Hardcore Against Fur Tour Details

H20, Stretch Arm Strong, and With Honor will be be on the road together in the East and Midwest in mid-January for the "Hardcore Against Fur Tour." Here's the schedule:

1/13 Farmingdale NY @ The Downtown
1/14 Worcester MA @ Palladium Upstairs
1/15 Buffalo NY @ The Icon
1/16 Detroit MI @ Alvin ???s
1/17 Chicago IL @ The Bot tom Lounge
1/18 Minneapolis MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
1/19 Iowa City IA @ Gabes Oasis
1/20 St. Louis MO @ Creepy Crawl
1/21 Cleveland OH @ Agora Ballroom
1/22 Pittsburgh PA @ The World
1/23 Baltimore MD @ Otto Bar

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Deeds Of Flesh To Record New Album

Deeds of Flesh has officially set the date for commencing recording on December 9th at Avalon Recording Studios. Kip Stork will once again be the madman behind the mixing board. The official name of the album is Kingdom. There will be 9 new songs on the new album, which is a mix between Reduced to Ashes and Trading Pieces. Some tentative song titles are: "This Macabre Fetish", "Forced Attrition" and "Medical Murder."

The expected release date of the album is April of 2005 followed by massive touring in the Summer.

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Dimmu Borgir To Guest On Battle For Ozzfest

Dimmu Borgir will make an entertaining appearance on MTV’s reality series “Battle For Ozzfest” for a full episode airing next Monday, 12/13 at 10:30 PM EST.

While on tour for the successful 2004 Ozzfest our favorite Norwegian Black Metal band spent a full day of controversy and mayhem on MTV’s “Battle For Ozzfest” which became a full episode airing next week December 13th.

If you haven’t been watching the show already you may not know that Dimmu Borgir's "Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse" taken from their acclaimed release "Death Cult Armageddon" (which has currently scanned over 79,000 units) is also the theme music for the whole season’s worth of shows.

For more info, visit MTV's Battle of Ozzfest.

Dimmu Borgir have crushed many metal Black Metal standards with their highly successful "Death Cult Armageddon" such as debuting on the Billboard Top 200 at number 169, receiving multiple “Best Metal Album of the Year” accolades, having two songs featured in the trailer for the highly successful Hellboy movie, their video for "Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse" being voted the 4th "Best Metal of the New Millennium" by fans (nominated by Headbanger's Ball and Revolver) & by being the first Black Metal band invited to perform on the main stage at Ozzfest not to mention their latest accomplishment of having their music as the theme for MTV's newest program "Battle for Ozzfest" which will feature our favorite Black Metallers in a full episode.

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Nevermore's "Enemies Of Reality" To Be Remixed

Producer Andy Sneap (Machine Head, Arch Enemy, Skinlab, Masterplan) is remixing Nevermore's "Enemies of Reality" album for re-release via the Century Media label in early 2005.

"Enemies of Reality" (2003) was originally recorded in Seattle with producer Kelly Gray (Queensryche, Slave to the System, Dokken) and was widely criticized for its muddy, inferior production compared to that of its predecessor, 2000's "Dead Heart in a Dead World", which was produced by Sneap.

Nevermore are expected to enter the studio with Sneap in February 2005 to begin recording their follow-up to "Enemies Of Reality", tentatively due late summer/early fall via Century Media.

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Death Angel Live On The Bone This Friday

Catch Death Angel on 107.7 The Bone's Metal Zone with Billy Steel this Friday, December 10th, from 9:00 to 11:00 P.M. (PST).

You can listen via the web at http://www.1077thebone.com/jocks/steel

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Nightwish Starts Second Charity Auction

Nightwish's second charity auction started at www.nightwish.com. Last year, profits from Nightwish's auction was 1750 EUR and it went to Parikanniemi Children's Home, Ristiina, Finland.

This year, profits will go to Nightwish's hometown Kitee. Target is Kitee's Children and Youthwork. Every Nightwish member gave something personal to this auction: a guitar from Emppu, jackets from Marco and Tuomas, a dress from Tarja and a cymbal from Jukka.

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Watch Them Die Album Update

The savage Oakland-based purveyors of aggression Watch Them Die are currently wrapping up the songwriting process for their highly anticipated sophmore release and Pat Vigil (vocals) checks in with the following update:

"Greetings from the west, this is Vigil of Watch Them Die here to bring news of the past present and future. First we would like to thank Black Dahlia Murder, Cattle Decapitation and Goatwhore for having us on the last tour and it was a sick one. Since then we have been creating the second chapter of Watch Them Die. We truly feel this next record will dictate our version of a metal onslaught. We are also proud to introduce the world to our new guitarist Sun. He is a long time friend and brother and he has brought a new level of talent and power to the table. We hope you will enjoy the feast.

"We recently filmed a video for the song 'Sadist Ways' and would like extend our gratitude to all that contributed to the making of this video. We hope it meets your eyes soon. We will be shooting another video for the new record early this year. Again we greatly appreciate all of our fans and supporters, our goals and visions would not be possible without you. Also, a growing respect to all of Century Media and the Watch Them Die armies. Keep your skin peeled for the second chapter of violence! Sincere respect."

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Headline News

Metalunderground's "Best Metal Album of The Year"

This year, Metalunderground.com is figuratively handing out an award of its own for "Best Metal Album of The Year." Everyone else hands out "best of year" awards or lists, so why shouldn't we? Afterall, the staff here at metalunderground.com has very diverse tastes, and we know our metal. So this year I asked each of our writers to pick their top 5 albums of 2004 and rank them form 1 to 5. What I saw was a lot of different opinions, but among the differences, two albums rose to the top.

Without further ado...[drum roll, please]...the winner of Metalunderground.com's "Best Metal Album of The Year" honor for 2004 is: More...

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Atrocity, Leaves' Eyes Attacked By French Police

Atrocity and Leaves' Eyes claim to have been attacked by French police after a show in Paris. This led to the arrest of Atrocity frontman Alexander Krull, who was also injured in the fracas, among a number of others. They were eventually released without charge, or explanation.

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Slipknot, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall To Tour

Slipknot are to headline an arena tour of America, starting on March 4. They'll be supported by Lamb Of God, Shadows Fall and an as-yet undisclosed opening act. More information to follow as it becomes available.

UPDATE: Dates and venues haven't yet been confirmed, but the tour will hit the following cities: More...

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Lullacry Studio Update

Sami of Lullacry gave a studio update:

We just came back from the Astia-studio! Unfortunately we didn´t manage to finish the recordings in time. We have still some guitars and vocals to do. And because we want to make the best fuckin´ album possible, we will continue in the beginning of the next year. At the moment there´s no studio time available, so we have to re-schedule rest of the shit, you know.. So, Good news is that the album definitely rocks like hell but we want to make it HOTTER THAN HELL!!! Bad news is that we are not able to release it in time. We WILL let you know about the new release dates as soon as it´s possible. THANX FOR PATIENCE GUYS AND GALS, I promise we won´t let you down!

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