines of rock music. The band has just finished recording its debut EP with legendary NoFX producer Ryan Green and are gearing up for a new round of shows throughout the Southland. I got some Q&A completed, amazingly, with their rough and tumble and always ready to poke you in the neck with a stick guitarist, Ned Barrett. More...

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