Metal News for December 16, 2003
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18 news articles posted on this day.
Metallica Tour Dates for North American And Europe
Here is an updated list of all North American and European Metallica tour dates: More...
Ozzy To Have Steel Plate Inserted Into His Neck
Is it now reported that OZZY OSBOURNE will have a 7-inch steel plate fitted to the back of his neck, as revealed Monday by the Mirror.co.uk. Surgeons will perform the delicate operation as soon as the former BLACK SABBATH frontman is strong enough. It is understood they will insert the plate and take bone grafts from the 55-year-old singer's pelvis to reinforce the area in a three-hour operation.The plate will help stabilize the vertebrae Ozzy cracked in a quad bike crash. Doctors fear that without it Ozzy could suffer permanent damage if he fell on his head or neck again. He also broke eight ribs and his collarbone in the accident at his mansion in Buckinghamshire eight days ago.
Bringing you up-to-the minute coverage on Ozzy's every move. ;-)
New Funeral Orchestra and Runemagick
The Funeral Orchestra have started work on their new album. The new album goes under the working title 'Necro Occult'. The new album should see the light of day somewhere in 2004.
Runemagick's forthcoming album 'On Funeral Wings' is being mixed this December and January. The album will be released in March/April 2004 by Eternal Dark Productions and Aftermath Music. The album will probably be released in a 2-cd (slipcase) and 1-cd version.
Upcoming Foreshadow Productions Releases
New releases coming your way before X-mas (aroun December, 22th)! These will be two mini-albums released on 3"CD-R's. The first one is doom metal band from Czech Republic Qeurcus delivering its exclusive brand-new 2-track mini-album mysteriously entitled 'Nenia'.
The 2nd announced release is the re-edition of officially unreleased 3 tracks from Polish obscure doom/death metal band Eternal Tear. These 3 songs are the only ones with Polish lyrics. The band proposes very original, haunting mixture between doom and death metal - harsh, distorted guitars, weeping vocals and sorrowful piano passages! The mini-album is entitled '...Nad Grobem' and features 3 aforementioned tracks of total playing time of approx. 22 minutes. More...
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Candlelight Merges with Karmageddon in US
Candlelight today confirms the North American license for all Karmageddon Media recordings. The new partnership will see the US and Canadian release of all new and reissued catalog titles from the newly formed Dutch record label through Candlelight's stateside operation.
Starting in early 2004, Candlelight will coordinate release and promotion of new albums from Karmageddon Media - including Morifade, Torture Killer, Hearse (featuring former Arch Enemy singer Johan Liiva), Within Y, the eagerly anticipated Dismember as well as special enhanced reissues of Septic Flesh, Severe Torture, Aeturnus, Nocturnus, and the popular split album from Dimmu Borgir and Old Man's Child. More...
Pyorrhoea Finish Disc, Looking for Label
Polish death/grind band Pyorrhoea recently finished the recording of their new album, "Desire for torment", which was recorded in Hertz Studio in Poland. Some titles to songs to be included on the album include "Slave", "Dead orgy scene", "Addicted to killing", "Anal arousal", "Excrements on your face", and "Consume you". The band features members of Hate, Vesania, Devilyn and Amok. The band is searching for a record label to release this and can be contacted at http://pyorrhoea.org/.
Gorgoroth Move Their Website
Gorgoroth have relocated their website to http://www.gorgoroth.org. The former website (www.gorgoroth.com) has been down for a while of various reasons, and so the band has moved over to a .org address. Check it out!
In other Gorgorth news, Gaahl is still awaiting trial after the proceedings in October were postponed due to the prosecutor's health conditions. He is on trial for "unordinary vile use of violence" - If convicted he faces up to 6 years in jail.
Born From Pain to Issue Rerelease
Born From Pain has started working on a re-release of their Reclaiming the Crown disc.
The disc will be produced by Tue Madsen (the name behind Born From Pain's masterwork, Sands of Time and produced first class work from bands such as The Haunted and Mnemic. The album will be completely revised and upgraded so that it hits you and does so at the volume you had always wanted it to.
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Narcissus Call It Quits
Ohio's Narcissus have broken up after five years and several albums. Formed in 1998, the group has subsequently released material with Clenchedfist Records and Takehold Records before signing with Abacus Recordings in mid-2002 and releasing their "Crave and Collapse" full-length just two months ago. Here's a statement from the band: More...
Hearse Set March Release Date
Hearse will release their new album, Armageddon, Mon Amour, on March 8th, 2004 through Karmageddon Media.
As previously reported, the CD was recorded earlier this summer at Basement Audio System in Stockholm, Sweden with producer Jonas Elder. Set for release in regular and digi-pak CD formats, the album will include, among others, the following tracks: More...
The Amenta Ink Deal with Listenable
The Amenta have signed with France’s Listenable Records. The label will release the band’s debut album, Year Zero, sometime in 2004. Stay tuned for the actual release date.
Meanwhile, The Amenta’s track ‘Mictlan’ is currently featured on Kuckletracks LXXVI, the companion CD to issue #76 of Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles magazine, on newsstands now.
The Amenta’s Mictlan MCD made BW&BK scribe Aaron Small’s top 10 Independent/Demo releases for 2003.
More Details on Impaled Nazarene/The Legion Tour
Finland's Impaled Nazarene will be teaming up with Swedish black/death metallers The Legion for a European tour beginning on February 26 and running through March 7. Exact cities and dates will be announced shortly. More...
Revised US Tour Dates from The Gathering
More dates have been announced for the forthcoming The Gathering North American headlining tour, which is scheduled to kick off in mid-February. Main support at all shows will come from Portland, Oregon's Agalloch.
Confirmed/revised The Gathering/Agalloch North American tour dates, according to the booking agent:
Feb. 12 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora
Feb. 13 - Toronto, CAN @ Club Rockit
Feb. 14 - Brooklyn, NY @ L'Amour
Feb. 15 - Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East
Feb. 16 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
The Gathering will embark on a short tour of Mexico in late February and are tentatively planning on returning to the U.S. in June for a more extensive trek. More...
Anathema Tour Dates Announced
Anathema have lined up the following European tour dates during January/February:
Jan. 21 – Biebob – Vosselaar, BEL
Jan. 22 - Tivoli – Utrecht, NETH
Jan. 23 - 013 – Tilburg, NETH
Jan. 24 - Matrix – Bochum, GER
Jan. 25 - Knaack – Berlin, GER
Jan. 28 - Alte Spinnerei – Glauchau, GER
Jan. 29 - Eskulap – Poznan, POL
Jan. 30 - Proxima – Warsaw, POL
Feb. 02 - Hirsch – Nurnberg, GER
Feb. 03 - Colos Saal – Aschaffenburg, GER
Feb. 04 - Substage – Karlsruhe, GER
Feb. 05 - Backstage – Munich, GER
Feb. 06 - Z7 – Pratteln, SWI
Feb. 07 - Rock Planet – Cervia (Ravenna), ITA
Feb. 08 - Transilvania – Milan, ITA
Feb. 09 - Circolo Degli Artist – Rome, ITA
Feb. 10 - New Age – Treviso, ITA More...
Joey Belladonna "Never Says Never" About Reuinion
In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Electricbasement.com, ex- ANTHRAX frontman JOEY BELLADONNA explained the the chances of a reunion with his former band, "I'll never say 'never' to anything, but I'm sure it would be hard rather than easy." As far as why the previous attempt a couple years back didn't produce results, "The negotiating process just never panned out." Meanwhile, he is hard at work promoting his new band BELLADONNA and their new album 03.
Read the full article at Electric Basement.
Suffocation To Support Morbid Angel In The U.S.
Reunited New York death metallers Suffocation have been confirmed as direct support slot on Morbid Angel's upcoming U.S. tour, scheduled for mid-March through April. Exact cities and dates will be announced soon.
As previously reported, Suffocation have set "Souls To Deny" as the title for their first full-length release since 1995's "Pierced From Within", tentatively due in the spring through Relapse Records. The songwriting process for the follow-up to the 1998 "Despise The Sun" EP has reached the midway point and plans exist for the band to self-produce the CD during January.
Suffocation's current lineup consists of founding members Frank Mullen (vocals), Terrance Hobbs (guitar), Mike Smith (drums) and Josh Barohn (bass), plus longtime friend Guy Marchais (guitar, formerly of Pyrexia and Internal Bleeding).
Ozzy Osbourne Taken Off Ventilator
Ozzy Osbourne began breathing unaided following his near-fatal accident, according to Telegraph.co.uk.
The former BLACK SABBATH singer has been able to chat to wife Sharon this morning at the Berkshire hospital where he has been recovering since crashing his quad bike last Monday.
A statement from Wexham Park Hospital in Slough said Osbourne, whose "Changes" duet with daughter Kelly claimed the No. 1 spot in the U.K. last night, is now breathing independently.
Osbourne, 55, was placed on a ventilator when he underwent emergency surgery after breaking eight ribs and a collarbone and cracking a vertebra in his neck when he fell off the bike at his Buckinghamshire mansion.
Bruce Dickinson To Write New Solo Material
IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson will get together with guitarist Roy Z in January/February 2004 for a songwriting session for a possible new Dickinson solo album, the singer revealed (Windows Media) during a Dec. 2 signing session aboard a specially chartered Dublin-London flight filled with MAIDEN fans. Dickinson's last solo album, "The Chemical Wedding", was released in 1998. A two-disc "best of" set followed in 2001.
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